http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0354333
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
is part of: Reports of mining cases
creator: Martin, Archer, 1865-1941
issued: 2017-08-10
issued: 1903
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0354333/source.json
extent: xxviii, 898, 3 pages ; 26 cm
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note: REPORTS OF MINING CASES DECIDED BY THE COUBTS OF BEITISH COLUMBIA AND THE COUBTS OF APPEAL THEBEFBOM TO THE 1ST OF OCTO- BEB, 1902 ; WITH AN APPENDIX OF MINING STATUTES FROM 1853 TO 1902 ; GLOSSARY OF MINING TERMS THE HONOURABLE ARCHER MARTIN " The Hudson'* Bay Company's Land THE CARSWELL COMPANY, Limited, Toronto, Canada. ng to Act of the Parliament of < ne hundred and three, by the Honoj of the Minister of Agriculture. MEMORY RICHARD MARTIN, ESQUIRE, MR (3 geo. iv., cap. 71, 1822). THIS VOLUME |b l&etierenti}) Sebkateb THE AUTHOB. *Notb.—The first statutory protectio mals by any civilized PREFACE. A\NE hundred and seventy-two million, two hundred and forty- ^-^ one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars, represent the value of the mineral production of British Columbia down to the end of the year 1901, and the output for that year was the largest in the history of the Province, amounting to $20,086,- 780. The mineral production of the Yukon Territory for the same year is given at .$18,000,000.* Of the grand total first above mentioned, gold, lode and placer, takes first place at $80,716,006 ; coal and coke second at $54,157,315; and silver third at $16,534,554. Gold, so far as officially known, was first discovered within what is now British Columbia, by the Indians in Queen Charlotte's Island, in 1850, and the fact was reported to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by Governor Blanshard (of Vancouver Island) in his despatch^ of August 18th of that year. The results of expeditions fitted out by the Hudson's Bay Company, and later by others, to work the vein so discovered on Mitchell Harbour, are given in the succeeding despatches in the same blue book. Mr. Matthew MacFie, F.R.G.S., writing in 1865, states thatj "the existence of gold in Vancouver Island has been known since 1850," and Mr. J. D. Peniberton, Surveyor-General of Vancouver Island, says§ that, "In 1852 I broke off almost at random pieces of gold-bearing rock in various places within a wal…
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has type: Books
identifier: KEB349.A47 R47 1903 (LC)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0354333
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Toronto : The Carswell Company Limited
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Law Library. KEB349.A47 R47 1903 (LC)
subject: Mining claims--British Columbia
subject: Mining law--British Columbia--Cases
subject: Mining claims
title: Reports of mining cases decided by the courts of British Columbia and the courts of appeal therefrom to the 1st of October, 1902; with an appendix of mining statutes from 1853 to 1902; and a glossary of mining terms
type: Text