Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1899-12-02
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xminingrev/items/1.0183171/source.json
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note: *0". ..'-.' niHr. /^' s^^ <$/ VOL 3.-NO. 26. SANDON, B. C.f SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, i893. FIVE CENTS.- ���������������?���������. IBP OUR RESOURCES. let iOs Have Something Instead of Futile Strife. A most pertinent question to ask 'now is, AVhat is the provincial government doing to develop the resources of the country and to settle it with a desirable class of people'! It is admitted ���������oil every hand that the province has exceptional possibilities���������an immense area, a specially fine climate, untold mineral wealth in diversified forms, large nreas ��������� of ranching land, huge belts of (he most fertile agricultural and fruit growing land in the world, with all other natural conditions favorable, immense blacks of forest producing the best building timber in the world, and our streams and rivers abounding in the finest fish, ever produced in inland waters���������everything in fact guaranteed by nature to make tho province the homo.of many times the present population of Canada, in the mercantile, industrial, agricultural and financial classcs,nnd the govornmont is doing little or nothing to secure tho population for which tho country has so many and such varied opportunities. In our cabinets wo have but too often men of but simple mediocrity, wliose chief aim is'to draw their salaries and to hold their parties in power, and a House of representatives, the highest aim of whom as manipulating a sectional vote to secure their return when ever elections may recur. From tho ' standpoints of those classes, their acts may be highly commendable ; but is it all going to develop tho country, by giving it the institutions essential for its growth,advertising it abroad '! Some say the s-ilnrics paid to our cabinet ministersare insufficient to get the beat men in ollice giving their whole time to it. If this is so, by all means double them if necessary. Tha fact of J.ho matter is the province has outgrown a dependent colonial Binge, and loudly calls for local self …
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0183171
language: English
lat: 49.975556
long: -117.227222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sandon B.C. : Cliffe and Son
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text