a ———— THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1922 ao) eed nd | Telkwa Hotel f Serves the traveller te and © ( through ‘the Bulkley ‘Valley —{ MAKE THAT YOUR HEADQUARTERS ‘ a James Kotow proprietor TRLKWA - -° BC. Omineca Hotel C. W. Dawson Manager i hd ieee commercial men, _ Dining room in connection Rates reasonable. Patronage is solicited 7 . 4 { { { Hazelton - - B,C. ’ Prince Rupert | > + THe LEADING HOTEL iN NORTHERN B. C, f { { # l l l Prince Rupert, B.C. European Plan, Rates $1.40 per day up. me Th f i. Beat attention te tourists and to }. {'| lips; Free: Miner’s Certificate, No. 66,- tae mee a RR Tad Pd ne a a ig Hotel =! Hay ana Oats | ALWAYS ON HAND _ LARGEor SMALL QUANTITIES BOYER & CARR 7 City Transfer Co. - SMITHERS, B.C. ‘ MINERAL ACT Certificate of Improvements NOTICE '*D.X.’? Mineral Claim, situaté in the District. Where located:—On Lorne Creek {about three miles above tne junction of the North and South.Forke) on the south fork, Omineca. Mining District, British Columbia, __ TAKE NOTICE that I, Charles Phil- 7350, intend, sixty days from the date ‘hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certi the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim, And further take notice that action, under Section 85, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 12th day of October, A.D. 1923, CHARLES PHILLIPS SINOPSIS OF LAND ACT AMENDMENTS. PRE-EMPTIONS Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Srown lands may be pre-empted by British subjects over 18 years of age, and by aliens on declaring intention to become British subjects, condi- i . : (lt ad ome tional upon residence, occupation, and improvement for agricultura] purposes, UNDER and by virtue of the powers of sale contained in a certain indenture mortage dated the 19th day of Novem- ber, 1920, which will be produced at the time of sale, tenders will be received by the undersigned up to and including the J5th day of January, 1924, for the pur- chase of ali and singular those certain parcels or tracts of land and premises situate, lying and being in the Cassiar f District in the Province of British ; Columbia and more particularly .des- cribed as follows: . FIRSTLY; , All that portion of Lot Seven hundred and thirty-one (731) y Group One (1) in the said Cassiar Dis- trict described as follows: Commencing oe at the South West corner of said Lot a 731; thence Northerly along the West houndary of said Lot, 30.81 chains more # or less to a post on the South boundary f: of the Government road; thence Easter- ly along the said South boundary of the said Road 41.405 chains more or less to fa post on the East boundary of said } Lot; thence Southerly along the East | boundary of said Lot 35.41 chains more g or less to the South East corner of said 2ot; thence Westerly along the South boundary of the said Lot 41.14 chains more or less to the South West corner rof said Lot; (Saving and Excepting } thereout a strip of land being the Grand 7Trunk Railway right of: way, 1.515 | chains wide; .757 chains on each side of 22 Centre line, said centre line commenc- ing from ea point on the Bast boundary gt said Lot 731; 9,52 chains more or Jess s Northerly from the South East corner yof said Lot, thence in a South Westerly Vdirection, athe South boundary of said Lot 71,) containing by admeasurement 129.26 yucres more or less. § SECONDLY; Lot 732 in said Group 3, fm Cassiar District, (Saving.and axcepting ee thereout the right of way of the Grand sTrunk Railway containing 6.06 acres;) econtaining by admessurement 76,94 acres more or Jess, — - the office of the’ undersigned. ©The Accepted, - SIDNEY (. BURTON, ; 306 Victoria Street, ’. Kamloops, B.C, $527 _,,..Mortgagee, Naat ge the Omineca Herald is wv = Mortgage Sale 16,301 chains more or lesa to]: Further particulars may be had at |: highest or any tender not necessarily | , gDATED this 14th day of December, | . 2 : . $2-ayear. | Full information concerning regu- lations regarding Pre-emptionsa = is. «given in Bulletin Noz-1, Land Series,. “How to Pre-empt Land," copies of ‘which can be obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of. Lands, Victoria, B.C., or to any Gov- ernment Agent, ‘ Records will be granted covering 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- missioner of the Land Recording Di- Vision, in which the tand eppHed for is situated, and are made on printed forms, copies of which can be ob- tained from the Land Commissioner. ' Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years and improvements made fo value of $10 per acre, including clearing and cultivating at least five acres, before a Crown Grant can be recelved. For more detailed information see the Bulletin “How to Pre-empt and . PURCHASE Applications are received for pur- chase of Vacant and unreserved Crown lands, not being timberland, for agricultural purposes; minimum price of first-class (arable) land ia $6 per acre, and second-class (grazing) land $2.60 per acre; Further infor- mation regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands ia given in Bulletin No, 10, Land Series, “Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands," * Mill, factory, or industrial sites on timber Jand, not exceeding 40 acres, may be purchased or leased, the con- ‘ditions Including. payment . of stumpage, . . HOMESITE LEASES Unsurveyed areag, not exceeding 20 acres, may be leaged as homesites, conditional upon a dwelling being erected In the first year, title being obtainable after residence and im- provement conditiong are fulfilled -and land has been surveyed, Q . . LEASES For grazing: and industrial |‘ pur- Omineca Mining Division of R.5, Coast cate of Improvements, for| and Mr. Anderson furnishing the Mrs. Burnett, Mrs, Sundal, Miss Dobb and «Miss Fowler for the interest’ they took in the affair; and it surely took much time and hard work to give the public such a fine program. Santa Visited. - — — = ~\ The Hazelton day school Christ- CO i : a mas tree and. entertainment was |held last Friday evening in the BRITISH COL U MBIA schoolhouse, and Santa was a3 |. THE MINERAL PROVINCE OF WESTERN CANADA Renerous as usual to all the boys HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :— and girls, The tree was burden-| ‘Placer Gold 2.2... ..-..cerecneeeeeees +f 76,542, 208 ed ith a great array of gifts, Lode Gold-: .2: oeneae . smeeeace teense 100,647,661 jand every child was made happy : en 51,810,891 with a number of presents, A vo TON eR ae program of songs; recitations vers 238,289, 565° ' A 36,605,942. ane ee aes eeentee by me iscellaneous Minerals ........... cesses 1,858,839 lcTen, @nd each item was we Making its mineral production to the end of 1922 sho received by the large audience of AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $769,413,462 parents and friends, A skit by | The striking progress of the mining industry in this prov- the boys, as coons, was very ince is strikingly ilustrated in the following Jigures, which good. The greatest credit is due anew For all years te 1895, inclusive... $ 94547,241 noes: : : For five years, 1896-1900 ..... see veneee 57,607,967 to the children for their excellent For five years, 1901-1905 1.111.277.7777 ‘96,507,968 performance by reason of the For five yeare, 1906-1910... 20 125,584,474 P| ; or five yeara “1915 wo... see ae 3 fact that their teacher was not For five years, 1916-1920 .. 2.2.00... oe 189,922,725 able to give them her fullest at- _ For the year 1921................ teveees 28,066,641 tendance owing to il]ness, For the year 1922.,........... Sereneens 35,158, 848 . PRODUCTION DURING LAST TEN YEARS, $339,280,940 Lode-mining has only been in progress about 88 years Class Leaders and not 20 per cent. of the Provinee ‘hag been even ros: .” oy . pected; 300,000 square miles of unexplored mineral bear- The following pupils of Kit- ‘ing qands are open for prospecting. vib and : e mining laws o is. Province are more liberal an sumkalum .8choo] are the class the, fees lower than any other province in the Dominion, leaders-for the. term ending De- or any Colony in the British Empire. ; cember 31, 1923: Mineral locations are granted to discoverers for nominal] - . ” * wo fees. Absolute titles are obtained by developing such pro- Beginners.—1, Reta Taft; 2, Lloyd perties, security of which is guaranteed by crown grants, Thomas; 8, Fred Nash and Jean Dover. | Full information, together with mining: reports and maps, . Grade 1.—Ernest Taft; 2, Florence may be obtained gratis by addressing Desjardines; 3, Fergusson Alexander. The Honourable The Minister of Mines. Grade 2,—1, Marjorie Jeat; 2, Gordon ‘Hatt; 8, Adeline Thomas. VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA Grade 3,— 1, Mary Hipp; 2, Leonard . Plater; 8, Anna Desjardines, \S ‘ Grade 4.—1, Joe Marchuldon 32, Jean a . Gillespie; 8, Janet Young. ; ‘Grade 6.—Adeline Alexander; 2 St. John Colthurst; 8, Eima McConnell. Grade 6. —Kathleen Burnett; 2, Bessie Hanall Spur, B.C, Manufacturers of Moore; 3, Caroline Plater. . Rough, Dressed & Dimension . Grade 7.—1, Mae Rurrison; 2, Sylvia . . B ? ; ; mensio Taft; 3, Robert Donald and Alva Moore. . Grade 8,—1, Mary Wilson; 2, Lester O a U Mm e Tr Taft; 3, Fanny MeLaren, Lu m b @yp _—sHEMLOCK, SPRUCE AND cEDAR Santa Was Good (continued from page 2) Margaret MeLaren,' Floyd Thom- a8, Boy Simons, Everett Thomas, Mae Burrison, James Gillespie, Annie Lipp, Caroline Plater, Mary | | Smith, - Company . Note thatthe name of ‘our Post Office has been changed from Royal Mills to HANALL, B,C. HEMLOCK, SPRUCE AND BIRCH Flooring Get our prices before ordering elsewhere Mr. Bent, of Prince Rupert, presented the committee with a| * boy’s suit, valued af $5.50, which was won. by Jim Maneor. The children were wild with excite- ee ' Canadian Pacific Railway Company BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST STEAMSHIP SERVICE ment by this time and anxiously awaited the drawing for the cash prizes, which went to Kathleen Burnett, 3; Mary Hipp, $2; Do- rothy Frank, $2; Fanny McLaren, $1 and a dollar stocking, After the drawing was finished the | SAI LINGS FROM PRINCE RUPERT—s,s, PRINCESS MARY for Van- © couver, Victoria, Seattle, November For Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway—November 26, December 15, 31, 8.8. “PRINCESS BEATRICE! —For Bella, Ocean Falls, Namu, Alert 30, December 19, January 4, Butedale, Swanson Bay, East Beila Bay, Campbell River and Vancouver every Saturday at 1 pm. - AGENCY FOR ALL OCEAN STBAMSHIP LINES . C, Orehard, corner Third Avenue and Fou eRe EONERnE Renn Full information from , rth Street, Prince Rupert | a children gave three cheers for ms Mr. Scott:and pronounced him a real Santa Claus, B.C. UNDERTAKERS monk EMBALMING FOR SHIPMENT A SPECIALTY Importers and | The children had the rest of the evening for a dance, Miss Burnett P.O. Box 218 A PRINCE RUPERT, B.C, will bring us music. # Great credit must -be gi ven poses areas not exceeding 640 acres may be leased by one person or a - cOMpany,~ . GRAZING _Under the Grazing Act the Prov- ‘| “Ince iy divided into’ grazing districts ‘and tae range administered ‘under 4 ‘Grazing . Commissioner; | Annual ‘grazing permits are issued based on | numbera ranged, priority being. given: to -established ‘owners, Stock-awners. | the Minister of Lands ‘at Victoria not. |Deeember, 1928, Licence X6729, to cut 1,500,000 feet of Spruce, Balsam, Hemlock and Jack« pine, on the 8.W.4 of Lot 4268, Range fy ‘Timber Sale X5729 . Sealed tenders will be .received by filed ater than noon after on the 2ist day of for the purchase. of Coast District. may form aesoclations. tor, range | Four (4) years will be “allowed for |numbered 5784 cae ~management, Free, or partially free, | removal of timber. .:.~~\; ar vjast | «Land Registry Officg, hermits are available for: settiers,-|° Further particulars of the Chief For- 4th D ier, 1929, ® Are you a gihseriber yet? | ‘ head. " gainpers vend travellers, up,’ to’ tén Viegas ester, Victoria, B..C., or District For- _ Doo. *) ester, Princé Rupert, B.C. : “il n2B26- BG, covering tl in thia office the first p ndBdg _. NOTICE IN THE.MATTER of an application for the issue of a hundred and thir five (6), Coast D the ex ecember, ‘t ALR. Provisional Certi- cate of. Title to Lot seventeen teen (1713), Range istrict, said to con- tain one hundred and twenty-six (126) acyes, more orless,.. _ Satisfaetory proof of the loss or des: truction of the Cortificate of Title & the above land having’ been , it ia my intention, piration of one month from ublication hereof, to issue a Provisional Certificate o above lands in the name of Charles W, Vesey, which Certificate of Title was issted:'on the 15th f Title to-the May,’ 1914, - and is Dealers in wire | ; 7 . Wallpapers We carry the B/S Barlaps ; -largest.and — Paints _ most varied Oils. stock in Varnishes.’ vo ‘Northern. Glass British