THE OMINECA MINER,, SATURDAY, MARCH, 11,, 1916 ™ The Omineca’ Miner PURLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, . THE. CENTER OF THE GREAT OMINECA District OF Baivisi COLUMBIA. A, R. Macdonald, Publisher and. Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year: Foreign, Three Dollars a year, ADVERTISING RATES: ‘Display, $2.50 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 20 cents per lina for each: insertion. Legal notices inserted at:B, C. Gazette rates. ya — VoL. e SATURDAY, Marcu 11, igi¢. ~ "No. 28 Ss Mining men throughout the province, who are keenly interested in watching the efforts.of Hon, Lorne Campbell, minister of mines, to further the development of our mineral resources, will be gratified to note his program, as outlined in a recent, interview. Mr, Campbell said, in part: 7 at “Our province has, during the last few years, been’ interested mainly in land and timber with the result that the further opening up of mining properties has been badly neglected. We desire to , turn the attention of capital to mining, not as a gamble, but asa. commercial investment. Many of our large operating companies | have, during the last eight or ten years,accumulated profits tu such $ an extent that they were able to expand and open up new properties | in other sections. ' “This movement we desire to expand, ‘With a view to encouraging the opening up of new areas of mineral-bearing ground we shall endeavor to bring back the old prospector, who seems to have disappeared. _1f we fail in this, we shall take.up ‘with the big operating companies the matter of putting more engineers in the}? field, - “We shall co-operate with the Dominion Government in the geological survey work. and increase our own field force, We ‘will continue to give aid in the making of trunk trails, roads, bridges and ferries required for the transporteition of pay ore, but before such work is uridertaken, to avoid the mistakes made in the past, the department will have an examination and report made on the prospects to be so aided. , . : 66 : We shall also continue to au aI free m iners? information ; pp y ! as tha reserve existing on Lot No. BBS4 A, | to the probable ‘value of.ore submitted. by them, and the most, . economical method of marketing the same. — We shall also furnish free estimates of the eost of installing plants and infor mation as to where the machinery can best be obtained. _ “Besides the annual report’ covering. the whole province, “just aS soon, as fielé work in any section is completed, ° we shall issue bulletins and sketch maps, which will be distributed through all government offices to those’ wishing information about ‘the. district or desirous of prospecting it.”’ HIGHER METAL PRICES - | than’ the ‘amount produced,, no ', HAVE COME TO STAY matter:to what: point the. price North, Over: 60 per cent. of the copper: produced in. British. Col- umbia last year..came from: the northern portion of theprovinee. i? Siamese natives obtain ’ “petro- leum from the. earth by. digging pits ‘about 60 feet.deep: and - dip- ing it. out with ‘pails. . Scientists have discovered : an immense amount of underground, water in Egypt and plang, are|f under way for boring an: exten-| sive system of wells for use in dry Seasons, . oe ‘ MINERAL ACT ~~ : : " Certificate of Improvenients _" NOTICE” | THREE IN ONE ‘MINERAL CLAIM, situate in the Omineca Mining. Division. of. Ominece District. 1 vhere located—On the South-West slope of Mount Selwyn, about eight ia! | 8 below. Findlay. Rapids onthe : South Bank of Peace River. TAKE NOTICE that I, F. BP. Burden, acting a8 agent : for James D. A. Me- ntyre, Free Miner's Certificate No. B79879, intend, ‘sixty days from the date hereof, - tO apply to. the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Tmprove- menta, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant 0 the above claim. And further take notice’ that’ ‘action under. section 37, muat‘be’ commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements, . ont this 1st. day of January, A A. D Dd: NOTICE OF CANCELLATION _ ‘OF RESERVE — NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that Range 6, Coaat District, by reauon of a notice published in ‘the British Columbia Gazette on the 26th-of May, 1910, is. | cancelled for the purpose of the sale, of the same -to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Corhpany, * ‘ 26-34 ORAL RENWICK, ' "Deputy Minister of Lands, Department of Lands, Ss my Victoria, B,O.,2 7 oy, , February 15th, 1916. “According to AndrewG. Larson, climbs it is an impossibility for a 7 . the well-known mining engineer surplus to accumulate. There is and mine: operator, all mining an absolute surety that’ if peace diatricta, not only of this ‘provinee, | Vere declared tomorrow the price | but across the litie, are experien-, of tnetals ‘would not take a ma: cing an “unprecedented wave of terial slump, from the’ fact,. that. prosperity, caused by the, high|#ll the metal which has-been shot price of metals, which ig directly away in this war, and ‘absolutely attributable to the European war. blown out of existence must be “While it is true," ‘satd Mr, replaced hefore ‘the’ normal fale Larson, ‘‘that the metal prices ance is restoréd.. 1.) a ave soaring in-a spectacular man-| “One of the most business- like ner, it is algo” true that there j isa moves. ever ‘made hy_a govern- valid réagon ; for’ their’ rapid’ ad-| ‘ment; in’ my opinion, was the “vance, ‘Take ‘copper as an ex- appointment of Lorne Canipbell 's bey This metal “has during as minister of mines, ‘Mr. Camp- the Past ‘few’ “years oteasionally bell has the solid support of: the _ taken. rapid. rises,’ on: account, bisiness element. : : perhaps, ‘of. temporary shortage ui Mr. - Larson * Was “for: eight - in the-eentral delivery points,and: years. in, charge-'of ' the’ ‘Le! Rot -* perhaps’ also « to'atock: ‘manipula Thine. in: Rossland. anc “put this - tions, but: thega’ ‘advanced’ Mere mine on A 8. produe ive o jerely. teniporary, and: while the! "nae price: might ‘be: high hein metal on “WATER ACT, 19142" “Before the: ‘Board of Investigation. 7 In- the: matter of -Penre River and*aill its tributaries within the Province of British Columbia, including: Black Jack -Guich, Finlay, River, Germansen ; Creels, Germansen Lake, Lost Creek, Lost Lake, Lyon Creek,"\Manaon’ or Sawmill Creek, Manson. River,’ MOLL Creek,’ Mosquito Gulch, - Omineca. River, Paranip River, Quartz’ Creek, Silver: Creek, ‘Tom. ’:Craek; : “Vital Creek, and Whittier‘Creek, - 9). -TAKE NOTICE that each and every person, ‘partnership, ‘company, 1 or muni- cipality who; on the 12th day of. ‘March, 1909, had water rights, on- any of: the above-mentioned. atreams, is: directed to forward on or before the atat: day of; March, 1916, ‘to.-.the;: ‘Comptroller - “of. Water Rights, ‘at the. Parliament: Buildings, at Victoria, B “atatenient, of claim’ ‘in “writing a8 réquired’ hy section 294-of- the “Water. Act, 1914,” | Printed ‘forma: for buch. statement (Form a0 ‘for ‘terigation or Forni :pl-for | . [other purposes), tan be obtained from } a any ‘of the: + Water Recoiders In. the : The Di Distributing Point a - for the Great Northern : tera and Sportamen will fin “the ‘merchants’ of He zelton preparéd: to meet’ every: “Tequirement in -outfitand supplies, Hav. - ing” been, etigaged for _ Inany. years in ‘outfitting eS ates for the: Northern “ness. men ‘are ied ‘to give valuable advice |