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.

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