BRITISH COLUMBIA 29

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MINING.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s Smelter, Trail, B. C.

of Canada, inasmuch that in 1909 she produced two-thirds as much

in the following metals and coal products as all the other Canadian
Provinces combined, and that, too, in spite of the fact that her iron and zinc
deposits are still undeveloped and mica, gypsum and other minerals which
she has in abundance not yet drawn upon.

Bae COLUMBIA justifies her title as the mineral province

The total provincial production for 1908 of gold, silver, copper, lead,
coal, coke, etc., amounted to $23,851,277, while the production for last
year was as follows:

Goldiplacer ss isa =. See ate te ee ee a $ 477,000
GoldMode seg a ea 4,924,090
Silvers Beer seis ae anit Boge 1,239,270
Cae ere hee ees Ee ee IT is 1,709,259
COp pers Cee ere oe RE AS 5,918,522
Coalesr eo ae ate fies nea Oe en 7,022,666
Oe yt a ee oe SRI, BR ioe ee 1,522,218
Other materialise. SoS Pee ee 1,600,000

$24,413,025

Ore mined in the province during the year 1909, exclusive of coal, was
2,057,713 tons.