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British Columbia is the second Province of the Dominion in the value of its mineral production. The mineral output in 1918 and 1919 was as follows :—

Miner*' s

Oold, placer

Gold, lode

SUrer

Lead

Copper

Zinc.

Coal ....

Coke.

Miscellaneous products

do. do. pounds do. do. long ton do.

1918

1919

Total of above

Quantity

16,000

ft '4. ---4

3,498,172

tf M 881

61,483,7:4

4l,77i,916

2,302,245

168.967

Value Quantity Value

Dollars

320,000 3.403,81? 3,115,870

15,143,449 2.899,040

11. 111. 225

1,038,202

14,325

152,42*

3,403,119

42,459,339 50,737,851

2.167. U\ 91,138

Dollaw

596,500 3.150,645 J.5W.673

1.526.*'.*.

7,m,t ■■■

3,540,429 11,337,705

mjm

41.782.474

MytSMlf

The total value of minerals produced in British Columbia down to the

and of 191'* is estimated at 670,649,894 dollars (mainly coal and coke,

199,123,323 dollars; copper, 153,680,965 dollars ; gold, lode, 100,272,431

dollars ; gold, placer, 75,722,603 dollars ; silver, 50,432,804 dollars ; lead,

J 1,106 dollars).

Statistics of manufactures for 1918 : Industrial establishments, 1,786 ; capital, 244,697,000 dollars: employees, 4S.779 ; wages and salaries, 51,051,000 dollars ; cost of materials, 103,936,000 dollars ; valus of product*, 207,678,000 dollars.

The total available water power cf the Province has been estimated at over four million H.r.

Commerce. — The trade of the Province is developing rapidly ; in 1919 imports amounted to 63,694,691 dollars, and the exports to 77,247.666 dollars. Exports consist of minerals (chiefly gold, silver, copper and coal), sea products (chiefly salmon, halibut, herrings, whale products and oil), lumber, furs, skins, etc. A large inter-provincial trade is rapidly developing, the fruit grown in British Columbia being largely shipped to the Prairie Pro- vinces, where it finds a good market.

Communications and Shipping.— The Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk Pacific are at present the principal railways in the Province. The C.P.R. has three main lines, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, the Kettle Valley Railway, and several branches connecting with United States railway systems, also steamboat connections on the inland lakes, besides a large fleet of ocean-going and coasting steamers. The railway mileage of the Province in 1917 was 3,885. Telephone mileage, 152,069. v

ejps are being taken to establish direct shipping communication with Canadian Atlantic ports, via the Panama Canal.

In the fiscal year of 191S-19, 7,447 sea-going vessels entered inward, with a tonnage of 4,38S,924 ; 7,551 sea-going vessels cleared outwards, with a tonnage of 4,525,595 ; and 61,767 coastwise vessels entered and cleared, with a tonnage of 21,383,662.

Shipbuilding, 1918, 145,000 tons, value 25,000,000 dollars.