’ shafts or tunhels,

; the use of diamond drills,

Unable to pay the cost’ of moving a diamond drill
. Providing fuel and supplies,

_ that the abolition of the license would be followed. by the abrogation
_ of the right, now possessed by the

--:, -played such an Amportant part in prospecting.”
°° While the mining laws. of British Colurabia may: not, be ‘perfect,’
~, they’ are generally recognized aa the: most “eduitnble-in:force -Inr|
_ any mining country, ‘are fairly ‘adminiatered, sind’ should not’)
changed without thore careful conalderation ‘than. the
the Herald appear to have given them, 0 01."

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“ENCOURAGING” THE PROSPECTOR

The fatuity of the opposition party in British Columbia is well
illustrated by an article in last week's issue of the New Hazelton
‘Herald, which was the cause of Nota little amusement among the
mining men.of the district. The Herald alleges that the Liberals
have “‘hit upon the right traek for the development of British
Columbia,” and takes as its text the proposals of J. W. Weart, one
of the opposition candidates, in whom, our.contemporary declares,
“the prospectors have one champion of their rights,’?

This champion of the downtrodden prospector thinks the
system of allowing prospectors to hold their claims from year to
year, on making declaration that.one hundred dollars worth of
work has been done, should be discontinued, declaring it to be '‘a:
well-known fact that in the majority of cases the money has not
been properly spent.”’ According to the Herald, which supports
his contentions, the claim-owner “should be compelled annually to

tunnel a hundred feet, or to sink at least ten feet, or in the case of
an open cut to remove a given quantity. of rock; and if it is shown

‘ by any subsequent locator that this work hag net beon done, that
the ground he regarded as vacant’and open for re-location.”’

This proposal evidences an ignorance of prospecting remarkable
in those who’ would pose as champions of the prospector. Its
adoption, instead of encouraging prospecting, would ‘in many cases
impose a practically impossible task on.the locetor ofa new mineral

claim. As a rule, a new discovery of mineral is made at some!

distance ‘from a road or trail; and the prospector finds it necessary
to pack his camp outfit, provisions and tools on his back, sometimes
for many miles, .. Thén, the approved practice is not the haphazard
driving of tunnels or sinking of shafts in the attempt.to prove the
vein,. but the tracing of the mineral on the surface, by stripping,
trenching, or by means of open: cuts,
given him-the desired information regarding his ground, no
experienced prospector or mining man will spend much monéy ‘on.
The important work of surface prospecting ean.
be done, usually, with the tools ordinarily carried by the. prospector,
While the purchase and tiafsportation of an outfit for ‘heavy. rock
work would, as a rule, require the expénditure of considerable
money and time. It is not necessary here to-enter into the
technical difficulty of enforcing a hardand fast measurement rule
regardless of the characteristics of the ground or rock,

; Ignorance: is, again displayed in ‘the -proposal that the govern-
‘ment-should maintain stations where: the
at cost, for the prospecting of his claims,
Leaving ‘out of, the quéstion the fact that diamond drills are ‘of
little avail except in prospecting large bodies of ore and coal seams,
it should be apparent to. the smallest intelligence that the pros-
pector, in ninety-nine cages out of a hundred,
outfit to his claim,
and paying the wages of the operators |.
' during the time it would take to prospect fifty odd acres of ground.

Again, it ig. proposed that miner's license fee shit

this might

Je Ai ETT TT

Until his surface work has|

on the southess
Bay mountain and pinin
Mineral Claim No.
the Omineca Mineral District: n |” eseporal es

fi t for’ Hugh A. Bigcog (| Agee Ki
> | acting as agent for Hu; + Bigalow, ——— at
Prospector could obtain | Fr eines fe SSBOR? 1 os ;

TOROGB,

would find himself |

under. section:
odd. d.: hefore the issuance of su
the free miner's license fee should | Sf imProvemente. ©

‘ be abolished, except for companies. At the first glance,

Men’s Driving and Working Gloves.
ODDS AND ENDS IN MEN'S WORK- poe
ING SHOES NOW CLOSING OUT: |.

AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES |.

A new and clean line of Ladies’,

Men's and Children’s © Tennis. = - & -

and Outing Shoes now in stock

arrived,

: 7 A Carload of the famous Robin Hood - Flour’

~ give entire satisfactién. This shipntent included. | —
| Porridge Oats, Oatmical, Rolled O |

and a guarantee with every sack to. |

Oats and other

breakfast foods. ~

— 4 Wheat:

~ as = Tinthy ad Garden Sect |

ms

| General : |
Merchant

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_ NOTICE ©:
BELL MINE

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Take notice that

‘Miner's Ce
5B, Gua A, Rosenthal

Free . Miner's’, Certifleate
‘days from

intend sixty
late hereof to. app

ments for the purpose of. obtaining al #
Crown Grant of | He ne

the above claim,

‘And further,

ch: Carl

Ja a oF ea
Certificate of Improvements ;

RAL CLAIM, situate
t Bkope of the Hudaon | fi
the Zeolitic |B - &
north, in|§

‘e0..Miner’s Certificate No. 83580B,
Cartificees: Net naea
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donald,- Free
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Kennedy, ° Free | -Miner’s |

B, dimes A. Mac- :
tificate No, | 8
Free Miner’s |q

[Certificate No. 892948, ‘Thos. T, 5:4

| to
take notice, that action | & 1D: i f
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ILLIAM 9, HEeNRyY,. Agent, | ;
5, date of firet insertion,’ |

pat Sa at

G, T. P, STEAM IERS for a

4 Vancou.cr, Victoria and

Dun-|§
No. po:
the | §

to. the Mining |@C
ecorder for a Certificate of -Improve-

toute... For
Agent or
T, - PRINCE. RUPER' ;

THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, MAY'28 1918 rene

tp er

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2x 2000 0 CRON AOUIRL

RS SARGENT, LID. Maré |

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appear a good thing, atthough we: have: never heard“any demand
for the removal of the license tax... ' There is ino doubt,’ however,

prospector, of locating a claim

as agent, and would do away. with the “‘grubstake’’ which ‘has
, We believe ‘the

firat, to object to this proposal,

ould - not’b

em,

ancouyer. Ch
ag Thi

been. instructed
publ:

Liberals ‘aind |. C2™
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“April 3, 191

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