. French treaty rights in Newfoundland [microform] : the case for the colony stated by the people's delegates, Sir J. S. Winter, G., Q. C., Scott, , and Morine, Fisheries; Pêches. )yM over 500 miners, and has ljir<j;(' smelting works. Tilt Cove, tho I'liest copper niino worked, has yielded over 10(»,000 tons of ore. new deposit has been opened which will yield 25,000 tons per )nth. A mine on Pilley's Island of pyrites and copper ore ia )rked by an American company. The carboniferous area m nfined to the West Coa^t, and cannot be worked owing to ench opposition. A
. French treaty rights in Newfoundland [microform] : the case for the colony stated by the people's delegates, Sir J. S. Winter, G., Q. C., Scott, , and Morine, Fisheries; Pêches. )yM over 500 miners, and has ljir<j;(' smelting works. Tilt Cove, tho I'liest copper niino worked, has yielded over 10(»,000 tons of ore. new deposit has been opened which will yield 25,000 tons per )nth. A mine on Pilley's Island of pyrites and copper ore ia )rked by an American company. The carboniferous area m nfined to the West Coa^t, and cannot be worked owing to ench opposition. A galena mine at Port-au-Port, on the West tastt, was opened by British capitaliHt«, the French prevented its ing worked, although the mine was nearly 15 miles from tho aiest fishing grounds. AGRICULTURAL AND TIMBER LANDS. Exploits, Humber, and Gander valleys contain 4,650 sq. miles, 2,976,000 acres. Peninsula of Avalon, Conception and Trinity lys, &c, about 2,000,000 acres, making a total of nearly )0<),000 acres. The best agricultural land is on tho West )ast. ARBOURS, BAYS, ISLANDS, &c., BETWEEN CAPE RAY AND CAPE JOHN which would have been exclusively French had the Newfound- land Legislature adopted the arrangement of 1885. Cod Eoy Island and Boad, Red Island and Eoad, West Bay • Port-au-Port, all Islands in Port-au-Port Bay, Bear Cove, ork Harbour, Lark Harbour, all the Islands in Bay of Islands, arbor des Koches at north side of entrance to Bonne Bay, teering Harbour, Cow Head Harbour, Mai Bay, Hawke iarbour, Keppel Harbour, Port Saunders, Port aux Choix, lat Island, St. John's Island, Castor, Margaret Bay, Ferolle, t. Genevieve, St. Barbe, Flour Cove, Savage Cove, all Islands jtween Mai Bay and Oape Norman, all the strand and Islands jtween Cape Norman and Quirpon Island, excepting the strand bottom of Pistolet Bay, which is too shoal for anything but iwls, Quirpon and White Islands, Griquet, Bonder, Lunaire ays, St. Anthony, Goose Cove, How Harbour, Maide
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