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The Omineca Miner

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HARRISON W. ROGERS

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE

GREAT OMINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

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Civil Engineers
Dominion and British Columbia
Land Surveyors

Offices at Victoria, Nelsen, Fort George ra
and New Hazelton. AG

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Vou. IL ‘SATURDAY, JUNE 21,1918,0 0°

‘No. 42,

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The Omineca Miner has the largest bona fide circulation of any newspaper in the

Northera Interior of British Columbia.

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IN OUR——

Dry Goods and Men’s F Furnishing :

Departments

We cany Lars that. will meet with

Cormmenting on the action of’

the federal government in ex-

tending the bounty on lead produced in British Columbia, the

Montreal Star says:

“The present Dominion government has
shown itself opposed ta the bounty system,

It has steadily re-

Vancouver

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Hot and Cold

Gloves: ® stock of men's working

gloves, driving and dress gloves. We have
a few good ones to show lady customers,

B elts: ° - Ladies’, children’s and men’s,

belt for children.

including the Buster Brown |.

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Neckwear
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sisted all sorts of pressure to grant special monies to the steel! ¢.. = ts
industry. But in the case of the bounty of 75 cents a ewt to N
British Columbia lead, there was a contract implied by former ad-| ¥: 6&7 Lucas B, A. Lucas | lf
ministrations. A sum of $2,500,000 had been set apart for bounty LUCAS & LUCAS
purposes, The term of years had expired for which the bounty Barristers and Solicitora

was voted, but there remained some $600,000 of the original allo-
cated sum stil! unpaid. Manifestly the correct thing to do was to
allow the bounty to run until the amount practically promised the
This the
Hon. Mr. White, minister of finance, now announces has been de- :
It would have been a bad thing for others
besides lead men, had any but the straightforward course been

lead producers of the Pacific province had been earned.
cided on at Ottawa.

adopted.”

The continuation of the bounty will mean a good deal to. the
silver-lead mining industry of this province, and may be expected
to have a beneficial effect in Omineca district, since the mining of
silver-lead ores will be one of the chief industries in this section | fom

of tke province.

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month it inadvance. This rate includes office cons

auitatlona and medicines, as well as all costa while | ||)

in the hospital. Ticketa obtainable in Hazelton ||

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the Drug Stora; in Aldermere from Mr, T. J. ||F@
Thorp; in Telkwn. from Dr. Wallace; or by’ mail

from thefMedical Superintendent at the Hospital.

your home ta

In our grocery. and pro-

vision department
you will find goad

cies, such as

" Spanish Olives.
Green and Ripe Pickles

Sauces, etc.
Fruits
Nuts —
Eggs

that are adapted for
le, including all table delica-

Gold Seal Mining. Boot ql

Tennis Shoes

F ull assortment of

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Shelf and‘Heavy Hardware. '

Tools, etc.

Fishing Tackle

We carry a good assortment, including :

_ Flies, Spoons, Bait, etc,

Qur Mineral Production

Revised statistics of mineral
production in British Columbia
in 1812 will, when published,
show that the preliminary esti-
mate of the provincial mineralo-
gist, given out about the middle
of January, was within $200,000
or $300,000 of the actual recorded
valueof the production, but it is
known that the total isin excess
of $32,000,000. The approxi-
mate proportions are:—metallif-
erous minerals, $18,000,000, non-
metalliferous minerals $14,000,-
000. In round figures the value
of the respective minerals in-
cluded may be stated about as
follows: gold (placer and lode),
$5,800,000; zinc, $800,000; coal
and coke, $10,500,000; building
material, ete., $3,500,000, As
already stated, these are now to
he accepted as indicating what
the official records may be ex-
pected to show when they -shall
be available for reference.

Placer gold reached the high-
est total inthe four years since
1908, Lode gold was within $11, -
000 of the highest total on record
in the province, namely, that of
1910. Not so favorable is the
comparison of total gold—placer
and lode together—for in five
previous years was the total of
1912: exceeded, as follows: as
againet a total of less than. $5,-
900,000 in 1912, totals of higher
years were — 1910, $6, 072,380;
1908 $5,929,880; 19065, $5, 902,402;
and 1902, $6,061,409. Silver is
higher in value than for any
other year since 1906, and in
quantity.since 1905. Lead has
the highest figures, both quanti-
ty and value, In zine, the com-
‘parison is not favorable to last

year.
Coal shows a value of nearly

$600,000 less than in 1910, but it
is $1,500,000 higher than the

1911 to'al, and more than $2,000,-|'

000 higher than that of 1909,
with earlier years showing a stil]
' gteater disproportion. '. The ¢oke

. total'is the highest on. record | as].
to value, but not as to quantity,
for in. 1906 the production was |’
4, 450 tone greater, Taking ; coal |’

and coke together, there was on:
| iy one year—1910—when a high

er total value was reached, that
year having been credited with
$321,500 more than was 1912,

An ‘Enthusiastic Visitor

I, Bernhardt Beale, a Victoria
capitalist who was here during

the week, thinks highly of Omin- | ©

eca district.
said:

“I came to this district with. al .
perfectly open mind, having no
interests here, and after seeing
something of the natural resourc-
es of the district I have no hesita-
tion in saying that Smithers is,
in my opinion, the most. prornis-
ing district for investment along
the line of the Grand Trunk Pa-
cifie. I have spent months in
looking over the various parts of
British Columbia now being de-
veloped by the construction of
railways, and have seen ‘nothing
that pleased me so well. There
is undoubtedly a reat future for
the mines of the district, while
the agricultural possibilities are
immense, The very fact that
the areas of arable land are lim-
ited in extent as compared with

In an interview he

the prairies, will tend to increase |’
their value, and making for the|

prosperity : of a large popula-
tion. When the railway is

carrying passengers from thej}
east, it will not be long unti)||
there is no vacant land of any

account in the Buikley Valley.

Many of the people now in the :

district are not yet awake to the
possibilities—they are living too
close to opportunity to appreciate
its magnitude,’’

As an evidence of his faith in{||
the future. of the district, Mr. ||
Beale, before leaving for Vic-j}
toria, purchased a parcel of “land |‘
in the vicinity of Smithers, pay-|,

ing for ita sum well up in the
thousanda., Associated with him

in the deal are other capitalists,.

and it is understood. Mr,.Beale’s
visit i is only the preliminary to a

series’ of large operations | in.

Bulkley Yalley lands.

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Evening Service, 7:30 p.m.

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REGINALD LEAKE GALE, J. P.

7 Deputy Mining Recorder
. TELKWA,, ‘BULELEY VALLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA

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| BULKLEY VALLEY FAR aN
FOR SALE.

\ HESE LANDS are located. close to. the, main line of, ;
AW the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, which” is. being’
conatructed through, the heart of the Bulkley Valley, one |”

of the best. farming | districts “in British Columbia,
Traina are now running to apoint’ within 86 miles of ‘Telkewa,.. and’.
“there are good roads from the end of steel to all. parts of thet country,
‘The Bulkley Valley is an ideal ‘dairying and mixed ‘farming diatrlet, oe
with a market for ull Kinds of farm produce. os
- We'own all the land we offer for sale, and can give a guaranteed tithe,
‘Our lands were:all very carefully selected several years : ago: by ex-
pert in the land business.

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