. Factory and industrial management. tends through the islands of theNorth Pacific. On Vancouver, Texada, Queen Charlotte, PrincessRoyal, and Banks, in British Columbia, as well as on Prince of WalesIsland in Alaska, conditions exist very similar to those attaching to themainland coast. There are, though, on Queen Charlotte and Van-couver Islands, in addition to the metalliferous bearing zones, exten-sive areas of cretaceous rocks containing seams of coal—bituminouson Vancouver Island, but anthracite on Queen Charlotte Islands. Because of the discovery of coal on \^ancouver Island about 1835 M
. Factory and industrial management. tends through the islands of theNorth Pacific. On Vancouver, Texada, Queen Charlotte, PrincessRoyal, and Banks, in British Columbia, as well as on Prince of WalesIsland in Alaska, conditions exist very similar to those attaching to themainland coast. There are, though, on Queen Charlotte and Van-couver Islands, in addition to the metalliferous bearing zones, exten-sive areas of cretaceous rocks containing seams of coal—bituminouson Vancouver Island, but anthracite on Queen Charlotte Islands. Because of the discovery of coal on \^ancouver Island about 1835 MINERAL RESOURCES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 839 by Dr. Selwyn, who was then director of the Dominion GeologicalSurvey, the Hudsons Bay Company about 1849 commenced the workof exploiting the coal measures, which resulted in opening collieriesthat have been producers on a commercial scale ever since, and forseveral years furnished the only local supply of coal on the PacificCoast, having yielded 6,085,687 long tons to December 31st. BORNITE MOUNTAIN, SKEENA RIVER. The coal measures on Queen Charlotte Islands have never beenthoroughly explored; indeed, although large areas of land containingthese coal measures were acquired under Crown grants several yearsago, it has only been within the past two years that any attention what-ever has been directed towards this group of islands by parties have as yet visited it. In fact, except on Vancouver, Tex-ada, and a few smaller islands, so little systematic exploring hasbeen carried on that beyond the fact that a few discoveries of copper-gold bearing ores on Princess Royal and Banks Islands have beenreported, the resources of the British Pacific Islands are unknownquantities. The Klondike excitement since 1897 has been responsiblefor the exploration and prospecting which have been carried onthrough the islands northward from Queen Charlotte Sound. 840 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. On Vancouver Island, placer gold was mined o
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