THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, MARCA 4, 1916 m a rh | \ Cy: 2 The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT OMINECA District oF BRITISH COLUMBIA, ~~~ A. R. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year, ADVERTISING RATES: Diaplay, $2. 50 per inch per month; “Reading Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion. Legal Hotices ingerted ‘at B.C. Gazette rates,, : : VoL. V. SATURDAY, Marcu 4, 1916. , No, 2! The decisive defeat of Hon. C. E. Tisdall in the Vancouver by- election last Saturday was a great surprise to the Conservative party, and nearly as much a surprise to the opposition; for while . the Liberals, naturally, claimed that ‘their candidate would be returned, not even the most sanguine dared to predict such an. overwhelming majority as the final count showed,. There ig seldom much use in attempting to explain a defeat, but recognize the causes of the turnover i in the provincial metropolis. The defeated candidate attributes the result to a combination of ering as agent for James D. A. Me- _ hard times and a desire for an opposition in the legislature, No BiB, intend, sixty days from, the date hereof, to apply to the Mining doubt these reasons weighed with many, for bard times always tell| Recorder fora Certi of Omineca District, slope of Mount Selwyn, about eight in this instance, with a general election coming, itis important to milea below. Findlay Rapids on the South Bank of Peace River portunity t' furnish ‘the world: silver, lead; copper, zine, mercury, the policy of the banks and of the governments, both Dominion altered, and more encouragement given to the developrnent of the natural wealth, so that. citizens would not be forced to go te other countries for capital to ex- ploit Canadian industries and ‘so allowing, as at present, their ownership to pass out of Canada, MINERAL ACT Certificate of . Improvements” _ NOTICE - THREE IN ONE MINERAL CLAIM, 4 situate in the Omineea Mining Division Where located—Qn the South-West with iron and: steel, as well as: the more precious metals, gold, . antimony, molybdenum, ete. But} and provincial, he added, must be | TAKE NOTICE that I, F. P. Burden, Free Miner’s Certificate No. for th bt: against the gavernment; and there are few on either side of polities rents, Grant of ee coe ghtaining a who do not admit that a lively opposition in the house is desirable, charges of laxity i in connection with the Dominion Trust failure—| 191 cate of Improve- the above claim, And further take notice that action, under section 37,. must.be commenced | But these reasons alone are not sufficient to account for the defent t| before the issuance of such Certificate of so able and popular a member as Mr. Tisdall, We belive the! °f:!mprovements. Dated this lat day of J anuary, A.D, 6. 21-35 which hit. Vancouver so hard—found the electorate in a mood to . believe the worst against the government, while thé ministerial campaign, embodied in the notorious pamphlet, ‘The Crisis in B. C, an had a greater effect than was expected by members of the govern- ment, whose defence apainst the allegations of the parsons was nat] given the same publicity as the charges. The Lucas’ Jifel suit ; demonstrated the falsity of one portion of the manifesto, but] NOTICE OF CANCELLATION otherwise little was done to present the government side of the]. case to the public, Fortunately for the mini industry of the rovinee, Hon, | the reserve existing on Lot No, 8534A, y 40 ne ¥ P Range 5, Coast District, by’ reason ofa Lorne Campbell, Minister of, mines, was returied in Rosstand, |, although by. a smal] majority, His opponent, the mayor of the Gazette on the 26th of May, 1910, is city, was undoubtedly § the strongest candidate the opposition could reveled for ne Tee are sale of ' Railway Company. . vs In Victoria today Hon. A. C. Flumerfelt, minister of finance | 26-84 put up, “and agriculture, is opposed by H. C. Brewster, the Liberal leader, and the day will tell whether similar conditions will bring about. a repetition of the result in’ Vancouver, Department of Lands, OF RESERVE =; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that otice published 4 in the British Columbia R, A. RENWICK, | Deputy Minister of Lands. Victoria, B,C, oO February 15th, 1916. MINING IN B.C. | manufacturing, cheap fael and _ Alexander Sharp, M. E., de-| water power are required, and | livered an able address at Van-| British Columbia has these in couver on “The Mineral Wealth abundance, ~ of British Columbia,” Mr Sharp, . ‘Seventy- six billion tons of coal j- who is. a pioneer among mining are known to exist in ‘this proy-| engineers of this’ province, "said: ince,and water power, the cheap- “With only 20 per cent of the| est’ form of power known, -is Pr the matter of Peace River and all. mineral hearing area of the prov- illimitable,”? he added. - “Tron, 80 |/ ince. prospected, there have been ‘indispensible in alt forms . of found in British Columbia as rich industry, is known to exist in| and as great'mines as there are] inexhaustible quantities, but- has. _ in the world. Nevertheless con-!so far been undeveloped, with . ditions are not satisfactory,” since| the exception ‘of a ‘deposit on ~ nearly all the Mines are owned Texada Island, which a few years} by companies whose headquarters ago shipped 20,000 tons to Wash-| are outside of Canada, _Among/ington; which - was. used: in the these are the Britannia, Granby, construction of the. battleships | B, C. Copper Co., and Nickel Nebraska and Oregon,’’ ' deaviest, @dld_ producer in the! by- -prodiscts of coal,no attention to] to - province, ‘All of ‘these were which was now being paid in the| Merch, i916, to the . Comptroller ‘ of originally owned in British Col-’ Province,and compared our meth.| Water Rights, at “the “Parliament Buildings, .. at. Victoria,- 2 Btatement umbia, -and were sold out | to/ ods .with. those ployed in, Ger- | 7 of. American. interests. for. a ‘mess many and the nited - States; Pr - sible for- financing. the construe: ‘distillation of being transformed |., _ tion of many-of the best baildings, into -coloring’ “material: in - 800) ¢ in Spokane. of (humiber ‘of explosives; chemicals ‘and drags: were. xtracted : ‘from: for the’ coal, o TAKE NOTICE that each arid. every | person, ‘partnership, company, or muni- Plate, the first three being cop-| Mr.- Sharp - went. thoroughly. piballty who, on the 12th day at Baveh, 1909, -had-water rights .on-any: of the per producers and -the last. the|into the matter of conservinyr the above-mentioned serena, io directed different: shades, beside a large}, selin toto ff WATER ACT, 1914.” Before the Board of Kivestization. its tributaries within the Province of. " British Columbia, ‘ineluding - Black Jack Gulch, Finlay | River, Germangen Creek, Getmansen Lake, Lost’ Greek, Loat Lake, Lyon Creek, Manson or Sawmill Creek, Manson River, Mill Creek. “Mosquito: Gulch, ‘Omineca River, Parsnip River, Quartz Creek, Silver Creek, Tom : Creek, Vital Creek, and Whittier Creek, : forward on or-before the Mat. day of claim in: writing . as. required -by section 204 of the’ ‘*Wateér “Act; 1914,""|' of pottage.’ In addition to these | where sulphate of ammicnia, now | Printed: “forms” for-‘ such-’ statement ‘? are the -leading mines ‘of Ross-/ worth $76 per ton ‘as'a‘fertilizer, | (Porm 50 for irrigation, or Form. 61. for . land, which haye produced $60,- and coal. tat, which, ‘aside from ae oe ie bo obtuined from, (00,000 td date, and are. ‘Fespon-its natural value, was-capable by'| p. Shek ns ~ Recorders: dn ne revises! oon “Hizelton i is. situated ; at ; . the confluence. of the” | Bulkley: and: ‘Skeena a -tivers, a’ mile and: a Enauiis may ay bea dressed. to. ak The he Babee Pal Point iE for the Great Northern + Prospectors, Miners, : _ Landseekers, Surveyors 7 and Sportsmen will find oe the ‘merchants of Hae | zelton prepared to meet every requirement " in o - gutfitandsupplies, Hay- op ; ang, been engaged. for “many years in outfitting - partied for the Northern, ” * Interior; Hazelton busi ness men ‘are qualified to give valuable advice | and assistance: to new- - Comers. : - “quarter from Hazelton» _ ‘station on the Grand | Trunk Pacific railway: wil