_ SYNOPSIS OF -

PRE-EMPTIONS

Vacant,
crown lands may be’ pre-empted by
British subjects over 18 years of age,
and by ailjena on declaring intention

oo ee

_ and improvement - “for
i purposes,
ed Full information concerning regu-
fationa regarding pre-emptions. ts
given in Bulletin No. 1, Land. Series,
! “How to Pre-aempt Land, * goptks. of
i which can be obtained free-of charge
Bm oUfy addreghing the Department of.
{ Lands, Victoria, B.C, or to any Gov-
j 7 ernment Agent.
t

only land suitable for agricultural
purposes, and which is not timber-
land, Le, carrying over 5,000 board
‘feet per acre west of the Coast Range
and 8,000 feet: per acre east of that
Range.

Applications for pre-emptions are
to be addressed to the Land Com-
: . Milasloner.of tha Land Recording Di-

{ vialon, tn whioh the land applied for

H 4s situated, and are made on printed
ft forma, coples of which can ‘be ob-

fi tained from the Land Commissioner.
. . Pre-emptions must be sccupled for

five years and improvements. made
R, 0 value of $10 per acre, -incliding
clearing and cultivating at least five
acres, before & Crown Grant, can be
received. :

the Bulletin
Land.”
5 PURCHASE

Applications are“received for pur-
chase of vacant and unreserved
Crown lands, not being timberland,
for agricultural purposes: minimum

“How to: Pre-empt'

; price of firat-olaca (arable) land ia 35.-

per acre, and second-class (grazing)

land $2.50 per acre, Further infor-

imation regarding purchase .or “lease .
mm = Of Crown lands is given in Bulletin |
No. 10, Land Series, “Purchase end |

Lease of Crown. Lands.”
“ Mill, factory, or industrial sites on
Ti timber land; not exceeding 40 acres,
oy may ‘be purchased ‘or leased, the con-
ee ditions including payment of
i stumpage. ‘

= HOMESITE LEASES

Unsurveyed areag; not exceeding 20

5 acres, may be leased. as homesites, .

me} = cond! tional upon a dwelling being
me erected in the first year, ttle boing

* obtainable after residence, and im-

[, provement conditiona are” fulfilled

a” ' and Jand has been surveyed,

oy LEASES -
mo, For grazing and industrial pur-
E poses areas not exceeding 640 aores
may be. leased by one pergon.. or. A:
company. .

7 { _ GRAZING
1 Under the Grazing -Act, the Prov-

ince fs divided Into grazing districts *

and the range administered under o

_, Grasing Commissioner... Annua!
grazing pormits ere issued based on

aaa fumMabers ranged; priority being given
a: to established owners. Stock-owners
. j may form associdtions for range
; management, Free, or partially free,
7. permits aro.available for. settlers,.
Renae and travellers, up to ten
en ; : _ :

AND ACT AMENDMENTS |

unresérved, surveyed -

to bécome British subjects, condi--.
’ Honal upon ‘resfdenca, oocupation, -
agricultural ;

{rial to R. D. Blackmore, who
Records will -be granted . covering .

juld city walls, we came to the.

For more detatled information 00,

1 niscent of Paris.

years old.

. through’ the . bathing establish-

Jus in Cardiff, .

a f MINERAL ACT

} Certiseate of Improvements

net
i

N OTICE |

| cast CHANCE Mineral Claim, situate
in the Omineca Mining Division of
Cassiar District. _
TAKE NOTICE that - Andrew: Pair-
bairn of Telkwa, B.C., Free Miner's

. Certificate No. 768256, - inténd, «sixty
days from the data - » to apply to
the Mining ‘Recorde: ra Certificate
of Improvements, for the. Papers. of
| obtaining a:Crown. Grant 0!

tel aim,. -

And further. “take. notice. that acticn,
| under. section. 37, must ‘be. ‘commenced |
before the, issuance, of.such .

f Improvements, =
opted this £9 day of tAuguat, a, DT

the aliove

-}mayor, who, at the. dinner given
- fat night. by local. newspapers,

"(were ‘the fooats of the G W. R.’ ,

| with the Baitors

“(contioned from page 2)

We skirted’ Dartmoor and there
gathered heather. In royal state
a hearty welcome awaited us in
the ancient Guildhall. from’ the
mayor of Exeter.
_At the luncheon members of
our party who hailed from Exe-
ter, Ontario, returned thanks.
Then we went to the great cathe-
dral where you may see a memo

wrote “Lorna Doone’. Qutinto
the sunshine again, through the

war memorial on Northernhay,
unique in that it commemorates
the prisoners of. war as wellas the
active branches of: the services,
It was all explained by Sir James
Owen, whose.paper, The ‘Express,
containing a full account of our
visit, was put into our . hands ‘be-
fore we entrained a few moments
later.
Bath isa ‘beautiful old city set
in and along the sides of the Avon
valley Its architecture i is remi-
The buildings
are nearly all of solid. stone, ‘On
Sunday, July 18, we drove through
the streets and parks and then
wound-away-up.the ‘hills to.Nor-
ton St. Philip, with its ancient
George Ing, where Monmouth
stayed in 1685. It is over 600

On ‘the invitation of the’ Hot
Mineral Baths Committee, we
lunched attthe Grand Pump Room
Hotel and afterwards.toured all’

mentand visited the Roman baths
Above thém, on the Romaii prom:
enade, we took tea with the mayor
and mayoress of Bath, ~*~;

Now from the beauties of the
leafy Midlands, of ‘glorious’
Devon .and of Somerset, we
plunged into the industrialism of
South Wales, Leaving Bath, a
run of a little over an: hour. via
the famous Severn tunnel, landed
Here, as well as
coal and docks,” are some magni-
cent municipal buildings, art gal-
leries. and museums. At the first
we were welcomed by the lord

proved. ‘to be‘ the -Wittiest and
brightest after-dinner’ apeaker’ we.
had yet encountered...
After. Jutieh. we went to the
docks’ ‘and to. the great Dowlais
works, where’ we Baw the various
processes of. making steel. We|

Bath. On the continent and“in’
London’ the sun had smiled bright:
ly on our pilgrimage of ‘haste,’ of
feasting, of sightseeing ‘and, let
us s add, of self-education,

i) inion’ Telegraph, ‘Paased away at]:
her’ tome in’ ' Vaneduver on Tues-
t day. he north, sendé avipithy oon

home of thie Marquis of Bute.

ner. He visited Canada with-the
Empire Press Union in'1920. and
was taken ill in- Vancouver,
Among the musical fare at thia
function were.some delightful
solos by John ‘Williams, bass, a

In ‘English ‘pronunciation “‘Good

From Cardiff next day we went
to Swansed, where an equally
warm welcome awaited us, One
unfortunate British Columbian,
lingering with the mayor, learned
what press photography can do
with. masculine beauty and- mo-
desty (2). . The rest of the mor-
hing went in a trip. by tug round
the exténsive docks. Mr, George
Bulkley, whom we met aboard,
was a nayal architect: in Vancou-
ver before the war. He is now
traffie superintendent of the G.
W: R: ‘docks at Swansea, oy
Montreal and Quebec are link-
ed to Swansea by weekly sailings
of the C.G: M.M. and’ to. Vancou-.
ver by .monthly. sailings’ of -the
same line, via Panama. The
Abglo-Persian Oil refineries are
located here. =. - '
“The party-was s split: ‘up in ‘the:
afternoon to visit the. anthracite
collieries in -the. -Amiman : valley,
the Mond: nickel works at Cly-
dach,’ ‘the Manneman tube works,
Anglo- Persian - Oil Co.’s works

Some. went also to the Gower
peninauta.

‘At night, apart from the excel-
lent dinner, where Mr, - Henry
Mond, M.P., presided, thespée-
ches and ‘cordiality of our hosts
(the Amalgamated Anthracite
Collieries and the Mond Nickel
Co.), the event will ever be mem:
orable tor .the wonderful singing
to which we were treated by the
Ammanford choir, conducted by|
Gwilym Jones. - These fifty men)
and. women,. mostly colliery. em-
ployees,. proved that industrialism
cannot quench. the fire of Welsh
music, They sang in Welsh and
in English,’ old- Welsh National
songs'and the two best-known:
songs of purely Canadian: origin,
‘Tt was an‘early call next'morn-.
ing and in someé rain: we headed
by train for Chester.’ Thus‘ far!
the © ‘only’ ‘showers had: been “at

* Mra. E T -Phelan;: wife” ‘of ‘the

National Histeddfod prize winner |

and Modern tin and steel mills. |

=

_

Se oe
aon .

Sir. _ William _ Davies, whose g
7 daughter and son-in-law live near
Vancouver, ‘presided at the din- |.

Health” in Welsh is “Yak-e-dah, # 1S.

7 . Let us bhow you that

New Things |
‘Are “News”

| "Every member of every family in this . 7

‘community is interested in the news of
‘the day. And no items are read with
~ keener relish than announcements of

“new things to eat, to wear or to enjoy
in the home. |

+

You have the goods + and-the desire to sell them,
The readers of ‘‘The Omineca Herald’’ and ‘The
Terrace Newa’' have the money and the desire to buy.

: The connecting link is ADVERTISING. mo

Give the people ‘thie good news of new things at
advantageous prices, They; look to’ you for this
“‘atove.news”’ and will - ‘Tespond b your rt mlessages.

| an advertisement is an invitation :

*

Issued, iby Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association.
_ Head Office: ‘Toronto, Canada

So

“fees. ::

BRITISH COLUMBIA

- THE MINERAL | PROVINCE OF WESTERN CANADA
Has PRODUCED 1 MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :—

Flaser Gold . sadeeasee anues vened 76,962,203 -

Lode Gold . deteeennenceas sesecee 113,852,655

“BHAVGR i vaca ce ccecccccee ace sateve Pe pe BBB

Lead occ cece secccseseees siveeeusesece 32,661

‘Copper 2" wee nneeeeeaee teen taneee ce 170.048 eed ta lg

ANG saves cece ceeg ener see nee tewsacneens 27,904,766... 2 02-8
. + Goal and Goke. ve eewtnsaeeasneteecnegs 250° , 968.118 :.

9, ae 234

For all years to 1895, ing usive voc... 4,547,
For five years; 1896-1900 .. tetaseseeees ‘BT. 608 967
For five. years, 19001908. . 96,507,968
or five years, 1906-1910 ....,......... 125,534,474
For five years, 1911-1915-..,........... 142,072,603
For five years, 1916-1920 .......0... “ee 189, 922, 725
For the year 1921 .wavicc. cece ee sees 28,066,641
© -For the year 1922;............... seesee 95,158,848
S For the year 192300077" wens Le dviees : $41, 804;820,.

PRODUCTION | DURING LAST. TEN YEARS, §350,288;862
progress ‘about 265- years, oo
‘and not. 20 per cent. of the Province has been ever -

.. pécted;. 300,000. square. miles of unexplored ‘mineral’ enn a
/. ing lands are ‘open for pro ;
“The ‘mining laws of. this Province are more. liberal. and wh
, the. fees lower . than. any
_ or any Colony in the. British “Empire. -

Lode-mining’ hig only been in

specting.
other | province” in- the Dominion,

Mineral ‘locations’.are ‘granted ‘to. discoverers for nominal

2 Absolute titles. are obtained by ‘developing such: pro- Bs
perties, security, of which is guaranteed by crown.granta.:. va
“> _« Full information, together with mining Feports and “maps,

. may-.be obtained ‘gratia by. addressing’ *

The: ‘Honourable The .. Minister’. of: Min ee
: - NIGTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA cs

| genérit “guperintendent' of ‘Doms

helo. Ate. —— Sg

aie asi ere
averal adaye ‘thi weak:
‘régualted or

BOE LAND: SuRvErOR
J. Allan Rutherford ©