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SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914.

No. 28,

It is not too muck to say that world-wide interest is being miunifested in the projected railway from the mouth of the Naas river to the coalfields of the Groundhog district, on the Skeena,

Naas and Stikine, .

‘While the Pacific, Peace River & Athabasca is

to be extended through the Omineca goldfields and on to the Peace river and Athabasca, attention is at present directed to the open- ing up of the great coal measures which will be tapped by the first

section of the railway, ‘That the

Groundhog coal will prove an im-

portant factor in the fuel situation on the opening of the Panama canal is generally admitted by those who have given attention to the situation, and this means that early measures will be taken for the development of the coal seams on the upper Skeena, The development of the Groundhog district will mean much to Hazel-

ton.

Pending the completion of the new railway, much, if not all,-

of the supplies for the-field will be purchased in this town, and the trail from Hazelton to the Groundhog will be busier than ever. Many of the owners of coal property in the anthracite district are already prepuring for more aggressive work than has as yet been undertaken, and it is to be expected that the year 1914 will witness the beginning of great things in our northern coalfield.

Mining Prospects

Last year the output of the mines of British Columbia was valued at $30,000,000, It would be unwise to attempt to estimate, with this as a measure, the ypos- sible mineral production of all British Columbia; but only a very general idea of the country and its resources is necessary to create a feeling of confidence in its potentialities in this regard, gays a coast exchange.

Let us consider very briefly one part of the province, of which not very much is known officially, namely the area in which the

_ Stikine, the Liard, the Peace and some branches of the Frasei take their rise, or that part of the province lying between the 55th and 59th parallels and between the 120th and 129th meridians. H..re we have repealed in a gen- eral way the structural features of the great mining area of which Butte may be said to be the cen- ter, Itis a region from whieh rivers flow in all directions to the sea. On all sides of it placer gold is found in greater or less quantities. it is only necessary to mention the Cassiar gold fields in the north and those of Omine- ‘ea in the south to show that in some places at least, these placer mines have proved profitable, There are known deposits of cop- perand galena, and what else may be found there is necessarily amatter largely of conjecture,

although very interesting reports

have been brought out by pras- - pectors, The difficulty and ex- pense of transportation have com- bined to render it impossible for anything more than the most superficial examination to be made, and, as a matter of fact, the prospectors have not been numerous, and most of the few prospeetors who have gone, into _ the country have been looking for alluvial gold-bearing gravels. There is the best of reason - for ’ thinking that as soon as trans- portation can be supplied, the -history of Kootenay will be re- . peated, and, perhaps, on an en- larged seale, in this more north- erly area. _ Inthe last twenty years the , people of British ‘Columbia - have ‘been looking | forward to ‘the " great results that . ‘would flow];

= from the openinig of. its, tnineral-

. ized area. . At: the, “outset : were some who, doubted it thier

expectations might not be disap- pointed, but figures show how well founded they were,

Fisheries of Province

Victoria, Mar, 8:--The report of the Hon. W. J. Bowser, com- missioner of fisheries, has been issued. Presenting an outline of the work of the department dur- ing 1918, the main body of the report gives the value of the fisheries produets.of British Co- lumbia, and compares these with those of other provinces, show-

duced $14,455,488 out of a total for Canada of $83,389,464, more than equalling the products for the same period of the three maritime provinces,

The salmon pack was the chief component factor in this, al- though owing té the increased demand for cheaper varieties’ of the eanned article it shows a slight falling off from the pre- vious year, Halibut and herring, on the other hand, shows increas- es, The added impetus to fishing which has followed the removal of the duty on fresh fish entering the United States, the expected benefit which the fisheries will derive from the completion of the Panama Canal and the G, T, P., which latter is believed will attract much of the produce of Alaska to Prince Rupert, are dealt with, and for additional scientific study and investigation of the food fishes, the modes of curing and other details are dealt with in the report.

Reference is:made at. length to. the blockade in the canyon of the Fraser river above Yale, which

Spawning in the upper reaches of the river, and which Mr, J, P, Babcock is of the opinion will prejudicially affect the .run four years from now up the tiver, ;

Manson Tells of District Ina yecent speech i in the pro- vincial legislature, Wm. Mangon,. member for Skeena district, said: “Speaking of the requirements of the outlying portions of British

tory that is comprised. in the

ing that British Columbia pro-

has prevented millions of sockeye|

_{Columbla, I would like to give|:- ‘you some idea of the: vast. terri-|’

'provinee, but.as I indicated be-}

a great drawback to settlement at the present time. We have large areas of land in the Queen

cois Lakes.

scattered at great distances from the centers ‘where roads and

them much needed road and trail improvements, which, in a new country, require very large ap- propriations.

Settlers have been coming in in large numbers to this territory during the past few years. Prince Rupert-alone recorded 442 pre-emptions, Hazelton 167, and Fort George 581, During 1912 the total pre-emptions were 3,655 in the province, and last year year they were increased to 3,855, approximately half a million acres per year, which shows conelu- sively that there isa great deal of settlement going on in the province from day to day.

“In regard to agriculture in the Skeena district, I may say that we are still in an experimen-

tal stage, and I am pleased to know that the government is taking interest in the question, and that as aresult of the find- ings of the Royal Commission, we may look for a measure of assistance that will place the in-

ent condition,

report that mining conditions in

satisfactory manner, The Gran- by Company has built a smelter at Granby Bay and is proceed-

along in line. At Portland Canal we have a tunnel now of 2500 feet, with splendid ore showings, and in the interior parts of the province, at Hazelton, Nine Mile mountain, Hudson Bay mountain and other places, there are num- erous mining properties produc- ing large quantities of ore, and giving evidence of splendid com- mercial results, as soon as the transportation facilities are link- ed. The completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Pacific Great Eastern will greatly facili- tate this development, and I need searcely say that the mining in- terests of the country are look- ing forward to these events with anxious eyes.” .

Sir George Ross, leader of the Liberal party in Ontario, i is dead in Toronto, He was born in 1841,

fore, the question of facilities is |:

Charlotte Islands, Bella Coola, | the Naas, the Skeena Valley, the || Bulkley Valley, Ootsa and Fran- | In these sections ‘fr settlers have gone in under the/| the pre-emption laws and arel

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