THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY; FEBRUARY 4 8

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B. C.

BRITISH COLUMBIA

THE MINERAL PROVINCE OF WESTERN CANADA
HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :~-
Placer Gold, $77,663,045; Lode Gold, $122,808,190; Silver,
$74,111,397; Lead, $89, 218, 907; Copper, $197, 642, 647; Zine,
$89, 925, 947; Coal and Coke, $278,048,908: Building Stone, Brick,
Cement, $44,905,886; Miscellaneous Minerals, $1,594 1987;
Making mineral production to the end of 1925 show

AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $920,919,628

The substantial progress of the mining industry in this 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 ........9 94,547,241
1896-1900...

For five years, ec eenecuceete 57,605,967
For five years, 1901-1905 . weeee 96,507,968
For five years, 1906-1910 .............. 125,584,474°
For five years, 1911-1915 ..,....-..2... 142,072,603 —
For five years, 1916-1920). ........05 66 189, 922,725
For the year 1921 20. cece sees cecsancees 23, 066,641
For the year 1922. .,.... sc cscreseneence 35, 153,843.
For the year or senecenneece 41, 304, 320
Wor the year 1924..,....:.cceeseeceeces 48, 704, 604

For the year 1925. ....:cscecssereserees Gl, 492,242
PRODUCTION DURING LAST TEN YEARS, $404,649,375

Lode mining has only been in progress about 2h years, and only about one.
half of the Province has been prospected: 200,000 square miles of unexplored
mineral bearing lands are open for prospecting.

The mining laws of this Province are more liberal and the fees lower than
any other Province in the Dominion or any Colony in the British Empire,

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

N.B,—Practically all British Columbia mineral properties upon which work
has been done are described in zomeore of thé Annual Reports of the Minister
of Mines. Those considering mining investments should refer to such reports.
They are available without charze on application to the Department of Mines,
Victoria, B.C. Heports covering each of the six Mineral Survey Districts ave
published separately, and are available on application. Reports of the Gealogi-
cal Survey of Canada, Winch Building, Vancouver, B.C., are recommended as
valuable sources of information, :

The Honourable The Minister of Mines
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

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Late Dr. Gordon.
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Peabody's Institute of Harvard to ex-
plore ruins on the banks of the Copan
river. Two years later he was offer-

Tniversity of Pensylvania and tater
was appointed eurntor and director of
the university museum.

He travelled extensively in Egynt.
India an dthe Holy Land where he put
in much time unearthing buried re-
cords extending backward to a period
four thousand years before Christ and
the yet more miraculous discovery of
the key to ancient writings. Until the

the hands of the Turks who, holding
all Buropenn scholars to be suspicious
characters, practically prohibited ex-
cavations. Since the war: that land of
ancient empires bas been governed by
the Arabs under British guidance and
the work of the excavator and scholars
is ne louger discouraged. .

During one of his trips abroad he
was imide a Fellow of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society of London. In 1020
at joint expedition was organized by
‘the University of. Pennsilvania Mus-
etm and the. British Museum to un-
cover the ancient city: of Ur of the
Chaldeans which work is still in pro-
gress, Dr. Gordon was algo a writer
of not and did several. bocks -on
anthropology, also wrote “In the Al-
uskan Wilderness”, “Rambles in Old
London’ said by critics to be one. of.

‘the best: prodticed.

- During his travells he was attragt-
ed-by an Indian boy who he took with
him to Philudelphia and educated him
That boy
the John Wannamaker expedition in.
south eastern Alaska, and has- ¢on-
ducted, from his headquarters in
Haines various expeditions along the
coast northward and into the interior,

His life from earliest manhood has
heen an uncensing struggle to. reach
the gon] of his ambition, and his pre-
mature death is a joss to the nation ar
‘well as to his own people, “He was not
married and leaves to mourn his loss
a brother Charles H, Gordon, Sidney,
australia, J. IX. of Terrace, and three
sisters, Ars. H. L. Smith, Terrace and
two tnmartried sisters in Portland, Or-
egan. A brother MeLaren Gordon,
was killed in action in 1916,

SEED GROWIN Gg

Seed production in Canada is rapid:

‘ly becoming un important and a pro-

fitable industry, states the Dominion
Minister of Agricultlre in. his latest
‘report. The inheréit qualities of win-
ter hardiness and ‘vigor of growth

| possessed by Canadinn grown seeds

has brought a great demond for them

the Dominion Seed Branch, has given
foreign and domestic buyers complete
confidence In our seeds.

Canada produces an exportable sur-
plus in high class seeds of cereals, for-
age crops and vegetables. The pro-
duetion of these seeds is. constantly

‘| inerensing aud they are, supplanting

imported stocks on our home markets.
Especially grent progress. bas been
in the production of seed of. alfalfa,
malting barley, and brown top. or
Rhode Island bent, grass.

1920 to 859,000 neves In 1926, ‘nnd this
remarkable increase has been brought
bout Inrgely: by ‘the development» of
our own seed” supply from varieties

. which ean ‘gtand our ‘severe. ‘winters.

"In Northern Ontario special atten-

tion is being: given | to the’ growing, of
| barley seed, og thalting barley oF high
quality, “which” finds a. ready market,
-ean..be: produced inthet - ‘region. “In|
‘British Columbia ‘one. district, dlone|

‘In

“give a. yleld of. "70,000. pounds, of. tim- |)

: ‘for: oh ‘cme

ed the chair of nuthropology in- the’

great war the Euphrates valley was in |

is at present representing |.

in foreigu markets. ;The thorough sys: |
‘)tem of . grading ‘strictly enforced by

“Our alfalfa |’
| erop increased from DBS, 000 acres in

‘othy -seed. and,6,000. pounds. of. mend:
‘}ow. fescue of the, finest . quality, . -Oth:

‘The Hazelton Hospital
The Hazelton: Hospital issues tle-
kets for any period. at $1.50 per
month jin. advance. This rate in-
cludes office ‘consultations, .medi-
eines, a5 well as all costs while
in the hospital. Tickets are ob-_
tainable in Hazlton at the drug
store or by mail from the medi-.
cal superintendant at the hospital

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SYNOPSIS OF
LAND ACT AMENDMENTS

PRE-EMPTIONS

' Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown Jands
may be. preenpted © by British subjects
over 18 years of age, and .by aliens
on declaring intention to become - British
subjecta, conditional ugon residence, occu-
pation, ‘and improvement- for agricultural
purposes, . : . ;

‘Full information concerning regulations
regarding “pre-emptions fa given’ in’ Bulletin
No. 1, Land Series, “How to Preempt Land,”
copies of which can be obtained free of charge
by addrossing the Department of Lands,
Victoria, B. -C., or to any Government Agent.

Records will be granted covering only
land suitable for agricultural: purposes, and
which is ‘not timberland, ie., carrying over
5,000 board‘ feet per acre west of the
Coast . Range and 9,000 feet per acre east
of: that Range,

Applications for pre-emptions are to be
addressed to the Land Commissioner of the
Land Recording Division in which the Jand
aprlied for Is situated, end are made on printed
forms, copies of which can 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
tan be received.

For more detailed information see the Bulletin,
“How to Pre-empt Land.”

PU RCHASE

Applications are recelved for purchase
of vacant and unreserved Crown lands,
not being timberland, for agricultural purposes:
minimum price of firat-class arable) Jang!
fs $5 per acre, and second-clase (grazing)
lend §2.60 per acre, “Further information
regarding purchase. or lease of Crown
lands. is given in Bulletin No. 10, Land
Serles, -.“Purchasa and Lease of : Crown
Lands,” .
. Mill,’ factory, or Industrial sites on timber
land, aot exceeding 40 acres, may be purchased or
lcaged,- the. ‘conditions ‘including payment of
stumpage. :

' HOMESITE LEASES.

‘Unaurveyed. areas, hot execeding 20, nerea,
may be - lensed: ag. ‘homesites, conditional
upon A dwelling beng erected. In the
first. . year, *.. title. heing ' . obtalnabla after
residence - and improvement condiftond -pra
fulfilled ‘a ‘the ” . land ‘has. » bean sur-
veyed. ~ : Does a
‘LEASES ; arr

; ‘For ‘grating | rad” industrial ‘ piirpose
areas not. ‘exceeding Ho | ‘aeres miny : be: ‘teased
by: any one, Person ‘or company. ee .

Provinge
ts divided . into, ‘sreninog districts, and -

Under . ee! ‘amin ii Act the
“Grazing

: ‘Anntial’’ ‘grazkiz. permilts . ‘ade
‘nduted aod * ‘oe ‘mtmbers: ranged, id

"onder" the’ ‘

3 R. Williams

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