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mining purposes. A royalty of 50 cents per 1000 feet is charged on ail
timber taken from the land used for mining purposes.

Fees payable are:—For a free miner’s certificate, $5 per annum;
records, $2.50 each; leases under ‘‘Placer Mining Act” $5, etc., etc.
Incorporated companies pay for a free miner’s certificate $50 per annum
where the nominal capital is $1,000,000 or under, or $100 where it exceeds

that sum.
CCAL and PETROLEUM.

Application for coal and petroleum prospecting licenses must, after
the publication of certain notices, be made to the assistant commissioner
of lands, accompanied by the plans of the land and a fee of $100 which
sum will be applied as the first year’s rent. Limit of land a lincese will
cover is 640 acres. Extension of lease for a second or third year may be
granted. Upon proof of discovery of coal, a royalty of five cents and a
tax of ten cents per ton of coal mined, nine cents on coke, and two and one
half cents per barrel of petroleum is payable: After proof that land covered
by lease has been worked continuously, lessee may, within three months
of expiry of lease, purchase said land at $10 per acre.

MINERS’ WAGES.

The current wages paid in and about the mines are as follows: Miners
$3 to $4 per day (12 shillings to 16 shillings) ; ore shovellers, $3 (12 shillings) ;
labourers, $2.50 per day (10 shillings); blacksmiths and mechanics, $4 to
$4 per day (16s. 8d. to 20 shillings). Board is usually less than $7 (28
shillings) per week at mining camps.

ASSAY OFFICES.

The provincial government assay office at Victoria purchases gold from
the miners at its full value less charges of assaying, which usually amount

- to less than one-half of one per cent. The Dominion Government also

maintains an assay office at Vancouver, where gold is bought on the same
terms. There are also local assay offices with licensed assayers where
assays can be obtained at a reasonable scale of charges.

Windermere Valley, B. C., Fertile and Glorious.