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THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1926

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Light clearing, good soil, suitable for fruit, gardening, ~ poultry, or general production.

- Located ‘one mile from New ‘Hazelton railway depot.

PRICE: $28'to $40 per sere, spread over five years. No interest for first 18 raonthss 6 percent interest on balance

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HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :— Placer Gold $ 77,882,958 ° Lode Gold 118, 473, 190

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Miscellaneous Minerals ......ceseeeee0s 1,431,949 Making mineral production to the end of 1924 show

AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $859,427,386—

The substantial progress ‘of the mining industry in this prov-

ince is strikingly illustrated in the following figures, which For all years to 1895, inclusive 4,547,241

For five years, 1896-1900

For five years, 1901-1905 ......... 0.008

‘For five years, 1906-1910. .............. 125,534, AT4 io

For five years, 1911-1915 ...... peveeess 142,072,608 ce

For five years, 1916-1920 ,. sees 139; 922, 725

For the year 1921 2 28, 066,641

"For the year. 1922 35, 158,848

For the year 1923 41,304,320

For the year 1924 48,704,604

PRODUCTION DURING LAST TEN YEARS, $372,604,725

Lode mining has only been in progress about 25 years, and only about one- half of the Province has been prospected; 200,000 square miles of unexplored

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The mining lawa of this Province are more Hberal and the fees lower than — Mineral locations are granted toa discoverers for nominal fees. ‘Absolute titles - ere obtained By, developing such properties, security of which 1s guaranteed by crown N. E. Practically all British Columbia mineral properties upon which work has been dane are described in some ono of the Annual Reporta of the Minister of Mines. Those considering mining investments should refer to such reports, They are available without charge on application to the Deyartment of Mines, Vietoria, B.C. Reports of. the Geological Survey of Canada, Pacific Building. Vancouver, are recommended as valuable sources of information,

The - Honourable The Minister of Mines VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

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BY HUGH SAVAGE, DUNCAN, B.C, With the Imperial Preas Gonference in Australia.

_ SEVENTH ARTICLE Sydney’s world-famed harbor is bottle-necked. You slide in between two great heads. Then curve after curye of bay and in-

|let is revealed with houses and

gardens everywhere marching to the water’s edge. The two hun- dred miles of foreshore to this twenty-two square miles of water indieate the infinite variety of indentations. _

Everywhere is deep blue water —but.one eannot attempt to zo into detail--fleets of yachts like white rose leaves in a wind, grim grey cruisers, the green of the Domaain = ‘(a park where, as at the Marble Arch, there is much ‘gas’ adrift on Sunday afternoons), the miles of docks and factories, and farther in, lawns and flowers|t stretching to the beach,

The city sprawls about the harbor and spills over on to the ocean beach, as at- Manley and ‘Bondi, two of the many places where there is surfing aplenty in seas which surpass those of Hon- olulu. But, once or twice in the year someone of the hundreds of thousands of swimmers is ‘taken’. That means ‘sharke’,.- » likewise “finis’,

If there be no guardian circle of mountains there are compen- satory delights, Sydney folk live much in glorioussunshine. Close at hand are national parks, where native flora and fauna. are pre- served. North you may go to the delights of the Hawkesbury river or southward to the Illawarra district, where stretches — mile

| upon mile » of sparkling golden |sands, on which thunder great

curling combers. To watch these smashing seas with their bewitch- ing coloring is to thank God you are alive. From the outlook on

| Bulli Pass you may paze down on ‘fifty miles of this beach and jocean bordered with settlements.

It was springtime (September)

fand never bloomed the wattle’s jgold more bravely.

This is the national flower. There are many varieties of wattle, which re- sembles the golden chain of la-

‘}burnum, but only one waratah,

which, with its great bulb of red bloom, is another glory of the bush. ’ In gardens the willows

tracery in gold. Here is native red lily, twenty feet high, crown- ed with one crimson flower, There are orange trees, wisteria, jacar- anda, azelia and. cabbage alms,

-Australia’s Birthplace -

Sydney isthe mother city, Here was Australia born: Just!as Cook sailed.past. the. Fraser, so he passed the narrow. _ Reads and landéd in the wide aweép of Bot- any Bay (now a suburb of Syd: s (ney). one hundred and! fifty-six: M years AGO. - The city has changed’ much since I first saw it.i in 1906. ‘Now its ares. oquals that.of ‘Lon- don; its: population * ‘is over a mil: It is the third largest city. | (white: population) in the Empire,

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Everywhere are London names. The suburban railway with its raised platforms, density of traf- fic, and crowds of passengers, is another reminder of London. You hear an accent which the uncharitable might call Cockney. but you may see Bntish literary weeklies und French works in the hands of business girls and men in trams and trains.

The narrow streets are now “one-way traffic’. To link the one great government railway station to Cireular Quay, men are burrowing an underground rail- way. From the quay a start is being made on a great bridge across the harbor. The cost will be around $25,000,000. Thespan is to be 1650 feet, the largest in the world.

In the last three years $150,- 000,000 has been spent on’ new buildings. Many of them are are beautiful structures. Some critics sav that Sydney is becom- ing ‘Americanized’, J could not See it. Like all big cities it at- tracts and holds accessions of population. Apart from the ad- vantages of easily accessible open air and sea, itis a centre of edu- cation and culture, Bearing the stamp of London, yet Parisian in some of its myriad aspects, Syd- ney has a soulofits own, and the brand is Australian.

Nearly a third of its people.are Irish. Roman Catholie influence is apparent. Holding half the population of the state, . political power is centered in the city.

and their capitals. In Sydney, Labor, ‘strongly impregnated by a Socialist and Communist minor. ity, rules in the House of Kepre- sentatives and is now engaged in|: abolishing the upper house (the Leyislative Assembly) as Queens- jand bas already done. Sydney's Justification

Frankly, this city of a million souls took the wind out‘ of our sails. We could find no ready justification for it. But there is. “‘One:man on the land can keep ten men in the citv,”’ was the gist of the explanation given by the Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes, the war time premier, ashe drove me round Canberra.

Bit that is another story. | must tell you of the old, yet liv- ing jealousy between the differ-

between Sydney and Melbourne, which is the main cause of the expenditure of millions of pounds to create a federal capital at Can- berra, near the Victorian border ‘of New South Wales. . We came upon this undulating plain, ring- ed by hills, early one morning, when there was the nip of the high veldt in the air. The par- liament. building seethed with dust and. workmen, for it ig to be occupied this year. 2.

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cational system of the’ ‘state ‘by, i aining for’ ‘them: Be “half-holiday::

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We inapected the ‘cadets and all things pertaining to the military : This cor- résponds to our Kingston. Above the parade ground and looking over the wide sweep of the grass which is to be the streets of the capital, isa.mound. There lies General Bridges, brought home from Gallipoli,

This was one of our excursions _ into the country. We slept ona ~ train placed at our disposal by the government. The berths run run across, not longways of the train. There are usually two in ‘compartment. This applies to the Australian trains we ‘sampled’, both broad, narrow, and standard guage.

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It is a rare household that does not occasionally find itself with- out a drop of milk if it is entire- ly dependent on the milkman. Storms and other happenings are responsible for the non-delivery of. supplies quite often. Many housewiyes make sure always to’ have pure, fresh milk in the house by keeping a reserve sup- ply of Borden’s St. Charles milk. Using this convenient milk where ever “‘the recipe calla for milk,’’ they find it the most satistactory for all baking purposes. Its rich © creaminess adds new flavor to the dishes. Each tall size ean con- tains four cupfulls of full cream milk when diluted with an: equal quantity of water.. St. Charles milk can be used as it comes from the ean if preferred wo have it sa rich. -It is also ased undiluted in coffee and cocoa, and on cereals.

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