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THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, JUNE.9, 1917

The Omineca Miner

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE
GREAT OMINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

A. R, Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor.

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year: Foreign, Three Dollars a year.

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Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion. Legal notices inserted at B. C,
Gazette rates.

VoL. VI. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1917 No. 41

Concluding a strong artiele on the necessity of increased
production in Canada to meet the critical situation brought about
by the German submarine campaign, in words that will bear
repetition, the Toronto Globe says:

“It is inconceivable that there exists any Canadian who fails

‘ fully to comprehend the magnitude and deep significance of this
war. Yet it is to be feared that there are some to whom the
sanguinary battles and long lists of casualties are but items of news,
read without serious reflection as to their import to this and
succeeding generations. Millions of men are contending for the
mastery in a succession of battles such as the world has never
before witnessed, and yet there are arm-chair-onlookers who fail to
prasp the fact that it is not a physical struggle for military
supremacy only, but that behind all this carnage and suffering the
motive must be sought in the war of ideals that made this military
conflict inevitable,and which precludes the possibility of peace until
the enemy of human freedom is utterly crushed. There are two
sides only in this war. .The man who in his heart hates Prussianism
and desires the triumph of the Allied cause will not stop to count
the cost or to calculate how much he can afford to do to bring about
victory.
for the man. who in this world struggle sits down te calculate how
he can benefit by the war. The vice-president of the United States,
Thomas Riley Marshall,says there are only two grades of citizens—
those who want to know how the war may enable their country to
help them, and those who want to know how the war may enable
them to help their country. Patriotism and production are twin
engines of war, powerful in the day of battle. Who will sit down
to count the cost when the Empire calls for food ? Who so poor in

_ Spirit as to barter freedom in the market place, or su lacking in
patriotism and the instincts of humanity as to remain untouched by
the spectacle of a world-famine?”’ -

- Jead advanced recently to over 11e'a pound. Thisis the highest
price that lead has touched in 102 years, or since 1815; when it sold
at 17.18¢ a pound. The average price of pig lead in New York for
the last thirty years, up to and including 1916, was 4,32k¢ a pound,

That the 11c price for lead will prove of lasting quality and
will in all probability be even further advaneed, is the best belief
of expert metal men. '

The last previous high record for lead metal, 102 years ago,was
also had in war time. It happened in the last year of the Napoleonic
wars, when the English, Prussian, Austrian and Russian ullies, who
’ were fighting against Napoleon, undertook to corner the lead market
to keep the French armies from obtaining lead for bullets, - ;

After the Napoleonic wars lead declined to 5.36c in 1823, rally-
ing to 7.58c in 1825, from which point there was a steady decline in
price, with occasional rallies, until it reached a low level of 3.58¢ in
1843. From then on lead gradually advanced, reaching” as high as
6.87c per pound in 1855,: during the Crimean war, - After that war
it again declined to an average of 5.25c in 1861, only to advance
again, following the outbreak of the American Civil war, when -it
reached 7,10¢ per pound in 1864, when the war was at its height.
From this point on lead showed a steady recession until it: touched
the extremely low point of 2.98ce per pound in 1896, ° :

At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war in 1893 the metal
rallied to 3.78¢ per pound, gradually advancing to a high point of
5.15¢ in 1912.
~ respectively, reaching as high as '7,624c in-1916 and 8c in 1916,

_ Toward the close of 1916 the metal again receded to around 7e|?
per pound, after which it showed a steady enhancement i in price

until ‘American entrance into the world war, since which time lead

’ «has advanced: rapidly: until it reached leat ‘week's. record of ie. er
pound, ©

_|percentages reading

There will be no escape from the judgment of posterity:

bandry.

In 1913 and 1914 the metal sold at ‘4,400 and 3,87

’ Setback For Mining
__ The entry of the United States
. into the European war has had a
‘bad effect on: mining in ‘British
‘ Columbia, the representatives ‘of
- investora here. having heen ad-
viged that no new undertakings
-. of importance will be ‘entered
_ upon for the present. ‘War. tax:
7 ation, the ‘uncertainty of. metal

«prices, the.strikes at coal mines,
"threatened. troubles. at | “certain:
“metal mines, ‘the ¢ osing, down of |:
the Roaslind mines:and \reduced |.
Operations - of the: smelters .“on |

a It has. alwaya been ‘the un ‘fortun-

ate experience in British Columbia
that when mining looked .at’ its
best such unfortun ateoccurrences

ak these have. time. and again
recurred to hamper the progress
of the. industry,

difficulties ean. be. straightened

out ‘before long, this year’ will -be’
one’ of the. poorest. in mineral |
‘production’ experienced: for. some.
| time, Ex,’ ee a

» seem of f dhortage a af coke, “all in. the: repo

Unless these

on the Hazelton-Telkwa sections

of the Omineca mining division. /
In the asgay table ineluded in the|]

remarks on the property of the

New Hazelton Gold-Cobalt Co.;{f

Limited, the heading ‘copper’
should read ‘‘cobalt’’,
has been corrected in later copies |
of the report issued by the ‘pro-
vincial bureau of mines, and the |
“copper” |]
should read: No. 12, across 2 ft.
6 in. in‘cut over ridge, 1 per cent
cobalt; No. 13,selected high-grade
arsenical iron,3.4 per cent cobalt;

No..14,selected material showing ||
cobalt bloom, 0.9 per cent cobalt; |i

No. 15, across 2 feet of pood are,
3 per cent cobalt; No. 16; across
20 in., 0.7 per cent cobalt; No.
17, across 8 in of paystreak, 1.4
per cent cobalt.

Experimental Farms Report —
_ The first volume of the Experi-

mental Farms Report for the |
year ending March 21, 1916, con-

tains much information of value
to the farmers of Canada.

the asking.

tributed over Canada. VolumeI

contains the report of the director

and is a general review of the

work accomplished, with reports |

on the divisions. of chemistry,

field husbandry and animal hus-
Volume II, not .yet| [ll ’
ready for distribution, will contain
the reports of the divisions of

horticulture, cereals, botany, bees,
forage plants, poultry, tobacco,

illustration stations, and extension | #

ed in these experiments. is ex-||f
Ttis also}
shown as a result of seven years’) |
in fertilizing the] -

,

and publicity.

An interesting statement: ap-|]
pears in the report of the direc-
tor, which deals with the cost ofl}
growing certain crops,as follows:
Mangels, $1.55 a ton: ansilagel A
corn,$1,45 a ton; oats,19,39 cents |]

a bushel, and hay, $5.00 a ‘ton, {IP

The system of farming represent-
plained in the report,

experiments
soil there i isa distinct advantage

in the use of barnyard manure,
alone over. ‘commercial fertilizer
The experiments suggest:

alone, -
the | possibility of- combining: the

two “profitably when: barnyard
manure is Bearce or high priced,

At

such a time, when production |
means so much,. no farmer can |||
afford to overlook such informa-|if
tion as this report contains when ||

it is understood it can be had for} |i
It represents the||

work accomplished on the Central! f
Farm at Oltawa and the fifteen|
branch farms and stations dis-|jj

The error |[f

7 YOU ‘CANT. FIGHT .
YOU CAN AT LEAST.

| STAND BEHIND Tet :
MAN WHO FIGHTS |
FOR YOU!

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. THE CANADIAN PATRIOTIC FUND

Which assists the wives and ‘fhimilies of Canada’s gallant y
' soldiers, requires millions of dollars’ to keep the soldiers” i
| Home fires burning.

District Treasurer: Stephen H. Hoskins, Government Agent E _

_ Hazelton Committee: - 7
\. B Kirby, R. E. Allen, J. K. Frost, J. R. Barker, -
and J. G. Powell, Monthly Subseriptions are Solicited a

THE CANADIAN RED CROSS

The Hazelton Branch: requests - the support: of all in its 3.
efforts to assist in the noble work of this great humanitarian *
. organization. .

Honorary Presidents: Mrp. (Rev.) John. Field; Mrs, (Rey. ) | ma co

" W. Hogan ‘:

: Chairman: Dr H.. CG Wrinch . a - oi.

Vice- Presidents: S, i Hoskins; Mra, By R Cox; W. I ae i

Honorary Secretary: ‘Misi J. C. Grant

Honorary Treasurer: -H, H, Little, Manager Union Bank
Executive Committee:

Mies, H, C. Wrineh, Mrs, R. G. Moseley, Mrs, Chas. Reid, | ~

' Miss Hogan, Rev. John ‘Field, Rev. M. Pike, H.-H. Phillips:
Large 0 or’ ‘Small Contributions will he Gratefally Received ;

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SOLDIERS! AID & EMPLOYMENT
COMMITTEE =

“Endeavors. ‘to’ supply soldiers from Hazelton: district wité, .
such camforts and necessities ag cannot. be. read ly: Obtained i:
at the front, ‘and will aesist them to re-establish themselves :
. The, Committee | is. geting in ; .

“in civil. life when: they return,

co - - operation. “with ‘the: ‘Provincial ‘Returned - ‘Soldiers’
Commission and the Military Hospitals Coinmission”

{Contributions to o the: Soldiers’ ‘Aid Tobaiien Find are ‘Weleonie

Of, "Honorary: ‘Secretary-Treasurer? J. kK. - Frost,
o H, He tte R. BE, Allen, iB B Chota

Referring to new strains of grain
being.’ ‘produced ‘it is stated. that |

hull-leas and beardless’ barley are| fF -
receiving. close, attention, with i:

the promise of nome “exceptional
resultsi. :
ductivé-varieties are being sought

for, While new: ‘sttaing of ate; ||
peas,, heang,. buck wheat, ‘and: ‘flax

are being: tested, "These dite but
exarnples’ of. the: character, of: the

ee contéiiiied 1 in “the: 598 i
he

“Barher: and. ‘more pro: