‘THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, -1924

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Telkwa Hotel

Serves the traveller to and © through the Bulkley Valley

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Omineca Hotel

C. W. Dawson Manager

Best attention to. tourists and to commercial men.

Dining room in connection

Rates reasonable.

Patronage jis solicited

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Hotel Prince Rupert

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Prince Rupert, B. C.

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Rates $1.50 per day up.

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The Bulkiey Hotel

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The headquarters for the Bulkley eValley. Tourists and Commercial men gfind this a grand hotel to stop at.

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James Llovd, the veteran trans- rman, went to. the. Hazelton pspital to undergo an operation

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B.C. LAND a U RVEYOR J. Allan Rutherford

-All descriptions of sur- . veys promptly executed

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SYNOPSIS OF LAND ACT AMENDMENTS

PRE-EMPTIONS

Vacant, unreserved, surveyed crown lands may be pre-empted by British subjects over 18 years of age, and by aliens on declaring intention to become British subjects, condi- tional upon residence, occupation, : and improvement for agricultural purposes,

Full information concerning regu- lations regarding pre-emptions 1s given in Bulletin No: 1, Land Series, “How to Pre-empt Land,” coples of which can be obtained free of charga oy 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, ie, carrying over 6,000 board feet per acre west of the Coast Range and 8,000 feet per acre east of that Ranze.

Applications for pre-emptions are to be addressed to the Land Com- missioner of the Land Recording Di- vision, in which the land applied for ‘fis situated, and are made on printed forms, coples of which can be ob- tained from the Land Commissioner.

Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years and improvements made to value of $10 per acre, including clearing and cultivating at least five acres, before a Crown Grant can be received.

For more detailed information, ‘see the Bulletin “How to Pre-empt

Land.” 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 $5 Per acre, and second-class (grazing) fand $2.60 per acre. Further infor- mation regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands is given in Bulletin No. 10, Land Series, “Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands.”

Mill, factory, or industrial sites on timber land, not ‘exceeding 40 acres, may be purchased or leased, the con- ditions including payment ot stumpage.

HOMESITE LEASES __

" Unsurveyed areas, not excesding 20 acres, may be leased as homesites,

erécted in the first year, title beigg obtainable after residence and imh- provement conditions are fulfilled and land has been surveyed.

' LEASES

For grazing and industrial pur- poses areas not exceeding 640 acres may be leased by one person jor a company.

GRAZING

Under the Grazing Actgthe Prov- ince is divided into’ grazing “districta and the range administered under -4 Grazing Commissioner. Annual grazing permits are issued ‘based on numbers ranged, priority being given to established ownera. Stock-owners may form associations for’ range management, Free, or partially free,

permits are available for settlers, campers and travellers, up to ten head.

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- Usk. Skeena’s Industrial Centre

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to the Hazelton Hospital on Thursday night's train on account of illness,

ward Lumber Co., returned to Usk from Prince Rupert.

Hairis. and Bedford Church gave a delightful farewell party in ‘Bethurem Hail on Saturday night, in. honor’ cf their brother, Leonard, who is going to Halifax,. N.S., to join the Naval Reserve,

arrived on Monday for a short visit. They returned. to South ‘Hazelton the same day, =)

conditional upon a dwelling being |

Steve McNeil was forced to g0|.

A. H. Edwards, of the "Hay-

“Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Shackleton |

The Hayward mili tractor came trundling up the Usk siding road the other. day under. its own steam and looking like a Canadi- an National snowplow. Citizens who did not know of its presence here thought it to be the Jugger- naut of some mad god from India,

{It tramped through snow two

feet deep like an Atlantic levia- than through a fog.

-O. E. Berg had the misfortune to lose one of his horses on Man-

‘day while engaged in hauling out

ties. The animal went over a

bluff on the Usk-Hanall road.

Mrs. D. Lidstone arrived from Prince Rupert on Monday, - to visit her parents for a few davs.

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{ News from the Hub o* Bulkley i Valley

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Harry Howsen returned last week from Vancouver, where he has spent the past few weeks. Before leaving the south he bid farewell to A.B. Tritse and party, who haye gare on a world tour.

Preparations are being made for the return of Mr, and Mrs. T.J. Jefferson early in the spring, They have spent the winter in the south.

M. A- Myers, formerly of Ha- zelton, has gone up to Dome mountain to work, ©

Walton Searpe, of the forestry department at Hazelton, arrived Tuesday morning to inspect tie shipments and tie camps. ‘He

was here most of the week. .

- The many friends of Mrs. F. M. Dockrill will regret. to learn that she has been seriously ill for some little time..

Frank Doby fell among some logs on Dome mountain and is now in the nursing home with a broken leg.

Billy Wallace is laid up with a damaged ankle and will not be on his pins again much before the ball season starts.

The hockey season is now on

‘|and one or more of the boys have

already tried to stop the puck with their heads—thinking they were still playing football, The team would like to arrange games: with outside points,

The many friends of John Grey will be glad to learn that he is again able to be around after a serious illness, when he was con- fined to the nursing,home. Mr. Grey thinks the nursing home is the only place for a fellow when he is sick,

The sheriff took posession of the Kotow Mercantile store and on Monday last sold off the goods at public auction.

Const. Fairbairn made a trip into the Babine country to in- vestigate the cause of a fire which was supposed to have been set by Indians.

The community was consider- ably excited the first of the week when it was learned that Scotty McRae had been placed under arrest at Smithers on a yery serious charge.

Three four-horse teams are

hauling coal from the mine to

{ _ A MODERN SANTA CLAUS

HE world is getting so big and

T there are so many little folks and big folks in it who look forward to a visit from, Santa Claus, ali on the ‘same day, that the genial old gentleman is forced . by the pressure of his duties to discard his reindeer and his sleigh

fast passenger tiaing. that are Speeding peonle home. for: Christ- “mas Day, ‘Nothing but the’ very

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is why, as you see here, he has chosen.as his steed one of the hugo - | locomotives of the Canadian Na-

tional’ Railways. These Idcomo: © tives, known as the 6000 type, are” t iggest passenger locomotives * in*€onada. Santa Claus posed‘ for

! 1 leigh} this: pidiure’ when ho: was. inspect-“* _ On occasions and to travel on the| ing’ ti

ing ¢ e-engine so that‘all the. boys |‘ and \Birls, and: grown-ups, * too, could be; sure that he would: reach ° them on, Christmas ‘Eve, ol

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Hercand There |

Quebec city is again becoming the Mecca of winter-loving tourists. Ar- Fangements for the forthcoming ‘carnival are nearing completion and sports of all kinds, ingluding tobog- gan sliding on the four-track chute on Dufferin Terrace, are in full swing. ‘

The mild weather prevailing in Quebec until recently greatly hin- dered lumbering operations in the province, This situation, according to Mr. Piche, Chief Forester, hes. been adjusted, however, by late falis of snow, and the total cut has been brought up to normal.

. There are 300 ports and harbors on the coasts of Canada, The ma- jority are, of course, small affairs, the big ports not exceeding six. However, one of Canada’s ports, Montreal, ranks sixth among the

| world’s ports and third on the basis

of export business done during the seven months in which it is open,

Newsprint production in Canada for the eleven months of 1928 end- ing in November was 1,166,225 tons, as compared with 993,988 tons for the same period in 1922, the increase being equal to 17 per cent. The estimated production for the year is 1,270,000 tons, or 189,000 tons over that for 1922.

The value of Canada’s 1928 grain crop is estimated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at $892,572.300. Of this total approximately $450,000 is credited to the three prairie prov-* inces. It is interesting to note that while the figures for Manitobs and Saskatchewan are below those of the year 1922, those of Alberta are above by over $45,000,000.

Grain marketed along the Cana- dian Pacific Railway in 1922 totalled 187,642,224 bushels, an increase of 38,324,619 bushels over any simi'ar period in the railway’s history. Te increase in bushels shipped was 13.- 086,720, or 9.2 per cent over 1922, and 88.1 per cent of the total amount marketed had been shipped*by De- cember 8rd. ;

_ Government statistics estimate the apple crop of Canada for 1922 at 10,794,500 baxes, which, at an @xti- mated average of $2 a box, mals the value a little over $21,990", By provinces the estimated prod -c- tion was as follows: Neva S ‘'1, 5,250,000 boxes: British Coler-' “4, 8,124,000; Ontario, 2,275,000; Ce. . bec, 110,000; and New Brunswick, 35,500. :

A herd of 20 brffalo is soan to be shipped from Waizwright Park, Alta., to the. Yukon, where a: euma preserve is to be laid out in the ¢en- tral part .of the territory. This an- nouncement was made here hy Rob- ert Lowe. of White Pass, Yrkon Territory, on his way back from Ottawa, where he arraneed for the shipment.

The Banff Winter Carnival is to be held from February 2nd to 9th, 1024, both dates inclhisive, and wi"! run coneurrently with the Bantf Bonspiel, which will be held from February 4th to 9th, inclusive. A widely varied and attractive pvo- gramme has heen arranged, culmin- ating in a Grand Carnival dance, when the Carnival Queen for 1924 will be announced and crowned,

Among the New Year's honors for 1924 one of the most popular is the award of the C.B.E. by His Majesty the King to Captain 8S. Robinson, R.N.R., who, it will be recalled, so- distinguished himself in command of the Canadian Pacific 5.8. “Empress of Australia" during the Japanese disaster and is now commanding the Canadian ‘Pacific S.S. “Empress of Canada” for that vessel’s forthcom-

ing world cruise.

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The beauties of the Laurentian Mountains, which have alrerdy - at- tracted the attention of moving pic- ture producers, are continuing. to. - draw such companies. The latest. to... make use of this location .is the Dis- - tinctive Pictures Corporation,.starr-_ jing Alma’ Rubens and Conrad Nagle, which has been shooting at Gray Rocks Inn, Ste, Jovite, over the New Year holiday period,.-A..feature of

“4 their work has been the co-operation

of the Chateau Frontenac dog team, 04. 4v. Mountie. a veteran of five reuse sorvice-in: the North. -.2.

Bolt cares

}the depot’ regularly; ‘dnd “other °- teams have started hauling ‘ties .