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Excerpt from British Columbia, the Britain of the Pacific Charlotte Island, there is a great body of fine coal on the line of trafiic for steamers to Alaska and China. This at present lies idle, waiting the magic touch of the capitalists, and all the product will he wanted for the rapidly developing steam navigation of the Pacific. Next in importance of the minerals is copper. Probably our Province contains more great bodies of copper ore than any other country; but little, however, has yet been worked. Yet the product last year, in spite of the fall in price of this metal and some difficulties in connection with the labour problem, amounted to about tons, or three times as much as in 1899. The most important mines at present are situated in what is known as the Boundary Country, in southern British Columbia, a little north of the international line, and the greatest group is worked by the miner-graves Syndi cate and reduced to matte at their smelter situated at the town of Grand Forks, near the mines, smelting now tons daily. Here the most scientific methods are used, and the smelter is pronounced by American copper authorities to be the best one on the continent, reducing 016 in a more economical way, at a lower cost, than anywhere else in America. Near it is the Snowshoe Group of mines, owned by a Lomion company, and now rapidly coming to the front. Within a few miles is situated the beautiful town of Greenwood and a smelter of the same name, where about 600 tons of ore are reduced daily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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