Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1901-03-16
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note: ^ / ^7/^L 1 <- VOL. 4.���������NO. -JO. SANDON, B. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1901. $2.00 PER YEAR. Smelting" and Refining'. The Kootenay people appear to be in earnest in their efforts to secure an independent smelting, refining and exporting system for the handling of the productions of our mines in this country. With the smelters in existence and others projected, fair facilities for present product, this far,would be available; but we must have a refinery on such a financial basis as will ensuie the .sale of our refined products in the best markets of the world as they open. At the present we believe there is a proposition before the Federal House to erect and operate such a refinery, if the government will bonus it to the extentof of $5.00 per ton for three years. This might in the end amount anywhere from $600,000 to $1,000,000. Th is a mount may appear large to some, but it is in reality small compared to wiiat tho government has already done for the iron and other industries, for steamships, railways and tariffs to build up the country in other channels. , On Wednesday evening Mr. G. 0. Buchannan, of Kaslo, addressed a meeting of citizens in favor of sending delegates from Sandon, in common with other districts of the Kootenay, to Ottawa, to press this matter on the government. It is felt that if we show the government we are in earnest through a< forceful delegation there, is a strong probability the end will be gained. After the matter was fully discussed by several, the following resolution was put and unanimously carried: _ Moved by David Heap and seconded by C. Cliffe: ; : 'That this,meeting of Sandon citizens and others interested directly or indirectly in silver-lead mining heartily endorse the .scheme -''outlined by Mr. G. O. Buchanan urging upon the Dominion Government the advisability of granting a bounty amounting to .$5.00 per ton, to any company or companies for lead mined, smelted and refined in Canada... Also that the meeting believes very strongl…
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0183396
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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