“THE vite tua HR. a uw. WEDNESDAY. JANUAKY. 2, 19 ses Fast Service Benson: Bros Good Drivers Comfortable Cars Always on the Job — Phone Hazeltong Omineca Hotel, 2 long 2 short ‘Build B.C.” $25 Free Toa Mother for the best letter on Pacific’ Milk as a food for babies we will sive the following prizes: Ist—$25 Cash. 2u0.--$10 cash. srd. Fall ense Pacific Milk.’ dth—14 case Pacific Milk. % doz, Cans Free’ for each of next six. letters chosen. . © , e . Pacific Milk - 328 Drake St., Vancouver... Factories at Abbotsford and Ladner Prince Raper A REAL Goop Hors1 Prince Rupert B.C. H. B. ROCHESTER, Manager Ratee $1.50 per day up. 4 . Omineca Hotel C. W. Dawson, Prop. HEADQUARTERS FOR TOURISTS - - fand. COMMERCIAL: ‘MEN Hazelton ‘the Hazelton Hospital . “whe Hazelton Hospital issues tic- mnenth in advance, This’ rate: In- elides office consultations, medi- : vines, 18 well as all costs while in the hospital. Tickets are ob- rinable in’ Hazlton' at the drug stort ap by mail-from the medi." enl superintendandt at the Hospital” ¥ ti o_o rs ae n.C. UNDHETAKIRS ish OMING FOR SHIPMENT A SPECIALTY ' , P.O. Box 48 wn A wie ak VRINCE RUPERT, B.C. will bring ua. cE kets: for any period at. $1.50 per: B.C. LAND SURVEYOR J. Allan Rutherford | Surveys promptly executed. SMITHERS, B. C:* 1 C. H. SAWLE ===: The Omineca Herald|" NEW HAZELTON, B.C. : Published Every Wednesday PUBLISHER >> = A A "Advertising rates—$1.60 per inch per month reading noticea lic per line firat insertion. 10c per line each aubsequent insertion. DR. R. C. BAMFORD we Office—Over the Drug Store SMITHERS, B. C. Houra 9 a, m. to 6p, m. ings by appointment, Even- a, a om S 5 a a ame eo vd Henry Motors - Limited er Stocic system which p ‘|heen eriticized—fhe benefits of such Fig syste overlooked. ago the five mines dow producing 10% of the mineral wealth of British Col- STOCK EXCHANGE SERVICE “In reviewing: the record . of public institutions in British Columbian we are apt to take the viewpoint so ad- mirably expressed by Mark Antony: “Phe evil that men do lives after then the good is oft interred with theory bones.” The PreHminary Review’ of Mining in British Columbia,” recently published by the Department of Mines illustrates our point. i}praise for achtevements outlined in this document: we must read’ between, the lines, To place the . 7. , Much credit is due to the Vanconuv-. Exchange. " Recently =the rmits. speculation has Fifteen years impor fant, ; ‘The growth. of ‘these. inines prospects into big producers was the result of intensive exploration and de- veloplment. This-is only a fraction of the potentialities of mineralized British Columbin. ‘he. big mines of Jthe future will result from the same aggressiveness. The Vancouver. Stock ‘| Exchange is an important factor in ‘\t'-is development of natural resoure- ‘es, The Exchange provides a. market for, securities, ‘Without this market investments {n mines: would remain “frozen” until returned tu the invest: or in the form of. Gividends. This would severely hainper. the nidveinent ie eupital nod discouriuge the invest- _ Stock Exchange quotations keep ; fivestors posted on the market value of thelr stock. Members of the. Ex- change brondcast: authentic . informa- tion’ about mining ‘enterprises. As a protection to investors, soundness of of stock on the Exchange is: permit- ‘ted. These services to the investor have heen a- powerful influence in diverting enapital to Brith: Columbia, The Port Simpson hospital was in gtave danger of. destruction by fixe re- cently when the power house was de- ‘fron | companies is ‘scrutinized before listing CHLOROFORM. NO GooD Turkey merely slept while girls Pluckcd the feathers—Alive on Christmas morning... Sault Ste. Muarie-—A good story is - being told at the expense of a‘zroup of bachelor girls in an-apartment here who ordered av Christias turkey froin a farmer. , So A few days later. a -weighty box arvived at the apartment and Tpan being opened was found to contain » nica plump turkey.: very “much: alive. None of the yitls had ‘ever killed or dressed a. (irkey. hint, hong uw Ming to let the butcher’ know. of their dilemma and: trying hard to be de- mestic. they Meeided todo the job at home, after rengthy deliberation. if. way agreed that the most painless and humane method wonld, be chloroform, aud they proceeiled 1 ta carey cout their - plan. phey made a spleadid job of. phuck- ing: and singing ‘and laid the. ‘hird in ao pan inda closet antil next morning Then, while one prepared the dres- sing and another the cranberries a third undertook to get him ready for the oven. : But when. she opened the cluset door out stepped. the turkey, minus fenth- umbin were unknown or relatively un-! stroyed. Ford Cars and Parts ee General Garage Repairs by experienced men Acetelyne Welding Garage and Showrooms : Smithers, B. C. Win. Grant's Agency HAZELTON, B.C. “‘Renredenting \ Companies GREAT WEST LIFE Notary Public Confidential Matters attended ta. Me @ Canadian Pacifit Railway: . B.C. Coast Steamships Winter Excursion . _ Fares — From Prince Rupert: ta Vancou- ver and Victoria and Return ~ $40.00 s Tickets good from December 25 “| = to. final. return limit, March alst. —— Tews “What, ata father ‘any wo ‘ oh away from him?" when you _ : told him. you were going to: take, me, “Fe seemed to feel. his loss keenty a “Al THE PUBLIC “SETS THE PRICE A RECORD development and pro- ress of every industry in British Columbia is the achievement of 1929, Public. interest in these events was manifest on the Vancouver Stock ‘Exchange. In 1929 $129,748,630 worth ‘of shares were bought and gold on ‘the “Vancouver Stock: Exchange. Such a’ volume of business requires «+ analmost perfect system. The opera-* ’ tion is governed by the laws of supply ‘and demand. Buying and selling orders meet on the “floor,” ‘These -'- orders set the price, and the Public ‘controls.the ordera. The trading.con-. "> ‘cerns ‘securities, of known value, and these ‘securities: represent under- oo! -takings-on the thrashold of:a ‘great -;#,/ 8B: OF, industrialization of Western, Canada, _.No ‘undertaking can list: ita securities on the Exchange without passing :an examination. | First principles of Stock Exchange operation are alike in London, New York and Van- couver, and are strictly adhered to, The Vancouver Stock Exchange, as | an institution, owns no stock in any enterprise . . . sponsors no stock flotation , . . favors no broker... expresses no opinions about indi- _ Vidual stocks, It accepts.no responsi- bility for rise and fall of prices. No progressive country,. looking to ‘its industries and natural resources for the production of National Wealth can: be without a Stock Exchange. . Like electricity, water, roads, trans- © portation it ranks asa Public Service, disinterested, neutral. The purpose is to make trading efficient, to broadcast prices instant- - ly from the “Floor.” The Public sets the price. And thd Exchange lives, up to the jdeal, expressed in its charter passed by Provincial Parliament in... 1907, as long as it fulfills in every way "the duties elven it to perform. tisement ts published by. Members of the Vancouver Stock oe Bi in order do ite Information: concarning | the functions ‘of ‘a Stock: Exchange aid é e Business tof ‘Buying and Selling Seciritters’, .:. ers, and gobbled at her. angrily.