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CHANGE PUBLICATION DAY

Beginiing with our issue next week,
the fourth issue in October, the Omin-
eca Herald and The Terrace News will
be printed on Weilnesday. of each
week instead of Friday. as has been the
eustom for the past twenty years. It
has been found necessary to make this

change on account of the mail. service
to all parts of the northern interior.

THE MINERAL PROVINCE OF. WESTERN CANADA

HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :—
Placer Gold, $78,018,648; Lode Gold, 126,972,318; Silver.
$80,787,008; Lead, $106,976,442; Copper, $209,967,068; Zine,
$50,512,567; Coal and Coke, $284,699, 183; Structural Materials
and Miscellaneous Minerals, $50, 175,407; Making mineral! produc-
tion to the end of 1926 show ;

AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $988,108.470°

For all years to 1995, inclusive ...... ..8 94,547,241

‘For five years, 1896-1900 .......+--.06- 57,607,987

For five years, 1908-1905 ......05rere | 96,507,968

For five years, 1906-1910 ...... aoreress 126,584,474

For five years, 1911-1915 ...... saceceee 142,072,603

For five years, 1916-1920 ......... vy oe 189,922,725
For five years 1921 to 1925.,.-......+. ceesees 214,726,650 +
For 1926. ...:.scse-re eee 67,188,842 .

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PRODUCTION DURING LAST TEN YEARS, $429,547,755

Lode mining has only been in progress about 25 yeara, and only about _one-
half of the Province has been prospected; 200,000 aquare miles of unexplored
mineral bearing lands are open for prospecting. __ ,

The mining laws of this Province are more liberal and the fees lower than
any other Province in the Dominion or any Colony in the Britich Empire. —

”* Mineral locations ara granted to discoverers for nominal fees. Absolute titlea
ere obtained by developing such properties, security of which ia guaranteed
crown grants. oe : wo ee we :

‘Practically all British Columbia mineral properties, on which development
wore has been done are described in one, of the ‘Annual Reports of the Minister
of Mines, Those considering mining investments should refer to auch reports.
They are available without charge on application to tha Department of Mines,
Victoria, B.C. Reports covering each of the six Mineral Survey Districts are
published separately, and are available on application. Reports of the Geologi-
cal Survey of Canada, Winch Building, Vancouver, 5.0., are recommended aa
valuable sources of information. . Ca

Full information, together with mining reports and maps,

may be obtained gratis by addressing .
The Honourable The Minister of Mines
. VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

which these papers serve.. In future
the paper will go east on Wednesday
night and go west on Thursday morn-
ing. The change will be better for all
advertisers and will get the news of
the district into the hands of the rend-
ers several days earlier. We ask our
correspondents to co-operate with us
to the extent of sending their copy i1
dthat much earlier. Copy from the east
should be mailed to reach New Hazel-
ton on Tuesday morning train. Cop:
from the.west should be mailed to get
to New Hazelton by Monday © night
mail, Copy for advertising should be
in this office by Tuesday.

BIG TORY CONVENTION

J. CG. Brady, M. P., returned to Ru-
pert the first of the week after attend-
ing the big Conservative convention at
Winnipeg and be brings back a most
glowing report of the success of that
meeting. Not only was it a great con-
vention, Dut it was one of the biggest
ever held in Canada and one of the
most representntive. It was a’ great
event in the history of the Conserva-
tive party,and Canada is, going to be-
nefit greatly frém that meeting. ‘Of
‘course one of the most lmportant. fea-
tures of the convention was the selec:
tion of the new lender, and there is no
doubt hut that the party made the best
choice. One of the most, brilliant men

of BR. B. Bennett of Calgary. He has
hod long experience. in public life and
is a bbvilliant lawyer aud one of the
greatest orutors in Canada today or at
any other. period of its history. The

gathering wos one of inspiration to au

age

SERVICE

Prompt efficient repairs to all makes of ears; speedy: and’ careful .
taxi service to all parts of the-district, and regular service to trains, |

with prempt attention to tranfer and drayage—This is the service of .

‘The

“PARTS

See

Falconer Transfer one

- Hazevton, B.C.

GAS”

delegates from every séction of Cans-
.|da and with the whole party working
together. again much good should re-
sult to Canada. «The new leader -is a
‘nan of considerable wealth and he has
undertaken to dispose of all his: com-
mercial and professional interests and
devote his entire time to.'the welfare
of Canada and leading the Conserva-
tive. party. SS

ARE USING MORE WOOD TODAY

- Jn spite of the increasing use of sub-
stitutes for wood the people of ‘the
‘lworld never before used as much of
that material every, week ag at the

present time. The modern steel ocenn

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$2.00 Pays for a Full Year

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. passenger. ship, has much more wood
in its decks and fittings than would
have built an entire wooden. ship sixty
or seventy years ago. it was with all

play on words that a noted Canadian

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‘There isa world of, pleasure in an Orthophonie Victrola.

$15.00 will bring an. Orthophonic Vietrola, freight

dollars each will pay it off.° No aiterest.:  ~ 7

‘prepaid, ‘to’ your station and ten payments-of ten =~

We will send slong a selection of Recardé to select from

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‘cradle to the grave.’

northern regions.

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PUBLISHER |

Advertising retes—$1.60 per inch per ‘month
reading notices 16c per line firat insertion, 10c per

in Canada was chosen in the person.

. Applications

How

serlousness and without any idea of ui

conservationist pointed out. recently
that in spite of aH modern inventions
?Iman is still surrounded by wood. in
every stage of his progress from the

Whe chief botanist from the Nation. |_
al Museum at Ottawa, explored “the
Arctic the past. season ‘and secured 4
thousand. sheets of flowerlng' plants
ferns that abound .n that-part of Can-
nda. The day is ‘not far distant when
the white race will inhabit “the fur

‘i oocytes Been
ga Jast issue
carried a picture of some of the.totem.

THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY OCTOBER 21, 2927

: The Hazelton Hospital

The Hazelton’ Hospital iesues tie-
kets for any period at $1.50 per
month in advance. This rate in-
cludes office consultations, medi-
_.eines, as well as all costs while
in the hospital, ‘Tickets are ob-
tainable in. Hazlton at the drug.
store or by mail from the medi-
eal superintendant at the hospital

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B.C. UNDERTAKERS

EMBALMING FOR SHIPMENT A SPECIALTY
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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

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J.D. Boulding
, Price List | dent
on Application

Prompt Service is Given to You
Send in Your Samples

Smithers, B.C.

LAND ACT AMENDMENTS

PRE-EMPTIONS

British ‘subjects
‘and. by. aliens
become ‘British

maybe. pre-empted. by
over. 18. yenra of age,
on declaring intention to .

subjects, conditions] upon residence, occu-
pation, and improvement for agricultural
purposes. . .

Full information ~ concerning regulations
reganling pre-emptiona is given in Bulletin
No. J, Land Series, “How to Pye-empt Land,"
copies af which can be obtained free of charge
by addressing. the Depurtment of Lands, |:
Vietoria, B.C., or to any Government Agent, *
Records , will be granted covering only
land suitable for agricultural purposes, and
which is net’ ,timberland, ie, carrying over
5,000 board feet per acre’ west of the
Coast Range and 8,000 feet per sere east
of thet Range. |

for pre-emptions are ta be
addregsed to the Land Commissioner of the
Land Recording Division in which the land
applied for is situated, and are made on printed
forms, copies of which can ba obtained from the
Land Commissioner.
Pre-emptions must becccupied for five years
and improvements made to the value of
$10 per acre, Including clearing and’ cultivat-
ing:at least five acres. hefore a Crown Grant
can. be received. Lo

For more detailed information see the Bulletin,
Pre-empt Land."

. PURCHASE

Applications ara received for purchase
of vacant and onreserved Crown lands,
not being timberland, for agricultural purposes;
minimum priee of first-class (erable) land
is §5 per acre, and second-clase (gracing)
land $2.60 per acre. Further information
regarding : purchase _ or. lease of Crown!
lands is given in. Bulletin No, 10, ° Land
Series, “Purchase and Leaso of Crown
Lands.” Doe -

Mil; fectory, or industrial sites on timber
land, not exceeding 40 acres, may ba purchased or
jeased, the conditions including payment “of
atumpage. _

HOMESITE LEASES

- Unaurveyed- ‘areas, not exceeding 20 acres,
may be' leased: as homesites, conditional:
upon a dwelling being erected in ‘the,
firat. year, title. being obtainable after
residence ‘and’ improvement conditions are
fulfilled a tho. land has heen sux
veyed. 7

LEASES

For - Brozing and - industrial purpose
arena not exceeding 40 ucres ‘may. be: teas
by ‘any one person or company.;.; ~ *

| ». GRAZING - .
‘Under . the Grazing’ Act’ the Province
is divided into grazing “districts, and the
range" ‘administered —° under ‘the | Grazing
‘Commissioner.’ Annual grazing permits “aro
faced, .. based; on) ‘muimbors. , ranged,” priopity

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. Macant, . unreserved, “surveyed Crown lnnde | ,

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