’ THE OMINECA HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY i . %, 1934 When you use the columns of your LOCAL NEWSPAPER You are supporting @ local industry and encouraging the *‘Buy at Home”’ principal. Tell the buying public what you have and give the price. THE OMINECA HERALD Is here to carry that message to the public for you. Will you use these columns? British Columbia has produced minerals of an aggregate value of + wa . -$1,400,000,000 Recent Publications You are invited to apply to the Department of Mines, Victoria, B C., for the latest autborative information regarding .. mining development in British Columbia Annual Report of the Honorable the Minister of Mines for the calendar year 1933 “Placer Mining in British Columbia.” Summary and Review of the Mineral Industry of British Columbia for the six months ended June 30th, 1933 Non-ietalic Mineral Investigations: “Barite’ “Asbestos” “Glassware”; “Clay”; “Magnesite and Hydro-magnesite” Address enquiries te: The Honourable The Minister af Mines » Parliament Buildings Vietoria, B. C. Even though business is not up to normal you still use Counter Check Books and need them now or in the near future. The Omineca Herald will now supply you with . Counter Check Books 7 of any size and any make and at manufacturer's prices “Give ‘your order to us or send it by mail to "The Omineca Herald - New Hazelton, B. Cs 0 BAKE 4 AAA a SC CAS LS Ce RRR . as ‘ ‘ q Is Your Subscription Due? It is Only Two Dollars a Year _ Now) is a good time to pay _— Se ee | > . . . . Of interest to you Prince George will pay a ° visit “to ¢; Australia the latter, part of this year. . * * © Great Britain and the United States y/entrad upon a gold battie on Tuesday. This is likely to result in the two big nations getting together and stabalize their money, ~ ' nneee : A. Montreal engineer of repute has suggested that a big irrigation scheme ¢\for the southern prairies be undertak; en to relieve unemployment and to get that part of the country into a- state‘ of reasonable production. At the pre: sent time the chances for a half a crop! fower development’ would support a‘ very large population and would also solve the railway problem, - _ *ea Many in the north regretted to learn on Tuesday of ‘the death of Edward Mortimer of Prince Rupert, one of the original citizens who was first associa ted with Pattullo and Naden in the real estate and insurance business. With the departure of Messrs. Pattullo and | Naden to .Victoria, Mr. Mortimer car vied on the insurance business. He has ' not ben-well for some considerable time Tt was 56 below in Dawson on Tues day and 65 below in Fairbanks, Alaska eae President. Roosevelt hrs asked eon- gress to set the value of the gold con- tent of the American dollar at from-50) to 60 cents. He favored the use of sil- ver as money. This is all consider- ed good news for Canadians. + + An earth quake shook Indian on Mon duy doing much damage and causing the loss of many lives. +'* & toss, Liberrl, was elected in Calgary’ by-election on Monday for the Alberta Legislature. Miss Turner, the C. 0.9,’ Jeandidate was a close second. F ete ' An Oxford group team will tour Can- uda shortly. Canada needs them. and Vancouver could profit by a visit. -* * | It was 54 below zero in Dawson on Monday, The cold snap followed a Lit- tle touch of spring when the theremo. meter showed only six below zero. ; a8 Saret. Major Watson of the R.QALYP. arrived Tuesday to pay an inspection visit to the Hazelton detuchment. *” ah tk Miss Menzies of Kisplox went to the const on Tuesday. She has. not been fecling well lately. _ a ak ' The Ladies Aid Suciety of the United Chureh in Hazelton, will meet at the nkinse on Thursday afternoon, ene “sports of intl have been so redue- ed by restrictions placed upon them hy the United States that they are neg- ligibic. Mineral Act /. _ Noties Silver Bell Mineral Claim, situate in the Omineca Minkig Diy ‘inion of Cas- sla District, ‘ Where locnted—On Six “ Mile © Creek, Four Mile Mountain, near Hazelton, BC. ! TAKE NO'TICH that J. A. Ruther- ford, I.M.C. No. 62087D, agent id Wri Giebe, Free Miner's © Certificate No 40381D, intend, alxty days .from the date hereof, : to; atiply. to. the. Mining. Recorder for, a Certificate of Improve- ments. for the purpose of obtaining a Crown’ Grarit of the ahboye: claim. .. . And ‘further tak} “notice that action, under section’ 85, 1 ust , be ‘commenced |. before’ the’ ‘iasuance, of: sueb’ Certificate | of ‘Improvements. - Doings Around Home Oe LeeLee LCL CON eR CLEC LOL te ¢ is only one in four. Irrigation ond! cE RTIFIC ATE OF IMPROVEMENTS ; and your friends Here and There Twenty-nine “men’ and seven women who pioneered Alberta trails died in the present year, All of them saw the. west when it was young, the west thal exist- ed before 1895. The current year marks the half century since the Canadian Pacific came to Calgury. Sailing. for New York Decem- ber 14, the 42,500-ton white-hulied Empresas of Britain left on a Christmas and New Year's holi- day. cruise for the West Indies, December 22, returning to New York January 3 and-sailing again January 4 fora 4'4-month cruise around. the world. . . Among the “Believa It or Not” facts wellknown to the generulity of newspaper readers, may be added the statement of S, G. Hib- -ben, of the Westinghouse Light ‘Company, made recently In an address at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto that “tsday there cre. » §ome 10,000 different kinds of ar- tificial Hght sources,” Approximately 78,000 people ‘own the Canadian Pacific Rall- way through their ownership of the company’s common stock, O7 these, 36,000 live in Canada. Of the balance, 21,000 live in other parts of the British Empire, most- ly in Engiand, with 16,000 in the United States and 5,400 in other countries, mostly continental Eur- ope. . - For the first time in western Canada, an. impressive ceremony, .the age-old investiture © of. ‘the Knights of St. John waa held re- cently at the Hotel. Vancouver, Vancouver when six British Co- lumbians were admitted by King George, sovereign head of the order, to high honors. Old world costumes and atrange rites added to the dignity and color of the proceedings. Railways and their important functions In the economic exis- tence of the State were stressed by G. G. Ommanney, development commissioner of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the annual banquet of the Traffic Club of Hamilton recently, They had, he said, contributed materially to de- velopment of natural resources building up of industries and in promoting land settlement and . agriculture.. . . Railway and motor truck trans- ’ portation are both essential to the economic wellbeing of Canada and neither should be antagonis- tie to the other, stated Hon. R, J. Manion, minister of railways and canals, at a national conference - on transportation held at Ottawa recentiy, But, he added, while railways are subject to strict reg- ulation and control, motor truck service has not as yet been brought under - any comparable . control or regulation. Chas, Wilson of Smithers is ‘har- vesting ice fren Lake Kathlyn and he says it iv fine ice too. *x* ke . Jasper Stanver o£ Frunucois Lake ‘is spendivg n time in Havelton with his . winter. : eRe A prospector in Australia fonnd a ‘nugget the other day worth $4,000. It was in an-old and worked out gold imine, ; - eek Olof Hanson. attended’ a conference of Liberal M., P.s in’ Vancouver Inst week while lie was in: Vancouver. . The big shots of. ‘the: opposition discussed just- what’ they would de with Hon, R. teal ‘Raw ‘fare, ‘and éspectaliy mink have tiken n decided’ upward turn in price. Dritedt thls, Brd day. of Japaary, 10384. | There CC fC CCA tC Cee ci Cc ed se d mente ae aan “ Grant's Agency i Notary Public. Representing Leading Fire and Life », Insurance Companies You Office Work given | Prompt and Careful Attention HAZELTON, B. C. fa Orme’s, Ltd. (The Pioneer Druggist) The Mail Order Drug Store of Northern B, C, oi a Drugs, . Stationery Fancy Goods Kodaks Pictures Developed and Printed od Y po Prinec Rupert, B.C. 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