Phone 300 P.O, "Box 195 HARRISON W. ROGERS ARCHITECT Special Attention to Out of Town Clients | HB] Suite One, Feperat Biock, PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. Green Bros., Burden & Co. | B Civil Engineers Dominion and British Columbia Land Surveyors Offices at Victoria, Nelson, Fort George 2 . , and New Hazelton. Ne New Hazelton. f The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT Omineca DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Sargent s — the F avorite Shopping: Place MINERS’ PROSPECTORS’ and SETTLERS’. SUPPLIES A ‘SPECIALTY ~IN OUR———_— > Diy Goods and Men’s F oishingf Departinents We carry La that will meet with” Your approval ‘in quality and price . Handkerchiefs Underwear Neckwear’ Hosiéy: Boots, Shoes Gold Seal. Miring ; Boot’ | Tennis ‘Shoes | Macdonald & Rauk, Publishers and Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Ponsessions Two Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year, ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $1.60 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 15 cents per line for first insertion, 10 cents per fine for each subsequent insertion, Legal notices inserted at B, C, Gazette rates, eae Te es B, GC. AFFLECK, Mer. Tay = NS yD J. A. LeRoy J. Nation Hotel Winters Cor. Abbott and Water Streets | » Vancouver European Plan $1.00 to $2.50 > Rooms with Baths, Hot and Cold Water. Steam Heated. Motor Bus Meets All Boats and Trains, o~ | VoL. IL SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1913. No. 44. The Oniineca Miner has the largest bona fide circulation of any newapaper in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. u ee I, TS An experiment which will be watched with interest in this district is that of the potato growers and general farmers of the Asheroft district, who have formed a union for the better market- ing of their produce. In this amalgamation the agriculturists have the support of the business men of their district, who realize that higher prices for produce and increased prosperity for the farmer mean the rapid settlement and development of the country and consequently more and better business for the merchants, Should the Ashcroft plan prove suecessful—and of this there seoms liltle doubt—the settlers in the Bulkley Valley, Kispiox, the Lake district, and other sections of Omineca, will doubtless be led]. Fer ae ne ile and Pender to fallow the example of the southern producers, Telephone Seymour 598 Vancouver, B. ©, | iPY tetas | [Bk : A large and complete Gloves: stock of-men’s working gloves, driving and dress gloves, We have a few good ones to show lady customers. Ladies’, children’s and men's, Belts: e including the Buster Brown belt for children. F.G.T. Lucas ~ E. A. Lucas | (3 LUCAS & LUCAS | Barristers and Solicitora | In our grocery and pro- vision department you will find goods that are adapted for | _ your home table, including all table delica- cies, such as has been paid into the provincial treasury in the form of fees, li- cense returns and royalties. to pay for all the roads, bridges : e and wharves which have heen constructed in that time. Today | Saugu one dollar out of every four which comes into. the public coffer is Forest Protection MCRAE BROS. LTD STATIONERS & PRINTERS on" Redoles Loows Loaf Spot Supplies Ty ce Fur iture Prince Rument B. Cc. _ Full assortment of _ Granite and Tinware- Shelf and Heavy Hardware * Tools, etc. Pritish Columbia possesses one of the few great timber areas of the world, While the countries of the far east have lost all the timber they ever had, while Eu- ropean nations are resorting to Spanish Olives Green and Ripe Pickles Sauces, etc. Fruits ALEX MICHEL the most extensive methods pos- sible to Secure continuity of stand and certainty of yield and are planting trees by hand over great areas to ensure crops in the fu- ture; while Hastern Canada and the New England States are clamoring for lumb:r and view- ing with alarm the rapidly ¢i- minishing supplies in their coun- try, British Columbia has a vast area of over sixty-five million acres of timberland, which should produce, according to, estimates of experts, at least one hundred board feet per acre per annum, or a total of six-and-a-half billion feet. This would return to the government over $6,500, 000 every year. The province is the pos- ‘sessor of a glorious: heritage of over three hundred billion feet of timber, which is quite half of all that is standing in the Dominion at the present time, At the pre- sent rate of cutting, the loggers of the province are taking an- nually only one jifth of the amount which is added by the natural processes of growth. If one looks over the industries in the province, the shipping and all the allied and dependent trades, one will see that at least three out of every five men in the country are looking to the forest to supply their livlihood. There are very few industries which are not.to a greater or Jess extent under obligation for their existence to the forest resource, Outside altogether of the log- gers, millmen, transport men, builders, and all those who use wood in a secondary way, the vast majority of the great farm- ing population is dependent upon the forest-clad hills for the water which brings fertility and wealth to the wonderful natural soils from which spring the erops which have become renowned the world over, ; But the timber products them- selves are going out of the pro- vince in lumber; they are giving labor to thousands upon thou- sands of men here, and building up the prairie,‘from which so great a proportion of the wealth of thé Hast is derived. Without the vast forest. wealth of British Columbia it would be impossible to build up the great farming areas on the other side of the Rockiés. The at; rage citizen of British Columbia has a much greater interest than all this; however, in the great forests of which he is part.owner and adniinistrator, in co-operation with the. progres- sive hundreds of thousands : who are making this Great Last West the mighty and potent factor. in the nation’s prosperity. In. the” the product of the forest. Great- ereven than the value of the agricultural products is that of the timber which is manufac- tured within the province into lumber, pulp and other wood products. It is plainly evident, therefore, that to maintain the prosperity of the provinee it is necessary to maintain the ‘forest resource. This resource is subject to one of the greatest dangers in the world, the danger which brings havoc inte towns, cities and. set- tled communities, which mounts into the hundreds of millions|# every year. And the forest has no protection such as have the buildings in the great cities, When the great enemy—fire— breaks out in the forest, there ig practically nothing to impede its progress or check its work of de- vastation save favorable climatic conditions or some peculiar con- figuration of the ground. The trees stand close together; if one tree goes the one next it will go; fire reaches up from the ground, gets into the crowns, and then sweeps over mountains and val- leys without any possibility of being checked. In the cities there are fire patrols, some of them on motor trucks which ean speed as high as sixty miles an hour. In the forest, onthe other hand, there may be no one to see the fire until days after it has begun, The gospel of an ounce of prevention being better than a pound of cure applies so thor- oughly to the forest that every effort which is being made, and should be made in the future, should look to the early extin- guishing of 4 fire before it at- tains a size whith renders it im- possible to put it out. tion of forest fires today are in the carelessness of people who have fires and do not’ properly extinguish them. According to the report of the Chief Forester for the past year, over 70 per vent, of the blazes which origin- ated ‘in. other ways than -from campers, brush burners, land clearers, etc. There were apreat number of conflagrations trace- able, it ia true, to railwaya whose lines were not cleared of brush, and sparks from the passing en- gines set blazes in the debris by the right-of-way with disastrous results to the surrounding timber, There sre numerous methods devised by the Provincial Forest | Branch authorities to prevent and extinguish forest fires. © There were employed last summer over |: 160 forest rangers, whose. gole oe (Continied oh Page Three). Good Store and Road House oY MORICETOWN Halfway between Hazelton and: ; Aldermere Meals 5c Beds 50c HAZELTON HOSPITAL ares. lod from one month upward at ai per |p athe vance. This rate includes office cane | | can and medicines, as well ax all coats whila wi Tok ket ob btalnable in Hazelton | 74 ! {n the hi paral oe from henson, or at the Post Office or the Droge Beora: in Aldermore from Mr. T. J. Phory In Tet Felkwa, from Dr. Wallace; or by oat) Nuts — Eggs Butter Cheese’ | Jams Ete. *F ishing Tackle’ We carry a good assortment, including Flies, Spoons, Bait, -etc, “MANDT” WAGONS" On Hand’ [R S: SARGENT, al as Mercian. Riis PR So bb SN a al ba RE dee eke oe ee ee er Pea. aa . (ze teet 4 co oa ra ie c a, fy ae a ne apes ans TIONG et A Siac aie in is TONE a Cereb rN I eee S Spat tana Paco char Se a a area EY TEED a NS Ne ES Eee oo eee ae in, ry /YOUR LAST CHANCE —sid The causes of the vast ‘propor- || ‘The ‘Up-To-Date’ Drug Stores: 1) sheer carelessness on the part ‘of |\q is nearly gone. The. Railway is rapidly approach- ing this District and your chances of making big money are DISAPPEARING fast. Good land is still to be had from $9 to $20 per acre. Grasp your opportunity now. DON’T BE one of those who lose the chance of making a “stake” by consulting me TOO LATE REGINALD LEAKE GALE, J.P. Deputy Mining Recorder’ ; Real-Estate Agent TELKWA, BULKLEY VALLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA. . AGENT British Columbia Life Ausurance Co. Phoenix and Liverpool, London'& Globe Fire offices - Gould's Pumps and Hydraulic. Machinery Cary's Safes ot - Job and Shop Work a Specialty. ‘Sash’ and Door F actory’ _| Full stock of all kinds and sizes af Window Sash, Doors, Office Fixtures, ~ Intetior Finishing on hand and made to order. " Large stock of Lumber ; Plumbing and- Steamfitting. :. § 2 Plans and Specifications, .. Stephenson & Cram: CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS” _ Hazelton ” and Building Materials, Tinsmithing, oe oy . Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent Euthymol Tooth Paste | It purifies the mouth and imparts to'it a delightful! sensation ‘of freshness, clednsesand whitens the teeth and tends to preserve them.:’ Have you tried this article? Get it at | EVERYTHING IN THE DRUG LINE | PRICES RIGHT = QUALITY, tie BEST (Our Ice Cream'is made from’ F recht Milk and Cream): - Fulton, Mer . FOR: SALE” | Gm. LANDS are located ‘closé to the ‘inain’ “thee of ‘the Graiid' Trunk Pacifie Railway,- which ‘is’ ‘being | ~. constructed through the heart of-the- ‘Bulkley Valley, one*- . Pe a of the best farming districts in ‘British ‘Columbia. ... Trains: ara now running to.a point within 95 miles of Telkwa, . and: there are good roada from the end of steel to all parta of the country. The Bulkley Valley is an ideal dairying and ‘mixed ‘fitming® district, Re. | With a market for all kinds of farm produce. We own all the land we offer for sale, and can sive guaranteed’ title. i ,. Our lands were all very.carefilly selected several ‘yeats™ ‘ago' by’ one '. pertain the land business. ‘Our priees are reagonsonale and terma, are easy . We sell i in tricts Of 160 acres ‘or ores "Writer for tult int! formation to NORTH COAST LAND: COMPANY, Ld: i Suite 622- Metropotitan Building Pald up Capitel $1,600,000, _VANCOUVER, BC. ns Hadelton'and New Hazslton HH | ., Camp Stoves, va Cota, Pack Saddles; pest seven years enough ri6h ey! duty was to safe guard the stand-| GET MY PRICES - Sule Groceries Miners; Prospectrs, Surveyors and Settlers Before Buying. Your. Spring -° Outfit and Supplies -. MY. STOCK I IS COMPLETE. Gents’ Fumishibg-Goods" Leckie Boots and’Shoes: ‘Miners’ el Stoel Anv Bellows, Wheelbarrows, Dynsrite iter an Capa. , men - Saddle’ ‘Hoteed and Paik’ Miles or Hire? a R Tons Mecbant | UnCGE Grossing Bi The oaly amily hotel in the district, | Stetson Hand a8 ~ Tngine éca’ Hotel” MeDonell & McAteé, Prépas Nigh cd day ‘restaiiralit,” Modeni Coriveni civeitiediea” Reuonabl tates. - Good Stable in connect ie