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‘THE OMINECAHERALD, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 2927 |

Hanson
Lumber &
Timber Co.

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Manufacturers of? .

ROUGH, DRESSED & DIMENSION
JHEMLOCK, SPRUCE AND CEDAR

- WINDOWS
Complete,
different sizes

FLOORING
Hemlock
and Spruce
Mill at .
HANALL, B.C.

Get our prices before ordering elsewhere .

NEW HAZELTON, B.C.

CG. H. Sawne

Advertising rates—$1.50 per ‘neh , per month

line each subsequent insertion. - 4

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DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING |/_

Preparations are under way for the
Christmas season. Children are num-
bering the days until Sehool closes and
tlieir best holiday season arrives, In
the schools preparations
made for Christmas entertainments.
Some of the business houses are get-.

7 ‘PRODUCTION DURING LAST TEN YEARS, $429,547,755

THE MINERAL PROVINCE: OF . WESTERN CANADA
HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :—

Placer Gold, - $78,018,548; Lode Gold, $126,972,318; Silver, -

$80,787,003; Lead, $106,976,442; Copper, $09,967,068; Zinc,

$50,512, BBT: Coal and Coke, gagd, 699, 133; Structural Materials

and Miscellaneous Minerals, $50, 175, 407; Making mineral produc- .
tion to the end of 1926 show

AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $98,108,470.

-The substantial progress of the mining ‘industry in this prov-
ince is strikingly illustrated in_ the following figures, which ¢
shew the value of production for successive 5-year periods:

For all years to 1895, inclusive ...,....$ 94, 547, 241
’ For five years, 1896-1900 .......-.-000: 57, 607, 967
‘For five years, 1901-1905 .....0....0. 0 | 96,507,968
‘For five years, 1906-1910 .............. 126,584,474
For five years, 1911-1915 ......... . 142, 072, 603 ©
’ For five years, 1916-1920 ........... 0; 189, 922-725
For five years 1921 to 1925. ........se.eeceeas 214,726,650
For. 1926...........0.0csceuees eb veetaessetaae :. 67,188,842

"Toda mining has only been in ‘progress about 25 years, and only about one- |

- half of the Province has been praspected: 200,000 square miles of unexplored .

mln bearing lands are onen for prospecting. :

“2. She mining laws of this Province are more liberal and the fees lower than
oe ‘any ‘other:Province in the Dominion or any Colony in the Britigh Empire.

- Mineral locations are granted to discoverers for nominal faes. Absolutetitles
are obtained d by developing such properties, security of which is #unranteed by
erown 2

7 Pree all British Columbia mineral properties_on which development
work has been done are described in one of the Annual Reporte of the Minister
.of Mines, Those considering mining investments should refer to such reports, .
Théy are available without charge on application to the Department of Mines,
Victoria, B.C. Repoyts covering each of the six Mineral Survey Districts are
~ published separately, and are available on application, Reports of the Geologi-
‘eal Survey of Canada, Winch‘Building, Vancouver,:B. C., are recommended as
. valuable sources of information.
ull information, together with mining reporta and maps,

may be obtained gratis by addressing

The Honourable. The Minister ‘of r Mines
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA -

to the eye of most and these are being
displayed. -
gitts you are golng to give to help
make Christmas pleasant, for some one
else. Now i is the time to de your buy-
ing. Do uot wait until the last min-
ute and have to take something you
do not Iike and know your friend will
not like. But where will you buy? A
nost natural question. -T'he best of
nll guides to the places where you wili
get the best service and the best goods
are the columns of the Omineen Her-
ald. The merchants are inviting you
through: these’. columns to cbme’ and
see what they have: got. They want |
to serve you and are ‘prepared to fill
all your wants at lowest prices for the
high class goods, Shop -now. and shop
at that places where your patronage
ds appreciated,

THAT PEACE RIVER LINE

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For ‘some months back all the pub-
lic enlighteners have been dw elling oni
the Pence River country -and all the
wonderful possibilities there—the very
lands of the prairies are covered with
gold, . according © to” some. Railroads
are to be built and goodness ‘knows
What all’is to be done. Those politi-
cians and spell binders have forgotten
all about the northern and central yal-
leys of this province which a few’ years
ago they were boosting just as hard.
We- believe the Peace River country is
a good place to grow, wheat and we do
not mean‘to belittle any of the claims
made for that country, But “at ‘the
same time we wish to draw the atten-
tion of the politicians aud Of the gor-
ernment to the fact that this northern

SERVICE

Prompt efficient repairs to all-makes ‘of cars; speedy and careful
taxi service to all ‘parts of the district, and regular service to trains, -

with prompt | attention to tranfer and drayage—This is the service of

‘The Paleoner Transfer

 -HAZELTON; ‘BL. -C,

Have You Paid Your. ‘Subscription up to Date?

frets

82. 00. Pays for ‘a Full Year

You wil never rbe ‘tonely:

Either during the day’ when working, around\ the . ‘house or when sits
; ing arourid: in the é evening, if you: have an ; v

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va

ae | onew: calendar. ‘because tour own

Jother’ way,-

nre’ occupied,

or central part of the: province is just
as good today as at any tinie in its
past. In fact it is. better, because the
Settlers here have. proven that a. mul-
titude of things can be grown and td
compete with anything produced. in any
other part. of the -~world:* The. vallies
of this great interior are by no means.
filed up. There are many thousands
of acres of land, as good ‘as any now
under cultivation, available for settlers
and the Peace River country hag not
demonstrated yet that, it can ‘produce
dny better wheat than’ is being produe-
ed right’ in ‘the Buikley Valley. Nor
cin the: Peace River country compete
successfully with these valleys in any
including cHinate. Butt
the. niain thing is the Bulkley Valley;
the ‘Kisplox’ and the “‘Skeena ‘have g
rallwey, and it iy’ giving | a ‘geod sere
‘vice and ; the Intrkets are. now at: tha
very door. of the’ farmed; Why, theni.
spend many millions of. the public mo-
ney to open mp new tracts of land nt

to: spend ~ the ‘inoney: find: “Ages” before |
‘the lands adjacent’ to present railways
It looks Uke 2 very. bad
polley, The provincial . - government
would. be better ; employed filling up
that.’ ‘portion of the province already
supplied awith ronds and. allways: ‘and
administrative offilces; ”: : “Get: : as few
nore: thousand: tax, payers: ‘here: hefore
embarking. On: ‘another! highly: yoblem-
ntleal:sebeio of. rallway: ‘development.
There was quite? fL: festive. air’ ‘ubont
the old town -the -fitst: -pf.the: weet! A’
ailetake must. have: been. made‘on's some

dar. does‘ not showy. ‘Christmas fot.

a biathdy,

other” month... “Maybe; some one: hod a

The Omineca. Herald

‘PUBLISHER

reading notices ic per line Brat insertion, 10e ber

are being

ting in stocks of goods that will appeal |:

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time: when the country eannot : afford, a

The Hazelton Hospital:

‘ ‘phe Hazelton. Hospital. ‘tesues: tie.
kets for any period at $1.50 per
month in advance. This rate in-
cludes office. consultations, medi-'

~ ¢ines, “as well as all costs while:
in the hospital. -Tickets /8re ob-
tatnable in Haziton at the drug
store or by mail from the. medi-

“eal superintendant at the hospital

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B.C. UNDERTAKERS }

EMDALMING FOR SHIPMENT A SPECIALTY

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; P.O, Box 948°
-PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

A wire :
~ will bring as

“Provincial Assayer
J. De Boulding

Price List Sent
on Application

Prompt. Service is Given to You

| Smithers, B.C.

SYNOPSIS OF

|LAND ACT AMENDBLENTS

PRE-EMPTIONS

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Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown lands
may be pre-empted by ‘British subjects
over I8' years. of age, and by aliens
on declaying intention to. becowe British
subjects, conditional upon residence, occu-
pation, and improvement for ; agricultural
purposes, :

Full’ information * concerning . regulations
regarding pre-emptions is piven in Bulletin
No, 1, Land Series, ‘How to Pre-empt Land,”
copies of which can .be obtained frea of charre
by addressing the Degartment ‘of Lands,
Victoria, B.C,, or to any Government Agent:

‘Records will be granted covering '- only
jand suitable for agricultuyal purposes; and |.
which is not timberland, ie, carrying over
5,000 board feet per Acre west of the
Coast Range and 8,000 feet per acre eaat
of that Range.

Applications . for pre-emptions are ‘to be
addressed to the Land Commissioner of the
Land Recording Division in which the land
applied for is situated, and are made on printed
forma, copies of which can he obtained from -the
Land Commissioner,

“ Pre-einptions must be oecupled for five years
and , improvements made to tho value of
10 per acre, including ‘clearing and cultivat-
ing at least five acres, before a Crown Grant
can be received, |

For more detailed. information see the Bulletin,
Hew _-Bre-empt Land.”

PU RCHASE

Applicationa are received for purchase
of vacant. and. unreserved Crown lands,
not being timberland, for ogriéultural purposes;

Send in Your. Samples. ald

j-R - Williams |
" PROVINGIAL ASSAYER
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Paints most varied
Oils ‘atoek in
Varnishes Northern
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Yenovating: or building your. home

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A.W. EDGE‘Co.

P.O. Box 469, Prince Rupert, B.C.

priee' of first-class (arable) land

is $5 ,per acre, ‘and ;Aecond-class (grazing)
land $2.50 per acre. Further . information
regarding, purchase or lease of Crown
Janda is. given in. Bulletin. No. 10, . Land
Series, "Purchase . and Tease af . Crown {{:
Lands.” .

“Mill, factory, . or industrial | ‘alice on “timber
land, not exceeting.40 aercs, may be purchased or
lensed, ‘the conditions including, payment: of
stumpage, :

‘HOMESITE LEASES

‘Unaurvered, arenas,

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“not exceeding: Py acres,

may .” he’ leased as Homesites, conditional
upon a, ‘dwelling heing: erected © in "the
first . year, « ‘title being: obtainable : after

residence and improvemant conditiona : are
fulfilled . a the land haa: _ besa aut
veyed. ‘ . a up Q : na
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“For “grazing. ; * and: " tndustrtal PUTDOSE

areag not: exceeding a0 acres may, bo. Jeaned
by. any, one Parson or company, ee :

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