Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Columbia Mining Record, Vol. 2: August, 1896 At the present time there are no end of mining companies being gazetted, capitalized all the way from to the treasury stock of which are being sold from one to fifteen cents pei share. What, it may be asked, is the capital thus secured to be applied to, if not for labour to place their claims in a position where their value may be in some measure determined for the purpose oi financing them? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.