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SYNOPSIS OF
LAND ACT AMENDMENTS

PRE-EMPTIONS

Vacant, unreserved, surveyed
» Orown lands may be pre-empted by
British subjecta over 18 years of age,
and by aliens on declaring intention
to become British saubjests, condi-
tional upon residence, gocupation,
and improvement for agricultural
purposes,

Full information concerning, regu-
lations regarding pre-emptions 1s
piven in Bulletin No. 1, Land Series,~
"How to Pre-empt Land,” coples of
which can be obtained free of charge
by addressing the Department of
Lands, Victoria, B.C., er to any Gov-
arnment Agent,

Records will be granted covering
only land suitable for agricultural
purposes, and which is not timber-
land, le, carrying over 5.000 board

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feet per acre west of the Coast Range

-pnd §,000 feet per acre east of that
Range. '

Applications for pre-emptions are

to be addressed to the Land Com*.

missioner of the Land Recording Di-

Mm \ vision, in which the land applied for

y, is situated, and are made on printed

forma, copies of which can be ob-

f) tained from the Land Commissioner.

Pre-emptions must ‘be orcupled for

five yeara and improvements made

; to value of $10 per acre, cluding

g clearing and cultivating at least Ave

> acres, before a Crown Grant can be

received,

For more detailed information see
the Bulletin “How to Fre-empt

Land.”
PURCHASE

Applications are received for pur-

Bf chase of vacant and wnhreserved
Crown lands, not belng timberland,
for agricultural purposes; im:nimum
price of first-class (arable) Jland lw $5

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per acre,.and second-clags ,(grazing), .

land §2.60 per acre, Further infor-
fm) mation regarding purchase or leasa
meiof Crown lands is given in Bulletin
a,No. 10, Land Serles, “Purchase and
i.ease of Crown Lands.”
. MIN, factory, or industrial sites on
timber land, not exceeding 40 acres,
may be purchased or leased, the con-
maj ditions including payment of
Sa eturnpage. ,

HOMESITE LEASES

, Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20
yyacres, may be leased as homesites,
conditional upon a dwelling being

mieiected in the first year, title being
meme) Oblainable after residence and im-
Sel provement conditions are fulfilled
and Jand has been surveyed.

LEASES

io For grazing and industrial. pur-

poses areas not exceeding 640 acres

mimay be leased by one person or a
s\company. .

oOo GRAZING |

“oa
ay, Under the Grazing Act the Prev-
matince ia divided into grazing districts
Mmtand the range administered under 2
Grasing Commissioner. Annual
eo ding permits are jasued based on
menumbers ranged; priority being given
etic established owners. Stock-owners
mamay form associations for range
BManagement, Free, or partially free,
ermite are available for settlers,
f pers and travellers, up to tea
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Seeing Europe With the Editors

A’ special party of members of the
Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associa-
tion is at present in England. It waa
not possible for the editor of the Omin-
eca Herald and the Terrace News to go,
‘but we have made arrangements by
which we shall publish a series of
articles descriptive of the journey and
doings of this representative body of
Canadian weekly newspapermen. The
articles will give impressions of Bel-

ium, the battlefields, Paria, London,
the British Empire Exhibition, and of
many points in England and Seotland.
They are written especially for The
Omineca Herald and The Terrace News
by Hugh Savage, editor of The Cow-
ichan Leader, Duncan, and pfesident of
the British Columbia and Yukon Press
Association. ; ;

June 20, 1924,
Suoraya stabbing thrvugh grey
clouds, grey sea, white cliffs sur-

| mounted by green slopes, on top

of which an obelisk points a fin-
ger to heaven—yes, Dover's cliffs
are still white, but over theatrait,
near the Calais we cannct see,
stancs a similar monument, trib-
ute to sailormen who served
humanity —the Dover patrol.

It is eventide. British Colum-
bia seems verv far awav, but as
we plough through smooth waters
to Antwerp there is much specu-
lation as to the outcome of the
election. Among over a hundred.
editors of weekly newspapers,
drawn from allover Canada, there
are some who:confess that their
hobby is politics. We have rep-
resentatives of five B.C. weeklies
aboard, but from Nova Scotia
westward there is much interest
in today’s voting.

We left Montreal on Thursday
morning, June ll, aboard the good
ship Melita, of the C.P. R. service.
The sun set for us over the glori-
ous panorama of Old Quebec.
Next evening, down the Great
St. Lawrence, which is the ‘‘liquid
history’? of Canada we were
watching rain clouds oyer Gaspe
peninsula. The next afternoun
found us abreast of Miquelon and
St. Pierre, French Islands near
Newfoundland. Not until early
on Saturday had we passed Cane
Race and come inte open Atlantie,
_ At midnight on tne seventh day
from Montreal the Scillies light
winked us on our way past Alder-

an hour’s, stop at Cherbourg,
where French aeroplanes boomed

.}overhead, we steered acrosa the

English Channel. co
Every drop of this oft-times
boisterous sea has an interest,

‘j}romantic enough in storied his-
-| tory, deepened and enhanced by

the grim happenings of recent
It is crowded.as ‘of yore
by the shipping of the‘ world.
Along this greatest: of sea lanes
come sightseers and homefarers.
We had both on board: and it was
with quickened hearts that many
glimpsed the outline of the Dorset-
Hampshire coast and; like millions.
of others, were held entranced as

the sheer chalk cliff of the Isle.of

Woe

ney and the Channel Isles, After].

Wight ‘came abreast at last and
showed the ‘needles in all their
fanged austerity.

It was a glorious summer even-
ing (Ascot Day) as we slid up the
Solent, past the watering places
of the Isle of Wight, swung left
in the eye of a fast-setting sun
and so ¢ame to berth, at a C.P.R.
dock. Here a hearty welcome
awaited the press party by the
mayor of Southampton, prominent
local newspapermen, and rep-
resentatives of the presa of Lon-
don and the Empire, who came
aboard to greet us,

This morning we landed, and
through the courtesy of the C. PR.
were taken in motor charabancs
for a drive through the city and
into the conntry to the borders of
the New Forest, where the press
photographer got in some deadly
work and B.C. and Nova Scotia
came into the limelight as rep-

Canada.

‘ Qur stay ashore was for some
two hours’ only, but it was a
delightful experience. | Docks,

unbroken shop fronts and brick
and stone; here an old church
with tower or spire; next the
“bar’’, wnich forees all traffic to
wait turn in single file. This is
an old city archway on the main
street.

Out in the country you realize
what is meant by ‘‘strange-fami-
liar scenes’’, Trim little plots
before rows of houses, humping
little bridges, avenues of elm and
oak, great blossoming rhododen-
drons towering above the neat)v
clipped hedges. Everything so
solid anu trim and breathes of a
home loving people with roots
deep down in soil and town. The
workmen have an air “‘that is
different”. Look at that gang
with trousers tied below their
knees or at our sturdy chauffeur.
who, on being asked what was
‘said: “‘ITdon’tknow. Wenever
consider such a thing."’

But here are names on sign-
posts--Salisbury and Winchester
—just names, but full of meaning
for myriads scattered overseas,
But we must hasten. back aboard|
and off again,. once. more with
aeroplane escorts, out to the sea-
path by Cowes and Ryde on one

in the sea (one.of them.a mystery |
tower),, monitors and.a mother
ship for aeroplanes, ,*. 7
. Not even.the haziness, which
contrasts so sharply .with our
sunny welcome. by. English skies, |
has blurred the coastline, .. Past

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resenting the far-flung ends of |

open green spaces, streets of solid|

the population of Southampton, |:

hand and Southsea and Ports-|
‘mouth on the other, and to make
good measure of interest, forts}

Beschy Head and all the world- | 7

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Silence That Is
Not Golden

The merchant who fails to “speak up”
lets a lot_of golden sales slip past his

. Store. This lost business goes either
to his competitor down street or by.the :
mail order route to the big city stores.

People are often surprised to find that the goods -
they bopght “‘unsight unseen’ from a catalogue -
can be seen and examined in the local stores!

Tell your buying public what you have. . AD-
VERTISING in ‘The Omineca Herald’? and '‘The
Terrace News’’ will invite the whole community
to your store. And— . ; ;

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Most Folks ‘Shop Where They -

Are Invited To Shop

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BRITISH COLUMBIA.

THE MINERAL PROVINCE OF WESTERN CANADA

HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :—
Placer Gold... .......cccnseeeeeee ee +++: 76,962,203

Lode Gold ...............0005 . 113,352,655 _
Silver ........2.. cece eee e ene . 63,582,655
Lead ........ eee ee ee econ . 58,182,661
Copper ...... se eeeces ees teeases . 179,046,508
ine....... be eeaeeeenees bese . 27,904,756
Coal and Coke. ici. sicnseeeee eens . 250,968,118
Building Stone, Brick, Cement, ete..... 89,415,234
Miscellaneous Minerals ..............06 “1,408,257

AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $810,722,782 -

The substantial progress of the mining industry in this prov- .

ince is strikingly illustrated in the following figures,: which

show the value of production for successive 5-year periods:

For all years to 1895, inclusive ........$ 94,547,241

Wor five years, 1896-1900 ...... ben eunes 605,967 -.
For five years, 1901-1905 .............. 96,607,968 |

For five years, 1906-1910 .............. 125,534,474

For five years; 1911-1985 0.0.0.0 .0. 0005 142,072,608

For five years, 1916-1920 ........2.. 0. 189,922,725

For the year 1921 2.0.00... ck cece wes 628,066,641

For the year 1922..............5 veceese 35,168,849 =
For the year 1923......... veaeeveesees, $41,804,920 ~

PRODUCTION DURING LAST TEN YEARS, $350,288,862

- _Lode-mining has onl
and not 20 per cent. of the Province has been even’ pros-
I square miles of unexplored mineral bear-
ing lands are open for. prospecting, £ © 3.0 tof

Py ry ;

The . mining laws of: -thia Province are ‘more liberal and
other province in the “Dominion,”

or any Colony in the British Empire. ;
fees. Absolute titles are obtained by developing: auch
perties, security of which is guaranteed by crown grants,

y addressing

Full. information, together with mining reports and mapas, -

may be obtained gratis

The Honourable The Minister of Mines -

VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA —

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been in progress about.25 years, -:

Mineral Iccations are granted to distoyerers for: nominal
pro:

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BG LAND SURVEYOR.

“Js ‘Allan Rutherford
"JAM desoriptions of sur.
vw Weys promptly, executed...
_": SOUTH HAZELTON :

SOLICITOR. "NOTARY PUBLIC