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BO THE outivaioa HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH. 11 1927

Mill at

Hanson
Lumber &
Timber Co.

Manufacturers of

FLOORING - WINDOWS

Complete,
“different sizes

Hemlock
- and Spruce

ROUGH, DRESSED & DIMENSION

Lumber

HEMLOCK, SPRUCE AND CEDAR

HAN ALL, B. C. . Get our prices before ordering elsewhere

$74,111,397; Lead,

Cement,

The substantial pro
ince is atrikingly i

half of the Province has

erown gram

of Minea.
* Victoria, B.C.

- Lode mining has only been in prog

talneral bearing lands are open for prospecting. .
The mining laws of this Province are mor:

any other Province in the Deminion er any Colony in tha Britizh Empire. . -
Mineral locations are zranted to discoverers for nominal fees. Absolute titles

are obtained ad by developing such properties,

itish Columbia mineral properties upon which worl
ed in some one of the Annual Reports of the Minister
ahould refer to such reports.
1 application to the Department of Mines,
h of the six Mineral Survey Districts are
pubtished separately, and are available on application. Reports of the Geologi-
eal Survey of Canada, Winch Building, Vancouver,
valuable sources of information.

The Honourable The “Minister of Mines
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

N.. frat eotically all Bri
has been done are describ
Those considering mining investments
They are available without charge o
Reports covering eac:

HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS : ‘-
Placer Gold, $77,668,045; Lode Gold, $122,805 1 Silver,

218,907; Copper, $197.6 642,647; Zine,

$39, 95, 947: Coal and Gale, $273" 048,953; Building Stone, Brick,
$44,905,886; Miscellaneous Minerals, $1,694,087; -
Making mineral production, to the end of 1925 show

. ‘AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $920,919,628

ress of the mining industry in this prov-
ustrated in the following figures, which -
show the value of production for successive 5-year periods:

For all years to 1895, inclusive ........9 94,547, 2d

For five years, 1896-1900 ........- vanes 57,605,967
For five years, 1901-1905 . weeee uw 96,507,968
For five years, 1906-1910 ............. .. 125,584,474
For five years, 1911-1915 .....,-.-..-.. 142,072, 603
For five years, 1916-1920 vee paneeeee oe - 188, 922.725
For the year 1921 ........6... pentane "98 066,641
For the year 1922,...,--.-+++. caasedees | OB, 158,843
For the year 1928. ......0eeeeee enone vas 41,304,320
For the year 1924... 0... cccene eee e eee 48, '704, 604.
For the year 1926,.......... saeedeeenee - 61,492,242

PRODUCTION DURING LAST TEN YEARS, $404,049,..7 .

resa about 25 years. and only. about ons"
been prospected: 200,000 square miles of unexplored

@ Uberal and the fees lewer than.

security of which ie guaranteed. by

B.C., are recommended as -

W. J. PITMAN’S MUSIC STORE

PRINCE GEORGE, B. C.

Heintzman & Co. pianos -
Orthophonic Victrolas.
Singer Sewing Machines

Underwood Typewriters

your station.

‘Each the standard in its Tine,

Prices standard, Freight paid to

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, canvas ‘the: district from end to end ‘to

Telkwa Tales.

Dan’ Quinitven cdme’ down: from bis
tle camp at Barrett and spent the week
end. He expects to complete his tie
contract ina week or ten days.

’ Jack Oakes and Gus Timmermeins-
ter spent ‘the week end in town from
the Cassair Crown camp on Grouse
mountain. They report. that” every-
thing looks good in the workings.

Mrs. Rt. EH, Wakefield returned from
n trip ta _Mayo’s clinic at Rochester,
and is rhuch improved.

ees

Mrs. Green came down from MeNefl
ranch and is spending a week with
her danghter, Mrs. Harry Willis

Durie McGibbon is confined. to the
nursing home with a badly cut knee
as the result of a tie hacking accident
last week.

| Letters to the Editor

About: Dairying

‘ta the Editor Terrace News :—

Dear’ Sir:—The time has come the
Walrns says, to talk of miny things
and' one of them is the future of this
part of the northern interior of B. 0.
Terrace has just organized another as
sociation’ ‘known as the Terrace and
District. Board of Trade, At one of
the meetings H. L. Frank suggested
that the most importont quesion for
the welfare of the most people along
the Skeena and its tributaries, 1s farm-
ing. The’ most important part of
farming is to have something to sell
could supply strawberries to the trade
fresh from the garden all the year our
worries wonld be over. Needless to

lect Someother article, There is a big
list to choose from, such 1s, honey, hog
hay, hens, potatoes, penrss, poles, and
prunes, lumber, lath, ‘laziness, road:
work, bootleg, butter, milk, ice cream,
cows. Ah, cows! Suppose we choose
eows, Durham cows, Holstein cows.
Ayreshire cows, Jersey cows, Guern-
sey cows and Shorthorn cows, Hav-
ing chosen. cows, let’s start at the right
point as a biginner. Suppose ten or
more settlers could ste their way clear
to keep from five to tyenty cows each
form an associntion and ship, milk to}
market for a trial, and to, prepare to |'
establish their own distributing plant.
To have all cattle. T. B. inspected ; to
have an area, proclaimed - 7 B _ free,
and an inspection yearly; to encour-
age increase by birth and import to
the district; to encourage registration
Land saitation; to increase ; marketing
facilities as needed such as a creamery
a milk station at, Prince Rupert,

There is a market for this ‘district,
say. from Prince Rupert to Quick, ‘or
farther, for product of 800 cows. Take
the towns of Ocean Falls, ‘prince Ru-
pert, Anyox, Stewart, Terrace, Telkwa
Smithers, the Hazeltons and other
points for butter alone. ‘One hundred
tons per yenr would he a fair estimate
for ice cream, from five to ten tons;
and a hundred and flity gallons whale
mille for Prince Rupert per day, is safe
to assume fair. ‘Ninety por cont of
this commodity is now imyorted Intd’
this district.
farmers wish, it. A year round income
from the. cows and it, improves, the
land. Settlers will stay. More
will, come. It will command respect
for. all concerned to have a second Tra.
.fser Villley Milk Prodpeers Assoclation
established on the Skeena. “Let, Us

see’ what. can | bedone, 0s,
be Xours traly, 7

The ‘Hazelton Hospital |
1 ae

“The. Hazelton. Hospital iisties tic. . |:

kets for any period at $1.50 per

‘mouth in advance. This rate in-

eludes office. consiiltations, medi-

J. wd R. ‘ Williams ‘

| “PROVINCIAL ASSAYER |

, _ Price lista sent on ypequest

loge”

Credit Fotier Bidz. 7 VANCOUVER! Be.

eines, as, well as all costs while |)

in the hospital. ‘Tickets are ob-
tainable in Hazlton at -the drug °
store: or by mall.from the medi- °

cal superintendant at the hospital

LAND ACT AMENDMENTS

sny, we dgn't,.so we will have to se-|'

It ban be got here if the

will ;

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B.C. UNDERTAKERS-.

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SHACKLETON |
Hotel

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New, clean ‘and comfortable
First-class Dining Room in connection

Rates ARE Avraacnve

THOS, SHACKLETON - Prop.

SYNOPSIS OF

PRE-EMPTIONS

_ Hotel

-A REAL Goon HOTEL

Prince Rupert
B.C.

H. B. RocHESTER, Manager

Ratee $1.50 per day up.

Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown lands
British subjects
over “1B years of agé and by aliens
on ‘declaring intention’ to secome ‘British
Bubjects, conditional upon reaidence, oceu-
pation, and improvement: for agricultural
purposes,

Full information concerning regulations
regarding pre-emptions ig given in Bulletin
No. 1. Land’ Series, “How to Pre-empt Land,”
copies of which can be obtained free of charge
by addrassing the Department of Land,
Victoria, BC. orto any Government Agent.

Records will be granted covering only
land suitable for agricultural purposes, and
which is not timberland, Le, carrying over
5,000 board feet per: acre west of - the
Coast Range and 8,000 feet per sera . east,
of that Range, :

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

Pre-emptions rust be occupied for five years
and. improvements made to’ the value. of
‘$id Per acre,’ including clearing and cultivat-
‘ing at least. five acres, before-a Crown Grant
can be received,” :

For mora detailed ‘information 4 nee the Bulletin,
How Pre-empt Land,” ‘

PURCHASE

Applications are receiyed for purchase
‘of vacant ond unreserved Crown lands,
not being. timberland, for agricultural, DULKP OREH;
minimum - priee of first-class (arable) Tend
is $5 per-aere, and second-clase (grazing)
land $250 per acre. Further information
regarding  purchasa or lease of Crown
landa ig given in Bulletin No. 10, Land
Seried, ‘Purchase and Lease of Grown
Lands.”
Mill, factory, dr ‘industrial sites on “timber
jand, not exceeding 40 acres, may be purchased or
lensed, the conditions including payment of
atumpage,

HOM ESITE LEASES.

Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20° nerea,
may be leased. a8 homesites, conditional
Upon & “dwelling . being erected in the
firat year, . title belrig’ obtainable - after

yesidence and fmprovement conditions’ are

fulfilled. a. the dad has beon .surs
cao LEASES

For ‘grazing’ and” ~ thatntedet “purpose.

areas not. exceeding 40. castes’ may, be leased,
‘by any. ‘one pergon or, company,

poo “GRAZING « a

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