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, poultry, or general production. .

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PRICE: $28 ‘to $40 per acre, spread over five years, No :
interest for first 18 months; 6 percent interest on balance:

Particulars and information at

The Omineca Herald Office

New Hazelton

_For five years, 1896-1900
For five years, 1901-1905
For five years, 1906-1910
For five years, 1911-1915
For five. years, 1916-1921)
For the year 1921
For the year 1922...
For the year 1928. .
For the year 1924

half of the Province has

crown gran’

has been dona are describ

Making mineral production to the end of 1924 show
AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $859,427,386

The substantial progress of the mining. industry in this prov-
ince is strikingly illustrated in the following figures, which
show the value of production. for successive 5-year periods:

For all years to 1895, inclusive

PRODUCTION DURING LAST TEN YEARS, $372,604,725,

Lode mining has only been in progreas about 26 years, and only about one- ~
been preapected; 200,000 square miles of unexplored
mloeral bearing lands are open for prospecting, .
The mining laws of this Province are more liberal and the féca lower than
‘any other Province in the Dominion or any Colony in the British Empire.
Mineral locations are granted to discoverers for nominal fees, Absolutetitles
ara obtained d by developing such properties, security of which is zuaranteed

N.B, are raetically all British Columbia mineral properties upon whieh work
ed in some ona ‘of. the Annual Reports of the Minister
of Mines. ‘Thoaa considering mining investments should
They are available without charge on application to the D:
Victoria, B.C. ‘Reports of the Geological Survey of Cam
Vancouver, are recommended as valuable aources of information.

The Honourable The | Minister. of Mines:
"VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

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BRITISH COLUMBIA
THE MINERAL PROVINCE OF WESTERN CANADA
HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :—
Placer Gold $ 77,882, 958 ’ .
Lode Gold.......-. 118, 478,190 ge
Gilver ............. 68,824,579
1 70, 548, 578
popper Veaa Cesc eeeeaen arene’ eve cnaneene 187,489,378
GANG cece veccgenere tence roareesneneaeae 32,382,954
an and Coke ....e.sscatececvcescuaees 260,880,048
7 @ Building Stone, Brick, CGament, ete,.... 42,225, 814
Miscellaneous Minerals ..........s0e00- 1,431,349

$ 94,547,241
57,605,967
96,507,968

126, 584,474

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" BRIGHTH ARTICLE,,

From Canberra we went to the|

Murrumbidgee ‘irrigation area,
visiting the towns of Leeton and
Griffith. — On these “great lakes
of land’? closer settlement has
replaced the pastoralist- with cit-
rus fruits and grapes. © Provision
of markets is the chief anxiety
and one of the reasons for the
negotiation’ of’ the trade treaty
with Canada. There and in other
parts of the Commonwealth are
raisins for all our needs. There
is also delicious wine.

Next day ‘brought-a whiff of
the basic. industry. Kerarbury
station, with its 90,000 acres car-
rying 50,000 sheep, would be
paddock on the huge stations
“out back”“in Queensland and
Western Australia. Some are as
hig'as Belgium. But there you
saw the same process at shearing
time. Boundary riders on splen-|;
did mounts, dogs, droves of
Merino sheep heading for the
shearing shed. : \

Fast Work on Sheep
. There. twenty-six men operat-
ing power-driven clippers account

on an average of 110 animals a}
The “ringer’’, or fastest|

day.
worker, tallied 123 in his eight|
hours, or one. sheep every four
minutes, Throughout Australia
and New Zealand it is customary
for--workmen. to knock off for.a
“Smoke ©” haif. way in, the
morning and similarly in "the
afternoon . The practice of

“morning tea’’ and, *‘afternoon
tea’’ in other circles is akin.

The wool is sorted and graded

Jand baled under one roof, and

loaded-on great wagons drawn by |:
fourteen horses to the railway.
you see these bales ripped and
inspected by buyers from many
lands in the great warehouses in
the cities. . They are sold by

| auction and shipped overseas,

In motor cars some of our party
Ps
discovered that a “billabong’’
a muddy place where a stream
overflows. We went through
several i in a mad rush not to miss
the train—but I saw .my first
kangaroo.

Not content with one big city,:
New South Wales has another‘in
Newcastle (95,070 population).

|Qur party went there to see the

great steel works of the Broken

|Hill company and subsidiary in-

dustries. Nearly five million tons
of coal are yearly” exported. from

| the fiélds hergabouts.:

Our only trip simply: to view

,/Scenery. Was: to the Blue Moun-

tains, sixty miles from Sydney,
The train .climbs: most. of their

18,000 feet so that, arsived, after

a short motor. run, in Katoomba,
you gaze. ‘down. over’ precipitous
cliffs, into.vast valleys which re:

‘Jeall the. kloats. of. Drakensburgi.

in. -Natal.. . There are, trickling:
waterfalls Jesing themselves. int

‘on the Queensland border.

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of delicate blue. |
, At the Town Hall, Government
House, the University and other
places were functions to do us
honor, Everywhere one met with
a greeting and reception which
cannot adequately be described,
Even at the Cathedral there was
a special press service.

Bountiful Queensland .

We headed north for Queens- |
land, spending two days en route
in motoring through one of the
richest dairying districts in the
world... This is the ‘‘North
Coast,’’ a land which, cence thiek-
lv timbered, is now undulating
Meadows, watered by the Rich-
mond, Tweed, and Clarence ri-
vers, and dotted with thousands
of grazing cows, pure bred and
“‘eross’’—as they call their grade
animals—Jersevs and Holsteins
and Shorthorns. What impresses
one here i is the apparent low cost
of production. Cattle produce
milk the year round on natural
‘pastures, You sow paspalum
‘grass and it stays there, yielding
‘abundant feed. Apart from'your
house, all you need is a milking
‘shed.

Here co-operation reigns. By
the side of navigable rivers are
creameries. Fifteen such are in-
cjuded in the North Coast Co-op-
erative Co., which now manu-
factures one-third of the butter
produced in the state, 1000 tons
per month. Since its inception
in 1895 it has distributed $80,-

And this is only one of several
co-operative companies in thig
area,

- We called at the conerete-built
electricaliy-driven factory of the
Clarence River Pioneer Dairy Co.,
Ulmarra; at Grafton, with its

streets lined with trees’ which||

shed a Turkish carpet of colored
bloom; MacLean, near the sea;
Lismore, set near downs; Byron
Bay, with Mount Warning (nam-

we came to something which
sounds more Australian— Murwil-
Jlumbah, and on, over river, to
gaze from great height on a

jkindly host’s. farm to where

whales spoutin the ocean. Then
we dropped down to Coolangatta,

only had we seen cews and cream

but here are sugar and bananas|-,

and pineapple—and strawberries
can be prown all the year round.
Nourishment— Plus

had insisted, on our ‘nourishment’.
every two hours. Not to be out-

done Queensland served fuod and|"

drink every hour—or thereabouts.

But, despite this, Brisbane brings |.

happy memories, ' Shall I tell you

of its béwildering beavtiful bota-|
nical gardens, or: ‘of the :bronzed j..

men who comein from sheep dnd
cattle. stations 700. miles . away
and. throng the ‘hotels, -or: of the

charming ladies,-. of: ‘Sovialistic |. fi
e| governnient,. which Coriducts . not

rlonly cattle stations” and ‘fahing

state retail ahops? It is claimed
| that there is a logs on these, but”
the. ‘railway: refreshment rooms -
| appear-to record a. profit.

000,000 ‘to its butter suppliers. {J

g|ed by Cook) in the distance; s0|).

Not}

In New South Wales our hosts | .

be

The sea is twenty miles away,,

but many ships come up the Bris-:
.|bane river, which curves through:

this city of 245,000 of the 830, 000 |
Queenslanders... |

Let us'go to this reception.
Here is Dr. ‘Taylor, eighty-five
years old, but still driving his,
own car. © He spent twenty-two.
years in Canada; took his degree’ -
at Kington. Few will remember.

_.jbim, for he has been fifty-five .

years in Brisbane,

Now it is Col. the Hon. A. J.
Thynne, who wishes to honor the
Canadian delegates and ask them |
to take back hia ‘‘love to the land
of the Maple Leaf:”? He was the
Queensland cabinet minister who
came to Ottawain 1894 to the
Intercolonial conference. We
wandered in his garden, where
are bananas and many flowers,
and birds’ nests against the ivied
walls,
And here in Brisbane we say.
farewell to a great servant of the
Empire, Sir Matthew Nathan,
the retiring governor, who hopes
to visit Canada this year. The:
Labor administration .is opposed
to the appointment of governors,
The old Government House has:
been converted to university uses,

Arthur Hankin has returned
from Bell Isle hot springs and is
ready for anything he is feeling
so good.

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