THE OMINECA. HERALD, WEDNELDAY. MAY 23, 1927 -

BRITISH COLUMBIA

THE MINERAL PROVINCE OF WESTERN CANADA
HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :—

Placer Gold, $78,018,548; Lode Gold, $126,972,818; Silver,
$80,787,003; Lead, 3106,976,442; Copper, $209,967,068; Zine,
$50,612,557; Coal and Coke, $284,699,133; Structural Materials
and Miscellaneous Minerals,$50,175,407; Making mineral produc-
tion to the end of 1926 show — .

AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $988,108.470}
The substantial progress of the mining industry in thia prov-
ince ig strikingly illustrated in the following. figures, which
show the value of production for successive 5-year periods:

For all years to 1895, inclusive ........$ 94,547,241

For five years, 1896-1900 ....... seseaee , 01,607, 967
For five years, 1901-1905 ......-..... 96,507,968
For five years, 1906-1910 ...-......:. ., 125,584,474
‘For five years, 1911-1916 ....... deeeaee : 142,072,608
‘For five years, 1916-1920) ..........- ++ 189,922,725 _
For five years 1921 to 1925. ...10+--eeeee eee e es 214,726,650
- For 1926. ccseeeeeeceeenes ce cneecerteeeens “sa. 67,188,842

Lode mining has only been in progress ahout 25 years. and only about one-
half of tha Province has been prospected
mineral bearing lands are open for prospecting, _

' The mining laws of this Province are more Hheral and the fees lower than
any other Province in the Dominion or any Colony in the Britizh Empire:

Mineral lecations are granted to discoverers for nominal fees. Absolute titles
are obtained by developing such properties, security of which is guaranteed by
crown grants. . . . :

Practically all British Colambia mineral properties on whien development
swark has been done are described in one of the Annual Reports of the Minister
of Mines. ‘Those considering mining investments should refer to such reports,
They ore availabla without charge on application to the Department of Mines,
Victoria, B.C, Reports covering each of the six Mineral Survey Districts are
published separately, and are available on application. Reports of the Geologi-

‘eal Survey of Canada, Winch Building, Vancouver, B.C., are yeeommended as
valuable sources of information. oo _
Full information, together with mining reports and maps,

may be obtained gratis by addressing

The Honourable The Minister or Mines
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA |

Women will know :
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give you certain results but that the next time you bought the
same brand your results would be quite different. Now, the
big flour companies employ chemists to see that their flours
are kept to a. constant standard. Drugs, like flours, may be
thoroughly pure but of a variable standard. Think what this
means in the effectivenesa of your doctor’a prescreptions.

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; : ; kets for any period ‘at $1.50 per ; P 7 tt
It looks like the crisis tonight." > month in advance. This rate in- a rimce upe .

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per ready?” Ill bring them in and|/ cludes office consultations, medi ; a
rush it through.” © Gines, as well as all costs while |/} 4, peat Goop H

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As he turned to go out he heard:a|| tainable in Hozlton at the drug ;
sob. She stood at the door of the|| gtore or by mail from the medl-_ ;

edroom. ;

(rOOM. ic that he should’ die Uke|| °#! superintendant at the howltal 1/4 DPyince Rupert
this,’ she said. - Lt : ;

Guthrie strode back to her, He took B.C. .

a limp hand ‘in both of his. “Healer i— tJ a
of. Wounds, I love: you! ourage ! -
And he went out. “anaw . B.C. UNDERTAKERS H. B, Rocuester,? Manager

‘At the trade-house door bis set face) = pweauMine FOR SHIPMENT A SPECIALTY ‘ ao
dropped its lines, 7 - ; a

“Well, Old Anne is about reniy fo. P.0. Box 248 A wire Rates $1,50 per day up.
us. It's short variety,but I hope there | {, aT : he,
will be enough for your appititeis. ’nr PRINCE RUPERT. B.C. will bring us i ~. _ i

_ As Joan Quartier, pale, but mistress
of her nerves, met them in’ the living
yoom with u forced graciousness unc
wus introduced, the eyes of Rawdon
bulged in patent admiration of the
picture she made, Fair women art
rave where life is hard, and his evident
surprise at finding the ex-army nurse
sho lad wintered at the mission ai
Albany of such comllness, seemed tem.
porarily to parnlize his tongue.
Appearing on the minute with the
stew, Old Anne filled the room with
the harsh sibilants of the Cree tongue.
“Don’t mind Anne,” Guthrie laughed
Inuking conversation as his guests ate.
“She's a bit queer in the bend, but hei
heart's alright, isn’t itAnne.” _
Anne turned upon him a chaos of
chatter. From the kitchen where she
went for the boiled goose, the staunch
old Cree kept up a rattle of pans, unti?
she hurriedly returned to resume he:
conversation with the man 1.vhose ears
strained for sounds through the shi
duor of the sick room. ©
As yet no sound from the sick room
Thus far—victory.  -:

“Well,” sald Farrel, comfortably, ns:

talkative, Guthrie, but I'sure hive en-
joyed her supper.” — co

“Glad you have. Sorry {t wasn't
better.” ;

“And youve got to run to that half
breed?” demurred Rawdon, now quite
at his ense with’ Joan, “I don’t see
why you cant stay a while and taik

to us.” ;
“Ob a nurse always puts duty before
pleasure, Mr. Rawdon,” she replied.
with a stiff smile, as with tilted head
she wnhited, nerves taut as wires, fo1
the repitition of a sound she had hen
—n sound incomprehensible, terrifying
from the closed door.
“Well,” he laughed. “that’s what 1].
eat] a compliment. But yowll be back
soon?
“Tek soon, you wwhelp," curse
Guthrie inwardly, “If you don’t finish
that food Il choke you with it! Then
his heart skipped—to shake him with
its hammering, as he heard a thud—a
sound of ripping. cloth. Raising hi:
yoive he suid sharply: “if your thre
gentlemen, we'll :have n smoke beside
the trade-house’ stove," ond with Far-
rel, rose from “the table where Rowdon
lingered, hypnotized by the face of thr
girl who snt rigid with fenr.
Guthrie flung open the door admit:
ting the bitting nir. “Rawdon!” The
words snapped through the silent ruow
like the crack of a whip.. “Miss Quar-
rier has a dressing to do for Savanna,”
Then behind the shut door, .a ‘erash.
eurses, a evoan froze him, desperate,
where he stood. The gume was up
Fe had lost! ; ; :
“Why, what's that? Somebody’ ir
there?’ demanded the younger: police
man, rising, bend thrust in the direc
tion of the sounds. Gray-faced, Joar
Quarrier, like one under a spell, watch:
ed the hawk-like features of Guthric
harden—snw the gray eyes grow cold,
ns the “stirprised Farrel turned to hit
ost. : . ‘

Continued Next Week

LAND ACT
Notice of Intention to Apply to Par-
: chase Land
In Cuessair District, Land Recording
’ District of Smithers, and  Stituntc

near Cedarvate.

Sam. Meyer and Marshal Sales ‘of
Smithers motored down Sunday to see

tact with an obstacle and. naturally: © | the following descrilied landsi— °°.
wheel broke, delaylng their departure aiat' 8.|-°

Cedarvale, occupation miner, intend.
to, apply for ‘permission to purchase

Take -notice that Stephen Young of |’

Provincial Assayer
J. D. Boulding

Price List Sent
. on Application

’

Prompt :Service is Given to You
Send in Your Samples

Smithers, B.C.

" SYNOPSISOF
LAND ACT ANIENDMIENTS

PRE-EMPTIONS|

Vacant, . unreserved, aurveyed Crown ‘lands

BBY |
HARDWARE

Smithers, B.C.

. A fullline of -

Shelf and Heavy
Hardware

Farm Machinery
 Gilbert’s
| Blacksmith Coal

may be pre-empted . by - British subjecta
over 18 years of age,

subjects, conditiona] upon «residence, ocen-
pation, and improvement for -egricultural
purposes, a
Foll information concerning regulations
yegarding pre-emptions ia given in Bulletin
No. 1, Land Series, “How to Pre-empt Land,"
copies of which can be obtained freo of charge).
by addressing the Department of Lands,
Victoria, B.C., or to any Government Agent.
Records. will be granted covering} only
Jand suitable for agricultural purposes, and
which is not timberland, ie. carrying over
6,080 board feet per acre weet of the
Coast Range and 8,000 feet per, acre east
of that Range. . a
Applications for pre-emptions are ‘to be
addressed to the Land Commissioner of the
Land Recording Division in which the land
applied for is situated, and are made on printed
forma, copies of which con be obtained from the
Land Commissioner.

Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years
and improvements made to the value of
$10 per acre, including clearing and cultivat-
Ing“at least five acres, before a Crown Grant
can be received. noe .

How Preempt Land.”
PURCHASE§

Applications are received for purchase
of vacant ‘and - unreserved Crown lands,
not being timberland, for agricultural purposes;
minimum priee of first-class (arable) land
is $5 per acre, and second-clasr (grazing)
land $2.50 per acre, Further information
regarding purchase or lease of Crown
lands is given in Bulletin No. 10, Land
Series, “Purchase- and Lease of Crown
Lands.”” ;

Mill, factory, or {industrial sites on timber
Jand, not exceeding 40 acres, may be purcha.ed or
leased,. the conditions iacluding payment’ of
stumpage.* ; ; uo
o HOMESITE LEASES

Uneurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 acyes,.
may be leased as homesites, conditional
von a dwelling being erected in’ the
first year, title ‘being e
residence snd improvement conditions | are
felfillead oo ;
veyed.

LEASES

For grazing and ... industrial purpose
areas not exceeding (40 meres may be leased.
by any’ one person or company, cas
a “GRAZING, |
Under the ..Grazing Act -the Province
ig divided.-into,. arasing. \distrieta,. and‘ the

‘Issued, based on ~ riumberi"

and. by | aliena| ~
on declaring intention to ‘become . British |

Foy more detailed information see the Bulletin,

obtafnable | after |

the" land . has’ been sur-}
. noe ‘lor Judge Young, dated 21st of January

“|May, 1928; nnd’ alk:persons indebted

vango ° ‘administered |. undor . the | Grazing’
Commissioner.’ Annual grazing permits. are}
* ganged, priority |
Stoock«;

7 Miners Supplies, ete.

GAS AND OIL

SUPPLY STATION
AT

City Transf er
Stables

SMITHERS, 5.C.

- B.C. LAND SURVEYOR

‘J.. Allan Rutherford
All descriptions of surveys \

promptly executed.
SMITHERS, B. C.

OO -2 > -O$- -O-F F OO

J. R. Williams
PROVINCIAL ASSAYER

° Pica liste sent on request |

" Gredit Foneier Blig,, VANCOUVER, B.C.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
-. BRITISH COLUMBIA

‘sapere

In the matter. of the “Administration
. Act”? and in the Matter of the Estate
of Louis Hanson, Deceased, Intestate |

Take notice, by nn order of THis Hon

1928, I was appointed administrator of
the estate of Louis Hnnson, decersed
intestate... All persons having ‘elaimr |
against ‘the, said:, state are hereby. re:
quired: to forward: ‘gameproperly veri
fied, to me.on..or. before the 31st of

to the ‘sald. estate are required ‘to pay

forthwith, | ve
2)! STEPHEN |
.) Offlelal:

being * given | to ‘established « gwrfers.

_ for, rants

Dated ‘at, Smithers, B.
this'11th day, of: ay:

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Te ne ig re

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‘the amount of their: indebtedness to me feos