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For all copies or extracts from any record in any of the above-named 

 books, where such a copy or extract shall not exceed three 



folios, per copy 2.50 



Where such copies or extracts exceed three folios, 30 cents per 

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For a Crown grant 5.00 



NOTE V. 



THE following is the first document of any sort or kind drawn up in what 

 is now the rich West Kootenay District. As such it has historical interest. 



KOOTENAY LAKE MINES, 



BRITISH COLUMBIA, 



October \2th, 1883. 



Petition to the Chief Gold Commissioner of the Province of British 



Columbia. 



We, the undersigned, humbly petition for the granting of the following 

 concessions, alike important to us and to the proper development of the 

 mineral resources of the Kootenay Lake district : 



Firstly. That the statutes incorporated in the Mineral Act of 1882 

 and the Mineral Amendment Act of 1883 be brought into force in this 

 district in time for the opening of the season of 1884. There are no 

 placer mines in this district, at least, none have as yet been discovered; 

 the mineral resources, which are of a most promising character, consisting 

 chiefly of silver and lead ores that cannot be worked by poor men, 

 and hence do not return any immediate profits to the prospectors who find 

 them. The discoverers have to hold their claims till they can find a 

 purchaser, which is impossible at short notice considering the extreme 

 remoteness of this district. It is therefore very hard upon prospectors that 

 the above-mentioned two Acts were disallowed, much more so than were 

 this a placer mining district. 



