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T.Johnston. E. Crow Baker. 90 18S5-6. . . JacobH.Todd.J.P. PSt London Ward, W. A Robt. Ward ic Co., Ltd.Merch't and Shipper. Woolley, Clive Phillips Barrister. Y. York, F. M, Mkmo. — All members of the Board, unle.ss otherwise herein shown, reside at Victoria, B.C. Ill' ' Iv BRANCH OF BRITISH COLUMBIA I'T.UMS. NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THK British Columbia Board of Trade Hi is I I To the Afembers of the British Columbia Board of Trade : (iHNTLKMicx,— The progress of British Columbia has been very satisfactory during the past twelve mouths : with few exceptions all branches of industry show substantial im- provement. "*^"'"g- Notwithstanding the exciteuient caused by the discovery of placer gold in the Klondike region, mining in British Columbia has not been neglected, and the output of 1897 exceeded the previous year by 40 per cent. The following table prepared by the Provincial Mineral- ogist shows the yearly output of all mines in the Province since 1.S90: .. Vi';aki,v ^KAR. Amoint. Inckkask. Pkr Cknt. 1S90 12,608,803 ^•*^9I 3,521,102 \\ 7C '«92 2,97S,530 ^^93 3,588,413 21 '^94 4,225,717 ,s Is^S 5.643,042 35 '°96 7,507.956 34 'S97 10,455,268 40 When it is considered that in 1892 the total output of lode miner, was only $ioc,ooo, against $7,050,000 in 1897, a better idea can be formed of the progress made in silver-lead and copper-gold mining. 13 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. Since the foregoing figures were prepared a steadily increasing monthly output has> 1 :en maintained. British Columbia mines now rank higher in the London market than ever before, and foreign capital for mining purposes is easily available for the purchase and development of properties upon which sufficient work has been done to enable mining experts to determine their values and report favourably. The wild speculation in the formation of mining com- panies, complained of a year ago, has disappeared. Many of the properties are now in the hands of companies having the necessary capital to properly work them. The apathy which previously existed towards smelting ores in British Columbia is fast disappearing, with the cer- tainty that they can be treated profitably. In this connection the following figures are interesting : 68,804 tons of Rossland copper-gold ore, averaging $30.48 per ton, returned a profit of $12 to $16 per ton ; 33,576 tons of Slocan ore, assaying 108.5 ounces of silver per ton and 45.7 per cent, lead, gross value $97.70 per ton, returned a profit of $50 to $55 per ton. West The District of West Kootenay contributed Kcotenay. over 95 per cent, of the output of lode mines in 1897. This is accounted for as much by the natural waterwr.ys and short lines of railway' which open it up and facilitate the shipment of ores as by the richness or extent of the ores themselves. Trail. In the Trail Creek Division, of which Ross- land is the centre, developments of the past year have tended to confirm the belief in the permanency of the lode veins. Although the number of shipping mines has not largely increased, the output nearly doubled that of the previous twelve months. It is well-known that many claims in this division are unworked at present on account of the low grade of the ore. ANNUAL RKPORT. •3 A very hopeful future for these is found in the following figures : In 1894 the average value of the ore treated from the Rossland camp was $40.69 per ton ; in 1S95 it was $35.67 ; in 1896 it was $32.65 ; and in 1897 only $30.48 per ton. Nevertheless, in the year last mentioned the profit was from $12 to $16 per ton. In 1897 the average smelting charge was $1 [ per ton, but with cheaper fuel, combined with the improved facilities and larger plant now being completed, there is a possibility of Rossland ores being treated at $7 per ton. Add to these conditions a reduction in the cost of mining, and transportation expenses reduced to the lowest point, there is a prospect of Rossland copper ore valued at $12 being mined at a profit. At present this ore averaging under $16 per ton will not pay. ■411 if 'll "^^'^Q"- Considerable development work has been done throughout the Nelson Di.strict. The output was principally from one mine, which yielded 47,560 tons of ore, at an average value of $16.81 per ton, as follows: 20.7 ounces of silver, .04 of gold, and 3.63 per cent of copper per 2,000 lbs. of ore. A dividend of $133,750 was paid to the owners of the mine. On another property a ten-stamp mill has been operated. The value of 1,251 tons of ore was $9.25 per ton, of which $7.70 was saved in the cru.shings and $1.55 left in the concentrates. S'ocan. ^he silver-lead mines of the Slocan paid about a million dollars in dividends in 1897, the net production per smelter returns being 33,576 tons, against 16,560 tons in the previous year, and 9,514 tons in 1895. The average value of these ores in 1897 was $97.70 per ton. They were smelted in the United States at a cost, including freight, at $22 per ton, to which must be added United States duty on the lead, cost of mining, sacking and delivering to shipping ports ; the profit was from $50 to $55 per ton. i «:t. Vi 14 BRITISH COLUMHIA HOARD OF TRADK, ' i I It is worthy of note that some Slocan silver-lead mines have lately been transferred to liritish Companies, whilst others are being examined with the same object. Claims npon which little development work has been done, and held at high figures, can now be bought at prices likely to be more attractive to capitalists. East Kootenay. There was not much increase in the output of East Kootenay mines, neither is any expected until the Crow's Nest Pass Railway reaches Kootenay Lake in September next ; but a great deal of prospecting has been done, and many locations made. Cariboo. The output of the placer mines in Cariboo was small in 1897. The various creeks have yielded thirty-five million dollars since 1858 ; but the old surface workings are now about cleaned up, and there have been no recent discoveries of importance. Great efforts have been made to reach bedrock of the principal gold-bearing creeks of the early sixties, when Cariboo was known all over the world. Shafts were sunk 50 to 125 feet deep, but in many cases, just when the prize seemed within reach, the miners were driven out by water. Attempts have continued for years past, but the great cost in transporting machinery and pro- visions has proved a serious obstacle. It is believed that the bedrock of these creeks can only be worked by draining, which will require an outlay of much capital. Hydraulicing is a costly undertaking in consequence of the great distance between the gold-bearing gravel and water at the required elevation ; and the shortness of the season during which the water has heretofore been available is also a strong factor against big dividends. In most cases where hydraulicing has been carried on, profitable returns have resulted. ANNUAL REPORT. 15 In the (^uesnelle District, exploration work is ])r()- gressing by sinking shafts in the gravel of an ancient channel. liedrock has been reached at 275 feet, bnt is fonnd pitching at the rate of one in two ; sinking along this bedrock is now proceeding. Should good pay gravel be found, the result will be the opening up of enormous works in the.se old channels. ■k I Another scheme, the outcome of which is looked forward to with great interest, and will probably be determined before the end of the present year, is the damming of the South Fork of the (^uesnelle River, which it is expected will permit of mining many miles of its bed. In the past much gold has been taken from the bars and bottom of this river, but only a small portion could be worked by the method employed. This dam will cost fully $250,000. 'f I' Dredging in the Upper Fraser continues, Ijut there is little information at hand as to the result. Much money is being spent in various mining works in Cariboo, afifording employment to a large force of men. Foreign capitalists are watching the.se operations with great interest. Vancouver Island. Prospecting and development work has in- creased in Vancouver Island, and it is probable that shipments of importance will be made at an early date. The ore veins mainly resemble those of Trail, but there is free milling quartz as well, and a stamp mill is being erected at one of the latter claims. .'■■■ f- Free Milling Free milling quartz is receiving more attention Quartz. than heretofore. It is known to exist through- out British Columbia, and two properties of that character have been working profitably for some years past. 1^1 i6 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. h Placer Gold. The districts of Cariboo, Cassiar, Omineca, Skeena and Stickinc aflFord a very rich field tor prospecting for placer gold, and are now receiving the atten- tion of hundreds of miners, who believe them to be as rich as the country farther north. The climate is at the same time less rigid. Strong points in favour of placer mining in British Columbia' are : The absence of royalty on the output, no claims reserved for the Government as in the North West Territories, and a license costing only $5 instead of $10. Coal. The output of Vancouver Island coal in 1 897 was 892,295 tons, of which 619,860 tons were exported. About one-third of the coal imported into Cali- fornia during the same period was from these mines. The manufacture of coke is progressing satisfactorily, i7,cS3i tons being the output of 1897. This is a new industry ; only 1,565 tons were produced in 1895-96. iron, Etc. Besides the minerals mentioned there are im- mense deposits of iron ore of very high grade, many situated near good harbours, with the fluxes required in smelting conveniently near; also quick-silver, cement rocks suitable for making Roman and ordinary cements, white and grey marble, and several varieties of building stones. Mica in large quantities, clear and of very pure quality, is obtained within a few feet of the surface. Gypsum, free of colouring matter, has been located in large bodies. These minerals await the capitalist to put them into marketable form. The mining outlook all over British Columbia is excellent. Late development work in the shipping mines have brought to view large bodies of ore which alone assure a continuance of the monthly increasing output, and the completion of the railways under construction, and those projected, will enable many valuable properties to ship and swell later returns. The cost of transportation and treatment is being reduced, with the result that many pioperties which no one would work a year ago are now operated profitably. ANNUAL REPORT. 17 The prospecting work done in divisions not traversed by railways is most er^^ouraging, and satisfies those best acquainted with the country that mining in British Columbia is yet only in its initial stage. Claim owners seeking capital should noc rely too much on these conditions, but should be encouraged to make extraor- dinary efforts to develop their properties .sufficiently, at least, to satisfy experts in search for profitable investments. A matter deserving the attention of the Provincial (iov- ernment is the re-staking of claims. A mineral claim is recorded for a small fee, but to hold it, what is called "assess- ment work" must be done during the year to the value of $100, or the claim may be held by paying this sum into the Provincial Treasury. It appears r.hat in .some cases neither is done, but upon the date the claim becomes Crown property by neglect, a friend of the holder re-stakes it, and it is possible by such proceedings to keep valuable property tied up until the original holder can find a purchaser. It is desired that the Mineral Act be amended to meet such cases. Fisheries. It was expected that the salmon pack of 1897 would be large, but the total pack of 1,015,577 cases, an increase of 58 per cent, over and above the previous highest record, exceeded the hopes of the most sanguine. The increase was almost exclusively from the Fraser River, and is accounted for principally by the hatchery established there in 18S4; the diminution of seals in the Pacific Ocean is also believed to have had a beneficial effect on the salmon run. A combine of the principal salmon canners In British Col- umbia was formed in December last for the purpose of prevent- ing undue competition in the British markets. This has had a beneficial effect, and has worked satisfactorily in the interests of all concerned. There were no changes in the fisheries regulations last year, neither was the recommendation of the Joint Fisheries Commission acted upon for a common close ■.'\ I8 BRITISH COMMHIA HOARD ()!• TRADlv. h; fisliiiij; season in the United vStatcs waters contignons to British Cohnnhia. The Dominion ( lovernnient receipts from salnron lish- ini; licenses in liritish Cohimbia amonnted to ahont $50,01)0 in iSy7, whilst the total expenditure of the I)e])art- nient of h'isheries was not much overSio,o(X). The knowledge of these facts adds to the (lisaj)pointment caused by the Department's failure to comph- with the canners' recpiests that salmon hatcheries he established on the »Skeena and Naas Rivers and on Rivers Inlet, and additional hatcheries on the Fraser River. It was expected, further, that a specialist would be stationed in British Columbia for the purjjose of studying; fish life more completely. Oysters and lolisters have been brought from the Ivast and iilanted in British Columbia tidal waters, and the first re])ort of these experiments were favourable. Halibut and sturgeon fishing continues on a small scale, and until reciprocal trade with the United vStates is arranged, no very great expansion of these industries may be looked for. Sealing. The sealing industry continues to suffer from the restriction placed upon it b}' the Behring vSea arbitration in 1894, in which year the season's catch was 97,474 seals ; last season the catch was only 30,410 seals. The arbitration's award of $463,454, as determined by Her Britannic Majesty's Government and United States Commissions, has been paid to the Dominion Government, and the preliminary steps are now being taken for its distribution amongst the claimants. Lumber. The foreign demand for lumber has lately improved, but in consequence of the combine between the principal North Pacific exporting mills having terminated, competition is very keen. ^ a. 3 'J c s <,i 2 S C 'Xi H PQ /, c 3 5t M.S b a. ^1 i • i i li^ ■^^; [i ANNL'AL RIvl'ORT. 19 s There are ninety sawmills in the Province, with a daily capacity of 1,693,000 feet. The wooded area is about 285,000 S([uare miles, and includes forty kinds of timber ; 502,617 acres of timber lands are leased. The present output of the lumber mills does not deplete the forest lands to any great extent, but there is considerable loss caused by the forest fires which occur yearly. The recommendation of this Board that all lumber for ex- port be graded has not been carried out. The necessary Act was passed by the Legislature, but it has not yet been proclaimed. This is to be regretted, as such specific grading would protect the millmen and simplify the work of the purchaser when placing orders. Agriculture. Agriculture in British Columbia never ap- peared more favourable for success than at the present time. The increased demand of the past two years, and the good crops, have done much toward re-establishing the confidence of the farmers. P I The harvest of 1897 was especially good, and prices were greatly advanced as the result of the mining activity and the Yukon movement. As a consequence, stocks have been well cleared out, and farmers have realized above the average. The acreage this year has considerably increased, and the weather having been very favourable throughout, the harvest promises to be a bountiful one. The hay crop, especially, is large, and the acreage extensive. The fruit crop is net .so favourable this year as last, and the yield will be short. However, fruit-growing as an industry is progressing rapidly, and the home market is well supplied. An outlet is provided in Manitoba and the North West Territories, and the export in that direction promises well, and is practically unlimited. The canning and preserving industry is steadily grow- 20 nRITISH COLI'MniA rOARD OF TRADE. in^, and affords profitable outlet for the surplus fruits. Great improvement is seen in the packing of fruit for market. From a commercial ]M)int of view, it is noteworthy that the B. C. Fruit Ivxchange, in the New Westminster District, and the Vancouver Island Produce vSociety, with headquarters at Victoria, is each doing a fair business on a co-operative basis. The dairying industry is progressing very favour- ably. Butter produced by local creameries is preferred to the imported article, and finds a ready sale at good prices. Commission merchants dealing in imported goods state that they observe a very material differ- ence in supplying the local products, and this is a factor with which they have to cope to a greater extent each year. The fact that imports in the aggregate have not diminished is due to the great increase of population and the extraordinary demand created by mining development and the Yukon trade. In all districts favourable to the dairying interest a greater attenton is being paid to this subject. On the Delta of the Fraser River and at Victoria there seems to be a good opening for the canning of vegetables. Industrial E«tabli«h- ments. The capacity of the smelter at Trail is being increased to 500 tons per day, and two lead stacks are being added. Although the plant is not operating at present, the Company owning it is purchasing all the ore oifering, and contracts for treat- ment are being entered into at a considerable reduction on last year's rates. At the Nelson smelter improvements and enlarge- ments of the plant have been effected. A new copper stack has been built, which will treat 300 tons per day. The old one, with a capacity of 100 tons per day, has been converted for lead smelting. The Pilot Bay smelter has not run during the year. ANNUAL RKl'ORT. 21 At present Kcotenay is producing enough lead to supply the whole of Canada; still all the lead ores are heinj; treated in the Ignited vStates, the mine-owners payinj; United States duty, $30 per ton, for lead contents on ore min«.d. Canada imports all its lead and manufac*.iires of lead, paying duty therefor 40 cents per 100 lbs. The fact that two smelters in Kootenay, which have heretofore handled only copper ores, are now preparing to treat the lead ores also encourages the hope that ere long British Columbia lead ores will be smelted in the Province, and thus create the attendant manufacturing of lead. r In this connection it follows that a refinery must be built in Canada. This Board has asked the Dominion Ooverimient to increase the duty on lead and manufactures of lead to correspond with the United States tariff on these articles, in order to protect the new industries mentioned. The shipyard and iron works have been very busy in meeting the demand for steamers on Yukon routes ; in fact, every industry has been more or less affected by the large number of gold-seekers which have gone into the northern country. The disposal of fish offal has long received the attention of canners, especially on the Fraser River ; this now seems in a fair way of settlement by the establishment of works for the manufacture of guano, glue and fish oil. # ^he ted Expansion There are several articles imported into Japan of Foreign which should be supplied from British Columbia. Trade. While the demand for lumber in Japan is stated to be ' ' enormous, ' ' the exports from this Province during the past year were only some few million feet. Shingles also are used extensively. As coke is imported from England and Germany, there is no apparent reason why British Columbia should not monopolize that market. Japan also furnishes a market for barley for malting and other purposes, and hops, oatmeat and breakfast foods, canned fruits, jams and jellies. i i: mam 22 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. Apples are in demand. British Columbia salted salmon already finds a market there and shipments are increasing. Explosives are wanted for blasting purposes, and a good opening for business is reported. The foregoing are all the products of the established industries of British Columbia. Japan imports pig, bar, plate and sheet iron to the value of over seven million yen per annum. The development of railway work in that country, China, Corea and Formosa, will add enormously to the demand for manufactures of iron. It is therefore surprising that the iron ore deposits of British Columbia do not receive more attention. With proper blast furnaces, rolling mills, and the usual attendant machinery, British Columbia should secure a large share of the iron trade of the Orient. The forests of this Province are being looked to with the view of the manufacture of wood pulp. As Japan now imports wood pulp from Germany and Sweden, there should be a market for the pulp of British Columbia. A paper mill will be operated at Alberni within a few months, and will depend largely on export trade. ^he Canadian Pacific Railway's steamships, en- gaged in the China-Japan trade, have continued the regular service every three weeks in the summer and monthly during the winter. The very full freight and passenger lists have been maintained. The Northern Pacific Steamship Company have four steamships on the route, which also call at Victoria regularly. The Company have three other steamships in the China-Japan trade, with headquarters at Portland, United States of America. These will call at Victoria hereafter, as occasion requires. j Trade with Australia continues satisfactory. The steamships of the Canadian Pacific Railway give a four- 1 It: ANNUAL REPORT. 23 weekly service, calling at Honolulu, vSuva (Fiji), Wellington (New Zealand), and Sydney (New South Wales). t 'if Raitways. The Crow's Nest Pass Railway from Leth- bridge will be open to Kootenay Lake, in Sep- tember next, a distance of about 300 miles. The opening up of this line will be beneficial to Kootenay, giving direct com- munication to Eastern Canada and .solving the great question of cheap fuel for the mines. Several mines in East Kootenay which have not yet shipped ore on account of the transporta- tion difficulties will soon be in a position to add to the yearly increasing mineral output of the Province. The railway between Rossland and Trail is being widened to a standard gauge, and the line has been extended from Trail to Robson. The line between Robson and Penticton has been commenced, and will open up the Boundary Creek country, a district highly mineralized and likely to become an important producer. Location surv-ey.s are now being prepared for the continuation of the line last mentioned to the Coast, towards the construc- tion of which the Provincial Government has voted a subsidy of $4,000 a mile, one of the conditions being that the Com- pany receiving it shall equip and maintain a ferry suitable for freight and passenger cars between the Mainland and Vancouver Island. The local Legislature has also voted a grant in aid of 230 miles of railway between Butte Inlet and Quesnelle, at the rate of $4,000 per mile, but it is not known that construc- tion will be advanced in the near future. For some months past the attention of the mer- chants of the Coast cities of British Columbia has been directed to the building of a railway into the Yukon country, via an all Canadian route, in order to divert the Klondike trade into Canadian channels. It was thought that a short line, about 130 miles only between ■HHH wmm 24 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. Glenora and Teslin Lake, would meet the requirements of this year, the intention being to utilize the Stikine River to Glenora, the head of navigation. The Provincial Government voted the sum of $4,000 per mile for this railway and its continuation to some good port on the coast of British Columbia, which would obviate the transhipment of freight and pas- sengers at Wrangel in Alaskan territory, it being expected that some assurance would be received from the Dominion Government of additional assistance which would induce the contractors to proceed with the work at once. Parliament prorogued without giving such assurance. Operations have commenced in connection with the Cassiar Central Railway. This line will start at Glenora and terminate at Dease Lake, a distance of about 99 miles. The exploratory surveys are completed. Public Works. The Provincial Parliament Buildings, the foundation of which was laid in 1893, were completed, and the last session of the Legislature, commencing February loth, was held there. Extensive additions to the asylum at New West- minster were commenced, and gaols were erected in Kaniloops and Nelson in 1897. These constitute the most important works of the local Government. The Post Office and Customs Buildings at Victoria, erected by the Dominion Government, have been completed aud will be occupied immediately. The dock at Williams Head Quarantine Station is to be extended, for which purpose $6,000 has been voted. Grants have also been made for improving Nanaimo Harbour, the Columbia, Skeena, Kootenay and Fraser Rivers. This Board asked the Dominion Government to increase ANNUAL REPORT. 25 the appropriation for the improvement of the channel of the Fraser River this year, believing it to be more economical to spend a large sum in one season than to dis- tribute the same amount over a number of years. :8 Telegraphs. •_ months. The telegraph service to Vancouver Island has been greatly improved within the past few The rates also have been lowered. In April last the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany extended its service to Victoria, and intend to connect with points on the Mainland at an early date. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Telegraph has laid a new cable between the Mainland and Vancouver Island, and has utilized the old cable as an alter- native line via Juan de Fuca Strait. The Dominion Government has been asked repeatedly to put the important station of Carmanah in unin- terrupted connection with Victoria. Appropriations have been voted for a new wire via Alberni. This Board's recommendation that Esquimalt be connected by telegraph has been carried out. An appropriation has been voted by the Dominion Parliament for weather forecasts on this Coast. Such fore- casts will be of great value to the increasing shipping. Navigation. Lighthouses have been established at Pros- pect Bluif, at the entrance of the First Narrows, Vancouver, and at Cape Mudge. Another is under con- struction on the Sisters in the Gulf of Georgia, and contracts have been awarded for others on Egg Island and Surf Island, Millbank Sound. Beacons have been erected at Gibson's Landing, Howe Sound and at Welcome Pass. Work is pro- ceeding at Brotchie Ledge, where a stone beacon with electric light is to be established. I •si 26 BRiTIvSH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. New buoys have been placed at Ripple Rock, Johnston's Straits, Ball Patch, Seaforth Channel, and at Kie-Kish Narrows, and at Finlaison Channel. Other aids to navigation have received the usual annual attention. The chief engineer of the Department of Marine has recently visited British Columbia, and it is understood that other works are under consideration, including a light on Fiddle Reef. Semaphore stations have been established at Little Canyon, Stikine River. On the northern route and West Coast of Vancouver Island, many important works have been requested for the greater safety of shipping. The Canadian The discovery of gold in the Canadian Y"''0" Yukon country was reported at this Board's previous annual meeting, and very soon after- wards it commenced to arrive by steamships troru St. Michael's. It is difficult to state the exact output of that country, but it is certainly large for the number of persons employed and short season during which mining is carried on. Immediately upon arrival of the gold there was a rush of miners and prospectors from all parts of the world, but pilncipally from the United States. The majority of the newspapers generally referred to these new gold discoveries as being in Alaska, and this, together with the fact that there was an established trade between Alaska and the United States, induced the early argonauts to outfit and sail from the headquarters of the Alaska Companies. The mer- chants of the coast cities of British Columbia promptly made preparations for handling the enormous trade which had ANNUAL RP:P0RT. 27 sprung up so suddenly ; steamships were put on all the routes, and the business which followed appreciably affected nearly every industry in the Province. The heaviest traffic was during the months of January to April, inclusive. Since the month last named travel has fallen off, and at present is almost nil, but it is believed that many persons who intended to go to the Canadian Yukon country are only holding back for the results of the wash up of last spring. The reports received are very conflicting. Trade and Increasing interest and knowledge of British Outlook. Columbia has resulted in unmistakable expres- sions of confidence. The opening up of so many branches of Kastern Canadian Banks, the extension of the Western Union Telegraph Company's system, and high standard of the Provincial Government securities and Munic- ipal debentures, are worthy of note. The Province offers numerous and varied oppor- tunities for profitable investment, requiring only investi- gation by experts to satisfy capitalists that there is a rich and paying field for the employment of any amount of money. The tables of export and import, appended hereto, sho"" the volume of trade to have increased annually, with the past twelve months well in advance of any previous year. British Columbia's contributions to the Dominion treasury, now amounts to over two million dollars per annum, and is very high per capita compared with the other Provinces. The expenditure falls short of this sum, and larger appropriations have been asked for increased aids to navigation, harbour improvements, dredging in the Fraser River, and assistance to railways. Much disappointment was felt upon the prorogation of Dominion Parliament without aid being granted towards the construction of the Stikine-Teslin Lake Railway. Any railway which will open up British 28 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. Columbia and increase settlement, substantially benefits the whole Dominion. It is therefore unfair, especially in the face of the large excess of contributions to the federal treasury over expenditures, that the progres'^ of this Province should be retarded by the withholding of a fair measure of recognition. The statistical information presented herewith will be found complete and, as far as possible, up to date. Space forbids anything like a report which will do justice to the mineral wealth and other natural resources of British Columbia, but additional information will be furnished upon application to the Secretary. The Board will begin the new year with the largest membership in its history, ani . the increased business which has lately fallen upon the Council and standing committees augurs well for its future usefulness. All of which is respectfully submitted, this 15th day of July, 1898. G. A. KIRK, Presidejit. W. A. WARD, Vice-President. F. ELWORTHY, Secretary. NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. APPENDICES. REPORT ON IMMIGRATION. The remarkable and far-reaching Klondike excitement, and the sudden falling off of that impetuous rush to the North during the past year, completely overshadowed immigration in agricultural and other lines. It is likely that the Spanish-American war also tended to pre- vent people in the States from seeking homes on the Pacific Coast of the Dominion, and also to reduce the number of enquiries by letter at the Immigration Office about British Columbia from more than a hundred a month at the beginning of the year to less than fifty late in the summer. Another revival, however, is now commencing in correspond- ence re agricultural lands and homesteads, and the market in labouring, mechanical and mercantile lines. Representatives from different parts of the States, wishing to form free grant colonies of Scandinavians chiefly, are seeking information relating to this Province with a view to selecting locations for settlement of numbers of these agriculturists. The latest application in this direc- tion is from a Mennonite settlement in Texas, where the people are not in harmony with their surroundings or the climate of that part of the country. Both Scandinavians and Mennonites, after undergoing a special training on United States Government lands, are likely to prove very acceptable and industrious settlers. Of the three free grant colonies already established, the Danish one at Cape Scott, although the youngest, seems to be working the most energetically in getting their holdings under cultivation. The Bella Coola and Quatsino Norwegians, instead of devoting all their time and labour to clearing land, spend too much of both at the salmon can- neries and prospecting for minerals. With all the governmental expenditure in these settlements, of which the people have received nearly the exclusive benefit, they should all of them at this date not only raise produce and stock enough to keep themselves and families, but have considerable for marketing in the most available centres of population. That the climate and soil of the northern end of Vancouver Island are most favourable for agricultural purposes is abundantly proven by produce recently sent down by Mr. 11. Varney, who has been less than two years at Quatsino ; while Bella Coola Valley is even more fertile, though subject to heavier snowfall and greater extremes of temperature. JOHN JESSOP, October r4th, 1898. Immigration Agent. i ^ 30 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. i : \ I U I : i Form ok Agreement made Between the Govkhnmentoe British Columbia and Coi^onists. This Inuentire made the day of A.D. 189 . Between the Minister of Imnngration for the Province of British Col- umbia, acting under authority of an Order of the Lieutenant-Governor- in-Council, approved on the day of 189 . (hereinafter called the Grantor) of the first part, and (hereinafter called the Grantee) of the second part ; Whereas the Grantee is a member of a group of intending settlers in British Columbia, which includes thirty or more families, who, with their families, are hereinafter referred to as the "Colony," and the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, for the purpose of encouraging immi- gration, has agreed to make a free grant from the public lands of the Province to each head of a family in the said Colony, upon the con- ditions hereinafter mentioned, which conditions havt? been accepted by the Grantee, as well as by the whole Colony. Now, therefore, this Indenture witnesseth tnat in consideration of the performance by the Grantee of the covenants and stipulations to be observed and performed by and on the part of the said Grantee, the said Grantor, acting herein on behalf of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, as aforesaid, and as far as the Crown hath power to grant the same, but not further or otherwise, doth hereby covenant and agree upon the termination of five years from the date hereof that the said Grantee shall receive a Crown grant of all and singular that certain piece or parcel of land, lying and being in the District of in the Province of British Columbia, and being composed of lot number , in said District, containing by admeasurement acres of land, be the same more or less, and which may be more particularly described as follows : — Which said grant shall be subject to and in the form provided by the Land Laws of the Province for the time being in force. And the said Grantee doth hereby for himself, his executors, administrators and assigns, covenant with the said Grantor in manner following; that is to say : — That the said Grantee possesses in cash the sum of three hundred dollars, and is worth that sum over and above what will pay and after payment of all just debts of the said Grantee. That the said Grantee will, within from the date hereof, enter upon the said land and bona fide occupy and improve the i L APPENDICES. 31 same to the satisfaction of the Grantor, and will continue to reside thereon with his family atul to occupy and improve the same during the term of five years from now next ensuing. That the said Grantee shall, at the termination of the said period of five years from the date hereof, have made improvements upon the said land to the value of five dollars per acre thereof. That the Grantor may at any time during the said five years, by himself, his servants or agents, enter upon the premises and view the state of the property and the improvements theretofore made. That the Grantee will observe and obey all such reasonable rules and regulations as may be made by the representatives or managers ol the said Colony for its good government and internal administration, provided the said rules and regulations have been first submitted to and approved by the Grantor. That the Crown grant herein provided for shall be conditional upon the continued residence and performance of the conditions of similar leases, issued concurrently herewith, by the other members of the Colony to the number of not less than thirty, it being the intention that the said Colony shall remain entire and be of a number of not less than thirty at the conclusion of the period of five years when the issue of Crown grants is provided for. Provided that in case of non-performance by the Grantee or by the Colony of the terms of this agreement to his satisfaction, the Grantor may, by notice published in the British Columbia Gazette, cancel this agreement and enter upon the aforesaid premises. And the Grantor hereby covenants that so soon as each member of the Colony, to the number of thirty in all, has erected a dwelling-house upon the land comprised in the respective leases, or so soon as the said Grantor has satified himself of the bona fide settlement of the Colony upon the lands allotted to the members thereof, there will be made and constructed a waggon road through the land occupied by the Colony. ^r:.< 32 HRITKSII COLUMBIA HOARD OK TRADE. WKHKLY WAGES. lirSINMvSS. I.iimbiT Mills l-'loiir Mills UiCkvi'iii-s Iron Works Illacksniiths and Car- ria^f HiiiUkrs l-'iirnituri' Hoot and Shot- l-'actory Cooperiino Works StiKur Kelinery Shipyards Hiiildiny andContract- injj Soap Works Candy Factorii-s Tinsiiiiths Cinar l-'actories Vriiit and Spice l'"actorifs I'rintcrs Dry (loods (leneral Stores Kort-nieti. liookkeepera. ClerlM. Journeymen $25 (XJ to f35 00 $20 00 to I30 OOJflU 00 to |20 (K) I15 00 to $21 tK) 25 00 ; 20 00 " as 00 IH (X) lis or) " iS 00 iS 00 " 2000 1800 " 2<5 ool I I's »<) " IH (X) 25 ool 20 00 12 00 " 18 00, IJi 00 " 18 00 20 00 21 00 a8 00 1 20 00! 25 00 25 ooj 25 00 25 00 30 00! «5 00 15 00 23 (X3 IS 00 25 00 18 00 20 00 20 00 15 00 20 00 25 fXJ 23 00 15 00 15 00 20 00 15 00 28 00 15 00 20 00 15 00 20 DO 12 00 18 00 20 00 25 00 15 00 ! 15 00 " 18 00 15 00 " 18 00: j 18 00 12 IX) " iH 00 15 00 " 20 00 If, 00 " 20 00 ... ' 15 00 " 20 00 16 00 15 00 15 00 18 00 18 00 20 00 20 00 21 00 18 00 15 00 12 00 15 00 10 00 15 00 20 00, 15 00' 18 00 20 00 Note— Supply equal to demand in all lines. SPECIAL TRADES. OCC'UPATION. Millers ( flour) per day Firemen. . " Horseslioers " Carriage Painters " Carpenters " Sawyers (saw mill) weekly Machinists (saw mill) " Stablemen (saw mill) monthly Mates Engineers per day Blacksmiths " Wheelwrights " Cabinetmakers " Filers (saw mill) weekly Engineers (saw mill) " Tallymen (saw mill) " Captains monthly Waiters Wages I'aid. $ 2 50 to $ 85 3 00 00 75 2 50 100 00 35 00 1 1 50 GO 25 00 00 27 00 15 00 50 00 120 GO 3 50 3 00 3 00 3 00 36 00 15 00 15 00 175 00 50 GO Note — Supply equal to demand in all lines. It may be stated to those seeking employment as clerks, book- keepers, and in secretarial and general office capacities, there is a surplus, and emoluments are proportionately limited. Al'PIiNDICKS. 3.^ Victoria Typographical Union, No. 201 — Day-work: I'orcnu'n. $23 per week; time work, $2n jht week of lilty tlirt-c hours ; pii-ee-work, l)ook. 42'ic., news, 40c. per 1,000 ems; linotype oj)erators, $3.50 per day ofei^ht hours. Nij^ht work : Foremen. $2S ])er week; piece work, 42 '^97 Seattle. <. .. '^^ Montreal. <• .. "''^^ •• It c i« • ''^97 c-iaii rrancisco. " << . «« *< u 1 1 ''^97 Kockhanj])ton, •• " o Newcastle, - .. '7' '< II ., I. Say ;; ''fe'^i't. .. .. ^^^ I'ortof Farmiioiith, " " ,^ _ " Port Elizabeth. " «. ^^' Provincial I ibrarian. Vancouver Board of Trade Report \Z I)on„„„„ (Government, by request of Thomas Karle.Ksq. m'iV "'' 't pui^i^:^'""^"- '" ^^^^°"^' '^^^^^"^^ ^'^p"« -^^ ^^--- British Columbia Fruit- Growers. Seventh Report Queensland Government. Acts relating to minin,, i; Queensland Fiji Government. Handbook to Fiji ^^^2-^ Chamber of Commerce. Melbourne. Directory of Melbourne. S Shimiza. Report of foreign trade for Japan ,0,, Thomas Karle. The Canadian Live Stock Annuai .■.■.;;■■■. S vStatistical Year-Book ^^ . ''to'n'Taa ."■ ^^^''''' °^ '''' ''^'■'''°'' °^ ^^-Mint/washing- '' ' Minister of T;ade andCommerce: " Tariflfe of'different'nation;" " iS Hydrograpluc Office,- Port Townsend, Wash. Monthly Chart's '' of Pacific Ocean. .>«-iiciiih E. Baynes Reed, Esq. Weather Maps, monthly. A , n 36 HRiriSll OtM.l ^nUA HOAKP OV rRAPl';. LIST OF NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS ON FILE IN READING ROOM. i>.\n.i) s rllc- k"iilOM\-t . .. . . \'\»'tvMKl K V' ri»C l". lllhO I'iM.MIt.V Out I'iu' r>iiu'i • " I'hr Slid ...MoiUnwl Oik' The W iM l.\ V:\i\i-.Miv <'l . U v" \V1 >'KMi:s. W v", i;;t.«-Uc Vu'ti>t \i\. It. i", I'nuMir I.i'H.U'h. l.'n(j. >tnici Nelson. U v" I'liurs Mii'.n KossliMul, l> V.' ».'i>n;>ili;«u »".;iroltc " I'liulc Kcv u\\ . M >M\ It <•;>), ijiu' i';mtr\l'iu\ ritncs v'hnstvlniiv'li Wnunju'jj l-'n <• I'l i-ss \V>miHM->;, Man Sonlh .\nstt;Uv:Ui K<->;iNtri .\i>>\:\i>\c *.'i>liMiirs ;u\ii 1 n>lui l.>n>'i!»', New "• ■• " W 1 IKl.llS II 1,1 STKA It n nhi'>U;U('i\ I..Mulo>\ N»«s 1,o>>iUm>. I'nK. U;U \>ci s W'ocWlv ,Nc« VoiW t5ti>\>l>n' .. Svlu' Vn\ri u:ui Tunv-li. . " •' MON nun's Hiilish ri:i.l( K'. 1 iM\.l.Mi, l'n>; Now ,'<';>l:u\il I'l :ii\c Kc-\ ic« W Clhnj;!.'!! ln\\>lnr\ rtn.U' Ki\ irw S\.lii(\ M(t\ui)C K<-i'i'i>l Vivt.Mi.i. U i' 0>itl\iM p:ii>ri s \ ( .\.U t li. Uivu.l t\.'.>n\, ImiI n>>l \ (Xn'^ii h . 1 XrSlMH.X OV f.'O ('.Ol.n IMKvl' IN Arn-MMci-s. .\7 QUEBEC CONFERENCE. \ iVTiMiw. W.C. lotli .\u);Msf. iSgS. IHvKS.K.- Wo t,,,Oo„„,ntt..onn.ulHMus..„MN.,viKation.atUM ..•■;«nlh .vvunv.n,tl.o,puvst,on.su...,uM ,o „s Un .o„suU-ra,ion. ^i, Jv..MMo.Mtv,n ;Vuvk,n, .uul Co.stn., on ,lus .%..s,.- .,o u-,-o„ .> Wo .io „o, oonsi.lcM ,, .oMia bo ,o ,lu- uuoros, o. tins IVninoo to have .ooumval ,unu,Ko,uon.s u,th ,l.o I .n.o.i Sta.os ,n ..ooUn, .s , s.nu...l an. v^uvku,.,. apph.-uuos ,n.,ohaso.i MUhou-n, ,o ass.st v.w>Is moctiUK >v»th .uvulonis ni oni watois. Tho K.nK s, ot.lu-s o, on, ,nl.uul w.,o,s .on.p.is.. ,h, „,ost .lan^o, . .-us n.v,,:,.,on on tins ooast, an.l to .Ulo. Anun.u. .uvWo.s ,,,. pnv - OKoo, .s.K,n,yos.oIson ,h,s ,mm of on, oo.., . .„,, „,,,„ , J,,,,, los. to on, p.oplo. ,n v,o. o, „u- ,.u-, „,„ ,., ,„.,,„ ,„.„„,, „_,^ , ^ vo.sto.l ,n xv,o.k,n.v; plants .unl ,opa„,n.,; v.,,. Is at on, ,-o,ts. An.nn,lho,..h,loa„x,ons ,o W pa.t.osto.n, n.oxon.on, .on.ln. o.. .. a oloso, t„o,nlsh,p an.l a .,o., ox,.!,.,,,.. .., l.ns.n.ss . ,„, on. Mo,.,l.t>on,s. .o havo to ,opo,t uo oanno, nn.i , , „,,„,„, ,,, ,„ .^, n.K .nv ohan^o ,,, tho p,vsont ox.st.n, ,... ,..,,„„„^ ,„,. ^:^,^^,;, . iuu\. ot . ana.la. tl,at s.ouU\ W tvno.u.al to H,,t,sl, ,-oln,ntn . Wo ha\o tho honon, to he. Sii. \om olniln-ni sii va,,ts JOHN ,; ^^,,x. I' ^". i>.\\nu;i.:. »■• w. \ iNoi-:\r. <">j;o I.. v.'(MKT\i':v. SSIm M: 38 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. Victoria, B.C., i6th vSeptember, 1898. To the Secretary of the British Columbia Board of Trade, Victoria : Sir, — In reference to the letter handeci us from Captain John G. Cox, dated Ottawa, September 4th, we have the honour to report that, after consulting carefully with all of the various firms connected with the shipping industry, we find it is unanimously considered the best 'jolicy that no change be made in the present laws relating to wrecking in contiguous waters of the United States and Canada. In reply to the direct question " What are contiguous waters ? " we hold to the definition as " waters being directly between the shores of the two countries," and so far as our waters arc concerned, only com- prise the waters of Puget Sound and the Portland Canal. The limits in the waters of Puget vSound we would st ictly define by taking lati- tude 49 due east and west, and a longitude drawn from Cape Flattery due north and south. The contiguous waters of I'ortlard Canal would be its entire length from the ocean to the head of the canal. Further, we have strongl}* to recommend that the ])ropositiou of any twenty, thirty or forty mile limit from such lines of demarkation should be in no way entertained, but the hard ^y brought into the country by the sale o*' the season's skins will run to about $750,o(X).oo. Previous to the year 1893, in which the regulations formulated by the Paris Tribunal were put in force, the industry was a very profitable one, but by the enforcement of those regulations the sealers of British m AIM'KN DICES. 39 Columbia were deprived (for no other than State reasons) of the most profitable j)ortion of the Sealing season, viz., the months of May, June and July, during which sealing was prohibited, The .sealers also lost a zone of fifty-seven miles around the I'riby- loff Islands in Hehring Sea by the regulation passed at Paris. Since 189-^ the sealing business has been carried on under great difficulties and with uncertain success, partly owing to the restrictions referred to, but in a great measure owing to the interference of the United States patrol lleet with our schooners while sealing. As the case of our sealers has been laid before you in a memorial setting forth all the dilliculties from which the business is suffering, and clearly describing the present position of the industry, I need not go into those matters here, but simply ask your kind consideration of our case, with a view to your passing resolutions which will be transmitted to the Conference shortly to be held at Quebec, to finally settle this question which has been the cause of so r..uch ill-feeling between Great Britain, Canada and the United States for so many years. We contend that the sealers should have restored to them their hereditary rights which were taken aw;ly by the passing of the Paris regulations, the (iovernment of the I'nited States having failed to show adecjuate reasons for the further continuance of these unprecedented restrictions. We would earnestly ask you to kindly advocate, either the restora- tion of our rights, or that before any further legislation is enacted, a sum fully sufficient to recompense the sealing owners of British Colum- bia, for all their outlay atul losses, should be agreed on by all parties. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, JOHN G. COX. 1:5 Victoria, B.C., Aigust 30. 1898. |h To the Secretary of the British Columbia Board of Trade, Victoria : DK\R Sir, — Your Special Committee beg to report with reference to the provisions for the transit of merchandise in transportation to and from either country across the intermediate territory, whether by water Y^^^ -■\-. ir -a aM < • .\n nurnsn coi.i'miua moakd oi' tuadic. (»i liiiid, iin-l\ie delivered to l><)ints ill the otliet eo\mltv luvoiid the hoimdaiy. thai the piesent sys- tem ill vomie is a vet v satislaetoi v one. and tliat it \n' eoiitiimed. Voui Coniiiiittee ni\;e that tlie ai laiij^eineiits lor the more e(»miilele delitiiiii; and marking ol an\ part ol the linnli* r line hy land or water, whei<" the same is iH>t snllieientlv diliiied oi mark«d as to lie liaMe ti» t'.ispiite, shonhl he eom]>leteil without «lelav, es|)eeiaily in view ol the valuah'ie miniti); interests in this Trovinee. All »)!" whieh is respeetfnllv snltinitted lor the Committee. W. A. WARD. \'K'ri)Ki.\, \\x\, Ai cusr 17, i.Stj.s, To t/ir S(\'ft'iiiry of t/w IhHisli ('o!)on/>i,i luwd of r>;ttii\ I'iotctn'ii : I>KAK vSiK.- The Committee ist. "^h, stated thas there was no reason for prohibiting up to that time any kimls o'i apparatus employed in the salt wmors com- prised in the State of Washington, viz., trap nets, purse .seines, drag seines, reef nets and gill nets; the bulk of the Sockeye catch being aimm<;ni)Fci';s. 4« iiuiilr ill the (oriii <>( iicl lirsl iiictitioiicti, .iiid isHtill tin- cliicl iiioflc of tall liin>^ tlicsc lisli. 'Ilic iiimilit r «)r tr(i|i iicls at lliat lime was conliiicfl nliiiosi ctitinly I" I'omt KoIhtIs, af tlic jirisciit tiiiic tlic iiiiiiihci of tllfsr tiap nets, seines, etc.. are ^leatlv im lease*!, and extend (roni SaluiKii Maiiks at llie extrenie soiilli west end of San [nan Island on all snitable points \\\t lliioii^li llie waters ol llie, Stale oT Wasliini^ton to Point Koiierls. and to a ^^reat nieasnic prevent tin; salmon (ifHii rea< li- iii)', tile I'laser liver, ail «.i/es of salmon Ixinj^ ( aii^^lit and destroyed, wliieli is (^reallv to the detriment ol tin- lisliin^^ indiislrv. (,U. I'lic Canadian re^nlalions which restrict commercial fishing; on the ['"laser Kiver and oil ils inontli, to the use of drill ^^il! nets, ate satis factory, and w(' recommend that tln' rivers in Washington he snl)jc nets to measure in extension not less than three inches in the crih and six inclies in liie leader when actually in nse. 'rrap-nel leadt-rs not to exceed 2,000 feet in leii^^th. Not more than two traps to he jjlaced in oik; continnotis line, and when so arranj^ed lo he separated hv a ^n]i of at least i feet between the innercrih and tli(; hi'j^inniii)^ of the outer leader. All traps or stiin^s of two traj)s to he separated hy lateral passaj.;e- wiivsofat least 2,5iK)feet. The inner end ol all trap net leaders to hej^^in in a depth of not less than one fathom at low tide, and th(' space intervening between it and the shore to remain entiri-ly iimd)striicted. All trap-net stakes to be reiiKJved from the water, in the interest of nj'vigation, within thirty days from the close of the fishing season. (5). Drift gill nets not to excec^d 150 fathoms each in length. The drift gill nets em])loyesfs. I'.vt'ii ^\v^^ l.iiins Iviiij^ iilonj^sitk' ol iiicli oilier iiiiiv (lilli r MS ti) tlu'ir siiitaliility lor »(Ml.iiii varieties ami as to tin- tiu-tllods tliat slioiild ill ilitail \h' riiii)lovi(l. This is lo my iniiul (In- most im- portant laitor to lif coiisiilfinl in roiiiifctioii with tlii' disiiission oi aj^i i- (iilliMal i-apaliilitifs ami possil)ilitics, and .sii^')4tsls what is hciii)^ tVlt as a 1 .ipidlv ^rowiny med, and that is thi' introdiictinn ol' a systi'in of local ex])t-riiiu-ntal larnis, apart trom and in addition to the Dominion l';\])rrinu'ntal Station at Aj^rssi/, mir ol whiidi to he locati'd in each ol" llu- principal districts of the Island and Mainland ; for, in re);ard to the lattei . the same j^eiieral remarks apply as to the former. The dry elevated taMe lands and vallevs of tlu- interior are as dilfereiit in local conditions from those of the Co.isl districts as well can 1)»' within the limits of a sinj^le |>rovince. and its various parts also differ from each other materiallv. Such local experimental stations are snj^j^ested to he on a small scale, and the «>perations conliiied to practical work, having in view the special needs of the districts within which they are located. It m.iv he remarket! here that one of the diiricnlties with which farmers are confronted in Hriti.di Coliimhia, is in the ac(|nirinjj; of local experience, which is often hon^^ht dearly, not the result of ij^noratice in farmiii).; or incompetence, it may he added, hut lack of that special kiiowled.uc to which there is no j^nide hut experiment, and it ap])ears to me that siuh kiiowledi;e could he hest and should he ac<|iiired hy the (loveniment for the henefit of all. The luiniher of persons who think they know all ahout it and don't, is lai^c ; while the mimher of those who can siuak with authority are few. rersonally, while I appreciate the iiatiiie of and have endeavoured to some extent to study the ])rol)!eins aiVecting agriculture in this Province. I confess to my inahilily to deal s]ieciiically with them, and I lu-sitate to write j;rHvel, and the value ot the land is determined in a >.Mcat measure a(-cordin).',lv. Many condi tions, however, );overn thi- latttM. It depends larj^elv in the (irsl {)lare on the amount of liinher to he ilispose^s, arj usually covered with a very heavy second under j^rowth, and recjuhe alnM)st invariably ditching and draining, and in some c.ises dyking, so that in all but the most favour- able- instances clearing and making readv for cidtivation are ex|)ensiv(; and laborious. I H' Vancouver Islatul is supjilied with good roads, but as a rule throughout the Province, communication ;iwav from a line of railw' v or steam- boats, is, as in all new countries, usually not of the best. As ])olitical cc<>noinists point out, this is a very material factor of success in the business of a farmer, because in latter years the rates of transportation have not fallen proportionately with llie i)rices of product-, and to the farmer the road leading to the tnarkel stands much in the same relation as the rates of transi)ortation. It affects him in the same way. t' Then we have other obsta(-les to di-al with. A Province blessed with fertility of soil, ai.d a mild, e^piable climate, is al.so fertile in weeds, described as plants out of place, and is favourable to the devehiptnent of disease and insect pests. That is to say, plant and insect life is jjiolilic, and the careful farmer is ever on tlie alert to ki-ep his farm clean, and in jjreventing and exterminating the enemies of his crops. There are also in some localities animal pests, such as destructive birds, coyotes, etc. Vk Competition v.'ith imported farm products is another thing the farmer has to contend with. In former years, in fact until very recently, merchants imported all kinds of farm ])rf>duce from the neiglibouring States and from the Kast, and dealt very little in home farm jiroducts for the reason that the latter was for a long time insufficient, and very irregular and uncertain in supply, and badly marketed. This was a condition very hard to overcome, l)ecause the farmer could not deal with the merchant and was obliged to find private customers. This was mm 46 HRITISH COMMIUA HOARD OI- TKADK. finally, and is beinj^ continiiallv more atist illustratc'tl in tlu- protlt xhihitcMl at the recent rrovineial Ivxliihilion held at New Westniinsti-r. No rrovincf? in Cana^ethir, the show alforded an object lesson. Certain it is that all tiiose who have entered seriously into farminj^ in British Columbia and exercised j^ood judj^- ment in selection, worked intelligently and industriously, eschewed outside specidations, and ki-pt the goal of success steadily in view have prospered. I A BRANCH OI- URITISH COLUMBIA CHERKn':S. ai'1'i«:ni)ici':s. 49 Exports from British Columbia To l"(Hiiili ii's <)Ut>iiilf urCaiiaila "I I'tniliuls ol AurK'nltiiic and iIh llraiK'lKs, lor tlitcf yeait ciiilitiK V'tli Jiiiif, iHc/7 (The I'lxpurtH to tl>«? oiluT I'mviiu-c-i in llu- Dominion nre not inclnilcd.) Yfar I'lidinK Ji'lli Vcai i-ndJnK J'->tli June, iHi^s. |i""'. \^/<. Uiinn- tlty. I.IVIC vStock. Horses hentl Horned Cuttlo. " Swim* " Poultry and other ani- mals " Mkats, I'Vi'c Hides, horns and skins (not fur) Hacon lbs. Ik'ef " Hams " I'ork " Sheep pelts No. Wool lbs. Grain, Skicds, Hrkad- STiTi.'Ks AN'u Products ok. Hran cwt. lUirley bush. Oats " Peas " Wheat " Flour bbls. Hiscuits and Bread. . . cwt. Oatmeal and all other bbls. All other seeds " P'RlTlT.S AND VKCETAHI^ICS. Apl)lts (j^reen) bbls. Fruits ^ 'tanned) lbs. Other fruit " Potatoes bush. All other vegetables Dairy Product.s. Butter lbs. Cheese " MI.SCEI.LANKOUS. F^ggs doz. Hay tons Straw " Trees and bushes Hops lbs. Bones cwt. Tallow lbs. Honey " Malt bush. Other articles 36 4 Viittie. 1,442 600 205 172 i^iaii- tily, Valnr Vt-ar f'ndiiiK .("tli Jnni', iM«j7, tity. 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Exports the Produce of Canada From the Province of British Columbia for 27 Years, Ending June 30, 1898. h Aiiimals and their Agric'l. Miscet- Year. The Mine. Fisheries. Forest. Produce. Products. laneo'is. Total. 1872... .•$■.389,585 S 37.707 $214,377 $214,700 $ «42 $ 1 .5.10 $1,858,050 1S73... ,. 1,224,362 43.361 211,026 259,202 2,885 1. 197 1,742,123 1874... .. 1. 351. 145 114,118 260,116 320,625 5.296 443 2,051.743 1875... .. 1,929,294 133.986 292,468 411,810 9,727 2,777.285 1876... ., 2,032,139 71.338 273,430 329.027 3,080 68 2,709,082 1877... .. 1,708,848 105.603 287,042 230,893 3.083 1,500 2.346,969 1878... .. i.759.«7i 423 840 327.360 257,314 462 2,768,147 1879... .. 1,530,812 633.493 2,'3.366 268,671 2,505 57 2,708,848 1880... .. l,664,62fi 3i7.4«o 258,804 339.218 3,843 100 2,584,001 18S1... • • 1. 317.079 400,984 172.647 350,474 248 22 2,231,5.54 1882... .. 1.437.072 976,903 362,^75 300,429 946 2,616 3,o8o,S4i lS8^... .. l,3i>9.646 1.332.385 407.624 287.394 6,791 443 3.345.263 1884... . . 1,441,052 899.371 458,365 271,796 1.745 1.413 3,100,404 1885... . . i.759.5'2 727,672 262,071 414.364 2,324 5.948 3.172,391 i886-. . . • • 1.720.335 643.052 194,488 329,248 1,907 2,bil 2,89i,,Sii 1887... . . 1,832,827 9«o.559 235,913 380,126 10,265 1,911 3,371,601 1888... . . l,HSy,So5 1,164,019 441,957 3 "8,839 27,631 85,826 3,42S,o77 1889... . • 2.377.052 993.623 ^49,026 397,6^5 14.831 102,089 4.334,306 1890... . . 2.375.770 2.374.717 325,881 346,159 9,823 113,271 5,545,621 1&91. .. . . 2,030.129 2.274,686 374.996 294,646 5,017 20,434 6,257,158 1892... . • 2,979,470 2.351.0^3 425.278 390.5^4 25,018 31,976 6,574,989 1893... ■ 2,898,947 1,501,831 454,994 310,621 30.173 446,231 5,642,797 1894... • ■ 3.521,543 3.541.305 4 '1, 623 149,269 23.323 196,895 7,^43.958 1895... . . 4,615,452 3,264,501 500,080 457.373 21,774 261,918 9,121,098 1896... • . .■.7f'3.253 .,2.S8,776 685,746 437,864 , 61,414 338,471 io,57f.524 1797..- • • 8,909,592 3.567,815 742,173 307.845 104,744 552,539 i4,iS4.7o8 1898... • • 11,973,671 3.846,951 425.751 285,007 78,977 262,834 17,239,197 1872-J I, ,858,050 1873- 1,742,123 1874- 2,051,743 1875- 2,777,285 1876- 2,709,082 1877- 2,346,969 1878- 2,768,147 1879— 2,708,848 1880— 2,584,001 1881— 2,231,554 18S2- 3,080,841 1883- 3,345.263 1884— 3,100,404 1885- ^.172,391 1886— 2,8gi,8ll 1887— 3,371,601 1888— 3,928,077 1889— 4,334,306 1890— 5,545,621 1891— 6,257, J58 1892— 6,574,989 1893- 5,642,797 1894- 7,843,958 1895- 9,121,098 1896- 10,576,524 1897- 14,184,708 1898— 17,239,177 Exports for Each Year From 1872 to 1898, Inclusive. Scale, ji,ooo,ooo.oo z= ^ inch. APPENDICKS. 57 i i o 2; en C o H o z £ OL z (0 u. o CO 03 UJ QC O O DC Q. o CO v£) lo ri" fO CO, •O O CO VO d CTv 'I- t CO On P^ 8 3; S^ S ^% 2 ? -*. "? 't <** 00 Tf On <> d\ ro f>r Cr» t^ r4 U5 CO CO a o H o On a^ t^ CO >0 lO ON C 1^ o CO fD M \£) On O O rO ►H fN (N O CO 1^ \0 •to ON (N NO lO VO CO On w MM CO On (N PI VO CO PI PI d o hT i-T O fO ON lO fO NO fj CO lO CO o o o o rO On w .^ VO in I-" O n PI r<5 f^ 't >0 fO >0 r>. On ^■-. 0^ M GO On f' NO t>. U-> CO CX3 MM to N fO CO fO lO to t O -"I- PI CO l-l NO NO O fO PI 1/) r^ ■<*• C3 w m M On M oo M O M PI PI On Tt lO lO ■* O 1- Pl lO i-( i-H rO CO ON NO M lo OD r-. " S' NO »o M 00 CO O 1-1 •I M NO PI O O PI t^ ■^ r- ON NO ^ o 1- NO fO l-l ^ f^N NO M W M £>. Tf Tt t-C PI W PI M lO t>. fj M « VO M to O ■* fO 1-1 ^* rj- lO NO lO CO M M M O On ? ^ -^ -I -5 ^i ^5 51 5 3 o (A s U to w Ih s V 0) U nj CO rr o ,8t7 -8.^ 2..V5«.-S«5 88 ; 4,089,788 9.^ «, 927, 979 287.963 471.777 ^I7.95« i.7'\S 59^' i.979,iA> 2,228,047 2,177.799 2.135.44.^ I 63.8 I 7.V8 I 118.3 I 10.9 I 12..S 2.7 — '-5 etc, Registered sea-going tonnage carrying cargo out of the rrovince, PKRIOI). Total Tonnage. 1874-7^. i 7.15.9.^6 1S79-83 ; 1 .058.566 1884-88 I I.9'^5.o85 1889-93 3.928,138 i^94 1895 1896 1897 Yearly Average. 147,187 211,713 3«7.i'i7 785,628 830,408 9 '4.53 1 953.. "^u I 913,886 I'er cent. t 43.8 • 82.8 I 103.0 I 5-7 I 10. 1 I 4. — 4.1 etc.: Registered sea-going tonnage carrying cargo out of the Pix)vince, Per TOD. 1874-78. . 1879-83.. 1884-88. , 1889-93. . 1894 if-^95 1896 1897 Total Tonnage. 703,881 I, 300.319 2,154.703 4,999,841 Yearly Average, 140,776 260,064 430,940 698,968 1,149.561 1,313.516 1,214,496 1,221,557 Per cent. 85-0 657 132-0 15-0 14*3 7-5 o'6 AI'IM'INDICICS. 59 INLAND REVENUE, CANADA, Divisions No. 37 and 38. •;iiterf(> forCoiisiiiniitioii July int, :«'<;, lojimr 30II,, ih.,h si:ir!Kcxport«i\;;;:::;::::::-; .''••''•'';«"•'"'-■ No. 37, N(i. 38, •V'icloriii, It.C. fViiiic-ouver, II. C. Mnll UlH. Miiiuifactiired Tobacco '.". ^^^^ o , "r " '■-''IxTled .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'..',', " ■ Rnw I.caf " r. Cigars, ex- warehouse , .....,!.,'.'.'.'.".' j^-j .Si,79« 32,3f) lector of Cu.stoms, for tl.e following shipping infonnation • " Ve.ssels e.nployed ,n the coasting trade of the JXnninir.n of Canada arrived at and departed Ironi Victoria, H.C., during the vear ending 30th June, 1090. ' " "-" No. Vessels Arrived. ^^ ^ Vessels Departed. ■494 533.9.4 ,^2,42. 1491 „3,^Hy J-^'a];- Vessels entered inwards for sea at Victoria Juring year eudi„K 30th June, 18..8. No. W.th Cargo. ^^ In Ballast. Vessels. Tonnage. C^ew. Vessels. Tonnage. Cr'^w ^^'' 527,903 28,730 446 43,,3,7 „_4^; Ves.sels entered outwards from sea during the year ending 30th June iSgS No ^'"'''^ ^■'''■^'°- N ^" "'^""^'- ' Vessels. Tonnage. c'rt'w. Vess^'e^s. Tonnage. cSv 5«5 510.455 27.134 636 444,997 ,6_^^ endiT;g3o^h}"\\V,°;8i8^'°'^ ^"'"""'^ ^-^'-^^^-^ at Victoria, during the year NO. """"• Tonnage. no '''^''''''^- ., .0 "• Tonnage. lO 4222 o * 254 III 'ft If I ft •*•' i';.. -•% If mm HRITISII COIvUMHIA IJOARI) ()K TRADE. EDUCATION. The school ayHtcni of Ilritisli Colmnbin is frtc, iinii-sectarinti, iiiul ciiuaUy as efTicleiit as tliat of tmlario or any of the luistcrn I'roviiiccs. '['Uv (■■ovcriuiuMit builds a scIiooI-Ikmisc, makes n j»;raiit for incidentnl expi'iisfs, and pays a ti-aclier In evi-ry district where twt-iity children between the ages of six and sixteen can be broiiubt toKetlitr. IIlKh schools arc also established in cities, where classics and higher mathematics iire tauKlit. Several Iliilisli Columbia cities also now have char>{c of their own public and hinh schools, and these receive a very liberal per capita yrant in aid from the Provincial (•ovcinmcnt. The niininiuin salary paid to teaclicrs is |;,',.ch) per month in rural districts, u)) to|iio.oo in city and hiyh schools. Attendanci' in ])ublic schools is compulsory. The Education Department is presided over by a minister of the Crown. There are also a supcrintciulent and live inspectors in the Province, also boards of trustees in each district. 'I'lie following statistics are taken from the report of tlie Honourable the Minister of I'iducation : — Ni'.miu;r ()!■ Schools i.n ()I'i;k.\iio.n. Hifjh Schools 4 Graded Schools 22 Common Schools 213 Wartl Schools 5 STAriSTIC.M, AnSTKACr {)!■ ArTI'.NDANCK I'OK IS96-97. 244 Number of pupils enrolled during the year I5i798 Increase for the year ii.'?3S Number of boys enrolled 1^,105 Increase for the year 668 Number of girls enrolled ... 7,6q3 Increase for the year. 670 Average actual daily atlendatice 9.99y.6i Increase for the year 74.S-3f' Number of pupils enrolled in High Schools 461 Increase for the year i Average actmil daily attendance in High Schools 279.68 Average actual daily atteiulance in f'.raded and Ward Schools 5,912 06 Average actual daily attendance in Rural Schools 3,807.87 Number of School Districts at the close of the year 199 Increase for the year 6 *i|f^ A '#i'fe ...J'*- HIGH SCHOOL. CENTRAI, SCHOGIy, Ari'i':Ni)ici<:s. 6i 'Die Krndiiiil growth of the HchooN, nn well as the cost of niniiitiiiiiiiig the Minit-, i>t fully hIiowii by the record of attfudniicr and i-xjienditiirc Kivfii in followttiji; exliibit :— CiiMI'AKAriVK SrATKMKN r >Hl-S2 . i^S2-83,. is\v«4-. I hS4-85 . . lSH5-h6 . 1SS6 K7,. 1SS7-8H., 1SSS-S9.. iSHq-yo . iSgo-yt . iSgl-ya. 1S92-93.. 1S93-94., rS94-y5.. lS9,s-96., 189(1-97., Njimber of School Districts. as 37 4t 41 42 45 45 S 50 59 67 I 95 104 109 133 141 154 169 178 ■83 "93 199 AKKrt'Kate l''.m<>liii('iit. t.ojs I .Vi 1 .'"'^S 2,198 3,31)1 2,4fi2 2. .^71 2.^53 3.4 ?<> 4,027 4.471 .■^.345 f'.372 6.796 ,>S,ci42 ().2fiO 10,773 1 1 ,496 I2,M3 I3.4«^ 14,460 I5.7'>'< Average Daily Attetiddiice. 767 H6^ 9H4 1,260 I 39.^ ^o I,315.<)0 l.^93.'.*3 1,366,86 i,,^>>3"o I,8(iH.6() 2,089,74 2,4s 1.4H 2,^73.3S 3,cH)3.46 3 6S1.14 4..^33.y> .'^.I349> 6,227. l>,6lo.3I 9.Z54.2.S 9 999'^ 1 I'ercftilnK'' of Attendance. 55-93 61.60 ftl.51 .SX.39 63.06 «i3-49 57. 19 52 5^ 53.16 ^1,21 s I if> S2.88 ,<;i.89 55.50 53-75 4«-54 54.16 53 ^9 55-45 ,S7.8o 61.85 61.72 63.86 64.00 63.29 Kxpendittire Mdiicalion I'rojier. $ 36.-63 77 35.2H7 ,S9 34.«22 28 44,506 1 1 47.129 <\\ \ 43 ,m "I *22,IIO 70 47,iM]6 10 46,960 69 49,268 63 ,50,850 63 66,655 15 7'. '51 52 79.527 56 88,521 08 99,902 04 108, ujo 59 122,084 83 1.1^^,901 73 160,627 80 i9o.5.S« 33 169,050 18 if*9-<'37 25 204,930 32 220,810 38 Half-year. M ill STEAMSHIP "islander," VICTORIA-VANCOL'VER ROUTE. 63 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. MINING STATISTICS. Report of Minister of Mines, December 31st, 1897. TABLE I. Total I'RODrcTioN i-or aij, Vkaks vv to 189S. Gold, placer $ 59.317. 47.> Gold, lode j, 300,689 Silver 7,301,060 Lead 2,971 ,618 Copper , 521,060 Coal and Coke 36,626,585 Building Stone, Bricks, etc i,350,oot) Other metals 25,000 $112,413,485 The following table shows the steady rate of increase during the past seven years, and of the marked increase during the jiast year of 1897. As stated before, the influence of lode mining begins to be felt in the year 1892, since when the rate of increase has been entirely duo to the pioduction of the metalliferous mines, as the output of the collieries has not increased. TABMv II. Production for Each Year from 1890 to 1897 (inci.usivk). Yearly Y?ar. ^ Amount. Increase. 1890 $ ^608,803 1891 3,521,102 35 p.c. 1892 2,978,530 1893 3.588,413 21 p.c. 1894 4,225,7^7 18 p.c. 1895 5,643,04.? 33 p.c. 1896 7,507,956 34 p.c. 1897 10,455,268 40 P-c. APPENDICES. 63 Table III. gives a statement in detail of the atnount and value of the different mine products for the years i8y6 and 1897. As it has as vet been impossible to collect the statistics regarding building stone, lime, bricks, tiles, etc., these are estimated for 1897, but not estimated for or included in the output for 1S96. However, although 1896 showed a very decided increase over 1.S95, 1897 shows a still greater advance in the production of goUl, silver, lead and copper. TAHLE III. Amount and Value of Matkrials Pkoducud, 1896 and 1897. Customary Measures! 180€. 1807. 1 1 Quantity VhIuo. (luantlty! Value. Uol,.'<4:! 2,UM),;>'.i i,472'.t71 :i,-'72 83f> fopper Leail :t,M«,;Vxi V.Ht.'S'C, 5,:e">,lM' 2ti(;,2."p8 24.1'.i!l,',i77 721,;iH4 :?«,H41,I:!."> l,:i".K) .517 Coal 81»4,.SS2 2,C.S.M.f,(;(; M2.H54 2.()IK.r)(12 Coke Other material tU.) ;{,07') i7,b:{2 H;t,i')5 I'i.OOO 1,M,'!00 ? 7,507.'.t4(i ||10,455.2H8 TABLE IV. Production ok Metals per District and Division. Namk. C.KMWX} Hnrkerville Division. Li(,'l)tnintj;<'reek " Qu€'8nellcmoutli " Kftthley Creek " Cah«iar Kkoiknav, Ka.xt Kor>TBN AY, Wkst Ainsworth Dfvisloti ... Nelnon " 81o«aii TniilCreck " Other piirtH Ill.i.fx>KT V A J,K Oja/jrroH BimiUiimcen y«ie OTHBK DIHTKICTS Divisions. D18TKICTS. 18%. lh'.)7. 189)). 18',I7. I ! I $ M2,'.KX) if 6.'.,()00 5:t,000 2:),(HK) .^I.IOO :J5()00 I".i7,0.'i0 200,000 f. ;{84,050; I 32.5,000 :}i.5,(;2t') ■515,.52!i 1,.S.>1,011 1,2 13,:«;0 14,2091 44(),.54.5 7H<.t,215 ;j,280,f.8t> 2,()'.»7 280 157,977 •21,0(K)| :i7,0(i0 1,'')4,427 l():!,/'.)rt 4,002,7:5.5 tl,7ti.5,-03 l)il,220| 9,0001 6.5,10.s 142,982 •2.5,100 ■58 ,080 :!:i,t'i(),5 20(1,078 15,000 a9,840 226,762 9,:!90 1 i __ > 4,816,955 >7,.567,.5.51 ^or Canniar, the production of $25 000 In 1896 from Omlneca wa8 lately reported For more detailed statements see report on Slocan and Trail Creek Division. It *S1' 64 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OV TRADE. Placer Gold. Table V. continues the yearly production of placer gold to date as determined by the returns sent in by the banks and express companies of gold sold to the mints, and from returns sent in by the Gold Com- missioners and Mining Recorders. To these yearly amounts one-third was added up to the year 187S, and from then to i.Sgs, one-fifth, which proportions were considered to represent approximate!}', the amount of gold sold of which there was no record. The gold output for 1S97 shows no advance over 1896. This placer gold contains from 10 to 25 per cent, silver, l)ut the silver value has not been separated from the totals as it would be insignificant. TABLE V. YlKLD OF PlACHR GoM) I'KR YKAR TO DaTE. 185S $ 705,000 1859 I.615 070 1S60 2,228,543 l36l 2,666, r 18 1862 2,656,903 1863 3.913063 1864 3.735.«50 1865 3,491,205 1866 2,662, 106 1867 2,480,868 1868 3,372,972 1869 1,774,978 1870 1,336,956 1871 1.799,440 1872 1,610,972 1873 1,305,749 1874 1,844,618 1875 2,474.004 1876 1,786.648 1877 1,608,182 1878 $ 1,275,204 1879 1,290,1)58 1880 1,013.827 1881 I 046.737 1882. 188^ 18S4. 18S5. 18S6. 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. 1^92 . 1893. 1894. 1895- 1896. 1897. 954,085 794.252 736.165 713,738 903,^51 693,709 616,731 588.923 490.435 429,811 399,526 356.131 405.516 481,683 544.026 513.520 Total 159,317,473 TABLE VI. Since last report further information has been secured that has modified in some details this table as it then appeared, more especially in reference to the production of lead. This information of production in the earlier years is obtained from the *' Mineral Statistics and Minos for 1896," Geological Survey of Canada. Al'PKNDICES. 65 PRODUCTION OK r.oDi: MINMCS. > Gold. Oz. , Value. 1887 1888 1889 1890 189 1 1^93 1893 1894 1895, 1S96 1897 T'ls SlI.VKK. Lead. 1,170 39.2*^4 62,259 106,141 23.404' 125,014 Oz. 17,690 79.780 53. '92 70,427 4.500 77,lho 227,000 746 379 Value. ! Pounds. 785,271 1,496,522 i,244,iSo 3.135.343 2,122,820 5,472,9; I I I 17.331 75,o- -Placek. Gold — LODK. Onnces Value. Ounces Value. Cariboo ? HarkorviUo I>lvisiun 1896 4,145 3,250 2,650 1,250 2,555 1,750 9,853 10,000 1,050 1,853 1,054 *600 82,900 65 000 53,000 1.V.I7 LiglitniiiK rreek " ISOC. 1.S97 25,000 51,100 35,000 197 050 200,000 21 ,000 37,0(10 21,076 12,000 Quesnellemouth " WM\ 1897 Qtu'snelle Forks, Kei 'ilev Creek Division .' 1896 1897 Cassiak 18'.m; 1897 KooTKNAY, East 1S96 18971 2,497 KooTENAY, West ' * AiuHwortli Division 1896 Nelson " 1897 1.H90 IS97 189(; 1897 5,556 30, 100 50,011 16,5(10 3;',,5(17 ;W,0T.") lis 80 1 275 5,566 236 2,076 152 193 55,275 97 024 35 9 ii8 4,720 11 5'H) Sloenn " 3,040 3,8(10 1,104,500 1,940,480 700 180 Tniil ("reek " 189t; 1897 Otlier " 1896 58 1897 1,781 1 1896 231 300 1,683 1,874 1,627 6,000 33.665 37,480 LlI-LOOKT \.\uv. 1897 755 2,;-.c, Osoyoos Division 18% 6,561 6,(174 131,220 133,480 t Similknmeen " 1897 1896 6,098 4(0 450 1,175 3,255 2,934 260 8,800 9,000 23,.500 65,108 58,680 5,000 1897 Yale " 1896 1897 1897 1897 1896 1897 290 Other Districts 47 910 t Building stone, bricks, etc ' 109,362 27,201 25.676 62,259 106,141 Totals $544,026 ?513,520 11,244,180 12,122,820 *No returns of placer gold. t Yield of platinum for 1897, |1,600. ,720 ,500 I, -ISO TOO ISO ,220 .480 '.MO .1^0 ,h20 ■ * s I (■ 'A- li It .t MINING IN HRITIvSH COLrMBIA. 1. A Mill in Cariboo. 2. Hydraulic Miiiiii).^ Ditch, Cariboo. 3. I'liion Coke Ovens, Vancouver Islatul. d> M o 3,(1 1 i: 5,47; APPENDICES. 67 MINK8 FOR inm AND 1807. Silver. Coi'PER. Lk4i>. Totals kok DiVISIoNH. Ounces | Value. Pounds.; Value. ! Pounds. Value 1H% 18!t7 «-MK)Oi.... 73,790 116,t).')7 19,443 <19,7t)0 53,000 .1 51,100; 25,000 197 050 200,0001 2,808.411 2,2914.")! I X3,908 82,o:?« Totals fou DiSTKICTH. 1H9.) 1S97 ? ! s 384,050 ;{2j,000 "5,000 . . , 3;j,000j 21,000... 154, 1271 . , i7,0tK) 371,097 524,578 2'>0,()t)5 . . . 313,1)97 I 1C)3,796 4,002,73>| r),7()5,703 - m O < 03 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. 9 >o >o' x" »c "x" ''x/j i/^/ o ^C ClO rO CO a* lo f^ r>'\0 8 s C5 is u - U O u n C5 o o-:: S -' ^ » ■" tl o '■J u = ■5 = 55^ d'J ^5 S'- ^ o 6 = 55 = = !':^-S — -i) K - r« S "Ci." S > w U ^ ^ -* « i! a - z -.--:? - -'" '-' 6 q- 'X < ss s u .= ai -r. > rt c8 S , : ua- c-^ ^ 1- s - •3 4; 'J »■• O ba c s 6 A (J O g « c CD u pa « c > 3 iS •' '3 t x: — ' •' ? Si: - 5 U 5 , . — ^ ^ •* r'" L, >- rt •a o u B I Em a< u 7.^ o it (-1 ^ o '■J IS u •O a c« bo <2 -xu -1^0 -y 'JO *^ Q *- r^^c o lA 't IT) m ^ ' o fO ^ ^ 5^ r^^ g '^^ N 5 N 00 c v^ 10 1^ ' -. "". ~ "". "^. 'r 9. °. '7 ^'"l f^ <^. N 00 .0 " « "T —"00" ^ Tt- « •»? cxT 0)i •=.So 5 « = ir • .= S'-** o S u '■» ^ s o o<::r Alt f^ ^- ^rf .S bfluis = S c c o o < < < K P5 ** C t» •i a es apao o s : o 5 • « cs • u •7. :pa o „ O O'X «&«•- • •— •" til c c t. •- 3 11 <« * c ;S!'-'5 6« - - •-5^ a E y i! O 3 •- ,s" 4( .- V. 1- - U U U Q A 'A U< U< U< M , 5 ^ c8 : c s ^ 1« t> t- . - ti 4< d c > > o k< u u u U V V z j3 tf) tn g I/] cs cs .^ .— l_ L- •-* . >1 o w t< sW.5 s ^ n 5 u (S • ^* *-• £?<3 ■ j<« ce s CS (S ^^ cs o ^ "C •- CP^Pi-x w S • &aV ■ Si's o 5" M ^ 1/1 II M u CS a o ^00 5 '7 o ^ o ^^ f^ '^^^ "^ ^ "? ^ ' '^ b_ ^ «M _ t^\ Ml Al b_ _^ u _d K I^N (^ , o o boo o°i u ^ r "S-'Pi9>(7> t • * * * • 'jo_ iovo o_co n o n n ion CT- t>. ro "- i-T r^ lr,^c' •^00" ^ 0« aoaocoaoaoaoaomoiooa : 70 HRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADH. SALMON SHIPMENTS IN DETAIL. 1897 Cases. 1896 Cases. 1895 Cases. 1S94 Cases. 1S94 Cases. ICnc.i.ani) — London direct overland Liverpool direct overl'ind . . . Via other jjorts Overland (previous ye Hasten! Canada Australasia 335.966 4.957 407.738 38,373 ars) . . . 130,815 28,579 226 4.823 74,000 182,253 9.076 322,364 1 1 .405 51.051 1 1 ,609 2,I2.S 3,«44 7.850 96.459 256,301 29.590 65.647 79.283 8.832 4.326 25.952 94.203 222,345 59.296 20,424 76,009 15.078 2.642 4,374 148,332 253.833 25.703 27.445 114.792 8,830 150 2,9^1 Other destinations Local Sales Stocks on hand 8.213 Total 1.015.477 601,570 ^bb.'lUS /1Q4.17I 590,229 » nr. shi]) Br. str. Hr. ship Gi'r. bark Br. bark Ger. ship Br. bark Ger. ship Br. str. Br. bark Swed.ship Dan. bark Br. ship SALMON FLEET, SEASON 1897. Irby Sailed Oct Tekoa City of Benares ' vSeestern ' Lebu Adelaide * c.\.si-.s. 8th 60,452 Oct. 22nd 45.198 Nov. 5th 68,707 Nov. 15th 65,954 Dec. 2ist 31.362 Dec. 31st 54,293 To London direct . 325.966 Balniore Sailed Oct. 5th 67,533 Kehrewieder Tekoa Silberhorn ' Lady Lina Irvine lolanthe Oct. I2th 54.571 Oct. 22nd .... 51,721 Oct. 25th 84,107 Nov. 10th 56,249 Nov. i8th 27,080 Nov. 23rd 66,577 To Liverpool direct. . . . 407,738 Total by sea to Kngland 733,704 AI'IMCN'DICKS. 71 RECAPITULATION of thf YifUl ami Viiliu- <>( the FislierlM of Hritish Coliitnbiu (.»r tin- V«ar 1H./1. Kind! ofFiih. Qiiniitity. Price. Salmon, 111 one pouti'- cans fre^th " suited I.hs ......... Brls. " smoked Stiirucoii, Cicsli, dressed llHlil.iit, rush U»t. II II MerritiK, fr''sh M sitiiiWed " sfiUed BrU ( )o1ac>inns, fresh r,b». " smoked II " satl( jSo.joo n) 1 ,000 l,0ound can. Crabs r,hs. .Abelotiies Shrimi)s and prawns Caviare Isinglass Fish oil Calls I'lstimate ni tish consnmed in the Province and no included in the above 16,944 15 2,780 30 61,500 I Value. |i.'V "o 10.337 50 ly.oas 00 I l.t,H27 Ho S,7,V' 00 J, 'o«. 00 5,1 K)C. 00 |M,0(X> 00 950 "" lo.hoo 00 fj.^i^O 00 31, J/) 00 2.75" "" 14.360 00 7(M) 00 5ol,ot),^ <>o J,77,s 00 4,o2.S 00 fi.OfKi 00 4K0 00 4,S,M> 00 2,541 6f) iH.fXK) (K) 6oo 00 4, (XX) (X) H30 (X) 750 00 24,')0<) 00 250,000 00 Total I $4.i**3,>y99 "" Capital invested in Fisheries and VishinK Material in llritish Cohimb!.i, iiivi; ding the Fur-seal Fleet, Boats, etc., for the Year i8 S !* % a 73 1 Kran(T KivJT District 2 KlvLTH Inlft District llSliL't'im Riv«r Dihtrict 4 NniiH Kivor DlHtrict 5 KiiHt ('oaHt Cjiu-i-n Clnirlotto Island. . li West Cnant tiiictMi Chiirlottu iHlaiid. . 7 ("iipe H('ott t(t (^oinox X «"()in()X to Victoria '.> Victoria to Cape Heale I(t Cape Bcalc to Cape Scott Totals 43 41 i',t;i;M)o 2UM)0 ;!07(K) 11". It 20 11 ....I 60 6 4 120(N) 1H(H) 41M IHO 18 1-. 2Wl :{72 KiO 9.1 26 20 20 (to 2.'> 20 I l.;4o;{(t 1111,0 l;t9io ■JUM 37M) 2(KKI HOO 3r>(l() 12(H) HOO 9ti07 irn2 17(10 410 no (>0 45 120 <10 150 129, 2(16415 373 3718 1641:10 13M5I I I)I8TRICT8. 3 "3 X 33 Kind of -■o" he V br-.. :i^ O £ -— *< ts "• 35 i.' yj 1) to X X 1 2 fi 4 5 (1 7 8 9 10 Frascr Rlvor District 192695 NiuiiIkt of M*'ii cii^a^cd in the KLslicfii's, (jiian- Kisli. v\v.. ill tlu> I'rovincj' of Mrili.sh (oliunltiii, for ihr wnv iHJMt. FlMllINd Matikui.ii. KiNDM or I'INII AM) FiNII I'KODVi Tg. (iltl-NetM. KcinpR. HtiirKvon I-liioK and Nf tH » s r i . 1 1 I jS * .f 8 3 i s Olf a c"t Jm e g ^ o ^ i/ 1. o a % o Ji a 3 > u. 3 > aj '" 9 > S Bi i S CO « a 1 1 1 1 ' fi'.mm ■.",15125 2000 :tOO() 14.'>r>t'. 7012 793 ',HIJ59.'> WKMI l.SOirH544 ;i.v>,')«Ki 1 7'>(>0(l THi.'-O :tio 4f..1 KHKl 120 lO.'MlO :*nt) .■),(',t.'>HMH i ll'Oi'i M()250 14)0 217.-) ;t()2.'> 50 rA)o 1.'<(M)00 -w .V)9.'iai2 3 •J17(K1 10275 :mjoo 2:i0 KXM) 1(X) 10(10 •200 50 lOlKXI 1500 10000 2000 703152 4 :«too •r.:, fi rjo(! V200 KMK) :i(N) X*) 450 475 30tl 250 "bO ""•25000 . .. , ' 6 1500 fiOO 7 :hm)C 20 SO(H) 7500 '250(MI « •J(XX) 9 2000 1500 two i;«;o 2(X) 500 6000 •2500 212ltiO 10 (->1K325 4(')4I00 1 10340 ir>80o 19591 15912 2413 r229S95 41350 2t 1853066 :iM0riOO 1 ii FlHH ASM) FrUH PKoDtTCI'N. Valuk. 11 C i 9 O H Assorted or mixed fish, lbs. Smelts, lbs. 2 5 X X « is' n X "3 3! X i 1 lo 1 J 100 1 1 •23=>0(H) lOOO ■2(i.'>00 imHK) KXK) .">00 lOWH) 500 1000 45000 2000 1000 r2;")000 14(X) •25(K)0 IKXXX) 5200 1 1 1 CtH. 2,047,7.'>1 70 537,953 80 58(1,318 70 86,(X)2 70 1(;,390 (X) 8 007 50 8,(155 00 .'.8,u.V. 00 9,72:. 00 ;i5,141 00 1 ia"> 400 1000 ... ' 2000 4 2500 '?. ',>.50 3 500 1000 1'20(X) KKXXI 250 5(XX) 1 "5000 2-jOOO :iooo 10000 15(XXX) 8000 6000 1000 650 2 •i'iOOO 12 tiOOO 5 5000 ....! 10000 .... 10(X) 5 60 .... 6 12.500 7 75 6(X)00.')000 13fl(K)-i-2.'i4N)0 •200 « 5000 ISOOO 5000 HOl<0 9 ;•••■ 10 70 200 3700 . . . ; ;')0(X) 10 ,l'25400 1 lOGO 300000 9500 1 O450O 1 2«7^200 55677 •23: 61500 • 3,3iM.<.KX) 40 501,093 00 15,^280 00 19,:V)0 (K) 3,375 60 250,100 00 in the above.. 14,183,999 00 i m 74 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. i Iril BRITISH COLUMBIA SEALING CATCH, 1897. Vksski.s. Tons. *AKiit's McDonald. Aiiioko . . . Alliel. AlKcr Amateur Annie }•',. I'aint . . Ariftis lU-atricf Boreal is Casco C. J). Rnnd C. C. Cox City of San Diego Director Dora Sii-ward !«;. n. Marvin I'lnterprise ....... }'"avorite , . Fawn Vislier Maid Geneva Labrador Marv Tavlor Marv I'lUen fMiUid S Minnie Merina d Monnt.-iin Chief . . Ocean Hell Otto I'aclivveMi.1 I'enelope I'ioneer Siidie 'Pnr])e> tHapphire South Hend Teresa Triunii)h I'nibrina Vera Victoria Zillah May ^Canoe.s 107 75: iS I 82 S6 66 ' 39 . 63 ' .St 76 46 «7 94 96 69 80 I .S8 ' 21 ' 43 63 97 46 73 23 «3 86 19 70 76 56 109 21 63 98 99 60 60 66 PARTtCULARS OF CATCH. Hritish (.'olnniliia Coast. Japan Coast. Vicinity Copper Island. liehring Sea. ■r. "a I c z Total. s 23 286 I 26 96 »o3 385 354 •9. 45 7" .S5 308 I 373 5 147 63 39 I 52 154 21 29 7 14 80 123 59 12 ,s 13" 128 9 89 210 9 «55 no 32 3 3.S •23 17 1.54 432 381 426 l8t 446 6 i 512 412 1.54 2 4 430 49 139 13^' 257 36S S2y 217 362 66 ^46 637 , 85 163 439 56 182 33 20 68 "18 142 •25 229 167 42 139 7 37 ■■^5 15 30 392 130 369 88 349 127 468 363 40 I- 430 21 7 1138 30 I 35 67 433 152 385 124 39 102 135 558 6g6 3';6 577 1.34 381 299 254 333 307 25 53 195 370 403 449 404 392 10 88 4S9 '■331 040 20 I,2i)S 1 ,064 737 62(1 1 ,06, J 1,438 4'>3 1 ,052 1-339 1,250 553 353 491 27 S04 25 944 2yO 492 343 I 424 411 3 164 3,708 3,263 2,819 3.677 I 3.644 -154 928 6,549-9,058 30,410 41 vessels.. .. ♦ Wrecked 5 miles south of Akishi, Jaiian, 2rHt June, 1897 235 690 48 114 96 399 560 861 142 1,50 680 264 996 1.123 12 959 1. 021 24 H23 878 8^9 98 I 84S 1,760 1 ,c)oS 54" 776 827 i.otH ■r. a >.. — ' I'.S •§•3 20 ID 12 21 8 35 27 14 2 3 II 34 13 30 15 37 45 40 24 9 39 I 4 29 33 5 25 36 32 23 26 |S 19 16 42 38 17 6 22 44 31 t Wrecked, catch of 11 skins lost, yueen Charlotte Islands, April 23, 1897. [ Hurnt at sca.lat 48 '30' N. long. 12s rs' ^V., April 23rd, 1897. ^Indian Catch, H.C. coast. RKCAI'ITI'KATION. Crews. (White. 1 495 Indian. 587 Total. 1,083 Hoats and Canoes. Skamnc Stations. British Columbia and North I'acific Coast Japan Coast Copper Island Coast Mehring Sea Total Indian Canoe Catch Grand Total Boats. 149 Males. 3,363 3.677 4,54 6,549 12,943 Canoes. 28S Females. 3,819 3.644 92H 9.0.58 16,449 Totals. 437 Totals. 5.083' 7.321 1.383 15.607 29.392 30,410 1 APPHNDICKvS. 75 Tmk Skaling Catch kok thk I'ast Iucmt Ykaks has Hkkv : 18.S9 ,i5i3io i«9<' 43.325 i«9i 52.365 1^*92 49.743 1^3 7'».592 1894 97.474 1-S95 74.124 1^9^ 55.677 1.^97 5^,410 LisTur thkClaims for C(-..ii'i;nsatu)n and Awards in Rhstkct ok THiv vSiuzcRi'is OK Hritism Vi':ssi:i,s in Hkhrinc. Ska hv Till'; AlTlIORlTIlvS Ol' THK UnITICD STATIvS. Year. Vessel. Aiiioiiiit *Claiino(l. Atiioiiiit Awarded 1886. Caroleiia $ 38,089 25 Thoniton 42, 16.^ 04 Onward 45.57" '" Favorite 6,2(j2 00 Hlack Diamond 10,6X7 00 1887. \V. 1'. Sayvvard. Anna Heck . . . . Alfred Adams. Dolphin Grace Ada Triumph 1889. Juanita rathfinder Black Diamond. Lilly Minnie Triumph Ariel Kate Wanderer 47.9S4 96 154,309 08 20,746 00 68,S97 71 64.498 25 6i,(X).^ 07 5,325 50 32,481 00 34,622 00 41,901 00 34.574 uo 40,407 00 40,950 00 20,061 00 22,384 00 18,897 00 I 1890 1892. Pathfinder. Henrietta Oscar and Hattie VVinnifred Costs in Say ward case. Personal Claim 21.404 10 11,365 00 6,633 05 62,847 12 22.362 43 22.663 63 !5.7I5 74 5.-^67 O.S .S,()75 CH) 20,262 72 35,058 69 16,362 07 50,883 38 42.3.>9 '■/ 33.7S2 70 2,828 29 •7-195 20,641 22.701 17.571 12,657 23. «I5 7,406 4.565 45 12 31 48 57 77 "3 31 1,170 67 12,021 04 2,965 05 4.344 57 51,091 17 Total f 857,702 23 $473,145 44 •Interest on above at the rate of 7 per cent., from dates mentioned in the particulars until payment. I 7(5 BRITISH COLl'MBIA BOARD OF TRADE. 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In time it will jn'oltaltly breed a f^enerafion of l)ig men. For tiie sjHW'tsman it possesses man\' attrac- tions ; and altliouffli it cannot boast (»f such royal beasts as inhabit tlx^ jnnfjles of Africa or India, or atford such excitement as is afforded 1>y tlu' jmrsuit of wild b(»ar in the foi*e.sts of (Jermany. yet it is toleral)ly l>roud of its f;ri//ly. its bi^ iiorn sheeji and its mountain H(r,\t, imd its l)anther and l>lack bear. It has also tliose nolde animals the waj)iti, th(M'aril)oo and moose, while the black bear and wood wolf are not nncommon. ( )nce njxin a time it included within its limits tlic butfalo. and may yet in its most northwesterly c(tiifines contain a few wood ])ison. rt was once, tt (», a jirolific breeding; };round for heaver, otter arul fox ; and althon^li the numbers of these have bet'ii Ki'<'«itly reduced they are hunted still. In feathered kJIHK- the list is a lon^ oiu', includinf^ varieties of f^rouse, ducks and f;eese. and ])heasants have been ad nnnd)er and are si)readintr ra])idly in the Coast districts. TluTe are also the swan, lieron, bittern, loon and i)elican. Eajyles, hawks and owls abound. Needless to say our waters, (K-ean and inland, te(>m with tish. the I)riiicii)al sought as f,'ame ]»eing trout and salmon ; but food fishes j^enerally, such as ludil)Ut. sturjreon, cod, skil, herrinj^, oolachan, smelt, sea bass and anchovy are found in fjreat abundance. Those who eve?i wish '.() hunt whale, blackfisii and seal, either for fun or jn-otit, may have their wishes Ki"ititied. So that fher«^ is neither lack of abundance nor variety for sjxn't.smen, professional hunter or collector. In fact, there is no el«Muent of k<1 sport, danjjer. adventure, hardshi]), excitement or pleasure lacking;. Tiiere is a plenitude of stimulating scenery— mountain and vale, forest and stream, lake and river, inlet, promontory fjord and Khicier, and cataract, and an invigorating atmos- phere, ple;i;'. nt and salubrious, a combination of favourable conditions and ran; etfeets, a sportsmen's paradise. In the list of big game entitled to fti'st consideration is the grizzly, the monarch of the Rockies, api)ropriately designated i/./*«j/n honiftilis, be(uius(> no othei" animal is so well calculated to inspii'e terror. He is found distributed over the whole of the nuiinhmd of British Columbia, from the south to the extreme north. His home is in tlu^ mountains, where it is well to l(>ave liini unmolested unless eiiuipped with a stout APPKNDICEvS. 8i heart, a swre aim and an nin'irin); riflt>. Thr blark hear is i>s hiniKclf wi'll secn'trd as a rule, and is rarely seen vvifhiu the precincts of civilized life. Next to the jfrizzly in iniiKU'tance is the bi^ horn or mountain sheej) (oris c(inti(/riiMis). He is distrihutt'th paralh-l U]) into theCassiar, and his pursuit affords the rarest sjKn't. A favorite resort is in the mountains of tlie Similkameen country, near the boundary line, where many >ro to hunt him. The head and horns of the male are jn'eatly prized as trophies, and on this account the bif; horn has Iteen ruthlessly slau);htered, especially by Indians, and is becomiiif; rather scarce. On the Arms of th«^ Province this animal is asstK'iated as snpiM>rfers with tlic noble wai)iti, or American elk (Crrris rnnii(frti,sis), rejireKentinf; in a tittin^ way the union of tlu^ Mainland and the Island, the one havinj; its habitat on the fornuT and thi^ other on the latter, and typifvinj^ strength and di^'nity. The wa]nti formerly inhabited tlie southern Mainland as well, but is now exclusively confined to the Island, and is tolerably abundant, chiefly through the interior, west coast, Como.x and to the northward. Assnacrnfi.s), abundant on the Mainland, east of, indudinf; tiie (Cascades, from Kootenay toChilcotin. and the white-tailed or "common " deer {('(iridcns rin/i niiinus), less connnon in this Province and coutin«'d to Okanaj^an and Kootenay, The musk ox {Ktidos fuoschatiin), of which a fine specimen is to be seen in the Provincial uiu.seum, bt-longs to the barreu lands of Canada, very far north. If we except the jwinther, wolf, lynx, wolverine and fox, the fore- A la 82 IIRITISH COLUMBIA HOARD OF TRADIv. ^roiii}; \v(tiil(l (•(»iiij)l('t<' the list of h\n finuw. The piintlicr {FcIIh con- en/or), sdiiictiiiifs n-friTcd t(» us rlif iiKmiitain li(ti!, and identical with tli(>))Uiiia or <(»u>.'ai". farflitT xaitli, is not tlu' tVnK'ious animal usually ])icturcd, rarely, if ever, aftackinj; man. but very destructive of sheeji and pif-'s. It is found on tlie Mainland, but is nmcli more common on tile Island of Vancouver. The jrrey or wood wolf (Cu ins itcciilriihilis) is found throutrhout t lie Province at lar^re. but is a solitary beast and avoids the settled districts. The coyote, or jirairie wolf if' hi/raiis) is common in the southern in«"erior. when* it is underst(M)d to be on the nii-rease and descrilied l»y the farmers as a nuisance. The Canada Ivnx ( /.i/ii.r nininliiisis) and wild cat i /.. /xischifiist are both found on the .Mainland, but neither is abundant. The wolverine {(inlo hisiiis) has its habitat on the Mainland, thou;/li not unknown on the Island. ( )n file Mainland, e.ast of the ('ascsides, the cross fo.\ is found. Anions; the lesser animals that may be included as K'Une. are the northern hare (/j/tns nuirrininus), east of the Cascades ; Jack rabbit (/.. /i .rill II lis) iiiid Jiaird's liare (A, hiiiriHi), both belon;,'in^' to the Okaiia^iaii district; the raccoon (/'niri/ini hifur), coast line of the FroviiM'c : laiirl otter ( A/»//7/ niniiilrnsis). throuf,'hout the Province; the beavei' ( ^ V/.s7()/" ///«'/•). likewise ^'ciieral ; musk rat (l-'ilur ::tlii /fu- nis), on the Mainland : the iKK'k<'t ^ropher. in thesoutheni interior: the western ])orcupine i luifhizrn rpizinitlnis). Mainland at larj^e ; and the tlyiii;; s<|uirrel. several varieties of marmots, the brown weasel, and rile American Itad^rer. The fore^^oin^ are nearly all reiu'esi-nted. Anionjr the larger mammals ref«'rence may be iua and blue jnse in alaindaiice, and in the valleys and brush lands and open spaces — in fact, wherever there is feeding ground tlu're they ar(\ In the Cascades and east are the ruftied grou.s«>. Ritdiardsou's gi'ouse, and Columbia sharp-tailed grouse. Willow ptannigau is fcmnd north in I- ■<» X) )ll iir n- 11(1 ill ill ill III or n n S Ui i I I I I 1 ■', ai'im;m)ICi-:s. »5 Ciissiar (•ouiitry, rlic wlutctailcd innrminan at tlu» suimuits of thu Mainland iiiouiitaiiiH, t>xct»i)t the (!(>ast ran>;i'. and tlic nn-k ptarniiKam at till' snniinits of tile niountirins ;,'»'ntrally. The ( -alifcn iiia t|uail and l)artrid>,M' arc ln'coniiiiK coiniuon on \ancoiiver Isliind, liiivinj; been introduct'd from ('alifornia. WattT fowl an', as nii^;lit be t'xjM'ctcd, very abund.iiit, and the mouths of livers, bays and iidrts, as well as inland lakts, marshes, etc, , swarm with ducks and ^'cc-f in the fall and winter seasons. There arc about twenty-six species of ducks rc|a*escnted, of which the mallard, the American K'oldcn eye, butter ball, aiul other familiar species, are very abundant. Of ^eesc, the black brant, < 'anai>tin season. Snipes and plovers, in each of which there are .se\eral vanefies, are more or le.ss common and w idely distributed. The above constitute tlic principal of the liame animals and birds, tuore extended reference to which, in detail, is impracticable. The list is a loiif; one and the Province a wide one, ami to do the subject justit-e would rciiuire a volume, to be written by such an authority as Mr. John Fanning, Curator of the Mu.seuin, to whose check list much (»f this informatiou is to be (U'eilited. The extent of country and variety of conditions which exist in this Province promise a Ki'''iiter permanency for K'anu! than in most countries; but, notwithstanding that, a decided decrease is noticeabli- alre.tdy in some kinds. A spt'cial etfort should be made to preservt; such noble animals as tlu* bi^ lioru, cariboo and elk, else, like the buffalo of the prairie, tlu-y may become extinct. YACHTING IN BRITISH COI.ITMHI.\. 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Dr. Bryce, in " The Climates and Health Resorts of Canada," says : "In all this country," from south of Vancouver Island 10 the Queen Charlotte Islands, " the fruits of temperate climates grow well, and farm animals live out doors the year round. The rich bottoms of the Eraser delta have long been famous for their great hay crops and pasture lands ; but here the extreme of rainfall is met, the mean for six years being 59.66 inches at New Westminster. The climate of the great Island of Vancouver, running north-west across two degrees of long- itude and two degrees of latitude, presents every variety from tht *: t the sea coast, with, as at Esquimau, a very low daily range, and no annual extremes — the lowest temperature in two years being 8 degs. F., the lowest monthly average being 20 degs. F., and the highest in summer being 82 degs. F. — to that as above Alberni on the west coast, where the V^^'^couver range rises first into a plateau to 4,000 feet, and even to 7,500 feet in Victoria Peak." " Apart from the mineral wealth of Vancouver Island, its climate, with every variation possible, becomes most attractive. Its seashore climate is milder than many parts of England, with less rain and less seasonal variations." Attention is directed to the following tables : n '*ii 4 A FAVOURITE CAMPING SPOT. 88 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. ■ hi Hi I It I, ? > AVERAGE MONTHLY AND ANNUAL RAINFALL AND SNOWFALL In inches at ten principal stations in British Columbia, derived from a group of years. Ui'i'EH Mainland A. LoWEll MaINI/AND B. NoKTii-W'i;.-T Coast C. Vancouvkk Island D. Gulf Islands E. January.. . February.. March April May.. June July August . . . September. October . . . November. December. Year Rainfall. Snowfall ^Rainfall., /Snowfall t Rainfall J Snowfall Rainfall. J Snowfall \ Rainfall . , (Snowfall Rainfall. {Snowfall I Rainfall . I Snowfall , Rainfall., I Snowfall , j Rainfall, j Snowfall Rainfall., /Snowfall , j Rainfall., jSnowfiiU , (Rainfall. 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Ke'-eived Orders Issued.! from Public. 67 988 02 53 870 34 147,010 24 145,079 29 728,986 71 654 84 509 4(1 1 493 87 1 58-1 94 0,118 87 ?1,142,97;! 00 ?10,361 98 Total Amount of Money Orrlers Paid. I ;i5 821 74 3'',t96 93 143,075 76 171,02^ 5> 21(1,622 00 ?606,239 95 Table showing the number of post offices in operation, extent of mail travel, estimated number of letters and other articles of mail matter posted in British Columbia during the years ending 30lh June, 1896 and 1897 : 1896. 1897. Number of offices in operation on istjuly. 274 293 EXTKNT OF MAIL SKRVICE. Number of miles of post route 6,640 Annual travel thereon 1.395, 318 Estimated number of letters and other articles of mail matter posted in British Col- umbia during the years ending 30th June, 1896 and 1897 : Letters 4, 175,000 Post Cards 398,000 Registered Letters 118,000 Free Letters I29,8<)<. Number of transient Newspapers and Periodi- cals, Packets, Circulars, Samples, Patterns, etc 461,000 Number of Packages of Printers' Copy, Photo- graphs, Deeds, Insurance Policies, etc 88,000 Number of Packets of Fifth Class Matter, Ordi- nary Merchandise, open to examination 43,500 Number of Parcels by Parcel Post . 30,000 Number of Closed Parcels for the United King- dom and other countries 2,100 4,850.000 505,000 142,000 148,500 400,000 100,000 46,500 16,000 1,850 APPKNDICES. 9J Post Office and Government Savings Banks. Table showing number of depositors in British Colinnl)ia, the amount on deposit, and the proportion of that amount per head of popu- lation on 30th June, 1897 : — Government Po;.t Office Saving? Bank, Saving" Hank. Victoria. Number of offices 26 i Number of depositors 2,392 3.229 Amount on deposit 1578,690.00 $955,804.00 Average amount to every depositor. . 241.93 296.00 •\A.veragc amouiit per head of popula- tion 3.84 6.34 *Av'irage amount per head of popu- 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 lation. Govt. Savings Bank .... $10.18 $9.81 $9.02 $8.91 $9.i5$io.6i * Average based on population of the Province census of 1891. Revenues and Expenditures of the Provinces of Canada, 1897. Provinces. Amount' Amount Revenue. per Expenditure per Head. I , Head. Ontario* $ 4,139,848 Quebect 1 3,877.466 Nova Scotia J | 832,240 New Brunswick* 745,203 Manitoba* ! 683,706 British Columbia^ I 1,383,048 Prince Edward Island* .... I 272,550 Total $11,934,061 *Year ended 31st December. tYear ended 30th June. JYear ended 30th September. $ 3.767.676 $1 68 4,892,282 3 10 ^53.699 1 87 727. i«7 2 26 780,109 3 ^o 1.569,071 10 41 310.752 2 85 $2 36 ,$12,900,776 $2 55 P FACSIMIIvE OF TEN DOI.LAR GOLD PIECES. •I i I 92 :.! -■ lii; i '' I ^1! nRITISH COLUMHIA HOARD OF TRADIv. CAPITAL INVESTED. T'nder this head an fstinij)*e has been based on most comprehensive and, j^enerally speaking, very C()m])lete data contained in the nnnurous returns from all over the Province and from information obtained from a variety of sources. These have been carefully compiled and the results arrived at, after taking into account every business interest in the Province — involving labour of such magnitude — will be surprising to even those familiar with tlie affairs of the Province. It is not claimed that the figures are absolutely correct, as in some instances, where actual returns were not available, they are based on estimates, which, however, are approximately correct, and a comi)lete return would prob- ably modify the total tf) some extent. \or do they include bj' any means all that has been invested in the Province in various ways, but only what may be regarded as in the main live and productive capital. The figures are ; — Amount. Miscellaneous Industrial Establishments Klectric Light and Railways Telephone Waterworks RailwH> s and Telegraphs Steamships and Navigation Mining Plant and Smelters Coal Mining Sealing, Salmon Canning and Fish Curing Churches iud Schools Bank Deposits Municipal Assessments Municipal Public Works and P>uildings Provincial Public Works and Buildings Provincial Assessments. Do.ninion Public Works and Buildings All Commercial Kstablishments Timber, leases and privately owned (value estimated) . Private wealth, less public assets and values, assessed in above $16,260,000 00 2,000,000 00 200,000 00 2,100,000 00 47,500,000 00 3,000,000 00 10.500,000 00 3,000,000 00 3,250,000 00 1,850,000 00 6,500,000 00 45,000,000 00 925,000 GO 5,500,000 00 51.500,000 00 2,800,000 00 :, 500,000 00 100.000,000 00 $307,385,000 00 $280 000,000 GO By the census of 1881 it was shown that there was $2,952,835 invested in industries, and in 1891 that amount had increased to $7,246,662. The wages paid was $929,213 and $5,119,258 respectively, and of the hands employed 2,871 and 11,507 respectively. API'I'NDICI'S. 93 SCALE OF COMMERCIAL CHARGES. Whenever no special agreement exists, the following -.hall be collectable : 1. On the purchase of stocks, bonds, and all kinds of securities, including the drawing of bills for the payment of the same 2*2 percent. 2. On sale of stocks, b(»nds, and all kinds of securities, including remittances in bills and guarantee 2'. '' 3. On purchase and sale of specie, gold dust and bullion i " 4. On sale of bills of exchange with endorsement 2'^ " 5. On sale of bills of exchange without endorsement.. . 1 " 6. For endorsing bills of exchange when desired 2 '2 *' 7. On sale of produce, etc., from foreign port;., with guarantee 7 '2 " 8. On goods received on consignment and afterwards withdrawn 2 'j '* 9. On goods received on consignment and afterwards re- turned by the consignee No charge . 10. On purchase and shipment of merchandise, with funds on hand, on cost and charges 5 11. On purchase and shipment of merchauilise, without funds on cost and churges 7^2 12. For collecting and remitting delayed or litigated accounts 10 13. For collecting freight bj* vessels from foreign Ports, on amount collected 5 14. For collecting general claims 5 15. I'or collecting general average, on the first $20,000, or any smaller amount 5 16. For collecting general average, on any excess over $20,000 2'2 17. On purchase and sale of vessels 5 18. For "Port Agency" to vessels with cargo or pas- sengers from foreign Ports, as under : On vessels under 200 tons register $ 5<" JO " of 200 to 300 tons register. . . loo 00 " of 300 to 500 " ... 150 00 " over 500 tons 200 00 19. For disbursements of vessels bj' consignees with funds on hand 20. For disbursementB of vessels by consign 'jts, with funds on hand 5 21. For procuring freight or passengers 5 ^% I .■■» r .\ n 94 HRITISII COLUMHIA HOARD OI- TKAUK. 22. For chnrtf riiif,' vessels en amount of freif^ht, artiial or fstimated, to be considered as due when tlie ' "charter parties," or nieuioranduni of their c.) For all vessels in tow of a steamer, $2 per foot. (c.) For all steam vessels, other than foreign tugs or tug boats or steamers employed as such, whose master or mate has not a Pilot's license, one-third ('/i) less than the above rates if a pilot be employed. n H- 1 96 BRITISH COLUMBIA BOARD OF TRADE. PILOTAOK DISTRICT OF YALK AND NEW WESTMINSTER. The Ports of the Pilotage District of Yale and New Westminster are as follows : Port of Vancouver ; Port of New Westminster; Port of Yale and the several landings on the Eraser River. (I.) The limit of the Port of Vancouver is iubide a line drawn from Point .\tkinson to the red buoy on Spanish Bank. (2.) The limit of the Port of New Westminster is inside a line drawn between the outer buoys and north and south sandheads, at the entrance of Eraser River. DUE.S. For vessels entering or clearing from the Port of Vancouver the rates of pilotage are as follows : Vessels under sail $4 00 per foot. ' • in tow of a steamer 2 00 " " under steam i 50 " kM PORT CHARCxES. t PORTS OK ESyUIMALT AND VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Vessels bound to other ports, and coming to an anchor in Royal Roads, the Pilotage is free, except the services of a Pilot are employed, when Pilotage to the followirig graduated scale shall be payable : Inside or north of Race Rocks to Royal Bay $0 75 per foot Beachy Head to Royal Bay i 50 " Pillar Point to Royal Bay 3 00 " Cape Flattery to Royal Bay 6 00 " For vessels entering into or clearing from undermentioned ports, the rates are as follows : Victoria and Esquimalt Harbours (under sail) $t, go per foot '* " " (under steam or in tow) 2 00 " " " " (steamers) i 50 " When a vessel is bound to or from any other port in the Province, either laden or in ballast, and does not discharge or receive any cargo, passengers or mails, but simply enters it as a harbour of refuge, such vessels shall be exempt from Pilotage into and out of Esquimalt, excepting in cases where a Pilot is actually engaged by the Master for such ser\'ices. APPENDICES. 97 ESyUIMALT GRAVING DOCK. 1, lA'tij^th of clock to gate, 450 feet, level with keel blocks. 2. Width of gates, 65 feet, ,i. Depth of water varying from 27 feet to 29 feet 6 inches at springs, according to season of year. The use of the dock will be subject to the following tariff, viz.: For the l-'or fach following Gioss Tonnage of Wssel. first il.'iy of day, incliulinK the (locking. unlocking day. For all vessels up to 1,000 tons I^f""* *>o 5 cents per toti From r,o(Kj to 2,cxx) tons 350 00 4'2 " " L 4(» 00 4 " " For all ves.sels above 2,000 tons ^ I'P to 2,000 tons, and 2 cents per f ton on all tonnage above 2,cxxj. All fractional parts of 50 tons to be counted and paid for as 50 tons. KSgUIMALT MARINE RAILWAY. Cradle, length 300 feet. Beam, " • 60 " Capacity 3.oo5 tons, d.w. For scale of charges, api)ly to the Manager. W. F. Hullen, Victoria, H.C. H. M. S. "WARSl'ITE" IN ESaUIMAI^T CRAVI.NG DOCK. 98 BRITISH COLUMHIA BOARD OF TRADE. ,' : Recent Important Placer Gold Discoveries in British Columbia. ATLIN LAKE. ^ Just recently important finds have been made this side of the Yukon boundary line in British Columbia, which have attracted a good deal of attention. News of the finding of rich placer diggings on Pine Creek, a little stream emptying into Atlin Lake, in the northern portion of British Columbia, reached Skagway on August 5th. and on the 13th the first reports reached Victoria by steamer. The discoverer was a man named ^liller, who struck gold there a couple ot years ago, but kept the secret until recently, when he, his brother and some friends made a location, and in two days are reported to have taken out $800. The news spread rapidly, and in a few days hundreds of prospectors had gathered on the creek and staked claims. K. E. Tennant, who was among the first to go in with the rush, reported that on Discovery claim the owners, with two sluice boxes of 20 feet each, took out from $1,400 to $2,000 in three days as the result of three men's work. Other reports have been received, stating that the dirt panned from 10 cents to $7.50, and that this had been found on the six miles of Pine Creek prospected. The diggings are easy of access from Bennett, and the countr3'is of a rolling, open nature, with good timber available. The pay dirt begins at a foot from the surface, and bed rock is struck at five feet depth. The gold taken out is remarkably pure, and is reported to be worth nearly $18.00 an ounce. The new diggings can be reached in less than four days from the coast, going in by the way of Skagway. Pine Creek is in the extreme north of British Columbia and just south of Atlin Lake, into which it flows. Fom Lake Bennett the distance is 120 miles to the mouth of Atlin River, where it empties into Taku Arm ; then there is a mile and a half portage over a level countri*, where a tram is already being built. From here the distance to Discovery is 15 miles, the first seven by water and the remaining eight by trail. Latest advices received at time of going to press, 15th November, confirm the richness and great extent of the gold-bearing area in the vicinity of Atlin Lake. Up to September 15th over 1,900 claims had been staked on fourteen creeks and gulches, and a still greater number of bench claims had been staked. It is said that many of these claims will have to be relinquished on or before June ist, 1899, in consequence of the same person having made more than one location. THP: LnVIBRR IM)rSTRY OF HRITISH COLIMBIA. -rr'^, |( T '■ > I '4 APPENDICES. 99 I ; PLACER MINING LAWS AND REGULATIONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. Placer mining is defined as the milling of any natural stratum or bed of eartli, gravel or cement for gold or other precious minerals or stones. Placer claims are divided into four classes ; and, as the size and location of claims vary, according as they fall within one or other of these classes, it will be advisable, as a preparatory measure, to become familiar with the mode and effect of the classification. The following table contains a compilation of the legislation relating to this matter ; the claims being measured horizontally, irrespective of inequalities on the surface of the ground. " Creek diggings " shall mean any mine in the bed of any river, stream or ravine, excepting bar diggings; and a "creek claim'' shall be loo feet long, measured in the direction of the general course of the stream, and shall extend in width from base to base of the hill or bench on ea-^.h side, but when the hills or benches are less than loo feet apart the ^laim shall be loo feet square. " Bar diggings " shall mean any mine over which a river extends when in its flooded state ; and in " bar diggings " a claim shall be a strip of land loo feet long at high water rnai'k, and in width extending from high water mark into the river to its lowest water level. " Dry diggings ' ' shall mean any mine over which a river never extends, and in "dry diggings " a claim shall be loo feet square. " Bench diggings " shall mean any mine on a bench, and shall, for the purpose of defining the size of a claim in "bench diggings," be excepted from "dry diggings;" and in "bench diggings" a claim shall be loo feet square : Provided, that the Gold Commissioner shall have authority, where a bench is narrow, to extend the limits of the claim beyond the limits of the bench, but not to exceed loo feet square. " Hill diggings " shall mean any mine on the surface t)f a hill, and fronting on any natural stream or ravine; and in "hill diggings" a claim shall have a base line or frontage of loo feet, drawn parallel to the main direction of the stream on which it fronts. Parallel lines drawn from each end of the base line, at right angles thereto, and running to the summit of the hill, shall constitute the side lines thereof. Legal posts shall be placed loo feet apart, on both the base line and side lines, and no claim shall extend beyond the posts so placed. '1 ' I 1^' i a ■ i I' I: i ■ I ZOO imiTISH COLl'MBTA BOARD OF TRADE. In addition to these classes there is a suljsidtHiv class relatitij^ to precious stones alone, a further reference to which will be made when dealing with the granting of leases. The definition *' Precious stone diggings " shall mean "deposit of precious stones, whetlier in veins, beds, or gravel deposits." A special right is given to discoverers of new diggings, this being as follows : — If any free miner or party of free miners, discover a new mine, and such discovery be established to the satisfaction of the Cold Commis- sioner, placer claims of the following si/c, in dry, bar, bench, creek or hill diggings shall be allowed, viz.: — To one discoverer, one claim 300 feet in length. To a party of two discoverers, two claims, amounting together to 600 feet in length. To a party of three discoverers, three claims, amounting together to 800 feet in length. To a party of four discoverers, four claims, amounting together to 1,000 feet in length. And to each member of a party beyond four in number, a claim of the ordinary size only. A creek discovery claim shall extend on each side of the centre of the creek as far as the summit of the hill, but not exceeding 1,000 feet. A new stratum of jiuriferous earth, gravel or cement, situated in a locality where all placer claims are abandoned, shall be deemed a new mine, although mines in the same locality shall have been previously worked ; and dry diggings discovered in the vicinity of bar diggings shall be deemed a new mine, and 7'ice 7'ersa, A discoverer's claim shall be considered as one ordinary claim, in respect to recording, working and representing. Ever}' free miner has the right to enter, locate, prospect, and mine for gold and other precious metals upon any land in British Columbia, whether vested in the Crown or otherwise, except Government reserva- tions for townsites, land occupied by any building, any land falling within the curtilage of any dwelling house, and any orchard, any land lawfully occupied for placer mining purposes, and also Indian reserva- tions. Previous to entry upon lands already lawfully occupied, security must be given for any loss or damage to be occasioned by the miner, and the amount due for such loss or damage if not paid by the miner, may be collected by process of law. A free miner has also the right to kill game for his own use at any time of the year. Ari'KN'DICIiS. lor a.Hln, I T, T";"''^'^ ** nearly as possible rectangular i„ for,,., a 1 marked by four '.-v'al posts at the corners thereof, firmly fixe.l in ul^T: " ''' """'^ ^""'' ^^"" ^^^- "'-'^-^ - ^»>- " i»5tial post." ana on that post shall Jk- placed a legible notice in writing, stating the aTofth r""' ''; '"'*^^" '" '"^"^ '"'' «^'"-'^^ direction, witit the late of the notice and name of each locator. If any s.de line of anv cbu n shal excec.l ,.>. feet in I.ngth, legal posts shall be j.lacerl along such s,de hue. at d>stances not exceeding loo feet. A - legal post - ^;r^'''"r ?"'^'>' "'^' '^"' '•'''"' ^""••^^'^t above the ground, and squared or faced on four sides for at least one foot from the top. and each side so squared or faced .shall measure at least four inches on its ace so far as squared or faced, or anv stump or tree cut off and sciuared or faced to the above height and size. TAHI.R OF CHARGHS. For every free miner's certificate i.ssue.l to an individual « = oo Por every free miner's certificate issued to a joint stock com pany : - Oi) Having a nominal capital of $100,000.00 or less, . 50 00 (/') Having a nominal capital exceeding |ioo,ooo.uo. . . . 100 00 [1S97, c. 28. s. 22.] Kvery substituted certificate ,3 ,. . . I (X) Recording any claim Recording every cer'.ificate of work 2 '!" Recording any " Jay over." or every other record requiredto be made in the ' ' Record Hook " 2 Recording every abandonment, including the memorandum to be written on the record ^ , »-> , 2 sO Por any other record made in the " Record of Abandonments " 2 so For recording every anr.davit, where the .same does not exceed three folios of 100 words For every folio over three, per folio ^o The above rate shall be charged for all records made in the *' Record of Affidavits " For all records made in the "Record of Conveyances," where the same do not exceed three folios 2 so For every folio over 3, a further charge per folio of. ! ^o For all copies or extracts from any record in any of the above- named books, where such copy or extract shall not exceed three folios, per copy 2 Where such copies or extracts exceed three folios, per folio for every folio over three -,•" '^o For hling any document F'or ;. Crown Grant . ^ 5 00 H > I loa HklTISII COM'MhIA MOAKh OF rRADi:. KLONDIKE, N. W. T. 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