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3,807 4-5 acres of Crown lands leased for other than mining purposes. The 

 collection on account of these and former leases was $3,716.31. The total 

 area of land disposed of during the year was 102,656 7-10 acres. The total 

 collections on account of lands sold and leased during the year was |1,299,- 

 019.30. (See Appendix No. 3, page 6.) 



Military Grants. 



There were 550 certificates issued during the year, authorizing veterans 

 to select their lands, under 1 Edward YII., Cap. 6. This brings the total 

 number issued under this legislation up to 13,550. Location certificates, con- 

 firming veterans in the lands selected upon prescribed conditions, were issued 

 to 825, making a total of 3,727. Eight hundred and seventy-five locations 

 were made during the year, nearly all in the District of Algoma, north of the 

 height of land, bringing the number of locations up to 6,095. As already 

 stated 13,550 certificates have been issued and there are in the Department 

 new applications for certificates to the number of 50. Tinder the amendment 

 to the Act, 1,025 unlocated military certificates have been surrendered to the 

 Crown for the |50.00 commutation money, making a total of 2,425 disposed 

 of in this way. Patents have issued to 1,044, making a total of 1,305 patents 

 issued to date. (See appendix No. 11, page 44.) 



Mining Industry. 



The output of the mines and mineral works of Onta'rio for 1907 was of 

 greater aggregate value than in any previous year — exceeding the output of 

 1906 by 12,618,109. The largest item in the total of |25, 006,492 was the 

 production of silver, of which the mines of the Cobalt camp yielded 10,028,259 

 ounces valued at |6, 157, 871. This rich region has made a rapid development, 

 the first production, 206,875 ounces, being in the year 1904. The total 

 quantity of silver produced at Cobalt mines up to the end of 1907 was 18,088," 

 256 ounces, valued at |11,297,812. The shipments of ore to the same date 

 amounted to 22,446 tons, so that the average contents of silver were 806 

 ounces per ton, worth |503. The principal mines are the Nipissing, O'Brien, 

 Coniagas, La Rose, Kerr Lake, Buffalo, McKinley-Darragh-Savage, Trethe- 

 wey, Temiscamingue, Right-of-Way, Drummond, Cobalt Silver Queen, Tem- 

 iskaming and Hudson Bay, Foster, and Nova Scotia. For the most part the ore 

 is purchased by smelting establishments in the United States, but there are 

 two refineries now in operation in Ontario, one at Copper Cliff owned by the 

 Orford Copper Company, and the other at Deloro, by the Deloro Mining and 

 Reduction Company. Several other refineries are also in course of erection, 

 and concentrating j)lants are being added by a number of the mines to treat 

 their low-grade ores. 



Ores similar to those of Cobalt have been found on the Montreal River, 

 35 or 40 miles northwest of Cobalt, and more recently on the shores of Lake 

 Temiskaming, about 22 miles southeast of Cobalt. Ontario is now producing 

 one-eighteenth of the total silver production of the world. 



Next in importance to silver is nickel, the chief source of which is the 

 Sudbury district. The output of nickel last year was 10,972 tons, having a 

 value in the matte of |2,271.616. Accompanying the nickel was copper to 

 the extent of 7,373 tons, worth |1, 045, 511. From the iron mines of the Pro- 

 vince were raised 205,295 tons of ore, valued at |482,532. Fuller particulars 

 of the mineral production of the Province are given in the report of the Bur- 

 eau of Mines. 



