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‘THE | OMINECA MINER, ‘SATURDAY, JULY, ‘8h a Lee

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The Omineca Miner

- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE
GREAT Onineca DISTRICT OF. BRITISH COLUMBIA,

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A R. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor.

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. Vou. IV. Saturpay, Juxy 31, 1915. No. 48

Private contributions aggregating an amount sufficient to. ‘pur.
chase 1000 machine guns for use by the Canadian forces at the
front are already in possession of the receiver- general at Ottawa or
promised and forthcoming,

The amounts received and promised so far include two sums
of $100,000 each from wealthy individuals,-and one sum of half a
million dollars from the Province of Ontario, another sum of

$40, 000 and other amounts ranging from $10 to $5000 from individual.

institutions, clubs, women’s organizations and municipatities,

In fact, the number of those who believe that the most effec-
tive aid is an apparatus for killing purposes is increasing. . Senator
Lougheed, acting minister of railitia, in explanation of the: methods
in which these gifts were to be employed; atated that the: depart-

ment of militia had decided to increase: the. regulation complement

of the battalions from: -four to eight inachine guns. ;
~Thiswill yepresent double the regulation equipment of.the Br itish
forces, though it is believed that the latter forees will also double
their complement,
’ This number is to be supplied by the ‘government from: the
War appropriation fund. The government has alr eauly ‘ordered
from the Lewis company sufficient puns to bring ¢ the regiment
to this strength. es
The equipment of the Canadian troops | ‘faa always.
governed by that supplied to the: British: troops.” :
Private subscriptions will’ -be “used: ‘to supply . guns over and
above ‘the complement of eight: to be: supplied by the; government,

Jimited by. the number of skilled gperators who can be obtained. and
trained to use them... : 7
The question. arises aa to whether the ‘number of guna “sub,

scribed ‘for can be obtained. Senator Lougheed states that the
government is doing all in its power to secure as Jarge a number

as possible ‘and that the Lewis company is working at. capacity: ‘

. turning them out. Confidence i is expreased, that the required nur
ber will be forthcoming. —

Returning from @ visit to this. district, where! ‘hie. did ‘exeollent|
work for the Prince Rupert fair, ES, Wright, secretary for that.
fixture,” contributed a ‘long article. on the Hazelton distriet to the
7 Rupert News, -: ‘After. a deseription- -of this, section, he days:

Hazelton. district j is. ‘coming. into’ ‘its-own. It hag alteady four|

, developed moines - vand: innumerable . ‘prospects, eaeh - “presenting. ‘al.
- greater or lesser chance for a developed: mine, ‘and outside.” money
and. men ‘are: busy, not-in ‘the towns,, but i in the hilla. : --Go and sea
_ for: yourselves, but: be: prepared: to take: some time and trouble,

2 You ‘cannot Bee anything of the mineral. development from: ry “Pull-| :
man ‘car. ‘window, or form: ‘a right . conclusion: from” “stove: -pipe|,
: prospectors’ éarnples, - - Get out. into the. ‘hills, vibit the properties| ,
-under" development and see’ what is | going: on, first hand:-” Tt apells| g
a healthy holiday, awakened confidence i in. your distriet and you

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"MACHINE. GUN FUND |

We all have : a duty. te petfona, not i in. ‘the
“trenches, but in: providing « our. Boys with 1 mean

of defence. _ They. are. fighting to ‘protect us, :

“not themselves —- Laying down. their lives. that
- we may. live; fighting - for our "very existence as

ca Nation. We have A. VERY. Ss

“Us “begin now, ‘and help pay for-at’ least one of

“the Machine Guns needed by'o our. gallant lads, :
fighting j in a righteous cause, agaitist despotism; ~ oe
-tymany and barbarism horrible. to. 0..contemplate. -

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