4 Putian The Omineca Miner _ PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HageUTON,-PHE. CENTER -OF. THE GREAT OMINECA DisTRICT OF- BRITISH COLUMBIA. - .-- Macdonald & Rauk, Publishers and Proprietors! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and Britizh Fossessions, Two. Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year. ADVERTISING RATES: Display, : $1.50 _per’-inch per month: " Reading Notices, 15 cents per line for firet insertion, 10 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Legal notices inserted at B. Cc. Gazette jates.” Vou. UL No. 18, The Omineca Miner haa the largeat bona fide circulation of any newspaper in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1914. It has been frequently demonstrated that a section of the opposition press is willing to stoop to any means in its unavailing efforts to discredit the provincial government, It i is a commentary on the weakness of the Liberal cause that, in the absence of effect- ive arguments, apposition newspapers must resort to misrepresen- tation and falsehood as a basis for their tirades against the McBride administration, The Vancouver Sun, perhaps the leading offender in British Columbia against journalistic decency and political fair- ness is a glaring example. Many startling headlines and much verbi- aseare regularly devoted by the Sunto the alleged shortcomings of the government, and it does not appear necessary, that truth: should have any place if its attacks. For ‘instance: In arecent issue, the Sun accusés the provincial, government| of doing éverything possible to harass the settler,” In support’ of |. tiis statement, the recent sale of’ Tands i in this district for delin- : quent taxes is cited, and the Sun saya: 7 “In. the list: were seventy-six properties, all. farms, not less than three-quarters of them being | ‘oceupied by, settlers and > very few, if any, more than a ‘year tn ‘arrears of ‘faxes, most ‘of : them in fact only in arrears since last January. The sale was - advertised on September 18 to take place a month hence, So that they were actually only,a little over seven: months in. ar- rears when Lhe government seized the farms and auctioned them off. The total arrears amounted to about $5,600, a little over an average of $75.00 apiece, arid each farmer is taxed $2.00 costs, interest at. 7 per cent on the a arrears and the costs of the sale, If there, are no bids on a farm the settler hag the right to redeem it in two years, while if there are bids he has’ only a year in which to save his home. If the land sells for-- more than the amount of the taxes ihe government ‘keeps the surplus, . Contrast the above statement with the facts, which are these: Of the seventy-five parcels of land advertised for sale, only six were pre-emptions. Of these, four had been sold : “by the locators,: while not one of the owners of the seventy-five lo's .was in ‘occupa- . tion of his land at the time of advertisement and sale. The taxes _ on. .every lot advertised were unpaid for over twenty. months, . The regular. government tate of interest, Six. per cent, was charged * against the arrearages, and not seven per. cent, while no :eosts of . Bile, were charged beyond the advertising charge: of ‘two . dollars. _Jivaay cuse, the owner of land sold for taxes has two :years in| ~ “which to redeem his property, which, he may do by payihg the tax- _es to the government and twelve per cent, iriterest, on” the money |} a “paid by the purchaser, which, with the Principal, is returned to the * latter by the province. ; - Although the truth is easily ascertainable, the San ‘pretends that speculators and settlers are ‘not treated alike. were at all familiar with the laws of ‘the province, he would know _that, while al! alienated lands are subject, to taxation, only. crown- || -granted lands may. be sold. for taxes. " If he took the trouble to in- ‘yestigate, he would find that people who hold land as an. invest- ment or for ‘speculation are required to pay their. taxes or bear the consequences, ag investigation proves it to be in this district, If its editor], We believe the number of bona fide gettlers.on the|- _delinquent tax lists of the province is so ‘small as to be negligible, Information for Settlers The Department of Lands has ‘issued - another ~ valuable pam- phlet which adds to the informa- ‘€on available for intending ‘set- ‘ters’ in British” Columbia. The “raw book: deala with the Fort George land and recording divi- sion and forms the second of the series being issued by Hon. Wil- liam R. Ross, Minister of Lands. The. pamphlet should aid those seeking knowledge regarding thé territory contiguous to the new northern railroad as it deals with the Skeena land recording district embracing the Queen Charlotte Islands, the Naas Val- ‘Tey: and other portions of that district, to which ‘the attention “of settlers has ‘been attracted. The territory dealt with in the pamphlet issued yesterday: covers | ' ‘a wide area, for the Fort George) Jand district ig: traversed actoss} ‘more ‘than five parallels of iongi “tude by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, ‘with whieh, the ‘Pacifie "Great, ‘Eastern: Railway whi and the Canadian Northern Rall-| way, which’ ‘enters the district| froti the Bast 7 ‘at the Yellowhead pass in the Rodkies, parail Is the , Grand Frank’ Padific Railway. to| | Tete Jaune Cache, where it turns soilth ward: down’: fhe” “MéLennan valley toward the ‘North ‘Thom- son river, which. it follows to Kamloops. . The western, boun- dary of ‘the di triet. follows. the Telegraph trail from. Blackwater northwesterly, and j ‘joins the Ne- chako, at the 124th parallel, and north of the river it” follows’ the height of land erst of the’ ‘Stuart |”. valley. until it.again ‘follows the ‘124th. parallel, The eastern: bor- der follows the. Rockies, boundary ‘of the provinee, The office of the, "government, agent; | to whom application ‘for pre-emp- | tlons must be made, ig.at Fort George, . Pre-emptors’ ‘maps No. re Fort! Heorge sheet, No...2 Neéebako|: ay sheet. and’ No. 3: Stuart Lake} {Ml ...2° sheet, covermuch ofthe areal |. the, |" THE OMINECA, MINER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1a ——— Records from Glengarry OTR tmcenney Among the records’ collected Ba by’ the dairy division; Ditawa. [Ra '|-this season, are some from Glen- a '|garry that show’ the average! ig yield of 155° cows to be 4,5:0,(@ . pounds of milk, 3.5 test, 119 i pounds of fat. Included in that!| is the yield of one herd of 9//gj - cows including one three-year-old is that averaged 6,209 pounds of | milk, 3.3 test, 205 pounds of fat. It will be noticed that this herd produced 1,669 of milk and 46 pounds of fat above the average of the 155 cows. Another herd averaged 220 pounds of fat, or 61 pounds: per cow above the aver- age; with fat reckoned at thirty cents per pound, this is equiva- lent to over eighteen dollars per||f cow, indicative of the thousands |F of dollars extra that might be| | coming. into a district if the cows were keyed up toa higher pro- i ducing level. One noticeable feature of this section is the large number of a ‘| poor yields from two and three But it is not only the |[# heifers that are responsible for re year olds. . lowering: the average yield, There,are cows from six to ten years gld that gave only. 2,800 G pounds of milk and 102 pounds| | of fat as compared with that av- erage of 4,540 pounds of milk and 159 pounds of fat. So that instead of a contrast||% of only .eighteen dollars, it. is found that there is an actual || | difference of over forty one dol- Jars in the eash received from mature’cows in the same period, | This is surely a statement strong | |4 enough to cause every dairyman to examine closely into the per- sf formance of each cow he keeps. Milk records are easily kept and a ‘composite Sample from each tenth day’s milk can be tested ||H4 ance a month. - Is not this worth iit doing? —— za ny REGINALD LEAKE GALE, J.P. Deputy Mining’ Recorder, Financial and Tasuranes Agent Sargent’s—the F avorite ‘Shopping ‘Place. | MINERS’ PROSPECT ORS’ and ‘SETTLERS’ SUPPLIES. A SPECIALTY ‘ : Da ws Grocery Department | } UP-TO. DATE - Fresh goods Hiton | Choices of Waa, Liquors tas Gan | - always: on-hand. a ee Union s. S. Company of of B.C, Ltd. 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