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IIEIIIIEIISIII IIIIIE IL'I lllllifl IIISBBSSIIII Reputation ot Surveyors Inter view Ilnister Regarding Imminent: to Act - A number of surveyors from Nor- thern Ontario and other‘perts oi the province. among whom were Stanley Code of Cobnit, H. T. Routly oi Haileyhury and C. H. Fullerton and Homer Sutclifle 0! New Liekeardmre interviewing lion. W. H. Hearst. minister of lands. forests and mines, in Toronto in reference to the min- ing Amendment act, 1912. which was given its meond reading in the legis- loture a week ego. The object of the interview is in reierence to Certain amendments in the mines act as introduced by the minister oi mines. and more particu- larly dealing with paragraph 15 oi the amendment aflecting section 133 of the old not. The paragraph reads as follows :i “No such survey shall be made with- out the written consent or direction of the Recorder or the Commissioner or the Minister or Deputy Minister, and it shall be the duty of the sur- veyor. before proceeding with the survey to examine the application and sketch or plan of clam or cer- tified copies thereof and before com- pleting or filing his survey to ascer- tain by careful examination of the ground and by all other reasonable means in his power whether or not any other subsisting claim conflicts with the claim he is surveying and no survey shall be accepted unless accompanied by the certificate signed by the surveyor in the following lormz" 'l‘he lorm follows. with a penalty for non-compliance with this act shall not exceed $50. It is felt by the surveyors that this clause will he a hardshipon they prospectors of the north country. in that it prohibits the survey of any claim without the written consent of the mining recorder or others. This amendment would work satis- factorily when the claim lies near a recording office. but in the outlying sections it would he a decided hard- ship. necessitating a lengthy trip back to the record.r to get the per- wit to survey. A wealthy company ranting its properties mnyed would not mind the cost, but the poor prospector, who, when the surveyor is perhaps surveying the clrim next to him, would like his own surveyed to save expense, would be forced to travel a long distance for a permit. Other amendments in the act will he a boon to the prospector, how»- ever, while the sun'eyors in the demo tation are going down backing norm of the amendments strongly. ins sentence: ”But no work shall he required to he done between the 16th of November and the 15th of April, both days inclusive." Thla eliminates the necessnty ol "snowshoe” claims, having to haVe work performed with. in the three months that rules dur-‘ ing the summer months. Section 99 of the old act is amend~ ad by adding at the end the follow‘ A metal tag. bearing the number oli the claim. and given free to each1 prospector by the mining recorder. isj required to be securely fastened to’ the .\'o. 1 post of the claim. The surVeyors will recommend that on account of the tags being given free. it would be better to have the metâ€" at tags on all four posts of the claim. Another amendment forcing the prospector. in subsection 4. sec- tion ”3, of the old act and covered by paragraph 14 in the amendment. to place iron posts on all corners. alter a certain date. This would be another hardship and the surveyors will ask for an iron post. at No. 1 only. as where four claims adjoin ithis would mean an iron post at each ieorner and not tour at each corner. l’rospectors may use and cut down Jackpine on their property without payinar dues to the crown. There is also. in the new amend- ment of the act. several other mat- ters of interest to prospectors. but not afleeting staking out of claims. The. balance of the amendment is given to working mines and a large number of new rules will come into efieet when the hill is finally passed. West Dome at ZOO-Foot Level Tho West Dome are crosscutting from their -.\'0. 1 shnit at the hun- dred foot level, andnrc drifting west and crosscutting north from the No. 3 shift at the same depth. arm...” \fllfll IIEVEWIEIT llf Iflflfliffll ammo llellallle flew England Journal ', Comments favorably llll Passin- ‘ ilitlas 0g llew lraa Under the heading, “Developing Northern Ontario," the Christin! Science Monitor, one of the best known New England newpapersfihus refers to development work now in progress in Northern Ontario: “The Dominion gowrnment plans to spend five millions in the opening up and colonization of Northern 0n- tario. and an act intended to enable the province to put these plans into execution has been introduced in the provincial Legislature by the lion. I’ I. B. Lucas. The program that. is of works and improsemonts. road- building improvement and the dexcl- opment oi water powers. promotion of settlement and colonization and assisting of settlers. development of transportation and means of commu- nication, encouragement of assistance to agriculture. and reforestration in some districts. The fund to provide for all this is to be raised by the issue of bonds maturing in forty )‘ca‘.s O “It has only been in quite recent‘ years that Northern Ontario has at-'[ tracted the attention to which the! territory is proving itself entitled.‘ Development has in the past been: westward. Not only the discovery of; enormously rit'h mineral lands. but; the discovery of enormous possihiIi-‘l MINERS' UNION HALL. South P. YB 15 PURCU PIN E ADVANCE tics in ngdcultnnl dovdopmnt, has abused the attitude .9! observmt people in and out-of Canada toward a country one generally regarded as uninviting. Although development of this vast section to any consider- able extent has been recent. and al- though it is even now only partial , “Prosperous farming settlements .mueh farther north than were once deemed possible have been established ‘in these latter years, not only in .western but in Eastern Canada. It iwould appear that these settlements gmight be multiplied now it roads and general means of Communication were provided. The work of bringing nor-’ Ithern Ontario into closer touch with ' the markets and supply depots of the south will be greatly accelerated by :the comprehensive. undertaking now in handf' it has gone far enough to justify the statement that Northern Ontario now contributes a large share of the provincial revenues. That it is in the way of yielding a still larger share at an early date. especially ii the expenditures contemplated shall be wisely carried out. there can be no doubt. Dome Extraction Is 97 Per Cent. The Dome Mines management re- port good results from the mill out- put and so far the extraction will average 97 per cent. The results of the underground work have been very encouraging. in fact no disappointments have been encountered in the diamond drilling. Only three drills are now in opera- tion. two having been removed to Copper Clifi. ’orcupine. Gfllll Ill! film an JEWllflV MINIMUM Surprising figures Used In lie- termiuiug Value of Precious iietals llseu The raw gold and silver used in: jewelry manufacture in Germany arel obtained from the banks or from the‘ amelters. the important one of the latter being at Frankfort. It is ai very interesting fact that gold ulna“ eueh as 10¢mark and Mark pieces; having a fineness of 900. are used largely as material. and the imper- ial mint frequently turn out theee coins in vain. as they remain in air- culation for only a short time. The local branch of the Reichsbank ia- suee LEO-mark pieces unetamped at the price oi 20.06 marks (91.7743). This gold is thus money and mater- ial at the same time. and the manu- facturer is in a position to melt the credit afiorded him by the banker. Naturally the business standing of Ethe various merchants is watched closely. Many concerns have come into heâ€"i ing through methods oi reclaiming and using waste gold. lly means of various processes, some very compli- cated, the particles of gold are ex- tracted from the wash-water, the workmen's overalls and towels, pol- ishing cloths. and othei’ material. Some proprietors of these concerns furnish manufacturers with free ap- rons, blouses, polishing cloths, tow- els. and head cloths for women who do polishing work, and sometimes pay for this privilege. in return ior which they retain the gold they are able to recover. The price of gold in July, 1911, was $600.40 per kilogram (2.211).), at which it has stood for sometime. The price of silver is suliject to great. variation. In 1005 it was $18. 33 to $23. 09 per kg. Platinum ’3' gs $1190 to $1336.00 per kg. Wh ‘ 1892 platinum (oulu be bought. per kg. ., or half the price of gold, to- day it costs double the price. Plat- iuuuiis used rnore and rnore in the manufacture ol jewelry, and in Pforz- heim $1,190,000 worth is used in a year. There are great. losses in the man- ufacture of jewelry; and on an aver- age. in a medium-size factory, un- sold goods of 3 value 0! about 933% must annually be melted up. which means a loss of about 01606 in wages and manufacturing 003m. According to a British Government report under the oenaua oi produc- tion act, the actual cost oi produc- tion, without the manulacturera' profitqoi certain classes of jewelry in Great Britain in 1910 was u lol- lows: f Goods made wholly or in part of gold. including mounted articles. $495. 000 (9.2. 408 .900); 000gold led and gold thread, (M28. "' goods made twholly000 or in part fril- v,er including mounted articles. £1.- 844.000 (S‘i ‘11'1 8‘25) stampim. ham idles. and other parts for allver goods, £15 .000 ($73. 000); tatal gold, silver. and electroplated goods. £4; 939. 000 ($24, 035. 650); gold chains. iflifil. 000 ($3,182,700); silver chains. i £49. 000 ($238. 450); imitation. £65.- 000 (S267. 650); other jewelry. gold and platinum. 111.7%}.000 ($8.674.- T'Tfihsilver. £177,000 (8801.370) im- itation. $231,000 ($1,124,160); gold and silver articles not. separately distinguished. £240,000 ($1,107,900); total jmselry of all kinds. £3,292,000 “$16,020 5001; total talue oi all igoods made of precious metals and iwork done in the United Kingdom. i £8,563,000 ($41,671,850). The Value of the jewelry manufac- tured in the l’nited States I 1909 was over $90,000,000. of whicl-r .. ," 000,000 represents the coat of -the raw materials usedrâ€"Daily Consular and Trade Reports. West Dome Plant Much Increased With the addition of a new cage and increnaed bucket equipment,work at the West Home is proceeding rap- idly, the men being enabled to ban- dle the muck more expeditiously. Work is proceeding on three faces in No. 1 while at No. 4 drifting is being done easterly in good looking qmnetz. A cross-cut. is being made to the south for the purpose of lo- cating new veins. The main crosscut is already in Very InVorablc looking ground and assays are being made of some of the stufi brought out. The ground looks more favorable than was expected at. the point reached up to the present. as the face is still between two and three hundred feet from the main ore sys- tem at the north side of the West. Dome property.