THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17%, 1915 ees - The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY ag HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT Omimeca District of BRITISH COLUMELA. 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, 26 cents per line for each insertion, Legal notices inserted at B. c. Gazette rates. . 4 Vou. IV. SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1915. No, 83 The rural population of Ontario is steadily declining. _ So stated a member of the legislative assembly of that’ province a few days ago, when moving ‘a resolution asking the government to establish demonstration farms and a system of agricultural credits. There is not only a decline in the number of farmers, but in -the volume of crops raised -and in the livestock kept. As these state- ments were not disputed, we may assume that they are true, and being true, theyfdisclose a very regrettable state of things. It may in part be explained by the emigration to the Western provinces, but,it is also!duelin a very large degree to the lure of the cities, It seems to be the universal rule that progress in manufactures. . means a’reduction in the rural population, This was true in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and elsewhere, and it was tojbe expected in Canada. We think, says an exchange, thatiherein is to be found one of the reasons for the high cost, of living. ° . WhatZis-going to be done about it? The conclusion seemed warranted that farming is passing through.a trausition stage, in America at least, and perhaps elsewhere... The ‘youth of the present generation are not prepared to adopt farming as an industry to be. prosecuted as their fathers used to carry it on. They demand, if they are to farm, that they shall. enjoy at leasta moderate share of the comforts and conveniences which are avail- able to the residents of towns, and if these are not forthcoming only dire necessity will drive them “back to the land,”? This ia the solemn truth and we may as well malce up our ruins to it, What, then, we repeat, is to be done? ” We venture to suggest that-one thing that must he done i is to encourage closer settlement. of farmlands. ‘The comforts and conveniences spoken of are not. possible in the sparsely settled comuitinities, ‘except to persons who have considerable capital and they are in the minority. But the gréat! majarity of: ‘People do hot}: understandtintensive cultivation, and very few of them have the means‘to carry them along while they are preparing for it, Herize our answer to one phase ‘of our question is that we must have ‘agricultural credits and demonstration farms ‘established by the government, By a demonstration farm we do not mean an experi- “mental farm, and we. add that a demonstration farm that cannot demonstrate a profit on its operations is of no value at all: ‘ Let | the government do what the ordinary farmer would have to’ do.:|: | =| x | a a ' "7 m x. | x mm. Mm 7 | a | . f a. | an | 4 re | 4 mo | mz | _t 4 x ae = a. im gw. x mS x. Wet x. El i . x xz. = | a Bt sllnlatalalorstctn am SOOO ax Cu The Favorite § ARGENT’ S omtgiaai. | lt : Shopping place a ‘MINERS’ PROSPECTORS’ and SETTLERS’ SUPPLIES ry SPECIALTY - om Nothing like Stocktaking to ance ca : "and. ends, | “Broken. lines are’ now. “selling at t special prices : | SPRINGTIME, calls for t many - changes 4 in’ 1 the - ~ home. We are ready with a splendid range of ~ Linoleums, Oilcloths, Floor Rugs and: Door He Mats, Beds and. Bed Linen,” Towels. and. om - Towelling, Curtains and° Curtain: ‘Materials: OUR “PATTERNS AND "MATERIALS “ ARE" CORRECT -~ : >. A.COMPLETE: LINE, OF GARDEN-AND FIELD SEED NOW IN STOCK, INCLUDING XXX TIMOTHY. SEED. Let it secure a piece of land at current prices arid then show how | Jat that piece of land can be. intensively farmed:at a profit: Any other kind of demonstration is of rio. value whitever; We are not now speaking of experimental farms, "They. may.or -may not be conducted at a profit. The’ very. essence of experiment is that things shallibe attempted to prove if they. are valuable, and this | is bound'tto” ‘involve loss. But a demonstration farm ought to be something. which any ordinary farmer of intelligence can duplicate, if hefcan get:the.money to start with, and this i is 3 where the agri- culturalferedit: comes in, “Whe Mineral Output amounted to 20. per” cent, and “ During 1912 ‘the world’s total | that of Mexico and ‘Russia’ com - miineral: “production. considerably | bined to 12 Ber cent, | oe : exceeded - a, billion sterling inj Ini iron, asin coal, the United value, ‘of which coal accounted States. was easily first with 30k for 484 ‘millions sterling for’ At million tons, - Germany with only - billion tons raised. . The United 8h million tons‘being @ bail ‘sec- States produced by far the most|ond; while, “euriously’ enough, covias 485 million tons, Great Brit-| France came next with 7 million ain. followed with °265 million] tons and Britain only. fourth with tons, . Germany, coming. third; 4$.million tong... The’ arbount’ of ” with 255 million tons... It must, silver raised: was over 7, 100: tons, tee ‘however, be.added that. the Brit-| of . which - - Britain’: 3 ‘share * “was M “ish ‘output: “was. ‘preatly reduced 1,556 tong; - while in: copper ‘she owing to he strike. ee ‘contribute only 90,000 tons aut 7 The. otal “protgction of gold ofa ‘total of; a million | ifons, “i to perciituse! that’ wis eve : =<'l'the British Empire and.a fifth ‘in ¢ Ha: the United Kingdom proper... | “Trains leave azelton,Neeingn vt 1 am huadags AR pecking with above steamers. “Trains Iéave Hazelton. Eastbound at: @” ; Certificate: of. Tinproveinients’ y 5:41'p. m., Wednesdays and Saturdays, for Edmonton;. Saskatoon Wine: ; Free Miner's. Certificate No. 835308 ; lop. Free -Miner’s.. Cortificate: No. ;-|] Ta56bH, al ‘April 8, 1916, date of first inser Hicks’ ‘Basch: Pi MeVitte over'a million tons, and j in tin ale ee ies — per cent of a total. of 126, 00 ; wee! G. 7 'P. >, STEAMERS. fe *cidentaly, mi mining and ‘quar- - AG ve . 1 Vaca Victoria’ ant: Sea rying the world’ over absorbed 63 , wee R eee SS. "Princa George’": leaves: ‘Prtice: Rup million workers, of: whie DL RSNGTAIS cays ato om, ep ptinee John’? leaves. ‘every: B. th ‘thi 4 , ¥ mr | oo S— Sunday at ‘7:30 p.m, . Purchase through, tickets: an 7 an. a: thir were efop oyed ine Local Agent or’ Prain Agent and ‘chock your. baggeg NOTICE © veo ey nipeg, ate “pconpecting, at Winnipeg. for Bt. jot Chicago, Toronto, . 2 C ork, @ lec i BELL MINERAT CLAIM, situate |B Cars, Wednesday's 8 train carries: Bleciielignted Tourist Sleepiie Gar; on the southeast slope of the- Hudson j.. through to St. Paul. . For points east of Chicago have‘your tleket-read ! Bay mountain and joining the Zeolitic|™ ‘via the Grand Trunk Railway ‘8 atém, the: Double-Frack-Rou ; Mikeral: ‘Claim: No. ! an the north, in gf. fall information;- through fieketay ates, appl iy to yout: Local pron ehene e the Omineca Mineral District:-.. . sm “Take notice thu 1, William 8. Henry, | Bs. ALBERT, DAVIDSON, - _-GENERAL AGENT, - ; FRING ce ERUPER acting as agent ‘for. Hugh A. Bigelow, "7 . . Po Re PP James |S Kemedy,. Free Stneets Certiflente’ No. 885208; James A, Mac- donald, Brea Miner’s-:Gertificate. No: 8250BB, Gus A, Rosenthal, Free Miner's Cortificate No.. 892948, Thos. T. Dun- intend sixty: days -from the. |date ‘Hereof to a to .the Mining ||| an Gite f Recorder for 9 nto-of Improve: menta for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim, . -And further, tafe notice, that: action undar aection 87 must. be conmenedd before the issuance of. auch, Certiffeate af:Improvemonta.. . - 5 31 “WILITAH 8: “HENRY, A Agent, tion, | Dissolution’ of Partsei ahi; -TAKE NOTICE: that. er ond. arlor Cafe i ~