“COAL: NOTICHS

-Omineea' Land Disntiet’° a ay .

-” District: of ‘Cagsiar °°. ~
. Take notice. that Frank A; Jackgon’ of
Hazelton, miner, intends to apply for a
license to prospect for coal. an
leum over the following deseribed lands;

Commencing at,'a -post. planted ten.

miles north o. the. northwaat corner:of
lot 2179; thence north 80 chains, west 20
chains, south 80: chains, east. 80 ‘chains
to point of commencement; known ‘a3
claim No, 91,- ‘Prank ‘A Jackson.
Jan, 2. 1912,. wl

— Omineca Land ‘District :
strict.of Gassiar
Take notice that Frank A.’ Jackaon of
Hazelton, miner; intends‘te apply for a
license to prospect for coal and: petro-
leum over the following described lands;
Commencing ata post planted 9 miles

north of the northwest’ corner of lot.

2179; thence north 80 chains, “éast 80
chains, south 80 chains, weat 80 chains
to point of # commencement, known. as

" claim No,'84, Franke A. Jackson,
Jan, 1, 1912, ;

Omineca Land District
District of Cassiar . -
_ Take notice that Frank.A. Jackson of

Hazelton, hiner, intends to apply for a

license to prospect for coal. and petro.
Jenm over the following described Janda;
‘Commencing at a post planted nine
miles north of the northwest: corner of
lot 2179; thence north 80 chains, west 80
chring, south £0 chains, east 80 chaing to
oint of commencement, kyiown aa clain
_ Frank AV Jackson.

Jan an. 1, 1912,

Omineca Land District
District of -‘Cassiar

Take notice that Frank A, Jackson of
Hazelton, miner, intends to apply for a
licenae to prospect for coal and petro-
leum over the following described lands;

Commencing at a post planted ten
miles north of the northwest corner of
tot 2179; thence north 80 chains, east 80
~ chaing,. south 80 chains, weat 80 chains
to polnt of commentement, known as
claim No. 90. Frank "Ae Jackson,
Jan. .2, 1912.

Omineca Land District
: District of Cassiar
“Take notice that Frank A, J: ackeon, of
Hazelton, miner, intends to appl for a
license to prospect for‘ coal ead petro:
leum over the following described lands;
Commencing at a post planted six
miles north and 2 mile west of the
northwest corner ar lot 2178; thence
south 80 chains, east 80 chains, north
80 chains, west 80 chains, to point of
commencement, known a3 claim No. 88.
Jan, 1, 1912, Frank A. Jackson.

EF 0. E OMINECA. AERIE
* Meets every Tuesday eve-

ning at sight o'clock in the Hazelton
- Town Hall, R, ©. MILLER, W. SEC.
H. Fy Guasamr, ¥ W. Pres,

Latest Jewel Novelties. i in Gold
and ‘Silver. High grade watches,
Watch.Repairing.

Oo. A, RAGSTAD.... Hazelton

etro- |

"MH OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, MARGE 30, 1912.

the: House of Commons: the naval
estimates for the: coming year.
The appropration * ‘ealled for is

$220, 427,000, (a: decréase of $1,-

585,000-- from last:.year. Mr,
Churchill accompanied the intro-
duction with the promise of an
augmentation or. a: retardation of
the British: naval. construction to

correspond with Germany’ 8 naval
programme, He. said: he_re-

‘gretted the necessity of referring

{specifically to Germany...

-Mr, Churchill then went on to
tell of the conditions under which.
naval ° competition — would be
carried on in-the next five years,
prefacing his remarks with the.
statement that. the. two-to-one
standard was’ not necessary at
at present, although it possibly
would become so.

MANN BUYS A

BIG COAL AREA

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with outerops of this splendid
grade of coal, since. the eleven |

seams by lateral. pressure were
compressed into waves. sueceed-
ing waves, as synclines opposing
anticlines in an easterly and west-
erly direction, but with no exten-
sive faults or breaks as ‘steps,
save the one striking one, reliev-
ing the pressure asa line of
weakness, stretching from Des-
tingay mountain across the main
united Skeena river, over Anthra-
cite river to the mountain of the
Devil’s Claws, across Beirnes
ereck to. Mount - Alec, onward
across the.Naas river fork. to
near the Ninth cabin of the
| Yukon telegraphline, End pres-
sure from. the birth of the inter

London, Ma 28: “Me “wine!
ation’ ‘Spencer Churehill,: first lord |
of. the: admiralty, : introduced ‘in

” bagalis oft the lower Siikine: river

created: one’ notable. “anticline
forming. the. height. ‘of. land- or

Clua-Tahn-Tahn forks) and’ the
head of the Klappan river. °

sures. had: ceased, then came ‘the
stupendous - grinding,
down action of the glacial periods |
which followed ‘the tropical

climate under which the coal foli-

age grew, due to volcanic heat-
ing of rocks, ‘this ice: eroding
{away many. thousand feet: in
depth of rock formation, and’ in-
cidentally at the same time. the
anticlines of. the stratified coal
measures, thus accounting ‘for.
the present outcropping of. the
coal seams at the rims of each:
individual “syncline, extending
regularly about five miles Across,.
obviating any uncertainty as. to

the universal existence of coal!

seams-throughout the length and
breadth of this abnormally large
coal basin. There are two series
of seams, ‘the upper. and lower
ones, probably amounting to over
three thousand feet in thickness
in a vertical section, but the
upper series is not as extensive
as the lower owing tothis glacial
and meteorological erosion,

No voleanic rocks have thrust
up their manifold heads since the
deposition of the coal during the
jurassic. and erétaceous era. of
geological periods to destroy,
fault or make. uneven in grade
these smoothly paralleling seams,
The cause of transcending from
bituminous to anthracite wad
brought about by superthermal
steam probably during pre-glacial
time under incalculable pressure;
this thermal matter being forced
widecast throughout the entire
district to permeate all strata
alike, coal, conglomerates, sand-
stones and shales, having its

genesis in the stupendous intru-

ives tettiary basalts «and: other.

divide of. the. wateralieds- “to the

two forks’ of. the: Stikitie river|:
(the Glam Skean and the Yetrye) ;.
separated - from. those: of the
Skeena’ river (Clud-Kaas ° “and

Wi earing -

‘dreds of years,

ipenous “roeks: breaking: through keted -

all obstructions. -of older - forma:

tions on the lower r Stickine: ‘and

coastal ranges, ° ;
This thermal process accounts

for the splendid homogeneous
‘prade of high fixed. carbon, low

volatile matter, and so a hard,
smokeless fuel throughout the

| whole eleven known commercial
When these contracting” preke

sized seams, twenty, ten, six,
four, three feet in thickness,
spreading over the entire extent
of this fine coal area, stretching
fifteen hundred. and seventy
thousandacresin extent. —‘
Before long’ miners: by ‘the
thousand will find work on this
new coalfield, towns will spring
up to supply their wants, families
will increase in numbers, lumber
mills will be busy,. farmers will
find a ready. market -and there
will be a humming, thriving cen-
tre of industry prowing by leaps
and hounds when the railway
takes the coal away to be shot
mto fleets-of steam éolliers. for
all ports, from Alaska and Pana-

ma to Patagonia, ‘and across the];

Pacific to Siberia, China, Japan
and Hongkong.

to where the stereotype * rock,

roof and floor are in place, where! ;

f BRITISH COLUMBIA BROKERAGE COMPANY {

- Box 20, Hazelton, B,C.

the seams. find themselves, has
been proven a3 run of the mine
of normal, even grade, where

development has passed through] }

the spheres of vuartz lenses and
higgerheads always present in
all anthracite countries at the

surface, here the true quality,

free‘from high ash and top dirt,
has-been. demonstrated to carry
84 to 87 ner cent fixed carbon
and from 5: to@per cent- ash,
this without any tests at all at

screening out soft partings ‘or .

washing clay yugs from broken
sized coals, as egg, . stove, lump,
Bea, nut and the various | mar-

careful mechanical treatment‘on

eriés to reduce. quantity” of ash
before being thrown on-the mar-

‘The quantity of | ;
of the coal in this territory is|-
apparent in its abundante, ample :
to’ keep a large ‘army of coal- ;
hookers active for several hun-|:
‘The quality, by |:
passing below the. outerops past ‘
the clay covered exposures down |;

Welsh, ‘Pennsylvania, and ‘Poea-
| hontas, allof which coals receive

picking belts, screens and wash-

ket. - Costs. of mining, hauling to
seaboard and favorable -position
|for cargo freight rates ons
northern, .and so.shortest, circuit
to Asia, all of these advantages
enable this coal, withits quantity,

opening: of: ‘the! | Palit canal.

This coal ean. capture the prairie,

trade of Canada-and-'the, United“ -
States'as far east'as Port Arthur: ©
in competition: ‘against Pennayi- -
vania hard coal.’:
gestions have’ been thrown out-to’
demonstrate the vaat importance: Ce
of this new ‘coalfield to'Canada’
and the British’ Empire . to keep,
the command of the world’s trade _

and its .sinews of. war under. the 7
Union Jack. er

Sufficient sug-

.

proven quality and‘high ealorifie

powers of British thermal units
1184.18, to command all the sea-
borne cdal trade of the Pacific
ocean in Asia, America and Aus-
tralia against ‘all. comers, so re-

With 60° acres plowed,

520 acres of land in’

For Sale § the Bulkley. valley.|

This includes the Mosquito Flate
enced - and

ready for see:
° “H. COP PP BORK, Hazelton, B. C,:

ceiving large contracts’ from the

fighting navies of the world, who
must have smokeless coal. to give |
no warning as to their wherea-

bouts, to supply the mercantile|-
marine, ocedn or coast’ bound,:
seudding in endless numbers and
itineraries over ‘this great ocean,

Green Bros.,Burden & Co.

Civil Engineera.
Dominion and British Columbia
Land Surveyors

a4

Offices at Victoria, Nelson, Fort George

and Hazelton.

B, ©, AFFLECK, Mgr. Hazelton Office.

a) tit tentinblitbtebt

ed

“From Kitsclas to Fort George.

ntedotedet trokeederterh meen

FARM LANDS —
Along the

G.T.P..

From $8.00 per a Acte tp . ;

Why not own a quarter, half or section of good.
tend j in a good country. .

ED. V. ‘McBETH.

-_ Succestor to. Union Transfer
and Storage Co,

FF reighting Contractor »

_ All Classes of Freight Handled with Care and Despatch _

Do You Realize.
taat ina town’ such: ag ‘NEW. HAZELTON
will be, i in order.to own the best' property you |

“must be on the inside? —

Six or-seven blocks in the business center
of any town or. city always command the oD
Ouiside. this radius property
values decrease in direct ratio as the. distance
from this center i increases.

highest figures,

 Getin the business

Soa center

a “Ta NEW HAZELTON this Dpusingse. cans =:
am ter will be. created by the Old Hazelioni Busi.)
To any who lave not”
already: bought: we: advise: immediate action, °
As. outside. buyers: ‘are quick to realize this:
point and. are snapping. up lots surrounding
7 where Old Hazelton people have bought

- news Men: themselves,

r ee ae

| Ris ‘the inside of
NEW: HAZELTON

~ Maps, Plans, Priee L

Seen at: our ‘office.

Section 2
Lot 882

Hay and Oats for Sale, . Office at Omineca Hotel .

center

them here,

Now, you may ‘say, ‘Th wait,

not want to-continue in business in this’ dis- |

_ ‘| trict, or if I do, I may be able to ‘get in
‘ cheaper after awhile,”

Get j in te business:

I may

epee In anawer to such an argument we would

© | say that ‘every indication points to an era of -

_ prosperity: for this : ‘district - undreamed of he-

’ fore, - -HAZELTON4 ‘is on the tip of everyone’ ]

tongue all over the, continent, anda rush of
population and. capital to this” district i is ag-

‘| sured for. the coming: spring. You know we...

‘have the resources and attraction to keep

. "Only one 2 tim
that’s now -

Soif you buy n now,

Bte., ate 6 be:

~ Local Seling Agents

(OF. =

on the inetd of NEw By

. HAZELTON, you.wili be protecting yourself; an a