The Omineca Miner

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT

HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE

GREAT OMINECA District oF
BRITISH COLUMBIA,

By R. S. Sargent, Lid.

SUBSCRIPTION ‘RATES; — Canada

and British Porsessions. ‘Two Dollars at

year; Foreign, Three Dollara.a year.

ADVERTISING RATES: Display,
$1.50 per inch per month; Reading
Notices, 16 cents per lina for each
inSertion. Legal notices inserted at
B. GC. Gazette rates,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1917.

There has been, since 1915, an
estimated decrease in the world’s
supply of meat-producing anim-
als of 115,005,000... -Cattle have
been decreased by 28,000,000,
sheep by 54,000,000 and swine by
$2,425,000. -

Canadian herds have been dim-
inishing since 1914, Milch cows
have been lessened ‘by 815000,

other cattle by 88,000, sheep by

49,000 and swine by -921,000,
During the same period the U.S.
increased its supply of cattle hy
over 7, ,000,000 and swine ely over
6,000,000. = . -

‘It is estimated that after, the

‘ war Burope will need’ from. Six.

teen to twenty million head of
livestock. How much of this

will Canada supply?.

The 1917 grain crop of Western

Canada will net the farmers more ;

‘than $600, 000, 00", according. to
“figures given out in: financial
circles.

_ on the following estimates:

Wheat, $400,000, 000; oats, $150, -
000,000; barley, $86,000,000; flax,
$20,000, 000..

In. addition to the large amount

of money: farmers. will get for
.their grain crops, everything: the
farmer: has to sell is. bringing... a
higher’ ‘price this year. than, in
any. privious: year, °

_ 0, To be j in ‘Berlin! 7
fnereasing price. and. deterior-

ating quality are ‘the characteris-|:

tics. of food in Berlin, as: ‘deseribed

by an. American writer, recently.

a resident of the German capital,
in the Atlantic Monthly. © Here
are. some items in the Berliners’

bill of fare: Mussel sausage—‘‘a

terrible concoction’ 6f ‘ground
mussels and spices"; dried. sea
lions’
“after ‘one. or two “attacks of
naugea people came to ‘like the].

concoctiun—it filled a vacuum”;

~ bread. containing. five per ~cent
sawdust and five per ‘cent flour
ground: from. straw; crows and
* seagulla— ‘considered great deli-
-.eacies"';, horseflesh:at 60 centg a
pound; rancid: Daniaki. butter at

ind; slightly. tuberculous
“beef —! ‘rigid: inspection i is a thing).

The figures ‘are based’

meat, - ‘made in-'a. stew—

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TELRWA

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(From Our Special Correspondent)

.|* The ladies of ‘the Red Cross|
held .a very successful bazaar last

week, netling for the fund $109.
” tT. T OT &
~Mrs: Jenna and. her sister. .are
spending Christmas in Vaneou-
ver. - a

Miss M. Campbell ‘is. visiting
her sister, Mrs. B, Hoops, -
ee er er

Owing to a shortage of ballots
on, election day, a few soreheads
had a chance to get in a little of
their usual kicking about '‘a put-
up job’’, but before the day .was |,
over this. difficulty was overcome
and everybody entitled had a
chance to vote.

i ns Pr re

D, M.: Haynes, of the ‘Three
Lakes propetty,is in -town.

toot ote

The funeral of John Nicholson
was held on Wednesday. Many
old-timers turned ‘out to pay their
last. respects to the deceased,

en ees

The Santa Maria mine expects
to be shipping ore shortly, |

tt ot.

"Weather. continues -bright, ‘and
there, is plenty of snow for good,
sleighing, -
hobo 7

Cap: Hood was in’ town for a
few days, CS , “

ToT.

The new telegraph office is now

under construction on-the site of |

the’ old. platform seale, - Mr, |.
Mitchell, the popular‘operator, is
looking: forward toits completion,
tf oF OE:
George McColl left on Wednes-
day morning’s train to take up a
position in the store‘at Anyox,

~ The provincial department oF |
agriculture has received the.in-
formation. that at Kill Kare farm

at West Summerland,” the. yield “ .

of cucumbers: from 1 4-9 acres

‘filled 5,445° peach boxes and] “5
: weighed approximately, ‘B4- tons,
The. ‘selling: price.of the produce

netted. the grower an average of

80 cents” a box, or. a total -of
$4, 256, .

Fourteen British terchantmen |
of ‘over 1600 tons were sunk’ last |>
week and: ‘three smaller: _vessely,

. _ MINERAL ACT.
| Certifinte’ of Improvetfents
“NOTICE.

nate in the Omineta Mining: Division, gt
Cassiar Diatrict. |
Where located: —On the southwestern
shore, of Babine Lake, and near Silvor
sland...

“TAKE NOTICE that 1: FP, Burden, | j

acting as agent for. M. J. Ko Ib, Free

Miner's Certificate “No, 7862C,: ‘intend, ;
sixty ‘days from the date: hereof, to. ar

ply to the MiningRecorder.for a Certi
cate of Improvements for “the' pu One

of obtaitiing a Crown Grantof the al ove,

eleim.

* And: firther take noties? ‘that: ‘action, ‘|
under section. 86, muat be epnnenced

before.the jasnancé: Gertifiente |

of: Improvements,” at

of the’ past”; barley, acorns ‘and: D. 1917.

= ‘there hae] @

fice at

eos OFM nainesia,
Doman, British Columbi:
and. Alberta, Land Syrveyors
Victoria, Nalagn,
d-New THazelto

se
| tember, ..1914,' and‘is numbered 65291;

PGB oe

7 acre, ,

on “ ach
* QUEENA MINERAL | tain, “altue

‘available

BUY AT THOME. a
Get your “letterheads. printed 3 at i] ;
° THE MINER OFFICE: *. |]
“Printing of Merit” . are

"FARM LANDS |

OREGON & ‘CALIFORNIA: RAIL]
ROAD CO. GRANT LANDS, Title to

of Congress dated June 9, 1916.
million, three hundred thousand Acrés
to. be opened. for Homesteads and gale:
Agricultural and. Timber Lands, . Con-
servative estimate Forty Billion feet of
commercial. lumber. Containing some
of best ‘land left. in United. States.
Large Map showing land by. sections
and: Descrigtion of soil, climate, rain-
fall, elevations, etd, Postpaid’ One
Dollar, - Grant. Lands Locating. Co,
Box 610, ‘Portland, Oregon, . nan

MINERAL, “ACT .
“Certifeate of Improvements.
“ NOTICE - os

"LITTLE “HELEN, COPPER’ HILL, ih
and SKEENA MINERAL CLAIMS, sit.
uate in. the Oniineca Mining Division - a
of Cassiar: District, 2

Rocher: de Boule Mountain.

kill, of Hazelton, .B.C., acting a8 agent | |B
for H. 8. Lavery (Can, Exped,--Foree) |
and Andrew Fairbairn, of Telkwa; B.C.,
Free Miner's Certificate’ No. 28620,
intend sixty da’ ays" ‘from the date hereof,”
to sper to the’ Mining Recorder. for
a Certificate of: Improvements, for the | Ik
purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant. of i
the above claims: ‘

And further take notice ‘that: ‘action;
under ‘section 85, must be eonimeneed | |
before ‘the issuance of such’ Certificate
of Improvements. *

Dated this 24th day. of. September,
A.D - 191 Lie “ 4-18 Dalby Rg, -Morkill ;

“NOTICE

THE MATTER OF AN APPLIC- .
ATION for. the ‘issue of-a’ fresh -
Certificste of Title - for Lot. 82, - |.
- Block 3 ‘Town’ of Telkwa, (Map ;
817). we

Satisfactory evidence ~ ‘having. “been
furnished: as to the losd of the -Cdrtifi-
cate. of Title to the’ above lands, notice

to issue after‘the expiration. of thirty.
“| days after the first publication hereof at}
fresh Certificate of Title to the’ ubove|
lote -in- the name of Pete Saari, pvhich, we
Certificate of Title is dated ath

Land Registry Office, Prince ‘ ‘Rupert ,
“B: G.,. 20th November, 1917..

“ H. P; MACLEOD; tH
District Regist re

Coan. mining ‘rightsof: the: Naminion,

in, Manitoba, Saskatchewan | ‘and
Alberta, the Yukon’ Territory, the
Northwest Territories and. in a.portion| if
of -the- Province of British: Columbip,.
may be leased for a.termof twenty-one
yeara''at an’ annual- rental - of $1: an
Not: more ‘than. 2,560 acres, will
be leased to one applicant.”

jp fipplication fora léage' must be made '

y the applicant in person-tu the Agent

jub-Agent of. the distiict in wi uch,
the Tents ap lied: for“nra situated: -

In ‘Burveyed territory. the ‘lend. ‘must’
be deserlbed by aectiona, or legal sub-|'8
- | divisions. of-sections, a nd in: unawrveyed
staked out by the applicant himself,
ed by a fee of $5, ‘whieh will be ‘re:
‘ed if ‘the rights’. “pp lied’ for.ara ‘not

but not otherwise.“ A‘royal~ {f
ty ‘shall, be. paid. onthe. merchantable
sutput.of the. ‘mine at ‘the’ ‘rate of five
‘wenta: per ton. : :

The person operating “the: ihine “shall:
furnish the- Agent: ‘with ‘sworn: returns |
accounting forthe Bi an of mer-|if
thantable coal -mined::and pay the
royalty: thereon, “If: ‘the - coal minin
tiglits are. not Belg ‘Operated, such].
-réturns-ahould- be urnished at. least
oncé a year, ” a

- The -Jeage. will inctid the |
rights only,
Anitted to.

und-

same revested.in United States by “Act |i _
Two |i.

- Where located :—On the west'slope of 1: so

TAKE NOTICE that Dalby B Mor- EB o men

is hereby g'ven that itis niy-intention |W

territory the: tract applied . ‘for shall be |): -

application must be accompant~ le 4
e