is untold riches. Thousands of miles of railroad are being constructed in the West at a cost of over two hundred millions of dollars, and the great flow of emigration always moves West. Hundreds of thousands of people are com- ing every year from the crowded districts in the East. What does this mean? From all reports from the U. S. Government and from the great captains of industry the next three years will witness the greatest prosperity in the history of the United States, British Columbia and the Northwest Provinces. Oregon, Washington and British Columbia have hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile, productive, virgin soil awaiting cultivation, and the Pacific States can provide comfortable homes from the products of the soil alone for more than 25,000,000 people, and with the gigantic expansion of commerce and trade between the Pacific and the Orient—that is sure to come—and is now developing rapidly, the cry for more coal will be heard louder and louder, and in order to supply this increased demand for the precious fuel the production must keep pace with the enlarged consumption. There is a market now for four times the amount of coal now produced. What effect do you think will the completion of the Panama Canal within the next six years have on the com- Merce 01 the-dacitic Coast? “Fhink and draw ‘your. own conclusicns. Investing in Coal Mines is Safe and Immensely Profitable. The best students of economy to-day all agree that as an investment nothing is better and nothing more safe and profitable than high-class coal, providing you have the quantity and the right kind of quality and shipping facili- ties assured. There was never known a failure if the coal was good and of high-class, but inferior quality coal makes a big difference in the ultimate success of operating a coal mine. Poor coal will not sell, while the superior quality will. It costs fully as much to mine inferior coal as it does to mine high-class, but the price is very much different. _ SNiz..__ |