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 The Yictoria Minii and DerelopmeD! Conpy, 
 
 — LUiied LlaMUiy. — 
 
 Capital, $1,000,000 ; tj\ 10,000 Stiores of $100.00 eacfi. 
 
 PROSPECTUS 
 
 AND 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION . 
 
b! Cipy, 
 
 $100.00 each 
 
 RHTION. 
 
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 CoUectio/t 
 
 
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 Ylictoria )i|l)ining anb 0el^clopmeTit C^^P^^H' 
 
 gimitcb giobility. 
 
 CAPITAL STOCK, $1,000,000.00; 
 
 ■ In 10,000 Shares of $100.00 each. 
 
 106 GOVERNMENT STREET, 
 
 YICTORIfi, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
 
 (lncorperat«d Jun* lOtb. 1896, "Companlct' Act, lATft" (Provincial) and amtoding acts.) 
 
 HIRST Trusters— John Bryden, Esq., M.P.P., J.P., President. 
 Moses McGregor, Esq., Vice-President. 
 James E. Martin, Esq. 
 
 Solicitors— Messrs. Hunter & DuflF. 
 
 Bankers — Bank of British North America. 
 
 Skcrktary-Trkasurer- Aobt. H. Swinerton, Esq. 
 
 The first issue of shares will be loo of $ioo.oo each, 
 
 payable I25 00 on application. 
 
 'i. 25 00 on the 1st day of August. 
 
 '• 85 00 on the ist day of September. 
 
 " 25 00 on the ist day of October 1896. 
 
PROSPECTUS. 
 
 1. The operations of the Company will be confined to the Province of British Columbia. 
 
 2. The objects of the Company are generally : 
 
 (<i) To deal in and develop mineral claims. 
 (d) To float and operate developed mines. 
 
 3. For these ends the Company will employ an inspector who will constantly be travelling 
 through the mining districts of British Columbia, and whose duty it will be not to search for or 
 discover mineral leads or deposits, but to personally visit, examine and report on discoveries already 
 made and claims already located and staked off by " prospectors." 
 
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 4. A common form of mining speculation is the employment by a syndicate of a prospector to 
 prospect and locate for them claims. But such a modus operandi is not favoured by this Company 
 for the following, amongst other, reasons : 
 
 (a) The length of time consumed by the employee in prospecting, prior to discovery of 
 mineral. 
 
 {b) The expense consequent on this delay. 
 
 (f) The possibility of no location being made, and if made the uncertainty of its value. 
 
 (d) The risk of bad title from prior locations. 
 
 {e) The temptation on the part of the prospector to locate worthless claims rather than 
 none at all ; and particularly 
 
 (/■) The confinement of chance of profit to this particular prospector's discoveries and 
 to the limited area of his operations. 
 
 5. This Company's scheme is free from the above objections. Little delay and therefore 
 little expense is anticipated. There need be no danger from bad title, and instead of being bound 
 by the success or failure of one isolated prospector this Company has the discoveries of hundreds to 
 select from, and is not limited to one particular creek or district but may choose from the whole of 
 British Columbia. 
 
 6. There are hundreds of prospects to be sold and comparatively few buyers. It therefore 
 happens that the prospector is generally willing to sell either the whole or a part interest in his 
 claim at what appears a very moderate figure. The average price is probably between $200.00 and 
 Jtiooo.oo, and it is well known that at the present moment many a half interest has been trans- 
 ferred for the registration lee, $2.50, alone. 
 
 7. The Company's scheme is to take advantage of the practical experience of the prospector 
 as a di.scoverer of mineral without the delay and expense of employing bin., and to buy from him 
 on the advice of its Inspector, given after careful tests and experiments, such claims as appear 
 therefrom to be valuable properties. 
 
8. The Inspector whom the Company believe themselves fortunate to have cnRflRed is Mr. 
 Dnnran Robertson Irvine, formerly one of Her Majesty's (ieological Surveyors in Scotland, for the 
 last eight years resident in Hritish Columbia, for the most of which time he has been connected 
 with surveys on the Mainland and Island. 
 
 9. When, on the advice of its Inspector, founded on the tests above referred to, the Company 
 has acquired a claim, it will then be subjected to a second and thoroughly searching inspection 
 directed by the Company's Inspector. ' . 
 
 10. Claims found by this second test to be unprofitable will be innnediately abandoned. 
 
 11. But claims continuing to make good showings will be carefully devcloixid in such manner 
 as appears to the Inspector best fitted to thoroughly test their resources. 
 
 I a. When there can be no more doubt of the value of the property, but not until then, it will 
 be placed on the market, this Company probably agreeing to take as remuneration a sum down on 
 account of development disbursements and the balance in fully paid up shares. 
 
 13. Before purchasing claims the Company will especially consider the locality of same and 
 means of communication. 
 
 14. All mining is of course speculative, but it seems not unreasonable to suppose that out of 
 all the claims taken up by the Company some will prove remunerative, and a few good claims will 
 make ample amends for many bad ones, ♦