The Omineca Miner

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT. HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE
GREAT OMINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Macdonald & Rauk, Publishers and Proprietors.

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insertion. Legal notices inverted at B. C. Gazette rates,

Vot. II.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1912, No, 12.

The Omineca Miner has the largeat bona fide circulation of any newspaper in the
Northern Interior of British Columbia.

The important subject of agricultural co-operation is discussed
in this issue by our contributor Elstree, who calls attention to the
great growth and evident prosperity of farmers’ co-operative so-
cieties in other countries, and suggests that the attention of our
legislators should be drawn to the subject,

With the principle of co-operation among farmers The Mineris
entirely in accord, believing: that the general adoption of sucha
policy would bring a solution of many problems which now vex the
agriculturists of Canada. We are compelled, however, to take issue

with Elstree when he opines that the question of government loans bs
’ Those who take up lands in| |h

to farmers is of minor importance,
new districts are almost invariably men of small means, who find
it difficult to obtain the capital which is necessary for the improve-
ment of their lands, Some such policy of government loans as has
been outlined in these columns would enable settlers to develop
their holdings and become producers, in which capacity they might
well turn to co-operation,

Until the settlers of a’new district have something to sell, no
system of co-operation will provide a solution for the problems
which confront them. To attain the position of producers, they
must have a certain amount of capital,
present conditions by leaving their pre-emptions to work for wages,
or by borrowing at a high rate of interest, If some of the govern+
ment money which is now drawing mere bank interest were used

as a loaning fund, the farmer would obtain needed eapital at S
a reasonable rate of interest and on easy terms of payment; the p

government would receive a higher rate of interest on its funds;
the agricultural industry throughout the newer ‘districts of British
Columbia would receive great impetus, and the development of the

which they obtain under||s

Northern Interior would be remarkably advanced,

Agricultural Co-operation
By Elstree

While the subject of Land
Banks and loans by government
to farmers for the encourage-
ment of land settlement may not
improperly receive attention at
the hands of our legislators, the
much greater and more worthy
subject of agricultural co-opera-
tion may also well receive at-
tention.

In Germany and Austria such
co-operative societies have been
very numerous — in Germany
there are 26,000 agricultural so-
cieties, formed for every con-
ceivable purpose, In the United
States the Farmers’ Co-operative
Union has two million members
and possesses 1628 warehouses, a
large number of elevators for
the handling of grain, 245 pack-
ing houses, dozens of newspapers,
coal mines, several banks, an im-
plement factory, dozens of other
factories and exchanges too
numerous to mention.

In Italy agricultural co-opera-
tors have advanced to such an
extent as successfully and eco-
‘nomieally to ‘manufacture their
own super-phosphates, thus
breaking up a manufacturers’
ring.

In Switzerland agricultural co-
operation very successfully sup-
plies its members not only with
agricultural, but also with do-
mestic requisites, to the con-
siderable saving of their pockets.
And also, on the other hand, it
enables the small peasantry to
dispose of their young bezsts as
pedigreed stock at five times the
‘ prices the peasants used to get.

All these figures and results
are to be fourid stated in Henry
W. Wolff's new book on Co-oper-
ation agriculture (price 6s nett).

Those of us who were at Ha-
‘ gelton on 16th July last and at-
tended the Premier’s meeting in

‘the Assembly hall; tan remem-|

. per the speech of Mr. Hayward,
“menibet for Cowichan, who asked

for attention, to co-operation
among ranchers, and who was

able to tell of the success of the ||t

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Cowichan Creamery, now getting ||KiBaas

top prices for cream, milk, butter,
eggs (formerly sold by the pro-
ducers at the lowest figures),
and now supplying those pro-
ducers with grain from the
Prairies, bought by the carload,
at cost (and formerly only ob-
tained by the same producers at
far higher cost.)

It is probable that in organized
co-operation may He a counter-
poise to that danger which is so
enervating to life in new lands:
namely, undue dependence on
government aid; and may supply
a corrective tonic to the feeble
policy of running to the local
member, to the bewilderment of
those who might otherwise ex-
pect him to be able to give his
attention to more appropriate
subjects in the necessary politics
a new and rich ‘province and
Dominion.

What Forestry Meana

The true meaning of forestry,
asit is intended to apply that
science in the province of EBiitish
Columbia, was. admirably ex-
pressed by Hon, W. R; Ross at
the recent convention of the
Canadian Forestry Association
held at Victoria. He said: “For:
estry, a3 we practise it, meang
the scientific management of the
government's - immense timber
business so that the citizen who
would otherwise have to pay $15
in taxes has only to pay $10; so
that in years to come the citizen
will have to pay stil! less; so that,
while producing these effects on
revenue, the - system of forest
finance will be so adjusted as to
offer the maximum of encourage-
ment to the growth of the lum-
ber industry; and, abpve all other

considerations, so that: our forest} .

capital, the source of our forest
prosperity; may b be reserved in-
tact” Deg e

The Canal Rates

Washington, D, C., Nov. 18:—
President Taft has issued a
proclamation announcing the
rates to be charged foreign ships
passing through the Panama
Canal, which will be as follows:
merchant ships carrying passen-
gers or cargo, $1.20 net vessel
ton, each 100 feet of actual
carrying capacity. (2) Vessels
travelling in ballast only, without
either passengers or cargo, 40
per cent, less than ‘toll rates of
vessels with either. passengers or
cargo. (8) Naval vessels other
than transports, colliers, hospital
ships, supply ships, $1.20 a ton.
American coastwise vessels ex-
empt from payment of tolls by
act of congress. It is this pro-
vision of the act that Great
Britain diplomatically protested,
but no reference to this fact was
mentioned in the president's
proclamation. .

Congress In April
President-elect Wilson has gone
to Bermuda for a vacation, and

will return December 16, To set} 2
at rest speculation as to what he

would do with regard to tariff],
revision he issued the following |.

statement:

“T shall convene congress to-
gether in an extraordinary ses-

sion not later than April 15. I
shall do this not only because ]
think that the pledges of the

party ought to be redeemed as)

‘promptly as possible, | but also
because I know it to be in the
interest of business that all un-
certainty ag to what the particu-
lar items of taridf revision are-to
be removed as soon as possible.”

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