PAGEFIV1 itember 17, liK ' THE DAILT NEWS i, ' '' OHBATiON I - " 1 TIN WHISTLE OF PAT DALY, MINER A. . VOW WKKSTIJM. ! In T.I.'.T (OTN- 1.(1 Ll. 17 4Hfjth -vcv.ra' . . iwX.y; ;slaJi- . . . tlK4 .V'.IBtl here on; mueh- i, r, 3 a Us .i I ;.. -.a at fr Br.:ttdci . t.'..t ' ty. "41 . re- : UlMOIli, In the 1 ;iwt-i; t-.- take . !V. 1 .1 L . i- ! nf p' O1IU011- , UA. caumjl geu-infonii'd basalt- i u- us cttti plaint tram !' duplication of Jwo-irfcpvi m OMiMd by in- .vituistwr'aruM to urg- iRITiSH Ci Miiuiiv on i ne u.-y h"r.ic i'm ih-ir fru.'tuet't in 'ar north in the fall. :ug tb Jinking of in itw tist where Jv.adca STtfl- 'T que. t.4tUiilr:y la til Cttuw A station I public a.j ., .! tl. -re i a lack t .. ty iwe:,-' .i "..v'y and qH.' AL-'Ut 76 per "cent it uiirtt: bu. - :i ;n- Seagrams ar.- mui. -a! number, ol ieaS yi-'i . '!.; : much in:.. : re. which ia i' iku'h Wale. .- :i. liawton eiiv, oy . failure ofrpone eveiita cut beeArfiy into the tele aiMt qnottton M: Luw'.oa any. Th tin.- f'.ur !.. : powered t to keep graph revenue. .TdKr iCfTi M. Io4uct'on Increase 1915-1926 treasure house TWENTY years' mining An British Columbia have yielded nearly 8 00-mil lion dollars. Tne last ten years have increased production by 58.9 per cent The value of all Canada's production it 25.70 per citizen, British Columbia's production today, if distributed, would mean S111.46 per pcreon annually! Our mined and treated tonnage Of metalliferous ores reached a record of more titan 5-milllon tons for 1927. . The mine of the mining Industry to the Province it in the distribution of money ia wagea, supplieH, transportation services, ec. And in this respect, 1927 was a record year! The 14.0M employees of the mining indue try were paid wages totalling 2? million dollars . . . or nearly $1,700 each ... the highest average for any Canadian Proviuce. During the year, distribution of eight milHon dollars was made In dividends! British Columbia mines approximately 40 million dollars worth of copper, zinc and lead, a year . . . more tlmn the ret.t of Canada, la gold and silver, our production ranks second ... In coal, third; our total annual mining production today being exceeded only by Ontarte. Sound leglalattoB, good mining laws and lew fees hate encouraged this development and stHHubtteu growth. Although the. proytoclat. AW antmUHCtmtnli nn.i uu: pngr, . . . diptkml ' wii ' desire .. ' c pies tf t' ' - news'ijxr will h-iaf 'tktu. A..u.: , 9 nVJitni mining area has only been euperncially prospected vithin the transportation belt, new ikiJii are developing, new roads and trails constantly being built. Cbutterinl drills sink deeper and deeper $nto the hills . . . heavy ores rumble through the c6iicentrt'rs'. . . fortunes come tumbling from the treasure chest of British Columbia! What was once enly imagined about our mining potential! den, is new proven knowledge. Mining has Income our third largest industry... showing over 67 million dollars revenue a ear . . . proof that prosperity flourishes In ritlsh Columbia. Csp'tf.l from Eastern Canada, the United State, Greet Britain, France . . . seeks investment, thtr great wealth of production, developing so stvadiiy during the past ten years, has established ontidence and aroused koen interest in British Golumhia'e mining future the world yet teHd fit previtKt't 'm tHetnls. ifyot Mtitf -0 ue: tu this out fHtetftit! tIM VANCOCVKH MAN WIUTKK 1XTKB-EHT1NOLY AIMU T; IMONECK OK POUTLANO CANAL (Charle L. Shaw In Finuntml i-.ihi Pat Daly 1 pi ying hji lij wa s again, and that meami every .li.nb going right With Pat, the m:t p.; u.:' eque character that the nilrn-.. of .i.n-thern British Columbia have pr da .1 Jiuit now he 1 playing hi v.c.id back In the lobby ol a Stewart h ,; : but he would ratber be out lu.-e in-aaya he belong In the bald riuecl mountain country cloae to the Aliutnai. boundary watching them tuiat out u:v Rem the mine that made tilin mil- . llonalre and world famou. , I Pat would aooner part with life itseit m their awlgned ware length. (than the tin whtotle that him lr.i;r Anotlter dlaturbing factor la the b!m company during thaac atruil n ' complaint of the Post Office Department pronpectlng yean. "Those tune I pl y-ihac Uie broad caU erf racing and other flnrt In the gold hUU. and when I play them now thy bring buck t:.- i gold hill to m," he aaya. and so pluyy on. . But playing eraay tunc on a uv. whittle iant the only thing Pat dtx with complete auoceas. The thing trwt brought htm to the forefront amor.K Ote veteran of the northern gold tra i.s waa the developaaent of the Premier mine, the wonder property of the Port land Canal country which has paid more tthan UW0)00 in dividend. IILAME Till: WHISTLE ' "rjon't thank ma- for that." Pat will tell you. "You can thank me whlatle. It ihe'd failed me I'd never hare stayed in ihat forsaken oountry and you'd be without yer famou Punster and all Its million. 'Me whtsO waa me company and made it worth eticklng." NO oat know haw old Pat la. and he ; ay he' forgoutci hlmaotf "It's nowhere near a hundred years since I waa bom." he tali you with a twinkle of hi Irish eye. But Pat Daly tuu been a familiar figure In the British (Mumbla mining C3unlry aa long u meat people oare to remember. L.fv wasn't alwy eaay for Pat. but usually be found it pUMant. Ria cheery dls-pMUon aaw to thai; and tba tin whistle helped, of comae. Uiat ci the ald-ttmsrs who lived to grow rich In the Portland Canal country weift tbeeby miauk. thinking it wa some where else. Suob waa the experience of Clay Porter, whs went bask to B)s home in the Middle West a few weefca ago worth more than a million djttvra after tothof Ua hone In the northern wUdtfMas in his successful queH for minerals. Pa Daly, like Porter, probably "flayed a hunch" when he went north apt stayed at Portland Oaiial mcri by coincide! pr than by deaign. Long, lean years followed uik'. tftr found Pat working In half h dswi different camps as laborer and prospector. "It wa tough gofigi " he admits, "but there waa no u?e grjUK-.ng It could have bean far wore " MI'HT HE UOHKKR Other with bearta leas u deserted Portland Qanal In tha period a'. depression, but Daly hung cm and vpartly, that wa due to a plet-e of pr .petlf that caught hi fancy It w.i' toe Premier mine and at that timt o B. Bush and Orant-atahojd were run-ntetg It Time grew worse and B'ih One of trie most optlmlattc mining rar:i ttve north country ever bred was f r -ed to rteae down, ft meant that Pa- nl wa out of a Job. but that did no' asrvern him se much a th- tivvjh! tht the mine waa idle "A g,c" m'.n-should be worked. 8ho no utt-: i taring 5tlll." That waa on c f ir.y alegana. The situation dlaoieaned h :r. IgresUy. feut he ptayad hia tin whlrtl. ' and kept smlhng And than nom' n makv a daring propoaal to him "Why dont you work the Premier ,.jrouretf. Pat" weU ask a atoker to oparatp m IA ocean' liner by hmuelf or por .r to run a train. But Pat Daly ieyef witt' , the idea for a while and K faclni tort him. He whistled louder and nftener and made up hia mind. "Bur I'll ru: It. If they'll let me." toe announced, j I'l.VK NA'I'('1:AL I'AKK IS N"v i,j. J. I,i lALlt OPENED: A jiort;K'' at Sjirui-t- Lake, in Prince Albert National Park, which has just he en opened i;. Premier Mackenzie King. -lie iif Mtarj authority was fDrthcom-...z and i .r nunth he lngle-ja:kcd .-....I ..n.ui i Ai.d drill, alone, and bor- Aed liioi.'j fur Uyiiaiiiite with wluch '.uar ay tfe surface of the won-;lr ratr.-s. hi tj-k tans of ore out o! the mui". but the Premier was not cully accessible Aerial tramwaye and t.ier transudation lacllltlea have been built since, but there were none ol tneat ::. frtys when Pat tolled alone In the v.ik: ri.c-is. Ki- Jut piled hi ore out- ,ide v.k n-jrKu.) 8 lliat those lSjK;d that way migl". e- i (.n uii. ,im:v ' Thing. cl:uiu.i t j or: like that for I cvti. lie if.L'i. Usd to Busa about j il.e proolem oi financing dc.ng things 1 in a big way. a they should be djae. ; j!Du i.x,(-ru 'nUed u Fat ''Dally land rtLt t.i. whutle and thought every-, thing he did waa funny, especially his single-handed Job at the Premier. But .. -u.j L,ut ur Kpokane. whlaUed I Ji..t mjrt crazy iur.ei. got R. K. NeUll. .. .led ;rhireer, to amlle and then by ..,... :i.d-ed lilm to inepect his ; i.ne. Null saziped the ore and atop-. .1 mnir.i.g "You ve got something r.ere wni.t. lot told the ou H x N.:; Wilfon and m.er. hovti vi -.'nt : :va R W fume A B and with frites. W BeePsrgpRBjBjsgiw. sKaanj . o II.I.I-. Pr. s:d i:; '( ti.f Canadian Maiu-f,it.!t?!' Aa:oui.loii which recently met in Quebec. Departmental Service ia provid ed by the people far ttte FOR INFORMATION REGARDING woith cghty dollar revealed a croe-riacture of high grade or and " made the Portland Canal world famous' aife mining country these are now matter of mining history. I at Daly waa handsomely rewarded p most men are who know real value sua usin fa.th.ul to their hope. Be- a rich man now and every tlmeTh Premr pays another dividend he. play a sweeter tune. '" j And now. back In Montreal, he 'is who playing again. He's not such a. very aid man "nowhere near a hundred y:..rs itnoe he wa bora" and hel Tl for the northern trail again. HeV jor ; "ired a new company and plan io develop a claim on American treek-i IKThafis another Premier. Who knows? The only thing that' certain about :H all la that when Pat heada north , aptln e1! have his tin whistle with hlmIt Beepa nun company. . RANTANNING IS USED. . TO SUPPRESS GOSSIP LOHDOH. Sept 17 The old Engllan c.nunoti law which made "acting aia c-c.tl3.ji; scold" s misdemeanor ha not L ei, rrceatly invoked In the old country, but the vlllaaere of Quadrinr. Lincoln- Wood in the Pre- .ire. revived an even more ancient pmfi- smgle blast of dynamite innent against a woman "wliee i tongue wa likely to run away wjh her." The woman ha gossiped,' ua kindly, it waa aald. about a girl .In. he village. The indignant vulagera resorted to the old Baton "rantanning." whWi -.iis.su in gathering about the" of fend -,ng (j aalp's house and making noise fey ir.aMr.g sticks upon tins and csns. Dudk-th and kettles, playing mouth organ. ! . oiug. shouting and alngtag. Sritisli (Columbia jfines apply to Department of Mines Victoria, H.C. CATOHIXO HIM OI.T A eollegt profeasor ia i-sked one of hia class to wh:'.: ilectrlclty la. "I did know, atr," aald "bu: I have forgotten." said to bay tell hlav.ei- the student. "This." said the professor, "is on of the world' groattrt tragedies. "Here is the only pereor who ever knew exact :y what electricity la, and be baa tor-gotten what be knew." AT A CONCERT Announcer (at concert) Mia Jone : will now alng.: "Oh, That I "Were 'a Dove. I'd Plee." Small Boy Dad. Whatt a dove-ejad fiea? 1927 Report now available. Special Bulletins, Annual Reports, etc, furnished free of charge. 3 mi ! km