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Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont filmds en commenpant par la premidre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernidre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la dernidre image de chaque microfiche, selon le cas: le symhole — ► signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbole "7 signifie "FIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmds d des taux de reduction diffdrents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichd, il est filmd d partir de Tangle supdrieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. rrata to pelure, n d □ 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mo. 4. FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE. Timber and Mining Policy of the Covernment. HOW OOAL HAS BEEN OHEA»phBD In th< HorthWMt by th* OortmaMt'j Cmtm- An Huigbt UU the Timber BagnUtloiii. N'l Aabjuot h«i been more persittantly raiiiref)re«euted by t'ae Oppositiou thiia tbs policy of tba Oorernmeat in roapeet to ths timber, graaiDg and mineral resooroes of Uauitoba aad the Kurthweet. A. few (acta may, tbeiefore, bo stati'd with respect to that policy. Take first the que«tioD of raa DiarobAi. or tikbsb uwn. Dp to 1874 tliH Dominion uands act pro- Tiiiad ttiat lioenseii to cat timber on Domln- ioD Iaud8 should be put up to conspetition either by tender or auction and grantM to the hlKhe«t bidder. The lease to be for a period of twenty-one years. Orouud rent, $2 per square mile. Boyalty, 5 per cent, on Balea. Saw mill to be erected. In 1874, tba first session under Ur. Maokeuale's Qoverument, proTislun was made au that twenty..one years' leases to cut timber in unsurTeyed territory itatdht gnrntti mthoul publie 9omp4tition, and the erection of a mill Id connection with timber berths in Uiiaurreyed territory might bedlapeuaed with if considered expedient by the minister. The act of 1879, Introduced by Sir John Mscdonald, when ho reanmed offloe, was practically the same, except that it prorides for yMrly Mceuaes to cut timber on ■urreyed or unaurvuyed lands. By ren^lationa tha ground rent x/as Increaaetl t'< $5. Boyalty, fi |>rrc«ut. on sales, as before; and not to • xcet-d fifty square mttea. The lOt of 1883 did away with twmty-one years' ! lesHi'8, and provided tjoat a yearly licence might be granted to any person w'.io was the aole applicant for It, bQt that la cases where there was more than one ap- plicant competition should be Inrltad amongst tbe acTeral applicants, or the pub* lio invited to compete, as the CioT«mor-ln- O.iimc'l might decide. This act also prorld- )-d for the erection of a nilll In ooonectlon with all b« vbs, whether In surveyed or nii- snrveye« ' .errltory. An order.ln-oouncil, passed In 1885| provided that all timber berths In Manitoba and the Nortbweat Ter. riu)rles should bu disposed of by public com- petition ; and by tbe regulations governing the di«|MMal of timber lands within the ralU iway belt in Brilish Columbia ail lloenoes east of the 1 20th meridian are disposed off by ptib> llo competition, and weai of that meridian on certain other conditions which are similar In moat respects to thoae enforced by the provincial Oovernment. In every case the persons to whom licenses were authoriied to be Issued ware required to survey the limit at their own cost before get- tinit tlio liceuHo, and to erect a mill capable ol cutting ten tbuaaand feet, boani maaaure, of lumber In twelve boars It will thus be seen that t Tni sionLATioiis wma hvob aoai wnmiaatir under tlin Oonservativ* than under the Llb- piitl Ooviirnmeot. Iwe action of the Oovern- ment lu respect of timber within wtiat- Is known as the disputed tcrrllurv has Vkmh dealt with in another paper. Ti.G following t&formaticu hsa relation to timlMir berths nalilde of the <• disputed terrl- ti.iy," and covers the period f^om thu I6th OutiiUr, 1878, to the 8lst December, 1886 i Tl>u>o were 461 ordera-ln-ronncjl paaaeil au- I'orising tbp laMie of yearly Itccuaea, (nrty- ■vo of I ham after competition. Undar tbesa orders, however, only alzt^-nine licenses were Issusd, the otbir 392 applicants not l>avlng compiled with ths prescribed condi- tions. Of the sixty-nine peraons to whom licenses were issued, only tbirty-nlne ever cut any limber, the others not having erected mill! as required by the regulatloni. The Oovernment baa received by way of rental paid under licenia getting the limit. In many oases peraona competed, paid the bonne, and then, having tilled in tbecon- ditiona, never received the lioenee, thos for- feiting the money they bed paid. So In some cases peraons paid the bonus, made the sar- ▼ey, obtained tbe Itcent):, bat, fkiling to areot a mill, never out any limber. In that case, also, tbe amount paid was irfel^r* Vs tJk« Orown. The following la i A aTATimar or tib soiiisia asoama i On jearly lioenaea ... $4e,TSk r4 On Iwenty-oaeyear leaaos IT,ITS 19 On orders in oounetl, no lleaaas having been laaoad 9t,7TS T( Total S9»,7>7 «l or these bonnses, no less than $46,144.68 was paid for licenses Issaed, bat under which no timber waa cut, mills not having been erected ; and $25,523.78 was paid as bonoMS fbr leases under which no timber has been out, beaidea the $22,773.76 paid where only orders In council passeil and where In ooue- quence of failure to fulfil conditions no licenses were Issued. Ho riAT, ai wiu si sua, KO LBSg TBA.'« $94,442.22 WAS PAW IT WAT or BUNCrS BT PSBS.INS WIO BATB MBTJB OVT A STICK or TIHBBn DNDSB ADTHOBITT or TIB QOVSBNMSNT. 1t wai, as ADVITTBO MAT TO jouraiTDRB nr si iarsi a sdm, bboadsb or m MON-rULVILIIBNT or TBI HI«DbATIORi Or TO OSfABTMSNT WAS 1 aTRAMBB WAT O* ^OTT^a TBB niSaDa or TRt iVSBNmiTl ^ A large number o, permlta were lk.aed Bettlera in the Northweiit are entitled to cut from Orown lands a certain quantity of timber (or purposes of settlement, and for this they must obtain a free permit. If they requira more timber tliaii is fixed by Ihu ragnlatlonn, they get a permit under which they have to pay dne^ j| Then a iiumbet of permits were lasued ill iiig tbn coustriirtlon of U>i: Cana- dian Pni I mid other rnllwsys, for ties, ete. The foil' .. ,g is a Ftntomenl of Ihe permlta Isaufd anil Iha dues onllevleii under them : — Haulers' free permits Issued, about... . B.Iit Parmlta BubJeei lodnaa, slxml .. 1,191 Permlta for wliluli a l> noi hai Ixen rpoctvefl ., Bt Permits lH«u"d for cirting lU'nbeT, all Ingle* a >o*U up to 1st Marph, IM8-I, H>U:, up lo l«t Mareb, IXHO, nboul 1,741 PerroiU Isaiied forrullIrR hcnue llm- be>'uplx>ut Mariib, IHSH, niHiut . . 140 Dues palil under permit, alnml |M,403 Thfi lulal amount rvceivad by the Oovsra- merit u p to tbe Slat October, 1886, on ac- count of timber rents, bonuaea and duea, was $541, li 56.26, of which only the amall aum of $7,020 waa collected during the five yeaia that Ur. Uackeuila was tn office, during wbicb time Important timber limits were grant ed without competition to friends of the Oove mment. The policy punned by the presen t Oovernment has, therefore, resulted In a large amount being received by tba (}over nment ; It ha>i been carried out Impart tialiy, no one having ventured to charge that a frinn d of tbe Oovernment ever received any oonald eration not open to Its bitterest oppon- ent, n or that the regulations have ever been depart ed from In the It tereet of party friends cot tbe Oovernment. The policy has, m« open to homestead and pre-emption entry, tba land th ua entered upon being ipn /aeto with- drawn from tbe lease.., The rei the interasta of tbe country. OOAL bAima. The policy formerly waa to lease coal lands and charge a royalty u|)on tba output of tbe mines. This hac been changed, and foi noma time past the p(>ltoy bas been to sell the coal lands right out bituminous coal land at $10 an acre and tbe anthracite lands, sltuatfil In tbe mountains, at $12 no. The amount re. celved far ooal lands la $42,538.82, but the ailvantage lo the people far exfle4!ds this, the price ol coal, by tbe duvelipment of the«i ooal mines, having been railuued to a little more than one-third of Its former prlc^. Having regani to the Imixirlanoa of n good supply ot comparatively cheap fuel lu that country, the Importance ot this cannot be denied. In connection with all theae lesonroee of our great North- west, the Oovernment Is In a poalllou to court the fullest Investigation, and II hai uballenged, and the rhaiitnge leroalns nnao- cepted, anv one to name a case where favor wa* shown to any one on tbe ground of his polltieal opinions, !u conoectlou with either I be llmter, the graalng leases, or tbs ooal land policy of tbe Oovernment of Sir John A, Maodfinald.