The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE. Great OMmINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, A. R. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor. + SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollara a year; Foreign, Three Dollara 9 year. ~..- - soe er “KDVERTISING - RATES: | Display, $1. 50} per inch per“month: ‘Reading Notices, 16 cents per line for each insertion. Legal’ notices inserted at B. C, Gazette rates. ae bal Vou. IL SaturDay, APRIL 4, 1914, . No, 31. In a recent interview in the Canadian Gazette, a prominent London publication, A. C. Flumerfelt, who is a director in various large mining and industrial enterprises in this provinee, Says! “Speaking broadly, this century should show a population in Canada of anything between.50,000,000 and 75,000,000. We are adding to the Western provinces some 250,000 to 300,000. people every year. British Columbia has not had its quota of these new- comers hitherto, owing chiefly to the distance and consequent. cost of the railway journey from the Atlantie to the Pacifie. This con- dition will be altered when the Panama Canal is opened, and per- haps we shall then get a greater proportion of European settlers. The population of the province today is probably about 400,000, and our chief needs are, first, population, and, secondly, capital. “Today we produce, per capita, more than any similar people on the face of the giobe. Our potential resources are very varied, and are practically without limit. These resources are waiting for the population and the capital to develop them. “As is general ‘in any new country, extravagances and perhaps unwise expenditures have been made and may yet be made, but any well-developed and properly-managed undertaking in the province-cannot help result- ing in splendid returns. “British investors can find many chances in Canada through which to invest with absolute safety and good promise of enhance- ment of value. But such invesiments should not be made except on the the advice of someone wha knows. — It is unfortunately the case that this care has not always been taken. and one hears of unprofitable investments, whieh on investigation shaw that a little inquiry would have saved people from having anything to do With! them. “As for British Columbia in particular, I think it is only neces- sary to remember what the Province was a few years ago, and to ;Season will probably be opened realize what it ig today, to feel an absolute confidence.in the future,” Mr. D. A. Thomas, the Welsh “coal baron,’’ who spent several weeks in the province last fall and who has secured options on a number of coal properties in the Groundhog district, will not visit Vancouver until next Jall- Mr. Thomas landed in New York a few weeks apo. andtelegraphic despatches stated that he was on his way to the Coast, After spending a few days in New York he went to Montreal and Ottawa, where he conferred with members of the government in regard to his charter for building a railway from the mouth of the Naas river to the Groundhog coal fields, He then returned to New York, where he sailed for home. Before doing so he employed a firm of Vancouver lawyers to look after his legal interests in that city, and he informed them that he would come to the coast early in the fall of the year, An interesting comparison of the relative fighting values of the. British and German fleets has just been made by the London Telegraph, Aceording to this authority, Great Britain in 1920 will have only twelve pre-Dreadnaughts to Germany’s ten, and whatever other superiority she may possess will have to be found in Dread- naughts. Of these vesselsof the newer types — including batth- ships and baltle-cruisers— Britain will be able to claim only fifty. five ready forsea, while Germany will have thirty-five, if'the fore- éasted , programmes of the two - eountries are duly carried out. In other words, British shipa of the line, under the twenty-year rule, will number only 67, while Germany will have forty-five, and the Italian and Austrian fleets at BEB will algo have res-, ponded to. the energatic policy now being pursued, The British | ‘of the province have w course, from the three Empire ships, “This is‘ the real story which the Admiralty return conveys,’’ says the correspondent. that its relative battle-strength is shrinking with every year that passes, Inthe words of Admiral Mahan. we have heen living on our ‘fat!—on the ships of an ear- lier era; and - quite rightly so when the ‘fat’ was good and use- fal, Now we must face serious consequences, — unless energetic measures are taken to arrest the effect of the rot of time by lay- ing down an adequate number of new ships. It is a mistake to build ships before they are need- ed; it may be a tragedy to begin ) “Tt igi B.C. time the British nation realized | g.-¢: of bear for sport is prohibited by the act, that an order-in-coun- ceil will be made in time to allow ‘of bear-hunting each spring. The each year on April 1. An order- om pa my ‘To Treat Platinum Ore Nelson, Mar. 30:— Convinced by the result of two years of ex- periment, during which scores of assays have been obtained and cate has arranged to build aplant demonstrate the possibilities of platinum mining in the Kootenay. -1A London metallurgist, who has 3 been working on the experiments, | [34 is supervising the erection of the |l4 plant. To Farm on Townsite of the Klondike rush contained 20,000 inhabitants, has been filed on as farming land by three homesteaders. One is an Indian woman, another a young man who is founding a fox ranch, “NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS KITSUMGALLUM ScliooL SEALED. TENDERS, “Tender for Kitsumgalium School,” |g willbe received by the Hun. the Minis- ter of Public Works up to noon pf Wed- nesday, the Sth day of April, 1914, for the erection and completion of a in ‘the Skeena Electoral District. Plans, specifications, contract, and forms of tender may be seen on and af- r the 17th da: the office of Mr. J. H. "MeMullin, Government Agent, Prince Rupert; Mr, S. H. Hoskins, Government Agent, Hazelton; Mr. W. J. Goodwin, Secre- tary to School Board, Kitsumgallum, . Cs or the Works, Parliament Buildings, Vietorla, Intending tenderers can, for the sum, of ten dollars ($10), obtain one copy of jans and specification by applying to ph d specification b: 1 t the undersigned, This sum will be re- funded when the plans and specifications are returned in good order, Each proposal must be accompanied bya accepted bank chequeor certificate deposit on a chartered bank of Can- ada, Made payab te to the Hon. the Min- ister of Public Works, for a sum equal b 10 per cent. of tender, which shall be orfetted if the party tendering decline to enter into contract when called upon to do 80, or if he fail to complete the work contracted for. The cheques or tenderers will be returned to them npon the execution of the contract, Tendera will not be considered unless made out on the forms supplied, signed with the actual signature of the tender- er, and enclosed nished. The lowest or any tender not neces- them too late.’ -GON.R. to Peace River Edmonton, Mar. 30: — Final; plans have been filed. for the routeof the Canadian Northwest- ern Raihway, which is the name} under which the Canadian North- ern system is being extended in- to the Peace River country, , The grade is completed on the road practically as far‘as White McLeod ‘and Athabasca rivers. The line will follow, the valley of the’ Athabasca for about fifty | miles‘on. the south side, crossing the McLeod: by a separate bridge. The Jine will cross: the Smoky river about three miles from the confluerice of the Wapiti. It will pass south of the town of . Grand Prairie between Saskatoon and Bear Lakes. May Hunt. Bear | engineer, intends to apply for Court, near the confluence of the} M-87 Live Stock, - Field’ Crops and gen- eral Provincial Agricalturist Porn| accepted. J. E. GRIFFITH, Public Works Engineats; Department of Public Works, Victoria, B,C., March 11, 1913. LAND NOTICE - Hazelton Land Distriet: District of Cassiar. Take notice that I, Charles A. Loney, ;0f Prince Rupert, B. C.,_ occupation permis- sion to purchase the f owing described landa: Commencing at a post planted 40 chains west of south-east corner of Lot 833, Cassiar District, thence west 20 chains, south 40 chains, east 20 chains, north 40 chains, to point of comrrence- ment, containing 80 acres: more or lege, Dated, March 11, 1914. Department of Agriculture “Live Stock Bi Branch . Agricultural Information. Write or Call - H. E, WALKER, B..S;A. Telkwa, BC. _ THE OMINECA