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The Omineca Miner
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON,-THE CENTER OF THE
GREAT OmINECA Bistaicr or British COLUMBIA, -

Macdonald & Rauk, Publishers and Proprietors,

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insertion. Legal notices inserted ut B. C, Gazette rates.

No. 15.

The Omineca Miner has the Jargeat bona fide circulation of any newspaper in the
' Northern Interior of British Columbia,.

VoL. IIL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1918,

It may now be regarded as certainthatthe Provincial Commission
on Agriculture, in its report to the Legislature, will recommend a
system of loans to settlers, either by Government advances, or by
guaranteed loans. The Miner has consistently advocated legisla-
tion of this nature, as a means of securing the settlement and
improvement of lands in the newer districts, and other Papers
throughout the Province have joined in favoring the proposal.
About the only opposition we have noticed has been that of a local
contemporary, whichs appeared with the argument that “Such a
policy would be wrong from the foundation, It would degenerate
the people and bring about the same results—financial embarrass-
ment to the Province—that resulted in other countries where it hag
bzen tried out.”’ Criticism from a source so evidently uninformed
seems negligible, but it may not be out of place to give a few
figures from New Zealand us an evidence of the erroneous nature
of the statement quoted. Since 1895, New Zealand has made
27,689 loans, the average loan being $2,382.22. The total amount
of loans since the inception of the system amounts to $65,961,645. 08:
of this sum $31,716,645.68 has been repaid, leaving ‘$36, 244,990.62
on current loans,

‘There have been only thirty-five foreclosures in the eighteen
years. There were some small losses which have been written off,
and the net profits of the system amount to $2, 884,874.61,

Returning from a thorough investigation of the New Zealand
system, Alex. Lucas, M.L.A., chairman of the Provincial Agrieul-
tural Commission, in presenting a comprehensive report to his
associates, says:

‘On my trips into the country I met all classes of workingmen,
small shop keepers and farmers. In the cities I interviewed the
bankers, merchants, lawyers, commission men and newspaper
editors; and at the Capital I interviewed the Government and
Opposition members of Parliament; and during the month that I
remained in New Zealand I failed to meet anyone who disapproved
of the State Guaranteed Advances to farmers. There was some
complaint that officials were too particular. in regard to the securities
offered: but ] ‘heard not a word against the principle involved in
Goverm ment guaranteed loans,

“T found it to be the almost unanimous opinion! not those wham I
met that the ‘‘Advance to Settlers Act,’ and the ‘State: Guaran-
teed Loan Act,’ authorizing and guaranteeing loans to farmers ont
the-sccurity of their land, for the purpose of i improving and develop-
ing the same and increasing their output, was the most beneficial
lewislation ever passed by the New Zealand Government; that it has
not only given a great impetus to the agricultural industry bat it
hus reacted in related and other industries in a further stimulation
of trade in general,

“With money available on terms suitable to the industry, the
farmers have built better houses, or remodelled their old ones;
brought large acreage of land under cultivation that otherwise
would Le lying idle; have bought and kept better livestock: have
bought and kept more iabor-saving machinery on the farm and in
the house; have erected elevated tanks and wind-mills: have laid on
water in their dwellings and in their outbuildings; have irrigation
for their vegetables and flower gardens round the houses; and have
increased their dairy herds. They keep more sheep and pigs, and
have go largely increased their farms that they are able to meet
the payments on the mortgage and udopt a higher and better
standard of living, Throughout the country a higher and better
civilization is gradually being evolved; the young men and women
are growing up, are happy, and contented to remain at home on
the farm, and find ample time and opportunity for recreation and
entertainment of a kind more wholesome and elevating than. can he

-|in the closing, month of ‘the year

Stores,

service,
‘We could get no better news

than what’ is contained in Presi-
Wilson’s message, I have been

on the expansion of Northern
British Columbia ane the Yukon,
with a full appreciation of the

dertakings and there have been
many sceptical views, But now

governments is what is hoped
for.”’ ,

The Premier was asked if a
north-and-south line -
British Columbia, north of the
Grand Trunk Pacific, might be
considered as a provincial enter-
prise,
lieved thata line of railway. to
connect Alaska and the Yukon
with the gouth. should be con-
sidered both in Canada and in
the United States as a national
project.

A New Handbook

Victoria, Dee. 10.—The lands
department hag issued the first

deal with various districts in the
northern and central interior,
The one just published deats with

expert and is a bright and read-

issued soon,

tions at the “Up to-date’ Drug

American and Canadian trans: | jj
-|continental roads for Alaskan

speaking for the last three years ||

necessity of promoting such un-/||

that the situation is more or less fa -
crystallized quick action on the!|fé
part of the Dominion and Ameri- i

through | )

He answered that he be- |

of a series of booklets whieh will].

the Fort Fraser land division. It 2
was prepared by a department i:

able booklet, with an excellent |i

map. The next publication, ‘on |i
the Fort George district, will be]

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Table Fruits

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Grocery Department ir hristmas

| Suggestions |

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ON DISPLAY

Including’ many. useful. AY.
y. ticles for ornament: and }
wearing apparel, such as |

SUSPENDERS, GLOVES

1. Hay Oats Flour

Feed

A few pretty sete
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Three Pairs $1.00

CHINAWARE.

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JEWELRY
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A fine line. Specia | i. Including Watches, Scarf
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% prices | on goo Watch Chains, etc, which .
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BEDDING

Blankets and Comforts
Pillows Linen ©

TABLE LINENS |

Fit for the King’s table.

Xmas Fruits

Candies, Nuts, Cigars on way

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_ REGINALD LEAKE GALE, J.P.

Deputy Mining Recorder, Financial and Insurance Agent

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Townsite Properties

Farm Lands
At Prices to Suit Every Buyer.

‘Gun Licenses Issued
Conveyancing Auditing Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent

Towa Lots

TELKWA, BULKLEY VALLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA —

obtained in the cities.’’

Siznificant reference to. the} McBride said:

possibility of railway develop-
ment in the North, in connection
with. President Wilson’s recent
message to Congress in the Unit-
ed Slates was made by Premier
McBride in an interview, Sir
Richard stated that he believed
the construction of a line of rail:
way north and south | through
British Colunibia providing ac-
cess to the Atlin and the Yukon
was a national enterprise,. He
said that ‘closely linked -with
such ‘a possibility as the estab-
lishment of thi line was~the
building. of railways fn Alaska

“I desire to express my grati-
fication at the attitude of Presi-
dint Wilson, as outlined in his
message ta Congress, in respect
to Alaskan railway development,
While the proposal is to com-
mence at once with the construc-

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The oaly family | hotel i in the district.
_ Night and"day restaurant.
Good Stable i in Fonnection. -

Reasonable rates.

"Private. dining - rons. t

Modem. conveniences.

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Choicest of Wines, Liguos a and 1 Gon
- always. on hand.

aot Ctecmeses dye ff} futenies . a

tion of a railway line from the|.
toast line to Matanuska coalfields,
gome distance in the. interior, in-
volving the expenditure of about
$40,000,000, it’ must not -be ac-

way expansion in that section.
It is my. firm belief that. this is
the commencement ' of an ener-
getic policy leading at once to}

and the eventual linking up of
that district _with the United|
States proper by means of steel
running throngh the Yukon. and
this. province.

Speaking of. the reference i in.

the: @ tanvion. of

there eventually, The fact that | .

the United.States proposes to in-|
'dulge j in this. ‘present. enterprise;

ion that will: provide . fot

Union S.S. Company of

cepted as the final word on rail-! .

the development of the far north} |
and making for wonderful growth]

may be taken as an indication of}...
the: certainty of railway: con- |. -
-P. esident. Wilson’s message. ta at

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