The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-01-28

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The Gold Park Mining Company OF
Tacoma has sold the Eagle mine and q
number Of other claims in the Swauk dis
trict, Kittitas county, to New York
syndicate for $4,000. The claims are sit
uated on Cougar creek, n branch OF VII
liams creek, about three miles north Of
Liberty postofiee. A ten-stamp mill,
with daily capacity of fifty tons, is in
cluded in the sale. The orc is free mill
ing, running from SIS to $35 per ton.
Peter Sandberg and Prof. Olaf Bull are
among the stockholders of the selling
company.
british COlambia'a Exclusion statute.
The following is the full text of the
anti-alien law:
/. That every person viii is not less
than eighteen years OF age and is a Brit
iAh subject shall be entitled TO all the
rights and privileges OF free miner I'M
der this act, upon taking out free
miners certificate, so long as such GER
tifieate remains in force.
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poration shall be entitled to take out q
free miners certificate unless the same
has been incorporated and not simply
licensed OF registered under the laws OF
the province, and unless such company or
corporation is authorized to take out a
miners license by the lieutenant gov
ernor, in council, the word person in
this section shall include only such COM
panies or corporations as aforesaid
3. A miners license taken out by any
person not authorized so to do by this
section shall be null and void.
4. This section shall not affect free
miners certificates issued before the COM
ing into force OF this section, and in case
any person or corporation not allowed
under this section to take out free
miners license has prior to the coming
into force of this section acquired any
interest or any claim under the provi-
sions of the placer mining act, such Ii
eense may be renewed from time to time,
but such renewed license shall not entitle
the holder thereof to hold or acquire any
interest in any claim under said placer
mining act, except such interest so ac-
quired prior to the coming into force Of
this section.
5. No free miner after the coming in
10 force of this section shall hold any
claim under said placer mining act, or
any interest therein as trustee or other
wise for any person who is not a British
subject or for any corporation not au-
thorized to take out a free miners GER
tifcate as above provided.
The attorney general, when the order
for the adoption Of the report of this bill
came up, suggested that the order be dis
charged and the bill recommitted for the
purpose of the introduction of the follow.
ing amendments, which were adopted:
That the order for the consideration
of bill No. 4 be discharged, and the bill
referred back to the committee of the
whole house with instructions TO strike
outsubsection 4 of section 2, of said bill
and substitute therefor the following:
90. A free miners certificate, issued
before the coming into force of this sec
tion, the holder of which is not q Brit.
ish subject, shall not entitle the person
holding the same to take up, record oil
acquire any interest in any claim under
the placer mining act, but such certif
cate shall be valid only with regard to
claims recorded under the placer mining
act prior to the coming into force of this
section, and as to which the holder Of
such certificate was, prior to the coming
into force of this section, the owner either
wholly or in part. Any such certificate
may be renewed, but such renewed Ger
tifeate shall only be valid with regard
TO claims recorded under the placer min
ing act under the circumstances in said
subsection stated
"And also to add to said section 2, thu
following subsection:
80. This section shall not apply r.
persons to whom the lieutenant governor
in council, may, under the provisions o.
the placer mining act, grant lease fol
dredging, or for what is known as ny
draulie mining, as distinguished from or
binary placer sluicing'
This act was signed by Lieutenant
Governor McGinnis on Jan. IS, and il
now in effect, becoming operative as soor
as signed.
British Columbia Minerals.
A table of the yearly output Of al
mines for 1890 1897, inclusive, shows tha
the minerals produced in 1897 were $40,
455,26s in value, as against 81 ,5O7 ,956 il
1895, or an increase of 40 per cent. II
1890 the output Of all the mines was only
&2,6OS ,S03.
The total production Of 1898 will mucl
exceed that of 1897. The district o
West KoOtenai contributed over 95 PEI
cent Of lode mines in 1897. The silver
lead mines of the SLOGAN paid about 81,
100000 in dividends in that year, the ne
production per smelter being 33,567 tons
against 1850 tons in the previous year
The output Of coal from Vancouver isl
and in 1897 was 392, POS tons.-Report o
B. c. Board Of Trade.