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~FEBRUARY 26, 1907. «cmmdoupmmepemauememmmteipenmenmennaemeeme j 1 G --TAX ON NATURAL GAS. HON. MR. COCHRANE HEARS MORE PROTESTS AGAINST IT. Intimates, However, That it Will be Carried Through--Says that Gov-- ernment Mining Properties Will | Pay for Cost of the T. & N. 0. A large deputation. representing the small owners of natural gas wells, waited on Hon. Mr. Cochrane and other mem-- bers of the Covernment yesterday and protested against the proposed tax on || natural gas. _ Hon. Mr. Cochranesug-- !gested that the deputation send in a | wriitten memorial stating their views as 'to what the tax should be, but he nlainly intimated that there would be a | tax. 'He pointed out that the Govern ' ment was putting a tax on the output of | mines and on mineral lands, and expected ,| that others than the mining men would | bear their share of the cost of adminis-- tering the affairs of the Province. Allud-- ing in this connection to the building of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway, and the consequent develop-- ment which had followed, he made the interesting statement that it was expect-- ed that the portion of the mining lands | preserved by the Government (the (illies Climit) would give returns enough to pay | the cost of the railway. i Mr. F. R. Lalor, M.P.,. Haldimand, wintroduced the deputation, and among \ the speakers were Messrs. W. T. Hen-- derson, E. L. Gould of Brantford, and [ Louis Wigle of Kingsville .