Excerpt from Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December, 1874: Being an Account of Mining Operations for Gold, Coal, and Silver in the Province of British Columbia The tabulated statement hereto appended, which has been prepared from the Returns received from the Government Agents at the Various mining camm, gives some idea of the number of miners employed, their earnings, the value of the gold found in different localities, the total amount realized, the works in operation, the machinery in use, and other interesting and useful information. 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.