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~The Omineca Miner

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE
GREAT OMINECA District oF RrivisH COLUMBIA. .

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VoL. III,

SATURDAY, May 9, 1914,"

No. 36,

The mountains are beginning to cast off their snowy mantles,
and soon the hardy prospector will again shoulder his.pack and re-
new his search for the mineral treasures which lure him past the
frontiers of civilization, to blaze his trails through the wilderness,
Not always is his material reward commensurate: with the hard-
ships he undergoes; sometimes he finds that pioneering, like virtue,
is its own reward, and his hopes of fortune are unfulfilled—still the
free life in the open continues to attract the true-born pioneer. As
usual, the season which-is now opening.is bringing many prospect-
ors to this district, where numerous ‘‘stakes’’? have been made in re-
cent years, and where many inviting stretches of unexplored coun-

try still lie before the prospector.

In the district tributary to Hazelton, although ‘there are many
developed or partially-developed mines of undoubted value, there

is still room for an army of prospectors.

While. it would .be_ too

much to expect that the district should be thoroughly explored in

two or three seasons, we venture

the opinion that the year 1914

will see a large addition to the number of mineral claims held in
his vicinity, and will be marked by new minera! discoveries of

iniportance.

The old town of Hazelton, for many years the distributing point
for the entire Northern Interior, is still the chief supply point for

the district,
thing required for their outfits

Here miner, prospector and landseeker find every-

in the general stores which have!

for many seasons furnished supplies to the parties which, on_vari-
ous business, leave Hazelton in the spring for every. part of this

rich district.

Hundred of prospectors will outfit here this spring]

before beginning their season’s work in this vicinity or in the

mineralized country to the north and east.

When the Liberal leaders,
Messrs, Brewster and Oliver,
were on their political pilgrimage
a short time ago, they endeavor-
ed to show that the department
-of lands had connived at the
fraudulent purchase of. land,
basing their allepations on the
judgment in a.recent suit over
the staking of Naas lands. In-
vestigation of the case proves
‘the opposition insinuations to be
baseless, ~

It seems that Clark, the plain-
tiff, got in touch with a land loca-|
tor who led Clark to believe that
he knew of certain meadow lands
in the North country which he
could obtain for him on’ payment
ofafee. Asa result Clark paid
him a'sum of money and at the
same time agreed that he was: to
gather together a number: of
names and locate the sections in
these different names, all, of
_ course, for Clark. ~ Clark after-

wards found out on making in-
vestigations that this locator had
used certain fraudulent tmisrepre-
sentations in connection with the
descriptions of this land, the larid
consisting of nothing but rocks
instead of meadow land. An
action was accordingly. brought
against him for fraudulent mis-
representation, . ‘but the defense
raised ‘the point that -Clark waa
also really guilty of fraud, as he
was attempting . to commit _ a
fraud on the land department hy
using the names of the different
people.in.order. that he might be
able’ to buy: a larger section of

‘Jand whereas, as a matter of fact,.

‘he. waa only:entitled to one sec-
-tions } Judge MeDonald. held that

the: whole affair: WAB fraudulent,

and that’ therefore Clark shad no

right: to recover damages for! mis-
“ repreaentation when. his own ac:/,

tion was a fraud upon the: Jands|

ten different people it would be
all in order, and the lands depart:

ment-would have to. put. through

the grants, providing all the sta-

tutory requirements : were .com-

plied with, unleas,. ‘of course,
they felt that a fraud-was being
perpetrated. by the agent in using
the names of these different peo-|
ple for the purpose of: obtaining
for his prineipal. more than. one
section of land.

THE NYSTERIOIS ¥ RAYS}

In view of the approaching i in-
stallation in the Hazelton Hos-
pital of a modern X-ray appara-
tus, considerable interest i is being

taken locally in the character and

nges of the “rays. re

Ever since Prof, Roentgen dis-
covered ‘the mysterious “tays’?
which bear his name it has ‘been
a ‘puzzle as to what. these-. rays
could be, . They i seem like: a, form’
of light—they give out ‘light, un
der } proper conditiona, Or rathér| +
they. cause plates" and: screens:
prepared with’ éertain chemitals
to become luminescent or, fluiores-
cent, ag the phyéicists' ‘Bay, when |:
they aré bombarded by the x:
rays,

But otherwise they do “not. ‘(or
did not seem to) act like ordinary
light at ‘all, For’ example, -whien
ordinaty light i is passed | throdgh,
a prism it ig bent, Slightly out of
its straight-line course, ‘and’ ‘the’
degree of bending | varies witli
the eolor—that i ‘ig: with the’ wave
length * of ” light, ° So, _ when's a
compound light. iike* suolight ig
put’ through the’ prism, ‘it is ‘split.
up ‘into all the colors of the! tain-
bow, aa os

Again, ' ordinary light faya{

when | ‘passed ‘through © cor ain |
stibatances’ Tike tourmaline

vacuum n tube i is. bombarded by.an.| |%
It is one of | BR
| the greatest discoveries of recent | [a
- years that-this electrical stream,

electrical stream.

this beautiful glow which i is seen

world like the particles of a gas—
air, for example.
weight and

‘And so the puzzle remained.

have found substances which re-

X-rays,

like ‘the rays of ordinary light.
And. in this way it has been es-

they are
small,
measured in fractions of a metre
—very small fractions—to be ex-
act, in millionthsof a thousandth
of a metre.

a micromicon:

sible to measure ultraviolet raya,
which are less than 100 units in
length. But no method of meas-
urement: has yet been. devised
which: ean give any accurate idea
of the waves of the X-ray pulses.
Probably they are -not a thou-
sandth part the size of the small:
est ultraviolet, a

_ But now that their nature has
been determined, now that they
can be “refracted”’ and “‘polar-
ized,'’. just. like ordinary light,
itis only a matter of time when

ingenious experimenters,will find
a way to. determine their: dimen-
siong,

“When: they do wo shall have a
new “weapon «in the search into] .
Nature’s mysteries; and already | -

to throw new light upon: the
| structure of-atoms and molecules | -:
—that..is, the structure of ‘that

“matter” amid which we live and
a. ‘Part of which: we are, |

. | " Dentand ‘Exclusion
London, May 4 >The Unionist
journals. this ‘morning, following

“1 Mr, ‘Balfour's lead, 7 are unequivo-

cally demanding the uncondition-
al exelusion of Ulster from the
the ‘operation of’ “the. ‘ome rule
bill, declaring this is - ‘the only
means | of averting war, Many
prominent Unionists write to the
newspapers alleging © “that” the
government ‘ig’ acting dn. bad
faith, ‘and scouting | the. ‘proposed
federal lution; - The. general
attitude of the Unionisti ¢ siiggests

their: belief, that t the ‘government

is on the rin ‘and | is prepared tol. =
make the. fullest, ote the ‘to

We
inside the vacuum tubes, is due I
to myriads of electric ‘‘atoms’’ rs
or particles which act for all the iff

But while the 3:
“‘charge” of these |i
electrical atoms can actually bei}
measured, no such measurement Ng
could be made with the ‘'X-rays.’”. a

‘Very recently, however, some| |i
English and German physicists ||K

act in a very peculiar way to the [oe

Certain crystals, and |r.
the rough edges of mica plates at
and the like, it has been discov-|[¥q .

ered, will act like a glass prism |[&
to the rays, so that’ the latter |i
can now be manipulated much |li4

tablished that the rays are actu- rl:
ally little pulses of light. But} (4
incredibly thin and XG
Ordinary light waves are | 4

A millionth of 2/8
metre is called a micron, and a| i}
thousandth part of this is catled |\@
The longest vis-||¢
ible rays are 700 or 800 of these |
units in length, and the shortest,. Na
‘}at the violet end of the spect-| (4
rum,” are’ about 600. It is pos- |

marvelous instrumentmakersand! .

jTesearchés: {n: this field promise]

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