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THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY; JANUARY. 22, i916

et ge gay
The Omineca Miner
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE
GREAT OMINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

” A. R. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor.

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year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year,

ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $2.60 per ‘ing per month; Reading
Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertian. Legal notices inserted at B.C.

Gazette rates,
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No, 21

VoL, ¥,° SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1916.

Anyone who wishes to gain an idea of the expenges which the
Red Cross has to meet, should consult the financial report of | any
hospital, = --

A first class modern hospital requires elaborate scientific
apparatus of all kinds. In all its appointments it needs the best
that money can buy or else its work is a failure. The fact that the
new General Hospital in Toronto,’ with accomodation for a few
thousand patients, cost in the neighborhood of $2,500,000 will give

provide for tens of thousands of patients,
Perhaps a large part of the general public is of the impi ession
that Red Cross work is only- hurried relief work, requiring -in’ the

splints, a few ‘stretchers; “béarers and motor ambulances. The
equipment of first aid i is, it is true, not elaborate, but it should be
remembered that conveying the wounded from the firing line is
‘only the beginning of Red Gross activity.

The wounded soldier has to be nursed back to health. His
injuries are sych as to need the utmost possible perfection of
surgery. The Red Cross cannot provide proper medical attention
except with all the apparatus of a perfectly appointed hospital. ou
cannot cure wounded saldiers any more cheaply than any other
class of men. False medical economy. means thousands of avoidable
deaths.

. In the rear of the colossal ‘armies: now locked in terrible combat
thousands of hospitals are needed, each with a perfect equipment,
‘The expense of this is enormous, but it is certain, above-all things,
that the wounded soldier has a prior claim upon every form of
“national or individual wealth. .

The Red Cross must be’ supported and maintained in the
greatest possible state of efficiency. Let everyone’ who fs dispose.)
to make a low estimate of its financial needs, make gyome: enquiries
as to the cost of running one hospital, and then multiply that sum
by 10,000 or more.

He will then have a striking arithmetical proof of the gigantic
financial burden of the Red Cross Society.

- Canada’s Record

Those who revel in new Cana-
dian records should feel in: high
fettle, says the Monetary Times,
of ‘Toronto. ‘In the past few
weeks some notable figures have
been recorded. The first internal
war loan war loan of $50,000,000

da’s history. Canadian exports
in October - were $84,000,000, or
$24, 000,000 moré than. in any
previous month on record. The
trade balance is constantly im-
proving in our favor.

‘While these figures ure satis-
factory, we must remember that

000. The savings bank deposits
in October, at $710,000,-
000, were the highest on rec-
ord, The wheat crop of the

by the trend of events due to the
war,. Great Britain’s daily war
bill is $25,000,000,” We. need;
therefore to make. -some pretty
Western provinces .is estimated] substantial records’ ‘to help: carry
by the government at 304,000,000 the Empire's. financial burden, .

. bushels, as against. the previous -
high record of 200,000, 000 bushels,
Canadian Pacific Railway net
earnings in Oct. were nearly
SL 000,000 greater than for any
one month previously. “Noveni-
ber bank clearings of $909,000,-
000 were’ better than’ those for
any other. November, or indeed
for any other month on. record.
_ Winnipeg’ B. bank. “clearings af.
“goas, 000, BBB” in. ‘November - ‘are
- $82,000,000, higher ‘than | Winni-

Claims at Pacific. i -

Pacific. advices gay ‘Whitmore
& Orr have just had assays from
their, Frisco ¢élaim, which was
located last July, ‘and the vesult
grade property on. Legale Greek.
The: Friges is situated ‘about: ‘halt |
a mile from the group they*bond-
ed to: Price. &: Aitken last ‘fall, |
The ore from’ ‘this: ‘grolip aseayed |:
up® to'-40 per’ cent 'coppét ‘and
showed: total . values. of: almost

of. $7]
that i0f: November

bornite is to be’seen in the hang
ing wall, and the chalcopyrite
shows from four to six feet on
the foot wall.. The quartz assays
$67 per ton and the bornite

‘$314.93, the latter as follows:

Copper,58.4 per cent; silver,88. 33

‘about $10 per ton, so that ness
profit

branch

was over-subscribed by $54,000,- many of the records” are. ‘caused |.

gold, .06,

from the the Skeena River, in a
location which is well timbered
and free from slides. A ferry
will. soon be ranning across the
Skeena and also a wagon road
from Pacific up Legate Creek,
These improvements will make
this territory more accessible for
prospecting and development,

Mining in Omineca
It is generally recopnized, says

‘the Vancouver Province, ’ ‘that,|

some idea of the task of the Canadian Red Cross, which has.to’ Qmineca~ district promises to

-|duplicate the Slocan as a silver-
lead producer; while it has also

lencouraging prospects as far as
way of equipment, only a few yards ‘of. bandages, a ‘parcel of |

pold and copper prospects are
concerned. The Rocher de Boule

‘mine at Hazelton’ has been’ ship-

ping 8000 tons of copper 2 month
to the Granby Company’s smel-
ter at Anyox. ..

This ore carries betweoen'9 per
cent and 10 per cent copper, 14
og, siver and .060z. gold-per ton,
80. that it has an’ average value,
on reeent copper: prices, of about
$42 per ‘ton, _Cost of- mining,
transportation and smelting runs

is from $25 to $30 per ton,
or close upon $8060 a day during
the period in which shipments
have been made. *

B.C. Fir Stands High Test. —
‘Victoria, Dec, 27:—~Douglas fir
and red cedar railway ties were
recently forwarded. by the forest
to the Great Eastern
Railway company. of Lngland,

who selected sleepers from their}.

stock, which they obtained from
the Baltic, and tested them all
under similar conditions. .

The results of thede tests. show

beyond a doubt: the . ‘Superiority

of - British’ -Columbia Douglas:

fir for railroad ties... °y Y
It was found that, under, com-

5,695 pounds, per aquare - inch ‘as
against Baltie timber ‘of 3;950
pounds per square ‘inch; while
red cedar ‘made. a very creditable

{showing : of . 8,407 ‘Pounds all
| satiare ined, te ee

' Tests i in tension were even more
favorable for Douglas tir, {It
would ‘take 43, 450 pounds, or over

Ba: tons, ‘to pull apart a atick Of ult
Douglas ‘fir “having | A, epogs auction

1jof one ‘Square: inch; Ww ereas: just,
half that: walght would: ‘suffice to

pull apart: Baltic ‘timber, ‘and only,
3;800 pounds ’ wert Fequired to] |:

~ These te tests were carried. out: by :
the: ‘Great Eastern, Rallway, 7a
ahs felt whinh iy es :

‘lin locomotives by the Pruasian
’ The claim ig about nine miles} ;

| Act, within which The Naas & Skeena

pression Douglas fir will - ‘stand aq

the supervision of ‘most of the
railway lines ‘in Ching, India and |
South Africa, all. of which are

valuable markets for Douglas fir.

“The Diesel gil engine, which i is
working well in water craft in
Europe, will. be thoroughly tested

railroads.

_ NOTICE, ~

N OTICE: is hereby given that an nappli-
cation will:be made to the Legislative
Assembly of the Province of British Co- |~
lumbiaat ite nextSessionon behalf of The
Naas& Skeena Rivers Railwa Company,
a Conipany incorporated by t c Legislat- |- 4 ; ;
ive Assembly of the Province of British i ern
Columbia, by Chapter 69 of the Statutes ; SR es
of British Columbia,"1911, for an Act - a eb ype
to be sutitled rahe Naas, & Skeena Of des cee

ivera Railway Act, mendment every . description:
Act, 19167’, extending the periods pre- | ry P r

seribed b by Section 79 of the Railway for ‘eve rybedy

Rivers Railway Company should bona .
fide commence the construction of its /\ at the..
railway, procure the bona fide payment . a wo
up in cash of not less than fifteen per to ‘
cent of the authorized share capital of ~ so
the Company, and: the expenditure of ,
such fifteen per cent in, upon and 7 .
towards the construction of its railway, y
and the completion and butting into

operation of the said Compa ny’s rail-
way; and for such further and incidental . : a 0
powers as may be necesgaty. | Te

Dated at Victoria, B.C, this 24th day-
Miner .

of November, 1916,
~ - Office

BARNARD,’ ROBERTSON, ;
HBISTERMAN & TAIT,
14-19
_HAZELTON, B. Cc.
4 : . : ae :

Solicitors for the Applicant,

Green Bres., Burden & Co.

. Civil Enginesra .
Dominion and British: Columbia . .
Land Surveyors aN

NOTICE TO DELINQUENT co.
- OWNER

To George M. Swan, ox to any yierson oF persona
to whom you may have transferred your interests,
iake notice that 1, the undersigned co-owner with
you in the Cumberland, “Russell and Sundown
(Ruesell Group) Mineral Claims, situated in Hun-
ter Basin, in the Hazelton Mining Division of Om-
ineca Distriat, Province of Britieh Columble, have
done the required amount of work on the above-
mentioned claims for the year 19M in order to
hold the same under gection 2¢ of the Mineral Act
and if within 90dnya of the publication of thia
notice you fall or refuse to contribute $158.60,your
portion of such expenditure, tagether with the
costs of this advertisement, your interest fn. the
said mineral claims will become the property of
the undersigned under Section 4 of the Mineral
Act Amendment Act of 1900,

Dated nb Smith Bu, “SMR Sree ck Bnd New Hazelton,
lated at Smi rer, IS ¥ of to- |
‘ber, 1915, . ron |B, C. AtfLicK, Met,” New. Hafelton,

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Hazelton, beginning Jan. \, 1916.

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Meals and berth included « on ‘steamer.

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