There are important works near Hillsborough, in Albert County, for the manufacture of plaster from the gypsum which abounds in that neighborhood, but no detailed statements regarding them have been obtained. The coal produced by the Vancouver Coal Mining Company at Nanaimo and Newcastle Island is supplied to the Town of Victoria, and to Steamers calling at the place their way to San Francisco in California, Portland in Oregon, and Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islands. TABLE VII.-NEWFOUNDLAND. The geological structure and economic interests of this Island are so closely allied with those of the Dominion, that it has been deemed desirable to include in this Report the record of its most important mineral products. Although various other minerals of economic importance, such as coal, galena, gypsum, &c., are known to exist in the Island, the Copper Mines of Tilt Cove are the only ones now systematically worked. TABLE VIII. GENERAL SUMMARY of Mining Statistics for the Dominion of Canada and British Provinces.-Average of the years 1869, 1870 and 1871. Some of the above figures are probably too low, as it has been impossible in many cases to obtain complete returns. 1,266 577 11,697 3,036,023 THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, in Account with the Dominion of Canada, for the year ended 30th June, 1871. By paid A. R. C. Selwyn, 12 months salary as Director, to 30th June, 1871. 3,000 CO 2,800 CO Elkanah Billings, 12 months salary as Curator and Paleontologist, 1,600 00 7,400 00 13,025 40 |