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The Omineca Miner
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE
GREAT Omineca District oF British:-COLUMBIA,

A. R, Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor.

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Vou. TIT.

. The real significance of the report on the construction of the
National Transcontinental Railway lies in the possibility that the
G. T. P. Railway Co. may repudiate its agreement with the Gov-
ernment and take over the Hastern section on completion.

The possible cost of the road, amounting to $234,000,000, en-
tailing a rental charge upon the lesee of the road of nearly $15,000
aday, presents a burden that the G. T. P. is likely to refuse to
assume, If the aggreement were repudiated, the result would be
that the whole Eastern section from Moncton to Winnipeg would
remain a charge upon the Government, and would either have to
be operated by them or allowed to. pass into the hands of some
other railway at a rental far below that which the G. T. P. is ex-
pected to pay, and a consequent loss to the country.

In any case the National Transcontinental is today and will
continue to be a terrific burden on the country. With the extrava-
gance and waste that has marked its construction, there is small
ehance of it ever being of real value to the West, as an influence
in the reduction of freight rates by giving competition to the pri-
vately-owned railroads. Further than this, through the whole of
Quebec and New Brunswick it parallels the Intercolonial.

The report of the commissioners absolutely bears’ out the
position taken years ago by Mon. A. G. Blair, when Minister of
Railways, who strongly objected and finally withdrew from the
Laurier Government because of his opposition to the plans as far
as they affected the Eastern Provinces. Most of the Maritime
members agreed with the report of the commissioners in their
findings that the New Brunswick section should never have been
built. Itis not and never will be a commercial necessity. If the
G. T. P. does refuse to take over the Eastern section itis likely the
Government would have to link ‘up the National Transcontinental
with the Intercolonial, making a Government road from Halifax to
Winnipeg, although with the tremendous cost, it isa question when
the jine would ever pay, and if it would not add still more to thé

- burden that has been so long cacried in the shape of Government

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1914. No. 25.

The attitude of the Opposition towards the report: will be
awaited with interest, It is likely that when the printed report i is
available, Sir Wilfred Laurier will move a resolution differing with
the report and criticizing its findings,
There is also talk of an investigation being ordered by.the
Liberal majoriy in the Senate. This would be independent of the].
present inquiry, and would be with the avawed object of backing
up the course which was pursued by the late administration in the
construction of the railway. This inquiry would be conducted by a
committee of the Senate. .

At any rate, churges are so significant and’ far-reaching and
the amount involved is so large that it is as” least certain that the
whole matter cannot end with the submission of the report to
Parliament,

The Government at no time suggested to the « commission to be
careful in its expenditures, although the Opposition was continually
pointing out that the road was being extravagantly built, Though
the yearly returns showed that the cost. was amounting beyond that
of any single track railroad eyer constructed in America, the
Government continued indifferent and the cormmission extravagant,
The Government never exercised any authority over ‘the commis-
sion excepting in the La Tuque case, and then only in the way of

_ extravagance,

When the bill for the construction of the railway was being
discussed in the House of Commons, Mr. Fielding.” then Minister
of Finance, stated that he had been adviséd by experienced rail-
way men that the cost of such a railway from Québec to Winnipeg,

1,344 miles, would be $35,000 per mile, or $47,040,000, and from
Moncton to Quebec, 460 miles. at $31, 250 per miley or. $14,375, 000,
_ a total of $61,145,000.

Contracts were let for most of the road, and on September 80,

“1911, there had already been spent $109,000,000, and. Mr. . Gordon |

” Grant, the chief engineer, estimated that when completed the road

would, exclusive of interest, have cost $161,300, 000,

If the road is completed at this coat by the end of 1914, the G,
_-T, P, will commence to pay rent'at the beginning of" 1922 on this
; ceaunt with $18,700,000 interest added, making: an annual rent of
- $5,400,000, or $14,800 per day. ea,

_°- Assuming that the G. T. R. Railway will’ commence: to pay
"interest on the cost of construction in 1922, the road will have cost
, the country for principal and interest $234,851,521.

NEW PROVINCIAL _|out the permission of the provin-

. GAME. REGULATIONS ¢ial game department. _-The pur-
jpose of this is to prevent black
fox breeders from -sending foxes
out of British’ Columbia, and it
is thus: expected that the black

Vietoria, Feb. 16: :—The pro-
vincial game regulations have
‘been consolidated and amended
inanew act which Hon. W. J
Bowser, attorney-general, intro-
daced in- the House’ last week, remain, at home, It is declared
An important feature of the! that: Yukon has. ptattically been {”
amending act ig the ‘stipul ion deni ‘go, to apeak, huiidre -d
- that hereafter ‘live’ FoF thé ‘ valuable’ animals” ‘hiving |
not be imported or. r enforted

this. province. is. concerned, will

‘have to remain.

J. fox breeding industry, ‘insofar as|

the government ia to confine fox

breeding in British Columbia to| |B

the provincial limits, so that
all live foxes caught here will

intend to import live foxes, how-
ever.
provide for the issuance of per-

mits to’ those who intend to go 1d

intothe animal-breeding business,
breeding such fur-hearing ani-
mais as foxes.

In the past under Schedule B le
of the act it has been unlawful | (‘@
to shoot certain animals in cer-)|p

tain sections at certain times.

The new amendments provide! |#

for the abolition of Schedule B.

Hereafter al] game will be con-/|j

sidered closed. That is to say.

any man taking a gun under his |\%
arm for the purpose of shooting |p

game may as well put it back in

the gunrack unless he knows that |

there is an order in council pro-
viding for an open season for the
particular game he is after.

Protection of a different dis-|[%
eviption is given licensed trap-|[f
pers, who may select territory |I#
with the knowledge that others/?

will not be permitted to trap
within one mile. All disputes as
to trapping grounds will be set-
tled by the game warden or gov-
ernment agents.

Dealers in fur will be vequired a

to keep arecord of all transac-
tions, giving the names of vend-
ors of pelts. They will be pro-
hibited from dealing in the skins

of wapiti, moose or cariboo, as| (ex

well as deer. ° -

The prohibition against carry- | (&
:|ing gang without a license will)
not apply to trapshooters, target y
Boys be
under sixteen niust be accompa-| ile

shooters, or militiamen.

_jnied by.an adult with a license,

For any offence under the act?
the licenses of hunters may be
cancelled or new ones may be re-
fused in the future. Guides’
licenses may be refused on the
grounds of incompetence, breach
of. contract, or misdemeanors
under the law,

North of the 55th parallel pos-
sessors of pelts may hold them
up to three months after the
closing of the various- seasons,
and possessors south of that de-
gree may hold pelts two months
subsexuent to the closing of the
season, The game department
will have authority to extend
either period. ;

Fewer Out of Work

Ottawa, Feb, 18:—-There are
fewer men out of work in all the
year in Canada because of strikes
or lock-outs than ever before,
Labor conditions in this respect
jhave not been so good for a
great, many years, is. the state-

, ment of the labor’ department

‘this morning.

With regard to the question of
|employment - the department
"| states that there is ‘a good deal
of lack of work felt in the West
and in the cities of Toronto and
Montreal, -but in the eastern half]

of Canada generally ‘conditions| .

are particularly’ goud at present.
The department. looks for a ‘‘let-
up’’i in the western situation with-
ina short while.

Harold Price | J.R. Graham
"HAROLD PRICE & CO,

British Columbia
> ‘band Surveyors.

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