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THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, MAY 1 12, 1917

The Omineca Miner

1916 Production. ; oe
The total value of the metal

GREAT OMINECA District OF BriTisu COLUMBIA:

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE

and mineral production in 1916 as :
shown in: the preliminary report |i
.on mineral production of Canada,

A. R, Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor.

which has just been published,
was$177, 857, 454, which, compared

year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year,
ADVERTISING RATES: Display,,

Notices, 20 cents per line for cach insertion, Legal notices inserted at B. C.

Gazette rates, ;

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Vou. VI. SATURDAY, May 12, 1917

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a

$2.60 per inch per month: Reading

No. 87

with a production in 1915 valued
at $187,109,171,shows an increase
$40, 248, 283, or 29.3 per cent, The :
previous maximum production :
was $145, 634,812, in 1918, _
In 1916 British Columbia pro-
duced 20,92 per cent, of the total] |

The alliance between Britain and the United States, symbolized
by the display of the Stars and Stripes over the British parliament
buildings and the Union Jack over the state building at Washington,
and evidenced in a more conerete manner by the war conference in
the American capital,is the topic of many editorials in the papers of
the United States,and these, with the exceptionof German-American
organs, hail the association of the English-speaking races as one of
the most hopeful developments of these troubled times,

: Hon, A. J. Balfour,ag head of the British mission to the United
States, has been enthusiastically greeted in the American capital
and the cities which he visited. Ina statement to the Washington| -
press, he said:

“Our confidence in the assistance we are going to get is not|+
based upon such shallow considerations as those which arise out of
formal treaties. No treaty could increase our undoubted confidence |‘
in the people of the United States, who having come into the- war,
are going to see it through. If anything is certain in this war,that
is certain,
. “Two years and a half have elapsed gincé the great American

public-have been watching the blood-stained drama across the ocean
and I am well convinced that they believe as each month passed
that it was no small, petty interest, no strugele for territory, no
struggle for national ambitions, or the satisfaction of small national
interests, but the liberties of mankind that were animating the

Allied countries. | Now, after watching it, you-have felt’ yourself

impelled to join ‘the freat contest, I feel certain you will throw

into it all your unequalled resources, including your résources. of
invention and. producticn, and your man-power, and, having come
to that decision, nothing will turn you from it until success shall
crown our joint efforts.”

But still other words of Mr: Balfour’ s,uttered twenty.one years
ago and now recalled to our mind, says the Literary Digest, are
receiving almost ag much discussion i in the American press as the

things he ‘says teday, Addressing,the British ‘parliament in 1896

on the tense situation then existing between Great Britain and the

United States because ofa houndary dispute between Venezuela |'

and British Guiana, he spoke these startlingly prophetic words:

“Tt can not but be that those whose national roots go down into |:
the same past as ours, who share our language, our literature, our
laws, our religion, everything that makes a nation great—it ean not
be but that a time will come when they will feel that we and they
have a common duty to perform, a common office to fulfil, among

the nations of the world.’?
And he followed this wi

- be fulfilled:

“The time will-come, the time must come, when some one, some
statesman more fortunate even than President Monroe, “will lay
‘down ‘the doctrine that between Hoglish-speaking peoples war is
impossible, ”
“Why not-call this the Balfour Doctrine, aga memorial of the
present Visit?” suggests the New York Globe, which adda:
“It expresses a thought every good American and sincere friend
of mankind must welcome, Great Britain and the United States
acting together in informal alliance can secure for” the world 9
peace of justice and captain a new world-organization as beneficént
as the old organization has been maleficent,”?

"It ig inconceivable,” says the New York Journal of Commerce,
“that a union of policy ‘and purpose for the prosecution of an armed
conflict against-a common eneiny should not survive the attainment
of the immediate purposes for which it is formed, ”?” And the, New
York Tribune suggests that t perhaps the’ greatest. consequence of.
the world-war will be the inauguration of a’ new era in the
English-speaking world,”

Another view, that of Germany,ie voiced by Dr. Alfred Lohmann,
' of Bremen, “that President Wilson has delivered his whole’ nation
into the hands -of England, and has concluded not onty & political
but an economic ‘alliance with the former motherland, ” Says this
observer:

“The tact that America has alrendy adopted: ‘the ‘pélteiple’ ‘of
the. ‘economic war after the war’: ia sufficient evidence that ‘the
_ union of.the. Anglo-Saxon races hag created an entirely. new. basis |
for world- ~economies, because it. means ‘an Anglo-Saxon’: ‘economic
bloc. - Hurope must arm itself against this danger. betimes, -; oa If
-Wilgon hag dropped the Monroe doctrine for Amerida, . let “UB
‘formulate a sort of Monroe doctrine: for: Burope—‘Europe for. the
Europeans. ’ rr 2 .

“Ta the future: the ‘English Ch

- North, America,”
' blocs—the. Europe
under ° Japant ty.

ith another prediction whieh is. vet to

a

1 wil divide Euroy

‘In the future there will be thre. rival: éc

an. Continent, the ‘Anglo-Saxon.
leadership, ° The..9

27.202 cents a pound..
duction in 1915 was, 100, 785,160
pounds, and at 17.276 eenta a
pound the average price for tha
year would be worth $17, 410, 685:
There was thus an increase in 1916
‘of 18, 985, 664 pounds, or-18,8° ‘per
reent. in quantity and $15,169,422,
or 87, 1 per cent. in” total value.’

Britannia,’ a
Anyox mines, together with the|M °°.
Hazelton, ‘are|fB-

shipments. from
credited with
and the Trail
mines ‘with

The: increase. in 1916. h

“th

{whleh: a
ata would | ive. a total value of $29,-

production of Canada;-in 1916
this province produced 22 65 pérlil
cent, of the total, The roineral ||
production of British Columbia
in 1916 was valued at $28, 689, 425;
in 1916 its value was $40,191,744,
or an increase of $11,602,319.

The total production of gold in
placer and mill bullion and: in
smelter production in 1916 is |
estimated at $19,162,025, as com- ||
pared with 918,025 fine ounces
valued at $18,977,901 in 1916, an
inerease’of $184,124, or about 1
per cent. The production of gold
in British Columbia in 1916 was
$4,550,868 as against $5,651,184
in 1915,a decrease of 20 per cent.

The production from -the Yuson
Territory amounted to $4,391,669
as against $4,750,450 in 1916, ala
a decrease of 7.6 per cent, ©

was 26, 669, 172 fine ounces valned
at $16,854, 653 as against 26, 925, -
960 fine ounces valued at $13, 228, -

842. in 1915,a decrease of 8.6 per

of 27 per cent. in value. In Brit,
ish Columbia ‘the production was ||
8,235,764 ounces valued .at'$2, -
'124,635, as against 3 565; 852 oun-
ces valued at $1,771, 658 in 1915,
showing a decrease in quantity ;
of about 9 per cent, and an. in-
crease in value of about 20 per
cent. The Yukon production was
360,466 ounces valued at $263,686 |
in 1916, as against 248, 049 ounces | |F
valued at $123,241 in 1915,  An|iq
increase in quantity of 45° per
cent. and in value of apout 92
per cent, ,

In 1916 the’ total copper con-
tents of smelter products credited |B
tto Canadian: ores and estimated
recoveries:, from ores exported
amounted ‘to 119, 770,814 pounds,
which would be worth $32,580,507
at the average monthly price of
refined copper in New. York,
The pro-

The British Columbia produc-

tion of copper in 1916: was 66,-|8, ee
086,119 pounds, as compared’ with
56,692,988 pounds in 1915, an in-J
crease of 8,398,181 pounds, i
14.8 per cent. The. 1916 produc. | #

tion in. this. province. included |#
47, 904; 289 pounds recovered in| ..

blister. ‘and matte and 18,181,827
pounds recovered from ores ship-
ped to: United Stat

or

es smelters;
‘including the

he. coast mines,
Texada | Island and]

44,048,065 pounds,

“22,098,054 pounds,
as ‘been
entirely from the coast _ Droper-

28,

otal production’ of niékel ;
915° was 82,968,664 . pounds,
8 cents” per pound,

«The total production in |B.
0 08,657 ‘Rounds, Show- |}

The pYoduction of silvertin 1916 =
cent. in quantity, but an increase | | oO

i. The Hazelton. Branch -requests the: ‘supporé: of ‘all ‘in nits

. Honorary Presidents: _ Mrs, (Rev. ) Jolin Field; Ms ‘an | a

. Miss Hogan, Rev. John Field, Rev, M; Pike, B, HL Phillipa

Endeavors: to “supply” soldiers from 1 Hagalton distriet wit

at the front, and will. assist ‘them’ to: re-establish’ ‘themselves “

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THE CANADIAN PATRIOTIC FUND | “4
Which assists the © wives. and families of Canada’s gallant. i
soldiers, requires millions of’ dollars to keep the’ soldierg’
home fires: burning. < . |
District Treasurer: Stephen H, Hoskins, Government Avent |
, ‘Hazelton Committee: . *
J. E. Kirby, R. EB. Allen; : J. K, Frost, aR Barks. |
and J. G. Powell. "Monthly Subseriptions are Solicited

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efforts to assist i in ‘the noble work of. this 5 gieat bumanitay fan.”
A - Orgarization. mt

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. " Chatrfnan®’ Dr. HEC. Wine Ce Bet ef
Viee-Presidents: S. H, Hoskins; Mrs. E. R., Cox; W: Ie Carr” af |
‘Honorary Secretary; Miss J, C. Grant |
Honorary Treasurer: H, H. Little, Manager Union Bank | |

' Executive Committee: .
Mrs. H. G Wrinch, Mrs. R. G, Moseley, Mrs, Chas, Reid;

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Lar ze or Small Contributions will be @ Gratefully Received,

COMMITTEE

such comforts and necessities a3 cannot be Feadily. obtained ; r

in: civil life when ‘they return.” The’ ‘Committee is ‘acting i in’ q
co - ‘operation with the’ -Provinefat. Returned Soldiers * a
“ Comimission and the Military Hospitals Commission. “Ne q
Contributions ‘to the Soldiers’ Aid Tobacco Fund 4 are Welcome. 4 |
. ‘Chairman: A, R. Macdonald says:
Honorary Secretary. Treasurer’) I. K, “Frost; 4 t ae
H. H. ‘Little, R. E, Allen, F, B. ‘Chettleburgh oe
H. B: Campbell, H. BR Glasses, G W. , Melia. 7

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