oe arrangement: or "at the option of The Omineca | Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT OMINECA DisTRIcT oF BRITISH COLUMBIA. Macdonald & Rauk, Publishers and Proprietors, SURSGRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year: Foreign, Three Dallars a year, ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $1.50 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 15 cents per jine for first insertion, 10 cents. per line for eachsubsequent insertion, Legal notices inserted at B, C, Gazette rates. Vou. I, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1913. No. 51, The Omineca Miner has the largest bona fide circulation of any newspaper in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. One of the few departments of the provincial government which have not been modernized is that of the provincial mineral- ogist. In a province possessing, as British Columbia does, mineral resources of illimitable extent and value—resources which, eyen in the present early stage of developmeut, are producing over thirty million dollars annually—a properly organized and officered department of mineralogy is a necessity. Without expressing any opinion as to the competence of the provincial mineralogist, it may ~ be said that-his work is of little valué to the miner and prospector, for whose henefit, primarily, his department should be conducted. A report issued a year late is of little use where up-to-date infor- mation is.required, although it may possess historical value. £ome months ago it was reported the government had under consideration the organization of a provincial department similar to the Dominion geological survey. We trust some such step will be taken, There is no reason why the provincial government should not be able to secure the services of trained and competent men, who could cover the mining districts of the province each year, making prompt reports as to the developments and conditions in the mining industry. The value of accurate information regarding our mines, issued, say, in the form of quarterly reports, cannot. be overestimated. We do not think there is a mining man in the province but would enthusiastically endorse the plan, while the benefit to the mining industry, and consequently to the province as a whole, would soon. become so apparent that the most carping critic would find no room for complaint on the score of expense. By all means let us havea mining department adequate for the needs of the mining industry, : an ‘vaneas to “thie! T farmer i ig. éabrica | out under acts passed if each | state by trustees appointed by the state’s government for that purpose, 1912, ‘The. total amount ‘ad- {18 vanced throughout the Common, |, wealth increased from $25,869;- | 000 in 1908 to $46,816,630 in| Considering ‘the magnitide éf a the advances, the’ arrears in | 1B principal and interest are small iy Be ree ae ; and rarely -has recourse to be | it made toa forclosure of a mort: | Be gage. Harold Price HAROLD.-PRICE & CO. British Columbja Land Surveyors andes BAZELTON AND SMITHERS ™. "British Coturabia” Stephenson & Crum Undertakers and Funeral Directors Special attention to Shipping Cases " Hazerton, B.C. PRISMATIC BINOCULAR FIELD GLASSES Compasses, WATCHES - JEWELRY | O. A.RAGSTAD, Hazelton W. J. of British Columbia, Al- berta and Saskatchewan =| NOTARY PUBLIC Room 11, Postoffice Bldg. ,Prince Rupert | -. and id Hazelton, B.C. Very shortly before Alfred Bridges was appointed Poet Laureate, a weekly paper in England took a poll of its readers REGINALD LEAKE GALE, J. Pp. ; Deputy Mining Rocoider, Financial and Insurance Agent as to the most suitable candidates, Although the poll showed an overwhelming vote in favor of Rudyard Kipling, the other fig- ures are interesting, especially as Insurance Co. the second on the list was a : Agent for. et “ Phoenix and Liverpool, London-and-Globe Fire. Offices Dominion of Canada Guarantee and Accident - Cary’s Safes woman. The poll wasas follows: Rudyard Kipling, 22,630; Alice Meynell, 5,598; John Masefield, 3,267; Thomas Hardy, 2,170; William Watson, 1,086; Henry Newbolt, 821; Gilbert K. Chester- ton, 777; Robert Bridges, 710; Alfred Noyes, 704: W. B. Yeates, Farm Townsite Properties Lands | At Prices to Suit Every Buyer. » Town-Lots Gun Licenses Issued Conveyancing Auditing Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent . 641; Austin Dobson, 575; Richard Le Gallienne, 522; A, 5, House- man, 466; W. H. Davies, 423; TELKWA, BULKLEY VALLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA ’||| Vancouver | § a) JEPHSON|| BARRISTER and SOLICITOR( fr Pe ff maaPae ene 4. Linkleon King’! ig is aa sae ae ee oe al SEG eee TOD paki ae eee Le a joka SF AI ED en eS Cie te en Grocery Department Hay Oats Flour o Ree Ne A ee Sargent” $ = the Far avorite > Shopping Place F ‘MENERS’ PROSPHCTORS" and SETTLERS’: ‘SUPPLIES, A SPECIALTY | UP-TO-DATE _ Fresh goods arriv- ing every week * ‘Try HUNT'S” Supreme Quality _ Table Fruits: | We have them to Shirt tTalk meet all demands fom 75e up The assortment is large and sure to - please you Fresh Fruits “ ORANGES _ LEMONS BANANAS Fresh Baker's Bread Twice Weekly FURNISHING =| a We received a new shipment of _ Ladies’: | Sweater Coats / 7 pelea ° ‘Comforts. - . Pillows: Sheets : Sheeting -by the, ‘We aim to keep this department up- _ to-date’ Harness pats ORS Crp = Shans eed yee te) Fix ixings, etc, HATS, CAPS, SHOES UNDERWEAR. HOSIERY — DRESS SHIRTS PYJAMAS - NIGHT GOWNS ET. Hardware Building and : | ShelfHardware | Cutlery _ Feed Senn Ready Clothing A. gents for: ‘Large Stock of Samples and styles to choose from. Granite and Tn- ware, stock ‘large and: complete on eo _ . - - woe Fp eT wee te Pe yg STEN PU Ts pe aed veo et Stephen Phillips, 324; and Maur- ice Hewlett, 35 a Land Loans» Ottawa, Aug. 18:—The number of inquiries in Australia from ~ Ingineca Hotel - McDonell .& McAfee, Props. = Canada regarding -the question of rural credit, as it operates under the government system in ' the Commonwealth, has resulted | & easonable rates. The only: family hotel-in the dist Night andfday. restaurant. - R Good Stable.in connection, ‘Modem ‘ ‘onveniences, in a report on the subject being sent to the trade and commerce department:.here by Mr. D, H, Ross, Canadian commissioner at Melbourne. The report says that the Aus- tralian states. have established systems under which financial assistance is rendered to farmers, The funds for the ‘purpose of ’' making advances are generatly raised by the. state government Choicest of ‘Wines, Liga and i Goan always 0 on. “Private : dining TOMA, ; | through the issue of inscribed | # stock, mortgages, bonds or as|il investments made by the state | savings bank: In the majority of the states the borrower must begin to pay off the principal five years after the Ioan, has been’ made in half . yearly inataiments extending over’: We carry a full line: of Kodaks, na Wet | and. Papers a period of from twenty to thirty q _ half:-yéars,. “but. advances - may PRICES RIGHT _ generally: be paid at any-time by. i‘ eo _ the borrower, © : | LD. Fulton, Mer, |: “The. administration of the ad- ae wi f EVERYTHING. iN THE DRUG. LiNE] roe Va QUALITY; the BEST Ow Ice Cream i is mode from F Fresh Milk and.Cieain) "i 7" = Tai nd Noy Haden mii: *. territory, Aided, by ‘immense amount o! EARS Ego, when the main: 1 line Brunk Pacific:was: -firat located George, Hubert .and-New ‘Hazelton. - . the first of these new cities promoted and: develop.” ed by.us, needs noihtroduction---it ia known through. out the civilized world. Ita aguccesa haa been record- FACTS ABOUT. ** mlndus: for ill: pre eee townsite now heing cleared and roadwa “ : It will have a subs '... Watch’ for the’ few tracts of acre through central . British Columbia, we made a most Careful and systematic survey ‘ahd: ‘investigation of this new " engineera, ‘surveyora and ‘the data ‘assembled, we:-were able to locate the sites ofthe future large. cities and trade centers of this wonderful new: country—