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913; or ‘about 15 percent de-
“ereage.:

THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, ‘JANUARY i, 1915

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The Omineca Miner

PUBLISHED EVERY ‘SATURDAY Ar HADHITON, THE CenTer OF THE
’ GkEaT OMINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA,

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

Vou, IV. . Panes JANUARY 28, 1915. No.. 21

~ The Hon. Ww. J. Bowser, the Attorney-General of British Col-
umbia,, has just made pablie figures which give a striking picture
of. the ‘agricultural. ‘development of that province, particularly in
the districts opened up. by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.

- Before ‘the’ railroads in British Columbia were built, he says, the]

Government withdrew from the market many large tracts of
agricultural land. Following the reservation of these lands, they
were “surveyed | so that the pre-emptor could go in and select his
land without danger of rival and interlapping claims which had
caused confusion where there had t been no surveys.

This had been done along the line of the Grand Trunk Pauific

and in the last two. years there had been filed at the land offices at

Prince George, Fort Fraser. Hazelton and Prince Rupert no less
than.3,648 pre-emption records in the land go reserved, which was
four times the number of pre-emptions. recorded in the whole of
the province five years ago, -

* There were other thousands of acres of land waiting for the
‘settler, surveyed and still under reserve, In four years the gov-
ernment had surveyed for settlement no leas than 3,789,372 acres,
and the total amount of land surveyed and ready for the pre-emptor
and the pre-emptor alone amounted to 91,128,567 acres, One-third
of the total area of land under cultivation in the Dominion of Can-
ada, he said, _was only 3f,000,000 acres, and yet in British Columbia
the. Goverament had provided, three times that area and it stood
‘ready for the pre-emptor today.—Journal.

I. a statement covering the|
-aativities of. the Province during
1914,"the Premier, Sir Richard
McBride, summarizes the’ devel-
‘opments i in ‘part;”

“Taking np the natural indus-
‘tries of the Provinee and dealing
with the production of mities, I
find the estimated output for last
year Is nearly $26,000, 000, “BB a-
gainst'a:little- over $80,000, 000 in

Under’ normal conditiona the
industries of Germany consumé

cotton & year.

Explorations within recent
years have indicated that China
has coal fields containing more
fuel than all the reat of the world
combined.

“It must be remembered
“however,. that the average mar-
ket’ Prices of ‘nietals” were" much

Synopsis of Coal Mining Regu-
Loe lations.

about 1,000,000,0002 pounds of ‘

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Tower i in 1914 ‘than in 1918, which
_-aecounty, for about $}, 250, 000 of
the decrease,. The ‘first BIX

ae months ‘Showed, a greater preduc-

- ‘tion than- ever before during a
“similar period, and promised to
‘be’ a record ' breaker. The war

“had the effect. of reducing the

~ output and the closing of smelters

_for a time, and consequently

‘affecting: “the,.gutput of coal,

.? “Recently, 48a result of readjust-

‘ment'to new’ “eonditions,.. mining | ty
dhout ‘of the mine at the rate of five| ¢

aid ' Suielting have been’ resumed

; and we find that'i in Rosiland, the

alk  Boundaty and, the. ‘Slocan there i is
_ other, parts of the Provines, ‘Ih
this connection, let me say that
. the . dividénds’ of the mining

- * compinies of the Province in

2 AM, “notwithstanding” the war,
Jar $1, 690, 000, - ag agalnst|
400, 000° in, 1913, ‘and

7 eas ok in xeeds, of what ‘they
This, to-me; is al?

2 were i in 912,
Pe! narkable. showing’ under: the

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(COAL niining rights of the Nominion,
‘Manitoba, - Saskatchewan . an
Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the
Northwest Territories and ih 8 portion
of the. Province of Britlsh Columbia,

years at an annual rental of $l. an
acre, Not more than 2,560_acres{will
he lensed to one applicant,

App plication for a lease mustibe?made
by the applicant in person to the Agent

the. ‘rights applied for are situated.

‘In surveyed territory |thejland, must
be deseribed by sections, or
divisions of sectiona, and-
territory the tract applied for shall be
staked out by the applicantthimself.

Each: application must be aceompani-
ed by a fee of $5, which will be refund-
ed if the rights applied for are not
available but not ctherwise. A royal-

Ibe paid on the merchantable

egal sub-

centa per ton.”

The perzon operating
furnish the Agent with awora returns
accounting for the full quantity. of mer-
chantable coal mined and ay the
royalty thereon. If ‘the; veoul minin
righta ‘are not: being. operated; . sue
returns should be. furn shed at Jenst
once'B yess: :

The lease. willinctude the coal taining
wighte, only, but the lessee may be per-
‘nijtted to. purchiise- whatever available
surface rights.may-ba. considered nec-
essary for the (orking af the mine at
tha rate of 310.00:an acre, :

For « full: information - application
should be ‘mada to the Secretary of the
‘Department of the- ‘Tnterior, “Ottawa

any Agent. “or. Sub-Agent ot.
Domlaion anda,
N.Bie authorized | publication’. of

thia advertisement will-n not ba la for. :
(58782, aeneniie

may be leased for a term of twenty-one
ub-Agent of the district in which |-

in unsurveyed | 4

the mine shall |.

W. W. CORY, i
: ‘De uty ‘Mintater, of the Interior,

Agent or from. Train, Agent,

"Reservations and thtough ickets, may be- obtained from any. Gt, P..

They have stood the teat. Give -
Teal foot comfort. . No seams to. }-

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: 7 ‘Westbound train laaves Hazelton at i, a, tn
-{, rip. .Never become loose or bag- G. T. P. ‘Railway—~ a
gy. The shape is knit in—not Thuradays ‘an the suath § connecting: pt ge,

pressed in,
GUARANTEED .- for, fineness,
. style, superiority of matorial and
workmanship. “Absolutely atain-
‘ less. Will wear 6 months without
. holes, or new ones free,
OUR SPECIAL OFFER
' to every one sending us.-§1.00 in
{| currency er postal ippinak to cover.
advertising and’ shippin gicharges,
we will send post-paid,:.with }.
‘{ written guarantee, backed by a.
five million dollar company, either
; 3 Palrs of oar Te valne =
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