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Government Expert ‘Gives|;
~ Mining: Men His Views |:
On Groundhog Railway

FIELD 8 ri) MILES LONG

Malloch: Randa Interesting” Paper on
“Upper: Skeena / Coal: Fields Before,
:Mining- Inatitute at Vancauver—Three
;Peutble Routes for. Railvey to Coal

‘One of the principal features!
of the -recent Mining Institute

“{leonvention, at Vancouver was the

{ |reading” by G..5.. Malloch; of the
-| Geological Survey, of a paper, on
the Groundhog’ coal: fields.

:He spoke. optimistically. of the

of deposits. which had’ been: found
Hi and treated the matterof railway.

transportation to’ and. from” the
field in ‘a comprehensive raanner.
He said that he had gone-care-|

‘fully into the. subject: and dis-|,

cussed. not _only the anthracite!.

4 character. of. the -coal,. but. the
| possibilities of profitable mining.

He ‘outlined three possible routes
for a railway to reach the” fields,

“The shortest would. be from
Stewart,. at the head of Portland

-| Canal, ‘a distance of about ninety |.
miles, This line. would” pass |
£ through. - the - Naas .

“valley.
‘Another line. was. poasible . over

: _ : oe -£]/ somewhat the same -territoty.

-|150 miles in.length and a grade

A. - railway. from Hazelton. tol.
| to: Groundhog Mountain would be

‘of one per cent could be obtained,

“| 1n -erossing.. either of the passes
‘from -Bear : River . valley to the

Naas country ; ‘a -grade of. from
two to three per - cent would be
required. This liné would reach

_ water transportation in ninety.
_| miles, --

- ‘Groundhog’ coal, “extends
northwesterly i in: ‘long strips for
seventy ‘miles,’ said Mr, Malloch.
“The thiekness: of the: deposit, ig

. upwards. of 8, 000° feet.” The coal

is contained in commercial quanti-

{ties near the top and bottom. :. It}:

is anthracite in character, In. all
the seams examined -veinlets of
jot quartz and calcite traverse the
coal in’ ‘different . directions,
There are ‘too few openings ‘to
Lestimate the. amount ot. foreiyn
material. 7P

: asta ANNEXATION

~ SENTIMENT STRONG

. Cordova, Mining Man: Says!

- Agitation i is More Than Idle
_ Falk—-Coninot Develop.

7 ay can. ‘RSSUTS . ‘you. that ‘the
agitation: throughout. Alaska - ‘in
‘favor. of* political - union: -with

f Canada. is' no idle- talk, The

movement is gaining ground
every day, but just how it can be
realized it is difficult to say.’

- This was the statement made
to. the ‘Vaicouver:' Province : by-

John: ‘Rogers, ‘a. Cordova. mining -

man.)
” "Te has become’ & “by-word | in|
the North,” he. added, “that the
poor man-can’ not ‘get_a square
deal, and that: title to coal and
mineral claims’ can only be ‘se-
cured through ‘the: influence. of

| Washington lobbyists. This ig

probably the reason why some.of
-frichest. natural resources. have}
~|paased under the» control : of

-, | groups of capitalists, ° ‘The old-
-|timerstike myself are fully aware!

thaf: the. administration. ‘of: the
mining. laws: in Alaska formd a
Jurid contrast. with the. Square
methods in-vogue in’ thé ‘Can,
adian Yukon.’ i the :

l plain:
‘anid is enforced to the letter = Tha

"| Byitish ‘erating, ant ‘Tshobld ‘not
bé‘at all surprised, in’ “the-.event
of: relief not'goon being: ‘granted
|to see a veritable. stampede set; in
this.” spring: to: the. ‘unexplored
regions of -:the: Yukoi: “Which
afford -the same opportunities to
the prospector as: Alaska’ does:
“Just before I left ‘the North
there - was talic of. extending the
Alaska Central. Railway: into, the
Canadian ‘Yukon in order to ; ‘tap
immense coal fields. i

-(last.. year in British’. territory,

within forty miles of the. “pound
ary line. Theowners realize. that
they are free to mine and export
this’ coal without official interfer-
ence ‘because they will-be Operat-
ing in. ‘British: territory,’ Mean

‘while. all the valuable. coal ‘fields
in Alaska are held up- by Wash

ington ‘red tape’ and the coal |§
used - in Alaska has to be.shipped|&
all. the way from Vancouver! §

Island,’ 7F

STEWART CONVICTED

. Millions for Espionage

; London, . ‘Feb. 26:— Bertram

Stewart, the London lawyer con-
victed: of espionage -at  Leipsic,
has been sent to the fortress -at

Glatz in Prussian Silesia, where | #83 |
Captain Trench, another ‘English |
Stewart's |#

spy, is imprisoned. |
father writes. indignantly: to the
Times protesting’ ‘against.’ cre-.
dence being. given tothe: ‘untested
assertions i in a Hamburg.’ ‘hews-
paper of Rue, the: Belgian « uin-

former, “whom he calls a rascal ony

and traiton, ">" : ; re

Rue’s wife, it. seems, is “an.
attractive Irish’ lady, who owas
deserted by her husband two
years ago andis now proprietress
ofa boarding house near London.

The Daily Mail- correspondent
at Berlin aays Rue has been ton-
tinually i in the pay:of the. secret
. intelligence departments: both of
"| Britain and Germany. After
rbringing about -the arrest of
Stewart, “he went, into hiding i in
‘the |. ~ Duteh-German’. - frontier

towhs, living the live of a hermit,
broken by: debauches. - Once in a} ie

bout - of: intemperance - he at-
'{ tempted. suicide,;

- ‘Germany’ spends $3,900,000 on |
her “sécret..service t6 Britain’s|

$200,000.’ No’ details of payments

or disbursements axe given in the]
‘accounts, “A. ~ German
paper.says that.among the topics |
of discussion during .the visit to}:
Berlin of Lord ‘Haldane, the Brit-|
*| ish’ war minister, was-an Anglo-

‘public...

German agreement, to-forbid es-
pionage i in, each other’s territor

Air Fleet for France of

Paris, Feb. 26:—A, great na af
tonal movement is: ‘afoot to equip ‘
the. French army with the finest) §

aerial. fleet in the world. The
agitation follows upon the action
of:the government’ in. setting:
aside over 5,000,000 francs for
the? complete: ‘reorganization of
the army air COFDS. + a

: *. Rebellion { in . Haiti

Cane Haytien, Hayti,. Feb 26:-
An? ‘official. -Peport has been
received of severe fighting
between revolutionary forces and
‘governient troops near the San.
Domingan frontier, The resu
is” not. recorded-beyorid the fact

sithat ” the government troop
ie suffered a lesa of: forty killed and

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ON TRAITOR’S won|

Further. Particulars of Case ; '
_ Which has Stirred England ee

oS i in. the official townsite of New Hazelton.

The Supreme Authority ¢ on ‘Reikway matters in Canada,
the De nion Railway Commission, has decided that the
: Station and Railway Yards Shall be at

livestments i in Real Estate i in New Hazelton now are as

safe as Vancouyer, Winnipeg | or Montreal. We have

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You can — .
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Settlement

: “of. the controveriy regarding the railroad townsite. The
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