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419 Pender St. W.    REAL ESTATE   Vancouver, B. C.
POINT GREY and
SOUTH VANCOUVER SPECIALISTS
€[ During the past year we have sold 12 Subdivisions in Point Grey and South
Vancouver. We buy only the very choicest acreage and, as a result, have no
difficulty in selling.
GRANVILLE TERMINUS
€[ In July we offered this beautiful subdivision for sale. In one month we have
sold two-thirds of it. This is a record for the quietest month in the year. We
have still for sale some of the very best lots. The name suggests the location.
Let us show you its many advantages and, if your own judgment does not lead
you to invest, we are willing to hold for the profits that are sure to come.
FARM LANDS
ۤ We own -some of the best farm lands in British Columbia which we will sell in
parcels to suit purchasers. This land is in the Agassiz Valley, close to town and
station.    Very easy terms to actual settlers who will improve the property.
IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING REALLY GOOD
IN ACREAGE, WE ARE OPEN TO BUY.
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VERY WOMAN experiences a thrill of pride when she realizes the wonderful
improvement made in her appearance by the simple arrangement of the hair. The
Ladies of Vancouver may experience this joy by calling at our parlors and inspecting- our new shipment of the Luxuriant, REAL LIVE HAIR SWITCHES,
PUFFS and CURLS in all natural shades and graduation of natural wave, at heretofore
unheard of prices. If you live too far away for a personal visit to us, take advantage ot
our mail order system, which is complete in every detail and through which you wTill
receive ihe most careful attention.
q. We are recognized as the most exclusive HAIRDRESSING, SHAMPOOING,
MASSAGE AND SCALP SPECIALISTS on the Pacific Coast. Our parlors are the
most up-to-date and best appointed in the Northwest, are light and airy, and under the
direct supervision of an expert, which, in a great measure, accounts for our large and evergrowing business.
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annoying facial defects removed for all time. Patrons are given the advantage of our
many years experience in this treatment and are attended to by the most competent and
skilled operators.
q Great Reductions are being offered in Combs, Pins and Barrettes. These are the latest
importations from Paris, very artistic and harmonize in every detail with the present mode
of hairdressing. You should take advantage of the exceedingly low prices prevailing
throughout August.     They are not likely to be so low again.
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The Largest, Most  Up-to-date Establishment of its kind on the Pacific Coast
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We have LARGE TRACTS of Land
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Prompt and   Personal Attention   Given   to   all   Enquiries
Sole Agents for
The  Grand  Trunk   Development  Company,   Limited
Farm Lands, Timber Lands, Stock Ranches
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Port Moody
OUR      SPECIALTY
For over a year our attention has been devoted to PORT MOODY properties.      Our unbounded faith in the
town made us enthusiastic.
In view of recent developments there—full accounts of which appeared in the Vancouver papers—we are more
enthusiastic than ever.       BUY  IN  PORT MOODY.       SEE US.
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BO Hastings St., W.
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Y)Q YOU REALIZE
What the  present  phenomenal  era  of
RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT
throughout Canada and British Columbia means to
this Province, to this CITY AND  DISTRICT of
NEW WESTMINSTER?
—Comprising* the cream of the Province, the whole of the rich Valley
of the Lower Fraser.
ADDED to the two Transcontinental Railways we now have—the C. P. R. and the
Great Northern—it means within three or four years, two more—THE CANADIAN
NORTHERN, construction on which has begun at its Western Terminus, RIGHT
OPPOSITE THIS CITY, and the GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC, which will have a
line from Fort George, on the Upper Fraser, passing" throug"h the whole Fraser Valley to
New Westminster.
q IT MEANS—with the construction, too, of the B. C. ELECTRIC RAILWAY from
this City through the Lower Fraser Valley, now nearing completion—the expenditure of
MANY TENS OF MILLIONSOJELJDOfcLARS within the next few years.
{J IT MEAJ^LSHrrre^iiiirnediate opening up, and making tributary to such centres as this,
ofjji£--w1ToTe vast Empire of British Columbia, with its perfectly incalculable wealth of
timber, minerals, fisheries^agricultural, dairying and fruit lands, water privileges and
frontages, natural opportunities of all kinds, and location and terminal advantages.
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q IT MEANS a vast and p-r-ofitable immediate home market for our products and all
other markets brought to our veryBoors.
q IT MEANS that NOW IS THE TIME for you to take steps to realize your share
in this great harvest, soon to be garnered.    We can help you to do so.
f^3 NEW WESTMINSTER City and District Property a Specialty. Write or phone,
stating the kind of property you prefer to invest in—timber, city or district realty, water
frontage, improved farms or farming lands, dairying farms or fruit lands, suburban
property—and we will present for your consideration the best propositions going.
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LIMITED
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OVER MERCHANTS  BANK,   COR. COLUMBIA AND BEGBIE STS.
NEW WESTMINSTER,  B. C.
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Vol. II.
HUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C„ AUGUST, 1910.
No. 2
Vancouver Exhibition
By W.  R.  Usher
Looking into the future with the same
eyes as James J. Hill, William Jennings
Bryan and scores of other world-famous
visitors to the City of Vancouver, B. C,
during the past few years, a little group
of men, a year ago, mapped out a site
whereon would be held annual exhibitions showing the commercial and industrial greatness of the Liverpool of the
Pacific—for such did many of these visitors   style   the   city   on   Burrard   Inlet.
entered even more strenuously than at
Chicago into business hub-bub. Relief
from the dust and noise of street could
be sought only in hotel or restaurant.
What a different view, what different
surroundings, will greet the visitor who
comes to Vancouver in August to attend,
not as yet a World's Pair, but an exhibition worthy in its beginning even of the
coming centre of Pacific Coast commercial and industrial life and of the vast
both electric and steam railway and by
water. But its appearance this year, in
its birth, will be as nothing compared to
the changes it will undergo before next
year, when the forty acres, set aside for
buildings—there are twenty acres of
natural park—are sown well to grass,
when the art of the gardener is given
time to show, and when other buildings,
yet more imposing and substantial, are
erected.    Gradually,  and  without  doubt,
When, on August 16, Canada's Premier,
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, formally opens the
first Vancouver Exhibition, the initial
reward of the planning and labor of these
men has come.
Human plaining could scarcely have
chosen better in the location of site for
such an exhibition. Chicago's great
World's Fair in 1893 was located on the
shores of Lake Michigan, in the midst of
a huge and green-appealing park to which
ingenuity added sparkling fountains and
artificial lagoons, but there was but the
plainest of flat backgrounds. Just without the exposition's gate one entered into
the turmoil of business and every-day
life. St. Louis' World's Fair of 1904 was
not even so well located, but the additional beauty devised by man in landscaping and building made it in some
ways more beautiful. Outside its gates,
however, the visitor, tired of sight-seeing
ARROW LAKE PRODUCTS.
province of British Columbia itself. Vancouver's fair site has been plucked from
the virgin forests, sloping down to the
green of the sea, standing out boldly
conscious of the protection of the snowcapped mountains-r-its" ^background on
the one, fyanG,' bTjA'tsie, invSiJjfrfg green of
woods car the otfye?,. Through* its/gf ounds
and over its visSto'rs blows the untainted
breeze of a new, coimtEy, frosjily and*syieet.
Nb neeij. ^neJ® to face^ %ok J^Undyxg beaCof '
white pavements—even were such heat
typical of the country—the green of a
natural park, part of the exhibition
grounds awaits the visitor by day, and
at night there is no stepping out into
business life, but into more green of
trees, and so, gradually, back into the
city.
The spot is admittedly ideal from the
standpoint of beauty and transportation facilities, as it can be reached by
the Vancouver annual exhibition will be
turned some day into a Canadian National Exhibition, and thence into a World's
Fair. For Vancouver, in the plainest of
unvarnished facts, is the meeting-place
of the greatest lines of steel rails on this
continent and of the steamship lines of
the world. At its port already touch
steamship and windjammer from every
port of consequence on the globe, and
from it go out to the world's centres
ships laden with the products of fertile
British Columbia and Canada.
The exhibition is to open to the public
August 15, and continue until August 20.
This year the grounds will contain a
magnificent Industrial Hall, Machinery
Building, dog-show kennels, stock and cattle barns, sheep and pig pens, an administration building, band-stands and all the
lesser appurtenances necessary for such
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construction of more buildings next year
is borne out by the fact that entries for
this year's fair have been more numerous than can be taken care of properly.
They have come from all parts of Canada and the Northwest states. There
will be shown the best of Canada's stock
and cattle, the best of her agricultural
products, the best of her mineral and
other natural resources, the best of the
has the backing of unlimited opportunities
and resources, that she numbers among
her own citizens some of the most far-
sighted and capable men of any nation,
that she is democratic in view and is
seeking to build up the entire western
country as well as her own, to promote
practical and scientific husbandry in all
its branches, to disseminate the best of
mechanical and scientific knowledge, en-
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product of her factories and mills. Poultry, the ever-growing and important industry of Canada, will be fully represented. And in Vancouver will convene
the farmers of Alberta and the poultry-
breeders of British Columbia—an object
lesson of the increasing prominence of
this western metropolis.
Apart from the more serious nature
and value of the exhibition will be a
well-handled and provided for amusement
end. The fair grounds are at present
blessed with one of the best and fastest
race-tracks in Canada, and on this will
be held daily matinees, trotting and pace
races—and all devoid of the curse of the
ordinary track—betting. There are to
be many other amusement concessions,
and four bands will hold forth on the
grounds.
That the energy of the exhibition's promoters has been appreciated and that
the value of the fair has been taken into
careful consideration is seen from the
fact that $30,000 in prizes has been raised
for exhibits and races, in addition to
which prominent men and firms from
various portions of Canada have contributed special premiums.
This, in brief, is the nature of the first
broad exhibition to be given by Vancouver to demonstrate to the world that she
The only gilt-edged, commercial Oil
proposition on the market, Amalgamated
Development   Company,   page  39.
courage the cultivation of the beautiful
in nature and art, promote trade and
commerce, and develop the rich mineral,
fishing and lumbering resources of the
country.
In the years to come, when the slopes
of the mountains across the Burrard Inlet are peopled thickly, and when the
homes and factories of Vancouver have
reached wide tentacles out into all the
surrounding country of the province, her
citizens will have cause for nothing but
pride when they recall the holding of the
first exhibition. Then, as now, she will
hold open wide arms of welcome to the
best settlers in the unselfish idea of
building up a happy and prosperous
world, in the furtherance of the arguments for world-wide peace advanced by
ex-President Roosevelt and other noted
men of "£h;eJ« present day„* „• • *    . *
Mr." ;J\ -Miller is *t\& rpresidefht; of' the
Exhibition Association**Mr. E. J." Clark,
treasurer^ and M».- James- JEtoy,. manager. ,
'The* foifowinjl * wfere*. selected! as ictirec-*;
tors to have charge of the various departments :
Speed—H. S. Rolston, J. B. Tiffin and
Robert Kelly.
Breeding Classes—H. S. Rolston and
W. S. Holland.
Harness and Hunting—W. Dalton and
W. S. Holland.
Dogs—F. W. Welsh.
Poultry and Pet Stock—J. R. Seymour.
Machinery—Alderman McTaggart.
Dairy Produce and Honey—J. T. Little.
Agricultural Products—J. J. Miller.
Cattle—J. T. Walker and W. Dalton.
Educational—Professor Odium.
Floriculture—J. J. Miller and Thomas
A. Prentice.
Grounds and Buildings—Thomas Bell
and E. J. Clark.
Women's Work—Professor Odium.
Attractions—E.   S.  Knowlton.
Concessions—E. S. Knowlton and H.
S. Rolston.
BANK OF VANCOUVER.
On Saturday, July 30th, an unique
event in the annals of financial history
transpired in Vancouver. On that, day
the Bank of Vancouver opened its doors
for business for the first time. The new
office is ideally located, being situated
at the corner of Hastings and Cambie
streets. "For British Columbia, first,
last and all the time," is the motto of the
Bank of Vancouver. Under the management of Mr. A. L. Dewar, backed by
a strong board of directors, the success
of this  institution is  assured.
A glance at the directors' list below
will show how true the foregoing is:
R. P. McLennan, Esq., president McLennan, McFeely & Co., wholesale hardware, Vancouver, B.  C.
M. B. Carlin, Esq., vice-president; capitalist, Victoria, B. C.
His Honor T. W. Paterson, Lieutenant-
Governor of British Columbia.
L. W. Shatford, Esq., M.L.A., Merchant,
Hedley, B.  C.
W. H. Malkin, Esq., the W. H. Malkin
Co., Ltd., wholesale grocers, Vancouver,
B. C.
H. L. Jenkins, Esq., president H. L.
Jenkins Lumber Co., Seattle, Washington,
president Vancouver Timber & Trading
Co., Ltd., Vancouver, B. C.
J. A. Mitchell, Lsq., capitalist, Victoria,
B. C.
E. H. Heaps, Esq., E. H. Heaps & Co.,
Lumber and Timber; president Columbia
Trust Co., Ltd., Vancouver, B. C.
J. A. Harvey, Esq., K.C., formerly of
Cranbrook, B. C, Vancouver, B. C.
Mr. Dewar will be general manager,
and his assistant will be Mr. F. Dallas,
formerly of the Dominion Bank, Toronto.
The bank got its charter on March 18,
and immediately set about the securing
of premises, and in this they have been
singularly fortunate.
The bank, on its bills, will advertise
British Columbia. On the backs of the
bills will be a picture of the Parliament
Buildings, Victoria. The five-dollar bills
will have on the front a view of Vancouver harbor. The ten-dollar bills will show
a timber cutting scene.
Shipped 7 miles of pipe to Katalla
Oil Fields—Amalgamated Development
Company.    See page 39. 1910}
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British Columbia as a Truit Country
Production Increasing with Great Jfapiditp
That the prospects are that the province will derive a return, multiplied at
least three times over that of any previous year, from this source of wealth, is
the statement in a few words of R. M.
Palmer, formerly of the department of
agriculture and one of the best authorities in the province. The movement of
the fruit crops from the orchards of
British Columbia is well under way.
Early varieties of peaches are being shipped, and plums, cherries and apples are
being sent to the markets.
At the present time Mr. Palmer is interested in an enterprise which has for
its object the conversion of six thousand
acres of sterile land, on the west side of
tne Thompson river, opposite Kamloops,
into a fruit-raising proposition. "We
are," said he to an interviewer, "engaged
now in building an irrigation canal and
the work will be advanced as fast as conditions will permit. When the irrigation
is available the land will be subdivided
for fruit holdings and a considerable
acreage will be planted, designed especially for Old Country investors, who
like to find their holdings developed for
them. The Canadian Northern railway
will pass through this property, so that
shippers of fruit will have the advantage
of choice between two lines of transportation."
"The prospects for the fruit crop this
year," said Mr. Palmer, "are excellent.
The peach crop is well advanced and early
varieties are being shipped. The quality
is first rate and the shipping facilities
are better this year than they have ever
been before. The Okanagan Fruit Exchange is systematically pushing the sale
of British Columbia fruit in the Northwest and individual firms like Stirling &
Pitcairn, of Kelowna, are also actively
engaged in packing and shipping.
The crop is being well taken
care of and well distributed. It
is estimated that the product will total
about sixty cars of peaches this year.
In comparison with other seasons this is
remarkable. We have never had anything like it before. The bulk of the
shipments will go from the Summerland
districts, while large contributions will
be made from Peachland, Penticton and
Kelowna. To a great extent the increase
is accounted for by the large acreage of
young orchards which are bearing their
first crop.
"Early apples are also commencing to
move. Also some varieties of plums.
Everything indicates that the crop of
apples will be of an unusually good
quality and well colored.   Of course, our
success with the crop depends a good
deal on the condition of the Northwest
market, but there is a wide field in which
to market the crop.
"Vancouver Island has commenced to
ship, the Olivets and yellow cherries
being particularly noticeable from there.
There is an active demand for this class
peach exports will run anywhere from
75,000 to 100,000 crates, by far the biggest output yet. One reason for this is
that last year the peach crop suffered
badly from frost, and this year, of course,
more trees are in bearing than ever before.
The Okanagan fruit crop is only just
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of fruit.    These cherries go iorward by
express.? 8 Tbjey' aiie marketed iit."STiotorjaA
Vancouver! and  cth,€*r  loca*U markets;  as
well as in the prairie country."
Taking the fruit crop as a whole, Mr.
Palmer said it will be three times greater
than in any previous year, and the returns to the orchardists will run into
very large figures.
Reports received by Inspector Cunningham from the Okanagan Valley show
that a splendid fruit crop will be picked
there this year.   It is- estimated that the
beginning to come in and will not be at
its .fullest for several weeks yet. The
peaches are said to be far superior in
quality to those imported from California, and those who wish to use them
for preserving purposes are advised to
wait a little longer. It is predicted that
this year will show that the Okanagan
is coming into its own as a rival of the
Wenatchee, Hood valley and other great
fruit-growing centres of the Pacific
Northwest.
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The Great Northern railway has issued instructions to Its Kaslo agent to
oolleot specimens of Kaslo's fruit for Its
permanent exhibitions. Heretofore these
exhibitions have been confined to St.
Paul and Chicago only, but the railway is
extending Its scope and Intends placing
such exhibits in New York, Pittsburg,
Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Kansas City, St. Louis and Seattle. The
fruit collected at Kaslo will be forwarded
by express to W. J. Wessels in Spokane,
who will put it through a process which
preserves the fruit and makes it appear
as fresh aB when picked, If received in
good condition.
inent of agriculture at the recent Winnipeg exhibition, appeared as follows:
"British Columbia is well to the front
with its magnificent display of fruit, the
Pacific Province being wide awake to
the great possibilities of fruit culture.
It is easily seen from the specimens
shown that great strides have been taken
by the fruit-growers of British Columbia
during the last few years In the selection
of varieties and In the grading and packing. No one can examine the Btand
closely without being impressed with the
advance made in this department. There
Is an increasing demand for fruit; every
year the prairie provinces are absorbing
and currants are shown. There is also
a large section of the stand given over
to bottled and preserved fruits. These
are in excellent condition and are tastefully arranged, giving the visitor to the
show some idea of the size of the fruit
tue most western province can produce
"The fruit industry of the province is
still only in its infancy, though a robust
one; there is every likelihood that in
the near future instead of shipping eight
or ten thousand tons of fruit away, she
will be shipping double that quantity.
With Improved facilities for shipment,
and with possibilities of lower freight
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James Drummond, manager of the Victoria Fruit Growers' Exchange, says:
"We have been shipping a large quantity of fruit to the prairies this yoat, jMifc'
oannot get anything like enough to*'su$>«
ply the market, i? We have handled between fifteen and twenty thousand orates
of berrleB alone at an average price of
$2.00 a orate. During the month of June
we turned over $:t 5,000 for berries. This
is some indication of the amount of fruit
which is being marketed.
In the Winnipeg Free Press of Friday,
July 15, a eulogistic reference to the fruit
exhibit shown by the provincial depart-
AN ORC11 aki) NEAR NELSON, B. C.
'gpeatiet dirantlties,* .and .the Old Country
/\ ill   ;11 ways   rejpiiiv big" .'.supplies.
"With these* »f acts in'ijiew British Columbia   is  oarfylng  out.  a  sound   business
i'ioi i«•■ y i,u* attending isafefa iiy to. the selection " of" • those v « h<.'i.k>s " of fruit which
have passed the best tests, and also by
improving the grading and packing for
long distance shipment.
"The exhibits of cherries are a really
fine, well-grown lot, and are most attractively set out, the town of Nelson sending some very choice specimens which
would do oredit to any district. The
small fruits are fairly well represented;
strawberries,    raspberries,    gooseberries
fruit growers is indeed rosy. The climate is most suitable for the purpose and
the Industry has now passed the initial
stage and Is entering upon a bold attempt
to place Itself In a flrst>class position, inferior to that of none as a fruit growing
country.
That this province is quite capable of
producing some of the finest fruits in
the world is readily shown by the position her fruits occupy when brought into
competition with those from other countries. There is the greatest credit due
to those officials of the province who
are responsible for the stand. It is well
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British Investors and Tarm Lands
(By   R.   Thompson   Tinn.)
The • emigration returns show year by
year a rapidly increasing number of
British emigrants making for different
points in Canada. British Columbia is
getting its quota and as it becomes better known it is becoming increasingly
popular.
Apart from the attractions in the unrivalled fields of sport, and the beautiful
woodland, lake and mountain scenery of
British Columbia, there is another great
attraction that lies in the temperate • climate, which is suitable in every way
to natives  of Great Britain.
There are thousands of men in the old
country who have the desire to come
out here and take up small farms but
who hesitate to take the first step because they have not enough definite information.
First they want some1 sort of assurance
that the undertaking will be sufficiently
remunerative to provide not only the
necessaries of life but a little extra
for the luxuries too. Then there are
so many kinds of farming and so many
different methods chosen by novices that
the intending emigrant allows the
strength of his intention* to evaporate
amidst the maze of difficulties that arise
when he gives thought to the question.
Small   Holdings   Preferable.
In this article and the article® that follow, the writer intends to deal with all
phases of farming, but first it is advisable to give attention to the particular phase of farm life which in British
Columbia is the most in favor among
new settlers of a certain class and which
in the opinion of the writer, is the most
suitable form of farming for men and
women coming from large industrial centers in Great Britain.
The small five or ten acre holding near
some business and social center is the
form of farming we allude to and the
class of people we are considering are
those with small capital..
There are men who can come out to
Canada and take up homesteads in the
Northwest, miles away from even a
neighbor, much less a town and who possess the pioneer spirit to such degree
that they become contented and often
happy in the lonely, solitary life led
by the pioneer farmer. But few such
men are bred in and near the great cities
in the old country. And quite the majority of British emigrants are city bred
people.
Profit and Satisfaction.
A substantial income can be got from
five acres of good land and that five acres
is near a town where at least some of
the phase® of city life are to be found,
where the probability is that the new
settler will be more satisfied with the
great change from his former life and
sooner learn to love the land of his
adoption, and more easily and stronger
will the love grow if he locates in so
beautiful a province as British Columbia.
It is possible now to buy five or ten
mers. With ordinary foresight and care
one man can by his own labor care for
and develop to the utmost five acres
of land, carrying say, potatoes, cabbages
and small fruits, but when he exceeds
this area he has to calculate on the coat of
labor and the difficulty of securing it.
The novice has plenty of difficulties to
overcome  without  including that  of  la-
J. J. CAMPBELL'S TEAM, NELSON, B. C.
acre tracts near towns, which though
small at present will most probably in
the future become large cities. In the
event of a city extending its borders
year after year the land adjoining inevitably rises in value, for the simple
reason that the demand from the increasing population exceeds the supply of
land. Thus many small farms near growing cities will in the future become very
valuable. We could cite many cases
where small fortunes have accrued to
the owners of five acre tracts because
of the rapid growth of the nearest city,
which at first may have been say seven
miles distant, and has grown until now
its suburban borders hem the farmstead
all round.
We do not mention this as a sine qua
non in the purchase of a small homestead, but it is a factor which from a
purely business point of view ought to
be considered.
The Labor Problem.
Labor is also a point which should be
weighed carefully by all intending  far-
bor in his category, so as a beginning he
would be wise to confine himself to an
area he can manage by his own efforts
and those of his family if he has one.
It is hardly necessary to point out
that five acre tracts are not used for
grain growing. They generally make
small mixed farms, which the the safest
for the small capitalists and also the
most  interesting  and   instructive.
In subsequent articles we shall enter
into the question of returns and revenues
derived from different products. We
shall finish this article with a few remarks concerning the initial steps which
are advisable before the intending emigrant decides on the point of his possible location and the amount of capital
Question of Agents.
There are agents at all points in Bri-
to sell farm lands of all sizes and many
of these agents have already done satisfactory business for people from all
parts of Great Britain. Therefore, if the
investor desires he can often get British
references and many even get references
in the locality where he lives.   Through Page 14]
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British Columbia, is potentially the
theme of many a moving tale. It is
a spice of the Orient in our Occidental
literature which is being overlooked. As
a magazine editor I have often wondered
why this fruitful field has not been tilled.
Someone will say: 'What's the use?
Kipling wrote about the East. Why not
leave well alone?' The answer is that
this is a bit of the East transplanted—
the brooding East thrown by the scruff
of the neck into the bustling West—making its destiny under difficult and hostile
conditions. It figures out in new complications that Kipling never dreamed of.
for being of the yellow man in British
Columbia. Therefore, put him into short
stories before circumstances push him
off this part of the map.
"Talking of yellow reminds me of that
other rainbow, color—red. You have the
Indian still with you. He seems to me
shiftless—somewhat dirty, too—but he
is to be prized for similar reasons. The
potlach, they tell me, is a thing of the
past. Totem poles are few and far between. When Chief Matthias wants to
put on his war paint to welcome that
other great chieftain, Laurier, objections
arise.     The   day   approaches   when   the
the dry belt the other day. Mine host
told me he was an Oxford man who had
lost caste and didn't care to do much
of anything now except fish, eat and
sleep. I am afraid his end is in sight.
If he goes any further west he will have
to wade the Pacific ocean. Meanwhile
the storytellers of British Columbia have
a chance to take one last crack at him.
"I would like to say something about
the prospectors—the gaunt, stubble-
faced, dream-eyed fellows who drift up
and down this coast in search of gold.
I do not wonder they seek for gold
when there is so much of it in the sun-
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Let all the word-painters and sociologists
and rubber-necking tourists, who take
Yim Boy dinners in Chinatown, and try
to get a peep at something like the
'Gate of a Hundred Sorrows,' get busy.
If any politician carps at my opinions let
him remember that I am simply viewing
the yellow man as literary material. He
looks upon him as a peril, and he may
be right. But until he finds out what
to do with him let us make the best
of him in our kitchens, sawmills, fruit
orchards, canneries and other humble
tasks a white man spurns. This is not
a profound statement of policy. I simply offer it as a modus Vivendi, a reason
Squamish reserve across the inlet, will
be cut up into town lots. What will
the Indian—I speak of the Vancouver
Indian—do then, poor thing? What can
he do but become humdrum and civilized? I tell all the authoresses here
congregated—and I know there are some
present—not to forget the Indian. Use
him while he lasts. The East would
like to read more about him.
"Another fading touch of color is the
lotus-eating Englishman, the remittance man. The work-a-day spirit nas
shoved him out of the middle west. He
seems to have crossed the Rocky mountains.    I saw one of him at Savonas in
shine of this glorious land. When one
breathes it in the very air it stands
to reason that it must exist elsewhere
in more solid form. The prospector is
always on the brink of a great secret.
He is going to find the mother lode
or the father mountain—at all events
the source from which all metalliferous
blessings flow. The canyons beckon
him to follow them up. The little creeks
and rivers, with gold in their beds, say,
'Come along.' Why, someone asks, does
a mountain stream hide gold in its bed?
Why does any traveller put his money
under his pillow? It is the prospector's
business to puzzle out the tricks of the 1910]
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mountains and rivers—where they hide
their money. Are you surprised that he
spends a lot of his idle time drinking bad
whiskey? It helps guessing. He is very
much like a man I knew who said he
could never understand Revelations unless he had a quart of Scotch in him.
The prospector waits for a revelation all
the time. He is full of good stories.
Somebody ought to tap him.
"The fisherman and the sailor are at
your hand, waiting to be written up.
There are all sorts of missions to take
care of him and to make him better.
I speak from a selfish point of view
when I say that there ought to be another mission to raise him to the realm
of best sellers. Rex Beach has done
something with the salmon industry but
he has touched only the fringe of it.
The water-front of Vancouver alone is
three miles of inexhaustible fiction. The
logger and the miner must not be left
out of the count in the sum of human
interest. They are right at hand too—
it's no trouble to reach them.
"I pass now from the human integers
in the British Columbia color scheme—
of whom I have mentioned only a few—
to the great backgrounds nature offers
to the story teller in this blest province. Going back to my clue words I
find 'Douglas fir.' Douglas fir will work
up into as many paragraphs for the
editor as a log of it will into'boards for
the saw mills. Meanwhile it is enough
to say that it makes your forests look
like Gothic cathedrals. Never was a
tree of such straight, clean upstanding t
towering splendor. Such a tree must
have mountains to countenance it. That
is the reason why it grows in British
Columbia. Anywhere else it would dwarf
the surroundings and make man feel
smaller than he really is. The Douglas
fir is big and strong, from the bigness
and strength of a province that has
more and more varied natural resources
than any one of the other eight in the
Dominion of Canada. It looks grand anyway you take it. Even the stumps of it,
piled up into great pyramids by those
Pharohs of real estate who make town
lots out of the wilderness impress and
awe the eye. What a Gargantuan bonfire
they must make. Is one of them to be
touched off before I leave Vancouver?
To come to the figures I should like
very much to assist at a stump fire that
means three hundred dollars an acre to
clear. I know a New York newspaper
man who came all the way across the
continent to see Vancouver and found
his feature story in these very stump
piles.
"Ranging as far north as Prince Rupert I seem to find British Columbia
divided into two great parts—the north
or silver land, the south or golden land.
The warm Japanese current—another result 1 suppose of the Anglo-Japanese al
liance—mingles with the cold waters
coming down from the north, turning all
above certain latitudes into mist and
fog and rain. Through this moist curtain the sun shines like a silver shield.
I talk now of summer. The valleys hold
vapors as luminous as the fire Rider
Haggard's She bathed in. The mountains
wrap themselves in white scarfs, the
albs and surplices of the Almighty. The
eagle likes this chill air. But south,
where Vancouver lies, is the land of sunshine, God's country, where even the
trees seem to be glad that they are living. What a riot of flower and fern.
Let the eagle have the north or any
who cares to perch high. I am for the
South. I am told, however, that it rains
sometimes in Vancouver. I cannot believe
it.
"Having suggested a theme for the
poets I come to the greatest natural
beauty of all—the beauty that is to
be a joy forever after all the timber
is cut and there isn't enough left standing to make scenery—I mean the mountains. Over on the plains they will tell
you that all the mountains in British
Columbia were made just to serve as a
dam for their wheat-fields, to keep the
Pacific Ocean out and give Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba a chance to be
the granary of the empire. Another theory is that their tallness and bigness was
set up as an antidote to the flatness of
nine hundred miles of prairie. People in
observation cars are inclined to credit
this. At any rate they heave a great
sigh of relief when the Rockies loom
up on the horizon. Still another theory
is that the C. P. R., a very powerful
railway corporation of which you must
have heard, put the mountains there first,
as a background to their summer hotels,
and then built the railway afterwards.
But this seems absurd. Surely the railway would have been built first and the
mountains have been moved in afterwards if the company had wanted to
save money. Even a government subsidy
could not excuse such extravagance.
Well, just leave the mountains to Providence, which is, after all, the only reas^
onable explanation.
"British Columbia is full of highly
successful mountains up and down and
valleys in between. There are all kinds
of mountains, tall stately mountains,
with snow on their heads like grandes
dames at a bal poudre, little mountains
with baldish heads as if they had lost
their hair through typhoid fever; lazy
sprawling giants of mountains turned
over on their backs, having their feet
washed in the warm water, mountains—
But what's the use of cataloging? Any
one of 'em little or big is high enough
to overtop the price of town lots in
Calgary or Vancouver or Prince Rupert,
and in Prince Rupert the town lots are
so high that your next neighbor uphill can overlook    your    faults.      That
will give you an idea how high the smallest of British Columbia mountains is.
"We have no mountains like these in
Ontario. Hamilton, Ont., has a hill which
Toronto regards as vaulting ambition,
overleaping itself at about 1,500 feet.
At Ottawa we get a peep of the Lauren-
tides across the river. The Laurentides
are the oldest hills in the world. It
seems to me old age has wizened them.
None of them thinks of going higher than
2,000 feet. They don't compare with the
British Columbia mountains, where
4,500 feet is just a starter. What would
David have said if he had seen these
mountains? There isn't a mountain in
Palestine that would be a patch on the
least of these, and yet David lifted his
eyes to them and got strength that has
passed down the ages in some of the
most beautiful words ever penned. What
shouldn't a British Columbia poet be
able to do with an inspiration so much
bigger? There are poets in British Columbia. I have heard at times sweet
voices singing in the wilderness. I have
even had some of their songs under my
eyes. But, alas, it is not my passion
to buy poetry. I hope all the same some
of these scattered notes will swell into
a grand chorus. The mountains will be
excuse for it all. I should not be surprised if the great Canadian epic,
if the great Canadian play, likewise the
great Canadian novel, came out of British
Columbia.
"The mountains of British Columbia
exist not only as an inspiration to
poets and story writers, but to mountain climbers as well. Thousands of untrodden peaks wait to be challenged. The
only reason they haven't broken as many
necks as Mount Blanc is that they
haven't had the people to do it with.
The Alpine Club of Canada makes haste
to remedy this grievance. Its object is
to make the mountains cheap and accessible to students, clergymen, school
teachers, clerks and others who like to
take their vacation that way. At present the mountains are rather dear—
only to be reached with ease by fat
millionaires, who want to climb nothing
harder than a hotel elevator. I am with
the Alpine Club in any movement to
make the mountains of British Columbia
at least as free as the rarified air around
their summits. The Alpine Club might
go further. It should start a university
extension movement, a short course, a
correspondence school in mountains. It
should issue illustrated text books, explaining what a chimney is, a snow wall,
a crevasse, a saddle, and so forth and so
on. How else is the beginner to get the
terminology of the thing? After that,
they might classify mountains into freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior mountains, with a list of the stiff post-graduate monsters only to be tackled by
seasoned   veterans.     Vancouver   has a HSi
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mountain-climbing club. May it flourish
like a green bay tree. Mountain climbing is a good sport for men and women-
It strengthens the muscles, stiffens the
back, clears the eye and braces the courage. A stout alpenstock and a stout
heart will carry one a long way. When
there is so much climbing to be done in
society, mountain climbing ought to be
good practice for the harder work done
down here on the level. Let the ladies
climb mountains, too. It enhances the
charms of face and figure, with which
this city is so bountifully endowed. There
is more than joking in this talk about
mountains. Many of them are highly
mineralized. The prospector ranges mostly
above the tree limit. He pays little attention to what is below among the trees
and brush. What is to prevent a party
of amateur climbers stumbling across a
mineral treasure the prospector has overlooked? There are plenty of mountins
around Vancouver. Their presence suggests that they were put there for Vancouver people to climb them. What's
the gocd of having a mountain in your
backyard  unless  you  use  it?
"Don't mistake my meaning if I have
spoken of British Columbia as a great
treasure house of local color. I have
treated it as food for literature, because—well, because it's in my line. It's
shop talk, and I hate to see a splendid opportunity being neglected. I hope
I have said enough to make everybody
in British Columbia with a writing itch
'go to it.' All this local color may be
had for stretching out a hand. It exists cheek by jowl with a high state of
culture and civilization, which makes it
all the more piquant.
"I could have dwelt on the more material aspects of British Columbia, but
I leave that to more serious persons who
can pound the pulpit better than I can.
It may be that in my bushel of chaff you
will find a grain or two of common sense
which will bear fruit.
An after-thought suggests itself 1o
me. I have been talking of British Columbia as food for literature. What about
food for the stomach? I hear that British Columbia brings all her hogs in
from the United States, all her mutton
from Australia, all her butter from somewhere else. This land flows with milk
and honey, but so far there is no agriculture to speak of. Fruit farms and
other fancy touches, yes. But butter,
eggs, milk, no. The permanent basis of
prosperity is mixed farming. Isn't it
about time to get around to the useful
things? The farmers should farm, not
wait around until their land is cut up
into town lots. While they wait until
the real estate ship comes in somebody
else skims a handsome profit which
should be staying right here at home.
The Women's Canadian Club can help,
too.    There is nothing your globe-trotter
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likes so much as sampling the native
dishes and products of the soil. For instance, in Boston you ask for baked
beans, in Rhode Island for turkey, in
Newfoundland for codfish, and so on.
Every hostess should be a gentle booster
for British Columbia. For instance, when
your guest exclaims, 'What a mealy potato!' you will say, 'From Ashcroft.' Or,
'What a luscious apple!' your answer is,
'Okanagan Valley.' You take my meaning. Get at the observant man through
his stomach. That is the way to his
affections. Sir William Thompson, knighted in the eighteenth century for being
a good doctor to a rather rickety king, has
written a didactic treatise to the effect
that the Almighty has allotted each land
the fruits, vegetables and other garden
truck which he intends should be eaten at their proper season. This way
lies health. While not going so far as
Thompson and rejecting the out-of-season
delicacies which the whole world lays
on our tables, we can admit that it does
no harm to praise and push our own.
A sugar beet factory, to be operated
under the name, Fraser Valley Sugar
Works, Limited, is soon to be established
at Mission City, where an excellent site
with water frontage has been secured.
Behind this enterprise is Fraser Valley
and Vancouver capital to the extent of
$300,000. It is expected the plant will
be in running order within a year. 1910\
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British Columbia as a tourist Resort
mountains and Sea offer many opportunities for Pleasure
The whole vast province of British Columbia presents an unequalled area to
the tourist from any land, and, by virtue
of its magnificent panorama of mountain,
stream,   and   forest,   attracts   and   holds
ly   through   the     veins? The   noble
heads of thousands of mountains, grand
in their sublime nobility, are raised to
offer him a field unexcelled even in the
Alps for his venturesome quest.      From
A MOUNTAIN LAKE ON THE WAY FROM PENTICTON TO KEREMEOS, B. C.
spellbound the attention and interest of
the entire world. It is not many years
since the great western province was
first known as a splendid tourist resort,
and, in the short time that has elapsed,
what marvellous changes, what mighty
revolutions of public opinion and esteem
have occurred! Unheralded by the flar-
irg advertisement—unsung by the vaunting praises of "boom" writers—this
great province rushed into the arena
where wealth and beauty had arrayed
themselves, and competition fled from it,
as from the glance of Destiny. Previous
to the arousing of world wide interest
there was little effort made to draw the
tourist to this country by promises of a
land of wonders—little by little the
patronage was attracted, and the effects
of the campaign of worthiness was soon
shown in the development of tourist traffic—a factor of such immense importance to the province as to be almost inestimable in future results and incalculable in monetary value. At the present time, British Columbia is regarded
by wealthy tourists of every nationality
as, probably, the most desirable land on
the face of the earth for purposes of
travel and recreation—a consideration
entirely removed from its enormous
value as seen from a commercial point
of view.
What is there that the tourist would
wish to see or do? The scaling of grand
mountain peaks, with the snow of ten
thousand years glittering in the morning sun, and the keen breezes of those
altitudes making the blood course swift-
the towering, ice-clad giant of fifteen
thousand feet of stone and challenge,
down to the pine covered peaks of three
or four thousand feet, especially designed for the beginners and the timid, British Columbia has, in superb abundance,
all that could be desired by the most
enthusiastic mountain climber. Would
he hunt or fish? British Columbia can
show the most magnificent lakes, rivers,
streams, and other waters, where fish,
justly famed all over the earth are teeming, and forests, plains, and glades where
every variety of game, whether the terrible grizzly bear or the wary grouse,
may be found in an abundance not by
any means approached elsewhere in Canada. In fact, this province is to-day an
exception,   peculiarly   unique,   to   state
ments as to the depletion of the world's
game supply. Exploration may be the
magnet. If so, the illimitable stretches of
country in the interior and the north, or
the thousands of beautiful islands lying
along the coast, afford opportunities that
cannot be rivalled in the new world. A
quiet trip taken for the full enjoyment
of the beauty of British Columbia, and
conducted leisurely over the whole province must leave the tourist impressed
with a mingled memory of natural beauty
at times rugged and grand, as only
the Rockies can be, at others soft
pnd mild as a rural spot in the south of
Europe, and the hurry and activity of new
c it ies and towns. It is a strange condi-
t:'cn of affairs—that which exists at the
present moment. When the splendid
gorges and canyons of British Columbia's
invincible barrier of mountains have been
wcndered at and admired, the traveller
is taken suddenly from the overwhelming and awesome peaks and glaciers that
surround Banff, and placed in the midst
of the smiling fruit lands of the interior,
flanked and guarded by great forests and
charming lakes.
The progressive cities along the Canadian Pacific Railway, and those built by
the broad lakes and the huge rivers, will
all attract the tourist's favorable notice,
and extend to him an irresistible invitation to linger there and enjoy life. But
there is too much to be seen in British
Columbia to permit of a lengthy sojourn
in any one place. The journey through
to the coast is replete with lovely scenes,
as the train rushes by wide spread farms
and ranches; hurls itself around the
granite walls of precipices and through
the inky blackness of tunnels; puffs into
prosperous towns, and flares its searchlight at night upon    the    white-washed
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walls of sleeping hamlets. Past lake,
river, forest and mountain until the cities
on the coast are reached, then the commercial wonders and scenic fame of Vancouver; the vista of river, mountain,
and prosperity of New Westminster; the
lovely sail to Victoria, and the calmness,
solidity, beauty and strength of the capital. A trip through thousands of islands
and past a coast striking in beauty and
ever fresh in charm, will bring the tourist to the famous Prince Rupert, destined to become the commercial metropolis
of the new, gigantic, hardy and stupendous northern section of British North
America.   There is Stewart, the centre of
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on his separate path across the world
stops for a time to tell others of the size
and beauty of British Columbia. Thus
a name was made and is maintained.
Among the many British Columbian
cities offering unrivalled advantages to
the tourist trade, the city of Kamloops is
one of the most prominent. It has all
the beauty of situation—all the attraction
of splendid climate—and all the grandeur
of scenic surroundings to draw the traveller, and invite him to repose. The future
possibilities of Kamloops as a tourist
resort and a magnificent residential site
to please the tourist and invite him to
make the city his permanent home, can
hardly be over-stated.
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stages of trading post distributing point,
cow town, railway construction centre,
straggling town, the growth has been
steady and substantial until the one-time
hamlet has become an incorporated city
boasting many of the conveniences of
modern metropolitan life. The city has
the reputation in the province of being
conservative and inclined to be easygoing, yet this young city has its own
electric light and water systems, an
electric fire-alarm system and a modern
sewerage system. It has an up-to-date
fire-fighting apparatus, and a conveniently
arranged central fire hall.    It has broad
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a city that will one day bring forth gold
in such quantities as to make other and
less fortunate nations than Canada gasp
and wonder.
In fact, there is the whole province
open to the tourist, who is eagerly welcomed wherever he may go. The lights
of the northern skies shining on great
lonely spots may fascinate him; the glorious sunsets over the Pacific may lure
and draw; or the vast interior send forth
her myriad attratcions, for there is that
in the province that calls to all men, no
matter what their race, creed, opinion or
prejudice.   They come and go, and each
See   Amalgamated   Development   Company's ad. on page 39.
SCENE ON SEYMOUR CREEK, NEAR VANCOUVER
Picturesquely situated along the base of
a high plateau which fringes the south
bank of the Thompson river, and opposite the mouth of the North Thompson
river, Kamloops has been favored by
nature with an ideal site. Its population
is upwards of 5,000 which is rapidly
increasing. The situation was chosen by
those intrepid pioneers who erected the
first fort in 1812, and one is almost led
to believe that it was selected not only
for its strategic position at the centre of
an immensely rich country, but also for
the added charm of scenic beauty. Since
the first stockade fort was built a century
ago, the place has gradually increased in
size  and  importance.    Through   all thb
and well-kept streets, lined with an abundance of graceful shade trees, and trim
velvety lawns making many comfortable
home sites that are owned by a settled and
prosperous people. Besides the conveniences of modern life which are owned by
the city, the residents have all the usual
ones supplied by other concerns. Telephone connection with all the points on
the lines to the south, telegraphic communication with the world; express and
money-order offices; good schools and
hospitals, churches and lodges, in fact all
the requirements for a comfortable, convenient existence amidst the most desirable surroundings.
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The city of Chilliwack is one of the
most attractive communities in British
Columbia. It is replete with advantages
for tourist trade, possessing many facilities, and being justly famed for great
natural beauty, and, in addition, all
branches of trade and professions are
well represented, and everything that can
be found in a large city can be had here.
The Bank of Montreal and the Royal
Bank of Canada have important branches
here and employ large staffs. Five first-
class hotels give the best possible accommodation to the travelling public, being
modern in every respect. An opera house
having a modern stage, with a seating
capacity of 600, attracts good companies,
while a roller skating rink, bowling
alleys, billiard rooms, etc., provide amuse-
mail delivery is given to the people living
on the roads traversed by the different
mail carriers daily. The city is served
with excellent water direct from the
beautiful mountain falls in view of the
whole valley, and the fire protection is
very good on account of the splendid
pressure. Comfortable homes are a feature of Chilliwack, and in the summer,
surrounded by her wealth of fruit and
flowers, it is no wonder that people who
come to see, remain and make it their
permanent home.
The climate of Chilliwack is the Coast
climate with some favorable features in
addition. Its mild winters are greatly
enjoyed by those who have for years
endured the below-zero weather beyond
the Rockies.    Once in  every few years
several large agricultural valleys of peculiar promise. It is the terminus of the
Shuswap & Okanagan railway, 46 miles
from Sicamous Junction, and has in addition to the government offices, branches
of the Bank of Montreal and the Royal
Bank, and also two newspapers which
have creditably reflected the enterprise
of the district. It has daily communication via the Canadian Pacific railway
with the southern country, and as far as
the international boundary by means of
steamers on the Okanagan and Dog lakes*
and by stages to various points of the
district.
The city is beautifully situated and
the climate is healthful and exhilarating
and will undoubtedly attract a large
population of tarmers and small holders
ARBUTUS  TREES, SAVARY  ISLAND
ment to those in search of such. In summer all outdoor field games are indulged
in, driving through the beautiful country,
picnicing, riding, fishing, etc., and in
winter, music and dancing clubs hold
sway, Chilliwack being noted for her
hospitality to the stranger within her
gates. The churches—Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Catholic
—are all in a flourishing condition with
large congregations. Many fraternal
societies have large followings, among
which are the Masonic, Odd Fellows,
Foresters, Knights of Pythias, Orangemen, United Workmen, Templars, etc.
The postal facilities are good, and a handsome .new office is to be erected by the
government this year. Some 14 sub-
offices throughout the valley are served
from the Chilliwack office, and  a rural
the thermometer astonishes everyone by
falling to zero, but only for a day or two
at most, and winter after winter has been
known to pass without any cold snap at
all. A few days' snowfall may be had,
and its appearance is hailed with joy,
especially by the younger generation, as
being a great novelty. Being inland, the
valley escapes the fogs that are troublesome on the Coast, and has a brighter and
dryer air. The rainfall is most heavy in
November and December, but outdoor
temperature may reach 90 once in a
great while, but the west wind from the
sea gives the valley a pleasant coolness.
Rains are very warm. In summer the
operations are never suspended, and
thunder storms are practically unknown.
Vernon is a centre and chief supply
for the Okanagan district which contains
from other parts of Canada, seeking for
such conditions as exist there. It is the
country town of the valley and has a
population of about 3,000, which is rapidly increasing. It boasts of all modern
improvements, such as municipally
owned water and electric light systems,
sewerage, public and high schools, five
churches, two banks, many fine mercantile establishments, well-equipped hotels,
fruit-packing houses, saw mills, sash and
door factories, and other flourishing industries. Many fine drives and good,
level roads lead to the large tract of
orchards by which it is surrounded. It
has two beautiful lakes within easy distance, one being two and one-half and
the other five miles from the city. The
shores of these lakes are the summer
resort  of  a   very   large   portion   of  the Page 20]
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inhabitants of the city, affording as they
do    excellent    advantages    for    boating,
camping, fishing, etc.
.The climate is bracing and pleasant,
fairly hot in summer with  cool  nights,
sloping, grassy banks surrounded by the
cliff bound mainland shores and the towering mountain peaks, it is a veritable
garden spot amid a wilderness of rugged
precipice  and  rock.    The  whole  atmos-
lures, and, in the proper season, the rod
gives place to the gun, and the wild
ducks, brant, and geese afford the sport
for the hunter. As far as the fishing
is concerned it is made doubly enjoyable
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cold in winter, averaging 44.7 with occasional dips to zero and below. Climatic
conditions may generally be described as
very fine, although the city sometimes
has exceptionally hot days in summer,
and extremely cold ones in winter. The
winter temperature for four months
would not, however, average over 10
degrees of frost, with from one foot to
one and a half feet of snow. The ideal
conditions of soil and climate in the
midst of beautiful and inspiring scenery,
and the ready sale at good prices for
everything produced are fully appreciated by men who have been "grubbing
along" in the worn out fields of older
countries, and their glowing reports are
inducing thousands of farmers in Eastern
Canada, United States, and the British
Isles to "sell out" and secure land in
British Columbia which is destined to
become, in a measure, the "Orchard of
the Empire," as the prairie provinces are
its granary.
CHARM OF SAVARY ISLAND.
This delightful island is situated in
the Gulf of Georgia, some forty miles
from the city of Vancouver, opposite
the little village of Lund, and within half
a day's journey of either Vancouver or
Victoria. Nestling, as it does, on the
bosom of the calm Gulf waters, with
phere of the enchanting spot breathes
of restful calm, and extends a wordless
invitation to summer pleasures. In most
enticing terms it allures to sweet siestas
beneath the spreading branches of heavily branched trees, or moonlight strolls
along the shores, and one can almost
hear the merry shout and laughter of
happy children paddling along the sandy
beach as the tide comes rippling in over
the warm, white sands.
The island is crescent shaped, and about
five miles long from east to west, the
points of the crescent forming a long,
shallow, sandy bay on the north side,
which at low tide becomes an expanse of
level white sand, perfectly smooth and
firm, with only a few isolated boulders,
which simply serve to set it off properly
by supplying the necessary touch of contrast. This wonderful beach is by no
means confined to the north side, however, but extends from a quarter of a
mile to a mile in width at every point
along the shores of the Island. In the
summer the water becomes luke warm
after its long trip across such a hot expanse of sand, which has been exposed
to a summer sun between tides. Hence
the bathing is the best imaginable. For
fishing, Savary Island is a paradise, resembling closely the famous Catalina.
Large salmon and salmon trout respond
well to the trool and the fly, and other
by the possibility of distinguishing objects at a depth of twenty feet on a
fine day, the water being wonderfully
clear  all  around  the  island.    It  is  in
tended to install glass bottomed boats at
the resort, and thus make it possible to
observe the habits of fish and other inhabitants  of the waters.
The accessibility of the island is an important feature. It is only one mile
from Lund, which is a regular calling
place for practically all the coast boats,
and these will easily be tempted to call
at Savary when the wharf is erected,
and the island is as thickly populated as
it is certain to be in a very few years.
At present there is no difficulty in reaching it from Lund or from any of the well
known surrounding points on the mainland, or even from Victoria or Vancouver
by launch. There is a splendid hotel at
Lund, and ample accommodation of all
sorts to meet the demand that is certain
to come in the next few months. Cottages are already being erected on the
island, and everything points to a splendid future for Savary Island as a charming summer resort.
It is reported that the entire holdings
of the Pacific Coal Mines Company, on
Vancouver Island, have been purchased
by the C. P. R. for $44,000,000.
A forfeit of $1,000 was put up by
the Amalgamated Development Company
in case their representations were not
correct in every particular. Three
newspapers sent representatives who
report,—better than - represented. See
page 39. 1910]
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THE   PROMISED   LAND.
The curly ships, rushing along the
fiftieth parallel as if it were a tight-rope,
bring the immigrants eager to make a
hazard of new fortunes in the last new
country—the strong, out-doors worker
with the sun-toasted skin, the drab-faced
mechanic of the shops, and the human
fungus detached like a worthless coupon
from an ancient family tree, the man of
moral lassitude and no taste for labor,
over whose soul the blight creeps like
mould. It is a color-splashed, interesting
crowd that comes ashore when the steamer bumps the dock, "great stuff" for the
psychologist, the candler of human eggs.
In the mind of every man who has seen
a ship landing immigrants are little snapshots of one of the most humanly interesting scenes.
Emigration is a racial chess game, in
which the world is the board, the players
immigration agents, governments and
steamship lines, and the emigrants the
chessmen. From many-roofed Europe
the human pawns are moved to the wide
unsheltered plains, and the new wide-
streeted cities of the western world,
where roars the mighty smelter which
will in the sweep of time smelt all this
cosmopolitan pentecostal crowd into good
the English papers have reflected a nervous feeling that soon there may not be
much good land left in Canada. Let not
their hearts be troubled. Of good land
there is plenty left. In the three prairie
provinces the C. P. R. has still about
eleven million acres to sell, land companies and private owners have perhaps fifty
million acres to dispose of for money;
and the Dominion Government has almost forty two million acres to give away
for free homesteads. There are vast
spaces of tillable land in the Peace River
and other unorganized districts of Canada. British Columbia alone has room
for a white horde of the sons of mortal
men, upon whom she has gifts to bestow
more generous than the largess of storybook fairy princess—every good thing
coveted by the human heart, including a
clement climate and a chance to "expand
with the good times." The Fraser, the
Bulkeley and the Skeena rivers drain a
great area of good agricultural land. A
great deal of it is slightly timbered and
easily cleared. Much of it not timbered
at all. Long summers and short winters
make it ideal for ranching, dairying, stock
raising and mixed farming. There is
very little snow and zero weather is unknown.   In other parts of British Colum-
eries and the unmeasured timber lands.
Here under the temperate western sun,
and the newly-minted stars, the settler
can find all that mortal man could wish
for.—"Vancouver Province."
WANTS SOME  LAND  BEFORE  IT ALL
GOES.
Mr. W. O. Varnsdale, of Wichita, Kansas, the home of Congressman Murdock,
one of the insurgent leaders who has
been making things lively for President
Taft's administration, recently visited
Vancouver, for the purpose of investing
in a few acres of British Columbia land
before it is all off the market, which he
thinks will not be long at the present
rate of settlement.
"A great many Kansas people are coming to this section of the Dominion this
year,' he said, "and they include the very
best class of our farming community.
W7hile Kansas is all right and will have
a fair crop this season, there are many
there who are compelled to rent and are
desirous of securing their own homes,
and this country appears to be in the
minds of most of them.
"The large majority of those who will
come  are  in  fairly  good   circumstances,
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Canadians, and vitalize some of the fungi.
Hundreds of thousands have come, but
they only dot the vastness of Canada—a
few to the square mile.   Lately some of
See   Amalgamated   Development   Company's ad. on page 39.
bia there is much excellent land available
for farming and fruit-growing. Mineral
resources claim attention too. The half
has not yet been bragged about the
mineral resources of British Columbia.
Wonderful is  the  opulence  of the  fish-
energetic and progressive and will make
the very best citizens in the development of the country."
The refinery plant is all shipped to the
oil fields at Katalla, Alaska, belonging
to the Amalgamated Development Co.
See   page   39. Page 22]
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Development, Resources and Possibilities in British
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Appreciation plus Cooperation
When introducing "Opportunities" to the public,
a deep consciousness of the need, to proclaim to the
world our priceless heritage, created within us a steadfast resolve to perfect an adequate medium of publicity.
We were decidedly pleased to note the appreciative
tone which characterized the references to our magazine by various contemporaries, immediately following
the first issue. The commendations and expressions of
good will were regarded as additional evidences of the
existence of a capacious field for a periodical possessing "Opportunities' " aim.
During the elapsing of the subsequent mouths our
original purpose has been intensified and our pleasure
enhanced, by the manner in which each community we
have visited, has co-operated.
Never has the communal spirit been better exemplified.
At the outset the absence of a competitor was recognized. It was then our desire not to compete, but to
co-operate with all others. In those respects the situation is unchanged. The laborers are incommensurate
with the harvest. The capacity of the field, the urgency
of the demand, and the strength, alertness and industry
of our neighbors to the South, renders the co-operation
of British Columbians imperative.
There never was a better opportunity and a greater
call for concerted action. While we are engaged in
a laudable endeavor, the task is, nevertheless, of colossal dimensions; greater than Vancouver, Victoria,
Prince Rupert or any other of the great cities of this
Province may hope to accomplish singly.
For several decades all the manufacturing nations
have been paying considerable attention to Asia. The
nine hundred millions of inhabitants of that continent
afford a rich field for exploitMjpj|| The building of the
Grand Trunk Pacific and the existence of Prince Rupert, partially proves the interest the Imperial Government has in a route to the Orient and in the Asiatic
trade.
Now that the Panama Canal is nearing completion,
the competition between the different States and Provinces bordering on the Pacific, from Panama to Alaska,
is waxing feverish. The necessity of our increased vigilance is thus obvious, notwithstanding the great advantages we possess geographically and in natural resources. The pages of "Opportunities" are at the disposal
of all British Columbians to be used as a medium of
publicity for our mutual and collective good. Our desire is not to sarcastically gloat over the failure of
others just as worthy, who have for various reasons
been unable to realize their laudable aims. We banish
the thought of posing as "the great and only," making
great promises and in the same sentence denying them.
In our attitude to all contemporaries we intend to foster
an atmosphere pregnant with, at least, one good quality
—appreciation plus co-operation. 1910]
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the Visit of Sir Wilfrid
Every citizen of British Columbia, no matter of
what stripe or creed, or no matter how far his personal
opinions and convictions may differ from the great
leader, will welcome his coming visit to this Province.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier represents the highest development
of Canadian statesmanship, and when the British Dominions over the seas are represented in the Imperial
Parliament, should he be spared in health and strength
to that time, amongst the notables there assembled, he
will command a leading place. Although British Columbia did little to strengthen the Premier's party at
the last general election, Sir Wilfrid Laurier will find a
welcome awaiting him in the Pacific Coast Province not
surpassed by any other during the course of his. transcontinental tour. It is particularly incumbent upon
Vancouver to pay him special attention, in view of the
fact that her member has not been characterized by any
favorable attitude towards the Premier personally. Sir
Wilfrid will see scenes calculated to surprise and inspire
him—evidences of progress and development that, as
Prime Minister and in closest touch with all the progressive forward movements in Canada, he can scarcely
realize. Mingled with those feelings of surprise and
wonder, Sir Wilfrid Laurier should carry away with
him memories of the most pleasant character surrounding his trip to the Coast, and we are sure that the citizens of British Columbia will do everything in their
power to bring about that desired end.
Zhe Importance of the Jtpple
Along the line of the progressive development of
this Province the apple is going to play an important
part. The inauguration of the First National Apple
Show for Canada, having its inception in B. C, will
give every opportunity to prove, to greater advantage
than ever, the superior conditions existing here for the
cultivation and growth of perfect fruit. Every one in
the Province is interested directly or indirectly in the
coming Show, so that every support should be given the
management to make it of the greatest possible success.
Canada's first National Apple Show is an epoch-
making event in the Dominion's processional of marvelous achievements which the twentieth century is unfolding to the world. All honor to the thrift and business enterprise of the men of Vancouver who have made
the undertaking possible.
Fruit growing is the supreme test to which.soil and
climate can be subjected. Therefore, when the world is
called and witnesseth the magnificent exhibits of apples
-the king of all fruits—as now grown from Canadian
soil, there will be great rejoicing throughout the land,,
for it will be found that the first Canadian National
Apple Show will have done more than any other one
thing to fix in the public eye that Canada is a desirable
place in which to live; and that for the pursuit of
wealth and happiness, no better opportunity exists on
the face of the earth, than here and now.
The tremendous value of the big Show from an
advertising point of view is universally conceded. The
keeping before the world the fact that fruit growing,
with never failing crops and of superior quality, was
not only possible, but profitable, gave to the Pacific
Northwest States their prestige and has been the chief
factor in peopling that region with a desirable class of
settlers. It started in Eastern Washington, over twenty
years ago, with a district fruit fair, and these fruit
fairs soon became famous and were known throughout
the United States and Canada, with the result that settlers came by the thousands, until, today and within a
decade, the Inland Empire's annual fruit crop is worth
* 10,000,000.
The first National Apple Exhibition was launched
in Eastern Washington, and the third exposition is now
well in hand. Each of these exhibitions cost $40,000,
but over 100,000 acres have been added to the orchard
area of the country as the result of the first two shows.
Does it pay?   What do you think of it?
It is needless to say that the members of the Board
of Management regard the Canadian National Apple
Show as the most practical undertaking yet inaugurated
for the exploitation of the Province from a development
and commercial point of view.
The Vancouver City Council expressed their appreciation of its importance and put the stamp of their
approval upon it when they appropriated $6,000 toward
raising the necessary funds for its support.
Irrigation Progress
As we go to press the Western Canada Irrigation
Association is holding its annual convention at Kamloops. What irrigation has done for different countries, making the desert blossom like the rdse, and turning arid wastes into veritable bowers of beauty and
productiveness, is some index to the importance to this
Province of the present gathering, where representative
men are discussing the problems, policies, undertakings
and results of irrigation enterprise. The importance of
the gathering is further shown by the presence there of
Premier McBride and other members of the government. The question of water, rights is being dealt with,
as it constitutes probably the most important problem
before the present convention. Individual rights must
be protected, but the greatest good to the greatest number should be the key-note of the policy adopted in arriving at a definite understanding. It has already been
demonstrated what irrigation can do in the dry belts
of British Columbia. Everything conducive to making
further areas of this land available and productive'■
should be given the heartiest assistance. The effect of
the present convention cannot but be stimulating in
that direction, and far-reaching in its effect on the immediate development of British Columbia. And it
should be the proud object of every British Columbian
to lend his hand towards this worthy object. ^»_^__^
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Industrial Progress in British Columbia
Shares of the Hedley Gold Mining Company are now listed on the Boston Exchange.
West Fernie school building is nearinj
completion. A second new school will be
added in Fernie annex at an early date.
Eight inches of galena have been encountered on the Dominion claim, near
the city of Greenwood.
A large force of men are engaged on
Prince Rupert's sewer system which is
making splendid progress.
Construction of the new provincial
buildings at Ft. George is to be started
immediately, in order that they may be
completed before winter.
Arthur Stringer, the well known writer,
in a recent article on the American
in Canada, estimates United States investments in British Columbia mills and
timber at the colossal sum of $50,000,000.
Capitalists in East Kootenay are considering establishing a pulpwood mill at
Wardner, where an ambulance of raw
material and ample electrical power is
available.
Nearly every month more than $50,000
worth of gold is shipped from Greenwood.
The box factory at Arrow Lake is working night and day to keep pace with the
heavy demand for fruit boxes.
Reports from the Bayonne camp on
Johnny Bull mountain indicate that the
owners believe they have some strong
veins of ore. One of the best is the
Echo vein, owned by a Vancouver syndicate.
During the month of June the Crow's
Nest Pass Coal Company mined the largest tonnage in its history from Coal
Creek and Michel, 116,447 tons being
taken out, Coal Creek alone producing
74,372 tons.
A report is current that a huge mining deal, involving several million dollars, affecting rich claims at Stewart,
possibly Red Cliff mine, is pending.
Rumor has it that a large English syndicate is interested.
The British Columbia Copper Company's smelter at Phoenix is operating
at capacity once more, treating close
to 2,000 tons daily. Development work
at this company's Rawhide mine is also
progressing rapidly.
A group of rich gold claims will shortly be worked near Kamloops by J. H.
Sherman in the interests of Vancouver
business men. Samples taken from the
property assayed a very high average
of free milling gold.
Work has now started on the construction of the Kettle Valley Railway,
Merritt, a station on the Spences Bridge-
Nicola line of the C. P. R., in the Nicola
Valley, being the point from which the
work will progress this season.
The  Merritt  Liberal  Association  ha&
petitioned the Government at Ottawa for
a drill hall, assistance toward the formation of a regimental band, an experimental farm for the Valley, and a
separate telephone office building.
The Princeton holdings of the Columbia Coal and Coke Co., Ltd., are being
worked extensively. Estimates furnished
by prominent engineers prove these deposits to be extremely valuable. Vancouver and Winnipeg capital is heavily
interested in this company.
A new wireless station will be erected
this month at Lawn Hill, near Queen
Charlotte City, Graham Island. Useful
for shipping purposes, it will also form
a connecting link between that part of
the island and the mainland, bringing
the settlers in direct communication with
other points.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company will erect immediately a thoroughly
modern hotel at Victoria, according to
W. P. Hinton, general passenger agent,
Winnipeg, who recently visited the
coast. The site chosen faces the parliamentary buildings.
New Westminster is experiencing a
building boom this summer. Many
beautiful residences, apartment houses
and office and store buildings are being
erected. Ground is also being broken
for the erection of several manufactories.
An important deal was recently consummated in the amalgamation of the
British Columbia Sand & Gravel Co. Ltd.,
Vancouver, and the Victoria Contracting
Co. Ltd., Victoria, under the style The
Producers' Rock & Gravel Co. Limited.
The business of the old companies at Albert Head and Royal Bay will be continued and greatly enlarged.
The refinery plant is all snipped to the
oil fields at Katalla, Alaska, belonging"
to the Amalgamated Development Co.
See page 39.
A Vancouver syndicate will invest
$40,000 in a brick making plant, with
daily capacity of 25,000, at Nanaimo.
The plant, according to the agreement
with Mr. R. P. Wallis, the party who put
the deal through, is to be installed and
in running order within six months.
During the past twenty-eight months
the Nugget Gold Mines of Sheep Creek
turned out brick and ore shipments to
the value of $385,000, with a four-stamp
mill and a comparatively small force.
With electrical power early this fall the
camp's output will be greatly increased.
A twelve-story building costing half
a million dollars will be erected at the
corner of Homer and Pender Streets,
Vancouver. The plans in the hands of
Messrs. Donnellan & Donnellan, architects, show a beautiful structure, most
up-to-date in every respect. Excavation
work will be commenced within a month.
Work is now progressing at Esquimalt
for the erection of one of the largest
lumber mills in the province, to have a
daily output of 250,000 feet. The mill
is to be constructed by Eastern Canadian capitalists, who, it is reported, have
also absorbed the B. F. Graham Lumber
Company.
The Adams River Lumber Company of
Chase, B. C, with a mill of 150,000 capacity, are engaging men for a long run.
They have discarded the "pack your
blankets" system and instead supply
springs, mattress and bedding. Their
camps are new and as good as can be
found. They pay the employment fee
and will assist men with part pay if
needed.
In connection with alleged gross exaggerations in fire reports sent to outside papers, the Nelson Board of Trade
has issued the following bulletin: "The
reports circulated regarding forest fires
in the district of West Kootenay have,
fortunately been considered exaggerated.
So far, owing to the extremely dry
weather, these fires have been somewhat
numerous, but they have been altogether
local and have been kept in check. Some
damage to mining property has occurred
and in one case it was unfortunately accompanied by loss of life, but there is no
cause at present for the anxiety which
has been excited by the many alarming
reports that have been circulated. The
effect of the vigorous carrying out of the
government regulations by the gold commissioner of the district is being beneficially felt." 1910]
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Real Estate Review of B. C
During the past month the total number of real estate sales in and about
Vancouver, and in other important centres of the province, has not been large.
This has been offset to some extent by
several large deals aggregating big
amounts. There is no inclination on the
part of holders of real estate to lower
the price in any way. If anything, prices
have stiffened somewhat recently, with
the expectation of a more active market during the coming month. Several
factors have also contributed towards
the desire to hold for better prices. Important amongst these is the passing of
the Point Grey Bylaw, extending the
franchise of the B. C. E. Ry. in that district. The double tracking of outlying
roads has similarly affected South Vancouver. Hastings Townsite and North
Vancouver, and the district in the neighborhood of the proposed Second Narrows
bridge, have experienced a slight indication of a boom, owing to the passing of
the by-law in the Municipality of North
Vancouver, providing $250,000 for investment in the bridge-building fund.
Foster & Fisher, Hastings street, Vancouver, have met with wonderful success
in placing on the market for 10,000 acres
of land in the vicinity of Fort George, all
of which was turned over in a short time.
VICTORIA   REAL   ESTATE.
At Victoria exceptional activity in
realty contained in that semi-residential
portion of the city broadly referred to as
the James Bay district. Victoria is by
many regarded as strongly indicative of
certain moving impulses of a special civic
development as yet unexplained to the
general public, but grasped in their possibilities by those "on the inside."
Additional illustration of this is the
announcement that Messrs. A. von Alvens-
leben, Ltd., have acquired four lots immediately adjoining the recently secured
hotel site of the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway Co., and fronting respectively
on Belleville and Elliott streets, these two
double lots backing and extending between the two streets named, with an
approximate width of 120 feet.
The vendor is a well-known local gentleman with large Victoria interests, and
the amount of consideration moving in
the present transaction was $40,000.
Mr. Joachim von Alvensleben, resident
manager of the big firm buying, on being
approached for particulars of the deal,
while confirming its consummation and
at the figure named, would not disclose
the intentions of his firm in making this
purchase.
"That will become public in due time,"
said he, smiling.
The settlement of the difficulties respecting the widening of Fort street will,
it is expected, lead to a considerable demand for realty in that neighborhood.
Already a number of important deals are
being negotiated in that neighborhood.
Evidences of renewed activity in the
realty market are apparent. A portion of
the Scott property known as the
Dean Farm, comprising 78.82 acres,
has just been sold to a Winnipeg investor
for $116,000. The same investor has just
purchased Pantages Theatre on Johnson
street and the site upon which it stands
from Mr. T. S. Macpherson for a consideration of $24,000. The Pantages site
has a frontage of 33 feet on Johnson
street.
A block of stores, which will rank
among the most commodious and modern
of the city, will be constructed on the
southeast corner of Fort and Cook streets
by Mr. A. E. Todd, the owner of the
$50,000 apartment house being built immediately opposite. The new structure
will be of brick, will cost about $20,000,
and will include nine stores and a large,
up-to-date florist establishment for the
Wilkerson nursery.
The "Fort Block," as it will be called,
will have a frontage on Fort of 120 feet,
on Cook of 113 feet, and on Mears of 120
feet. It will be a fireproof structure.
The whole of the floor will be of cement
concrete, while the inside walls and ceiling will be covered with ornamental
steel, finished in white enamels. The
store fronts will be of plate* glass with
marble bases, tile vestibules with enamelled brick columns based with granite. Each store will be self-contained,
having its own toilet arrangements. The
Fort street corner is already leased to a
druggist who will take possession as soon
as the building is completed. It will be
fitted up in modern style, having a night
room and prescription quarters. All the
apartments will have rear entrances
from Mears street through a cement covered yard.
BUYS   VICTORIA   HOTEL.
An interesting realty deal has just
been put through the market in the purchase by Mr. C. H. Gibbons of the Colonist Hotel, Victoria, and the site upon
which it stands at the corner of Simcoe
and Douglas streets, and vacant lots adjoining on the park frontage. The property, which is a portion of the J. Corig-
daripe and M. Boucherat estate, has a
315-foot frontage on Douglas street and
123  feet on Simcoe  street.    The  estate
is represented in the city by Mr. E. M.
Johnson, and the sale, which involved
a cash price of approximately $19,500,
was negotiated by Mr. A. S. Ashwell, of
the National Realty Company.
Mr. James Moore, of Seattle, has received a telegram from P. D. Hillis, of
New York City and Victoria, B. C, offering on behalf of English buyers $500,000
for the standing timber on the Graham
Island properties of the Western Steel
Corporation.
Building operations at Fernie still continue active, over thirty-five houses having been already erected this year in the
Annex and several large structures being
in course of erection in the centre of the
town. The new court house is rapidly
nearing completion and will be ready for
occupancy before the fall assizes.
Considerable real estate activity prevails at Quesnel, besides the government auction sale of lots in the townsite,
the subdivision of the White-Brown Co.
of Seattle, adjoining West Quesnel on
two sides, will have been surveyed and
placed on the market. C. H. Ellacott is.
at work surveying the blocks. George
Brown, local manager for the White-
Brown Co., and the Mercantile Trust
Co., returned this week from the
coast and his report is very encouraging
to the citizens of Quesnel for Quesnel is
known now as a prosperous little place
and not just a spot on the map. Mr.
Brown has taken a great number of pictures of the Quesnel district and is planning extensive publications on the surrounding country.
Perhaps the biggest real estate deal
consummated in Kamloops through a
local agency was concluded recently
when the Sunnyside estate, a few miles
east of Ducks and on the north side of
the South Thompson river, changed
hands. The purchasers are Messrs. Ross
and Shaw, of Vancouver and W. J. Kerr,
of New Westminster, the price being
$100,000, a substantial sum being paid
at the time the deal was closed. The
vendors are the B. C. Orchard Lands
Company, a local concern, who some
time ago arranged to dispose of the property to J. H. Kilmer, of Vancouver, hut
the necessary payment due a few days
ago was not made, and the other parties
took advantage of the opportunity to
get hold of the property, which is
one of the best large acreages in the
district. The deal was made through
the office of J. T. Robinson.
See   Amalgamated   Development   Company's ad. on page 39. L
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Increased interest in the new townsite
of Port Alherni is evidenced by record
sales to investors from all parts of the
Northwest. Lots in the business section
of the town are being rapidly snapped
up and, in many cases, have been resold
at increased figures. A prominent Winnipeg capitalist purchased several lots
for a sum 50 per cent, higher than that
at which the lots first sold eight days
previously. Much interest is being taken
by the public.
Real  estate   is   still   on  the   move   in
Revelstoke, during the week just past the
brokers and agents reported many sales
of city residential property, as well as
outside acreages, and fruit lands. Prices
are holding out well and an advance is
looked for in the course of a few weeks.
A number of outside investors are coming into Revelstoke shortly and will
leave considerable money here.
Revelstoke is on the eve of a very
prosperous era and with the advent of
the new proposed railways she will without doubt be the leading distributing
point of the interior of British Columbia.
The civic authorities of Vancouver are
considering the purchase of some 160
acres of land from Mr. J. C. Keith, for
the erection of a reservoir and dam in
the Seymour Creek Valley, to take care
of  the  future  needs  of  the  metropolis.
It is expected that extensive mining
will take place shortly. Activity has
been noticeable in this direction for
some months, as the island is rich in
both lignite and bituminous. Several of
the claims staked cover an immense area.
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Kerrisdale, Point Grey
Greater Vancouver's Greater West End
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RESIDENCE OF CAPTAIN STE"WART, KERRISDALE, POINT GREY
The extraordinarily fast growth of
Vancouver into a manufacturing city,
and the steady expansion of the business
area, have already aroused those residents who desire above all else the
privacy and advantages of a capacious
home, removed from the bustle, smoke
and turmoil of manufacturing and business centres. Fortunately a reminder of
the great extent of residential sites, joining the city, tends to relieve the anxiety.
So far the West End has supplied the
need, but business interests are fast
crowding this beautiful residential quarter out of existence. Its natural successor is Point Grey.
The extremity of Point Grey is a mina-
ture plateau, three hundred and fifty feet
above sea level, overlooking the Gulf
of Georgia. Commanding an entrance
to English Bay, and in such proximity
to the entrance of Burrard Inlet, it may
aptly be termed the outpost of Vancouver's harbor. With miles of waterfront-
age on English Bay, the Gulf of Georgia,
and the mouth of the Fraser, the municipality of Point Grey affords as beautiful
a residential site as one could wish to
find. Comfortably removed from the din
and dirt of city life, to windward of the
metropolis, catching the full benefit of
the Pacific's balmy breezes, this beautiful suburb is excellently equipped to
claim the distinction of being the premier
residential district of Greater Vancouver.
The hub of Point Grey is Kerrisdale.
This community might, so to speak, be
called Point Grey's county seat. From
here the development of the new suburb
radiates. At Kerrisdale all the public
buildings of the municipality are located,
including the post office, which cost
$4,000, the municipal hall and public
school. There are various stores, including a grocery and meat market.
There are already many magnificent residences; some costing $40,000, some even
more. The occupants of these homes
include Messrs. Bowser, Alvensleben,
Tweedale and R. S. Ford.
The price and size of the lots and the
fertility of the soil also add important
factors in securing those comforts folk
desire in a home.
It is in this district the C. P. R. cultivates   twenty-five   acres,   and   produces}
vegetables for their hotels and dining
cars. The soil is noted for the growth
of roses, on account of which the Vancouver Floral Company has established
an extensive plant and gardens. The
Royal Nurseries Company have forty
acres under cultivation.
But the chief factor in bringing this
beautiful land in touch with the City is
the recent ratification by the Point Grey
municipal council of the street railway
agreement with the B. C. E. Ry. Co.
This company has been granted a forty-
year franchise to extend their system on
all or any streets in the municipality,
though not exclusive. The company has
already acquired five acres near Twenty-
fourth avenue, upon which they contemplate building a power plant in the near
future.
So with all the preceding facts and
prospects, Greater Vancouver's Greater
"West End" is assured.
BUILDING PERMITS EXCEED
$7,500,000.
The report of Building Inspector Jar-
rett, of Vancouver, for the first seven
months of the year, shows that the value
of the buildings authorized during the
period is over $7,500,000. This brings
the total, covering only a little over the
half year, $250,000 in advance of the
banner annual record of $7,258,565.
The July total was 644,480, which represents an advance of about $100,000 on
the record for the corresponding -period
last year.
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Timber in British Columbia is
now held by American Syndicates.
We ape now buying* on behalf of a
German Syndicate.
ENGLISH INVESTORS should
communicate with us and we will
give particulars of the latest timber
deals  and  the  profits  they show.
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of British Columbia, if not in all the world. We have for
sale 160, 320 and 640-acre tracts. Good water, rich soil,
easily cleared, big open patches, close to railroad, close to
Fort George. Surveyors' notes and every description.
Small cash payment handles this, balance spread over five
years.
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OPPORTUNITIES
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With the Brokers
H. W. Windle, 532 Granville street, is
making a specialty of the Kerrisdale district, which is quickly becoming the favorite residential quarter. Mr. Windle,
speaking concerning Kerrisdale and
Point Grey, said, that the municipality
will be busy "spending nearly $1,000,000
on improvements, such as roads, sidewalks, water mains, parks, and the B.
C. Electric Railway will spend a large
amount on new lines in this district, also
in double tracking the present Lulu Island Railway. Kerrisdale is only 4 miles
from the postoffice, 1% from Shaugh-
nessy Heights and on account of the
southern exposure, Kerrisdale is warmer and has less rain than "Vancouver and
no fog. Anybody with regard to health
for wife and family, should live in Kerrisdale, where there is plenty of room
and fresh air and schools. An investment in a homesite now will be very
profitable also from a financial point of
view. Several ladies in the West end,
have signified their intention of residing
in Kerrisdale in the near future.
The East Coast of Vancouver Island
offers splendid opportunities to the fruit
grower and farmer. Around the district
of Nanaimo land can be purchased very
reasonably, both cleared and uncleared
tracts from five acres up. The advantages of this district are numerous.
There is a delightful climate, magnificent
scenery, close proximity to the mainland.
Nanaimo being the nearest port on the
island to Vancouver, with excellent shipping facilities, and lastly there is a ready
market in Nanaimo City itself for all
the produce that can be grown for miles
around. To give our readers an idea of
values in this district, we give te'ow a
few farms which are listed with A. E.
Planta, Ltd., the best known and oldest
established real estate agents in Nanaimo and district. Mr. Planta possesses
the experience of a lifetime spent in this
neighborhood, and is fully qualified to advise both large and small investors as to
the most suitable sites for their needs.
Here are three farms which will give an
idea of the variety of properties which
this firm have for sale.
Five acres about one mile from City
limits, nearly all cleared, 200 chickens,
sow and pigs, 3 roomed house, small quantity household furniture—Price, $1,800.00.
Twenty acres, about fourteen acres
cleared, large house, 50 good trees in
bearing, 16 head cattle, horse, wagons,
hocse-rake, cultivator, separator, implements, tools, goodwill, distance of property from Nanaimo, about 4 miles.—
Price,  $3,700.00.
360 acres, fifty cleared, large orchard,
house, 9 rooms, barn, granary, stable, 40
head cattle, 4 horses, plough, harrow etc.,
tennis   court,   delightful  country.—Price,
$16,000.00. 	
Messrs. Ward, Burmester & Von Grae-
venitz have now moved into their new
offices in No. 411 Pender street. These
offices have been fitted up in an attractive but quiet style. This firm deal
principally on behalf of clients in Germany and Englaad, to whom the conservative style of business more particularly appeals.
The Canadian Investment Company
has a good thing in Port Moody, and they
have found it out in their summer season, when realty is usually quiet. They
report a steady increase in the demand
for this townsite property, because people have become more attracted to this
vicinity owing to recent important developments there. They still have some
choice lots in this rapidly expanding district and are always willing to give complete information and advice to intending buyers of Port Moody property.
The North Coast Land Company is receiving hundreds of letters asking about
the Fort George district. This Company
is very heavily interested in the Nechaco
and Bulkley Valleys as well as the Fort
George district, and has sold a great
many 160, 320 and 640 acre tracts to
wide-awake investors and farmers all over Canada and the United States. The
officials of the Company have been agreeably surprised at the enormous amount
of business at this season, which is generally the worst time of the year for the
sale of farm lands. Those who are in
touch with the tremendous development
schemes and colonization projects already formulated, are of the opinion that
the number of actual settlers going into
these districts next year will be ten
times as great as the number who are
going this year.
M. H. Franklin Co. advise demand for
inside property not brisk but in a healthy
state, and increasing. No snaps in outside holdings but prices good. Predict
present quietness will prevail, with some
improvement, for a few months.
Meessrs. Lougheed & Coates, of 633
Pender street, report that there has been
a very noticeable increase in the demand
for all classes of residential property,
more particularly in South Vancouver,
where the majority of purchasers are
building their own homes. The Kitsil-
ano district is also in demand, with very
little speculative  buying.    The  arrange
ment that this firm has of building homes
for cash or on terms brings considerable
business in this line. Mr. Lougheed has
had a large experience in home building,
and is competent to execute plans and
specifications for any sized house, pretentious or otherwise. They are specializing bungalows, as this style of home
seems to be the most up-to-date and is
the choice of the most particular buyers.
An inspection of their work will prove
that they know their business in this
line. They are also handling good farm
lands in the Nicola Valley, at prices
which are away below the average for
land of this description in British Columbia.
The John T. Stevens Trust Company
report many indications of increased activity in real estate in West Fairview, as
also an increasing number of inquiries
for homes and homesites. The develop-
met and laying of the new car lire
on Broadway, west of Granville street,
should cause shrewd investors to turn
their attention in that direction. The
prospects for both seller and buyer are
large and encouraging and buyers who
know good values should at once look
over the ground, so that they may acquire something worth while when the
greater activity commences which is expected within the next thirty to sixty
days. Bona fide investors and home-
seekers would do well to call on the John
T. Stevens Trust Company as their knowledge in this particular locality should
be of great advantage to buyers. We are
sure no effort will be spared to suit
their requirements and the usual personal and courteous treatment will be
given to one and all. We advise you to
call at their Branch Office at 2435 Granville street, 'phone 4265.
Mole & Keefer, Point Grey specialists,
report steady market for their well located homesites in Point Grey. The advent of the new carline has undoubtedly
created greater interest in this beautiful
residential section, and it is not too much
to hope that, with the usual autumn revival of the realty market, Point Grey
property will be in even greater demand
than at present. A homesite should have
all the environs that go to make a real
home, and as all people who know Point
Grey are fully aware that it possesses
all the advantages which are requisite
in a homesite, it is little wonder that this
progressive firm find such good demand
for their choice holdings in this district.
It might be well to note that they have
moved to 1065 Granville street, next door
to their old premises. 1910]
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The real estate firm of Harwick & Dea-
kin, recently of Broad and Johnston Sts.,
have merged with the Royal Realty Co.
and have moved into excellent and commodious offices, on the ground floor at
615 Fort street, Victoria. They are commanding considerable respect as Insurance and Financial Agents. The extended business experience in Victoria, of
Messrs. Hardwick and Deakin is proving a valuable asset to the new firm.
The Shaw Real Estate Co. of 707%
Yates street, Victoria, are enjoying their
full share of Victoria's prosperity. They
report a healthy demand in city property, also in timber, farm and fruit lands
The different real estate agents report
brisk inquiry and a number of deals
pending. Messrs. Currie and Power have
just put through a tract of acreage in
Esquimalt. The sales of this firm during several days total over $20,000.
In a recent interview with Mr. R.
Thompson Tinn, our representative was
greatly impressed by Mr. Tinn's confidence regarding the bright future before
North Vancouver and Burnaby. Mr. Tinn
is one of our first-class brokers and has
a reputation for being conservative in
his business, so his opinions come with
considerable force.
Mr. Tinn says: "The Second Narrows
Bridge, talked over for so many years,
is now in the hands of men who are able
and eager to do things. Already their
plans are far advanced and it is almost
certain that construction will begin this
The   Amalgamated   Development   Company  has  made  good.     See page  39.
year. What the bridge means to North
Vancouver is certainly not realized, even
by many of our leading real estate men.
At least three large industrial corporations will locate on the North shore directly the construction of the bridge is
commenced. North Vancouver will have
a large business centre of its own, with
warehouses, business blocks and large
office buildings, just as we have on the
South side of the Inlet. The value of
residential property will take big jumps
with the development of industrial life;
and the beautiful sites available for
homes make north Vancouver exceptionally desirable."
Mr. Tinn's opinion is that now is the
time to buy on the North shore, to reap
certain profits, the size of which one hesitates to name, the future is so bright.
Continuing, Mr. Tinn remarks: "Burnaby and Hastings Townsite will also
benefit greatly by the proposed improvements in communication. For those
whose business compels them to locate
on the South shore, he would thoroughly
advise an examination of the possibilities of Burnaby. Quarter acre lots can
be bought there for prices no greater
than is being paid for 33-foot lots in
other districts surrounding Vancouver—
and Burnaby is just as accessible. There
are two steam and two electric railroads,
and another electric railroad nearing
completion; and still another steam railroad charter applied for—all of which
are to connect and develop the districts
lying between Vancouver and New Westminster. Most people here make money
so easily in real estate that they do
not stop to reason closely and calculate
where they are likely to get the largest
returns."
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B.  C. Oil  Refining Co 60 .80
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International   Coal & Coke .67
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Royal   Collieries 20 .25
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Lasqueti Island MinFg Co .12
Northern   Oil     .18
Dr. Earl T. McCoy has opened Optical
Parlors, 65 Fairfield Building, and he
will be pleased to look over your eyes at
any time. Dr. McCoy employs the latest
methods of optometry and makes a specialty of muscular trouble. He gives satisfaction where others fail. If your
glasses are not entirely satisfactory, it
will pay you to call.
A forfeit of $1,000 was put up by
the Amalgamated Development Company
in case their representations were not
correct   in    every    particular. Three
newspapers sent representatives who
report,—better than represented. See
page 39.
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Progressive Hew Westminster
31 n appreciation
By A. Edward Roberts.
It is doubtful if there is another place
so richly endowed by nature with so
many attractions, which appeal to the
settler, as the district of New Westminster. The river transportation is. excellent and the railway facilities are all
that could be desired, while the climate
soil and geographical position are the
very best. Give any man the before
mentioned environs and it is only a
matter of time before he can attain a
position of independence. This is not
a mere assertion when applied to the
district  in  question,   you  have  only  to
British Columbia. He could not resist an
exclamation of delight when he saw it.
You would do the same; because it
means that New Westminster is not following, but leading most other cities in
municipal improvement. Columbia street
is just one of a whole line of progressive
movements that is taking place in this
rapidly growing city. Verily New Westminster is coming into her own. Her
citizens have become fully alive to her
great heritage. And heritage it is. Few
cities have such a splendid future as
this beauty spot, which at the same time
ent is the real "ground floor" of this district. At no time in its history was it
more conducive to individual advancement than the present. The whole
Fraser valley is on the verge of a great
wave of commercial activity which will
surprise the world and mean the circulation of millions of dollars among its
people. It is surprising how rapidly this
district is filling up; and the joint efforts
of these new and active citizens are
not only increasing their own personal
wealth but are adding to the wealth of
the whole  community and  are  also  in-
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GENERAL   VIEW  OF  NEW  WESTMINSTER, B. C
walk or drive along the banks of the
mighty Fraser and see the long line
of substantial houses, golden and green
fields, sleek cattle, beautiful orchards
and general air of prosperity that prevails everywhere in this district, to be
convinced that here amid such scenes
of prosperity and contentment one
could, by less exertion than in less favored lands, gain that independence of
thought and action which is so dear to
the heart of every man. Westminster
City itself is sharing in this great wave
of prosperity which is sweeping the surrounding country. The writer of this
article has from time to time visited
this charming city, with its beautiful
location on the banks of that truly wonderful river the Fraser. He was never
more struck with its progressiveness
than when alighting from one of the
splendid interurban cars which run between this city and Vancouver, and beheld Columbia street as it is today.
Imagine a beautiful wide street, with
street car poles in the center, with well
designed cluster lights on either side,
lined with handsome business; blocks,
beautiful banks, and federal buildings
and you have Columbia street, New
Westminster,   the best lighted street in
has the throb of youthful activity and
the environs of a future city of wonderful size and importance. One has only
to gaze upon the wonderful panorama of
the Fraser valley to be convinced that
the optimistic and broad-minded view
of its ambitious citizens is well founded.
One might ask, "What class of people
would succeed best in this prosperous
community?" I would say that there are
good chances in all walks of life. I
think there are few places where the
"Back to the land movement' could be
more successfully carried out. What
British Columbia needs is more farmers,
more producers; and there are few
places where farm life is more enjoyable and profitable than the district in
question. A small holding only is necessary to make a good substantial living
and leave a good surplus, because the
soil is so fertile, the growth so luxuriant
that it is practically no time before a
holding becomes a home. Then the
market for fruits, vegetables, poultry,
etc., is right at the very doors of the producer so to speak, while the prices for
these necessities are at all seasons of
the year good and amply repay the wise
individual who has the courage to work
from the ground up.   And truly the pres-
creasing the price of land in general.
Land at $300 per acre to-day can easily
be made worth $800 to $1,000 per acre
in four or five years. Many a man who
started in a small way in Westminster
district five years ago is in an independent position to-day, and the chances are
better now than ever.
Dairying, poultry raising, truck farming have already assumed tremendous
proportions. The prevailing prosperity
and the rapidly incoming population to
all parts of British Columbia is daily
adding strength to the home market,
which will justify any \ number of new
farms.
I am no prophet, but when I visit this
district in question and see those splendid rich fields and thickly planted
orchards, and beyond the vast areas still
awaiting the producing hand of man, I
feel that one need not be one to predict
that here is, and will be a land flowing
with milk and honey, a land where any
man with an ordinary amount of the
pioneering spirit can make a comfort^
able living and home of contentment,
surrounded by a good class of progressive people, and a climate and general
environment which are unsurpassable. A
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and if one has a farm, no matter how
small, in this favored valley, there is no
reason why one should not have all the
joys in life and a full share of independence. If, however, one leans more to
the commercial and industrial side of
life, there is room and opportunity for
all in the cities and towns, which are
rapidly growing in size and importance.
Whatever your calling in life or li£e-work
may be, whatever your ambitions, you will
find it hard to find a more pleasant spot
to work out your destiny than the beautiful yet prosperous district of New Westminster.
POINTERS ON THE CARE OF THE
FEET.
Mr. John Jackson, Vancouver's chiropodist, of suite 305, Loo Block, Hastings
street, who is a graduate of the School
of Chiropody in London, England, and
a man of considerable experience in the
art of relieving the pains in the pedal
extremities of suffering humanity, gives
the following free advice:
What   To   Do   and   What   To   Avoid   To
Obtain   Well   Formed   and   Beautiful
Feet.
1. Never wear a shoe that will not
allow of your five toes having plenty of
room.
2. Never wear a shoe the sole of
which is narrower than your foot.
3. Never wear a boot or shoe that
is tight anywhere; it stops the flow of
blood and weakens the muscles.
4. Never wear a shoe that is to large
in the heel or instep. Friction is as bad
as pressure.
5. Never wear high heels as they will
in time give you headaches; your eyes
will trouble you; the spine will become
weakened and your internal organs will
become misplaced.
The only gilt-edged, commercial Oil
proposition on the market, Amalgamated
Development Company, page 39.
6. Never allow your children to wear
heels: it weakens the ankle and it causes
the arch to become flat. The spring heel
is the shoe.
7. Never avoid bathing the feet too
often as cleanliness is next to Godliness.
8. Wear sandals as much as you can
in summer. There is no reason except
vanity why the feet should not be as
free from pain as the hands.
9. The feet should be bathed once a
day in the winter. In summer they
should have two daily baths, one morning and evening.
10. We are departing a long way from
nature in wearing stockings at all, but
it is one of the concessions paid to civilization.
11. Be more than ever careful in your
choice of boots and stockings for summer wear. Remember that heat expands
and cold contracts. But don't think the
stockings are immaterial. A good gown
is made over a good lining. Is it not so?
So a well-fitting shoe should go over a
well-fitting stocking.
I have known thoughtless women, who
asserted and proved that they wore well-
fitting shoes, wonder why their feet were
still tender, and I have found that they
wore stockings a size or more too small.
The shoes were indeed roomy, but the
stockings were so tight that they forced
the toes to over-ride each other or press
so close together that they caused soft
corns and stopped the circulation of the
blood.
Any further information regarding the
care and protection of the foot will be
cheerfully given by Mr. Jackson, free
of charge, at his suite of offices, 305 Loo
Building, corner Hastings and Abbott
streets, Vancouver. He will also remove
corns, bunions, callouses, etc., paihTessly
and quickly, at a moderate charge. During the past six months Mr. Jackson has
successfully treated over 600 cases without a single complaint.
FOR   LADIES.
Madame Humphreys, the progressive
dermatologist of Vancouver has another
important announcement to make to the
ladies of British Columbia. She wishes
to inform all her patrons both in and
out of town, that she has secured the
rights in British Columbia for the new
Nestte Permanent Hair Wave.
This is an ingenious creation and the
fact that damp weather only tends to
make it more wavy and that it will not
wash out, signifies its superiority over
the older form of hair waves. For many
years the wave has been a success on
cut hair but owing to the severe process
necessary, it was found impossible to
wave the hair on the head. Now, thanks
to electricity, Madame Humphreys informs us that it can be done in this way
without injury to the hair or head, with
excellent results.
In all parts of Europe society ladies
have taken kindly to the treatment, and
look upon the Nestte Permanent Hair
Wave as a great boon.
Madame Humphreys would be pleased
to give any ladies interested in this new
creation complete information regarding
it. Her Hair Dressing Parlors are at 723
Pender St. W., Vancouver, where her
valued services are always at the disposal of her many patrons.
A company has been formed at Salmon
Arm for the purpose of establishing and
operating a creamery there.
Mr. Agate and his party of eighteen
have completed the reconnaisance survey for the B. C. & A. Railway between
Lytton and Lillooet.
The Dominion Department of Indian
Affairs contemplates the early erection
of a new Indian Industrial school at the
St. Eugene Mission.
The refinery plant is all shipped to the
oil fields at Katalla, Alaska, belonging
to the Amalgamated Development Co.
See page 39.
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BURNABY AND DEER LAKES.
The picture on opposite page shows
the beautiful valley containing Burnaby
and Deer Lakes—the summer homes of
some of Vancouver's best ciitizens are
shown on the shores of Deer Lake. It
?vas impossible to show all the improvements on and adjoining these lakes.
For the benefit of those who do not
know this Valley, we would say to them
to go out at the first opportunity and
that they will be amply repaid for the
trouble.
As the soil is first class and capable of
growing all kinds of fruits and vegetables, it is a profitable, as well as a
pleasant undertaking, to own and .cultivate a piece of ground from a half acre
up in extent.
The new extension of the B. C. Electric
to New Westminster, passing as it does
between these two lakes, makes these
properties very accessible.
CO-OPERATION    IN    PUBLICITY
CAMPAIGNS.
Through a proposal of Mr. H. G. Hall,
the Nelson Board of Trade has taken definite steps toward enlisting the co-operation of the entire Kootenay and Boundary districts in a comprehensive scheme
for advertising the district and attracting settlers and capital.
The  Amalgamated  Development   Company has made good.    See page 39.
The establishment of an agent in London is proposed, also to induce strong
companies to invest in large tracts of
land, and by clearing the same bring in
numbers of settlers.
The effective displays of Kootenay
fruit and flowers at the exhibitions at
Calgary, Brandon, Winnipeg and Toronto,
have conclusively proven that in advertising the land of the Kootenays for settlement the Publicity Committee has a
very fertile district to recommend. Regarding the exhibits mentioned, the Publicity Committee expressed appreciation
of the assistance rendered by the C. P.
R, in donating express charges.
The City Council of Victoria voted
$4,000 towards this year's work of the
Vancouver Island Development League.
The Bank of Montreal donated $200 for
the same purpose.
In appreciation of the excellent work
the Prince Rupert Publicity Club has accomplished, the Board of Trade and the
City Council of Prince Rupert have voted
substantial sums to swell the exchequer
and meet the expenses of the club.
The energy of the Nanaimo Citizens'
League and their Secretary, H. R. Hick-
ling, has been rewarded by monetary
assistance from the Nanaimo City Council.
•To the joint efforts of the Boards of
Trade of Alberni and Port Alberni, is due
the great success of the recent conven
tion   of  the  Vancouver  Island   Development League, held in that district.
SCHOOL FOR CLOVERDALE.
Plans are being drawn for the erection
of a modern four-roomed school at Clo-
verdale, for the municipality of Surrey,
the architect being Mr. C. H. Clow of
New Westminster, whose design and
scheme of arrangement have the approval
of the department of education. Tenders
are to be invited very shortly and it is
expected that no delay will occur in
awarding the contract.
LARGE EXPENDITURE.
Estimated expenditures by the C. P. R.
for repairs during the present year in
the Nelson district and exclusive of the
Procton hotel project, will aggregate
$1,080,000. Some three hundred miles of
railroad will be built; several new steel
bridges are under construction, seventy
miles of road will be laid with the eighty-
five-pound Steel rails, wooden bridges
will be filled in, retaining walls of stone
masonry built, sixty miles of track ballasting done, a brick round-house built
at Smelter Junction and a multitude of
smaller jobs handled. Between 500 and
600 laborers are now at work at the
various points and within a few weeks
almost as many more will be engaged.
Oil  in large  quantities—Amalgamated
Development  Co.,  page  39.
For Burnaby Property
On Either DEER or BURNABY LAKES.
On the NORTH SIDE of BURNABY LAKE
with Southern Exposure.
Or on present
TRAMLINE TO NEW WESTMINSTER.
See Ross & Shaw
318 Hastings St. W., Vancouver, B. C,
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Although but a short time in the field,
"Opportunities" is attracting attention
from distant parts of the world. It is a
source of satisfaction to the management to have numerous letters coming
from foreign parts, where the desire to
know more and more concerning British
Columbia grows as the months advance.
Following up a circulation campaign in
England, we are about to launch one
covering the entire. Dominion, and continued throughout the United States,
from which sources many of the future
citizens of British Columbia will come,
and whence will be sent large sums of
money for investment in this province.
We have been careful to avoid the publication of anything concerning the province that is overdrawn or exaggerated.
The bare facts concerning British Columbia are in themselves sufficient to attract
attention throughout the entire world.
Every loyal citizen of this province believes that never was there so favored a
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Mole & Keefer    29
Moncrieff &  Co  38
Morgan, E. S  38
McCombe Realty Co  27
McCoy,   Dr.   Earl   T  39
Naden & Co  27
Nanaimo Machine Works    42
National   (The)   Real  Estate   Co  38
New  Tourist Hotel   (The)  27
North Coast Land Co ".  2
Palace Hotel	
"Pantorium"   	
Parker, Chas. L. .
Pattulo & Radford.
Pemberton, C. C.. . .
Planta, A. E., Ltd.
Plimley,  Thos.   . .. ,
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Philpot & Lang  42
"Portland"   (The),   Victoria •. . . 39
Potter, J. W  27
Rea,  C.   Arthur     38
Roseborough & Harris  42
Royal Realty Co  38
Ross & Shaw  35
Seabrook, F. H. & Co  38
Shaw Realty Co  38
Smith   & Jones     38
Smith & Smith     38
Sparhawk, M. M  39
Stevens, John T. Trust Co  31
Tinn, Thomson R  43
Vancouver  Brokerage,   Limited  38
Vancouver   Trust   Co.,   Ltd  25
Ward, Burmester & von Graevenitz. ... 29
Wescott   &   Letts     38
Westminster Hall    42
Windle,  W.  H 29-38
Woodworkers   (The),   Limited  42
Young & France,
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KERRISDALE
In making any investment—bonds, debentures, stocks, or real estate, one should carefully consider the character of the house offering the security.
A reliable house builds up a clientele who do all their investing through that house. To
retain and increase the number of these customers the house must not only deal fairly but
must make sure of the stability of each offering.
One dissatisfied customer hurts such a house more than can be remedied by a dozen
satisfied clients.
Let us tell you more about this phase of the question at any time you are considering an
investment of any nature. Right now we have some real good offerings in debentures and
stocks. We do not neglect real estate, either. For instance, we have a good deal of
faith in Kerrisdale. We believe property there will advance in price. It is a most
desirable locality for a home.
Among various offerings there is a five-room bungalow, well and attractively built, occupying a beautiful location with an excellent view of the Delta and Gulf of Georgia. The
property has a frontage of 140 feet on Wilson Road and a depth of 325 feet.
Kerrisdale is only about 20 minutes from Hastings Street, and has a 5 cent car fare. As
a home one could not wish anything more delightful and as an investment we believe this
property to be one of the best we have to offer. The price is $12,500, on terms. Let
us tell you more about it.
BRITISH CANADIAN SECURITIES, LIMITED
DOMINION TRUST BUILDING.
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"Opportunities" Brokers' and Business Directory
Zbc progressive Brokerage, financial and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia.
Phone  2900
A. E. AUSTIN & CO.
Real Estate and Insuranoe.
328   Granville   St.,   VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
T. B.  ANDERSON  &   C.  CLAYTON
Real Estate
Phone 5913
1069 Granville St.    -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
E.   C.  B.   BAGSHAWE   &  CO.
Real Estate and General Brokers
1112   Broad   St.,   Bownass   Building
Phone   2271       -       -       VICTORIA,   B.   C.
Phone 5726 P. O. Box 536
H.   BEEMAN
Specialist in Point Grey
221 Winch Bldg.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
B. C. TRUST CORPORATION
Bk.  B.  N.  A.   Bldg.,  VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
Phone  589
J. A.  COLLINSON
Real Estate
Phone 4154
!40a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.
CHAPPEEL  &   BLAIR
Real Estate
Phone  4802
443   Pender   St.     -     VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
W.   W.   DRESSER
Insurance, Real Estate
Phone 3020
438 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
H. T. DEVINE  COMPANY, LIMITED
Real Estate, Loans  and Insurance
437  Seymour St.     -    VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
Phone 1627
Phone 3628
DUTHIE  8b WISH ART
Real Estate and Financial Agents
520 Pender St. W.      VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
W.  H.  ELLIS
Investment Broker
1122   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
M. H.  PRANKLIN  CO.
Real  Estate  Brokers
Acreage, Building' Lots and Homes
Phone  970
449 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
GODDARD &  SON
Land Agents, Notaries
Phone 3202
329  Pender  St.     -     VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
LEONARD & REID
Real Estate and Fire Insurance
Mining1    Properties    in    Portland    Canal,
Hazelton and Queen Charlotte
Districts
PRINCE RUPERT AND STEWARD
B.C.
Tel. 5852
GOODYEAR     &     MATHESON
Real   Estate   and   General   Brokers
106 Loo Building VANCOUVER,  B.  C
GRANVILLE  BROKERAGE   CO.
Real Estate, Insuranoe, Commission Agts.
Phone L4560
1017 Granville St.   -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
HARMAN & AFFLETON
Real Estate
534 Yates  Street      -      VICTORIA, B.  C.
Phone  1918
SAMUEL  HARRISON  &  CO.
Brokers   and   Financial   Agents.     Agents
Stewart Land Co., Ltd.
Stewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.
HASLETT   &  WHITAKER
Real   Estate,   Timber,   Insurance
Phone 5807
Room 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
HEWLINGS & CO.
Real Estate, Timber, Etc.
Phone 1734
Room 4, 1109 Broad St.    VICTORIA, B. C.
HINKSON, SIDDALL & SON
Real Estate and Insurance
Phone  869
New Grand Theatre Bldg.    1311 Gov't St.
VICTORIA,   B.   C.
t: HODGSON
Real Estate and Insurance
Box   604 - NANAIMO,
B.   C.
IMPERIAL   REALTY   CO.
Real   Estate   and  Insurance
307  Loo  Bldg.       -       VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
GEORGE  LEEK
Real Estate, Notary Public
Exchange Block    PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
W. P. Moncreiff P. E. Townshend
W.   F.   MONCREIFF   &   CO.
Real Estate and Financial Brokers
Room 304, Winch Bldg.      Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
MARRIOTT   &   FELLOWS
Real  Estate
Phone 1077
134 Hastings St.      -      VANCOUVER, B.C.
E.  S.  MORGAN
Industrial  Sites,  Waterfrontage  on  Bur-
rard Inlet, etc.
Suite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.
429 Pender St. VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone   5833.
W. O. Shrumm H. Lambert
THE   NATIONAL   REAL   ESTATE
Loans,  Insurance
Phone 6320
58  Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B.  C.
PATTULO   &  RADFORD
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
P.O. Box 1535       PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.
Cable Address:    "Patrad"
C.   C.  PEMBERTON
Real Estate  and  Notary Public
Room 11, 707V2 Yates St.     -     Phone 1711
VICTORIA, B. C.
CHAS.   L.   PARKER
Broker and Commission Agent
Suite  50-51,   429  Pender  St.
Phone  3859 - VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
C.   ARTHUR  REA
Late of Brandon, Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc
Law   Chambers,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
ROYAL REALTY COMPANY
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
Phone 2394 Notary Public
'615  Fort  St: - VICTORIA,   B.   C.
SHAW   REAL   ESTATE   CO.
City,   Timber,   Farm   and   Fruit   Lands
707% Yates Street      -      VICTORIA, B. C.
SMITH  &   SMITH
Real Estate and  Commission Agents
P.O.  Box  41
J. H. Smith W. R. Smith
4th   Ave. - - STEWART,   B.   C.
GEO. H. SMITH  & ARTHUR JONES
Dealers  in  Property  in  Vancouver,   New
Westminster and the Fraser Valley
P.   O.   Box   165       -       -       -       Phone  1743
P.  H.  SEABROOK  &  CO.
Real  Estate   and   Timber
Phone 4043
316 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
VANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.
Real Estate and Loans
62 Hastings St. E.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
WESCOTT & LETTS
Real Estate and Insurance Agents
Room  3,  Moody Block - Yates  St.
VICTORIA, B. C.
H. W. WINDLE
Real Estate  Broker
Phone 5320
532 Granville St.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
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This is not a ' Boom" Town, although VALUES ARE STEADLY INCREASING.
TODAY IS THE RIGHT TIME TO BUY IF YOU WISH TO MAKE MONEY.
We are the oldest established   Real Estate firm in the City and can give reliable
advice to Investors and Homeseekers.   Write or call
A. E. PLANTA, LTD., Real Estate and Insurance Agents, NANAIMO,  B. C.
Established 1888
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FRUIT LANDS
711 Yates Street
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VICTORIA, B. C.
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REAL ESTATE
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618 Yates St. Phone 2162   VICTORIA. B.C.
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We make a specialty of Business, Farm and Residential
Property.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
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REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE AGENTS
1214 Douglas Street P. 0. Box 316
VICTORIA, B. C.
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Mrs, Baker. Proprietress
723 YATES ST. Phone 2404
The only modern rooming house in town.
Steam heat, running hot and cold water and
telephones in all rooms. Newly furnished
throughout, and  up-to-date  in every respect.
TERMS MODERATE
VICTORIA, B. C
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EYE8ICHT SPECIALIST
GLAS8ES   FITTED
65 Fairfield Bldg., Cor. Granville & Pender St_>.
VANCOUVER,   B. C.
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DATES OF  PROVINCIAL FALL
FAIRS.
Vancouver—August   15,   16,   17,   18,
and 20.
Victoria—September 27 to  ^ocober 1.
Westminster—October 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Kamloops—September 28, 29 and 30.
Vernon—September 15, 16 and 17.
Chilliwack—September 20, 21 and 22.
Nelson—September 28, 29 and 30.
Armstrong—September 22 and 23.
Comox—September 22 and 23.
Alberni—September 14 and 15.
Nanaimo—September  16  and  17.
Nicola—September 13 and 14.
Kelowna—September 20 and 21.
Salmon Arm—September 23 and 24.
Crarikrook—September 23 and 24.
Agassiz  (Kent)—September 27 and 28.
Cranbrook—September 23 and 24.
Ladner— September 23 and 24.
Eburne—September 29 and 30.
Maple Ridge—September 21 and 22.
Summerland—October 17 and 18.
North    and    South    Saanich—October   7
and 8.
Coquitlam—September 20.
Langley—September 28.
Surrey—September 27.
Islands—September 21.
New Westminster's new lighting
system, on Columbia Street, was recently
completed, and produces a decidedly
satisfactory and pleasing effect.
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Hours 9 to 6
Phone 3351
JOHN    JACKSON
Scientific Chiropodist
Corns  removed   without   pain.  Bunions,  Ingrowing
Nails,    Club   Nails,    Callouses,    Pedicuring,    Fetid
Odors  and  Sweaty Feet  successfully treated.
350 Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.
VANCOUVER, B.C.
OIL!
OIL! ©IL! OIL!
Amalgamated Development Go.
OIL!
Our Statement Triumphantly Confirmed!
READ
THIS!
Cordova, Alaska, August 3.—The party of shareholders in the Amalgamated Development
Company have now spent a week in looking" over the oil holdings of the Company, and are
impressed with the extent and nature of the resources. The party has visited Katalla Wells,
Redwood Well, Chilcat Well, and Headquarters at Chilcat and Burls Creeks. The members
have seen the oil bubbling in the borings and numerous seepages. The only pump already
rigged up at Chilcat Well No. 1 yesterday pumped fifty-six barrels in a two-hour test. The
high quality of the oil is unmistakable, and the party has been taken by surprise by the extent
of the improvements on the property, which include twenty-one miles of wagon road, two and
a quarter miles of tramways, camps and machinery. Construction of a pipe line to Kanak
Harbor and the installation of additional pumps, so that heavy shipments can be made in the
near future, are the next steps.
This stock can be purchased by holders of Northern and International Certifi-
cate of Exchange for $1 per share.   Others can buy for $2 per share, par value $1
ALJLD. GWIN & MceLARTY
518 HHSTINGS ST. W.
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Sewer Pipe Satisfaction
USERS OF SEWER PIPE will rejoice in the fact that they
can now secure
eONeRETE
Sewer Pipe
for every requirement, which will eliminate all their worries in
that direction.
Our pipe represents perfection in Sewer Pipe.
It is absolutely true, it is easily laid. You save the breakage
cost incurred by other pipe.
Best of all, it costs you no more than ordinary
clay pipe. El     *
We can quote you immediate delivery from a large stock.
Every Builder, Plumber and Contractor in British Columbia
should be using" our pipe, and we know that before long- such
will be the case.
Endorsed by the leading Engineers,
% Architects and Contractors of British
Columbia for Sewer & Irrigation Work
Phone in your orders to 6926, or address
Dominion Glazed Cement Pipe Co., Ltd
429 Pender Street, Vancouver
GENERAL OFFICES, DOMINION TRUST BUILDING
FACTORY AT FALSE CREEK
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Lulu Island Snap
Ten acres on No. Six Road, now planked.
Will have water past the property this fall.
Property on both sides held at $300 an acre.
Who wants this at $250 per acre? It is the
best and safest investment you could make.
Box M, Opportunities Pub. Co.
Thousand Dollar Bonus
The man who secures this will have made
one thousand dollars as soon as the deal is
through. A ten-acre block situated east of
New Westminster with trackage and facing
on government road. A beautiful piece of
property which will be worth $500 an acre
within a year. Surrounding acreage off the
road and without trackage now selling at $350
per acre. This for a quick sale at $250 per
acre; $1400 cash, balance over three years.
Box L, Opportunities Pub. Co.
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SU
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Here is a chance to secure a summer home
on the north arm of Burrard Inlet at a low
price. A 3-roomed cedar bungalow at Woodlands with a superb view overlooking the
entire inlet. Lot three-quarters of an acre.
Mountain water piped past the property.
Good boat service convenient for business
men. Ideal location. This is a genuine snap.
Price $1200; one half cash, balance over 2
years.    Address,
Box K, Opportunities Pub. Co.
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Real Estate, Insurance and Commission Agents
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BULKLEY VALLEY
160 ACRES at $8 per acre; 2 miles from G. T. P.
Railway, under construction ; close to River ;
specially adapted to Mixed Farming. If you are
looking- for an ideal spot to become Independent,
YOU SHOULD LOOK INTO THIS-^f
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
GRANDVIEW   PROPERTY   A   SPECIALTY
1017 Granville Street J£    VANCOUVER,  B,  C.
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or better still, if you can give us all
your time you can make a handsome
revenue with little difficulty. A card
will bring you sample copies and an
outline of our proposition, which is a
most liberal one.
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SECOND AVENUE
Port Alberni, B. C.
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The Woodworkers
LIMITED
Show Gases, Bank, Store
and Hotel fixtures, Doors
and Windows of all kinds
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Etc.
Office and Factory:  2843 Douglas Street
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA
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The only Seaside Hotel in the City
Fifteen minutes walk from P. 0.
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VICTORIA,  B. C.
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CONCRETE PIPE WILL SAVE CITY
THOUSANDS.
New Firm  Awarded Contract for Next
Year's Sewer  Work.
That the Board of Works has saved
the city of Vancouver thousands of dollars by alloting the contract fcr sewer
pipe for the coming year to the Dominion
Glazed Concrete Pipe Company, Ltd., is
the opinion of experts who have for some
time been comparing the newer article
with the old clay style.
At the Board of Works session last
evening the above-mentioned iirm secured the contract for the minimum amount
required for sewer purposes during the
coming year, the figure submitted being
$70,910. Two other tenders were sud-
mitted, these being for the clay article,
one from Evans, Coleman & Evans at
$76,930.50, and the other from C. Gardiner Johnson & Co. at $75,261.50. The contract awarded yesterday calls for pipe
all the way from four inches in diameter
upwards.
On the four-inch article the price is the
same as for the older clay style, but above
that size the city saves on every foot
in the quotations submitted by the Dominion Company, the reduction running
from 35 to 50 cents per foot above the
12-inch size. This latter condition is accounted for by the fact that when the
clay pipe is laid over the 12-inch diameter, it has to be encased in cement, a
precaution not necessary when the glazed concrete article is used. The life of
the latter, as* compared to that of the
former, also is pointed out as a strong
argument in its favor.—"Vancouver Province."
PLANNING    SHIPBUILDING    PLANT.
The British Columbia Marine Railway
Company is notifying the Ottawa Government that it proposes to put in a
suitable shipbuilding plant and will submit a tender for the construction of a
Canadian cruiser of the Bristol type at
Esquimalt. Tenders are now being invited for the construction of a warship,
and G. J. Desbartes, deputy minister of
the naval service, is advertising inviting
firms to cotify him of their desire to
tender. The plans and specifications of
the new vessel, which have been approved by the British Admiralty, are
of a confidential nature and will be submitted only to approved firms, which will
have to show that they have, or propose
to establish, suitable plants considered
sufficient for building vessels of the Bristol class. The intention is to build the
vesell for the Pacific Coast, and the British Columbia .Marine Railway Companyq
is the only concern capable of carrying
out the work. The Atlantic vessels will
probably be built on the eastern coast. No
warships may be built on the Great Lakes,
the Rush-Bagot treaty providing against
the construction of vessels in these
waters.
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TELEPHONE 6604
PHILPOT & LANG
REAL ESTATE
TIMBER INSURANCE
MONEY TO LOAN
Homes in all parts of the Cit.\
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Thorough training in all years
of the Theological Course.
Tutorial Department for men
preparing for Arts.   «Jf & &P
The most distinguished
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WE do not believe there is another city in America that offers as great opportunities for safe and secure money-making investments as does Vancouver. The
reason is that Vancouver is a great seaport city in the making*. Property
must steadily increase in value during" the period of its growth. It is stated by the
best of authority, that we will have a population of 500,000 in fifteen years. The city
has all the natural conditions to make it a very important centre. It has untold mineral
wealth and great timber areas.   Its fisheries are world renowned.   Its climate is deligfhtful.
Emigration is pouring" into Canada from all parts of the world and into the
prairies and British Columbia in particular. The prairies may be likened to a great
milk pan, the cream of which flows naturally into  British Columbia.
As the prairie farmers become wealthy, they will find their way into British
Columbia, to take advantage of its excellent climate and enjoy its magnificent scenery.
Hon. Wm. Graham, Minister of Railways, stated in his speech here at the Premier's
reception, that no transcontinental railway can afford to keep out of Vancouver. We will
have, at least, five such terminals.
It is absolutely certain that Greater Vancouver will first include South Vancouver
and Point Grey, and it is stated on reliable authority, that if every acre in these two
municipalities were subdivided into 33 ft. lots, allowing four persons to the lot, this
whole area would not accommodate 250,000 people. We have yet subdivided only 8^
square miles, while Winnipeg has subdivided 44 and Seattle 76 square miles.
If these statements are true, and we believe they are, then each dollar invested
intelligently in  Point Grey and South Vancouver will grow into many dollars.
We own property in both these localities, the most select of which is Granville
Terminus. We are in a position to hold all we have indefinitely ; but, as we are in
business to buy and sell, we will let you have any lots we own at as low a price as you can
buy the adjoining acreage, and give you three years to pay for it.
If you are interested, call and talk it over. Should you not wish to buy, perhaps
you might have some good acreage to sell, and if you have, we are ready to buy right now,
but remember, we only buy choice property on main thoroughfares or carlines.
Latimer, Ney & JVLc Tavish
419 Pender Street West
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Vancouver, B. C.
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^h       Great Superiority  before  women  anywhere  else  in   the   New World,  because an
Expert from Berlin, instead  of stopping in  New York City where her services
were in urgent demand,  came, for personal reasons,  direct to Vancouver.
She is with US. Her process is the fruit of the painstaking and scientific research for which the German people are distinguished.
It is the Best Face Treatment yet devised. Warm oil is ironed into the
skin with a gently heated electric iron. The effect is very soothing, and is also very
beneficial. The pores are opened and cleansed much more thoroughly than by ordinary
massage and cold cream, and the cuticle receives greater nourishment than by any other
method.    The result is that the skin is given new life and color.
A further enhancement of Woman's natural beauty may be obtained by a
simple arrangement of the hair, supplemented by our luxuriant, real hair switches,
puffs and curls, in all shades and graduations of the natural waves. Superfluous hair,
warts, and other facial defects are removed for all time by the process electrolysis
practised by skilled operators.
We are now offering Great Reductions in combs, pins and barrettes. These
have been imported from Paris. They are very artistic and harmonize in every detail
with the present mode of hairdressing.
You will be surprised at the reasonableness of our prices and should take
advantage of them now. If you live too far away for a personal visit, remember that
you can write us a letter,  which will receive the most careful attention.
MADAME   HUMPHREYS
The Largest, Most Up-to-date Establishment of its kind on the Pacific Coast
723 Pender Street, W.       the fairfield building      VANCOUVER, B. C.
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The Remarkable Progress of the
AMALGAMATED DEVELOPMENT CO.
has been unprecedented in the history of Oil Industry.
Full possession to all of this Company's immense holdings was not completed until the 20th of June
—Just two months ago.
Since that date the Company has installed machinery for pumping two flowing oil wells ; has commenced, and is already far advanced with, the construction of a Refinery on the ground ; and has shipped
Nine Miles of piping to convey the product of their Oil Wells to tide water.
Can this record of progress for two months be beaten ?
The present week will see the stock of the Amalgamated Development Co. quoted upon one or
more of the local Stock Exchanges.    Watch it Rise.
Price of Stock: One and Two Dollars per Share.    Apply—
HULD, GWIN & MceLftRTY
518 HASTINGS ST. W.
TELEPHONE 4327
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PHONE 1506
W. J. Coates
LOUGHEED& COATES
GENERAL BROKERS
REAL ESTATE
AND INSURANCE
We Specialize in South Vancouver and Burnaby
633 Pender St., W. VANCOUVER, B. C.
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J. Christiansen
P. O. Box 1531
J. F. Brandt
We have LARGE TRACTS of Land
fop Colonization Purposes
10 ACRE BLOCKS, TERMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS
Prompt and   Personal Attention   Given   to  all  Enquiries
Sole Agents for
The  Grand  Trunk  Development  Company,  Limited
Farm Lands, Timber Lands, Stock Ranches
along* the Grand Trunk: Paeifie Railway
The   Christiansen-Brandt   Co.
Real Estate and Insurance, City Property
PRINCE RUPERT, BRITISH COLUMBIA
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OUR      SPECIALTY
For over a-year our attention has been devoted to PORT MOODY properties.      Our unbounded faith in the
town made us enthusiastic.
In view of recent developments there—full accounts of which appeared in the Vancouver papers—we are more
enthusiastic than ever.       BUY IN PORT MOODY.       SEE US.
The CANADIAN INVESTMENT CO., Ltd.
80Hastings St., W.
Phono 2790
Vancouver, B. C.
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KERRISDALE
Property in Kerrisdale appears to us to be an excellent investment at prevailing prices.
Below we present a number of opportunities, all of which should be considered.
About one acre, just off Wilson Road, at Kerrisdale Station for $2700.00,
on easy terms.
This is probably the best buy in the district.
A large lot close to Angus Station for $750.00.    $150.00 cash for quick sale.
Two fine lots, facing the municipal hall, at $700.00 each.
Fine small home on Wilson Road, close to Kerrisdale Station. Lot 140x325
feet.     Price $12,500.
Bodwell Road, fine high corner overlooking the city. Lot 84x140 feet. Price
$1500.00; only $500.00 cash required.    An excellent chance to make money.
2 lots, just off Wilson Road, 33x125 feet each to a lane, close to a station,
offered at less than adjoining property was sold for. Owner needs money.
Price $1375.00 for the two.
BRITISH CANADIAN SECURITIES, LIMIT
DOMINION TRUST BLDG.,
1   VANCOUVER, B. C
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Index to Advertisements
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Auld, Gwin & McClarty.
Anderson   &  Clayton
Arnott, G. W. & Co	
Austin, A. E. & Co	
British-American Trust Co.,  Ltd.
British Canadian Securities, Ltd.
British Columbia Electric Co	
Bagshawe,  E.   C.   B.   &  Co	
Baxter  &  Johnson  Co.,   Ltd	
Beeman,  H	
Bullen   &   Lamb   	
Canadian   Investment   Co.
Capital   City   Realty   Co..
"Cascade"  Beer   	
Chappell  &  Blair   	
Child,  E.  & Co	
Christiansen-Brandt  Co.   .
Collinson,  J.  A	
Croft  &   Ashby	
Currie & Power	
Dallas   Hotel   	
Devine,  H.  T.  & Co.
Dresser,  W.  W... . .
Duthie   &   Wishart
Ltd.
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Elliot (Mrs), J. E.
Elis, W. H	
Foster   &  Pisher   	
Franklin, M. H. & Oo	
Goddard,   H.   &   Son	
Goodyear   &   Matheson. .
Gran dy,   E.   &   Son	
Granville   Brokerage   Co.
Harman  &  Appleton	
Harrison, Samuel & Co..	
Harrison  & Akenhead	
Haslett   &  Whitaker	
Hall,   Harry   B	
Harris   &  Co.,   R	
Henderson,  E.  & Co	
Hewlings   &  Co	
Hinkson,  Siddall  & Son	
Hodgson,   T	
Holden,  William   	
Howell, Alf. M	
Humphreys,   Madame   	
Imperial   Realty   Co	
Indo-Canadian Brokerage Co.
Jackson,   Jno	
Kennedy  Bros.,   Ltd ,	
Leather Goods Co	
Leonard & Reid	
Leek,   George   	
Lougheed & Coates   	
Latimer,  Ney & Tavish	
Maple Leaf Clothes Drier	
Merchants Trust & Trading Co.
Harriot & Fellows   	
Maysmith, N. B. & Co., Ltd	
Meed, William   	
Mole & Keefer	
MoncriefC & Co	
Morgan, E. S	
McCoy, Dr.  Earl T	
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Naden & Co	
Nanaimo   Machine   Works	
National (The) Real Estate Co.
New Westminster Exhibition . . .
North  Coast  Land  Co	
Palace Hotel  	
"Pantorium"    	
Parker, Chas. L	
Pattulo & Radford	
Pemberton, C. C	
Plimley, Thos	
Philpot & Lang  	
"Portland"   (The), Victoria.
Potter, J. W	
Rea, C. Arthur	
Roseborough & Harris   	
Royal  Realty Co	
Ross  & Shaw Back cov
Seabrook, F. H. & Co	
Shaw Real Estate Co	
Smith &  Jones   	
Smith  & Smith	
Stevens,  John  T.   Tru t   Co	
Sylvester,   The   New	
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Vancouver Brokerage
Vancouver Trust Co.
victoria  Exhibition	
Victoria Gulch Mine.. ,
Walker,  Henry M	
Ward, Burmester & von Graevenitz.
Westcott & Letts  	
Westminster Hall  	
Windle, H. W	
Woodworkers (The), Limited	
Yates, The   ,
Young & Francev	
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AM PREPARED TO ADVISE
INVESTORS
HOW TO MAKE MONEY
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11   TY YEARS EXPERIENCE
IN REALTY Values in Vancouver.
Lots, Acreage for subdivision,
Farms and Timber.   Some fine Business Opportunities.    ::    ::    ::    ::
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HARRY B. HALL
Real Estate and Business Opportunities  jj
UNION ADJUSTMENT CO. I
401 HARRIS STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C.   B
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HY SHOW CARDS
— catch the Eye!
They are Snappy, Original, Artistic.
They BRING BUSINESS.
Drop in and see for yourself.
L. J. TROUNCE
SHOW CARD WRITER
Dominion Trust Building:
Phone 6748 VANCOUVER, B. C.
Estimates Cheerfully Given Phone 6481
HENRY M. WALKER
Contractor for Land Clearing, Stumping,
Blasting, Etc.
Office, 552 Barnard St., Vancouver, B. C,
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Baxter & Johnson Co.
LIMITED
OfNCE OLTflTTERS
" Underwood     Typewriter
r* Macey "  riling Cabinets
" (junn      bectional Bookcases
Steel Vault Fittings
PHONE 730
721 Yates St.
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VICTORIA, B. C.
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DE. G. B. PRICE
EYESIGHT
SPECIALIST
108 LOO BLOCK
vfif^i^0p^&r (First Floor up)
Cor. Hastings and Abbott Sts.. VANCOUVER, B. C.
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STEWART
At the recent Government Auction of
Stewart Townsite lots, 70 feet on Fifth
Street realised $10,000. We own 86 feet
adjoining Northern Hotel (the best Hotel
in Stewart), fronting on Fifth Street and
running back 256 feet to Sixth Street.
Price $6,500, one-third cash,
balance one and two years.
Indo-Canadian Brokerage Co.
VICTORIA, B. C
P. O. Box 952
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J. W.  POTTER
Architect and Structural engineer
Reinforced Concrete  a   Specialty
LAW'BDTLER BUILDING
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OPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.
HUTCHINSON BLOCK.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Gentlemen:—
Please enter ™yr name as a subscriber to your paper for one year,
for which Je agree to pay One Dollar in advance.
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PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION, VICTORIA FAIR and HORSE SHOW
SEPTEMBER 27 TO OCTOBER 1, 1910
Large and increased Prizes for Fruit, Live Stock, Agriculture, Horticulture,
Manufactures, Art.
Excursion Rates from all points.
Five days' Rough Riding and Roping Contests.   Al. G. Barnes' 3-Ring Circus.
Entries close September 12th.
For all Information and Prize Lists, write Box 705, Victoria.
GEORGE SANGSTER, Secretary
Don't
iss Your Chance
h 1 ^HERE are Big Things doing in and opposite
* New Westminster. The foundation is being
laid for the Terminal Gity of a Third Transcontinental Railway. This City will rival
Vancouver soon, and enhance the Values of all
kinds of Property within a radius of miles of
this Great Centre of Railway Activity.
We can present for your consideration the
Best Proposition Going.
WRITE OR PHONE
Kennedy Brothers, Limited
Successors to Hale Bros. & Kennedy, Limited
REAL ESTATE, ETC.
Over flerchants Bank, cor. Columbia and Begbie Streets
Phone 335
NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C.
THESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS OPPORTUNITIES
Vol. II.
HUTCHINSON BLOCK. VANCOUVER, B. C, SEPTEMBER, 1910.
No. 3
Vancouver Island's New Era
As Suggested by the Coming- Exhibition at Victoria
By John Collins
An impressive object lesson in the
substantial wealth and resources of this
Province will be given late in September in Victoria, when the British Columbia Agricultural Association, of which
A. J. Morley is   president,   and   George
be particularly educational. You will
discover, for instance, that here is an
easily accessible region which is overflowing with natural wealth. You will be
impressed by what you see, but if you
have imagination, you will be more inl
and beautiful displays of fruits, flowers,
and vegetables, products of Vancouver
Island soil and sunshine. Many fine
specimens of live stock will, in their
sleekness and contentment, bring to the
mind's eye pictures of rich grazing lands.
Sangster is secretary, will hold its fiftieth annual exhibition. While the whole
province will be adequately represented,
the location of the exhibition on Vancouver Island will bring especially full
displays of the products of this rich section. These will tell the story of the
Vancouver Island of to-day, and, more
important still, will suggest the Vancouver Island of to-morrow.
Because few sections of the world so
blessed by nature are so little known,
it may be assumed that your knowledge
of Vancouver Island is not as extensive
as it should be. In this case your journeys through the exhibition grounds will
A VICTORIA FRUIT DISPLAY
pressed by what these displays promise
for the future. You will learn that Vancouver Island has fifteen thousand
square miles of territory which have
lain fallow through the ages, and only
now are beginning to attract general attention on the part of those who go to
Mother Nature for their wealth. You
will feel at this exhibition the spirit of
strong expectation which is natural in
people who are looking to the future and
not the past, who, as far as the development of their country is concerned, are
at the beginning of the day's work.
Yet much has already been achieved.
There will be at the exhibition luxuriant
The horse show, it is said, will eclipse
all previous efforts. A large number of
proud roosters and industrious hens of
approved varieties will illustrate the
success of poultry raisers, one of whom
said recently that the man who knows
his business can net a yearly return of
a dollar on each fowl.
The lumber will be a hint of the vast
supply of timber, which is, and which
will be for a great many years to come,
one of Vancouver Island's greatest resources. This timber is heavy and is
widely distributed. It averages about
50,000 feet to the acre, and its varieties
are those in the greatest demand.   It is. Page 10
attracting more capital to the Island than
ever before. One tract of timber land
was sold last year for two millions of
dollars, and there is a constant investment of fresh capital in lumber and
pulp mills, and in other industries dependent upon big trees.
The array of minerals will bring
forcibly to your attention the fact, among
other things, that Vancouver Island has
a great present yield and even greater
promise in coal production. About a million and a quarter tons were mined last
year. The acreage of coal mining is
being continually extended. Many of the
deposits have not yet been touched.
They are distributed over a wide territory, and constitute an immense and
permanent source of wealth.
Yet coal is only one of numerous mineral resources. The copper deposits have
been pronounced by authorities to be
very great. At a Vancouver Island
smelter twenty-two million pounds have
already been produced. A huge steel
plant is projected for the utilization of
extensive deposits of iron ore, which are
rapidly being acquired by capitalists.
Gold has been discovered in numerous
places. Some of the most beautiful
marble on the market comes from Van-
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VICTORIANS ASSEMBLED FOR THE BOAT RACES
Behind the resources there must be,
of course, people imbued with the progressive spirit. A particularly attractive
and convincing evidence of this spirit
will be seen at the exhibition in the work
of the women, who have devoted much
constant care to beautifying the grounds,
and to making, in the Women's Building,
the displays of feminine work especially
representative. That the people of Vancouver  Island  have  that  keen  zest for
Victoria herself, to those not already
familiar with her charms, will be no less
interesting than the exhibition. When
you approach her from the water, and
see the stately government buildings
and the majestic hotel looming in the
foreground, you get the impression that
Victoria is distinctly serene, or even
haughty, in her attitude toward the
passing world. You will retain this impression until you prove yourself in Vic-
SOUTH VANCOUVER ISLAND IS A LAND OF FLOWERS
couver Island, and building stone, fire
brick, pottery, and Portland cement, are
available in large enough quantities to
play which distinguishes the most effective workers will be seen at the exhibition   in   rough   riding,   roping   contests,
make these products the bases of great     amateur horse-racing, and two daily per-
industries.
formances  by  a three-ring  circus.
toria. Then you will find the warmest
hospitality. Victoria has excellent reason for not unbending with undue haste.
She is the capital of the Province. She
is, perhaps, the richest city, per capita, 1910
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on the continent. She has many charms
of scenery—woodland drives, sweeps of
beach, cottage-dotted shores. One of the
oldest cities on the Pacific Coast, she
has acquired the dignity of years. She
has quite recovered from the youthful
impetuosity which marks Vancouver and
Seattle, her lively sisters to the North
and South. Thus it is that she has an
air of some aloofness. But this disappears when you become well acquainted
with her. Then you begin to think that
Victoria is the only place on earth. It is
said, on as good authority as can be obtained, that a Victoria lady, upon going
to heaven, was escorted to where she
could obtain a good view of the scenery
and then was asked how she liked it.
"It is very nice, very nice, indeed," she
answered. Then she paused, and added
with a little sigh, "but it isn't Victoria."
The city has a charming flavor of old
times. Its representative people find
leisure for the finer shades in the big
panorama of life. You can see courtly
gentlemen bowing over tea-cups, equestrians who look like English squires
taking the air on thoroughbreds, golfers
addressing the ball with much earnestness, young people assembled ,at the
tennis courts and gliding in canoes over
HOW VICTORIANS ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL DRIVEWAYS
steadily, on even keel, like a ship on
smooth seas. And she is sailing to richer
ports than she has ever entered. The
B. and N. Railway is extending its line,
the Canadian Northern is about to start
construction from. Victoria along the
West coast to Barkley sound.    Leading
Beautiful country, virgin territory that
rarely has been trodden by the foot of
man, will begin to contribute bountifully
to the needs of civilization. Young men
will find new opportunities, industrial organizers will be made rich, or richer,
and  the  general  prosperity  will  see   a
V. '- ^N ORCHARD JN.'T/t£ SEASON OF PROMISE,
SOME CHARACTERISTIC .SCENES ON VANCOUVER ISLANE
calm   waters    between
woode
id   shores.
Social life is mellow.
Victor
[ans  have
learned how to play.
Yet they have by no
means
forgotten
how to work.   Victoria
Is mov
ing ahead
capitalists, _  dwakened     at   last"  ..b' cho
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great future of Van'couver"1 * Island," are
pouring in their millions. The present
industries are growing bigger, and new
ones   are   being    launched    continually.
largg .• increase in the flow of natural
wealth to the markets from Vancouver
Island—the island which has everything,
but which has waited long for the period
of full development now at hand. Page 12
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PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
EMPRESS HOTEL AND CAUSEWAY, VICTORIA 1910
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British Columbia, Now and Tomorrow
As Indicated by the Recent Exhibition at Vancouver
By j. h. w.
It is safe to say that no city on the
continent has had a first industrial and
agricultural exhibition as successful in
all respects as the one which was held in
Vancouver last month. To begin with
its outward aspects, the general beauty
of the location has not been surpassed
by exhibition grounds anywhere. From
almost any point within the gates the
visitor could obtain an inspiring view of
British Columbia is still close to nature
and virgin resources.
A little journey through the industrial
building was an education in the present
achievement, and the great industrial potentialities of this province. To begin
with mining, which has been one of the
initial industries of British Columbia, it
was instructive to glance at the rich display of minerals from the Kootenay min-
J. J. MILLER, PRESIDENT VANCOUVER EXHIBITION ASSOCIATION
blue water, forests, and mountains rising
to snowy heights. Only a few steps from
the commodious and artistic building in
which the industries of British Columbia
found adequate display, was the shade and
quietude of primeval woods, where the
sight-seer could retire from the turmfcil
of thousands of people looking at thousands of products, and find on benches or
mossy logs opportunity for rest, and consideration   of the  fact  that  industry in
ing district. Here were pieces of rock,
yellow with pure gold, and a great array
of ore of a kind which has brought fortunes to the lucky owners of the mines.
One feature of the display promises the
development in the Province of a new
industry of importance. This display was
of that curious mineral, asbestos, which
has recently been discovered in large
quantities in the Kootenay district. The
asbestos is in strips about seven inches
long, which fact acquires significance
when it is known that the asbestos of
Quebec from which the world's supply of
this metal is chiefly obtained, has a
length of only about an inch for each
strip. The longer the strips the greater
the market value of the product. No
where else on the continent are thero
asbestos deposits of as great commercial
promise as those recently uncovered in
British Columbia. They average in value
about three hundred dollars to the ton,
and, according to E. M. Widdowson,, provincial assayer of Nelson, there are millions of tons on the three claims. During
the period of the exhibition negotiations
were pending with Vancouver capitalists
to take over the property, and to develop
it completely. This will mean the building of a large mill for the separation of
the asbestos from the rock, and will involve at the outset the expenditure of at
least a quarter of a million dollars. The
indications are that this discovery of
asbestos will give British Columbia a
greater production of asbestos than has
Quebec, and will bring to this province
one of the greatest of its future industries.
Passing from products underground to
those which grow above it, the observer
at the exhibition was much impressed by
the wealth of fruits, vegetables, and
flowers. New Westminster had on display an exhibit of the bounty of the earth,
which would indicate that her soil was
capable of producing all the growths of
northern climes. The Wonnock farm
lands were also represented by profusion
of fruits and vegetables. In the display
of The Great Pemberton Meadows were
potatoes of unusual size, which, it was
stated, had been planted early in May
and lifted early in August, and had attained their magnitude wholly without
the aid of irrigation. One of the most
decorative effects of the exhibition was
the profusion of the roses and many other
varieties of flowers around the long balcony. An interesting fact is that the
season for these flowers is much longer
than that for similar growths farther
south, but also farther away from the
benign trade winds of the Japanese current, which give this section of British
Columbia some of the aspects of climates
which are regarded as almost semi-tropical.
On the main floor one saw many
agencies for articles made in other
localities, and much more important,
many products manufactured here.    For Page 14
instance, there were tiers of boxes of
cereals milled in Victoria, and made from
oats grown in the Fraser Valley, one of
the finest sections in the world for this
particular grain. The local demand for
these cereals is so great that the Victoria
mill is grinding night and day, and none
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the North. In connection with the shoe
and harness factories here, it is a little
strange that British Columbia now has no
tanneries. It is said that the conditions
for tanning in certain sections of this
province are as good as in other localities,
where this industry is a great source of
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of the product is sent to points outside of
British Columbia. Another interesting
industry of British Columbia represented
was that of sugar making. The sugar
in its raw state is brought from the Fiji
Islands, where the company has its own
plantation, but here in Vanouver it is
transformed into numerous varieties of
sugar of the highest grade, for which the
demand is growing constantly.
A surprising exhibit to all but those
who know the Province well was that of
tobacco from the Okanagan valley. The
company which started tobacco growing
in this valley had on display a large
quantity of excellent cigars made of leaf
from the plantations in Cuba, one hundred acres under cultivation. The output
of leaf and the finished product is steadily
increasing. Some southern experts expressed themselves as astonished that so
fine a tobacco could be grown in this
latitude, and after careful investigation
of the conditions took steps to acquire a
large acreage for themselves. There is
every indication that the tobacco production will bring large revenues to the
Province.
It was not known by many persons
until they visited the exhibition that Vancouver has a flourishing shoe factory,
which began making shoes for rough use,
but now has a constantly growing trade
in men's fine shoes for city wear. Within
two years the company has moved into a
new factory, and it is constantly adding
machinery to the plant. A kindred industry in Vancouver, represented at the
exhibition, is that of harness and saddle
making. A great many sets of harness
and saddles are shipped to the prairie
country, and recently the capacity of the
plant has been taxed by the demand in
profit to the community. While the supply of bark best suited for tanning is
perhaps not as great as in Ontario, where
many of the Canadian tanneries are located, the other facilities here are excellent, and it has been stated that there is
no reason why one or more tanneries in
this Province should not do a flourishing
business.
One of the most impressive examples
of   what   may   be   accomplished   by   the
1910
A Victoria industry shown effectively
at the exhibition was that of stove making. The Victoria product, particularly
the cooking and heating equipment for
country use is as fine as any on the
continent. The success of this stove
factory, the only one of its kind in British
Columbia, indicates that with the growing
population, there are promising openings
for other industries of a similar nature.
An interesting exhibit was that of a corporation which will manufacture gas
producers and other lighting and heating
equipments for homes and buildings of
all descriptions. The attitude of the
organizers of this company is that a great
many articles which are now imported
might just as well be manufactured here,
with the natural result of greatly increased revenues for British Columbia and
Vancouver and an even more pronounced
growth than we have already seen in the
prosperity of the people who have cast
their fortunes with the Province.
These enterprises are mentioned to
indicate not so much the present development in manufacturing in British
Columbia as to arouse an appreciation of
what can be accomplished. One of the
most striking phases of the exhibition
was seen in the large number of agencies
for products manufactured elsewhere.
Many of these could undoubtedly be produced within the Province, and there is
no doubt that as time goes on most of
them will be, with financial results of a
most satisfactory character to those who
have sufficient enterprise and initiative
to take the first steps.
It may be urged that in this section
there is a dearth of the skilled artisans
: ONE OF THE  PONIES AT THE EXHIBITION
right kind of enterprise in new industries
in British Columbia was seen in the exhibit of knitted goods. This line of
manufacturing was taken up only about
a year ago and yet the product is now in
great demand throughout Canada and as
far east and south in the United States
as New York City.
necessary to carry on these industries,
but in the exhibition was an answer to
this objection. The display of the handicraft of the pupils of the British Columbia
schools was remarkable. The Vancouver
High School, the Evening Schools, the
Strathcona, Seymour, Simon Fraser, Fair-
view and Lord Roberts schools were re- 1910
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presented by furniture and other products
which would have done credit to the
most skillful and experienced workers.
It was made evident that the schools are
turning out young men and women fully
equipped for supplying all the demands
for expert workmanship. In this connection it was interesting to note the
ambitious efforts of the pupils of the
Sechelt Indian School. It was plain that
the Indians have become imbued with
the spirit of progress which animates the
whole population, and it seems reasonable
to say that they may be depended upon
in the future to contribute a fair share to
the industrial development.
The horses and other live stock lent
special interest to the Exhibition. The
horses, in particular, would commend
themselves to any expert familiar with
the best horse shows on the continent.
Many of the finest animals were bred in
British Columbia. This industry of horse
breeding was begun here only four years
ago, and yet the horse show last April
in Vancouver was superior to any other
which has yet been seen on the Pacific
Coast. With the unusually auspicious
start which has been made in this direction, there is every reason to believe that
British Columbia bred horses will become
celebrated. The fine sheep, the great variety of superior breeds of poultry, the
cattle and the dogs of high degree constituted a live stock exhibit that surprised those who have not kept in touch
with British Columbia progress in stock
raising.
Behind commercial industry is, of
course, the home, and at the exhibition
were many samples of work of home
women. The lace display, for example,
was particularly large and beautiful.
Numerous products of the culinary art as
practised by girls in the schools and
others, were arranged temptingly. One
of the exhibits of women most pleasing to
the eye was that of leather and metal
work, bookbinding, stenciling on crash
and china painting. A considerable number of Vancouver women are studying
these forms of art, and are enthusiastic
over their constantly growing attainments
in making their own homes beautiful.
Some of them intend to take advantage
of the opportunities in Vancouver for
home decoration as a profession.
Another important phase of women's
work was reflected in the tea rooms in the
industrial  building.    No  less  than  forty
different women's organizations in British
Columbia were represented here under
the auspices of the Women's Council,
which, as explained by the president, Mrs.
McNaughton, has for its aim the moulding of the efforts of all progressive women
in the Province, into a single force for
the betterment of conditions which in
any way effect the homes and social life.
Representing the less utilitarian forms
of artistic endeavor were the excellent
paintings of the British Columbia Society
of Fine Arts. These portrayed the impressive mountains, the picturesque
streams, and, in general, the beautiful
bits of landscape which make British
Columbia one of the finest scenic sections of the world.
The exhibition was a most auspicious
beginning in the important work of
presenting concretely each year the
remarkable achievements and the even
more remarkable promise of British Columbia and Vancouver. The exhibition
represented all phases of progressive life
in this community, and told a dramatic
story for those who had eyes to read it, of
the rise of a complex civilization in what
a few decades ago was a comparatively
unknown wilderness.
The Awakening, of Windermere
The Columbia Valley is on the Eve of Big Developments
By Herbert Welch
As your train pulls into the town of
Golden, you notice beside the track a big
sign which announces that you are at
the "Gateway of the Beautiful Windermere Valley." The words are alluring.
They suggest delightful pictures. This
valley, you feel, must have unusual
merit to cause the citizens of Golden to
proclaim it so confidently to the traveling public. They must be proud of the
valley; it must be worth a visit. Why
not stop over, and go on a little journey
of exploration?
From the station platform you watch
your train dwindle in the distance. Golden, you find, is a very peaceful town. It
goes to sleep early, and so do you. While
the light is yet mellow in the morning,
you breath with zest the cool mountain
air as a team of smartly trotting horses
swings you down past the big lumber
yard to the- boat landing. The river
steamer, with a huge paddle wheel behind, glistens with white paint. The
captain, a brisk and cheerful man, shouts
orders about the cargo, and beams upon
the passengers. In a little while the flat-
bottomed craft is poking her nose against
the rapid current of the Columbia.
Logs, coming down stream serenely,
constantly bump the bow. Overhanging
branches brush the upper deck.   Beyond
the thick foliage of the shores rise the
mountain benches, gently rounded and
nearly free from undergrowth, like terraces in parks. On the eastern side of
the river they reach away like great steps
to the Rockies' scarred and broken
slopes, towering to snowy heights. On
the western side is the vast jumble of
the Selkirks. At frequent intervals you
see clearings, the compact houses of
farmers, vegetable and flower beds, orchards and alfalfa fields. Paths run
down to the water's edge, and at most
of these the steamer pauses, snuggling
against grassy banks while goods are
being put ashore.
"There seems to be quite a population
along the river," you comment to the
captain.
"There is," he answers, "and we're its
errand boy. If a rancher has sent to
town for a plug of tobacco we stop and
unload it for him."
The day passes pleasantly on the
boat. Among the passengers are people
who tell of coming out from England or
Eastern Canada as pioneers, and of
spending years in the valley. In the talk
is the bouyant note of moderate prosperity, of health and hope. Evening comes.
At last through the twilight you see the
river spreading   widely.   You are gazing
out over the placid bosom of Lake Windermere, ten miles long and a mile in
width. It is the source of the Columbia—
an excellent mother, for the river from
its very start is a lusty stream, sweeping
strongly to its destiny as the great waterway which the poet Bryant celebrated
as "the mighty Oregon."
You are now nearly a hundred miles
to the south of Golden. The lights of a
hamlet, Athalmere, twinkle on the level
western shore, and moored to the bank
is a house-boat, which, you find, is used
as a sort of dock, and is also a hotel.
You sleep there, and in the morning, if
you really want to gather information
about the valley, you travel on horseback
or in a buggy four miles down the river
to the village of Wilmer, where Randolf
Bruce has his home.
You will discover Mr. Bruce to be a
Scotchman of unusual energy and enthusiasm. He came to the valley about
twelve years ago with no capital but
his energy. He quickly acquired his
enthusiasm, and now. he has agricultural
and mineral holdings worth a great deal
of money. This is because he was one of
the first to see the opportunities in the
valley, and has been foremost in making
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"Tnis valley," he will tell you, "has a
great future. It will have a far bigger
output of alfalfa than it has yet seen. Its
soil and climate are highly favorable to
the growing of certain species of apples
and other fruits. Already we raise strawberries so large that you have to cut
some of them in two to eat them. Our
vegetables would delight a market gardener.   To turn from agriculture to min-
neglected by the railroads," you remark.
"You're right there," Mr. Bruce answers quickly, "and for this very reason
the period of backwardness in the Columbia Valley is near its end. We are going
to have our railroad. Fourteen miles'of
grade up the Valley have already been
made for a branch from the main line at
Golden south to the Crow's Nest division.
This work was done some time ago.    It
ready for the water that flows down from
the mountains in creeks and brooks.
This ditch, built with the money of a few
Canadian capitalists, is eight feet wide
at its base, and will provide an abundant
supply of water for twenty-five square
miles of virgin soil which, as has already
been proved through experiments by
myself and others, will yield great returns  in fruits  and vegetables.    By de-
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ing, these mountains have rich deposits
of gold, silver, lead and copper. Great
areas of them have never been prospected. One of the few mining properties
adequately developed is my own. I have
already shipped about one hundred
thousand dollars worth of silver and lead
ore, and have at least a million dollars
worth blocked out. There are numerous
prospects which show indications of richness, and there is a great deal of promising mineral land which has never been
staked out. I am confident that in the
ground of our 'Happy Valley' there is
agricultural and mineral wealth for many
thousands of people."
"If this is true, why has the development been so slow?" you ask.
"There are two reasons," replies Mr.
Bruce. "The first is that much of the
soil requires irrigation. The second is
that the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company has been so busy with settlers in
the great wheat country in Alberta that
it has not as yet been able to give much
attention to the development of the
mountain sections. Our lack of transportation facilities has held us back."
"But a rich section  does  not  remain
was suspended, and a few of our people
became discouraged. But within a few
months the company has let contracts
for the completion of the grading and the
laying of rails. The officials, moreover,
are giving careful consideration to a proposal to build a fine hotel near Lake
Windermere, in a location which has
already been selected, and which is ideal
for a summer resort. Whether or not
the hotel project goes through in the
near future, the railroad is now a certainty, and we are enthusiastic over the
outlook."
"Yet the railroad is not all. An agricultural expert representing the government at Ottawa arrived here early in the
summer. He verified all our reports of
the agricultural possibilities, and announced before leaving that the government
would establish in the valley a forty acre
experimental farm. The only question
pertains to the site. Two are being considered, and work on one of them will be
under way this Fall."
"But what about irrigation?" you inquire.
"I'm coming to that," answers Mr.
Bruce.    "Four miles of ditch are nearly
grees the irrigation system will be extended. Already one of the most
beautiful sections of British Columbia,
this valley is destined to become one of
the most productive. It offers great opportunities to men of industry and
intelligence who come in before the
advent of the railroad which will bring
a rush of settlers. The Columbia is the
last of the fertile valleys in Southern
British Columbia which a man can still
enter much as he might have done
twenty-five years ago as a pioneer."
The statement of Mr. Bruce as to railroad construction, the experimental farm,
and the irrigation project, have been confirmed in other authoritative quarlcrs. A
big development is assured for the Columbia Valley. It has the latch string out.
The settler can still get in on the ground
floor, so to speak. Its opportunities are
made the greater by the fact that it is
not yet widely known.
"I am surprised," said Earl Grey to a
rancher during a recent visit to the valley, "that you have been able to keep the
beauty and promise here so great a
secret." 1910
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Giant Strides of Young Vancouver
Hard Faqts Tell a Story of Wonderful City and
Provincial  Progress
The story of Vancouver's wonderful development is reflected in the annual report, just issued, of the Board of Trade.
The facts and statistics may seem somewhat dry, but when you remember that
behind them is a vast amount of ambition and endeavor, you may feel their dramatic significance as sign-posts in the
progress of individuals and of a great
city. Here are some of the things the
president said in his annual address:
"The year 1909 will be remembered as
the great turning point in the history of
the city; as the year in which the port
and city of Vancouver, on account of their
phenomenal growth and activity, gained
universal recognition. The city has advanced from one of progress and youthful promise to a city certain of becoming
one of the greatest commercial highways
and coast cities on the American continent. This widely recognized fact, combined with the enterprising and progressive spirit of the West, and the general
prosperity of the Province, has been a
stimulus to trade, and has created a still
more active dealing in the quickly advanced values of real estate,  attracting in
vestors, and resulting by an increase of
capital and by a liberal spending of gains
in a much greater volume of profitable
business being done in every branch of
trade.
"The outlook is brighter than ever for
manufactories in this city, and for extending the commerce of the coast to interior and prairie points. The changed
conditions in favor of both of these are
the greatly increased facilities for getting
merchandise and raw materials by water
to our city at very favorable rates.
"Regarding the harbor, it is gratifying
to note the great increase in shipping entering and leaving this port. As instances
of this, the China Mutual Line brought
42,591 tons, as compared with 33,328 tons
in 1908, and took out 16,368 tons, as
against 10,868 tons in 1908, a total increase of nearly 50 per cent. The Canadian Mexican Line, in exports and imports chiefly from England, handled 25,600
tons in ten months. Our magnificent natural harbor is known as one of the cheapest in the world for shipping to enter. Regarding the export of grain, there have
teen shipped to Mexico 200,000  bushels,
and to Europe about 60,000 bushels. Arrangements for the erection of an elevator with independent water-frontage, are
so far advanced as to warrant the expectancy that they will be able to handle this
year's crop when it is ready for shipment.
"Regarding the industries of the Province, mining in 1909, notwithstanding
strikes, want of coke, and legal and financial difficulties, resulted in a production of $24,040,000, or about $200,000 in
excess of 1908. There was a considerable
reduction in the market value of copper
produced, which was more than made up
in coal and zinc. The lumber produced
in 1909 is estimated at 12 million dollars,
which is equal to the best year in the
history of the industry, and the outlook
for 1910 is so bright that a considerable
increase may be anticipated in all its
many branches, whose direct influence on
the prosperity of the province is very far-
reaching. As to fisheries, the total production is estimated as likely to exceed
that of last year; for Fraser River salmon
1909 was a 'big run' year, but Canadian
fishermen had to contend not only with
A BIT OF VANCOUVER AND HER HARBOUR Page 18
adverse weather and disappointing conditions, but the regulations and a closed
period of 42 hours, which were observed
—as against regulations and a closed period of 36 hours on the U. S. side on Pu-
get Sound, which were not observed. The
pack was 567,203 cases. The total British
Columbia salmon pack was 967,920 cases.
"Great headway has been made in new
plantings of fruit, and the future prospects
of this growing industry are most promising. The Canadian National Apple
Show in Vancouver this fall is deserving
of every encouragement, in the interest
alike of the city, the Province and the industry itself. Tobacco is now being grown
with good results in the Okanagan.
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while the Province, and Vancouver in particular, is enjoying a time of progress
and prosperity, there is evidence in our
contentment of neglecting to give due importance to that which is the foundation
of prosperity—agriculture.
"Vancouver has shown a very marked
increase in the volume of shipping using
her wharves during the past official year,
the total registered tonnage having been
6,456,838, as against 3,837,131 for 1908-9.
The wharfage area has been greatly added to, and the foreshore is being rapidly
acquired to the full extent of the harbor
proper in Burrard Inlet and is held at
greatly augmented values. Some marked
shipping features have been in evidence,
1910
for itself, of course, in the story of Vancouver's strides ahead. The city is now
fourth among those of Canada, being numerous millions ahead of all but Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg. The post
office revenues of Vancouver for this year
have shown an increase of 25 per cent,
over 1909. The customs returns for the
year were only a little less than, four
mollion dollars, and were nearly a million dollars more than in the year before.
The number of sea-going vessels sailing
in and out of the port of Vancouver during the year was over 16,000. The exports from the port to the United States
amounted in money value to over three
and a half millions.
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"The great developments of manufacturing industries in the Province, roughly
estimated by the Provincial Government
at a production of 30 millions, is the most
important factor in the year's prosperity.
New provincial industrial companies were
chartered during the year, with authorized capital aggregating 48 millions, not
including extra provincial companies, and
after making a liberal allowance for unlikely schemes, this shows an active interest in industrials. Since last year the
imports of agricultural produce have increased from 7 to 11 millions.
"As a Province, we are chiefly dependent ' on three great natural industries;
lumbering, mining   and   fisheries:     and
namely: the demand for grain in Mexico,
the growing importance of the Tehuante-
pec route for European freight, the activity in construction of the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway, the building of the city
of Prince Rupert, the awakening development of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and
the mining activity on Portland Canal at
Stewart and elsewhere."
The total value of all British Columbia
fisheries for the official year was $6,465,-
038, 'an increase over the previous year of
$342,116. The Vancouver bank clearings
for the twelve months ending March, 1910,
were $327,835,557, or nearly 237 millions
more than they were the year before.
This remarkable advance speaks loudly
In the city of Vancouver the- marked
progress of the previous year has continued without interruption and in increasing ratio.
The transference of real estate has
been very extensive and values have been
much enhanced, sales on Hastings and
Granville streets having been made at
from $2,500 to $4,000 per front foot, while
the opening up of new suburbs at Shaugh-
nessy Heights and Point Grey to the
south and west, and of Hastings townsite
on the east, along with considerable activity in North Vancouver, have attracted
much outside capital and have raised the
daily clearing house returns to over $1,-
000,000.00. 1910
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The fire brigade is admittedly one of
the finest motor brigades on the American continent. Building has been, and is
very active. Several modern office blocks
are now under way, and apartment blocks
rendered necessary by the demand for
household accommodation, are becoming
quite a feature between Granville street
and Stanley Park. Reinforced concrete
is the popular material in use, with facing of stone, or of brick with stone sills.
Railway activity has assumed more definite shape and much work has been planned covering the next three or four years,
the competition for traffic through the
port of Vancouver when the Panama Canal is completed being prospectively very
great. Other factors to be considered are
the awakening in China, and the more active development of this Province as well
as the neighboring Province of Alberta.
By the addition of "The Traders Bank
of Canada," the list of Eastern banks has
been raised to 14, while the newly incorporated Bank of Vancouver was opened
in July.
The lumber and shingle mills on the
coast have been considerably increased
both in number and capacity. A large
number of new companies, covering a
wide range of enterprise, have been incorporated during the year, while as entirely new industries now in operation,
may be mentioned: The Canadian Pacific
Sulphide Pulp Co., Ltd.; the B. C. Wood
Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.; the B. C. (Oil)
Refining Co., Ltd., and the Paterson Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (makers of roofing
felt, etc.). Active enquiries are now being made with a view to the establishment of the iron smelting and steel industries, than which nothing would give
so much impetus to manufacturing generally in this city and throughout the entire lower mainland district.
The real estate valuation at the close
of 1909 was: Real property, $76,927,-
720.00; improvements, $29,644,755.00; total, $106,572,475.00. From 1895 to 1905
improvements have been taxed at 50 per
cent, of value; 1906-1909, at 25 per cent.,
and for 1910 will be exempt. The tax rate
for 1909 was 2 per cent. The gross tax
levy was $1,258,769.
One of the strongest evidences of the
notable growth of Vancouver may be
found in the showing of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company, which
carried over thirty-three million passengers during the year as against about
twenty-five millions for the previous year.
The company increased its trackage by
twenty miles, now having 117 miles in
operation. Summing up in a word, it
may be said that British Columbia and
Vancouver have not been surpassed in
substantial progress during the period under consideration by any section of the
world.
A Glance at Mining Progress
As Shown by the Month's  Developments at the
Mines and Prospects
ORE DOCKS ON KOOTENAY LAKE
(Courtesy of the Kootenay Silver-Lead Mines, Limited)
Great activity has marked the mining port has been denied, the public con-
industry. Several important strikes tinues to show great interest in this rich
have been reported, and deals have been section, which has seen a more extensive
consummated which mean new capital and mining development than any other in
a fresh impetus to British Columbia min* British Columbia. Sheep Creek camp is
ing.   The outlook is extremely promising a center of activity.
for a greater production than ever before. The production of tne mines Gf Sheep
  Creek in ten years, including 1909, has
SHEEP  CREEK   PRODUCTION. been:
mi.                            t_  _.        «          v'l Tons       Total
The  report that   Robert Guggenheim,
one of tne brothers who control the smel- Mines                               Mined     Value
ter  industry in the  United   States,  has     Yellowstone 16,987    $124,331
taken     a   four   months'   option   on   the     Queen  51,543     522,348
Nugget   gold   mine,  near   Nelson,   on   a     Kootenay Belle   5,106     100,015
basis of .$350 a share for 285,000 shares of     Mother Lode      616       46,683
the company's stock, has attracted fresh     Nugget   6,723     161,907
attention to the Nelson mining division in     	
the  Kootenay  district.    Though the re- Total 80,975   $985,284
This gives a general average value of
$12.17 per ton for the ten years, covered
by the foregoing statistics. The average
value per ton of the product of the several mines respectively is as follows:
Yellowstone, $7.32; Queen, $10.72; Kootenay Belle, $19.59; Mother Lode, $75.78;
Nugget, $24.08.
Progress in 1910 has been more marked
than in any other previous year. While
production of ore, and consequently of
gold, is not likely to show a large increase
over that of 1909, there not having been
made any considerable addition to stamp
milling facilities, development work has
been more extensive and prospecting has
covered a much wider area. The outlook,
therefore, is distinctly encouraging, and
still more important developments and a
materially augmented production is confidently expected to take place next year.
SMELTER  OUTPUT.
During the year ended June 30, the total out put of the Trail smelter of the
Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company of Canada was $5,911,767. This is
an increase of $400,000 over the figures
of the year 1908-9. As the Trail smelter^
handles nearly all the custom ore of the
Kootenay and Boundary districts there
is no institution in industrial British Columbia more closely in touch with the
Kootenay mining industry, or one more
vital to the interior's prosperity. The
growth in output indicates a correspond- Page 20
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ing expansion in mining activity. In
that activity the Consolidated has itself
borne the leading part, having added to
its list of great mines during the year the
Sullivan, the Queen Victoria and the Molly Gibson, the two former of which are
now leading shippers.
REPORT ON  PORTLAND CANAL.
R. W. Brock, director of the geological
survey of the Ottawa Government, writes
in part as follows of his visit in July to
the Portland Canal district: "Portland
Canal forms part of the boundary between
British Columbia and Alaska. Its length
is a little less than 60 miles. At the head
of Portland Canal on a flat at the mouth
of Bear river, the new mining camp of
Stewart is being established. The claims
are situated on Bear river and its tributaries, commencing about four miles up
from tidewater at Stewart.
The country is of the character which
has become recognized as typical of
south-eastern Alaska. The valley occupied by Portland canal and Bear river is
about a mile wide, flanked on either side
by somewhat precipitous mountains rising to a height of about 5,000 feet, with
an occasional peak 1,000 or 2,000 feet
higher. The canal is navigable to its
head for boats of deep draught. ' The
camp lies in a metamorphic zone along
what is probably the eastern limit of the
Coast Range granite. The granite forms
a long and relatively narrow belt along
and near the coast, extending from the
Fraser river to the White river basin in
the Yukon, a distance of 1,100 miles. Its
width is from 30 to 60 miles.
Two classes of ore were exhibited at
Stewart; quartzose ore, carrying silver,
gold and lead values, and a pyritic copper gold ore. The persistence of the
veins is noted by all, a succession of
claims being located on what is said to
be the same vein traceable throughout.
The quartzose ore contains galena, sometimes blende, and silver minerals such as
•argentite, and    native silver.
The Portland Canal Mining Company
on Glacier Creek, operating on a vein
carrying gold-silver-lead values has done
the greatest amount of work. This is
the first company to put in an aerial
tram and concentrator. The latter will
have a capacity of 50 tons per day.
NEW MINING TOWN.
A new mining town, to be known as
Wednesbury, is to be established in the
Comox district of Vancouver island. The
town will be built in connection with the
development work which the Canadian
Colleries company, which recently took
over the holdings of the Hon. James Duns.
muir, and is operating diamond drills in a
number of places with a view to locating
the best points for sinking new pits.
With the growth of the operations of
the island colliery plant a large number
of additional expert coal miners will be
needed, and to procure these the management has entered into negotiations with
the Imperial Federation League, of which
Mr. Graham Forester of Victoria is the
British Columbia commissioner. The
league will bring out miners from the
old country, who will supply the needs
which an enlarged scope of mineral labor
demands.
station has been cut and drifting started
on the ore bodies north and south. This
station is cut in ore of the best grade
of a width of over 10 feet, assaying on
an average 5 per cent, copper and $4
to $6 gold.
Reports from Hudson Bay Junction
state the town is greatly excited over a
rich discovery of gold thirty miles north
of that place. Practically every male inhabitant has gone to stake a claim.
ENTRANCE TO MINE TUNNEL
(Courtesy of the Kootenay Silver-Lead Mines, Limited)
WEALTH   IN  PEACE  RIVER COAL.
The great resource of the British Columbia Peace River country is its coal.
Southward from the Peace and between
the 122nd and 123rd degrees of longitude it is to all appearances coal country
everywhere. The outcrop is bituminous,
of the highest quality (for surface coal)
and of excellent cooking qualities. The
field will probably rival that of the Crow's
Nest Pass when the country obtains facilities for railway transport. The proximity of the coal measures of the Peace
River Valley to the richly mineralized
adjacent district of the Omineca has also
to be taken into consideration in approxi.
mating the natural future of both districts, for as the Omineca mines are opened up, coal will here be readily available
for the economical operation of smelters.
The distance of Fort George may be
placed approximately as 150 miles from
the coal fields; and the coal bearing territory has many small patches of agricultural land, which, judiciously utilized,
would produce sufficient vegetables and
all similar products to satisfy local requirements as the country develops.
An exceptionally rich gold strike has
been made on the property of the Portland—Bear River Mining company located 12 miles up Bear river. The white
quartz exhibited comes from a well defined vein measuring from one to three
feet in width, liberally sprinkled with the
yellow metal. Assays gave returns of
$21, $112, $164 and over $600 in gold.
The new fifteen stamp mill which has
been in course of construction at Long-
lake in connection with the Jewel mine, is
now completed. The mill has been constructed for the purpose of testing a
slimes-treating process of separating gold
from tailings. The new process, which
was invented by H. Nichols, manager of
the Ymir mine, and is being promoted
by the Slimes Treating company, promises to revolutionize present methods
obtaining in the handling of similar ores.
Karl Brell M. E. of New York, has been
engaged in making an examination of the
properties of the Fife Mines, at Fife. He
has expressed great satisfaction with conditions there and recommends a very
very greatly increased plan of operations.
The force will soon be largely augmented
and more machinery added. The winze
in main tunnel is now 235 feet deep and a
An important strike has been reported
on the Free Silver property, in the Ymir
camp. Samples of the ore are said to
carry the highest lead values of any ore
ever found in that camp, being especially
heavy in galena. The property is about
two miles from the town of Ymir.
A company known as Bitter Creek Prospectors, Limited, has been registered in
London with a capital of £52 500 in 200,-
000 ordinary shares of five shillings each
and 50,000 deferred shares of one shilling
each, to carry on the business of prospecting, exploring, mining, etc. 1910
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Record Timber Yield
Figures compiled by the Supervisor of
Scoles, Robert Hamilton, show that the
logging camps tributary to Vancouver are
this year turning out more raw material
than ever before. The record for July
ran up to 56,000,000 feet as against
42,680,000 feet for July, 1909, and the
official compilations show that the cut
of logs for June was 70,000,000 feet and
for May 69,000,000, making the past three
months a banner quarter. This record
is approximately double that for the.same
three months last year.
One of the largest transactions yet
completed   in   this   country     has     been
at any price. I remember counting 22
working sawmills not long ago on a
little trip on a railroad for which the
ticket cost me only 35 cents. It can't
last long at that rate. For quantity,
quality and availability we have here
the best timber field on the continent.
Old Country capitalists are becoming
more interested in British Columbia timber. The demand is for spruce, although
fir and cedar are also wanted. New York
is also interested and an agent was here
looking over the timber propositions for
a paper-making syndicate. Fifty per
cent, of the wood required is spruce.
there are nearly as many cohoes being
taken  as  sockeyes.
At Rivers Inlet the fishing is nearly
over for the year. The catch there has
been very large, the seven canneries
averaging about 20,000 cases each, or a
total pack for the inlet of 140,000 cases.
This is a much larger catch than usual,
12,000 cases being generally considered
a paying catch.
At the other northern canneries the
catch has been equally good, and on
the Fraser the fish are still running well.
In Alaska the catch has been large
at Cooke Inlet, but on Bristol Bay it has
fallen below the average.
Findlay, Durham & Brodie report that
they have had a good season with the
spring salmon. While the Todd canneries   get   most   of   the   sockeyes,   the
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closed in the purchase by an English
company of the mills and limits of the
Mundy Lumber Company of Three Valley,
B. C, and of a number of other properties.
The deal will involve several millions of
dollars by the time its various branches
have been consummated.
"They can't make any mistake in buying this British Columbia timber land,
providing it is accessable," says Archibald
Gilchrist, well known as an authority on
timber land values. "They've got to come
to British Columbia for their timber in
five or ten years. I have been all over
the southern states, eastern states and
provinces and the Northwest. There is
only one tract of considerable size in the
south to-day and the Grand Rapids man
who owns it will not sell any part of it
SOME BRITISH COLUMBIA LOGS
THE FISHING SEASON.
Now that the sockeye salmon season is
drawing to a close, it is possible to review the situation. Already the fish have
nearly stopped entering the traps on
the Vancouver Island side of the straits.
There has been a large catch there this
year, but this catch has been confined
to one or two of the traps, the others
getting very few. The catch from the
four Todd traps alone this year has
been larger than from 22 traps which
were operated there four years ago, and
most of these have been taken from one
trap.
It is not expected that many more
sockeyes will come up the straits, but
there will be the cohoes later;   already
other traps get most of the spring
salmon. The sockeyes are canned, but
the spring salmon are salted and exported to Europe in immense tierces,
weighing nearly half a ton each when
full.
During the seven expired months of the
current year, to August 1st, the mines
of the Boundary district shipped an aggregate of approximately 1,020,000 tons
of ore. Of this total, Granby Company's
mines produced more than seventy per
cent, and the British Columbia Copper
Company's mines nearly twenty per cent.
Of the remaining ten per cent., practi-'
cally all was shipped from the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company's
Snowshoe mine. Page 22
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OPPORTUNITIES
A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Growth, Development,
Resources and Possibilities in British Columbia
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Published by
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To furnish, at home and abroad, more complete information
regarding British Columbia and the wealth of possibilities she offers
for Investment—in Real Estate, Fruit and Farm Lands, Timber,
Mining and Industrial Companies—for Health; for Travel; for
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Vol. 2.
SEPTEMBER, 1910.
No. 3.
The Influx of Capital.
When one considers the elusiveness and coyness
_.nd timidity of capital, and then remembers that capital in constantly increasing \ Glume is moving confidently and even eagerly toward this Province, no doubt
is left as to the solidity of the foundation of British
Columbia's prosperity, liailroad directors are expert
judges of the extent of a region's resources. They do
not spend many millions in constructing new lines
unless they are certain that these lines will tap a country which will be productive far into the future. Several railroad companies, as it is well known, are pushing new trails of steel toward British Columbia and
Vancouver. Big mining capitalists examine with extreme care the question of the permanency of ore deposits before they invest their money. Within a few
months they have shown a greater activity than ever
before in acquiring British Columbia mineral land.
Timber kings are interested only in forests in which
there are large reserve supplies of lumber. Among
these magnates the timber lands of British Columbia
are in great demand. Builders do not construct costly
structures unless they are sure of a community's continuing growth. Building permits in Vancouver foi
the eight months of this year show a total of $8,-
259,045, as against $4,883,312 for the same period last
year. Old World capitalists, who always scrutinize
propositions from the vantage-ground of long experi
ence and conservatism, entertain only those which give
high promise of bringing enduring returns. English and French capitalists are preparing to invest more
heavily than ever before in British Columbia. One oi;
them, Mr. J. Norton Griffiths, member of parliament,
captain of industry, and representative of a syndicate
of English money lords, said recently in Vancouver;
' 'My investigations in British Columbia have convinced
me that this will become the richest province in the
Dominion." Mr. Griffiths and his friends propose t<s
back up their opinion of British Columbia with millions
of dollars. They and many others see here one of the
last big opportunities on this continent to reap the
great rewards which result from the development of
rich  .irgin resources.
Value of a Fresh Start.
A good many men who cast their fortunes with a
new country are handicapped by their own feeling of
past defeat. They lack confidence in themselves. The
fact that they have not been successful elsewhere has
a tendency to make them dubious of their ability to
succeed in the new environment. This questioning
attitude should be swept from the mind. It is mere
litter. Failure is often the ladder to a firmer and more
enduring success than could have been secured without
it. Many a man who has gone down in disaster in one
community has risen high in another.
A young man of our acquaintance came from the
East to a western city. He had a wife and two children.
On the day of his arrival, after all expenses incidental
to his journey had been paid, he took stock of his capital and found that it consisted of twenty cents. But
within himself he had a big asset—a determination to
succeed. He installed his family in a good hotel, and
began to get in touch with the business people of the
city. He was a stenographer, and found a position in
a real estate office. He might have remained a stenographer had it not been for the spur of the needs of
his wife and children. As it was, he worked to the
utmost of his capacity in the office. He did more than
this. Out of office hours he revolved constantly in
his mind ways in which he could be more useful. He
made a close study of real estate development in the
growing city of his adoption. In six months he had
become the private secretary of his employer. In two
years he established an office of his own. In five years
more he had increased his original capital of twenty
cents to about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Another young man who was trying to practice law
in Buffalo, New York, wrote home to his father that
there had been a remarkable event in his life that day.
He had made three dollars. After a while he pulled up
stakes and migrated to the West. He gained and held
the confidence of the leading men of the new and
rapidly developing section, and now has at least a
million dollars with which to keep the wolf from the
door.
Still another young man, now in Vancouver, mentioned the other day a certain city in the East. 'T
used to live in that town," he said, ''and I'm thankful
to its people, because they starved me out. I came here,
where opportunity is a goddess with a thousand
extended hands. I grasped one of them, and have been
lifted up to independence.'' 1910
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Getting in on the Ground Floor.
We all appreciate the advantages of a ground floor
position in any business, but the majority of us, unfortunately, find the ground floor fully occupied. This
may be our own fault. Our mental boilers may lack
sufficient steam to drive us through the crowd of hopeful ones who are always hanging around the doors
of the ground floor. We may be too easily side-tracked.
We may be too richly endowed with that philosophical
spirit which weakens the legs of action. We may be
too easily lured by the soft smiles of the goddess of
pleasure. On the other hand, we may have plenty of
steam, determination, and ambition, and still find ourselves pigeon-holed in a job a considerable distance
from a ground floor location. In this case the fault
is not so much with us as with our environment. In all
probability we are in a business of a community which
is not expanding. This means, of course, a dim prospect for our own advancement.
The situation is one which confronts a multitude
of ambitious men in the New and Old Worlds. The
problem is to break through conditions which have
become ossified by custom and tradition. The solution
of this problem lies in seeking out a community which
is animated by the spirit of youth, which is moving
forward instead of backward. That British Columbia
is such a section there is not, of course, the slightest
question. Its development has been, is, and will be,
almost unprecedented in rapidity and stability. Its
business is continually expanding. The man of energy
who gets in now is fortunate. He is in the midst of
the opportunities of a lifetime—opportunities for the
man with a little or no capital as well as for him
with much. The demand is for earnestness, concentration, hard work. Supply these, and you wili win.
We want to help you. We like to be useful on general
principles, and we know that our own prosperity will
increase in direct ratio to the increase in the number
of successful people in British Columbia. It is our
business to point out opportunities, and yours to make
the most of them.   Let's work together.
Settlers from Across the Line.
The efforts to start an anti-Canadian campaign
in the United States were to be expected, in view of
the fact that during the last fiscal year the Dominion,
particularly Western Canada, attracted across the
border for permanent settlement over one hundred
thousand Americans. The greater part of these are
successful farmers, who, with sons growing up, want
larger farms. They sell their holdings in the United
States, and, in Canada, buy bigger acreages. They
are a most desirable class of citizens, workers who produce the staples which are the foundation of prosperity.
Many of them are coming to British Columbia,
where they find the latch-string always out. The Province likes them, and they like it.   The talk that they
don't care for the form of government is mere buncombe. They find the government so unobtrusive, when
no liberties with the laws are taken, that they hardly
realize the existence of a government. Moreover, they
are not greeted each morning by staring newspaper
headlines telling of fresh instances of political graft
and malfeasance in office. Nor do they find business
momentum upset by the activities of legislatures and
threatened changes of administration. An American
in Vancouver said the other day that, compared with
the political nervousness of the Republic, he found the
government here a rest cure, and was duly grateful.
A Message from Lord Strathcona.
It has been seventy years since Lord Strathcona,
then a youth of twenty, whose name was plain Donald
Smith, first identified himself with Canada. He has
been vitally interested in the Dominion ever since.
Because he knows it better, perhaps, than any other
man, what he says about it has much weight. "If I
were to have a word with any one who is going to
Canada," he recently remarked, "this would be my
message: ' You are going to a land of splendid possibilities, where you will find many to welcome you.
Only one thing is necessary to assure your success.
This is the ability and determination to work. You
must work strenuously, steadfastly, and as long as is
necessary. The man who works in Canada cannot
fail.' "
Keep Your Dollars At Home.
If you spend a dollar in your own town, part of
it, assuming that you are engaged in business, finds a
path back to your individual coffers. If you send a
dollar to other sections all of it is apt to stay there.
You have depleted to that extent your community's
working capital.
A stream of money flows daily from British Columbia into the United States. This, of course, has a
weakening effect upon local finance and commerce.
The outgo means less capital here for business.
Each of us whose fortunes depend upon those of
British Columbia, owes it to himself to exert an influence
toward keeping more of this money where it will
stimulate our own industries. If you are making a
purchase and there is little choice between the goods
or articles, let your decision be in favor of the product
which is adding to the home wealth, rather than to
that of manufacturers at a distance. You may regard
as unimportant your own influence in this matter of
buying, feeling that you are only an individual among
many thousands, but you can help. There are great
manufacturing possibilities in British Columbia, and
development means, of course, bigger and richer cities,
more opportunities and more money for all who are
industrious. Keep this in mind. Lend what aid you
can to the progress of your own community. Page 24
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Industrial Progress in British Columbia
HIGH LEVEL STEEL BRIDGE, VANCOUVER
Within a short time the B. C. Electric
Railway Company will undertake the extension of its lines to the Saanich peninsula. Great activity is being displayed
by agents of the company in the district
in explaining to the various property
owners who will be asked for right-of-way
the benefits which will follow from the
inauguration of the system.
Two routes for this new electric railroad are now before the people and the
company.
The work of installing the power plant
at Jordan river is advancing at a pace
beyond the expectations of the company.
It had been calculated that the plant
could be ready for operation at the first
of next year, but if the present rate of
progress is maintained it is probable
that the company will be able to supply
power from Jordan river at a date before
Christmas—hence the desire of the company to get its trackage completed in
the Saanich peninsula this fall.
Since the disastrous fire in 1908 in
Fernie, 70 fireproof buildings at an
average cost of $18,000 have been erected,
as well as 900 dwellings. Besides the
fireproof business buildings, frame busi
ness houses to the value of $150,000 have
been erected. The most up-to-date water
and electric light systems have been installed; a school costing $50,000 and a
$15,000 fire hall have been completed
and also a city hall costing over $15,000.
New side walks have been built in every
part of the town, roads graded and a
storm sewer system is now being rushed
to completion. The fire department has
been thoroughly reorganized with a paid
department supplied with every equipment necessary to place it on the most
efficient basis.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce was
the first to recognize the importance of
the branch system in Victoria and accordingly secured temporary quarters in
Douglas street, where a general banking
business has been conducted for two
months. The bank has in view the construction of large, handsome quarters.
A company has been formed to manufacture Portland cement in the suburbs
of Princeton. The proposed works will
involve an outlay of $250,000. It is understood a sawmill will be put into commission to  supply the  lumber for  erective
purposes and mining. It is stated that
the initial plant to be erected will have
a capacity of 1,000 barrels of cement per
day, to be doubled as the market demands. A spur will be built from the
main line of the Great Northern to the
works, about a mile and a half.
The first water service in the municipality of Burnaby has been turned on.
The -supply is calculated to provide 45,000
gallons of water daily. The municipality
has another machine drilling at Central
Park for an artesian well there, and is
contemplating putting a further one to
work drilling a well in ward three, at
C'iff's cannery, for the supply of the
south-eastern part of the municipality.
Active work is under way toward the
establishment of a beet sugar factory in
the Fraser Valley. The movement has
been inaugurated by a number of prominent residents of the valley and Vancouver. The company will have a capital
of $300,000 to commence with, and is now
in course of incorporation. It is to be
known as the Fraser Valley Sugar Works,
Limited, and an excellent site with water-
frontage has been .Secured. 1910
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The British Columbia Telephone Company has been putting through two new
'lines from Vancouver to Mission City,
and the linemen have arrived at Mission.
The Mission exchange will now have
a fifty-line rack instead of the twenty
now in use. The Mission City Telephone Company is extending its system
over Matsqur Prairie. The line has
been completed as far as Clay burn and
several new telephones are already installed.
The Maple Leaf Milling Company,
capitalized for $5,000,000 and one of
the largest milling concerns in Canada,
is going to invade the British Columbia
market, according to announcement made
by Hedley Shaw, head of the company.
"I am looking over the ground with
the intention of appointing agents and
establishing warehouses at the principal
distributing points in the province," said
Mr. Shaw. "As the largest distributing
trade center of British Columbia, Vancouver will undoubtedly have possibly
the greatest claim on our attention. As
yet I have done nothing in Vancouver,
nor have I completed arrangements for
the establishment of warehouses at other
points of the province. It is our intention
to utilize the depots to be established in
British Columbia purely for the supplying
of the local market, the company not having any idea of going into the export
trade, not at the present time, at any
rate." The Maple Leaf Milling Company
owns a large number of elevators in
Saskatchewan and Manitoba and has
mills at Brandon, Winnipeg, Kenora,
Thorold and St. Catherine's, and is building at Port Colborne, Ontario, the largest
flour mill in Canada.
At a meeting last month in Victoria, an
association to be known as the B. C.
Florists' and Nurserymen's Association
was formed to further the interests of the
florists and the general public of the province. The Victoria branch is to be
known as the Vancouver Island and Nurserymen's Association. At the meeting
of the local branch, which was held prior
to that of the parent organization, A. J.
Woodward, of Victoria, was elected president of the two divisions oi the association, with H. Callow as secretary. H.
Tidy, of New Westminster is secretary of
the Mainland branch. The formation of
this organization is an entirely new movement in this province. British Columbia
being the last to form an association of
this kind.
this kind yet ordered on the island, at the
Portage Inlet ranch, Burnside road.
A. H. Pease, proprietor of the ranch,
has placed an order for the incubator.
The adaptability of the country surrounding Victoria to the poultry industry has
been widely recognized during the last
few years, and especially since the broadcast circulation of a pamphlet dealing
with this business by the Vancouver
Island Development League, which is receiving an increasing number of inquiries
in this connection.
An illustration of the success which is
being attained by modern methods in the
poultry business on Vancouver Island is
found in the impending installation of a
15,000-egg incubator, the largest plant of
BIC FISHING COMBINE.
The present profits and the promise
of the British Columbia fishing industry
are fully appreciated by two of Canada's
ablest financiers.
Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann have
taken an option on the entire holdings of
the Pacific Whaling Company on this
coast. The option has four months to
run. It is understood that the holdings
of the Pacific Whaling Company are
valued at $1,000,000. Plans are already
well under way for the formation of a new
company, and arrangements are now being made for the extension of the enterprise so that it will include both halibut
and shark fisheries. The latter industry
will be the first of its kind ever started
in the New World.
With the realization of the project now
under way, Vancouver Island will have
one of the largest and most important
fishing organizations in the world. The
proposed new 'corporation will also engage in a general fisheries business.
Cold storage plants for the handling of
all kinds of edible fish, especially halibut,
wiU be erected at Rose Harbor, Queen
Charlotte Islands and at Sechart and
Kyuquot on Vancouver Island. The promoters propose to ship fresh fish from
Vancouver to the prairie and Eastern
markets. In connection with whaling
operations the company proposes operating an immense soap factory, so that the
oil, instead of being shipped away to
Glasgow will be utilized in the province.
As soon as the properties and charters have all been secured, stock in the
big corporation will be placed on the
market, and the public will be given an
opportunity of taking shares in it. It
is expected that by operating in a large
way the trust will be able to secure
much better markets and to work much
more economically than a number of
smaller firms could possibly do. It will
have agents in all the principal markets,
at Billingsgate and other parts of the
world, and will practically control the
market for the fish which this coast
supplies.
MILLIONS  FOR   B. C.  INVESTMENT.
Millions of dollars are likely to be invested in Western Canada, including
British Columbia, as a result of the tour
now being made by the Earl of Dunmore,
Norton Griffiths. M. P., and Harry Brit-
tain. Mr. Griffiths has already purchased
about 140,000 acres in the prairie provinces. Ten or twelve thousand acres of
fruit lands in Okanagan valley have also
been acquired by members of the party.
"This is only the beginning," said Mr.
Griffiths. "We intend to have a look
through various districts of this province.
It is probable that we will ascend the
Skeena river and go through to Fort
George, and thence south to the mam
line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Quite separate from any investments
which 1 may make with my fellow travelers, I have at heart a personal project
lor bringing out at least 1,200 families
from my own constituency of Wednes-
bury. For various reasons I prefer British Columbia to the prairie regions as a
field for the activities of the people I
shall send out. Here I propose locating
three centres of colonization, to be named
Wednesbury, Tipton and Darlaston, alter
places in my constituency. My ultimate
object is to produce results which will
stimulate members of parliament and
mayors of cities to start similar movements. In that way I think I can do
the empire a greater service than by
simply talking. Of course I shall expect the co-operation of your government. In every instance the families
sent out will be selected very carefully.
They will largely belong to the type
of farm laborers, but artisans and
coal miners will be included.
The Douglas Lake Cattle company's
ranch is one of the largest in the province.
That French money is as ready for
investment in Western Canada as the
English capitalists', is the statement of
A. O. P. Francis, consul for France at
Victoria. Mr. Francis was instrumental
in the organization of a strong syndicate of French capitalists which has,
to the present time, invested $1,500,000
in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British
Columbia. He states that their investments are turning out exceedingly well,
and that if the returns for the present
year are as great as in the past—and
there is every indication that they will
be—there will be practically unlimited
French capital for investment in Canada
next year. Mr. Francis stated that they
are but the forerunners of dozens of
European money lords who are looking to
Canada as the best field for investment
offered in the world to-day. He predicts
that the flow of capital from the money
centers of the Old World will be greater
in the next few years than ever in the
past. 1910
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Scotch ire is rising. "The Cock o'
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the beacon fires burn, and from clansman to clansman flies the blood-besmeared talisman of strife. Onto the
Lowlands will pour the Scotch hordes,
but it is not hapless North England
this time, but the land of the Teuton,
perhaps the home of the Yankee, which
two countries have been responsible for
an insult to the ancient war musical instrument of the hardy race, says the Portland Telegram.
An American jury at Milwaukee, Wis.,
has declared that the Scottish bagpipe
is not a musical instrument, and that its
proper name is the "Dudel-Sack." The
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Scot was favoring the Milwaukee citizens
with a performance on the national instrument, when an American horse on
hearing the .round of the pipes, straightway reared up, fell down and died. The
owner sued the performer for the price
of the unmusical beast.
The defence was: "The horse was
guilty of contributory negligence in permitting its nerves to go off at a tangent
at a musical sound." The horse owner
denied that the bagpipe was capable of
producing music, and the jury actually
sustained him. But worst of all, the jury,
which contained several Germans, insisted
upon calling the bagpipe a "dudel-sack."
Scotsmen have heard many opprobrious epithets hurled at the great Highland bagpipe, but never before was it
called a "dudel-sack." This demanded a
protest, and the protest came. From all
parts of the United States indignant dis
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jury have come from insulted Scots.
Other nationalities have replied, and the
controversy has waxed so warm that the
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fact that Scotsmen use the word "music"
in regard to the sounds emitted by the
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no intelligent conception of what music
is. The sounds of the "dudel-sack" are
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Highlanders point to the many glorious
victories achieved to the strains of the
pipes, and are met with the retort that
the enemy had only two courses open—
either to flee or remain and lose all desire for life. The "dudel-sack," they say,
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with a burning desire for universal murder.
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OPPORTUNITIES
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Among the
Growers
Numerous exhibitions, already held and
yet to come, have greatly stimulated interest and activity in the big fruit growing industry of British Columbia. Preparations are under way for the first
National Apple Show to be held in Vancouver at the end of September, and, in
general, the progressive movement is
very marked.   Fruit growers are showing
the applicant furnishing five acres of
land which the government will work and
plant. The owner is then expected to
follow the government's directions in
developing the tract, and demonstrations as to proper methods of spraying,
pruning, etc., will be held by the department experts for the benefit of the
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a stronger tendency than ever before to
co-operate in the solution of problems
incidental to their business. They are
making progress in their competition
with growers across the border to the
south, and are constantly attaining a
stronger realization of the possibilities of
the industry in British Columbia. Not
for a moment losing sight of the continual
expansion of this market, and that of the
prairie country, they are preparing for
a larger output next season than ever
before. The fruit crop this year has been
treble that of any in the past, but all the
indications are that it will be greatly
exceeded by that of 1911. Below are
some items showing the progress of the
month.
Demonstration Orchards.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture Scott
states that within a month demonstration
orchards will be selected throughout B.
C. Present plans consider locations as
follows: Vancouver Island, 2; lower
mainland, 2 or 3; Yale-Kamloops, 4; Okanagan, 4; Columbia Valley, 1; Boundary,
1 or 2; Kootenay and Arrow Lakes, 6.
The horticulturists of each district will
consider from the applications the best
parties to whom the work will be entrusted.    The present plan contemplates
B. C. Fruit at Eastern Fairs.
The reports that continue to come in
at the Department of Agriculture are
most gratifiying as they refer to the success of British Columbia fruits at the
prairie exhibitions. The Brandon fair
was, at the last moment, able to provide
space for the exhibit from this province,
and in every way the appearance of the
fruit was most attractive. In view of
the Dominion Fair being held next year
at Regina, the Department of Agriculture
is taking active steps to secure space.
The first offer of the best location, at this
exhibition has been granted to E. Bullock-
Webster, the British Columbia commissioner. In connection with the exhibit
at this year's Regina show, the report
from the fruit commissioner to Mr.
William E. Scott, the deputy minister, is
most satisfactory. Great interest was
evidenced in the display made by this
Province on the grounds. The British
Columbia stand was thronged throughout
every day of the exhibition.
The Saskatoon fair was a centre for
British Columbia fruits at which Bullock-
Webster has been so fortunate as to
secure the entire end of the Horticultural
Hall, so that the fruit had a most central
position and attracted wide attention.
Labor and  Fruit Growing.
"The labor question in the fruit districts is becoming acute," says W. E.
Scott, deputy minister of agriculture in
this Province. "It will have to be met
fairly and squarely before long, as the
labor scarcity is having the effect of
keeping capital out of the Province. I have;
known several cases where men who
would otherwise have invested here were
frightened away by the high prices for
labor on the fruit ranches. This labor
risk is retarding the fruit industry and
about the only solution which occurs to
me at the moment is for the government
and the railway company to get together
and make arrangements so that large
numbers of Old Country people of the
right class could be brought out here
free of cost. There are many who would
gladly come were it not for the great
expense of passage.
"At the present time orchard laborers
in many parts of British Columbia command $3 per day, while across in Washington and Oregon they can be secured
for half that sum. This gives the Ameri.
can fruitgrowers a great advantage and
even with the duty against them they can
ship their fruit into the Canadian markets
at lower prices than the British Columbia
growers can afford to sell for." Mr. Scott
places his estimate of the fruit crop for
this year at three times that of previous
seasons. This he regards as a conservative figure. He thinks that at least a
thousand cars will be exported.
Strawberries in the  North.
Lakelse and Kitsumkalum strawberries are developing a reputation that
will do much towards settling the beautiful and fertile valleys which lie back of
Prince Rupert. Last year a few boxes
of strawberries were picked and brought
down. They were superior to berries
brought up from the south. This year
the" residents of the two valleys planted
more vines and recently have been making large shipments to Prince Rupert,
Seattle, and Vancouver. The berries are .
of finest quality and their cultivation is
very profitable. The great feature of the
Lakelse and Kitsumkalum strawberries is
that they come in just at the close of the
season in California, Washington, and
other southern districts, thus making
a particularly long season on the coast
for fresh fruits. Next season there will
easily be a market a hundred per cent,
greater for them than there was this
year, and there is a fortune in their
cultivation in the valleys along the Grand
Trunk Pacific. 1910
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CANADA'S   TREK.
By Hedley Rogers
Germany's Iron Prince once lamented
that while France had colonists she possessed colonies, and Germany had colonists but no colonies, England was the
happy possessor of both. This was true
then, and is to-day. Great Britain not
only proudly possesses colonies, but colonies within colonies. The Briton's heritage outshines everything in history.
With pride which the gallant ancient
Roman would have envied, he may rove
over twenty-four of every hundred square
miles of the earth's surface and not be
obliged to take out even his intention
papers of naturalization. Alike, do
Klondike's icy mountains, India's coral
strand, Africa's fertile plantations and
Australia's golden sands, join with Canada's broad acres in bestowing bounties
upon him.
When the precincts of the I\_ other
Land become too strait he may hie
across to the Dominions beyond the seas.
When the East of those vast territories
are developed, his progeny with all the
vim of youth, may trek to the West,
wrest from the bosom of nature a new
Dominion and there develop a new nation within a nation, thus assuring the
perpetuation of the greatest of all great
Empires.
In this respect Canada is as well blest
as  any.    No  need  exists  for  her  youth
emigrating to a foreign land, or even to
another colony within the Empire. Tens
of millions of Canada's acres are yet in
their virgin condition. While the rich
grain fields of Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Alberta and the other Northwest territories afford bounteous homesteads for
tens of millions, the natural resources of
British Columbia offer even greater rewards.
It is very gratifying to know that our
Eastern ancestors and cousins are being
awakened to these facts. No country
has contributed to this Province a more
honorable and sturdy stock as have our
Eastern Provinces. Almost every train
carries Westward to us those whose
coming vouchsafes to our race the preservation of those qualities, characteristic
of Canadian and British nationality.
One of the most interesting families
among the recent arrivals is the Brown
family, originally of Chatham and Dresden, Ontario, and later of the town of
McTaggart, Weyburn District, Sask. The
male folk consist of four sturdy men,
father and son and two nephews. Albert,
the elder, is father to Harry, and uncle
to Alt", and Roy. Geo. W. Brown, who is
father to the latter two and brother of
Albert, is still prominent in municipal
affairs in the old home town. He is at
present councillor of Chatham Township.
This family is an exceptional exemplification of the commural spirit of brother
hood.   All four are working partners in
the one business.
As an evidence of their appreciation
of the climate and resources of British
Columbia they have each invested most
of their means in and around the city of
Vancouver, and intend to invest the remainder of the capital, added to more
they expect to interest, in fruit and farm
lands elsewhere in the Province. Those
four gentlemen comprise (what has become already familiar to many investors)
The Brown Realty Company. At the cor.
ner of Keefer street and Victoria drive
they have established well equipped
offices, where they bid fair to assist in
preserving to the real estate and brokerage business, that reliability so desirable in that field of commercial endeavor. Already they have acquired and have
sale sub-divisions in Burnaby, South
Vancouver and Point Grey, in addition to
city business property and residential
sites, particularly in Grandview.
With a record of fifteen years in the
lumbering business in Ontario, owning
lands in the Northwest, and having had
years of experience in ranching in those
territories, these boys are capable of
providing reliable advice, as to the relative values of property in each of the
provinces. The West will welcome from
the East many more such families as
the Browns.
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1910
Upward Trend in Real Estate
The renewed business activity which
usually comes with the fall is evident in
the" real estate field. The summer was
accounted dull, but all the indications are
that the autumn will see much brisk
business. While there have not been
many large transactions as yet, the demand for homes and other smaller holdings has been increasing steadily for several weeks, and with the influx of money
into the city after the crops have been
moved, the prospect is that it will continue to increase for several months. This
desire on the part of a great many people
to acquire homes in Vancouver or its suburbs is a more pronounced feature of
the real estate situation here than in
probably any other city on the American
continent, and is an excellent indication
of the stability of the population flowing
into this city. The advent of new comers
is also indicated by the great demand for
rooming houses. These are taken as soon
as they are placed upon the market, and
are at once filled.
It is reported that British and American capitalists have recently invested
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
Vancouver building securities.
One of the most substantial signs of
the building progress in this city will be
seen in a fine twelve story building of
steel which is about to be erected on the
corner of Homer and Pender streets. In
the basement will be a dining-room with
accommodation for five hundred guests.
The first story will be used for stores and
the upper floors will contain three hundred  and eight offices.
Real estate is particularly active in
Vancouver's suburbs. Hastings townsite
is attracting the attention of speculators
and home seekers because of its elevation and good transportation facilities.
The projected improvements in the Point
Grey and Eburne car services, as well as
in the roads and drainage, have had the
effect of stimulating interest in these localities.     Numerous   lots   have   recently
changed hands. The False Creek bylaw
has had a tendency to enhance the values
of Grandview. Among centres of real
estate activity at a distance from Vancouver, Port Mann may be mentioned as
now attracting much attention because of
the announcement of the C. N. R. of an
intention to develop this section as an
ocean port. Trade in lots has materially
increased in Clover dale since the extension of the Chilliwack line to that
point, and the opening of service by the
B. C. E. R. The railroad extension to
this district makes it a promising field
for real estate investment. Interest in
Burnaby, South Vancouver and Point
Grey is growing constantly. There have
been numerous inquiries as to Lulu Island real estate since the report of the
intention   of  the   C.   N.   R.  to  tap  this
territory.    The  demand  for  fruit  lands
in  the   Okanagan  Valley  is   continually
increasing.     Twenty-five   hundred   acres
have been sold this month.
Busy Days for Brokers
The making and extension of roads and
the opening of new streets has greatly
stimulated activity in the beautiful suburb of Point Grey. On the Clere and
Wilson roads and the Marine drive business has been particularly brisk. Mole
and Keefer, Point Grey specialists, have
found the uplift in the market very mark,
ed. The same is true of W. H. Windle,
who deals extensively in Kerrisdale and
Point Grey properties. Mr. Windle advises the family man to secure a home
site in Kerrisdale, where there is plenty
of room and sunshine for the children
as well as adults who appreciate the
charms of suburban life.
British American Securities, Limited,
are staking their firmly established reputation as a careful and conservative house
upon the future of Kerrisdale as one of
the most desirable of Vancouver's suburbs. They have some excellent offerings
there, and report that the section is attracting more and more attention from
investors and home seekers. In the Hastings townsite the National Real Estate
Company is finding difficulty in meeting
with the demand for houses. This demand is greatly stimulating construction in this section. Surrey, Point
Gfey, and South Vancouver are the centos of an activity which is absorbing the
attention of Marriott & Fellows, who report a decided increase in the interest of
speculators and farm seekers. M. H.
Franklin is making numerous sales in
and around Port Moody, and is finding
business better than it was last year. A
material increase in transactions is also
reported by Lougheed & Coates, who are
finding the advance most noticeable in the
construction of new houses, they have
recently let several building contracts.
Many inquiries for farm land have come
to them, particularly in the Nicola Valley, in which they are specializing. They
anticipate a larger volume of business
in residential properties this fall than has
been seen for many months. The Kitsil-
ano district is attracting the attention
of many home seekers.
Facilities for handling their rapidly
growing business have recently been provided by Latimer, Ney & McTavish, who
have moved into attractive new offices.
They are finding a keen demand for
Grandview and Eburne properties. Numerous options have been closed. The
new townsite of Fort George, in one of
the last undeveloped areas of the province, is attracting much attention because of the good water, fertile soil, and
close proximity to the railroad. William
Holden is supplying many inquirers with
information about this fertile section, and
is closing deals there as well as in Vancouver. Foster & Fisher are doing more
business in North Vancouver than at any
time since the beginning of summer. God-
dard & Son recently closed a deal for
sixty-six feet on Pender street which was
purchased by the French Auto Company
for forty-five thousand dollars, or about
seven hundred dollars a front foot. This
progressive firm has made a number of
other substantial sales within a few
weeks.
Messrs. Foster & Fisher of 310 Hastings street, who are well known in Vancouver as energetic real estate brokers,
have incorporated their business as a
joint stock company. Mr. Thomas H.
Ingram, accountant of this city, who has
recently returned from a five months' trip
to England and Europe, has placed a
considerable amount of stock in the new
corporation. It will handle five insurance and loans in addition to real estate. A change in the name of the company will be announced in the next issue
of Opportunities. The officers are A. P.
Fisher, president; G. H. Foster, manager
and director; Thomas H. Ingram, secretary and treasurer.
The Capital City Realty Company is
making a specialty of fruit and farm
lands and finds a healthy demand for this
kind of property. They have negotiated
the sale of a number of lots in the northern part of Vancouver within a few days. 1910
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The progressiveness of L. W. Bick, the
well-known Victoria real estate operator,
is illustrated by the literature about Victoria which he is scattering broadcast.
This consists of beautiful booklets and
handsomely illustrated pamphlets, which
are bound to bring returns both to Victoria and to Mr. Bick, who is thoroughly
conversant with the best opportunities
for Victoria and Vancouver Island real
estate investment.
W. S. Cameron, manager of Federal
Investments, has found inside real estate business good during the last six
months, despite the general quietude in
real estate. He fully expects that the
next six months will be even better in
both inside and outside property. Mr.
Cameron is secretary and treasurer of
The Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. He
says that there is much activity on the
stock market.
One of the most experienced real estate operators in Vancouver is Harry B.
Hall, of the Union Adjustment Company.
Mr. Hall has made a very close study of
real estate conditions in all parts of this
community, and is in a particularly good
position to advise prospective buyers as
to the best possible investments in the
Various kinds of property here.
D. D. Mann's presence in Stewart aroused great interest. He stated that his expenditures have amounted close to $750,-
000 for payments on mining properties
and development, and another $150,000
would be added before the close of the
year.
The Yukon territory has shipped to the
outer world $150,000,000 in virgin gold.
The greater part of this has been produc.
ed within fifty miles of Dawson, and perhaps 90 per cent, within one hundred
miles. Klondike's output is increasing,
whereas some of the other camps are experiencing a falling off in yield. The output of this camp last year was $4,000,000,
and this year it is expected to reach
$5,000,000. The extensive operations of
the Yukon Gold are to be rivalled by those
of a giant new company now entering the
field headed by A. N. C. Treadgold. Two or
three other big companies are in the field
with dredge companies, and two or three
others are investigating this season with
prospects of coming.
Dan Greenwalt, a prospector well
known in Nevada and other parts of the
west, has reported a rich find on the
Skagit river, near the international boundary. The values, he says, run from $150
to $1,000 to the ton. Mr. Greenwalt's discovery was made on Steamboat Mountain.
The district is situated forty miles in a
southerly direction from the settlement
of Hope, where Mr. Greenwalt's arrival
and report occasioned a great real of excitement.
The lure of the newly-discovered gold-
fields has been felt strongly by the more
daring of Vancouver's prospectors. A
party of fifteen, headed by Dan Green-
wait, W. A. Stephens, B. A. Jennings, S.
A. Thompson and C. C. Grant, will spend
the winter working on a rich lode staked
by the quartet. Over one hundred claims
have already been registered by Vancouv-
lerites.
OPPORTUNITIES IN  DEER  PARK.
Opportunities for market gardens and
country homes are what are attracting
purchasers in the Deer Park division of
Burnaby. The property which is the center of interest is on the border of Deer
Lake, with a gentle southern slope, and
exceptionally good soil for gardening and
fruit raising. The section has been slow
in developing for one of so many natural
attractions. The reason for this has been
a lack of transportation facilities. This
objection will be swept away by the tram
line between Vancouver and New Westminster, which will put Deer Park within
easy reach of the markets and the commercial center of British Columbia. But
the opportunities in the section are still
ground floor ones. They offer the contentment of a charmingly situated country
home, or the profit of a market garden,
or both, upon an investment in property
which is growing in value steadily. Ross
and Shaw, of 318 Hastings Street, Vancouver, will tell you all about Deer Park.
The extensive investments of D. D.
Mann in the Portland Canal Mining district prove his faith in this rich mineral
section of British Columbia. Mr. Mann
says he is satisfied that Stewart will be
a permanent low grade camp. The miner,
alized area is extensive, and the character
of the ores bodies is varied.
The G. R. Naden Company, one of
Prince Rupert's most progressive real
estate companies, reports a strong demand for Prince Rupert real estate.
Their sales last week amounted to
$40,000.
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OPPORTUNITIES
1910
Some Exhibition Displays
One of the most artistic displays at the
Vancouver exhibition was that of L. J.
Trounce, the show card writer. His work
caught the  eye  of all passers-by,    and
fire engine mentioned has commended itself strongly to fire chief Watson of New
Westminster, where R. Harris & Company have their offices.
company has over 5,000 feet of development already done. It controls an immense deposit of silver-lead, and the
board of directors have just employed between thirty and forty additional men.
They propose increasing the number of
their employees from month to month
until the mine becomes the first shipper
in Canada. The Company's mill is one
of the best equipped in the Kootenay-
Slocan district, 280,400 feet of lumber having been used in the construction of the
building alone. The machinery has a
capacity of 200 tons per day. An automatic gravity aerial tramway 5,500 feet
long connects the mill with the mines.
There is an abundance of timber for
years to come. Detailed information may
be obtained gratis by applying to the Company's office, 429 Pender Street, Vancouver.
ANT ARTISTIC DISPLAY OF SHOW CARDS
aroused unanimous admiration. It showed a refreshing difference from that of
most show card writers, who are prone
to be stiff and mechanical in their product. Mr. Trounce gives drawings a snappy originality which immedately attracts
admiring attention and thus makes them
particularly effective as advertising mediums. In addition to their commercial
merits they have a distinctive art quality
which plainly indicates that Mr. Trounce
could successfully compete with magazine cover artists and other designers of
the highest class. It is safe to say that
in his distinctive field Mr. Trounce has
no superiors and few equals on the continent.
A FINE DISPLAY AT THE EXHIBITION
An effective display at the recent Vancouver exhibition was that of R. Harris
& Company, who had on the counter of
KOOTENAY SILVER LEAD MINES WIN
FIRST PRIZE.
At the Vancouver Exhibition, under the
silver-lead section, first prize was awarded
to the Kootenay Silver Lead Mines Limited. The Dominion Government strives
to foster this industry by paying a lead-
bounty of from 65c. to 80c. per 100 lbs.
of ore mined, and from this source alone
the Highland Mine (one of the claims of
the Kootenay Silver Lead Mines Ltd.)
received $27,326 in one year. The value
of the concentrates, inclusive of the bounty, varies from $37 to $39 per ton.    This
NEW   SASH   AND   DOOR   FACTORY.
The new sash, door and planing mill
of the Woodworkers, Limited, of Victoria, will in a short time be in operation with a capacity of 300 doors and
100 windows a day. The machinery is
of the very latest designs. The dry kiln
rooms are equipped with what is known
as the fresh air system and are heated
to from 180 to 200 degrees. All material
is steamed before the dry heat is applied.
Everything in the plant is as perfect
as it is possible to make it. The Woodworkers manufacture all kinds of building material. Every need of the builder
in construction work is supplied at this
factory.
their booth
jreat array of aluminum
goods designed for novelty advertisement.
As is well known among advertisers, aluminum articles constitute one of the
popular and successful means for effective special advertising. Cecil T. M.
Sapsford, who is associated with the com-
1 ."i y, has recently taken the exclusive
agency for these goods in Vancouver. In
addiuor to the aluminium display the company handle and had on exhibition "Red
Cross" Sanitary Closets, which gained
the favorable attention of many physicians, the "Simplex" Fire Escape, and
fire fighting equipment in general.    The
DISPLAY OF R. HARRIS & COMPANY AT THE VANCOUVER EXHIBITION 1910
OPPORTUNITIES
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ATTRACTIONS   OF   THE   PORTLAND.
Victoria has been slow to realize that
she must cater in an efficient manner to
the visitors that continually fill her
hotels and restaurants. Evidence of the
fact that she has awakened to this neces.
sity is found in her latest European plan
hotel, "The Portland," centrally situated
on Yates Street, two and a half blocks
above Government Street. This hotel,
consisting of about 50 rooms, is one of
the most modern of its kind on the Pacific coast. Every room is equipped with
steam heat, hot and cold water, and telephone. Mrs. C. Baker, the proprietress,
whose charming personality and unfailing courtesy have gone far toward making the success that this hotel undoubtedly enjoys, is to be complimented on
her  foresight  and  management.
UP-TO-DATE   ROOMING   HOUSES.
Several new, up-to-date rooming houses,
with hot and cold water, have recently
been opened in Victoria. Among them
are the Tourist, in the Bannerman &
Home Building; the New Sylvester, in
the Sylvester Block on Yates Street,
near Douglas, and the Yates, at the corner of Yates and Broad Streets. These
are under the management of George
Geis, formerly with the Waldorf-Astoria,
New York City. These new rooming jjj|
houses fill a long-felt want in Victoria
BOOTH AND STAFF OF OPPORTUNITIES AT VANCOUVER EXHIBITION
From  left  to   right :   John   Squire,   Circulation   Department ;__A.  E.   Roberts,  Manager of
Exhibit; Miss Sampson, Secretary ; Herbert Welch, Managing Editor ;
F. S. Keith,  Publisher and Proprietor;  Hedley Rogers,  Advertising Manager.
The United Farmers of Alberta waited
upon Sir Wilfrid Laurier and petitioned
for a reduction in the tariff and for the
establishment of government owned and
operated terminal elevators at Victoria,
Vancouver and Prince Rupert. They also
urged a further development of shipping
facilities by way of the Pacific. Sir
Wilfrid gave assurances that he would
look into the matter.
MAPLE LEAF CLOTHES  DRIER
NECESSITIES   FOR  THE   HOME.
The ladies were much in evidence at
the demonstration of the Maple Leaf
Clothes Drier at the Exhibition. This
remarkable invention is a great boon
to housekeepers and will eventually be
found in every home.
It is fitted into any ordinary kitchen
ceiling. The attachment consists of an
ordinary socket inserted into the beam
of the ceiling. Into this socket is
screwed an iron rod and on this rod is
a wheel that can be raised and lowered
at will. Eight or sixteen basswood rods,
each four feet in length, can be inserted
into the wheel, and on these rods  are
hung the clothes so as to form a complete   circle.
It is undoubtedly the most simple, ingenious and useful clothes drier that
has been invented. The entire apparatus is fitted up in any home at a total
cost of $3 and can be purchased at the
Ronald McMaster Co., 2327 Granville St. Page 34
WONDERFUL   GAS   PRODUCING
MACHINE.
Received   Highest  Award   at   Vancouver
Exhibition.
One of the most up-to-date  and best
exhibits at the Vancouver Exhibition was
that of the firm of Piper & Co., of 1075
Granville  street,  which  is  organizing  a
big company to be called the British Gas
&  Light Company,  Limited, which  will
extensively exploit their remarkable gas-
OPPORTUNITIES
heating the water instantly. When you
have sufficient hot water you simply
turn the tap off, which at the same time
turns off the gas, so the only expense is
just when you use the' hot water.
One charge of the machine will last
about six months, so there is no worry
involved in watching for a leak in the
tank.
The gas machine is entered on the
permitted   list   issue   by  the   consulting
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house, home, church or building of any
kind. This machine is at once compact in size, and unlimited in the range
of their usefulness. It produces gas for
twenty-four cooking burners, a large gas
range, hot-water heater, and lighting for
a large building. It did not only do it
at the Exhibition, but has survived the
test of practical experience at the Alexandra Domestic School of Science. It is
an invention that must appeal particularly to the housewife or a keeper of any
large building. The machine means an
immense saving of expense in the matter
of lighting. For instance, where incandescent, electric or acetylene lamps
would cost 50 cents an hour, the gas
from this machine can be furnished at a
cost of about three cents an hour. And;
besides this, it actually gives a 1000 candle-power, while the more expensive system only corresponds to 800 candle-power.
In addition to this greatest virtue of
economy, this wonderful invention has
the advantage of being a great labor-
saver. It supplies gas to one of the most
marvelous water heaters that was ever
conceived, as well as to a beautiful gas
stove for cooking. All you have to do, if
you want a bath or hot water in any
part of your home, is just to turn the tap
and your hot water begins to flow
through  this   wonderful   water   heater,
engineer of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters in Class A.
There are three virtues attainable in
domestic arrangements, and these gas
burners and heaters possess all three.
These are safety, cleanliness and econ-
omy, but the greatest of these is economy.
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THE   PROBLEM   OF   DISTRIBUTION.
By Hugh Chalmers.
THE LATEST WATER HEATING INVENTION
The business problem before the American  people  to-day,  commercially  speaking,  is  the  problem  of  distribution—of
getting things  from  where they are to
where they ought to be.    The two big
factors in this  problem are advertising
and   salesmanship.    Now,   the   relationship between the two, in my opinion, is
the closest relationship it is possible to
have.    It is  closer than  a  team  under
a single yoke; it is closer than friends;
it  is   closer  than  brothers;     yes,  it  is
closer   than   the    relationship    between
man and wife, because there can never
be a separation or a divorce.    Advertising is salesmanship, and salesmanship is
advertising.    Every  ad.  is  a  salesman,
and every salesman is an ad.    There is
this difference:  advertising is salesmanship plus publicity;  salesmanship is advertising plus getting the order signed.
Advertising   creates   the   atmosphere   of
business, and the salesman follows and
takes the orders.    It is like a chemical
combination.    For instance, glycerine in
itself  is   perfectly   harmless,   but  combined with certain chemicals it forms one
of the most powerful explosives known.
The  same is true of salesmanship and
advertising, it takes brains to combine
them and nerve to set them off, but the
results  are  worth while.    A man says,
"My  business   is  so   thoroughly   established  I  do  not need  to  advertise  it."
It puts me in mind of a man with blue
goggles winking at a girl.    He knows he
is winking at the girl, but she doesn't.
Now the close relationship between the
two   is   most  noticeable   when   you  get
down  to   the   bedrock   of   business   and
find  out  what is  the  foundation  of  all
business.    The foundation of business is
confidence.     And   advertising   and   publicity are the greatest builders  of confidence known to the business man.   Big
advertising looks like big sales; it makes
the public familiar with the seller of the
goods and will create confidence in those
goods.    Some people mistake advertising
for merit.    Please bear in mind that advertising never added one dollar to the
merit of any article advertised.    Advertising merely telJs the merit; it does not
create   it.     Goods   must  have   merit  in
them to  sell, and they must also have
merit, when sold, to stay sold.    A sale
does not end nowadays with the making
ot it; it never ends as long as the man
is using the article you sell.   I think most
advertising   men   I   have   seen   who   do
things   realize   what   advertising   needs
most.
Through advertising we are enabled to
build up volume, and that volume enables us to cut expense, and the more
we are enabled to sell the more advertising we should do. 1910
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Page 35
The Financial Situation
As may be expected during the summer
months, there has been since June a
pause in the great business activity of
last spring. But the dullness is passing
with the summer. The autumn is bringing fresh vigor to commercial enterprise.
Money which has been used during the
warm months to harvest crops is already
beginning to flow back into the main
channels of circulation, and thus is again
becoming available for general investment. Until nearly the first of the year
this process of accumulation will continue, resulting in a steady increase in
the volumn of money at hand for the
launching and extension of commercial
enterprises. The signs of the business
stimulus which always comes in the
fall when times are normal, are now
numerous in Vancouver, particularly in
the fields of real estate and building.
The local financial situation is, of
course, dependent in considerable measure upon that throughout the Dominion
and that in the United States. This
situation has recently shown marked improvement. Because of drought upon
the Western plains, it was thought that
the crops, which are, of course, the basis
of prosperity, would be at least a partial
failure. These fears have not been realized. In many sections, particularly in
British Columbia, the harvest will be
abundant, and, speaking generally, the
crop in Western Canada will be good. It
has been estimated by experts, for example, that the grain production for the
three great wheat growing provinces of
Canada will amount this year to between eighty-five and ninety-five millions
of bushels.
A sustaining factor in the general financial situation has been the publication
of the annual report of the Canadian Pacific "Railway, showing gross revenues of
well over one hundred millions of dollars,
and the most profitable year in the history of this great corporation. It is to
be noted that other railway companies of
Canada are spending immense sums in
construction. A progressive movement
of this kind would not be in evidence
if the astute financiers who direct the
destinies of these companies had the
least anticipation of business depression.
The constantly growing activity in the
Vancouver stock market is reflected in
an  official statement to the  effect that
there were transactions during the last
fiscal year in 1,829,716 shares of stock
an increase of about 250 per cent over
the previous year.   There are indications
that the current year will show a mater
ial increase over these high figures. Mining progress has within a few months
been substantial. Numerous new strikes
have been reported, and companies are
preparing for more vigorous development
campaigns than they have yet instituted.
For several reasons, which may not be
detailed here, the market for the big
industrial securities in the financial centres has fallen this summer to low levels,
but there are no factors in the commercial situation which can long continue
to have a depressing effect. The general
feeling is one of buoyancy and optimism,
and there is every promise that the financial trend is upwards.
NORTHERN FARM LANDS
That twenty-five per cent, of northern
British Columbia is good agricultural land
is the opinion of George L. Brown of
Seattle and Quesnel. Mr. Brown has just
made a tour through the north country,
going in by way of Ashcroft to Quesnel,
Fort George, Hazelton, and the numerous
fertile valleys which separate and surround those places. He is enthusiastic
about the country and is of opinion that
there will be immense changes there
within a year. This year thousands of
people went in, but this is as nothing to
the number that will go next year, when
the railway is nearing completion, he
says., Mr. Brown brought out samples of
the grain, wheat, potatoes, tomatoes, and
other products of the country. They are
very fine and show that the possibilities
of agriculture are very great. Next year
Mr. Brown expects to pierce the Peace
River country, where there are still more
millions of acres of undeveloped lands.
JAMES ROY, WHOSE EFFICIENT WORK AS MANAGER WAS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR
IN THE SUCCESS OF VANCOUVER'S FIRSTlEXHIBITION Page 36
OPPORTUNITIES
1910
Railroad Construction in British Columbia
The best augury for the development
of a country is to be found in adequate
railway construction. The meaning of
the building of new lines and the extension of old ones is that the most
astute financiers are certain of the permanent character of the resources of the
territory through which they project the
steel trails. The fact that there is probably more activity in railroad construction in British Columbia than anywhere
else on the continent speaks for itself in
its bearing upon the continued development and future of this region.
next summer it will be running into
Hazelton. By the end of September the
piece of line between Winnipeg and Lake
Superior junction will be in operation,
giving a clear run from the prairies to
Port Arthur, in time to help carry out
the wheat crop. This will be a great
relief to the situation there, as, for a
number of years past, the traffic over the
C. P. R. has been badly blocked.
Kettle Valley Work.
Construction on the Kettle Valley railway, out of Merritt, is proceeding satisfactorily.   One of the big steam shovels,
made overtures to the government of
British Columbia for securing aid in the
construction of hundreds of miles of
branch lines in various parts of the province.    Premier McBride recently said:
"I have been in conference with Mr. D.
D. Mann, Vice-President of the Canadian
Northern relative to the extension of the
lines of the company on Vancouver
Island and the mainland of the province."
Of course it is essential that following the
completion of construction of the main
line of the railway it should have branches which may serve as traffic feeders.
TRACK LAYING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Grand Trunk Construction.
Before the year is out the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway will have trains running
into British Columbia at its eastern and
western boundaries, and the work will be
pushed from both ends until these meet
and make a through service from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The trains are
about to run through to Edson, the
divisional point 130 miles west of Edmonton, and by autumn they will probably
be operated as far as Jasper Park and
into the eastern confines of the province.
The railway will be operated for sixty
miles east of Prince Rupert this fall, and
Shipped 7 miles of pipe to Xatalla Oil
Fields—Amalgamated Development Company.     See   page   5.
with a capacity of 70 tons, is on the
ground. The donkey engines are at the
coast ready for shipment. A. V. McDonald, who was awarded the sub-contract
for the first ten miles of the road, has
withdrawn from the field, but his withdrawal has in no way affected the progress of the work. Sub-contracts have
been let for the different portions of the
line out as far as 10 miles. Just as soon
as the donkey engines and the rest of
the shovels arrive, the contractors say
they will take on all the men they can
get. "We will take 1000 men if we can
get them, because we want to get this
work through."
Provincial Aid to C. N. R.
The  Canadian  Northern  Railway  has
It is probable that in order to bring about
further development of various portions
of the province, through the furnishing
of transportation facilities, the government may consider the advisability of
lending such assistance to the railway
as will bring about the object desired.
"The Canadian Northern is desirous of
constructing an additional hundred miles
of line on Vancouver Island. Such an
extension there would mean building
from Alberni north to the northern end
of the island, a locality now unserved
by rail transportation. The company will
also build branches into the Okanagan
and Kootenay.   The question of granting
Oil in large quantities-
velopment  Co.,  pag-e   5.
-Amalgamated De- 1910
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Page 37
aid to the building of the branches and
extensions may be dealt with at the next
session of the legislature."
C. N. R. at Port Mann.
Preparatory work on the right-of-way
of the Canadian Northern railway south
of the Fraser River has now begun in
earnest,  and  clearing  gangs  have  been
the C. P. R. is well prepared to handle
it. The crop movement may be expected
to begin about the first of September."
C. P. R.'s Great Land Holdings.
Candaian Pacific is one of the largest
land holders in the world, says the Wall
Street Journal. Exclusive of the receipts
of the past fiscal year,  $66,610,000  has
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A  BULKLEY VALLEY FIELD
distributed between Port Mann and Port
Kells and other points along the valley.
The Johnston Construction company has
about 300 men at work "brushing" ana
clearing the townsite of Port Mann, and
it is understood that this force will be
augumented next week by a force of
several hundred men now being outfitted
in Seattle.
New route for Nimrods.
By the 15th of September or the 1st
of October at the outside, the E. & N.
railway company will inaugurate a
service over the Alberni extension as
far as Cameron Lake. This lake is one
which, thus far, has seldom been visited
by sportsmen habitually. A good number
have occasionally made an excursion that
far inland and always have returned with
glowing reports, not only of the fishing
to be secured, but of the plentitude of
small game. Therefore it is probable
that, with the new line in operation
about the time of the opening of the
shooting season, for a time at any rate,
the major portion of the travel will be
made up of nimrods.
Big Freight Tonnage.
;W. B. Lanigan, assistant freight traffic
manager of the C. P. R. says that the
freight tonnage of the railway in Western
Canada is growing steadily year by year,
being a striking index of the company's
development. In the Kootenay, the lumber tonnage this season is heavier than
usual, while the ore tonnage about maintains its position.
"There will be a considerable grain
crop to handle although not so large as
usual," says Mr. Lanigan, "and as usual
The only gllt-eclged, commercial oil proposition on the market, Amalgamated Development  Company,  page  5.
been received from the sale of parcels
of land out of the original grant of 25,-
000,000 acres, and of this amount, approximately $36,193,521 have been expended on the company's property, with the
result that fixed charges amount to only
$954 per mile. This compares with $1123
for the Great Northern, $2279 for Northern Pacific, and $2795 for Union Pacific.
Canadian pacific now holds notes
amounting to over $18,000,000, representing part payments on land. The interest
on these notes has enabled the company
to pay an extra dividend of 1 per cent,
since 1906, making the annual interest
rate 7 per cent.
it is conservatively estimated, $7,500,000
to the company's gross for the past fiscal
year.
The company is moving rapidly in the
midst of a large programme of extensions
and improvements. The total mileage,
projected is 635, of which 410 miles are
to be completed before the end of the
autumn of 1910. For next year and the
years succeeding it, it can be taken for
granted that as large, if not larger, programme of extensions will be undertaken.
Record Year for C. P. R.
Well over a hundred millions were the
figures issued recently by Vice-President
I. G. Ogden of the C. P. R.,giving the
earnings for June, the last month of the
financial year, and also the gross figures
for the whole year since July 1, 1909.
In every direction records were broken
and new high figures set, both in gross
earnings, net profits and working expenses. Gross earnings of the railway
proper for the twelve months were reported as $94,989,490 or nearer the
hundred million mark than ever before.
But railway earnings are a long way
from covering all activities of the company. It is estimated that the net earnings of the steamships and other services,
with dividends and interest securities
held, which last year amounted to
$3,500,000 will be far in excess of thai
sum. No statement of the gross earnings of the steamship service is issued
but boats make a good deal better than
ten per cent, profit. On this basis $30,
000,000 could be added as gross earnings
of the steamships and other outside services bringing the probable total takings
of the Canadian Pacific up to something
like $120,000,000 for the year.    This  is
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The company is regarded as one of the
most expert and extensive colonizers in
existence. It is the operator of a 3,000,-
000-acre farm, and the income from this
source, together with the revenue derived
from the operation of a fleet of steamers
on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and a
number of hotels* located along the line
from Montreal to Vancouver, contributed,
by far the greatest year in the company's
history and one which few of the transportation companies of the world can
compare with.
A  forfeit  of  $1,000   was  put  up   by  the
Amalgamated Development Company in
case their representations were not correct
in every particular. Three newspapers sent
representatives who report—better than represented.     See  page   5. Page 38
OPPORTUNITIES
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BULKLEY VALLEY
The arable land in the Bulkley Valley
covers an area approximately 100 miles
long and from one to ten miles wide.
The greater portion of this land is timbered lightly with poplars, while the remainder   is   timbered   with   spruce   and
black pine of medium size. The soil is
principally a black loam where the
poplars are found, and a sandy loam
among the black pine; almost invariably
the subsoil is clay. The first settlement
took place in the spring and summer of
1904, although some ten men had wintered
there in 1903-04.    In 1904 about twenty
pre-emptors took up land, built themselves cabins, and began preparing their
lands for cultivation. During the following years settlers kept coming in until
at the present time there are about 200
pre-emptors living in the valley, who with
their wives and families bring the population up to about 500.
MR. MERCHANT-
After dark,  YOUR WINDOWS, if properly dressed and LIGHTED, will play
an important part in building up NEW BUSINESS.
Let us supply you with OSRAM  TUNGSTEN LAMPS for this class of
Advertising.
B. C. ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED
P. O. Drawer 1580    Phone 1609 Cor. Fort and Langley Sts., VICTORIA, B. C.
Maple Leaf f?
Clothes Drier
ffl'HIS INVENTION solves the problem of drying clothes in wet
^^ or cold weather. You do not nave to hang them out. All
you do is screw a socket into the kitchen ceiling. Into the socket
you screw the centre rod and arms. When the clothes are ready
for drying, you pull down the rod and arms, hang on the clothes—
there is room tor a lot—and push up the rod out of your way again.
When the clothes are dried you take down the Drier and fold it up.
This is the new, expeditious, and pleasant way of drying
clothes.     The Drier costs $3.00 and is manufactured and sold hy
The Ronald
MacMaster Company
721 Robson Street
Vancouver, B. C. - Phone 5058
The Victoria Gulch Mines
comprise claims lying* between
the famous Bonanza and Eldor-
ado Creeks in theYukon.
These creeks have produced
$51,500,000.00 in Gold during
the past 14 years and the end is
not yet in sight.    All this gold
was eroded by natural processes
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and washed down into the Creek.
The Quartz Leads tfyat supplied the Gold are on the properties of the Victoria Gulcli Mines.
A Company to be capitalized at $1,000,000 is now being formed, to work  the quartz
leads that are literally studded with pure gold.
Come to l6o Hastings Street West and see samples of the quartz.    They are bristling
with bright e"old.
10,000 Shares
only will be sold at
50c per Share
10,000 Shares
only will be sold at
50c per Share
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10,000 Shares will be offered at 50 cents per share ; the par value of these shares will be $1.00 each, fully paid up and
non-assessable.    Watch the daily papers and read the advertisements.    No more than 10,000 shares will be sold at 50c each.
GET  IN   ON  THE!  GROUND   FLOOR   NOW
A. EL. GARVEY,   FISCAL AGENT
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VICTORIA, B. C.
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Certiflcates of incorporation have been
granted as follows: Be van, Gore & Elliot, Ltd., Capital, $250,000 in 100
shares of $1,000 each, and 150,000 of $1
each; Northern British Columbia Development company, capital, $25,000 in
shares of $50; Worswick Paving Co., capital, $25,000 in shares of $25; West Coast
Pishing & Curing Company, capital, $50,-
000 in shares of $100; Mouat Brothers,
limited, capital, $35,000 in shares of $100;
Bute Inlet Land company, capital, $100,-
000 in shares of $1; International Underwriters corporation, capital $250,000 in
shares of $10; Ashman Coal Mines, limited, capital, $1,000,000 in shares of $1;
the Comox Sawmill company, capital,
$25,000 in shares of $100; St. Patrick's
Hall company, limited, capital, $10,000 in
shares of $10; M. M. Stephens & Company, limited, capital, $50,000 in shares
of $100; Vancouver Artificial Stone &
Brick company, capital, $5,000 in shares
of $10 (the object is stated to be to acquire a knowledge of the secret processes and formula held by George F. Mc-
Cully on the terms of an agreement between him and J. Ross Archibald and to
carry on the business of manufacturing
artificial stone and brick in Vancouver);
Tucker & Co., limited, capital, $50,000 in
shares of $1; Farmers' Lumber Manufacturing company, capital, $100,000 in
shares of $10; Electric Water Heater
company, capital, $100,000 in shares of
$100; Ottertail Mining & Development
company, capital, $1,000,000 in shares of
$1; Hazelton Nine-mile Mining company,
capital, $1,000,000 in shares of $1; the
Penticton Herald Printing & Publishing
company, capital $100,000 in chares of $1.
The following have been licensed as
extra-provincial   companies:
The Princetown Coal & Land company; head office, London, Eng.; capital two hundred thousands pounds,
shares of one pound; attorney, Ernest
Waterman, Princetown, B. C.
Prince Rupert Coal Fields, limited;
head office, Montreal; capital, $5,000,000;
attorney, H. G. Lawson, Victoria.
The 41 Market company; head office,
Winnipeg; capital, $25,000; attorney, F.
C. Lawer,   barrister, Fernie.
The Glasgow Assurance company;
head office, Glasgow, Scotland; capital,
one hundred thousand pounds in shares
of one pound, attorneys, A. L. Tregent
and W. S. Holland, Vancouver.
The Western Supply & Equipment
company, limited; capital, $50,000; head
office, Lethbridge, Alta; attorney, W.
P.   Ogilvie,   solicitor,  Vancouver.
Fletcher Manufacturing company;
head office, Toronto; capital, $250,000;
Attorney, D. G. Marshall, barrister-at
law, Vancouver.
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REAL ESTATE 8
Fort George Lands
Room 9, 707><
YATES STREET
B.C.
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Hand-made  Goods a  Specialty
The most Lp-to-Datc Store
For Neckwear, Blouses, Underwear
and everything needful for
Infants   and   Children.
Phone R313
730 Yates St.     VICTORIA, B. C.
Hours 9 to 6 Phone 3351
JNO.    JACKSON
Scientific Chiropodist
Corns removed   without   pain,  Bunions,  Ingrowing
Nails,    Club   Nails,    Callouses,    Pedicuring,    Fetid
Odors  and Sweaty Feet successfully treated.
305 Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
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M. Inst. Mecb. E.
Notary Public
England
Cable Code: BEDFORD MACNEIL
Cable Address :   ' CRAS," Vancouver
Tel
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REAL ESTATE, TIMBER
MINES, GOAL LANDS
150,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.50
86,000 acres Ominica District, at per acre, $4.50
40,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.00
7,680 acres Powell lake, go miles from
Vancouver, at per acre $4.00
;,ooo acres Rupert District, Vancouver
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OPPORTUNITIES
1910
"Opportunities" Brokers' and Business Directory
Zbt progressive Brokerage, Tinancial and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia.
Phone  2900
A. E. AUSTIN & CO.
Real Estate and Insurance.
328   Granville   St.,   VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
T. B.  ANDERSON &  C.  CLAYTON
Real Estate
Phone 5913
!069 Granville St.    -   VANCOUVER, B.C.
E.   C.  B.  BAG-SEA WE  &  CO.
Real Estate and General Brokers
1112   Broad   St.,   Bownass   Building
'hone   2271       -       -       VICTORIA,   B.   C.
Phone 5726 P. O. Box 536
H.   BEEMAN
Specialist in Point Grey
221 Winch Bldg.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
B. C. TRUST CORPORATION
Bk.  B.  N.  A.  Bldg.,  VANCOUVER,  B.   C.
Phone  589
J. A. COLLINSON
Real Estate
Phone 4154
240a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.
CHAPPELi  &   BLAIR
Real Estate
Phone  4802
443   Pender   St.     -    VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
W.   W.  DRESSER
Insurance, Real Estate
Phone 3020
438 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
H. T. DEVINE  COMPANY, LIMITED
Real Estate, Loans and Insurance
.37 Seymour St.    -    VANCOUVER,  B. C.
Phone 1627
Phone 3628
DUTIIIE  & WISHART
Real Estate and Pinancial Agents
520 Pender St. W.      VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
W.   H.   ELLIS
Investment Broker
1122   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
M.  H.  FRANKLIN CO.
Real  Estate   Brokers
Acreage, Building Lots and Homes
Phone  970
449 Pender St.-      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
GODDARD  &  SON
Land Agents, Notaries
Phone 3202
329   Pender  St.     -     VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
Tel. 5852
GOODYEAR    &    MATHESON
Real   Estate   and   General   Brokers
06 Loo Building VANCOUVER,  B.  C
LEONARD & REID
Real Estate and Fire Insurance
Mining    Properties    in    Portland    Canal,
Hazelton and Queen Charlotte
Districts
PRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.
GRANVILLE   BROKERAGE   CO.
Real Estate, Insurance, Commission Agts,
Phone L4560
1017 Granville St.   -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
HARMAN & AFFLETON
Real Estate
534 Yates  Street      -      VICTORIA, B.  C.
Phone  1918
SAMUEL HARRISON  &  CO.
Brokers   and   Financial   Agents.     Agents
Stewart Land Co., Ltd.
Stewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.
HASLETT   &  WHITAKER
Real   Estate,   Timber,   Insurance
Phone 5807
Room 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
HEWLINGS & CO.
Real Estate, Timber, Etc.
Phone 1734
Room 4, 1109 Broad St.    VICTORIA, B. C.
HINKSON, SIDDALL & SON
Real Estate and Insurance
Phone  869
New Grand* Theatre Bldg.    1311 Gov't St.
VICTORIA,  B.  C.
T.  HODGSON
Real Estate and Insurance
Box   604 - NANAIMO,   B.   C.
ALFRED   M.   HOWELL
Customs  Broker,   Forwarding  Agent
Office—23    Promis    Block
Telephone   1501,   Res.    R 1671
1006   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
IMPERIAL   REALTY   CO.
Real   Estate   and  Insurance
307 Loo  Bldg.       -      VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
GEORGE  LEEK
Real Estate, Notary Public
Exchange Block   PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
W. F. Moncreiff P. E. Townshend
W.   F.   MONCREIFF   &   CO.
Real Estate and Financial Brokers
Room 304, Winch Bldg.      Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
MARRIOTT   &   FELLOWS
Real  Estate
Phone 1077
134 Hastings St.      -      VANCOUVER, B.C.
E.  S.  MORGAN
Industrial  Sites,  Waterfrontage   on  Bur-
rard Inlet, etc.
Suite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.
429 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone  5833.
W. O. Shrumm H. Lambert
THE   NATIONAL   REAL   ESTATE
Loans,  Insurance
Phone  6320
58  Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B.  C.
PATTULO   & RADFORD
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
P.O. Box 1535       PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.
Cable Address:    "Patrad"
C.   C.   PEMBERTON
Real Estate  and Notary Public
Room 11, 707% Yates St.     -     Phone 1711
VICTORIA, B. C.
CHAS.   L.   PARKER
Broker and Commission Agent
Suite  50-51,   429  Pender  St.
Phone  3859 -        VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
C.  ARTHUR  REA
Late of Brandon, Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc
Law   Chambers,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
ROYAL REALTY COMPANY
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
Phone  2394 Notary Public
616  Fort  St. - VICTORIA,  B.   C.
SHAW   REAL  ESTATE   CO.
City,   Timber,   Farm   and   Fruit   Lands
707% Yates Street     -     VICTORIA, B. C.
SMITH  &   SMITH
Real Estate and Commission Agents
P.O.   Box  41
J. H. Smith W. R.  Smith
4th  Ave. - - STEWART,   B.   C.
GEO. H. SMITH & ARTHUR JONES
Dealers  in Property in Vancouver,  New
Westminster and the Fraser Valley
P.   O.   Box   165 Phone   1743
F. H.  SEABROOK  &  CO.
Real  Estate   and   Timber
Phone 4043
316 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
VANCOUVER BROKERAGE,  LTD.
Real Estate and Loans
62 Hastings St. E.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
WESCOTT 8c LETTS
Real Estate and Insurance Agents
Room  3, Moody Block        -        Yates  St.
VICTORIA, B. C.
H. W. WINDLE
Real Estate Broker
Phone 5320
532 Granville St.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
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Res.: 3030 Quadra St.
Office Phone 2418
E. HENDERSON & CO.
Farms, Timber and Mines
FRUIT LANDS
711 Yates Street
Room 1, Sylvester Block
VICTORIA, B. C.
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The Capital City Realty Co.
REAL ESTATE
FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE AGENTS
618 Yates St.  Phone 2102   VICTORIA.B.C.
THERE   ARE   OPPORTUNITIES  IN   EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910
Lulu Island Snap
Ten acres on No. Six Road, now planked.
Will have water past the property this fall.
Property on both sides held at $300 an acre.
Who wants this at $250 per acre? It is the
best and safest investmeht you could make.
Box M, Opportunities Pub. Co.
Thousand Dollar Bonus
The man who secures this will have made
one thousand dollars as soon as the deal is
through. A ten-acre block situated east of
New Westminster with trackage and facing1
on government road. A beautiful piece of
property which will be worth $500 an acre
within a year. Surrounding acreage off the
road and without trackage now selling at $350
per acre. This for a quick sale at $250 per
acre; $1400 cash, balance over three years.
Box L, Opportunities Pub. Co.
SUMMER HOME
Here is a chance to secure a summer home
on the north arm of Burrard Inlet at a low
price. A 3-roomed cedar bungalow at Woodlands with a superb view overlooking the
entire inlet. Lot three-quarters of an acre.
Mountain water piped past the property.
Good boat service convenient for business
men. Ideal location. This is a genuine snap.
Price $1200; one half cash, balance over 2
years.    Address,
Box K, Opportunities Pub. Co.
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Real Estate, Insurance and Commission Agents
HORNBY STREET
Best  buy on this coming  street.     Full lot with  house,
close to Pender.     Price $15,000.     Easy terms.
CLARK DRIVE
33 feet, with small house rented at $8.00 per month, near
Harris Street.     Price $3,700.     Good terms.
GRANDVIEW
We have several lots in this district under market value.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
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1017 Granville Street
VANCOUVER, B. G
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or better still, if you can give us all
your time you can make a handsome
revenue with little difficulty. A card
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outline of our proposition, which is a
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follow deftly and with certainty. If your o
Eyesight is not what you think it ought \*
to be, call and have it tested properly.
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Eyesight Specialist X> Glasses Fitted
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BUILDING    DOCKS    AT    RUPERT.
Work on the construction of the Canadian Fish & Cold Storage Compony at
Prince Rupert has started. ___. scow load
of lumber and piling came up from Vancouver and the docks will be built immediately. Teredo-proof piling is being
used. The company is using the sawmill
docks temporarily for the unloading of
its material. It is reported from an inside authority that the Dominion Government intends to give a bonus of $300,000
to aid the company in erecting its big
works and establishing the fish packing
industry in the northern city. This information has not yet been made public,
but something of the kind is evidently
contemplated. It would be a big boost to
Prince Rupert industry.
DALLAS HOTEL
The only Seaside Hotel in the City
Fifteen minutes walk from P. O.
One minute's walk from street cars
With rapid development now in progress, the famous Fraser River Delta
gives every promise of becoming one of
the ricnest and most productive agricultural sections in Canada. Nature seems
to have designed the Delta for this end,
and man has obligingly placed big cities
within easy reach of it, so that the delta
farmer finds for his products a market
which is already great and is growing
constantly. One of those who perceives
most vividly the nature of this section is
James Armes of 1885 Hastings street,
Vancouver, who has concentrated with
careful and capable work upon the
Whonnock and Ruskin districts, and has
a list of small selected fruit and farm
lands which should be seen by all who
are awake to the opportunities here.
Prices range from $50.00 up.
VICTORIA, B. C
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We make a specialty of Business, Farm and Residential
Property.
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1214 Douglas Street P. 0. Box 316
VICTORIA, B. C.
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Many inquiries during the summer as
to Victoria real estate have been found
by the Royal Realty Company to be bearing fruit in sales at the present time.
There has been considerable activity in
residential, business and sub-division
properties, resulting evidently from the
fact that many persons who visited V^-
toria during the summer have decided
that real estate investment there is both
safe and profitable. The outlook for the
fall is  bright.
PANTCRIUM
Phone 1823    Renovating-
ed  and   Pressed for 50c.
Tailoring
Suits Spon
One trial will make you a regular customer.
I   313 Gamble St  Vancouver, B, C,   >
Changes of an important nature are
being effected in the Canadian end of the
business of the Pacific Cable company.
J. Milward, Australian manager, and A. S.
Baxendale, chairman of the London board,
have completed arrangements with the
Canadian Pacific Telegraph company to
lease a special wire from the latter in
order that there may be no break in
the Cable company's direct communication across this continent. The business
of the Pacific Cable company has increased in the last year or two at a
sensational rate and the present move
is considered a distinctly forward one in
the history of the organization.
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PH1LF0T & LANG
REAL ESTATE
TIMBER INSURANCE   _?
MONEY TO LOAN
Homes in all parts of the City
1403   DOMINION   TRUST   BUILDING
L Vancouver, B. C.
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VANCOUVER, B. C. j
Tfye Presbyterian College of tfye West'   *
Thorough training in all years
of the Theological Course.
Tutorial Department for men
preparing for Arts.   & &p &P
The most distinguished
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world lecture from time to time.
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You have a strop, and
may be a sore face.
Why not have a hone ?
The strop merely
smoothes the edge off
the razor, and in time
tends to thicken it, but
does not bring- it to a
fine cutting" edge.
A razor hone thins it
down.
Notice the "WIRE EDGE" breaking off the razor
when passing over the sharp edges of the holes.
First : Hone your razor, giving it five or six
strokes over the perforated surface.
Second. : Clean off your strop, and strop your
razor.
Third : Wash your face well, removing- any
dust or dirt that- may collect in the skin or
beard as well, it softens the beard ; then dry
your face and hands, for wet hands cannot
handle a razor.
Fourth: Rub the lather in well, then re-lather
and shave.
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Inventor and Sole Manufacturer of The Smith
Perforated Razor Hone.
THE SMITH RAZOR HONE CO.
838 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C.
Dear Sirs :
Please find enclosed $1.00, for which send me
prepaid,   one   Smith's   Perforated   Razor   Hone.
Name	
Address	
ROSENBERG VIEW
Blocks 2 and 3, District Lot 200
BEAUTIFUL view lots with southern slope, five minutes from Fraser Avenue and five
minutes from car when track is continued to connect with the Eburne-Westminster
line. The B. C. Electric Railway Company is under contract to go to Page Road in eight
months, and will probably make the other connection at the same time. We will guarantee
to clear and grade all lots, streets and lanes, leaving the property ready to build on.
There is   a   great   demand    now  for   cheap   property,   and   this   exactly   fills   the   bill.
LOTS $400 UP
Terms : $50 cash and $50 quarterly ; or one-quarter cash, balance 6, 12 and 18 months.
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Latimer, Ney &McTavish, Ltd.
Office Open Evenings        ^ I £ PeildeZ Stteet  W.,  ZJaiJCOUVeZ, B. C.
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OPPORTUNITIES
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THE PERMANENT
HAIR WAVE
y^W* ^a^es Your Hair as Beautiful as if
I Waved by Mother Nature
a?kHE Permanent Wave is new to Vancouver, but has attained great vogue
\*j in London, Paris and New York. In addition to its beautifying effect,
it benefits the hair. The wave is not destroyed, but is enhanced by
dampness and shampooing. Not for many months, until the hair grows
out, do you have to think of keeping it in wave. The wave is there, in
all its freshness and beauty. I have tested its durability carefully, and
have been charmed by the results. Now I am introducing it in Vancouver
with great success. It is one of the most scientific and satisfactory aids
to beauty yet devised, a real boon to women who desire to be attractive
at all times.
In considering the Wave, however, do not forget my LAUNDRY
FOR FACES, in which you can have your face washed in a wonderfully
cleansing and nourishing warm oil and ironed with a gently heated electric
iron, resulting in a freshening of the complexion which will arouse the
admiration of your friends.
Returning to the subject of hair, I desire to announce that on
Monday, October 3rd, I will begin a SALE OF HAIR GOODS of the best
qualities, in which each article will be sold at a reduction of twenty-five
per cent. At this sale you will find the best at the most reasonable prices.
If you can't call, write me a letter.
V&BBBBSS^&BSSEm
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MADAME   HUMPHREYS
The Largest, Most Up-to-date Establishment of its kind on the Pacific Coast
723 Pender Street, W.       the fairfield building      VANCOUVER, B. C.
^Plione looo
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PORT1MANN
As a Transcontinental  Terminus and great Sea Port,  is an  assured fact.
If.'      The CANADIAN   NORTHERN   Railway Co. have not only decided to
make PORT MANN their PACIFIC TERMINUS, but they are ACTUALLY BUILDING THE CITY.
We have, RIGHT IN THE TOWNSITE, One Acre Lots to 80 Acres. This is the best investment on
the market to-day. €][ We have a man on the ground who will show you the property, which includes a
number of good buys if taken at once.
H. P. LATHAM,
Manager National Finance Co., Ltd.,
657 Columbia Street, New Westminster, B. C.
Dear Sir:
Please forward me by return mail full particulars regarding the acreage you have for sale right in the townsite of Port Mann.
Name
Address
National Finance Company, Ltd.
H. P. Latham. Local Manager
657 Columbia Street, New Westminster, B. C.
New Westminster
Branch :
5^SSW?^«Be!i«3SMSr5aa^«*^!«Se=BBi^
Telephones 1193, R 4008 and 1,1533
Established 1888
MUTRIB & BROWN
MAKE   AND   SAVE   MONEY  for their Clients every day.   They have been doing this since 1888,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^=   and  have started thousands of Clients on the road to Fortune.
Real Estate Valuators.    Insurance,   Money to Loan.   Houses and Stores for Rent
Acreage,  Building Lots and Homes in any district you desire.    See our lists and prices before buying.
MUTRIE <fc BROWN
Room lO, 33G Hastings St. W,
Vancouver, \B. C.
^^^^£®m
Port Moody \ Acreage
WE HAVE 165 ACRES OF SPLENDID LAND.        NO RAVINES.        ONLY A SHORT
DISTANCE FROM THE WATER.
This will be worth a fortune in the near future, and can be bought VERY CHEAPLY NOW.
Call or phone us for price and terms.
The Cs NADU 1 INVESTMENT CO., Ltd.
BO Hastings St. W. ^        ^ phone 2790 Vancouver, B. Cm
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Fraser River Waterfrontage
DIRECTLY   OPPOSITE   CITY  OF
1     NEW WESTMINSTER
Contains 75 acres, and has about 2,300 feet
of Waterfrontage. There is deep water in
front of this property. We have exclusive
sale and can deliver at very reasonable price.
Pemberton Sf Son
32,6 Homer Street
Vancouver, B. C.
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WINDSOR   PARK
Adjoins the Future Centre of North Vancouver—Lies  in  the  vicinity  of  the  SECOND  NARROWS
BRIDGE and the IMPERIAL CAR WORKS.
PRICES: $125 for Inside Lots, $150 for Corners.
TERMS: $20 Cash, Balance $5 per Month
FOSTER & FISHER
TELEPHONE 6488 310 HASTINGS ST. W,, VANCOUVER, P. e.
OPEN EVENINGS
LYNN VIEW
57 ft. x 150 feet
Prices: $250, $275 and $325
Payable either
$100 down and  $100 a year or
$25 down and $25 quarterly or
$5 down and $5 per month
10 per cent discount given if all paid up in one year
ON THE  FROMME ROAD
NORTH VANCOUVER
SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
Vancouver, May 18th, 1910.
Part of D. L. 2004, Gt., N.W.D., North Vancouver.
I have surveyed this property and find it to be an
excellent parcel of land ; having- a southerly slope, good
view, and gravelly soil, which insures good drainage,
and is almost clear of brush. This property is in every
way a most desirable subdivision.
(Signed) Frank Sweatman, B.C.L.S.
The Merchants Trust & Trading Co. Ltd., Financial Agents
Cor. Pender and Burrard Sts., Vancouver       Telephone 2733
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Index to Advertisements
Alexander  &   McKay          38
Aulo\   Gwin   &   McClarty          35
Anderson & Clayton          40
Arnott,  G.  W.  & Co       37
Austin,   A.   E.   &   Co 38-40
British Gas & Light Co	
British  Empire  Insurance Co.
Brown   Realty   Co	
Bagshawe, E. C.  B. & Co.   ...
Baxter & Johnson Co., Ltd.  ..
Beeman,    H	
Bowman   &   Co	
Bullen  & Lamb   	
Canadian   Investment   Co.
Capital City Realty Co.   ...
"Cascade"   Beer   	
Chappell,   John   M	
Child,   E.   &   Co	
Collinson,   J.   A	
Croft   &   Ashby   	
Currie & Power  	
42
39
39
40
37
40
2
31
40
I
40
37
O I
Dallas   Hotel          34
Devine, H. T. & Co.,  Ltd       40
Dominion Stock & Bond Co       34
Dresser,   W.   W 38-40
Duthie  & Wishart          40
Edmonds,   W	
Elliot   (Mrs.)   J.   E.
Ellis,   W.   H	
Federal Investment Co.
Foster  &  Fisher   	
Franklin,   M.   H.   &   Co.
George,   G.   D	
Goddard,   H.   &   Son   ...
Goodyear   &   Matheson
Great West Light Co.   .
Grandy,  E. & Son 	
Granville  Brokerage  Co.
Harman   &   Appleton   ...
Harrison,  Samuel & Co.
Haslett  &  Whitaker
Harris & Co.,  R	
Henderson,   E.   &   Co.    ..
Hewlings   &   Co	
Hinkson,   Siddall   &   Son
Hodgson,    ±	
Holden,   William   	
Home   Estate   Co	
Howell,   Alt.   M	
Humphreys,    Madame
Imperial Realty Co.
Jackson,   Jno	
Kennedy   Bros.,   Ltd.
Leather Goods Co	
Leonard  &  Reid   	
Leek,   George   	
Lougheed & Coates   	
Latimer,  Ney  &  McTavish   	
41
40
6
40
8-40
40
34
40
41
40
40
40
7
40
40
40
40
40
33
40
4
40
37
25
40
40
31
Merchants Trust & Trading Co., Ltd...        6
Marriot   &   Fellows    40-43
Maysmith,   N.  B.   &  Co.,   Ltd       37
McLeod, John, & Co lajx cover
Mole   &   Keefer          38
Moncrieff   &   Co       40
Morgan,   E.   S       40
Morrison,   M.  G.   &  Co         7
McCoy,   Dr.   Earl   T  7
Mutrie   &   Brown            5
National  Finance  Co	
Naden  &   Co	
National  (The)  Real Estate Co.
North  Coast  Land  Co	
"Pantorium"    	
Parker,   Chas.   L	
Pattullo   &   Radford   	
Pemberton   &   Son   	
Pemberton,   C.   C	
Perry-Gordon   Mfg.   Co.   . ..
Plimley,   Thos	
Pitman's   Business   College
Philpot & Lang   	
"Portland"   (The),   Victoria
Potter,   J.  W	
Rea,    C.   Arthur
Royal  Realty   Co.
Ross  &  Shaw   ...
Seabrook,  F.  H.  &  Co	
Semple,  S.  N	
Smith   Razor   Hone   Co.    ...
Smith   &   Jones   	
Smith  &  Smith   	
Stanley   Park   Stables   	
Stevens, John T. Trust Co.
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7
40
39
34
40
40
6
40
29
37
37
40
40
41
40
40
40
Travelers   Hotel
Trounce,   L.  J.   .
Vancouver Brokerage,   Limited
Vancouver Trust  Co.,  Ltd.   ..,
40
27
Walker,   Henry   M         7
Ward,   Burmester  & von Graevenitz   ..      37
Westcot t   &   Letts          40
Western   Business   College          41
Windle,   H.    Vv 39-40
Woodworkers  (The),  Limited         39
Yates,   The    	
Young   &   Francey
61
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H. W. Philpot H. W. Lang   %
TELEPHONE 6604
PHILPOT & LANG
REAL ESTATE
TIMBER INSURANCE
MONEY TO LOAN
Homes in all parts of the <Jity   p
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Room 112 Carter-Cotton Bid.
Vancouver, B. C.
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Eyesight is not what you think it ought *'
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Fort George Lands
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VICTORIA, B. C.
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PORT MANN
IS  NOW  THE  BOOMING  PLACE
BE   WISE
AND FOLLOW THE CROWD
We can put you on to all the Best Snaps
as we know Surrey values If Send for
OUR FREE MAP of PORT MANN
and Price List of SPECIAL SNAPS
M. G. MORRISON &CO.
536 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B. C.
"Telephone   a7ao
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SHOW CARD WRITER
1210 Dominion Trust Building:
Phone 6748 VANCOUVER, B. C.
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Architect and Structural engineer
Reinforced  Concrete   a   Specialty
LaW-BCTLER BUILDING
PRINCE   RUPERT,   B.   6,
P. 0. B©X 271
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Mines, Stocks and Real Estate.    Farm Lands    ?
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HENRY M. WALKER
Contractor for Land Clearing, Stumping,
Blasting, Etc.
Office, 552 Barnard St., Vancouver, B. C
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OPPORTUNITIES ?
Well,  Yes.      Here's a bunch   of them.
If you want BIG  THINGS   we  have
\ 55 Acres on B* C* Electric near Port Mann*
J 60 Acres just back of Port Mann, close in*
27 Acres at South Westminster, close to B* C* E* R*
G* N- R- and C N* R-
These are great acreage and lot sub-division propositions, with big profits for investors at present prices.
Particulars on application.
Lots of good smaller acreage and lot propositions where prices are rapidly advancing.    Also valuable
water frontage near the city, and choice New Westminster City and District property.
KENNEDY BROTHERS, LiniTED
Successors to Hale Bros. & Kennedy, Limited
REAL ESTATE, TIMBER AND INSURANCE |
Phone 335
OVER MERCHANTS' BANK, MC\U U/CCTPIIMCTCn     O     n
COR. COLUMBIA AND BEQBIE STREETS 1> C W    W CO I 1 UrNO 1 CK,   t>.   C
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THE SOUTH VANCOUVER AND BURNABY SPECIALISTS
SOME OF THE
MOST DESERABLE
SUBURBAN LOTS
ARE ON
THIS ROUTE
CITY LIMITS TO CAR TERMINUS
■WHtttnnnuMtititiMriii
/^hoice residential lots. . . .$450 up
^ ar line frontage $40 foot up
Goddard & Son.321 Pender
Edmonia
tfojr .salo Ifjr
CLOSE TO
EDMUNDS AND
MUNICIPAL HALL
66ft. LOTS
$350 AND UP
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1910, AT 7.30
35 WORKING MEN'S LOTS
with City Water and Electric Light
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 1910
40 INVESTOR'S LOTS on the Westminster Rd.
Right in the line of Developments.
Buy Near!
The Coming f
University Suburb IH
M $50 Cash
Acreage: $1250
Hi per Acre and up
"THE PROPERTY MART"
P. 0. Box 674
321 PENDER ST.
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Vol. n.
HUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C, OCTOBER, 1910.
No. 4
A Metropolis in the Making
New Westminster, Western Canada's Great and only Fresh
Water Port, is a Centre of Opportunities
It would need considerable power of
expression to adequately describe the
great Fraser Valley and its metropolis.
The city is so situated that from almost
any street is presented a panorama of
snow - capped       mountains,      torrential
By Hedley Rogers
truly, is the "homeseeker's haven," and
an "investor's paradise." "Go West,
young man, and grow up with the country," is still live and wise advice in considering the country around New Westminster.     The   hills   and   dales   of   the
later re-christened New Westminster by
Queen Victoria, after her own birthplace.
Fourteen of the original sappers are
still alive, and reside in the district, together with a number of old settlers who
VIEW OF NEW WESTMINSTER EXHIBITION GROUNDS
streams, heavily timbered hills, expansive alluvial plains untouched by industry, yet offering homes for thousands,
and fertile islands stationed as sentinels
in the mighty Fraser as though endeavouring to thwart its progress toward
the long arm of the Pacific ocean, only
twelve miles distant, where, in the Gulf
of Georgia, the great river completes its
seven hundred miles' journey to the
sea.
The first fruit of an awakening to the
facts is a desire to tell the story. The
contemplation of myriads of our fellow
beings huddled in large cities and in
many portions of the Mother Land,
prompts one to ask the question, why?
when so many millions of virgin acres,
overflowing with natural wealth, await
the   coming   of   the   industrious.     Here,-
Fraser River, Western Canada's Father
of Waters, are ready to bestow bounties
upon millions  of  earnest  settlers.
The Founders.
New Westminster, which now has a
population of fifteen thousand, was established over fifty years ago by a contingent of sappers and miners in command of Colonel Moody, sent out by the
Imperial Government, at the time of the
first discovery of gold on the Fraser
River. Colonel Moody, after whom Port
Moody is named, mapped out the city
as it stands to-day, intending that the
town of Sapperton—a corruption of
Sappertown—now a suburb of the city,
should be the Capital of British Columbia. The name formally chosen for the
new  city was  Queensborough,  but was
"rounded the Horn" in those same old
days, when the white-winged fleets of
the sea had not yet yielded the palm
to the floating palaces and aquatic greyhounds   of  to-day.
Most of these pioneers are expected to
visit New Westminster Exhibition during the first week in October, 1910, as
they did the one last year. While sojourning in the important town they
founded, how appropriate it would De
for them to be given the freedom of the
city and entertained as guests of the
Civic  Fathers.
While most of the history of the
Fraser River Valley dates from New
Westminster's inception, yet the first
settlement was made almost one hundred years previously. The first portion   of   the   river   occupied   was   Port Page  10
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Langley, where the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post. They
also intended their site to be British
Columbia's  Capital.
Harbor Facilities.
The harbor facilities of New Westminster are exceptional. Forty miles of
waterfrontage are subsidiary to the city
and  all  the  wharves  have  sixty  feet  of
taken from a salt water harbor, after
only thirteen months' use, which is so
honeycombed as to take very little strain
to break it. As is well known, valuable
wharves have been destroyed in four
months by teredos. So small are they
that they will penetrate a pile through a
hole the size of the smallest needle-head,
and having once penetrated they develop
rapidly,  eating away the  wood  and  be-
FRASER RIVER BRIDGE|
«*■££
water. Even at the mouth of the river,
without harbor improvements, the
shallowest place is twenty-five feet deep.
With veryjittle expenditure on training-
walls and dredges, at present contemplated by the Provincial and Federal
Governments, the shallow place referred
to can easily be deepened sufficiently to
admit the largest ships. A dredge costing a quarter of a million dollars is already in operation and a million dollars
more has been appropriated for this
work by the Dominion Government. The
fresh water gives the harbor one of its
most interesting and valuable characteristics.
While only twelve miles from the sea,
the mighty volume of water flowing for
seven hundred miles from the Rocky
Mountains renders the river so fresh
and cool that all barnacles and other
devastating molluscs of the sea are
cleansed from the bottom of the ships
in a few hours, thus saving large sums
in dry-docking and scraping. Also in
wharf construction and the building of
warehouses, New Westminster harbor
enjoys a freedom from such pests as the
teredos or ship worms, which are parasites notorious for the destruction they
cause by perforating submerged wood.
The "New Westminster Courier,"
quoting Mr. W. A. Gilley, an expert on
this subject, says that specimens of piles
taken from the Fraser on view in Mr.
Gilley's office, show these piles to be
as good as when sunk beneath the waters
nearly a quarter of a century ago. Beside   them   on   exhibition,   is   a   sample
coming as large as a man's finger, with
the appearance of a fresh-water clam.
Nothing so far has been discovered
capable of giving immunity from the attacks of this salt-water scourge, and
therefore the site of his wharves and
warehouse's, becomes a vital question for
the shipper and merchant. He cannot
afford to overlook the advantages of
wharfage in a deep fresh-water harbor
like  that  of  New  Westminster.
Industries.
It is difficult to name the most important   industry   in   the   New   Westminster
district. Fishing, lumbering, manufacturing, fruit growing, horticulture, and
the larger phases of agriculture, are all
of great importance.
Fishing.
The world-wide fame achieved by the
Fraser River salmon perhaps justifies
primarily mention of the fish industry.
At the numerous canneries at New Westminster and adjoining towns, salmon
packing has become a fine art. The
commercial fishing for rainbow market
trout, halibut, and sturgeon are hardly
less   important  industries.
Lumbering.
The available lumbering timber in the
Fraser River district is three billion
feet. In one year the mills at and near
the city cut thirty million feet of lumber, exclusive of laths and shingles. One
mill alone cuts as many as three hundred
and forty thousand feet in a ten-hour
day. Naturally, with raw material of
such immensity and with excellent transportation facilities, extensive allied industries  have  developed.
Agriculture.
The New Westminster country has
been correctly called the agricultural
centre of British Columbia. The equable
and moist climate, resulting from the
balmy influences of the Japan current,
and the exceptionally fertile alluvial flats
and islands and sloping highland forest-
lands with a southern exposure along the
river, together create ideal conditions for
the propagation of various kinds of farm
produce, also for dairy and poultry
farming and stock raising. With
proper care, excellent crops of wheat,
oats, hops, most kinds of vegetables,
peaches, apples, apricots, and berries,
may be secured. The New Westminster district covers an area of five mil-
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lion acres, and at least one million acres
is   rich   agricultural   land.
The British Columbia Investor gives
the following particulars as obtained
from a Delta, New Westminster district,
farmer: In 1907, from one and three-
quarter acres of onions, eighteen tons
were sold, netting $1,080; in 1908, from
one and one-quarter acres sixteen tons
were raised and sold for $960. In 1908
seven acres of land produced fifty-six
and one-half tons of potatoes, the
lowest price realized was $30 a ton. On
the next farm the crop was twenty-four
tons to the acre, selling at $25 per ton.
Sixty acres of oats yielded one hundred
and fifteen bushels an acre. This is by
no means an uncommon yield. In Surrey, Mr. Wickersham raised one hundred
and fourteen tons of turnips per acre,
for which he realized $6 per ton. Mr.
Pearson, of New Westminster, gives
the   following:  items   of  interest   to   the
the men in this valley," said W. J. Kerr,
"who have 'push,' 'go,' 'ginger,' 'savvy,'
men who will go to it and hustle as they
never hustled before to achieve a man's
position, to have their own roof over
their heads and be able to stroll a few
minutes around their domiciles without
being on some other fellow's land. Incomes of $3,000 a year up await such men
according to the amount of land they
will tackle. Have you the above qualities?"
Market for the Small Farmer.
Though many large cities are within a
few hours' travel, yet in New Westminster an excellent market is afforded
the producer. A well equipped modern
city market is owned by the municipality.
On Friday all roads lead to this excellent institution. Before dawn on market
days all the trains, and steamboats, and
hundreds of wagons and buggies are
crowded with farmers, fruit growers, and
Sport  and   Athletics.
To assure the development of a sturdy
race mentally and physically, it is well
recognized in New Westminster that
work must not be made a drudgery.. In
the now famous and beautiful Queen's
Park and other grounds of recreation,
there are ample facilities for healthful
sports. Here is the home of the lacrosse
team, which for two years has held the
championship of the world. It is stated
that no other game requires more self-
control, fertilitiy of mind, and quickr-
cf the eye and body. Shooting, boatinrr
and fishing are unexcelled. Pheasants,
grouse, English partridge, ducks and
snipe abound. Also are to be found deer,
bears,  wildcat,  beaver  and mink.
Life   Out Doors.
For summer campers ideal conditions
prevail. For those who prefer the fresh
""water, there are, along the banks of the
NEW WESTMINSTER FROM THE HARBOR
fruit grower: A Spy apple tree yields
from $15 to $25 a year. One man alone
shipped forty thousand pounds of rhubarb to the North-West at two cents a
pound, which gave him a yield of over
$1,000 per acre. Early vegtables are far
short of the demand, and are marketable from one to two months earlier in
the Fraser Valley than in any other part
of Canada.
The Haven of the Homeseeker.
For the man with small means there
are excellent opportunities in this district to emancipate himself and family
from the thraldom of thickly populated
Centres, where nothing but starvation
wages prevail. The opportunities and
the kind of men needed are well described in an article taken from the New Westminster Courier, as  follows:  "We  need
produce dealers "bringing in their
sheaves." Many have held their
stands for years. Here the producer and
the consumer get together for their mutual good.
Education.
In the public schools, colleges and
seminaries of high repute, the New
Westminster district is well equipped.
This year one college has ninety-four
resident students, with a faculty of ten
professors. While Mayor Lee and other
officials of the Board of Trade have
made a strong fight for the location of
the University of British Columbia in
New Westminster, they have also, regardless of the ultimate location of the
University, vigorously recommended
that provision be made for advanced
study in forestry, mining, music, horticulture and fish culture.
Fraser and its tributaries, the Pitt, the
Stave and smaller streams, beautiful
camping grounds, with the giant pines,
cedars and firs overhead and rapid
streams at one's feet. For those who
would rather inhale the balmy breezes
of the Pacific and bathe in the salt
waters of the Gulf of Georgia, a journey of only seven miles is necessary.
With oyster beds close by, Blackie Spit,
White Rock Beach, arid Boundary Bay
vie with each other as pleasure resorts.
Opportunities for the  Investor and
Manufacturer.
A return to cold facts of interest to
capitalists is necessary. Although $55,-
000,000 of gold has been mined from the
Fraser Valley, the mineral wealth i-^
merely scratched. In the selection of
shipping   and   industrial    -ites    there   is Page 12
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every opportunity to get in on the
ground floor. For the manufacture of
everything from a needle to a battleship,
every facility is at hand. Palatial river
boats ply regularly up and down the
Fraser and its tributaries. Ocean vessels from all parts of the world have
easy access, making practical connections with several transcontinental railroads. The Canadian Northern Railway
Company have selected on the shores
of the river opposite New Westminster,
and connected with the city by a million dollar double-decked steel bridge,
the townsite of Port Mann for their
transcontinental terminal. Hundreds of
men are busy performing the initial
work of building what will soon be a
magnificent shipping port, where a
colossal trade will be developed with
Asia, and with the vast and wealthy
continent and islands of the Antipodes.
Good Citizenship.
Like   most   communities,   New   Westminster has  had  conflicts  in her  public
British Columbia. With his staff of assistants he has everything in readiness
for the forty-fourth annual exhibition of
the Society to be opened at Queen's Park
on the 4th of October, 1910. This exhibition is expected to eclipse all that have
preceded   it.
Mayor John A. Lee is a merchant of
long standing and high reputation. He
is at present head of Lees, Ltd., a wholesale and retail furniture house. In politics he is a Conservative. Having been
recognized by the party for years as a
man of ability, he was eventually elected
president of the local association. As
vice-president and later president of the
Board of Trade he did much for the
commercial and general interests of the
people. In his high office of chief magistrate he has proved himself a strong
man and a capable administrator. His
opposition to the Coquitlam dam will
last only until he is assured of the maintenance of the purity of the city water
supply,, and the absolute security of life
the resources of nature for civilization.
They are seeking the first requisites,
namely, men and money. Mr. Stuart-
Wade's pioneer experience on a journey
overland into the Yukon by the Edmonton route during the first rush into the
Klondike as a travelling correspondent;
as immigration commissioner for British
settlers in Alberta; and for five years as
a magistrate at Edmonton, besides many
years of public work in England, has
well prepared him for the splendid work
he is doing in the interest of New Westminster and the Fraser Valley generally.
One of his chief achievenients was the
establishment of an association of
Boards of Trade of the various municipalities of the Fraser Valley. Soon after
his appointment to the secretaryship of
"the New Westminster Board of Trade
in March, 1909, he announced his desire
to make a greater New Westminster by
associating the city with the surrounding
district and by identifying the interests
of the entire Fraser Valley with those of
New Westminster.    As a result, boards
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organizations. But these, as is often the
case, have been conducive to the public
good. The writer regrets a lack of personal acquaintance with most of the
men whose good citizenship has accomplished so much for the advancement of
the community. Suffice it to say that
an acquaintance with a few, who are now
before the public, is enough to convince
one that the city possesses men of industry and integrity, who should command the respect, assistance and gratitude of all good citizens. The fact that
W. H. Keary has been elected eight
times to the highest office is sufficient
evidence that he has done much in the
years that have passed, that the voters
have been appreciative and have given
honor to whom honor is due. While
having given place to a younger man,
Mr. Keary is still honored with the management of one of the most important
public organizations, namely, The Royal
Agricultural   and   Industrial   Society   of
NEW WESTMINSTER SHIPPING
from  such  a  structure  as  a  dam  rising
to a height of 75 feet.
New Westminster's  Publicity  Commissioner.
New Westminster was fortunate in securing as publicity commissioner and
also as the secretary of the Board of
Trade, Charles Henry Stuart-Wade, F.
R. G. S., J. P. In view of the increased
activity of publicity organizations in
Western Canada and the approaching
completion of the Panama Canal, our
friends to the south are feverishly
strengthening their publicity campaigns.
With millions of money they are flooding the world with literature, intending
to stop the great flow of capital and people in our direction. Our own publicity
men need encouragement and support.
They are our salesmen. Of what use are
our natural resources if we are unable to
procure means to develop them? Publicity men form the vanguard in the army
of men and women who are developing
of trade were formed by him in the
municipalities of Surrey, Richmond-
Point Grey, Maple Ridge, Matsqui-
Sumas, Delta, Burnaby, South Vancouver, Mission, Chilliwack City, Lang-
ley and Coquitlam. The area is
sixty miles long and approximately sixteen miles wide. Each of these boards
has achieved valuable results, important
to the district which they cover, in the
way of reduction of freight and passenger rates, improvement of roads, and
various other matters.
The success attained locally has inspired Secretary Stuart-Wade to bring
closer the association of the various districts. A plan has been submitted by
him to each municipality mentioned for
the formation of a New Westminster and
Fraser Valley Development Federation,
which will not be confined or restricted
to membership in any board of trade but
will be open to all individuals and associations. 1910
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The Horse Triumphant
A Great Breeding Industry is Starting in British Columbia, Which has the
Finest Horse Show in Canada ^
By Samuel L. Howe, President Vancouver Horse Show Association
One of the most significant factors in
British Columbia life is the horse. The
rise of our equine friend to his present
conspicuous position in the Province bespeaks the prosperity of our people, and
their   zest  for  wholesome   outdoor   life.
every authority to be superior to all
others in Canada, and to all in the United States, with the single exception of
the autumn horse show at Madison
Square Garden in New York City. In
one   respect   even  the   New  York  show
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More than this, the horse presents a rich
opportunity for the development of a
British Columbia breeding industry
which has already had such an auspicious beginning that it gives high promise of becoming celebrated throughout
the world.
This promise, which is practically sure
of realization, is based upon ideal conditions for breeding here, and upon a
remarkable enthusiasm for the horse—
an enthusiasrii which has received striking manifestations at the Vancouver
Horse Shows. At the last show, held
in April, it will be remembered that citizens of Vancouver and visitors were so
eager to obtain boxes, at $65 each, before the opening of the sale, some of
these prospective purchasers waited all
night on the line before the ticket office
in order that they might be sure of obtaining a box before all were taken.
This public support, combined with the
zealous Work of the directors of the
Horse Show Association, resulted in an
exhibition which may be regarded as
almost a miracle  of achievement.
Though  it  was   only  the  third   horse
show ever held here, it was declared by
was surpassed. We had more classes of
horses entered. While the general average in quality was slightly superior at
Madison Square Garden, it must not be
forgotten that the show there has been
a national institution in the United
States for many years, has an immense
territory to draw upon for its horses,
and is backed by a great many millions
of dollars. In view of these facts the
nearly equal merit of a show in its third
year may be considered little short of
phenpmenal.
The rapidity of this development is
unprecedented in the history of horse
shows, and marks British Columbia, potentially, as the greatest horse country
in the world. While the Vancouver
show is naturally larger and more complete than those in other sections of the
Province, the exhibitions at Victoria,
New Westminster, North Vancouver,
and other centres are doing much to foster the British Columbia horse. I believe that within ten or fifteen years this
Province will become a more important
horse breeding centre than any other
part of the North American Continent,
and will even outstrip England and Scotland in this important industry. Instead
of importing $60,000 worth of high bred
horses, as we have done within a year,
we will export animals of the best
classes.
While our horse shows advance the
social spirit, and are a source of keen
pleasure both to the exhibitor and the
spectator, the basic reason for the existence of these exhibitions may be found
in the stimulus they give to breeding.
The ring is a centre of friendly rivalry
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THE UNBEATEN CHAMPION HEAVY DRAUGHT TEAM OF ALL CANADA
and competition. The horseman notes
carefully the points of an animal which
wins a blue ribbon, and in his own
horses endeavors to duplicate the features which have been pronounced by
the judges to be most desirable in horse
flesh. Thus the general standard is improved.
In addition to the stimulus of the enthusiasm   of  the   public   and  the  rivalry
of  the  exhibitors,  our  association  gives
the   very     practical     encouragement   of
cash prizes.      Some of the owners have
won   so  many   cups   and   other   trophies
that they hardly know what to do with
them.    They welcome   a  change  in  the
form   of   prize,   and   naturally   have   no
objection, no matter how well to do they
may be, to any partial return that may
be forthcoming from their heavy expenditures   for   their   horses.     At   the   last
show money prizes amounting to $8,000,
of which $3,000 went to breeders, were
given,   and   proved   a   distinct   incentive
to horse owners.    Another factor which
has   played   a   considerable   part   in   the
success, of  the  Vancouver  show is  seen
in   the.3rhorse   show   building,   which   is
the   result   of  very   careful   planning   on
the part of architects and the directors
of   the   association,   and   is   one   of   the
most     attractive, e and   conveniently  arranged   structures   of   its   kind   on   the
Continent.    These various elements have
given horse breeding in the Province the
impetus  which  is  resulting in  a- steady
development  toward  the  great future  I
have already indicated.
But horse shows and the enthusiasm
of the people would avail but little without the right conditions for breeding. In
many   parts   of   British   Columbia,   and
particularly on Vancouver Island, the
conditions leave nothing to be desired.
There are wide ranges, a great abundance
of rich grass, and a climate so mild that
for the greater part of the year horses
can be left out of doors, and thus be
given the benefit of the free exercise and
bracing atmosphere which are so conducive to full growth and high spirits in
a horse. Moreover, the fact that the
breeder can let his animals roam through
big pastures and feed where they will
for so much of the time, makes breeding
here more economical than it is in many
other  sections.
Thus it is that the British Columbia
breeding industry, while yet in its infancy, is developing so auspiciously that
in a very few years our breeders will be
able to supply not only the steadily
growing home demand for fine horses,
but will have plenty left for export to
the various parts of the Continent, where
the British Columbia horse will be regarded  as   the  best  of  his  kind.
-Breeders here are giving much atten-
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Canada's Great Horse Show
IMPORTED HACKNEY MARE
tion to the hackney, and I am confident
that the British Columbia breed of this
splendid animal will become far famed.
This is likewise true of the thoroughbred, which, as a saddle horse, gives our
horsemen and horsewomen so much
pleasure on the beautiful roads of Vancouver, Victoria and other cities. The
standard bred animal and other horses
of the best classes will also be developed here to a high degree of excellence. A
special word must be said for the
draught horse, which has already done
much for the reputation of British Columbia animals. As is well known, a
team of this type which has won the blue
ribbon throughout Canada may be seen
daily in Vancouver streets. The draught
horse is commanding great attention on
the part of breeders because of the prominence it has already obtained in this
vicinity, and because breeding of fine
horses for heavy work is highly profitable.
In conclusion I may say that the British Columbia horse stands for remarkable achievements and for even greater
promise. His high place in the estimation  of  the   people   of   the   Province   is
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partly due, perhaps, to the fact that his
physical beauty and fine energy are in
a sense representative of the eager British Columbia spirit.
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or phone 6730.
That successful institutions are a product of slow growth, would seem to be
disproved by the remarkable achievements of the Vancouver Horse Show
Association within the brief period of
three years. Yet the seeds were sown
long before the Association was born.
They were planted many years ago,
when horsemen of New Westminster
established the first horse show in the
Province. Little by little, by shows in
various sections which have increased
the interest in the horse, the enthusiasm
for this friend of man has been developed until it has born impressive fruit in
the Vancouver shows. These by no
means are local to Vancouver. Their
remarkable success is due to a general
movement throughout the Province.
They are representative of the progress
more earnest. A chance idea and a
chance remark had begun to blossom
into an institution, which, as it has developed, has already given keen pleasure
to many thousands of people, has become famous among owners of horses
of high class on this Continent, has put
manifold activities into motion, and promises, in the impetus it has given to
horse breeding, the establishment of an
industry which will become celebrated
everywhere.
When the small group of horsemen at
the Burnaby fair formulated the plan for
a horse show in Vancouver, it was too
late for an exhibition that season, but
on the tenth of March, 1908, in the Drill
Hall, Vancouver's first horse show was
opened to the public.
Compared with the two exhibitions
which   followed,   it   was,   of   course,    a
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of all British Columbia in her forward
strides toward great achievement in
many directions. The specific beginning
of the Vancouver Horse Show Association was a small one. Its time was early
in October, three years ago, and its place
was the agricultural fair of the Richmond Municipality at Burnaby. A party
of horse enthusiasts of Vancouver went
to this fair for a little outing in the country. They were without thought of anything more important than the enjoyment of a picnic. But the horse program
at the exhibition caused a seedling idea
to sprout in the mind of one of them.
"It would be a good thing," he remarked causally, "to have a horse show in
Vancouver."
It would be an excellent thing, the
others agreed, and then and there a discussion of ways and means began. As
the  talk went  on  it  became  more  and
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meager show, but it aroused the enthusiasm of the crowds that thronged
the hall. It brought to light more
strongly than ever before the wonderful
interest in the horse in the Province. It
seemed to be just the kind of robust recreation the public most desired, and
was so successful in all respects that the
prime movers in the project realized that
the only thing to do was to establish an
annual horse show, and to organize a
horse show association. This was done
during the early summer of 1908, and
the original directors were: H. W.
Kent, A. L. Russell, W. S. Holland, C.
R. Gilbert and Thos. Tees. At the first
meeting S. L. Howe was elected president of the Association, and because he
enjoys the confidence of all the horsemen in the Province he has since held
this office.
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and other expenses was now taken up.
The City Council was asked to vote one
thousand dollars for this purpose, and
finally made an appropriation of seven
hundred and fifty dollars. It had been
decided, however, that ten thousand dollars would be needed. Pessimists began to loom up, doubtful persons who
declared that it would be impossible to
raise ten thousand dollars for a horse
show building.
"I'll prove that you are wrong," said
Mr. W. S. Holland, with characteristic
vigor. In two afternoons he obtained
pledges for nearly six thousand dollars.
Illustrating the old adage that nothing
succeeds like success, things began to
move. Men who had hesitated now affixed their signatures to agreements to
subscribe for stock. The. sum determined
upon was obtained with a promptness
which astonished the lethargic and sceptical ones who had gone amiss in their
appraisal of the British Columbia spirit.
The association was now in a position to
consider the matter of a building.    The
expected when high-bred horses are on
parade before society. The people of
Vancouver and visitors to the city gave
vent to expressions of admiration. They
realized that the proudest horses on the
continent had at last a true setting in
Vancouver for their grace and beauty,
that society had acquired a new function
of much importance, that Vancouver,
with the annual show in this building,
would make big strides toward that fashionable aplomb which lends sparkle to
metropolitan   social   life.
•Those who had ever been in Madison
Square Garden in New York City during
the brilliant horse show week, noted a
similarity in the gay atmosphere of the
Vancouver show. Fashion was much
in evidence, but unlike the state of affairs so conspicuous in the New York
shows, the fair ladies in beautiful costumes did not obscure the horse. There
is too sincere an interest in him here,
and the spirit of British Columbia is too
virile for any such perversion of the true
purpose, of horse shows.    Yet not to be
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architects were asked to submit plans,
and night after night for nearly six
months the directors' discussed and
amended these. At last the award was
made. But in the meantime financial
support for the movement had become
so strong that instead of a light shed
costing ten thousand dollars, the adopted plan called for an edifice involving an
expenditure of between fifty and sixty
thousand dollars.
The first spadeful of earth was turned
on January ist, 1909, and construction
was pushed with increasing speed as
the time approached for the horse show
in April. A day or two before the opening the building was still without a roof,
but the carpenters worked all night, and.
when the doors were thrown open for
the second annual show, the people who
thronged in saw a spacious interior,
containing many tiers of seats and a big
arena over which hung hundreds of brilliant flags. The whole aspect was one
of  the   gaiety   and   smartness   which  is
seen at the Vancouver show was to argue
yourself socially unknown. This exhibition was so great that it is proper to
name the gentlemen who were chiefly
responsible for it. They were: S. L.
Howe, D. Burns, Victor Spencer, H. S.
Rolston, H. W. Kent, W. S. Holland,
Thos. Tees, E. R. Ricketts, T. L. Smith,
D. C. McGregor, James Fullerton, F. S.
Tingley, A. L. Russell, C. R. Gilbert, and
Charles   Lewis.
As the time for the horse show last
April approached the public became
more and more keen in their anticipation. Vancouver took on a distinctively
horse show atmosphere. Gay flags and
bunting appeared in shop windows. The
horse, for the time, was king. On the
evening before the opening of the show,
a crowd assembled outside of the horse
show building, and many persons waited
throughout the night on a line before the
ticket office, so determined were they to
obtain boxes before all were taken.
With the growth of the population of
British Columbia, and the spread of the
fame of the Vancouver Horse Show, the
exhibition scheduled for next April will
be even finer than those already held,
and even greater will be the desire to see
and be seen as the horses go through
their paces beneath the gayly festooried
flags. In the meantime the Assodta-gbn
will hold the regular annual meeting in
November of this year. There will be a
few changes in the personnel of officers
and directors. Since these are the gentlemen to whose efforts is due the remarkable success of the Vancouver shows, and
who are also representative horsemen of British Columbia, it is interesting to name them. They are: President.
S. L. Howe; first vice-president, H. W.
Kent; second vice-president, D. C. McGregor; treasurer, Chas. R. Gilbert;
managing director, D. Thos. Tees; directors, D. Burns, J. A. Fullerton, E. R.
Ricketts, E. W. Rounsefell, J. A. Russell,
J. G. Woods, A. H. Wallbridge, F. C.
Tingley, Victor Spencer, T. J. Smith,
honorary vice-presidents: H. Abbott,
Vancouver, B. C; W. A. Anderson,
Agassiz, B. C; J. S. Baker, Tacoma,
Wash.; H. Bonsall, Chemainus, B. C;
Dr. Boyce, Kelowna, B. C; John W.
Considine, Seattle, Wash.; A. L. Coote,
Chilliwack, B. C.; A. M. Cronin, president Hunt Club, Portland, Ore.; Harry
Corbett, Portland, Ore.; Alex. Davies,
Ladner, B. C.; C. S. Douglas, Vancouver, B. C; Hon. Price Ellison, M. P. P.,
Vernon, B. C; A. Evans, Chilliwack, B.
C; J. D. Farrell, Seattle, Wash.; G. V.
Fraser, Chilliwack, B. C; D. E. Frederick, Seattle, Wash.; Archie R. Galbraith,
Greenacres, Wash.; G. E. Goddard,
Cochrane, Alta.; J. B. Graves, Douglas
Lake, B. C.; Thos. Griffiths, Spokane,
Wash.; Geo. H. Hadwin, Duncan, B. C;
J. R. Hull, Kamloops, B. C; Frank Jackson, Quilichena, B. C; Andrew Laidlaw,
Spokane, Wash.; F. W. Leadbetter,
Portland, Ore.; J. A. Mitchell, Victoria,
B. C; Duncan Montgomery, Port Gui-
chon, B. C; T. S. McGrath, Portland,
Ore.; D. E. McKay, Eburne, B. C; S. R.
Oneal, Vancouver, B. C; A. D. Pater-
son, Ladner, B. C; F. S. Roper, Cherry
Creek, B. C; Geo. Sangster, Sidney, B.
C; S. H. Shannon, Cloverdale, B. C.; L.
W. Shatford, M. P. P., Penticton, B. C;
J. J. Sparrow, Abbottsford, B. C; Joseph
Steves, Steveston, B. C.; Joseph Tam-
boline, Westham Island, B. C; Louis D.
Taylor, Mayor of Vancouver, B. C; W.
J. Taylor, Victoria, B. C; S. Tingley,
Ashcroft, B. C; Joseph Thompson,
Sardis, B. C.; T. J. Trapp, New Westminster, B. C.; H. W. Treat, Seattle,
Wash.; H. M. Vasey, Kamloops, 3. C,
Captain Watson, 108-mile House, Cariboo, B. C; Ed. A. Wells, Chilliwack, B.
C; A. Welsh, New Westminster, B. C;
Irving H. Wheatcroft, Providence, Ky.;
J. H. Wilkinson, Chilliwack, B. C;
Claude Wilson, Chilcoten, B. C. 1910
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Women's Work for the Common Good
The Women's Councils are Doing Much to Promote Social Progress
in British Columbia and the Dominion
By Alice Townley
Perhaps in no particular is the tendency to a wider outlook on the part of
women shown more strikingly than in
the evolution of those columns in publications devoted to reading matter especially  intended  to  interest  women.
"Of Interest to Women," a few years
ago usually entitled a page wherein a
reader might confidently expect to find
articles dealing with frills and fashions,
manicuring and hairdressing—manifold
and curious directions regarding the
beautifying and preserving of face and
figure, odds and ends of cooking recipes,
advice on the care of children, various
domestic   problems—and   these   alone.
To-day the editor—even the office boy
—recognizes the fact that while these
alluring topics perrennially retain their
hold on minds feminine, added to them
must be discussion of those problems of
the day, those social reforms, those conditions of life that are of national interest.
The desire to be beautiful physically is
very properly one of the fundamental
characteristics of woman's nature; Beauty
of person and charm of manner are instinctively and often unconsciously recognized by the sex as powers to hold
and sway, attributes not to be lightly
relinquished, allies to be cultivated and
retained to the last. May they never be
carelessly held nor relinquished unnecessarily. The intelligent woman realizes
that these gifts, rightly used, are most
potent  factors  in  the   sum   of  that  in
fluence she would fain bring to bear
in righting the wrongs of the weak; in
assisting towards the removal of the
sordid and selfish considerations of a
section of mankind, which her less clouded vision sees blocking the progress of
But though cooking and the management
of a household are an important part of
woman's province, the broad-minded woman does not let the four walls of her
house limit her horizon. She no longer
prides  herself in being  spoken  of as a
SEWING ROOM IN VANCOUVER SCHOOL
those great ethical movements that make
for the bettering of humanity—for the
cleansing of the blots and blurs that soil
the pages of the social and public life of
to-day.
The sacredness of the home, the importance of home-making and home influence has perhaps never before been so
clearly understood by woman as to-day.
THE KIND OF SCHOOL WORK PROMOTED BY WOMEN'S OQUNC
model wife and mother who is so concerned in the perfect running of her own
home that she has neither time nor inclination to look beyond the confines of
her narrow circle. While caring for the
physical comfort and moral training of
her children, she yet looks out into the
wide world and considers the conditions
her girls will have to face when her
motherly protection fails them, the temptations and lures that will beset her boys
when they pass from her control and go
out to make their way. She sees that
the very foundations of the home rest
upon the conditions of society, and she
is eagerly and earnestly desirous of doing her part in helping to improve those
conditions. The home and the nation
can have no diversity of interests.
While individual efforts along these
lines have always been made by men and
women of late years, the benefits of organization have become more generally
understood. The National Council of
Women of Canada, for instance, whose
Provincial Conference was held in Vancouver in September, exemplifies the
idea that the more intimate knowledge
of one another's aspirations and work
results in larger mutual sympathy,
greater unity of thought, and therefore
in more effective action. Page 18
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1910
It may be as well to repeat here for the
benefit of those unacquainted with the
aims and work of the Council of Women that this organization is a federation of associations of women which are
working in any way for the common
welfare of the community. Its executive
is composed of representatives of each
affiliated society. It is a means of communication and of common action between women's organizations in the various countries, twenty-two in number,
where national councils exist. Every five
years an International Council is held- —
the quinquennial—to which each country
may send ten delegates. At this International Council—held in Canada last
year, and one of the best advertisements
we could have had—the work of the preceding five years is reported on, resolutions sent in by various National Councils are discussed, and the further policy
decided upon. The Council is in fact
a parliament of women, where the representatives vote upon any measure that
comes up, according to the instructions
of the societies that sent them there. It
is not organized in the interest of any
one society or work, and has no power
over the organizations which constitute
it, beyond that of suggestion and sympathy. Therefore no society entering
this Council is interfered with in respect
to its complete organic unity, independence, or methods of work, nor is it
committed to any principle or method of
any other society.
"Do unto others as you would that
they should do unto you," is the motto
of the Council. Its members are banded
together in large tolerance, broad unity
—working for the highest good of the
family and of the State, and endeavoring
as occasion may arise, to apply the
Golden Rule to society, custom, and law.
In this way women interested in philanthropy, art, and social reform, meet as
a solid co-operative body, and when they
determine to initiate some good work
or urge needed reform, the matter is far
on the way to accomplishment.
For instance: many years ago by
bringing to the attention of the public
deplorable and unnecessary loss of life
through the ravages of consumption, the
Council was instrumental in organizing
a crusade against that evil. All the antituberculosis societies in the world to-day
are the direct result of the efforts of
pioneer women to stamp out that fell
disease. The standing committee on
health is always actively engaged in combatting detrimental conditions. Such
subjects as pure milk, pure food, pure
water supplies, better sanitation and
housing of the poor, demand and receive
constant attention. The treatment and
care of dependent and destitute women
and children, the consideration of preventable causes  of insanity,  the urging
of prison reforms and needed alterations
in the laws, are some of the subjects engaging attention.
From the efforts of the Council of
Women have directly come the Juvenile
Courts, the system of Associated Charities, the Victorian Order of Nurses, Aberdeen Associations, Domestic Science
and   Manual     Training     in     the   public
schools, and the vigilance of one of its
standing committees has succeeded in
having tons of impure literature, that had
been brought into the country for immoral purposes,  destroyed.
It would be difficult to find any sane
and charitable work within their province, that the Council of Women is not
instrumental in forwarding.
The Vancouver Local Council of Women
One of the most progressive women's
organizations on the Continent is the
Vancouver Local Council of the National
Council of Women Comrades. The local council is an affiliation of forty different women's societies in Vancouver
and  represents  thousands  of women  in
ilization much depends upon beginnings
in the right direction, and feel that here
in British Columbia is one of the greatest opportunities women have ever had
to shape affairs towards the best ends
for the home, the young, and social life
in general.
SCHOOL GIRLS AT CLASS EXERCISE
their aims and progressive works for the
improvement of social and industrial
conditions. ,Women of many sects are
members of this council. On many questions their view points are different, but
they are all united in a strong desire to
lend the potent weight of woman's influence to every movement which promotes the legitimate opportunities of the
individual, and makes life in Vancouver
and British Columbia more healthful and
more replete with satisfaction and contentment. They realize that in a region
opened recently to highly developed civ-
The feeling that there is much to do,
and much that can be done more successfully by the women than by the men,
pervades of course, all the Local Councils of the Province, and is prompting a
united activity in women's works which
is more pronounced here than in most of
the other sections of the Continent, and
which will result in enduring good. Besides Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, Nelson, Vernon, North Vancouver, Nanaimo, and Revelstoke all
have Local Councils, and there are plans
for  still  others   in  the   Province,  all  of
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them are welding public spirited women
of many societies into a single force for
the accomplishment of various progressive purposes. At the recent meeting of
their representatives in the second Provincial Conference in Vancouver there
were discussions of such questions as
laws affecting women and children, citizenship, public health, and technical
education.
The work of the Vancouver Council is
typical. One of its chief interests is education. The valuable courses in manual
training and domestic science in the*
public schools are largely the product of
the activity and influence of women of
this community, who, however, are by
no means content with this achievement.
They are now working for a great trades
school which will be open at certain
hours during the day for the pupils of
the public schools, and at night for boys
and girls who are compelled to earn their
own living.   The purposes of this school
are to supplement the practical courses
already established and to widen the opportunities for that special training which
will supply young men and women with a
dependable means of livelihood, and will
also supply the steadily growing demand
among British Columbia manufacturers
for  skilled  employees.
Other vital matters which are engaging the attention of the Local Councils
of the Province are immigration, the
importation of girls for immoral purposes, child labor, and the public health
as it is affected by impure milk and careless and unsanitary customs among the
ignorant. In the words of Mrs. Mc-
Naughton, president of the Vancouver
Local Council, "the women of British
Columbia, as represented in the Councils, are endeavoring to do many things
with quiet earnestness, as women's work
should be done. It is our aim to foster
all that is good and true and pure in
womanhood,   and   in  manhood."
A Women's Exhibition on Vancouver Island
By Ernest McGaffey
The agricultural and horticultural possibilities of the districts close to Victoria
were never better exemplified than in
the exhibition given under the auspices"
of The Ladies' Institute of Metchosin
and Colwood on September 20th and
21st. It was a revelation even to those
who knew these flourishing districts)
well. The arrangement of displays was
extremely tasteful, and the variety and
excellence of the exhibits in the various
departments   occasioned   the   most   en-
class could have been shown anywhere.
Among other kinds to be noticed were
Duchess of Oldenburg, Gravenstein,
Alexander, Maiden's Blush, Pippin Cellini, Wealthy, Blenheim Orange, Yellow
Bell Flower, Lemon Pippin, King of
Tomkins, Ribstone Pippin, Winter
Banana, Rhode Island Greening, Baldwin, Northern Spy, Spitzenburg, Golden
Russet, Ben Davis, Canada Red, Stark,
Salome, Fallowater, and several varieties   besides.     The   Goddess   Pomona
GROUP AT THE WOMEN'S FAIR ON VANCOUVER ISLAND
thusiastic comments from the large
crowds in attendance. If there was one
particular line of display which attracted the most attention it was the exhibit
of fruit and in the way of individual excellence the apple was king. It is safe
to say that no greater variety of equal
would have blushed with as deep a delight as mantled the rosy fruit itself, if
she could have entered the hall where
her orchard treasures held such sway.
In size, coloring, and flavor the Metcho-
sin-Colwood apples cannot be excelled,
and  indeed,  rarely  equalled.
The display of pears, plums, prunes,
peaches, crab apples, quinces and apricots was also notable for its variety and
high class, while logan-berries and blackberries rounded out what was undoubtedly a really wonderful exhibit of fruit.
The showing of grain, oats, wheat, rye,
and the exhibits of various grasses,
clover, timothy, orchard grass, vetches,
peas, forage plants in general, and hops,
fodder corn, etc., was especially creditable, and showed the magnificent possibilities of the districts as dairying
centres, as well as fruit-growing districts.
The exhibit of vegetables and roots was
a splendid one, and demonstrated in an
unanswerable way the quality and size
of the garden produce which could be
raised   in   the   districts.
The women's exhibit of bread, pastry,
home-made candy, etc., was a large and
toothsome one, and the "Oh's" and
"Ah's" of the visitors showed that only
a stern sense of moral rectitude kept
them from sampling the various dainties
so temptingly displayed. To make and
bake pie-crust properly, is to be a gen-<.
ius. In what Kipling described as "the
Great Pie Belt" of the United States, it
is claimed that soggy pie-crust is responsible for half the crime committed
there.' If the unhappy sojourners ir.
those most unhappy parts knew half the
magic which lies tucked away in the
flaky folds of a Metchosin-Colwood piecrust, what a blessing they would encompass. The Duke of Clarence in an
ecstatic moment devoutly wished to end
his days by being drowned in a butt of
Malmsey, but a better, and a longer-
drawn-out method would be by being
smothered under a cloud of delicious
Metchosin-Colwood pies. A very fine
exhibit of women's work in the line of
needle-work and knit garments and rugs
was shown, and some work in oils and
water-colors which bespoke the born
artist.
In every way possible the Exhibition
was a triumph for the ladies; for the
few men allowed about the premises
were only permitted by special dispensation to act as mere hewers of wood
and bearers of water—to say nothing of
washers of dishes. The Exhibition was
opened by Mrs. Henry Croft. Honorable W. J. Bowser, Minister of Agriculture, made a brief opening address
which was liberally applauded. Many
prominent visitors were present, among
them J. S. H. Matson and Mrs. Matson,
Hon. H. Dallas Helmcken, K. C, Dr.
A. T. Watt, Hon. W. J. Bowser, W. E.
Scott, Mrs. Pooley, Hon. John Jardine,
M. P.; Mrs. Bampfylde-Daniell, and a
large number of others from Victoria
and elsewhere. The Exhibition closed
with an eloquent address by Hon. H.
Dallas Helmcken, and the singing of the
National  Anthem. Page 20
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Protection and Industry
The most important convention of the
year in Canada was the recent one in
Vancouver of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association. This body of progressive men gives its attention not alone
to matters which have to do specifically
with manufacturing, but also to agriculture, colonization, transportation, irrigation, political conditions, insurance,
technical education, to all interests, in
brief, which have an influence upon the
development of the Dominion. It might
fittingly be called, if its whole scope
were suggested in its title, the Canadian Progress and Prosperity Association.
Matters of vital importance to Canada were ably discussed at the Vancouver convention. The chief of these was
the question of protection for Canadian
products, a question which has recently
been brought conspicuously to the front
by an agitation on the part of Alberta
agriculturists for a letting down of the
tariff bars, particularly between Canada
and The United States, on a reciprocity
basis.
The opinions on protection expressed
by President John Hendry in his address to the delegates were endorsed by
the Association as a whole. Some of the
most salient of these opinions are as
follows:
"As an association of Canadian manufacturers, it is- our proud boast that we
stand first, last and all the time for the
inviolability of the British preference.
We maintain, of course, that under all
circumstances the minimum tariff should
be so framed as to afford adequate protection to legitimate native industry, in
order that we may the more effectually
transfer to Canadian workshops much
of the manufactures that we now procure
abroad. We recognize, however, that for
some of our requirements we must always be dependent on outside sources of
supplies, and it is with a view to directing this business largely as may be into
imperial channels, 'that we declare .ourselves in favor of a substantial preference to the Mother Country and to our
sister   colonies.     ********
"Canada to-day stands in no need of
reciprocity with the United States. Forced by their policy of rigid isolation to
look elsewhere for markets, we have
cast about us and have found those markets. Some of them we have built for
ourselves with a protective tariff, by
means of which we have provided ourselves with a population of consumers
within our own borders. Others we have
found by joining hands with Mother
England, who, unlike the United States,
was glad to come to our assistance in
our time of trouble. Last year our exports of merchandise to the United
States were $110,000,000; to the United
Kingdom (hey were $149,000,000; so that
notwithstanding her less favorable geographical situation and her smaller consuming power, the Mother Country has
taken 40 per cent, more of our products
than the United States. Are we now to
turn our backs upon those who have befriended us and with whom, God willing,
it is in our power to build up the greatest and grandest empire the world has
ever know? I, for one, sincerely hope
not.
"Next, I maintain that Canada to-day
cannot afford reciprocity with the United States unless it be confined to a limited number of natural products. Splendid as has been the progress of our manufacturing industries under the policy of
protection, they are still dwarfed in comparison with the gigantic establishments operating on the other side of the
border. By the consolidation of capital
and by the specialization of output the
United States industries have grown tremendously powerful, so powerful, indeed, that in time of depression, despite
our tariff wall, they can sweep this country from end to end, leaving idle machinery, unemployment and poverty in their
trail. To redtice our tariff at their bidding for the purpose of accepting some
doubtful advantage, made attractive under the guise of reciprocity, would be
nothing more or less than acquiescing
in our own impoverishment."
Concerning British Columbia, and
Vancouver, Mr. Hendry brought out
some  important  facts  as  follows:
"While we in Vancouver take a pardonable amount of pride in the varied attractions we have to offer the tourist, we
know that you as business men, have
come here primarily for business purposes, and that in the selection of our
city as the place of this year's convention, you have but given us the recognition which is our due as a factor of our
ever-growing importance in the industrial development of the Dominion. You
will, I trust, pardon me if I venture to
offer a few figures bearing upon this latter point.
"The value of British Columbia's lumber cut for 1909 is placed at $12,000,000,
which is equal to the best year in the history of the industry. Our mineral pro-
• ductions for the past three years have
averaged $24,000,000, our fisheries over
$6,0000,000. The Provincial Government
estimate the value of the output of our
manufacturing     industries     for   1909   at
$30,000,000. Some indication as to the
probable growth in this direction may be
gleaned from the fact that the new industrial enterprises chartered by the
Province last year aggregated $48,000,000
in capital. This year it is expected that
the crop from our celebrated fruit lands
will yield the farmers nearly $2,000,000.
The mileage of the railways now in operation within the Province is.2,307, while
the fact that nearly 1,400 miles of additional track are actually under construction gives every assurance of a continuance of our prosperity, at least, for some
time to come.
"Of Vancouver itself I feel that I need
say very little. The stories of its wonderful growth are familiar to you all,
while the evidences of that growth, now
that you are here, are apparent on every
hand. In 1901 the assessment of real
property was $12,792,350; this year it was
$76,927,720. In 1901 the population of
the city was 26,133; this year it is conservatively estimated at 115,000. Last
year our building permits totalled $7,-
250,000; this year the permits of seven
months alone have exceeded that
.amount. Truly, we have had a most remarkable development. And yet it is
perhaps no exaggeration to say that
what has been our experience, has, in a
proportionate degree, been the common
experience of all the more important
centers of population west of the Great
Lakes. The sudden recognition by the
world at large of the enormous wealth
lying dormant in our mines, in our forests, in our fisheries and particularly in
our land, has induced such a stream of
immigration that, not only have our
villages outspread themselves into towns
and our towns into cities, but the whole
lifeblood of our nation has tingled with
the resultant prosperity."
The manufacturing strides of Vancouver  are  in  a measure  representative  of
those in various sections of the Province.
The metropolis now has 211 factories, in
which are employed 7j3°° hands at wages
aggregating well over half a million dollars a month.    The value of their output
amounts each month to about three and
a   quarter   million   dollars.     These   products have a market throughout Canada,
in  the  United   Kingdom,  Australia,   the
United   States,   Mexico,   the   Philippines,
China, Japan, and South Africa.    All of
these markets are developing.   They will
consume more and more of the manufactured goods of British Columbia.    With
increased  transportation  facilities,  a  readjustment of freight rates, the opening
of the Panama Canal, and the westernization of China, an enormous manufacturing  industry  will  develop   in   British
Columbia.    The start has been a strong
one.    The  future  has  brilliant promise.
Manufacturing   in   this   Province   offers
one of the richest fields of opportunity in
the world. 1910]
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Busy Nanaimo
By
H. R. Hickling-
The city man who is interested in profitable investments; the tourist who has
an eye for wonderful scenery; the angler
who likes to fish in the sea or in rapidly
flowing streams; the nimrod who is fond
of hunting both four footed animals and
birds; the man or woman who has a due
regard for the advantages of a superior
these transportation facilities there is a
daily steamer connection with Vancouver. The manufacturer who proposes to
locate in British Columbia should by all
means familiarize himself with the conditions in and around Nanaimo before
finally deciding upon a factory site. I
feel  certain  that  such  an   investigation
of the markets of Victoria and Vancouver.
The dweller in Nanaimo finds here all
of the comforts of civilization and most
of the luxuries. There are electric
lights, gas, a telephone system, two telegraph offices, one belonging to the C. P.
R. and one to the Government; a customs office, a Dominion Fisheries office,
and an Inland Revenue office. The city
prides itself upon its educational facilities, having five schools and a High
School, with a total enrollment of about
one thousand scholars. There are two
excellent hotels, and numerous fine roads
A NANAIMO FARM
climate—all of these will find much to
interest them in Nanaimo and its vicinity.
Never before have there been in Nanaimo so many opportunities for the
large and small investor, so many rewards for brains and energy. The city
is at the beginning of a new era. Its
people are looking to the future and are
preparing in many ways for a growth
which will make Nanaimo one of the
most populous commercial centers on
the Pacific Coast. There are numerous
conspicuous evidences of this preparation. For instance, several miles of cement sidewalks are in course of construction; the city council is favorably considering a traction system which will
connect Nanaimo with all the outlying
districts, and will eventually run to Lady-
smith; an elaborate sewerage system is
well toward completion; three big brick
buildings have been erected this year
and plans are being drawn up for numerous others; a new coal wharf is being
built in the Newcastle Townsite by the
Vancouver-Nanaimo Coal Company, and
a wharf for the shipping of lumber will
be constructed this year by the Red Fir
Lumber Company. Projects for numerous other improvements of this nature
are under consideration and will undoubtedly be carried into  effect.
Capitalists and manufacturers are
showing a constantly growing appreciation of the advantages of Nanaimo as a
city for factories. Its harbor will float
the largest vessels, and is unsurpassed by
any on the Pacific Coast. There is railway connection on the south with Victoria, and in the near future Nanaimo
will be connected by railroad with Alberni on the west coast.    In addition to
would bring conviction that Nanaimo has
natural facilities unexcelled by any other
city in the Province.
To pass from manufacturing to agriculture, I can say without fear of contradiction that the country in close proximity to Nanaimo presents unrivaled advantages for dairying, poultry and stock
raising, fruit farming, truck farming and
agricultural pursuits in general.      Land
lead  in  all  directions  for  the  auto   enthusiast and the horseman.
An estimate of the monthly pay-roll of
the city shows it to be about $300,000, of
which The Western Fuel Company pays
$120,000 to fourteen hundred employees.
This is the Nanaimo of to-day. The city
is now attracting so much favorable attention, is visited by so many prospective investors,  and  is  receiving  such   a
TYPICAL NANAIMO SCENES
can be obtained at very reasonable
prices and Nanaimo offers a market in
which the demand is far greater than the
supply. Moreover, this demand is growing rapidly with the growth of the city
and is increased by the close proximity
large influx of new population that the
Nanaimo of the near future will doubtless show industries and population at
least double those of the present. Nanaimo is distinctly a city of opportunities. Page 22
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Vol. 2.
OCTOBER, 1910.
No. 4.
BE STRONG.
WE are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
We have hard work to do, and loads to lift;
Shun not the struggle:  face it—'Tis God's gift—
BE STRONG!
It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong,
How hard the battle goes, the day how long,
Faint not; fight on! To-morrow comes the song:
BE STRONG!
THE POWER OF CAPITAL.
THE power of the concentrated capital of a great corporation will be strikingly illustrated in the coming
city of Port Mann. Most communities possessing any
stability have been the product of slow growth. Port
Mann, which will be born next March, when the Canadian
Northern Railway Company sells its townsite lots,
will spring into being as the biggest and most bouncing
sample of a baby city that has ever been known. A more
important consideration is that it will possess the elements
of certain life and great growth.
As the western terminal and car shops location of a
transcontinental railway, it will have an assured population of four or five thousand workmen and their families.
But this will be the mere beginning—the nucleus. < Like
attracts like. With excellent harbor and transportation
facilities, Port Mann will be a magnet for other important
industries. Several are already reported to have fixed
upon Port Mann as their future operating base. Port
Mann is heartily welcomed by her older sister cities in
British Columbia. They know she will contribute
largely to the credit and prosperity of the family. No
city ever came to life with stronger promise.
PUBLICITY ABROAD.
IN England, Scotland, and Ireland are many thousands
of ambitious young men who feel the need of room
for growth, who want larger opportunities than they have
at home. In British Columbia, on the other hand, are
hundreds of thousands of acres of land ready at the touch
of the workers to yield up their wealth, a multitude of
open paths to prosperity that need only be followed in-*
telligently and persistently. In England the man needs
the opportunity. In British Columbia the opportunity
needs the man. Could not the Provincial Government
become a large influence in bringing the two together by
establishing in London a publicity office and bureau of
information? It is a certainty that such an institution
would have many daily visitors, and it could be made an
important factor in bringing desirable newcomers to this
Province. Its success would depend, of course, upon the
man in charge. In addition to a thorough knowledge of
British Columbia, he should be able to judge men with
that sureness and sympathy which would enable him to
give sound advice as to what field of work in British
Columbia would be best adapted to the prospective settler,
making inquiries. The latter, with this source of information and guidance, would be much better prepared than
is often the case to benefit himself and the Province by
his coming.
CIVIC WORK OF WOMEN.
ORGANIZED power is, of course, always more
effective than that which is unorganized. The influence and work of women have constituted the most
vital factor in the real progress of civilization. But it has
been a factor in which there has been little organization.
Women, for the most part, have been content to lend as
individuals their strength and inspiration to movements
in the right direction. Those who are most representative have worked in quiet ways, from the vantage ground
of the home. Their influence has been the more impelling
on this account. This fact is appreciated by the leaders of
the Women's Councils of the Women of Canada, whose
aim is to do womanly work for the public good, aided by
organization. They have been notably successful, and
are progressing steadily to even greater achievements in
the future.
This is no truer of any Women's Councils than of
those of British Columbia. The Councils here, in their
direct and indirect influence, have played a part in the
progress of the Province which is too subtle and widely
diffused to be adequately measured in terms of facts, but
which has infused an unusual spirit of helpfulness, and
sympathy, and humanity, into the fabric of this developing commonwealth. Most of their work is done in the
sheltered back-ground. Occasionally they come into
public view, but their appearances are mere outcroppings,
indicating rather than representing the golden potency
beneath the surface.
There are several thousand women in the British
Columbia Councils, and their endeavors are animated by 1910
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an enthusiasm and virility which have rarely marked the
efforts of women in a body. That is because they realize
that there is very tangible and definite work to do. The
communities are young. The latter are unhampered by
traditions, unrestricted by impinging external conditions
or any other kind of impedimentia. In a sense they
stand alone. They are bounded by the ocean, the mountains, the wilderness and the United States. They are
free to grow in accordance with impulses given them by
underlying forces now gathering strength. The members
of the Councils realize this, and feel that here is an
opportunity that has rarely come to women anywhere.
In their efforts to make the most of it they do not need
public acclaim. This magazine, however, proposes to
print from month to month accounts of their progressive
work, not with a view to bringing to the workers a public
commendation which they do not want, but merely for
the purpose of spreading information as to what is being
done, and thus rendering some slight aid and stimulus,
perhaps, in endeavors to make this a land of the best
conditions and the highest opportunities.
THE NECESSITY FOR PROTECTION.
'""T^HE great majority of the citizens of British Columbia
JL believe in tariff protection for the industries of
Canada, but because the question has been brought conspicuously to the front again by the agitation of agriculturists of the prairie provinces for a lowering of the tariff
bars between Canada and the United States, it may be
well to point out some of the basic reasons why, at this
stage of the Dominion's industrial development, a protective tariff is a vital necessity. These reasons are particularly applicable in British Columbia.
It is granted, of course, that one of the most important and direct highways toward that commanding and
enduring wealth which we all see in the future for this
Province is located in the field of manufacturing. On
this road, with a factory output worth over thirty millions
of dollars a year, British Columbia has already made, and
is now making, rapid progress; yet she has a long way
still to go to realize her manufacturing possibilities in
their completeness, to attain that full measure of permanent prosperity which comes from a great factory production. Nearly two-thirds of the annual yield of
between eighty and ninety million dollars from her industries is yet the result of enterprise in raw material, in
mining, lumber, agriculture and fisheries, in the order
named. With remarkable wealth in these raw materials,
with practically unlimited water power, vast coal deposits,
agricultural resources much more than adequate for the
home demand, and a coast position which will enable her,
particularly when the Panama Canal is opened, to command the best markets in the world, British Columbia has
tremendous manufacturing' potentialities. No region has
better and few have as good. But it must be remembered
that her manufacturing industries are still in a state of
infancy.
In all nature young growths are protected. The
industries of the United States have received ample1
governmental protection from the beginning, and that
nation has become a marvel of wealth. Even those who
are now of the opinion that the United States should not
have a high protective tariff, are for the most part agreed
that when her industries were in the formative period
such protection was a necessity. The infant industries
of the United States in the old days needed to be protected against the already powerful industries of the Old
World. The infant industries of British Columbia in
the present need to be protected against a much stronger,
closer, and mere aggressive industrial foe than the manufacturers of the United States ever had to face, namely,
these same manufacturers, who, by many years of development under protection and other favoring conditions,
have established themselves on a basis of huge outputs,
and, by combinations, have affected large economies and
acquired immense reserves of capital for competitive
warfare wherever there is an opening. If given the
opportunity by a reduction of the tariff they would sweep
Canada- with their products, underselling the home manufacturers, even at a loss to themselves, until the market
was controlled, sending a great many of these down in
ruin, and eventually bringing the consumers of the
Dominion, as they have those of the United States, under
the yoke of monopoly.
Canada in general and British Columbia in particular
require protection not only for the purpose of preserving
home markets for home manufacturers, but also for the
purpose of enabling these manufacturers to attain a
strength sufficient for successful contests with foreign
competitors in the rapidly developing markets of the
Orient. In this direction lies one of British Columbia's
greatest manufacturing opportunities, but she will have
no protection here, and must be in a position, if she is
to develop to her full industrial stature without a long
delay, to toe the mark with the starters in this free-for-all
race for Oriental trade, because the richest prizes will
probably be among those first won. It is not at all
unlikely after a while China herself will put up the bars.
The policy of protection can be attacked by only one
weapon, namely, the argument that this policy causes
higher prices for commodities, and is thus an indirect
tax upon the people. This is true enough, but it is a tax
which brings back returns in multiples of itself in greater
prosperity for the Dominion and the individual, and for
this reason is an excellent investment. Moreover, this
tax will gradually be reduced by the competition resulting
from an increasing number of manufacturing establishments. Conditions in the Dominion are not as propitious
as they have been in the United States for the development of great trusts dedicated to the purpose of maintaining high prices. In Canada the objection to protection
will by degrees disappear, while the strong advantages
will remain. In the meantime the high prices in
British Columbia, in combination with natural resources
and favorable location, offer some of the best manufacturing opportunities on the Continent. Page 24
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1910
The Apple Show and Fruit Growing
The first Canadian Apple Show promises to be the most notable and successful exhibition of the king of fruits
ever held. The entries have been surprisingly large and representative. All
of the apple growing sections of Canada
and the Pacific Coast country will have
"their best apples on display in the Horse
Show Building in Vancouver and the big
temporary structure which has been
erected beside it for the car-load exhibits.
All the indications are that the exhibition
will attract world-wide attention, and
will open the eyes of this Continent and
of Europe wider than they have ever
been opened before to the great possibilities in the growing of apples and of
fruit generally in British Columbia. It
will do much more than any other means
that could be devised to lift the fruit industry in the Province into the prominence to which its promise entitles it.
It will enlarge the market for British
fruit, and will bring many new growers
into the field, to take advantage of the
great opportunities offered by a vast
acreage of land lying fallow, ready for
the production of the best apples and
other fruits. In this Province there are
two million acres adapted to fruit, and
only one hundred and twenty-five thousand acres thus far under cultivation.
For the purpose of bringing out full exhibits, over $21,000.00 in prizes will be
offered at the Apple Show.
As the time approaches for the holding of the Canadian National Apple
Show the interest in it is growing keener
and keener, and many expressions of
goodwill and co-operation are coming
in. William E. Scott Deputy Minister
of Agriculture, says:
"I have no doubt but that the Canadian National Apple Show will be a great
success, and will bring forward to everyone the great possibilities of our province as a fruit-growing country, and will
maintain our claim that we are going
to be the orchard of the Empire."
Concerning the fruit industry of British Columbia and Ontario, the Hon.
James Duff, Minister of Agriculture in
Ontario, has pointed out that at present
35 per cent of the demand in Canada is
supplied by Ontario, 15 per cent, by
British Columbia and 50 per cent, by the
United States. "You will thus see," says
Mr. Duff, "that we have an enormous
market for our produce, right at hand.
In my province we ship as far west as
Winnipeg, and British Columbia is sending its fruit to about the same point.
And  the  demand  very  far  exceeds  the
supply. Of course when I mentioned
that the United States supplied us with
half of the fruit used in Canada I was
referring to all kinds of fruit, many of
which, such as oranges, cannot be
grown as far north and must necessarily
come from the other side of the line. At
the same time we need never fear that
we shall be in a position to glut our
markets. All we have to do, both in
my province and yours, is to use every
endeavor to increase our producing capacity."
The Provincial Government will open
two experimental fruit stations in the
valleys of the Skeena to serve the ends
of those who are contemplating locating
on the lands and also as a means of exploiting the fruit possibilities of the
country. The stations will be in the
Lakelse and in the Kitsumkalum valleys.
The Government will prepare the ground,
supply the trees and plant them, and the
owner will agree to do all the work un-- •
der its instructions, including spraying
and pruning up to an amount per acre
to be agreed upon between the department and himself, according to the soil
and other conditions. The plots to be set
aside will be five acres and the agreement is to stand for five years, and after
five years to be cancelled at the request
of either side on giving six months' notice, the owner, of course, to have all the
product. The orchards are to be available for any Government officials at any
time to give demonstrations to the public and the owner must agree to send reports to the department of the condition
of  the   orchards  when  required.
Provincial Fruit Inspector Thomas
Cunningham recently said: "There will
be an excellent fruit crop throughout
British Columbia this season. It is
probable that the entire crop will be
three times as large as that of any previous year. It is expected that 1,000 carloads of fruit will be shipped out of the*
Okanagan Valley alone. Reports of conditions in Kootenay are exceedingly favorable. On the lower mainland the yield
will be better than the average and the
same applies to Vancouver  Island.
"Where orchards have been carefully
sprayed, fruit will be of excellent quality,
but in orchards which have been neglected a great deal of fruit will be unfit for
market."
Mr. Cunningham stated emphatically
that infected home-grown fruit would
not be permitted to be sold this year. On
this point he said: "After all the education that has been given to the people in
The Amalgamated Development Company has made good.   See page 35.
Oil in large  quantities—Amalgamated
Development Co., page 35.
regard to the importance of spraying
and all assistance that has been given to
fruit growers, it is unreasonable to expect that growers who neglect their trees
will be permitted to put infected fruit
on the market to put down the price of
fruit  produced  by  careful   growers."
British Columbia's fine fruit will, beginning this fall, be exhibited annually
in Winnipeg through the efforts of the
Okanagan Fruit Union and the Canadian  Pacific  Railway.
The T. Eaton Company gave its fourteen large show windows on Portage
Avenue, Winnipeg, for two days in September for a display of a car of the finest
peaches grown, in the Okanagan Fruit
Union, and again about the first of November will exhibit British Columbia
apples.
This year the exhibit will be confined
to the Okanagan country, but next fall a
larger exhibit will be held which will include the fruits from other parts of this
• province also. Heretofore the Winnipeg fruit consumer has known but little
about the magnificent fruit grown.in this
part of the Dominion. He has got the
idea that it is more or less like the fruit
of California and that it is not to be compared with that grown in Ontario. As a
matter of fact, however, the peaches and
apples grown in British Columbia are de-
cleared by competent judges to be superior not only in quality to the Ontario
product, but also in size and keeping
qualities.
"The Okanagan fruit crop is an excellent one this year," says Mr. F. W.
Peters, of the C. P. R., "and we are in
good shape to handle it. We have special ice refrigerator cars, which will be
carried across the lakes on special
barges, and thex arrival of the fruit in
good condition at the points of delivery
is ensured."
Vernon and Kelowna are the main
shipping points, and nearly the whole
crop is to be sent to the prairies and the
East. There was one difficulty, however,
which the fruit-farmers had to face, and
that was the shortage of labor, but nothing could prevent the crop from being
entirely satisfactory from every.point of'
view.
"In view of the fact that the present
estimated amount of land available for
the growing of fruit in the Kootenays
includes only such land as lies at an
altitude of 2,500 feet or less, it can easily
be' seen that the recent successful raising of fruit as high approximately at 5,-
000 feet above sea level, near Rossland,
See Amalgamated Development Company's ad. on page 35. 1910
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BRITISH COLUMBIA APPLE EXHIBIT AT SPOKANE
means that our present fruit land area
is increased by at least 25 per cent. I
think this estimate is not too high," said
M. S. Middleton, assistant provincial
horticulturist.
"It is a matter of record that in very
many cases the soil at, say, 5,000 feet on
a mountain is better than at 2,000 feet
in the same district. Another important
point is that the air drainage, one of the
most important questions to be considered by the scientific horticulturist^ is
always greater as higher altitudes are
reached. As you know, fruit is being
raised with the greatest success in Colorado on lands situated as high as 6,000
feet above sea level, and I know of no
reason why Kootenay growers should
not meet with the same good results.
"I am told, too, that high lands are less
susceptible to frosts than those at a
lower altitude. This is due largely to
the better air drainage. Of course the
farmer cultivating these high lands has
to be prepared for a shorter season than
the man operating in lower lands, but
against this is the fact that apparently
plants mature much more quickly in
cases where the snow flies late and the
frosts   come  early.
"The high lands are not suited as a
rule for stone fruits, but apples and pears
can certainly be successfully raised. A
certain amount of experimental work is
necessary in order to determine the species and varieties which are most adapted
for such regions. All these high lands,
however, are best adapted for mixed
farming to which far too little attention
is being paid in Kootenay.
"It is estimated that the amount of
land available for fruit growing in the
Kootenay district is 580,000 acres, and
that suitable for mixed farming is 970,-
000 acres, a total of 1,550,000 acres. Only
about one per cent, of the lands are developed."
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1910
Industrial Progress in British Columbia
It is announced in Ottawa that Australian trade with Canada is steadily increasing.
The C. P. R. has awarded contracts for
the construction at Balfour on Kootenay
Lake of a summer hotel which will cost
$150,000.
The Board of Trade of South Vancouver has inaugurated a vigorous publicity
campaign to make the district known as
a desirable location for manufacturing.
The Rawhide Mine of the Boundary
District has within a few weeks joined
the list of shippers with a consignment
of thirteen hundred tons of ore.
A syndicate consisting of Jos. Martin,
J. S. Harvey, T. F. Paterson and W.
Innis has purchased all the assets of The
British Canadian Wood Pulp and Paper
Company.
The Penticton Municipality has bought
the irrigation system from the Penticton Water Supply Co., and will furnish
water for both irrigation and domestic
use.
It has been announced that a colony
of Finnish settlers will arrive in the
Kootenay district next year and will devote themselves chiefly to the raising of
apples and other fruits.
The Nelson Municipality decided at a
work of proclaiming in Canada and the
United States the advantages of settlement in Nelson and its vicinity.
It is the intention of the Dominion
Government to greatly enlarge its system of horticultural inspection in British Columbia, and to double the size of
its  fumigating  plant  in  Vancouver.
Orders for thousands of barrels of
flour are coming to Canadian millers
from the Orient. The demand on Canada for bread-stuffs in China is increasing
steadily.
William McKenzie of The Canadian
Northern Railway has announced that
construction on his line will be rushed
with the utmost despatch both on the
mainland and on Vancouver Island. A
number of additional contracts will be
let this fall.
A forfeit of $1,000 was put up by the
Amalgamated Development Company in
case their representations were not correct in every particular. Three newspapers sent representatives who report,—
better than represented.    See page 35.
It is stated by W. J. White, of Ottawa,
Dominion Inspector of American Immigration Agencies, that the number of
settlers coming this year from the United States to Canada is about 150,000,
and that, despite reports to the contrary,
very few are returning to the States.
The abuttments and piers of the new
steel bridge across the Skeena River will
be built this winter. The piers will be
five in number and 125 feet high. At the
Skeena River crossing near New Kitse-
guekla, a camp of 200 men will be established in a short time.
Jas. Carruthers, a Montreal capitalist,
has announced that he will organize a
company with a capital of at least $500,-
000 for the expansion of the fishing industry along the coast of British Columbia. The first canneries will be established at Prince Rupert, where a water
frontage of 1,000 feet has been obtained.
According to an estimate by the Cana^
dian Government $100,000,000 of United
States money has been invested in Canada during the last year. This investment has been very largely in farm lands,
and the Americans making it have come
chiefly from the middle West.
It is stated that a smelter for demonstrating a new method for the reduction
of low grade zinc ores will be established
near Nelson before the end of the year.
The method has been devised by A. G.
French of Victoria, and has already been
demonstrated to the satisfaction of the
capitalists who have invested money in
the project.
Oil indications at the mouth of Muir
Creek in the Sooke District are so pronounced that the Western Canada Oil
Prospecting Co. is putting down a test
well, and expects to strike oil somewhere
between twelve and eighteen hundred
feet. A number of Victoria business
men are interested in the project.
One of the most progressive organizations in British Columbia is the Vancouver Island Development League, of
which Ernest McCaffey, of Victoria, is
secretary. The league is doing much to
proclaim to the world at Jarge the remarkable natural resources of Vancouver Island, and is already preparing for
a building and an exhibit of its own at
the International Winnipeg Exhibition
in 1914.
You can make money quicker in Port
Mann than anywhere. See M. G. Morrison  & Co.,  536 Hastings  Street west.
It is stated on high authority that industrial progress in China is no more
rapid than it has been at any other time
in the history of that empire, and that
there is a steadily growing demand for
the products of the West.
The townsite of Portland Canal was
placed on the market early in the month.
This adjoins the original townsite of
Stewart on the east and consists of 160
acres. A water and sewerage system
will be installed at an early date. The
Northern Pacific Railway will establish
in Vancouver a land office to handle
Port Mann and Stewart realty.
A party of six business men of Great
Britain passed through Vancouver a few
days ago en route for the Far East,
where they intend to develop the British
manufacturing trade. They see great
commercial possibilities in the opening
up of China and suggested that the far
Eastern field would be an excellent one
for exploitation by Canadian manufacturers.
One of the most rapidly advancing sections in the Province is the Comox district, where the development of extensive timber holdings and promising
mines is being steadily pursued. The
Fraser River Lumber Co. is preparing
for a very material expansion of its activities, and the pulp wood enterprises
on the Powell River are taking definite
form.
The Point Grey Municipal Council
sold in September nearly a million dollars' worth of bonds to a Toronto firm,
and is developing many plans for a fine
city in what, a comparatively short time
ago, was a wilderness of trees and underbrush. The plans embrace extensive
water and sewerage systems, road grading on twenty streets, car lines radiating
from a common centre and girdling the
city, and a $100,000 park.
A. W. Donley, Canada's Trade Commissioner in Mexico, sees an opportunity
for the development of a large trade between Canada and Mexico in steel and
coal. Mexico has great deposits of ore
for high grade steel, but has no coal.
British Columbia has plenty of coal, but
it lacking in ores for making steel. The
mutual trade in these important commodities will be highly beneficial to both
countries.
The Port Mann specialists are M. G.
Morrison & Co., of 536 Hastings Street
west. 1910
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The Vancouver Trust Co.
Limited
614 Pender Street West, Vancouver, B. C.
Kamloops,   B. C.—Kamloops-Vancouver Trust Co., Ltd.
Insurance
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J. N. HENDERSON, Vice-President
D. von CRAMER, Managing /Director
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OPPORTUNITIES
1910
PROGRESS  OF THE  VANCOUVER
TRUST CO.
The removal of the Vancouver Trust
Company, Limited, into its handsome
new home at 614 Pender Street, marks
an epoch in the career of this remarkably successful financial institution. Ever
since its establishment, the business of
the company has continued to increase
at such a pace that it has been found
necessary to frequently enlarge the staff
in order to adequately cope with the situation. Under the able and experienced
administration of its popular Managing
Director, Mr. D. von Cramer, actively
supported by a strong, united and progressive Board of Directors, every department has been brought up to the
highest  state  of  efficiency.
As a consequence of the enormous expansion of business the office facilities
gradually became seriously overtaxed
until larger premises were a pressing necessity. Under these circumstances, the
board wisely decided that the time had
arrived when the institution should have
suitable permanent quarters, and the
present structure is  the result.
Its handsome Colonial front presents
a striking appearance from the street,
and the general design of the building
is chaste and artistic. The details of the
exceedingly ornate interior decoration
and fittings have been worked out most
harmoniously, both as to colorings and
design, and the beautiful effect obtained
reflects the greatest credit upon the
artistic taste, not only of the designers,
but also of the president and managing
director, who have both taken the strongest personal interest in the progress of
the work.
The extensive and thoroughly modern
burglar and fire-proof vault accommodation for the safeguarding of its documents is another feature of strong interest to its many clients, while its large
counter space enables the staff of every
department to give that prompt attention which is one of the leading features
of an up-to-date trust company.
Coincident with its removal into its
new offices, a saAdngs department has
been opened for the convenience of its
clients. This step has been contemplated
for some time, but lack of space has
hitherto prevented it. It is fully expected that this will become one of its
most popular features.
The company is in possession of
an exceedingly comprehensive charter,
which enables the scope of its business
to be extended almost indefinitely within
conservative lines. It is empowered to
act as administrator of estates, guardian
of minors, etc., executor and trustee under wills, and also as liquidator and receiver   of   estates.     In  addition   to   the
The Amalgamated Development Company has made good.    See page 35.
above, it conducts a general business as
financial and property agent and as registrar and transfer agent of shares and
bonds.
The company's charter does not allow
it to purchase or speculate in real estate,
but to act as brokers only, accepting the
usual commission as their profit, not
participating in the sale as so many do
from a speculative motive, having a part
ownership. This secures to them the
name of a Trust Company in the true
sense of the term, and warrants public
confidence in their management.
It has also secured the appointment as
general agent for a number of high-class
insurance companies, among which are
the Des Moines Fire Insurance Company, the Westchester Fire Insurance
Company, and the Imperial Guarantee
and Accident Company of Canada. An
agency of the company has recently been
established in London, England, and it
is the intention of the management to
establish connections by degrees in all
other centers of finance, which are now,
or may become in the future, interested
in the development of British Columbia.
The officers of the company are well
known and successful business men. The
president, Mr. Jenkins, is also president
of the Vancouver Timber & Trading Co.,
Ltd., president of the H. L. Jenkins Lumber Co., of Seattle, Wash., and one of
the largest individual owners of timber
and farm lands in the Province, and a
large city property holder. The vice-
president, Mr. J. N. Henderson, was
formerly president of the Henderson
Bros., Ltd., and is also a large property
owner. The directors are: Mr. L. A.
Lewis, managing director of the Brunette Sawmill Co., of New Westminster;
Mr. J. S. Rankin, vice-president of the
Stock Exchange; Mr. W. Y. Corry,
M. D.; Mr. E. J. Deacon, Mr. A. H.
Wallbridge, Mr. C. A. Gordon.
The managing director, Mr. D. von
Cramer, upon whom devolves the principal executive work in connection with
the company's affairs, is peculiarly well
fitted for the responsibility, having received his early training with the Canadian Bank of Commerce, afterwards
transferring to the Royal Bank of Canada, for which he acted as manager at
various points, including Republic,
Wash.; Chilliwack, Cumberland and Vancouver, East End branches. Associated
as he has been with the company, since
its organization, he has shown such a
grasp of its affairs and executive ability
as to secure in a high degree the confidence of the board of directors and
shareholders.
The well known firm of Kendall, Sew-
ell & Co. acts as the company's auditors,
a special feature of the company being
the monthly audit without notice and
at irregular periods. Its solicitors are
Messrs. McKay & O'Brian.
SUCCESSFUL AS  MONEY
GETTERS.
Kennedy Bros., Ltd., (successors to
Hale Bros. & Kennedy, Ltd.), is one o£
the largest and best known real estate
concerns in New Westminster. Their
offices are a commodious and centrally
located suite of rooms over the Merchants' Bank, corner Columbia and
Begbie Streets, just opposite the Windsor Hotel, and near the British Columbia Electric and Canadian Pacific Railway  stations.
The listings of these leading real estate dealers, which are kept right up to
date, contain a lot of the very finest
properties in the Province, District and
City extant, embracing timber lands, city
and district realty, water frontages, improved farms and farming lands, dairying
farms, fruit lands, suburban property,
and choice city residential lots, with and
without residences.
As a specialty in money getters—properties which are bound, with the assured
great immediate growth of New Westminster city and vicinity, to advance-
very rapidly and largely in value—Kennedy Bros, have extensive acreage propositions both on Lulu Island, within the
city limits, and at and near South Westminster, immediately opposite the city.
Being below the Fraser River bridge, for
the greater part, and thus free from any
obstruction to navigation, and being
close to or intersected by the British Columbia Railway, or the the Great Northern Railway, these properties have a
solid and constantly increasing value of
their own, independent of the value created by proximity to the great Canadian
Northern Railway developments, just
above  the  bridge.
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THE BEST SHORTHAND METHOD.
When Professor Robert Boyd, a Canadian, discovered that the whole English
language consisted of various combinations of 112 syllables, and that nine characters governed by three rules would
quickly and legibly express any word,
the first real advancement in shorthand
was made. This eliminated all those
dots, dashes, shadings, positions, rules
and exceptions which have caused so
many failures with the older systems, and
made the study of shorthand easy and
sting. At present the Western Business
College of Vancouver is the only school
in the Province teaching this system, and
the enthusiasm of pupils and graduates
promises a very busy season for them.
VALUE   OF   LIVE   STOCK   INSURANCE.
If you own a small house worth a few
hundred dollars, you would want it insured at once, yet the house can be destroyed only by. fire, while your horse or 1910
OPPORTUNITIES
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cow may be lost to you not only by fire,
.but by hundreds of other destroying
agencies. It is interesting to note that
an anmial stands one chance to be killed
by fire or lightning to three hundred and
thirty-one chances to meet death through
other causes. Herein lies the great value
of live stock insurance, as represented in
Vancouver by the British Empire Insurance Company, which has paid more live
stock losses than any other insurance
company in Canada, and has a great
many testimonials as to promptness and
fairness in meeting claims. You may
save much money by looking after the
insurance of your animals at the company's offices in the Howe Block, opposite the Hotel Vancouver.
The latest water heating invention
used in conjunction with the wonderful
gas producing machine, exhibited by
Piper & Company at the Vancouver
Exhibition securing the highest award.
HORSEMEN   AND   POULTRYMEN,.
ATTENTION.
Visitors at the Chilliwack, Victoria and
New Westminster Exhibitions will have
an opportunity such as has never been
offered before to see the products manufactured in their own Province. Among
these nothing will attract more attention than the booth of The Perry-Gordon
Manufacturing Co., in the Agricultural
Hall. A full line of stock food, poultry
food and veterinary remedies will be
shown by this firm, who are taking the
interest of the farmer to heart, and are
placing on the market a line of goods
needed by him, at a price never known
before for these products. The goods,
have been on the market only a short
time, but the manufacturers of the P. &
G. brands have reason to feel proud of
their success. P. & G. food for horses
and cattle is pure, and is absolutely
guaranteed not to contain a single grain
of antimony, arsenic, rosin or clay dust,
and the guaranteed, government analysis
of the brands reflects much credit upon
the makers. The trade in them has increased rapidly since they were introduced.
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DO YOU RIDE IN CARRIAGES?
Facilities for seeing the beauties of
Vancouver in the right way are much
enhanced by the services of the Stanley
Park Stables, which have at the disposal
of visitors and others a choice of the
finest hacks, broughams, victorias and
carriages, and also have a smart tally-ho
for large parties, which makes regular
trips through Stanley Park and other
specially  attractive  parts  of Vancouver.
At the stables are eighty horses in
active service, and twenty-three employees. The business is ten years old
and is growing so rapidly that it has required a new barn for the accommodation of two hundred horses. It is said
by experts who have seen the plans, that
this barn, which is now under construction, will be the best on the Coast.    Mr.
Alexander Mitchell, the manager, has
been in Vancouver for twenty-one years,
and has been one of those business men
who have progressed with the development of the city.
THE   GREAT   WEST   LIGHT   COMPANY.
The Great West Light Company, Limited, a newly incorporated company, are
putting on the market the latest and
most up-to-date Gasoline Lighting Systems  of to-day.
Their latest and most unique Highlow
lamps fill a long felt want in the small
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OPPORTUNITIES
1910
Great Activity in Real Estate
A number of constructive factors have
combined within a month to give real
estate a much greater activity than it
has seen since spring. The soundness
and health of this activity cannot be
doubted when it is remembered that it
has for its foundation permanent improvements, the solid development of
British Columbia and its leading communities, and the certainty that this development, in increasing ratio, will continue for many years to come.
While there is naturally much speculation, behind this is a strong and steady
movement in permanent investment.
Many new buildings of an enduring
character are in process of construction
or are being planned. In Vancouver the
record of building permits is already
greater by over $100,000 than during the
whole of last year. A ten story steel
building is being erected on the corner
of Hastings and Seymour Streets. A
project for a million dolTar hotel for
Vancouver is being considered by the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company
in Vancouver, and in Victoria this company has already selected the site for a
, hotel which will cost at least as much as
the one projected for Vancouver. A
permit has been granted for a $45,000
warehouse on Water Street in Vancouver. It is reported that borings are
about to be begun for the Second Narrows
bridge connecting Vancouver and North
Vancouver. Plans have been prepared
for a large apartment house on Broadway and Woodland Drive, and, not only
in Vancouver, but also in Victoria, New
Westminster     and     other   communities,
work is under way on a great many dwelling houses, factories and factory enlargements, and other buildings of a
permanent   nature.
Victoria and New Westminster in
particular, are showing a real estate and
building activity no less pronounced than
that in Vancouver. The Pemberton
Block in Victoria, on the corner of Fort
and Broad Streets, and one of the largest office buildings in British Columbia,
was opened late in September. As an
indication of the big banking business
in Victoria, the property on Trounce Avenue and Government Street has been
sold to the Union Bank for $145,000. On
this site will be erected a very substantial building, the ground floor of which
will be occupied by the bank.
At Esquimalt, on Vancouver Island,
there has been within a few weeks a
deal involving the transfer of practically
the entire waterfront on Long Cove,
which will be used as the site of shipbuilding yards and a dry-dock large
enough for the biggest vessels. Construction will be started in the spring.
This important enterprise will have a
strong influence upon properties in Victoria and Vancouver Island. New Westminster is busy paving streets and making preparations in general for the most
active  period  in  her  history.
In addition to this constructive progress is the activity of the railroad builders in the Province. The operations of
the steam railway companies are too extensive to recapitulate here, but the extensions of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company in the immediate
vicinity of some of the leading centres,
is well worth noting because of their
great value in permanent development.
The line between New Westminster and
Chilliwack is about to be opened, and
will prove a potent factor in the development of the Fraser Valley. The great
power plant of this company on the
Fraser River, the building of which will
involve an expenditure of millions of
dollars, will, of course, prove a notable
stimulus to industry in this section of
the Province.
Improvements of the kind touched
upon above are made to. meet the requirements of a steady and stable growth
and indicate, in conjunction with numerous other factors, the solid strength
of the foundation upon which rests British Columbia's real estate activity. A
special influence of a stimulating nature
in the vicinity of Vancouver at present
is the announced opening in the spring
•of the townsite of Port Mann, which has
given rise to many transaction-;
joining properties, and has lent an impetus to the whole autumn movement in
real estate. With the coming to the
cities of many farmers, lumbermen, and
miners with the proceeds of their season's work, and with capital used for
moving the crops returning to city
banks, the real estate market will show
much vigor until well toward the first
of the year. At this time there is likely
to be a lull until next spring, when, according to present indications, real estate business in this section will break
all previous record-;.
Among the Brokers
John M. Chappell reports that in addition to a healthy tone generally in the
realty market, there is a decided tendency among investors to-day to look
west and south for the future developments. The decision of the University
Commission, advising the locating of
the Provincial University in Point Grey,
has tended to tone up the values there,
and, taken in conjunction with the improvements now under way, such as the
transportation facilities, the water and
sewage schemes, there is bound to be a
great deal of buying in this section.
This office specializes the Kerrisdale district, in which so many beautiful homes
are now under construction, and intend-
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Development Co., page 35.
ing investors would do  well to  consult
the firm.
The Merchants Trust & Trading Company reports a considerable number of
sales during the month in Burnaby and
North Vancouver. These attractive districts are commending themselves very
favorably to those who are seeking desirable home sites. Thompson Tinn,
manager of this company, is making a
specialty of attracting to British Columbia settlers from the Old Country, and
he, himself, has recently left on a trip in
which he will lose no opportunity to
extol the advantages of settlement in
British  Columbia.
The only gilt-edged, commercial oil
proposition on the market, Amalgamated Development Company, page 35-
Since it has been decided to locate the
University of British Columbia in Point
Grey, there has been a strong demand
for fine home sites on the Gulf of Georgia Terrace, which is one of the most
delightful sections of Greater Vancouver. The Terrace is located on a plateau
overlooking the Fraser River and affording beautiful views of fishing fleets, vessels plying to and from all parts of the
world, and other charming water scenes.
This is probably one of the most attractive places on the Continent for homes.
It is managed exclusively by Mole &
Keefer, who have just issued a beautiful
folder showing a number of artistic
homes already established on the Terrace.
See Amalgamated Development Company's ad. on page 35. 1910
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Wescott and Letts of Victoria, say
that during the last three months business has been excellent, and is daily
assuming proportions that- have raised
the hopes of the business men higher
than for years. Judging from the building operations in every district in Victoria and permits far exceeding any record for the past decade, Victoria is in
the vanguard of the great British Columbia advance which is attracting wide
attention in Europe and on this continent. A good evidence that our opportunity has come and that we are not
slow in seizing the same. This firm has
done $25,730 worth of business since July
19th.
of from five to twenty acres within from
ten to twenty minutes from Vancouver,
there being a general feeling that the
city will become a great market for all
kinds of farm produce.
Messrs. Lougheed & Coates, of 429
Pender Street west, report an increasing
demand for houses especially in the best
residential districts, several contracts being let recently and many more pending.
In the real estate department the demand
for choice acreage is strong, especially
in the Port Mann district.
The demand for farm lands along the
line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
has been very keen during the last three
or four weeks. The Fort George country
has received more attention than any
other of the good agricultural districts,
owing to the large number of men who
have just returned from Fort George
bringing excellent reports as to its great
possibilities. These men all express the
opinion that there will be a great rush of
settlers to the Fort George country next
spring. The North Coast Land Company, Limited, in the Winch Building,
Vancouver, have made sales to well-to-
The opportunities of British Columbia
as a field for high-class investment have
been recognized by the new brokerage
firm of O. H. Bowman & Company of
Victoria, who deal in all listed and unlisted stocks and bonds, as well as real
estate, timber and insurance. The firm
is supplying the very latest quotations
and much information regarding investment in both American and Canadian securities.
Ross & Shaw have received many inquiries for property and have some deals
pending for good apartment house sites
in the West End. They have made acreage sales in Burnaby, a sale of lots and
acreage on the car line between Vancouver and New Westminster, and five acres
near Central Park, cleared and fronting
on the tram line. The purchaser of this
property intends to subdivide it and put
it on the market There have been numerous inquiries for Grandview property
and some sales. Many prospective purchasers   are   looking  for   small   holdings
Morrison and Company, of 536 Hastings Street, Vancouver, grasped the Port
Mann situation months ago, made a
special study of its real estate possibilities, and came to the conclusion that real
estate investments there would be absolutely sound. Their forethought has
been amply justified by results. There is
now no possible ground for doubt as to
Port Mann's % rapid and continuous
growth. Morrison and Company are doing an active business in Port Mann
realty because they are impressing upon
their clients the fact that in a few years
Port Mann will be as well known in the
shipping world as any Pacific coast port
from Prince Rupert to Valparaiso.
For Port Mann snaps see M. G. Morrison  &  Co.,  536  Hastings  Street  west,
or phone 6730.
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business in North Vancouver lots and
acreage, the principle dealings being in
property east of Seymour Creek. This
firm have closed an acreage deal amounting to over $20,000. They have received
a large number of enquiries from the
East and also from England for North
Vancouver properties.
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1910
da farmers and investors all over Canada,
as well as in many of the States of the
Union. This company also has extensive
holdings of the best land in the Nechaco
and  Bulkley Valleys.
It is significant that several important
sales in the Coquitlam district have been
negotiated during the summer, usually a
quiet time for suburban property. Reports are in circulation of the establishment of several industrial concerns both
at Port Moody and Westminster Junction, and it is evident that a big movement will soon take place at both these
centers. E.   S.   Morgan,     of   47
Hutchinson Building, Pender Street,
Vancouver, who controls considerable
property in this district, reports several
good sales both at Port Moody and
Westminster   Junction.
Canadian Northern Railway terminal—
Port Mann. They have made a specialty
of this district, and last month acquired
the exclusive sale of the Paterson Ranch,
owned by the Honorable T. W. Paterson,
Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. This is a beautiful piece of property
and has been under cultivation for a
number of years. The sale opens on
Monday, October 3rd,, at 9 o'clock.
The John McLeod Company, 516 Pender Street west, Vancouver, report a
brisk business in acreage adjacent to the
The firm of Ward, Burmester and von
Graevenitz is selling the portion of the
District Lot 813 between Lyn Creek and
the Lynn Valley car line in lots varying
in size from 36 feet to 45 feet frontage.
Within a fortnight no fewer than 150
lots were sold while the balance are
rapidly being taken up. This property
has waterfrontage on the creek (Lynn
Creek) where the lots have a clear and
uninterrupted view down the Canyon
and a southerly aspect. The easy terms
on which this property is being sold
appeal specially to those who have but
little capital with which to«build, as well
as to speculators who wish to benefit
by the rise in values which will result
from building operations. North Vancouver in general and Lynn Valley in
particular are receiving, much attention
from investors and speculators.
One of the most progressive real estate firms in British Columbia is that of
Foster & Fisher, which is devoting itself
particularly just now to Windsor Parlc^
which joins the future centre of North
Vancouver, and lies in one of the most
promising sections of British Columbia,
close to the proposed Second Narrows
bridge and the site of the Imperial Car
Works. Windsor Park, with the developments which are insured, will be one
of the most industrial centres in Canada, and Foster & Fisher, with their
customary far-sightedness, are putting
their clients in touch with the opportunities which lie in this locality. That
this is appreciated is indicated by a
strong demand for lots in Windsor Park
and  numerous  sales.
Port Mann
The Risinp; Star on the Western Horizon
There was a time when the despotism
of Asia—despotism tempered by harem
plots and professional poisoners—caused
new cities to appear and old ones to disappear in obedience to what was sometimes merely the whim of an Oriental
monarch. But even at that they usually
took much time in the contemplative
East for the achievement of their results,
if the legendary miracles of the "Arabian   Nights"   are   accepted.
The real age of miracles is now, and
the scene of their operation is first of
all Western Canada. The modern railway king is to the Canadian West what
the Oriental despot was to Asia, but
his despotism is more and more effectually tempered by a railway commission and his achievements are far more
wonderful and far more beneficial than
those of the ancient rulers of the East.
In the City* of Vancouver, which comparative statistics show to be about the
most wonderful example of progress in
North America, there is a bright and
shining example of this modern necromancy. Even a dozen years ago with
the Canadian prairies an empty, and to
all except a few, an unknown wilderness,
the rulers of the Canadian Pacific Railway had brought a city into existence
on Burrard Inlet—a city which in the
last four years, with the increasing population of the prairies and the western
portion of the United States, has more
than doubled the number of its inhabitants.
Owing  to   the   fact   that   in   the   days
when the powers of the Canadian
Pacific Railway called Vancouver
into existence, the population of the
West consisted of a mere fringe of settlements on the edge of the Pacific, the
D. D. MANN
birth of the- seaport lacked that spectacular quality which recently attracted
the eyes of the world to Prince Rupert.
But the future is now pregnant with a
new  city to be added  to  the  municipal
family of the Pacific Coast.
Next spring will be born Port Mann,
already christened in advance of the interesting occurrence. Dan Mann of Mackenzie & Mann., whose names are synonymous with that of the Canadian Northern Railway, is the proud father of
this city and has proclaimed his happy
expectations to the world at large. A
few days from the time of writing, on
October 5th, the fortunate tenderers for
for the work are to start and rush to
completion the preparation of the place
on which Port Mann will stand, a place
chosen with the care, wisdom and foresight that have enabled Mackenzie &
Mann to create a Canadian Northern
Railway system—create is used advisedly,
for it is not a matter of common knowledge that they have made it out of
nothing, which was about what they had
when  they  started.
It is these men with the unique, even
marvellous, record as railway builders;
who are endeavoring to establish a new
world-port on the south bank of the
snow-fed Fraser River. To consider the
site chosen for Port Mann is to marvel
that nobody thought of it sooner, but
then, that can be said about any successful undertaking since Columbus stood
the egg on its end, and discovered
America.
Across from New Westminster, some
dozen miles up the river from the Gulf
of Georgia, lies a rim of flat land overlooked by a slightly elevated plateau
which  forms  an   ideal   site  for  a  great 1910
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There are many Opportunities in Canada
to-day, but there is only one
PORT MANN
There are many people now beguiling their leisure
hours and boring their friends by telling of the low
prices they might have bought Vancouver property
at, a few—a very few—years ago.
Perhaps You Are One of Them?
There are some, even now, lamenting the farm land
prices at which they were offered Port Mann property six months ago.
Six Months from Now
there will be a multitude regretting their neglect of
the opportunities
Port Mann Offers To-day
See us for information about Port Mann.
We have the BEST PROPERTY at the LOWEST
PRICES and the EASIEST TERMS OBTAINABLE
COME WITH US  TO PORT MANN
The Home Estate So
Successors to Leeson*PbilHps Co.. Ltd.
334 Hastings Street, West
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OPPORTUNITIES
1910
city. The Fraser River, deep and broad,
curves around this chosen site and gives
a safe and open waterway to the Pacific.
Large ships can now ascend the Fraser
above Port Mann to load lumber and
with comparatively little dredging of
the channel.
The authorities have published their
decision to make Port Mann their chief
terminal on the Pacific Coast. They have
secured 2,000 acres of land at farm land
prices and have announced that the
waterfront is not for sale. What the
company does not need for its own use
will be leased, but not sold, for industrial
purposes. The company's yards and
most important shops are to be established at Port Mann as soon as the
transcontinental line can be built to the
coast.
Over 6,000 company employees will
alone form the nucleus of a big city, and
the time is only measured by the period
required for rails to be laid across the
Rockies to the Fraser River when grain
elevators and flour mills will form an imposing row along the waterfront of the
coming city.
There is room for a Port Mann as well
as a Vancouver, even as there is room
on another ocean for a Manchester as
well as a Liverpool.
Port Mann lies only some 13 miles
by present routes from Vancouver with
New Westminster in between. Children
in Vancouver schools will still be thumbing their text-books when the three will
form one continuous city, interrupted
only by the waters of the Fraser River.
The railway compaines of Canada have
performed many miracles in city building during the last few years and will
perform many more during the next few
years, but, with a fruitful continent behind her and the world by her waterways
within her reach before her, it requires
little effort of imagination to see in Port
Mann a rising star of the first magnitude
among the bright galaxy of the future
teeming cities of Western Canada.
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QUARTZ GOLD —YUKON'S CHIEF
ASSET.
By H.edley  Rogers.
After twelve years of residence in the
Klondike, the writer left Dawson last
January, and while travelling 'over the
remarkable White Pass Road almost five
hundred miles to the Coast, he intimated
to the folks along the route his desire to
gather data for a story on the surrounding country. The information cordially
given confirmed an opinion already formed and also a statement of Daniel Gug-.
genheim, that up in that country is an
empire  without  a  people.
It is the intention here not to repeat that story, but to present a
few  statements of men  of authority as
to the future prospects of the Yukon
Territory, for the prosperity of Yukon
means much to British Columbia, the
interests of the two regions being identical. So far the Yukon Territory has
produced one hundred and fifty million
dollars in placer gold, and the astounding area of auriferous gravels still untouched will take, it is claimed by our
best authorities, fifty or one hundred
years more to exhaust. But even this
vast visible wealth is not Yukon's chief
asset. Nor is its chief asset the millions
of acres of magnificent alluvial valleys
and islands, which produce sweeter and
tenderer cabbages, beets, parsnips, carrots, especially celery, and most other
kinds of vegetables found elsewhere.
This is due not only to the excellent soil,
but also to the bright sunshine and occasional showers which prevail during
the summer—a summer which is a long,
sunshiny   day.
When transportation facilities are obtained tens of thousands of British Columbians will feast upon Yukon farm
products. But quartz, quartz gold, the
source of the one hundred and fifty million dollars worth of placer gold already
mentioned, is drawing and will continue
to draw the world's attention to Yukon.
Quartz gold is Yukon's chief asset. This
is confirmed by the following authorative
statements:    "Quartz mining is growing
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rapidly. A great future lies in store for
this class of mining in the Yukon."—
Hon. Wm. Templeman, Minister of
Mines.
"I am firmly of the opinion that the
conditions existing in the Yukon Territory are as favorable for many great
quartz camps as any portion of British
Columbia. What is needed in the Yukon
to establish quartz values is money,
money."—John Grant, ex-Mayor of Victoria, B. C, and later member for South
Dawson in Yukon Council.
"In the Watson and Wheaton Valleys,
Yukon Territory, there are not less than
two hundred claims that have rich surface showings, giving assays from ten
dollars to ten thousand a ton."—Robert
Lowe, Speaker, Yukon Council.
"Hundreds of thousands of dollars
are being spent in Yukon in the development of quartz. The most energetic work
is being done on the ridge centering near
the head of Dominion and Bonanza
Creeks. Assays show $40 or more to the
ton in free milling gold ore. At the head
of Victoria Gulch, a tributary of
Bonanza, a quartz mill has been ordered
for one of the groups."—Frank Lowe,
former President Dawson Board of
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The following telegram was received on the 7th inst.,from O. L. Willoughby, Field Manager,
Amalgamated Development Company, Katalla, Alaska :—
To A. F. GWIN, Katalla, Alaska., September 7th, 1910.
518 Hastings Street, Vancouver, B. C.
"No. 2  Well,  uncapped, gushes  over one thousand barrels per hour for one-and-a-half hours."
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The Connecting Linl
Just across the bridge which spans the
mighty Fraser River from New Westminster lies a tract of land as level as
the water itself. It is bounded on the
north by the Great Northern Railway,
on the west by the approach to the
bridge, and on the south by the New
Yale Road. A half-mile east of this
property is located the townsite of Port
Mann, the new terminal city of the Cana-
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one to three acres and is laid out in such
a manner that blocks can be resurveyed
into lots 66x132 in the future. All the
streets will be uniform without waste.
The property, affords not only a chance
to procure a homesite, but also presents
an excellent opportunity for investment,
as acreage, uncleared in parcels adjoining, is held at from $2,000 per acre up.
The  prices   His   Honor   has   placed   on
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die-in Northern Railway, after its long
run across the Continent to this, the
grandest fresh water harbor of the Pacific coast. This property comprises
about 168 acres of as fine land as can be
found anywhere in British Columbia, a
fact which, of course, is acknowledged
by those who know it to be the finest soil
in the world. And when one has the
pleasure of viewing the heavy yield of
grain, roots, fruit, etc., that this acreage
has produced this summer, one will
readily agree with the broadest statements made by our greatest optimists.
For some years this beautiful acreage
has been owned and cultivated by the
Honorable Thomas , W. Paterson,
Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, who has been successful in turning
the property into one of the Province's
most    beautiful     ranches. However,
Father Time is no respecter of persons,
and has now stepped on the scene and
announced the development of Port
Mann. Under these conditions thousands of people will be in need of small
tracts on which to build a future home;
therefore, His Honor has yielded to the
requests of the public for an opportunity
to obtain a small parcel of this beautiful
cultivated land, and has placed the property exclusively in the hands of the John
McLeod Company, $16 Pender Street
west, Vancouver, for immediate disposal. This firm was selected by the
Lieutenant-Governor after full investigation. This fact in itself is sufficient
guarantee that all purchasers will be
fully protected. The property has been
surveyed   into   blocks   containing   from
the property is $1,800 per acre, with one-
fifth cash and the balance in six, twelve,
eighteen and twenty-four months at six
per cent, per annum.
Hon. Mr. Paterson also guarantees
to keep the property in a high state of
cultivation for the next two years, or
until such' time as the purchaser takes
up his or her deed of the portion purchased. Even if you take up your deed
immediately he will see that your property is plowed for the next two years,
free of any expense to you. This will
keep your land in shape and make it
present the same attractive appearance
it has to-day. There is one other feature
worth remembering, namely: This property is underdrained and in condition
now for you to build your future home.
If you will consider why the shrewd
investor is to-day placing his money in
acreage surrounding Port Mann you will
speedily arrive at his reason. Port Mann
in the course of the next few years will
become one of the most important cities
on the Pacific Coast. It is the point at
which all through passengers and freight
to and from the Orient will be transshipped, the point at which all the rolling stock of the Canadian Northern for
the entire system will be manufactured,
all repair work as well will be made
here. Wharves will be immediately built,
while the contracts were awarded on the
26th of last month for the clearing of
the entire townsite. Landscape artists
will lay out the townsite, and a model
city will be placed on the market next
spring. Railway officials expect this
townsite to sell at the rate of $10,000 per
acre. What will this acreage of Lieutenant-Governor Paterson's be worth on the
day of the Port Mann sale? Address all
communications regarding the Paterson
Ranch, the sale of which opens on Monday morning, October 3rd, to The John
McLeod Company, $16 Pender Street
west, Vancouver, B. C.
H. P. Latham, Local Manager of The
National Finance Company, Ltd., New
Westminster, reports that there is I a remarkable interest in the rich farm lands
of the Fraser Valley, particularly in
Surrey, Langley, Chilliwack and Burnaby. This interest has received a fresh
impetus within a few days from a large
number of visitors from the North-West
and other sections, who have been attracted to this region by its great general promise and the New Westminster
Fair. A considerable number of properties have recently been sold in each of
these districts by the National Finanice
Company, which has many properties
listed. This company also have for sale
property in acre blocks, right in the
townsite of Port Mann, which is causing especial interest.
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VICTORIA, B. C.
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All kinds of Imperfect Gaits Rectified.
TROTTING SHOES AND RUNNING PLATES
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Scientific Chiropodist
Corns  removed   without   pain,  Bunions,  Ingrowing
Nails,     Club   Nails,    Callouses,    Pedicuring,    Fetid
Odors  and Sweaty Feet successfully treated.
305 Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Stanley Park Stables
Your impressions of Vancouver—the
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VANCOUVER,   B.  C.
PITMAN'S
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REAL ESTATE, TIMBER
MINES, GOAL LANDS
150,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.50
86,000 acres Ominica District, at per acre, $4.50
40,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.00
7,680 acres Powell lake, 90 miles from
Vancouver, at per acre  $4.00
5,000 acres Rupert District, Vancouver
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POINT GREY
The Home of the  University
of British Columbia
We can offer you Beautiful High Building
Lots in this desirable district, cleared ready
for building on. These should increase in
value very rapidly.
$750 AND UP
Also 4 fine High View Lots on Johnstone
Road, slashed and burnt over.        $650
TERMS:   ONE  QUARTER  GASH
6, 12, 18 AND 24 MONTHS
A. E. AUSTIN & GO.
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328 Granville St. Vancouver, B. C.
CHILLIWHACK
The Garden of British Columbia
Farm Lands
We have four Hundred acres of Prairie
Land, dyked, drained, and ready for
the plough. Good roads, convenient to
schools. Four miles from Chilliwhack ;
two miles from tram line. Land guaranteed to be without superior in British
Columbia. We offer this in lots of 20,
40 or 80 acres at
$150 AND $175 PER ACRE
on easy terms extending over four years.
ALEXANDER & McKAY
1071 Granville St. Ph0nei877 Vancouver, B. C.
$6 DOWN AND
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The Recognised Beauty Spot
For Beautiful Scenery
and Large Homesites see
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WITHOUT DELAY.    DELAYS, it must be remembered, ARE DANGEROUS.
THE  BRITISH   EMPIRE   INSURANCE   COMPANY
P. O. Box 1088
300 to 810 Johnston and Howe Block, Vancouver, B. C.
(opposite hotel Vancouver)
Phone 552
Fruitful, Fertile Fort George Farms
For $3.00 an acre Cash, and Balance in 5 yearly payments. We are offering- some choice Fort George Farm Lands
on the above terms. This land is quite close to the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and close to the
town of Fort George.     For full information, booklets, maps, etc., mail the coupon attached.
THE NORTH COAST LAND COMPANY, LIMITED
4IO-4II-4I2  WINCH   BUILDING, VANCOUVER,  B. C.
Please mail full particulars of your Fort George Lands to
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BLJR1VHBY—High and dry 50 foot lots, close to car and fine roads.    Electric light, water and telephone available.    Prices only $180.00 up to $250.00; quarter cash, balance easy.
SOUTH VANCOUVER—Fine large building lots close to car.    City conveniences.    $100.00 handles, balance
spread over five years.
POINT GREY—Beautiful homesites overlooking the Fraser River and Gulf of Georgia, close to the city's main
artery, Granville Street.    Moderate Prices, easy terms.
SPECIALISTS   IN   GRANDVIEW   HOMES
BROWN REALTY CO,
603 Victoria Drive, Corner Keefer and Victoria Drive
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"WHOLESALE and RETAIL Manufacturers of all kinds of
Sash, Doors, Show Cases, Bank, Office and Store Fixtures.   ROUGH and DRESSED
LUMBER.   Laths, Shingles, and every kind of building material.
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Phone  2900
A. E. AUSTIN & CO.
Real Estate and Insuranoe.
328   Granville   St.,   VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
T. B.  ANDERSON  &   C.   CLAYTON
Real Estate
Phone 5913
1069 Granville St.   -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
E.  C. B. BAGSHAWE  & CO.
Real Estate and General Brokers
1112  Broad  St.,  Bownass  Building
Phone   2271       -       -       VICTORIA,   B.   C.
Phone 5726 P. O. Box 536
H.   BEEMAN
Specialist in Point Grey
221 Winch Bldg.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C
B. C. TRUST CORPORATION
Bk.  B.  N.  A.  Bldg.,  VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
Phone  589
J. A.  COLLINSON
Real Estate
Phone 4154
240a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.
JOHN M. CHAPPBLL
Real Estate
Phone 4802
443   Pender   St.     -    VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
W.   W.  DRESSER
Insurance, Real Estate
Phone 3020
438 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
H. T. DEVINE  COMPANY, LIMITED
Real Estate, Loans and Insurance
437  Seymour St.    -    VANCOUVER,  B. C.
Phone 1627
Phone 3628
DUTHIE  &  WISHART
Real Estate and Financial Agents
520 Pender St. W.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
W.  H.  ELLIS
Investment Broker
1122   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
M. H. FRANKLIN CO.
Real  Estate  Brokers
Acreage, Building Lots and Homes
Phone   970
449 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B.  C.
GODDARD  &  SON
Land Agents, Notaries
Phone 3202
329   Pender  St.     -     VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
Tel. 5852
GOODYEAR    &    MATHESON
Real   Estate   and   General   Brokers
106 Loo Building VANCOUVER, B.  C
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j E. 0RANDY AND SON
|   Post Office Address: PORT ALBERNI, B. C.
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LEONARD & REID
Real Estate and Pire Insuranoe
Mining    Properties    in    Portland    Canal,
Hazelton and Queen Charlotte
Districts
PRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.
GRANVILLE   BROKERAGE   CO.
Real Estate, Insurance, Commission Agts.
Phone L4560
1017 Granville St.   -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
HARMAN & AFFLETON
Real Estate
534 Yates Street      -      VICTORIA, B.  C.
Phone  1918
SAMUEL  HARRISON  &  CO.
Brokers   and   Financial   Agents.     Agents
Stewart Land Co., Ltd.
Stewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.
HASLETT   &   WHITAKER
Real   Estate,   Timber,   Insurance
Phone  5807
Room 2, "Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W,
VANCOUVER, B. C.
HEWLINGS & CO.
Real Estate, Timber, Etc.
Phone 1734
Room 4, 1109 Broad St.    VICTORIA, B. C.
HINKSON, SIDDALL & SON
Real Estate and Insurance
Phone  869
New Grand Theatre Bldg.    1311 Gov't St.
|    VICTORIA,  B.   C.
T.  HODGSON
Real Estate and Insurance
Box   604 - NANAIMO,   B.   C.
ALFRED   M.   HOWELL
Customs  Broker,   Forwarding  Agent
Office—23    Promis    Block
Telephone   1501,   Res.   R 1671
1006   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
IMPERIAL   REALTY   CO.
Real   Estate   and  Insurance
307 Loo  Bldg.       -      VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
GEORGE  LEEK
Real Estate, Notary Public
Exchange Block    PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
W. F. Moncreiff P. E. Townshend
W.   P.   MONCREIFF   &   CO.
Real Estate and Financial Brokers
Room 304, Winch Bldg.      Hastings St. W
VANCOUVER, B. C.
MARRIOTT   &  FELLOWS
Real  Estate
Phone 1077
134 Hastings St.      -      VANCOUVER, B.C.
Res.: 3030 Quadra St.
Office Phone 2418
E. HENDERSON & CO.
Farms, Timber and! Mines
FRUIT LANDS
711 Yates Street
Room 1, Sylvester Block
VICTORIA, B, C.
E.  S.  MORGAN
Industrial  Sites,  Waterfrontage  on  Bur-
rard Inlet, etc.
Suite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.
429 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone   5833.
W. O. Shrumra  . H. Lambert
THE   NATIONAL   REAL   ESTATE
Loans, Insurance
Phone  6320
58  Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B. C.
FATTULO   & RADFORD
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
P.O. Box 1535      PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.
Cable Address:    "Patrad"
C.   C.  PEMBERTON
Real Estate  and  Notary Public
Room 11, 707% Yates St.     -     Phone 1711
VICTORIA, B. C.
CHAS.   L.   PARKER
Broker and Commission Agent
Suite  50-51,   429  Pender St.
Phone  3859 - VANCOUVER,   B.  C.
C.  ARTHUR REA
Late of Brandon, Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc
Law   Chambers,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
ROYAL REALTY COMPANY
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
Phone 2394 Notary Public
615  Fort  St. - VICTORIA,  B.  C.
SHAW   REAL   ESTATE  CO.
City,   Timber,   Farm   and   Fruit   Lands
707% Yates Street     -     VICTORIA, B. C.
SMITH  &  SMITH
Real Estate and Commission Agents
P.O.   Box  41
J. H. Smith. W. R. Smith
4th  Ave. - - STEWART,   B.   C.
GEO. H. SMITH & ARTHUR JONES
Dealers  in Property in Vancouver,  New
Westminster and the Fraser Valley
P.  O.   Box   165 Phone  1743
F. H. SEABROOK &  CO.
Real  Estate   and  Timber
Phone  4043
316 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
VANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.
Real Estate and Loans
62 Hastings St. E.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
WESCOTT & LETTS
Real Estate and Insurance .Agents
Room   3,  Moody  Block        -        Yates  St.
VICTORIA, B. C.
H. W. WINDLE
Real Estate Broker
Phone 5320
532 Granville St.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
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The Capital City Realty Co.
REAL ESTATE
FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE AGENTS
618 Yates St.  Phone 2162   VICTORIA,B.C.
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Western Business College
709 DUNSMUffi. ST., VANCOUVER, B.C.
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Real Estate, Insurance and Commission Agents
GRANDVIEW
66 ft. on Fourth Ave. close to Nanaimo Rd., $2300.    Terms.
KITSILANO
100 ft. on First Ave., west of Yew St., $7300.    Terms over
two years.    First Ave. is now being graded from Yew St. W.
BUSINESS PROPERTY
25 ft. on east side of Hornby St., close to Pender, $15000.
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The Big Red Apple District of British  Columbia
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ROSS AND SHAW
318 HASTINGS STREET WEST
VANCOUVER, B. O.
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PIPER & COMPANY
ORGANIZING
C. T. W. Piper
General Manager'
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MAKE YOUR OWN GAS for COOKING and LIGHTING
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Blocks 2 and 3, District Lot 200
BEAUTIFUL view lots with southern slope, five minutes from Fraser Avenue and five
minutes from car when track is continued to connect with the Eburne-Westminster
line. The B. C. Electric Railway Company is under contract to go to Page Road in eight
months, and will probably make the other connection at the same time. We will guarantee
to clear and grade all lots, streets and lanes, leaving the property ready to build on.
There is   a   great   demand   now   for   cheap   property,   and   this   exactly   fills   the   bill.
LOTS $400 UP
Terms : $50 cash and $50 quarterly ; or one-quarter cash, balance 6, 12 and 18 months.
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comfortable living off from 5 to 10 acres.
The fame of British Columbia as a
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CHE Permanent Wave is new to Vancouver, but has attained great vogue
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dampness and shampooing. Not for many months, until the hair grows
out, do you have to think of keeping it in wave. The wave is there, in
all its freshness and beauty. I have tested its durability carefully, and
have been charmed by the results. Now I am introducing it in Vancouver
with great success. It is one of the most scientific and satisfactory aids
to beauty yet devised, a real boon to women who desire to be attractive
at all times.     It is absolutely non-injurious.
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Telephones 1193, R7811, L1533
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Properties are starting to move in this DISTRICT, now is your chance to get in and make money.   We have these properties exclusive, and the beauty of
these lots is they are all cleared and ready to build on.
" CONSIDER THESE PRICES
Come and we will take you on the ground.   They are all close to the carline.
Knight Road, 8 lots, only $1500 each        21st ave., 8 lots, only $850 each        21st ave., 2 corners, only $1000 each        Banks ave. 2 lots, only $850 each
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Prices: $250, $275 and $325
Payable either
$100 down and  $100 a year or
$25 down and $25 quarterly or
$5 down and $5 per month
10 per cent discount given if ail paid up in one year
The Merchants Trust & Trading Co. Ltd., Financial Agents
Cor. Pender and Burrard Sts., Vancouver       Telephone 2733
ON THE FROMME ROAD
NORTH VANCOUVER
SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
Vancouver, May 18th, 1910.
Part of D. L. 2004, Gt., N.W.D., North Vancouver.
I have surveyed this property and find it to be an
excellent parcel of land ; having a southerly slope, good
view, and gravelly soil, which insures good drainage,
and is almost clear of brush. This property is in every
way a most desirable subdivision.
(Signed) Frank Sweatman, B.C.L.S.
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These can be built to suit
your own requirements for
a small cash payment and
Balance as Rent
Foster & Fisher
310 Hastings Street West
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We offer a new 10 room, thoroughly
up-to-date home (now under construction),
situated on First Avenue, Kitsilano, on
top of the hill, with exceptional view of the
City and Gulf. The terms can be arranged
to suit purchaser. See us for full particulars
Lougheed & Coates
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Modern Rooms
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200 B. C. Oil Refining .55
1000 International Coal .71
200 Nugget Gold .96
100 Red Cliff 1.10
1000 Canadian
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500 Carmannah Coal .40
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STOCK BROKERS
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VICTORIA,  B. C.
PROPERTIES in every
D. L. around Vancouver
WESTMINSTER ROAD. Why wait for the Earls
road extension to be constructed? Best buying around
Vancouver to-day.     Near Victoria road $30 ft. up
VICTORIA ROAD on carline, choice positions, 68 ft.
Bodwell corner $3400.    34 ft. north James, $1300
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CONTENTS.
NOVEMBER, 1910.
Page.
Apples     11
The Man Behind the Apple Show (Joseph Herbert) 1 5
Opportunities in Forest Products (Judson F. Clark Ph.D.) 1 7
British Columbia in Moving Pictures (Norman S. Ranfyin) 19
Success in Small Farming (Thompson Tinn) 21
Irrigation  in  British Columbia  22
Victoria Council's Work for Good (C. Spofford) 23
Some Phases of Women's Works  24
Doings of the Women's Organizations ;  25
Industrial Progress in British Columbia  .26
British Columbia's Financial Strength    (D.  von Cramer) 28
Steady Movement in Real Estate  30
Among the Brokers     30
Book Review (Opinions of Mary)  31
A City  Made  to  Order  32
The Kootenay Fruit Country (C.   W. Esmond) 34
Opportunities in Sugar Beets  35
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CLASSIFIED   OPPORTUNITIES.
With this issue of Opportunities begins a department of classified business
opportunities. The object of this department is to tell much in little space. If
you have a particular piece of property
to sell, if you want a partner, if you are
in the market with any legitimate proposition, to sell, or buy, or exchange, if you
desire to make to the public any offer
which will hardly justify a display ad.,
this department of classified opportunities   is   the   place   for  you.
Classified advertisements are a comparatively new departure in monthly
magazines, but there has been a wide
recognition of their merit in meeting the
requirements of a need which display
advertising is in most instances too cumbersome to supply. Classified advertisements, which are modest calls for the
cooperation of others in the work of
getting along in the world, make interesting reading, and all wide awake persons do read them. They cost but little.
Our rate is twenty-five cents a line, with
a minimum charge of one dollar. They
reach, in this magazine, aboul twenty
thousand readers. The outlay is so very
little, in comparison with the results
they are likely to bring, that advertisers
who do not need big advertising are
using more and more these small but
effective voices for reaching the ear of
the listening public.
CLASIFIED  ADS.
ARE you satisfied with your present salary?     Would you like to increase it?
If so, write NOW to Department A,
Opportunities.
WANTED—A live wire in every community. Good salary, pleasant work.
Address Box ioo, Opportunities.
ROOMING HOUSES.
WE have the most select list of 'West
End rooming houses in the city. Only
desirable places handled. Prices $400
to $10,000. Golden Rule Brokerage,
1117 Granville St., Phone 5346.
FRUIT LAND.
GRAHAM ISLAND is situated 80 miles
west of the Prince Rupert coast. There
may be found that rich loam and clay
sub-soil so well known on Lulu Island.
Combined with this it has one of the
most delightful climates in British Columbia. Prince Rupert is its natural
market, as may be seen from its situation. Sold in small tracts from $10 up.
Star Realty Co., 433 Granville Street.
Phone 7563.
OF INTEREST TO BUILDERS.
WE have some choice building lots in
Kitsilano District. Prices right. These
lots are cleared, ready to build on, and
are also good buys as an investment.
John M. Park, 1x17 Granville Street.
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To furnish, at home and abroad, more complete information
regarding British Columbia and the wealth of possibilities she offers
for Investment—in Real Estate, Fruit and Farm Lands, Timber,
Mining and Industrial Companies—for Health; for Travel; for
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HERBERT WELCH, Editor-in-Chief
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Vol. 2
NOVEMBER, 1910
No. 5
EDITORIAL
We were informed the other day, in a tone of criticism,
that this was a "boosting" magazine. We admitted readily
that such was the case. While we are not particularly infatuated with the word "boost," there is much in the meaning of
the word that appeals to us. To "boost," means to elevate,
to raise up.
The fact that the word has become associated with a tendency to lift up the thing boosted a little higher than may
be altogether necessary, does not detract from the good work
which the word represents. If "boosting" is not carried too
far, if it is consistent with facts, it is the best thing in the world
for a new country or a new community. <
For example, if Christopher Columbus, upon his return to
the court of Spain after his voyage of discovery, had refrained
from extolling the wonders of the new land, there would have
been a considerable delay in the development of the Western
Hemisphere. But Christopher Columbus was not so ultra-
conservative that he neglected to tell Queen Isabella all about
his great discovery. He was a "booster." Because of the
limitations of time and language he could, however, describe
only a small part of what he had seen; nor could he have any
conception of what the newly discovered continent was to become.
We make no pretentions to being anything like Christopher
Columbus, yet in talking about British Columbia, we are confronted by a difficulty somewhat similar to his. Our gaze into
to the mists of the future can give us only a very vague and
inadequate idea of the great destiny of this Province. We
can not begin to do justice to what has already been accomplished here. We intend, however, to do our best to tell the
story. We expect to "boost," to "talk big," as the saying
goes; to be as eloquent as is within our power, for the very
simple reason that the facts about British Columbia are big
and eloquent. We are doing this not only because our theme
inspires it, but also because we consider it a duty to the many
thousands who are struggling amid oppressed conditions, in
places where conditions are congested, where custom and
power and wealth in the hands of a few have made life difficult
for the many. There are, for example, a host of such persons
in Old England. We want to feel that we have played a
part in showing some of these people "a way out."    The old
countries of the world have the population. Their people need
land and opportunities. We have the land and opportunities.
We need the population. In publishing this magagine we are
endeavoring to bridge these needs.
Opportunities goes to numerous parts of England, to South
Africa, to Australia, to remote regions like the Upper Nile,
to many sections, in brief, where there are English speaking
people who have heard of the wonderful development of British Columbia. Our magazine has already been influential in
bringing new settlers to this Province. As time goes on it will
be a factor in pointing out to more and more people the paths
to prosperity which, in British Columbia, are so many.
In this work, we desire, of course, to be as successful as
possible, and therefore we have formulated plans to make the
magazine more and more comprehensive and truly representative of this Province. We have, for instance, arranged for a
series of papers on the natural resources of British Columbia;
for a series on the present status and the promise of manufacturing here; for a series dealing with the life stories of British
Columbia's most successful citizens. We publish each month
a review of all the industrial progress of the Province; we aim
to keep our readers thoroughly informed upon all the real estate,
building, and other important phases of the upbuilding of this
commonwealth.
We believe that what we are doing and what we intend to
do in this magazine is a work which entitles us to the support
of everybody who is interested in the progress of British Columbia. While the Province is already well known, there are
a multitude of people whose information about its present and
its promise is extremely meagre. The Province needs publicity,
more publicity and still more publicity. The better support
we get the more we can do in supplying this need. Opportunities is distinctively a British Columbia publication. It is devoted to this section and this alone. Any cooperation which
we receive in proclaiming to the world at large the great merits
of the Province for business and home life will be a good investment. It is very likely to bring direct results from among
our thousands of readers, and will lend just that much assistance in the big work of forwarding British Columbia's onward
march. Vol. II.
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No. 5
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F^OR ages the apple has been
.: called the king of fruits.
This sounding title is supposed to do it honor, but a
much better idea of its true
status in the world can be conveyed by
saying that the apple is becoming more
and more important as a stepping-stone
to independence and contentment. It
is a symbol of clean-cut and honest opportunity, out under the open sky. In
the spring, when nature is calling to humanity, the city man still must find his
means of livelihood under roofs,. in accounts and ledgers, while the orchard
owner sees his prosperity in a wealth
of fragrant blossoms. In the summer,
when the city man is still toiling in the
close confines of walls, the orchard owner, drawing in with every breath the
vigor of fresh breezes and pure air, is
watching his maturing fruit. In the
autumn, when the city man is yet bending over books, the orchard owner is
harvesting his red and golden apples.
And in the winter, when he reckons up
his financial profits, he finds them greater, as a rule, than those of the man
who has turned his back on nature in
an office.
Appreciation of this is growing. The
call of the orchards is receiving a greater and greater response in cities. Many
men who used to strive and struggle in
overcrowded businesses and professions
have solved in fruit growing the problem of making the most of life. This
is particularly true in the Pacific Coast
states of the domain of Uncle Sam, and
in even larger measure it will become
true in British Columbia. The apple
and other fruits in this Province are
prophecies of a golden future. In the
lives of numerous men here the apple
blossom will become the symbol of
their rise to affluence and contentment.
In generations to come there will be
many families which might fittingly, if
such ornaments survive, adopt delicate
blossoms, instead of shields, as the
ground-work of their coats-of-arms,
thus bespeaking the advance of civilization to an era in which will be celebrated the conquests of peace and plenty instead of those of war and hardship.
In history we read of the triumphant
celebrations of Roman warriors when
they returned to Rome. In the present
year, during the first week in November, we may see in Vancouver, the triumph of the apple. Never in all its
reign has the king of fruits been paid
such honor as upon the occasion of the
first National Apple Show. It is interesting to glance for a moment at the
monarchs of the orchards receiving the
homage of the public. In the Horse
Show Building's big arena, gayly bedecked with flags and filled with music,
two millions of the finest members of
the kingly clan of Pomona, in boxes arranged in tiers and rows, are being
gazed at and admired by thousands of
visitors. Judges stroll about, decorating some of the boxes with ribbons of
royal blue, and holding discussions as
to which of these fruit aristocrats shall
share the twenty-five thousand dollars
in prize money, or be awarded medals.
It is a proud occasion for the apples,
but its importance lies in the fact that
it will mean much for the fruit growing
industry   in   this   Province.     Never   be-
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been so effectively advertised; never
before has the business of growing apples here received so strong an impetus.
The apple show will call wide attention to the notable opportunities which
this Province presents in fruit growing.
These opportunities are based upon
nearly ideal climatic and soil conditions;
upon the availability of great areas of
fine orchard lands at more moderate
prices than prevail in other regions
where the natural conditions are equally good; and upon constantly improving rail and water connections between-
British Columbia and the great markets
of the world.
Since many men are now starting
along the path to financial independence
through the orchards, it is worth while
to touch, in brief outline, upon the situation which confronts them. Let us
suppose that you are one of these, that
you have a modest amount of money,
plenty of industry and intelligence, and
a zest for the comparatively happy occupation of successfully raising fruit.
Among the first questions you will consider, of course, is that of the cost of
good fruit lands in favorable localities.
You will find that there i-s a wide variation in prices, which are dependent
less upon the adaptability of the soil for
fruits than upon whether the regions in
which the lands are located have already established reputations in the
fruit markets, and upon the accessibility of the lands to a railroad.
The Okanagan Valley and the Koot-
enays in general comprise the fruit section of British Columbia best known as
yet in the markets of this continent and
Europe. The high reputation of its apples in particular brings them a ready
sale at excellent prices. The Okanagan
Valley and the Kootenays lie in the
south central part of the Province, and
consist of bottom lands along the big
lakes, and benches reaching like huge
steps up the mountain slopes. The climate is dry, with a great deal of sunshine. The weather in the win or is
clear and bracing, with a comparatively
light snowfall, and a temperature which
does not often fall below the zero mark.
The soil for the most part is a volcanic
clay or loam, reaching deep and lidding moisture. Excellent fruit lands in
the Okanagan, cleared for orchards and
provided with water for irrigation when
necessary, may be obtained for sums
ranging from two hundred dollars to
four hundred dollars an acre.
Ten acres gives you a tract of about
the right size for the \ beginning, although not a few fruit farmers are deriving substantial incomes from five
acres of mature trees. You need not,
of course, pay for your orchard all at
once. A first payment of a thousand
dollars, or even less, is accepted upon a
ten acre tract at the average price of
three hundred dollars an acre, and in
the matter of the further payments the
land companies pursue a liberal and
helpful policy toward the man who is
doing his best.    There is never any de
sire to "cinch" him. Uncleared land
of excellent quality may be obtained, of
course, at prices much lower than that
which is asked for acreage ready for
the orchard.
Your first step after you have acquired your land is naturally the cultivation of it. There is no space here to
describe the details of cultivation, so
we will pass on to the trees, in their relation to initial costs. For ten acres
you will need a thousand trees, that is,
one hundred to the acre. It is well to
alternate with apple and peach trees,
planting the former thirty feet apart,
and (lie latter in between. These trees
will cost from twenty-five to thirty dollars a hundred for the best, and you
should have none but the best. They
should not be more than two years old,
and yearlings are even better. Adding
their cost of about three hundred dollars to your first payment of a thousand
dollars on the land, you have an outlay
in the beginning of about thirteen hundred dollars for an excellent ten acre
farm in a highly favorable locality. In
addition to this expense, there is, of
course, that of building a cosy little
home on the property and numerous incidentals. Twenty-five hundred dollars
is a conservative estimate of the sum
you  out  to  have  to   start.
It must be remembered that even the
trees that will be the first to put you in
the market as a fruit seller will not do
so in less than five years, and that some
of the varieties of apples which will eventually   become   of   the   greatest   com-
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mercial value in the orchard will hang
back for seven or eight years before
contributing to your bank account.
This sounds rather appalling. You will
exclaim that you can't live for five years
on what is left of twenty-five hundred
dollars after the land company, the nurseryman, the lumber dealer, and numerous others, have been satisfied with
checks. Nobody expects you to. While
you are waiting for the fruit you may
put your land to other dollar-producing
uses Tn the orchard between the trees
j'ou may plant strawberry vines, potatoes, beets, and other vegetables, which
will spring up speedily to your aid, and,
if you are properly diligent, will do a
great deal, even during the first year,
to keep the wolf from howling around
the door.
When at last the apple trees reach
their period of full production you may
safely figure upon a profit of a hundred
dollars each season for each acre of the
trees. This is a very conservative estimate. The profits per acre in some orchards are in multiples of one hundred
dollars, but the personal equation has
much to do with these larger yields.
Some men, as is well known, are much
more successful than others in whatever
they undertake. Besides your returns
on apples and other varieties of the bigger fruits, you have those on your vegetables and berries. The strawberry, for
instance, is looming up more and more
prominently as an income-maker for the
British Columbia fruit farmer. You can,
moreover, as your revenues grow, increase your orchard acreage. As a general statement, it may be said that it
will be your own fault if you don't find
prosperity and con*tentment on your
fruit farm.
APPLE PICKING, SALMON ARM
Yet there are pitfalls—dangers to b®
avoided. In selecting a site for an or7
chard, for example, you will be wif®
to choose one situated on a bench rather than in a bottom land. If you had
started several years ago you would
probably have accepted the belief current at that time and would have considered the bottom lands the more desirable, but experience has taught a different lesson. It has been learned at
considerable cost that light frosts will
nip and kill the tender blossoms in the
lowlands when those on the benches are
uninjured. This is because there is a
better circulation of air, or what is called air drainage, on the higher ground,
where the free play of the breeze banishes the frost more quickly than does
the more stationary air below. Even on
the benches there may be depressions
which Jack Frost finds congenial. The
fruit grower must avoid the "frost pockets," wherever they may be.
Another important precaution against
the light frosts of spring is to select for
the orchard a western rather than an
eastern slope. On the latter the sun
strikes the blossoms too early on a frosty morning. The petals, exerting all
their power to resist the cold, find the
change to warm sunshine too sudden.
The shock to their systems, so to speak,
causes them promptly to give up the
ghost. On the western slope, on the
other Jaand, the warmth comes so grad-
ually that the blossom has time to make
a readjustment, and emerges from the
ordeal as strong as ever. Another advantage of the western exposure lies in
the fact that here the blossom receives
for a longer period the benefit of the
genial sunshine of afternoon.
It must not be assumed from these remarks on means to avoid the menace of
frosty mornings that these are any
more prevalent in the region tinder consideration than they are elsewhere in
northern climes. The truth is that they
are-;^ less prevalent than in numerous
more southerly latitudes in the United
States, for the reason that the benign
winds of the Japanese current blow
from the Pacific Ocean across the mountains into central British Columbia. It
is only that everywhere in the north
temperate zone Jack Frost, banished by
the sun from the domain in which he
held sway, likes to steal back in the
night and kill the growing things that
have dared to raise their heads upon the
assumption that his reign is over.
In the rich and beautiful valleys of
the Kootenay and Okanagan lakes there
are great areas of land, fine for fruit
farming, "which are still awaiting the
coming of the industrious and competent. Many of the Okanagan tracts need
irrigation, but water for this is provided by the various municipalities, which
have taken over the water rights of
-companies and individuals, and, by
means of flumes and ditches, supply, in
a manner fair to everybody, plenty of
moisture at a rate of from two and a half
dollars to five dollars an acre annually.
Thus the settler need not worry
about his water supply, but he needs*
to give -careful attention to the proper
use of it. Methods of irrigation Have
been blocks over which many a fruit
•farmer has stumbled into error. Those
who do not know have an idea that the
more the merrier is a good rule of irrigation. They keep their orchards well
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with the result that their apples become
"water-logged," if the term may be used.
They lack sugar, and flavor, and keeping qualities. It sometimes happens that
a man buys a piece of ground of the porous sort. In this case he must keep
irrigating frantically until the end, like
a man pouring water futilely through a
sieve. The moral is that he should
avoid this gravelly soil, which is good
only for hay and vegetables. If the farmer has good land for fruit, as most of
those in the south central part of British Columbia have, he should forget all
about irrigation after the first of July
and depend during the remainder of the
summer upon cultivation. There is,
however, such a thing as a too frequent
turning   of   the   earth.     Just   where   to
stop is a matter to be determined by the
fruit farmer's individual judgment,
which, by the way, must be applied
many times, in many different ways, in
the process of building up a successful
fruit farm.
After the harvest has been gathered
the proper system is to encourage the
growth of a cover crop of weeds and
grasses, which, when turned under, give
body to the soil. These growths may
be stimulated in the early fall by irrigation. It is true that there are some
fruit men who contend that this fall
moistening has a tendency to make the
trees too soft to wholly withstand the
bite of winter, but the best experience
is that this is not the case unless the
trees have been debilitated by irrigation
through July and into August. There
are, of course, numerous other considerations in the fine art of developing and
making the most of an apple orchard.
For instance, there is the pruning. Even more important is the spraying. Old-
fashioned growers have been inclined to
scoff at spraying. Until recently the majority of those of Eastern Canada have
overlooked the value of this effective
defence against the attacks of injurious
insects. On the other hand, it has been
realized vividly by the fruit men of British Columbia, where the inspection is
the most rigid kind. This Province has
been in the vanguard in adopting and
advancing the best methods in fruit
growing, and this is one of the big reasons why British Columbia apples are
coming so strongly and rapidly to the
front.
The   conditions   of   fruit   growing   so
far    touched    upon    have    been    those
which   prevail  in  the   Okanagan  Valley
and   the   Kootenays  only  because   these
regions   have  been   the   first  to   achieve
prominence   in   the   fruit   industry,   and
not because they are in any way superior   to   a   number   of   other   sections   of
the   Province.      The   Salmon   Arm   district, for example, gives high promise of
becoming one of the greatest fruit growing centers on the continent. Good fruit
lands   here  are   as  yet  cheaper  than   in
the   Okanagan   Valley,   uncleared   tracts
selling for  fifty dollars    an    acre,    and
those which  are ready for  orchard  cultivation ranging upward from one hundred and fifty dollars an acre.    A great
advantage   in   the   Salmon   Arm   section
lies   in   the   fact   that   no   irrigation   is
required.    Practically all of the orchards
are   still   young,   but   those   which   have
entered the producing class are showing
a yield which throws a golden light upon   the   future   of   the   Salmon   Arm   orchards.      This    season's    production    of
one   of   these,   consisting   of   five   acres,
was  six  thousand  boxes,  which  sold  in
the  market for $8,000.    The  direct  cost
of    harvesting,    packing    and    shipping
these   was   thirty-five   cents   a   box,   or
$2,100,   leaving  the   orchard   owner  with
$6,900  to  pay  for  the   work  of  himself
and his family during the  two-thirds of
the year devoted  to  orchard  cultivation
and   apple   growing.     This   instance   is
not   cited  as   the   most  conspicuous   example  of  success  in  the  apple  industry
at Salmon Arm, but merely because the
orchard is one of the most advanced in
the  section,  and  illustrates  what  others
may   achieve   through   the   efficient   cultivation  of  small  acreages    of    Salmon
Arm  orchard  lands.
While the conditions for fruit raising
on the mountain benches of Salmon
Arm are ideal, the outlook for the industry in  some  other  sections    of    the
rovmce   is
equally    promising.      Tl
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ing country along the Fraser River. A
peculiarity here is that the Chinook
winds give the lie, so to speak, to the
degrees of latitude, and cause a climatic
mildness in which flourish certain varieties of peaches, apricots, grapes and
some other fruits that are generally regarded as almost semi-tropical. It is
predicted that within a few years Lulu
Island will become a wonderland of orchards. Several other sections are attracting attention for their promise in
fruit production. Some excellent varieties of apples are grown along the
coast of the mainland, and Vancouver
Island, which is just beginning to awaken to its possibilities, is already pouring
a wealth of fruit into British Columbia's horn of plenty.
In considering the outlook for the
fruit industry and its opportunities in
this Province the big factors to be remembered are that British Columbia
fruits have a high and steadily widening
reputation, that the markets for them
are constantly expanding, and that the
facilities for reaching the markets are
continually improving. The supply at
present is not large enotigh to supply
the demand of even the home people
and of those of the Canadian prairies.
Yet the East, and England, and Australia,   and   South   Africa,     are     calling:
more   and   more   insistently   for
>ntish
Columbia fruit. An apple dealer recently shipped from Vancouver to Australia
many thousands of boxes of apples
which he obtained in Oregon. He said
that  he would have  much  preferred  to
have consigned British Columbia apples,
but that, at the time, he could not obtain a sufficient quantity. One of the
largest fruit importing houses in Cape
Town, South Africa, has notified a fruit
growers' association here that next season they will want fifteen thousand cases
of our apples, and that each year will
probably see a large increase in the order.
People in civilized countries are eating fruit more and more, and more and
more the leading dealers in the big markets are turning toward the British Columbia product. In the fruit growing
centers there is great activity in keeping pace with this growing demand.
The Kootenay district and the Boundary district, which embraces the Okanagan, have grown this season about fifty-eight car-loads of apples, a production which is at least double that of last
year. Thousands of young orchards
will add their quota to the total in two
or three years, and the apple output will
probably be trebled yearly. This progressive movement in the fruit industry
is being materially aided by the provincial government, which/ in addition to
what it has already done for fruit growing has completed plans for establishing twenty-five demonstration orchards,
for the purpose of giving object lessons
in the best methods for obtaining the
largest returns for fruit labor and investment. For the purposes of the de-'
monstration orchards the Province has
been divided into five fruit growing districts.    Each of these will be in charge
of a horticulturist, and all will be under
the supervision of the chief horticulturist of the department of agriculture.
Vancouver Island and the lower mainland will constitute one of these districts, and will have six orchards, two
on the Island, one in the Delta, one
near Chilliwack and two in the Dewd-
ney riding. Another district will comprise Shuswap, Armstrong, Nicola, Salmon Arm, and Penneys, and will have
four orchards, two in the constituency
of Yale and two in that of Kamloops.
A third district will include Vernon,
Kelowna, Summerland, Pen-ticton and
Keremeos, and will have either three
or four orchards. The fourth district
is made up of the regions of the Arrow
Lakes, Kootenay, and the east Boundary. Arrow, Slocan and Kootenay
lakes will each have one orchard, and
there will be one near Cranbrook, one
at Windermere, one at Rossland, and
one at Midway. The fifth district will
embrace Northern British Columbia,
which will have two orchards, one in
the Kitsumkalum, and one at Lake
Lesse.
While these demonstration orchards
and the extensive new orchard lands
will greatly increase the fruit production of the Province, this will not lessen prices, but will enhance them, for
the reason that it will bring British Columbia fruit more strongly into the
world's markets, and will cause orders
in larger and larger volume to flow in
this direction. It will be many years,
if it ever happens at all, before growers
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here will be able to meet the full demand for the fine specimens of the Northern Spy, the Jonathan, the Wealthy,
the Yellow Newton, and the Spitzen-
berg, and other varieties, for which the
British Columbia orchards are already
famous.
These apples have all the qualities
which are essential in a meritorious
member of the family. It may be interesting to the beginner in apple lore to
know just what these attributes are. One
of the most important of them is the
richness of the apple, as distinguished
from insipidity. This richness is determined by the amount of sugar and malic
acid the fruit contains in proportion to
its other constituents. Another attribute is the flavor of the apple. This is
a quality distinct from its richness. It
is the perfume of the apple—a delightful
aroma gained from a qertain volatile oil
which all apples contain in greater or
less degree. A third feature is the firmness of the apple. It should be firm,
not spongy; crisp, not hard; tender,
not soft; and have a melting quality
without being too juicy. These characteristics of a good apple are dependent
upon its cell structure. A fourth attribute is the apple's color. This is not
a safe guide to the richness or flavor or
firmness of the fruit, but is an important factor in the selling quality. A
fifth consideration is the form of the
apple. Those which are nearly globular
are the most desirable because they are
better adapted to packing. A sixth feature is size and uniformity. Generally
speaking the size preferred has a diameter of about three inches and a
weight of from six to eight ounces. Uniformity in shape is advantageous for
the reason that it saves time and money.
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in sorting for shipment. A seventh
characteristic in judging an apple is the
skin. This should be smooth and tough,
but thin, because it is protection of this
kind that saves the fruit from the attacks of insects and renders it less liable to injury in handling and shipping.
The eighth consideration is one of the
core and seeds. The core should be
small and the seeds few, thus giving the
apple a greater proportion of the part
which is useful to man. A ninth consideration lies in the time of the maturity of the apple. It is desirable that
commercial varities in an orchard mature at about the same time, so that they
can be harvested all at once. The tenth
point is the adherence of the fruit to
the tree. If it has a weak stem it falls
to the ground, and is bruised if not unripe. This, of course, lessens the shipping product of an orchard. An attribute which might have been mentioned
sooner in the list has to do with the cul-
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inary qualities of the apple.- Those
which are sweet make insipid pies, but
are best for baking. Those which are
tart make the best pie and apple sauce.
A final characteristic, of' much importance in shipping*to distant markets, is
the staying quality of the apple. Those
which decay easily are not, of course,
as useful for the market as those which
.remain sound for longer periods. All-
apples are affected by climate and varying temperatures. Those which best resist these influences are naturally the
best   for   commercial   purposes.
The history of the apple, since the
time when Eve, in the Garden of Eden,
handed one to Adam, is full of interest,
but the story is a long one, and, to the
people of British Columbia, the apple's
future is more important than its past.
It represents one of our big hopes, and
presents sun-lit and happy opportunities.
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The Man Behind the Apple Show
By Joseph Herbert
A" LWAYS there is the man—
' the one man. A large work
may have many phases, and
engage a thousand minds,
but behind it all is the main
idea, the main plan, and this, if you trace
it out, leads to a single individuality.
Here we find the central power station,
so to speak,—the propelling thought, as
intangible in itself as any other, and yet
a force which has set, perhaps, a host of
human beings in motion. It is interesting to know about the source of the energy that is moving all these invisible
strings of life. Who is the man? What
is he? How did he happen to get into
a position where his brain throbs cause
so much stir?
A large number of persons have already been very busy over the first Canadian National Apple Show. It will
mean much in the near future and in
the far future. It will give an impulse
to apple growing in this Province which
will bear directly upon the lives of thousands, for whom it will open new paths
to prosperity and contentment. Appreciating the far reaching influence of this
first big celebration of the Canadian apple, we look for the man behind, and
find  him  easily.
He stands out in a crowd—a personality. He has, to begin with his appearance, the looks and manner of the West.
He wears a slouch hat, and his hair is a
trifle long behind, although it is not noticeable in front. He has a flowing and
graceful contour of mustache, the prominent nose and chin, the optimistic eye,
the breezy manner, and the lengthy slim-
ness which seem to be typical of the son
of the Golden West, as we know him in
looks, and see him, in these days, too
infrequently. Yet Maxwell Smith, more
western than most westerners, was transplanted from the heather. He was born
in Scotland, but was a very young sapling when his parents brought him across
the ocean to a farm in northwestern Ontario, and set him out, as it were, to absorb the sunshine.
It is evident that he absorbed a good
deal of it. This warmth for the source
of life has been transmuted in Mr. Smith
into enthusiasm, and this is the chief
reason why he is the man behind the
British Columbia apple. It requires no
great keenness in reading human nature
to know, upon short acquaintance, that
when Mr. Smith really becomes interested in a thing he becomes enthusiastic.
His interest in the apple began in the
days of long ago back in his father's
MAXWELL SMITH, FRUIT ENTHUSIAST AND MANAGER OF THE APPLE SHOW
Ontario orchard. There were occasions
when his interest was too great, when,
being immature himself, he disturbed the
apple when it, too, was immature, with
the result that the apple punished him.
But he does not hold this against it now.
He gives it all honor.
Since enthusiasm is born of imagination, Mr. Smith has the seeing eye
which has enabled him to perceive thousands of orchards and millions of red
apples where now there are only woods
and -tones. He is not in the habit, however, of spending much time among the
pictures of imagination. He is too busy
turning them into actualities. He realized a good while ago that to bring the
apple into its own in Canada in
general     and     British     Columbia     in
particular, its trumpet must be
blown; the people of the world must
be told that no better apple is grown on
earth, and that in the apple lie golden
opportunities for those who will come
and take advantage of them. Hence
the first Canadian National Apple Show.
It was Mr. Smith's idea—a seed of
thought which sprouted in his mind two
years ago. The soil for this particular
seed happened to be especially rich.
No irrigation was required. The sun
of enthusiasm shone upon it, and it had
become robust by the time Mr. Smith
brought it to the public gaze. Then he
had to fight for it, as is usually the case
when an infant idea that has any element of newness in it is brought to the
attention of a callous world. There
were plenty of people who could not sec Page 16
any fruit on this tree, and, with that confident wisdom which reaches its limit at
the end of the nose, they decided that
because the fruit was not already there,
the  tree  was  not  worth  cultivating.
This often happens. The earth is unfortunately cumbered with a large number of persons who, if left to their own
devices, would not have advanced beyond the stone age. Their great defect
is a lack of imagination. They cannot
help it, but they are not interesting, so
we will forget them as speedily as possible and pass to those, who, in the case
of the apple show, could see, when it
was pointed out to them, a great expanse
of orchards along the horizon of the future, and could see the •"Usefulness of the
show in making these orchards real.
They helped to cultivate this sapling of,
an idea. In two years it has matured,-,
and we see its fruit, the biggest apple
show ever held anywhere.
The man behind it is not as eloquent
as many when asked to talk about himself. He told me briefly that he grew
to young manhood on the Ontario farm,
and then went to the western regions of
the United States, where he followed
commercial pursuits for a number of
years. Ontario called to him, and he returned, engaging in the publishing business in Toronto. But he had become a
westerner in spirit, and Toronto was already too effete. He struck out for the
Last West eighteen years ago, and ever
since then his home has been in Vancouver. The fire burns brightly on his hearth
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and is reflected in the eyes of his wife
and children. When you visit him of
an evening in the heart of his family
the apples are passed around. It is the
simple life, as becomes a man who has
devoted his  life  to fruit.
For seven years Mr. Smith was provincial fruit inspector, appointed by the
Dominion Government. During this period he did much to improve the quality
of British Columbia fruit. There had
been carelessness and even deception in
packing for the market. Some of the
farmers could have been prosecuted, but
few were, for the reason that Inspector
Smith had a better way. He labored
with the growers, lectured them,
instructed them, carried on continually a campaign of education calculated to prove that absolutely legitimate methods in preparing fruit for
the market, and careful and approved
methods in growing, constitute by far
the best policy not only for the industry
as a whole, but also for the individual
grower. In this work he did not spare
himself. He has been known to travel
two hundred miles to point to a single fruit farmer, by moral suasion, the
error of his ways. The results more
than justified the labor. A large part
of the high reputation of British Columbia fruits in the great markets has been
due to this campaign of education.
But one is not told so by Mr. Smith.
When you lead him around to the sub-
ject of himself he becomes  evasive and
f910
swings back as quickly as possible to
the fertile theme of the apple. You
learn a great deal that is full of interest
even to the man who merely eats apples. You learn of the remarkable and!
steady increase in the consumption of
apples, of markets which are growing so»
big that there is no chance of ever glutting them, of a reciprocal trade in apples between British Columbia and Australia, since the harvest time here is*
planting time there; of two million acres'
of land in British Columbia which are
highly favorable for orchards, of a thousand and one facts about the apple. One
of the points which Mr. Smith emphasizes in his apple talks is that there are
twenty-four hundred varieties grown in
Canada where it would be better if
there were only twenty-four. He strongly advises the growers of the different
districts to concentrate upon those varieties which flourish best in these districts. In British Columbia, for instance,
we should confine ourselves mainly to
the Yellow Newtown Pippin, the Grimes
Golden, the King of Tompkins, and the
Spitzenberg. By careful devotion to
these important members of the apple
family, says Mr. Smith, they can be
made to attain an excellence here which
will be unsurpassed anywhere, and
equalled in extremely few sections of the
globe. People throughout the civilized
world will want them. Already- fine,
they are the harbingers of a prosperity
which will be even greater than that of
the   British   Columbia   of   today.
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Opportunities in Forest Products
British Columbia will have the World's Greatest
Lumber Industry
By Judson F. Clark, Ph. D.
Bi RITISH  COLUMBIA is  still
distinctly   in   the   pioneering
stage—the    stage    when    the
disproportion   of   natural   resources  to  population  intoxicates the mind and holds out
opportunities  for the  capable  and energetic which are but dreams and memories in the older provinces and states.
In no department of industry are the
opportunities for men with brains and
capital, or even with brains without the
capital, greater than in the line of forest
products.
In the development of the lumber industry in the neighboring State of
Washington we see the promise of the
future of the industry in British Columbia. In 1880 the value of the product
of the lumber industry of Washington
was $1,700,000; in 1890, $17,500,000; in
1900, $30,300,000; in 1907, $100,000,000.
This year the value of our forest products will be about $18,000,000, or equal
to that of Washington in 1890. In seventeen years (1890-1907) Washington increased her lumber output sixfold and
rose from a very minor position as a
lumber producing state to a position at
the top of the list as the greatest lumber
producing state in the world, a position
of distinction which she has since retained  and  is  likely to retain until dis-
NOTE:—Few men on this continent are
as well qualified to write of the timber and
lumber industry as is Dr. Clark. With an
extensive practical experience he combines
a very unusual technical training in forestry.
After his graduation from the agricultural
college of the University of Toronto, he
taught forestry in this college, and when
Cornell University established in 1898, the
first school of forestry in the United States,
Dr. Clark was invited to teach forestry there.
He rose to a full professorship at Cornell
in 1901, and for the purpose of obtaining as
comprehensive a knowledge as possible of
forestry, he went to Europe and spent several
months in a close study of the methods
which have been evolved from hundreds of
years of experience in conserving the great
forests of Germany and other parts of the
continent. In 1903 he went to Washington,
D. C, as an expert on the staff of the United
States Forest Service. He was Provincial
Forester of Ontario from 1904 to 1906, when
he came to British Columbia, where he has
been managing director of the Continental
Timber Company of Vancouver, secretary-
treasurer of the British Columbia Timber
and Forestry Chamber of Commerce, and
consulting forester of the B. C. Lumber,
Logging & Forestry Association. In response
to a strong demand in Vancouver for scientific instruction on the best methods for conserving the great timber lands of British
Columbia, Doctor Clark has within a few
weeks taken a class in forestry which has
been organized under the auspices of the
Vancouver Board of Education.—Editor.
(Natural Resource Series, No. 1)
placed   by   British   Columbia   about   ten
years   hence.
British Columbia's advance to a preeminent position among the lumber and
paper producing countries of the world
is assured by its forest resources and by
the development of its markets and
transportation facilities. These same
considerations also assure a much more
rapid development than was realized in
the State of Washington.
British Columbia's resources in standing timber, taken in all three aspects of
quality, quantity, and price, defy competition. As in Washington, the Douglas Fir is the most important tree on
the southern portion of the coast. It
frequently exceeds two hundred and fifty
feet in height and reaches fifteen feet
in diameter. In general, however, it
runs from three to six feet in diameter
and cuts from one hundred to two hundred lineal feet of logs. In quality of
wood it resembles the Southern Yellow
Pine, but, of course, gives much larger
dimensions and a much larger proportion of clear lumber.
Next to the Fir in importance is the
Giant Arbor Vitae, or Red Cedar. It
reaches a height of about one hundred
and seventy feet, and averages three to
six feet in diameter, though occasionally
much larger. Already it supplies about
seventy per cent, of the shingles consumed in Canada and the United States.
The Spruce, which replaces the Douglas Fir on the northern coast, is at
least equal to the best spruce elsewhere
for pulp purposes, and on.account of its
large size, gives a very much larger proportion of clear lumber. The Western
Hemlock and the Balsam are trees of
great size and beauty, and further excell
their eastern cousins, the former by an
entire absence of shake and brashiness
of grain, and the latter by its uniform
soundness.
The sixth and only other important
tree of the coast forests is the Cypress
or Yellow Cedar. It has all the good
qualities of the cedars, including great
durability and evenness of texture, and
possesses in addition a degree of
strength and elasticity not to be found
in any cedar. It is also a very beauti
ful wood. Without doubt it is the coming canoe and b,oa$ builders' wood of the
continent.
But forests, no matter how magnificent, must await the development of
markets and of transportation facilities
before a great lumber industry may
arise. British Columbia has been waiting in this sense for many centuries, but
her day has now come. The lumber
consumption of the world is rapidly decimating its resources in standing timber. North America, east of the mountains, is by far the greatest lumber market, consuming, in fact, more than all
the rest of the world combined. Nor has
this enormous demand shown any tendency to decrease with advancing prices;
on the contrary, it has more than kept
pace with the increase in population, and
the latest statistics indicate a per capita
consumption in North America of about
four hundred cubic feet of wood, including five hundred feet board measure of
sawn lumber. On the other hand, the
diminishing of the forest resources of
Eastern America has reached an acute
stage. Three-fourths of the remaining
forest resources of the continent lie
west of the Rockies, while nine-tenths
of the markets lie to the east.
So much for the vast and growing
hunger for wood products in the East,
and the wonderful forest resources of
the West. A word as to transportation
developments. Already the products of
the British Columbia forests—notwithstanding   our   limited   rail   facilities   and
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a freight cost of all the way up to $25
per M.—reach every important market.
With the advent in the near future of
the Grand Trunk Pacific, the Canadian
Northern and other projected railroads,
our rail facilities will be at least trebled
and perhaps more than quadrupled,
while a veritable revolution will be
wrought by the completion in 1914 of
the Panama Canal. The canal will reduce the distance from Vancouver to
New York by water from nearly fourteen thousand miles to less than six
thousand miles. It will also convert it
from a sailing to a steam route, cheap
such as should interest (1) the large
investor who desires a field for investment, giving large returns with small
risk; (2) the investor of moderate means
who wishes to conduct a business which
will give profitable employment for his
capital and at the same time, ample
scope for his own activities; and (3) the
man of brains and energy who has no
financial backing, but who has a lot of
capital in the way of confidence in himself and in the country.
For the large investor British Columbia timber lands present at the present
time one of the safest and most profit
ing value of standing timber has made
its ownership about the most consistently profitable of all lines of American investment. Standing timber has been increasing in value for half a century without a set-back. At present the world's
supply of timber is being cut some threefold faster than it is being renewed by
growth. The stumpage values of the
leading timbers of North America east
of the mountains. have increased from
thirty to ninety cents or more per thousand feet board measure per annum
during recent years; the average for all
soft woods being: more than  fifty cents
f
BITS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FORESTS
coaling being available, thus reducing
the time in transit, which is now from
four to seven months, to less than thirty
days, with a corresponding cut in interest and a still larger cut in insurance
cost. More important still, perhaps, it
will enable eastern builders and other
lumber users to have orders for special
purposes shipped by water with a much
greater certainty of prompt delivery
than can be hoped for by rail. Many
hope to see the present freight rates of
from $12 to $16 per M around Cape
Home cut in half when the Canal is
opened. A saving of one-fourth of the
present rates would revolutionize the
lumber industry of the British Columbia
coast.
The opportunities presented by present conditions in the development of the
British   Columbia   lumber   industry   are
able fields. British Columbia tide-water
timber lands are unusually safe in regard
to the only serious risk, the fire hazard.
This is due to the heavy rainfall, ranging from sixty-four to one hundred and
twenty inches annually, and the almost
eternal dampness of the dense forests.
The topography, too, presents barriers
to the running of fires over large areas.
Furthermore, the durability and large
size of the Douglas Fir and the Red
Cedar, together with the comparative
absence of injurious boring insects on
the burned-over lands, make it possible to log these timbers for many
years after they have been killed by fire.
The Red Cedar is especially good in this
respect and is sawn into the finest of
lumber and shingles fifty years after being killed by fire. It is bound to be profitable, as for half a century the increas-
per M per annum. What has become
history east of the mountains will certainly become fact on the Pacific Coast
upon the completion of the Panama
Canal. This indicates an enormous return for stumpage at $2 per M, but first-
class stumpage may still be secured for
$1, or even less, a figure which may well
be regarded as nominal when the high
quality of the timber is considered.
The doubling, trebling and quadrupling of the logging and manufacturing
facilities during the coming decade will
also offer large scope for the investment
of capital. This will be an especially attractive field for the far-sighted men
who will have earlier secured a suitable
reserve of raw material. An earnest
of what is to come along these
lines is the completion last year of one
of the largest sawmills in the world on
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the Fraser River, and the present building, at a cost of several millions, of a
very large and strictly up-to-date paper
mill at Powell River.
But the door of opportunity is open
not alone to the investor of large means.
The British Columbia coast is peculiar
in the amazing length of its coast line
and the wonderful series of protected
inside channels which admit of cheap
towage of logs to central points for
manufacture. These waterways are
bordered with timber tracts, many of
which are of small size and therefore
available for the men of moderate means
who are looking for a start in business.
Advantage has been taken of these favorable conditions and the coast is already dotted with small logging outfits.
Opportunity in this direction will be
open for some years to come, but all
the easy logging opportunities will,
eventually have been worked, and logging will have passed into hands financially strong enough to build railways
and other expensive developments. Another opportunity for the man of limited capital will have come when imminent exhaustion of their own cedar resources   will    have    forced    the   United
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A BIT OF TIMBER
States to come to British Columbia for
their shingles. If this has not already
come before the Panama Canal is completed it will then be assured, and small
shingle mills will presently be found
dotting the coast, utilizing the vast quan
tities of cedar now left as waste on the
slashings.
But the great future of the lumber industry of British Columbia will assure
large opportunity for the man of brains
and energy, although without capital
other than confidence in himself and the
country. The opportunities will range
from that of logging camp foreman or
sales agent, to that of manager of large
enterprises. A field which has as yet
hardly opened, but which must in future
grow Idfge and ever larger, is that of
forest engineering. Undoubtedly the
time is at hand when the Provincial
Government will employ technically
trained men to look after the public forest interests. Private owners and operators will follow suit just as soon as they
see that it is profitable to do so. Undoubtedly the course of events will follow closely the story of developments
in the United States, where serious inroads have been made in the staff of the
United States Forest Service by the lumbermen east, south, and west, who are
willing to pay more liberally and advance more rapidly capable forest engineers than is practicable in the government  service.
British Columbia in Moving Pictures
An Episode in the Work of Advertising the Province
Visually to Twenty Millions of People
By Norman S. Rankin
Author of " Behind the Scenes," " Moving Pictures of the Prairie," etc.
A GROUP of people, gathered
on a float, beneath the
bridge that crosses the Gorge
near Victoria, were gesticulating wildly as I came up,
and with faces indicative of excitement,
surprise, hope and despair, fervently implored some invisible person to greater
effort.
"Come on, Herb," they yelled encouragingly, "Come on, Old Man! Come on!
For Heaven's sake put your back into
it,  and   push  her   along;    don't  let  up;
NOTK: This sketch is a description of
one of many incidents in a sojourn in British
Columbia late last summer of members of
the Edison Moving Picture Company of New
York City, who were brought across Canada
from Montreal by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, to portray to the world at
large the resources and attractions of the
Western Provinces. Each of the series of
moving pictures, made for this purpose, tells
a story and at the same time illustrates the
salient features of some important industry.
The pictures will be displayed in the great
majority of moving pictures of this continent
and England, and, viewed by between fifteen
and twenty millions of people, will constitute
the best advertising British Columbia has
ever had. The pictures will be seen in Vancouver, Victoria and other cities here before
the first of the year.—Editor.
stick to it; stick to it, and you'll win."
They waved their handkerchiefs and
hats, swaying their bodies to and fro
in   their   excitement,   in   their   keen   de
sire  to  urge  this   somebody  on  to  victory.
I looked at them in amazement;   uncomprehending;   bewildered.    What was
THE OLD AND THE NEW—INDIANS PREPARING TO RACE
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happening? Was I awake or dreaming,
or had I got into a lunatic asylum by
mistake? It was an extraordinary performance. Here were fifteen or twenty
people—nice looking, well-dressed people—staring intensely at the blank, sloping face of the river bank—staring at
nothing, absolutely nothing, and agonizingly beseeching an invisible "Herb"
to "come on and win  out."
Win   out   what?       Who   was   Herb?
What was he doing?    Where was he to
come, and how?
The Gorge on Vancouver Island, close
to Victoria, is one of the most beautiful spots of that locality; a summer recreation grounds, and pleasure park; a
boating and bathing resort, a picturesque drive. For some miles from the
capital, it stretches inland between wooded park-like banks, which rise to a fair
height on either side. Charming homes,
and pretty, cosy bungalows, line its
course, each with its brightly colored
boat house, half in and half out of the
water.
The bridge across the Gorge, at the
point where the banks narrow and force
the turbulent waters in a seething mass
headlong through, was crowded with
interested and surprised spectators,
many of whom, like myself, strained
their eyes in astonishment at what was
going on. They, like myself, had evidently never seen anything like this
performance.
"For Heaven's sake,". I couldn't help
exclaiming, as I slowly wedged myself
to a point of vantage, "have all those
people gone mad? Am I foolish, or
what? Is that animated mob composed
of human beings, or crazy people? Do
they see something that we don't see,
or that I don't see? Can you see anything to cheer at? Do you see any
"Herb" to howl at?"
"Of course they do," said somebody,
a spectator at my side, "of course they
do, but then, they're only the actors of
a moving picture company rehearsing a
SOME OF THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY AND GUESTS
part; they're the audience urging on
their favorite to renewed effort in the
Indian canoe race. They don't really see
anything, of course, but in their imagination they do; they are witnessing the
start and finish of a tremendously exciting contest, and when that scene is
thrown on the screen to the audience,
following the pictures of the race itself,
it will put a fitting climax to a very attractive film story. When that "crazy
mob" get the part down to the satisfaction of the extremely exacting stage
manager, they'll finally play it off before the moving picture camera. See
him  over there to  the  right?"
I drew a deep breath of relief.
"Well"" I answered with a sense of satisfaction at the information. "I surely
am glad to know my mental state is in
no way deranged. I seriously feared it
was. I truly did. I would not have
been surprised to have next seen snakes
and crawling things."
"Now, you watch," said my volunteer
informant, "now you watch, and you'll
see the next scene, which properly
comes   before   the    one   we   have   just
MOVING PICTURE CAMERA IN POSITION FOR A PICTURE
viewed. In this moving picture business, the various scenes are played out
irrespective of their numerical position,
when and where is most convenient.
The stories are prepared beforehand,
with the scenes all laid out and numbered, so that any one may be taken at
any place. The detail and characters in
each scene are also arranged and notice
given to the players so that after the
stage manager looks over the ground
and decides up-on the location, all he
has to do, is say, "Scene So and So,"
and prior to its transmission to the camera, hold a rehearsal. The players immediately know, from their advice
sheets, who is comprised in the picture,
what dress they must wear, and what
their cues are. They are then put
through a stiff rehearsal, one or ten
times, as the case may demand, and the
scene is then run off on the film.
"Before you came up," went on my
companion, "they held most of the race
scenes; the start, two intermediate
views, and a closely contested spurt. See
the Indians over there in their canoes
resting after their last strenuous exertions."
I looked in the direction indicated,
and saw what he pointed out, three long,
narrow, rakish looking dugouts, each
with its crew of eleven dusky Indians,
stripped to the waist, and leaning on
their broad, light paddles. Around them
on the water, circled all descriptions of
pleasure boats, light Peterboro canoes,
gasoline launches, speedy power cruisers,  and  sailing skiffs.
Such a scene as one would see at
any popular summer resort in any part
of America, but nevertheless remarkable in one respect. On one hand, the
ancient dugouts with their crews of
dusky Songhee Indians, stolid, indifferent, stoical; on the other, the most up-
to-date, modern pleasure craft, light,
frail and graceful, filled with freights of
pretty,    attractive    girls,    gay   in    their 1910
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bright summer clothes-, and" attentive,
athletic young men in spotless flannels.
Nor did the contrast fail to draw the
attention of the spectators. Here was
the ancient and the modern, in the living man, side by side, in as great a contrast as were the Indian tepees or shacks
and that most modern and comfortable
of Canadian hostelries, the "Empress
Hotel."
"There they go again," yelled a small
boy excitedly, from his perch in a tree
nearby, "there they go. Watch 'em, everybody. Whoop-ee! Hurrah! Ler 'er
go, Gallagher.    Let 'er go."
The three canoes had, by this time,
lined up across the Gorge, about a hundred yards down, preparatory to a spirited finish under the bridge, the canoe
with "Herb" in it being nearest. He
was the only white man among the thirty-two Indians, and had his face and
hands stained, and was dressed to the
part. Needless to say, he was looked
upon with much suspicion by the rest
of his crew, who evidently failed to understand who and what he was. I discovered afterwards that Chief Cooper
of  the  Songhee  Tribe,  with  whom  the
arrangement to produce the Indians was
made, did not even to stop to explain to
his braves who "Herb" was; it was
enough for them that the Chief ordered
him into the canoe, and what did they
care anyhow? Behind, at an advantageous post, was posed the camera man,
ready to reel off the film at the proper
speed, when the director gave the word.
"Stand by," commanded the director
curtly, casting a wary eye over his stage
settings., "Stand by, everybody. Hey!
there," he shouted, waiving his hand
vigorously at a saucy little steam launch
that was slowly poking her nose across
the course, "Keep clear of the course,
please," and then, with a crack of the
pistol, thirty-three paddles spurned the
water at one time, and thirty-three bodies bent as one man. The canoes sprang
forward in a swirl of spray, flashing of
paddles and cheers from the spectators,
who, as well as the actor-audience, could
not help but be roused to enthusiasm by
so inspiring a sight. With "Herb's"
slightly in advance, they plunged past
the winning post, to a second crack of
the starter's revolver. This scene was
followed by a prize giving, and then the
whole  flotilla  made  off down  the  river
citywards,  as  ff nothing out: of the* ordinary had happened!-
"That's a revelation to me," I said to
my companion, as we wended our way
back to the hotel, "that's a great thing.
I didn't before realize what a wonderful
art motion photography is. Such a film
as that, run off before thousands of people in the East, will do more to advertise the West than a hundred lectures
will, yes, or a thousand, for that matter." "
"Yes," he assented, enthusiastically,
"it will indeed; I've followed closely
moving picture development, and I understand that this film, and others representing mining, fishing, ranching,
and other typical Western industries
will be exhibited before twenty millions
of people—in some ten thousand picture halls in the United States and Canada, and a like number in Great Britain
and Europe."
"The West itself moves fast these
days," I answered him, and with balloons, aeroplanes, automobiles and moving pictures, this might fitly be entitled
"The Moving Age."
Success in Small Farming
N my last article on this subject, which appeared in the
August number of Opportunities I dealt with the questions of the size of the holding, the labor problem, the advisability
of locating near growing cities, and the
amount of money necessary to start
with.
I pointed out that five acres of land is
enough for one man to develop. Ten
acres is certainly the most any novice
should attempt to farm, the chief reason
being, as I mentioned before, the difficulty of obtaining labor.
No one should commence with less
than £200, or $1,000 capital. This is the
least amount one can possibly succeed
on, and then only by well sustained industry and grit.
The price of good land varies from
$100 to $250 an acre, uncleared. By uncleared I mean land covered with trees
and bush, and which accordingly must
be cleared before it can be ploughed.
As to how long it would take one to
clear ten acres, we can only say; it depends on the man entirely. A healthy
man with moderate strength and little
skill would need at least eighteen
months to thoroughly clear ten acres of
land.
By Thompson Tinn
Many readers will immediately exclaim,—have we to wait eighteen months
before even commencing to raise produce? Not by any means. Most beginners buy as many hens as they can, and
have a source of revenue from the start.
Good hens cost on an average $1.50
each, and each hen ought to give at
least $2 yearly profit. Thus, two
hundred and fifty hens ought, with ordinary care, to produce a revenue of
$500 a year.
After the settler has built himself a
small habitation his next work should
be to clear enough land to erect outhouses  in which  to keep  his  hens.
This can be done in the first six
months. Thus, after this period, one
can count on an income. Revenue can
be obtained in other ways if the settler
felt uncertain about his ability to successfully  run  a   small   chicken  farm.
Employment can always be obtained
in the district at such work as road construction, building road beds of railways, and irrigation developments. Labor of this sort is well paid, the average
being $2.50 per day and the demand far
exceeding the supply.
In his spare time a man can build his
own shack and clear his land by degrees, and at the same time "keep the
pot boiling" by doing work of this sort.
Settlers always have the preference in
improvement and development work.
Therefore, if a man comes out with
enough money to make a year's payment on his purchase of ten acres, say
$500, and has the balance of $500 to buy
lumber to build his small shack and
outhouses, he can count on earning and
saving sufficient by his daily labor to
meet future payments on his land and
commence to stock his farmstead as his
circumstances and desire direct.
The great fact which cannot be too
strongly insisted on is that hard and even severe toil is demanded, of the man
who sets out and succeeds at this branch
of human  effort.
But the reward is well worth it. In
two years his homestead should be paid
for. In five years at the most by working only in spare time his land should
be all cleared and producing. Then one
can look forward to happy, healthy labor not too arduous, a source of income
as sure as any in the world, and an income large enough to give the owner
sufficient margin to enjoy his independent, free life, no matter how hardly won.
From ten acres of good -land well
tilled there should be a revenue of at
least $3,000 a year. And the more labor expended on the land the more valuable it becomes.    Surely such a goal is Page 22
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worth a great effort, in the first years of
toil there is always the bright future
ahead, giving heart and hope to the
toiler.
In future articles we shall deal with
the possible revenues from different
small fruits and vegetables, In atty ease
We must impress upon our readers the
fact that these estimates are only made
from what we know is done. We cannot guarantee to everyone that they
will do the same, for the simple reason
that human nature is too variable a
quantity. But We do say, and say it
emphatically, that if any healthy man
begins with the clear conviction that he
has to do five years hard, earnest work
and is willing to do it, then success is
certain. And to secure a source of income which makes him independent for
the rest of his life by following at his
own time and will the vocation of the
small farmer is surely worth five years
hard toil of any man's life.
Irrigation in British Columbia
Water is Bringing Rich Producton to Great
Areas of Land
HE activities of the Western
Canada Irrigation Association
are of the utmost importance
to British Columbia. Most of
us can remember the time when
question of irrigation claimed the interest of very few. The representative attendance at the Kamloops convention
shows how widespread has become that
interest, and to what extent the importance of irrigation methods has
taken a hold upon everyone interested
in the welfare of the country. It is asserted by Prof. Carpenter that no less
than three-quarters of the food supply
of the world is grown by means of irrigation; therefore, stop these sources of
supply and the greater proportion of the
human race would be reduced to starvation. How important a part irrigation
plays in China and India is comparatively,
little known, but the wonderful irrigation
works on the Nile, made possible by
European skill and capital, have drawn
much attention to the subject. In Australia irrigated areas are increasing every
year. In the Murray river district water
is pumped three times before it reaches
the level where it is used in growing
grapes and currants.
These fruits are dried and shipped to
England as raisins and currants, and
dominate the London market. To come
nearer home, immense sums are now
spent in the semi-arid states of America
in making water available for the dry
and thirsty but fertile soil. From these
facts we learn two things; first of all the
importance of the subject and the amount
of skill and energy being exercised in
planning and carrying these works to a
successful issue, and, secondly, the favored position of Saskatchewan, Alberta,
and British Columbia in having so much
water so easily available for irrigation
purposes.
The fertility of the soil of the interior
of British Columbia, where water could
be put on it, was soon recognized by the
pioneers of fifty years ago and the creeks
were recorded under government regula
tion, an arrangement which worked very
well until an ever-increasing number of
settlers caused a shortage and bickerings, which frequently culminated in lawsuits. In this way the development of
the dry belt of the Province has been
seriously retarded.
The reasons are obvious. Every irrigator has been a law unto himself—a
very liberal law to himself, but a very
miserly one to his neighbors. The first
recorder may be an estimable man until
there is a water shortage; then he becomes a waterhog in the eyes of his
neighbors, who, if put in his place, would
act in exactly the same way as he does.
The mischief of it is that not one in a
hundred has ever given an hour's study
to the proper handling of water. Overflowing ditches, flooded arable land and
pastures turned into swamps have been
and still are the ethics of their irrigation,
and the scientist who would show a more
excellent way is politely, and not always
that, thrust aside, and the waste continues.
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This seems the more aggravating, because in the majority of cases, water from
the creeks is monopolized by agriculturists on the bottom lands within a
few feet of a mighty river or an extensive lake, every mile of which contains
enough water to flood the whole valley
and would, if utilized, leave the creeks
available for settlers on the higher levels.
To advance this view is to be met with
the emphatic statement that vested
rights must not be interfered with; in
other words, that a monoply purchased
twenty or thirty years ago for from |10 to
$25 must be maintained with all its
original advantage. Undoubtedly the
rights have become exceedingly valuable.
Should they not be taxed accordingly?
This alternative would be acceptable to
everybody but those holding the earlier
records, but a still better way would be
for the government to take the matter in.
hand and encourage the investment of
capital for pumping water by electricity
generated by the falls which are to be
found in nearly every district in the
Province.
It may be urged that private companies are already at work. This is true, in
a sense, and the Fruitlands Company of
Kamloops, the British Columbia Development Association at Penny's, the Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Company of Windermere, and the White Valley Irrigation Company in the Okanagan
valley, are fine examples of what can be
done in this respect.
If these estates can be made to pay
big salaries and dividends to their owners, surely the Provincial and Dominion
governments, the railway companies, the
important real estate owners could do
likewise for the multitudes they seek
to attract here. The feasibility of large
works of this character has been demonstrated by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's enterprise in Alberta.
The pity of it is that no counterpart of
J. S. Dennis is available to solve British
Columbia's difficulties on an equally large
scale, and at so moderate a cost that land
below the ditch is not appreciably raised
in price to the purchaser, while his water
rights—his beyond dispute—are held
without the slightest inconvenience to
his neighbor.
Victoria Council's Work for Good
By. C. Spofford
"Your   Excellency's   first  appearance  on
the Stage!"
S* O whispered the private secretary of Her Excellency, the
Countess of Aberdeen, as
surrounded by a group of
men and women prominent
in good works, "the first lady of our
Land" waited to go on the stage of the
Victoria Theatre one evening in November, 1894, to address a meeting of citizens on the object and methods of an
organization of which she was the founder and the national head, namely, The
Council of Women.
It was the one occasion in the history
of the theatre when every seat from the
orchestra to the gods was a "reserved"
—when standing room from lobby to
green room was at a premium. The interest centered no less, if not more, in
the distinguished speaker than in the
new woman's society of which she was
to  speak.
Through the instrumentality of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
Her Excellency had been prevailed upon to address a public meeting on the
occasion of her first vice-royal visit to
the Province, with a view to organizing
a Council in this city. And so impressed was the audience with the admirable
exposition of the advantages which
would -accrue through combining all the
women's societies in a community, into
one central body, that then and there a
provisional committee was appointed
and a week later the Victoria and Vancouver Island Local Council of Women
was organized, with nineteen societies
in affiliation, and officered by Mrs. (Col.)
Baker, president;   Mrs.  R. S. Day, vice-
president; Mrs. Edith Hilda Scaife, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Gordon
Grant, recording secretary; and Mrs. A.
E.  B.  Davie, treasurer.
Before the organization was fully on
its feet suggestions from various sources
were made as to questions of public interest with which the women of the city
might properly and successfully cope,
the first being a systematic relief of the
distress prevailing, consequent on the
trade depression existing at that time.
This appeal, touching as it did the key
note of womanly impulse and smypathy
resulted in the organization of a scheme
of associated charters known as The
Friendly Help Association, which, for
sixteen years, has continued to administer the charitable relief work of the city
in a most satisfactory manner.
Encouraged by the success of its initial undertaking, the Council went on
to other equally important work, as varied in nature as the requirements which
presented themselves. It secured an
amendment to the School Act, by which
women were made eligible as school
trustees, and thus enabled to demonstrate the ability, as well as the advisability of the mother, as well as the father, administering the educational affairs of the child. The Council also secured the enactment of the Children's
Protection Act, which gives to the Children's Aid Society the custody of children whose parents prove themselves incapable of their sacred responsibility. It
has exerted a strong influence for the
Shops Act, and for many other measures
which have been in the interest of the
Home   and   Childhood.
At an approximate cost of four hundred dollars the Council equipped a cen
ter for domestic science in the public
schools. For many years it gratuitously
managed the Woman's Department in
the Agricultural Exhibition, raising the
standard of handiwork of women so high
that it was equalled by few and excelled
by none in the Province or even the Dominion. The Council raised over one
thousand dollars for the Lady Minto
Maintenance Fund for Cottage Hospitals from which British Columbia was
largely benefiting, but toward the maintenance of which it had not contributed.
The mention of these efforts serves
only to indicate the nature of the work
undertaken, and the very wide scope of
operation of this unique organization of
women. Perhaps it greatest accomplishment has been that of providing a common platform on which may be met the
entire organized force of womanhood of
the community, where the purposes-and
activities of all the others may be learned, where each may learn to know the
leaders in the various lines of woman's
work, and gain the personal touch which
enlarges the vision and broadens the
sympathies of all, thus making each
a better worker in her own particular society. "I shall always
regret the years I have lived here
and have not known the splendid women
in all these socities," said one of the
Council's  first  presidents.
The membership of this Council has
grown from nineteen to thirty-five affiliated socities, which may be grouped as
religious, philanthropic, benevolent, and
fraternal. Each of these is endeavoring
in its own way to apply the Council's
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Some Phases of Women's Work
Among women who are devoting their
energies and lending their influence to
work for the common good in British
Columbia- the month of October has
been an active one. In Vancouver, Victoria, Nelson and other centers, there
have been numerous evidences of fresh
interest and enthusiasm with the coming of the autumn. The various clubs
and other organizations have seen material membership increases, and there
have been numerous developments
which indicate that this winter will bring
Trained nurses were appointed to visit
the schools. By their examination of
the children and advice to the mothers
a much better condition of the health
of children was brought about. But
it was seen that there was need for medical inspection. One morning in May
of this year sixty women attended a
meeting of the trustees. Their object
was to convince the board that it would
not be right to give the whole of the
work of school inspection into the hands
of a young medical  man.    As  a  conse-
man sang a suggestive song. Since that
more stringent measures had been adopted to keep little children from taking-
part in these entertainments.
Mrs. Huestis described the great loss
of life and illness which resulted from
the bad drinking water of Toronto.
Women had been instrumental in helping to procure the passing of a by-law
by a great majority authorizing measures to make the water pure. Now
they are agitating that more money
should be expended in hastening forward the work. They believed that the
loss due to the ravages of typhoid fever
in one season was greater than the
money needed to push the work to
more rapid completion.
MISS PERRIN'S FAREWELL RECEPTION TO VICTORIA L.C.W., AT BISHOP'S CLOSE ON RETURNING TO ENGLAND
the most tangible results yet seen in
the organized work of British Columbia women.
The efforts of the members of the
Vancouver and Victoria Local Councils
received a decided impetus through inspiring addresses delivered before the
women here by Mrs. Huestis, president
of the Toronto Local Council. Mrs. Huestis described the remarkable progress
of the work in her own city, and since
this work is identical with that in Vancouver and Victoria it was absorbingly
interesting and full of helpful suggestions. It was found, said Mrs. Huestis,
that of the forty-three thousand pupils
in the public schools of Toronto five
thousand were absent on an average every day. The women believed that
there was no good reason why there
should be on every day of the year five
thousand    sick    children    in    the    city.
quence of their representations Dr. Helen McMurchy was appointed to work
with Dr. Graham to conserve the health
of   Toronto   children.
Mentally defective children have
been removed to schools of their own
where their needs can be specially attended to and where they will not interfere with the progress of others.
Much had been said of evils of picture shows and as there are forty-eight
of these places of entertainment in Toronto, the Council felt that although
there was a city censorship the truth
should be known as to its effectiveness.
So on a given night council women very
quietly attended these places of amusement. Every precaution had been taken
to prevent their purpose being known.
Not an objectionable picture was thrown
on the canvas. But one little girl was
found too young to take  part and one
Of a similar nature and if possible
more importance was the establishment of milk depots and the reform of
sanitary conditions in the stables from
which Toronto gains its milk supply.
The statement of Dr. Bryce that 25,000
children in Canada die annually from
drinking impure milk has roused the
women as well as the government to
action. A commission was appointed
which presented an excellent report,
and  made  recommendations.
Mrs. Huestis showed tiny bottles of
the purest milk obtained for the
little ones. She told of the help of experts who examined the milk as to its
purity and praised the generosity of the
public who furnished the wherewithal
to pay the difference between the high
price charged for the sealed bottles of
pure milk and the "market price of ordinary  milk. 910
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In connection with milk depots lectures to mothers by doctors had been
; istituted and a dispensary opened
[/here needful medicines could be obtained.
On more than one occasion the physician had found that it was the mother and not the baby who needed the
iiilk most. The work done in procuring better houses was described. The
i'reed of the woman who, living a lux-
rious life, made fifty per cent, on her
lapital by renting dwellings unfit for
luman habitation and the inconsistency
,' f the church that owned similar proper-
y   was   spoken   of   with   scorn   by   the
ind-hearted lady. Many of these buildings had been pulled down and better
tnes erected.
This led to a consideration of the
life led by girls in these houses. What
was the use of curfew bells in such a
quarter. The women had appealed to
the employers for help in erecting
homes for the working girls, of whom
there were 40,000 in the city, $50,000
were raised and one home built and
another  proposed.
Mrs. Huestis then went on to show
the wonderful work that had been done
in establishing playgrounds in Toronto.
There were ten of these, which had
been opened within four years. The
appointment of a good committee and
supervisors, young, energetic and resourceful were the points insisted upon most by this lady who has the
happiness   of  children  at  heart.
Doings of the Women's Organizations
At a meeting held during the month
ty the  Vancouver   Local  Council,   Miss
Breeze,   who   has   had   much   experience
s  a  nurse  in  connection  with  medical
inspection  in  the  public  schools,   spoke
[nterestingly of this work.    The inspec-
orship,   said   the   speaker,   was   started
ve years  ago,  and  had  been  of  much
alue.   The inspection of each pupil only
equired  about one  minute,  there  being
bout ten thousand public school pupils
tn the city. It was decided that the usefulness of this work would be increased if
[here   could   be   someone   to   go   to   the
[lomes   of   the   pupils   and   instruct   the
parents    along    hygienic    lines.      Miss
preeze was accordingly appointed, after
[he plan  which   had   succeeded  well  in
[>ther   Canadian   and in American cities.
Mrs. W. H.  Griffin announced that  she
|vas   forming  a   collection   of   books   to
be sent to the provincial industrial school
[it  Point   Grey,   at   the   instance   of   the
[lelegates,  and  asked  if  the   ladies  who
had  suitable books  to  dispose  of  could
help her.    A letter was read from Capt.
'■ "oilier, thanking the ladies for the boys'
fames  sent  to  the  detention  home.
A   committee  was   organized   to   wait
npon the directors of the large wholesale
[ind retail firms throughout  the  city to
[iscertain in the event of technical train-
I ng  schools   being   established,   whether
^reference would be given applicants for
Positions who had attended those schools
or a period, and if, in consequence, re-
Inuneration   would   be   increased   should
f corresponding efficiency be noted.    The
hesult of this inquiry will be placed be-
I ore the commission which is to look into the  same, when it reaches  this  city.
The application of the Ladies' Aid of
St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, North
IV'ancouver,   for   affiliation   was   granted
find   the   following   new   members   were
lidded to the general list:   Mrs.    Chap-
pel, Mrs. A. F. Perry, Mrs. Edward
Stark, and Mrs. Fulger, of North Vancouver.
Women's Canadian Club
At the first annual meeting of the
Women's Canadian Club, Mrs. C. S. Douglas, of Vancouver, who was re-elected
president, expressed her hope for the
club in part as follows:
"My year's experience has inspired me
with the belief that this organization
will prove of great benefit in the upbuilding of the social and intellectual life
of this marvelous young city.
"To widen the influence of the club
and extend its benefits to a greater number, it should be made known to the
thousands of women who have come to
our city from all parts of Canada and
the Old World, many of them strangers in a strange land, that herein they
may make pleasant acquaintances and
form new friendships that will to some
extent- relieve the heartaches caused by
severance from old friends and associations, and I trust that every member of
the club will constitute herself a committee of one to carry out the idea, so
that at our next annual meeting we may
boast a membership not of hundreds, as
now, but of thousands, all actuated by
one common impulse to strengthen and
increase the love of Canada and our
Empire among our citizens, and to assist in the uplifting of the social and
intellectual  life  of our  city."
In its initial year the club has grown
from a nucleus of twenty members to
482. The election of officers resulted as
follows:
President, Mrs. C. S. Douglas, re-elected; first vice-president, Mrs. C. Gardiner Johnson; second vice-president,
Mrs. James Macauley;   third vice-presi
dent, Mrs. Jonathan Rogers; fourth vice-
president, Mrs. C. G. Henshaw; secretary, Mrs. J. J. Banfield; literary secretary, Mrs. C. R. Townley; treasurer,
Mrs. F. M. Cowperthwaite, with a committee composed of Mrs. MacKay Fripp,
Mrs. J. B. Mills, Mrs. Ewing Buchan,
Mrs. I O. Perry, Mrs. R. C. Stoddard,
Mrs. W. H. Griffin and Mrs. Alexander
Bethune.
Mrs. J. H. MacGill reported re the
proposition to erect a women's club
building, which was brought up in June
and laid over to be dealt with later.
Since then she has been visiting the different women's clubs to ascertain their
attitude and advocated the appointment
of two members of each organization
to confer on the matter.
In recognition of her many public
services and of the part she played in
the founding of the club, Mrs. M. A.
MacLean was made honorary president
for  life.
Work of Nelson Women
An indication of the public spirit of
the women of Nelson is seen in the good
work in the Nelson and District Women's Institute, which, under the administration of the new president, Mrs.
James Johnstone, has numerous plans
for women's work in Nelson and vicinity. The Institute has the same general aims as the Nelson Local Council of
Women, and works along the same lines
for the common good. The Nelson
Council was formed by Lady Aberdeen
in 1898. Since then it has engaged in
many activities for the advancement of
social conditions in Nelson, and has
been an important factor in the progress
of the community. To the work of its
members is due the public library in
Nelson. The women of the Council organized a Relief Society which has rendered aid to numerous unfortunate women and has proved to be of great usefulness in the community. The Council
brought pressure to bear upon the Provincial member of Parliament which resulted in a woman warden for the jail.
It has co-operated actively in the war
against tuberculosis, and has promoted
education in numerous general and
special lines. Several plans for work
this winter are beginning to take definite
form.
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Full of activity and zest is the
Local Council of Victoria, which is taking up numerous matters of importance.
In Victoria, moreover, there is a Woman's Parliament, which has become a
regular institution, which, in addition to
the monthly meetings, will hold annually
a public conference marked by much of
the pomp and ceremony which is characteristic of the meetings of the regular
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1910
Industrial Progress in British Columbia
A movement is under way to clear the
Columbia River for navigation for steamers from Portland to Nelson. This would
result in a great saving of freight rates
by Nelson business men and would put
the city on a sound footing as a distributing center in the Kootenay district
and Western Alberta.
In the Burnaby district is a big bog
and the substance beneath the brush is
peat, one of the best and cheapest of
fuels. There are millions of yards of it,
and it is now being shipped in bales like
those of hay to the extent of about
twenty-five tons a day to various points
in British Columbia. It has been chiefly
used thus far as bedding for horses, but
will be utilized more and more for producing heat.
It is said on good authority that several sections of British Columbia are
better adapted to the growing of grapes
than the famous vineyard localities of
Europe. A grape grower of long experience says he is convinced that British Columbia can produce the finest
quality of grapes that reach the market.
These grapes, he states, are better flavored, larger and more highly colored
than any produced in either California
or Central Europe.
The land known as the Crawford
Townsite has been purchased by the
McGoldric Lumber Co. for use as a logging station. The company is now ready
to proceed with the construction of its
mill at Fairview. Another mill in course
of construction is the Porto Rico. The
completion of this will give Nelson three
large mills and will assist the city very
materially in its progress toward a position as an important manufacturing center.
Engineers are now at work on surveys
for the project of The Canadian Collieries for the development of 50,000 horsepower on the Puntridge River in the
center of the Comox coal fields. This
power plant will cost about $1,000,000,
and construction will be started on it by
hundreds of workmen within a few
weeks.
Outfits are being rushed in for construction work on the Kettle Valley railway. There are now five camps along
the banks of the Coldwater river leading
out of Merritt and the clearing of the
right-of-way is completed for twenty
miles. Track-laying will start in two
months.
Plans for a dry-dock at Vancouver
have been filed with the minister of public works. They provide for a second-
class, which means that if the plans are
approved the company will be entitled to
a bonus of 3 1-2 per cent, on an expenditure of $2,500,000 for a period of twenty-five years. The dock will be to accommodate any vessel doing business
on the Pacific Coast. It will be over 600
feet long. Docks of the first or battleship class, such as it is proposed to build
at Esquimalt, get a subsidy of 3 1-2 per
cent, on an expenditure of four million
dollars for twenty-five years.
Orders meaning an expenditure of over $500,000 and calling for half the output of the Wire & Cable Company of
Montreal for the next six months as
well as a large proportion of that of the
Northern Electric Company of the same
city, have been sent East by the B. C.
Telephone Company, which is greatly increasing its equipment to meet the rapidly growing requirements of Vancouver. Over 250,000 feet, or nearly forty-
eight miles, of cable are required for
the purposes of the telephone company.
The capacity of the Northern Electric
Company, another telephone manufacturing firm with a plant in Montreal, is
also being severely taxed by the demands of the British Columbia Telephone Company. As many as fifty-two
switchboard sections have been asked
for Vancouver and North Vancouver, being more than the firm is Pt present making for the whole of the rest of Canada.
A meeting was held last month, in
Duncan, B. C, to discuss the project of
establishing a co-operative fruit canning
and packing establishment, and the following resolutions were passed unanimously:
"Whereas the Cowichan district can
and does produce most excellent fruit,
both of the large and small varieties;
and whereas at the present time there
are no means available for the proper
grading and packing of the same for
the market; and whereas there is a very
large amount of good clean but small
and sometimes overripe fruit wasted
each year; therefore be it resolved, that
this meeting herewith appoint a committee, for the purpose of procuring
facts, figures and all data necessary to
the establishment of a co-operative fruit
packing house, together with a canning
and jam factory in the Cowichan district.
The sheep industry in Canada has for
several years been on the decline, but a
movement is now on foot to revive ill
The Minister of Agriculture has appointed a committee to investigate the situation. They will visit all the provinces
and will interview important sheep men
and manufacturers as to the difficulties
and drawbacks which have heretofore
retarded the sheep industry. From the
information thus obtained a plan will be
formulated to put the growing of wool
on a firm basis.
In his annual report to stockholders,
General Manager William H. Parker, of
the British Columbia Packers' Association, says, in part: "WTe have purchased
the steamer Roman to supply halibut for
freezing and fresh shipments; she is the
finest vessel in the business. Owing to
there being three Canadian vessels fishing for halibut, the limited market is
kept well supplied and prices are lower.
We have purchased two more canneries
on the Skeena river—the Dominion and
Alexandra—and have rebuilt the Cun-
ingham cannery. The balance sheet
shows a net profit of $356,527 after deducting $45,123 for depreciation. We'
have on hand and consigned salmon valued at $83,835, and have used in preparation for the 1910 pack (including
amount inventories of materials) $641,-
134. We paid during the year 23 per
cent, in dividends to preferred shareholders.
The Dominion minister of public
works is now considering a huge dry-
dock project which has been placed before him by Messrs. Bullen, of Esquimalt, who are believed to be in association with a well known British shipbuilding firm of high standing.
Messrs. Bullen are applying for a subsidy for a dry-dock of the first, or largest class. It is proposed to be located
at Esquimalt and will cost .approximately three million dollars.
Mr. C. J. Johnson, of the Northern
Construction company, which has the
contract for construction of the western
end of the Canadian Northern railroad,
announces that despite the problem of
taking the Canadian Northern across the
Cascade mountains, he is under instruction from Mackenzie & Mann to go out
after the record and that the work now
is being framed for the fastest railway
construction campaign ever brought off
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OPPORTUNITIES
1910
A promising oil territory is that to the
west of the Flathead River, along the
International Boundary, where there are
a number of seepages of petroleum as
well as some highly promising seams of
coal. The oil prospects, however, are
now receiving more attention than the
coal, and one well has been sunk. In
view of the prospects for both oil and
coal the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound Railway Co. and also the Great
Northern Railway Co. have surveyors
on the ground. The Flathead Valley is
a fine open stretch of land about twelve
miles wide with a soil well adapted to     ter  to   connect  with   existing   Canadian
wheat raising and general farming. Northern services at  Edmonton.
Application will be made to the legislative assembly at its next session for
amendments to the charter of the Portland Canal Short Line Railway Company to authorize the company to extend its line from the terminus at present provided for, sixteen miles out of
Stewart in a general easterly- direction
to the eastern boundary of the province
at or near where the Peace River intersects the boundary, from which point it
may be extended under an Alberta char-
With the intention of conducting a
general steamship business, a local syndicate is now being formed which will
build a modern steam freighter here for
use in British Columbia coast waters.
The plan is to operate the new boat
wherever business offers and to build
or charter additional steamers whenever
necessary. The steamer will be 125 feet
long, 22 feet beam, 10 feet deep and will
have a carrying capacity of 150 tons
dead-weight.
British Columbia's Financial Strength
By D. Von Cramer
Among students of finance and close
observers of the causes and results that
lead to the rise and fall of commercial
prosperity, the phenomenal progress of
the Province of British Columbia affords at the present time a subject of
considerable  interest.
A decade ago this, the largest Province of the Dominion of Canada, was
comparatively unknown. At the present time of writing no country in the
world is more in the lime-light as a
Mecca for enterprise and the investment
of capital. A number of causes have
tendered to this remarkable state of affairs, and it is the purpose of this article to try to point out a few of the
leading ones.
In the first place, it may justly be said
that, from the financial standpoint at
least, it has been but recently discovered. Only within the last few years have
■ its stupendous possibilities really dawned upon the financial, and consequently
conservative world. Ever since this
awakening British Columbia has been
steadily establishing itself, not by flam-
buoyant advertising, but by definite results, as the last and gfeatest West.
Probably the most striking feature
about British Columbia is the fact that
it is almost absolutely self-contained. It
possesses within its own wide boundaries practically all of the essentials which
make a country independent of all other
countries. The range of its natural resources is more extensive than that of
any other. Almost every mineral of any
importance is found in abundance somewhere within its borders. Its coal and
iron deposits are among the greatest
known, and occur in close proximity to
each other in almost every instance,
which makes the economic production
of those greatest elements in a nation's
prosperity, iron and steel, a mere matter
of enterprise.    Huge deposits of copper
and lead have already been located. Valuable deposits of the precious metals,
gold, silver and platinum, are being partially developed and recent discoveries
are continually adding to the list. Mar-.
ble, practically all the economic clays,
and cement, are present in inexhaustible
quantities.
The timber resources of the Province
are known to be the greatest and of the
finest quality in the world, and the waters along its seven thousand miles of
coast line teem with valuable fish. Its
many splendid habors afford unequalled
facilities for shipping, and three Canadian transcontinentals have extended their
lines northward to get their share of the
enormous trade which is being rapidly
built up. Wonderful water powers pour
down British Columbia mountain sides.
This power when harnessed, will be capable of driving innumerable wheels of
industry. Over one hundred thousand
electrical'horse power is already produced within fifty miles of Vancouver,
and more is contemplated.
British Columbia's agricultural possibilities are almost boundless. All the
important cereals, with the exception of
rice, respond bountifully to a husbandman's plough. The fruit of the Province
is becoming noted in the markets, not
only of this continent but in the old land
and the antipodes. Hops, hemp, flax, tobacco, and many other valuable crops
are numbered among the list of its products, which list is receiving continually
additions as the various sections are
opened  up.
All that was required to bring its vast
potentialities to the front was the capital
necessary for development, and that has
been coming during the last few years,
and is coming now in an ever-increasing
stream, and from many directions. At
first Eastern Canada and the United
States sent their quota, somewhat timid
ly it is true, but with increasing courage. Then scattered British investors,
attracted largely by the name and the
climate, so much like their own, began
to invest their idle pounds. The results
were so satisfactory for the investors
that soon the attention of financiers
throughout the world began to be attracted, with the result that British Columbia has been steadily coming into her
own.
One of the most important features,
looked at both from a financial, capitalistic and investors' point of view, is the
government of a country. In British
Columbia financiers and investors cannot but be impressed by the careful manner in which the finances of the Province
have been handled, as can be seen by
the splendid financial report of the Minister of Finance, in which is shown a
surplus nearly sufficient to redeem the
bonded  indebtedness  of the  Province.
Coincident with  this marked develop-
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ment of her resources, important new
markets for the products seemed to rise
at just the psychological moment. The
awakening of Japan and China has created a market which is increasing by
leaps and bounds. Australia and New
Zealand are becoming more and more
important and the trade with the Orient
and the Antipodes is fast becoming a
great factor in British Columbia's wealth
producing power. The astonishing peopling of the prairies of the Canadian
West during the last few years has created a vast new market for practically
everything this Province can raise. Particularly is this the case in regard to
lumber, fruit and fish. In this connection it may be mentioned that the wheat
of Alberta and Saskatchewan is being
gradually diverted to its natural outlet,
westward, a by no means inconsiderable
item of trade. The New York and Boston markets, as well as those of Eastern Canada and the Orient, are clamoring for our food fishes, particularly halibut and salmon, and vast and increasing
quantities of them are being carried annually by special refrigerator trains and
boats.
Another factor of considerable moment in the upbuilding of the Province,
•financially and in even more important
ways, is the fact that, attracted by its
splendid climate and beautiful scenery,
many residents of the provinces and
of the Western States are coming in
continually, people who are coming here
for homes after accumulating a competence amid less congenial and harsher
surroundings. These naturally bring
their capital for investment, and this in
the aggregate amounts to a very large
sum.
As an instance of how much money
has found its way into British Columbia
during the last few years, it may be
pointed out that five years ago the
branch banks throughout the Province
were compelled to draw largely upon
the resources of their head offices in
the East, to supply the local demand for
ordinary business purposes. This is now
a thing of the past, as the local deposits
are proving quite sufficient to meet the
discounts, notwithstanding the vast expansion of trade which, during the same
period,  has  taken  place.
In this connection it is worth while to
note that, in striking contrast to the methods largely followed in the Western
States, the policy of business concerns
in British Columbia has been to follow
population and supply its needs as they
arise, rather than to establish branches
and wait the arrival of population. As
a result of this conservatism there is
hardly a line of business in the Province
which is not in a thoroughly sound and
flourishing condition. Permeated as the
atmosphere  undoubtedly is  with  West-
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ern optimism, it is none the less tempered with that business caution which
is a prevailing characteristic of both
Canadians, and British, as opposed to the
more reckless methods of their American neighbors.
One of the most powerful arguments
as to the future of British Columbia is
the probability that no matter how any
of the older countries may be affected
financially, only slight and temporary
setbacks can ©ccur here. Should there
be a slump in securities, caused by the
spectre of Ex-President Roosevelt's big
stick, the effect would be to frighten
capital northward to a land of promise
where the skies are clear. The passing
of the Lloyd-George budget in Great
Britain, by discouraging the buying of
real estate there and thus closing one of
the greatest avenues for investment, has
had the effect of sending millions of
pounds to Canada, and there are more
millions  on  the way.
As British Columbia appeals to the
British investor in many ways, it is get-
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ting and is likely to get, a lion's share.
The higher the taxes rise in Germany
and France, the more capital moves this
way. As a matter of fact, capital is being drawn here from all directions. Even if times should become hard throughout the Dominion itself, this would
scarcely effect British Columbia, as such
conditions would not prevent the influx
of capital from abroad, as this favored
Province, though united politically »nd
sentimentally with the rest, in reality
stands alone.
GOOD SEWING MACHINES.
One of the interesting exhibits at the
New Westminster Exhibition was that
of the Raymond sewing machine, which
commended itself to all housewives as
one of the most useful machines on the
market.
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OPPORTUNITIES
19/0
Steady Movement in Real Estate
Although there was a lull in real estate early in October, the market has
recovered buoyantly. It is beginning to
show the tonic effect of the arrival in
the city of farmers, lumberman and others from the North and East who have
completed their season's work and have
come to the centers of population with
money for investment. This upward
tendency is expected to continue until
well into December, when the approach
of the holiday season will cause a pause
until after the first of the year. From
that time until the summer lull the demand for good offerings at fair prices
will be, it is safe to say, at least as great
as the supply.
One of the strongest evidences of the
sound condition of British Columbia real
estate is seen in the great number of
buyers of sites for homes. A large majority of the persons who come to the
Pro-vince to look into the business prospects and opportunities here, quickly realize the stability and expanding nature
of British Columbia's prosperity, and
make arrangements for permanent settlement. Most of them belong to the
desirable class who want homes of their
own. The fact that a large proportion
of these have not sufficient capital for a
large investment in this direction has
created a special real estate need which
is being handled effectively by many of
the most progressive operators. The
latter offer to build bungalows and cottages to order for a small cash payment,
with the further payments made in the
same manner in which rent is paid. The
readiness -with which sales are -made on
these terms is one of the most significant elements of the real estate situation in Vancouver.
In regard to localities in the vicinity
of the metropolis which figured largely
in the market during October, Point
Grey, Port Mann, and South Vancouver
may be mentioned as perhaps the most
conspicuous. The development of Point
Grey has been given a strong and enduring impetus by its selection for the Provincial University, which will lend the
neighborhood a certain atmosphere very
desirable for residences. The great interest in Port Mann as an industrial center is as strong as ever and will continue
for a long time to come. The Patterson
Ranch, adjoining the Port Mann town-
site, was taken up practically in its entirety as soon as it was placed on the
market. There have been several other
important deals in this locality, and it
cannot be doubted that fortunes will be
made in Port Mann realty. South Vancouver property has been active in the
market as the result of the demand, mentioned above, for homes on easy payments.
The substantial character of real estate investment in Vancouver is indicated by the plans for new buildings. A
big project of this kind involves an expenditure, it is said, of $500,000 for a
twelve-story office building on the southwest corner of Pender and Homer
streets. Another building project which
is a significant indication of the growth
of the city is that for two additions to
the Hotel Vancouver. These consist of
large annexes and will be completed in
ample time for the large tourist patronage next summer.
A transaction of magnitude early in
the month, involved the purchase of the
property on the South-East corner of
Granville and Cordova streets for nearly
half a million dollars by a company of
local capitalists who propose to erect on
the plot a sixteen-story office building,
which, it is said, will be the most modern and handsomest structure of its kind
in the city.
Still another indication of the rapid
increase in population is found in the
plans of the Canadian Pacific Railway
for important terminal improvements.
The railroad company has found that
the volume of its traffic is growing to an
extent that has made the present passenger station wholly inadequate. The
intention is to either tear down this station or to materially enlarge it. A similar congested condition prevails on the
C. P. R. docks, and the company proposes to increase the wharfage facilities by
building additional piers west of the detention shed and beyond the site of the
pier completed last year. This company
has also announced an intention to double the capacity of the grain elevator
erected last season in order to handle its
growing business in exporting grain,
particularly to Mexico. Another building project which helps to tell the story
of the development of Vancouver is that
for a new opera house, which will be
conducted, it is said, under the auspices
of the celebrated firm of Klaw & Er-
langer of New York City, and will be
one of the finest theatres in the West.
Victoria will also have a beautiful new
temple of dramatic art. It is said that
work on these structures will be started
in the near future and that they will be
ready for the opening of the theatrical
season next year.
Among the Brokers
O. H. Bowman & Company, of Victoria, report that the demand for acreage
and lots in and around Victoria has been
very active during the last month. This
company also handles stocks and bonds,
and find great activity in Amalgamated
Development, Maricopa Oil and Portland Canal shares. From all indications
they look for a. busy winter in the stock
market.
Goddard & Son state that they have
made several deals in Port Mann. The
public appear to be grasping the opportunity to make money around the town-
site before it is put on the market by
auction next spring.
A firm which has its own property and
deals with it exclusively, is that of Latimer, Ney & McTavish. Ten days ago
they opened up a sub-division in the
south end which they called the Rosen-
burg division. This consisted of eighty
lots, and already the firm has disposed of
half of it at remunerative  prices.
Ross & Shaw are finding great interest
evinced in Sunnyside Orchard lands.
This is one of the most favorable localities in British Columbia for the growing
of fine fruits, one of its great advantages
being its close proximity to the large
markets.
Besides selling most of the lots in Lot
3, Block 17, H. W. Windle has sold
some acreage blocks and has prospects
of selling some more in the Point Grey
Municipality, especially Kerrisdale. The
talk of the University site being at Point
Grey has stimulated enquiries. He has
been told that the water mains will be
laid in five months from now, also that
rail laying and double tracking will soon
be started.
Northey & Wooley are the agents for
the fruit growers of Creston, which is
situated on Kootenay Lake. That Creston apples are among the finest grown
anywhere   will   be   proved   at   the   first 1910
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Canadian   Apple    Show,    at   which   the SALMON   ARM   FRUIT   LANDS.
Creston growers have a big exhibit.
Northey & Wooley are also handling
ten thousand acres of farm lands in the
Buckley Valley, and are doing an active
business in Vancouver realty.
One of the chief interests of the firm
of Foster & Fisher lies in Kerrisdale,
where the firm is building to order a
number of attractive bungalows. Kerrisdale has been somewhat held back by
a lack of city water, but seventy miles
of water pipe will have been laid by
spring, and Kerrisdale is on the eve of a
big   development.
Mr. Ralph S. Clark, manager of the
Imperial Realty Company, reports a recent sale of eighty feet of frontage on the
Marine Drive. His firm is specializing in
Kitsilano and Point Grey properties and
find a good demand for them. The company has also large holdings in South
Vancouver for which there is a steady,
though recently not very active, market.
Among those who have a keen appreciation of the great future of Chilliwack
is the firm of Alexander & McKay,
which has, within easy reach of the City
of Chilliwack, four hundred acres of
level land, dyked, drained, and ready for
the plough. Land like this is bound to
have a constantly increasing value because of the development of this whole
section—a development which has very
recently received a strong impetus from
the opening of the electric railway line
between Chilliwack and New Westminster.
WHEN  YOU WANT A HACK
It frequently happens that when one
most wants a hack or other conveyance
it is most difficult to find one. This difficulty is solved, however, by knowledge
of the fact that G. D. George has various
vehicles available for any customer both
day and night. Fix in your memory his
name and his telephone number, which
is 722, and you will never be at a loss
for a hack.
One of the most attractive fruit propositions in British Columbia is that of the
Salmon Arm Fruit and Land Company, of
Vancouver, which is transforming extensive tracts into orchard lands. These
will become highly productive and profitable to their owners because, as is
well known, Salmon Arm is one of the
best regions on the continent for apples
and other fruits. In addition to its financial opportunities in fruit growing,
the climate is delightful and the town
itself is very attractive. One of its features, characteristic of the whole community, is the Montbello Hotel, which, in
its comfort and general equipment, would
do justice to a big city.
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DUSTLESS FLOOR BRUSH.
A   unique   exhibit  at   the   New   West
minster Exhibition was that of the Dust-
less Floor Brush.    The practical demon-
„ jiron i-n(vnf!
stration given, together with the strong
endorsement of many Vancouver housekeepers, business men, schools and
churches, is convincing evidence of the
genuine worth of the article.     Che use of
DUSTLESS FLOOR BRUSH
a -small quantity of coal oil, supplied
through a reservoir, keeps the brush
moist enough to not only keep dust
down, but to actually clean the floor, as
though it were scrubbed. Mr. W. Carter,
44 Broadway, west, Vancouver, who is
the representative for British Columbia,
was in charge of the exhibit.
Grading for the construction of the
Kootenay Central railway is now in full
swing. It is not likely, however, that
the rails will be laid into Fort Steele before the snow flies, and possibly not before  the  spring.
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put into an attractive book by Mrs. Alice Ashworth Townley of Vancouver,
are not in the least startling, yet one
is in danger of sitting up late with Mrs.
Townley's book. When you reach the
end of one of the clever essays, another
beckons on the opposite page, and even
though the hands of the clock are pointing out the hour accusingly, you are apt
to succumb to the temptation.
This is because Mrs. Townley has
turned a bright light upon some of the
details in the picture of life which, for
many of us, have become blurred or
have been overlooked. We see afresh,
and gain a new insight into some of the
phases of the world around us. The
lonely bachelor, for instance, attains a
new understanding of the baby's outlook
upon life when Mrs. Townley tells about
it. Some of the true inwardness of sentiment, sympathy, the society column,
summer, the small boy, the barbar, the
minister and his wife, the householder,
and numerous other things and persons,
are exposed to the gaze in a manner
which cause smiles and a pleasant self-
appreciation due to a feeling that we
have realized all the time, though we
have never mentioned it, the truth of
what is pointed out. Several of the
sketches have a serious import which
gives them special value, like the one on
Infant Literature. This should be read
by every conscientious mother.
Mrs. Townley achieves her effectiveness through the medium of a clean-cut
and incisive style and a humor which is
never absent, though at times its form
is caustic. People who have out-grown
the products of the literary sensation
factories will find much to interest them
in the Opinions of Mary, which was published in 1909 by William Briggs,
Toronto.
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A City Made to
Imperial, on Point Roche, Will be a Centre of Industry
and Population
No longer do towns have to wait
many years for their development into
cities. Owing chiefly to great accumulations of capital and the big industries
of today, cities are now made to order.
This will be the case with Port Mann,
and it will also be the case with another
industrial center which is rising on the
horizon of the near future in close proximity to Vancouver. This city will be
called Imperial, and will be located near
Roche Point, on the north shore of Bur-
rard Inlet where the inlet makes a turn
almost at right angle and becomes
known as the North Arm. Roche Point,
within a few months, will be one of the
busiest  sections  of  the  continent.
The beginning of Imperial, the city-
to-be, may be traced to the brain of an
inventor, John J. Loughran, who has
obtained no less than one hundred and
fifty-four patents for sleeping car improvements, and who, having been able
to interest capital, came to Vancouver
about a year ago looking for a suitable
site for car shops. After numerous negotiations Mr. Loughran and his associates bought at Roche Point two hundred acres of ground, with about a mile
of water frontage. After acquiring this
land the company began to look around
for a townsite, and found one in the
property of the Rosslyn syndicate, consisting of three hundred acres and another half mile of water frontage. Here
will rise Imperial.
It will have a water frontage where
the largest vessels ever launched may
rest after their voyages on the seas. This,
of course, is a great asset for a young
community, and it has already brought
industrial prospects far beyond the first
ideas of Imperial. Because of its deep
water, Imperial will havq the million and
a half dollar drydock which has been
subsidized by the Dominion Government to the extent of $42,000 a year for
twenty-five years. When Imperial was
first contemplated there was no notion
of the dry dock. The promise of the
unborn city was great without this big
berth for ships. Now, of course, the
promise is  much  greater.
| For a number of years certain citizens of Vancouver have been devoting
much time and energy to the work of
procuring a drydock near the metropolis. They had succeeded in interesting
an important coterie of English capitalists, but when the latters' representative
came to Vancouver and inspected the
site which had been selected he "turned
it down" for the reason that in his op
inion it was too small for expansion in
the future. He examined the entire water front of Burrard Inlet in his search
for another site and found that Roche
Point offered by far the best facilities.
The company which had been promoting the project and the car company got
together. The corporations were combined, making a single company with
assets of not only the rich prospect in
car building but also with the subsidized drydock project. The car construction plans, in the meantime, were progressing steadily. A tract of land about
ten miles from the site of the shops,
rich in iron deposits, was acquired. Arrangements were made for the establishment near Point Roche of one of the
most modern saw mills in the world,
with a capacity of one hundred thousand 4*
year. The saw mill company will forfeit $25 a day if their mill is not running
by the first of next March. Very soon
the drydock will begin to take tangible
form.
To make assurance doubly sure that
Imperial will become an industrial center the capitalists behind it have adopted
a most effective plan for the bringing in
of other manufacturers. They offer to
any of those whose business is important enough to justify it, a site along
their seven thousand feet of waterfrontage free of charge. The manufacturer,
however, after showing that his plant
promises to be successful, must sign a
contract to the effect that he will employ continuously one skilled mechanic
for every two feet of waterfrontage he
takes up. At the end of six years he and the
company owning the water frontage will
give formal consideration to the value
of the site. If. they fail .to agree as to
this, the decision of an arbitrator will
be accepted as final. After four more
years the manufacturer may at his op-
\ tion   buy   the   property   at   the   price  so
IMPERIAL WILL HAVE A DRYDOCK LIKE THIS
feet of board measure for each ten hour
day. In connection with the saw mill,
plans were drawn up for the erection of
a new plant equipped for extracting all
the by-products of this and other mills.
In consideration of the granting to it of
four hundred feet of water frontage, the
mill company guaranteed to provide and
operate a car ferry with tracks extending
along the water front.
These plans are now becoming actualities. The initial steps are now being
taken for the actual construction of the
car shops, which, it has been announced,
will begin to rise before the first of the
fixed, without regard to its increase in
The object of this proposition to manufacturers is, of course, to attract to
the city of Imperial progressive and
thriving industries—industries which will
give employment to thousands, thus
causing Imperial and surrounding localities to develop rapidly into a center of
population. The company is already
preparing home sites. The whole area
has been laid out in accordance with
the latest and most approved plans for
cities. Imperial, instead of growing in
the old fashioned, slow and haphazard
way, is  being  made  to order. 1910
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between that property and the City of Vancouver. One of the best opportunities in British Columbia for
the Investor to get sure and quick returns for his money.
Lots are 50 and 60 feet wide, and a well graded road runs to every lot. Very easy clearing. Lots are
level, free from rocks and gullies, have a deep loam soil, and will have a view over the entire Inlet.
Prices : $300 to $500.    Terms:  One fifth cash, balance over two years.
When the industries located at Imperial are running full time, and the Second Narrows bridge is built,
these lots will be worth thousands of dollars each.
NOW is the time to buy. A good many lots are already sold. If you want to be sure of securing one
or more lots, send a deposit at once, and we shall select for you the best property left at the price you name.
These lots are going fast, therefore we reserve the right to refund your money if all lots are sold by the time
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The Kootenay Fruit Country
By C. W. Esmond, B. S. A.
Formerly Editor Maritime Farmer, later Associate Editor of the Northwest
Farmer, of Winnipeg, Man., now of Vancouver, B. C.
Though a citizen of British Columbia
I had been a stranger to the Kootenay
—had heard much, but had never seen
it. Sir Edmund Walker, President of
the Canadian Bank of Commerce, said:
"Few parts of the northern world will
give so generous a response to the labor applied to the land as British Columbia." I shall not attempt to discuss
his observation, but shall merely tell
what I saw, and you may judge of the
application of this statement to the
Kootenay.
You go into the Kootenay either from
Revelstoke on the C. P. R. main line at
the north, or by way of the Crow's Nest
branch of the C. P. R. from the south.
1 f entering from the States, you can
come in from Spokane over either the
C. P. R. or Great Northern. I enjoyed
the unsurpassed scenic trip from Revelstoke by rail down the Columbia River
Valley to Arrowhead, and thence by
steamer down the Arrow Lakes. The
Arrow Lakes are merely an expansion
of the great Columbia. The Kootenay
people believe that when the Columbia
is made navigable to the sea, a large
proportion of the Western Canada grain
crop, as well as other products, will be
transhipped from the railway at Kootenay points and be carried down the river to the tide-water.
On leaving Arrowhead the quaint
stern-wheeler draws out into the lake
from the shadow of the beetling mountain that overhangs the town—a cluster
of houses and humming sawmills. The
lake varies from one to a little over two
miles in width. We swept on past snowy
peaks and green mantled hills.. We pursue our course through a land that is
beginning to bloom wi£h  happy homes.
The climate is delightful. The valleys
are warm in summer, but snow-capped
peaks are always in sight, and ice-cold
streams trickling down the mountainside constantly refresh the receptive soil.
The winters, bright and clear, are never
extremely cold. Government meteorological statistics show that for a period of
three years  the highest temperature re
corded   was   94   degrees   Fahy   and   the
lowest  6 degrees  below  zero.
Kootenains attribute this mildness of
climate to the warm, moisture-laden
breezes that flow up the Columbia Valley from the Pacific Ocean. To the same
cause is attributed the rainfall of 27,91
inches, of which the greatest amount
falls in the month of June. It is these
climatic conditions, together with the
suitability of the soil, that has given the
great impetus to fruit growing of late.
It was my opportunity to visit a number of the fruit ranches. Mr. John
Bangs, a sturdy old pioneer in Fire Valley, has been growing fruit of all kinds
for a dozen years, getting $1 per box,
and sometimes as high as $2 for apples.
His land yields him two or three tons
of hay to the acre, worth upwards of
$20 per ton. Potatoes give him 8 tons
to the acre, and sell for from $20 to $60
per ton. His orchard, formerly in meadow now receives careful cultivation,
and is developing into a splendid revenue-producer. He has never lost from
frost or hail or drought—he is always
sure of a crop, and his neighbors have
the same happy tale to tell.
Across the lake at the Needles, I
visited the large ranch of Mr. G. Fauquier, who has been here for about ten
years, and who contracts to supply certain quantities of fruit each year to Calgary wholesalers at certain fixed prices.
The boat calls each day during the fruit
season, and takes away the consignment
for that day. Large areas are given over to small fruits, and Mr. Fauquier
stated that he clears about $350 per acre
from strawberries, after deducting all
expenses, and from raspberries he has
cleared as high as $600 per acre.
Those who are not familiar with the
Pacific Slope do not appreciate the rapid, vigorous growth of the trees, nor
the early age at which they bear. Mr.
Fauquier's young orchard of about 1400
trees, or approximately 20 acres, is just
coming nicely into bearing, and he
pointed out one young Spy tree that had
yielded 8 boxes, nearly three barrels, at
five years of age. Let those who are familiar with the Spy in the East note this
fact.
The laden branches of the young trees
trail the ground, heavy with fruit. No
fruit pests have yet invaded this region.
The government maintains a careful inspection of all fruit trees brought in, and
also of any fruit that may be imported
from other districts. The growers all
spray as a precaution, and infection is
prevented. This, of course, places an
immense advantage with this section as
a producer of superior fruit.
If there is one fruit more than another
that reaches perfection in the Kootenay,
it is the cherry. By Mr. Gibbet, along
the Arrow Lake, we were invited to help
ourselves at a particularly fine, well
loaded Royal Anne cherry tree. The
fruit seemed to be about the size of crab
apples as I have known them, and the
flavor could not be improved. The little boy's idea of heaven as being a place
where he could' camp beneath a cherry
tree and indulge without stint struck
us as being pretty correct. Here is an
example that shows Kootenay cherries
in the light of revenue producers. Mr.
J. T. Bealby, near Nelson, whose ranch
I visited, told me that from one tree this
year he had taken $75 worth of fruit, and
from a third of an acre of cherry trees
he had taken over $5°° worth of fruit.
The financial successes of a large
number of individuals outside of those
whom the writer was privileged to visit,
seem quite as brilliant as those at the
apple shows. A few examples will suffice. Mr. James Johnston, of Nelson,
has made a net profit of $500 to $600 per
acre from apples alone, the trees being
7 years old. Mr. Hyslop, of Nelson, has
obtained $900 per acre from 12 year old
trees. For a young orchard, in which
both potatoes and apples were grown,
Messrs. Mawdsley and Eskrigge, of
Kaslo report a return of $320 per acre.
The above mentioned Mr. Hyslop has
received $900 per acre from raspberries,
and Mr. Johnston's average gross return
from cherries is at the rate of $1050 per
acre.
There are some fruit ranches near
Nelson for which $1000 per acre has
been refused, but sufficient time has not
elapsed for many plantations to reach
this stage of value. The prevailing price
for unimproved land suitable for fruit
is $100 per acre. The land costs $50 to
$100 per acre to  clear.      Land  that is
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The school grounds comprise 10 acres, (Have you a boy?) The carfare is only 5c. The distance from the Post Office is only 4
miles. Watermains will be laid in 5 months. Fine lots can be bought by paying $100 down, balance over 2 years, or if you
want an acre send in your name at once as I propose to cut up 5 acres in acre blocks.    (Acre blocks are scarce.)
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cleared and set to young trees costs $300
per acre and upward.
It is quite usual for the fruit rancher
to clear his land gradually and make his
living off the portions first cleared by
raising berries, potatoes and other vegetables, and by keeping poultry. Prices
for poultry and eggs are particularly
high, and the conditions for poultry raising are exceptionally favorable. The soil
will make money for the owner all the
time that the trees are coming into bearing.
I liave given you facts about the Kootenay—what do you think of it? I wanted to tell you more but the Editor says
my space is gone so I induced him to insert this coupon. If you are interested
in the Kootenay country and if you want
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Vancouver, B. C.
Gentlemen:
I want to hear more about fruit
growing in the Kootenay. Will you send
me some further facts about the country.
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Opportunities in Sugar Beets
HNE  of the most important industries    ever    projected    for
British     Columbia     is     that
which  will  involve   the   utilization    of   many    thousands
of acres of farm lands for the production
of sugar beets.    An appreciation of the
great value of the development of a beet
sugar industry in this  Province will be
reached when it is known that, accord-
;ing to high authority, the great present
•prosperity  of  Germany  is  based  chiefly
I upon   its   widespread   industry   of   making  sugar  from   beets.     Since   the   conditions in British Columbia are as good
ras in Germany for the raising of sugar
i beets,   it   is   highly  probable     that     the
[wealth of this Province and the prosperity of thousands of its citizens will in the
hiot distant future be very materially increased  through the medium of the su-
i gar beet.
As is well known, this vegetable has
[already given rise to several large sugar
I making plants in the Dominion of Canada. There is a big factory at Wallace-
[ burg, Ont.; one at Berlin, Ont.; and one
at Raymond, Alta. These have done
I much for the sections in which they are
[ located, and yet careful experiments
[ made under the auspices of the Domin-
[ ion government show that the soil of
[ British Columbia is better adapted for
\ the sugar beet than is that of any of
[these sections in the East. In Ontario,
E for instance, the amount of sugar in the
Rbest ranges from sixteen to seventeen
l per cent, and in Alberta is in the
I neighborhood of fourteen per cent.;
I while along the Fraser river, in
I the    vicinity   of   Aerassiz   and   Mission,
excellently well adapted to the production of the sugar beet. This acreage
would produce an annual output of sugar
worth $20,000,000 and with the developing markets, there will be no danger of
over-production.
This output of $20,000,000 worth of
beet sugar a year is, of course, not an
immediate probability, and is mentioned
only to give an idea of what the industry
in the Province is very likely to become
eventually. In the meantime the pioneers in beet sugar making here contemplate the utilization during the first year
of about 2,500 acres in the neighborhood
of the factory at Mission, which, it is
contemplated, will be opened by this
time next year.
Dr. George Schumacher and Mr. W.
O. Peters are now engaged in showing
the farmers how by raising sugar beets
they can greatly increase the financial
returns upon their land, and can at the
same time very materially improve the
quality of this land for other crops.
These gentlemen are suggesting to each
farmer that at the beginning he devote
ten acres to sugar beets. This will mean
a production, on the ten acres, of one
hundred and fifty tons of beets, which
the sugar manufactory will guarantee
to buy at a rate of at least $5 a ton, giving the farmer a return of $75° °n this
amount of land planted in beets. Not
only does the farmer obtain this profit,
but, as has been said, he also improves
his land for  other crops.
The testimony of farmers in Ontario
and Alberta is that no other crop so effectually cleans the land or so well fits
it for barley,  oats or wheat in  the fol-
where the British  Columbia beet sugar     lowini
season  as a well   tilled  crop  01
actory   wil
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hoe has cut its stem the broad leaves of
the beet shut out the light of the sun
from its roots and they die. There is no
doubt that the land is greatly improved
by the cultivation it receives, and the operations are so simple that cheap unskilled labor if properly directed will
serve the purpose.
The growing of sugar beets is equally
beneficial to the live stock on a farm, because the pulp, returned to the farmer
from the factory free of cost, makes the
best of fodder. For instance, a certain
number of farmers who raised 3441 cattle before they began to grow sugar
beets, raised 54°9 afterward. They raised
732 heifers before, and 1087 afterward;
31 hogs before and 9119 afterward; they
fattened 635 cattle before and 2681 afterward. The reason of this great improvement in their stock was that they were
able to keep their cattle in the stalls after they began to grow sugar beets and
to   feed   them   on   the   pulp.
It is the intention of the projectors of
the beet sugar factory in British Columbia to begin the erection of their factory,
the site of which has already been acquired, on the Fraser river at Mission
next spring, so that they may be ready
to produce sugar immediately after the
harvesting of the beet crops next October. They expect to continually expand
the acreage devoted to beet growing in
the Province by proving to the farmers
through actual demonstrations that one
of the greatest sources of prosperity is
British Jfmerican trust
Company, Ltd.
City and Suburban Real Estate
Farm Lands.
Dairy and Fruit Farms.
Safety Deposit Boxes from $5.00 per year.
All kinds of Insurance written.
Cotton Building,     Vancouver, B. C.
fPANTORIUM
Tailoring   Phone 1823    Renovating
Suits  Sponged  and   Pressed for 50c.
One trial will make you a regular customer.
L313 Gamble St, Vancouver, B» C,   )
of sugar averages eighteen per cent. that tough-lived pest the Canadian this-
It is estimated that in British Co- tie; and when asked how it destroys the
Jumbia   there   are   120,000 acres of land     thistle they will tell you, that after the
Raymond S
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Made in Canada
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VANCOUVER, B. C.
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1910
to be found in the sugar beet. In the beginning they will have a farm of their
own devoted exclusively to the beet.
Here the farmers of British Columbia
will be able to observe the best method
for growing this crop. From this farm,
moreover, instructors will go to various
sections and teach the farmers how they
may make the most of their land for
beets. Moreover, there will be on this
farm the most approved machinery for
cultivating and harvesting the beet, and
this machinery, at a nominal rent, will be
at the disposal of those who are engaged
in raising beets.
Since the period of manufacturing beet
sugar and the harvesting of the crop will
extend, at the beginning ,over only about
ninety days, the company intends to
equip a plant with fruit canning machinery. This will be a boon to the farmers,
for the reason that it will give them a
profit on hundreds of tons of fruit too
ripe to send to the big markets, and
would be, without the canneries, a dead
loss. This fruit, immediately on picking, can be taken to the factory, where
it will be paid for in cash. In this way
not only will the farmer  derive, a very
considerable profit from the beets, but
he will also obtain a larger yield in money from his fruits than up to the present
time has been  the  case.
The importance of the development of
this industry in British Columbia is fully realized by the Provincial Government, which has given assurances that
it will guarantee the payment of the interest of five per cent, on $200,000 worth
of bonds which are being placed in the
financial markets. Moreover, the railroad companies have promised an unusually low freight rate between their local stations and the factory. On all sides
great interest has been manifested in the
starting in British Columbia of this industry.
As to beet sugar itself, it has the merit
of being cheaper than cane sugar, and
in no way inferior in quality. In fact, no
chemist, however expert, can tell the difference between sugar produced from
beets and that produced from sugar cane.
Thus the development of this industry
in British Columbia will be advantageous
to the consumer; will have a strong effect in increasing the stability of British
Columbia agriculture, and will give em
ployment to a large number of people in
the sugar factory. There is at the present time no sugar manufacturing industry in the Province. The nearest approach to it is a sugar refinery. Here
the sugar is merely refined, beine
brought from Pacific Ocean islands in
the raw state. A very considerable proportion of the millions of dollars which
consumers of Canada pay for their sugar
goes to these islands instead of remaining at home to enhance the prosperity of
the home people.
Doctor Schumacher and Mr. Peters
are sugar experts who had their training
in the German centers of the industry.
They are organizing the industry here
on a co-operative plan. They are desirous of arousing on the part of the farmer as great an interest as possible in
growing sugar beets, and are therefore
giving him an opportunity to share on
a very favorable basis in the profits of
the company. This co-operative plan has
been adopted with great success in Germany, and it is believed that in British
Columbia it will prove to be the best
plan for the rapid and stable development of the industry.
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WHOLESALE and RETAIL Manufacturers of all kinds of
Sash, Doors, Show Cases, Bank, Office and Store Fixtures.   ROUGH and DRESSED
LUMBER.   Laths, Shingles, and every kind of Ibuilding material.
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Phone 4018
The House of Ideas
743 Pender Street, W.
VANCOUVER,  B. C.
The Highest of Ideals
Architectural Photography
Enlargements
Amateur Finishing
Picture Framing
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Eggs Wanted
Eggs are in great demand, but the
kind the public are looking for are the
ones obtained from healthy fowl—and
at this time of the year hens are not
healthy--but they mav be kept
healthy and your egg supply increased
by feeding P. & Q. Poultry Food, approved by government test.
Call and see our analysis on P. & G.
Poultry Food and P. & G. Stock Food.
For Sale by all dealers or direct from
us, charges prepaid.
The Perry-Gordon Manufacturing
Company |
314 HASTINGS ST. W.    VANCOUVER, B. C.
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OFflCE OUTFITTERS
" Underwood " Typewriter
" Macey "  Filing  Cabinets
" Gunn "  Sectional Bookcases
Steel Vault Fittings
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i   721 Yates St.
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VICTORIA, B. C.
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J. W.  POTTER
Architect and Structural engineer
Reinforced Concrete   a   Specialty
LHW'BUTLER BUILDING
PRINCE   RUPERT,   B.   ©,
P. 0. B©X 271
Estimates Cheerfully Given Phone 6481
HENRY M. WALKER
Contractor for Land Clearing, Stumping,
Blasting, Etc.
Office, 552 Barnard St,, Vancouver, B. C
Phone 7132
Room 112 Carter-Cotton Bid.
Vancouver, B. C.
YOUNG & FRANCEY
ENGINEERS  &  DRAUGHTSMEN
Blue Printing, Tracing, Mapa, Stow Card Writing
Designs   ana   Specifications   for   Steel   and   Concrete   Buildings
Drawings for Real Estate and Contractors
Architectural  Perspectives
UNNECESSARY IMPORTS.
British Columbia last year spent $12,-
000,000 for imported foods, at least 75
per cent, of which might have been raised in this Province. Although British
Columbia can raise every kind of fruit
grown in the temperate zone and although an infinitestimal fraction of the
fruit lands of the Province are in orchard, we import annually 1,000 tons of
apples alone. We paid out last year $2,-
000,000-for two-thirds of our butter supply, although British Columbia has
millions of acres of the grandest dairy
lands under the sun. With millions of
acres of land suitable for grazing and
mixed farming we import more than
half our beef supply. For hog products
last year we paid $1,800,000. We import
hundreds of thousands in mutton. We
bring in hundreds of tons of vegetables
and small fruits. We don't begin to
supply our own hay and coarse grains.
We spend hundreds of thousands annually importing horses, yet we have the
finest horse breeding conditions in Canada.
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CAPITAL   FOR   CANADA.
One feature of Canada's great commercial and financial expansion during
the last few years has been not only the
capital induced to come here from Great
Britain and several European countries,
but also from the United States. This
is not confined to the American manufacturer, who desires to participate in
the ever-widening Canadian market and
builds a branch of his factory here, nor
to the farmer from the Western States
who brings over his goods and chattels
in addition to a goodly collection of
cash.
There is another factor working toward directing the flow of capital this
way. The new-comer is the man who
regards the political situation in the
United States with distrust, and is looking for a country where there is less legislative interference with business.
A   POULTRY   ASSOCIATION.
A British Columbia Poultry Association, affiliated with the American Association, has been organized with the following officers: President, W. E. Cole,
Burnaby; Vice-president, W. A. Nach-
tribe, Victoria; Secretary, W. Stone-
house. It is purely a British Columbia
organization. Members exhibiting stock
not of their own raising will be penalized by suspension for one year from the
privileges of the association. It was
stated in this connection, that in some
places it was a common thing for persons to purchase Eastern stock for exhibition as their own.
LEAN RSHOW CARD WRITING
Without giving up your present
employment. We conduct day
and night classes. Private lessons
and correspondence courses given
special attention.
L. J. TROUNCE
SHOW CARD WRITER
1210 Dominion Trust Building', Vancouver, B. 0.
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Eyesight Specialist X> Glasses Fitted
65 Fair field Bldg.,445 Granville St,
TELEPHONES {j^t
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Prince Rupert, B. C.
Mines, Stocks and Real Estate.    Farm Lands
in the Skeena, Bulkley and Kispiox Valleys
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POINT GREY
The Home of the University
of British Columbia
We can offer you Beautiful High Building
Lots in this desirable district, cleared ready
for building on. These should increase in
value very rapidly.
$750 AND UP
Also 2 fine High View Lots on Johnstone
Road, slashed and burnt over.        $650
TERMS:   ONE  QUARTER   GASH
6, 12, 18 AND 24 MONTHS
A. L AUSTIN & GO.
BROKERS
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328 Granville St.
Vancouver. B. C.
CHILLIWACK
The Garden of British Columbia
Farm Lands
We have four hundred acres of Prairie
Land, dyked, drained, and ready for
the plough. Good roads, convenient to
schools. Four miles from Chilliwack ;
two miles from tram line. Land guaranteed to be without superior in British
Columbia. We offer this in lots of 20,
40 or 80 acres at
$150 AND $175 PER ACRE
on easy terms extending" over four years.
ALEXANDER & McKAY
1071 Granville St. phoneiszz Vancouver, B. C.
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In blocks of one acre and upwards
FROM
$4-&& an acre
IN  A  DIRECT  LINE  WITH   THE
SECOND NARROWS BRIDGE
North Vancouver
The Lillooet road goes right through this property,
the greater part of which we guarantee to contain no
grade over a two per cent grade.
Terms:   quarter  cash,   balance   quarterly
over 30 months.
WWard, SSurmester &
Vm Qraevenitz
Offices Phone 5522
411 Pender St., Vancouver, B.&
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GULF OF GEORGIA TERRACE IN
POINT GREY
The southern slope and sunny side, all lots
command an unexcelled view of the Gulf
and Fraser Valley-     Terms of four years.
MOLE  ©• KEEFER
|     1065 Granville St. Phone7020 Vancouver, B.C.
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SOUTH  VANCOUVER
THE IDEAL RESIDENCE DISTRICT
$50 cash buy? a homesite within three blocks
of the Grandview car line. This is your
opportunity.    GRASP IT.
INVESTORS LAND CO.
317 Gambie Street Vancouver, B. G
PHONE 2328 OPEN EVENINGS
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OPPORTUNITIES
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I WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN
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Portland Canal Stocks
AND CAN GIVE YOU FULL INFORMATION
ON ANY COMPANY OPERATING IN THAT
DISTRICT.     DAILY QUOTATIONS RECEIVED.
| B. MAYSMITH & CO., LTD.
VICTORIA. B. C.
MEMBERS  PACIFIC COAST   STOCK  EXCHANGE
Offices: Victoria, B. C, Vancouver, B. C, Stewart,
B. C, Nanaimo, B. C, Seattle. Wash.
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Mrs. Baker. Proprietress
723 YATES ST. Phone 2404
The only modern rooming house in town.
Steam heat, running hot and cold water and
telephones in all rooms. Newly furnished
throughout, and up-to-date in every respect.
TERMS MODERATE
VICTORIA, B. C,
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Steam Heat, Gas, Electric Light, Telephone
Hot and Cold Running' Water in Each Room
THE NEW TOURIST, 107 CORDOVA ST.
THE ANGELES, 927 WESTMINSTER AVE.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
G. W. ARNOTT ft CO.
Real Gstate and Insurance
Drawer 1539    <*»    Prince Rupert
Splendid Opportunities for Investors
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Your impressions of Vancouver—the
"Sunset City"—will be made all the more
lasting" by seeing- the City and magnificent
Stanley  Park jn  one  of our comfortable
HACKS, BROUGHAMS,
VICTORIAS, SURREYS,
OR CARRIAGES.
Stanley Park Stables, %y™eu
MANAGER
VANCOUVER,   B.  C.
Hours 9 to 6 Phone 3351
J N O .     JACKSON?
Scientific Chiropodist
Lorns removed   without   pain, Bunions, Ingrowing
Nails,    Club   Nails,    Callouses,    Pedicuring,    Fetid
Odors and Sweaty Feet successfully treated.
305 Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
HUNDREDS OF NEW TOWNS.
Western Canada is building towns on
the wholesale plan. The Government
'and the big transcontinental railroads
working in harmony, intend to lay out
and populate two hundred and twenty
new towns in the next year and a half;
an average of three new towns will be
placed on the map of Canada every week
during the next eighteen months.
Along the new Grand Trunk Pacific,
now building, will be placed over one
hundred and fifty of these embryo cities.
The Canadian Pacific will build up new
towns along its roadbed whenever there
are more than sixteen miles between existing stations; the Canadian Northern
has entered the new town-building
scheme, and will place thirty-five new
towns on the map as it drives its three
thousand-mile extension through the unbroken wilderness of the great Canadian
North-West.
These will not be boom towns, plotted
and sold to speculators. Every one of
them will be built because there is a demand for them, and the Canadian Government Immigration Bureau has three
hundred agents in the United States creating that demand among the farmers,
business men and mechanics there.-
Agents are also busy in Europe, but the
largest portion of the population of these
new towns will be Americans.
Last year 59,832 Americans left their
homes in the States and started life anew
in Canada. They brought with them
$60,000,000 in money and property. It
is not an indigent class that has come
over, but rather the farmer of moderate
means, who, dissatisfied with conditions
in the States, finds a virgin country up
here awaiting his plow.
It is estimated that in the last ten
years more than half a billion dollars has
been brought over by the five hundred
thousand immigrants from the States.
They are attracted by the cheap land,
the homestead land and its fertility.
But other reasons enter into consideration, too, and they are cheap lumber,
cheap clothing and the general feeling
that laws are enforced better in the Dominion of Canada than in the United
States. They have here also postal regulations enabling the farmer to do much
of his shopping by mail.
The Government has mapped out a
scheme whereby it will populate the new
towns as fast as the townsites are laid
out. First, the railroad will erect a station; then an elevator will be built, so
that the farmers will be assured of a
local market for their crops; then a
school building will be started, and while
all these preparations are under way, the
many immigration agents in the United
States will be "booking" Americans for
these towns and the surrounding farm
land.
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Property.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED !
CURRIE & POWER
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REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE AGENTS
1214 Douglas Street P. 0. Box 316   i
VICTORIA, B. C.
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Hand-made Goods a Specialty
{ The most Lp-to-Date Store
For Neckwear, Blouses, Underwear
and everything needful for
Infants   and   Children.
Phone R313
730 Yates St.     VICTORIA, B. C.
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PRACTICAL  HORSESHOER
All kinds of Imperfect Gaits Rectified.
TROTTING SHOES AND RUNNING PLATES
a Specialty.
Orossfiring, Interfering and Forging Stopped
■without fail by Latest Improved Methods.
Special Attention given to Contracted Feet
and Lameness.
PHONE    NO.   1367
Address : 662 SEYMOUR ST.
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P Notary Public
Cable Code : BEDFORD MACNEIL
Cable Address : "CRAS," Vancouver
Telepbone 5937
CROFT & ASHBY
REAL ESTATE, TIMBER
MINES, GOAL LANDS
150,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.50
86,000 acres Ominica District, at per acre, $4.50
40,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.00
7,680 acres Powell lake, go miles from
Vancouver, at per acre $4.00
5,000 acres Rupert District, Vancouver
Island, at per acre $10.00
6,400 acres Nechaco District at per acre, $4.50
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
LRoom 5, Wmcb Bid*.     Vancouver., B„ G-
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"Opportunities" Brokers' and Business Directory
Zht progressive Brokerage, Tinancial and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia.
Phone  2900
A. E. AUSTIN 8s CO.
Real Estate and Insurance.
328   Granville   St.,   VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
T. B. ANDERSON  ft  C.  CLAYTON
Real Estate
" Phone 5913
1069 Granville St.    -   VANCOUVER, B, C.
LEONARD & REIO
Real Estate and Pire Insurance
Mining-   Properties    In    Portland    Canal,
Hazelton and Queen Charlotte
Districts
PRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.
E.  C.  B.  BAG-SHAWE  ft  CO.
Real Estate and General Brokers
1112   Broad   St.,   Bownass   Building
Phone   2271       -       -       VICTORIA,   B.   C.
Phone 5726 P. O. Box 536
H.   BEEMAN
Specialist in Point Grey
221 Winch  Bldg.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
B. C. TRUST CORPORATION
Bk.  B.  N.  A.   Bldg., VANCOUVER,  B.   C.
Phone  589
J. A.  COLLINSON
Real Estate
Phone  4154
240a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.
JOHN  M. CHAPPBLL
Real Estate
Phone 4802
443   Pender   St.     -     VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
W.  W.  DRESSER
Insurance, Real Estate
Phone 3020
438 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
H. T. DEVINE  COMPANY, LIMITED
Real Estate, Loans  and Insurance
437 Seymour St.    -    VANCOUVER,  B. C.
Phone 1627
Phone 3628
DUTHIE  &  WISHART
Real Estate and Financial Agents
520 Pender St. W.      VANCOUVER,  B. C.
W.  H.  ELLIS
Investment Broker
1122   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
M.  H.  PRANKLIN CO.
Real  Estate   Brokers
Acreage, Building Lots and Homes
Phone  970
449 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
GODDARD  ft SON
Land Agents, Notaries
Phone 3202
329  Pender  St.     -     VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
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Real   Estate   and   General   Brokers
06 Loo Building VANCOUVER, B. C.
GRANVILLE  BROKERAGE   CO.
Real Estate, Insurance, Commission Agts.
Phone L4560
1017 Granville St.   -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
HARMAN & AFFLETON
Real Estate
534 Yates  Street      -      VICTORIA, B.  C.
Phone   1918
SAMUEL HARRISON ft  CO.
Brokers   and   Financial   Agents.     Agents
Stewart Land Co., Ltd.
Stewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.
HASLETT   ft   WHITAKER
Real   Estate,   Timber,   Insurance
Phone 5807
Room 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
HINKSON, SIDDALL ft SON
Real Estate and Insurance
Phone  869
New Grand Theatre Bldg.    1311 Gov't St.
VICTORIA,   B.   C.
ALFRED   M.   HOWELL
Customs  Broker,   Forwarding  Agent
Office—23    Promis    Block
Telephone   1501,   Res.    R 1671
1006   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
IMPERIAL   REALTY   CO.
Real   Estate   and  Insurance
307 Loo  Bldg.       -      VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
GEORGE  LEEK
Real Estate, Notary Public
Exchange Block    PRINCE RUPERT, B.C
W. P. Moncreiff P. E. Townsherid
W.   P.   MONCREIPP   ft   CO.
Real Estate and Financial Brokers
Room 304, Winch Bldg.      Hastings St. W
VANCOUVER, B. C.
MARRIOTT   &  PELLOWS
Real  Estate
Phone 1077
134 Hastings St.      -     VANCOUVER, B.C.
Res.: 3030 Quadra St.
Office Phone 2418
E. HENDERSON & CO.
Farms, Timber and Mines
FRUIT LANDS
711 Yates Street
Room 1, Sylvester Block
VICTORIA, B. C.
E.  S.   MORGAN
Industrial  Sites,  Waterfrontage  on Bur-
rard Inlet, etc.
Suite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.
429 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone   5833.
W. O. Shrumm H. Lambert
THE   NATIONAL   REAL   ESTATE
Loans, Insurance
Phone 6320
58  Hastings St.  W., VANCOUVER, B.  C.
C.  ARTHUR  REA
Late of Brandon, Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc,
Law   Chambers,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
PATTULO ft RADFORD
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
P.O. Box 1535       PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.
Cable Address:    "Patrad"
C.   C.   PEMBERTON
Real Estate  and Notary Public
Room 11, 707^ Yates St.     -     Phone 1711
VICTORIA, B. C.
CHAS.   L.   PARKER
Broker and Commission Agent
Suite  50-51,   429  Pender  St.
Phone  3859 - VANCOUVER,   B.  C.
ROYAL REALTY COMPANY
Real   Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
Phone  2394 Notary Public
615   Fort  St. - VICTORIA,  B.  C.
SMITH  ft  SMITH
Real Estate and Commission Agents
P.O.  Box  41
J. H. Smith W. R. Smith
4th  Ave. - - STEWART,   B.   C.
GEO. H. SMITH & ARTHUR JONES
Dealers  in Property in Vancouver,  New
Westminster and the Fraser Valley
P.   O.  Box  165      - Phone 1743
P. H. SEABROOK ft CO.
Real  Estate   and  Timber
Phone 4043
316 Pender St.      $      VANCOUVER, B. C.
VANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.
Real Estate and Loans
62 Hastings St. E.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
WESCOTT & LETTS
Real Estate and Insurance Agents
Room  3,  Moody Block        -        Yates  St.
VICTORIA, B. C.
H. W. WINDLE
Real Estate Broker
Phone  5320
532 Granville St.    -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
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i    E. J. Bright
I    The Capital City Realty Co.
REAL ESTATE
> FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE AGENTS
?   618 Yates St. Phone 2162   VSCTORIA.B.C
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NORTH VANCOUVER
D.L. 611—50 feet—$275—Easy Terms.
POINT GREY
Lot 25, Block 30, D. L. 2027—60 x 130.
Price only $775 on Terms.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
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THE FINEST FRUIT GROWING DISTRICT IN THE WORLD
While visiting the 1 APPLE SHOW," don't fail to call at the
SUNNYSIDE booth or at our office for literature and bird's
eye view of this wonderful district.     Hailed free on request.
ROSS AND SHAW
318 HASTINGS STREET WEST
VANCOUVER, B. C.
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rospective Settlers
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
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The road to Independence is not easy to discover. Many good men are handicapped by their
lack of funds. Opportunity may have knocked at
their door many times and each time they have
been forced to turn her away because they were
unable to surmount the financial barrier. To a
man of that kind a
CO-OPERATIVE
system is a necessity. We want to help you reach
the goal of your ambition by co-operating with
you in
Beet Sugar Growing
and Manufacturing in the Fertile Fraser Valley
of British Columbia. We are experienced sugar
manufacturers and need you to grow the beets on
our co-operative plan. Mail us a card and it will
start you on the road which in the end
BRINGS INDEPENDENCE
FRASER VALLEY SUGAR WORKS CO.
3ig PENDER STREET
VANCOUVER, B. C.
THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910
OPPORTUNITIES
Page 3
SOUTH VANCOUVER
AND
POINT GREY
We own some of the very best
property in these districts.  If
Deal direct with the owners
and get terms to suit you
Agassiz Earm Lands
We own 200 acres of the cream
of the Agassiz Valley. It is
close to town and as choice
land as there is in British Columbia. We will sell en bloc or
in parcels to  suit  purchasers.
Latimer, Ney and
McTavish, Limited
419 Pender Street, Vancouver, B. C.
Phone 4894
The Pleasantest
Feature of a Trip to
New York
Is making the round of the Cafes
^f Here in the gay atmosphere of
creature comforts and good cheer, one
can enjoy the flavour of perfect food,
cooked to the individual taste; rare
wines, properly cooled; music by splen-
did artists, and deferential, noiseless
service.
€fl An atmosphere of gaiety pervades
the artistic surroundings; an atmos-
phere of dash and go which is
heightened by the constant arrival and
departure of beautiful women and well"
groomed men.
^ Vancouver is not New York—at
least, not yet, but
The Carlton Cafe
Cordova and Cambie Streets, Vancouver
is in every respect, equal to, and remf
iniscent of the best restaurants of that
great metropolis. €| This is especially
true since the arrival of JAMES
MORGAN, the New Manager.
^f Here is a man who knows his New
York well, a man who has played the
game from both sides of the table.
He has traveled far and wide. He has
studied the traveling public for years
and catered successfully to its wants.
Under his management, the Garlton is
bound to appeal to the class of patronage \phich knows "good living," and
practices what it knows.
<f In point of service, cooking, music,
and all the rest, Morgan promises
your money will bring you more
real satisfaction at the Garlton than
any other cafe tfti the  Pacific Coast,
ASK THE MAN WHO KNOWS
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Beautiful Women
and Women who wish
to be Beautiful
Value My Preparations
^^THIS is the time of the year when cold winds
i£L chap your face and hands. My ORANGE
v*,f FLOWER CREAM, a purely vegetable preparation, soothes and takes all roughness from the face,
and keeps the hands white and smooth.
Dr. Trouville's ECZEMA SALVE gives immediate relief to those suffering with burning and itching
scalps.   Try it.   First treatment guaranteed beneficial.     Full directions on each jar.
MARY T.  GOLDMAN'S GREY HAIR RESTORER, the best preparation of its kind on the market,
comes in four different shades.     Positively no injury to the hair and no bad after effects by its use.
Dr. Trouville's EGYPTIAN SKIN FOOD is unsurpassed for the treatment of pimples or blackheads
on the face.     IT WILL POSITIVELY remove lines from the face, and is the best tissue builder obtainable.
25% DISCOUNT will be allowed on all mail orders   received   during   December   for   Hair   Goods of.
every description.       BACK COMBS,  HAIR ORNAMENTS,  etc.,  make   acceptable  and useful Christmas
gifts.    All orders received, by mail are given my personal attention.
Madame Humphreys
Extends Christmas Greetings
to all her Patrons
MADAME   HUMPHREYS
The Largest, Most Up-to-date Establishment of its kind on the Pacific Coast
¥33 Pender Street, W.       the fairfield building      VANCOUVER, B. C.
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W. BROWN
Telephones 1193, R7811, L1533
W. H. BROWN
Notary Public
W. C. MacBETH
WE ARE BUSY
COME AND SEE US
Properties are starting to move in this DISTRICT, now is your chance to get in and make money.   We have these properties exclusive,.and the beauty of
these lots is they are all cleared and ready to build on.
f i. ;| .   |" CONSIDER THESE PRICES f J j ||v^,' '^^W^ft. :
Come and we will take you on the ground.    They are all close to the carline..   '
Knight Road, 8 lots, only $1500 each        21st ave., 8 lots, only $850 each 21st ave., 2 corners, only $1000 each        Banks ave. 2 lots, only $850 each
TERMS ARE EASY
You will agree with us that this is the place to put your money; it will be as safe as the bank.
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BJ2KTS DOMINION INVESTORS CORPORATION
And the opportunities
they have to offer.
LIMITED
213 Domlni3n Trust Building
VANCOUVER, B. C.
We are Specialists in Vancouver City and Suburban property.
We have Timber on Tidewater and in the Interior.
We Own and have For Sale choice Farm Lands in the Fraser River and Peace River Valleys.
For full pazticulazs zegazding these pzopezties
PLEASE CALL OR WRITE
E>. A. OLDS,  General Manager
PHONE 6756
WINDSOR  PARK
Adjoins the Future Centre of
North Vancouver—Lies in the
vicinity of SECOND NARROWS
BRIDGE and IMPERIAL CAR
WORKS.
PRICES, $125 forinside Lots,
$150 for Corners. TERMS,
$20 Cash, Balance $5 per
month.
FOSTER & FISHER
310 Hastings Street West
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Telephone 6488 Open Evenings
Learn Show Card Writing
I give a complete course consisting of:
IS Different Alphabets
Design Work, Borders, Scrolls
Illuminated Letters
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OF LOS ANGELES
Are you satisfied with small returns on your investments?
If not, it will pay you to investigate the opportunities for larger returns offered by investment in California Oil Shares. We have a few
shares in THE MARICOPA OIL COMPANY of Los Angeles, for
sale.    " The Company that will show results."
0. H. BOWMAN & COMPANY
INVESTMENT BROKERS
Mahon Bldg.   VICTORIA, B. C.    P. 0. Box 1048
The Grandview of Burnaby
Just a few left. Over 100 lots sold in four months. Nearly
cleared, electric lights, telephone, water, macadamized
roads, sidewalks being put down, "and only four blocks
to earline.
Inside Lots    -    $225
Double Corners, $550
One-quarter cash,  balance  easy.      Delays  are  dangerous.
Time is money.    Don't hesitate.
BROWN REALTY CO.
603  Victoria Drive
Vancouver, B. C.
ALEX. McINTOSH
Notary Public
EARLE C. BROWN
WE SELL
Point Grey Property
The prettiest suburb of Vancouver, 300 yards
due west from the far-famed Shaughnessy Heights
and only nine minutes ride on the car from Granville Street, with city fares. We have choice view
lots, each 50 x 130, all slashed and practically
cleared. This property fronts on the new park and
site at the corner of Block 88, one street south of
King Edward Avenue, which is 132 feet wide and
the coming car line street.
Price $700 Per Lot
Terms Very Easy
Phone 424s
McINTOSH & BROWN
543 Granville Street,       Vancouver
Fiscal Agents: Great West Land Co. Ltd.
JOHN M. PARK, Broker
1117 Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C.
Phone 5346
RIOHARDS STREET—7 room house, renting at $45
per month. This property is going to be a choice
business lot.    Price $12000 ; cash $5000.
GORE AVENUE — Corner lot on this coming street
bringing in an income at present of $500. Property
in this quarter is at a premium, and this will prove a
good investment.    Price $30,000 ; cash $8,000.
GRANVILLE STREET —27 feet near Fourteenth
Avenue, $10,000 ; easy terms.
If you are looking for a rooming house I have quite a number of all sizes, and some of them can be secured on
very reasonable terms.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY—West End, 11 roomed
house on Comox Street, fully modern in every respect.
Fine garden, etc.  Price, $9,000 ; cash $4,000.
KITSILANO—Elegant seven room semi-bungalow, one
block from the car. This home is beautifully finished
and contains three bedrooms with large clothes closets, front and back balconies commanding an excellent
view of the city and the bay. There is a large living
room, dining room with fireplace, also den with fireplace and a separate entrance, making it very suitable
for an office for a doctor. The kitchen and pantry are
well laid out. The basement is cement, full size, fitted
with laundry tubs, coal bins, etc. Good furnace. The
price of this cosy home is $6,400, with the easy cash
payment of $1,500 and the balance over two years.
I also have a select list of other houses in Kitsilano and
Grandview.
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VANCOUVER, B. C.
CONTENTS.
DECEMBER, 1910
rage.
The Prospector Who Became Vancouver's Mayor. . (/. Herbert Welch) 1 1
Immense Wealth in Minerals (Richard McBride) 1 3
A Year's Output in Minerals  14
The Great Value of Alfalfa (George Schumacher, Ph.D.) 18
Triumph of the Western Spirit ( William Ford) 16
Farm Opportunities for Capitalists and Settlers. . . . (George H. Reynolds) 20
Art in British Columbia (Bernard McEvoxi) 22
Christmas Giving (Alice Ashworth Totpnley) 25
The Rise of Keremeos  26
Salmon River Mining  27
The Victory, a Christmas story (/. H.  W.) 28
Industrial Progress in British Columbia  32
A Swelling Tide of Capital (H. Goddard) 34
How Steamboat Camp was Located  34
Vancouver Real Estate Activity  36
Investment Opportunities in Victoria (D. C. Reid) 36
Portland Canal Mining  37
Opportunity Awaits in Richlands  38
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OPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.
HUTCHINSON BLOCK
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Gentlemen:—
Please enter ™yr name as a subscriber to your paper for one year,
for which Je agree to pay One Dollar in advance.
CLASSIFIED ADS.
WANTED—Buyers for our 5, 10, 15 and
40 acre farms in Langley, 20 miles
from Vancouver, near two railroads
and tram line. Prices low and very
easy terms. Kraus, Reynolds Co.,
Ltd., 503 Dominion Trust Building,
Vancouver, B. C.
Farm Lands, partly improved, 6 miles
from Manor, Sask., $18 to $23 per acre.
Black & McDonnell, 60 Hastings
Street East, Vancouver, B. C.
THE   JANUARY   OPPORTUNITIES
It is difficult, in a single issue of a
magazine, to present material which will
be representative of all the important
activities of a great section of the world
like British Columbia. Yet this is what
we will endeavor to do in the January
number   of   Opportunities.
Since this issue will be the first after
the New Year, we will publish a review
of the progress in numerous directions
in British Columbia during the year now
drawing to a close. This review will
embrace articles on industrial development, on agricultural progress, on the
work of bringing the rich natural resources of the Province to the uses of
its people; on the growth of British Columbia's leading cities; on real estate
and building progress; on legislation oi
moment; on civic movements ot importance. All this will give you a grasp
of British Columbia as she is, and an
idea of what she is likely to become in
the  immediate  future.
Since movements are intelligible only
when we trace them to the men behind,
we believe in personal sketches in a
magazine, and the January issue of
Opportunities will have one of Premier
McBride, including a live interview with
him and pertinent anecdotes which have
never  been  published.
The third article of our series on the
natural resources of the Province will be
devoted to coal, one of British Columbia's greatest assets. There will be another illuminative article on scientific
farming, by Dr. Schumacher; another
human interest essay by Mrs. Townley;
another strong story of lumbering, by
J. H. W.; a record of what the progressive women of the Province are
doing; an article on British Columbia
education; several articles on sections
where Opportunity is awaiting the industrious settler; the regular departments, dealing with industries, real estate, and building, and several other
features, all of which, well written and
well illustrated, will make the January
number of Opportunities especially valuable and interesting to those who desire to follow the big forward movement
of  this  Province.
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OPPORTUNITIES
1910
Twenty thousand families
like these are moving into
British Columbia each year
A hundred thousand more
people are studying
OPPORTUNITIES
for Investment and locating in the
Richest Province of the World.
The Magazine—Opportunities
Is designed to  supply  them  the  specific information  which they  seek.
Can you—as a shrewd advertiser—afford to ignore so receptive an audience.
OPPORTUNITIES is keeping pace with the growth of British Columbia.
OPPORTUNITIES is reaching out over Canada, the States and Great Britain.
OPPORTUNITIES is making opportunities for British Columbia.
OPPORTUNITIES enters the homes of the Province.
OPPORTUNITIES is selling something more valuable than big circulation—the good will of
its readers.
OPPORTUNITIES will help you, if you will co-operate.
OPPORTUNITIES will reach both the big and the little buyer in every line.
OPPORTUNITIES has the confidence of the owner and its staff, from editor to office boy.
Will you not investigate it seriously, to see if it is not worthy of yours ?
We know that we have a paper that can help your business- Will you read the evidence?
THE MAN WITH AN IDEA
The owner of Opportunities is "a man with an idea. ' His
idea is that British Columbia is the finest spot on God's green
earth. He believes in this idea so strongly that he wants other
people to know about it.    That is why he started Opportunities.
WHAT OPPORTUNITIES HAS DONE
In one year Opportunities has appeared promptly every
month-—which fact alone is a sufficient criterion of success.
Besides this, it has gained a bona fide paid-up circulation, both
in the Province and out, which has been built up by hard work,
both in the editorial and business departments. This circulation
is of the very first class, the kind that will stick. The articles
which have appeared have been by some of the best known
men and women in British Columbia. Time and time again
we have been congratulated upon the excellence of our contributions. The cuts and press work have been the best which
could be turned out in the Province. Are these facts not worth
your consideration?
WHAT OPPORTUNITIES IS DOING FOR ITS
ADVERTISERS M
We believe that the first way in which a magazine can
help its advertisers is by looking carefully after the interests of
its readers. Opportunities is doing this in many ways. In the
first place every cent which the paper makes is going right back
into improving its quality. For example, have you noticed our
new cover designs? They are the work of one of the best
and highest paid artists on the Pacific coast—a man of metropolitan experience and study. If you will notice, you will sec
how the grade of our editorial matter is being improved. More
photographs, more cuts, more art work, and enlarged editions
are the programme for the coming year. With the readers thus
catered to, and the special campaign for circulation carried out
which is described in the following paragraph, do you not
think, Mr. Advertiser, that Opportunities should be included
in your advertising appropriation?
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OPPORTUNITIES
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THE CANADIAN NORTHWEST
Four focal points of circulation are being concentrated
upon at the present time. These are, British Columbia, the
Prairie Provinces, the Central and Middle Western States, and
Great Britain. The method taken to secure this circulation
is by sampling, circularizing selected lists, and direct appeal by
personal letter or solicitation. In Great Britain we have made
arrangements for special representation. If you have confidence in your business and its ultimate success, remember that
we have confidence in ours. Our business is to help you
dispose of your goods. We propose to conduct our business
TO WIN. We want to command your esteem and respect.
We want you to consider us your co-workers, auxiliary salesmen as it were. Any suggestion we can give to improve your
advertising efficiency we will gladly extend. We have men
specially trained in the science of advertising whose services
we can place at your disposal, men who have brought results
for others, and can do the same for you. A little before we
spoke of Great Britain and the States as prospective fields for
your offerings. Think how keenly interested the British
investor has become in British Columbia; think how the wealthy
farmers of the Middle West are looking longingly towards
British Columbia as a place to spend the proceeds of their rich
harvests; think of the young men of well-to-do families in those
sections whose parents are willing to see them started in a
country which offers the brilliant future most of any; think
how the whole trend of civilization is towards this Last Great
West. And then think of the service which Opportunities is
rendering in supplying a fund of reliable information fresh
every month right from the ground. Is such a publication not
worthy of your support from a community interest as well as
a personal one?
SOME THINKING POINTS FOR YOU TO
CONSIDER.
Consider the advertising value of a magazine which offers
opportunities for its readers to increase their capital and welfare.
Consider the class of subscribers we are appealing to.
Consider the value of integrity and reliability in your
advertising medium.
Consider our very reasonable advertising rates.
Consider the results accomplished in the last twelve months.
Consider the improvements in Opportunities.
Consider the territory we are dealing with and its future.
Consider some of the following testimonials as to the
character and drawing power of Opportunities.
Consider Opportunities as the best opportunity for
advertising.
Vancouver, B. C, November 15 th,  1910.
Advertising Manager "Opportunities,"
City.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send one of your young men around to
see me to-day or to-morrow, as I have something new which I
would like to have mentioned in my advertisement next month.
I have been so pleased with the results of my advertising
in "Opportunities" that I have wanted for some time to express
my appreciation of your magazine, and take this occasion to
do so. I have been advertising rather extensively in the different
newspapers and magazines of British Columbia, and have
found that my announcements in "Opportunities" have brought
me more results than any of the others.
I must say I think the magazine is excellent, and hope
that you will have continued success with it.
Very truly yours,
(Signed)     Mde. E. A. HUMPHREYS.
THERE   ARE   OPPORTUNITIES   IN   BV
Vancouver, B. C, November 14th,  1910.
Editor "Opportunities Magazine"
Vancouver,  B. C.
Dear Sir:
I have before me a copy of the November issue of
"Opportunities." It is my opinion that a magazine of tljis
kind and character is a great benefit to the Province of British
Columbia. I am sure that it will be welcomed by anyone who
is fortunate enough to get hold of a copy in foreign lands, as
the information obtainable from the columns of "Opportunities"
will surely be the means of putting British Columbia opportunities before the public as they should be; facts that are not
exaggerated. The truth of the possibilities of this favored
Province are plenty good enough.
The  success  of  a  live,  wide-awake  magazine  such  as
Opportunities" is assured.   To read it once means to become
a permanent subscriber.
Wishing you the best of success, I am,
Yours truly,
(Signed) GEORGE GORE,
General Agent The Salmon Arm
Fruit and Land Co.
Vancouver, B. C, October 22nd, 1910.
To the Editor "Opportunities,"
City.
Dear Sir:
We have great pleasure in stating that the results from
oUr advertising with you have been most satisfactory. We can
trace more actual sales directly to the medium of your paper
than any other advertising we do outside of daily papers.
Yours truly,
FOSTER &  FISHER.       J|
(Signed) THOS. H. INGRAM.
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Vol. 2
DECEMBER, 1910
No. 6
EDITORIAL
The other day we had a little interview with the Christmas
Spirit. She was beautiful—in a tender way. Her eyes glowed
softly. There was sunshine in them, and also the mellow lights
of sympathy and understanding. Her smile was sweet, with
just a touch of gayety, and her voice was clear and low, like
gently flowing waters.
"Thi
rked.
is is your season,    we rema
'Yes," she smiled, "but I hope it is my season no more
than any other. I am of all seasons, of all days. It would
grieve me much to think that I was remembered only now. I
do not think so. It is merely that when the greatest of holidays approaches, the world gives me a special name. I am
present always in the hearts of people who know how to live.
I have been sent as a messenger from the bright realm which
shines out a little through the stars, and my message tells of
how to draw the most and best from life."
"What is your message?" We leaned forward eagerly.
The Christmas Spirit indulged in quiet laughter—laughter
that somehow brought a subtle suggestion of soft music in the
distance on a summer night. "Oh, you have heard my message many times. It is what you would call a commonplace.
It is so very simple that you may feel a little scorn
for it. It is only this—Have kindly thoughts and do kindly
deeds—do them for their own sake. If you think of the
reward, it will be less."
"But are there not situations that call not so much for kindliness as for strength?" we asked.
"For firmness, yes; but beneath this there must be deep
kindness, for otherwise little demons of hatred and discontent
leap forth to become your own enemies, and to do evil in the
world.
"In this Province of British Columbia we hear much of
the taming of the wilderness, of the building of cities, of
material achievement and advancement. This is well, but it
would be futile if it were not a help to happy living—living
which is to be found only in kindliness, helpfulness, and
harmony.
"So it is that I am concerned less with the great projects
than with the spirit behind them, and find my deepest gratification in some phases of activity here which, to what you call
the practical eye, may not seem to be of the most importance.
"For instance, there was the raising of a great sum to
provide for the young men of Vancouver, in the Y. M. C. A.,
a home which will take the place of the homes they
have left behind. That was fine work—more vital and far-
reaching in its effect than even the development of a new
industry.
"'Then there is the old men's home at Kamloops, the
sanatarium for consumptives, the hospitals, the Christmas dinners for the poor, the work of the Women's Councils and other
societies whose members are putting forth earnest endeavors
to give each man and woman in British Columbia better opportunities to attain the best in life.
'This unselfish work, inspired by kindliness, brings happiness to those who perform it and to those who receive its
benefits. It is greater than its manifestations, because it nurtures
the true spirit of living and brings a closer alliance with the big
harmony of creation.
'You may say that less of it is seen here than in many
other sections of the world. This is because there is less to
call it forth. The bitter struggle for existence has not yet
reached this Province. It need never reach it. The country is
new to civilization—you are still at the beginning, and are thus
in a position to profit by the mistakes of old communities, which
have pushed forward in material progress without due regard
for the most vital factor in a wholly successful and permanent
upbuilding, namely, the need to give each individual his opportunity to achieve the goal of happiness. In these old sections
there is much to undo.
"In British Columbia there is little to undo. Here the
oppressor may be curbed before he becomes too strong. Here
may be inaugurated at the outset public measures which will
help, not the few, but all. Here, more than in any old community, is the opportunity to develop a true and complete civilization, and for this reason I feel that this is one of my own
most fertile fields of work, not at the Christmas season only,
but through all the year." OPPORTUNITIES
Vol. II.
HUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C, DECEMBER, 1910.
No. 6
The Prospector Who Became Vancouver's Mayor
A Story of Opportunity and Success in British Columbia
By J. Herbert Welch
It may be interesting, and encouraging, to the man in British Columbia
without money, to know that fifteen
years ago the Mayor of Vancouver, and
proprietor of a highly successful newspaper, was in British Columbia without
money.
In the course of a talk on British Columbia opportunities, Mayor Taylor
made known this fact. He mentioned it
to emphasize the point that in this Province a man does not need capital, nor
prestige, nor family connections, for an
auspicious start on the highway to
achievement.
"What he needs," said the Mayor,
"may be summed up in three words—ambition, energy, and intelligence. British Columbia will do the rest. She is
Opportunity, knocking every day on the
door of every man who is alert enough
to hear her call, and energetic enough to
answer it."
"This is because there is immense and
steady progress here. The new comer,
who has not observed the advances already made, may not realize it, but there
are big undercurrents of development;
new plans of much importance are continually in process of formation. One
by one these come to the surface in
execution, and call for men—men who
can make good—men who have steam
in their  mental boilers.
"The supply of such men is far short
of the demand, and yet the need seems
to create the man. He may have been
only an average man when he arrived in
| British Columbia—the kind whom nobody would notice particularly in the
crowd; but if he is adaptable, and if he
[ has within himself any sparks that can
be fanned into flame, he becomes good
1 working material for the spirit of the
Northwest. In one respect this spirit
. is like a current of free air that gives
a flue good drawing power. It lights up
; the latent fires, and we have the man
of steam, the man who can make good,
where, back amid the banked-up condi
tions of the place from which he came,
this same man may have been cold to
life, or may have flickered foolishly, and
was a failure.
"This enlivening spirit, of course, does
not always take effect immediately, and
it often happens that the man who comes
to Vancouver, for instance, begins to
think,  after  he  has  been  here  a  month
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adjust themselves to our conditions and
are inclined to look down upon our new
civilization. If he is this sort of a
person he is a misfit here. Opportunity
doesn't care much for him, and turns
from him coldly to bestow her smiles
upon the man who is eager to adjust
himself to her special requirements in
British  Columbia.    All the  latter  needs
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THERE IS IMMENSE AND STEADY PROGRESS HERE," SAID MAYOR TAYLOR
or two, that Opportunity is somewhat
slow in getting around to his door. He
expects too much; he is too impatient; he
has not yet got into sufficiently close
touch with British Columbia life to become a part of its onward movement. By
degrees he will get into it, that is, he
will if he is not one of those rigid and
self-complacent persons who decline to
is a little patience. His first year in the
Province is his critical period. If he
has enough staying power to stick this
period out, even if things do not come
his way as rapidly as he had hoped, he
is lost forever—to the rest of the world.
Old memories may call him back to the
old surroundings, but it is rarely long
before his steps are again turned in this Page 12
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direction. This is because he prefers
Opportunity young and buxom to Opportunity old and wizened."
Amid the pressure of his work at the
City Hall, Mayor Taylor, a quiet man,
was talking quietly, smiling often, but
never ceasing to convey a strong impression of the seriousness of his character.
In speaking of the growing population of
Vancouver he mentioned the fact that
a certain company has plans involving,
during the years immediately ahead, the
expenditure of five mililons of dollars.
"They are staking their prosperity," he
said, "upon a population here of three
hundred thousand within the next decade. They are business men of caution,
and they won't lose."
The Mayor also commented upon the
fact that the number of telephones installed  this  year  in  Vancouver   and  vi-
ago, and there were plenty then. It
would take me a good while to mention
all the men who came here at about the
same time I did, and in the same condition, with nothing, and who have since
risen to affluence and prominence. They
had, of course, rising powers within
themselves, but it was in considerable
degree a case of swimming with the
tide.    You see, the tide was rising."
It was at this point that Mr. Taylor
was induced to tell something of his
own start in British Columbia. He had
been assistant librarian at the Michigan
University at Ann Arbor, his birthplace.
After several years of this, the library
walls began to seem cramped to him.
He had plenty of opportunity to read, and
read much of the far West, of the open
country where a man could stretch himself,  and  grow,  and  work  out  his   own
"I AM IN THOROUGH SYMPATHY WITH THE MAN WHO EARNS
HIS LIVING WITH HIS HANDS".
cinity has been greater by thirty-three
per cent, than the number placed in all
previous years, and twice as many as
have been put up during this period in
Los Angeles, which city leads all others
on the continent, outside of Vancouver,
in ratio of growth. The Mayor pointed
out numerous other progressive movements and high auguries for the future
of Vancouver and British Columbia.
"A great many men have already made
money here," he said, "but it must not be
assumed from this that the opportunities
for commercial or any other kind of
success are fewer than they were. They
are greater. We are just beginning. The
constantly widening activities in the Province are opening up more and more
paths to prosperity. There are many
more than when I came here fifteen years
salvation in his own way. All this made
a strong appeal, and finally he pulled up
'stakes, without financial resources, trusting, as many another young man has
done, to the West, and to himself.
Mining, he figured, was a likely road
to wealth, and British Columbia, he believed, was waiting for his arrival to
bless him with virgin gold. So he crossed the border and became a prospector.
He penetrated the wildness of the north,
prospected along the Skeena River and
in other regions where primeval forests
stand and mountains raise great barriers, and man is seldom seen.
"Did you find a mine?" I asked.
"No," he answered, with a smile, "it
was all I could do to find enough to eat."
After a while he gave up mountain
climbing, and came to Vancouver.
"What did you do here?" I enquired.
"Not much of anything," he replied.
"I looked for a job, but I didn't find one
in which I thought I could make progress, so I sought other pastures."
This is worth special note. Here is
a man, the Mayor of Vancouver, and the
owner of a great daily newspaper, who,
less than fifteen years ago, was "up
against it" in the city in which he has
since achieved his conspicuous success.
It shows, of course, that he has had
no special advantages, that he has not
stepped to one of the higher rungs of the
ladder from some superstructure reared
by others, but has climbed cleanly from
the ground. Here is encouragement for
the man who is starting from the ground
in British Columbia now.
The path of Mr. Taylor led him to
Revelstoke, and here, at the Canadian
Pacific railway station, he obtained a
job handling freight and luggage. He
was a "baggage .smasher." But Vancouver called again, and he returned to
this city, becoming a clerk in the freight
office of the C. P. R. In the course of
time he made a connection with the
Daily Province and learned the newspaper business—learned it well. In 1905
he took control of the Vancouver World,
a newspaper whose chief asset was its
good name. It had a feeble circulation
and a worn out equipment.
"The press," said Mr. Taylor,, "was of
the vintage of about 1850. To keep it
from falling to pieces we had to tie it
together with ropes and wires, and were
never sure that it wouldn't collapse before we got an edition off."
In six months the World was carrying more advertising than any other
paper in Vancouver, and it has since
achieved the distinction of having more
columns devoted to advertising than any
other paper in the world. Next spring
it will have an imposing structure of its
own—a monument of rapid achievement
in building up a newspaper.
A year ago Mr. Taylor was elected
Mayor of Vancouver. "My aim in administering this office," he said, "is to
represent all the people. I treat the corporation as an individual. I fully appreciate its usefulness, but do all in my
power to curb it if it shows grabbing
tendencies. We want capital in British
Columbia, but we don't want any money
menace. We want opportunities for all
—the poor man as well as the man in
affluent circumstances. I am in thorough
sympathy with the man who earns his
living with his hands. He is the backbone of the country—the fundamental
force and first source of wealth.
"During my days in the library back
in Ann Arbor, I began to read books on
political economy, and became interested in the writings of Henry George. I
saw much merit in the single tax, with 1910
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modifications, in accordance with the specific municipal conditions to which it
applied. It has been a great satisfaction
to me that 1 have been in a position to
test it in practice, and that it has proved
so eminently successful. Very few persons in this section now dispute the advantages of the single tax, which, as is
well known, is a tax upon the land, and
not upon the improvements on the land.
On this account it discourages the selfish
holding   of   city   lots   for   higher   prices
without erecting houses on them. It
stimulates building and is a spur to the
progress of a city. It means more work,
more homes, and lower rentals.. All of
this has been amply proved in Vancouver. The single tax is distinctively a
measure for the people. Its success here
has attracted wide attention. It will,
doubtless, be adopted by numerous other
cities, both in Canada and in the United
States, but Vancouver has shown the
way.
During his first term as Mayor, Mr.
Taylor has made a winning fight for
an eight hour day for men engaged on
city work, and for numerous other measures for the common good. Taking
him "by and large," he is an example of
what British Columbia will do, without
too much delay, for the man who makes
the most of his opportunities here—opportunities which include, for the man
of initiative, the making of opportunities
for others.
Immense Wealth in Minerals
Individuals and the Province are being Enriched by British Columbia Mines
By Richard McBride
Premier and Minister of Mines
(NATURAL RESOURCES SERIES, No. 2.)
Nature has been lavish with her mineral gifts to British Columbia. The Province is particularly rich in coal, gold,
silver, copper, lead, and other minerals
which contribute greatly to wealth in
natural resources. The production has
already been heavy, but when one considers the great extent of the Province
and the difficulties of transportation to
the more remote parts, it will be seen
that only small portions of the mineralized sections of British Columbia
have been prospected, and that the yearly
production in future years will beyond a
doubt be much larger than it has been
during any year  in  the  past.
At the close of 1909 British Columbia
had produced in coal and other minerals
of value no less a total than $347,820,584,
while for the year 1909 the output was
$24,443,025. There is vast potential
wealth in coal, which is very widely distributed. There are coal fields of great
promise which have not yet been developed. East Kootenay produced in 1909,
923,865 tons; Nicola, 62,210, and Vancouver Island, 1,414,525 tons. In addition to the output in these sections there
are producing deposits in the Similka-
meen, Thompson River, Queen Charlotte Islands, Peace River and Talkwa.
In the Upper Skeena and Naas sections
there are large fields which have not yet
been developed.
Of minerals other than coal the Province has thus far seen a production of
$164,359,421. The output last year was
valued at nearly $16,000,000.
It is not possible in brief space, to
mention in detail the various mining districts of the Province, but I can call attention to the very encouraging fact
that in the Slocan District, as
the shallower deposits are exhausted, ore is being found in the
deeper workings. This, as is well known
to every mining man, is the chief factor
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in the matter of permanency in a mining
district. "Does the ore go down?" is a
question which every miner asks in obtaining information upon which to base
a judgment as to the merits of any mining country. At Sheep Creek in West
Kootenay, new discoveries have made
that camp an important producer.    It is
well to note that these new ore bodies
have been found in a camp which is old,
and which might by this time, have been
worked out were it not for the important fact that this ore is found in the
deeper workings.
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in 190$, and new properties are constantly being opened up. The developments at Portland Canal and the Upper Skeena River in the Hazelton district show that new discoveries follow
the opening up of transportation routes,
and that as connection facilities increase
many deposits of mineral now valueless
because of the impossibility of reaching
them and transporting the ore to advantage, will add their share to the general
wealth.
In gold last year, the Province produced a value of $4,924,090; in silver, $1,-
239,270; lead, 44,396,346 lbs., valued at
$1,709,259; copper, 45,597,245 lbs., valued
at $5,918,522.
In 1909, as in the two years immediately preceding, the Yale (Boundary)
district had the honor of first place  on
the list. The Coast district comes second, and is followed by the West Kootenay district, which was for many years
our greatest producer. The East Kootenay takes fourth place. The Coast and
East Kootenay districts owe a considerable percentage of their outputs to the
coal mines within their districts, whereas, in the other districts, the production
is almost entirely from metal mines.
What the production in the sections
which have recently been opened up by
new transportation lines will become,
remains, of course, to be seen, but it
can be said that these have high promise.
For twenty years coal mining has been
a constantly increasing industry, while
lode mining did not begin practically
until 1894.    Since then, it has risen with
remarkable rapidity. Placer gold was
the magnet which drew attention to the
mining possibilities in British Columbia
in 1858, when the discoveries' were made
on the Fraser River. Then came the
history of the Caribou country. These
placer operations brought, about eighteen
years ago, the beginning of quartz mining, in which probably lies the greatest
part of the production of the future.
From Atlin on the north to the boundary line on the soutk1.. and from the
Island and coast on the Pacific to the
Rocky Mountains, the mining industry
has spread; smelters and mills have been
built, and one can safely predict immense wealth in the future from the
stores of mineral in British Columbia
ground.
A Year's Output in Minerals
An informal and unofficial statement
from' the office of the Minister of Mines
at Victoria, is to the effect that while it
is as yet impossible to say what the mineral production of British Columbia for
1910 will be, the output of the mines will
probably at least equal that of 1909, and
may be considerably greater. There have
been some local and temporary conditions which have had a retarding effect
on the industry, but, on the other hand,
there has been a constantly progressive
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movement in discoveries, development
work and mine equipment, with the result that mining gives greater assurances
than ever before of contributing in a
larger and larger degree to the wealth
of   British   Columbia.
In the statement for Opportunities by
Premier McBride, some statistics are
given of the most salient features of the
industry up to the beginning of this
year. It will be interesting to mention
some   additional   facts:
The number of mines from which shipments were made in 1909 was 89, and of
these 52 shipped more than 100 tons each
during the year, while 32 shipped in excess of 1,000 tons each. Of these latter,
8 were in the Nelson Mining Division, 5
in the Boundary District, 5 in the Ains-
worth Division, 4 in the Slocan District,
3 in the Coast District, 3 in the Trail
Creek (Rossland) Division, 2 in the Fort
Steele Division, 1 in the Trout Lake
Division, and 1 in the Queen Charlotte
Division.
The metal gold, obtained from both
placer and lode mining, amounts to a
value of $125,950,790, the greatest amount
derived from any one mineral, the next
important being coal, the total gross
value of which, combined "with that of
coke, is $102,904,261, followed by copper
at $55,871,893, silver at $29,850,586, and
lead at $23,259,255. The value of gold
produced from lode mining in the Province during the year 1909 was $4,924,-
090. The greatest increase in output has
been in the Nelson District. There was
also an increased gold production in the
Coast District. The Boundary District
made an increase of $35,000 in its gold
output. About 86.5 % of the lode-gold
output of the Province was recovered
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the remaining 13.5 % was obtained from
stamp milling, etc.
The production of placer gold in 1909
was about $477,000.
There is no question that, in the known
placer camps of the Province, most of
the more easily available deposits have
been worked out, leaving only those the
operation of which called for greater
capital and plant, with greater attendant
risks and less security of immediate
profits.
The total amount of silver produced in
the Province during 1909 was 2,532,742
ounces, valued at $1,239,270. About
98 % of the total silver was produced
from ores in which it was found associated with lead, the remainder being obtained from copper-silver ores.
The production of copper in 1909 was
45,597,245 pounds, valued at $5,918,522,
The bulk of the copper was mined in the
Yale   (Boundary)   District.
The lead output was 44,396,346 lbs.,
valued at $1,709,259, an increase over the
previous year of 1,200,613 lbs., with an
increased value of $76,460. The greater
part was derived from the Fort Steele
Mining Division, with the Ainsworth,
Slocan, and Nelson Divisions following
in the order named.
There was a comparatively small quantity of zinc ore produced, although the
industry was not neglected. The total
amount of zinc ore and concentrates produced and sold during the year was
about 10,000 tons, ranging from 38 to
48 % zinc.
Excellent building stone of various
sorts is found in abundance in almost
every part of the Province, but the fact
of its widespread distribution has been
somewhat  against  the   establishment   of
HAMILL CREEK, AINSWORTH MINING DIVISION
large quarrying industries, as a sufficient
local supply could always be obtained,
and, except within reach of the larger
cities, few regularly equipped quarries
have been opened.
The demand for brick is rapidly increasing with the growth of cities, but
the manufacture does not seem to have
kept pace with the demand, as large importations of brick have been made from
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Puget Sound points. There are unlimited clay deposits available, but the brickyards of the Province are for the most
part  worked on rather primitive lines.
The manufacture of lime is conducted
in a small way at a large number of
points in the Province, but only on the
coast has any attempt been made at
more extensive operations.
The only company manufacturing cement in the Province is the Vancouver
Portland  Cement Company, with works
at Tod Inlet, on the Saanich Arm, about
twelve miles from Victoria. The capacity of these works" at present is about
300,000 barrels a year, and in 1909 the
company manufactured about .238,000 barrels of cement, valued in the neighborhood of $360,000.
In the Flathead Valley of East Kootenay, seepages of oil occur and a great
number of locations of oil claims have
been taken up. In the vicinity of Sooke,
Vancouver   Island,    some    oiL locations
have been made, but have yet to be
proved of value. A deposit of oil shales
has been found on the North Thompson
River, which carries a fair percentage of
oil, and it is probable that in the near
future, serious attempts will be made to
prove the value of the deposits from a
commercial  point of view.
Concrete construction has become so
extensive on the coast that companies
have been formed to supply suitable material for such work.
Triumph of the Western Spirit
As Manifested by the Recent Record-Breaking Campaign in Vancouver
to Raise Funds for the Young Men's Christian Association
By William Ford
As we all know, a great deal has been
said about the notable progress of British Columbia and. Vancouver. This has
been attributed chiefly to the great
wealth of the Province in natural resources. The spirit of the people has
been mentioned in this connection, but
has not been particularly emphasized.
That the remarkable development has
been due in very large measure to the
virility and enthusiasm of the people has
been, within a few weeks, indicated in a
a population of 560,000, while Vancouver has a population of about 115,000.
Detroit raised $423,000 in twenty-three
days. Detroit has a population of 465,000.
Toronto raised $800,000 in twelve days,
but three gifts were very large—one of
them being for $100,000 and two for
$50,000 each. Toronto's population is
more than double that of Vancouver.
Ottawa, with a population of 85,000, did
well by raising $208,000 in twelve days.
Montreal,  with  a  population  of  454,000,
The closest approach to this achievement
in the history of these campaigns, was
in Cleveland, where the young men's
committee raised $83,000 in fifteen days.
In this connection it must be remembered that Cleveland is five times as large
as Vancouver.
It would be impossible to convey an
adequate idea of the great upwelling of
enthusiasm and the practical, hard work
to which this movement gave rise in
Vancouver.     Many   men   who   have   not
striking manner. Vancouver has raised
about five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for a new Young Men's
Christian Association building in record
time. In five days she has raised this
great sum, and in this work has far outstripped cities much larger than herself.
To grasp the full significance of Vancouver's achievement, it is necessary to
glance at what some other cities have
recently done in Y. M. C. A. money raising campaigns: Cleveland, Ohio, raised
$540,000 in  fifteen  days.     Cleveland  has
A Y. M.C. A. CLASS AT EXERCISE
raised $320,000 in twelve days.
It will be seen from this record of
campaigns in other cities, that Vancouver has greatly exceeded them all. There
is one phase of the work in which her
success has been particularly impressive
and significant. The managers of the
Vancouver campaign, some of whom
have been in this work for many years,
were astonished at the results -achieved
by the special committee of young men.
This committee alone, in the five days
given   to   the   work,   raised   $282,420..50.
been in the habit of giving money or
attention to any public project, and who
at first listened coldly to the words of
the Y. M. C. A. workers, were in the
end fairly swept from their feet by the
fervor of the movement, and contributed
handsomely to the fund. The campaign
was the most impressive illustration yet
seen of the remarkable latent power of
the spirit of Vancouver, which needs
only to be aroused by some laudable
cause to achieve results which have not
been duplicated in the older cities. 1910
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This campaign began about two
months ago in a very quiet way. A quiet
man, C. R. Sayer, came to the city in
response to an invitation from the Board
of Directors of the local Y. M. C. A.
' Few persons knew that he had arrived.
Without any preliminary heralding of
the big project which he had in mind, he
went to work. In co-operation with the
authorities of the local Y. M. C. A. he
made a list of what he calls the "key
men" in the community, that is, men
who were likely to support with their
work a movement of this kind. This list
in the beginning consisted of several
hundred names. It was culled and picked over until finally it had been reduced
to about half a dozen particularly representative and public-spirited citizens.
These were made the active heads of the
movement. One was made chairman
of the business committee; another was
made chairman of the young men's committee; others were made captains of
the teams. They assumed responsibility
for the success of the campaign, and
they were the kind of men who would
leave nothing undone to attain the goal
upon which they had set their hearts. Mr.
Sayer supplied them with an admirable
business plan of organization which was
the result of twenty years' experience
on his part in this work. These men
selected others upon whom they could
depend. Teams were organized. Each
of these was made up of ten of the best
men which the team captains could
obtain, and it may be said that these
had no difficulty in enlisting the services
of those upon whom they called. Each
felt that the request was an honor, and
each, a picked man, went to work with
the system and care which characterizes the undertakings of men of their
calibre when they set their minds and
hearts upon a project.
In the course of the preparations Mr.
Sayer met the captains and team members almost daily at luncheons and other
gatherings, and thoroughly discussed
with them all details of the work they
had undertaken. During this preliminary stage of the campaign very little was
said publicly about what was afoot, but
suddenly a general meeting was called,
an inspirational address was delivered,
and the real campaign was on.
The workers were lifted by the momentum of the campaign out of the routine of every-day life. They felt a
stronger and more glowing appreciation
than many of them had felt for years
of the fact that there are b\gger and
more vital things in the world than
business. They left their commercial
affairs in charge of their clerks and stenographers, and spent the days on the
streets and in other offices, inspiring
other men with their own feeling that
here was a project which deserved the
support of every progressive citizen, and
also that this was a time when the prestige of Vancouver was at stake. They
had but little difficulty in this. As has
already been shown, the citizens of Vancouver were quick to respond. The
Vancouver spirit had been appealed
to and it answered in a manner which
shows that it has few, if any, counterparts anywhere outside this Province of
British Columbia.
During the five strenuous days of the
campaign, there were numerous episodes
which revealed the existence of thjs spirit
in unexpected places. For instance, on
the first day of the campaign a particularly hard-headed business man, who has
been very successful because of his close
attention to business and nothing else,
declined, absolutely to make any contribution to the movement. On the second
day he still declined, but with less vigor.
the team worker that it was not so much
the money as the spirit behind it which
was important, and that this contribution, if not one of the most valuable,
would be one of the most valued on the
whole list. There were numerous incidents of this nature, all of them showing
that the big Vancouver spirit is by no
means confined to people who are successful and important, but is a force
which permeates the citizenship of the
city, and is thus a particularly good
augury for the continued development
of the community.
How this feeling has its foundation and
greatest potentiality, not in the minds of
the rich, but in the hearts of the poor,
is indicated by a little episode which occurred in the campaign which Mr. Sayer
conducted last spring in New Westminster. He had devoted considerable attention   to   obtaining   a   contribution   of
C. R. SAYER, THE MAN BEHIND THE RECENT Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN IN VANCOUVER
On the third day he decided to think it
over. On the fourth day he made a large
contribution. On the fifth day he thanked Mr. Sayer earnestly for being persistent enough to lift him out of his rut, up
to a mental altitude, where he could feel
public influences higher than those of
business.
One of the team captains was approached by a nine-year-old boy who
said that he had saved five dollars and
that since he wanted to join the Y. M.
C. A. when he was old enough, he would
like to contribute his share to the new
building.
Another team worker was approached
by a poor widow in a street car. She
told him that she had a son who had
died, and in honor of his memory she
wanted to contribute her mite to the
cause. In an apologetic manner she
drew from her pocketbook seventy-five
cents, explaining that it was all she could
possibly  afford.     She  was  informed by
two thousand five hundred dollars from
a business man who could well afford
this expenditure for the cause, but who
had declined emphatically to contribute
more than one thousand dollars.
Mr. Sayer gave up hope of obtaining
any more from him, but on one of the
last days of the campaign he received
a message to drop into the office of this
New Westminster citizen. It seemed
that the latter had an apprentice boy who
received a very small stipend. In glancing over the list of contributors in New
Westminster, this business man happened to note that his apprentice had subscribed twenty-five dollars to be paid
over a period of years.
"If that boy can afford to give you
twenty-five dollars," said the business
man to Mr. Sayer, "I certainly can afford
to give you two thousand five hundred
dollars, and I'll sign a pledge for it now."
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in memory of a son who had died. "I
can hardly afford it," remarked this man
to Mr. Sayer, "but I had intended to
spend two thousand dollars in sending
the boy to college. Now that he is gone,
I want to give the Y. M. C. A. the
money."
Still another citizen who has attained
a prominent financial and political posi
tion, made a large contribution to the
Y. M. C. A. for the reason, as he explained to Mr. Sayer, that in his early
days his joining of the association had
been a turning point with him and had
led him away from a path which was
downward.
"In these campaigns," said Mr. Sayer
to the writer, "our success is the result
of five essential factors. We have, in the
first place, a work which makes a strong
and wide appeal. We take hold of this
work witlj* co-operation, concentration,
and a careful system. By adding persistent effort to these units of success,
we achieve our results. To broaden my
statement a little, I may say that these
are the chief factors of success in any
work or any career.
The Great Value of Alfalfa
And how it may be Successfully Grown in British Columbia
By George Schumacher, Ph. D.
A farmer is often inclined to scoff at
scientific achievements in agriculture.
We hear very often expressions: "That
looks very fine on paper, but it is no good
to me," or, "It does not bring me any
money profits." Such farmers are shortsighted. Science can be made highly
profitable if the individual farmer will
apply to his own land the conclusions
drawn from scientific research.
A farmer has to reckon with some
conditions    which    he    cannot    change.
can and has to work very often against
these conditions in order to get the best
results and make the best profits. Of
course, a rancher who has thousands of
cattle running about on thousands of
acres of prairie land, who can afford to
lose hundreds of cattle through frost
and want of feed every year, needs no
scientist to help him, nor does the farmer
who farms large areas of wheat land
without much cultivation, without any
forethought,   without     manuring,     who
land; and to drain it, if it is too wet. He
must learn to combat diseases by spraying, etc. Science in agriculture shows us
what particular plants require or do not
require, and the practical farmer must
provide the requirements of the plant on
his farm. He must add what is needed,
or take away what hinders the growth.
But the scientist does not know the soil
of every farmer, nor the moisture and
sunshine at his disposal, and each farmer
must adopt methods  suited  to  his  con-
EMPIRE DAY NEAR KEREMEOS.   LAND LIKE THIS IS EXCELLENT FOR ALFALFA
These are his location, soil, climatic and
labor conditions. They may be favorable
for a good crop or the reverse, and he
This is the first of a series of articles on
scientific farming, by Dr. Schumacher, who
has had the benefit of study and wide experience in Germany, where, as is well known,
farming has been developed along scientific
lines more thoroughly, probably, than in
any other section of the world. The Doctor
is a graduate of a German technical school,
and of Erlangein University, and has made
a specialty of chemistry in its application
to soils and farming. Since coming to British Columbia he has made a close study of
agricultural conditions here and therefore
has a special equipment for writing of the
science of farming in its bearing upon agriculture in this Province. His articles will be
of great value if followed closely.
seeds and harvests only, and who is satisfied when each acre produces a few
bushels of wheat a year. But such farming is not always possible, and is not
desirable. Its detrimental results are
only too apparent in the poor quality of
the beef and the poor average returns of
wheat in Canada and the United States.
As soon as land becomes expensive,
the farmer must work more intensively;
he must increase his crop, or he is unable
to make a living; he must learn to produce a crop even if the natural conditions
are adverse.
He must learn to keep the moisture in
the ground by manuring and cultivating,
or if this is not sufficient, to irrigate the
ditions. And if he does not get the expected results, he must not blame the
scientist, but himself, because he was
unable to draw the right conclusions.
Alfalfa may be taken here as an example of how scientific achievements
should be adapted to particular conditions. It is the opinion of most British
Columbia farmers that this splendid feed
cannot be grown in the Fraser Valley.
These farmers are wrong. To understand
the growing of alfalfa, we must first
know what alfalfa is, and what is aimed
•at in growing alfalfa.
Alfalfa, the lucerne of England, France
and Germany, has been grown for thousands of years in Persia, and was brought 1910
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TYPICAL BRITISH COLUMBIA FARM HOUSE AND ORCHARD
^to Europe a few hundred years ago.    It
^belongs  to  the  clover  family,  is   some-
ttimes   called   eternal  clover,   and  is   no
idoubt the most marvellous food and for-
jage plant we possess.    Its value as fod*
*der  is  based   on  the  large  quantity  of
iprotein it contains.    "Protein" is a flesh-
fouilder, and as the percentage of protein
kin alfalfa is at least as high as in oats,
wheat, corn, etc., its value as a fodder is
[evident.    All animals on the farm, from
jfchickens  up, will  eat alfalfa.    The  pigs
jrthrive on it, sows will go through winter
on it.   It is good for the mares; weanling colts, which   are   fed on alfalfa and
shelled oats come out fat in the spring
|and shed off in March.    It supplies more
Igreen food for hogs than anything else,
[it   is   a   great   preventive   of  hog  dis-
Sease.     It  is   splendid  for   cows   and  increases  the  milk production.
One ton of alfalfa is worth more than
ttwo  tons  of  timothy.    In  other  words,
if  hay  sells  at  $25    per   ton,  alfalfa   is
[worth   $50   per   ton,   and   the   practical
farmer has found that the results justify
[this   valuation.       Nevertheless   we   frequently find that a dairyman prefers to
[buy hay at $25 per ton, even if he can
get alfalfa at the same price.
Alfalfa can be sown from May to Aug-
[ust.     It  will   give   green  fodder   in   the
[spring; it gives two to three cuts in summer and in southern climates when irrigated, up to six cuts.    Alfalfa holds out
twenty-five years. It is in its best from
the fifth to tenth year. The average
yield of an alfalfa field will be twice
the average of timothy, and we can get,
therefore, four times the feed value off
one acre of alfalfa as we can get off one
acre  of timothy.
All this has been ascertained by
practical farmers. Science has proved
that its chemical constitution accounts
for this high value of alfalfa.
But science has proved something
more in connection with alfalfa, something which will be worth millions of
dollars to the farmers, when they learn
to make proper use of it. As mentioned
above, the feed value of alfalfa is based
on its contents of protein, and protein
contains nitrogen. Alfalfa needs, therefore, nitrogen in large quantities. So
does grain. If nitrogen is lacking in the
grain fields, the crop diminishes. To
produce larger crops we must bring to
the ground manure and fertilizers which
contain nitrogen in a form that can be
assimilated by the plants. Saltpetre and
sulphate of ammonia contain nitrogen
convertible  into plantfood.
But alfalfa contains no more nitrogen than grain, and does not need fertilizers. It goes on growing better from
year to year. The reason for this is
told us by the scientist. On the roots
of alfalfa there are thriving and multiplying bacteria able to convert the nitro
gen of the air into a form which can be
used and assimilated by the plant.
What sulphate of ammonia, nitreates,
guano, stable manure, and a good deal of
labor have to do for other crops, do myriads of bacteria for alfalfa without labor
or  expense.
Science shows us how we can make
use of the work of these bacteria for
other crops which require nitrogen.
After we have taken the crop, we can
plow the alfalfa field. The deep roots
provide humus and nitrogen feed for the
crops which are now planted. The money
value of such nitrogen at disposal for
subsequent crops is placed as from $20
to $50 per acre. Science has proved this,
and the farmer has to make intelligent
use of it.
Potatoes are harder on the soil than
any other crop. They impoverish the
ground, and the advice of a well known
agriculturist is quite justified for certain
districts, namely, a farmer should not
grow more potatoes than he wants for
his own use. But we find that in Colorado a rotation of alfalfa, sugar beets,
and potatoes gives excellent results. In
this case the alfalfa replenishes the
ground with nitrogen, allows a splendid
crop of sugar beets, and the cultivation
of sugar beets leaves the field in such
excellent condition that a crop of seven
hundred bushels per acre is the average.
We take it as a matter of course that
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farmers in Colorado, using this rotation,
add the other fertilizers to their soils if
needed, such as potash and phosphates,
and especially lime.
But if we now attempt to grow alfalfa,
we find often that it will not grow at all,
or will give very unsatisfactory results.
And science has taught us the cause of
this as well. The absence of the nitrogen converting bacteria prevents the
growth of alfalfa. If we bring these
bacteria into the soil, alfalfa will give
good returns provided of course, that
all other conditions required for the
proper multiplication of these bacteria
and for the proper growth of the plant
itself, are attended to. In such case the
inocculation of alfalfa fields with bacteria is necessary. The experimental farm
in Lacombe, Alta., reports the following results with inocculated and non-
inocculated ground:
Inoccu-        Non-Inoc-
lated. culated.
First  cut ". .10,820  lbs.    4,880  lbs.
Second  cut   8,080  lbs.    2,080  lbs.
Total    18,400   lbs.    6,960   lbs.
These plots were inocculated with one
hundred and twenty-five pounds of soil
per acre, taken from an established alfalfa field. The inocculation with pure
bacteria culture is also possible, but its
application is not so simple. Science has
proved us the value of alfalfa as a food
and as a nitrogen restorer to the soil; it
has shown us how to proceed to get a
crop. The rest must be left to the
farmer, who has to apply the benefits of
alfalfa according to the conditions prevalent on his farm. If he orders now some
seeds and soil of an established alfalfa
field, puts the seed down in the usual
way, he will sometimes get a crop and
sometimes he will not. The farmers in
the Fraser Valley do not get any alfalfa
crop, and they either blame the soil or
the scientist for their failures.
But let us see if these farmers have
really understood alfalfa and have provided the needs of this plant in their
soil? We are told that the bacteria in
the soil converts the nitrogen of the air
into  plantfood.    Besides  nitrogen  these
FARM LANDS IN THE BULKLEY VALLEY
bacteria require another part of the air,
namely, oxygen, and if they cannot get
at the air, they cannot convert the two
substances into the required form. Alfalfa can thrive only when plenty of air
can enter the soil. A soil which is not
drained and is water-logged, will not
allow the bacteria to work. In order to
air the soil, all low lands must be drained, and there must be such cultivation
as will allow the entrance of air into the
soil, but at the same time will retain sufficient moisture. Alfalfa requires quite
a lot of water, but can draw this out of
very deep ground, owing to the plant's
deep  roots.
Plowing, discing, and harrowing will
prepare the ground mechanically. But
if the chemical composition of the ground
is unsuitable for the growth of the bacteria, all seeds, all inocculation, all plowing, discing and harrowing will not help
much. On newly cleared land as well
as in low, wet land, the soil is generally
full of humus and full of acids. The bacteria produce, in the first place, acids,
which must be neutralized to be available for plant food. Sometimes it may
happen that the ground contains sufficient lime or other bases to counteract
the influence of the acids, and when the
ground is tilled several times -and wintered, the seeds of alfalfa may grow up
after a while.   It happened that a farmer
who put down alfalfa seeds, did not get
a crop at all, plowed his field again, and
was surprised to find in the third year
a splendid crop of alfalfa. But this was
a chance we should not take. Such results are only possible in soils containing
a good amount of lime. In districts
where the soil is lacking in lime, the
only certain way to get good alfalfa
crops is to lime the ground, not only in
the beginning, but regularly every year.
Therefore, the farmer need not blame
the soil or the scientist. He should
blame himself, because he has not had
a general knowledge of agriculture and
has not made himself fully acquainted
with the nature and habit of the plant.
To prepare limeless land, freshly cleared ground, low land, etc., the following
procedure should be followed: Drain the
land, when required; put a liberal dressing of ground lime rock or spent lime on
the ground, say one ton to the acre,
plow in the autumn, put more lime on
in the spring, disc and harrow. Put the
seed in with a drilling machine, cultivate a few times with a hoeing machine
and get rid of weeds, and alfalfa will
soon bring you money. If you wish
to keep the same field in alfalfa for any
number of years, put basic slag on in
the spring and do not forget a liberal
dressing of lime. Harrow, and if required, use the hoeing machine.
Farm Opportunities for Capitalists and Settlers
By George H. Reynolds
If the people of Vancouver should be
informed through the daily press that
within forty miles of the city there was
a gold mine capable of producing ten
million dollars-or over yearly, and that
it would take comparatively little development work to get that amount, and
that instead of the mine "pinching out,"
it would increase in the value of its output each year for hundreds of years, and
that, with proper care, it would never be
worked out—if the people were informed of all this, would they "sit up and
take notice?" Would we see a grand
rush to stake claims? We rather imagine we would.
And still, such a mine exists within
the distance mentioned. But instead of
it producing in ores, it will do it in
crops;   the   mine   is   the   fertile   Fraser
Valley, right at Vancouver's door, served
by the very best and latest method of
transportation, endowed with the finest
climate in Canada, with as rich soil as
the sun ever shone upon, and capable,
when improved, of producing unlimited
millions in farm and garden crops, and
of adding untold millions to the permanent wealth of the Province in farm and
home  improvements,  besides  furnishing 1910
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PROSPERITY IN SMALL FARMING
homes and building bank accounts for
thousands of home loving people now
ekeing out a- scant living in the crowded
cities. When so improved, this valley
will be one of the garden spots of the
Dominion, and something for future
poets to write about.
This   Province  now  imports   eight  to
ten millions annually of farm and garden
products,   all   of   which   could   easily  be
grown in this valley, and not only keep
that vast sum at home, but double  the
population of   this   locality.    Vancouver
is  justly  proud  of  its   vigorous   growth
during  the   past  few  years,   and   of   its
prospect  for    future    development;   but
her citizens should realize that to make
a permanent and solid city, a good improved farming community back of it is
practically   a   necessity,   and   experience
has  shown  on  this  continent  that   such
cities are not only more stable, but that
the class of citizens are better by reason
of such close proximity to a flourishing
farming community.   We should remember that the source of all wealth is the
land, and while farming, perhaps, is not
as alluring an occupation as mining, and
when  compared  to  the  few  big mining
strikes, is not as rapid a road to wealth,
we must all admit that if more slow, it
is more  sure.    As  an  illustration,  eggs,
the  output of the  lowly hen  in  one  of
the   farming   states   across   the   border,
exceeded  in  value  last year  the  output
of the silver mines of a neighboring State
which holds first place among the States
for the production of that metal.
What the Fraser Valley needs most
right now is good industrious settlers to
go on and improve the land and bring it
under a proper state of cultivation. True,
there is hard work connected with  the
improvement of virgin forest land, but
here there are places with only a light
growth, which can be improved first,
and a start made. Nature has made
amends for this heavy clearing by furnishing a fine climate, and a soil that will
grow anything that can be produced in
this climate.
It is our opinion that all the land
along or near the new Chilliwack tram
line will be cut up into small tracts of
from five to fifteen acres, and when
this is done, and intensive farming practiced, this territory will not only support
a large population, but will produce sufficient products of all kinds to supply the
needs of the large mining and industrial
T
centers that will soon be built up in the
Province.
Here is a vast and remunerative field
for capital. Clearing the land or parts
of it on each five or ten acre block, building small cottages ready for the families
who will be ready to buy when such
start has been made, and selling on long
time and small cash payments.
Ready-made small farms should be
the watchword to attract the settler, and
by showing him that already in this district people on such farms have and do
clear as high as $2,000 a year raising
chickens, to say nothing of the possibilities along other lines, when land is farmed intensively, and the feed for said
poultry is raised on the place instead of
being bought outside at high prices.
Residents of this valley have in the
past week—November 15th, 1910, to be
exact—picked quarts of ripe raspberries.
And strawberries were quite common,
growing in the garden up to November
1st. The man of small means can here
find a chance for the ideal small farm
home, put in direct and rapid communication with a city population of one hundred and fifty thousand by electric street
car   line—daily  mail  service,  rural   tele
phones,   good
roads,   near  by
A GREAT SOURC
OF
WEALTH
schools and churches, and surrounded by
an intelligent, hard working class of people, free from the worry of hired help
such as the general farmer on broad
acres has; instructed free of charge by
numerous experimental farms and orchards, maintained by our Provincial
Government; near two leading sea port
cities of the Pacific, and within an hour's
ride of a great university-to-be. Such
is the prospect for the dweller in the
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Art in British Columbia
There is a sort of "invidious bar" that
stands in the way of him who would
write of artists—whether of the brush or
pen—of any period or country. He is
likely to be told that "comparisons are
odious." If he should start upon the
plan of making his article as inclusive
as possible, he either runs out of adjectives before the writing is complete, or
he is in danger of making it look like a
mere list of names, such as might remind one of a directory, or of the
genealogical chapters of the Book of
Chronicles. If, on the other hand, he
should adopt a selective attitude, he will
be complained of for exclusiveness, and
a want of appreciation of native or resident genius. On a racecourse of any
kind there are sure to be a few winners,
but there are also numbers of whom it
By Bernard McEvoy
all people  the  most  sensitive.     It  is  a
necessity of their being.
Of British Columbia as a field for art
it is not necessary to say very much.
Looked at in the large way there are few
places that are not good fields for art.
For art consists in making its own translation of things that exist, into pictures
that suggest. Set a true artist down
amidst the smoke of Pittsburg and out
of his surroundings he would make pictures of beauty. On the other hand set
a mere copyist amid the mountain
grandeurs of British Columbia, and he
may only produce the most obvious pictures of magnificent boulders and
Noah's Ark trees. As a matter of fact,
British Columbia is so spectacular as
to present difficulties to the artist. Its
mountains are too immense, its climatic
OCTOBER AFTERNOON, FROM A PAINTING BY THOMAS BAMFORD
may be said that they "also ran." And
the "also rans" have as much natural expectation of being mentioned, in any
dissertation on the art of a province, as
the winners.
But this article does not pretend to be
exhaustive or entirely comprehensive. It
will have to pass over many who have
done good work in the cause of art.
It is not possible to speak of everybody,
so that a selection must necessarily be
made. If then, those who are annoyed
because they are not mentioned, will
make mention of it themselves to the
editor, the mistake of omitting them may
no doubt be rectified at a future time.
Let it be understood that artists are of
effects too elusive. In its scenery there
is too much of everything. The tyro
does not know where to begin, and the
experienced artist does not know where
to stop. It may be said, however, that
artists have not been slow to find British Columbia out. There has been a
regular procession out here of Eastern
artists. Some of them have done better
than others, while all have done something. On the principle that he who
would fail at a target may, perhaps, hit
a haystack if he tries, the limners who
have come out to paint the mountains,
the rivers, and falling waters of this
Province have always been able to carry
back canvases  that have been very in
teresting to dwellers in the more prosaic
regions of Eastern  Canada.
The scenery of British Columbia has
been much more painted than its inhabitants, and it is the present weakness of
the art of the Province, that it has not
taken   advantage   of   the   great   variety
of types that are observable in almost
every part of it.    A cosmopolitan crowd
passes   through   its   cities.    The   Chinaman, the  Hindu, the Indian,  the Mexican; travellers from the Orient, and from
the   United    States;    loggers,   Scandinavians,  longshoremen,    sailors,    hunters,
trappers and miners, are all waiting to
be painted, and are presenting an opportunity to our artist's of which they should
not be slow to take advantage.   We have
one or two painters of nautical things,
notably S.  P.  Judge,  who, in this  line,
has made what has probably been hitherto, his greatest success.    But the difficulties in the way of the artist have been
too   great  to  allow  of  the  devotion   of
sufficient time to the study of genre to
arrive at any very great success in that
direction.    The day will come when the
noble  field  for  figure  painting,  and  the
painting of typical scenes in which fig
ures occur, which British Columbia presents, will be utilized.    Here and there,
scattered   in   isolated   homes,   there   are
already  a few  examples  of genre.    But
at present they are few and far between,
and make no showing as compared with
landscape art.    Exception to the general
rule is, however, found in the excellent
work of Mrs. Beanlands, formerly Misi
Pemberton, of Victoria, a native daughter of the Province, whose native genius,
aided by her studies abroad, enabled her
to produce works which were exhibited
with credit not only in British Columbia,
but in European galleries..  Among other
artists who have done successful figure
and   portrait   work,   may   be   mentioned
Miss     Mason     and     Mrs.     Bampfylde
Daniell, of Victoria, both of whom have
done credit to their artistic training by
works which have been exhibited in the
Royal Academy, London.   Mrs. Daniell's
early taste  for  art  led  to  her  removal
from Devonshire—her birthplace—to the
artistic circles of the metropolis, where,
under specially favorable conditions, she
pursued  her  studios  under  the  care  of
many famous  Royal  Academicians.
It may also be said that much of the
artistic skill that, under other circumstances, might have gone into pictures,
has necessarily been employed in what,
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commercial art. A comparatively young
and small community, as British Columbia is, despite its few historic spots,
could not be expected to form very much
of a market for masterpieces of genre.
But in every centre °f population there
arises a necessity for the work of the
illustrator, whether applied to the advertising booklet, the newspaper, the
magazine, or in the thousand other ways
in which "line-cuts" are used. A demand
of that kind means bread and butter, if
not something better, and in a country
where the first necessity of the newcomer is some sort of paying work, it
is natural that much artistic talent should
be absorbed in a line of business, which
though its returns may be regular and
immediate, offers but little guarantee of
fame. The newspaper illustration, the
invoice or letter heading, or the cartoon,
thus utilizes the brain and skill that
might otherwise have produced genre
pictures   to   be   remembered.
One of the first pioneers of art in this
Province was William Ferris, who came
to Vancouver in 1888, after some years
of the legal profession in London, where
he had had the advantage of the companionship and help of many painters,
since famous. His week-ends and afternoons were frequently devoted to
sketching with these congenial comrades, and he attained considerable dexterity with the brush. It was natural
that he should, on coming to British
Columbia, begin to sketch the scenery
he saw around him. One of the earliest
of these sketches had for its subject the
wreck of the steamship "Beaver"—a
picture that may now be regarded as
the best actual representation of that
ill-fated vessel. Sketches of Cedar Cove
and various objects and scenes along the
waterfront attest his skill, and are valued
evidences of what Vancouver was in
those early days. Along with others, he
was instrumental in the inauguration of
the Art, Historical and Scientific Association, which has remained in existence
until this day. Under the auspices of
this Association Vancouver's first exhibition of art was held, consisting partly
of loaned pictures and partly of work
contributed by the members. It was
opened by the Governor-General, who
happened to be in the West, and was,
for that day, a very considerable success.
Among those who contributed to this
early exhibition was H. J. De Forest, a
native of the Maritime Provinces, who
was prepared for an artistic career by
various courses of study and a more
prolonged opportunity of travel than
falls to most men. When he had secured all the elementary training that
Canada could give him, he started for
London in 1879, where he took full advantage  of  study  at  South   Kensington,
following it up with further courses in
Paris and Italy. During a prolonged
tour that lasted until 1882, he saw most
of the great masterpieces of the world,
and stayed long at the principal artistic
centres. Returning to Canada, he came
West, and has ever since been regarded
as one of the pioneers and chief exponents of the art he loves so well. An enthusiastic lover of nature, he has painted
British Columbia scenery in a way which
has earned deserved encomiums from all
who  know  his  work.
Among the various societies that have
from time to time been started in British Columbia to further the cause of
art, the Vancouver Studio Club is entitled to a prominent place. It was
started .in 1904 under the presidency of
Mr. H. Abbott, who still retains that
position. Himself an enthusiastic amateur in water color, Mr. Abbott was
always ready to do what he could in the
cause  of  art,   and  in  November  of- the
about twenty, the object of the society
being to consolidate the interests of
those who are engaged in artistic pursuits, and to stimulate an appreciation of
works of art on the part of the public.
The society has held several exhibitions
of works of art with considerable success. Among its members, in addition
to William Ferris and H. J. de Forest
already mentioned, is Thos. W. Fripp, a
son of the eminent water colorist of
the same name who was a well known
member of the English Royal Society
of Painters in Water Colors. Mr. Fripp
therefore, comes by his well known skill
in the direct line of descent, and his
paintings are much admired. As an exponent of British Columbia scenery in
water color, he takes a high place; the
excellence of his drawing, and the purity
of his color, distinguishing him in a
quite remarkable way. He has also displayed eminent ability in figure pieces
and  portraits.    John  Kyle, A.R.C.A.,  is
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same year he assisted in the gathering of
an important loan collection of pictures
which were exhibited under the auspices
of the club, and which contained many
valuable works of art. The Studio Club,
then as now, conducted classes for the
teaching of art, S. P. Judge and J. Macintosh being successively its instructors.
The club has held several highly creditable exhibitions, and its classes are now
under the superintendence of Miss Anne
Batchelor, Miss L. Beresford Tully, and
Miss Walker. As an association for the
encouragement of art, the Studio Club
during the six years of its existence, has
had a highly creditable history. Prominent among its workers have been Mrs.
Russell, Mrs. Creery and Mrs. Frame.
The British Columbia Society of Fine
Arts was inaugurated in 1908 and duly
incorporated by the Provincial Government; the Rt. Hon. Earl Grey, the Governor-General, accepting the office of
president.    It now has a membership of
another prominent and useful member
of the society. Of Scottish birth, he
studied art first at his native place, and
was successful in taking the highest
South Kensington prize in his year,
open to the entire Kingdom, for
Artistic Anatomy. He proceeded to
South Kensington, where he went
through various courses with great
credit, and studied for a time afterwards
in Bruges. Coming to Vancouver, he
for some time held the position of art
instructor in the public schools, subsequently being appointed in the same capacity in the Normal School, a post
which he at present holds. Mr. Kyle
has taken an important part in the establishment of technical evening classes
in Vancouver, among which those devoted specially to art work may be mentioned as doing great credit to the institution and management. It is not too
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for art in this Province. The work of
the scholars which has been shown at
various exhibitions, indicates that the
pupils have been taught on right principles, and we may, therefore, look for a
growing number of artists in the rising
generation. As a painter, Mr. Kyle's
work is of a high  grade.
W. P. Weston is another member of
the organization who is engaged in
teaching. He is an artist of considerable capacity, and in some of his seascapes displays a power and vision which
have made his contributions in this line
of art to local exhibitions very acceptable.
Allan Brooks, another member of the
B.C.S.F.A., is a painstaking and exceedingly able painter of birds and game
subjects. As an explorer of the mountain recesses of this Province, as a
hunter and prospector, he has made a
record. The clearness of his observation and the ability of his pencil are
seen in his masterly book illustrations
as well as in many separate paintings.
His illustrations in the large and important work, "The Birds of Washington," by Dawson & Bowles, are a sufficient testimony to his great ability in
this particular line.
Educated in Scotland, J. Macintosh
Gow is an able and successful painter,
with a keen eye for color, and for the
poetic aspects of nature. Though he
works chiefly in water color, he is successful also in oil, in both devoting himself chiefly to landscape. His works
always take a high place in the B.C.S.F.
A. exhibitions. N. H. Hawkins is a
water color painter whose vivid impressions of nature are conveyed with a
delicacy and purity of tint which give
great value to his work. He is also taking much interest in figure design.
S. P. Judge, before mentioned, has
made a special and successful study of
marine painting. He is also an able and
brilliant artist in black and white, and a
competent scenic artist. As secretary of
the B.C.S.F.A., he has done very valuable service, while his ability as a teacher
has been fully recognized. Stanley
Tytler's Australian studies marked him,
during his residence in the Commonwealth, as a competent observer of
Nature's moods, and he has found in
British Columbia many good subjects
for his clever brush. His technique is
bold, and his grasp of the principles of
art comprehensive. He leans to a broad
interpretation of what he sees; his capacity for selection is evident, and his
method sincere and direct. Mrs. Alice
Blair Thomas, B.C.S.F.A., is another
broad worker in oil, whose frequently
large canvases convey a poetic rendering
of mountain scenery. She is equally successful   in   pastoral    effects,    while   her
work in water color has found many
purchasers in Vancouver.
Grace Judge, B.C.S.F.A., has not only
original faculty and a style of her own,
but she possesses an imagination that
busies itself in dainty and refined
avenues of thought. In her quaint devices which have for their "motif" the
dress and customs of bygone days, she
displays an insight and technique that
are both admirable and industrious.
Noel Bursill's training as an artist was
obtained   in    London.     His   black   and
poetic transcripts of British Columbia
scenery are to the manner born, for she
is a native daughter of the Province. Her
manner is distinctive, and her effects
bold  and  striking.
This article would not be complete
without some mention of the Island Arts
Club of Victoria, which has recently held
its first exhibition, and in the promotion
of which Mrs. Bampfylde Daniell has
been a most valuable worker. This club
extends its schedule to any kind of
artistic craftsmanship,  and seems likely
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white work is excellent, and he has a
peculiarly good sense of color, which,
when displayed in an imaginative subject, is particularly pleasing. George
S. Gibson is a painter of much ability,
whose bold washes of color are very enjoyable to the discerning art lover. He
is competent in drawing, and his capacity for the selection of the features
of a scene decidedly above the average.
Miss Amity Carr is another highly
valued member of the B.C.S.F.A., whose
to do good work in its own district. Nor
though we have spoken chiefly of painting, must we forget the sculptor Marega,
whose vigorous modelling work has
added a pleasing feature to Vancouver
exhibitions, and who is the teacher of
modelling in connection with the Vancouver evening classes before mentioned.
Mr. Marega is an artist to the fingertips, and his modelling work and sculpture has a vivid and vigorous beauty that
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Christmas Giving
By Alice Ashworth Townley
D.EAR me!" said Mrs. Giventake,
how time flies! To think of
Christmas being only about a
week off, and a hundred and
fifty things one ought to attend to before
then, too. I'm that busy I don't know
which way to turn. Are you giving
many Christmas presents this year?"
"Well, not as many as usual. I really
can't afford it; and it always seems to
me that this empty giving of presents
just because people expect it of you, and
it's the custom, is a mistake. I think
present giving should be the spontaneous
outpouring of affection or gratitude, and
not a tax levied on us by the season, an
empty exchange of compliments," returned Mrs. Samy, in the tone of one
who realizes the weakness of surrounding humanity.
"Just exactly what I think, and what
I've often said. You know, I cannot understand this business-like idea of giving just to see what you'll get in return
—like some people do. I don't see how
they can be so mercenary."
"Nor I, either.    I couldn't do it.    The
calculating,   mean     spirit     some   people
show in bestowing their gifts where they
will   bring   most   return   is   abominable.
There's  Mrs.   Grabber,  I  met her down
town to-day buying an expensive dressing grown for that rich old uncle of hers.
She'd have done better to give it to her
brother-in-law, who has been ill so long
—I hear they are just starving—but he
couldn't give her anything, and she expects old Moneybags to substantially remember   every  child  in  her  family.     If
he  were  as  mean  as  John's   uncle,   it's
very little they'd get from him.  He's the
one that knows how to hang on to his coppers"T  He hardly ever gives the children
a *thing at  Christmas  time—and  we  all
give him nice presents every year.    Not
that I'm mercenary, you know;  but it's
only sensible to please  him  if  one  can.'
He could do so much for the boys; and
he'll have to leave his money to  someone  before  many  years   are  past.     Old
Curmudgeon!    I'd   a   good   deal   rather
spend the money on poor old Grandpa,
EDITOR'S NOTE.
This sketch is taken by permission from
Mrs. Townley's clever book, "Opinions of
Mary," which is made up of short essays on
many phases of every day life, written in an
incisive style, with much humor and keenness of observation. Because Mrs. Townley is"
a Vancouver woman, the volume has special
interest here, and would make a particularly
appropriate and appreciated Christmas gift.
We are glad to say, for the sake of our
readers,, that Mrs. Townley has very kindly
given her consent to the publication in
Opportunities of one of the sketches each
month.
he's so fond of my children. But, then,
it's no use talking, you can't do everything—and Grandpa knows we all love
him."
"Yes," agreed Mrs. Giventake, regretfully, "it seems too bad that one can't
afford to give to everyone one would like
to do something for. There's poor old
Cousin Jane, she's been awfully good to
me. I send for her first thing when any
of us are sick, and she always will take
charge of the children if I want to go
anywhere, or help me out with the sewing. I wish I could give her something
really nice, but I don't see how I can.
There are so many people one is obliged
to remember. That five o'clock tea cover
for my husband's mother has cost me
ever so much more than I thouglit it
would—she gives me so many handsome
things, I have to give her something
really nice—and my sister's children get
such a number of lovely gifts from their
father's people that we have to spend a
lot of money on them or they don't think
anything of what you give them. Spoiled
youngsters they are! So different from
Mary's children. A few cheap toys will
satisfy them. It's just struck me I'll
give Jane that plaid dress length my
mother-in-law gave me two years ago
(I wish she had better taste). I'll never
wear the ugly thing, and it will make
Jane a nice, serviceable.?dress. It's a pity
green doesn't suit her better, but I can't
help that. It will be a good, handsome
present." And she gave a little sigh of
satisfaction in the settlement of that
question.
"What are you going to give your husband, Mrs.  Giventake?"
•'I'm not quite sure," responded that
lady, doubtfully. "I wish I could be
quite certain what he intends giving me.
I've been hinting for the last six months
that I want a new dinner set, but men
are so obtuse. If I could be sure of
the dinner set I'd give him a shaving
stand, for I've quite a lot of money saved
up, and it would look nice in the room;
but I must have the dinner set, and if
he isn't going to get me one I'll have to
buy it myself and pretend it's a present
for him. I'm bound to have it, anyway."
"That's a good idea," laughed Mrs.
Samy, "but it is so annoying," she went
on, gravely, "that one doesn't know before hand. Now, last year I was as sure
■ as sure that John intended giving me a
new black silk, so I got him a pair of
gold sleeve-links and a new muffler, and
would you believe it, the mean fellow
had nothing for me but a rocking chair.
I was that disappointed I could have
cried. I'll be even with him this year,
though; I'm just going to get a new hat-
rack for the hall and pretend it's a handsome present for him to use to hang his
hat and coat on. The rocking chair, indeed! We needed it for the sitting room
anyway. I do hate people to get you
something useful, or that they want
themselves—all the time letting on it's
a present for you."
"Yes," assented Mrs. Giventake, drearily, her mind evidently yet dwelling on
the dinner set. "Do you know, I'm almost sure he'll get it, and I would like to
give him some nice handkerchiefs and
a new umbrella. I suppose," with the
air of one to whom a bright idea has just
occurred, "I could have the umbrella
sent home the day before Christmas, and
then, if the dishes didn't materialize, I
needn't say anything about it, and send
it back on Saturday to change for something else for myself."
"Are you going to have many for dinner on Christmas Day?" presently asked
Mrs. Samy.
"Yes, the whole crowd. Isn't it a
nuisance? That's the worst of marrying
into a large family. I don't mind my
own people, but John insists on having
his relations this year. There will be
sixteen altogether, and my cook's raging. I'll have to give her nearly everything there is in the house to keep her
in a decent temper or she'll burn the
turkey or have a sick mother and have
to go home. I suppose Christmas will
be a great day for you, too?"
"No, thank goodness! We're all going to my sister's. She hates entertaining, but she has a large house, and
there's nothing to prevent her, so she
hadn't the face to wriggle out of it this
year, as mother is staying with her. If
I had everything I wanted, like she has,
it would be a pleasure to entertain. Of
course, with only one servant, and such
a small house, I am differently situated,
and I really can't do it^'—and so on.
But enough of the business-like and
calculating exchange of presents and
dinners which, to some few to whom
Christmas is but an empty sound, passes
muster as being the giving of gifts and
dispensing of hospitality.
The only true giving is done from love
or compassion, and without the least
thought of return. Yet, when did the
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those who may have injured us, fail to
bring into our hearts- the return tide of
sweet satisfaction and content? You
that have a plenty of this world's goods,
take from your hoard and purchase far
yourselves, by providing for the needs
of others, a happiness, a comfort, an internal glow that will warm you, mayhap,
through cold and dreary days of advancing age and loneliness.
A season of joy and gladness! A time
of feasting and mirth! Think of the
many  within  touch   of  our  hands  upon
whom the burden of sorrow or want or
care presses heavily. Think of the
Christmas dinners that will choke the
narrowed circles, where Death has been
busy since the last anniversary, that
vainly strive to be cheerful;. Think
of those other dreadful abodes that the
gaunt fingers of poverty have robbed of
all semblance of a home, where miserable children cry for food and old age
huddles trembling by the fireless stove.
You that don your furs—glad that suitable weather has come in which to wear
them—think how the bitter winds penetrate the ragged garments of many that
are homeless and destitute; of more that,
buttoning up their thin coats over breaking hearts, are bravely trying to hide
their poverty, and, well nigh desperate,
are facing a world that seems filled with
disappointment and misery and want.
And if we can aid in ever so little, by
material and assistance, or sympathy, or
encouragement, let us not hold back, remembering the life-long' self-sacrifice of
Him whose birth we celebrate.
The Rise of Keremeos
The Young Town of Opportunities in the Valley of
the Similkameen
Much has been written descriptive of
the beauties and resources of British
Columbia, but the most valuable articles
are those which deal with concrete facts
pertaining to sections in which a man
may establish an attractive home and a
prosperous business. Here are some
eloquent facts about the Similkameen
Valley.
It lies in the southwestern portion of
the Province, taking its name from the
Similkameen River, which, in the Siwash
language, means noisy waters. The river
in its lower stretches, is about two hundred  yards  wide,  from four to  ten  feet
deep, and flowing rapidly, furnishes
ample power for the wheels of industry,
and also an abundant water supply for
irrigation where this is necessary. The
whole valley, and especially the section
which has the town of Keremeos as its
centre, is now at the dawn of a new era.
For many years this rich country has
waited for the coming of the steel rails
which will put it in close touch with the
rest of the world and the big markets.
The Great Northern Railway, reaching
up from Spokane, in Washington, has
now passed through and beyond the
town of Keremeos,  on its way to Van
couver and the coast. It is announced
that this important connection will be
ready for traffic by the middle of next
summer. Herein lies an opportunity for
the man who has not yet acquired property holdings in the vicinity of Keremeos. Because the railroad is not yet
completed, land may be obtained at
lower prices than will be possible when
trains are running between Keremeos
and Vancouver.
From the latter point to Keremeos
the trip by rail now involves a long detour up to Sicamous on the C. P. R.,
thence   down     to     Okanagan   Landing,
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thence by steamer down the lake to
Penticton, and then by stage to Keremeos. This journey requires two days.
When the line to Vancouver is completed, the trip will consume five hours.
This will mean much to the Keremeos
country. It will mean that land that can
now be obtained at low prices, considering what Mother Nature has done for
this section, will greatly rise in value,
and that the man who is fortunate
enough to now hold or to acquire property before the advent of the railroad
will see a large increase in his own property through what economists term
the "unearned increment." It is quite
safe to say that with transportation facilities, this will become one of the most
productive sections of its size in British
Columbia or on the continent.
In telling the story of the Similkameen
Valley and    Keremeos, it is not necessary, however,  to dwell much upon the
future.       The     present     shows     much
achievement.       To     begin   not   on   the
ground,   but  beneath   it,  it  can  be   said
that   the   valley   is   rich   in   mining   resources.    Large mines have already been
fully developed,  a  number  of  them are
shipping coal, copper, gold and iron. Big
platinum  deposits  are being worked.  It
is not a country of prospects  or  "wild
cats."     In the   camps   where   there   has
been   sufficient     development,     the   ore
bodies have been proved. Hedley, known
as  "The  town  of the  full  dinner  pail,"
which is just twenty miles up the valley
from Keremeos, has been referred to by
a   Dominion   Government   authority   on
mining as the greatest producer of gold
alone of any camp in British  Columbia.
The  Nickle  Plate  mine  has   turned   out
$3,000,000 in bullion.    It and many other
mining properties  are  still  in  the  early
stages   of  their  production.     Impressive
as the mineral output of this section has
already   been,   there   is   no   doubt   that
coming years will bring multiples of this
production.     Besides   Hedley,   there   is
the   "collier"  town   of   Princeton,  which
is forty-five miles west from Keremeos,
and is underlaid with sub-bituminous coal.
It has been estimated that one of these
seams alone is capable of producing fifteen hundred tons of coal a day for one
hundred   and   forty  years.     The  coal   is
all   of   excellent   quality.     Here   is   another great source of wealth in the; Similkameen   Valley.
But so far we have dealt only with
the underground riches of this section.
Those above ground show even greater
potentialities of prosperity for a large
population. Indeed, mining has been
mentioned not so much on account of its
own wealth creating attributes, as to
bring out the fact that Keremeos and its
vicinity will not have to depend upon
outside markets for her agricultural products.    These,  and  fruit  and  vegetables
in particular, probably constitute the
greatest asset the valley has. The soil is
particularly rich in the elements necessary to the growth of fruit and cereals.
It is even in texture, and has in remarkable degree, the power of retaining
water. That the valley is one of the
best sections in British Columbia for
raising fruit is proved by fruits already
raised there. At the recent Apple Show
in Vancouver, the Keremeos display
aroused great admiration. This display
was one of the most beautiful and impressive of the whole show, and created
a great deal of fresh interest in the Keremeos section.
Other fruits which find this locality
suited to their best development are,
pears, peaches, plums, prunes, cherries,
strawberries, blackberries, blueberries,
gooseberries and currants. All of these
flourish in a degree which is highly
gratifying to the grower. The conditions
for the production of wine grapes are
also propitious. The Similkameen apples
won the gold medal at the New Zealand
National Exhibition in 1906. At the
National Apple Show at Spokane in 1908
British Columbia apples captured thirteen first and three second prizes out oi
sixteen entries, and Similkameen apples
are unexcelled by those of any other
section of the Province. At the New
Westminster Fair in 1909, the Keremeos
exhibit won fourteen firsts and six second prizes  out of twenty entries.
The fact that the conditions for raising small vegetables are as good as those
for raising fruit is important to the fruit
farmer for the reason that while he is
waiting for his orchards to mature, he
can plant them out with numerous vegetables, which will bring him.a good profit for his expenditure of time and labor.
The region is already well known as a
grazing region, and offers special advantages for the production of butter,
condensed milk and cream, eggs and
> poultry.
It would be difficult to imagine a better climate. The valley lies in the heart
of the dry belt, with a precipitation of
eight inches in the lower valley and
twenty-four inches in the upper or western at higher levels. The air is pure. In
it the germs of malaria and tuberculosis
have no chance. There are no extremes
of heat and cold. The warm Chinook
winds from the Pacific ocean find a way
into the valley and so temper the climate that ploughing in most years can
be done throughout the winter months—
So it is that in this favored section
the dweller has at his command all the
factors . necessary for commercial success and pleasant home life. This is
being more and more widely recognized.
There was but little movement of population into the valley until 1905, but
since then the settlers have been enter
ing in a constantly increasing stream.
Many of these have written to their
friends in the old sections enthusiastic
letters of their homes and prospects in
this new land of promise, and these letters have brought yearly a large influx
of population. Yet the valley, hidden
away among British Columbia mountains, has been so newly discovered, so
to speak, that there is still a large
amount of land waiting to yield up its
richness to the industrious settler. Success awaits him here, if he has it in
him to make the most of the valley's
opportunities.
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SALMON  RIVER MINING
The Salmon Bear River Mining Co.,
Ltd., was recently formed for the purpose
of working three properties in the Portland Canal District. A rich strike of
gold and native silver running over $2000
to the ton was recently made on one of
the properties. A fifteen foot ledge was
uncovered and traced for over 5,000 feet,
showing ore for the entire distance.
Assays taken from it ran from $267 to
$2,098 per ton in gold and silver. A second vein was uncovered on one of the
other groups, showing about five feet of
galena ore, assaying from $30 to $60 per
ton in gold, silver and lead. This ledge
is from eight to ten feet wide, and was
traced for over 1,000 feet.
The property is situated up the Salmon
River Valley some two and a half miles
in a westerly direction from the famous
Red Cliff. It was located last summer
by Stewart prospectors. These properties have some of the best and richest
showings  in  the  district.
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Maple Leaf Emblem.
Stewart Paterson, senior chaplain of
the Red River expedition of 1870, says
that the Maple Leaf was the recognized
emblem of Canada long before i860, the
date claimed for its first recognition. On
the initiative of the late Dr. Richardson,
of Toronto, he, as secretary of a patriotic association of Peterborough in 1858,
designed a badge on which there was a
wreath of maple leaves. He also wrote
verses mentioning the maple leaf and
ranking it with the rose, shamrock and
thistle.
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Advices have been received from the
officers of the British Columbia & Alaska Railway company, of which Mr. Jean
Wolkenstein, of New York, is president,
that their reconnaisance surveys are now
complete between Fort George and
Quesnel. The line as projected is to extend from Lytton through the Chilcotin
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THE manager wants to see you,
said the pretty stenographer
when McAndrews entered. In
a moment the young man had
seated himself by the desk in the private
office, and the manager, turning a keen
glance upon him, began to speak.
"Mr. McAndrews, I want you to go up
the coast on the boat to-night. At our
camp in the Toba Inlet the foreman and
the crew don't seem to pull together.
The foreman, Mears, is a crackerjack of
a logger, but he's got in wrong with the
men. They're lying down on him. Now,
I want to get that timber cleaned up before the first of the year, and we've only
about three weeks left. My idea is to
have you go up there and see if you
can't straighten matters out, and get the
logs off. It's a kind of ticklish job, because Mears is an tfgly man to handle
when he gets a grouch. This is one
reason why I have selected you. You
can take care of yourself. I know your
record as a college athlete, and you certainly look the part."
The manager gazed with smiling admiration at McAndrews' lithe figure. "I
have another reason for sending you up
there. This is confidential. There is a
very good position open in this company, and I want to put you into it. Two
or three of the directors have another
man in hand, but when I take your name
before the board   I   can put it through
This is the first of a series of stories by
J. H. W., dealing with various salient features of life in British Columbia. Next
month we will have a story of the further
adventures of McAndrews, who figures
largely in the above tale. British Columbia
is peculiarly rich in literary material, and
we believe that these stories will prove of
great  interest.
if I have something pretty strong to back
it up with. This is the chief reason why
I'm giving you this chance. You can
get away to-night, can't you?"
"I sure can," answered McAndrews,
with enthusiasm, "and I'll make good if
it takes a leg."
In a state of some excitement he 'phoned a girl, and, on his way to his own lodgings, dropped in to see her. They had
a long talk, and a certain great event was
arranged for January, provided he succeeded in this mission to the lumber
camp. She waved him a farewell that
evening from the Vancouver wharf, and
the Petrel, sliding out through the hills,
turned her nose toward the north.
In the small smoking room McAndrews tried to read a magazine, but literature had a forlorn chance amid these
surroundings. The room was filled with
lumberjacks returning to the camps and
work, and they were continuing on the
boat the celebration of Vancouver holidays. Flasks were being passed from
hand to hand, and a goodly portion of
the passengers moved about with an unsteadiness of gait that was by no means
wholly due to the pitching and rolling of
the   Petrel.
Even so, McAndrews had succeeded
in concentrating his mind upon a magazine  article when  the  words  "You're  a
 liar!" cut through the general
noise. Two men had abruptly risen, and
one of these let loose his fist. The other
reeled back against the window. The
two were enwrapping each other in an
embrace that was far from fond, when
the purser, a small individual, shot out
from the office. He tugged at the man
on top, admonishing him severely.    He
pulled him off, and led him to a seat on
the other side of the smoking room.
Then, with a warning that was terse and
compact from long practice, he retired
again to the office and his ledger.
This first fight of the evening increased
the gaiety of the company. Lumberjacks
who had been drooping in morose silence,
evidently dispirited by memories of
pleasures passed and the contemplation
of work to come, aroused themselves
with the light of freshened interest in
their eyes. One of them turned to
McAndrews.
"That was a pretty good wallop old
Jack give the other cuss, but say, y'
ought t'ave seen the fight I seen just
before I come out this last time. Mears,
the foreman up at one o' th' Hercules
camps, gave one of his crew as nifty a
beatin' up as a man'd want to put his
lamps on. The other was as big as
Mears, too. Oh, 'e's a wonder with 'is
dukes."
McAndrews cast a quick glance at his
new acquaintance.
"Yes, sir," the latter went on with
ponderous emphasis, perceiving that he
had found an interested listener, "Mears
has got 'em buffaloed. They'd quit 'im
if they wasn't scared he'd lick 'em one
by one."
McAndrews was lending a careless ear
to the rambling accounts of the prowess
of Mears and others when the purser
came up with the information that, because the boat was overcrowded, and a
berth had not been engaged in time, the
best he could do would be to provide
Mr. McAndrews with a blanket on the
floor beneath the table in the cabin. The
latter was grateful for even this, and lost 1910
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no time in turning in. Some half inebriated passengers who occupied chairs
around him, kept up an endless argument, but at last the monotonous drone
of their voices died away, and he awoke
suddenly, with the dim light of early
morning creeping in beneath the cabin
table.
In a moment he was out on the narrow deck, breathing deeply of the fresh
salt air. He felt his spirits rise. Eagerly
he gazed out over the tumbling waters
at the stately mountain ranges. Along
the shore were gentle grassy banks that
became lost in the shadow of the timber;
great slopes reaching away to trees that
were high and small against the sky;
bold promontories, complacent islands,
quiet inlets. The sun rose tardily but
brilliantly over the long phalanx of hills,
banishing the grey of early morning,
lighting up the picture of restless water
and sombre forests with a tint of mellow
gold. Youth and strength surged in
McAndrews' breast. He felt within himself a pent-up force. His clear eyes
shone. "Mears may be a wonder," he
said to himself, "but I feel this morning
as if I could eat him up."
At last the Petrel, flinging the water
.imperiously from her bows, treading her
way nimbly through the combating seas,
veered slightly shoreward. A cliff loomed up ahead, and then seemed to move
aside like an old sentinel of the sea that
had received the countersign. McAndrews saw calmer waters, a curving
sweep of beach, some small buildings
clinging to the hillside, a long chute, and,
moored close to the shore, a heavy raft
of logs. Up to this the Petrel glided.
Lines were thrown over and made fast.
There were greetings. Some freight
was unloaded and a packet of mail handed out. McAndrews watched the deck
hands swing his trunk to the raft.
He paid little attention to the men who
had  come  down  the  hill  and  were  on
the raft when  the  Petrel  edged  alongside,   but   he   knew   at   once   which   one
was   Mears.     Under   a   battered   slouch
hat, pulled  down  in  front,  was  a  long
face that looked as if it had been hewn
out of  rock.     Big,  freckled  arms,  with
the  sleeves   of  the    blue    flannel   shirt
rolled  above  the   elbows,  hung   loosely
from  heavy shoulders.    Nature  seemed
to have  designed  those arms  to  swing
an axe, or strike a blow.   In the work of
handling the freight, Mears gave orders
roughly,   with   a   tinge   of  contempt   in
his voice and manner.    He did not seem
to notice McAndrews, but when he came
to    the    trunk    he    kicked    it,    glared
down at it, and demanded in a loud tone,
"What the   is this?"
"That's my trunk, Mr. Mears," replied
McAndrews, stepping forward. "I'm
from the company, and I am going to
stop up at the camp for a while.   You'll
oblige me by keeping your feet off that
trunk, and also by having some of your
men take it up to the office."
Mears shot a red-eyed glance at McAndrews and then began to look him
over, slowly, from head to foot.
"I'll oblige yeh, huh!" he exclaimed,
suddenly.   "You   seem   sort   o'   sure   of
it, but what d'y' take us fur—a	
bunch o' baggage smashers?"
"I've got a letter to you from the manager, Mr. Mears," said McAndrews,
quietly. "It's a note of introduction." He
smiled slightly and produced the letter.
Mears waved it aside. "I don't take
letters from every rah rah boy that blows
up the coast. I ain't got time. The mails
is good enough fur me. Y' kin toss yer
letter to th' bookkeep' if ye happen to be
strollin' up toward th' office."
"All right, but you and I are going to
have a little talk. I'll see you at the
office."
McAndrews turned quickly away, rapidly crossed the log between the raft
and the shore, and made his way up the
steep hill to the small building which
stood at a little distance from the barnlike bunk-house. As he entered the
doorway the bookkeeper raised a pair of
mild blue eyes at him across the high
desk, and then, apparently divining the
arrival of a representative of the Vancouver office, slid from his stool and
looked  at  McAndrews  enquiringly.
"I guess you're Mr. Perverilly," remarked the latter, smiling.
"Yes, sir," responded the bookkeeper,
with a touch of apprehension in his manner.
"Well, my name is McAndrews, and
I've been sent up by the manager in
Vancouver to sort of look over things."
McAndrews spoke in a cordial tone, and
extended his hand, to allay any fear in
Mr. Peverilly's mind that his own job
was in jeopardy. Then he delivered the
letter and explained that he had not yet
had his breakfast. Mr. Peverilly was distressed to hear it, and, all alacrity, seized
his hat and hastened toward the door.
"Come right over to the cook-house. The
grub ain't much for quality, but there's
plenty of it, and the cook's just about
tackling his own breakfast. You'll be in
time."
McAndrews was at his heels. He began to rather like Peverilly, a small man,
neither young nor old, who wore a constant smile, and seemed to have a strong
desire to please. The cook, upon the
entrance of the two, rose from the board
table at which he was regaling himself,
wiped his hands, shook the one which
McAndrews extended, and without any
delay retired to the rear, in the direction of the stove. In five minutes, balancing dishes on either arm, he returned
with a breakfast that would have been
a compliment to the appetite of the big
gest of the lumberjacks. McAndrews
was equal to it—every mouthful—and
this won the cook's respect. The two
indulged in a smoke together, and exchanged observations on various subjects, until McAndrews, having seen the
large bulk of Mears come up the hill and
turn toward the office, tucked his pipe
away, thanked the cook, and sauntered
over to the little building for his second
encounter with the foreman.
The latter, seated beside the big stove
behind the bookkeeper's desk, was figuring in a note book when McAndrews
entered. He glanced up with a heavy
frown. "Have you read that letter yet?"
enquired McAndrews. Mears got to his
feet and in violent language declared that
he hadn't read the letter and didn't intend to. "If anybody has anything to
say to me, let 'im say it to me face, or
through th' mails."
McAndrews surveyed the big man
calmly from his chair. "Since you're bull-
headed enough not to take this letter
from me," he remarked, "I'll tell you the
gist of it. In the first place, it is from
the manager of the Hercules Lumber
Company, the man who makes out your
cheque every month. It introduces me
to you, in a nice, polite way. Then it
states that it is imperative to get this
timber claim cleared up before the first
of the year. Then it expresses the hope
that you and I will work together, in
complete harmony." McAndrews smiled.
"Finally, it says that I am to have full
authority to do whatever I think best
to get this work cleaned up at the time
set. That's the letter, Mears. What do
you think of it?"
"I think, by  , that ye'd better go
out an' shoot chipmonks till th' boat
comes down th' coast again. Then ye'd
better waltz aboard an' sit tight till she
lands ye in Vancouver. When I git a
letter in th' reg'lar way sayin' I'm fired,
I'll quit. Till then I'm boss here, an'
any gazabo that feels like arguin' about
it is run off th' lot."
McAndrews kept himself well in hand.
"All right," he called after Mears, as
the latter stamped toward the door, "I
feel like arguing, and even at that, I expect to stay here a while."
Mr. Peverilly had been applying himself closely to his books during this little
passage-at-arms. Now that the foreman
had gone out, he turned slowly around,
with a grin that was obviously assumed
to conceal his feelings that this was a
serious affair.
"He got pretty hot under the collar,
didn't he? The fact is, Mr. McAndrews,
that Mears is a hard man—what you'd
call a bully. He's reckless, too. If you
would pardon a suggestion "
"I know what you're going to say," interrupted McAndrews, quickly, with the
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"You're going to suggest that I sing low
until I get in touch with the Vancouver
office and then fire Mears by mail. But
I'm not going to do it. In the first place,
there isn't time. The work's behind
now, and they've put it up to me to get
this timber off before the first. Some
fresh ginger has got to be put into
these men right away, and I'm going to
do it, on my own hook. In the meantime, Peverilly, would you mind giving
me a lift with my trunk up from the
landing?"
The bookeeper hesitated. McAndrews
looked him straight in the eyes. "You've
got to make a choice, Peverilly, and
now's the time. Which is it, me or
Mears?"
Mr. Peverilly made haste to get off his
stool. "Why—why, of course, Mr. McAndrews, I'll help you with your trunk."
"Good!" exclaimed McAndrews with
a smile. "And when we get back here
we'll fix up an extra cot. I suppose
Mears sleeps here in the office. We'll
make  a happy little family, won't we?"
Not caring to have any more futile
combats of words with Mears, McAndrews used a little diplomacy with the
cook, and obtained his dinner and supper before the crew reached the cookhouse. He spent the afternoon on the
timber claim, watching the work. There
was no spirit in it. The hook tender
seemed indifferent, and his attitude was
reflected in the men. When a log jammed between two stumps the order to
"skin 'er back" was only half-hearted,
and the men mounted the log with laggard steps. The signal boy leaned
languidly against the stump. Even the
blasts of the whistle seemed to lack aggressiveness, and the logs moved lazily
on their way. McAndrews made no
comment on this, and exchanged no
words with Mears. The latter did not
come to the office that night to sleep.
"Mears evidently is not yearning for
my society," said McAndrews, jocularly,
to Peverilly as they were turning in.
"It's an even break so far. I don't show
up at meal-time and he doesn't show up
at bed-time. Each army is waiting for
the other to make the first manoeuvre.
I guess I'll have to make mine to-morrow morning."
The men had finished breakfast and
were lighting their pipes for a smoke
before work when McAndrews strolled
into the cook-house. Taking a stand
near the head of the long table, he surveyed the company. The talk ceased immediately, and all eyes were fixed on
the face of the young man.
"Boys," he began,, amid a silence that
was oppressive because it had come so
suddenly, "you've seen me around here
since yesterday morning, and I suppose
you are wondering what I'm here for.
Mr.   Mears   probably    hasn't    told   you.
Well, to put it to you straight, I'm here
for the company, to find out why the work
is dragging. The company is making a
particular point of having this claim
cleaned up before the first, and the manager has given me full authority to do
what I think best to push the work along.
This is all set down in black and white
in a letter I have here for Mr. Mears.
He won't open it, but I will, right here
and now, if you don't believe me. I
haven't come up here to butt in. I came
because I've got a job with this company, just as you have, and have been
told to come. Now, as you're going on
at present, you won't finish this work on
time. You know it. You also know as
well as I do that it can be done if we
go about it in the right way, without
friction. Most of you have had a lot
more experience in the woods than I've
had, and you can teach me a lot, but
this is a simple job. All that is needed
is somebody whose orders you are willing to carry out promptly. The company
has put it up to me. Will you do as I
say? If you will, we can finish up this
work in time for Christmas holidays for
all of us, with full pay for everybody and
everybody satisfied."
McAndrews stopped and glanced
keenly up and down the table. "Are you
agreed, boys?   Say the word."
The silence continued, and McAndrews felt in force against him the prejudice with which the uneducated man
often regards the man who has had this
advantage. The hook tender, whose
wide mouth indicated the oratorical tendencies which caused him to assume the
role of spokesman, rose to his feet.
"Ye've given us a straight talk, Mr.
McAndrews, and we'll give you one.
Yeh come up here an' say ye're this an'
that, an' say yeh 'ave a letter to prove it.
But it ain't yer letter to open, an' we
ain't 'ad no official notification that yer
in charge here. Mr. Mears here may
have his faults—we all have, but that's
between ourselves. Yeh ain't one of
us. Yeh ain't been in the woods long
enough, fur one thing. As fur takin'
orders, we'd rather take 'em from someone whose as good a man as we are at
swingin' an axe, or handin' out a wallop,
fur that matter. Mears is that all right.
We've been in the woods a good while,
an' we ain't hankerin' after no kid glove
rule from what ye call the campus. When
yeh prove yerself as good a man as any
one of us, it'll be time fur yeh to be tellin'
us what to do.    Is that right, boys?"
There was a general murmur of approval.
"If this is what you think," exclaimed
McAndrews, hotly, "I'll say no more—
for the moment, but before we're through
I'll have a lot more to say. I'll—I'll call
your bluff."
McAndrews made a quick exit, and de
voted a part of the morning to thinking
over the situation. He decided that he
would have to meet these men on their
own ground—one that was distinctly
physical. He ate supper with them that
evening, but they did not speak to him,
nor he to them. Finally, after the pudding had been dispatched, and pipes had
been drawn out, McAndrews rose, and,
leaning carelessly on the back of his
chair, began:
"Gentlemen," he said, with sarcastic
emphasis on the word, "I'm going to insult you. You've got strong backs but
weak heads. You can't see anything in
life except the animal. Your spell-binder
here this morning handed me some hot
air about taking orders only from a better man. He meant a better pug. Do
you back up what he said?"
McAndrews paused, glancing half
smilingly into the heavy unfriendly faces
ranged along the table. "You bet we
do," was the effect of the muttering replies.
"Good, good!" exclaimed McAndrews
with enthuiasm. "In this case you will
have to take orders from me, because I'm
a better man than any of you, even on
your own ground of exchanging wallops.
Who are you all afraid of? Who's got
you all buffaloed? Why, Mears here, of
course. Well, I can lick Mears." McAndrews turned suddenly toward the
foreman. "Isn't that true, Mears? I can
lick you,  can't  I?"
Mears   started   from  his   chair.    "	
  you, I'll break you in two!"
McAndrews lifted up a restraining
hand. "Hold on, Mears, you're a little
hasty in rushing to the slaughter. We
want to make the most of this fight and
give the boys the pleasure of anticipation. What I propose is that the mill
be pulled off in the bunk-house a week
from to-night, not as a cheap rough and
tumble, but as a clean-cut affair, carried
on according to the rules of the game.
I brought a set of gloves up here for
fun, but will be glad to use them for
business. They're regular prize ring
gloves, and not any too soft, as you'll
find, Mears, when I land on your ugly
face. Pick out your seconds. I think
Mr. Peverilly and the cook will act for
me. I'll leave it to you boys to select
the referee, feeling sure that while you
don't like me, you'll give me a square
deal. As to putting the fight off a week,
I'll be frank with you. Mears has been
living the outdoor life in the woods, while
I've been doing nothing but office work
lately, and have been smoking a shade
too much. I'm a little soft, and want
to go into training. I want to make this
fight worth seeing. If I lose I'll fade
away as soon as I'm able to be about. If
I win, I'll expect every man of you to
take my orders and take them quick. I
don't mind telling you that I used to be 1910
champion boxer at college. Your orator
last night referred sneeringly to the
campus. Well, we'll see how the campus
stacks up against the woods. How do
you feel about it, Mears? Not nervous,
I hope. Do we have the mill, or don't
we?   Are you afraid, or not?"
Mears jumped to his feet and was
starting toward McAndrews, when he
was seized by those around him. "Sit
down, Mears, sit down," admonished the
hook tender. "This here talk of a shipshape scrap, arranged proper, sounds
good to us.    Are yeh game fur it?"
"Game fur it?" shouted Mears, "Why
—why, I'm only afraid I'll kill 'im."
McAndrews watched the work the next
day, and was gratified to observe that the
men were very decidedly speeding up.
They seemed to feel that life held an
interest after all. The hook tender was
putting fresh vigor into them. The main
line jammed. A log stopped. In an instant the signal was thrown—"Stop! skin
'er back!" The rigging crew jumped
upon the log, shifted the choker, signalled the engineer, and in the twinkling
of an eye the log was again on its way.
There was a new snap in the work. With
a certain gaiety the men attacked the
. logs, and in much more rapid succession
than had been the case before, the latter
thundered down the chute and leapt into
the water.
Only a part of the day did McAndrews
spend on the timber claim. He took a
quick dip in the cold salt water, rubbed
himself vigorously, went for a three mile
dog trot around the curving inlet, and,
on the limb of a tree on the far side of
the office, out of sight of the bunk-house,
hung a punching bag of sand. He also
carefully laid  away  his  pipe.
The next day he increased the vigor
of his exercises, and on each of the following days added a little to his training stint. He had been a favorite of
the wise trainer back at college, and was
well versed in the art of getting into condition quickly. His spirits were high,
because on the timber claim the men
were keeping up their speed. He felt
a subtle change in their attitude toward
him. It was one of more respect. He
knew that he could win complete authority over them by one means—the fight.
If he defeated the redoubtable Mears,
practically every lumberjack on the coast
would be his to command. It he lost it,
he would be a laughing stock, and would
probably have to seek other fields for his
work as a logging camp boss and forest
engineer. Toward the end of the week
he ceased the heavier part of his training and devoted himself exclusively to
developing to top-notch his speed and
wind.
Mears has got an arm like a sledgehammer," he remarked to Mr. Peverilly
on the  evening before the  event, "and
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I've got to keep him from landing on me
with all his force. It will be a cinch for
me to out-box and out-manoeuvre him,
and in the second or third round I'm going to try to close his eyes. Then I'll
concentrate on putting him out with a
clean jolt to the 'jaw.
Mr. Peverilly gazed at McAndrews
with awe, with an admiration that was
almost too deep for words. This affair,
he felt, was the biggest thing in which
he had played a direct and important
part, and he was leaving no stone unturned to be equal to his responsibility.
He and his fellow second, Mr. Garvey,
the cook, had numerous conferences with
Mr. Hansen and Mr. Murphy, the other
seconds, and also with Mr. Williams, the
hook tender, who had assumed the role
of referee. The latter had shown a desire to conduct the fight according to the
best ethics of fistic combats, and McAndrews, after going over with Peverilly
the arrangements in detail, was well satisfied.
"The best man will win," he remarked,
"and that's all I want. I don't look at
this scrap as a mere physical battering
game. I have several reasons for wanting to win, but in addition to them I
want to show these fellows that education needn't necessarily be weak-kneed
and puny around the shoulders. I want
to increase their respect for learning."
McAndrews laughed. He was feeling
very fit.
Late in the afternoon of the seventh
day after his proposal in the bunk-house,
he took a nap. Five hours intervened
before the time scheduled for the fight.
His programme was to sleep for an
hour, walk an hour, devote an hour to
an easily digested supper, and then to
rest and read for a couple of hours before entering the ring. He carried the
first three parts of his programme out as
he had planned, and was settling comfortably with a book by the student lamp
on the office table when Peverilly came
in excitedly.
"There's a yacht swinging over toward
the landing," he announced.
"There is?" exclaimed McAndrews in
astonishment. "What do you think has
brought her here?"
"Heaven only knows. She's come from
the south, from Vancouver, I suppose."
They picked up their hats and hurried
through the darkness down the road.
The launch slipped gracefully along the
edge of the raft. A man jumped off,
made her fast, and then, extending his
hands, helped two young women to
alight. A fourth figure followed. McAndrews heard laughter—musical laughter. He knew it well, and for an instant
he felt as though his heart had ceased
to beat. One of the girls stopped suddenly, peered through the gloom, and
then, as rapidly as she dared on the un-
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certain   footing   of   the   logs,   advanced
toward  him.
"Oh, Jimmie, I'm so glad that you're
here to meet us. We've come up from
Vancouver to surprise you. We were
planning an excursion in Mr. Frazier's
yacht, and someone, I guess it was I,
thought it would be a great lark to see
a real, live logging camp. So here we
are. We can sleep aboard the yacht, you
know, but I want to see your own quarters and your lumberjacks."
Doing his best to play the part of the
delighted host, McAndrews shook hands
with Miss Dinwiddie, with whom he was
well acquainted as the chum of the girl
who was in his thoughts so much; with
Miss Dinwiddie's young brother, and
with Mr. Frazier, her fiancee. He was
talking at random as the party carefully
crossed the long log between the raft
and the shore, and began to move up the
hill. All he could think of was—"They'll
think it's a stall—a frame-up. They'll
think I'm so yellow that I had to call my
girl to the rescue."
"Aren't you glad to see me, Jimmie?"
she asked him suddenly, when, after a
moment, they happened to be walking
a little apart from the others.
"How could I help being, little girl?"
he answered. "This has been such a big
surprise that I can hardly talk, that's
all."
After they had "inspected the office to
their satisfaction she turned to him with
an air of briskness. "Now, Jimmie, of
course I want to have a nice, long chat
with you, but before that we must pay
a visit to your men. It's only a few days
before Christmas, you know, and we
thought we'd bring them some little gifts,
to be presented to them in your name.
And we thought we'd have a little music,
too. Alice plays the violin divinely, and
Bob has brought her instrument. We'll
sing some Christmas songs. I think it
will be fine to make the men feel the
Christmas spirit. Their lives must be
hard enough. Let's go over now, so
that—so that we'll be able to get back
before it gets too late, dear. Just think,
it's been nearly two weeks since we've
seen  each other."
"Why, of course we'll go, Dora, oh,
of course!" McAndrews laughed somewhat loudly. "But I'd better tell them
first."
He appeared in the bunk-house with a
flushed face. "Men," he said, with a hesitation of manner that the lumberjacks
had not seen before, "I've  had  some—
some  unexpected   sruest
A
mom
a em
are two young ladies, and they want to
come over here to introduce a little of
the Christmas spirit. It's an odd place
for it, under the circumstances, but we
can't deny the ladies, you know. Don't
think for an instant," he added, noticing
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I want to sidestep the business we have
on hand. There will be no postponement. The Christmas spirit will come
before the fight, that's all."
The party entered the bunk-house,
which had been hastily cleared of socks
and shoes and other articles which were
not decorative. The violin was laid upon
the table, in the center of tbe long room,
and Bob Denwiddie untied a large parcel,
revealing an array of excellent pipes.
Dora picked out one which was a trifle
larger than the others, and, holding it
up, looked brightly into the faces of the
men.
"These are just little Christmas gifts,"
she explained. "Your own sisters and
mothers, those who are most dear to you
are far away, and we thought we might
be able to take their places, just for a
moment, just a little bit. Which of you
is Mr. Mears?"
Mears squirmed in his chair, glanced
toward the back door, and then rose with
great awkwardness and embarassment
Dora advanced toward him and placed
the pipe in his inert hand.
"Since you're the foreman, Mr. Mears,"
she said, with a charming smile, "you naturally receive the largest pipe. The
manager of the company gave me your
name, and I'm presenting the pipe with
the compliments of Mr. McAndrews."
Mears struggled for speech without
success, and Dora, hastily picking up
more pipes, turned quickly to the others,
making each presentation with a little
speech. "And here is a big jar of tobacco
for everybody," she exclaimed in conclusion, "and I hope that these will be
pipes of peace and contentment, and that
you'll all have many happy returns of
this  beautiful  Christmas  season."
Even the hook tender, the referee-to-
be, was at a loss for words,  and Miss
Dinwiddie, who had been tuning her
violin, swung into the strains of "My
Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean." Bob Dinwiddie chimed in. M r. Dinwiddie took
up the air, and suddenly the full and mellow voice of Dora soared forth like a
triumphant bird of song. New lights
came into tbe eyes of these men of the
woods. Old memories were being stirred. In a moment nearly all were singing. There was song after song. The
violin, with sobbing notes, reached back
to other days, and some of the men bung
their heads. In buoyant tones it seemed
to tell joyously of the future, and expressions of fresh hope came into these
heavy faces. Above it always rose the
appealing tones of Dora's voice, bespeaking the softness and sweetness of
the world.
When the party were leaving, McAndrews spoke hastily to Dora and Frazier.
"You people go down to the yacht. I've
got some important business here, and
will join you just as soon as I can."
Dora gazed at him wonderingly and reproachfully, but, seeing the intensely serious expression in his eyes, made no
comment. He went hurriedly to the
office, stripped to the waist, threw a coat
over his shoulders, and returned to the
bunk-house. Mears was waiting for him,
ready. The table had been pushed aside,
revealing the ring, marked off heavily
with chalk. The seconds took their
places. The referee announced the rules
and adjusted the gloves for each man.
"Take your places," he commanded.
"Now,  then,  go to  it."
Mears swung, and McAndrews smilingly dodged the blow. He let the opening pass. The lumberman swung again,
and McAndrews, ducking, tapped him
lightly on the cheek. Mears drew himself
up for a mighty blow, but seemed to hesi
tate and the blow went harmlessly over
McAndrews' shoulder. The latter, closely
following the lumberman's eyes, saw
them rest momentarily upon his new
pipe, which was lying on the table, and
then it came suddenly to the young man
that the heart of his antagonist was not
in this fight. He let Mears hit him on the
neck, and found that the blow had little
force. He danced around his man, driving in with a beautiful play of muscle,
but with a lightness ibat could do no
damage. The round ended without a
scratch on either. There was no applause
and no hissing. The spectators seemed
to lack interest. The referee, while the
men were sitting in their corners, made
a couple of hasty, pondering turns across
the ring, and then, stopping suddenly,
held up his hand for attention.
"Boys," he said loudly, "this here
fight's a farce. Neither man wants to
hurt the other. But we know that they're
both good men, and I guess we're willin'
to work along with 'em for the best interests of all. Am I right, boys?" There
was a burst of applause. "Good. Then
I declare this fight a draw. I think I
kin say in addition that the real winner
is  the  Christmas  spirit."
Mears was filling his pipe from the big
bowl when McAndrews happened to pass
him.
"Hold on, McAndrews," he exclaimed
gruffly. "I've had a grouch for a good
while, but the doin's to-night has kind o'
mellered me up. There needn't be no
hard feelin's. We'll get the logs off on
time."
"Thanks, Mears," replied McAndrews.
"I appreciate this."
"That's all right," responded the foreman, "but don't take no credit to yourself. It' was that fine girl o' yours that
done it."
Industrial Progress in British Columbia
The Fraser Valley Progressive Association is being organized by C. H.
Stuart-Wade to advance the interests
of the Fraser Valley.
The Dominion Saw Mill Lumber
Company has taken over all the interests
of The Bowman Lumber Company, the
Revelstoke Saw Mills Company, and
the Yale Columbia Lumber Company,
for a sum of money aggregating over
two millions.
The Dominion Government is completing three new fish hatcheries on Vancouver Island. The*"? are situated at
Cowichan Lake, Anderson Lake, and
Kennedy Lake, and will each have a capacity of about 8,000,000 fry.
Plans have been drawn up for a hotel
in Prince Rupert which will cost eighty
thousand dollars, and will be one of the
best equipped hotels of its size on the
Pacific  Coast.
The Canadian Fisheries and Cold
Storage Company has obtained a site
of seventy-four acres on the Skeena
River, near Prince Rupert, as the headquarters for its big salmon, halibut, herring,  and   codfish  industry.
A company with a capitalization of
fifty thousand dollars has been organized
by James Drummond, manager of the
Victoria Fruit Exchange, for the establishment of a factory for the production
of jams, evaporated fruits and preserves.
The power plant of the Northern
Light, Power and Coal Company, which
will operate in the Yukon district, has
been completed at a cost of about two
million dollars. The power will be utilized chiefly in the development of quartz
mining properties.
It has been announced that the Idaho
& Washington Northern Railway will
begin next year to build north into
Southern British Columbia, through the
Salmon River Valley as far as Salmo,
thence down the Beaver Valley to the
city of Trail. This extension will play
a big part in the development of one of
the richest sections of the Province in
mining, fruit growing, ranching, and
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The Kootenay Jam Company is making arrangements for a larger site because of the increased demand for Kootenay jams, and the increased supply of
fruits available for this product.
It has been announced that extensive
coal territory on Graham Island at the
northern end of the Queen Charlotte
group, is about to be opened, and that
this will mean the development of a section of country which will contribute
greatly to the wealth of the Last West.
Business men of Nelson and the West
Kootenays in general are organizing for
an aggressive publicity campaign, which
will include an agency in London, for
the purpose of getting into direct personal contact with progressive settlers
and investors.
The Quesnel Hydraulic Mining Company has undertaken a project to dam
the Swift River in the mountains of
Northern Caribou, and to carry the
water over a mountain divide and across
deep ravines, finally distributing it by
a system of canals throughout their
extensive hydraulic mining works.
It has been announced by C. H. Cahan,
president of the Western Canada Power
Company* that the Stave Lake plant
will be ready by the first of the year to
supply about thirty thousand horse
power for Vancouver, New Westminster and the surrounding country. The
company has already spent about three
million dollars on this plant.
In the annual report of the Chilliwack
Telephone Company, it is announced
that the cost of extensions during the
year brings the amount invested up to
$31,000, and the net revenue has amounted to not less than 20 % on the capital
invested.
The E. & N. Railway Company has
inaugurated a service on its branch line,
extending from Victoria to Cameron
Lake, about thirty miles north of Wellington. This will be an important factor in the development of Alberni and
adjacent  points.
Five more whaling steamers are to be
built for the Pacific Whaling Company
in  British  Columbia.
It is reported that the C. P. R. and
G. T. P. contemplate adding four steamers  to  the   British   Columbia  coast  ser
vice.
Over the Salmon River, near Salmo,
a bridge half a mile long is being constructed.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway will
build next spring in Victoria one of the
finest hotels  in the  Dominion.
The Kootenay Fruit Growers' Union
has been organized to market the fruit
product of the Kootenays.
A bill will be introduced at the next
session of the Provincial Legislature
providing for a stock exchange in Victoria.
The Ogilvie Milling Company, the
largest flour and grain elevator corporation in the British Empire, is considering a project to erect a big flour mill and
grain elevator "in Vancouver.
Over 40,000 fruit trees were planted in
the Creston District this year, and over
50,000 will be planted next year. Of this
number far the greater majority are
apple.
Mr. Sinclair Chandler, director of the
British Empire Bridge Works, has announced that his company, which is one
of the largest of its kind in the world,
will probably establish a plant in British
Columbia, and will employ from five
hundred to a thousand men.
The progressive citizens of Rossland
are contemplating an aggressive advertising campaign for the purpose of bringing to the attention of mining investors
and the world at large the merits of mining properties in the district. A number
of these properties require only capital
and the right kind of development to
contribute largely to the mineral production of the Province.
A SWELLING TIDE  OF  CAPITAL
By H. Goddard
In England the Budget, with labor,
socialistic and commercial unrest, has
effectually stopped both the large and
small capitalists from investment in real
estate, and many enterprises. The land
values in England are depressed an'l
there is a complete stagnation in the
property market. Owners are watching
every opportunity to turn their holding-;
into money, and when they succeed m
this, the proceeds in a large degree, find
their way to Canada and British Columbia. Vancouver has received much of this
capital from the old country. This is
to be expected, because, in my opinion,
the metropolis of this Province presents
more good investment opportunities than
almost any other city in the world, outside of British Columbia. Vancouver
has "come into her own." Her prosperity has a rock foundation, and can carry
with profit a heavy, superstructure of investment. This, in proportion to her
size, is likewise true of Victoria, and of
others of the most progressive communities in  British Columbia.
Concurrently with sales of land in
England, there is a marked tendency on
the part of certain large land owners to
invest in real estate in the Colonies.
Lord Harrowby, who is just now in
Canada, has been explaining that he purposes buying land in Western Canada;
it is no secret that the Duke of Sutherland has property in the Dominion, and
that the Duke of Westminster owns a
large area in South Africa. In view of
the great future which lies before
Canada, it would not be surprising if
some day the bulk of the peerage were
to be settled here.
With possibly no seat as of right in
the House of Lords and English land
taxed far beyond its capacity, it is quite
within the bounds of possibility that
those who are now great land owners
may spend most of their time on their
estates on this side of the world, going
to London for three or four months in
the season. The seat of Empire is ever
shifting further west, and the future of
Canada no man can divine. The one
thing of which we can be sure, is that it
must necessarily be a great future.
How Steamboat Camp was Located
The sun beat down relentlessly upon
the sage brush desert of Humbolt
County, Nevada, and yet Dan Greenwalt,
prodding two burros, pushed steadily on.
He was looking, as he had done since
a boy of sixteen, for elusive gold. He
found no gold, but at last he came in
sight of what he thought was a deserted
cabin.     Upon   entering  it  to   camp   for
the night, he found that he was not
alone. John Henderson, an old placer
miner, was in the cabin. He had come
to the Humbolt hills in search of placer
gold.
In relating that night over pipes the
experiences of the past, Henderson said
he had once been at the head of the
Upper Skagit River, in British Columbia,
where he had found some fairly good
placer; but that the quantity of gravel
was too limited to work profitably.
Greenwalt suggested it was possible that
the gold was from the quartz ledges
above, and asked Henderson if he had
prospected the ledges. "No," said Henderson, "I didn't have an outfit for quartz
prospecting, and, besides, I never pros- 1910
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pected for quartz, though there are a
number of big, strong ledges in the district, especially on Steamboat Mountain." Henderson gave Greenwalt a map
showing how to get into the country,
and of the creek which he had panned
for placer.
This was two years ago. Last spring
Greenwalt secured the necessary capital,
and started with W. A. Stevens to look
for the creek. To find it was not an easy
matter, as the mountains in the vicinity
are very steep and rugged. Several times
the two gold seekers thought they had
come to the right stream, as they had
secured good pannings from several of
the small creeks, but none of these
streams exactly answered Henderson's
description.
It was not until after the 15th of June,
though the prospectors had been in the
neighborhood for nearly a month, that
they finally discovered Steamboat Creek.
When they came upon the stream they
found gold in its bed, and knew that it
was the stream for which they had been
hunting. They made camp at the foot
of the mountain and began to prospect
the ledges on either side of the creek
systematically. They were in no hurry,
because summer was just beginning, and
in the valley were plenty of deer, and
fish in the Skagit River.
It was not until the 29th of June that
they found the rich ledge from which the
gold came. But there it was, close to
the upper end of the creek. They wondered why they had not found it before.
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washed out a portion of the ledge eight
feet wide, leaving the walls on either
side standing almost upright. The next
day they staked the Steamboat Group.
• After taking a large number of
samples, many of which showed free gold
to the naked eye, they left camp for
Vancouver, where they had the assays
made, some of which went $4,000 to the
ton. There was then no need for
secrecy, and in a few days dozens, and
then hundreds, were going to Steamboat Mountain to prospect. Among these
were experienced prospectors, and not
a few tenderfeet. The experiences of
some of them were amusing as well as
painful.
Among those who went in first were
S. A. Thompson, C. C. Grand, Alaska
Jack, John Vincent, and B. A. Jennings.
Perhaps Thompson and Grand had one
of the most thrilling experiences of any.
The second day out, after reaching the
mountain, they located a rich ledge
above and to the north of Stevens and
Greenwalt. As it was getting late, they
decided to take a short cut home, but in
doing so they lost their way. A glacier
confronted them, and in crossing,
Thompson slipped and slid some forty
or fifty feet. Had it not been for his
prospect pick, which he dug into the ice
as he shot along, he would have undoubtedly gone over the edge, fifteen
hundred  or  two  thousand  feet  below.
In attempting to climb a steep mountain they came to an abrupt wall standing almost upright. This they found impassable,   and   in   attempting   to   return
found that also impossible, for night had
overtaken them and a misstep might
land them hundreds of feet below. The
prospect of spending the night on the
mountain side was far from alluring, in
view of the fact that they had had nothing to eat since morning, were very
thinly clad, and the night was bitter cold.
In attempting to build a fire they discovered their matches were wet, so there
was nothing to do but hold on until
morning. Thompson finally made his
way into camp about 1 o'clock the next
afternoon, all but exhausted. He found
Dan Greenwalt and B. A. Jennings, and
told them as near as he could where his
partner,  Grand, was.
Taking food and some prospector's delight along, they started out to find him,
which they succeeded in doing after
three or four hours' hunt. He was almost overcome by fatigue and hunger.
After he had eaten he felt stronger, but
had to be carried along the precipice
inch by inch. After he had recovered
his strength at camp, Grand said that
no matter how rich his property turned
out to be, he felt as though he had
earned it.
Steamboat Mountain was named thirty
years ago, when, during the Ruby Creek
excitement, a party of prospectors built
a boat on the Upper Skagit River and
started for the new diggings. After
going some miles they struck a log jam
and the boat went to pieces. This was
just opposite the high, rugged mountain
upon which now is located a hopeful
mining camp.
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Vancouver Real Estate Activity
One of the most important announcements in its bearing upon real estate and
industrial progress in this section for
some time, has been the one to the effect
that the Canadian Pacific Railway has
acquired in Coquitlam a block of land
two miles in length and one and .1 half
miles wide, for the round-houses, shops,
ond freight sheds for the Pacific division. This has given rise to a strong
demand for Coquitlam holdings, which
had alreadj' doubled in value within a
year, and now have received a most decided   additional   impetus.
Another stimulating factor in the
realty situation was an auction sale late
in the month, of the C. P. R. subdivision
adjoining Shaughnessy Heights. There
was a large attendance of investors at
the sale, and the prices obtained were
surprising, even for Vancouver real
estate. Some of the double corners on
this ground, which has been merely
slashed and not yet cleared, brought as
much as $9,000. This indicates the great
confidence that investors have in the
future   of   Vancouver    suburban   realty.
The real estate market has as its sustaining and compelling elements, the great
building activity in the city; important
municipal improvements, street railway
extensions, False Creek improvements,
the coming of the Grand Trunk Pacific
and Canadian Northern railways to Vancouver; a proposed union station for the
Great Northern and other railroads: the
Second Narrows bridge between Vancouver and North Vancouver; new tram
lines to surrounding municipalities; the
movement for a greater Vancouver; increasing agricultural production; and, in
general, the remarkable and continuing
growth of Vancouver and British Columbia,
The month has been marked by some
of the biggest transactions yet recorded
in the metropolis of the Province. The
most conspicuous of these deals has
been the sale of the Dominion Trust
Building to English capitalists for a
price which has been reported to be in the
neighborhood of $1,000,000. The substantial character of real estate investment  is  indicated  by the  great  activity
in building. The Vancouver Conservatives have prepared plans for a magnificent ten-storey structure on the corner
of Dunsmuir and Seymour Streets. Another addition to the growing list of big
buildings in the city will be one of ten
or twelve stories, which will be erected
on the south side of Pender Street by
the Commercial and Athletic Clubs.
These clubs will occupy the upper floors,
while the lower ones will be made into
offices. It is said that this structure will
cost several hundred thousand dollars.
R.   be
The opening of the. B. C.
tween New Westminster and Chilliwack
has had a very beneficial effect on these
two cities. Those who are in close
touch with the real estate situation
state that there is not the slightest doubt
that here may be found some of the
safest realty investments in the Province.
These statements are substantiated by
the fact that Chilliwack has a highly
favorable situation for consistent development, and has behind it the solid backing of a productive agricultural country.
Investment Opportunities in Victoria
By D. C. Reid
A new era is dawning in the business
and realty situation of Victoria. The oldest city on the Pacific Coast, and the
Capital of British Columbia, she has been
known heretofore as a city of homes, her
population staid and conservative in
business and exceedingly wealthy per
capita. During the past four years her
population has increased from thirty
thousand to fifty thousand or sixty thousand. Perhaps no better example of the
spirit of the new Victoria can be given
than to illustrate the keen business foresight of some of her leading business citizens by reciting what took place after
the big fire on the 26th of October, when
two of the leading department stores,
together with about thirty other business
firms, were entirely destroyed, with a
total loss estimated at $600,000. Before
the fire had ceased to smoulder one of
the leading firms had purchased the second largest hostelry in the city, with an
entire frontage on View Street from
Broad to Douglas, on which stood the
Driard Hotel and the Victoria Theatre,
which they immediately converted into a
store, and were open for business and
selling goods while the ruins were still
smoking.
For some time the idea of extending
View Street from Broad to Government
Street, now the principal street of the
city, had been mooted, but this had
never been taken up seriously until the
fire had removed the barrier and opened
up the way.. The citizens have been alive
to this opportunity, and there is every
indication that the project will be carried out. Although expansion in the
Dusiness area was inevitable, yet the
present activity in the real estate situation really emanated from this source,
which naturally enhanced values along
the thoroughfare. During the last month
there has been keen competition for the
premier business locations. This competition has rapidly spread throughout
the business section generally, with the
result that prices have been increasing
almost daily.
We naturally ask the question: "Is
there any justification for this keen buying and enhancement in values?" and
to this we say "Yes," and offer our reasons. It is a fact that all properties, both
business and residential, are cheaper
than in any other city of the same size
in Western Canada. While properties
have increased in value during the past
five years, the increase has not been so
rapid as in other Western cities. Residential lots can be purchased from $250
to $3,000, of sizes varying from fifty to
sixty feet frontage, with a depth of 120
feet, having the benefit of all modern
improvements. The highest price paid
for choice business lots is $3,000 per
front foot, which can hardly be taken
as a basis of value. While the choice
lots on Government Street are held at
$2,500 per front foot, this is due to the
fact that the business section is confined
to a very small area, but must expand to
make way for the development which is
about to take place.
As one who has had the privilege of
living in many provinces of the Dominion, with a residence of five years in
Victoria, I can safely say that there is not
a city in Canada which offers like attractions as a residential city on account of
natural scenic attractions and climatic
conditions.
Victoria to-day is on the eve of one
of the greatest industrial and business
developments that has visited any Western city in years. The opportunity for
investment of capital in legitimate en-
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OPPORTUNITIES
PROSPECT TUNNEL OF GLADSTONE MOUNTAIN MINE
Portland Canal Mining
According to authorities, the comparatively recent discoveries of rich ore in
the Portland Canal mining section of
British Columbia will mean a heavy increase in the wealth of British Columbia
and fortunes for individuals who are interested in good mining properties in this
district. Portland Canal is an inland
waterway one hundred miles in length,
extending from Dixon's Inlet at the City
of Prince Rupert, to Stewart, one of the
newest and most promising of the mining camps in this Province of wonderful
natural resources. . The canal is from
a quarter to half a mile in width, is navigable to the largest vessels, and offers
a very advantageous means of transportation, at low rates, for the ore which
is now being uncovered in this section.
This important advantage in mining, in
combination with the strong mineral
showing, indicates a highly prosperous
future for the district and its mine
owners.
D. D. Mann, the leading spirit in the
big project of extending the Canadian
Northern Railway to Portland Canal, recently said that he expected to make
more money from his mining properties*
in the neighborhood of Stewart than he
did  from  his  railroad.
The wide spread attention which the
district is receiving is due, of course, to
the rich ore on the leading properties.
One of these is now owned by the Mount
Gladstone Mining Company, recently
chartered under the stringent Companies
Act of British Columbia, which became
a law in July, 1910. The company is
composed of citizens of high standing
in Vancouver and vicinity. In acquiring
their property, which is situated just
across the Bear River from Stewart,
these gentlemen have obligated themselves to purchase the claims outright
from their original holder, F. A. Scott,
and have also obligated themselves to
place in the treasury $15,000 as a working fund for the development of the big
ledges. They are spending their own
money to demonstrate the value of the
property. Only upon the strength of
such demonstration do they expect to
ask the co-operation of the investing
public.
To a certain extent the ledges have
already been developed by the elements.
When the snow has thawed in the spring
it and rain have come down from above,
and have carried away the soft surface
to a degree that has exposed the main
ledge for a distance of nearly two thousand feet. This ledge has an average width
of about fourteen feet, and carries consistent values of $24.00. a ton \p. gold, silver
and  lead.    The pay  streak already  un
covered is about three feet wide, and
shows, at a depth of twelve feet, average values of $57.95 to the ton.
The development of the property will
be under the supervision of a highly
competent mining engineer. The syndicate heads of this proposition are composed of Messrs. E. W. Leeson, of Lee-
son, Dickie & Gross; J. D. McNeill, Great
Northern Transfer Co.; R. G. Chamberlain, Chief of Police; McLellan & Savage, barristers; Wm. Haight, capitalist;
F. W. Leeson, capitalist; Wm. Currie,
capitalist; Bishop, Gaskell & Co.; R. D.
Rorison & Son; His Worship L. D.
Taylor, Mayor of Vancouver; Chas. E.
Reid, N. G. Blachfield, W. A. Rutherford,
E. S. Knowlton, E. C. Townsend, F. D.
Gross, A. N. Daykin, C. L. Gordon, C.
A. Crysdale, Jas. Mackenzie, all of Vancouver; His Worship Jas. A. Lees, Mayor
of New Westminster; E. W. Gilchrist,
and T. S. Annandale, also of New Westminster; Lawrence Manson, Nanaimo;
Arnold D. Keeley, Esq., ex-Mayor of
North Vancouver; Henry T. Thrift,
White Rock.
The company was organized and is being financed by the Sutcliffe Investment
Co. of California, and 317 Pender Street,
Vancouver,   B.   C.
The Sutcliffe Investment Company issues a regular market letter, which will
keep you posted on late developments of
British Columbia mines and California
oil. This will be mailed to your address
regularly and free for the asking. Z£
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OPPORTUNITIES
1910
Opportunity Awaits in Richlands
The Richlands country is said by
those who have devoted much time to
careful investigations of it, to offer advantages for fruit raising which are unexcelled anywhere and equalled in very
few sections of the continent. Here are
extracts from a couple of letters which
speak for themselves. They were written by men who have high standing as
authorities on fruit growing in British
Columbia:
Kelowna,   B.   C,   Sept.  29th,   1910.
Messrs.  Melhuish, Kirchner & Co.,
800 Granville Street,
Vancouver,   B.   C.
Gentlemen:
Referring to my recent visit to Rich-
lands, B. C, I can say that Richlands
offers one of the great opportunities to-
eration for its climate and altitude,
which mean heavy bearing and long life
to fruit trees. The production of the
above mentioned standard apples is
equally as profitable as the Transcendent
crabs, and because of the comparatively
cheap land there, the total absence of
insect enemies, and a soil so well adapted to fruit production, offers splendid
inducements for the intelligent fruit
grower. Its rich soil, besides producing
crops of fruit, will produce the small
fruits such as strawberries, raspberries,
gooseberries and currants, which are
characterized by high flavor and color.
Unusual quantity and quality in grains
and vegetables are also obtained at Rich-
lands.
Richlands possesses a panorama of in-
A RICHLANDS FARM SCENE
day for the fruit grower. The section
possesses a large area of bench land, instead of deep gullies and gulches usually
found at the foot of mountain ranges.
There are many miles of light, rich,
friable soil, wonderfully clear of stones
and bedrock, with no more timber on
it than any purchaser would desire for
farm buildings, fuel and fences.
It has a favorable elevation for fruit
growing, and is peculiarly adapted to
the production of the "Mcintosh Red,"
"Wealthy," "Jonathan," and summer and
fall apples as well as the Transcendent
crabs and hardy pears. It will undoubtedly prove, on account of its mountain
protection, absolutely free from codling
moth and other insect pests. The absence of the codling moth makes it possible to sell the Transcendent crabs in
the Eastern markets at a very good
profit to the fruit grower. Because of
this fact the market for crabs is sure to
increase as the production increases the
profits to be made in growing crab apples
can  easily be  seen.
Richlands  deserves  immediate  consid-
describable beauty. Scatteied along are
well tilled ranches, extending over foothills to the pineclad mountains, For
about a dozen years fruit has been successfully raised here, and is no longer an
experiment.
The section is ideal for homes, being
unexcelled in healthfulness because of its
ideal   altitude,   pure   mountain   air,   and
abundance of pure mountain water.
To prospective settlers here, unprecedented opportunities are offered in
abundance. The former isolation of this
district has left to this generation a flood
of chances for home, independence, and
prosperity.
I am, very truly yours,
R. T.  HESELWOOD.
Vernon, B. C, July 29th, 1909.
Dear Sir:
I have just returned from the Rich-
lands subdivision at Cherry Creek, having spent the past three days making a
preliminary examination of the country
with a view to installing a system of
irrigation there. This makes my third
trip there and you would no doubt be
pleased to hear my opinion of the land
and its possibilities for fruit growing.
I may say that the more I see of the
country the more favorably it impresses
me as being one of the finest fruit growing valleys in the Okanagan District.
The soil is wonderfully rich, being a
heavy leaf mould on the surface with
a very deep volcanic ash and silt subsoil, which cannot be excelled for fruit
raising, as you are aware. The country
in the valley is almost flat, there being
just sufficient slope to insure good drainage and to facilitate irrigation operations.
As to irrigation, there is ample water
in Fall Creek to irrigate the whole tract
and provide water for domestic purposes
as well. There is no reason why
the water should not be put on
the land ready for next year's
planting. I feel assured that the
Cherry Creek District will prove one of
the very finest apple districts in British
Columbia, while cherries, plums or
prunes should do equally as well, in addition to all the smaller fruits. You
have a first class proposition in the Rich-
lands subdivision and I predict that in a
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OPPORTUNITIES
Page 39
The Opportunity of the Hour
A Wealth-producing Apple Orchard will
make you lndepen dent for Life
Call or write today, and we will show you by proven facts and figures that you will be assured of an annual revenue of at
least $3000 from one of our ten-acre blocks of irrigated fruit land in our famous
RICHLANDS SUBDIVISION
in the Okanagan Valley, and it only costs you
$i25o  FOR A io-ACRE BLOCK;  CASH $3oo,  BALANCE OVER 2 YEARS
YOU RUN NO RISKS. Richlands is pronounced by experts to be the choicest apple valley in the Okanagan, on account
of its situation, the wonderful qualities of its soil, and its perfect irrigation system ; and mind you we will plant your trees and
look after your orchard until it is revenue-producing at cost, if you wish it.
Richlands is a commercial investment, not a real estate speculation.
Fruit lands in the famous Wenatchee Valley and Hood River District cannot be-bought under $2000 per acre, and it is safe
to say that your ten-acre orchard will be worth at least $1500 when revenue producing, and will show you an annual income of at
least $3000.
It costs you nothing to investigate this exceptional opportunity to make yourself independent for life, which is within the
means of everybody.    Call or write to-day.
MELHUISH, KIRCHNER & CO.
8oo GRANVILLE ST.
RICHLANDS DEPT.
PHONE 438
Salmon, Bear River Mining Company, Ltd.
Non-Assessable
570 Granville Street '■$- I VANCOUVER, B. C.
A ground floor proposition in one of the richest properties in the Portland Canal District.
100,000 shares in the Salmon, Bear River Mining Co., Ltd. are now offered at the very
low price of 5^ cents per share.
The Company is capitalized at $1,000,000.00 divided into 4,000,000 shares of a par
value of 25 cents each.
2,200,000 shares have been given the original owners in payment for the properties.
1.800,000 shares have been placed in the treasury to be sold to acquire money necessary
for developing aud equipping the property.
The Company owns three first class properties in the Portland Canal District.
A series of open cuts were made on a 15 ft. vein which exposed large bodies of ore in
paying quantities.
A very rich strike of gold and native silver running over $2,000.00 to the ton, was recently
made on one of the Company's properties.
Buy before prices advance
Excellent Properties.     Responsible Directors.     Conservative Management.
Write for prospectus.
Application for Shares may be made to :
GILL & CASEMENT
439 RICHARDS STREET
Phone 2939
VANCOUVER, B.  C.
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OPPORTUNITIES
1910
TWO LETTERS:
Moncton,  Ont., October 6th,   1910.
To G. A. BARRETT:
Dear George:
It is now over twenty years since you and I first played checkers together in the old farm house in Logan. You have wandered over
a lot of the earth since, and have done well, I am glad to say, you always were a worker, and certainly deserve all you get. I have never
strayed from the old place, but have done my best in the old beaten paths, and done pretty well, too. The whole thing is pretty much like
playing checkers, sometimes winning a game, and sometimes losing, but I always was a pretty good player, and so have won more than I
have lost. Now, George, I want to invest some of my winnings in Vancouver, and know I can leave it all to you. Let me know the best
you have and how much you need to swing it.    I shall likely come out there in a year or two, and we may yet have a friendly game.
Yours till then,
BOB. SMITH.
This is only a part of Bob's letter, but s enough for the purpose. Below is my answer.
What I said to him, I say to you. Moreover, I will say this: I will personally give $1,000
to any charitable institution, if any one can find ONLY ONE possible chance that the proposition I have outlined to my friend, and now to you, can fail to bring safe and big returns.
I do not expect you to take my word as my old friend did, but I do ask you for your own sake
as well as mine to look into this BEFORE PUTTING A DOLLAR INTO ANYTHING ELSE, AND REMEMBER, I OFFER $1,000 FOR A CHANCE OF FAILURE.
My Dear Bob: Vancouver, B. C, Nov. 1st, 1910.
It is so long since I have heard from you that I had to think awhile to get you in place. (Here follows a lot of matter referring
to by-gone days). I am sending you a proposition regarding our Company. I may say we have so wrapped our proposition up in
money making assets that it cannot fail. The way it started was like this. Some chap on the United States side of the line invented
a Sleeping Car as much better than a Pullman than a Pullman is better than a box car. Just think, ihey had 154 patented improvements
over the BEST PULMAN CAR OF TO-DAY. I will tell you one. You may then realize partly what they must all mean: THE
CAR IS ABSOLUTELY DUST PROOF, AS DUST PROOF AS YOUR WATCH. This one thing, would make the car famous.
Well, these chaps came to Vancouver looking for a place to locate and some of the best men in the city took the thing up, and built a
model, iwo-thirds the full size, and it is all we thought it would be. PRESIDENT HAYS, of the GRAND TRUNK, HAS PROMISED TO PULL OUR CARS, AS FAST AS WE MAKE THEM. Our Company is called THE IMPERIAL CAR, SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK CORPORATION, LIMITED. Well, to make things perfectly safe, the Company bought 500 acres of
land right on the waterfront, close to the city for less than a million dollars, and now it is worth nearly three millions. The Company then
applied to the Dominion Government for a subsidy to build a 15,000 ton Dry Dock, and they succeeded in getting over a million dollars
payable so much every year. This has all been done, and the agreement between the Government will be signed November 16th, so you
see we cannot fail when we have the Dominion of Canada practically paying the interest on all our liabilities for the next twenty-five years.
In about three years' time, when all our ship yards and car works are in full blast, employing possibly three or four thousand men, and
the Dry Dock is built, beside many other industries located along our 6,500 feet of waterfrontage, we will begin to sell our land in city
lots for thousands of dollars where they cost only dollars. When all the townsite is sold off in that way, we shall begin to sell the
waterfrontage and easily get a thousand dollars a foot when it cost us hardly  anything in comparison.
The Pullman Company has paid in the last twelve years $187,000,000 in dividends. There is no reason why we cannot even do
better than they have, for we are in the Great West. We are backed up by the Government, and have a BETTER car than they ever
dreamed of HAVING. Still, if we do ONE-TENTH as well, it will be better than anything else we could put our brains and money
into. Our stock is $100 par value, but until New Year's we are selling for $50 per share. Once off the market it will sure run up
to $110.00 per share. Get in for as much as you can, not less than $5000,00 anyway, for you are as sure of this doubling up in a short
time as anything can possibly in this world.
The Company does not want to sell more than fifty shares to one man, but I will see that an exception is made in your favor. I am
sending you an application form, which you can fill out. You can pay one-third cash, and the balance three and six months at six
per cent. Hoping I may see the old place again some day, I am, as ever,
GEORGE A. BARRETT.
This is my answer to my friend, and what I say to him, I say to everyone. Take some
of this stock while you can get it. It is the best investment you could possibly go into. To
everyone who will read these letters, and will ring up, call, or drop a card, I will mail free, a
copy of the "Search Light," a semi-monthly magazine, full of bright, up-to-date, well written
articles, that will be found both interesting and instructive.
Imperial Car, Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation, Ltd.
Phone 1259 or 485
Head Office: 282 Hastings Street East
IMPERIAL CAR, SHIPBUILDING & DRYDOCK CORPORATION.
Please   allot   me     shares of the IMPERIAL CAR,  SHIPBUILDING & DRYDOCK
CORPORATION, LIMITED, at the price of Fifty Dollars per share, for which I enclose 33  1-3 per cent, of full amount of
shares asked for, and agree to pay balance in two equal quarterly payments, with interest at 6 per cent, per annum.
NAME ADDRESS   	
OCCUPATION   	
Make all cheques payable to Imperial Car, Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation,   Ltd.
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OPPORTUNITIES
Page 41
We are B. C. Agents for the following
well known Cars:
Chalmers
Overland
Pope-Hartford
Locomobile
This makes a range of
Cars to suit all buyers,
from the two-passenger
runabout at $1,275, to the
big touring ear at $6,500
Write us for particulars or
call and get a demonstration
WEST END GARAGE (0. Ltd.
924 Granville St      VANCOUVER, B.C.
The Great West Light Co., Ltd.
Hollow Wire and Tube Systems
Makers    of   the   Famous
Highlow Gasoline Lamps
50'    HASTINGS ST., EAST
P. O. Box 1401   Vancouver, B. C.
The Dust less Floor Brush
Should be used in every Home,
Store, Church and School.
Write W. CARTER
44 BROAD WA Y W. VA NCO U VER
few years' time one of the most prosperous fruit growing communities in British Columbia will be located here.
No one who sees the vallej' can help
but be pleased with it, and after careful
inspection of all points, I am enthusiastic over the future possibilities of the
Richlands subdivision as a fruit growing
centre.
Yours faithfully,
NOEL HUMPHREY,
B. C. Land Surveyor.
A ten-acre block of irrigated fruit
land in Richlands, planted in commercial
apple trees, will show a revenue of at
least $3,000 net per year, while the outlay   until   the   trees   begin   to   produce
and twenty-four months at six per cent.
While his orchard is maturing he can
obtain all the work he wants at $2.50 a
day. In five years his revenue will be at
least $3,000 a year, with increasing returns as the trees grow older.
As to the present development at Rich-
lands, there are seventy settlers in the
valley, and by spring there will be over
two hundred. Over $150,000 worth of
the property has already been sold. The
irrigation system is the best that science
and money can produce, and has cost
over $70,000. Trees to the number of
50,000 have been ordered for spring delivery. A good school has been established. The saw mill is working overtime.   A large acreage is ready for next
THE RICHLANDS FARMING COUNTRY
revenue, should not exceed $2,500 spread
over five years. If you cannot give your
orchard personal attention, it will be
looked after until it produces revenue
by expert horticulturists at absolute cost.
The man who wants to live on his
ground can purchase a ten-acre block
for $1,250, with a cash payment of $300,
and the balance in six, twelve, eighteen
year's planting. Wood pipe to the extent of 13,000 feet is ready for shipment
into Richlands. The community is already a hive of industry, and promises
within a few years to become the most
noted apple valley in the Okanagan District. There is plenty of work for everybody. Richlands is a valley of opportunities.
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Phone 7132
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Vancouver, B. C.
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ENGINEERS  &  DRAUGHTSMEN
Blue Printing, Tracing, Maps, Show Card Writing
Designs   and   Specifications   for   Steel   and   Concrete   Duilatngs
Drawings for Real Estate and Contractors
Architectural  Perspectives
John Matthews late of
New  Era   Renovators
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CLEANERS AND DYERS
Dry Cleaning a Specialty
Prices on Application   Club Rates $2.50 per month
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KEREMEOS APPLES
Were PRIZE WINNERS at the
First Canadian National Apple Show
Recently held in  Vancouver, B. C.
Continuous Sunshine,    Abundant Water Supply
Richness of Soil
All coutribute to make KEREMEOS the ideal Residential and Fruit Growing
District of the Province.
Secure a Ten Acre Lot while they are to be had. We will plant and take care
of it for you, or if you wish to take over the care of it yourself you can derive a splendid income from growing small fruit and vegetables until trees come into bearing.
Adopt the ideal life and become a fruit grower.
Write us for particulars and we will tell you what a little money and industry
can do in KEREMEOS.    p.       '     f | |
KEREMEOS LAND CO., LIMITED
KEREMEOS, B. C.
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OPPORTUNITIES
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WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN
Portland Canal Stocks
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AND CAN GIVE YOU FULL INFORMATION
ON ANY COMPANY OPERATING IN THAT
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Mrs, Baker, Proprietress
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The only modern rooming house in town.
Steam heat, running hot ana cola water and
telephones in all rooms. Newly furnished
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Your impressions of Vancouver—the
"Sunset Cily"—will be made all the more
lasting- by seeing- the City and magnificent
Stanley  Park  in  one  of our comfortable
HACKS, BROUGHAMS,
VICTORIAS, SURREYS,
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Scientific Chiropodist
Corns removed  without  pain. Bunions, Ingrowing
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Victoria Investments
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terprises is unexcelled. The population
is increasing rapidly, the hotels have
found it necessary to expand in order to
accommodate the influx of population,
which is true of every point on Vancouver Island. More hotels are needed, as
well as apartment houses, retail stores,
etc.
Let us consider a few of the projects
already in sight. The British Columbia
Electric Railway is now constructing
their new power plant at Jordan River at
a cost of a million and a half, which will
give sufficient power to extend their lines
throughout the city, as well as their
proposed extension throughout the Saanich Peninsula. The building of the Grand
Trunk Pacific Hotel, the construction of
the Canadian Northern Railway, which
will open up a large area of timber and
agricultural lands in the southern part
of the Island tributary to the city; the
settlement of the Songhees Indian Reserve; the establishment of the Canadian
Fleet at Esquimalt; the building of large
drydocks at that point; the proposed
business blocks now under consideration,
and the improvements which have already been passed by the Victoria City
Council, in extending streets and pavements, means an outlay of something
like $15,000,000, which is already in
sight, to say nothing of new projects
which have yet to come to light.
Victoria will easily hold her place as
the second city in British Columbia in
point of population, and easily hold her
place as the premier city as regards
wealth. She offers to-day, perhaps, the
greatest opportunity for investment of
capital to be found in Western Canada.
Phone 1584.
P.  O. Box 880
Fire, Burglar''Proof and Manganese
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Vault Doors, and Safety
Deposit Boxes
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VANCOUVER,     -     -     B. C.
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KERRISDALE FffiCTS
The school grounds comprise 10 acres, (Have you a boy?) The carfare is only 5c. The distance from the Post Office is only 4
miles. VVatermains will be laid in 5 months. Fine lots can be bought by paying $ 100 down, balance over 2 years, or if you
want an acre send in your name at once as I propose to cut up 5 acres in acre blocks.    (Acre blocks are scarce.)
APPLY
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32 GRANVILLE ST.
H. W. WINDLE
VANCOUVER,  B. C.
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WHOLESALE and RETAIL Manufacturers of all kinds of
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Office  and   Factory :    2843   DOUGLAS   STREET, VICTORIA, B. C.
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LATE BULLEN PHOTO CO.
The Leading* House for
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Amateur Finishing and Enlarging.    Picture Framing
743 PENDER STREET WEST, 2 Doors from Orpheum Theatre
PHONE 4018
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but a designed job, the work of experienced men, and produced in a brand new, up-to-date plant.
WESTERN SPECIALTY LIMITED
Office Equippers   ::   314 Pender Street, VANCOUVER
Buy in GULF OF GEORGIA TERRACE, POINT GREY
Nothing beats it for View and as a Homesite. Terms over 4 years.
MOLE & KEEFER, Point Grey Specialists 1065 Granville St., Phone 7020
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keyboard of 84 characters and is a PRACTICAL TYPEWRITER for the
many who need it and the thousands who ARE BUYING IT. Its full
efficiency, durability and portability, at such a moderate price, makes it at
once everyone's machine.     Send for free catalogue and sample of work.
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Address: The SMITH PERFORATED RAZOR HONE CO.
838 Homer Street VANCOUVER, B. C.
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correspondence.
If you want neat,
accurate stenographic
work, call or phone
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Bookkeeping Company
Public Stenographers
63 Exchange Building Phone 6229
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PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
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1910
THINKI
what a beautiful Residential Section
POINT GREY
is BOUND to become in the very near future
HERE is an opportunity which is certain ;
there is no speculation in buying1 well
positioned lots here, the future is assured,
and buying- to-day at the following figures
must therefore, surely be a sound and desirable investment.
We are selling splendid high building lots
entirely cleared up, every stump taken out,
overlooking the Country Club and golf links
and near car line, at
I   $75 O
and up. Terms: one quarter cash, 6, 12, 18,
and 24 months.
Make yourself  a   Christmas   present   of  one   of
these and you will not regret it.
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A. E. AUSTIN & CO.
BROKERS
328 Granville St,, Vancouver, B. C.
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OFFICIAL AGENTS OF
The British Columbia Homes Trust, Ltd.
The Warburnitz Piano House, Ltd.
REPRESENTATIVES  IN EUROPE
Deutch-Amerikanische Handelsges, Berlin N W 7, Mittelstrasse, 23.
Herr H. von Soeder, Hamburg, Amsterdamm, 63.
BRANCH   OFFICES
1132 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C. (Phone 4595)
443 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver (Phone 114)
Cables: "Warburnitz," Vancouver ABC Code, 5th Edition
Head Offices :   411 PENDER STREET, VANCOUVER. B. C.
Telephone 5522
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Second Narrows Bridge Will be Built at Once
LOTS IN D. L. 204
We have exclusive sale of a large number in the locality at the right price.
Get in on the low price and wait development, which is guaranteed.
Commercial Brokerage
341 Cambie Street
Phone 7284
SOUTH VANCOUVER
THE IDEAL RESIDENCE DISTRICT
$50 cash buys a homesite within three
blocks of the Grandview car line. This
is   your   opportunity.    GRASP    IT
INVESTORS LAND CO.
314 Cambie Street
Phone 2828
Vancouver, B. C.
Open Evenings
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Phone 8132
Mines at  Steamboat,  B.C.
DAN   GREENWALT,   Sec-Treas.
Steamboat Mountain Gold Mines
Limited
(NON-PERSONAL   LIABILITY)
HEAD   OFFICE
Room 7IO Bower Building, 543 Granville Street
I Vancouver, B. C.
This Company owns the discovery
claims located by Greenwalt and
Stevens on Steamboat Mountain.
Stock in this Company may be obtained while it lasts. If ISot over
four thousand or not less than two
hundred to any one person.
C. D RAND, Fiscal Agent
450 Granville Street
VANCOUVER, B. C.
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1910
m  W' "Opportunities" Brokers' and Business Directory I"
Zbe progressive Brokerage, TinanciaJ and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia*
Phone  2900
A. E. AUSTIN ft CO.
Real Estate and Insuranoe.
328   Granville   St.,   VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
T. B.  ANDERSON &   C.  CLAYTON
Real Estate
Phone  5913
1069 Granville St.    -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
E.   C.  B.  BAGSHAWE   ft  CO.
Real Estate and General Brokers
1112   Broad   St.,   Bownass   Building
Phone   2271       -       -       VICTORIA,   B.   C.
Phone 5726 P. O. Box 536
H.   BEEMAN
Specialist in Point Grey
221 Winch Bldg.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
B. C. TRUST CORPORATION
Bk.  B.  N.  A.  Bldg., VANCOUVER,  B.   C.
Phone 589
J. A.  COLEINSON
Real Estate
Phone 4154
240a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER,  B. C.
JOHN  M. CHAPPBLL
Real Estate
Phone 4802
443   Pender   St.     -    VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
W.   W.   DRESSER
Insurance, Real Estate
Phone 3020
438 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
H. T. DEVINE COMPANY, LIMITED
Real Estate, Loans and Insurance
437 Seymour St.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone 1627
Phone 3628
DUTHIE  &  WISHART
Real Estate and Financial Agents
520 Pender St. W.      VANCOUVER,  B. C.
W.  H.  ELLIS
Investment Broker
1122   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
M. H. FRANKLIN CO.
Real Estate  Brokers
Acreage, Building Lots and Homes
Phone  970
449 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
GODDARD  ft SON
Land Agents, Notaries
Phone 3202
329  Pender St.     -     VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
LEONARD & RBID
Real Estate and Fire Insurance
Mining   Properties    In    Portland   Canal,
Hazelton and Queen Charlotte
Districts
PRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.
Tel. 5852
GOODYEAR & MATHESON
Real   Estate   and   General  Brokers
106 Loo Building VANCOUVER, B.  C.
GRANVILLE BROKERAGE  CO.
Real Estate, Insuranoe, Commission Agts.
Phone L4560
1017 Granville St.   -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
HARMAN ft AFPLETON
Real Estate
534 Yates  Street      -      VICTORIA, B.  C.
Phone  1918
SAMUEL HARRISON & CO.
Brokers   and   Financial   Agents.     Agents
Stewart Land Co., Ltd.
Stewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.
EASLETT  ft  WHITAKER
Real   Estate,   Timber,   Insurance
Phone 5807
Room 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
EINKSON, SIDDALL & SON
Real Estate and Insurance
Phone  869
New Grand Theatre Bldg.    1311 Gov't St.
VICTORIA,  B.  C.
ALFRED   M.   HOWELL
Customs  Broker,   Forwarding  Agent
Office—23   Promis   Block
Telephone   1501,   Res.   R1671
1006   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
IMPERIAL   REALTY   CO.
Real   Estate   and  Insurance
307  Loo  Bldg.       -      VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
GEORGE LEEK
Real Estate, Notary Public
Exchange Block    PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
W. P. MoncreifC P. E. Townshend
W.   P.   MONCREIFP   ft   CO.
Real Estate and Financial Brokers
Room 304, Winch Bldg.      Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
MARRIOTT   ft  FELLOWS
Real  Estate
Phone 1077
134 Hastings St.      -      VANCOUVER, B.C.
E.  8.  MORGAN
Industrial  Sites, Waterfrontage  on  Bur-
rard Inlet, etc.
Suite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.
429 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. £
Phone  5833.
W. O. Shrumm H. Lambert:
THE   NATIONAL   REAL   ESTATE
Loans,  Insurance
Phone  6320
58  Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B. C.
FATTULO ft RADFORD
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
P.O. Box 1535       PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.
Cable Address:    "Patrad"
C.   C.   PEMBERTON
Real Estate  and Notary Public
Room 11, 707% Yates St.     -     Phone 1711
VICTORIA, B. C.
CHAS.   L.   PARKER
Broker and Commission Agent
Suite  50-51,   429  Pender St.
Phone  3859 - VANCOUVER,  B.  C.
C. ARTHUR REA
Late of Brandon, Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc
Law   Chambers,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
ROYAL REALTY COMPANY
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
Phone  2394 Notary Public
615   Fort  St. - VICTORIA,  B.  C.
SMITH  ft  SMITH
Real Estate and Commission Agents
P.O.  Box  41
J. H. Smith. W. R. Smith
4th  Ave. - - STEWART,   B.   C.
GEO. H. SMITH ft ARTHUR JONES
Dealers  in Property in Vancouver,  New
Westminster and the Fraser Valley
P.   O.  Box   165 Phone  1743
P. H. SEABROOK ft CO.
Real  Estate   and   Timber
Phone  4043
316 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
VANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.
Real Estate and Loans
62 Hastings St. E.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
WESCOTT ft LETTS
Real Estate and Insurance Agents
Room  3,  Moody Block        -        Yates  St
VICTORIA, B. C.
H. W. WINDLE
Real Estate Broker
Phone  5320
532 Granville St.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone 815 P. O. Box 735
The City Brokerage
Real Estate, Timber and Fire Insurance
A. T. ABBEY, Manager
1218 Douglas Street     VICTORIA, B. C.
Real Estate Insurance Loans
Rooming Houses     Business Chances     Collections
JOHN M. PARK
GOLDEN RULE BROKERAGE
Phones: Office 5346
Residence 3662
1117 Granville St.      Vancouver, B. C.
PHONE 8294
COLUMBIA REALTY CO.
REAL ESTATE AND ROOMING HOUSE;
AGENTS
<»2iy, PENDER STREET WEST
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British Hmerican trust
Company, Ltd.
City and Suburban Real Estate
Farm Lands.
Dairy and Fruit Farms.
Safety Deposit Boxes from $5.00 per year.
All kinds of Insurance written.
Cotton Building,     Vancouver, B. C.
J. W. POTTER
Architect and Structural engineer
Reinforced Concrete   a   Specialty
LHW-BCTLER BUILDING
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The only Seaside Hotel in the City
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Chaldecott Road (near Clere) double corner, 90x130.
$2000.    Good terms.
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37^ feet with 9 roomed house in 800 block Homer
Street.     $15,500.     Only $1500 cash.
SOUTH VANCOUVER ♦
25th Avenue near Fraser Avenue, 33 feet,  high and ♦
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166 feet on Bodwell Road carline $1650.    Terms. ♦
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The Finest Apples in the World
Are Grown in British Columbia's Famous DRY BELT DISTRICT
THE YIEJUD IS GREATEST and the
PRICKS OBTAINED ARE THE HIGHEST
YOU SHOULD LOCATE AT
"SUNNYSIDE"
It is in the HEART of this wonderful district
and 5 ACRES of its RICH,  DEEP SOIL will make you a GOOD LIVING
Write for illustrated folder,  ATTRACTIVE PRICES and EASIEST of TERMS to
1     ROSS ©• SHAW
318 Hastings St. W.
Vancouver, B. C.
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1910
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"Cover" Your Real Estate Investments
I  With SUGAR       1
I want to tell you some things a man told me to-day about beet sugar—a man who, apparently,
knew exactly what he was talking about. In fact, before he got through, he had me convinced that
the one industry which would do most towards developing the agricultural possibilities and protecting
the real estate values of British Columbia was the raising of sugar beets and the manufacturing of
beet sugar.
The first thing that he pointed out to me was the enormous and never failing demand for sugar,
second only to the demand for flour.
"CANADA IS IMPORTING TO-DAY $20,000,000 WORTH OF SUGAR.
THERE IS NO REASON," said he, "WHY THAT AMOUNT OF SUGAR CAN NOT
BE GROWN RIGHT HERE IN THE FRASER VALLEY."
Now, I am an every-day sort of man, probably pretty much the same sort of a man as
you who read this page.    I told the man he would have to show me.    Well, he did.
In the first place it seems that the project is already well under way. The site has been
secured, the necessary acreage is available, the plans of buildings and machinery arranged, and
farmers from all over the Fraser Valley have agreed to co-operate in keeping the plant supplied with
sugar beets. These same farmers have also subscribed stock, thus showing their faith in the practicability of the enterprise in the mpst convincing way possible.
Another thing this- man did—he went into the town where the plant is going to be, and out of
120 possible shareholders he secured 95.     That speaks    well    for    the    proposition,   doesn't  it?
Furthermore, he pointed out to me how the Michigan Sugar Company, organized 12 years ago,
with a capitalization of $200,000, had expanded into a company of which the capital stock was over
$7,500,000
A share which costs in the original company ten dollars, is now worth $135.00, and pay* as
high as 30 per cent, dividends. He convinced me that the raising of sugar beets not only improved
the land for other agricultural purposes, but formed the backbone of real estate values in those communities in which it was established.
"British Columbia," said he, "can well afford to subscribe liberally to an industrial proposition like manufacturing beet sugar if only to enhance the value of other properties."
But why continue? He presented to me a straight forward business proposition, which I as a
resident, property owner, business man and well wisher for the future of this Province, could not
but see the value of.    And when he asked me to subscribe—I walked right in.
If you, who read this as one of an intelligent public, want to know something about the marvellous returns to be made from raising sugar beets in this Province—
If you want to learn some intensely interesting data which will throw an entirely new light
on the sugar beet as an investment—
If you want to know how to put a small sum of money on the easiest terms where it will bring
you splendid returns, improve the value of your other properties, and advance the welfare of the
Province, I advise you to write your name and address on this page, tear out the page, and send
it to the
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FRASER VALLEY SUGAR WORKS, IM.
Factories: MISSION CfTY, B.C.      Offices: 3ig Pender Street* VANCOUVER. B.C.
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Very Special Investments
Nothing Better, Nothing Cheaper and
No Surer Moneymakers
Two Lots, 74 feet frontage by an average depth of about 148 feet, all cleared and
streets graded; outlook unsurpassed. Price $2700; % cash, balance over 3 years.
Double Trackage Corner on B. C. E. Railway, over 165 feet trackage. Lots
all cleared and streets graded. Price $2,500 for the pair; y^ cash, balance
6, 12, 18, 24, 30 and 36 months.
Triple Corner on Knight Road. Lots all cleared and ready for a block of
stores. This is an absolutely certain moneymaker, and will be wanted for the
very purpose above suggested. When street car passes down Knight Road
this property will immediately double in value. Our price now, $5000, and
will give three years to pay for it.
We are building some strictly modern houses in that beautiful southern, sunny
slope, called South View. Call and see us and we will build according to
your instructions and sell to you on very easy terms.
Latimer, Ney & D/LcTavish, Limited
419 PENDER STREET
VANCOUVER, B. C.
When in New Westminster,
dine at the
KINGS HOTEL CAEE
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The Cafe has been
remodeled throughout,  the cuisine
is excellent,
and cleanliness is our motto.
We cater especially
to out-of-town supper parties.
Columbia St., New Westminster
J.  ACKROYD,  Manager
CARLTON CHEER
^ Is becoming a household word with
the people of Vancouver who appreciate
good living. The cheery, home-like atmosphere, the cheer or perfect cuisine, the
cheer of perfect service and of vocal music
well rendered all combine to make the
Garlton the home of good cheer.
^ This is especially true since JAMES
MORGAN has taken over the active
management. Jimmie caters especially to
the travelling public, and extends a cordial
invitation to all his local and out-of-town
friends to drop in and spend a pleasant
hour or two with him at the
The Carlton Cafe
Cordova and Cambie Streets, Vancouver
Phone 5728 for Table Reservations
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are not conducive to a smooth skin, but
with o-ood health it is easy to remove
all sip-ns of roup;hness with the many
pleasant and harmless salves and creams
on the market. Every spot and blemish  can  be eradicated.
For roughness caused  bv wind and
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Orange Flower Cream
to be used at night and after washing.
The first application relieves.   Price 35c.
For unsightly pimples and blackheads, use EGYPTIAN SKIN FOOD and
plenty of hot water and Castile soap. Peroxide Cream will be found excellent to
heal and  bleach the skin  without causing- any discomfort.
Falling hair, dry and itching scalp and dandruff can all be eliminated by the
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Rising to the Premiership /.  Herbert  Welch ] 1
Co-operation among Farmers George Schumacher, Ph.D. 1 4
What British Columbia Needs Most Henry A. Stone 1 7
Coal      18
Success on a Fraser Valley Fruit Ranch D. H. Nelson 20
On Elud ng Responsibility Alice Ashworth  Townley 22
Fostering British Columbia Art Mary Daniell 23
The Call of Basque  24
The Need for Dairying C. S. McKee 26
A Race for Timber (Story) J. H.  W. 28
The Conflict in the Old Country C. M. Burmester 32
Industrial Progress in British Columbia  33
The Auto and British Columbia's Prosperity	
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B' IRTHDAYS are naturally days of retrospection, and for this reason Opportunities, which
completes its first year of life with this issue
of the magazine, may be pardoned for glancing back for a moment, and saying something about its
own beginning and its progress through the year.
*I In these days every big movement or development
must, of course, have a public voice The growth of a
community or a commonwealth is highly important not
alone to the people who are in the midst of it, but to
the world in general, because it means new markets,
new openings for investment, new opportunities for
making the most of life. The world must be told of
the new channels for human effort. It needs them; and
the new commonwealth, of course, needs the world.
This mutual requirement creates the demand for the
voice, the publication. You think of the daily newspaper in this connection before you think of the monthly
magazine, but the newspaper, however able, does not
fill the full measure of the demand. Its chief concern
is of the day. Its purpose is more to tell the community
about the world than to tell the world about the community.
*I When Mr. Fraser S. Keith established this magazine
a year ago he knew that there was a vast amount that
people in general did not know about British Columbia,
and that there was a vast amount of misinformation.
He also knew that in the New and Old Worlds there
were millions of people who were looking for roads
away from invironments which, for some reason or
other, had become oppressive. He felt that one of the
broadest and most hopeful of these roads led to British
Columbia, a rich land of beginnings, where men and
women could work out their destinies without being
hampered by the rigidity of conditions which exist in
old sections where, on the principle that "like attracts
like," wealth and power have been accumulated in the
hands of the few, to the detriment of the many. Mr.
Keith saw in British Columbia a comparatively open
field for all comers who were workers, and to proclaim
it to people everywhere in all its most significant phases,
he started Opportunities.
•1 Horace Greeley is reported to have once remarked
that the saddest words in the English language were,
Vol.  1, No.  1."     It is quite true that most young
publications have a troubled voyage through the first
years of life, and ground upon the shoals of financial
stringency, and strike the rocks of receiverships, and
pass the straits of changing hands before they finally
reach the calm waters of influence and prosperity. But
there are exceptions to the rule, and Opportunities has
been one of them. The passage through this first year,
which is invariably the hardest year of all, has been
surprisingly smooth. Everybody has been at the table
three times a day. The magazine has been a constantly
growing success. Each number has gained it new
friends, a more enduring support, and a wider influence.
Within a month we have received letters from readers
of Opportunities in South Africa, Australia, Asia,
Spain, Germany, and the West Indies, to say nothing
of the scores from the British Isles. The magazine is
making its way into more homes in British Columbia
and Canada generally, and into more and more of the
far corners of the globe.
*I We do not plume ourselves too much on this; we
attribute it in large measure to the world-wide interest
in this Province. But it gives us a feeling of added
responsibility, and a desire to make our magazine
more and more truly representative of what is really
important in this new land of opportunity. It is by no
means our intention to ignore the flaws. There are
some—there are bound to be—and we expect to speak
of them from time to time, in the hope that what we
say may have some effect in bringing about the remedies.
But always we intend to hold up to public view the big
resources, the big opportunities, the big future of
British Columbia, and to encourage men and women to
settle here, for the reason that while this Province is not
an Eldorado, nor a nook for the tired, nor a boulevard
for a leisurely stroll into Easy Street, it offers surer
and better rewards for hard, intelligent work than does
almost any other region on the earth. The reason can
be summed up in a word or two. British Columbia has
an abundance of natural wealth, and is just beginning
to develop it.
% To mention our magazine once more, we, too, are
just at the beginning. We realize, perhaps, more
vividly than do others that we have ample room for
progress and improvement. We intend to grow with
British Columbia. This is our opportunity, and is
equally the opportunity of every man within the
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JANUARY, 1911
No. 1
EDITORIAL
WE care little about the past for its own sake; the tree
is dead. But we have its fruit, the sweet and the
bitter, and it contains the seeds which will make the
future. We will therefore glance backward for a
moment toward 1910 in this lusty Province of
British Columbia. It can be said at the outset that 1910 in
British Columbia was a good year, a big year—the biggest
ever—and that it has left us with a huge stepping-stone to
greater progress.
Vancouver probably showed a greater ratio of growth
during the year than did any other city on the globe. The
building permits represented plans for structures to cost
$13,144,215. The total for 1908 was $5,950,883, and in
1909 the amount was $7,258,555. The increase in 1910
was about ninety per cent., and came chiefly from new office
buildings and warehouses. In this connection it must be said
that in making the total returns for the year the building
department omitted nearly a half of South Vancouver, namely,
Shaughnessy Heights, and the section from Sixteenth to Thirtieth Avenues. The permits for these districts in 1910 called
an expenditure of about four millions of dollars. This brings
the grand total up to over seventeen millions of dollars. This
record for Vancouver is given added significance by the fact
that not another city en the Pacific Coast equalled in 1910
its building record for 1 909. The other municipalities of the
Pacific family felt, during this year, retarding influences that
caused a slackening of the pace. Vancouver nearly doubled
hers. In greater and greater degree she is becoming the Mecca
for those who want to grow with growth.
UILDING  operations  are,   of  course,   only  one  of
the  sign-posts  of progress  for  Vancouver  and the
Province. From numerous other fields of activity
come big contributions to the proofs. For instance,
the statisticians of the British Columbia Railway
Company have announced that while the company carried
21,112,780 passengers in its Vancouver cars in 1909, it
carried 30,050,927 in 1910, which is an increase of about
forty-two per cent. In these dry figures, if you glance at them
with just a little imagination, you can see city streets pushing
farther and farther out, and can see the glow of modern home
life, where, only a few years ago, old forests stood.
THE customs returns for 1910 tell a tale of sheer
growth, but not so good a tale of real progress. The
people who come must still send out for most of the
luxuries and many of the necessaries of life. In 1909
they paid $3,559,010 in import duties; in 1910
they paid $5,615,494. This amount, of course, is but a small
fraction of the whole sum spent on importation. It has been
estimated, for instance, that between fifteen and sixteen
million dollars were paid to producers in other sections for food
consumed in British Columbia. This was not because this
food, and a great deal more, cannot be produced right here
at home. It was because a very large number of those who
have sought out the Province have not been trained in the vital
agricultural art, and because those who do know it, and are
willing to practice it, have not yet had time to bring the
fertility of British Columbia fields to the rescue of the hungry
hordes. It is pointed out in special articles in this issue of
Opportunities that in the meagerness of food production lies
danger for the Province, but this is like the menace for a vessel
of rocks on a distant shore. We must guide the ship aright,
but we still have plenty of steerageway, and the man at the
wheel, the Premier, is a good pilot. By his direction a number
of fruit and vegetable farms are being instituted under the auspices of the Government for the purpose of encouraging growers
and showing them how they can obtain the best results from
the tilling of the land. Government inspectors and instructors
are spreading the gospel of good farming. To a certain extent
creameries are subsidized, and the Premier and his ministers are
ready to do all within their power to foster other agricultural
developments. Thousands of new orchards each year are
making their contributions to the horn of plenty. The first
National Apple Show in the autumn of 1910 gave British
Columbia fruit a new prominence and assured a fresh appreciation of the opportunities in growing it. The same general
result is being obtained by the fruit exhibit of the Province
now on display in the Old Country. The fruit and other
agricultural production in 1911 will be far greater than in
any previous year. It can be said with truth that what has
been accomplished is only a small part of what the situation
demands, but the plans are comprehensive, and it must be
remembered that a baby commonwealth, like any other infant,
must creep before it walks. British Columbia, economically,
is still very young, and early youth must always be nourished
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LL the time the strength of this Province is becoming
greater. Her industrial life blood is being constantly
enriched by fresh contributions of capital. Money
from England, Scotland, and Ireland, from Germany and France, and from the United States, is
flowing in for the development of her natural resources and her
manufacturing possibilities. Tbe bank clearings, the most
significant of the barometers of business, show in Vancouver
during 1910, a total of $444,988,819, an increase of forty
per cent, over 1909. Manufacturing in British Columbia is
still at its beginning, but in 1910 products were manufactured
which, according to the estimates of the Government, had a
value of $30,000,000. Yet this production supplies only a
very small portion of the British Columbia market, and the
market, with the continual pouring in of people, is expanding
constantly. The demand always is for more. There are the
best sort of facilities for supplying more. The Lower Mainland has a water supply which is estimated at over one hundred
thousand horse-power, with thirty thousand horse-power already
available. Many varieties of raw material are close at hand,
and British Columbia has vast stores of coal. For foreign
markets there is the long arm of the Pacific Ocean reaching
up to Vancouver and Victoria and New Westminster—an arm
which, when the Panama Canal is opened, will convey a greater
and greater number of ships down to the sea and to the great
markets of the world. In manufacturing, the achievement is
yet small, but the promise is big. No very prophetic eye is
required to see many factories on the skyline of the future, and
the sun obscured by the smoke of industry.
ROM the time when British Columbia began to
impress herself upon the world at large as something
more than a great area of mountains and untracked
forests, mining has been her most conspicuous industry, and still ranks second only to manufacturing
in the total value of the product. In 1 909 this was $24,000,-
000. The figures for 1910 have not yet been compiled completely, but it is safe to say that they will show progress, and
that 1911 will show a production greater than that of 1910.
New camps and sections give high promise of making big contributions to the total. It is no longer doubted that the mineralized country in the vicinity of the Portland Canal District
contains much valuable metal, and it is believed that the
recently discovered ledges on Steamboat Mountain, in West
Kootenay, will be worked with profit. New discoveries are
being made in the old districts, and excellent values are being
found in the deeper workings. With mines already developed
giving every indication of production well into the future, with
new mines becoming shippers, and with the mechanical facilities for getting out the ore improving constantly, there is a
glowing prospect for a steadily increasing output of precious
metals in British Columbia. This is no less true of coal, of
which there are vast reserves as yet untouched. It is also true
of iron and copper. It is estimated that in one iron mine alone,
that on Texada Island, there are 33,000,000 tons of iron ore,
and it is believed that the Duluth capitalists who have recently
taken over this property, will build a large iron and steel plant
on the coast. In. the Portland Canal District large bodies of
copper ore have been uncovered. So it will be seen that nature
has given British Columbia plenty of gold and silver to embellish
the ship of industry, plenty of coal to make the wheels revolve,
and plenty of iron, besides some copper, for the metal ribs.
BRITISH COLUMBIA fishing has immense
possibilities which as yet are not fully appreciated.
There are thousands of miles of off-shore waters
which teem with edible fish, and long reaches of
river in which salmon swarm. It has been said by
authorities that the Province will have the world's greatest
fisheries. An important step in their development was made in
1910 when Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann interests took over
and began the reorganization of the whaling industry.
HE remarkable industrial and agricultural expansion
in progress and in contemplation in British Columbia
will, of course, necessitate greater transportation
facilities. These are on the way. Grand Trunk
Pacific trains are now running for a hundred miles
eastward of Prince Rupert, and it is stated that in four or five
years the steel rails that are being laid from Prince Rupert
east, and from Edmonton west, will be brought together, with
the result of giving Canada another transcontinental route, and
of opening fully to civilization and industry the rich north
country of British Columbia. Another instrument to this big
end will be the Canadian Northern Railway, which, according
to its officials, will be completed to the Pacific seaboard even
sooner than is the Grand Trunk Pacific. This will mean that
within the comparatively short period of half a decade three
transcontinental lines will be putting British Columbia in close
and constant communication with the great centers and markets
of the world. It is not improbable that the Portland Canal
Short Line Railway will eventually become still another line
across the Canadian continent. The Canadian Pacific is
keeping pace with British Columbia's growth. Work is under
way on the Kootenay Central, which will extend south from
Golden through the Columbia Valley. Another important
Canadian Pacific Railway enterprise is the completion on
Vancouver Island of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo branch
from Wellington to Alberni. The great system under the
direction of James J. Hill is also expanding in British Columbia,
and there are a number of other railway projects which supply
the strongest kind of proof that the railroad builders, men who
owe most of their power to their ability to read the future, are
preparing for a far bigger and closer fabric of population and
agriculture and manufacturing in British Columbia than the
majority of us even dream of. Mr. McBride estimates that
the railroad construction in the Province within the next four
years will involve an expenditure of at least fifty millions or
dollars, and that the Government's outlay for public works
during this period will amount to at least twenty millions or
dollars. These streams of capital will be but two of many.
In view of this, it is hard to conceive of anything but steadily
increasing prosperity for the Province and the workers.
E cannot, however, close our eyes to tbe rocks on the
shore—the menace of consumption out of all proportion to production. The adjustment will come
through the operation of natural laws, but the more
impetus we give it, the more we encourage settlers to till the
ground and manufacturers to establish plants, the sooner will
this Province be removed from a state of vassalage to producing
centers, and will have a prosperity derived from her own
resources instead of from the expectations she has aroused on
the part of an opportunity-seeking world. OPPORTUNITIES
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HUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C, JANUARY, 1911.
No. 1
Rising to the Premiership
Some Facts about Richard McBride's Earlier Days and an Interview
with him on British Columbia Opportunities
By J. Herbert Welch
HEN a man climbs high on the
hill of power and prestige we
like to contemplate him. Up
in the big currents of politics
or finance, he stirs the imagination. If
he is a political leader on his travels, we
see him in a setting of flags and bunting,
band music, and the salvoes of his fellow-
countrymen.    If he holds high office we
MR. McBRIDE AS AN ORATOR
see him at his work within stately halls,
and instinctively we impart to him some
of the calm majesty of the architecture
Prime  Minister!    President!   Premier
These  are words  to  conjure with.    We
speak  them  softly  in    the    lofty   corri
dors  of  buildings   of   government,    and
while  waiting  in   the   ante-room   of   the
,    inner   sanctuary,   we   sit    lingering   our
hats amid  oppressive   -ilence.    This,  as
a frivolous poet wrote, "is no  time for
mirth and laughter."    After a long, long
time, we are told in a half-whisper that
the  Premier  will  see   us  now,   and   we
brace ourselves for our brief ascent to
high Olympus. Immediately we find
ourselves in a room of noble proportions,
pervaded by what seems to be eternal
calm, and dominated by a personality—
a big man at a big desk.
In the instance in our mind just now
the man is Premier McBride, who, as
we state our errand, leans slightly forward in his chair, bespeaking tense energy and a desire to despatch the business without delay, so that those who
are still fingering their hats in the anteroom may have  their turn.
Mr. McBride, it may be said in passing, has the statesman's look. He is.
big; he has firm lips, quiet, watchful
eyes, an air of reserves of power, and
last, but perhaps not least, iron gray
locks which Henry Irving himself could
not have improved upon in portraying
the character of a  statesman.
We make our plea, and the Premier
begins to speak, — melodiously, with
words well chosen, in an unhurried man
ner, which causes us to forget for the
moment that he has much to .do. We
feel at ease. The Premier's personality
is not mountainous, like that of some
men of power, but reminds us of a
broad plain, with the sun shining from
a serene- sky. Mr. McBride has magnetism—a great deal of it. We begin to
understand  his  widespread  popularity.
Opportunities, the magazine, is mentioned, and this leads on to the opportunities of British Columbia. Mr. McBride has begun to warm up. The theme
interests him, because his biggest work
is to mould Mother Nature's gifts to
British Columbia into opportunities for
men.
"The title of your magazine," he says,
leaning a little further forward, "furnishes a text particularly applicable to
any general observations that one may
make on the Province of British Columbia, because this, above all other
parts of the continent, is a land of oppor-
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tunities. The reason is self-evident. We
have immense and varied natural resources, and these give great openings
for investment, and great scope for men
of  brains  and  industry.
"I might quote statistics. Look at
the area of the Province—nearly four
hundred thousand square miles, our seaboard of more than seven thousand
miles, and our wonderful inland waters,
furnishing great navigable arteries and
tremendous power for wheels of industry, and after these, the almost incalculable natural resources stored within
this vast territory—our minerals, our
forests, our agricultural lands, and our
fisheries. Even the least observant man
must admit that here lie sources of great
prosperity, and opportunities for a progressive people to develop a great community.
"Imagine, if you can, woodlands of
which the marketable timber is conservatively estimated as able to produce three
hundred and sixty billion feet of lumber
annually for one hundred years.
"Our fisheries are already employing
twelve thousand men and are still at the
beginning of their development. Our
mines produced last year some twenty-
five million dollars; our timber industry
amounts to about twelve million dollars
a year, and the products of our agricultural and fruit lands now have a value
of eight million dollars a year. And all
these industries are still at their beginnings, and are being carried on by a
population which is still comparatively
small. It is inevitable that they will see
great expansion and will offer more and
more opportunities for the people who
settle among us. Each year will greatly
increase the number of these people. The
population is growing at a very rapid
and   satisfactory  rate,   yet  it   is   still   a
mere handful compared with the number
which   this   Province   can  sustain.
"Along all lines there has been most
substantial progress. Our cities are
growing; the country is being settled;
shipping and railway building are increasing at a wonderful rate; and the
fruit industry, within a very few years,
has developed from obscurity to the
front rank. The land devoted to fruit
ten years ago was 7,460 acres; to-day it
is one hundred thousand acres. Our
land will support a very large number
of people in contentment and prosperity.
As to recreation, it may be said that the
fishing and hunting in British Columbia
are unexcelled, and the climate is particularly favorable to pleasures out of
doors.
"There are many other opportunities,
and the people of British Columbia are
making the most of them. We have an
energetic, enterprising, resourceful and
confidently hopeful citizenship. The
very atmosphere of this Last West, the
newness of our civilization, and the
knowledge of the many things which are
yet to be done, inspire our people with
fresh ambition and stimulate them to
greater efforts than they would have put
forth had they remained in the communities of the East. Whether or not a man
who comes to British Columbia has capital, he can make good if he has energy,
intelligence and persistence."
Though the Premier grew enthusiastic
in speaking of British Columbia and her
people, he "dodged the issue" when an
effort was made to swing the conversation around to himself. The subject did
not   seem   to   interest   him,   and   it   was
MR. McBRIDE AT THE OPENING OF THE
SONGHEE RESERVATION
THE PREMIER AT THE RECEPTION TO
SIR WILFRED LAURIER
necessary to seek elsewhere for a map, so
to speak, of Mr. McBride's progress
from New Westminster, where he was
born forty years ago, to his present high
position.
No attempt will be made here to give
even an outline of what Mr. McBride
has achieved as Premier. This would
involve the consideration of many matters which will be taken up in future
articles. It is enough to say at this time
that the Premier has commended himself to the most intelligent observers
as a man who is really "big," a man who
has already accomplished much for British Columbia. Glancing at him as a
party leader, it has been said that he
is the strongest man in his party in the
Dominion. Looking at him as a public
servant, it has been said that his progress is in the direction of the Premiership   of   Canada.
For the purpose of touching upon Mr.
McBride's start in life, we will take a
little trip to New Westminster where, as
has already been indicated, he spent his
early years. We find there many old
friends of his, men still young, who went
to school with him, played marbles and
swam and fished with "Dick McBride."
They all call him "Dick."
You ask about his school days and
learn that he was not a youthful "highbrow." He played marbles and swam,
it seems, better than he did problems in
mathematics or recited history. He was
graduated from the common school,
and then from the high school without making any splash in the pool of
learning. He studied law at college in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and here, according to an old college-mate of his, he took-
much more interest in the mock-parliament than in the moot court, that is to
say, his tendencies, even in early youth,
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He returned to New Westminster in
1892, was called to the bar and began to
practice. At this time he was tall and
slender, with great physical activity.
One of the older citizens of New Westminster tells a story which illustrates
his promptitude in action. This citizen
was driving a milk wagon one morning
down a hill on his way across the railroad track. A train was approaching. A
Chinaman, crossing the road in front
of the wagon, dropped his bundle, and
in scrambling for it frightened the horse
which went careering down the hill
towards the coming train. Vainly the
driver tried to stop the animal. It plunged on and a collision between it and the
locomotive seemed inevitable.
vincial   Legislature,   as   the   member  for
Dewdney.    This time he was elected.
Two years later there came a crisis in
his political career. He was offered the
portfolio of Minister of Mines, but for
certain reasons the acceptance of the
offer would have meant the sacrifice of
some of the pledges which he made to
the people who elected him. It would
have been a great step ahead for so
young a man, but Mr. McBride put the
opportunity aside, and materially augmented his growing strength with his
fellow citizens. He came back to the
country in 1901, and was once more returned from Dewdney. He had another
contest on his hands in 1903 and was
again successful.
errand to the Government building. The
Premier immediately cut to the bone of
the matter, showing that he was familiar
with it in all its details. Upon leaving
the office the companion of the New
Westminster man remarked that the
Premier must have prepared himself for
the call. The New Westminster man
replied that he himself had no intention
.of visiting Victoria until within half an
hour of his start.
Another valuable asset of Mr. McBride in his political career is his remarkable memory for names and faces.
It is said that he never forg'ets either.
For instance, once in the north country
he met a young man whose first name
was George.    Some years afterward, in a
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"Dick" McBride happened to be passing. He rushed to the horse's head, seized the bridle and jerked the animal off
the rails only a few seconds before the
locomotive thundered by. The shafts
of the wagon were broken, and the
driver, reeling from his seat, broke his
arm. He attributes the fact that he did
not lose his life to "Dick" McBride.
He practiced law in New Westminster
until 1896, when he entered into a political contest with Mr. Morrison, now
Justice of the Supreme Court, for a seat
in the Dominion Parliament. He made
an aggressive fight in this campaign, but
led a forlorn hope and lost.
This defeat merely stimulated his political ambitions. In 1898 he again entered the arena in a contest for the  Pro-
In the meantime he had, because of
his magnetism, grasp of public questions,
and instinctive leadership, risen to be
the Leader of the Opposition. There
was another faction headed by Joseph
Martin, now a member of the British
Parliament, when the Opposition came
into power, and a hot fight arose within
the ranks. Mr. McBride won, and since
then  has been Premier.
His grasp of all questions and conditions affecting British Columbia is illustrated by a little episode when a New
Westminster man went to Victoria on an
errand which rested not with the Premier, but with one of the department
heads. When calling on Mr. McBride
to pay his respects, the New Westminster   citizen   happened   to   mention   his
delegation of citizens who met the Premier at a train in another part of the
Province was this same young man. The
Premier, though he had seen thousands
of people in the meantime, greeted him
cordially as "George."
This is merely one trivial instance,
but it is representative of a great many.
The Premier remembers because he is
not wrapped up in himself. He is interested in other people. He is fond of
the simple life, nature and adventure.
One of the periods of the year to which
he looks forward with great zest is the
time in September when he dons the
garb of a pioneer and seeks the wilderness. In the early days he and one or
two companions were fond of starting
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many miles up the Fraser River and
into the lakes to the north. Now he
utilizes a launch for these trips, but his
experiences in the woods are hardly less
strenuous than they used to be.
Three or four years ago the two or
three of his old friends who usually accompany him on these journeys, decided
to penetrate the wild country around
Great Harrison Lake. After an arduous
journey by boat and wagon to the foot
of the lake, it began to rain. It rained
throughout the day, and throughout
the next day, with such persistency that the Premier and his party
were forced to abandon their tents and
seek refuge in a logging camp a few
miles down the creek that flows out of
the lake. Here for several days they
had to be content with loggers' joys. But
one morning the sun returned. They
made their way up the creek to the lake,
and up the lake ten miles to a cove,
where they established a camp and began to fish.
But hardly had they cast their lines
out before the heavens again opened.
The camp was nearly washed from the
narrow shore under the precipitous cliffs,
and it became necessary to beat a hasty
retreat. There were two boats. One
of these was a canoe, and in this embarked the Premier and one companion.
The ripples on the lake had become
waves, and the canoe was swamped. The
voyagers righted it at last, but it was
again swamped. Again, after strenuous
work, these lake mariners righted it. A
third time the waves lifted it and turned
it over. The Premier and his fellow-
sufferer started to swim for shore, but
practically there was no shore. The
cliffs came down to the water's edge.
The shipwrecked ones stood on a rock,
waist deep in water, and with the water
beating down, waiting to be rescued.
They waited a long time, but finally,
through the driving rain, they saw the
boat of the other members of the party
returning   for   them.
"There they are!" exclaimed Mr. Mc-*
Bride. "Call to them! Call to them!"
His" companion endeavored to raise his
voice, but failed; then the Premier made
the attempt, but was unsuccessful. The
truth was that both were so weak and
numbed with cold that they could not
shout. They were seen, however, and
thus it was that the Premier was taken
off the submerged rock to continue his
services for  British Columbia.
He and his friends have had numerous
other adventures in their annual journeys back to nature. The Premier likes
them, being an out-door as well as an
in-door man. He has all-round development. He is typical of British Columbia. He has made a long and close study
of the Province in all its aspects. He
knows its needs perhaps better than any
other man, and is putting forth all his
unusual energy and ability to supply
these  needs.-
Co-operation Among Farmers
Why it is so Often a Failure and How it can be Made Successful
By George Schumacher, Ph. D.
WHAT cooperation has done for
industry, cooperation can and
must do for the farmers. We
all know the splendid condiJ
tion of the small intensive farmer in a
small country in Europe. I refer to
Denmark. Here we see cooperation at
its best. A perfect organization collects
the „ raw products of the numerous
small farmers, manufactures these into
the finished product, when required, in
an up-to-date building and with up-to-
date machinery, and controls the sale
of this product at home and abroad. As
a result, this small State exports more
agricultural products than all Canada
together.
We see cooperative concerns flourishing in Germany. Beet sugar factories
to the number of five hundred are really
cooperative farmers' concerns, controlling capital amounting to millions of
dollars. We see many thousands of
butter and cheese factories conducted
on the same principal. We see a great
part of the milk delivered in the cities
by farmers' cooperative concerns. We
see starch and spirit factories, canneries,
etc., all controlled by farmers, and we
see as the greatest combination of all,
buying on a cooperative basis. One
farmers' cooperation in Germany handles
(Agricultural Series. No. 2)
fertilizer to the value of several hundred
millions   of  dollars.
We see cheese factories in the East
now on a solid basis, after a great many
difficulties, and we see in the West now
and then a successful creamery or fruit
growers' association, but there it ends.
More often than not, we see derelict
cooperative concerns, with their buildings either empty or operated by enterprising individuals who are able to make
a profit which the farmers could not
make. I am told that unsuccessful
cooperative enterprises on both sides of
the international boundary number many
hundreds.    This   is  deplorable.
The Government has, or believes it
has, fostered cooperative creameries, advancing money at a reasonable rate of
interest, provided a sufficient number of
farmers'   join   in   the   undertaking   and
guarantee milk from a certain number of
cows. What is the reason for so many
failures? The general answer is that
the farmer is not a business man. With
this the subject is usually dismissed, but
here our work only begins. Gentle pressure was necessary to make the cheese
factories in the East successful, and
gradually satisfactory business methods
were adopted and satisfactory results
obtained.
If farming cannot be profitable without cooperation, the latter must be
adopted under all circumstances, and the
farmer must be made a business man.
Of course, to make a business man out
of the farmer, we must start at the root,
and 1 am firmly convinced that if we
do not alter our present school system in
the country, we will never raise a generation willing to stay on the land and
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pie to become efficient and satisfied
jrmers. Our young men on the farms
lave for the cities as soon as possible,
they see only drudgery in farm func-
pns. The education of the younger
feneration must be taken in hand with
[view to making good farmers, able and
filling to cooperate with their neigh-
hrs. I will refer to this matter later on,
fit for the present will deal with the
Luse of failures on cooperative concerns
[lder existing circumstances, and point
tit how these difficulties may be
l/ercome.
[ Let us see a typical creamery. Let
U find out how it started, how it was
managed, that is, mis-managed, and why
failed. The farmers grumble about
;ie high railway rates, of the difficulty in
filing their milk, talk about cooperative
••eameries,  have  half  a dozen palavers,
year. What is really needed is an able
manager, who is experienced, is engaged
under a long contract, and has power to
enforce all rules under all circumstances,
against all members, no matter what
their importance may be in the association. The manager must be unhampered; his position must not depend on
the will or temper of any big boss in the
concern. In preference, he should come
from a different district. The association
should have an accountant if the manager has not time to attend to this; and
an auditor to examine the books thoroughly and investigate any matter which
may require investigation. These two or
three officers can do all the work required. Board meetings do more harm
than good. The board should be content
with announcing the yearly dividend
which  the    auditor    recommends.    The
take my milk as it is or I will not have
anything to do with this cooperative business." He has either bad cows and gets
bad milk, and knows it, or is fond of the
pump. Cooperative creameries must insist upon clean stables and properly fed
cows and good milk, under all circumstances. Well conducted cooperative
creameries can and must be the best
factor in the production of healthy milk.
Present conditions in British Columbia are very far from being satisfactory.
We all know, more or less, the quality of
milk for sale in the towns. We know
the report of the sanitary inspectors, and
we see with regret few, very few milk
establishments which are reported as
sanitary. Ninety-eight per cent, of the
farmers could not join a creamery at all
at present, or would be fined out of the
concern if the rules were enforced by a
A SCENE IN THE "DRY BELT," NEAR ASHCROFT
.nd  make  up    their    minds  to   start  acontract made  by the  farmers with  the     conscientious  creamery manager.       The
reamery under the rules laid down by
he Government. They get the loan
ifter having found the necessary cows
ind cash, the latter very often with difficulty, half of the farmers repenting their
promises on the way home, and think-
ng of ways to avoid the obligation. But
:hey start, elect half a dozen directors, a
Doard of control, or whatever it may be
called, nominate one of them as secretary, appoint a manager, and the game
oegins. The most necessary part has
been forgotten, namely, an effective sales
organization. Instead of considering
fthe sales, which must be made at the city
[end, the farmers believe the butter and
Echeese making alone is important.
If they have six directors, they have
[exactly six directors too many. They are
[not needed. There should not be more
I than one, or at most two meetings in the
association must be binding, not for a first aim of the Government, therefore,
few months, but for a number of years, must be to insist upon a fairly uniform
not only for quantity, but also for qual- sanitary condition in the cow barns, in
ity. There must be a penalty clause at- the handling of the cows, vessels, etc.
tached to every part, and this must be The remainder can be well left to the
enforced  against  all. manager.    Example and competition will
An influential member may deliver do the rest. If bad milk or watered milk
milk which is sour. The manager becomes unsaleable the cooperative
grumbles and declares that he cannot creamery will have a sound basis; if the
make good butter out of it. But it often manager can strictly enforce the rules,
happens that he must take it, knowing without fear from the board, it should
that if he refuses it he will get the sack succeed. I?he forcing of the bad farmers
next week. The good farmer with a
clean stable, clean milk vessels and properly fed cows, has no advantage, at
present, over the farmer who delivers
dirty milk, and his products do not improve the bad quality his neighbor
delivers.
I know farmers who object to the milk
test.    "No milk test for me.    You must
out of business will be a benefit to the
country.
What has been said here about creameries is true of other cooperative concerns, whether these be canneries, fruit
growers' associations, or sugar works.
If a fruit cannery is regarded as the
dumping ground for the worst kinds of
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nery or jam factory can be successful.
The manager must have the power and
will to reject anything that is unfit and
make such reduction as the quality demands. In other words, a cooperative
business must be run on exactly the same
lines as any other business, on business
lines pure and simple.
It is always necessary that the manager be an effective business man, and at
the same time have the expert knowledge
the particular work requires. Because
"Fred" has worked the separator and has
turned the butter churn, and has had
charge of six cows, "Fred" is not always
able to handle the milk of 1,500 cows.
Instead making "Fred" the manager, and
discharging him in a month, a search
must be made for a man whose former
experience and whose character warrant
from the government is required to make
farmers move for their own benefit and
for the benefit of the whole country. The
recent resolutions of the Board of Trade
in Vancouver touch the same question,
only in a different way.
The production in the United States in
poultry and eggs alone, is $50,000,000
larger than the total production of all
the agricultural products of Canada together. The import of poultry and eggs
into British Columbia amounts to $5,000,-
000 a year, and of butter and other farm
products, to $8,000,000. If we take away
what the diligent Chinaman produces in
vegetables, there remains very, very
little.
According to Mr. Bowser, 108,000
acres are at present in fruit, but most
likely only a part of this is  at present
cities may be good enough, but I am
sure that the schools in the country are
not at all what they must be, if we want
to raise a generation of farmers with
business abilities.
I do not pretend to be an expert in
"re scholastica," but I see in my mind a
school house, a teacher, and a system of
teaching which will bring benefit to the
country, which will benefit present and
future generations, and create prosperous and  satisfied farmers.
I see a school house having no less
than six rooms, comfortably fitted for a
family. It is the living house of the
teacher, with a roomy annex of two
rooms for the school proper. I see this
room cleanly painted, with pictures on
the walls, and a collection of specimens
of   natural     history,     collected   by   the
A FARMER'S HOME IN THE SIMILKAMEEN
a long contract with him. If these things
are not attended to, the board starts
quarrelling, and the cooperative concern
soon drops to pieces.
As I said at the beginning, the selling
end of the business must not be forgotten. The manager should look after this
before he starts with the buildings. The
best thing for a number of cooperative
companies, embracing a district, or even
perhaps, the whole Province, is to combine for a large selling organization.
The Government must step in, find a
good organizer, draw up rules and engage a manager. It may be said that the
government interference might go too
far, but without it the thing will never
get on its feet, I am afraid. If I am informed rightly, the New Zealand Government even runs retail meat shops in
England, and history has shown all over
the world that some degree of pressure
bearing, and Mr. Bowser considered it a
marvellous result that the total production in fruit, in British Columbia, is valued at $2,000,000. Analysing these figures
means a gross production of less than
$20 per acre, and this is nothing to boast
of.
The Upper Fraser Valley alone could
produce $20,000,000 worth of sugar per
annum, and the by product of this industry, namely pulp and molasses, converted
into milk, eggs, butter, etc., would present a larger value than the present imports. But, for the present, we can only
do patch-work. We must, as I said before, start at the root and alter our
school  system  in  the  country
We pay carpenters or bricklayers $4.00
to $6.00 per day. We pay the firemen
and policemen 50% more tnan the
teacher, to whom we entrust or tuture
generation.     The   schools   in   the   large
teacher and pupils, nicely and carefully
mounted. I see this house set in a ground
of two acres, and I notice the best
kept garden in the village and specimens
of plants otherwise not to be seen. I
see a model cow-shed and two well-fed
cows, and further away, a small pigsty, and a model poultry yard, and I see
in the garden carefully kept patches of
all kinds of vegetables, and one acre
devoted to growing feed for the cattle
and hogs. And I see the teacher, a married man with a helpful wife and healthy
children, and he explains to me that the
house, garden, cow-shed and all are provided by the school trustees. He is engaged for life, and although his salary
is small, he has an income from the
garden from which he manages to save
some money and increase the private
library of which he is so fond, and which
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farmers. He tells me that he gets a
small increase in salary every three years
and that the trustees provide an accident
and pension insurance for him. He shows
me his cow-shed, carefully kept records
of the milk production and the food used.
He explains to me that he studies the
experimental farm reports and gives
lectures to the farmers from time to time,
and that he impresses on them the necessity of keeping records of everything
bought and sold on the farm.
He is especially fond of his poultry
yard. The Government has seen the
need of better poultry all around and
has given him a special bonus to introduce a new mode of raising a special
strain of poultry. He is obliged to give
eggs for hatching to the farmers, at a
nominal price for a number of years.
He conducts me to his garden, and the
first thing I notice is a rain-measure, and
a recording barometer and thermometer.
He informs me that the teachers in the
country   districts   are   obliged   to   make.
regular telephonic reports to Victoria
about the weather conditions, which form
the basis for the meteorological forecast
prepared for the Province and are posted
in the post offices. I notice also that all
plants are carefully marked and notes
are made.about the time of planting, the
fertilizer used, etc., and I see what a
splendid opportunity the Government
has to keep the farmers informed about
all matters referring to agriculture at
small expense, at less expense, in fact,
than is devoted to prizes for agricultural
exhibitions.
I am surprised when I go with the
teacher to his class. The older boys and
girls are working out an example of cost
on milk returns, simple, but very instructive, and the teacher points out a
girl of fourteen who is keeping the milk
reports for her father, and tells me that
since the time the girl began to keep
these reports the father has made much
better progress. The whole course in
arithmetic   is   laid   out  with   a   view   to
make the boys and girls fit for the work
they have to do in the future, and the
reading is directed to the same end. This
matter is very ingeniously arranged, in
order to make the boys and girls acquainted with the things connected with
their future life as farmers.
I see this all in my mind, and I hope
that other people will also see the necessity for proper schools in the farming
districts. Universities, technical schools
and agricultural colleges are useful and
absolutely necessary, but Canada is a
farming country. We want to keep our
farmers on the land and we want to
make them efficient. To make them efficient, schools in the country must be
improved. To achieve this, we need
training schools for the teachers and a
different organization. If we have this
we can create properly educated farmers
who will become effective members of
cooperative associations, and contribute
greatly to the stability of prosperity.
What British Columbia Needs Most
The Province Must Have More Producers to Provide for
Consumption Already Great, and Growing Rapidly
By Henry A. Stone
Former President of the Vancouver Board of Trade
THE tilling of the soil for future
needs  was   the   first  problem
with which man had  to  deal;
wise provision for the protection and encouragement of agriculture
has been the foundation of the policy of
the greatest known statesmen. Neglect
of the soil has resulted in the downfall of
empires; and agriculture is no less today than ever the corner stone of wealth,
power and . solid prosperity. It is the
necessary partner, of industrial development and the greatest safety valve in
times of depression.
Egypt's decay has been stayed, her
years of famine turned into those of
plenty, by irrigating the soil. Of the
European nations, France is the most
wealthy, not through her excellent manufactories or her resources, but because
every square yard of her soil is made to
yield its most, and because of the immense savings of her thrifty farmers.
Russia's unlimited agricultural resources
foreshadow her becoming the most influential power of the Old World.
And what has agriculture done for the
New World? The grain of the United
States has been the only coin with which
the capitalists there have been able to
pay  interest  on  the   enormous   Enerlish
investments in railways and industries,
and Canada is paying in like manner
to-day.
Every wide awake state and country is
realizing the importance of this question,
and is leaving no stone unturned or opportunity passed over to secure settlers.
Australia is receiving from England
thousands of immigrants, who, with
government assistance, are carried twelve
thousand miles for between fifteen and
twenty dollars, and the securing of homesteads is made easy for them. New Zealand is pressing the advantages of her
climate; Japan is teaching her subjects,
new and old, to make the land give up its
limit of production.
The settling of the great North-West
has revealed a granary of imperial capacity, a stream of production that is
fast becoming a river of such enormous
influence as to be the controlling pivot
around which the broader questions of
government and destiny of the world's
greatest empire must centre.
The revelation of prairie production
has brought the hardened farmer from
Dakota to secure the sweeter fruits of
labor obtainable in Alberta, and has
awakened too late the diplomats of Uncle
Sam to seek closer trade relations with
so prosperous a neighbor.
And how about British Columbia,
where nature has provided a magnificent
western doorway to receive the products
of the ports of Europe and the Pacific
ocean, and man has created a great railway centre to distribute them throughout half of our continent? These commanding advantages mean a large population and quick development of our
lower mainland, and we may well ask
ourselves,—Are we providing for the
future need of British Columbia in agriculture? Are we even making any reasonable effort to provide for the present?
Figures are dry reading, but a few may
be to the point: The production of British Columbia for 1909 was $82,500,000.
This includes mining, lumber, fishing,
and agriculture, the latter representing
one-tenth of the whole. Our imports
of agricultural products, which two years
ago were $8,000,000, are now in the neighborhood  of $16,000,000.
Between 1904 and 1909 our exports increased only 45%, while our imports
doubled and are rapidly increasing. Mining, our largest producing asset, has only
increased 50% since 1903, and it is evident that our natural products cannot
increase as rapidly as our imports are
increasing. We know to our cost that
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of acres of the finest kind of hay as well
as other agricultural lands at our doors
in the Fraser Valley waiting development, that a trainload of hay was
actually received at recent date from the
Province of Quebec.
For the $16,000,000 worth of farm produce we import, we are are paying good
gold, every dollar of which is lost to this
Province, though it is sorely needed for
re-investment and development.
We must remember the great difficulties of attaining the desired object of
getting settlers on the agricultural lands
of this Province, but so absolutely necessary is it to British Columbia as to demand the greatest possible efforts to that
end.
There is but little suitable land near
present communication that is not held
at prices that drive away settlers without
considerable capital, and the easy to purchase and easy to plow lands of the
prairie are ever before the settler.
By survey and enquiry the Government has ascertained that we have 81,-
000,000 acres of agricultural lands
throughout the Province. One-tenth is
possibly wheat lands, and if one hundredth part of these were well settled
and cultivated, that $16,000,000 might
stay annually within our Province.
A large part of these lands is not
reasonably accessible to any market, and
for this reason the Government cannot
and does not encourage settlers to locate
on them, requiring as they do, pack
horses to reach, and rafts when rivers
have to be crossed. There are difficult
problems of clearing and draining, or
irrigating and building lines of communication. The Provincial Government's
policy is to build roads and survey lands
in the vicinity of coming railroads. It
has already, and wisely,  reserved  large
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A SCENE NEAR BASQUE, WHERE IRRIGATION BRINGS GREAT FERTILITY
tracts of lands in various parts for
genuine settlers alone. It gives financial
assistance to dairying, encourages fruit
growing, supports farming institutions.
It will, I feel sure, assist any sound agricultural proposition. But do not present
circumstances demand some more practical and definite policy of securing settlers at once, on the most accessible of
the agricultural lands available? Settlers,
it should be remembered, are knocking
at our doors by thousands. Could not a
scheme of assisting settlement be inaugurated, with the brains and knowledge
and money at the disposal of the Government? Why not create a department
with this great object? Why not select
a few localities, place a government
agent in each, assist to clear or drain or
irrigate; subsidise a steamboat service or
even a railway, for securing communication? Why not get busy and have a few
spots to which settlers could be directed,
and where they could be encouraged to
settle?
Such a policy, no matter how expensive, would, I feel, have the endorsa-
tion of every well wisher of this Province. A generous policy on these lines
would be warmly welcomed. We must
never forget that in times of depression
we shall not always have the rapid increase of land values to pay our imports
with, and that the farming industry is
the least affected and becomes the prop
of other industries. In times of prosperity it is judicious to spend the money
realized from the sales of desirable lands
for the development of those less
accessible.
COAL
A Great and Enduring Asset which will be a Vital Factor in the
Development of Big Industries in British Columbia
(Natural Resources Series, No. 3)
HNE of the greatest and most
substantial of British Columbia's natural assets is coal.
Widely distributed in the Province are coal deposits which give every
indication of being extensive enough to
supply fuel in great quantities for many
centuries to come. A large proportion
of these coal fields have yet been mined
but slightly or not at all. There is no
doubt that the production of coal in
British Columbia will become larger and
larger as the years pass, and will con
tinuously   augment   the   wealth   of   the
Province.
There has already been, for a number
of years, an annual increase in the mining and marketing of British Columbia
coal. This increase has been fairly regular, amounting to a yearly increment of
between fifty thousand and sixty thousand tons, with an increase in the annual
output of coke of from thirty-five tons
ten years ago to 258,703 tons in 1909.
The marked expansion of the coke industry has been due to the development
of ore smelting within the Province.   As
an indication of the development of coal
mining, the production in 1909 was
greater than in any previous year, and,
though the official statistics for 1910
have not, of course, yet been announced,
it is believed that the production this
year will materially exceed that of 1909.
The total value of all the coal produced and used as coal in the Province
in 1909 was $7,022,666, representing 2,-
400,600 tons of coal. Of these 394,124
tons were consumed in making coke,
which had a value of $1,522,218, making
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collieries $8,574,884. This was an increase over 1908 of $1,218,018, or a little
over 16%.
^Vancouver Island has made so far
the largest coal production in ny one
section. The Island's output in 1909 was
1,414,525 tons. East Kootenay came
next with 923,865 tons, and Nicola, in
the south central part of the Province,
was third with 62,210 tons.
The coal areas of Vancouver Island
are well distributed, extending in general
from Saanich to Seymour Narrows,
along the east coast; from Fort McNeil
to Fort Rupert, and reaching to Coal
Harbor on Quitsino Sound. There are
also valuable coal deposits in the Alberni
and San Juan Districts. A new chapter
in the history of the coal fields on Van-
Ladysmith__and Union Bay will be remodelled and, in general, a most progressive campaign inaugurated, involving the
employment of thousands of men for the
complete development of the great holdings of the new company known as the
Canadian Collieries. These holdings
embrace the coal beneath the land grants
of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway,
consisting of tracts of 1,900,000 acres on
the east coast of the Island, with a width
of from fifteen to thirty miles, and extending from Saanich to Campbell River,
a distance of one hundred and sixty
miles. In addition to this proved coal
area, there are croppings in various districts which are traceable for miles and
indicate rich deposits beneath. The
areas  which  have  thus  far  contributed
show expansion and will yield increasing wealth.
East Kootenay was not far behind
Vancouver Island in its coal production
in 1909, and the output here is increasing
in greater ratio than anywhere else in
the Province. While only about forty
per cent, of the total coal sold by the
British Columbia collieries in 1909 was
exported to the United States, the East
Kootenay collieries exported across the
border about 72 per cent, of their coal
output. Crow's Nest Pass, located
in the extreme south-east, is the principal coal producing center of the East
Kootenay section. The Similkameen
Valley also has a substantial coal production, with the center of the industry
located at Princeton.   The Flathead sec-
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couver Island was begun last year when
Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann purchased
from the Dunsmuir Company their extensive holdings and collieries for
$11,000,000.
In connection with this purchase it
has been announced that about $3,000,-
000 will be spent in opening and equip-
ing new coal mines and increasing the
outputs of the present collieries by the
adoption of the most modern methods
and machinery in coal mining. One of
the features of the new plan will be the
utilization of a 50,000 horse power waterfall in the Comox District, situated on
the east coast of the Island, for the generation of electricity which will be so
distributed that it will operate two lines
of railway, various machine shops and
the coal mines.    The shipping docks at
ENTRANCE TO TUNNELL, HOSMER COLLIERIES
most to the total production are the
•Extension and the Comox fields. The
first is situated inland on tide water
about ten miles from Ladysmith, which
town is located on the east coast of the
Island, south-west of Vancouver. The
Comox field is about seventy-five miles
inland from the shipping port of Union
Bay. These mines are connected by
standard gauge railways with the shipping ports. The collieries at Extension
have a daily output of fifteen hundred
tons, and have employed one thousand
men, with a monthly payroll of $70,000.
These big operations, however, will become small in comparison with the
whole industry as it will develop on Vancouver Island within the next few years.
It is quite safe to say that for many years
coal   mining   on   Vancouver   Island   will
tion, near the international boundary, has
coal croppings, and is being actively
prospected.
The third important coal producing section is the Nicola Valley. Here is a
large coal basin which has received as
yet but little attention except in the
stratas on or near the surface by the
companies which are now operating in
this field. The years immediately ahead
of us will undoubtedly see a great increase in coal production in the valley,
and the towns of Merritt, Coutlee, and
others will become centers in the coal
mining industry.
These three sections, Vancouver
Island, East Kootenay and the Nicola
Valley, are the only ones in which coal
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areas which are even larger and give
every indication of eventually swelling
in great degree the coal production of
the  Province.
The Rocky Mountain coal fields lying
on either side of the main ridge of the
Rocky Mountains in British Columbia
and Alberta, have been said by authorities to be the most extensive coal areas
in Canada. About eighty per cent, of the
coal here is believed to be on the British
Columbia side. Very few people recognize the remarkable extent of these fields,
or the enormous influence that they will
have on the future of the country. As
is well known, the coal fields of Pennsylvania have made that State the greatest
manufacturing section of the Union. The
history of Pennsylvania will probably
be duplicated in south-eastern British
Columbia because  of its wealth in coal.
This section is beginning to develop
rapidly, and promises to become, at no
distant date, the Pennsylvania of the
Pacific Slope. The northern area of
the Rocky Mountain coal fields begins
about twenty-four miles north of Michael
Creek and extends northward to the
head waters of the Elk River, a distance
of about forty miles. The maximum
width of the area is about seven miles.
It embraces altogether about one hundred and forty square miles, and contains, according to the estimate of D. B.
Dowling of the Geological Survey of
Canada, about fourteen billion tons of
high grade bituminous coal. These coalfields, as far as known, are held by companies or syndicates, which, for the mining of the coal, are awaiting improved
transportation   facilities.    The   Canadian
Pacific Railway and the Great Northern
Railway both have lines constructed as
far up the Elk River as Michael Prairie
at the mouth of Michael Creek. From
here a line has been surveyed as far north
as Aldridge Creek, a distance of forty-
eight miles. This road will have so
slight a grade that its construction will
be comparatively easy and inexpensive.
Short spurs will be built from it to various points to open up the coal, all of
which lies to the east of the Elk River
Valley. The southern portion of the
Elk River coalfield has a length, north
and south, of about thirty miles, and a
maximum width of twelve or thirteen
miles. Its estimated area is two hundred
and thirty miles, and its largest shipping
point is the town of Fernie.
The Crow's Nest coalfield is undoubtedly on the same general zone as the
upper Elk River field, but, through geological action, has been separated from
it by about twenty-four miles of country
which is now barren of coal. The
northern field, while fairly well surveyed
and mapped, has as yet only been prospected. Its great importance in production lies in the future.
Another section of British Columbia
which has much potentiality in coal production is the Peace River country, lying
about five hundred miles to the north of
the location already mentioned. This
part of British Columbia has been but
little explored as yet, but, according to
a government agent who has penetrated
and studied the region, it has a great
asset in coal. The zone is reported to
extend southward from the Peace River
between the 122nd and 123rd degrees of
longitude, and to have a length sufficient
to give it promise of becoming eventually as large a contributor to the coal
production of British Columbia as the
Crow's Nest fields. At about the same
high latitude, but between two and three
hundred miles farther west, are good
coal prospects along the Upper Skeena
and Naas rivers.
Still another section which gives great
promise of wealth in coal is Graham
Island, at the northern end of the Queen
Charlotte group. The isolation of Graham Island kept it more or less obscure
until the town of Prince Rupert was
founded as the western terminus of the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. This industrial development has made the
islands easily accessible, and has brought
the coal deposits on Graham Island conspicuously to the attention of the public.
Large areas of coal exist both at Robertson's and Wilson's camps, and give
indications of an extent which will make
them one of the largest producing tracts
of unbroken coal lands on the Pacific
Coast. They lie less than one hundred
miles from Prince Rupert, and will be
provided with excellent shipping facilities to the various important coal markets of the world. British Columbia
capitalists have already acquired much
of this coal area and are starting an
active campaign of development and production.
British Columbia's coal deposits, located approximately at her four corners,
as one may see by consulting a map, are
destined to play a great part in the industrial development of the Province.
Success on a Fraser Valley Fruit Ranch
By D. H. Nelson
T was two years ago last March
that I started in to cut the first
timber on my place near
Abbottsford. I now have fifteen acres under cultivation and about
ten acres under pasture. I have 550 fruit
trees planted. Last spring I started a
nursery and grafted 8,400 one-year-old
seedling stocks; the varieties being the
Northern Spy, Jonathan, and Golden
apples for a late fruit, and the Graven-
stein and King of Tompkins for fall
apples. I was very careful about my
scions for grafting, sending for them to
one of the most reliable fruit growers in
the Province. The young nursery has
done very well. I intend in 1911 to graft
10,000 French crab-apple stocks for
which I have sent direct to France, because the French crab-apple seed makes,
I have learned, a better and hardier root
for grafting than the native stock. Next
spring I expect to plant about 200 more
apple trees, the varieties being the Northern Spy, Jonathan and the Grimes
Golden. These three varieties are my
choice for winter apples. For fall apples
my experience has been that the Graven-
stein, Wealthy, and King are preferable.
A fruit grower who goes into the market
with these six varieties is bound to sell
them at good prices.
On a ten-acre plot I would plant
twenty each of Gravensteins, Wealthy,
King, Northern Spy and Grimes Golden
for fall and winter apples. For summer
apples I would plant two Yellow Trans-
parents and six Duchess of Oldenberg.
As to fruit trees other than apple, I
would plant in plums, one Bradshaw, one
Yellow Egg, one Italian Prune; in cherries, six Bing and two Royal Ann; in
early pears, two Bartletts; in October
pears six Sheld'ons. This last variety
has always done well for me and has
always found a ready market at good
prices.
I give my permanent trees, such as the
Northern Spy, a space thirty feet wide
and thirty-five feet in the rows, and set
the other varieties in the rows seventeen
and a half feet between the Spys. This
gives me thirty feet of clear space for
raising strawberries and other small
fruits. I prefer the square method in
planting trees. The young trees should
have a clean cultivation. A man starting
in on a new place cannot always give
them this, in which case he should cultivate a space about three feet around each 1911
tree, digging a good foot deep in the
early part of February and keeping the
surface hoed during the spring and summer until about the last of July. A good
muck of red clover is excellent for young
trees where you have not much farm
manure. This should be plowed under
in September and harrowed well down so
that it will rot for the coming spring.
You can plant lo advantage about seventy trees to the acre, and, for the first
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thousand dollars a year. It is necessary
to say, though, that you cannot count
much on financial returns from your fruit
trees until they are six or seven years old,
and in the case of Northern Spys, until
they are eight or nine years old. But
in the meantime a good living can be obtained from other fruits and from vegetables, if your ranch is located within
fairly easy reach of the large markets, in
which the supply for fruit and vegetables
three or four years, can grow strawberries between the rows. These should
be kept back from the trees about six
feet on each side so that you will have
plenty of room to drive your sled along
for spraying the trees and keeping them
clean.
A man is foolish who thinks that after
he has planted his trees they will look
after themselves. This is a mistake that
causes some growers to become discouraged. They get this feeling not because
good profits cannot be made in fruit
growing here, but because the prospect
of a lot of work discourages them.
Take the item of strawberries alone.
An acre in strawberries in a good year
will yield, clear of expenses, $400, and
this is a low estimate. Moreover, you
can raise potatoes and other vegetables
between your trees. The total profit
a man can derive from a ten or fifteen-
acre fruit farm depends very largely
upon the man, but after the farm is well
started  this   profit  ought  to  be   several
A FLOURISHING PEAR TREE
at good prices is not often equal to the
demand.
As to the cost of starting as a fruit
grower, you must first take the price of
your land into consideration. Good acreage around Abbottsford, which is representative of the best sections of the
Fraser Valley, is held at from $250 to
$300 an acre uncleared. In addition to
this you must figure on from $100 to
$150 an acre for clearing and preparing
the land for planting. A man ought to
have between $5,000 and $6,000 to make
a good start on ten acres. He can buy
on time, paying $1,000 down and the balance over a term of, say three years.
After he has made this payment he must
have enough money left to build a home
to live in, and a barn and chicken houses.
He must be able to buy a good horse,
a plough, cultivator, a light wagon and
harness, and tools. He can clear two
or three acres a year as he gets time. 1
would say to leave the stumps for three
or   four   years   because,   although   they
PROFITABLE VEGETABLE
GROWING
Onions, carrots, potatoes, beets, celery
and cabbage are the principal roots and
vegetables grown for shipment, and the
men growing them are making money
out of them. Large returns can be made
at vegetable farming, if the person farming understands his business and gives
his attention to the work. This peat
land, which was at one time supposed to
be good for very little, is the very best
to be found for gardening, and the yields
from it are enormous. This year, which
was one of the driest seasons that Chilliwack has experienced for some time, a
yield of 12 tons of cabbage has been had
from the land. This product, when sold
by the carload lot, nets the farmer $22
and $23 per ton; for smaller shipments
$25 a ton is made. Another product of
the garden that yields big returns is
celery. This truck yielded easily five
tons to the acre and an average price
for it is $80 a ton. Page 22
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V
On Eluding Responsibility
A Suggestion for the New Year, from " Opinions1 of Mary"
==========     By Alice Ashworth Townley =
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F you want to have what you
do for people really appreciated, don't do too much. I've
been thinking this thing out
and gathering data, and talking to Mary
on the subject, and have reluctantly accepted the obtrusive conclusion that the
people who are most self-sacrificing and
unselfish receive far less praise and
gratitude than those who rarely indulge
in the pleasure of doing anything for
their neighbors. From those who are
always considerate we are apt to take
kindness and attention as a right, while,
received from people from whom it is
not expected, we are quite overcome.
In nearly every family you find some
member of whom nothing is expected.
It may be a careless and inattentive son,
upon whom his mother thankfully waits.
He must not be expected to take his
sisters anywhere, because a young man
hates to be trammelled. No one dreams
of his staying at home to help entertain
heavy guests, or taking his mother home
from church, or doing anything in a
social way that does not commend itself
to him as being pleasant and agreeable.
His linen must be immaculate, his possessions unborrowed by the rest of the
family, and domestic arrangements made
to fit in as nearly as may be with his
ideas on the subject. No one expects
him to light the furnace, or bring up coal,
or clean away the snow. I don't say he
refuses to do it—but no one seems to
think it possible he might be called upon.
Then some day, if he takes his mother
out for a drive or asks his sister to go
to the theatre (when his best girl has
disappointed him, and he has tickets),
they nearly weep with delight and gratitude, and say to one another, "Such a
good fellow after all! So kind and
thoughtful!"
As a rule the family are all very fond
and proud of this representative, and
grateful to be allowed to contribute to
his happiness.
Or it may be a pretty daughter who is
absolved by mutual consent from all
exertion on behalf of others. She may
not have been very strong in her childhood; she may be incompetent, or she
may be the beauty. She is not fond of
cooking, and does not care for plain
sewing. Fresh air is good for her. So
her mother and sisters make her clothes
and help her dress her hair, and let her
sleep  late in  the  mornings  and accept
every invitation that comes her way; and
think not to suggest that she should
wash the dishes or stay at home and get
the dinner on Sunday morning. No one
expects her to accept any responsibility
or let the rest of the family play her
pieces of music or borrow her bracelets.
She does not always need to be cranky
about it—they somehow don't seem to
presume upon her good nature. There
appears to be an understanding that she
is not to sit up at night if anyone is
sick, or to have to read to her grandmother, or do without a new hat—no
one expects it of her. If she makes an
eatable cake or trims a bonnet for her
mother, the whole family are lost in
admiration of her cleverness (though
any one of her sisters does much more
without notice). It is "See this lovely
cake, father; Maude made it! Isn't she
getting to be a fine cook?" "Thank you,
my dear, for trimming my bonnet so
beautifully; they couldn't have done it
better at Murray's!" If she gives her
little sister a ribbon she doesn't need,
the child is as pleased as Punch—and
should she offer to read to her grandmother, the old lady is as grateful as if
she had no right to expect such an attention every day of her life.
So it seems to me that if you accustom
surrounding people to the idea that you
must be considered by them, and that
they need not depend upon you in return, you get more praise and glory when
you do exert yourself for their benefit
than if you were always at it. If you are
known to be amiable and unselfish, people take it as a matter of course that
you should put yourself aside. They take
it for granted that you do work and unpleasant things because—in some mysterious way—they come easy to you or you
like it; and if you should desire a little
pleasure yourself or give up relieving
them of their duties, they possibly let you
know what they think of such an unreasonable and utterly selfish creature.
If you want appreciation, be advised,
and don't make your good office too
much  of a  certainty.
I was in a house the other day where
a fond mother who was dressing her
child displayed to me an ugly and badly-
made little pinafore. "This," she told
me, as she put it on, "was made by.
Aunty May; wasn't it good of her? She
so seldom does anything of that kind
that  I  feel    quite    complimented;    it's
awfully good of her!" Nearly every
other garment on the child—and dozens
more like them—had been fashioned by
another relative who was sitting by, but
nothing was said of them. Aunt Jessie'
was "fond of sewing," and "always did
things" for one, so why make any remark about it?
There are so many ways of eluding
work or responsibility, and nearly always somebody will turn up to assume
the burden if you don't. You can do
the "standing from under" act quite
gracefully, and in such a way that very
few will recognize it. It is not in the
least necessary to make a fuss or be unpleasant over it—there are many admirable plans in daily use. One good way,
in the family circle anyhow, is to be
"perfectly willing" but rather stupid and
find difficulty in understanding the mechanism and working of quite ordinary
things—how pipes are put up, and clocks
wound, and doors fastened, and the
lawn-mower oiled, and the furnace regulated. If you are very stupid about
learning (you can stop the clock a couple
of times, put the fire out by opening
wrong dampers, and let them find the
back door unlocked a few mornings),
and cause enough difficulty and annoyance, they will give up trying to teach
you and do it themselves.
Then, be forgetful. With the best intentions in the world, suffer from lapse
of memory. If you are young, and your
mother bids you mind the baby, "and
be sure not to let him get into mischief
or dirty himself," become interested in
something else and allow him to play
in all the puddles and wander out into
the roadway and get knocked down
(you can see that he does not absolutely
get killed). Let him pull up all the
flowers in the garden and give his new
hat to the puppy to tear to pieces. You
can be awfully sorry—but you "forgot!"
The same with messages. Play on the
road, or lose the money, or bring home
the wrong thing. You may get a few
whippings, but if you persevere they will
stop bothering you, and some of your
more dependable brothers or sisters will
be pressed into service.
A poor memory is a fine thing for a
married man, too. If he persistently
neglects to order things, buys ridiculous
articles she doesn't want—pretending he
thought that was what she told him— 1911
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invariably loses all the samples she gives
him, and mislays every parcel entrusted
to his charge, his wife will cease to depend upon him and attend to things herself. I know it's hard to consciously
go home to a hurriedly procured beefsteak because you must swear you forgot the lamb and green peas she told you
to order—but, like the whippings, it's
worth it, securing, as it does later, your
emancipation from domestic care. As
a rule if you do everything badly enough,
and always make a point of forgetting
what you were told, or getting the directions hopelessly mixed, you may with
impunity politely offer your services
without the dread of having your assistance accepted. This makes it very comfortable for you, shows a pleasing spirit
of willingness on your part, and yet pre
vents your being imposed upon. The
impression is given that if you only knew
how to help you would labor vastly, but
somehow you confess you are not much
good at that sort of thing. It's a splendid idea to find most things very difficult
to learn. If you give enough trouble and
destroy a good deal of material—always
perfectly willing, but a little awkward—
people will give up trying to teach you
and do it themselves as the least evil.
Discreetly doled out praise, especially
if you are not commonly very lavish of
that commodity, is an excellent means to
induce others to relieve you of disagreeable tasks—particularly if the person you
wish to work upon be rather young and
impressionable. There are always some
ridiculously willing creatures in the
world  ready  and    glad    to  wear  their
fingers to the bone for a word of commendation or appreciation. Praise them.
They might as well be working for you
as for anyone else. Thank them sweetly.
Tell them you really don't know what
you should have done without their help.
Be amazed at their dexterity and apparent ease of accomplishment. As likely
as not they will generously volunteer to
do the whole thing for you, and feel
quite repaid by your thanks and approbation. And these incomprehensible
people rarely find out that they are being
imposed upon; one who understands how
to manage it can get an immense amount
of exertion out of them.
Oh, there are many ways of shirking
your fair share!—if you care to go in for
doing that sort of thing.
Fostering British Columbia Art
By Mary Daniell
OTHING, perhaps, marks the
real progress of a great city
as much as the interest taken
generally in art matters.     The
study of the fine arts has ever been the
hall-mark  of   education  and   refinement.
It is equally an indication of 'set-fair" in
the municipal barometer.
Equally in the old country as in new
communities utility must be considered
first, but when the wooden shacks and
log cabins give way to stone buildings,
and streets are widened, there must be
public gardens and a use of the art of
the sculptor; the picture gallery must be
inaugurated. Otherwise the new city is
neglecting an important phase of progress in the real civilization.
The city of Hull, on the Humber, has
just completed a fine art gallery, with
an impressive marble staircase, and other
features of a fitting temple for the conservation of those things in life which
are fine and beautiful. I do not know of
a less likely city for such an art building.
Hull, as I remember it many years ago,
is by no means that which would attract
an artist. But the city is very "sporting" as regards offering inducement to
painters to make the best of Hull, and
I have no doubt that before long some
fine paintings will be sent forth from the
city to let the wide world know that
there is a glory, never dreamed of by
the general public, in that cheerless,
smoky manufacturing town by the colorless river.
Artists, as a rule, are sensitive to surrounding influences, and require sympathy in others before their best work
can be done.    When they reach a place
where there is no sympathy, they move
on.. The point for a city to consider is
whether art is useful as a commercial
asset or not. One need not be an artist
when travelling in Europe to know that
the first question of the tourist on arriv-
and fine church in Prague, where was
some of the finest stone carving I ever
saw. It was so old that the name of
the architect and almost the date of the
building had been erased by the finger
of time.    But down in a dark crypt, and
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BRITISH COLUMBIA MOUNTAIN SCENE
From a Painting1 by Mrs. Daniell
ing in a strange town is, what pictures
and churches there are to be seen? Both
are everywhere in profusion, because in
times long passed, cities as well as individuals did their best to foster art in all
its  branches.     I  remember  a  very  old
behind a door which opened back against
the door, where none could see unless
they went to look for it, was an exquisite
piece of carving, just as beautiful as that
which appeared in the full light of the
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—the same spirit which made Fra
Angelico paint his sacred subjects on
his knees, and which gave us the beautiful work of the monks of the middle
ages. In this hurrying age, where utility
is of the first importance, consideration
of the beautiful is apt to be overlooked,
and undervalued.
The arts and crafts societies all over
the world have done much to prevent
many industries and crafts from being
completely forgotten—and in a new
country they are calculated to do at least
as much good, for, living so far from
centers of art, there is little to remind
us of what painting and sculpture really
are. It is well known that until a few
years ago American artists had to go
to London and Paris for recognition.
The reason was not far to seek. The
millionaire who bought pictures had, as
a rule, no knowledge of art, and, not
caring to trust to his own judgment, purchased only the work of artists well
known in the great cities of Europe. His
children, better educated, are better
qualified to judge, and act accordingly,
thus encouraging artists to remain on
this continent. The right education of
the., children will bring picture galleries
to every city.
It has long been held as a matter of
regret among lovers of art in Victoria
that artists come to the city, but do not
remain; and it is to* create some feeling
of friendliness and goodwill toward
them that the "Island Arts Club" has
been started. Though it came into existence only a year ago, it now has about
eighty members. Great things often develop from small beginnings, and it has
been felt that if something can be done
to arouse interest in art and crafts generally, much in this direction can be
accomplished.
A great deal can be done by cooperation that cannot be effected otherwise.
The club already has good work to its
credit. Mr. J. J. Shallcross, the President, has thrown himself into the work in
a whole-souled manner that is beyond
praise, and his well known good taste as
a critic is one of the best guarantees of
the future success of the club. The entry
fee is the nominal one of two dollars a
year, and the club meets once a month
at the Alexandra Club rooms, where art
matters are discussed, and specimens of
handicraft of all kinds are displayed, as
well as prints, etchings, engravings and
examples of Oriental arts and crafts.
The  first exhibition  of the club,  held
at the Victoria Fair last September, was
acknowledged by those best qualified to
judge to be the best collection of modern
pictures ever seen in Victoria. The specimens of handicraft, though few in number, were of a high order of merit. Some
very fine and beautiful designs executed
in wood, copper, etc., in highly finished
style, were greatly admired. There
were also fine examples of book covers,
the making of which is an art in itself. I
should like to see again some of the
charming necklaces and ornaments
which are often seen at arts and crafts
exhibitions elsewhere, and which are
very popular in England. No doubt
we will have these later on. There is
bent iron work, too, which vvould find
many admirers if good example-; of u
could be seen. I know of one lady in
the West End of London who has quite
the monopoly of fire screens in this material. It is not as hard to manipulate
as it looks, and the results are most satisfactory. No doubt this beautiful craft,
and also work in brass and copper, will
be taken up as it should be here. At any
rate, the Island Arts Club has come to
stay, and it is to be hoped that it will
receive the support and encouragement
due it from all lovers of the beautiful.
I The Call of Basque ^
Where Orchards and Sunshine bring Prosperity
and Contentment
N numerous regions of the
world there are dry belts,
which, in all likelihood, will
never be anything but barren
wastes, because there are neither rain
clouds nor streams to furnish water for
the thirsty soil. In British Columbia
there are dry sections, but these need not
and do not remain dry, because there are
streams ready with ample water to
awaken the parched land into luxuriant
fertility. This is strikingly true in the
Ashcroft District, in the south central
p'art of the Province, where at Basque
and other points, the original product
of sage brush is giving way more and
more to orchards and fields of vegetables.
This region has about three hundred
and forty days of sunshine in the year;
its rainfall is about ten inches. This' is
not enough for vegetation that yields
food for man, and so it was that in the
early days most of the travellers to
British Columbia who saw the Ashcroft
District passed on without delay. They
could see no promise of fertility in the
gray volcanic ash  and gravel which  is
.the characteristic soil of this locality.
They did not know that here was dirt
containing more of the elements of enduring riches than that which carries
virgin gold. ' They could not look into
the future and see orchards of golden
fruit on this land. To their eyes it was
wholly barren. Thus it was that few
of them remained, despite the sparkle of
the sunshine and the tonic in the air.
But   among   the   few   who   did   linger
were  some natives  of southern  Europe,
where, on the slopes of the Pyrenees
mountains they had seen soil of volcanic
ash sustain luxuriant vineyards and olive
groves. They recognized the similarity
of soils, and settled down, naming the
locality Basque, after the little section of
Europe which they had left. They provided primitive irrigation and planted
orchards, some of which are flourishing
to this day.
But these Europeans were not to remain in sole possession.    Others came;
CONSTRUCTING WATER PIPE FOR THIRSTY LAND 191
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they extended the irrigation operations,
and now the fruits and vegetables of
Basque are commanding more and more
attention at the agricultural exhibitions
and in the important markets. It has
been discovered that in this region the
conditions for such fruits as apples and
cherries, and for a number of the staple
vegetables, are ideal. Insect pests, for
example, cannot exist in air as dry and
clear as that at Basque, and so it is that
the fruit of the locality is never attacked
by the small insidious enemies which
are so prone to ravage orchards elsewhere. Neither scale nor blight, nor
any other fruit disease gets a hold upon
the apples of Ashcroft and Basque. The
apples   and     cherries    and  other  fruits
On the Basque Fruit Farms, for instance, there will be a reservoir which
will supply water to the extent of thirty
inches for each acre for all of the four
thousand acres of this holding. Since it
has been already proved that the soil
makes a rich response when its thirst is
assuaged, there are comprehensive plans
for even more extensive irrigation.
But man has done more for this region
than to awaken its fertility.
It has been put within comparatively
easy reach of the big markets. The
Canadian Pacific Railway runs through
Basque, with three express trains a day
connecting it with Vancouver, two hundred miles away. The main line of the
Canadian   Northern     Railway,     now   in
$1.25 to $1.60 a box. Another orchard
in this vicinity, the property of a feminine grower, well known as the "Widow
Smith," has won wide fame. This
orchard has been producing for forty
years. About twenty-eight acres are
under cultivation, and for the last ten
years the average annual shipment has
been ten thousand boxes. This season
sixteen thousand boxes have been shipped at prices ranging from $1.10 to $1.60
a box on the trees. Mrs. Smith's orchard
is noted not only for the quantity of its
yield but also for its quality. Her apples
for ten years in succession have taken
first prizes at the Victoria and New
Westminster fairs. They were awarded
at the Apple Show in Spokane last year
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draw rich nutriment from the volcanic course of construction, will also run
ash just as soon as the dryness of the through Basque and will materially
Soil is mitigated by irrigation. For this expand the markets for its fruit and
reason, progressive men have busied vegetables. Thus it is that the section
themselves   with   big   projects   to   bring     looms     up    with   rich   promise   for   the
future.
The best idea of what the future will
bring to Basque may be obtained by a
bench lands of Basque will contribute brief glance at the present beginnings
to the markets not only apples, cherries there. One firm of fruit growers has
and potatoes, but numerous other fruits orchards which for the last thirty years
and vegetables, and when thousands of     have    been    yielding    Golden    Russet,
plenty of water to this  eager region.
They are paving the way to the time
in  the   near  future  when   the  beautiful
people will live at Basque in prosperity
and contentment. Mr. W. II. Hammond
and others have big and scientific plans
for giving settlers rich opportunities in
small farms, but their first ^tep is to
furnish water.
Grimes Golden, Spitzenberg, Northern
Spy, Jonathan, Baldwin, Rhode Nland
Greening, Delaware Red, Winesap and
Winter Banana apples. The yield has
been from ten to thirty boxes a tree and
the prices on the  trees have run  from
three gold medals and a silver cup. Their
crowning triumph was at the exhibition
of The Royal Horticulture Society in
London, England, where they were
awarded the gold medal over competitors
from numerous nations.'
Not only apples but cherries flourish
surprisingly at Basque. The cherry trees
yield from seven to ten boxes to a tree
with a value of $1.25 to $1.60 a box
unpicked. Pears and plums do equally
as well, and prunes, peaches and apricots are of excellent quality. Cherries
ripen early in May, and currants and
raspberries early in June.
Yet this region does not depend wholly
upon  its  fruit.    The  Ashcroft  potatoes Page 26
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191
are famed along the Pacific Coast. The
yield for 1910 approximated sixteen tons
of potatoes to the acre and sold at $22.50
a ton. This means a yield of $350 an
acre for potatoes, with an unlimited
market. There are excellent crops of
corn, with ears from twelve to eighteen
inches long, and yielding from seventy-
five  to   one   hundred    and    twenty-five
MOWING IN THE ASHCROFT DISTRICT
bushels to the acre. Asparagus is ready
for the market in April, and tomatoes,
ripening early, are as good as those
grown anywhere else in the world. The
vegetables do not require separate fields,
being grown between the rows of fruit
trees.
In addition to prosperity from the products of the earth the settler may find
pleasant living in this vicinity. Over the
Canadian- Pacific Railway there is easy
communication with the outside world.
There are churches, schools and other!
facilities for advancement and contentment. The people of Basque reflect in
their eyes the brightness of the sunshine
and the high promise of the future.
Y far the greatest need in British Columbia to-day is the
need for more producers. We
have plenty of consumers;
their number is increasing daily. People
are flocking to this Province from all
over the continent, and from the British
Isles, but most of them, unfortunately,
add nothing directly to the wealth of the
Province in the vital matter of continuous production. They bring in each case
a certain amount of capital with them,
but only a comparatively small part of
this money stays here. It is sent to
Eastern Canada and the United States,
and to some extent to England, for the
necessaries of life, which we could and
most certainly ought to produce right
here at home. There are large surpluses
in the British Columbia banks, but these
are chiefly the results of money which
is brought in, and not of production here.
The situation is that British Columbia is
continually eating into its principal, and
the danger in this situation is that the
The Need for Dairying
,;:':;i By C. S. McKee, M. D.
Secretary of the Vancouver Medical Association
time will come when this process of sending away money, or spending principal,
will bring us to a point where the financial market will be in a state of stagnation, and where the cost of living, because of inadequate supplies and the high
charges of hauling commodities from a
distance, will have become so great as
to bring immigration to a standstill.
I do not say that this will happen. I
do not believe it will happen, but it is a
danger which lies in the remarkably
rapid increase in the population of consumers in this Province. What we must
do is to produce more. In some way or
another we must bring here more
people who will get down to the ground,
who will devote themselves to the work
of growing food for this great
population.
This is not alone a vital need of the
Province; it is a big opportunity for the
settler. I have already indicated that our
markets are continuously expanding.
Always the cry is for more, more.    Not
only does the grower have the advantage
of a great and surely developing market,
but he also has the advantage of soil
and climatic conditions which are excelled nowhere in the world for producing^
most of the staple articles of food.
Because of my position as secretary
of the Vancouver Medical Association
and Milk Commissioner, my attention
has been brought specifically to milk,
and in regard to this highly important
food I can say that the demand is so
far outstripping the supply that there is
a danger of a serious milk shortage in
Vancouver next summer. We must have
more milk, and therefore we must encourage and foster in every possible way
the industry of dairying.
In the lower Fraser Valley there are
great opportunities for milk production,
and in the no less fertile valleys of the
interior and on Vancouver Island there
are fine openings for butter and cheese
making. I can say from a careful investigation of this  subject    that    dairying 1911
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offers larger opportunities in British Columbia than any other branch of agricul-
sture, and this is saying a good deal. A
man with a forty-acre farm within easy
reach of the markets of Vancouver can,
by specializing in the production of milk,
in combination with the raising of butter, small fruits and vegetables, make
a moderate fortune within a few years.
This, however, is not a proposition for
a man without means. While excellent
land for dairy farming can be obtained
on easy terms, the price per acre is not
particularly low if the land is close to
transportation. In the interior, however,
land is cheap. It will rise in value with
the extension of railroad systems, and
can be made to yield increasing profits.
To start on a dairy farm for himself,
a man should have an initial capital of
between $2,500 and $5,000. More than
this, he should understand the business.
If he has a general knowledge of it he
can acquire a knowledge of the specific
conditions in British Columbia by coming here and beginning on a dairy farm,
where he can get work without difficulty
at good wages. He must acquire an understanding of the special conditions of
British Columbia dairying, which, because of climate and some other reasons,
are in some respects unlike those of other
countries.
Many men who are already doing a
good dairying business in British Columbia are not making nearly as much as
they might for the reason that they are
overlooking important details. One of
the greatest sources of loss to the dairyman lies in the lack of knowledge of the
exact productivity of his cows. Careful
experiments in other sections in this
highly important phase of dairying have
shown that at least half of the cows in
certain herds have been encumbrances
rather than profit-makers. The other
half in these instances have carried the
whole herd. The dairyman who desires
to obtain an exact knowledge of the
value of each of his cows must know the
average yield of each animal. Where the
yield of a cow does not come up to the
standard that he has set as necessary
to make his herd profitable, he must
discard this cow without delay. In this
way the dead weight can be eliminated;
work can be made more effective and
the dairy farm much more profitable.
The experienced dairyman of the East
who has a herd of known capacity can
bring it to British Columbia, after he
has selected his farm here, and make
more money in the business than he ever
did before.
The trouble with the British Columbia
dairyman is that he has made money so
easily that, in many cases, he has become
careless. He has no excuse for lack of
knowledge because the Provincial Government is supplying information as to
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DEEP CLOVER FOR COWS NEAR MASSET, QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS
how to get the most and best out of a
herd, and is constantly adding to its
force of field instructors.
The methods of dairying and handling
milk are steadily improving. Yet we
must have better dairying and a great
deal more of it. Here lies, as I have
already said, one of the Province's most
vital needs and one of its best opportunities.
CAMBORNE   AWAKENING
|HAT Camborne, dormant for
the last four or five years, is
picking up, is evident. The indications of reviving are every-
Grading of the site of the proposed
works of the Canadian Sumner Iron
Works on a thirty-acre tract in Burnaby, near the Boundary Road, is under
way. The plant will be completed and
in operation next March. It will represent an investment in plant and buildings of $250,000 and between two and
three   hundred   men  will   be   employed.
Great   Increase   in   Grain   Acreage.
Crop areas in 1898 under cultivation,
Province of Alberta: Wheat, 31.300
acres; oats, 38,800 acres; barley, 8,700
acres; total, 78,800 acres.
Crop areas in 1909—Wheat, 426,630
acres; oats, 693,900 acres; barley, 107,-
760 acres; total,   1,228,380 acres.
Increase in twelve years, about 1,500
per cent.
where to be seen.
In Camborne there are both gold and
silver mines. Of the former, the
Berniere, Lucky Jack, and Nelson are
fitting samples, where rich leads have
been discovered lately. Of the latter the
Beatrice, Spider, and Excise all have
proved that the ore is certainly in the
hills awaiting development.
The Beatrice has recommenced working, and already are "rawhiding" about
five tons a day. The Spider also has
come to life and will soon take advantage of their late strike. Samples of this
property have assayed as high as $800
to the ton.
In both the Spider and Excise tunnels
are being run in to strike the leads, by
means of which the "depth" will be
obtained. From the Berniere and Nelson
samples showing clear, free milling gold,
visible to the naked eye, have been discovered.
All this points to the undeniable fact
that it will be only a matter of a few
years until Camborne will eclipse the
Camborne of old in every way. Page £6
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911
"I don't think I can do it," said
McAndrews.
"Why not?" demanded the President
of the Tidewater Timber Company,
swinging abruptly in his office chair.
"Because this old man, Weldon, has
trusted   me,"   replied   McAndrews,
The President, with small, acquisitive
eyes fixed upon the troubled young man
before him, drummed with a fat hand
impatiently upon his desk.
"Weldon told me about the hole he
was in," McAndrews went on, "how it
was impossible for him to get together
the money to pay the license fees on
his timber claims just when he was
about to make a sale. He's getting too
old to' work, and he'd depended a lot
upon the ten thousand for the timber. It
was about his last resource, sir He's
made a good fight, but he's played out."
The president grunted, "We're not
running an old man's home. Our business, and yours, as long as you're with
us, is to get good timber, cheap."
"Weldon was afraid to explain his
difficulty to his prospect, not knowing
him very well," continued McAndrews,
steadily, "but he wasn't afraid to explain
it to me. He thought I could help him,
and I thought so, too. I thought we
could send out a couple of our men, re-
stake this timber, and take just a fair
interest in it for the job."
"You seem to be a great thinker," remarked the president with a relaxation
on his thin lips into a mockery of a
smile, "but maybe we can worry along
without your kind of thinking. Whether
we try or not depends on you. Are you
going to tell us the location of these
timber limits? I'm putting it to you for
the last time. Be careful what you say,
because you know what your answer
means.
McAndrews studied the pattern of the
carpet, with many thoughts crowding
through his mind. His position in this
company,  gained by his  good work up
the British Columbia coast at Toba Inlet,
was what had made him feel that he
could afford to marry. The wedding and
the journey afterward had left him only
a meager balance in the bank. He had
rented an attractive apartment. The furniture which he and Mrs. McAndrews
had selected with so much care and
pleasure was not all paid for. They were
beginning to meet people whom they
liked, and to exchange hospitalities with
these friends. There were many demands upon his pocket-book. He needed
his salary—needed it badly. On the
other hand, there was a man who had
grown old, and a woman who had grown
old at his side. They, too, had once had
a honeymoon. Could he, McAndrews,
who was young and had the world before
him, take any part in bringing a blight
to what remained of life for people who
were old and nearly helpless? Suddenly
he raised his eyes to the stony face of
the man who had amassed a fortune by
planting both feet firmly in the trough.
"No, sir, I am not going to tell you
the location of this timber, unless it's
down in black and white, in legal form,
that Weldon gets the bigger interest in
it." Despite his effort at self-control,
there was a slight tremor in McAndrews'
voice.
"Since you're working for your friend
Weldon instead of us, draw your pay to
date, and tell the manager you've
resigned."
After McAndrews had gone, the president summoned his assistant. "That fellow McAndrews has quit," he said, "on
account of a piece of fluffy sentiment. Get
that timber. I believe it's one of the
best tracts for holding in the Provincef
Get it. Don't bother me about details:
Just get it, and keep your eye on
McAndrews.
The manager was engaged in a private
conversation with a man from a detective agency when McAndrews reached
home to tell the new Mrs. McAndrews
of the catastrophy of the day. She listened silently, gazing at him across the
table in their sitting room.
"Did I do right?" he asked her, anxiously. "You're the one to be considered
most."
There was- a Jittle pause. In the glow
of the drop-light one might have noticed
that her eyes were shining.
"Jimmy," she said suddenly, "I believe
I'm pretty  glad  I  married you!"
It is doubtful whether young Mrs.
McAndrews herself fully appreciated the
deep effect and inspiration of her words.
In a much more cheerful mood than,
under the circumstances, McAndrews
would have imagined possible, he went
the next morning down among the lumberjacks' resorts to locate Judson, the
man who, he had "been told by Weldon,
could guide him to the timber. He found
him at last—a little the worse for the
wear and tear of lumberjack celebrations
in Vancouver bar-rooms, but able-bodied.
His face had the stamp of good natured
honesty. McAndrews decided that he
could be trusted, and drew- him from the
bar to a table in the corner.
"I'm going to restake that Vancouver
Island timber for Old Man Weldon," he
exclaimed. "He's too old to make the
trip, but he mentioned you, and I want
you to go along to show me where it is.
You'll get your expenses and five hundred dollars when the. timber's sold,
which will be soon. I'll get my expenses
and perhaps a little more. I'm handling
this for Weldon, who, as. you know, is
a good old chap. He's done you some
good turns.   Will you go?"
"Well, Vancouver looks purty good to
me at the present writin', and the trip's
one of the hardest a man could take, but
I'm game, all right.   Sure, I'll go."
For some time they discussed details
of the trip, and arranged to leave on the
steamer next morning for Vancouver
Island. Neither noticed a small, nondescript individual,  who,  throughout their 911
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talk, sat at a neighboring table absorbed,
apparently, in a newspaper. But this individual reported before noon to the
manager of the Tidewater Timber Company, and when the small steamer swung
out in the morning from the Vancouver
wharf with McAndrews and Judson
aboard, it carried two passengers who
had emerged the afternoon before from
the Tidewater manager's private office.
One was Holland, who was under med-
, ium size, but whose unpleasant expression of sharpness and watchful greed indicated that he was a fit man to handle
business details that personages in the
inner rooms of office suites did not care
to hear about. The other was McCreedy,
who was large and muscular. McCreedy
had a hard look and a reckless air. A
glance at him suggested that he had
been brought along to apply brute force,
if necessary, to the designs of the ratlike Holland. The two lounged in the
smoking room of the steamer, saying
little to each other, but keeping their
eyes upon McAndrews and his companion.
As the craft glided through the calm
waters of the Gulf of Georgia, McAndrews gave thought to the work ahead,
and it occurred to him that it would be
well to have a map of the route through
the wilds of Vancouver Island to the
timber limits, so that if he and Judson
should become separated, he would not
be altogether at a loss. He mentioned
the matter to Judson, and the latter, at
the smoking room table, began laboriously to make a tracing on a large sheet
of paper. Holland rose to his feet, as if
to stretch himself, gazed for a brief interval through the window at the expanse of water, and then leaned carelessly against the upright near the table.
McAndrews, on the other side, was absorbed in Judson's work, and paid no
attention to this fellow passenger. He
did not notice that the latter was straining his eyes toward the tracing. Evidently he could make nothing of it, for
in a moment he sauntered to a seat
beside McCreedy, and said in a half-
whisper:
"They're making a map, and we've gor
to get it." The two, watching, noted the
fact that Judson, pausing and making a
remark which seemed to be to the effect
that he wanted to add something to the
sketch later on, finally thrust it into the
inside pocket of his coat.
"I think I've doped out the way to get
that map," said Holland in a low tone.
'I'll tell you when we get over to the
hotel and see how things sizes up."
The sombre hue of twilight was on the
waters of the Gulf of Georgia, and the
few houses along the shore loomed up in
semi-darkness against the forest when
the steamer nosed her way up to the
long wharf at Campbell River Landing.
"Where abouts is the main hotel of this
resort?" asked Holland genially of
McAndrews as they stood at the rail
waiting for the gang-plank to be pushed
ashore. McAndrews glanced at Judson,
and the latter pointed to the lights of a
dimly outlined building off a little distance to the right.
"So that's her. Well, she don't look
exactly like a palace, but I s'pose they
have the usual line o' wet goods. I'm
feelin' pretty dry myself."
Holland was talkative, and kept close
beside McAndrews during the walk to
the hotel. "Won't you gentlemen join
me in a little nip before supper?" he inquired engagingly after rooms had been
assigned. McAndrews declined, politely,
but promptly. Judson's declination was
more reluctant. After supper Holland
insisted good naturedly upon providing
the cigars, and launched forth upon a
flow of anecdotal conversation about his
experiences in the States. He -had
cleaned up a piece of money in timber
in Oregon, he said, and had come up to
take a look into the chances of finding
something good on Vancouver Island.
After a while, McAndrews arose and said
goodnight, but Judson, who had just
accepted a fresh cigar from Holland,
stayed to finish it. Holland tapped him
playfully on the knee. "Say, that young
friend o' yours is a careful chap, and
that's right, but it don't interfere with
us havin' a little night-cap before we hit
the hay, does it?"
Judson couldn't see that it did, so he
and Holland and McCreedy, who had said
little, adjourned to the bar. Holland
bought; then McCreedy bought; then
Judson, not to be outdone in hospitality,
instructed the bar-tender to take the
gentlemen's orders. This was the beginning. Judson did not notice that his new
friends were drinking much less than he.
After a couple of hours they assisted him
out of the bar-room, and on the way upstairs Holland slipped a deft hand into
his pocket and drew forth the map.
"So far so good," he remarked to
McCreedy as they examined the paper
by the lamp in their room. "This tells us
about all we want to know, but that
young cuss looks unusual quick and
husky, and our friend the booze fighter
would be a bad man to go up against.
We'll hit the trail early, and keep movin'
—I hope to Gawd we find rafts at these
here lakes. If we don't and they catch
up to us, you'll sort o' have your hands
full, old sport.
"Leave it to me," said McCreedy, with
a slight swaying of his big shoulders and
an ugly look on his hard countenance.
An hour before dawn, Holland and
McCreedy ate a snack from their provisions, buckled on their packs, of which
McCreedy's was much the larger, and
started out in the darkness.   They passed
the shacks of the Siwash village at the
turn of the road toward the west, crossed
the rails of the logging tram over which
logs were hauled to the rollway at the
mouth of the Campbell River, a little
further to the north, and, moving
silently, pushed on into the forest. It
was necessary now to move slowly, because the blazes on the trees, the only
indications of the trail, were hard to find
in the dim light of dawn. For two hours
they toiled over the uneven ground
through the darkness of the woods, and
finally, descending a little hill, saw
through the trees the leaden colored
waters of McKiver Lake. Holland pulled
the map from his pocket and held it close
to his eyes.
"It seems there's cliffs around this
lake. We've got to cross it. Now to find
a raft."
They searched vainly in the underbrush along the curving shore. Then
they felled and trimmed three small
cedars and began to lash them together
with vine maple. McCreedy did most
of the work. Holland, pacing about nervously, kept repeating, "Get a move on,
get a move on."
McAndrews, in the meantime, had
risen at daybreak, had prodded the unwilling Judson out of bed, and at last had
got under way along the trail. From the
top of the hill overlooking McKiver
Lake he saw the raft builders.
'Who do you think they are?" he inquired of Judson. The latter, who had
not recovered fully from his stupor of
the night, stared blankly. McAndrews
asked no further questions. He had suddenly recognized the wiry Holland and
the big bulk of McCreedy.
'Where's that map?" he asked, sharply.
Judson fumbled in the inside of his
coat; he fumbled in all his pockets.
McAndrews   turned   upon   him   angrily.
"I know where it is. They got you
drunk last night, and stole it. Now
they're ahead of us. You've put me in
a lovely hole." . He gazed down the hill
with blazing eyes. Suddenly he clenched
his fists and started forward. "Come
on," he shouted. "Are you going to
hang behind? We've got some work to
do."
Judson began to put speed into his
legs. He had to, if he was to keep up,
for McAndrews was moving- down the
hill with long strides, leaping lightly over
fallen tree trunks, and half running as
he made toward the motionless Holland.
He approached him swiftly. Holland
was making an attempt to smile—an attempt which resulted in an expression
that was sinister and sneering.
"You try to smile, you damned thief.
You stole the map, but we'll take the
raft.    Get out of my way, you rat."
McAndrews pushed him aside with
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to the ground and turned toward
McCreedy, who had come up with a
swagger, with the battle light in his small
eyes, and the veins in the back of his
heavy neck swelling ominously.
McAndrews jumped forward. His fist
shot out, and went home to McCreedy's
jaw. The latter staggered back, with a
look of dazed astonishment. This changed swiftly to maddened rage. He recovered himself, and plunged forward, with
his big arms swinging about like windmills. McAndrews stepped lightly to
one side. McCreedy went by of his own
momentum, and McAndrews struck him
cleanly beneath the ear. He spun half
around, and reeled forward again, with
his arms extended grotesquely, like a
drunken man approaching to embrace a
loved one. He had lost all discretion
and restraint, and came on blindly.
McAndrews half smiled. His college
training as a champion athlete and boxer
was standing him in excellent stead. He
ducked beneath McCreedy's outstretched
arms, that had a death grasp in them,
and heaved all his strength into an up-
percut to McCreedy's chin. The latter's
head shot up with a jerk, and he
stumbled backward.
McAndrews glanced over his shoulder
and saw Holland squirming futily in the
arms of Judson. McCreedy was struggling dizzily to his feet when McAnd-
drews, with extended leg and a quick
push—a simple wrestling trick—toppled
him once more to earth. Then, with
clenched fist, he leaned over his prostrate foe and spoke: "Don't try to get
up just yet. If you do, I'll have to knock
you down again. I'll have to put you to
sleep. Just rest a while. Just—rest—
awhile." He repeated this admonition
tensely, between labored intakes of
breath, for McCreedy had seized him.
But McAndrews was on top. He got
his hand beneath McCreedy's wounded
chin, pushed his head back, and pressed
his knee against his windpipe. McCreedy
let go his body hold to throw him off,
and McAndrews, seizing his wrists,
twisted his arms backward. In this position he shouted to Judson to get busy
with the raft.
The latter had now fully recovered
from his indulgence of the evening before, and was quick to act. Clutching
Holland by the collar, he half dragged
him down to the water's edge, and then
gave him a forceful shove that sent him
stumbling. Then he seized the raft,
which was complete for launching, including a cedar paddle, and pushed it
into the lake. Then, running back a few
paces, he picked up McAndrews' pack.
On his return he had to catch Holland
by the throat and cast him off.
McAndrews had relaxed a little the pressure of his knee upon McCreedy's windpipe, but had held a firm position. Seeing
now that all was ready, he rose quickly,
strode swiftly to the water, and splashed
out to the waiting raft. Holland splashed after him. The backward push he got
gave the raft momentum, and it glided
out gracefully, with Judson at the paddle,
and Holland, knee-deep in the water,
cursing with great vehemence, and calling excitedly to McCreedy, who, having
risen now, stood brushing a bewildered
hand across his eyes.
The lake glistened in the morning sun.
The surrounding hills seemed to express
a spirit of eternal peace, and the water
rippled gently along the cedar logs as
Judson paddled powerfully. In less than
an hour he drove the craft with a final
thrust against the western shore, for it
was only a mile across McKiver Lake.
Then he and McAndrews concealed the
raft in the underbrush, and pushed on
over a very steep hill to Lower Campbell
Lake, and they paused on the shore
where   the     lake     swirls    around   from
Lower Campbell Lake, grows narrower,
and becomes  Campbell  River.
Here, because of the precipitous mountains which closed about the water, they
were confronted with another voyage,
and one much longer than the first. They
were lucky enough to find a well constructed raft, and embarked without
delay. At the outset they fought the
current, and then paddled for many
hours through calm waters with stately
mountains in the distance. An island
beckoned out in front, and at last, after*
the lake had become gray in the dusk,
and the night chill had come, they
grounded their craft, built a fire, made
some coffee, fried some bacon and
lighted pipes.
Insect voices of the night sang solemnly. The lake reached off into an
expanse of blackness, into which, at intervals, McAndrews peered uneasily. He
had no idea that Holland and McCreedy
had given up the fight.   He believed that
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■ hey would come stealing along through
i he darkness with some devil's trick, and
iie did not care just then for another
neeting. His hands ached, and he was
rery tired. He felt that he ought to
vatch the raft, despite the fact that it
;iad been hidden in the underbrush, but
lis head was nodding. An overwhelming
sleepiness was upon him. He half stag-
rered to his blankets, rolled himself in
:hem, and sank into complete oblivion.
For some time Judson had been sawing
Dff slabs of sleep sonorously. Neither
Df them heard another raft grate softly
on the pebbles, nor did they hear the
oreaking of twigs, which snapped loudly
in the silence, when Holland and
McCreedy approached stealthily, dim
figures in the darkness. Suddenly Holland seized McCreedy's arm and said in
an impassioned whisper:
"Don't you do it, you damned fool.
We're here for business, not for pleasure.
We'll hire some plug uglies to do 'im up
some night in Vancouver. Just now
we've got to find their raft."
McCreedy yielded with great reluctance. Holland drew from his pocket
an electric dark-lantern, pushed the button, and, turning the gleam this way and
that, brought out patches of undergrowth
in bright relief against the blackness. He
j noticed a place where this undergrowth
was  trampled.
"Come on, Mac," he said, softly, "I
think we've spotted the place where
they've  stowed  their  raft."
They found it, and pulled it out very
cautiously.   Bushes protested with crackling notes, but McAndrews and Judson
were sleeping heavily.   They heard nothing until, near the water, Holland stumbled and dropped  his  end  of  the  raft.
McAndrews stirred and sat upright.    He
strained his eyes through the night and
saw the   shadowy   figures.    Leaping to
his feet, he started toward them on a run.
But the raft was in the water now and
Holland and    McCreedy    were shoving
their own  craft  off    into    the  current.
Without reasoning    about    the  matter,
McAndrews plunged toward them.    He
waded into the lake and seized the ends
of the logs upon which they stood.    But
McCreedy's paddle and the current were
working against him.    He felt his feet
leave the bottom, and relaxed his hold
i just as   Holland  was   raising the  blunt
side of an axe to strike his fingers.    He
swam for his own raft, which was moving away gently but steadily.
Fear gripped him suddenly. The icy
waters were carrying him relentlessly
from shore, out into the swifter current,
and he felt his boots pulling him down,
and holding him back, like meshes around
his feet. He saw himself face to face
with death in this black lake, and beat
back the spectre with sweeping strokes.
The raft was just ahead of him, floating
serenely  toward    waters    that    rippled
rapidly beneath the dim stars.    He gave
himself a heave, reached out an arm, and
clutched the retreating logs.   With some
difficulty he climbed upon them, glanced
about hopelessly for the paddle, raised a
shout that brought no answer from the
void of night, and then, completely exhausted,   lay   down   to   let   the   current
carry   him   where   it   would.     Shadowy
shores moved by.    He rose to shake off
the  cold, and lay down again.    At last
leaves    brushed    his    face.      The    raft
bumped softly and he jumped to a mossy
bank.     Here    he    leapt  up  and  down,
swinging   his   arms   to   drive   away   the
gripping chill.    In a little while he noticed that night was lifting from the lake.
The   waters   were   slowly   turning  gray.
The   island   loomed   up   dimly.     It   was
nearer than he had thought.    He ripped
from a log a big piece of bark to use for
paddling,  and  set forth  again upon  the
raft, propelling it slowly and awkwardly,
until, after an hour of labor, he stepped
ashore once more, this time at the camping place.
Judson was just stirring. He built the
fire while McAndrews donned some dry
clothing which he had brought along for
a possible emergency. They ate some
bacon, drank some coffee, and discussed
the situation.
"We'll go on," McAndrews announced
with emphasis. "They're away ahead of
us, and we haven't a ghost of a show,
but they might fall over a cliff or something. We'll see this through to the
finish."
It was a dogged and hopeless journey
onward. They paddled to the western
end of Lower Campbell Lake, pushed
through heavy timber and over hills and
down gullies for six long miles to Upper
Campbell Lake, where they made their
camp. In the morning they waded for
two miles in the water close to shore
because of the cliffs which rose from the
water's edge. Swinging to the north
they climbed a mountain. From its
summit Judson pointed out the timber,
tall and straight, sweeping away majestically through a noble valley.
'Beautiful! Beautiful!" exclaimed McAndrews. "A great asset of the future,
but not our—not ours. They've staked
it,  sure."
Even as he spoke, and was contemplating in bitterness of spirit the forest fortune he had lost for Weldon. he discerned two figures in the west, making a
detour through a draw. They were
Holland and McCreedy, on the down
trail. Evidently they had completed their
work, and now had nothing to do but
make all speed back to the landing at
Campbell River, catch the steamer to
Vancouver, report to the manager of the
company, and then make a quick trip to
Victoria to  record  the  claims.
"There's not a chance in the world for
us," McAndrews remarked dejectedly to,
Judson, "but as a million to one shot,
we'll stake that timber too."
So it was that all that day they laboriously paced off the miles of each claim
and blazed the small trees selected for
the stakes. Constantly they came upon
Holland's stakes, but they worked on,
impelled by a forlorn hope that would not
altogether die. At last, after the shadows
had crept up the hills and the tops of
these had flashed a good-night to the retiring sun, they had staked eight claims
of the finest timber McAndrews had ever
seen.
The next day they began the hard trip
back to Campbell River Landing. They
pushed on as rapidly as possible, losing
not a moment, feeling that there was
still a possibility of overtaking the others
on the trail. But even this faint hope
vanished by degrees. They saw no signs
of human life—except the dead camp-
fires of the men who had passed ahead
of them. The latter, evidently confident
of success, had not even taken the trouble
to hide or destroy the rafts.
In the twilight of evening McAndrews
and Judson swung along the trail past
the Siwash village, and wearily unstrapped their packs on the porch of the hostelry at the Landing. The boat, they
learned, had sailed hours before, with
Holland and McCreedy, half drunk and
joyous, among the passengers. After
a cheerless supper McAndrews was
smoking a dismal pipe, when, through
the window, he saw an Indian pull a
power boat to the sand. In a moment he
was interviewing the Indian, with an
anxiety which he carefully concealed.
With some labor he made the Indian
understand that he desired to take a
night trip to Victoria. The Indian shook
his head. "My boat no good for that.
He is too small." McAndrews pulled
from his pocket a roll of bills and peeled
off a yellow twenty. "I'll give you one
of those if you will make the trip." The
Indian's eyes were fixed upon the bill,
but he still shook his head. "I will give
you two," said McAndrews. The Indian
showed symptoms of distress. With
great reluctance he shook his head again,
still keeping his eyes fastened intently
upon the money. "My boat he is too
light. We drown." "I will give you
three of those," exclaimed McAndrews,
impatiently. He extracted them from
the others and held them before the
Indian's eyes. The latter wavered, then
succumbed. "All right, we take a
chance."
The small converted sloop pitched and
tossed on the troubled waters of the Gulf
of Georgia. She groaned and labored,
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the Indian at the tiller, wondered just
how soon something would give way,
and this small craft would be left to the
mercy of the seas. But Providence
seemed to be lending a helping hand at
last. The Government Buildings of
Victoria were glistening in the morning
sun when the Indian steered his boat
up to the dock beside the causeway.
McAndrews, though he had slept none
during the night and was staggering
with fatigue, made his way rapidly
toward the stately domicile of the Provincial Government. He could hear the
pounding of his heart as he mounted the
stone steps and passed through the corridors to the Land Department. With
a hand that trembled slightly he turned
the pages of the big book which the
clerk had placed at his disposal, and
with an eager, yet fearful glance he cast
his eyes down the pages for a record
of the timber claims near Upper Campbell Lake. There was no record.
He   filed   his   claims   and  went  up   to  a
hotel for breakfast and a nap.
That afternoon, after purchasing some
fine cigars for himself and Judson, he
strolled to the wharf to watch the arrival
of the steamer from Vancouver.. The
first passenger off was Holland, who
sped along the bridge and made directly
for the big building of the Government.
McAndrews smiled at Judson and blew
into the air some rings of velvety smoke.
He retired early to his stateroom on the
Vancouver boat that night, and heard
Holland quarrelling with the purser. The
next evening he and Mrs. McAndrews
dined with the timber investor, who had
been told by Weldon of McAndrews'
trip and the reason of it, and had agreed
to buy the timber if McAndrew's report
verified that of Weldon's timber cruiser.
The capitalist, a man with white hair and
twinkling eyes, listened with smiling
interest to McAndrews' story of his
adventures.
"I am glad you have told me this," he
said at last.    "I don't mind  telling you
in return that this man you've mentioned, the president of the timber company, is very anxious for me to take up
a matter which is of great importance to
him. On the strength of what you have
just related I am going to turn him
down."
The capitalist paused and studied
McAndrews with scrutinizing eyes.
"There is something further I want to
talk to you about," he said suddenly. "I
am thoroughly convinced that British
Columbia is one of the best fields in the
world for investment, and I have been
looking for a man whom I can trust to
look after my interests here, which will
be large.    I think you are the man."
The capitalist's eyes suddenly became
quizzical. "To tell you the truth, I
don't believe you amount to so much
yourself, but you have a partner here
who will keep you on the right track."
Mrs. McAndrews laughed, but was
much embarrassed, and began hastily to
talk of something else.
The Conflict in the Old Country
And What it Means to British Columbia
By C. M, Burmester
PERUSAL of the recent copies
of "Opportunities" discloses a
great many very interesting
statistics and facts regarding
the wonderful prosperity of British Columbia. These facts have been so thoroughly explained and so aptly illustrated
by abler pens that it has occurred to the
present writer to depart somewhat from
the usual track and make an excursion
into the realms of imagination.
Imagination is the golden key which
unlocks for a few brief moments the
gates of the future. Without imagination
it is impossible to hope, for hope is its direct offspring. Yet, amid the millions of
workers in the teeming cities of Europe
the feeling of hope has been well nigh
killed. Crushed by the weight of poverty, their wits are dulled by a daily routine of endless toil. What hope of betterment can be possible to these unhappy
slaves of modern civilization? It has
been said that this is a prosaic age.
Certainly it seems hard to associate
romance with factories, school boards,
poor relief and soup kitchens. Yet, deep
down in everyone's heart there still
smoulders an ember or two of hope, and
therefore of imagination.
There can be no doubt to-day that
what is left of the imagination of the
toiling millions of Great Britain is now
being stirred, stirred to its depths. What
some call a socialistic doctrine of plunder, others call a just claim made on
behalf of the working classes. Be that
as it may, we residents and settlers in
British Columbia cannot afford to remain
unobservant of the conflict which is now
being waged in the old country. What
will be the result and in what way will
it involve ourselves? Her,e indeed we
must give rein to our imaginations.
Enjoying as we do a prosperity which is
scarcely believed by our friends at home,
we are in danger of at times accepting
as unworthy of comment the stupendous
developments going on all around us. We
each plough our daily furrow ever onwards in the same straight line into
soil which grows richer every day, and
become so absorbed in our occupations
that we take but little heed of the world
around us. We must, however, bestir
ourselves and watch carefully for the
results which will flow from the political
battle which is now being fought in
England.
We see the British Government raising the death duties and the succession duties. The income tax will probably again be raised and there can be no
doubt that additional land taxes will
speedily be imposed. Capital in England is not merely uneasy, it is perturbed.
Already consols have lost their former
popularity and have been largely deposed by other efilt-edsred securities. The
smaller investor at home is losing his
timidity regarding investments beyond
his immediate purview. It needs therefore but a little additional spur to induce
him to send out all he has. Small straws
show which way the wind blows and the
writer has already received many enquiries, proving that the landed gentry
of England are seeking to recover in
British Columbia more than they have
already lost in England. Others go
further and write asking that their dividends shall be paid in such a way that
the Exchequer shall reap the smallest
possible profit therefrom. Again, several
of the great English land owners have
already bought extensive estates in British Columbia because they realize that,
sooner or later, they will have to sell or
surrender the greater part of their own
in England.
But it is the smaller capitalists who,
after all own the bulk of the capital in
England. The smaller capitalists, namely
the landed gentry and the middle classes,
have up to the present educated their
sons for the professions, the army, the
navy, or the church, or else for the great
civil services of the Crown. These positions are now, thanks to the educational
system, thrown open to everyone, and
the resulting competition throws thousands of young men yearly onto the
already super-congested labor market.
After a few years these young men are 911
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dumped into the various colonies where,
as  colonials know, they do not usually
I    shine at first in comparison with vouncr
colonials.
But the great middle classes of England have long since seen the error of
their ways and are now sending their
sons to farm schools, where their boys
are taught to ride, break horses, plough,
carpenter, make harness, and generally become useful and adaptable. Further, these same parents are forming
themselves into a real estate corporation
for the purpose of making large purchases of land which will be subdivided
in the usual way, with the difference that
the shareholders will themselves enjoy
profits which otherwise invariably go to
the promoters in similar cases. Also,
these same middle classes are now beginning to realize that when England,
Scotland, Ireland and Wales have their
own provincial assemblies, and the
Imperial Council or Assembly is formed,
the qualifications which their sons now
acquire at the public schools or universities will be useless without long colonial experience. It will be hard indeed for
any man without such experience to win
a seat in the future Imperial Assembly,
in which case it needs but little imagination to guess the composition of the
great imperial services which the Imperial Assembly will be called upon to
create. Far-fetched though this may
seem, it is within the writer's own knowledge that investors of foresight in England are providing for these very contingencies and are making their plans
accordingly. On the other hand, what a
priceless boon for British Columbia it
would be to have her fertile valleys filled
with a yeomanry of farmers similar to
the county gentry and farmers who have
done so much to make the name of England famous as a nation of sportsmen.
We inhabitants of British Columbia
would vie with each other to welcome,
not tenderfeet and remittance men, but
the trained and hardy sons of men of
breeding to whom the meaning of the
word "graft" is utterly unknown. An
equally important though more material
factor is the enormous amount of money
which this invasion will introduce.
What vast sums have been expended
by parents in England on their sons'
education and what a vast proportion of
this money has been practically thrown
away!     Very large sums have also been
paid by parents in the shape of premiums
to firms who have benefitted in two ways
(a) by the extent of the premium and
(b) by being able to dispense with the
laborer whose place the boy is set to
fill. If only a fractional part of these
huge sums is diverted in the future to
settling the fruit farming districts of this
Province, what effort of imagination is
needed to guess the result?
All these questions have hitherto only
been simmering in the old country. Now,
however, the crisis has arrived. It is an
ill wind that blows nobody good, and the
very anxieties which are now tearing at
the fabric of social life at home should,
with our help, ultimately turn to the
mutual advantage of colonials and the
English  middle classes.
It therefore behooves every old-timer
and new-comer in British Columbia,
whether he be Briton, Canadian or
American, to play a worthy role in the
greatest drama the world has ever seen.
To those who would attempt to play a
petty part and disloyally construct watertight compartments without the Empire,
we can only say, you are playing a lone
hand in a losing game and are miserably
deficient in imagination.
Industrial Progress in British Columbia
THE Vancouver Island route of
Canadian Northern Railway
Sjpx^SSj will extend one hundred and
SsSnl lifty-three miles from Victoria
as the southern terminal to Barkley
Sound, thence along the Alberni Canal
to Alberni.
Progress is being made on the Kootenay Central branch of the Canadian
Pacific Railway which will connect the
Crow's Nest line at a point between
Wardner and Galloway, with the main
line at Golden, and will thus bring adequate transportation facilities to the Columbia Valley.
The Portland Canal Short Line Railway Company will apply to the Legislative Assembly for authorization to extend its line from the terminus provided
near Stewart, in an easterly direction to
Edmonton, where it will connect with
the existing Canadian Northern service,
thus establishing a new route from ocean
to ocean and tapping the agricultural
areas and coal fields of the Upper Naas
country.
Work will be started next spring on
the South-east Kootenay Railroad,
which will extend fifty miles from Mc-
Gillivray to the International boundary,
and will open up a rich coal country.
Two of the leading canneries on the
Skeena River have leased the townsite
of Kirbyville on the same river as part
of a big plan for introducing the most
up-to-date method in the salmon fishing
industry in British Columbia.
The annual report of The Canadian
Northern Railway Company states that
the year ending June 30th last, showed
an increase in passenger receipts of
25.25% and a freight increase of
35.04%. The net income was $4,344,390,
and after providing for fixed * barges
there was a net surplus on the year's
work of $1,030,757..
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1911
A bill has been drafted for the incorporation of Stewart.
The Alberni branch of the Esquimalt
& Nanaimo Railway, will be open for
traffic between Nanaimo and Alberni, it
is said, not later than next April.
Construction will be started at once
it is said, on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo
Railway's Cowichan Lake branch, which
will make marketable much timber in the
Cowichan Valley.
A number of the coal mines in the
Similkameen Valley have now reached
the producing stage, and Princeton promises to become the largest city between
Nelson  and  the  Coast.
Important to British Columbia are the
experiments of the Dominion Govern-^
ment at McGill University in the matter
of solving certain fundamental difficulties in the reduction of low grade zinc
ores.
A. C. Smith, one of the original locators of the Crow's Nest Pass coal
fields, recently announced that he has
located valuable coal measures on the
line of the Grand Trunk Pacific, about
twenty-five miles south of Hazelton.
The branch of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from Fort George to Vancouver will run down through the Lil-
looet District, it is reported, and will
strike the Canadian Pacific Railway
near Agassiz Station.
Lincoln Chandler, of the British Empire Bridge Works of Birmingham,
England, recently announced in Vancouver the probability of the establishment near the city of engineering and
construction works costing in the neighborhood  of  $5,000,000.
It is said that the Canadian Pacific
Railway will build another short branch
line into the Kootenay, from a point below Elko and Galloway southerly toward
Waldo and Bayne's Lake, for the purpose of opening valuable timber limits
and agricultural tracts.
The Naval Service Department at
Ottawa has received from the British
Columbia Marine Railway Company a
tender for the construction of the first
cruiser of the Bristol type to be built on
the Pacific Coast for the Canadian Navy.
Several bids have been received from
British shipyards, but this is the only
one from a British Columbian shipyard..
The indications are that the two Bristol
type cruisers and the three destroyers
authorized for the Pacific squadron of
the Canadian Navy will be built at
Esquimalt.
Geo. H. Collin, President of the Canadian Cold Storage Company, which is
erecting a million dollar plant at Prince
Rupert, has reported great interest on
the part of eastern capitalists in Prince
Rupert, which promises to become one
of the world's greatest fishing ports.
Free milling gold lode propositions
may yet rival the former production of
placer days and restore the fading glory
of the Klondike. Individual placer mining is now virtually a thing of the past,
that method having been superseded by
dredges and elevators handling enormous quantities of pay-dirt lifted from
the beds of the creeks and rivers or from
the   adjacent   hillsides.
A mining venture which means the
opening of a new district is announced,
an Eastern syndicate, represented by
Percy J. Gleazer, and controlling fourteen mineral claims situated at the head
of Midge, Mill and Nine Mile Creeks is
commencing development work. This
district, which is of similar formation to
that of the Bayonne gold camp, was
prospected to a certain extent ten years
ago, but since then has" remained quiescent.
The application of the Pacific Exploration Company under the new Water
ActT-of 1909 for permission to erect a
large electric power plant on the Pend
d'Orielle River near Waneta has been
granted by the Water Commissioner at
Victoria and plans of the proposed plant
with a daily capacity of 20,000 horse
power, and so built that this capacity
may be doubled, are being prepared.
The Quesnel Hydraulic Gold Mining
Company, previously known as Twenty-
Mile, under management of H. W. Du
Bois, is expending over $500,000 in the
construction of a nine-foot ditch to bring
water from Swift River to the immensely
rich placer ground on the Quesnel. The
ditch will be, in round numbers, twenty
miles in length with a dam forty-five feet
in height.
A statement of the principal metals
produced in Canada for the last ten
years  is  as  follows:
Year.                             Gold. Silver.
1909     $9,790,000 $14,358,310
1908        9,842,105 11,686,239
1907        8,382,780 8,348,659
1906     11,502,120 5,659,455
1905      14,159,195 3,614,883
1900     27,908,153 2,740,362
Year.                           Copper. Lead.
1909    $ 7,018,213 $ 1,959,488
1908        8,413,876 1,814,221
1907        11,367,369 2,542,036
1906       10,720,474 3,089,187
1905        7,497,660 2,676,632
1900        3,065,922 2,760,521
The Dominion Coal and Coke Co.,
organized by Vancouver business men,
will shortly begin extensive development of coal properties along the Similkameen   River.
The land known as the Crawford
Townsite has been purchased by the
McGoldric Lumber Co. for use as a logging station. The company is now ready
to proceed with the construction of its
mill at Fairview.
A Vancouver syndicate which last fall
bonded a group of copper properties at
Ikeda Bay, Moresby Island, in the Queen
Charlottes, for $200,000, has just made
the second payment, amounting to $30,-
000 cash. A new company, known as the
Ikeda Mines, Ltd., has been incorporated
with an authorized capital of $850,000 in
shares of the par value of $1 each.
One of the best and most consistent
displays of Opportunities in Vancouver
has been that of the Carlos News and
Cigar Stand. One of the reasons why
Mr. Owing, the proprietor, has brought
Opportunities conspicuously to the attention of the public month after month,
is explained in his own words: 'Some
towns," he said, "become ambitious cities
that attract the attention of the world,
while others, perhaps older and with a
more auspicious beginning, never get out
of the small town class. Of the former,
Vancouver  shines  as  the  bright  star  in
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the constellation of Canadian and American cities. Why? There are, of course,
many^reasons, but one of them is pro-
gressiveness and the 'pull-for-my-own-
town' spirit which characterized a large
number of Vancouver citizens. The 'buy
at home' idea, the feeling that 'no city
is like ours' is strong in Vancouver, and
is strong in me. I have always given
home magazines and home cigars the
lead. I want to do what I can to
keep Vancouver money right here in
Vancouver." 91
OPPORTUNITIES
H. J. JENKINS
PRESIDENT
The Vancouver Trust
I     Company Limited
614 Pender St. W., Vancouver, B. C.
"Vancouver Trust Building"
INSURANCE
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company of San Francisco, Cal.
Incorporated 1863
Assets        - $7,431,401.75
Liabilities - 3,916,544.84
Capital paid up -        -        - 1,500,000.00
Surplus      - 2,014,856.91
$7,431,401.75
Westchester Fire Insurance Company of New York
Incorporated. 1837
Assets --^   $4,462,134.06
Liabilities-        -        -        - ;      2,730,353.80
Capital paid up -        -        - 300,000.00
Surplus      - 1,431,780.26
$4,462,134.06
The Hawkeye and Des Moines Fire Insurance Company of Des Moines, la.
The   Imperial   Guarantee   and   Accident   Insurance  Company  of  Canada.
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1911
The Auto and British Columbia's Prosperity
By C. F. McConnell and F. M. Hunter
HE steadily increasing use of
the automobile in British Co-
5| lumbia, both for pleasure and
business, indicates the great
progressiveness and the growing prosperity of the Province. The automobile
was late in coming to Vancouver because
when it was already in wide use elsewhere, Vancouver was still small. But
now that she has become a big city, she
has seized upon the automobile with that
eagerness which has marked her general
progress. For instance, she has dispensed in large measure with horses in
her. fire department, which ranks as the
third most efficient in the world. The
present automobile equipment consists
of three chemical motor trucks and three
hose trucks of forty and fifty horsepower respectively, and a ninety horsepower hook and ladder truck. Four more
motors have been ordered for the different sub-stations in the city. This will
give Vancouver a complete automobile
fire department.
Since the introduction of the auto truck
by the fire department as a commercial
experiment, the leading business men of
Vancouver have realized the superiority
of the motor truck over the horse and
wagon, and a number of them are already using auto-trucks. Numerous
others are placing orders for such equipment with the different automobile dealers of Vancouver.
Several of these are awaiting the arrival of large shipments of the better
known Eastern commercial trucks, which
have as yet never been introduced in
Vancouver. As an illustration of the
growing use of the automobile truck, the
city has purchased, and is now using, a
sixty-seventy horse-power Napier car for
police patrol duty, and also a forty-five-
fifty horse-power Pope-Hartford car for
use as a city ambulance. The city also
uses two large Thornycroft trucks in
collecting garbage. The adoption of the
automobile truck by the city council is a
good example of the progressive spirit of
the North-west.
In some Eastern cities there are more
motor trucks in daily use than horse-
drawn vehicles. Vancouver, in the next
few years, will probably surpass these
cities in the number of automobile
trucks in use in proportion to population.
The use of the gasoline motor is not confined to the automobile alone. It is o.
much value to the farmer and the lum
berman, and is being employed more and
more by them.    In the work of sawing
wood, pumping water, running boats,
clearing land, generating electricity and
furnishing power in general, the gasoline
motor is now a highly important factor.
A Chicago motor company announced
that there are 125,000 gasoline engines
in use by farmers throughout the world.
The motor dealers of Vancouver have
recently organized a motor trade association, for the purpose of promoting the
general interest in automobiles. There
is also talk of starting a yearly automobile exhibition, of the same nature as
those held in London, New York and
Chicago. This would go far in the good
work of bringing Vancouver into prominence as an automobile center. People
who don't realize the value of an automobile show would be "shown." Such exhibitions   have   proved   of   great   influence
ing automobile manufacturers in the
United States and Canada show that
there has been an increase of over 40%
in the output of motor trucks and automobiles this year in comparison with
that of last year. The majority of automobile dealers in Vancouver have not
been able to supply the demand of automobiles and motor trucks, and the factories are so overcrowded that they are
not promising any shipment of 1911 cars
until 1912. It is a case of first come, first
served, and promptitude in ordering is
necessary to avoid a long delay in obtaining a car with the most up-to-date
equipment.
Since the inception of motor-driven
vehicles years ago, there has been need
of missionary work to convince the general public that the cost of maintaining
VANCOUVER PARTY IN A 1911 60 H. P. BRITISH AUSTIN CAR
elsewhere because they have stimulated
the general interest in motor cars and
have given prospective buyers more detailed and technical ideas of the automo
bile than can be obtained through the
ordinary demonstration.
The motor truck has now come to be.
regarded as a commercial necessity, and
its use in Vancouver will add much to
the city's reputation as a prosperous
business center. There are at present
sixty-three automobiles used in Vancouver for public convenience, including
taxicabs, hotel busses and livery cars. Up
to date there are one thousand three hundred and five automobiles and motor
trucks in active use in Vancouver. These
were sold by seventeen automobile dealers representing three or more manufacturers.    Factory reports from the lead-
a car is not excessive; that the automobile is the most economical method of
transportation, both for business and
pleasure. For years every manufacturer
has battled with the question of how
best to prove this fact. It has been
solved by Benjamin J. Briscoe, President of the Maxwell-Briscoe Company,
who conceived the idea of comparing the
cost of the automobile with that of the
horse. This has served to dispel all doubt
as to their comparative economy, and has
opened up new fields for the entire automobile industry.
This comparison was made in the form
of the public economy tests between the
Maxwell car of the four cylinder type
and a horse and buggy. . The test was
held over routes in New York city and
vicinity, providing a fair average of road 911
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and traffic conditions, covering a period
of five days. It was the first time these
particular methods of transportation
were in an*actual comparison test. The
results, according to the figures, show
that the cost per passenger per mile by
automobile was 1.810 cents per mile,
against 2^4 cents for the horse and buggy
under the same conditions.
This should be sufficient to cure the
sceptical prospective automobile buyer
who has looked upon the automobile as
an expensive luxury. Farmers have been
criticized for their extravagance in buying automobiles to replace the horses,
but, taking the tests into consideration,
it would be extravagant for the farmer
not to adopt the automobile. Twenty per
cent, depreciation per year is allowed in
the case of the automobile, on a basis
of ten thousand miles per year. This
amounts to one hundred and eighty dollars a year, or $0,018 per mile. The
depreciation on the wagon, harness and
horse is based upon an original cost of
$275, the outfit lasting ten years and capable of ten miles travel every day, making the depreciation $0.00075. The following tables are of interest:
Automobile
. Days.     Miles. Gasoline    Oil Cost.
Gal.        Pint.
1 67.4          5              1 $1.00
2 76.1           5               Bi -92
3 76.3           6^4           1 1.12
4 so. $yA        1 1.00
5 82.8 5^ 1 1-07
6 75.3 5 1 1.09
457.9 miles at cost of    $6.20
Repairs     00
Depreciation      8.24
Total cost    $14.44
Cost  per  mile   ...  .0315
Per passenger mile .0157
Horse and Buggy
Days.    Miles.      Oats Hay Cost,
qts. lbs.
1 28.8    12 20 $0.95
2 35.5    12 20 .95
3 31.2    12 20 .95
4 35.8    12 20 .95
5 34.4    12 20 .95
6 31.6    12 20 .95
197.3 miles at cost of $5.80
Repairs     00
Depreciation     1.1E7
Total cost    $7.27
Cost per mile 0368
Per passenger mile .0184
It is held that at the cost of shoeing,
bedding and wagon grease will more
than offset the omission of grease
charges from the automobile's operating
cost. These costs, distributed over the
actual mileage for each vehicle, bring the
automobile net cost per passenger mile
well within the two-cent-per-mile guarantee already established by Mr. Briscoe.
TALKS  ON  CLOTHES
By B. F. Blair
No.   1.
LOTHES don't make the man,"
said a philosopher, "but he
looks better after he is
clothed." If we grant this, we
must give consideration to the highly
important question of the kind of clothes
a man should wear. My own ideas as
to this are pretty definite, and hearing, a
little over five years ago, that Vancouver was the coming great city of the
Pacific, I decided that this would be an
excellent field in which to plant my ideas
in virgin soil and see them blossom into
suits that would fittingly supplement
what Mother Nature had done for Vancouver men. Foolish idea! When I
came—all the way from New York—and
had done a few turns along the leading
thoroughfares, I realized that Vancouver, then, was no place for a suit builder
who took joy in his work. Vancouver
was the most pronounced type of an
"old clothes" town I had ever seen. Her
citizens, apparently, were Englishmen
who were "roughing it," with a goodly
sprinkling of lumberjacks and miners.
It was plain that they had no use for
clothes, except to take them out of the
class of Adam, and to keep the cold
away.    I  departed  speedily.
But Vancouver was on my mind. I
knew that she was rapidly becoming a
real city, and felt that she could not
always remain indifferent to real clothes.
For three years I left her to herself. Two
years ago I returned, and again promenaded the leading streets, in search
of men who looked as if they would
appreciate a tailor. I saw a few; their
raiment was bits of oasis in a desert of
clothes that looked abashed and shrinking, as if they were born that way and
couldn't help it, and never had had a
chance. The exceptions gave my spirits
a little lift. There was hope. Vancouver was coming on.    I liked her, and I
lingered, watching and waiting till the
time should be ripe for building suits as
well as houses.
It has been only within a few months
that I have been sure that this time has
come at last. So here I am, busy constructing clothes that have fashion and
distinction. Every man is not an Ap-
pollo, but every man who has been given
anything like a square deal by our old
friend Mother Nature has his good
points. Our cutter, Mr. McGregor,
notes them all, and makes the most of
them. He was born with a talent for
measuring men and cutting cloth, and
for many years in the leading cities on
this continent he has been following his
bent. He has keen zest for it. He knows;
Mr. Magrane, my partner, and I both
know he knows, and you will realize it
the instant you slip into a suit made for
you by us. It will be a suit that has
individuality, that will bespeak prosperity
and good taste. It will be the product
of long experience and exacting standards on our part, and of your own choice
of the latest spring fabrics, just imported
from the mills of England, Scotland, and
Ireland. The prevailing modes for
spring, by the way, call for tweeds,
bannocks, and homespuns, in patterns
that have snap and brightness. Drop in
and see us for a clothes talk. We are
Magrane and Blair, at 510 Granville
Street, upstairs. We will want you to be
a credit to us—a missionary—and for
this reason you will find us even more
interested in the fit and fitness of your
clothes  than  you  are yourself.
There is great activity in the lumber
camps in the Kootenay district. The
Canyon City Lumber Company has
started double shifts and has installed
an electric light plant. The Yale Columbia Lumber Company will have their
camps in full operation all winter, while
Huscroft Brothers will reopen their
camp with a force of thirty men.
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OPPORTUNITIES
The British Columbia Timber Situation
A Glance at the Past and Present Status of one
of the Province's Greatest Assets
THE early settlers of British Columbia, though greatly impressed by the many natural
resources of the Province, were
unable to attempt the development of
them during the first strenuous work of
conquering the wilderness. It remained
for later comers to take of the opportunities offered in British Columbia's vast
areas.
In the year 1888 the Provincial Government passed laws whereby 640 acres of
timber could be acquired by placing a
legal stake on one corner of the section
and by paying an annual license fee of
$140 per year. The license thus acquired
was renewable annually for twenty-one
years. It was not, however, until 1906
that people really awoke to the openings
for money making which this law
afforded. During the summer of this
year the price of logs was very high, and
financial conditions were good; the result was that lumbermen of British Columbia and the adjacent States began to
realize the value of the magnificent
timber along the many inlets and islands
of   the   British   Columbia   Coast.
Many of them did not know how this
timber could be . acquired; they knew
little of the law. Upon looking it up
they were delighted to find that they
merely had to place a legal stake and
to pay $140 a year license fee to become
owners of 640 acres of valuable timber.
At that time cruisers were not plentiful
in the Province, but it was not long
before the woods were full of men staking timber licenses. By the beginning
of the year 1907 there had been staked
about 18,250 timber licenses, each containing approximately one square mile
of timber lands. This activity brought
a rich harvest in fees for the Provincial
Government, and holdings of great future
value for the timber men of North
America. Before the fall of the year
1907 the Provincial Government realized
that they must put a stop to this great
rush for timber, or the Province would
be stripped of one of its greatest natural
resources. On December 24th, 1907, the
Premier, by order in council, suspended
the law permitting the staking of timber
licenses.
Up to this time there had been no
special market for timber. After the
license law was suspended timber began
to  take  on value,    and    many  licenses
By Paul W. Trousdale
which had been staked in 1906 and had
cost the stakers only $140, were sold
for from $200 to $2,000 per section.
Many of the licenses which had been
staked during the mad rush of 1906 were
found to be worthless or practically so.
About the end of 1908 the renewal of
licenses became due and about 550
licenses which had been cruised, and
had been found worthless, were dropped.
This culling out of the poor licenses has
continued, and at the end of 1909 there
remained out of the 18,250 original
licenses only 15,164 upon which the
licenses were still being paid. During
the year 1908-1909 the increase in the
value   of  timber  was  about  twenty-five
cents per thousand feet. The figures in
regard to the number of licenses dropped during the year 1910 have not yet
been officially reported, but it is safe to
say that between one thousand and fifteen hundred licenses have been dropped. There are still a number of licenses
which are not worth a great deal, and
which will, undoubtedly, be dropped
during the next few years, until there
will probably be not more than 10,000
licenses  held.
The culling out of these worthless
licenses is the best thing that could happen for the investor. Many Eastern
timbermen have come to British Columbia for the purpose of buying timber and,
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r
BASQUE FRUIT FARMS
ON THE CROP-PAYMENT PLAN
Do you know that Basque Fruit Farms are the only Fruit Lands
sold on such a liberal plan ?   You can't lose
What is the Crop-
Payment Plan ?
Where is Basque?
What is now
being produced
at Basque ?
Poultry Raising at
Basque very
Profitable
Why do we offer
the Crop-payment
Plan?
Is there plenty of
water ?
This plan gives the man of small means a chance to get a start
without putting any of his money into the land. He can use all his
capital for improvements. Besides, he takes what vegetables and
fruit he needs for his own use, then one-half the cash received from
the crop sold each year is applied as part payment on the land until
the price is paid.
On the main line of the Canadian Pacific, and on the located line of
the Canadian Northern now building, 200 miles east of Vancouver
(near Ashcroft), in the Thompson River Valley.
Everything that grows in an irrigation district does splendidly at
Basque. Apples—world's prize winners—have been grown for twenty-
five years. Many of the famous "Ashcroft Potatoes" are grown at
Basque.    Cherries and small fruits grow to perfection.
$300 and upwards can be taken from a single acre planted to small
fruits and vegetables between the rows while you are waiting for trees
to start bearing.
The sunshiny days and mild climate during the winter months,
coupled with the fact that there are no poultry diseases or troublesome insects, and the prices for fresh eggs, selling for 65 to 85 cents
per dozen, and poultry 30 to 40 cents per pound during the winter
months, insure a good income to those who make it part of their
business.
Basque is different from any fruit and vegetable-farming district that
we know of. Failure is unknown. We are so confident of the success
of every man who will work a Basque farm that we don't consider it
a risk. The potatoes he can grow between rows of young trees will
net a handsome income for any man (and give his family its living
besides) until the trees start bearing.
Yes, water in abundance—and the water-right is perpetual, being sold
with the land. The irrigation works have been in use for years and
are now being enlarged and improved.
ALSO  SOLD  IN  ACRE  UNITS, $10  CASH AND $10  MONTHLY
What are the
advantages of the
Acre Unit Plan ?
Write to-day for
our new Basque
proposition
This plan is intended to accommodate the man who does not plan
to handle his land until trees are bearing. We plant the land to apple
trees, cultivate and care for same until they start bearing when the
purchaser can (1) either take charge of his own land; or (2) we will
continue to care for and manage for a reasonable percentage of the
profit each year. We will also allow a purchaser to take charge of
the unit or units contracted for by giving notice that he wishes to
do so before the first day of December any year during life of contract,
and for this we will deduct reasonable amount from contract price.
This will give the purchaser who may lose his position or health a
chance to cultivate his own land before as well as after it comes into
bearing.
If this appeals to you, write Us. You owe it to yourself and your
family to fully investigate our proposition. We cannot expect to put
into one brief page all the reasons why you should—
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after making two or three trips and seeing only poor timber, have gone away
disgusted. When the process of culling
these poor claims has been finished, the
man with a good timber claim to sell
will not have his prospect of a sale
endangered by the putting up of a wildcat at a cheaper price, and the investor
will not be forced to make several trips
before he can find timber which he
thinks is worth buying.
During the year 1910 conditions in the
timber market- have improved considerably. The Forestry Commission, appointed by the Provincial Government
to investigate conditions and recommend
a forestry policy, have handed in the
following recommendation:
(1) That a complete cruise of all
crown grant timber lands should be
made by the Government; that in future
the Department of Forests should
cooperate with the assessors; and that an
annual return should be made of the
valuation of all such timber lands.
(2) That as far as possible timber
leaseholds should be placed, upon renewal, upon a parity with licensed timber lands, and that they should be subject to the  same forest regulations.
(3) That the rate of rental and of
royalty upon special license should at no
time be fixed in advance for more than
one calendar year.
(4) That the land act be amended so
as to empower the Government to grant
the right of cutting sawmill timber to
pulp lessees, and that a new form of
license be provided for this purpose in
the manner described by your commissioners.
(5) That the same form of license as
that provided for pulp lessees be issued
to holders of tan-bark leases who may
desire to cut mill timber upon their
leaseholds.
(6) That the present reserve upon unalienated timber land be continued indefinitely; and that when special circumstances necessitate the opening of any
portion of this reserve for immediate
operations, licenses to cut timber thereon
should be put up to public competition,
upon a stumpage basis.
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Company, Ltd.    S
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Farm Lands.
Dairy and Fruit Farms.
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All kinds of Insurance written.
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(7) That licenses to cut timber upon
fractional areas adjoining, or surrounding leased or licensed timber lands
should be put up to public competition
and that a "fractional area" be defined
with great care in the wording of the
"land act."
(8) That the record of every cruise
and survey made by the Government in
timbered areas should be accompanied
by a report concerning the suitability
of the land for agricultural purposes, that
the power to compel licensees to cut and
remove timber from good land be retained and that at the time of renewal
the same provision be inserted in every
timber lease.
(9) That the issue of handlogging
licenses be discontinued.
(10) That no divided interest in a special timber license be recognized.
(11) That for the convenience of holders one day be fixed in each month for
the renewal of all licenses expiring in
that month.
(12) That royalty be collected on all
merchantable timber not removed from
crown lands in the course of logging
operations.
(13) That operators be required to dispose of debris.
(14) That the protection of forests
from fires be undertaken by the Government through the agency of a permanent
forest organization upon the lines of the
North-west Mounted Police, and that it
be compulsory for all able-bodied citizens to assist in this work when called
upon.
(15) That the cost of fire protection
be shared between government and
stumpage holders in the manner proposed by your commissioners.
(16) That the Provincial Government
should cooperate with the Dominion
Railway Commission; that a vigilant
patrol of all railway lines and inspection
of locomotives should be established;
and that all railway construction should
be supervised by provincial forestry
officials.
(17) That special licensees should be
instructed to proceed with the survey of
their holdings; and that all such surveys
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(18-) That all operators should be required to make periodical returns concerning their operations, to the forestry
officials in their district; and that the
collection of information should be undertaken upon much wider lines than
hitherto.
(19) That the Government should also
proceed with the establishment of a
department of forest.
(20) That royalties upon crown timber
should be paid into a forest sinking fund,
in the manner described by your
commissioners.
(21) That by suitable changes in the
customs tariff, the utilization of low-
grade timber should be encouraged.
Trade in timber licenses during the
past year has been rather poor. This
fact has been due to the unsettled financial conditions of the United States, and
to low prices of- logs. The year 1909
was so good for the logger at the
opening of the season of 1910 many new
firms, as well as the old ones, commenced
logging, with the result that before the
season was half over, the log market
was drugged with timber. This will be
remedied, however, during the coming
months, as the camps are closed during
the winter months, and the mills will
have an opportunity to use up the over-
supply of logs. The year 1911 will undoubtedly show the benefits of the lesson
taught the loggers in 1910, and there
is every reason to believe that the
coming year will see a great improvement in the log market.
With the opening of the Panama Canal
in 1915 many of the present transportation difficulties will be solved, and
British Columbia will become the largest
timber market on the North American
continent.
In Michigan and other parts of the
middle west of the United States the
growing of sugar beets has become one
of the most lucrative of argicultural occupations and there is absolutely no reason why it should not prove equally successful in British Columbia.
For Kerrisdale Properties
Consult the Specialist
John   M.  Chappell
Room 2, 44$ Pender Street
Owners ate requested to list all
Point Grey property with me
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P.  O. Box 860
Fire, BurglaivPf oof and Manganese
Victor
Vault Doors, and Safety
Deposit Boxes
WESTERN CANADIAN AGENT
E, G, PARNELL
" THE SAFE MAN"
513 HAMILTON STREET
VANCOUVER,     -     -     B. C.
OPPORTUNITIES
J G. W. ARNOTT 6 C©»
i        Jfeal Estate and Insurance
\ Drawer 1539    <w    Prince Rupert
i Splendid Opportunities for Investors
Hours 9 to 6 Phone 3351
JNO. JACKSON
Scientific Chiropodist
Corns removed without pain, Bunions, Ingrowing
Nails, Club Nails, Callouses, Pedicuring, Fetid
Odors  and  Sweaty   Feet   successfully   treated.
305 Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone 7132
Room 112 Carter-Cotton Bid
Vancouver, B. C.
YOUNG &  FRANCEY
ENGINEERS  &  DRAUGHTSMEN
Blue Printing, Tracing, Maps, Snow Card Writing
Designs   and   Specifications   tor   Steel   and   Concrete   Buildin
Drawings tor Real Estate and Contractors
Architectural Perspectives
Price $1850,    j4t    6, 12 and 18 mths.
This is a Great Snap !
APPLY
ROOM 4
532 GRANVILLE ST.
BULLEN & LAMB
LATE BIJLLEN PHOTO CO.
L^Ji^ C*
WHOLESALE and RETAIL Manufacturers of all kinds of
Sash, Doors, Show Cases, Bank, Office and Store Fixtures.   ROUGH and DRESSED
LUMBER.   Laths, Shingles, and every kind of Diiilding material.
Office  and  Factory:   2843   DOUGLAS   STREET, VICTORIft, B. C.
The Leading* House for
Commercial and Architectural Photography
Amateur Finishing and Enlarging.    Picture Framing
743 PENDER STREET WEST, 2 Doors from Orpheum Theatre
Buy in GULF OF GEORGIA TERRACE, POINT GREY
Nothing beats it for View and as a Homesite. Terms over 4 years.
MOLE & KEEFER, Point Grey Specialists 1065 Granville St., Phone 7020
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Wise Investment Brings Riches
We submit to you that well positioned land
bought well in Point Grey, is about the best
investment that can be named in British Columbia
to-day : location will make it the finest residential
section of greater Vancouver; the enormous improvements at present in process, the university
and the Burrard-Kitsilano bridge giving quick car
service with the city all confirm
POINT GREY
as the coming high-class residential quarter ; furthermore the absence of vacant building lots in
the West End make it essential that Point Grey
must grow very rapidly.
We are selling level building lots on the highest point between University site and Tenth car-
line. These lots are entirely cleared up and command extensive views.    Prices from
one quarter cash, balance 6, 12, 18 and 24 months.
These are last spring's prices and will shortly be
advanced, If you investigate and compare this
offering with others, you will certainly buy.
The Canadian Century
is now presenting a series of articles on British
Columbia, following out its policy of giving
attention to every section of the Dominion.
These will be followed by other descriptive
articles of the Great West.
Tfye Century
gives each week illustrated articles of
timely worth, bright fiction by Canada's best
known authors, illustrated by the best
Canadian artists, discussions of important
national questions by the leaders of thought
and action in Canada and illustrations of
Dominion happenings.
Katherine Hale's Woman's department is
unusually bright and informing.
The weekly article on finance attracts Dominion-wide attention.
A SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST
The Canadian Century
MONTREAL
At all News-stands
By the year $2.00
Farm Lands in Central
I
The Opportunity of your Life
EaaE5-g5assBfeaiSMA-,gesaft*as»'gaBagasEB g
^ Don't wait till transportation is in, and have to
pay four times what you
can buy for now. We
have transportation from
Quesnel, B. C.
C| If you want to purchase with small cash payment, see or write us.
THE LAST GREAT WEST
505 Cotton Building:
Vancouver, B. C.
Agents for the Grand Trunk Pacific Townsite of Ellison, B. C.
H. McINTOSH D. GARNHAM
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The Great West Light Co., Ltd.
Hollow Wire and Tube Systems
Makers    of   the   Famous
Highlow Gasoline Lamps
50J£ HASTINGS ST., EAST
P. O. Box 1401   Vancouver, B. C.
♦$♦••••••••■••••• ••••••..•••••'
The PORTLAND
Mrs. Baker, Proprietress
723 YATES ST. Phone 2404
The only modern rooming house in town.
Steam heat, running not and cold water and
telephones in all rooms. Newly furnished
throughout, and up-to-date in every respect.
TERMS MODERATE
VICTORIA, B, C
♦!♦•••■
Mrs. J. E. Elliott I
Hand-made Goods a  Specialty
I The most lip-to-Date Store }
For Neckwear, Blouses, Underwear
and everything needful for
Infants  and   Children.
Phone R313
t 730 Yates St.     VICTORIA, B. C.  (
JL    i
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PANTORIUM
Tailoring    Phone 1823    Renovating
longed and  Pressed for 50c.    }
will make you a regular customer,     c
Suits  Sponged
One trial
j  313 Gamble St. Vancouver, B. C#  j
ana vou wn
never
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O P P O R T U
STEEL WORKS IN B. C.
Preliminary details for the establishment of steel works in British Columbia
by British capitalists are now being
worked out. The chief spirit behind the
enterprise, which will represent an investment of between $4,000,000 and $5,-
000,000, is Mr. Norton Griffiths, M. P.,
of London,  Eng.
Mr. Griffiths is one of the richest men
in England. lie is managing director
of Messrs. Griffiths & Co., general contractors, who take contracts all over the
world. The firm has built many of the
largest docks and public works in the
British Isles. It is now carrying out a
contract for the building of a railway in
Chile, the contract price being $37,000,-
000. The railway in question is known
as a "longitudinal" line, attaining at
several points in the Andes an elevation
of over  14,000 feet.
Mr. Griffiths has taken a sixty-day
option on a big deposit of iron which
is located within three miles of the main
line of the Canadian Pacific Railway and
less than 200 miles from Vancouver. He
expressed himself as well pleased with
the engineers' reports and agreed to
cable to England for an expert to make
an independent examination. There is
said to be an enormous tonnage available. The ore can be trammed down to
the   railway  tracks.
VANCOUVER CIRCULAR AND ADV. CO.
"THE MULTIGRAPH PEOPLE"
Makers of Personal Circular Letters to follow
up Prospects Press Clipping' Bureau in
connection, covering B. C.
H. J. McLATCHY, Manager
Phone 19E7
OPENING   FOR   HOTEL   MEN.
"There is a great opportunity in the
North," recently said D. D. Mann, "for
some company to go in for a series of
first-class tourist hotels at the fine fishing places and spots of special scenic
grandeur. There would be good business for such hotels, and they need not
be small affairs by any means."
CANADIAN GRAIN CLUB.
The estimate of the North-West Grain
Dealers' Association puts the wheat crop
at 106,510,320 bushels, being an average
yield of 12.6 bushels for 8,453,200 acres.
Oats will amount to 111,983,000 according to the estimate, being an average of
26.5 bushels from 4,217,400 acres; barley
19,520,000, being iq.i bushels per acre
from 1,022,000; flax 5,292,000 or 8.4
bushels per acre from 630,000 acres.
I give a complete course, consisting of:
15 Different Alphabets, Design Work,
Borders, Scrolls, Illuminated Letters,
Stencil and Air Brush Work
L. d. TROUNCE
635  GRANVILLE  STREET
(over tourist association)
VANCOUVER,   Brtish   Columbia
G. D. George has various vehicles available   for   any    customer    both   day   and
night.     Fix  in  your  memory
and his telephone number, which i
J. w.
POTTER
Architect and Structural engineer
Reinforced
Concrete  a  Specialty
LaW-BUTLER BUILDING
PRINCE
RUPERT,   B.   e.
P.
©. BOX 271
at a loss for a hac
The Dustless Floor Brush
Should be used in every Home,
Store, Church and School*
Write W. CARTER
44 BROADWAY 11'. VANCOUVER
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DALLAS HOTEL
The only Seaside Hotel in the Cit
Fifteen   minutes   walk from P. O.
One minute s walk from street cars
VICTORIA,   B.   C.
T
ISERS.       THANK   YOU.
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OPPORTUNITIES
1911
"Opportunities" Brokers' and Business Directory
Zb* progressive Brokerage, Tinancial and Industrial Tirnts and Institutions of British Columbia.
Phone   2900
A. E. AUSTIN & CO.
Real Estate and Insurance.
328   Granville   St.,   VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
T. B.  ANDERSON  &   C.  CLAYTON
Real Estate
Phone  5913
1069 Granville St.    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
E.   C.  B.  BA6SHAWE   &  CO.
Real Estate and General Brokers
1112   Broad   St.,   Bownass   Building
Phone   2271        -       -       VICTORIA,   B.   C.
Phone 5726 P. O. Box 536
H.   BEEMAN
Specialist in Point Grey
221 Winch Bldg.     -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
B. C. TRUST CORPORATION
Bk.  B.   N.  A.   Bldg., VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
Phone  589
J. A.  COLLINSON
Real Estate
Phone 4154
24 0a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.
JOHN  M. CHAPPBLL
Real Estate
Phone  4802
443   Pender   St.     -     VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
W.  W.  DRESSER
Insurance, Real Estate
Phone 3020
438 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
H. T. DEVINE COMPANY, LIMITED
Real Estate, Loans and Insurance
437 Seymour St.     -    VANCOUVER,  B. C.
Phone  1627
Phone 362S
DUTHIE  ft  WISHART
Real Estate and Pinancial Agents
520 Pender St. W.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
W.  H.  ELLIS
Investment Broker
122   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
M.  H.  FRANKLIN CO.
Real  Estate   Brokers
Acreage, Building Lots and Homes
Phone  970
449 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
GODDARD  ft  SON
Land Agents, Notaries
Phone S202
329   Pender  St     -     VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
LEONARD & REID
Real Estate and Pire Insurance
Mining    Properties    in    Portland    Canal,
Hazelton and Qneen Charlotte
Districts
PRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.
Tel. 5852
GOODYEAR  & MATHESON
Real   Estate   and   General   Brokers
106 Loo Building VANCOUVER, B. C.
GRANVILLE  BROKERAGE   CO.
Real Estate, Insurance, Commission Agts.
Phone L4560
1017 Granville St.    -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
HARMAN  & APPLE TON
Real Estate
534 Yates  Street      -      VICTORIA, B.  C.
Phone  1918
SAMUEL HARRISON & CO.
Brokers   and   Pinancial   Agents.     Agents
Stewart Land Co., Ltd.
Stewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.
HASLETT   3c  WHITAKER
Real   Estate,   Timber,   Insurance
Phone 5807
Room 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
HINKSON, SIDDALL & SON
Real Estate and Insurance
Phone  869
New Grand Theatre Bldg.    1311 Gov't St.
VICTORIA,   B.   C.
ALPRED   M.   HOWELL
Customs  Broker,   Porwarding  Agent
Office—23   Promis    Block
Telephone   1501,   Re?     R 1671
1006   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
IMPERIAL   REALTY   CO.
Real  Estate   and  Insurance
307  Loo  Bldg.       -       VANCOUVER, B.  C.
GEORGE  LEEK
Real Estate, Notary Public
Exchange Block    PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
W. F. Moncreiff P. E. Townshend
W.   P.   MONCREIPP   ft   CO.
Real Estate and Pinancial Brokers
Room 304, Winch Bldg.      Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
MARRIOTT   &   PELLOWS
Real  Estate
Phone 1077
134 Hastings St.      -      VANCOUVER, B.C.
E.  S.  MORGAN
Industrial  Sites,  Waterfrontage  on  Bur-
rard Inlet, etc.
Suite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.
429 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone   5833.
W. O. Shrumm H. Lambert
THE   NATIONAL   REAL   ESTATE
Loans,  Insurance
Phono   6320
58  Hastings St.  W., VANCOUVER, B.  C.
FATTULO   &  RADPORD
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Pinancial
Agents
P.O. Box 1535       PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.
Cable Address:    "Patrad"
C.   C.   PEMBERTON
Real Estate  and Notary Public
Room 11, 707% Yates St.     -     Phone 1711
VICTORIA, B. C.
Hamilton & myers
We run an up-to-date Pool Room, Bowling
Alley and Shooting Gallery.
We also  carry  a full  line  of Cigars,
Tobaccos and Confectionery
Specialties.
Opposite   Odd  Fellows'   Hall,
SUMAS,    ------ WASH.
C. ARTHUR REA
Late of Brandon, Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc
Law   Chambers,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
ROYAL REALTY COMPANY
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
Phone  2394 Notary Public
615   Fort   St. - VICTORIA,   B.  C.
SMITH  ft  SMITH
Real Estate and Commission Agents
P.O.  Box  41
J. H. Smith W. R. Smith
4th   Ave. - - STEWART,   B.   C.
GEO. H. SMITH & ARTHUR JONES
Dealers in Property in Vancouver,  New
Westminster and the Fraser Valley
P.   O.   Box   165       - Phone  1743
P.   O.   Box  247 Phone  178
T.   J.  FOLLEY   ft   CO.
Real   Estate    Pire,   Life   and   Accident
Insurance.    Plate  Glass Insurance.
Conveyancing.    Notaries.
Agents   for   Canadian   Home   Investment
Go.  and Commercial  Loan and Trust
Co.,   Ltd.
CHILLIWACK,   B.   C.
VANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.
Real Estate and Loans
62 Hastings St. E.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
WESCOTT ft LETTS
Real Estate and Insurance Agents
Room  3,  Moody Block        -        Yates St.
VICTORIA, B. C.
H. W. WINDLE
Real Estate  Broker
Phone 5320
532 Granville St    -    VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone 815
P. O. Box
735
The
City B
rokerage
Real Estat
e, Timber and Fire Insurance
A
l. T. ABBEY,
Manager
1218 Doug
la a Street
VIC TORI A, B.
c.
Real Estate Insurance Loans
Rooming Houses     Business Chances     Collections
JOHN M. PARK
GOLDEN RULE BROKERAGE
Phones: Office 5346
Residence 3662
1117 Granville St.      Vancouver, B. C.
A. SCHUMACHER
Dealer in Clothing, Furnishings,
Sporting Goods
SUMAS,   -
WASH.
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OPPORTUNITIES
WATCH
THIS
We  carry  a  complete line of
electric fixtures and supplies.
We also do wiring* and fitting-.
When   in  need  of fixtures  or
supplies, call on
ALLTREE & CtlLRCHLAND
976  GRANVILLE  STREET
Phono 2.707
Prompt attention given to repair work
WES&8£££
The Pinest Apples in the World
Are Grown in British Columbia's Famous DRY BELT DISTRICT
THE YIELD IS GREffTEST and the
PRICES OBTAINED ARK THE HIGHEST
YOU SHOULD LOCATE AT
"SUNNYSIDE
It is in the HEART of this wonderful district
and 5 ACRES of its RICH,  DEEP SOIL will make you a GOOD LIVING
Write for illustrated folder,   ATTRACTIVE  PRICES and EASIEST of TERMS to
ROSS 8* SHAW
318 Hastings St. W.
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Vancouver, B. C. Page 46
O P P OR T U N I T I E S
1911
ALL ROADS
LEAD  TO
ABBOTSFORD
The garden spot of British Columbia.
Do not fail to examine the farm lands
in this district before investing". My
listings are up-to-date and I will be
pleased to show you any property
that is for sale	
J. W. McCALLUM
ABBOTSFORD,   B.  C.
Real Estate and
Financial Agent
Auctioneer and
Appraiser .   .   .
ABBOTSFORD
Hitherto a small village surrounded by large
tracts of the richest soil in B. C. is coming
to the front and is destined to become a
large Market Town of considerable population.
Reached by the Great Northern, Canadian
Pacific and B. C. Electric Railways, with the
Canadian Northern Railway running close, the
future prosperity of Abbotsford is assured.
Bordering the great Sumas prairie of over
40,000 acres it is impossible to find a better
investment than Abbotsford Real Estate.
Wire, write or come and see
C. A
TELEPHONE I
P. O. BOX 58
SUMNER
Abbotsford, B. C.
Salmon, Bear River Joining Company, Ltd.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Non-Assessable
570 Granville Street
The first issue of treasury shares in the SALMON, BEAR RIVER MINING CO., Ltd.,
( Non-Personal Liability ) are now offered at 5j4 cents per share :  fy cash, balance 3, 6
and 9 months.
The Company is capitalized at $1,000,000.00 divided into 4,000,000 shares of 25 cents
each.
The Company have purchased outright three first class properties in the Portland Canal
District, and have placed 1,800,000 shares in the treasury to be sold to acquire
money necessary for development purposes.
The paystreak in a 15 ft. vein ran from $267.00 to $2098.00 per ton in gold and silver.
The quick fortunes made in mining have been made by those who assisted in developing
new properties.
Prices of shares will be advanced as soon as the first issue is sold.
Send -for Prospectus
GILL & CASEMENT—or to O. B. BUSH& CO.
439 Richards Street
VANCOUVER, B.  C.
570 Granville Street
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OPPORTUNITIES
SEE OUR PROPERTY
^
Corner of River Road and
Ontario Street i
The choicest thing in South Vancouver. Just placed on
the market.—97 choice lots, of which 10 front on River
Road and 33 on Ontario Street. Every lot will be cleared
and graded.
$500 AND UP.   TERMS OVER TWO YEARS
Latimer, Ney & JVLcTavish, Ltd
419 Pender Street,  Vancouver, B. C
When You Build That Home
Who will furnish the electric
fixtures ?
We  carry  a complete line of
electric fixtures and supplies.
We also do wiring and fitting.
When  in  need  of fixtures  or
supplies, call on
ALLTREE & CtlHRCttLAND
976  GRANVILLE  STREET
Phono 2707
VANCOUVER,   B.  C,
Prompt attention given to repair work
Canada s Leading Cafe
7TTHERE'S an individuality., a differentness,
^^ to the Garlton., that is fast making it
the Gafe superlative.
Take advantage of the earliest opportunity to lunch or dine here. You'll carry
away many pleasant memories, including
those or delicious cooking, and fine music by
our famous Ladies   Orchestra.
MODERATE PRICES
Far less than you d expect to pay for so
much luxury and comfort.
<| Quick service.—Mr. "Jimmie" Morgan
is always on hand to see that patrons receive
the best attention.
THE CARLTON CAFE
Cor. Cordova and Cambie Sts., Vancouver
PHONE 5728
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OPPORTUNITIES
1911
A Woman s
Path to
Independence
Some of the best opportunities for women who desire to achieve independence lie in the new art
of Dermatology- This includes Hair Dressing, Marcel Waving, Children's Hair Cutting, Shampooing,
Scalp Treatments, Hair Dying and Bleaching, Manicuring, Facial Massage, Wig, Switch and Toupee Making.
Women everywhere are realizing to a greater and greater degree the importance of making the
most of their physical attractions. More and more are they awakening to the fact that they owe it as
a duty to themselves and to those who are interested in them to appear always at their best. For this reason
the field of Dermatology is constantly expanding. Any woman who becomes an adept in the practice
of this new art can feel assured of a good and steady income.
The pathway in Vancouver to this fascinating and lucrative profession lies through the Canadian
College of Dermatology, which is equipped with every modern appliance and has a most competent
faculty. Students will be admitted after having passed an examination in
reading, writing and an eyesight test. Those having a diploma from a public •
school or a letter of recommendation from a teacher are admitted without an
examination. The necessary tools do not cost more than from ten to fifteen
dollars, and these will be found useful to the practitioner after graduation.
The Spring term begins on February 15th and continues for ten weeks. The
fee for each term is one hundred dollars.
Graduates are in demand at good salaries. Moreover, the cost of
establishing a manicure parlor, hair goods store or dermatology parlor is so
small that any intelligent young woman can embark in the profession and find
in it greater scope than in almost any other field which is now open to her.
Please address your application to Miss EVA POWELL,
Secretary  The Canadian College of Dermatology, Vancouver, B. C, care
MADAME   HUMPHREYS
723 Pender Street W.        the fairfield building      VANCOUVER, B. C.
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OPPORTUNITIES
EDSON
The Coming City
In The Land of  Opportunities
It Pays to Invest Where Prospects are Brightest.
There is no city in Canada that offers opportunities for
safe and profitable investment equal to those now
being offered to the investing public in Edson.
Write us for maps and circulars, telling all about the
future metropolis of the North West.
Dominion Investors Corporation, Limited
213 Dominion  Trust Building,  Vancouver, B. C.      or      Room 202 Windsor Block, Edmonton, Alta.
ORGANIZE-SYSTEMIZE Wmmmm
You require the greatest efficiency in your Office Equipment Service. ^ Prompt
delivery, quality goods, honest prices are going to win ouh €J Our store is chuck
full of Labor Saving Devices; bright, snappy ideas.
Did it ever occur to you that we can help each other?
WESTERN SPECIALTY LIMITED
Printing, Bookbinding
Loose Leaf Systems
314 Pender Street West
OFFICE EQUIPPERS     T . ?&?"?*,?*• FiUng f^™5
^ Joint Stock Companies Supplies
Phone 5938 VANCOUVER, B. C.
WINDSOR  PARK
;S $125.00
FOR   AN   INSIDE   LOT;   or
if     $275.00
FOR A FINE DOUBLE  CORNER.
Terms-$20.00 Cash.    Balance—15.00 Month
Just north of proposed Imperial Car Works
 and   Dry  Docks	
Canadian National Investors
LIMITED
(Successors to Foster & Fisher)
310 Hastings Street West
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Telephone 6488
Open Kvenines
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For tne Best and Most Satisfactory Forms of
Accident Insurance
or Health Policies
covering every form or Accident or
Sickness, see our latest proposition.
General Agent for B. C. for the
TRAVELLERS INSURANCE GOT
Hartford, Conn.
, W,   W,   DRESSER
438 Pender St. W.,        | VANGOUVER B. G.
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Ladies—Be Wise
Prepare for Easter Now
Ostrich   Feathers  Cleaned,   Curleu
and Dyed.    Gorgeous-French Wil
lows made of your discarded plumes
Special   Prices   during   February.
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CONTENTS.
FEBRUARY, 1911
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Opportunities and the  Home  10
A Rich Land Which Waits for Settlers William Ford 1 1
Men Who Come Out from England Thomas H. Ingram 14~
Wealth in Chickens William M.  Coats 1 7
Some "Opinions of Mary" on a vital theme. . . .Alice Ashworth ToTvnley 19
The Greatest Fishing Industry Natural Resources Series No. 4 20
The Five-acre Farm and Its Limitations George Schumacher, Ph.D. 24
Resources of Queen Charlotte Islands D. L.   Young 26
The Frame Up   (A Story) J.H.W. 28
Industrial Progress in  British Columbia  33
i    Best Year Yet in Mining  34
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FEBRUARY, 1911
No. 2
EDITORIAL
THREE muses of British Columbia publicity are
portrayed this month on our front cover. The
picture, of course, is rather fanciful. The chief
publicity practitioners of the Province, Mr. Ernest
McGaffey, of Victoria, Dr. Rowe, of Vancouver,
Mr. Frank I. Clark, of the Provincial Government, and Mr.
Stuart Wade, of New Westminster, would bear but slight
resemblance to the figures in the picture, even if draped in
similar fashion. Yet the work which is being done by these
gentlemen, and by others, is worthy of allegorical or epic
representation. It is the fate of most of us, moving along in
our grooves toward ends of private gain, to contribute little or
nothing to the larger movements of life. We are mainly
interested in persuading the man around the corner to patronize
our shop, rather than in persuading the man at the other end
of the world to cast his fortune in our domain. The exigencies
or selling goods of various kinds have been so absorbing to
many that they have not fully realized the importance and
dignity of the work of the publicity men, that of bringing
about a better distribution of people on the face of the earth,
of preaching-the gospel of new opportunities with a view to
drawing population from places where it is too thick, to places
where it is too thin. This is toil in the upbuilding of cities, in
the development of commonwealths, and in the swinging of
human destinies. It is much bigger work than the average
man performs, and it deserves greater recognition than it has
yet received. In British Columbia, however, it is strongly
supported by a large number of progressive citizens and is
bringing benefits too great for measurement. Hundreds of
tons of literature are sent out annually by the various publicity
agencies of British Columbia. Hundreds of thousands
of   letters     are     received     and     answered. There    are
illustrated lectures and talks in many centers. Each year
sees millions of the people of the Old World, and particularly
of the British Isles, made better acquainted with the openings
m this new land, and sees a great additional number of them
turning their hopes and their steps in this direction. The
steadily and rapidly growing interest in British Columbia is
indicated by the increasing number of letters of enquiry received
by the official bureau of information at Victoria. In 1 906
the number of letters was 9,280; in 1907, 16,920; in 1908,
26,974; in 1909, 38,079; in 1910, 47,309. In similarily
increasing ratio letters are pouring into the Vancouver Island
Development League, the Vancouver Tourist Association,
the New Westminster Publicity Commission, the railroad
companies and numerous other organizations. The exodus of
population   from   old   communities   to   British   Columbia   has
been already great, and is constantly becoming greater. It is
one of the big migrations of history and in large measure it is
being directed by the publicity men. It will be seen, then,
that this new art of publicity is one of much importance. It
need not be practiced only by the few. If you have a friend
of the right calibre who is making an uphill fight in another
section it would be an. act of friendship to inform him of the
expanding opportunities here. It would probably be good for
him and would be a contribution to the upbuilding of the
North-west.
THE lowly Chinese as we see him trundling his baskets
through the streets of Vancouver is not an impressive
object, and we are apt to forget that he represents
an Empire which is now seeing one of the most
profound economic and social revolutions since the
time of Christ. Within not much more than a decade the
Empire has passed through periods which correspond in
miniature to epochs of evolution in European history, the dark
ages, the middle ages, the Elizabethan period, the Victorian
period, until to-day China has nearly caught up with modern
civilization. An educational system which has endured for
rwo thousand years is being rapidly swept aside. In the city
of Pekin alone there are seventeen thousand university students.
This means that a tremendous market is developing in the
Orient. British Columbia is in a particularly good position
to obtain a large amount of this trade. While the Chinese
question has its difficulties, it will undoubtedly be solved and
Vancouver's importance as a great port will be enhanced by
the trade which is bound to be developed through the evolution
of the Chinese into a modern people.
lF greater importance than any other publice question which has come before the Canadian public
in recent years is that of the proposed reciprocity
treaty between Canada and the United States. This
agreement has not yet been ratified by Parliament at
Ottawa and Congress at Washington, but the indications are
that it will be formally accepted by both governments. It will
be necessary then to make the best of it. To throw light on
this subject, "Opportunities proposes to publish in the March
issue some carefully digested opinions from men who are best
qualified to judge of the effect of reciprocity upon various
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OPPORTUNITIES AND THE HOME
With our March Issue will be Inaugurated a New Department
"The House and Home"
|OME building is a primitive instinct. The story of
its development has an important place in the larger
history of social growth, especially in a community
as new as British Columbia and the North-west.
"Opportunities" was started about a year ago with the avowed
purpose of reflecting truthfully the resources and life of this
Province. We know of nothing more indicative of individual
character or more expressive of the spirit which governs any
community than the homes and home life of that community.
AN ATTRACTIVE RESIDENCE _ "        '■')
Through this definite channel of common interest, we hope
not only to educate those of our readers who live outside of the
Province to the advantages of a home in British Columbia,
but we seek also to give the people who already live in this
well favored country valuable suggestions as to how they
can do best in home building. "More homes and better
homes" is to be the keynote of our symphony. We desire
your co-operation. Such a department as we are planning
must depend for its material upon a variety of sources. No
one man could write or edit a department that will interest
everyone. There are too many viewpoints to be regarded.
All suggestions and material will be thankfully received, and
adopted to the extent of their practicability. In adding this
new department we believe that we have struck upon a subject
of interest to the greatest number of persons not already readers
of "Opportunities," as well as to those who have followed and
encouraged us in the early stages of our development. We
are growing and intend to grow a whole lot more. We represent no particular interest or occupation. We hope to represent
more and more fully the multitudinous activities of this
Province. The home, with all that a true one means, constitutes the most vital thing on earth. Therefore, we intend to
make the portrayal of it, in its many phases, a very prominent
feature of our magazine. We would like to receive suggestions. This new department will afford you a good opportunity to improve your Opportunities.
AN OUTLINE OF THE NEW DEPARTMENT
We are going to call our new department "House and
Home." We believe that the field and need for such a
department is strong and is growing stronger. Publications
in this section heretofore have been singularly devoid of critical
information and explanation either from the practical or
artistic side of home-making. To give this department the
greatest value to the greatest number requires a breadth of
treatment that forbids too much detail. We can only for the
time at least, select that material which is most representative
and important.
The general development of better building in this Province
will be treated of in a series of short articles by men of
technical training and long residence.
The current processes of actual building will be discussed in
detail, simply and interestingly by architects, contractors and
practical builders in every line. Photographs and non-technical
drawings will be copiously introduced to assist the comprehension. Every article will be full of practical, helpful suggestions. In this connection the homes adapted to the needs of
people of moderate means will be given preference, although
descriptive articles of more elaborate dwellings will be a
feature.
To give you some idea of the way we believe that this
department can be made of practical assistance, permit us to
announce for our March issue a symposium on the question,
"How can a man earning $100 a month or less, acquire and
furnish a home of his own in the City of Vancouver?" This
question will be answered in short, pithy statements by practical people, most important of whom will be the man who has
done it himself.
Another feature will be the "Growth of Building in British
Columbia," by an old-timer, whose name we are going to keep
from you as a welcome surprise until the article appears. This
will take up the subject of building from the time this man
came to British Columbia and helped the Indians put up his
first primitive skin tent to the day of his just completed magnificent suburban villa.
Photographs, both interior and exterior, and an intimate
descriptive article of one of the finest Vancouver residences will
prove a practical and entertaining bit of reading for those who
love splendid specimens of arts and crafts.
The preparation of the home garden for spring will be fully
described by an expert lover of horticulture, under whose
tutelage some of the most splendid effects in beautifying
hitherto ugly spots have been attained.
Short articles selected with an idea of their special timeliness
will characterize the House and Home department from month
to month. Whether you are man or woman; whether you live
in town or country; whether your possessions are a million
dollars or merely hopes, there will be something aimed at you.
A COTTAGE HOME
We have scarcely begun to enumerate the good things which
await you. In return for our work we ask your kindly offices
in the way of criticism and support. Speak a good word for
us when you can. Send us your subscriptions. If you know
of anyone who would like to make some money easily, ask
them to help us introduce "Opportunities" and its new offspring
to their friends. And above all do not forget to look for the
March number. You can get it on the news stands, but
better still, drop a postal or telephone us to send it to you. OPPORTUNITIES
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HUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C, FEBRUARY, 1911.
A Rich Land Which Waits for Settlers
British Columbia's North Country is Beginning to Offer Fresh
Opportunities to a Multitude of People
By William Ford
T is manifestly impossible in a
single article, or even in a
series of articles, to make any
complete or adequate presentation of the vast domain known
as new British Columbia. Here we will
deal only with a few of the more important features of the immense country
which lies to the north of the well settled portions of the Province. It can
be said at the outset that this so-called
north country promises to have, within
the next few years, a much greater population than any other unsettled region of
like  area on the  globe.
Here are many millions of acres of
virgin but productive territory, little
traversed by man because of its remoteness from railway lines. Knowledge of
it has been meager. It has been
regarded by the great majority of people
on this continent as "the frozen north."
As an illustration of the ignorance of
the great North-west which long prevailed and which has not been wholly
banished, it is interesting to note the
fact that half a century ago a congressional commission of the United States
announced that the State of Illinois
marked the northern limit of the profitable wheat growing area in North
America. At about the same period,
when American railroad builders were
seeking   a   possible    rail    route   to   the
Pacific, the Northern Pacific route was
put aside with scant consideration as
impracticable because of its northerly
location.
Not until very recently has there been
any general appreciation of the big fact
that the British Columbia subdivisions
of Cariboo, Quesnel, Skeena, and the
Peace River section of Ominica have, in
addition to mineral richness in various
sections, great areas of land for agriculture, and that here a new land of
immense area and great possibilities is
being opened to settlement and civilization.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, subsidized in a measure by the Dominion
Government, is the chief trail maker.
The Canadian Northern is also pushing
toward this expanse of virgin territory,
and there are definite plans for other
lines. In addition to the steel pathways,
there are the waterways provided by the
Fraser, the Skeena, and other rivers, and
by the Pacific ocean. Thus it will be
seen that new British Columbia will be
in easy touch with all the big centres of
the world. There will be plenty of
means of transportation for bringing
people in, and for carrying products out.
With the development of these facilities
of transportation, myriads of opportunities will arise in a region which, until
these  early years  of the  twentieth  cen
tury, has been, for all purposes of general commerce, as inaccessible as the
desolate wastes of the polar regions.
The bugbear of winter cold has been
swept aside. It is now well known that
the new city of Prince Rupert, the coast
terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific,
has about the same latitude as has
London, England, and is tempered in the
same way by soft winds from a warm
ocean current. On the Pacific Coast
it is the Japanese current. The winds
from it reach far inland, driving back the
frost king and giving to great expanses
of country a climate well adapted to
the pursuit of agriculture and the
building up of populous and thriving
communities.
In glancing briefly at this country it
will be convenient to follow the route of
the  Grand  Trunl
'acific  from  Yellow-
head Pass, in the Cariboo District on the
eastern border of British Columbia, to
Prince Rupert on the western waters.
It may be said here that this route is
shorter by several hundred miles than
any other from the City of London across
the Atlantic and the continent to Japan
and Asia, and that it will become in all
probability the principal highway of
travel in trips around the world. Yellow-
head Pass, with a notably low grade, is
the easiest of all the railroad thoroughfares   through     the     Rockies.     It   was
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named after Jasper Hawes, first factor of
the Hudson Bay trading post, located
near this point. He had long hair of
yellow hue, was called Tete Jaune by
the voyageurs, and was referred to generally in English as "Yellowhead." The
future transcontinental traveller by this
route will approach the pass along the
wild and noisy Miette River. The mountains on either side will loom up
to majestic heights, and after a while will
show less altitude as the train speeds
westward along the south fork of the
Fraser River and across wide reaches of
rolling country to Fort George, three
hundred and twenty-five miles west from
Edmonton, three hundred miles east
from Prince Rupert, and four hundred and twenty-five miles north of
Vancouver.
vicinity. Now there are between five
hundred and one thousand. As the result
of the announcement of the route of
the Grand Trunk Pacific, Fort George
has risen suddenly in the wilderness with
a good hotel, a newspaper, school,
churches, and other features of civilization. All the indications are that Fort
George will develop with unusual rapidity into a big and thriving community.
To the south of the Fort George
country lies the Quesnel District, where
there are large areas of good agricultural
and grazing lands, and where the conditions in general are similar to those
which lie along the Fraser Valley farther
north. In addition to this tributary
country to the south, Fort George is the
gateway to the Peace River region to
the north.    This is a rolling country of
fruits such as apples and plums. Raspberries, saskatoons, currants, blueberries,
strawberries and cranberries grow wild
along the north side of the Peace River.
Mineral showings, with the exception of
some promising coal seams, are meagre.
The future of this section of British Columbia seems to lie in the direction of
mixed farming, dairying and stock raising. It may be that large deposits of
coal will be opened up.
The railway route which will open this
northern country will extend west from
Fort George for a hundred miles or so
through the Nechaco Valley, which,
according to all reports, promises to become one of the finest agricultural sections of the interior. The land is rolling; the soil is rich; and the principal
crops   can   be   grown   without   trouble.
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Fort George will be a division point
for the Grand Trunk Pacific and also, in
all probability, for the British Columbia
and Alaska Railway, the Victoria and
Fort George, and some other lines which
have definite plans for building through
this region. In the Fort George country
are big areas well adapted for the growing of hay, grain, fruits, and most of the
staple vegetables. Besides the agricultural land, there is much timber. The
Cariboo District, moreover, is a gold
country. It has the reputation of being
one of the finest placer mining countries
of the world and is now looming up with
promise of greater production than the
placer workings ever yielded.
Some "gentlemen adventurers" of the
Hudson's Bay Company established a
trading post near the present site of Fort
George a couple of centuries ago,
but as recently as the autumn of 1909
there were only seven white men in this
great area, and is covered for the most
.part with small growths of poplar, birch
and willow, with occasional patches of
spruce and jackpine. There are numerous grass meadows and the country is
said to be well adapted for grazing, the
Indians wintering their horses in many
places without shelter. The heat in the
summer is moderate, and while the temperature in the winter falls for a few
weeks below the zero mark, the weather
is not as cold as in some of the other
Canadian Provinces much farther south.
There are as yet comparatively few
settlers in the district, but land has been
sold by compa'nies and taken up by preemption, and there will be a considerable influx of population in the spring.
There are abundant growths of wild hay
and other wild grasses, and it is a well
established fact that the country is good
for barley, rye, oats and wheat. The
indications  are also favorable for large
The general altitude is lower than that
of the surrounding country, and the
climate is comparatively mild. It is
somewhat like that in the vicinity of
Quebec with a lighter snowfall. The
Nechaco River abounds in salmon,
trout, sturgeon and other edible fish. It
has been stated by authorities that the
flat country of the lower Nechaco basin
constitutes one of the greatest continuous regions susceptible to cultivation in
the Province, and that when the railroad
brings it into easy communication with
the rest of the world, one of British
Columbia's most productive sections
will be developed here.
The Bulkley Valley, which lies farther
west along the railway line, is a country
of rolling hills well adapted to agriculture. It is less suitable, perhaps, for
cattle ranging than for mixed farming,
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gardens already producing fine staple
vegetables, and barley, wheat, oats and
timothy are raised successfully. It has
been estimated that the amount of excellent agricultural land in the valley
covers several million acres. The first
settlement took place in the summer of
1904, when about twenty pre-emptors
took up land, built themselves cabins
and prepared to cultivate the soil. Since
then, settlers have been arriving in a
small stream, and now there are in the
valley several hundred men, women and
children, occupying and tilling the land.
Summing the valley up it can be said
that it presents fine opportunities for
agriculture. All of the farming products
command high prices, and will find a
constantly expanding market with the
coming of the railroads and more settlers. There are promising showings of
minerals, and along the Telkwa River
are coal deposits which indicate a large
coal mining industry in the future.
Near the Pacific Coast is Hazelton,
where the conditions are similar in general to those in the Bulkley Valley. The
Bulkley River flows into the Skeena
River at Hazelton and the railroad follows the Skeena to the west and to the
Pacific. It has been judged by representatives of the Dominion Government
that the Skeena and the Kitsumkalum
valleys contain great areas of good
agricultural land. The timber here is
principally spruce, hemlock, willow, and
cedar. Along the upper Skeena there
are large tracts of land on both sides of
the river which are well adapted to the
growing of fruit and to other branches
of agriculture. Many settlers have taken
up land in this region. It is predicted
that upon the completion of the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway the upper Skeena
will become one of the garden spots
of British Columbia. The country along
the Skeena and Naas rivers shows coal
deposits which promise, with the settlement of this country, to yield a large
production, and thus to play an important part in the development of various
industries.
A comparatively short distance from
Hazelton to the south-west is situated
Prince Rupert, the coast terminus of the
Grand Trunk Pacific and a young city
which, in anticipation of the big railway
traffic of the future, has already developed into a community of about five
thousand people, and has good hotels,
progressive newspapers, and other features of high civilization. Prince Rupert
has one of the best harbors on the
Pacific Coast, and from this are constantly sailing vessels to many parts of
the world. With canneries reaching for
miles along the Skeena River, the city
is the centre of the fishing industry of
Northern British Columbia, and is the
site of a million and a half dollar refrigerator plant now in course of construc
tion. In the vicinity of Prince Rupert
last year salmon to the value of about
$5,000,000, and halibut valued at about
$1,000,000 were caught. The industry
in this neighborhood employs about
twelve  thousand  men.
The country which will be tributary
to Prince Rupert, and which has just
been described in brief outline, is larger
than England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy,
Austria and Scandinavia, and the vast
volume of agriculture and other products of this great region will serve as
time goes on to constantly increase
Prince Rupert's prosperity. The city
will also derive revenue from the Portland Canal mining district, which is
being opened with so much promise
to the north, and from the Queen Charlotte Islands, which are developing great
potentialities in coal production. Among
the manufacturing plants projected or
constructed at Prince Rupert are the
salmon canneries, brick yards, fertilizer
plants, oil refineries, flour mills, stamp
mills, and smelting works.
The great tracts of timber have
brought saw mills to the vicinity, and
also a pulp mill costing over a million
dollars. Many kinds of big and small
game roam the surrounding country.
The city will, beyond a doubt, become a
great shipping center in British Columbia, and one of the largest cities on the
Pacific Coast, with plenty of opportunities for those who know how to
make the most of them.
The country described above is not, of
course, a section for the luxurious or the
timid. It requires men and women who
are able and willing to undergo hardship
at the beginning for the sake of independence. Its opportunities lie in the fact
that the food supply in North America
is not increasing in proportion to the
increase in population.
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Men Who Come Out From England
Some Suggestions by those who have come to British Columbia to Make Careers
by one who has been "Through the Mill"
By Thomas H. Ingram
T1 HE big movement from the British Isles to Canada in general
i and British Columbia in particular makes pertinent a consideration of the kind of Englishman who is most likely to succeed
amid the conditions of this new country.
In this connection it is interesting at
the outset to note what has been said on
this subject by Mr. Thomas Howell, who
has charge of the immigration project
of the Canadian Northern Railway, and
who is now organizing a series of lecture tours throughout the agricultural
districts of Great Britain for the purpose
of inducing people to migrate to Canada.
Mr.
[owell,  speaking of the  English
mechanic in Canada, says that the latter
needs tact as well as skill; that work is
conceived and carried out by somewhat
different methods than those which prevail in the Old Country, and that the
home trained mechanic, though he may
be a more skillful man than the Canadian, must be prepared to say: "I see
you want me to do it this way, although
I have been accustomed to doing it that
way. All right, I will do it the way you
want it done."
These words express in a nutshell the
attitude which the young Englishman in
British Columbia should adopt if he
hopes to achieve here the full measure
of success. An unwillingness to learn
the ways of Canada, a feeling of superiority, or a supercilious manner, means
disaster. I have seen this illustrated in
numerous cases. For instance, some
years ago I obtained for a young man
from England a good position in the
accounting department of a Vancouver
firm. He was an efficient bookkeeper,
but took frequent occasion to comment
unfavorably on the methods in vogue in
the office. He set himself up as a critic.
This antagonized the other members of
the clerical force, and created friction,
which made it necessary for the employer of this young man to ask for his
resignation. Thus it was that he lost
an excellent position.
A recent instance of this kind was that
of the agent of an English company
which desired to introduce a certain
article into the British Columbia market.
The agent knew his business as he had
learned it in England, but he positively
declined to open his mind to local
methods and conditions.    He seemed to
think that instead of trying to conform
to British Columbia ways he would be
successful in compelling business people
here to conform to the methods of the
Old Country. His failure was complete,
and it was not long before the English
house withdrew him from the field and
substituted a man who had more
adaptability.
During my long residence in Canada
and British Columbia, I have observed
a great many other incidents of the same
character, and as the result of this observation I would strongly advise all young
Englishmen to enter into their new life
here with a willingness to learn. The
truth of the matter is that while methods
here are by no means perfect, as is, of
course, true in all other countries of
the world, these methods are for the
most part better adapted to the conditions of this new country than are those
which some Englishmen, to their own
undoing, endeavor to transplant from
across the Atlantic. The young man
coming here from the other side should
keep a close mouth and wide open eyes
until he has gained some knowledge of
British Columbia. The more knowledge
he obtains the less likely he is to criticise and adopt that superior point of
view which so quickly arouses antagonism and dislike. He will learn in time
that we are still at the beginning and
are working with remarkable energy and
productivity to make this one of the
finest regions of the earth for contented
living and building up individual prosperity, and that it is vastly better for
him to absorb the buoyant spirit of this
effort and progress than to hold aloof
and try to assume the position of a
judge.
If he is to develop with the country he
must work at the top of his energy and
ability to do that work which comes
first to hand, unless, of course, he is in
the fortunate situation of having financial resources sufficient to enable him to
choose his field of endeavor. The young
man coming here without means to
make his way, should cut loose from any
shrinking feeling about work which, in
the Old Country, he might regard as
beneath him. I have long believed, and
this belief, is in harmony with the true
spirit of British Columbia, that the work
cannot demean the man, but that the
man can demean  the work.    Class dis
tinctions are almost nil in British Columbia. Kinds of work which might
cause a young man to lose caste in many
of the older and more effete communities of the world, have here the effect
of increasing respect for the man who
is willing to make his climb from the
lower rungs of the ladder. In the early
days of my own experience in Alberta
I delivered ice and milk at back doors of
residences during the day, and in the
evening entered the same residences
through the front door as a guest. I
was willing to do whatever I had to do
to get ahead, and I can say that it was
never necessary for me to remain out
of some kind of employment for more
than twenty-four hours at a time.
My own experience in this particular
has been duplicated by hundreds of other
Englishmen who have come to this
country with the right spirit. Many of
the most successful men in this City of
Vancouver made their start here at some
form or other of manual labor, and are
proud of it. For instance, I was taking
a stroll the other day with a friend who
is a successful business man. We happened to draw near the wharves, and he
said, with a laugh, "Let's go down to
the waterfront. I want to take a look
at the old dock where I used to juggle
freight for a living."
A man can never tell just what path
leads to his big opportunity, and my
own experience has been that by far
the best plan is to take the path which
stretches immediately before him, without regard to whether or not it looks
steep and arduous. In this connection
it is interesting to quote at some length
from the story of a young Englishman
who came to this country without
friends or influence, and eventually made
good. His experience is not altogether
representative, in that it contained
harder knocks than come to most young
men here, but it brings to light the spirit
which in British Columbia is bound to
win. This young man has written in
part as  follows:
"There are a great many things that
the unskilled tenderfoot in British Columbia can do if he has grit. But I
would bid him remember that grit is
a hard thing. It is an ideal made real;
and everywhere it is easier to talk than
to do. There are things also that he
may struggle    to    do    without success. 1911
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night his eyes followed me.    I went to     can get your muscle up working for the
ilway—if  not  your    banking  account.
Then he must try something else.
I tried hard, in lumber camps of the the  pay-clerk and "took my time"  and
Thompson   and     Columbia     Rivers,   to departed  like a cat out of a bucket of     A dollar and a half a day the railroad
learn to swing an axe.    I never learned water.   A year later I saw that boss, and     paid in a country where other unskilled
the knack of it.    At my first attempt to he stared at me in astonishment—I had
swing a hammer I skinned the knuckles changed.     I  had  seen  what  was  wrong
laborers made $2.50 and skilled laborers
from three to four dollars.    The  work
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TYPICAL OF THE WAY IN WHICH MANY HAVE MADE THEIR START IN B.
of the boss. He did not fire me. He
took another method. He gave me job
after job that I couldn't do, a suppressed
hilarity on his face, his eyes staring and
glittering, his  great  chest  heaving.    At
with me, and gone to school in the new
world  and  learnt.
"I went to work on the railway after
that fiasco, getting the poorest wages
for manual labor in the place.    Bi t you
was trucking goods from the freight
shed to freight car, from freight car to
freight shed, with a gay, sorry gang
composed of tenderfeet who could get
nothing else to do, and old stagers who Page 16
EMPRESS HOTEL, VICTORIA, B. C.
had little cash in hand and wanted a soft
job—it was soft to them—that would
give them just enough "to be going on
with." When the job became a "soft
job" to me also, I argued that my
muscles and condition were better, and
I should try for something else.
"I went down to Vancouver and found
street work at two and a half a day. I
tackled a long-handled shovel and learned to throw up earth out of a
drain -with the best of them. It
was terriffic work for a tenderfoot.
But the trucking had stiffened me
up a bit, and I kept at it. But one
day as I picked and shovelled I heard a
little crack and it seemed to be in my
back. It was. I could not stand erect.
And just when I thought I was breaking
in so well and getting to be quite the
peer of all those callous wielders of the
pick and shovel! When I managed to
straighten, I could not stoop again. But
luck was with me still—it was just
knocking-off time. I walked down to
the hotel stiff as a poker, hoping to be
all right in the morning.
"But in the morning I couldn't move.
It took three weeks to heal that strain.
The money was all gone then, for it
cost me a dollar a day for board and
bed alone. So I went out into the rain,
cursing Vancouver, cursed everything,
cursing my folly for having come down to
the coast, and found a scow full of macadamized rock by the waterside, two men
shovelling the rock off into a waiting
cart, and a man in a waterproof looking
on. I went up to the man in the waterproof and asked him if he wanted more
hands.
' 'Jump right in,' he said, and nodded
towards half a dozen short shovels
stacked  near  by.
"I felt his eyes on me as I took the
shovel. My back was all right—supple
as ever. I shovelled; but this shovelling
was not like shovelling earth. I squinted
at one of the other men, and saw how he
put the shovel flat to the deck of the
scow, and then thrust forward, under
the pile of rock, swinging his knees. I
did the same—and won.
"My earlier shovelsful had been too
small;  I  saw that myself.    I knew the
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boss saw it. He fidgetted round me.
He looked along the rainy waterfront;
once, under his breath, he swore. When
I took that good shovelful he sighed a
good sigh, said to the air, 'That's it!'
and   turned   his   back   on   me.
"I moved from job to job, and began
to make headway. My habit of concentrating on 'learning how' stood me in
excellent stead. I succeeded at last. I
got on my feet. Back at home I never
would have had the nerve to do what I
did out here in the most buoyant and
hopeful atmosphere in the world."
It is quite evident that the clever
writer of the above was not receiving
remittances. The mere fact that a man
gets money from the people at home
during the earlier period of his career
in British Columbia should not, of
course, be held against him. The truth
is that there are many so-called remittance men who have utilized the pecuniary aid in making a start on the right
track and establishing themselves firmly
in prosperous occupations. On the other
hand, it cannot be denied that many
young men have put their remittances
to uses which have caused the term
"remittance man" to become, to a certain
extent, one of scorn and odium.
I remember, back in the old days, in
the North-west, when some of the remittance men, upon receiving from the
other side the periodical contributions to
their support, would come swashbuckling into town with two or three guns
strapped to their belts, and with definite
intentions of drinking too much and of
terrorizing the neighborhood. From one
settlement in particular a crowd of them
would come in Bain wagons, into which
they would load kegs of beer and bottles
of whisky, after having loaded themselves with the same sort of fluids. Then,
with their horses whipped to a run, they
would go careering through the streets,
shouting, firing their revolvers, shooting
out lights, and, in general, giving sorry
imitations of typical bad men of the
West. That was some twenty years ago
and while this sort of rowdyism is no
longer seen, the spirit of it still exists, I
regret to say, in some of the remittance
men who lounge about the clubs, getting
drunk when they have the money, running up bills with tradesmen, and borrowing right and left when their remittances have been dissipated. Such individuals are, of course, in the small minority, yet they make themselves conspicuous and then create an impression from
which other men are apt to suffer.
The fault with most young men who
receive money from home is that they
are inclined to depend too much upon
the remittances, and, therefore, to be
too finiky about the kind of work they
undertake. In making his start in this
country, I should say that it is far better
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any anchor to windward in the form of
remittances, but only with the few hundred dollars necessary to tide him over
the period of looking about for a good
opening. Under these circumstances he
knows that he must work to live, and is
much more apt to develop quickly into
the kind of young man we want here for
the big work of building up this great
commonwealth.
Ignorance of British Columbia constitutes one of the great defects of the
average Englishman upon his arrival in
the country. There are a large number
who have the weird idea that this is an
Eldorado; that money can be shovelled
up in the streets. There are many others
who think that British Columbia is a
sort of frontier post in a great wilderness. I met one of the latter last summer in London. He informed me that he
wished to come to British Columbia.
When I asked him what he intended to
do here, he said:
"Oh, I think I'll do a bit of trapping
for furs, don't you know."
I told him that this was a good business in the unsettled sections, but that
it required, a great deal of experience,
and entailed much hardship.
"Oh, I am not intending," he answered
breezily, "to go far into the woods. You
have quite a settlement in Vancouver,
I understand, and I think I'll just do my
trapping from there, you know."
I replied that this might be an excellent idea, since in the West End of Vancouver were a large number of stray
cats.
Summing up the question of the young
Englishman in British Columbia, I can
say from long experience that he is
heartily welcome, and has big opportunities for success if he is willing to
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Wealth in Chickens
One of the Province's Best Opportunities Lies in Poultry Raising
By William M. Coats
HERE was imported into British Columbia in 1909 three
million five hundred dollars'
worth of poultry and eggs. The
figures for 1910 have not yet
been received, but it is safe to say that
they will show no less an importation
of these products than did 1909. This
is worthy of close attention. It shows
that a great amount of money is waiting
here for poultryrhen. In this business
there are few risks. The market, already
great, is constantly growing greater. It
cannot be affected by products from
other sections, because local poultry
always brings from five to ten cents
a pound more than the cold storage product from a distance, and local eggs
range up to twenty cents a dozen higher
than case eggs brought in from elsewhere. Our own eggs never fell below
thirty-five cents a dozen in 1910, and
brought as high as seventy-five cents. The
indications are that prices this year will
be even higher.
It is quite true that a man must have
a knowledge of the poultry industry to
make it pay. By far the best plan for the
beginner is to start in a small way and
develop his business and his knowledge
of it at the same time. He should concentrate his attention upon the producing end. The market, as I have already
said, will take care of itself. Twenty-
five million dozen eggs were imported
into the Dominion of Canada in 1910.
Most of these were brought from China
and Russia, the Chinese eggs being used
in the West, and the Russian eggs in the
East. All of these eggs were dipped in
wax to preserve them as long as possible,
and none were less than three months
old.
There is no good reason for indulging
in this tremendous importation of eggs.
It is true that our cities and towns have
developed so rapidly that it is very difficult to supply the demand, but the opportunities in the business are of the best,
and there are plenty of people in a position to take advantage of them. Any
man with any knowledge of the
industry will find in British Columbia a
great demand for all the poultry and
eggs he can possibly produce throughout
the year, and will always find the prices
high enough to give him an excellent
profit. Moreover, the Provincial Government will assist him in numerous
ways, particularly in showing him how
A POULTRY LORD
to conduct a poultry plant. The British
Columbia Live Stock Commissioner, Mr.
A. Jull, has secured a leading poultry
expert in the person of J. R. Terry, who
was poultry instructor at the Agricultural College at Guelph, Ontario, and
who is now here to give poultrymen all
the'information and advice he has at his
command.
At all the leading poultry shows
recently the Government has had displays, showing how poultry should be
raised and dressed for the market. Mr.
Terry has been kept busy instructing
breeders as to how to treat, house, and
market their fowl, how to feed for eggs
and so forth. This assistance has been
of much value.
As an illustration of what may be done
in this industry, I can mention the success of J. J, Wilson, who conducts the
White Wings Poultry Ranch at Steves-
ton, B. C. Five years ago Mr. Wilson
started in a small way. In 1910 he
shipped twenty-eight thousand one-day-
old chicks, and sold for hatching over
twenty thousand eggs, in addition to the
great number which he marketed for
food. His sales of poultry were also
very large, and his net profit for the
year amounted to over ten thousand
dollars.
There are others who have been very
successful. I have mentioned Mr. Wilson
in particular merely because he was good
enough to show me his books, thus making me sure of the facts in his case.
Before he embarked in the business he
and I had numerous talks on the outlook. He was then breeding poultry
only as a pastime, but this gave him an
insight into the big demand for fresh
eggs and well dressed poultry, and so,
one day, he informed me that he was
going into the business in earnest. I
have already mentioned the results to
date. While these have been big, it is
a certainty that in the future they will be
even bigger. Mr. Wilson makes a
specialty of breeding white leghorns and
white Pekin ducks. His experience has
been that the leghorns are wonderfully
heavy layers, and that their eggs are fine,
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large, white ones. Every day throughout the winter he sends, on the average,
fifty dozen eggs to market, and in the
hatching season sells eggs for from two
and a half dollars up, per setting. What
he does not sell for hatching he hatches
himself and markets the day-old chicks
for from fifteen dollars a hundred up to a
dollar a bird. He hatches most of his
duck eggs. When the young ducks are
three months old they weigh on an
average of five pounds each. For these
ducks he gets twenty-five cents a pound
live weight, or one dollar and twenty-five
cents a head for his three-months-old
ducks. His returns from them, it will
be seen, are quick and lucrative. For
his young leghorn cockerels, which, at
three months old, weigh up to three
pounds, he received last year as high as
forty cents a pound, dressed. Here, too,
it will be noted, his profits come quickly
and are large. He tells me that he cannot supply half the demand for his eggs,
young ducks, and broilers. He raises
nothing but pure-bred poultry, and
among his flocks has many prize birds
which he sells at high figures, being a
keen show fancier as well as a breeder
for   the   market.
I could mention many other poultry-
men who have made money, and quote
Mr. Wilson, as I have already said,
merely because I have special and intimate knowledge of just what he has
accomplished. He uses open or cur-
tained-front houses, single boarded, with
a board floor, about fifteen inches off the
ground. In the coast section of the
Province it is not necessary to construct
costly houses, because of the mildness of
the climate.
Any fruit grower can raise poultry on
the ground with his fruit. The fowls are
useful here because, as everyone knows,
they destroy many insects. In my travels
through the Okanagan Valley I found
that, next to fruit, poultry was most
talked of. In judging shows last year
from Summerland, B. C, to Dallas, Ore.,
I did not find a man who, if he understood   the   business,   was    not   making
money at it. At the Coldstream Ranch
I saw two hundred white leghorns and
over two hundred wyandottes. Murray
Brown has charge of the poultry plant
and under his able management it pays
well. The eggs bring from thirty-five
to sixty-five cents a dozen. In use here
are open front houses and trap nests, of
the Danish type. This is a simple nest,
which can be built at small cost. It is
true that feed is high in British Columbia, but market prices for the poultry
product is even higher in proportion,
and for this reason the profits are large.
In poultry lie opportunities for many
persons. I know of no other business in
British Columbia which offers such sure
returns, and am constantly surprised that
more farmers do not take up seriously this highly lucrative branch of
agriculture.
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Some "Opinions of Mary" on a Vital Theme
By Alice Ashworth Townley
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MARY was giving me her latest
views regarding matrimony
yesterday. It's a theme she
rather likes to dwell upon
occasionally, and one that is
always interesting to me, for Mary
rarely repeats herself. An opinion held
by her to-day is apt to be so changed
by circumstances or feelings, or some
incomprehensible rearrangement of her
thoughts, that when she brings it out the
day after to-morrow it is a perfect
stranger to you and you have the novelty
of meeting a new acquaintance. Not a
week ago she admitted to me, after
spending a day with young Mrs. Cooings,
that after all she believed it was "rather
nice to be married and have a pretty
home and a darling little baby and some
man to love you that thought you were
just about perfect." She said that although people said and wrote such
dreadful things nowadays, she felt sure
there were plenty good and true men in
the world—like Edward Cooings, for
instance—though, of course, he was not
quite to her taste, though he made Eva
a good husband; and if somebody she
loved awfully well asked her to marry
him, she thought perhaps she would, and
risk it.
"You know it's an ignoble fate, after
all, to be an old maid. People always
think you never had a chance to get
married, and even some care-worn woman with nine children and a drunken
husband will say of you, with condescending pity, 'Ah, poor thing! she's an
old maid.'"
I agreed with her that the position of
being an 'unappropriated blessing" certainly had its disadvantages.
"Yes," went on the convert, "it's all
very well while you are young and
pretty, and get all the attention you
wish; but by and by, no doubt, when you
get tired of going here and there, and
you see all the other girls married, it
must give one a doleful sort of feeling,
don't you think?" and an expression that
augured well for the hopes of the ornament of one of the branches of a certain
bank dawned in Mary's pensive eyes.
And this was three days ago, remember.
Yesterday she came to inform me that
her opinions regarding the wedded state
had undergone  an  entire  change.
She said that in her mind marriage
was "nothing but slavery," and assured
me that no possible consideration could
ever induce her to enter its despicable
bonds. Men were "mean, detestable
tyrants," and so on. I won't go over it
all. Mary gets rather carried away by
her subject sometimes. Suffice it that I
gathered that the hopes of the ornament of that certain bank might be
doomed to disappointment should the
views of her upon whom they were
fixed not alter considerably. I felt sorry
for the ornament; he's a youth I take
an  interest in.
"And what may be the reason for this
change of front, this tirade against miserable, monstrous, contempible man to
which you are treating me?" inquired I,
presently.
"I stayed to dinner at Mrs. Smith's last
night," responded my friend, with
gloomy  terseness.
"Oh," said I, vaguely, not quite seeing
the point of her reply, and then—a bit
irritated by her continued silence—"they
must have given you something uncommonly bad for dinner!"
"Thank goodness, I don't care what I
have to eat—and the meal was good
enough—though Mr. Smith found all
sorts of fault with things. He's a perfect
crank, that man; dictatorial, domineering, grumpy. We are all very intimate,
you know, so he didn't trouble to put
on his best company manners for my
benefit. When he came in he scolded
because the house was too warm—said
it was 'funny how all women liked to
cook themselves.' When she opened a
window, complained that the draught
was 'enough to blow the hair off one's
head.' Made an awful row because some
paper he thought he had left in a certain
place wasn't there—said she must have
let the children tear it up'—and afterwards found it in another pocket. She
brought his slippers and ran around at
his call like a little dog, and he took it all
as a matter of course. But it was at
dinner that he really out-shone himself.
The soup was cold and the joint overdone. 'Why did she always have potatoes cooked the one way?' and 'what
kind of sauce was that on the cauliflower?' (The sauce was rather lumpy,
but what about it?) It was 'strange she
couldn't remember that he didn't like
lemon flavoring in a pudding,' and 'if
that was the best coffee the cook could
make she ought to be given her walking
ticket.' It sounded so small to hear a
great man making such a fuss over his
food!"
I had to admit that Mr. Smith's conversational efforts, as reported by Mary,
were not very edifying. "Perhaps the
dinner was bad," I suggested. "I have
some sympathy with a man at the mercy
of a conscienceless cook."
"Not a bit of it! Things were very
fair; but men are such greedy animals—
always think about what they'd like to
eat or drink; and they are cross and
selfish, and I don't want to have anything to do with them; and an old maid
has a snap compared with the lot of the
ordinary married woman."
And not giving me time to bring forward anything in reply—which, having
the happiness of the ornament at heart,
I might have essayed—she was gone.
Mary has a little way of doing that. If
she. makes any rash statements which
she sees you about to disprove, or suddenly finds herself on untenable ground,
what does she do? Stay and let you
show her where she is wrong? Not she!
Off she is, like a flash. That's one trait
I don't altogether like in Mary.
Whether it is better to marry or remain single is a matter I have no desire
to discuss. I don't say I have no views
on the subject—but if I have they are not
for publication. So many people eagerly
air their various experiences, so much
valuable advice is graciously given, such
quantities of excellent argument pro and
con, such exhaustive dissertations are
brought to bear upon this ever-timely
topic, that the world can well get on
without further light on the subject. The
more so as not one creature in a hundred
avails himself of the riches of all this
fund of wisdom and advice, but barren
of all but his own inclination, makes his
choice as it may seem good to him.
It is more on the subject of dinner—
dinner as an ever present danger in the
household, the rock upon which countless numbers of matrimonial barques are
wrecked, the trap-door of happiness, the
bell that wakes one from one's dreams,
the man at the door with a bill, the thief
in the night, the snake in the grass, the
big drum in domestic discord—that I
have a few words to say.
Mary was to a certain extent correct
when she stigmatized man as a greedy
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eat—he may not be unduly concerned,
but to the best of men dinner is a matter of vital importance. There is also
something in what she said about women
not caring what is set before them.
It is generally conceded that the matter of dining is of much less moment to
the gentler sex than it is to the lords of
creation. "Familiarity breeds contempt,"
and it may be that constant association
with things eatable in their crude and
unfinished state, knowledge of the necessary preliminaries, a weary disgust for
the never-ending round of preparation,
robs one of that fine respect and admiration for a culinary success that is displayed by the man to whom it is introduced in its finished perfection.
Does the humorist laugh over the
effort of his own brain? It is the public
to whom it is dished that thoroughly enjoy his bon-mot. He may know it is
good and take a certain pride in his production, but where is the delicate flavor,
the pungency, that charms those to
whom it is served? He is so tired combining his materials—cutting, paring,
weighing, spicing, boiling it down and
beating it into shape, as it were, that he
has no relish for it and would just as
soon read anything else. Who would
write jokes for his own delectation? Is
it strange that a woman would just as
soon sit down to bread and jam and a
cup of tea as cook for herself—or even
order an elaborate spread?
But let her not fancy that such fare will
fill her husband's soul with contentment.
Be wise, wife of his bosom! He may
love you devotedly, but Le careful what
you feed him on.
Think of our first parents. What made
trouble in the Garden of Eden? Something Eve gave Adam to eat. And down
through the ages the wrongdoing of the
first woman has followed her daughters
through countless generations, and today the latest man complains of his wife
bitterly, as did the first, that she gives
him to eat of the things that he shouldn't
taste.
If man selected his wife for the excellence of her domestic virtues and her
certified ability to construct good cakes
and pies, instead of choosing her for
the shape of her nose or the fascinating
dimple in her cheek, things might gradually improve for him, and dinner presently attain that dignity and prominence
in the mind feminine that it is so well
worthy of holding.
The wise mother of to-day who has
her daughter's happiness in mind, certainly tries to teach her a smattering of
domestic economy, that she may be able
to, in some degree, hold things together
in a house of her own. At the same time
that is not allowed to interfere with more
important matters—it is only a side issue.
The wise mother realizes that if her
daughter doesn't take plenty of time to
curl her hair, and learn to dance gracefully, and play golf and tennis, and generally make herself fascinating and
agreeable, there is very little prospect
of her ever having a home of her own
to preside over, a husband to do justice
to—except it might be some practical-
minded widower with ten children who
wants an inexpensive housekeeper. This
being the case, what wonder so many
lives are wrecked on the rock of
woman's woe"—dinner?
If woman would only appreciate the
sacredness of her obligations in this
matter, and realize that her husband's
stomach will be hers to cherish long
after his heart may have strayed from
her keeping, the importance of it might
be borne in upon her—
"Oh! love for a year, a week, a day,
But the dinner, the dinner comes every
day."
And all this wandering dissertation
just because Mary found exception to
Mr. Smith's remarks about what was set
before him. It's ridiculous! As for Mary,
she will have to go to cooking-school
and learn to object to lumpy sauce, or
she won't prove worthy the love of that
bank attache.
The Greatest Fishing Industry
British Columbia has a Large and Constant
Resource in the Fisheries
WITH no less than fifteen thousand miles of coastland, British
Columbia promises to have the
greatest fishing industry in the
world. Long stretches of this
coast are particularly well adapted to the
pursuit of fishing on a big scale for the
reason that they consist of bays and
inlets and mainland shores which are
protected from the tempestuous winds
and waves of the Pacific Ocean.
Fisheries with an annual product
valued at about sixteen million dollars
have already been developed along the
coast, but the present operations are
decidedly limited in comparison with the
promise of British Columbia fishing. A
big step toward the systematizing and
the expansion of the industry was made
last season when the Mackenzie-Mann
interests took over the leading company engaged in whaling. The new
interests are making preparations to exploit on a much larger scale than heretofore the whale and some other branches
(Natural Resources Series, No. 4)
of the British Columbia fishing industry.
Whaling will receive attention first from
the new company, the plans include
the development of shark and halibut
fisheries as well as whaling. New
whaling stations will be constructed and
new vessels built or chartered. Ten
whaling steamers will be operated by the
company next year. The best experts
will be in charge, and, in general, the
fisheries will be conducted on a basis
so much more comprehensive and scientific than has heretofore been the case,
that the production will undoubtedly be
largely increased.
As an indication of what may be
expected in the fisheries of the Province
in the future, it can be stated that while
there are numerous varieties of fish in
British Columbia waters and great quantities of them, the salmon as yet represents eighty per cent, of the yearly
output. This is chiefly due to the fact
that the salmon has so far presented the
easiest and most lucrative fishing oppor
tunities because of its habit, in certafn
seasons of the year, of swarming into
the straits and mouths of the rivers in
vast numbers, thus making the fish one
of the easiest of all to capture.
This factor in salmon fishing in combination with the great merit of this particular fish for canning, has caused
salmon fishing to develop with notably
rapid strides. For instance, when the
business was established on the Fraser
River in 1876 the pack amounted to only
9,800 cases; the next year it was 67,387
cases; ten years later it was 201,990
cases; in 1897 it was 1,015,744 cases.
During the last five years the salmon
catch has diminished, and although it
will undoubtedly be large for many years
to come, the provincial authorities have
established a fisheries commission for
the purpose of conserving the salmon
resource, and the leaders in the industry
are extending in other directions, in
order that they may become less dependent upon the salmon. 191
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In British Columbia waters are five
species of Pacific salmon. The one of
most commercial importance is the
sockeye, which weighs from three to ten
pounds, and, with a bluish back, silvery
sides, and a white belly, is considered
the most beautiful of the family. In the
head-waters where they go to spawn, the
back and sides turn a deep carmen and
the tails to an olive green. Sockeyes
are found in myriads in the Fraser and
other mainland rivers, but their abundance varies in different years, being
greater every fourth season, with a poor
run in the year  immediately following.
powerful swimmer, seeking the most
rapidly moving streams and pushing up
through rapids and leaping over falls to
the extreme head waters.
The salmon holding third place in importance is the cohd, or silver or fall
salmon, which is found in all salmon
streams of the Province, and is becoming
a considerable factor in canning. It
ranges in weight from three to eight
pounds. The dog salmon has fourth
place. It varies from ten to twelve
pounds in weight and spawns close to
the sea, ascending a short distance up
almost  all  of  the  coast  streams.    The
thus, with all of them receiving attention, the fishing season is becoming so
lengthened that regular fishermen may
expect in the near future to find ready
employment throughout the year. The
methods of handling and packing
salmon have seen material improvement
within the last few years, and are now
expeditious and cleanly. After the fish
have been taken in the nets they are
practically untouched by hand until the
can is opened by the housewife. From
the boats the salmon are carried by
what is known as the conveyor to a
table in front of a machine known as the
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The cause of this has not been satisfactorily explained.
The spring salmon ranks second in
importance. It is known in Alaska as
the king, and sometimes in British Columbia as the chinook salmon. For many
years it was the principal species used
for canning. It has an average weight
of from eighteen to thirty pounds,
although individual fish weighing as
much as one hundred pounds have been
captured. Its general appearance in salt
water is much like that of the sockeye,
but at spawning it becomes almost black,
and is often spoken of at the spawning
grounds as the black salmon.    It is a
dog salmon is never canned in the
Province, and until the last five or six
years was regarded as without value.
Now, however, these fish are captured
in great numbers by the Japanese, who
dry-salt and export many thousands of
tons annually to the Orient. The humpback salmon, the smallest of the species
found in our waters, averages from three
to six pounds. It has as yet but small
commercial value, but is being used more
than formerly as a result of the growing
demand for all of British Columbia's
salmon product.- .
These five species of salmon have each
a different time of year for its run and
"iron chink," which derives this name
from the fact that it does the work of
numerous Chinamen. The chink has an
intricate equipment of knives and cot-
ters which slice off the bead, tail, fins.
and scales, split the fish and remove the
entrails. Another conveyor carries the
fish to a cutter which divides it into
pieces convenient for the cans. While
this process is going on tbe fish is being
continually sprayed with water, and is
thus thoroughly clean *cd. The sections
drop into a bin from which they are
shovelled by Chinese workmen with
wooden spades to the can fillers, who, at
long tables, pack the pieces into Use tins. Page 22
OPPORTUNITIES
1911
As these are filled they are placed on
big trays and wheeled to a machine
which, with steel fingers, fits lids upon
each can; another machine crimps the
lids on tight; then the cans are carried
on a belt through a bath of solder, in
which their tops are immersed. Again
the cans are placed on trays and sunk
into tanks of water to be tested for leaks.
If bubbles emerge Chinese note the
fact and withdraw the leaky cans, which
are afterwards sealed by hand. The next
stage of process is that in which the
salmon, in retorts, are thoroughly cooked
by steam. Then the cans are finally
sealed, the air vents being closed by
drops of solder. The last scene of all is
in a big room where the cans, arrayed
in long rows, are cooling. From here they
are packed in boxes and are shipped to
the markets of the world. Thus it is
that the sockeye, squirming on its way
from the boat, is cleaned, packed, and
cooked, before it has had time to realize
what has happened to it. The human
labor is chiefly supplied by Siwash men
and women, and Chinamen. A cannery
in operation has a sort of raw pictur-
esqueness. The real pictorial phases of
the industry are seen, however, when the
salmon boats hoist sail and move out on
the  ebb  tide.
The halibut ranks next to the salmon
in commercial importance in British Columbia waters. The fish has an average
size of about sixty pounds.    The halibut
industry employs a large fleet of
schooners and several steamers, the
home ports of which are Vancouver,
Seattle and Tacoma. A halibut boat on
the Pacific Coast usually has a crew of
five or six men. When it arrives at the
fishing banks the schooner is hove-to,
dories are launched, and buoy lines
lowered. The system is one of trawling
by means of many hooks. When all the
hooks on a line have fish, the line is
hauled into the dory, from which the
fish are transferred to the schooner's
deck, where the work of cleaning begins.
After this the halibut are packed in
the hold in alternate layers of ice and
fish. Then the schooner crowds on sail
for the home port, where the cargo is
packed in boxes and"1 shipped in cold
storage cars to the markets.
The cold storage system and fast
freight service have lifted the Pacific
halibut to a prominent place in the
eastern markets, where they are superseding the Atlantic halibut, the supply
of which is rapidly diminishing. The
halibut industry on Puget Sound and the
British Columbia coast has made rapid
headway. In 1899 the product was
6,877,640 pounds; in 1908 it was 17,512,-
555 pounds, which was over ten times
the total of the Atlantic catch.
Another fish which promises to be a
big factor in the British Columbia industry is the herring, which is just beginning to attract the attention its possibili
ties warrant. In 1904 the Dominion
Fisheries Department engaged the services' of an expert herring curer from
Scotland, and he, by means of a series of
careful experiments, proved that the
quality of the Canadian herring is of the
best, and that there are no obstacles in
the way of making herring catching and
curing a remunerative branch in British
Columbia fishing. Nanaimo is the centre
of the herring fishing of the Province.
Into the harbor, from the middle of
November until March, herring come in
such tremendous quantities that huge,
masses of them are stranded upon the
beaches. They are not considered to be
quite as suitable for curing as are the
Atlantic herring, because of a larger
quantity of oil, but make excellent
kipjjters. The herring fishery in British
Columbia has shown within five years a
gain of 40,000,000 pounds, the figures
being 3,620,000 pounds in 1903, and 45,-
146,800 in 1908. Since 1908 the increase
has been proportionately great.
Other fish which offer commercial
opportunities are the cod, sturgeon, the
dog fish, which is a variety of small
shark, the smelt, and last but of great
interest and importance, the whale. A
common sight in the Gulf of Georgia or
off the west coast of Vancouver Island
is a school of whales cavoorting. The
Pacific Whaling Company, which, as has
already been noted, has been taken over
by the Mackenzie & Mann interests, has
IRON CHINK" IN SALMON CANNERY 1911
OPPORTUNITIES
operated with great success and has
averaged a catch of about six hundred
whales a season. Whaling is now carried
on in British Columbia waters by means
of fast steamers which throw into the
whales harpoons projected from machine
guns. The carcasses are towed to whaling stations and cut up by machinery.
The blubber is minced for its oil. The
residue of the blubber and the lean meat
are converted into guano and glue; the
body bones are crushed, ground and sold
as fertilizer, while the whalebone from
the jaws is trimmed .and shipped to Scotland. Japan is now using large quantities
of whale meat for food. It is shipped
in large quantities from this coast, as are
pickled whales' tails, which are regarded
by the Japanese as a great delicacy. The
sulphur bottom whale is the most common in British Columbia waters. It
attains a great size, its average weight
being sixty tons. Its net value is over
five hundred dollars. The right whale is
rarer in these waters than the other
species, and is a valuable prize, being
worth ten thousand dollars.
The utilization of the dog fish, or the
small shark, which infests the waters
off our coast, is growing. From the liver
of the dog fish is extracted a very superior grade of lubricating and machine oil,
while the bodies yield a large quantity
THE HERRING FLEET AT NANAIMO, VANCOUVER ISLAND
of oil which is useful for common purposes. After the extraction of the oil the
body is converted into a good fertilizer.
The value of the dog fish product in
1908 was only $59,000, but it is increasing
yearly.
While the sardine and anchovy are
plentiful in British Columbia waters and
are of excellent quality, there has been as
yet no enterprise organized on an extensive scale for their commercial utilization. Bass and perch are numerous
along the coast and are taken in considerable quantities for the local markets.
Atlantic shad have been well established
in the Pacific by means of plants of fry
in the Columbia and Sacramento Rivers,
and have worked north to the Puget
Sound and the Gulf of Georgia. In the
Fraser River shad were first noticed in
1888. Although they do not run as yet
in sufficient quantities for separate fishing
for them alone, they are taken with other
fish and the catch is increasing steadily.
Olympia oysters have received much
attention on the Puget Sound and natural
oyster beds exist at various points along
the Straits and on the west coast of Vancouver Island. But little has as yet been
done in oyster culture in British Columbia. It is believed that there are good
opportunities in this business, since the
growth  of  population is  constantly  in
creasing the demand. Various species
of clams are found along the coast, and
there are clam canneries of small
capacity.
The business is growing and promises
to become important. The place of the
lobster is taken on this coast by large
crabs, which are in demand for food in
the local markets and have recently been
made the basis of two crab canneries. The
various mollusk products had a value
in 1908 of about $36,000. While there are
no official figures on the worth of the
catches during the two years since then,
it is well known that business in these
products of the sea is developing, and
will employ a larger and larger number
of men. The waters of the Province
abound in trout and other game fish.
WHALING GUN AND HARPOON Page 24
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PPORTUNITIES
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The Five-Acre Farm and Its Limitations
Some Problems Which Confront the1 Small Farmer
in this Province
By George Schumacher, Ph. D.
FIVE-ACRE FARM, properly
cultivated, is better than a one-
hundred-and-sixty-acre uncultivated homestead, but the proposition of farming five acres
needs to be scrutinized with great care.
Let us see when a five-acre farm can
be made profitable and yield a good living. Five acres put into garden truck
and in a high state of cultivation, should
give, under good circumstances, a gross
return of $2,500 per annum, and even
allowing a large percentage for expense,
would, therefore, yield a fair income.
But raising stuff for the market is not
farming in the ordinary sense of the
word. Such market gardening can be
carried out under certain conditions
only, and it requires a comparatively
large amount of capital and experience.
Market gardening is a trade in itself.
Some even call it an art. We cannot
expect that the untrained settler wilKmake
a successful market gardener. We might
almost as well expect a bricklayer to
work a type-setting machine, or teachers
or officers to become stone masons or
carpenters. This has happened sometimes, and it is possible for a bricklayer
to become a good market gardener, but
the exception proves the rule. The
market gardener has to go through a
regular  apprenticeship.
So far, most of the successful market
gardeners in the Fraser Valley are
Chinese. It will be found on investigation that these Chinese market gardeners
are thoroughly experienced in the business. The Chinese market gardener is
very particular about the location of his
garden. He settles only in the neighborhood of towns, not alone to enable
him to bring his goods to market at a
minimum expense, but mainly for the
reason that unless he lives near towns he
cannot cultivate his ground at all. Some
people, without experience, are astonished at the results obtained by the
Chinese, and think that the white man
can never do the same. Well, if the
white man is not able to get the same
or even more out of the garden than the
Chinaman, he had better not start at
all on a five-acre farm. Two crops a
year, on an average, as the Ch'naman
gets, are not enough for the white man's
profit. He should be able to gee three
or even four crops a year from the same
ground.    The market gardener  in  F.ng-
(Agricultural Series, No. 3)
land can show him how to do it, and
even better results can be seen in Holland and France.
The Old Country market gardener
knows how to handle two things which
are indispensable to make market gardening profitable enough to be worth the labor of the white man, namely, manure and
glass. The Chinaman cultivates his
ground with manure only, and one must
admit that he understands how to handle
it well. There does not exist in this
world any "inexhaustible soil." The richest land will become impoverished when
cultivated intensively for market gardening. Manure in large quantities is
absolutely indispensible, and unless one
uses it very freely, successful market
gardening is impossible. For this reason the business can be carried on only
in the neighborhood of towns where
possibilities exist to get plenty of
manure, and especially horse manure.
This is one of the chief reasons why the
Chinese raise their vegetables in the
neighborhood of the towns. Watch
them pass along Main Street from morning to evening. Count the loads of
manure they put in the soil and learn
how they make the soil in South Vancouver and   Lulu   Island  fertile.
Manure has several funcdons to fulfil
in the cultivation of the ground. First,
it returns to the ground nitrogen, phosphates and potassium, the three main
plant foods which the crops have absorbed. Second, it brings humus to the
soil, that is, organic substances of no
direct benefit but absolutely necessary
for the working of the fermentation process and the development of the soil
bacteria. Third, it produces heat. The
Old Country market gardener uses glass
for producing and retaining heat, in
addition to manure. Glass can be used
in form of a cold house, a hot house,
frames, etc. The Chinaman uses such
large quantities of manure that the fermentation produces heat enough to facilitate the germinating of the seed and the
rapid development of the young plant.
This is very important. Because of this
the plants are robust and withstand the
attacks of insects. In other words, he is
ahead of the insects. The Chinamen
understand, also, how to cultivate two
crops at one time, in such a way that the
cultivation of one benefits the other. In
this  way  he  succeeds,   for  instance,   in
raising on the same ground potatoes and
cabbage simultaneously.
The quantity of manure the market
garden requires, as I have already said,
is very large, namely, twenty to fifty
loads an acre, and in some cases one
hundred and fifty loads an acre. Rotten
manure is best to rid the ground of
weeds. But we must not overlook the
fact that one ton of fresh manure has
more fertilizing power than two tons of
rotten manure. In the neighborhood of
towns where a quantity of manure can
be had for the asking, a market garden
of five acres is highly profitable, but it
requires more than putting seeds in and
•gathering crops to make a profit. Getting a large amount of manure, its
proper preparation, handling, application,
at the right time, are details which
require  experience.
The Chinaman adds to the manure
brought from town in nearly all cases,
the manure from pigs. He understands
very well how to handle his pig-sty.
Some people say that the pig-sty of a
Chinaman is cleaner than his house. In
any case, he manages to keep a large
number of pigs at very small cost. He
brings from the restaurants, as everybody knows, the refuse, and in this way
finds practically all the feed his pigs
need. He does not want to make a
profit from his pigs. This is a side issue.
He is looking for the manure. I have
noticed that Chinamen keep, sometimes,
twenty-five pigs per acre. The white
man has to do exactly the same or similar things if he expects to raise vegetables for profit, and to make the profit
he desires, he has to use glass, in
addition.
It is impossible to keep cattle on a
five-acre farm, if one wants to raise
feed for the cattle, and at the same time
to raise vegetables. To keep several
cattle for producing the manure, means
that it will be necessary, on a small farm,
to buy all the feed. This is feasible under
certain circumstances in the neighborhood of Vancouver, for instance, where
market gardening can be combined with
dairying. Even if all the feed is bought,
it should be profitable in this vicinity.
The cows, being entirely stable-fed, and
properly looked after, will yield more
milk than the pasture-fed cows. Marketing vegetables can be combined with the
marketing of the milk.    Even if the cost 1911
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of feeding and keeping cows balances
only with the sale of milk, such a proceeding is advisable, because the manure
will cost nothing. The same proposition fifty miles out of Vancouver would
be most likely unprofitable. Another
advantage of the combined dairying and
market gardening near large communities lies in the fact that the farmer is
thus enabled to retain his help throughout the year.
Apart from the regular help, at least
three men must be employed to keep the
cow-shed and market garden in first-
class   shape.    To  keep    not    less   than
required for the dairying department;
working sheds, glass houses and frames
are needed for the garden; a stable for
the horse is required, and, of course, the
necessary cows and horse.
Fruit farming can be carried on farther
away from town, but we must not forget that only small fruits bring an immediate return. Trees require a few
years before any return at all can be expected. Small fruits require a lot of
labor when labor is scarce, and the cultivation of bush fruits does not allow of
the employment of permanent help.
They require careful handling; the mar-
it in,  but  this will  not  bring him  any
direct returns.
The whole trouble with five-acre farms
can be expressed in a few words. "Intensive farming of any kind requires
manure, and a five-acre farm depends
for its supply on outside resources."
Now let us see what the average
family of five needs for its own use:
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(living, house and flower patch,
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twelve cows would be advisable, because
otherwise the garden could not be supplied with sufficient manure. The man
who is to look after the cows can look
after twelve as well as five. The employment of only two men would put
too much work upon the shoulders of the
owner. I believe that a large number of
five-acre market gardens, combined with
dairying, could be carried on profitably
in the neighborhood of Vancouver.
It can be seen that a five-acre vegetable and dairy farm requires quite a
bit of capital. A living house, cow-shed,
manure   shed,   and     milk     chamber   is
ket may be hundreds of miles away, and
is frequently controlled by unscrupulous
commission merchants. I am astonished
to find, even in official organs, the
growing of vegetables recommended
between trees as a source of profit.
Light vegetables might be all right,
but no roots, especially potatoes,
should be recommended for planting
between fruit trees. Since these vegetables impoverish the ground the manure
question again comes up. Where shall
the owner of a five-acre fruit farm get
his manure? His only way to enrich
his ground is to plant clover and plow
Roads on farm y§ acre
Crop of potatoes, 1,800 lbs., per
annum    % acre
Vegetables  for  the  whole  year,
fresh or preserved    J^ acre
(It is taken for granted that this
farmer grows peas, beans, asparagus, cabbage, carrots, onions, cucumbers, etc.)
Tree fruits and bush fruits for
his own use, fresh and preserved. l/2 acre
Feed for two cows (the growing
of roots, kale, etc., oats and corn
makes  it  possible   to  reduce   the Page 26
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1911
VIRGIN FARMLANDS, QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLAND
buying of feed to a minimum, and
the growing of the feed required
can be accomplished on a comparatively small plot)    1 acre
Keeping two cows will supply
the milk, butter and cheese required for the family. The skimmed
milk left could be used for the
pigs.
Feed necessary for six hogs.... % acre
(In  addition  to   skimmed   milk  it
would be advisable to grow mainly
potatoes   and   oats.     Keeping   six
hogs means practically keeping
the family in meat. Part of this
will be kept, and part sold and
exchanged for other meats.
Raising   feed   for   poultry l/s acre
To keep a family of five supplied
with eggs, regular dishes of chicken, and other poultry would require about 30 laying hens, which
means the keeping of about 100
hens. In addition to this, say
twenty-four ducks and six geese
should be kept.
The waste from table and garden is
to be used for feed to make the poultry
profitable. In addition, corn, oats,
clover and carrots should be used, and
in this way it is possible to raise all the
feed required on half an acre.
We see, therefore, that three and a
half acres are taken up with part of the
requirements of the family, but a good
many further provisions have to be
bought. These include flour, sugar,
coffee, tea and similar things, and clothing. The farmer has further to provide
for interest on his capital, repairs to
buildings, taxes, etc., and has to buy
some feed for his cows, seeds, tools,
etc. He cannot keep himself and grow
feed for them. But he needs a horse for
cultivating the ground and for marketing
his produce.
Of course, as a pleasure farm for a
city man who has business in town, a
five-acre farm is very desirable. So it is
for the artisan who finds regular work
in the neighborhood of his farm. Let
us use the wild lands around the cities,
very often subdivided into city lots prematurely, for 'market gardening, but let
us use our influence to prevent the subdivision of sections at a distance from
large communities into five-acre farms,
if we want to have prosperous and
satisfied farmers.
Resources of Queen Charlotte Island
HE Queen Charlotte Islands
may justly be called "The Real
Last West." Pen cannot do
justice or describe the varied
resources of these islands.
Where, a short time ago, only the cry
of the sea-gull and the croak of the
raven broke the stillness of the wilderness, to-day the roar of the saw mill, the
shriek of the donkey engine and the ring
of the woodman's axe are heard falling
and dragging the giants of the forest to
the   mills.
From the waters of the briny deep
fish are being taken, from the little
herring to the gigantic whale. Two
plants capitalized at a million dollars are
already in operation, and several smaller
ones are under construction and being
arranged for, all to be completed before
the end of 1911. The clang of the locomotive's bell will be heard from the head
of Massett Inlet to the Skidegate Inlet,
Queen Charlotte City, a distance of
about thirty miles, and in a short time a
dozen diamond drills will be at work
proving the coal lands from Massett to
Queen  Charlotte.
ftj. By D. L. Young
Coal was first discovered in 1859 by
Major William Downie at what is known
as the old Cowgitz mines at Skidegate
Inlet, and in 1866 eight hundred tons
of  anthracite  coal were  shipped  to  San
*H%&'1
Francisco and six hundred tons to Victoria. In • 1868 over four hundred tons
were marketed in Victoria and California at a figure ranging from seventeen
to twenty dollars per ton.   The next and
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OPPORTUNITIES
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most important discovery was in the
year 1885 by W. A. Robertson of
^Victoria. This discovery was in the
interior of Graham Island and is known
as the old Wilson & Robertson Camp,
and has since that date been proved to
be among the best bituminous coking
.coal yet discovered in th* Province.
Here extensive development work was
done under the supervision of H. E.
Parrish in 1886. Several shafts were sunk
on this coal and cross sections made, Mr.
Parrish showing the seams to average
from six to fourteen feet of beautiful
coal. Owing, however, to the remoteness of this section and the extensive
transportation facilities necessary, work
was abandoned until the announcement
of the building of the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railroad across the continent to
the very doors of these mines. This sea-
.son will see these coal lands fully developed and proved by diamond drills.
No less than six companies have been
formed to develop these coal lands, and
charters have been granted the Island
Valley Railroad from Queen Charlotte
City into the coal fields, and thence to
the head of Massett Inlet. In addition
to these crown-granted coal lands there
have been several thousands of acres
taken up at various points on the islands,
and, according to the advice of experts,
are equally as good as the older fields.
With the completion of the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railroad the islands will have a
market for every ton of coal that they
can produce.
The same conditions prevail in regard
to the islands' other resources. It was
not until 1887 that our metalliferous
mines made their start. What are known
as the Ikeda Mines were discovered by
some Japanese fishermen, and during the
first twenty-two months of operation
5,915 tons of high grade ore were shipped from these mines to the Ladysmith
smelter, bringing a gross value of
$63,664.50. This, of course, was picked
ore, leaving on hand a large quantity of
low grade ore, and owing to the slump
in the copper market the owners found
that it would not pay to ship this class
of ore. The mines were therefore shut
down temporarily. Meanwhile they were
taken over by a strong syndicate of Vancouver capitalists, and $35,000 were spent
in further development of the property
by diamond drills, proving it to be one
of the best mines in the north. This is
only one among at least fifty other mining properties that are making equally
as good showings for the development
work done on the islands.
The timber resources of the islands
speak for themselves, and are among
the best in the Province, especially the
yellow and red cedar. There are also
large quantities of spruce and hemlock.
There are at least six hundred thousand
acres of this class of timber upon which
the Government is receiving a royalty.
The Moresby Island Lumber Company
has been supplying at least seventy-five
per cent, of the ties for the construction
of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, and
has already shipped large quantities of
this class of lumber to the Old Country
to be used for the decks of ships and oars
for the admiralty.
The best evidence of the value of farm
lands of the Queen Charlotte Islands can
be taken from Mr. Noel Humphreys'
report to the Government two years ago,
which is still available in pamphlet form.
In fact it is as follows:
"There is a luxuriant growth of fern,
bracken, pea-vine, and wild grass around
our camp at Lawn Hill, and the wild rose
trees there attain a height of twenty feet,
with correspondingly large blossoms. We
had excellent lettuce, radish and so forth
from Mr. Bray, the first settler at Lawn
The high ranges of rocky hills on the
west coast are very heavy; the clouds
seem to blow over the flat part of the
island on the east coast, precipitating
again when the high mountains of the
mainland are encountered. Considering
then the mild climate, the large areas of
the country suitable for agricultural purposes, the comparatively short distance
of ninety miles from Prince Rupert,
which is bound in the near future to be
a splendid market, and the lack of any
large areas in the immediate vicinity of
Rupert suitable for farming purposes,
there will undoubtedly, in the near future,
be great development of this part of
the Province, and I feel assured a very
prosperous farming community will soon
be established here.
The fishing enterprises of the island
have been going ahead very rapidly
within the past year. The Standard Fish
& Fertilizing Company have installed a
VIEW OF PLANT OF THE STANDARD FISH AND FERTILIZER CO., LTD.
Hill all the time we were there. The
lettuce was grown on land which had
been cleared that season. All kinds of
grasses and clover do wonderfully well,
and grow very quickly. I feel assured
that as heavy a crop of oats or hay may
be raised on this land as on the Delta
of the Fraser, with better average harvesting weather, and no tides to contend
with. Further north the rainfall becomes
appreciably less till at Masset, from
many years' observation taken by Mr.
Harrison at his ranch, the annual rainfall is but 4 inches. The waters of
Hecate Strait appear to be a great deal
warmer than the sea water about Vancouver and the Gulf of Georgia, probably
owing to the presence of the Japan Current, which is supposed to flow around
the Queen Charlotte Islands. This also
accounts for the mildness of the winters.
plant and are in operation at a cost of
one million dollars, while the whaling
station at Rose Harbor has been completed and has changed hands within the
last year for a million dollars, having
been sold to Mackenzie & Mann. The
Queen Charlotte Cold Storage & Black
Cod Fishing Company have their plant
about completed at Queen Charlotte.
This plant will handle not less than three
hundred tons of fish a month, while at
the present time the "Henriette" has
been chartered by Mackenzie & Mann to
;arry material from Victoria to Reynolds
Sound, where the company is constructing a second gigantic whaling station.
In addition to these there are several
other companies being organized to go
into the fishing business around Queen
Charlotte Islands during the coming
season. Page 28
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1911
r
V*
THE FRAME-UP
Third Story of the Adventures of McAndrews
By J. H. W.
N the McAndrews' apartments
one night the head of the
household of two sat in a
lounging chair in front of an
open fire, smoking his pipe and
planning for the future. Young Mrs.
McAndrews, with the shaded illumination of the drop-light spreading a soft
glow over her pretty face, was following
with eager eyes the heart adventures of
the heroine in a romantic novel. This
quiet little domestic scene was given an
added effect of cheer and cosiness by the
vicious pounding of snow and sleet
against the windows, and savage gusts
of wind rising intermittently in moaning
rages.
Shuddering slightly, Mrs. McAndrews
laid down her book and went to the
window, where she drew aside an edge
of the curtain, and peered out into the
driving darkness. "It's an awful night,
Jimmy. I'm thankful that you got back
from that Vancouver Island trip before
this storm came on."
McAndrews smiled reminiscently. "So
am I, but I'd go through a good many
nights in the woods for what's come of
hitting that blazed trail over on the
Island. I've just been thinking, little
girl, that I've had a bunch of luck. In
the first place, here's you." He caught
her hand and there were words and
deeds which need not be recorded, except
to the extent of saying that she repeatedly admonished him laughingly not to
be "so silly." "In the second place," he
resumed at last, "it was more luck than
anything else that I was able to beat
Holland to it in recording those timber
claims. In the third place, it was sure
the goddess of fortune in her most obliging mood who put you and me in touch
with our friend Fraser, with his barrels
of money and his odd desire to have me
look after his British Columbia investments. I tell you what, Helen, that was
a piece of luck as big as a mountain, and
I think it's set us up for life."
"Jimmy," exclaimed Mrs. McAndrews,
in a positive tone, "this talk of yours
about luck is nonsense. You would never
have reached the timber claims at all
if you hadn't had a lot of sand, and Mr.
Fraser wouldn't have taken to you as he
did if you—oh, well, I'm not going to
pay you compliments. I believe you're
fishing for them."
"And am catching a severe call down,"
laughed McAndrews. "Well, we won't
begin to throw things at each other.
We'll just agree that unless we're foolish
we ought to have pretty smooth sailing
for  our little  ship."
"Without you having to be gone days
and nights on trips into wild placejs
where nobody ever goes?" enquired Mrs.
McAndrews, hopefully.
McAndrews laughed again. "Don't
let the trips worry you, little girl. There
won't be many of them, and, believe me,
the husband of Mrs. James McAndrews
won't take any unnecessary risks. Besides, no harm would come to a little
cuss like me."
McAndrews rose from the lounging
chair and stretched his muscles and looked down smilingly at Mrs. McAndrews
from his six feet of lithe and well-trained
strength. Then, leaning against the
mantel above the fire-place, he gazed
into the leaping flames and said thoughtfully:
"Yes, I really believe, Helen, that our
fortune's made. Of course, there will be
a lot of hard and careful work, but if I
handle this financial backing all right, I
think that our path in the future will be
easy."
The glow of the fire in McAndrews'
face brought out strong, clear-cut lines—
fighting lines, which suggested that this
young man was destined not for the
paths of ease, but for the battle grounds
of life. He would make enemies. The
truth was, he had already made them.
His success on Vancouver Island had its
seamy side, and it might have been observed on this same evening in a Vancouver saloon, where, at a small table in
a corner, two men with whisky glasses
in front of them, sat talking.
One was Holland, undersized, sharp-
eyed, a weasel-like man, who conveyed
the impression of cunning and disagreeable aggressiveness, suggesting that he
was an active worker in the underground
passages of business. The other was
McCreedy, more roughly clad, big, rocklike, cold-eyed, a man who probably
would have been in the picture in the
stone age.
"The boss," Holland was saying, chewing his cigar, "is damned sore about the
way we let McAndrews put it over us
in regard to them Vancouver Island
timber limits. We've got to square ourselves, and the nifty way to do it is to
put McAndrews on the bum. This would
make a big hit with the old man. He was
fixin' things to get Fraser, the plutocrat
with the big roll, interested in the Tidewater Timber Company and some private operations of his own, when young
McAndrews come back to town and
queered the deal by shootin' off his
mouth about the President of the Tidewater Timber Company bein' behind me
and you in tryin' to grab Weldon's
timber over on Vancouver Island.
You can see that the boss ain't what
you'd call infatuated with McAndrews.
The fact is, Mac, I've got a little private
tip that our expense account wouldn't
be mulled over very close if we should
spend a piece o' change in handin' the
young gazabo one that would kind o'
keep him quiet fur a while. This, as I've
been sayin', would set us up again with
the boss, and I guess it wouldn't cause
you no tears, Mac, after them wallops
McAndrews landed on you when we was
scrappin' about the raft over at McKiver
Lake. I never seen a man go down as
quick as you did."
Holland was watching McCreedy very
closely, and he half smiled as the latter
leaned across the table and said heavily:
"Cut that out. The young cuss caught
me foul.' He jumped me so quick I
didn't have time to bat an eyelash. The
next time I run across him—I'm lookin'
for him every day—I expect to make
such a smear of him that the new wife
of his I've heard about won't never know
her  bridegroom."
Holland laughed, puffing upon his cigar
with zest. "You're all right, Mac. The
only trouble is that your method is a
little coarse. You ain't got the artistic
temperament. The strong arm way is
the real dope in its place, but this ain't
the place. What we want here is a little
head-work, a little plan that leaves our
young friend all trussed up without us
gettin' out o' breath at all. It's like this:
If you try to clear a stump with an axe
it makes your back stiff and your hands
sore, but if you slip a stick o' dynamite
under it and perform the light work o'
puttin' a match to the fuse, the stump
goes up in the air, with you just standin
by easy and enjoyin' the view. D'ye get
the idea?"
McCreedy gazed into the sharp eyes
of Holland and asked abruptly: "Well,
what's the scheme?" OPPORTUNITIES
Page 29
Holland projected another cloud of
cigar smoke into the air, and gave it
studious attention as it curled slowly
upward. "I ain't sayin* yet, but I'm
thinkinV' He paused again, and after a
moment of silence, asked suddenly:
"Wasn't you tellin' me the other day that
your friend Wilson has a pretty good
timber limit up around Prince Rupert
somewheres ?"
"That's right," assented McCreedy.
"I  s'ppse he'd be willin' to  sell at a
fair figger?"
"Yes, he would.   He needs the money."
"Well, you see him in the mornin' an'
find out what he wants fur it. Don't ask
me no more questions now, Mac. I've
got a superstition that it queers a frame-
up to talk much about it before it's pretty
well cinched and riveted. I'm just gettin'
this business lined up. See Wilson the
first thing to-morrow, and meet me here
at one in the afternoon. Before then
I've got some work to do myself."
"All right,"  said  McCreedy,  "but  if  I
should  run  acrosst  that     	
before I see you, there won't be nothin'
fur you to do."
At the bar the two gulped down
final drinks, and, parting at the door,
went their separate ways into the stormy
night.
Holland was busy in the morning. He
scouted about among certain hotels and
rooming houses given to the entertainment of timber cruisers and lumberjacks
when they were sojourning in the city.
At last he found his man, a tall, lank
individual with a hatchet face and a glint
of recklessness in his eyes.
"Well, well, we've missed you, Sam,"
exclaimed Holland, genially, as he seated
himself in a battered rocking chair in
his friend's room. "Is things all quiet
now? Good, because I've got a little
job that will bring you a hundred bones,
and found. It's the softest snap y'ever
struck."
•Sanford, from the bed, glanced keenly
at Holland and grinned. "A regular
tapioca, eh? I know 'em of old, Bill, and
before we begin to talk turkey I guess
you'd better raise the ante to about three
hundred. You're an awful conservative
little feller when it comes to scatterin'
hasheesh, and now that I'm an independent scout, I'll have to ask you to hook
'er up some before giving you valuable
time during office hours."
"As much of a breeze as ever, ain't
you, Sam?" remarked Holland, sarcastically. "But there don't have to be no
quibble about the change. We'll call it
one-fifty fur the trick, and now listen."
"Well," said Sanford, "since my old
pal Rockefeller hain't wired me yet about
takin' hold of the disbursement of fifteen
or twenty millions for his charities, I'll
listen for one-fifty, Bill. What's on your
chest?"
"Why, Sam, it's about a fine, promisin'
young chap that needs a guide and friend
with engagin' manners and morals like
yours to take him up the coast and show
him a bit o' timber. It will be a gentleman's trip, Sam, dinin' under the bright
lights with a napkin tucked under your
chin, retirin' to your stateroom instead
o' hittin' the hay, and exchanging pleas-
plutocrat. Get that? He's a reg'lar
little brighteyes now fur good timber
fur holdin', and havin' a particular interest in his promisin' career, we want to
hand it to him. He'll fall fur this timber
proposition, sure. Fix it to start with
him fur Prince Rupert on the boat next
week. I'll flag you there, and tell you
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THEY TALKED ABOUT THE FUTURE
antries with your young charge. It will be
a Sunday school picnic for you, Sam, with
plenty o' cake and scenery, and an easy
getaway.    How does it sound so far?"
"Like a plum puddin' from the old
folks at home—so far," replied Sam.
"What's the rest?"
"It's all rest—just a little outin' fur
your health. You're there with the talk
when it comes to boostin' a piece o'
timber, ain't you, Sam?"
"I sure am. I'm a regular Patrick
Henry Gladstone."
"Well, I'll give you the dope this afternoon. Then, your first stunt will be to
call at a snug little office that has just
been opened in the Tower Building. On
the door you'll see the sign in nice gilt
letters, 'James McAndrews, Timber and
General Investments.' You're to tell my
friend Jimmy all about the fine timber
limits that's fur sale cheap, not men-
tionin' my name, however. Jimmy'll be
interested.    He's just been staked by a
to give you the money, but just to show
you that I'm an easy mark, I'll slip you
fifty in advance just as soon as you've
rounded up McAndrews fur the trip. See
him to-day."
"It goes with me," said Sanford. "I'll
breeze in on him right after you've given
me the layout about the timber, but
what's the frame-up?"
"Leave that to your Uncle Bill," responded Holland with a grin. "I'm
settin' behind my hand till we get up to
Rupert. You'll play it up there, and you
can't lose."
Holland saw McCreedy at one o'clock,
and afterward kept his appointment with
Sanford in his room. He supplied the
latter with the essential facts about the
timber limits. Armed with this ammunition, Sanford went to McAndrews' office.
He talked convincingly about his proposition, spreading out upon the new roll-
top desk a well executed map of the
timber   claims.     McAndrews   was  much Page 30
OPPORTUNITIES
1911
interested. He gave Sanford a cigar and
the two talked and smoked for an hour,
at the end of which time it had been
arranged that they take the steamer for
Prince Rupert the next week, and from
there go by launch down Granville
Channel about seventy miles to Pitt
Island, where, with Sanford acting as
compass man, McAndrews would cruise
the timber.
The young man was elated. He had
not expected to find so soon a buy that
looked as good as this. When Sanford
reported the result of the interview to
Holland, the latter was no less elated.
He took passage for Prince Rupert the
next day, and in the northern city engaged a good launch for the trip to Pitt
Island. Then he retired from view,
killing time waiting for the next steamer
by reading cheap magazine stories in his
room in a quiet lodging house. When
the Vancouver boat at last arrived he
was out of sight, but from a vantage
point at a distance he observed with
much satisfaction that McAndrews and
Sanford were among the passengers. He
had left a note for Sanford at the principal hotel, and shortly after supper
received him in the privacy of his room.
His first move was to pour out a glass
of whisky for his guest, and to point to
a box of cigars. Then he drew from his
pocket a fat roll of bills.
"It's right here, Sam," he remarked,
patting his roll affectionately, "and you
get it just as soon as you get back to
this burg and show me that you've come
alone."
Sanford paused in the act of raising his
liquor to his lips. "O-ho! I begin to
savvy your little plan, Bill. Pitt Island
is entirely surrounded by water, ain't it?
There is no human habitation on it, is
there? Why, hang it, even if he didn't
starve to death before gettin' a raft built,
it wouldn't do him no good to paddle
across the ten miles o' briny to the mainland, because even there at this time o'
year he'd be about seventy miles from
a ham sandwich. As for staying on the
island, wow! Why, old Robinson Crusoe's
little island was a happy watering place
compared to what he'd be up against in
this winter season. I ain't heard that
Pitt Island, a ways back among the
mountains from the shore, has ever been
trod by man, and you figger on
McAndrews puttin' in the winter in that
there neighborhood. I must say, Bill,
that you're goin' some."
"You're havin' a pipe dream," said
Holland, sharply, with eyes narrowing
cunningly. "I didn't say a thing about
leavin' McAndrews on Pitt Island, except
in a good camp while he does his cruisin'.
But if you feel timid about this trip, now
that you've become a church member,
we'll just forget the deal. I can use the
one-fifty all right, and there'll be a nice
commission on the timber sale.    One o'
the boys around here who know about
this timber will be glad to take him down
to  it."
Sanford yawned and picked up his
glass of whisky. "Well, Bill, here's to
happy days."
"Drink hearty," said Holland, eyeing
closely the sardonic countenance of his
guest.
Sanford took a cigar from the box and
lighted it with care. "Now, Bill," he
said suddenly, "what's your real figger
for this job? I'd hate to have to double
cross a fine old boy like you and give the
plant away."
"I know you would, Sam," responded
Holland, with a sneer in his tone. "It
would grieve you some, and because I
wouldn't want to see you suffer that way
we'll let her go at two hundred flat, and
that's the last call in the dinin' car. Being
wise to your cute ways, Sam, I knew
you'd raise the ante up here, but I won't
stand for another hist. Take it or leave
it, and watch me cover, either way."
"Hang it all," said Sanford, stretching
out lazily in his chair and gazing at the
ceiling, "I kind o' like the young feller.
I'm a sentimental cuss, Bill, but I guess
I'll have to sacrifice my feelin's, because
I need the money. I s'pose we leave him
a little grub-stake down on the island,
don't we?"
"Not on your tintype," answered Holland, sharply. "We ain't supportin' him
down there. He'll have to make his own
livin'."
"It's a hard world," remarked Sanford,
still gazing at the ceiling, "but a man's
got to keep the wolf away from the cabin
door, so I guess I'll have to play along
with you, Bill, giving my word, as one
gentleman to another, that it would be
very bad for your health if you should
try to shrink from coming through when
I've turned the trick."
With a taciturn half-breed Indian at
the helm, the launch which Holland had
hired for Sanford glided out in the early
morning from the harbor of Prince
Rupert and went heaving through the
gentle swells toward the south. McAndrews, with his hands thrust deep in the
pockets of a heavy ulster, stood on the
narrow deck up forward, breathing
deeply of the fresh salt air, and studying
with much interest the contour of the
precipitious and densely wooded shores.
Snow-clad heights, remote and lonely,
loomed up against the clear sky in frigid
dignity.
"It's a cold looking country in the
winter," remarked McAndrews, as Sanford, coming carefully around the deckhouse, joined him by the rail. "It makes
a fellow appreciate all the more the comforts of a snug Vancouver home."
"It sure does," answered Sanford,
earnestly.
"We ought to be on our way back to
Vancouver  day  after  to-morrow,"   con
tinued McAndrews. "It's important for
me to be in town at the end of the week
to meet my principal, who's coming up
from Seattle to see me. Besides," he
said, smilingly, "my wife's one of the
greatest little cooks you ever saw, and
it breaks her all up if I'm not around for
Sunday dinner. She's sort of lonely
when I'm away."
"I shouldn't be surprised if she'd have
to get used to it," remarked Sanford.
The launch tripped cleanly through
the waves, and along in the afternoon,
after the sun had disappeared behind the
hills and the water had turned grey and
sombre, she began to edge over towards
the desolate western shore. At last the
Indian stopped the engine, and threw
over the anchor near a little creek which
was apparently the only entrance to Pitt
Island, for the mountains rose from the
shore almost sheer. McAndrews consulted his cruiser's map, and on it
Sanford pointed out the timber claims,
about half a mile up the creek.
"There's an hour of light yet," he
remarked. "We might go ashore and
take a look at the lay o' the land.
McAndrews assented, and in a few
moments he jumped from the row boat
to a little strip of sand and gravel beside
the creek. Sanford, who had done the
rowing, made a move to follow him, but
suddenly  resumed  his   seat,   exclaiming:
"Hang me, if I ain't the most absent-
minded cuss outside of a home fur
idiots. I've forgot the compass, and I
never go into the woods without one.
Wait here about five minutes, will you?"
He began to row again, while
McAndrews turned his attention to the
small timber clinging to the slope at
the edge of the woods, which rose steeply
a few rods back from where he stood.
He gave no heed to the launch until he
heard a sound from the deck. He turned
quickly and saw Sanford lifting the
anchor. The bow of the launch swung
slowly in the tide. Suddenly the propeller began to churn, and the engine to
pound, and the craft to glide away, with
the row boat trailing.
"Hello there," shouted McAndrews, in
astonishment. "Where are you going?
Hello there!  Hello there!"
Sanford waved his hand. "Hated to
do it, old scout, but I had to have the
money.    Happy d-a-y-s."
The pounding of the motor grew soft
in the lengthening distance, but each
throb seemed to McAndrews like a blow
upon his brain. For several moments he
stood motionless, watching the diminishing launch fleeing away from him like
a craven thing. Far out upon the water
the craft became a speck, and there was
no sound except the lapping of small
waves against the rocks and the murmuring of the wind-worried branches in
the dismal woods behind.   The world of 1911
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men seemed to McAndrews to be a long
way off.
He had no delusions about his situation. He knew that this island, with a
width of some thirty miles, was an upheaval of wooded mountains, uninhabited except by creatures of the forest.
He knew that the mainland, which loomed up dimly across the expanse of water,
had but little more to offer him, because
it, too, was an untracked wilderness, with
Prince Rupert the nearest settlement,
lying beyond the woods and mountains,
seventy miles in the north. He had no
food. A feeling of panic surged up
within him. He could fight men, but
not this vast nature, which stood around
him patient but relentless.
He paced to and fro along the strip
of sand. His arm happened to strike the
handle of his small axe hanging loosely
on his back, and a half smile lightened
his features for the moment. Right here
at his elbow he had a friend. He pulled
the axe around and gazed down at it
affectionately. But a look of alarm came
into his face again. He clapped his
hands to his pockets, and began to
fumble in them with fevered haste. His
fingers touched a pasteboard box, and
he drew it forth. He had some matches,
after all. He placed them carefully in
an inside pocket, and walked up the
slope toward the woods, now immersed
in the deep gloom of a cloudy night.
He collected, after considerable searching, a big armful of half-decayed wood,
and cut some pine branches. He placed
this fuel in a heap in a small, level place
near the edge of the forest, and began to
build a fire. The wood was damp, but
at last he achieved a little flame, which,
with great care, he nursed and fed with
twigs until it became robust. He placed
the wood near it to dry, and piled on
fuel until it was crackling and roaring
and projecting fantastic shadows against
trees which stood out from the blackness
like spectre sentinels of the forest.
Drawing his ulster tight about him, and
making a pillow of some branches, he
laid down by the fire to sleep.
He was awakened by the cold. For
an instant he thought the strange surroundings a part of an evil dream, but
remembrance came swiftly, and he rose
wearily to feed the fire. Several times
he slept and was aroused by the chill.
The howl of a wolf came out of the
black depths behind him, and was answered by a howl on the other side. Once
in the darkness he saw a pair of yellow
eyes, which disappeared when he caused
the fire to blaze up with fresh fuel.
The forest was still in the pall of night,
but the waters out in front were turning
grey when he rubbed his eyes and rose
to his feet to face the day. He thought
first of water, and made his way around
and over boulders up the creek to drink
where the stream would not be affected
by the salty tide. In a little while he lay
flat and quenched his thirst, and then he
thought of food With hunger-sharpened
eyes he gazed up the sides of the steep
ravine into the shadows of the forest. It
offered nothing and suggested nothing.
He had no gun. He was without defense
against the wilderness.
He pushed on and on. He saw fish
frisking in the stream and envied them.
He stood motionless in the creek with
his hands ready beneath the surface, but
the creatures of the water conquered
their curiosity, if they had any, and kept
at a distance. A deer sprang from hte
underbrush ahead of him and went
crashing away. As he watched it go
there came to him a flashing realization
of the struggle against starvation in the
long ago that had compelled savages to
devise spears and arrows. He came to
a place where timber, reaching far back,
rimmed a little lake majestically. It was
fine timber, but it held no interest for
him. It seemed futile, useless. This
idea of buying timber and holding it for
a rise! It was a foolish dream. The
greatest thing in the world was bread.
He sat down on a big rock to husband
his strength and to think about his problem, when a little way ahead of him
something small and brown stirred
among the stones. He jumped to his
feet, and the creature moved without
haste. He ran after it, threw a stone
and  missed;  yet it did  not increase  its
speed. The second stone knocked it
over.
"Oh, you fool-hen!" he exclaimed half
aloud as he wrung its unresisting neck.
"I'm sorry to have to kill you, because
you and I are kin. But it seems as
though nature intended you to be sacrificed to the bigger fool."
Back at the fire, which he stirred into
life again, he prepared the chicken of the
wilderness for the sacrificial feast, sousing it in the water on the beach, so that
it might have as much of the savor of
salt as possible, and completing the culinary process by toasting the denuded
fowl at the end of a sharpened stick. The
fat dripped, the flames shot up, and the
soft flesh turned brown, giving forth a
fragrance that impressed McAndrews as
being by far the finest in the world.
After breakfast he felt so cheerful he
smoked a pipe and then, with his friend
the axe, felled and trimmed four small
pines. He laid the trees side by side and
began to bind them with vine maple. At
last, after several hours of work, he surveyed the completed raft, and then fashioned a good paddle from a cedar shake.
He launched the craft and began to
paddle toward the east, toward the
mountains that rose in the blue distance
across the waters. Countless small
waves came hurrying along to slap the
raft, and, as the shore receded, larger
ones lifted it, and dashed upon it.
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upon it. But the sun was beaming, and
the forces of nature were merely playing.
McAndrews paddled steadily. It was
not until the sun had done its duty for
the day and had left the world to itself
and night that the elements gave signs of
a change of mood. The wind came heavily now, and waves showing white teeth
loomed up threateningly in the gathering
gloom. The raft tossed and labored.
Water was continually running over it,
and McAndrews, working with the
paddle with muscles that protested at
every stroke, felt each of the logs take
on more and more a motion of its own.
His realization of the fact that the raft
was breaking up caused him to put forth
double efforts despite his weariness. The
mountains now were rising high in front,
but between him and the shadowy shore
was still an expanse of heaving water.
The logs were very loose. Several
times during the day he had endeavored
to tighten them, but his efforts had had
only a temporary effect. Suddenly a
wave which was as a full grown man to
children, reared itself. The raft tried to
climb it and failed. A mass of water fell
upon it. McAndrews clutched a log,
and found himself neck-deep, grasping
this log alone. The other were floating
away on little voyages of their own. He
clung to his log desperately, with a flashlight vision of many incidents in his life,
and particularly of Mrs. McAndrews
reading under the drop-light and waiting
for him.
He tried to paddle shoreward with his
free hand, but felt the relentless grip of
the current, and realized the puniness
and futility of his efforts. He had become
a mere helpless creature of the elements.
The icy waters numbed him. Despite
the shock of the immersion his fatigue
was overpowering. He closed his eyes
and felt himself tossing dizzily, floating
he knew not where. But still, with a
grim instinct, he clung to the supporting
log.
After a long time his deadened senses
communicated a new fact to his dulled
brain. There had been a jolt. The log
had ceased to move. With a desperate
effort he threw off his lethargy and
staggered out of the water to a shelf of
shore at the edge of high rocks. The
wind braced him. His brain suddenly
cleared. He saw again the picture of his
Vancouver home, and the instinct of self-
preservation rose within him with freshened strength. He swung his arms, and
stamped, and ran stifly. In a moment
the air seemed warmer and he realized
that he had rounded a projection of the
rocks. He pushed on along the shore.
He felt as though he were walking
through a quagmire of glue that held his
feet, but knew that the long sleep lurked
in rest.
In a little while he dimly saw water,
not   at   his   right   hand   only,   but   also
stretching out in front. He remembered
vaguely his cruiser's map and Lowe
Inlet, for which he had been steering
during the day. On the inlet, ten miles
back from Granville Channel, the map
told him there was a salmon cannery.
He staggered on blindly, following the
rock strewn shore, wading around bluffs
that came to the water's edge, climbing
steeps, plunging through underbrush,
moving automatically through the wilderness, like a man walking in his sleep.
He had ceased to think. It was mere
instinct, dying hard, that pushed him on.
The sight at last of a long wharf paralleled by a shed-like building, brought
no light to his eyes. He reeled up a
tressel-like walk to a little row of houses
set back on stilts in an aperture in the
cliff, and fumbled feebly at the doorknobs. None yielded. The doors were
locked. The cannery was closed down
for the winter. He sank to the walk and
lay motionless. But he dreamed, and
in the dream struggled against being
'tumbled about so much. He opened his
eyes at last, and a little Jap smiled down
at him. He stared up into the brown
face, and began slowly to remember. He
felt about with his hands, and discovered
that he was lying in blankets on an army
cot, in non descript clothing not his
own.
"When I came back I find you," said
the Jap, smiling as if he thought the
matter was a joke. "I pull you in, undress you, and hang up your clothes to
dry.    You big baby—dam heavy."
"Not half as heavy as I feel," answered
McAndrews, trying to sit up and not
succeeding. "Give me a drink. Ye gods,
but I want a drink!"
The Jap brought him a dipper of
water. He gulped it down and held out
his hands feverishly for another. When
he had finished this he lay back with a
feeling of restfulness, and forgot the
world again. He was aroused in a little
while by the fragrance of tea and fresh
toast. When he opened his eyes the Jap
had the refreshment at his elbow. After
he had dispatched it his strength surged
back. The Jap made him more toast, and
more, embellished with bacon. He slept
peacefully that night, and began,- in the
morning, to plan for the continuance of
his journey.
"You stay here all winter?" he asked
the Jap after breakfast.
The  latter  nodded.    "Me  watchman."
"Anybody else come in here till
spring?"
The Jap shook his head.
"You've got a boat, of course?"
Again the Jap nodded.
"How much will you take to row me
out into the ship  channel?"
The Jap shook his head vigorously.
"Can't do it. Must stay here. Never go
'way except up hill for wood. Must stay
here."
For an hour McAndrews labored with
his Japanese friend, but to no avail.
Thousands of years of Oriental immovability seemed to be behind the lat-
ter's declinations to leave the post at
which he had been commanded to
remain.
"I'll have to take your boat, then," said
McAndrews.
The Jap showed symptoms of alarm,
and glanced up at a shelf where
McAndrews, following his eyes, saw a
revolver.
McAndrews lapsed into silence. He
knew that it would be a serious matter
to take the only boat—a crime more
heinous even, in the unwritten law of the
north coast, than horse stealing on the
plains. Yet it was absurd to think of
hibernating there with the Jap till spring,
and hardly less foolish to contemplate a
trip by foot through the drifted snows
across seventy miles of mountains to
Prince Rupert.
After he had ceased to argue with the
Jap, McAndrews took from a pocket in
his ulster a crumpled time-card of the
sailings between Prince Rupert and Vancouver and noted the fact that a steamer
had sailed that morning. She ought to
be opposite Lowe Inlet, he calculated,
about the middle of the afternoon. From
the cannery there would be a row of
fifteen miles to intercept her. It would
be necessary to  start without delay.
McAndrews looked about for some
rope, and saw a coil. He donned his
ulster and his hat, as if going for a walk.
The Jap had been glancing at him uneasily since their talk, but his work made it
necessary for him to frequently turn his
back upon his guest, and McAndrews
made the most of an opportunity to seize
him from behind. He had amazing
strength for a man so small. But
McAndrews held him in a tight embrace
with one big arm and with the other
quickly snatched up the coil of rope.
"Don't fight so hard, Tokio," he said,
soothingly, as he began laboriously to
bind his struggling host. "I'm not going
to hurt you. You've been too good a
friend of mine for that. I'm just going
to take you out with me to the steamer,
so that you can row your boat back. If
you wouldn't squirm so, and would cut
out the jiu jitso, it would be a lot easier
for both of us." When McAndrews at
last got the Jap's arms bound securely
he turned his captive around and gazed
down kindly at him.
"I hope the rope don't hurt you, Tekio,
I'll take it off when we get down the inlet
a ways, if you'll promise to be good."
The Jap returned his gaze and suddenly began to smile.
"You tie 'em good.    You tell boss you.
tie?   Me fight, but no help? Maybe leetle
money, eh?"
McAndrews slapped his host on the
back and began to laugh.    "You bet I 911
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will. I'll tell your boss you made the
greatest little fight that I ever went up
against. Leave it to me to square it
with him. Oh, you're a foxy Oriental.
Now, stand still like a little man while I
tie your legs."
It was a smiling Jap, who, a little later,
was deposited in the stern of the row
boat. McAndrews had taken the trouble
to carry him down to the wharf because
he wanted to complete all details of the
seizure for the purpose of "making it
right" for his host with the latter's boss.
He rowed gayly, with the tide helping,
and made many observations to his captive. To his intense relief, after they had
left the inlet and were out in the open
road-stead, he perceived that his calculations about the steamer were correct.
There was a dot, steadily growing larger,
on the horizon to the north.
"I've got to say good-bye to you in a
few moments, Tokio," he remarked, "but
I won't forget you, and I'm going to slip
into our pocket without your seeing it
a twenty-dollar bill. For the sake of appearances I won't untie you until they
come up close, where all can see."
The steamer came plowing along with
a long streamer of smoke behind. McAndrews waved. She swerved a little from
her course and slowed down. McAndrews
a moment later lifted "Tokio" and cut
his bonds, and had driven the bow of the
row boat against the big hull that loomed
above him. A rope ladder was dropped
over the side. McAndrews wrung the
hand of his Japanese friend, and climbed
quickly up toward the peering faces of
many passengers ranged along the rail.
Afterward, in the crowded smoking
room, he told his story.
A tall, heavy, ruddy-faced young man
with a determined chin became excited
before the tale was quite completed.
"Do you say," he asked, in a loud voice,
"that the fellow who marooned you on
that island was a lanky cuss with a
hatchet face and narrow eyes?"
"Yes. Why?" responded McAndrews,
quickly.
"Why, because he's on this very boat."
The young man turned to the other passengers. "Come on, boys. We can't let
a murdering blackguard like this sneak
away. He's probably hiding in his cabin.
We'll drag him out."
There was a general movement in the
wake of the spokesman. McAndrews
waited calmly. He heard a thumping on
a stateroom door, loud voices, a scuffle,
and a moment later saw his new friend
and another stalwart passenger coming
along the passageway with their right
hands firmly clutching the coat-collars
of two individuals who looked as though
they would have much rather been somewhere   else.     They   were   Holland   and
Sanford. McAndrews glanced up with a
smile.
• "You, too, Holland? I was pretty sure
you were the promoter of this enterprise.    Oh, well, you'll get yours."
The big passenger raised his voice
again. "Boys, this is the most dastardly
outrage I have ever heard of. Down in
my part of the country we'd have what
we call a necktie party, but since there's
no tree or telegraph pole around here,
we'll have 'em put in irons on a charge
of attempted murder."
In his excitement he happened to
knock Holland heavily in the face with
his big elbow. The latter wiped the
blood from his lips, but said nothing.
Sanford dodged a similar blow and the
young man seized him. "Stand still, you
worm," he commanded.
"Oh, 1 ain't squirming," answered
Sanford, carelessly. I kind o' feel that
this ain't just the time fur the worm to
turn."
He and Holland were turned over to
the first officer for safe keeping in the
brig. McAndrews was more interested
now in the whir of the wireless, which
was projecting into the air a message he
had handed to the operator. It was
addressed to Mrs. James McAndrews,
and read: "Will be home to-morrow
night.   Delayed unavoidably."
Industrial Progress in British Columbia
ANADIAN NORTHERN Railway surveys will be complete
in the spring from Port Mann
to Yellowhead  Pass.
The British Columbia Electric Railway Company will supply by the first
of May the first instalment of 10,000
horse-power to Victoria.
It has been announced that steel rails
on the Canadian Northern line to the
extent of ten thousand tons will be laid
from Port Mann eastward, beginning
about the middle of March.
Timber lands on Vancouver Island to
the extent of 200,000 acres, have been
the subject of a deal between the
Western Finance Company of Victoria
and British capitalists, the consideration
for the timber being announced as
$2,000,000.
The city of Prince Rupert has plans
and specifications for improvements calling for the expenditure of three-quarters
of a million dollars. A considerable
proportion of this money will be used
for grading streets.
The Hudson's Bay Company, according to reports, has recently disposed of
700,000 acres of land in Western Canada,
half a million acres of which property
has been sold, it is said, to a land syndicate, and 200,000 acres to the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company, the sales netting the company $7,000,000.
The directors of the British Columbia
Electric Railway Company at a recent
meeting in London recommended a dividend of 8% for the six months which
ended June 30th, last. The new line
to Chilliwack is now earning 5% on the
$2,000,000 involved in the building of the
Chilliwack  line.
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The Dominion Government is preparing for a rush of settlers into the Peace
River country early in the spring.
The Vancouver City Council proposes
to spend $3,500,000 within the next few
months in public improvements of various kinds.
It is announced that plans are now
maturing in Vancouver for various kinds
of construction work requiring 35,000
tons  of steel.
Salt to the extent of 5,000 tons has
arrived in Nanaimo for use in preserving
the season's catch of herring at this fishing centre.
The contract for the building of the
first Vancouver Island section of the
Canadian Northern Railway was let
early in January.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway has
secured Vancouver waterfront property
upon which to build wharves for its
Pacific steamship business.
Predictions are to the effect that 1911
will be a record year in Vancouver building operations and that the permits will
total at least $15,000,000.
The aggregate amount spent on buildings in Victoria during 1910 was
$2,373,045, an increase over 1909 of nearly
$600,000 and an increase over 1908 of
over a million dollars.
The machinery is at hand for the
Powell River Paper Company, which
will be in operation next May with a
paper mill of a capacity of one hundred
tons of news print a day and a payroll
of over one million dollars a year. A
model town is being built at Powell
River.
At Point Grey last year the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company spent a million dollars in improvements, chiefly in
Shaughnessy Heights, which is a residential proposition of the railroad company, and the municipality spent $390,-
000 on new streets, grading and other
improvements. This district had a population of 5,000 two years ago and now
has a population of about 30,000.
The Western Steel Corporation will
break ground in the spring for a branch,
on the south bank of the Fraser River,
in which plant will be manufactured
merchant steel, and numerous other steel
and iron products. This will be one of
the biggest and most important enter-
prizes yet established in British Columbia, with plans involving the expenditure
of about two million dollars in construction work.
Best Year Yet in Mining
Mineral Production in British Columbia is Steadily Increasing
(From the Review of the Industry, by E. Jacobs, in the Nelson Daily News)
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B" RITISH COLUMBIA'S aggregate mineral production to the
end of 1910 is nearly $374,000,-
000. The estimated value of
the production in 1910 is nearly
$26,000,000, which is larger than in any
previous year. The value of the output
in 1909 was about twenty-four and a half
millions. The 1910 record was made,
too, under conditions which seriously interfered with production at several important mines. However, there was a
sufficient increase in the production of
coal to more than compensate for the
loss in metalliferous mines.
The increase in the production of coal
was large. Last year's production of coal
and coke was valued at $11,084,000; that
for 1909 was $8,575,000. There was a
net increase last year of more than
$2,500,000. All the coal producing districts shared in the increase.
There is good reason to look for an
increasing production of most of the
minerals which contribute largely to the
total output of the Province. Looking
over the situation as it affects the several districts, there seems to be ample
warrant for thinking that the older mining districts will maintain their productiveness, while several new districts may
be expected to become producers now
that they are being provided with railway and other facilities.
The districts that appear to have made
a gain in value of metalliferous produc
tion in 1910 are Cassiar (chiefly in gold
from Atlin), Nelson (in lode gold and
lead), Slocan (silver and lead), Ross-
land (in lode gold, silver, lead and copper, but mainly in gold), and the Coast
DAN GREENWALT
One of B, C's. Best Known Mining Men
(nearly all in copper). Those that show
decreases are Cariboo (in placer gold),
East Kootenay (in silver and lead, for
the most part), Lillooet (in placer gold),
and the Boundary District (in copper in
large degree, but in part offset by a gain
in lode gold from Hedley, Osoyoos mining division).
The gain in production of coal was
in the proportion, roughly, of one-third
to the Vancouver Island and Nicola Valley collieries and two-thirds from those
of South-east Kootenay. The total value
of the mineral production of East Kootenay metalliferous and non-metalliferous
was, therefore, much larger in 1910 than
in 1909.
Reviewing the production of the various minerals, comments are made as
follows:
There appears to have been a small
increase in the total quantity of placer
gold recovered, as compared with that
obtained in 1909. But for water for
gravel washing having been short in the
Cariboo District the gain made would
have been larger.
The largest producers of lode gold, in
the Province, collectively, are the mines
at Rossland, which is in Trail Creek
mining division, these having an estimated total for 1910 of nearly 120,000
ounces, which is probably an increase
over their production in 1909.
Boundary District mines come second,
with a total of approximately 76,800 oz.
Nelson Mining Division has a total of 28,-
000 oz., this including about 12,000 from
Sheep Creek mines, more than 6,0001
from those at Erie, and probably 4,000
from Ymir, with a goodly proportion of
the remainder from mines in the vicinity
of Nelson. Then comes Hedley with a
production of nearly 25,000 fine ounces,
all from the Nickel Plate group. The
Coast District (including Atlin and Portland Canal) has been credited with an
estimated production of rather more than 911
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7,000 ounces, but returns are incomplete.
Between 700 and 800 ounces was produced in various parts of West Kootenay, other than those above mentioned,
chiefly in the  Lardeau.
The prospects of there being an increasing production of lode gold in the
early future are distinctly favorable. At
the time of writing the outlook for a
larger quantity of this metal being obtained from Rossland mines than in the
immediate past is encouraging; with enlarged blast furnace capacity and an
ample supply of ore up to this capacity,
the companies operating on a large scale
in the Boundary District appear to have
substantial grounds for their expectation
of an increased total yield of gold; the
milling of a considerably larger tonnage
of gold-bearing ores in Nelson mining
division—about Nelson, near Ymir, and
in Sheep Creek Camp—may be looked
for, plans to bring this about being
already in preparation; the mechanical
improvements being made and additional
gold-saving facilities being provided at
the Hedley Gold Mining Company's 40-
stamp mill, in the Similkameen; the renewed enterprise of the Tyee Copper
Company in acquiring mines with ore
having an appreciably large quantity of
gold, and the activity in the direction of
production that will henceforward be
witnessed in the Atlin, Portland Canal,
Texada Island and other Coast District
camps, together give reasonable promise
of bringing about a substantial increase
in the production of lode gold in the
Province.
The disastrous forest fires that last
summer did much damage to mine buildings in the eastern part of Slocan and
the neighboring Ainsworth division, had
the effect of preventing an increase in
the production of silver, and also kept
down the output of lead and zinc. There
was an estimated decrease of about 350,-
000 ounces in Ainsworth division.
The Slocan is expected to show a
fairly large increase in silver in 1911.
Both the Boundary and the Coast Districts are increasing ore production, so
from  them  also,  more  silver  should be
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obtained. The great importance of the
Consolidated Mining &. Smelting Company's works at Trail to the Kootenay
District is exemplified in the proportion
of the total silver production of the
Province that was made marketable
there. Of an estimated total production
for 1910 of 2,500,000 ounces, rather more
than 2,000,000 ounces was extracted from
the ores and refined at Trail. It will
here be noted that practically the whole
of the lead produced was similarly
smelted and refined at the Consolidated
Company's works.
There was a serious falling off in the
quantity of lead produced in 1910 as
compared with that in 1909, the respective totals having been 44,396,000 lbs. in
the latter' year as against an estimated
production of only 37,000,000 lbs. in the
former.
The low price of lead during the last
year was one' of the chief influences
against  a  larger  production.
MILL OF SILVER LEAD MINE IN THE KOOTENAY DISTRICT
The production of zinc ore and concentrate in 1910 was so small as to prove
disappointing. Not that the available
material is short in quantity, but that by
an entirely unexpected combination of
adverse circumstances there was comparatively little zinc ore or concentrate
produced and  shipped.
So far as is indicated by the information received, there was no production
of iron ore in the Province in 1910. This
is easily accounted for—there was no
blast furnace smelting British Columbia
iron ore, so there was no inducement to
owners of iron properties to mine any
ore. There is, though, the probability
of British capitalists undertaking the
establishment of iron and steel works at
some advantageous place on or near the
coast of British Columbia.
Little progress seems to have been
made in the direction of turning to profitable account other minerals reported
as occurring in different parts of the
Province. Among these are scheelite, in
the Barkerville District, Cariboo; molybdenum, at Sheep Creek, Nelson Mining
Division; platinum, found with placer
gold in both Similkameen and Cariboo;
cinnabar, in the Kamloops District, and
on the west coast of Vancouver Island,
at which place occurrences of this mercury ore were prospected last year by a
Victoria syndicate; gypsum, in the vicinity of Spatsum, along the Canadian
Pacific Railway main line; asbestos, in
the country lying between the head of
Kootenay Lake and Trout Lake; and
mica at Tete Jaune Cache. Some development work was done on the mica
claims, and a small quantity of mica sent
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THE TALE OF A CAN
In the future history of British Columbia a tin can
will play an important role.
Anyone who has studied the resources of this
Province knows that the- day will come when the
raising of fruit will be one of its greatest profit-
bearing industrfes.
From all the present indications and reports, thousands of tons of berries and small fruits will be raised
in the fruit growing districts of this Province for
consumption at home and abroad. Already the special
qualifications of the Fraser Valley have attracted the
attention and interest of fruit growers and a lively
demand for small fruit ranches is reported throughout the southern part of the Province.
The One Essential of Successful Fruit
Growing is a Properly Conducted Cannery, Supplemented by a Jam Factory
Did you ever stop to consider why this might
be  so?
You wouldn't have to stop to consider if you had
ever seen a crate of strawberries, after a thousand
mile journey across the Canadian prairies on top of
a rough haul to the nearest railroad shipping point.
The farmers lay it to the commission men. The
commission men lay it to the farmers. But the truth
of the matter is that no matter how carefully they are
packed, bush fruits can not stand the hardships of
shipping without loss of weight, flavor or appearance
—which means incidentally loss of actual money.
The solution of the problem lies in the tin can and
glass jar.
Canned goods can be shipped 52 weeks in the year.
The grower in a district where there is a good cannery does not have to go outside for his market. His
entire crop is sold on the vines at a uniform price.
No glut of the market or delayed shipments can beat
his prices to splinters.   But—
The First Requirement of Fruit Cannery
or Jam Factory is Cheap Sugar
In this statement lies the kernel of our story.
You have doubtless heard of the beet sugar plant
which is being established at Mission City, in the
Fraser Valley. Over a thousand acres of land have
been pledged to the project. Men of capital have
become deeply interested in the development of this
plant and are studying the best means of making it
successful. They have decided that the two industries are so closely allied that they can both be
conducted under the same roof, each contributing to
the success of the other, and both to the profits of
the  shareholders.
Shares in these cooperative and allied industries
can be bought for TEN DOLLARS each—the price
of a share in any one of a thousand less well planned
and less promising commercial enterprises.
If you are interested in either one, or both of these
industries, send for our very interesting booklet
which goes into the subject more in detail.
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PROVIDING FOR THE FUTURE
Most men are slaves. They are never for all their
struggles able to get out from under the burden of
circumstances which control their lives as surely as the
most despotic kings of old controlled their subjects.
Employers in these days take the place of monarchs.
The average man must bow to the will and caprices
of other men. His future is rarely certain. Always as
a cloud upon the horizon of his life is the possibility of
business changes, which, at a time perhaps when he
has passed the period of his best productivity, he is
turned adrift to practically begin life anew. He
believes he is a free man but is not. Time and again
he makes, to his own conscience, a declaration of independence. He tells himself that he will put forth
the last ounce of his energy to attain a position in
must take into careful consideration certain factors.
There are four of these which will enable him to make
mining the basis of his declaration of independence.
The first question pertains to the honesty and capability
of the management. The second has to do with the
consideration of whether the mine will be properly
financed beyond the speculative stage, thus avoiding
failure through lack of funds. The third question to
be determined is whether the property can stand up
under a rigid investigation and report by a competent
and conscientious mining engineer. Still another factor
which plays an important part in the value of the property is that of its location. Is it bottled up in an inaccessible place, making it dependent upon an avaricious
railroad which will take "all the traffic will bear," that
which he can feel that his future is secure, but he rarely
realizes this dominating hope, and, in most instances,
this is true because he is afraid to climb out of his rut
to take advantage of what life and nature are willing to
give him if he has but the courage and foresight to
push a little off from the beaten path. Nature is the
friend of man.
The mines of the Province produced in 1909
$25,000,000 worth of gold, silver and other minerals.
In 1910 there was an increase of over a million dollars.
In coming years the mining product, according to the
highest authorities, will steadily advance in value. In
order to enjoy a share in this wealth a man must use
wisdom. In weighing the question of whether any
mining company is entitled to handle his investment he
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We would like to have you ask us in the closest
detail the questions mentioned above as they pertain to
the Mount Gladstone Mine, situated in the Portland
Canal mining district and controlled by the Sutcliffe
Investment Company of 317 Pender Street West,
Vancouver, B. C, in association with a number of the
leading citizens of Vancouver and other British Columbia centres. These men have investigated. They know.
If you investigate you will know and will be rendered
certain that here is an opportunity to make a declaration
of independence for yourself now, for your old age,
and for your children.
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Goods Roads and Streets
Some Interesting Data on How They are Constructed
By Frank M. Foulser
HE development of British Columbia has been so rapid that
despite the most strenuous
efforts of the road builders it
has been almost impossible to
keep pace with the demands of new communities for highways. Even in the City
of Vancouver the growth suburbanward
has outrun the efforts of street builders
and caused the city council to be beseiged
by constituents for more highways.
Despite this situation, which, after all, is
a healthy sign, the Province excells all
of its neighbors in the ardor and persistence with which it is attacking the
problem of good roads.
Special interest attaches itself to the
subject at this time owing to a movement along the entire Pacific Coast for
the establishment of a continuous, first-
•class trunk highway, to be known as
the Pacific Highway, extending along
the entire Pacific Coast from Mexico
to Alaska. The incentive for such a
movement finds its origin in the ranks
of the automobile enthusiasts. So popular has the automobile become for pastime and business that the question of
highways is becoming one of the most
important of the day. For this reason
it may not be uninteresting to recall
briefly the great advance which has been
made in road building on the Pacific
Coast in the last few years, through the
agency, at least in part, of the
automobile.
In California, the first diversion from
ordinary country highway building was
the establishment of the oil road. This
is constructed by thoroughly saturating
the top layer of the road with a coating
of thick, heavy, crude oil. Although
used primarily to lay the dust, it was
found in practice that this contributed to
the wearing qualities of the thoroughfare, and with the result that its use
became more and more widespread, until
to-day the majority of the country highways of California are oiled with asphalt
oils costing approximately from 3c to 6c
a gallon. The use of this form of roadway has spread into Southern Oregon
through the proximity of that State.
In the development of the State of
Washington and the Province of British
Columbia, the first step is the wagon
trail, a rough highway slashed through
the timber and left largely to take care
of itself. This crude thoroughfare is
soon followed, however, by the road of
gravel and macadam. In British Columbia the cost of roads outside the municipalities is borne entirely by the Government. In Oregon and Washington a
State Aid Bill has been passed which provides for the appropriation of a certain
sum of money for use on the country
highways. To take advantage of this
sum each county must appropriate an
amount twice as large as it expects to
receive from the State. The municipalities and towns are responsible for their
own roads.
This brings us logically to a brief consideration of the various kinds of materials which are used in road and street
construction. While comparatively few
people keep in touch with the technical
aspect of road building, every taxpayer
should be at least sufficiently interested
to know the various classes of roads
on which his money is being spent.
The gravel road, here in British Columbia, is usually made of gravel as it comes
from the pit, having, of course, a great
many voids, which allow water to enter
and make the road suitable only for
light, rural traffic.
Heavy travel such as is seen on a
trunk road causes such damage to a
gravel road as to make maintenance an
expensive matter.
The macadam road, of which the
Pacific Highway, when completed, will
be an example, is made of a six-inch
layer of rock crushed into fragments that
will pass through a three-inch meshed
screen. These are held in place by a
filler and binder composed of crushed
rock running down to the size of fine
gravel. On top of this is spread a layer
of one and a quarter-inch stone, and the
whole is pressed down into a hard mass
by the frequent use of a heavy steam
roller.
Within the city limits a large assortment of street-making materials is
available, so many, in fact, that the average person scarcely knows their names,
let alone the process of manufacture.
Granite block pavement, however, is
familiar to all, and is, incidentally, the
most expensive, its cost in this locality
being about four dollars a yard. The
blocks are laid on a bed of concrete six
inches thick with a sand cushion one to
two inches thick and held in place by
Portland cement mortar, or by a filler
composed of small gravel and tar or
pitch. Such pavement is the outgrowth
of the old cobblestone pavement, which
can be seen in Old Country villages, but
which is being rapidly superseded on
this continent by the latter types of paving. The granite block pavement has
the advantage of being the material best
adapted to withstand the demands of
heavy commercial traffic as well as providing a good foothold for horses. Its
drawbacks are its excessive noise and its
lack of resiliency.
Brick is also a good, durable material
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with all the railways of the continent is to be constructed at once.
Ocean Docks, Shipbuilding Yards, Car Works, Steel Works and Railway Terminals
are all coming to take up its miles of waterfront.    There has never been a better opportunity to acquire valuable property at a
nominal price.
kD I \T ][| A 1   t   is in the centre of this region of coming activity, and is being offered for a short time at a much lower price
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We specialize in NORTH VANCOUVER property and can always give you the best value on the market.
340 Pender Street W.
D. MACLURG, Real Estate Broker
VANCOUVER, B. C.
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for pavement, but has the same objection
on the score of noise, without the
strength of granite. The joints afford
good footing, but unless this pavement
is well laid and contraction and expansion allowed for, it heaves up, giving
the effect of a drum, and later settles
with many cracks. But the chief objection to its use, especially on the Pacific
Coast, is its cost, an objection that .will
not be overcome until local industry has
provided manufacturing plants sufficient
to reduce its present cost of about $3.50
a yard. Such an industry, properly
handled, offers good possibilities for the
industrial investor.
Wooden paving blocks come largely
into use in this country on account of the
low cost of fir and cedar. The discovery
of the creosoting process has lengthened
the life of such paving until its wearing
qualities are undeniable. Furthermore,
it offers a good, easy footing, except
when covered with mud or frost, when
its slipperiness makes it extremely difficult for traffic. Wood, a non-conductor,
does not allow the earth heat to thaw
the hoar frost as promptly as granite,
brick, or asphalt. A great deal of the
success of the wood block pavement
depends upon its proper selection and
laying, but this feature in cities like Vancouver, for instance, where wooden paving, in constant use for nearly twenty
years, is still giving excellent service, has
been mastered, so that it would seem
that wood furnishes a very satisfactory
paving materiil. In these days of conservations, however one question of
general economics arises, and thac con
cerns the advisabihty of using for paving purposes a natural resource that is
constantly increasing in desirability for
other uses where no substitute medium
exists.
By far the greatest progress has been
made in recent years along the lines of
asphalted pavement. Asphalt as a street
building material, came into prominence
about thirty-five years ago. The first
attempts to use it were more or less
crude, consisting of merely pouring on
the top layer of the  street various pre
parations of coal tar, more as a preventive to dust than as a method of. protecting the road. Various experiments
proved it to be poor practice to try to
save a worn out macadam road by surface applications, the cost of repairs
being very heavy under concentrated
traffic.
In Europe asphalt pavement is made
of a bituminous limestone, a natural product that can be pulverized and applied
direct to the roadbeds as a surface
material. It costs too much, however, to
import this product to this country, and
so asphaltic sandstone is made artificially
by combining sand and bitumen under
heat and pressure. A better combination
consists of broken stone, the voids of
which are filled with finer stone of different sizes, sand, and stone-dust bound
together by asphalt cement. Usually the
foundation on which this is spread is
composed of two-inch stone laid to a
depth of about six inches, well rolled.
This produces a very durable pavement,
which is noiseless and has a considerable
amount of resliency. It may also be laid
on concrete when necessary, but loses
its resiliency on such an unyielding
foundation.
This is the most recent form of paving
to make its appearance on the Pacific
Coast. It is known as Bitulithic Pavement. It combines all the good qualities
of the old-fashioned asphalt pavement
with certain other distinctions, particularly that of not being slippery and of
being durable. This pavement has been
recently adopted by various municipalities throughout Canada. The cost is
practically the same as that of asphalt,
but its various improvements seem to
have gained favor in the eyes of engineers and the laity. This same type of
paving is coming into use on country
roads in a form lighter than in cities, but
with the same non-slippery, waterproof
surface, which withstands the action of
weather and automobiles.
One of the interesting features in conjunction with this problem of road building is the probable inauguration of a
special   course   in   connection   with   the
new university at Point Grey. This, as
in other universities, will doubtless include a special course for the purpose
of studying all the chemistry and physics
of the materials used in road building.
The large amount of building that has
taken place, in the cities of Victoria and
Vancouver especially, has led to the use
of much building material, probably to
an extent that warrants a substantial
increase in the estimated value of this
product. The only material concerning
which definite information has been
obtained is portland cement, the quantity
of which, manufactured at Tod Inlet,
Vancouver Island, was larger than in
1909, when the output was about 238,000
barrels, valued at approximately $260,000.
It has been announced that arrangements
are in progress for the manufacture of
cement in the neighborhood of Princeton, Similkameen.
As evidence that this year will be a
busy one at Queen Charlotte both the
Canadian Pacific Railway and the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway companies have
already arranged for new and additional
steamers for the Queen Charlotte Islands
in addition to the present service they are
now giving, which is practically a weekly
service by both  companies.
Engineers are now at work on surveys
for the project of The Canadian Collieries for the development of 50,000 horsepower on the Puntridge River in the
centre of the Comox coal fields. This
power plant will cost about $1,000,000.,
and construction will be started on it by
hundreds of workmen within a few
weeks.
The sheep industry in Canada has for
several years been on the decline, but a
movement is now on foot to revive it.
The Minister of Agriculture has appointed a committee to investigate the situation.
Mechanical roasters are being installed
at the Trail smelter.
British Jlmerican trust
Company, Ltd.
City and Suburban Real Estate
Farm Lands.
Dairy and Fruit Farms.
Safety Deposit Boxes from $5.00 per year.
All kinds of Insurance written.
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Phone 6445 100 Loo Bldg.
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Bitulithic is from two classic words meaning "Bitumen"
and "Stone." Cfl Bitulithic Paving- is a paving built
on scientific principles by experts.
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economy.
Send for some interesting literature to
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Section of surface of the Bitulithic Paving on Abbott Street, between
Hastings and Water Streets, Vancouver. This shows the roughened non-
slippery finish which makes it impossible for automobiles to skid—a feature
not possessed by any other form of paving.
Vertical section of the same Bitulithic Paving, showing the absolute
solidity and stability produced by the use of crushed rock, running in size
from 1J^ inches to an impalpable powder, held together by and thoroughly
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1911
Here are Three Investments that
are Certain Profit Makers
Granville Street has made fortunes for
many ; the portion between False Creek
and Shaugrinessy heights is the centre of
great development and rapid growth ; fortunes are yet to be made here. We have
the best buy, viz : 27 x 120 ft. in block 450.
Price $10,000, on terms.
Park Drive — The great business thoroughfare of the East End, 50 x 100 ft. to
lane, at corner of Broadway (carline junction).    $12,000, on terms.
Point Grey — On 13th, 15th and 16th
Avenues, on the highest point between
University site and the city, cleared and
level and commanding beautiful views.
Prices $850, $750, and $1000 respectively.
We believe these are the best buying in
the whole municipality.
A. E. AUSTIN & CO.
Phone 2900
328 Granville St,, Vancouver, B. C.
PI Bin Facts
THE richest men of our time are almost
unanimous in the opinion that the safest and
quickest way to make money is by judicious
investments in acreage close to a growing' town.
Abbotsford is growing at a very rapid rate and will
continue to grow for years to come. Its position
on the map is such that it cannot help but grow,
situated between two prairies on rich bench land,
served by three railways with the possibility of
two more coming, its position is unique. Besides
all this, Abbotsford appears to be very rich in coal
and other minerals. As a residential district it
would be difficult to beat it, with its beautiful
benches, mountain and lake scenery, healthy
atmosphere and natural drainage, one could not
help but be charmed at the prospect of living in
Abbotsford. Therefore, if you wish to become
wealthy, you could not do better than purchase
Abbotsford property, when it has such brilliant
prospects. Don't miss your opportunity, get in
to-day while prices are low, I have a few town lots
that will double in value in a few months.
Write, wire, or come and see me.
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TELEPHONE 1
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Four of the largest lumber companies
in the province have been merged. The
new corporation, which will be known
as the Canadian Pacific Lumber Company, is capitalized at $5,000,000, and includes the present Canadian Pacific
Lumber Company, of Port Moody; the
Barkley Sound Cedar Company, of Port
Alberni; the Anglo-American Lumber
Company, Vancouver, and the Gibbons
Lumber Mills, Arrow Lakes. The timber holdings which have been merged
approximate 135 square miles of valuable
limits, and the total capacity of the four
mills at present is about 300,000 feet
for  a working day  of  ten  hours.
A corporation with $4,000,000 of paid
up capital stock, has been organized to
acquire and operate timber limits and
lumber mills in Western Canada. As
its first enterprise it recently acquired
the limits and mill of the Mundy Company, recognized as one of the most
valuable   in     British     Columbia.
It is said on good authority that several sections of British Columbia are
better adapted to the growing of grapes
than the famous vineyard localities of
Europe.
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(late western business college)
709 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver, B. C.
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Tfeal Estate and Insurance
Drawer 1539    **    Prince Rupert
Splendid Opportunities for Investors
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Hours 9 to 6 •
Phone 3351
JNO. JACKSON
Scientific Chiropodist
Corns removed without pain, Bunions, Ingrowing
Nails, Club Nails, Callouses, Pedicuring, Fetid
Odors  and  Sweaty   Feet   successfully   treated.
30S Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
When in Abbotsford don't fail to
stay at the
Abbotsford Hotel
Steam heat and all modern conveniences
Bar in connection
H. FREEMAN, Prop.     Abbotsford, B. C.
My Spelling is Correct
My Punctuation
Accurate
an
d
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Done
Legal Work a Specialty
A Trial will Convince
Winnifred McKay
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
Phone 5523
504-5 Crown Bldg., Vancouver, B. C.
WHEN YOU THINK OF
SHOW CARDS
THINK OF
TROUNCE
635 GRANVILLE
Phone 1868
Separate Classes for Men and Women
Under Personal Supervision	
Classes Starting Monday, Feb. 7, 1911
VANCOUVER CIRCULAR AND ADV. CO.  ,
"THE MULTIGRAPH PEOPLE"
Makers of Personal Circular Letters to follow
up Prospects Press Clipping Bureau in
connection, covering B. C.
H. J. McLATCHY, Manager
Phone 1937 615 Pender St. W.
J. w.
POTTER
Architect and Structural engineer
Reinforced
Concrete  a   Specialty
LJIW-BUTLER BUILDING
PRINCE
RUPERT,   B.   .
P.
©. BOX 271
Phone 7132
Room 112 Carter-Cotton Bid.
Vancouver, B. C.
YOUNG &   FRANCEY
ENGINEERS  &   DRAUGHTSMEN
Blue Printing,  I racing, Map*, Shuw Card Writing
Design!   ana   Specifications   lor   Steal   and   Concrete   Buildings
Drawing* (or Real h-tate ami Contractors
Architectural   Perspectives
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"Opportunities" Brokers' and Business Directory
Zbt progressive Brokerage, financial and Industrial firms and Institutions of British Columbia,
Phone 2900
A. B. AUSTIN & CO.
Real Estate and Insurance.
328   Granville   St.,   VANCOUVER,   B.   C.
T. B.  ANDERSON &  C.  CLAYTON
Seal Estate
Phone 5913
1069 Granville St.    -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
B. O. B. BAGSHAWE ft CO.
Beal Estate and General Brokers
1112  Broad  St.,  Bownass  Building
Phone   2271       -       -       VICTORIA,   B.   C.
J. A.  COLLINSON
Beal Estate
Phone 4164
240a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.
JOHN  M. CHAPPELL
Beal Estate
Phone 4802
443   Pender  St.     -    VANCOUVER,  B.   C.
W.  W.  DRESSER
Insurance, Beal Estate
Phone 3020
438 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
K. T. BEVIES COMPANY, LIMITED
Real Estate, Loans and Insurance
437 Seymour St.    -    VANCOUVER,  B. C.
Phone 1627
Phone 3628
DUTHIE ft WISEABT
Beal Estate and Financial Agents
520 Pender St. "W.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
W. H. ELLIS
Investment Broker
1122   Government   St.,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
M. H. FRANKLIN CO.
Beal  Estate  Brokers
Acreage, Building Lots and Homes
Phone  970
449 Pender St.     -     VANCOUVER, B. C.
SAMUEL HARRISON ft CO.
Brokers   and   Financial  Agents.    Agents
Stewart Land Co., Ltd.
Stewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.
HASLETT  ft WHITAXSB
Beal   Estate,   Timber,   Insurance
Phone 5807
Room 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
LEONARD & REID
Real Estate and Fire Insurance
Mining   Properties    in    Portland    Canal,
Hazelton and Queen Charlotte
Districts
PRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.
P.  O.  Box  247 Phone   178
T.   J.  POLLEY   &   CO.
Real   Estate    Fire,   Life   and   Acoident
Insurance.    Plate Glass Insurance.
Conveyancing.    Notaries.
Agents   for   Canadian   Home   Investment
Co.  and Commercial Loan and Trust
Co.,   Ltd.
CHILLIWACK,   B.   C.
A.   H.   HARMAN
Real   Estate
1317 Broad St. -        VICTORIA, B.  C.
Phone 1918
HINHSON, SIDDALL & SON
Real Estate and Insurance
Phone 869
New Grand Theatre Bldg.    1311 Gov't St.
VICTORIA,  B.  C.
ALFRED   M.   HOWELL
Customs Broker,  Forwarding Agent
Office—23   Promis   Block
Telephone   1501,   Res.   R1671
1006   Government   St.,  VICTORIA,   B.   C.
IMPERIAL  REALTY   CO.
Real  Estate  and Insurance
307 Loo Bldg.       -      VANCOUVER, B.  C.
GEORGE LEEK
Real Estate, Notary Public
Exchange Block   PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
W. F. Moncreiff P. E. Townshend
W.   F.   MONCREIFF   ft   CO.
Real Estate and Financial Brokers
Room 304, Winch Bldg.      Hastings St. W.
VANCOUVER, B. C.
MARRIOTT  ft  FELLOWS
Real Estate
Phone 1077
134 Hastings St.      -      VANCOUVER, B.C.
E. S. MORGAN
Industrial  Sites, Waterfrontage  on Bur-
rard Inlet, etc.
Suite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.
429 Pender St.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone   5833.
W. O. Shrumm H. Lambert
THE   NATIONAL   REAL   ESTATE
Loans, Insurance
Phone 6320
68  Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B. C.
PATTULO ft RADFORB
Real    Estate,    Insurance    and    Financial
Agents
P.O. Box 1635       PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.
Cable Address:   "Patrad"
C.  C.  PEMBERTON
Real Estate  and Notary Public
Room 11, 707% Yates St.     -    Phone 1711
VICTORIA, B. C.
HAMILTON   &   MYERS
We run an up-to-date Pool Room, Bowling
Alley and Snooting Gallery.
We also carry a full line of Cigars,
Tobaccos and Confectionery
Specialties.
Opposite  Odd  Fellows'   Hall,
SUMAS,    -----        WASH.
C. ARTHUR REA
Late of Brandon, Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc
Law   Chambers,   VICTORIA,   B.   C.
ROYAL REALTY COMPANY
Real   Estate,   Insurance   and   Financial
Agents
Phone  2394 Notary Public
615 Fort St. - VICTORIA,  B. C.
SMITH  ft  SMITH
Real Estate and Commission Agents
P.O.   Box  41
J. H. Smith W. R. Smith
4th  Ave. - - STEWART,   B.  C.
GEO. H. SMITH & ARTHUR JONES
Dealers in Property in Vancouver,  New
Westminster and the Fraser Valley
P.   O.   Box  165       -      -      -      Phone  1743
VANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.
Real Estate and Loans
62 Hastings St. E.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
WESCOTT ft LETTS
Real Estate and Insurance Agents
Room  3,  Moody  Block        -        Yates St.
VICTORIA, B. C.
ALFRED WILLIAMS
Construction Engineer
Temporary  Office
New Metropolitan Building
Hastings St. W.      -     VANCOUVER, B. C.
H. W. WINDLE
Real Estate  Broker
Phone 6320
532 Granville St.    -   VANCOUVER, B. C.
Phone 815 P. O. Box 735
The City Brokerage
Real Estate, Timber and Fire Insurance
A. T. ABBEY, Manager
1218 Douglas St. VICTORIA, B. C.
Real Estate Insurance Loans
Rooming1 Houses     Business Chances     Collections
JOHN M. PARK
GOLDEN RULE BROKERAGE
Phones: Office 5346
Residence 3662
1117 Granville St.      Vancouver, B. C.
A. SCHUMACHER
Dealer In Clothing, Furnishings,
Sporting Goods
SUMAS,
WASH.
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 -IN	
TIMBER LANDS :: FARMLANDS
CITY PROPERTY
A   REAL  SNAP
40,000 acres of crown grant lands, also
33 sections of license timber limits.
950 million feet of merchantable timber.
20 thousand acres of agricultural land.
The railway and river runs through the
the timber.
A GOOD   FARM   HOME
Is the investment that will give employment, pay large profits and also increase
in values.
A   HOME  SITE
An investment in property in a growing
city is better than an old age pension.
We have them — communicate  with us.
WE   SOLICIT  YOUR   CORRESPONDENCE
W. C. FRANKLIN T. E. POMEROY
The Glasgow Real Estate Brokers
PHONE 6576 20 EXCHANGE BUILDING
142 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B. C.
WRITE  FOR   OUR   MAP   AND   PRICES
Chas. Hutchison & Co
Realty and Insurance Brokers
Chilliwack, B. C.
The Finest Apples in the World
Are Grown In British Columbia's Famous DRY BEI/T DISTRICT
THE YIEIvD IS GRESTEST and the
PRICKS OBTAINED ARE THE HIGHEST JP9H
YOU SHOULD LOCATE AT
"SUNNYSIDE"
It is in the HEART of this wonderful district
and 5 ACRES of its RICH,  DEEP SOIL will make you a GOOD LIVING
Write for illustrated folder,  ATTRACTIVE PRICES and EASIEST of TERMS to
ROSS ©• SHAW 1
318 Hastings St. W.
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1911
IKEDA MINES, LIMITED
(Non-Personal Liability)
Contain all the Elements of Success
IT is confidently expected that the money to be realized from the sale of
$200,000 worth of shares in Ikeda Mines, Limited (non-personal liability)
will develop and equip them to a shipping- capacity of 100 tons per day.
Engineer's examinations, known costs of mining-, transportation, treatment and ascertained ore value indicate a profit of $10 per ton on the ore.
Of course, 100 tons a day at a profit of $10 a ton would be very handsome
indeed on a paid-up capitalization of $700,000.
Business men don't expect such profits ordinarily, and few industries
ever yield them. Once in a great while a mine will produce such dividends.
That happens only when the mine contains large ore bodies, easily worked
and handled in a business-like way.
We don't promise investors any such profits, but we do believe we have
all the elements of a successful mining proposition. Ikeda Mines, Limited,
(non-personal liability) have the ore, they have the engineering ability to find
it and get it out at a minimum cost, they have water transportation and they
know the cost of treatment. Their ore values have been ascertained, their
costs are known, the business is ably handled by a competent board of
business directors.
It would be harder to make a failure of the Ikeda Mines, as they are
now developed, than it would be to make a moderate success of them if they
were yet unproven prospects. Even a partial success should bring handsome
returns on  the investment.
We have a booklet, "The Ikeda Mines, Limited" (non-personal liability),
which will be mailed free to anyone interested. Better write or telephone
the brokers to-day and pfet one.
S. /. CASTLEMAN
IMPERIAL BUILDING
Broker for the Company
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Chrimes & Jukes    =°* TO=
Stock Brokers
Members of Vancouver Stock Ezchange
513 PENDER STREET
Home Estate & Trust
Corporation
334 HASTINGS STREET
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SEE OUR PROPERTY
Corner of River Road and
Ontario Street M
The choicest thing in South Vancouver. Just placed on
the market.—97 choice lots, of which 1.0 front on River
Road and 33 on Ontario Street.   Every lot will be cleared
and graded.
$550 AND UP.   TERMS OVER TWO YEARS
Latimer, Ney & IVLcTavish, Ltd.
419 Pender Street,  Vancouver, B. C.
COQUITLAM
B
D. L. 340   EAST HALF
EAUTIFUL Subdivision on the
bank of the Fraser River. Each
Lot a full half acre. Equal to five
33 foot Lots. Each lot has frontage on two roads. Unsurpassed
view of Mount Baker and River.
C. P. R. Property adjoining.
Call or write for particulars.
PRICE $750.00 Each. Terms, %
cash; balance 6, 12 and 18 months.
HARRY BETTZ, Broker
PHONE 6109
704 Robson Street Vancouver, B. C.
Visitors should go to
the Carlton Cafe
It is the one place in town where you
are absolutely certain of an exquisitely
cooked and quickly served meal.
Strict Attention to Detail
is one of the reasons why the Carlton patronage is growing so rapidly. For instance, we insist upon absolute cleanliness
in both dining room and kitchen. The
service is swift, and Mr. "Jimmie"
Morgan is always on hand to attend to
the comfort of guests. Visit the Carlton
Cafe as soon as you can.
THE CARLTON CAFE
Cor. Cordova and Cambie Sts., Vancouver
PHONE 5728
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1911
A Woman's
Path to
Independence
Some of the best opportunities for women who desire to achieve independence lie in the new art
of Dermatology. This includes Hair Dressing, Marcel Waving, Children's Hair Cutting, Shampooing,
Scalp Treatments, Hair Dying and Bleaching, Manicuring, Facial Massage, Wig, Switch and Toupee Making.
Women everywhere are realizing to a greater and greater degree the importance of making the
most of their physical attractions. More and more are they awakening to the fact that they owe it as
a duty, to themselves and to those who are interested in them to appear always at their best. For this reason
the field of Dermatology is constantly expanding. Any woman who becomes an adept in the practice
of this new art can feel assured of a good and steady income.
The pathway in Vancouver to this fascinating and lucrative profession lies through the Canadian
College of Dermatology, which is equipped with every modern appliance and has a most competent
faculty. Students will be admitted after having passed an examination in
reading, writing and an eyesight test. Those having a diploma from a public
school or a letter of recommendation from a teacher are admitted without an
examination. The necessary tools do not cost more than from ten to fifteen
dollars, and these will be found useful to the practitioner after graduation.
The Spring term begins on February 15th and continues for ten weeks.
Graduates are in demand at good salaries. Moreover, the cost of
establishing a manicure parlor, hair goods store or dermatology parlor is so
small that any intelligent young woman can embark in the profession and find
in it greater scope than in almost any other field which is now open to her.
Please address your application to Miss EVA POWELL,
Secretary  The Canadian College of Dermatology, Vancouver, B. C, care
MADAME   HUMPHREYS
723 Pender Street W.        the fairfield building      VANCOUVER, B. C.
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J 1911
OPPORTUNITIES
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TALK IS CHEAP, but it is the goods that count.
This  house  features   Quality,   eventually  it gets the  business
'' You know it" "We know it.''
WESTERN SPECIALTY LIMITED
STATIONERS, PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS
314 Pender Street West Phone 5938 VANCOUVER, B. C.
Mr. E. G. Parnell,
513 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, B. C.
Dear Sir:
We are pleased to advise we had a Victor Safe,
No. 14, which went through the hottest part of the
fire on Sycamore Street, starting at 2.30 on the morning of December 21st, and lasting two hundred and
thirty-four hours and forty-nine minutes. This safe
fell directly over a three-inch gas main which burst,
and we enclose clipping which might be of use to
you. The safe was taken from the ruins, opened
with combination first trial and contents found intact,
We are now located in our new quarters and
have, of course, another Victor Safe.
Yours truly,
(Sgd)    The TAYLOR-POOLE  CO.
WINDSOR PARK
$125.00     H
FOR   AN   INSIDE   LOT;    or
$275.00
FOR A FINE DOUBLE  CORNER.
Terms-$20.00 Cash.    Balance—$5.00 Month
Just north of proposed  Imperial Car Works
 and   Dry   Docks	
Canadian National Investors
LIMITED
310 Hastings Street West
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Telephone 6488 Open Evenings
MY SPELLING IS CORRECT, MY
PUNCTUATION ACCURATE and
MY TYPEING CAREFULLY DONE
Legal Work a Specialty
WINIFRED McKAY
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
Phone 5523
504-5 Crown Building Vancouver, B. C.
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For the Best and Most Satisfactory Forms of
Accident Insurance
or Health Policies
covering every form or Accident or
Sickness, see our latest proposition.
General Agent for B. C. for the
TRAVELLERS INSURANCE COT
Hartford, Conn.
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438 Pender Sl W-,
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Ostrich Feathers Cleaned, Curled
and Dyed. Gorgeous French Willows made of your discarded plumes
Special   Prices   during   February.
references: leading stores
African Plume Parlor
Suite 54, 429 Pender Street West
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1911
Five and Ten
Acre Blocks
adjoining" the proposed townsite
of Gordonville in the Fort George
District on very easy terms.
Prices $35.00 per acre and up
Write us for prospectus and
information regarding- this property and the future of this
•district.
We are selling this land in
five, seven and ten acre tracts.
Small cash payment and balance
over two years.
ThiB photo, taken on our land, shows the luxurious growth of wild hay
in this district and the fertility of tin: soil
FOR  PEOPLE  LIVING IN ENGLAND,  WE   REFER   THEM TO  PAGE  212, FEB. NO. PEARSON'S  MAGAZINE
WESTERN CANADA TOWNSITES LIMITED
522 Pender Street West
VANCOUVER, B. C.
We are Vancouver Island  Agents for the
Kootenay Gold Mines Ltd.
(Non-personal Liability)
Formerly the Granlte-Poorman Group of Nelscn, B. 0.
We have a small allotment of shares for sale at $1.00,
on terms of 20% cash, 20% on allotment, 30% two months,
30% four months. We have investigated this Company
and can -strongly recommend the purchase of shares at
$1.00 as one of the best mining' propositions ever floated
in British Columbia.    Prospectus on application.
O. H. BOWMAN & COMPANY
Stock Brokers
P. O. Box 1048 Mahon Building:, VICTORIA, B.C.
Farming Opportunities
CHILLIWACK is the centre of one of
the finest farming districts in British
Columbia. The direct Tram connection
between the upper and lower Fraser Valley
has greatly increased Chilliwack's shipping1 facilities and real estate, both in and
around the city, is an excellent investment.
My lists are complete. Write regarding
investment.
W. R. NELEMS
Chilliwack, B. C.
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VANCOUVER, B. C,
CONTENTS
MARCH,  1911
Page.
Editorial     11
Telling the World About the Province /. Herbert Welch 15
Investing at Long Range C. M. Burmester 15
The Potent Sugar Beet Ceo. Schumacher, Ph.D. 19
The Great Trek North  21
Dairymen Must Get Together W. A. Wilson 23
House and Home—A Home for Little Money  26
How I Acquired a Vancouver Home—A Young Newcomer  27
Vancouver's Architectural Beginning and Development. . . . G.  IV. Grant 28
A Pioneer's Home Beatrice Nasmith 29
Why He Treated Her to Luncheon Ethel Grant 31
Now for the  Home Garden  32
Industrial Progress in British Columbia  33
Laws Governing the Preempting of British Columbia Land  36
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All kinds of Insurance written.
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1911
By investing now in Property adjoining and
adjacent to
STEEL eiTY
You will receive all the advantage of the ENORMOUS
RISE IN VALUES that will accrue within a few
months when the Western Steel Corporation will have
their great   Rolling1   Mills,   Blast  Furnaces,  etc.,   under
construction.
We have all sorts of choice snaps in
Waterfrontage, Acreage
and Subdivisions
Fot particulars apply to
KENNEDY BROS. LTD.
Real Estate, Timber and Insurance
Ovez Mezchant's Bank Phone 335 Cot. Columbia and Begbie Stzeets
NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C.
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regarding British Columbia and the wealth of possibilities she offers
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Vol. 3
MARCH, 1911
No. 3
EDITORIAL
BRILLIANT FINANCIAL OUTLOOK
^ To the many thousands who have cast their fortunes with
British Columbia, or who are contemplating doing so, the
industrial and financial outlook is, of course, a matter of vital
importance. What we are about to say on this subject is not
based so much upon our own knowledge as upon that of a
British Columbia financier and industrial leader who, as the
president of a leading bank and the head of a big business, is
in a better position than almost any other man in this section to
grasp comprehensively the fundamental business tendencies in
the Province. He has informed us that, as far as his vision
extends, there is not a cloud nor the suspicion of one, in our
financial sky. It is quite true that just now the money market
shows a slight contraction, but this is merely a temporary condition resulting from the fact that the merchants of the Northwest have been keyed a little too high in their anticipation of
business and have tied up a good deal of money in stock.
Another influence toward conservatism in loans on the part
of the banks arises from a desire to keep a curb on speculation.
The present slight tightness of the money market is one of the
products of a sound banking policy, and interferes in no way
whatever with the brightness and promise of the British
Columbia financial situation.
^f Because of the present policy of Great Britain in the matter
of taxation a vast amount of British capital is seeking investment outside of the British Isles, and English investors have
been so successful in British Columbia in the past that there
is not the slightest doubt about very large sums of English
money being expended in increasing measure for the industrial
development of this Province. The big tide of British capital
which is flowing in this direction is looming up more and more
conspicuously to the bankers, and there is every indication that
it will move toward British Columbia for years to come. In
addition to this, capitalists of the United States, Germany, and
France, are looking more and more to this new land for investments which will give them larger returns on their money than
can be now obtained at home.
*I The obvious reason for this influx of capital is that British
Columbia is yet far from full development; has many natural
resources still awaiting the call of industry; and has a rapidly
growing population. Capital here can still get in on the ground
floor. Any business basically sound and well conducted is
bound to expand in unison with the general industrial expansion.
^ Supplementing the great volume of money which is pouring
in from the financial centers of the world, there will be, within
the next few years, a tremendous expenditure right here at
home. The Provincial Government, in public works and other
progressive activities, proposes to contribute a great many millions to the arteries of trade.
^ The chief factor in the increasing industry and population
in British Columbia is to be found, of course, in transportation
lines. Two new transcontinental systems now have this
Province as an objective point, and before another five years
has passed will have linked sections of it which are now undeveloped, with the great centers. This will mean bringing
to the uses of civilization vast areas of virgin country rich in
the treasures of the earth; it will mean new opportunities for
hundreds of thousands of people; it will mean that the wealth
producing activities of British Columbia will not be confined
mainly to the southern portions of the Province, as is now the
case, but will be spread hundreds of miles to the north, to
great expanses of territory which have thus far lain fallow.
^ The new railroad lines themselves will spend a great deal of
money; the settlers they bring in will have more or less capital
when they arrive, and will, in constantly increasing degree, turn
the soil, the mineral deposits, the forests and other resources
into wealth.
{J In addition to the railroad enterprises there are numerous
others of great moment. An immense amount of money will
be spent in the years immediately ahead of us in monetizing
British Columbia forests, fisheries, and immense reserves of
minerals. The exploiting of the very extensive coal measures
of the Province will engage a great deal of capital. This is
true in hardly less degree of various kinds of stone for building
and other purposes; of the development of gold, silver, and
copper mines, and perhaps, most important of all, the utilization of iron ore, which has a tremendous potentiality in its relation to British Columbia industry in the future.
^ As to mining in general, there is every indication of the dawn
of a new era of production, and of opportunities for sound
investment. To particularize as to iron ore, it is worth while
to mention the fact that a powerful corporation of British
capitalists has matured plans and has closed options on a
tract of land on the Fraser River for the purpose of establishing there an industry which will supply the North-west with Page  10
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steel and, after the completion of the Panama Canal, will be
able to compete with steel mills, wherever located, for business
in the markets of the world. The iron ore will be mined within
comparatively easy reach of the mills on the Fraser River,
which will be devoted for the time being to supplying Canada
with steel products. All of the British Columbia iron ore,
however, will not be converted into steel at the Fraser River
mills. A considerable portion of the raw material will be
sent south across the international boundary to be made into
steel at Irondale, at which point it will be shipped to the markets
of the United States and will enter into a competition with the
mills at Pittsburg, which, as is well known, have been the
principal source of the prosperity of one of the richest cities
on earth. But right here in Canada the Fraser River mills will
have a big and steadily expanding market. In British Columbia
for instance, about one thousand tons of steel a month are used.
With the wonderful building and industrial operations now in
progress, this demand is growing monthly. When the mills
in question have been well established there is no doubt that
they will employ at least five thousand people and thus will in
themselves constitute the nucleus for a thriving city. And yet
the product of these mills will not, for any great length of time,
be restricted to the Canadian market. The completion of the
Panama Canal will bring shipping facilities which will make
it entirely practicable to ship the product of the Fraser River
mills to the markets of Europe and the East, as well as to
those of the Atlantic Coast of North America. Hence there
is promise that on the Fraser River will be developed one of
the greatest steel industries the world has yet seen. The
Pittsburg mills will no longer be able to control the markets
for the reason that those in British Columbia will have the
advantage of closer proximity to the iron ore, and cheaper fuel.
The cost of labor, too, will probably be no greater here than
it is in Pennsylvania, and even if it should be, it will be offset
by the advantages mentioned above. So it is that there is a
brilliant prospect of an immense industry being added, within a
reasonable time, to the British Columbia list.
^ With capital coming in from many sources, and with a
constantly growing exploitation of our natural riches, it seems to
be safe to say that the next decade in British Columbia will
see here larger wealth per capita than any other section of the
continent or the world.
{J It will be seen from this that the great and growing prosperity of British Columbia is not a boom, but is based on no less
a substantial foundation than vast natural wealth which is
still in the inception of its development. There will be, of
course, a local ebbing and flowing of real estate and other
valuations, but the big current will be steadily in the direction
of higher and more staple prices. For this reason legitimate
real estate investment, as distinguished from feverish speculation, is sound investment. This is true of all business projects
which are backed up by enterprise, honesty and common sense.
^f Upon the completion of the railroads it is natural to expect,
after the strenuous beginnings, a period of rest, of general
readjustment to conditions based less upon expectation and more
upon actualities. This period always comes sooner or later in
the history of a big city which has developed rapidly. It has
been seen in Winnipeg, and apparently has arrived in Seattle.
But by the time such cities as Vancouver and Victoria will be
subsiding from the business impetus due to railroad development, the Panama Canal will enter the situation with fresh
promise for the future. It may, therefore, be predicted that
for a considerable number of years to come the business situation in British Columbia will be enlivened not only by actual
achievements, but also by anticipation based on fresh developments. Eventually the stimulating and inspiring factors will
be to a considerable extent eliminated, and then our business
people will have to reckon the things as they are, instead of
being buoyed up as conspicuously  as they now  are by the
promise of the future. They will have to get down to a
"bread and butter" basis. But this period is still a long way
ahead. Meanwhile there will be plenty of time for those who
are alert to make the most of the forward strides of British
Columbia, and grow in prosperity with the general expansion.
A NEW ERA FOR THE COAST
tfl Along all of the vast stretch of Pacific Coast from Prince
Rupert to San Diego, in the southern end of California, there
is great optimism and expectancy. The people are looking
forward to an era of progress and prosperity greater than any
which the coast has ever yet seen. The reason is that the sections
of the continent that used to be called the "wild and woolly
West" have already been so thoroughly exploited that the
Eastern and European seekers for new opportunities are gazing
beyond these sections to the coast, which, with the continuous
development of commerce on the Pacific Ocean, is bound to
see a greater and greater concentration of industry and population. The Panama Canal will prove a wonderful factor in
the growth of Pacific trade, and, whether we are Canadians
or Americans, we owe a tribute to. Theodore Roosevelt for
the great impetus he gave, as President of the United States,
to the completion of this epoch-making enterprise. It will probably stimulate the growth of Vancouver in even greater degree
than that of the cities beyond the boundary. The point of
this brief dessertation is that the Pacific Coast gives every indication of showing a more rapid development during the years
immediately ahead of us than any other section of the world, and
that the coast cities of British Columbia promise to respond
to this general development in more pronounced degree than
any other cities.
IS THE CONSUMER WORTH CONSIDERING?
^ It would take a man with a wonderful eye for penetrating
the mists of the future to predict with any accuracy as to the
ultimate effect upon Canada of the reciprocity agreement
between the Dominion and the United States. But the menace
of the immediate effects seems, as the days pass, to grow less
dark. For instance, some of the leading authorities in the fruit,
fishing and lumber industries of British Columbia have
announced, after careful thought, that the effect of reciprocity
on these industries will not be disastrous. Some of the bankers
have made bold to say that, with broader markets, the general
financial situation will be made even better than it already is.
Some English statesmen of high patriotism and ability have
shown much less fear than has been shown in Canada that
reciprocity with the United States is an insidious attack upon the
Empire. Everybody who has any knowledge of the characteristic manoeuvres of politicians in the United States Congress
to make political capital and to gain personal publicity, knows
that the annexation talk of Champ Clark, the Democratic
leader, was a half-humorous and wholly transparent ruse to
hamper the reciprocity efforts of President Taft. Mr. Clark
did not expect to be taken seroiusly in the United States, and
was not. He evidently hoped that in Canada he might stir
up something," and to some extent this hope was realized, but
the flurry is subsiding. The reciprocity question has been
somewhat clouded by extraneous smoke, which, by degrees, is
lifting. It is a business question. We don't pretend to be
wise enough to venture an opinion on its ultimate effect upon
the development of Canada, but one of its first tendencies will
be to help the consumer, who, despite his serious cost of living
problem, has hardly been mentioned in all this war of words. OPPORTUNITIES
Vol. III.
HUTCHINSON BLOCK. VANCOUVER, B. C, MARCH, 1911.
No. 3
Telling the World About the Province
Publicity Work which is Helping to Swing to British
Columbia One of History's Big Migrations
By J. Herbert Welch
C-HRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
was the Western Hemisphere's
first publicity agent; but the art
of publicity has made progress
since the days of the discovery
of America, and it is probable that the
small group of publicity men in British
Columbia reach in a single day more
people than Columbus and his followers
population on the face of the earth, are
giving rise and direction to tides of emigration, are changing the destinies of a~
multitude of people.
The fact is now well recognized that
the city or section which has anything to
offer to newcomers can increase its population most expeditiously by systematic
publicity.    This has been amply proved
paratively virgin land of British Columbia. For many years citizens of the
Province have been spreading information by letter and word of mouth, but
only recently has the work ceased to be
haphazard. There has been a big awakening to the value of well organized publicity, and now the story of British Columbia is being told by men who have
r*riti§.
'&0&gji$&
WATER SPORTS ARE AMONG THE MANY OUT-DOOR PLEASURES AT THE CAPITAL
reached in a lifetime with their stories of
a new land.
There is nothing spectacular about publicity work itself, but in its results there
is much which is impressive. The busy
publicity man absorbed in work in a
humdrum office might be a shoe-string
manufacturer, as far as appearances go,
but he is sending broad-cast through the
world tidings of new opportunities. The
tappings  of his  typewriter are  shifting
in the prairie provinces of Canada, and
in the west and south of the United
States. A tome would be required to
describe the many methods of attracting
population to communities and regions.
Some of these methods have been more
picturesque than permanently effective.
It is enough to say that the most reliable
of them are now being employed in telling the world in general all about the
resources and opportunities. in this corn-
made a specialty of peopling new lands
through the medium of the photograph
and written word.
One of the most important moves toward systematic publicity in British
Columbia was made in January, 1909,
when the Victoria Board of Trade invited various communities on Vancouver Island to hold public meetings and
appoint delegates to meet in Victoria
for the purpose of forming an associa- Page 12
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DR. ELLIOTT S. ROWE
tion for the development of Vancouver
Island. The first meeting was held on
January 22nd, 1909, with Colonel E. C.
Prior, former Premier of British Columbia, in the chair. A number of eloquent
addresses were made on the subject of
Vancouver Island resources and the
need of getting more people to develop
them. The upshot of the meeting was
the organization of the Vancouver
Island Development League, with branch
leagues on Vancouver Island in the following districts: Alberni, Bamfield,
Port Alberni, Clayoquot, Colwood,
Cumberland, Duncan, East Wellington,
Holberg, Ladysmith, Nanaimo, Nootka,
North Saanich, Oak Bay, Port Renfrew,
Quatsino, San Josef, Shawnigan, Sooke,
Ucluelet, Victoria.
While each of these districts has its
own organization, all put their shoulders
to the wheel as a harmonious unit for
the peopling and development of Vancouver Island. No section or community is exploited to the detriment of any
other. Though citizens of Victoria have
paid the greater part of the expenses of
the league, it is operated for the island
as a whole. To keep all of the districts,
each with its special interest, pulling in
the same direction, has been a task of
delicacy, but it has been successfully
accomplished. The Vancouver Island
Development League has already gained
the reputation of being one of the most
effective publicity organizations on the
continent. In numerous ways it obtains
publicity for Vancouver Island. From
its office in Victoria is sent out every
day literature which is convincingly
written and handsomely illustrated, and
which anticipates almost every question
that could occur to a prospective settler.
But the mailing of printed literature is
merely the beginning of the work. Most
of those contemplating a move to Vancouver  Island  want  information  touch
ing specifically upon their individual requirements, and so they write. During
the winter months twenty or thirty letters a day are answered. As spring
approaches the number increases until
the secretary is confronted each morning with a pile of letters averaging forty
or fifty and sometimes mounting as high
as seventy-five.
These letters are, in the main, the first
fruits of the League's advertisements,
which, in newspapers and other mediums, are spread over the world in the
following proportion: Canada, fifty per
cent.; United States in .general, fifteen
per cent.; Pacific Coast, ten per cent.;
British Isles, fifteen per cent.; South
America, five per cent.; Orient, five per
cent. It is probable during the League's
next fiscal year, which begins in April,
some advertising will be placed in Scan-
danavian countries in the hope of attracting some of their people who, as
it is well known, make particularly desirable  settlers  in farming districts.
That this advertising and the publicity
work in general is not confined to the
countries or sections to which it is specially directed, but perculates through
the world, is indicated by the fact that
letters of inquiry come from numerous
other regions, some of which are remote
and inhabited in only slight degree by
English speaking people. The letters
are all answered. People who seemed to
be fitted for the conditions here are advised to come. Others are advised to
stay away.
The results of the work can already be
seen in the taking up of some one hundred and thirty-five homesteads by heads
of families who were first attracted to
Vancouver Island by potent words from
the League. The officers of the latter
take pride in the fact that all who have
come at their suggestion have been workers, useful citizens who are able and
willing to add their quota to the wealth
of the community. More of this kind
have announced plans for casting their
fortunes with the Island this spring, and
the constantly increasing number of letters is convincing evidence that a greater
and greater number are turning their
eyes and hopes in this direction. These
people are wealth producers. The value
to Vancouver Island of those who have
already been drawn there by the League
is in multples of the expenditure. This
has amounted so far to about twelve
thousand dollars a year, with a cash balance of several hundred dollars on the
right side of the ledger.
Among the progressive citizens who
have supported this excellent work are
Col. E. G. Prior, J. J. Shallcross, H. O.
Wilson, Chas. H. Lugrin, Simon Leizer,
Joshua A. Kingham, A. W. McCurdy,
A. E. Todd, John Nelson, Herbert Kent,
W. J. Sutton, J. A. Sayward, George
Coldwell,  Geo.  Mitchell,  Jas.  Thomson,
A. Gonnason, W. T. Williams, R. W.
Perry, Anton Henderson, Andermen
McKeown and Sargison. The publicity
man of the organization is Ernest
McGaffey, who was a lawyer in Chicago
for ten years and has had a long newspaper training. When Mr. McGaffey
was appointed secretary of the League at
the time of its formation he devoted
himself for several weeks to learning as
much as possible about Vancouver
Island, and went about this task just as
does a trained writer when he takes a
big assignment from an editor. He
made a trip over the island, and because
numerous parts of it are still in a state
of nature he had adventure. Some of
his experiences were like those of an
explorer, and were such that fall to the
lot of few publicity men. The tour, together with what he has learned since
he took it, has inspired Mr. McGaffey
with enthusiasm based on fact. This
output of literature is preeminently practical and truthful, but it has a glow.
Sometimes it becomes poetical. There
is no special desire in writing this to
laud Mr. McGaffey's publicity work. It
is a wholly unbiased opinion which
prompts the statement that some of his
writings, and particularly his poems,
would have given him a high reputation
in the realm of pure literature if he had
devoted himself exclusively to this. As
it is he has had five or six volumes of
poems published by two of the best
publishing houses on the continent. But
Mr. McGaffey is making poetry the hand
maiden of publicity. He feels that the
pointing out of real opportunities and
the swinging of tides of population is
bigger work than the mtr^ stirring of
poetic sensibilities.
The   publicity   work   for    Vancouver
Island has been mentioned first because
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ERNEST McGAFFEY
it has, as yet, the most comprehensive
organization. That which is conducted
by the Tourist Association of the City
of Vancouver is no less important. It
is supported by leading citizens, and,
under the direction of Doctor Rowe as
secretary, issues a monthly magazine
and pictorial annual, and sends to other
sections a great amount of information
in letters and booklets. Vancouver is
on a great highway of travel, and people
from many parts of the world stop at the
offices of the Tourist Association and
glean accurate details as to British Columbia opportunities for settlers and
investors.
Doctor Rowe brought to his publicity
work in British Columbia a long experience in the pulpit. He came to this
Province from Toronto about twelve
years ago and was pastor of the Metropolitan Church at Victoria for four years.
Since coming to Vancouver he has become the guiding spirit in the Tourist
Association and has materially enlarged
its scope. It does not confine its activities to Vancouver; it reaches to many
parts of the world for settlers and investors. It is a sort of unofficial substation of the Government's bureau of
information at Victoria, and distributes a
large amount of government literature
pertaining to  the  Province.
Perhaps its most important achievement was that during the Alaska-Yukon
Exhibition at Seattle, when, by means
of a stately arch in one of Seattle's main
thoroughfares, an office in a centrally
located building and a wide distribution
of literature about British Columbia, it
brought the Province very conspicuously and effectively to the attention of
many thousands of prosperous people
who visited the exhibition. This work
was under the direct supervision of Dr.
Rowe, and cost about twenty thousand
dollars. The returns have had a value
far exceeding this  amount.    This  cam
paign has been a leading influence in
causing a considerable number of people
to either settle or invest here, and in
general has proved excellent advertising
for Vancouver and British Columbia.
Doctor Rowe is now busy on a British Columbia booklet which will be circulated in California at the end of the
tourist season there with a view to attracting to the Province the attention
of the large number of people who are
prosperous enough to seek out in the
winter the benign California climate.
The Southern Pacific Railway has promised to cooperate with Doctor Rowe
in obtaining California publicity for British  Columbia.
Another important plan of Doctor
Rowe is to start late in the spring on
a trip through the Province. In the various centers he will endeavor to stimulate publicity work and to obtain a more
unified action among all of them in promoting British Columbia interests. After
visiting the principal cities and towns
he will journey east and in the big cities
will talk British Columbia to everybody
interested. A part of his plan is to
deliver illustrated lectures on the opportunities here. The doctor feels that interviews are very much more effective
than mere correspondence, and that
much good will come of these face to
face meetings with the people of the
East.
Another important publicity activity in
British Columbia is being carried on in
New Westminster by Mr. Charles Stuart-
Wade, who is publicity commissioner for
the City of New Westminster, and is
organizing a federation of the various
municipalities in the Fraser Valley with
a view to concentrated effort in the
direction of bringing the valley to the
attention of a great number of people
who, through mixed farming and other
enterprises,  would  find  prosperity  here.
In forming the association Mr. Wade
has for his primary object a plan
to obtain unified work in publicity for
the Fraser Valley. It is well recognized
that some of the greatest agricultural
possibilities in British Columbia lie in
the fertile lands which reach away from
the Fraser River; it is also felt by the
people of the valley that the world
should know of the openings here for
success in agriculture. The publicity
work which Mr. Wade is conducting and
planning has an importance beyond the
valley for the reason that to this particularly productive section the big and
rapidly growing city of Vancouver is
looking for food necessaries. While
there is already considerable farming in
the valley, there must be much more if
Vancouver is not to depend largely upon
sections outside of the Province for
many of the necessities of life.
The publicity work of the New West
minster office will be considerably extended with the completion of the
organization of the federation, but it
already has a broad scope. The mail
brings in a daily stream of letters. A
recent casual glancing at those on the
top of a big pile on the commissioner's
desk revealed the fact that they represented an almost world-wide interest in
the Fraser Valley. For instance, in addition to numerous letters from London
and other sections of the British Isles,
there were a considerable number of letters from various parts of the United
States, a letter from Central America,
one from the Argentine Republic, one
from Paris, one from South Africa, several from Australia and New Zealand,
one from Italy, one from Mexico, and
one from Cuba. When it is remembered
that letters of similar kind from equally
scattered parts of the world come in
daily to most of the publicity offices in
the Province, it will be seen that the
eyes of the world are turned to British
Columbia, and that many people are
centering here their hopes for the future.
The bringing in of settlers, however,
is by no means the full extent of the
plans of Mr. Stuart-Wade. He is keenly
alive to the defects in the present system
of marketing the agricultural products of
the Fraser Valley. He knows well that
the growers now are more or less at the
mercy of middlemen and buyers at a distance, and that if agriculture in the valley is to yield adequate profits, it must
be organized. To improve the marketing
facilities he proposed to form a farmer's
cooperative association, in which the
farmers will in a measure be protected
against   aggressive    competition    among
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themselves, against the grasping tendencies of middlemen, and also against
the losses incurred through the deterioration of ripe fruit. This latter difficulty
of the farmers he proposes to obviate
by the establishment of a factory for
making jams and other products of fruit
which is too advanced in ripeness for
shipping, and which, under present conditions, is a total loss.
Mr. Wade's plan offers the solution
to a difficult problem, but is not easy of
accomplishment for the reason that farmers find it hard to eliminate jealousies
and to work in harmony for the good of
all. The commissioner realizes the obstacles in his path, but these, instead of
discouraging  him,     are    giving    him   a
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perity  to   this   northern   community   of
Alberta.
Another publicity man whose work is
of great value is Mr. Frank I. Clark,
chief of the bureau of information of the
Provincial Government. Part of Mr.
Clark's work is to prepare and publish
the various books of information issued
each year by the Government. These
books are numerous. They are well
written and well edited, and are eloquent
with facts about the resources of the
Province. During 1910, books, bulletins,
maps, folders and so forth were sent out
from the Bureau of Information to the
number of nearly five hundred thousand.
They have reached millions of readers,
and have had an effect which is indicated
1911
riages and divorce in British Columbia,
to tell widows as to the opportunities
here for increasing their incomes, to
inform army officers retired on half pay
as to whether or not they can more
effectively retain their positions in
society and lead lives of leisure in British Columbia than in England with their
restricted incomes. Aside from its importance, publicity work in British Columbia reveals many new vistas into
human nature and its needs.
In addition to these sources of publicity there are numerous others in young
communities such as Prince Rupert and
Stewart; in thriving cities like Nelson;
and in other municipalities and sections,
which   are   engaging   more    and   more
VANCOUVER CROWD AT LAURIER RECEPTION
greater impetus in his work. He feels
that whether or not it is carried to a successful culmination by himself and his
friends, they will at least have started it.
Like Dr. Rowe and Mr. McGaffey and
the other publicity men, Mr. Stuart-
Wade is one of the busiest men in British Columbia, and also like most of
them, his work in the Province is by no
means his first experience in publicity.
After coming from England and previous
to coming to British Columbia, he was
a citizen of Edmonton, and devoted
much energy to telling the world in general about the city of his adoption. It is
well known that his activity in this
direction was an important influence in
attracting population and bringing pros-
to some extent by the letters which flow
into the office of the Bureau in an increasing stream. In 1906 there were
9,280 of these letters; in 1907, 16,920; in
1908, 26,974; in 1909, 38,089; in 1910,
47,309. In addition to the literature and
the replies to letters, Mr. Clark supplies
a great number of photographs to publications, lantern slides, and even moving
picture films to lecturers who have made
British Columbia the theme of talks on
the natural resources of the earth. The
letters received by Mr. Clark, like those
which pour into the other publicity
offices, reflect a great variety of hopes
and ambitions. There are appeals to
find missing relatives, to give information on such intimate  matters  as  mar-
actively in the work of telling the world
at large what they have to offer to settlers and investors. Thus it is that the
people of the globe are being put m
touch in greater and greater fullness
with British Columbia. The output of
literature carries weight because the
people who make contributions to it believe what they write. They feel that
they are doing helpful work, not only
for their communities but also for
people in older sections where opportunities are fewer and more difficult to
handle. Thus it is that the tremendous
outpouring of words about British Columbia is having a very potent effect, is
swinging in this direction one of the
biggest migrations in history. 911
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Investing at Long Range
Doubts which Assail the Old Countryman Desiring a Share of
British Columbia Wealth
By C. M. Burmester
EN MILLION POUNDS are
to be spent in British Columbia
within the next four years on
railway construction alone.
Ten million pounds more are
to be spent by the British Columbia Government on reproductive public works
within the same period. At a safe and
conservative estimate six million pounds
more will be invested during that time
in timber areas, coal fields, and the fisheries. The population of the Province will
be doubled during the next four years.
This statement does not, however, include the millions of pounds which will
certainly be spent on municipal and federal undertakings within this time. In
addition to these great expenditures it
is known that the Dominion Government at Ottawa is about to spend very
large sums on various public works in
the  Province.
The foregoing is the gist of a statement recently made by the Prime Minister of British Columbia in which, however, the dollars have been translated
into pounds for the benefit of English
readers. It must be admitted that it
conveys but very little to the imagination of the small investor at home who
is accustomed to very large figures, but
who always discounts them when they
come from what he still frequently calls
"America." That 325,000 immigrants arrived this year in Winnipeg alone, of
whom no fewer  than  75,000  were  Brit
ishers, is merely of tepid interest to him,
and thrills almost as little as the fact
that the Canadian Government gave
away in the last two years to homesteaders an area equal to the State of
Illinois.
This kind of statistical bombardment
arouses only a momentary interest and
by its continuance defeats its own
object. Something more than figures
are needed to arouse the home investor's
imagination, which is, after all, the main
point. Of more interest is the statement
of the fact that towns are being born at
the rate of one a month in Alberta. This
does convey something to the home
investor, who, however, is speedily reminded by pessimistic friends of
"bubble" American cities. The truth is
that the average small investor at home
cannot believe that large profits are compatible with safety. He has been too
often bitten, and, furthermore, it takes
him years of hard and patient labor
before he can save even only a very few
pounds. Here is where we must exercise
our imagination. We must put ourselves
in his shoes if we possibly can.
As a matter of fact, the attitudes of
the putative investor at home and his
friend in British Columbia are, really,
mutually antagonistic. The probable investor in the Old Country considers that
he should be courted, and regards it as a
great favor should he signify his trust
by sending his capital so far oversea for
investment. On the other hand we here,
knowing full well that we can safely
make for him certain profits infinitely
larger than he can hope to expect from
investments in England, resent what we
call his dilatory and suspicious attitude.
In fact, we consider that we are doing
him quite a favor by giving him the
chance of a lifetime.
What appeals to the man at home is
something which affects him or someone
whom he knows. The interest must be
of local application in his eyes. Directly
he hears that Johnny Jones, who was
formerly at the same school with him,
has retired from business after four or
five years' work, on a fortune of £10,000,
he is impressed, but in all probability
puts it down to marvellous good luck.
Here I may mention what at first sight
seems an anomally. As a rule the last
people to believe in you are your own
relatives, who refuse to believe that little
Johnny or Charley, who, as a boy, used
to rob their orchards or break their windows, is now in a position to win them
a dead safe ten per cent, on their money.
The fact of the matter is that they resent,
almost as a personal affront, the fact
that little Johnny should have been so
abnormally successful. If you tell them
the address of a friend for whom you
have made a hundred per cent, profit,
they will straight-way write to that
friend to see how far you are lying.
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A VICTORIA FLOUR MILL
How, indeed, are we to appeal to the
intelligent optimism (if it exists) at home
and make the people there realize that a
world migration is now taking place? The
answer is—by being ourselves successful.
Nothing succeeds like success. By our
own success we must give proof, the
most convincing kind of proof, that we
can also help them to succeed.
The writer knows of a very interesting
case of a man who, a few weeks ago,
wrote to his lawyers at home to sell a
certain property at a big sacrifice. He
told them he was prepared to sell at a
loss, if necessary, of fifty per cent, because he well knew that he would make
up that loss in a year or less. The lawyers, who are most honorable gentlemen,
were, as the writer happens to know,
appalled at what they considered sheer
folly. Another instance is a joke at the
writer's own expense. A friend in England wrote saying that the writer's letters to him read like a romance. Somewhat nettled, the writer replied with a
letter which reiterated in categorical
terms his reasons for his statements.
Judge then the writer's amusement when
he received, practically by return of post,
the following letter:
"Dear   Mr.   B ,   You   will   smile   I
know before you get to the end of this
letter. I think my own attitude of mind
was, first that you might be of an over
sanguine temperament, and secondly that
the old maxim of high interest meaning
great risk still holds good . . . And
now, after all this, you will smile, as I
have said, to learn that since your letter
arrived, I have actually ventured on the
purchase of 20 acres of land in British
Columbia! ... I got into communication with the   agency in London,
whose lecturer was  , with the above
result."
Yet even when one's friends have made
a timid and preliminary essay by sending
usually a very small sum, the battle is
only half won. In the first instance they
send   as   little  as   possible   and   thereby
make it doubly hard for the investor to
make them a really good profit. Everyone knows that "money breeds money,"
and that the larger the sum for investment the bigger and the better are the
chances.
Still, as stated, on receipt of the investment funds the battle is only half won,
for, as sure as the sun rises, so sure it is
that the friends of the unhappy investor
will at once start twitting him with his
rank folly in sending money far beyond
his control. The investor is then at once
seized with an attack of the painful disease known as "cold feet."
The infection particularly attacks a
certain class of people, namely, investors
who have sent their money to far distant
lands for investment by friends of whose
honesty there can be absolutely no possible question. It only attacks these investors at certain periods and at certain
intervals. The first attack is almost invariably a mild one and takes the form
of a slight twinge of doubt as to the
capacity of the absolutely trustworthy
friend. The twinge is nearly always
"contracted." By this I mean that the
disease in question is infectious. The
infection is conveyed in several ways. 1
have known a peculiarly violent attack
set in as the result of an incredulous sniff
by a pessimistic third party. Too often
the attacks are induced by a process
known as wilful inoculation. This process is the most deadly because it is invariably administered by someone who
formerly lived in British Columbia and
who is now living in England, resting
on his former laurels and posing as a
"man of British Columbian experience."
Crowned by the halo of an "old-timer,"
he gurgles lugubriously about the Ross-
land smash and the bubble cities of the
California rush, and darkly reminds you
that history inevitably repeats itself. He
needs but to sniff a disdainful sniff and at
once an erstwhile happy and confident investor is infected with doleful
doubtings.
Generally speaking, your home investor waits patiently for about three or
four months after sending out his money.
At least what happens is that, during this
period he refuses to give way to the
twinges of doubt that assail him. Be-
seiged on all sides by joyous pessimists
who gloatingly remind him of his folly
in investing in property which he cannot see, he nevertheless stoutly resists.
They, for their part, count with confidence on being able to say "I told you
so," and are revelling in the prospect of
impending disaster—for their friend.
Job's comforters all, they finally break
down the stout barrier of the investor's
confidence in his overseas agent and this
is the sort of letter which he reluctantly
writes:
"Dear Sir,—Of course I know you are
doing the very best you can for me, and
I know, of course, that you will be careful not to put my money into anything
which would not turn out well, but "
(here you can fill in for yourself all the
expressions of doubt, uncertainty and
alarm which would naturally assail you
if you. had been similarly infected by
malicious Job's comforters.)
The only antidote to these attacks is
some conclusive proof of a successful
investment. In other words, the actual
receipt of a few dividends will at once
arrest the progress of the disease which,
as subsequent dividends are received,
gradually grows less pronounced and
finally disappears.
The point of this little essay is to prove,
first, how difficult it is to win the confidence .of an oversea investor who refuses
to associate ten per cent, interest with
anything else than extreme risk, and
second, to show, even when that confidence has been established, upon what
a  slender  thread  it  depends.
The following actual instance will probably be of interest. I have already referred to the man who, lacking the pluck
and grit of the pioneer, left British Columbia a year or two ago and returned
to England. In most cases this man has
succeeded in obtaining some small billet
of five or six hundred a year in England,
probably entirely through family influence. "Prima facie" he was no success
out here, or else he would have done
as the successful pioneers have done;
(they have practically all been successful) he would have made a tidy fortune
in this Province. The fact that he is
now another man's servant in England
at a salary is the natural corollary of his
failure to win a position of sturdy independence out here. Yet this is the man,
with a few striking exceptions, maybe,
who, now that British Columbia is in
the lime-light, finds himself invested with
ephemeral authority. This is the man
who poses, in turn, as a timber expert,
a real estate valuator, a fishery expert,
and a financial critic. E911
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As everyone knows, the first thing
which one's friends do is to take one's
propositions round to a man of this sort,
who in most cases promptly and tersely
proceeds to damn them. This sounds
like a sweeping statement, but I feel sure
that all the large British Columbia financial firms could, if they wished, compile
an exceedingly interesting and comprehensive list of first-class propositions
which have been referred to corporations
and investors in England, every single
one of which has at one time or another
been "turned down" (refused) in the
Old Country, and all of which have subsequently proved extremely successful.
On the other hand, it would be foolish
to deny that there are eminent experts
in England whose criticism is valuable
and whose reputation both for fearlessness and impartiality is such that Vancouver firms who have really genuine
propositions would be the first to seek
their judgment and to loyally abide by
their decisions. Great men like Lord
Milner, always welcome criticism, but
insist that the criticism shall be constructive, not destructive.
The following is a verbatim extract
from a letter written by a gentleman in
England whose report had been invited
(not by the' writer of this essay) on a
certain proposition:
"I quite see how an enthusiastic man
on  the  spot   gets   carried   away  by  the
potentialities of this scheme or that, and
indeed, when I was in British Columbia
myself I constantly thought I had found
excellent chances. In the cold light of
six thousand miles distance these
schemes are apt to look very different."
The first question that naturally arises
is, why did this gentleman not have the
courage at any rate of one of his previous convictions? Why did he leave
British Columbia instead of remaining
and numbering himself among the scores,
nay, hundreds, of wealthy and successful
pioneers who to-day are the political and
social rulers of this Province? Indeed,
seeing that on his own admission he had
the perspicuity to find (or think he had
found) excellent chances, we in British
Columbia can only deplore the heavy
loss which this Province has sustained
by the premature departure of one whose
judgment is now so much in demand at
home.
The second question is, has he any
pet proposition of his own to push forward, or, in other words, is he directly
or indirectly an agent of an opposition
firm? In four cases out of ten the answer to that question is in the affirmative. Nor will we quarrel with his description of "the cold light of six thousand miles distance," save to point out
that several hundred thousand immigrants, who conceivably are in their right
senses,  are  yearly  hastening  to remove
themselves   from  its   baleful  and   chilly
influence.
Another point is that it requires considerable courage to endorse another
man's scheme, however promising it may
look, merely because, should failure result, the responsibility will inevitably be
pinned on the expert adviser. This last
point in particular, the home investor
should be careful to remember when he
invites a report by a third party with
"British Columbian Experience." It may
be remarked that the scheme alluded to
above is now a successful and going concern, though as yet on a small scale.
There is another class of critics to
whom people in the Old Country at
times fly for advice, namely, the man
from Eastern Canada. It is all the same
to an Englishman whether a man has
spent his lifetime, or at any rate the last
ten or twenty years, in New Brunswick,
Manitoba, the Queen Charlotte Islands,
or the Mackenzie River District. It is
enough for him that a Canadian comes
from Canada, and the word "Canadian"
is considered as proving him to be a
competent judge (at three thousand and
more miles distance) of conditions which
he has never seen and which he cannot
possibly understand. Your Old Countryman little realizes that many Eastern
Canadians know little or nothing of the
country we'st of Winnipeg. Englishmen
will agree that it is folly to expect the
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Swiss peasant to be aware of the conditions prevailing in Norway or on the
Welsh border, but they have no hesitation in accepting as gospel the ultimatum
of a man from Halifax, Ottawa, or Quebec on a business proposal emanating
from New Westminster or Nanaimo. It
will be news to many people in the Old
Country that many Eastern Canadians
are glad to receive five per cent, on their
money in first-class safe investments.
Indeed, an Eastern Canadian informed
me the other day that he had several
relatives, all well-to-do and all satisfied
with local investments bringing in 3 per
cent, per annum. He averred that they
had no idea they could get a safe 8 per
cent, or 10 per cent, in Edmonton, Calgary,   or  Vancouver.
Perhaps the fact which strikes one
most forcibly on arrival in the West is
the readiness of even perfect strangers
to discuss business propositions with
you. Whereas, in England, elaborate
introductions and credentials are necessary, out in the West of Canada an important and remunerative business transaction may be decided upon in a barber's
shop oi on board a steamer between
parties who are entire strangers to each
other. In England the first question
asked, and asked with very considerable
emphasis, is, "Who is he?" Your origin,
parentage, and past career are carefully
examined, and when all these enquiries
have been thoroughly satisfied, your Englishman at last turns to the proposition,
which, until then, has acted the part of
the unlucky ball room wall flower.
Not so with your American. Your
respectability or otherwise is to him. a
a matter of no concern. He prides nim-
self on being able to detect a scoundrel
on sight. His only interest, and that is
a keen search-light kind of interest, is
for the proposition. Is it a money-maker
or not? That is the question he asks
himself. Whether the slow and cautious
method of the Englishman is, in the long
run, the better method, is a moot point.
In England, where good things are extremely rare and only fall to the lot of
the wealthy man or the company promoter, there can be no doubt that the
English method is the only possible one.
In Western Canada, where splendid
opportunities are within the grasp of
every intelligent man with experience of
the country, the English method is a
money loser, unless combined with an
un-English rapidity of decision and
promptitude of action.
It should not, however, be forgotten
that a growing and fierce jealousy is now
manifesting itself through a section of
the European Press. Many are the capitalists and others who, having interests
elsewhere, view with a vindictive alarm
the beginning of a tendency on the part
of small home investors to sell out their
stock and invest the proceeds in Western Canada. This is a fact which the
small investor forgets when he reads
some sensational and wholly untrue
newspaper paragraph condemning Canada and things Canadian. In the long
run truth must win and the vapid outpourings of a few Fleet Street penny-a-
liners must be discounted to a very great
extent. That these are largely inspired
by capitalists and persons whose little
schemes are not attracting their former
supplies of funds, cannot for one moment
be doubted. Canada can absorb and
pay a sound rate of interest on billions
more capital, and the sooner British investors wake up to this fact the better
for them.    Only recently there has been
a systematic campaign in the German
press against Canadian investments!
There is no smoke without at least a little
fire, and no doubt the campaign has
some justification. Too many undigested
and often fraudulent schemes have been
sent to Europe, with the inevitable
result that investments in Canadian undertakings have got a bad name in Germany and elsewhere. Time will, of
course, remedy this, but the result is
unfortunate for those who are genuinely
anxious to enable their friends at home
to participate in the countless glorious
opportunities of investment in British
Columbia, which the next twenty years
and more will undoubtedly continue to
afford.
VANCOUVER ISLAND INDUSTRIES 911
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The Potent Sugar Beet
Is Waiting for the Call to Bring Great Riches from British Columbia Soil
By George Schumacher, Ph. D.
DURING the last century no
plant has received so much attention and has been improved
upon to such an extent as the
sugar beet. From a wild plant
with a small percentage of sugar we have
a plant to-day of which no seeds are
marketable unless the grower can guarantee them to be raised from beets containing  not   less   than   21   per   cent,   of
The reason is simple. There are in
Europe to-day more than fifteen hundred
sugar beet plants in operation, employing
more than three thousand carefully
trained chemists who have to devote
their time to the manufacture of sugar,
and the manufacture of sugar begins in
the beet. Agricultural chemists of all
countries working in the interests of all
other plants are in number only a fraction of the scientific helpers of the sugar
beet.
No other plant is so well studied and
so well known by the farmers in certain
countries, and in some other countries no
plant is so little known and has had to
overcome such a mountain of prejudice
in its introduction.
The importance of the sugar beet and
the sugar beet industry is evident in
glancing at the following figures: England imports per year about five million
tons of wheat and about one million,
eight hundred thousand tons of sugar.
The value of the sugar imported into
England is nearly equal to the value of
the wheat. Of this one million, five hundred thousand tons is beet sugar and
two hundred and ninety thousand tons
is cane sugar. England gets her wheat
from Canada, United States, Argentine,
Australia and India, and therefore from
a large area, but gets seventy-five per
cent, of her sugar from a comparatively
small country, namely, Germany. This
country imports the lower priced beet in
large quantities and exports the higher
priced sugar. The exporting power of
agricultural Germany becomes evident
when these figures are studied.
The sole object of culture of the sugar
beet is not, or should not be, the production of sugar. Its great value as feed
for cattle should be always taken- into
consideration. Sugar is composed of
water and carbonic acid, which ingred-
(Agricultural Series No. 4)
ients are taken from the air. What the
sugar beet takes from the ground goes
back to the farmer as a nourishing, useful
feed in the form of pulp. Sugar pulp has
a food value equal to corn ensilage. In
the sugar beet the farmer has a crop
which he can sell at a higher price than
other crops, and which he can use, nevertheless, as feed for his cattle, hogs, etc.,
and which he can, therefore, convert into
milk, butter, beef, bacon, eggs and
manure. The pulp can be dried and will
keep in this condition for many years.
Sugar beets will grow on sandy, clayish
or black soil, or on peaty land, provided
always that the land is properly prepared, is well drained, and does not contain more than ten per cent, stones. The
beets should be slender, all in the ground,
and have outlines and dimensions as
shown in the accompanying photograph
of a perfect sugar beet.
The land should be ploughed in the
autumn ten or twelve inches deep, and
should contain the plantfood needed in
the right proportions. No advice can be
given as to how much fertilizer or
manure is required unless the soil is
analysed before. As a rule, the soil in
the Fraser Valley needs liming. No
burnt lime should be used. It is very
expensive and it has no advantage over
crushed lime rock. The best lime is the
spent lime of the sugar beet factory,
which is always at the disposal' of the
growers of the beet. The lime is best
put in the ground in the spring, when
the land requires harrowing, rolling, and
so forth.
The seed should be planted between
the end of March and the end of May,
according to locality, and in' as narrow
rows as possible. The beet should
stand, ultimately, twelve to eighteen
inches apart between the rows, and eight
to twelve inches in the rows. The more
space the beet has the larger the growth
of the individual beet, but this means, of
course, a smaller tonnage per acre, and
a lower percentage of sugar. This last
consideration is important, because most
sugar factories pay on a basis of the percentage of sugar per ton. The seed can
be drilled at the right distance or continuously. In the latter case the rows
should be perfectly straight in order
that in the cultivation the superfluous
beets can be cut out in the rows. No
hand work for this is required if the
work is done properly.
Unfortunately, the seed ball of the
present sugar beet contains several seeds
all of which germinate together. The
most  important  part  of  the   cultivation
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of the beet is the singling out of the
clusters of beets, and this must be done
as soon as the small plants can be
handled. The left hand must press the
most robust plant against the ground
while the right hand pulls it with a
corkscrew  motion.
The agricultural department of the
United States is trying to cultivate sugar
beets with single seeds only in the ball.
This work has been carried on for a
number of years, and it is hoped that
the hand work required for thinning will
be dispensed with in the future. After
this is done the cultivation of the beets
is similar to the cultivation of other
roots.
Airing the ground and retaining the
moisture must be provided for by cultivation. Hand hoeing is best and can be
used if the farmer cultivates a few acres
only; otherwise hoeing machinery, specially constructed for the culture of the
sugar beet, must be employed. Cultivation keeps the weeds down as a matter of course, but no less important is
the. airing and water preservation. The
best cultivated field will produce the
largest tonnage and the largest percentage of sugar in the beets. When
the leaves are formed in sufficient numbers they cover the ground so effecu-
ally that no weeds come up. Eastern
farmers say that the sugar beet kills out
even that obnoxious weed, the Canada
thistle.
According to choice of seed, climate,
and soil, the beets mature early or late.
The first sign that the beets are ripe is
when the leaves take on a yellowish
tint. This begins to show at the end
of August or the beginning of September. The late maturing beets grow up
to the middle of November, and allow
the sugar works to extend the operating
period. The latter are the product of
the last few years only, and are bound
to play a very important part in many
districts. When the beets are ripe, and
no further sugar is found in the leaves—
the sugar is formed in the leaves and is
stored in the roots only—they can be
taken out by proper machinery and
carted to the factory, or stored in a
properly constructed pit. When the
farmer has harvested his crop he can
expect a cheque for $100 to $150 for
every acre of beets, and for every one
hundred tons of beets delivered he may
take home thirty tons of pulp to feed
his  cattle,  hogs and poultry.
The cut on page nineteen shows the
fourteenth consecutive crop of sugar
beets in a Colorado field and proves that
continuous growing of the beet can be
done in certain localities without impairing the quality and quantity, but, as
a rule, proper rotation is advisable. The
old Norfolk rotation is always good and
excellent  results  are achieved  in  Colo-
A PERFECT SUGAR BEL.T
rado where alfalfa, potatoes and sugar
beets are rotated with splendid returns
to the pocketbook of the farmer.
The Michigan farmer has given the
sugar beet a new name, which is characteristic of the estimate in which this
plant is held in some districts. He has
called the sugar beet the "mortgage-
lifter." Many have given up fruit growing, having found that the raising of
sugar beets in addition to its excellent
profits, increases the yield of rotary
crops.
Why? The above picture shows that
the beet proper is about one foot long,
but it does not show the main root, with
the many small side-roots which remain
in the ground when the beets are pulled.
These roots enrich the humus in the soil,
draw up the sub-soil, and do better cultivating than the usual shallow ploughing, with the result that subsequent crops
find the soil in excellent general condition, and practically free from weeds.
Statistics prove that where the sugar
beet is grown in rotation wheat has increased 74 per cent.; rye, 14.8 per cent;
barley, 25.2 per cent.; oats, 41 per cent.;
peas, 86 per cent, and potatoes, 102.3 per
cent These figures indicate the extent
of the boon the sugar beet is to farmers.
It is hoped that the Fraser Valley will
soon see numerous growers of this
profitable   product. 911
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The Great Trek North
An Army of Pioneers will Migrate this Spring to the Virgin Country
along the G. T. P. Route
HE Cariboo Road this spring
will see the biggest tide of travel
in its long and eventful history.
In the early sixties there was a
rush into the Cariboo country
for its rich deposits of placer gold, but
after the dying of the gold excitement
the road quieted. Only occasional wayfarers made their \va.y along its picturesque length into the wilderness of the
North, and most of these were seekers
for gold or furs. Nobody thought of
agriculture.
But when it was announced that the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway proposed
to make a trail of steel through this
country to the British Columbia coast
at Prince Rupert, people began to picture
cities here, big markets, and many farms
, in the great reaches of comparatively
level land along the Upper Fraser, and in
the valleys of the Nechaco and other
rivers. But would things grow in this
northern country? It was pointed out in
reply that the Cariboo and Fort George
sections are no farther north than the
British Isles, that they are tempered in
much the same way by benign ocean
winds, and that the Hudson's Bay people
and other frontiersmen had grown the
finest kind of agricultural products for
many years. Land companies and settlers began to take keen interest in what
has been termed "New British Columbia." Since the big awakening hardly
more than a year ago civilization has
advanced with great strides upon this
virgin territory. Large tracts of land
have been prepared for farms and town-
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THE FORT GEORGE COUNTRY IS HIGHLY FAVORABLE TO HORSE BREEDING
AUTO LEAVING ASHCROFT FOR SODA CREEK
sites. Service on boat and stage lines
has been improved, and in general many
preparations have been made for conquering this waiting wilderness.
The townsite of Fort George has
loomed up with special prominence because of the practical certainty that here,
or near here, will be an important division point on the Grand Trunk Pacific, as
well as on the projected British Columbia
and Alaska and Victoria and Fort
George lines. This will mean, of course,
that Fort George will be the distributing
center for a great area of country, which,
as has been already proved, is rich in
the natural resources necessary for a
big and prosperous population.
Before last year there were three or
four white men in the neighborhood of
the present townsite of Fort George.
There are now about five hundred people
here. The town has a good hotel with
seventy-six rooms, a live weekly newspaper, a couple of churches, a school, two
or three good general stores and various
other features of a civilized community.
But all this is merely the overture to
what promises to be the Fort George
of the near future. The Cariboo Road,
beginning about the first of May, will in
all probability see a stream of travel
far greater than any in the past. The
gold rush in the sixties will be as a
ripple to a big wave compared to this
spring's tide of settlers. These, moreover, will be unlike the gold hunters who
moved northward in the early days. The
latter had no interest in the country
itself. They went only for its gold. The
settlers who are now preparing to enter
the country are planning to establish
permanent homes there. They hope to
achieve prosperity with the agricultural
and industrial development of British
Columbia's new inland empire.
Even now the big highway toward the
north is crowded with teams hauling in
the settings for the big drama of "settling up" a country. 1 n the past, the
Cariboo Road in winter has slept beneath
the snow, but during the winter now
waning it has been the scene of the passing of many vehicles, of the neighborly
exchanges of greeting along the road, of
sociable evening gatherings at the road-
houses. The road has been the big trail
to this new Mecca of the North, but it
has not been an easy trail. After leaving Ashcroft in the winter it has been
necessary to journey by stage coach for
seven days, and after leaving Quesnel
the experiences have been a good deal in
the nature of real frontier hardships. The
highway between this point and Fort
George has been only recently constructed and there are few roadhouses.
Travellers have carried their own food
and blankets. When they have felt the
need of a meal they have had to build
a road-side fire. When at night they
have reached one of the bunkhouses
which are scattered at long intervals
along this new highway, they have made
a fire in the stove, have cooked their
food, unrolled their blankets and stowed
themselves in the wooden bunks.
Experiences of this kind will be eliminated after May first, when an automobile service will be established between
Ashcroft and Soda Creek, and comfortable steamers will again ply the Fraser
from Soda Creek northward. The trip
from Vancouver will consume only
about three days. After an eight hours'
ride in the train to Ashcroft there will be
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Creek, and then a boat voyage of one
day up the river to Fort George. The
whole trip from Vancouver will cost
about $50.
The answer to the question as to what
awaits the pilgrim to the north can be
summed up in the one big word "agriculture." Mining, despite the richness of
its promise, has become subordinate. The
enduring prosperity of "New British Columbia" will be based on farming. There
is a great abundance of good agricultural
land to buy at a reasonable figure, and,
to the north of Fort George, there are
still big areas which have been reserved
by the Provincial Government for preemption by settlers, who must actually
live on the land for six months of the
year, and must make certain improvements.
In anticipation of the big trek to Fort
George the two saw mills of the community have been sawing up lumber all
winter and now have about five hundred
thousand feet ready for the building
demand. The Fort George "Tribune"
has ordered a complete printing equipment including a linotype machine. The
mercantile establishments have been busy
bringing in provisions. The hauling
charge on the Cariboo Road, by
the way, is eleven cents a pound
in the winter, but the summer rate
will be much lower, and the merchants are confident of large profits. The
atmosphere of Fort George is one of
buoyancy and expectation. Despite the
heaviness of the freight charges, the cost
of living is not remarkably high. For
example, the rates at the hotel are only
$3.00 a day for a good room and meals.
As an indication of what the ambitious
settler may expect in this country, it is
instructive to mention the experience of
one of those who has gone before. James
Shepard, who owns the Kersley Ranch,
consisting of nine hundred acres of fine
farm land in Cariboo, south of Fort
George, tells his own story as follows:
"I came out from England as a young
man about twenty years ago and was
attracted to the Cariboo country by the
reports of its richness in placer mining.
I made my way north and became a
miner, with the ups and downs to which
this occupation is subjected. Some seasons I washed out a good deal of gold
and in others I had hard sledding
to make a living. One winter when I
was working in a tunnel cleaning up two
or three dollars a day in placer, I kept
noticing a big boulder in a nearby
stream. I had a hunch that there was
gold under this. The rock was very
large and particularly difficult to move,
but I got some of the other boys around
the camp to help me and we moved the
boulder. There was a good showing in
the gravel beneath it and we dug down
to bed-rock. The latter looked like a
veritable floor of gold. In six weeks I
cleaned up more gold than I had ever
seen before.
"One might have thought from this
that I would have continued in the mining game, but I had been at it seven
years, with this as my first real stake,
and I believed that agriculture would
provide me with a more certain future.
I  had made  a study of the agricultural]
conditions, and they looked good to me.
My experiments had convinced me that
all the edible vegetables as well as hay,
and oats, wheat, and other grains, could
be grown with great success, so I bought
with some of my placer gold a one hundred and sixty acre farm, which had been
to some extent improved. I now dismissed mining from my mind and devoted myself exclusively to farming. I
am glad I did. By degrees I added to
my acreage, until now the Kersley Ranch
consists of nine hundred acres. Last
year I harvested six hundred tons> of
timothy hay. Because of the great activity in freighting along the Cariboo Road
hay brings from sixty to one hundred
dollars a ton. You can see from this
that when you are making hay in this
country you are preparing to make
money. Oats now bring four cents a
pound. The country is just as good for
wheat as for oats, but up to the present
there has been so much more money in
oats that wheat growing has been
neglected. There is no doubt, however,
that with the coming in of people the
wheat crops will be large and highly
lucrative  to the farmers.
"As to vegetables, I have raised cabbages weighing fifty-five pounds each;
potatoes weighing eight and a half
pounds; turnips weighing twenty-eight
pounds; carrots weighing six and a half
pounds. These, of course, are the biggest ones, but they give an idea of the
size our vegetables attain. Moreover,
their flavor is better, in my opinion, than
vegetables raised farther south. Besides
the vegetables the country is fine for
various kinds of berries and other small
fruits. Not many apples are grown yet,
but some of them are as large as my
two fists. The only drawback about
fruit growing is that during some years
there are a couple of nights of frost in
it s
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Tune. These do not occur every year,
but they always constitute a danger
"which the farmer takes precautions to
avoid. For instance, we plant potatoes
a little late so that there will be little
likelihood of the young plants being
nipped.
"As to the climate in general, it is, of
course, cold in winter. The thermometer is apt to sink once or twice to forty
or fifty below zero, but these cold spells
are of very brief duration, and there are
only one or two of them during the season. The snow is not excessive. A peculiarity of the climate is the freedom from
wind, particularly when the weather is
very cold. On the frigid days the atmosphere is almost completely still and is
also dry, which causes the cold to be
much less penetrating and disagreeable
than it would be in other climates. We
have an abundance of wood, and therefore are able to keep comfortable in the
winter without difficulty. As time goes
on, moreover, we will have at our disposal plenty of coal from extensive
deposits close at hand. These coal measures,   when   developed,   will   add   much
TYPICAL TIMBER OF NORTH COUNTRY
to    the    wealth    of    the    Fort    George
country.   .
"This region, in my opinion, is superior
co the prairie country in agriculture and
has other resources which give it higher
promise in the direction of industrial
development. The timber lands are extensive,  and  it  is  well  known  that  the
country has great possibilities in quartz
gold mining. With millions of acres of
land good for agriculture, with plenty
of fine timber, with big deposits of coal
and gold, it will be seen that the Fort
George country has all the elements
necessary for a big and prosperous
population.
"The opportunities in the town of Fort
George are already numerous and will
increase with the population. For instance, a number of saw mills could be
worked at a profit to supply the steady
demand for lumber. There are two or
three general stores, but practically no
shops devoted to specialties. There is
only one doctor, who, by the way, has
had practically no patients, except those
who have met with accidents. There is
as yet no lawyer or dentist. It is obvious
that there are openings in the professions as well as in business. With the
needs of a rapidly growing population to
be supplied, and with a great abundance
of raw material at hand, it can be said
that in this new country the man of
intelligence and enterprise can well count
upon success."
Dairymen Must Get Together
If They Would Make the Most of the Wealth
of the Willing Cow
ByW. A. Wilson
Superintendent of Dairying, Saskatchewan
s
^INCE my first visit to British
Columbia about five years ago,
when it was my good fortune
to visit most of the creameries
and make the acquaintance of
many who were connected with the work,
I have been much impressed with the
immense climatic advantages which you
possess and which assist so materially in
providing for the bodily comfort of the
cow in the production of milk, and also
in providing those nutritious foods which
mean so much in the yield and quality
of milk, cream and butter, and in producing the natural, delicate aroma so
much appreciated by the consuming
public. This natural heritage reduces
the problem of the dairyman and enables
him to concentrate his thoughts and
energies upon other phases, in which he
must, to a great extent, work out his
own salvation.
The British Columbia dairyman possesses, too, a strong strategical position
in the matter of markets close to the
farm. In this you eliminate excesive
transportation charges, which constitute
a heavy toll on the annual production of
dairy products.
Of the various subjects important in
dairying, "cooperation in dairying" holds
a leading place. Quite recently I was
reading a report of one of the State
dairy conventions and was forcibly impressed by the fact that nearly all the
speakers pointed out that dairying
depended upon cooperation for development. The dairy cooperative plan may
be divided into eight headings: The
cow, the owner, the manufacturer, the
buyer, the consumer, the association, the
government, and the press. These may
be divided again into two classes made
up of individual and collective bodies.
The first five make up the former and
the remaining three the latter class.
The cow is the Alma Mater, the fond
mother of our universal dairyhood. All
she asks is a "square deal," a liberal, well
balanced ration, comfortable stabling
with pure air, and kind treatment. Under
such conditions she will cooperate to the
fullest extent, but being practically a
captive, she must depend upon her owner
for housing and nourishment. That the
cow will respond according to the character of her feed and care is illustrated
in the story of the man who, planning to
economise, fed his cow a large proportion of saw dust, which he substituted
for bran, and the faithful animal did the
very best she could under the circumstances and let down half a pint of
wooden shoe pegs.
How about the second factor in our
plan of cooperation, the owner or the
farmer? Does it not appear that he is
the important yet the weak link in the
chain? Upon him the responsibilities
are great, but too often he belongs to the
"Don't care or don't know" class, quite
indifferent to his own responsibilities,
but always on the alert to criticize the
other fellow if the returns are short of
his expectations. How many farmers
can answer such questions as: How
much money does each cow's milk bring
during the year? What is the cost of
labor in caring for one cow for one
year? What is the cost of food for one
cow for a year? What was the profit for
each cow in the herd for 1910? Which
is the most profitable cow in the herd?
Which cows in the herd are boarders,
and why? What is the cost of producing
a gallon of milk, or a pound of butter
fat?   What were the trross receipts from Page 24
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the herd in 1910, and how much profit?
There is little excuse nowadays for the
man who does not know, and it is highly
important that he should know. Most
of these questions could be answered if
the farmers were regularly testing and
weighing the milk of each cow in the
herd, and the most important of them
can be answered in no other way. . I
think all thoughtful dairymen will agree
that the use of the scales and the
Babcock test for determining the value
of the individual cow from the standpoint of butter fat production is the
fundamental principle of successful dairying. The result of testing records awakens in the owner an interest in the individual animal that has been lying dormant as a result of computing the results
in averages, a very unsafe and unbusinesslike method of calculating.
Cooperation will remedy this condition
of affairs. Let the owners cooperate and
organize testing associations, weigh and
or by a group of farmers. But the chief
point is to cooperate in an effort to
improve the dairy herds. It may be
carried further and community breeding
inaugurated. Fifteen or twenty men
could club together, under a six years'
agreement, and purchase three good bulls
of the same breed. With their herds
divided into three groups, the members
of each group could have one bull two
years; then re-distribute the sires, and
at the end of the second year re-distribute again. In a whole community with
a larger number of farmers, with more
cows and upon a similar basis, and at
less cost, this system can be practiced
with a great deal of profit to all if the
farmers will only cooperate.
In their efforts at milk production the
farmers must not only cooperate with
the cow and with one another, but with
the soil and the climate. They must
test the soil and wisely treat it. A
system of rotation, and the methods of
CATTLE FLOURISH IN CARIBOO
sample the milk for testing, and when
the results are recorded, compare notes.
There will be some surprises and some
things to ponder over, which will stimulate a keener sense of interest and love
for the work. This is followed by a
system of selection of the largest producers and breeding from them.
Cooperation may be extended to the
buying of concentrated feeds, if required,
or other supplies necessitated by the
work. Providing pure-bred sires with
which to head the herd is another important consideration usually neglected.
Some have suggested that the proprietor
of the creamery might to advantage give
assistance by keeping a good, pure-bred
sire for the use of his patrons, and
charging a reasonable fee for services.
The success of such a plan would depend
largely on the individuality of the proprietor of the creamery and the conditions of the district. The same plan
might be undertaken by a leading farmer,
cropping, must be mastered. In the
growing of legumes, such as clovers and
peas, they can draw fertility from the
very atmosphere and store it in the soil.
They must study climatic conditions,
must outrun the seasons. By means of
the silo, for instance, they may supply
cheap and succulent food for the cows
in mid-winter, or luring drought in midsummer, thus encouraging a maximum
flow of milk.
The manufacturer, or the man who
makes the butter or cheese is the third
important factor. He must cooperate
with the patrons of his factory, with his
fellow makers, with instructors, and with
buyers. He should be thoroughly conversant with the science of dairying and
a constant student of dairy literature.
Lacking this he lacks that knowledge so
essential to the education of the man
producing the raw material. He should
cooperate with the buyer and ascertain
just what the trade wants in respect to
color, salting, style, and size of package.
Knowing this, discard all opposing notions and give the buyer what he wants.
The maker should teach and encourage
his patrons to join with him in producing the best and only the best. He
should extend his usefulness by informing himself and in turn posting others
as to the best roots and soiling crops for
milk producing, suitable plans for sanitary, well ventilated stables, and dairies
arranged conveniently. Cooperate with
authorities on these matters, so that the
recommendations will be modern and
reliable. In short, each maker should
be a dairy encyclopedia to which his
patrons can refer for information on any
matter upon which they are in doubt.
It is necessary to make only a brief
reference to the buyer, the fourth factor
in the chain of cooperation. If he be a
man in the broadest sense of the term,
he will not narrow down to the common
ordinary type and centre his affections
on personal gain, or the greed of gold,
regardless of all other things. His
trained judgment as to the quality of
goods, and his knowledge of the market,
have earned for him an honored place.
Through his cooperation with the manufacturer and the consumer, the peculiarities of the trade are made known and
met. Such cooperation is necessary if
the producer and manufacturer would
make the best disposition of their dairy
produce.
The consumer is the fifth factor. Upon
his sense of taste the success and prosperity of all others depend. Generally
speaking, clean, fresh, flavored butter,
with uniform color and texture, will find
favor in any market. But there are
minor differences in various trade centres
that should not be overlooked. The consumer very often determines what those
shall be and the wise buyer endeavors
to satisfy him.
It is thus the circle in the first half
is completed. The cow responds to the
man's kind treatment, comfortable housing, nutritious succulent food. Farmers
cooperating with one another in buying
feeds and good breeding stock, greatly
increase the individual record/s of their
cows and reduce the cost of production.
They again cooperate with the thoughtful, painstaking maker, and learn what
must be done to have their butter sell
for several cents a pound higher than
the regular market quotation. The maker
keeps himself informed of the buyer's
wishes, and the buyer never loses sight
of a good customer's honest request.
The association must be numbered
also among the factors of cooperation.
Cooperation is its fundamental principle.
The chief purpose in meeting in annual
convention is to obtain, and subsequently
disseminate, information with the view of
inducing all to work from a uniform,
logical and scientific basis. The exchange of thought is valuable and the association
is the medium through which it can be
: dispensed. It goes without saying that
its members represent the best thought
of the dairymen, and that only good can
attend its efforts.
The seventh factor in the modern plan
of dairy cooperation is the government.
While not inviting paternalism, dairymen have welcomed reasonable assistance and cooperation from the government. That of British Columbia is encouraging certain worthy undertakings
by  giving   monetary   assistance,   and   is
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lowing, as nearly as possible under the
circumstances, the advice given. There
is too much independent action. The
department exists for the benefit of the
agricultural community. Mutual confidence, unanimity, concord and cooperation constitute the basis of success.
The eighth and last factor is the press.
Every farmer should take an agricultural
paper, and every paper should have an
agricultural page. The press has a great
work to perform for dairying, but its
teachings will fall by the wayside without
cooperation.
tion means increasing the output at one
point, a reduction in the operating cost,
and a correspondingly better price for the
farmer—all direct results of cooperation.
And at our last dairy convention a unanimous resolution was passed endorsing
the Government's policy and asking for
more stringent legislation, so that even
greater powers would be given the Government in maintaing an assured healthy
development. It was suggested, for instance, that all stock in a creamery company be fully subscribed, 50% paid in
cash,   and   the   balance   secured   by   ap-
an "^aali: --
also contributing liberally in the toil and
thought of faithful men employed in the
service. These may do much to educate
the dairymen, in disseminating literature, organizing practical demonstrations
relating to some particularly important part of the work. Preparing modern
plans, for free distribution, of creamery
buildings, ice-houses, dairies and cow-
stables, at the same time describing the
ideal locations for all of these, or what
to avoid and what to look for in selecting
a site. On the other hand, the farmer
and creamery proprietor should make
more use of the Department of Agriculture by consulting its officials and fol-
VANCOUVER ISLAND DAIRY FARM
In conclusion, permit me to refer
briefly to what we are doing in Saskatchewan to encourage and develop the
spirit of cooperation. Our conditions
are different from yours, and one must
consider those circumstances in choosing
a policy to pursue. We aim, however,
to discourage premature organization
and to prevent the erection of two, three
or four creameries, when one will do the
business. Most of the creameries are
under our direct supervision, and to
accommodate the dairy farmer who is
not near a creamery, the Government
pays the express charges on cream shipments by rail.   The policy of centraliza-
^zmLi -ffln
proved   promissory   notes   before   incorporation be granted.
At the present time all plans and specifications of creamery buildings, the
location and the site must be approved
by the Minister of Agriculture. The
Public Health Act also deals with the
matter. For sanitary, as well as economic reasons, such precautions are advisable. An ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure, and it is easier to regulate certain conditions than to remedy
undesirable conditions. While not discouraging private interests, we encourage
the cooperative creamery, and in our
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i ^^^NE of the heaviest of all drags
I ^ | I upon the city man of modest
■MMMagJ means is rent. The helpless-
L«§ll*$l ness °f always paying it is
**M**t**** being realized more and more,
arid there is a steadily growing desire on
the part of families to live in a house
which they can call their own. The
advantages of such ownership are obvious. They include a freedom from the
exactions of the landlord, a feeling of
independence and security, a better
standing in the community as a citizen,
and a release from the treadmill process
of continually paying out money without
laying up anything for the future.
A difficulty in the past has been that
the young man with a small income has
not been able to buy, even on easy terms,
a house that has measured up to his
desires in the direction of comfort and
artistic merit. In the old days, even as
recently as ten years ago, the average
cottage was not attractive, either within
or without. This has been changed. The
modern small dwelling house, of which
the bungalow is a representative type,
meets the approval of the most exacting
taste, and is equipped with much that
goes to make housekeeping easy and the
home attractive. Many of the bungalows
have only one story but are so arranged
that the labor of housekeeping is reduced
to the minimum. For a small family
they possess most of the merits of larger
homes without nearly as heavy a domestic burden. One of their most important
features is a large living room where the
family may gather in the evening and
cultivate the best in home life. Because
the bungalow requires a little ground
around it to bring out its architectural
points effectively, most bungalows have
a small lawn and garden, and these, of
course, are important factors in a real
home.
In rapidly growing communities like
Vancouver and Victoria there is an unusually large number of young men
whose salaries are modest, but who are
ambitious to have homes of their own.
To meet their requirements, architects
and builders have paid special attention
to the suburban cottage.
In Vancouver, for example, there are
bungalows which, including lots averaging 33 feet by 120 feet, can be acquired
for from twenty-five hundred to thirty-
five hundred dollars. The real estate
men and builders have made a study of
putting such homes within the means of
salaried men of the city, and have so
arranged matters that it is practicable
for a man earning even as moderate an
income as a hundred dollars a month to
acquire his own home. He must, however, have saved at least two hundred
and fifty dollars for a first payment on
his bungalow and lot, which, with this
payment, he acquires with a mortgage at
from eight to ten per cent, a year, and
an obligation to pay from twenty-five to
thirty-five dollars a month in the same
manner as ordinary rent is paid. He has
a house of five rooms, including an attractive hall, a large living room, two
bed rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and
a   basement.     The   interior   decorations
are artistic, and the general equipment is
thoroughly up-to-date. The plumbing is
absolutely modern; the bathroom is tiled,
and the kitchen is conveniently arranged.
One of the features of most of the bungalows is a spacious fire-place, and in
some of them is a sideboard built into
the dining room wall.
The furnishing of a house of this kind
depends, of course, on the individual
taste and pocketbook. Some items of
cost are given below. If one desires an
artistic equipment, not too cheap, he
may purchase, to begin at the floor, a
very attractive Persian rug, large enough
for an ordinary din'ng room for $30; a
fuiaed oak buffet for $36; a dining room
table of the same attractive wood for
$31; serving table, $11; half a dozen dining room chairs, $36. For the living
room an Early English table with a
drop-leaf costs about $7; a rocking-chair
with a leather seat of the same style,
$11; an arm-chair with a leather seat,
$11; an Early English writing desk, $13;
the same sort of a desk chair, $6; a Brussels carpet, $20. For the best bed room
a full sized brass bedstead will cost about
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$16; a felt mattress $6 to $15; a wire
spring $2 to $3; a mahogany dresser $24;
a chiffonier, $22; a mahogany bed room
chair, $4; a bed room rocker, $4; a tapestry carpet, $15. For the second bed
room a white enamel bed will cost about
$9; a mattress and spring as before; a
golden oak dresser, $12 to $20; a chiffonier, $17 to $20; golden oak chairs, $1.50
each; a rocker, $1.75; a tapestry carpet,
$15, Japanese matting for from $4 up.
For the kitchen a cabinet will cost about
$10; a table, $2; two chairs, 65 cents
each; linoleum, 50 cents a yard; pots and
cooking utensils, $15. It may be said
that if one wants to economize, articles
similar to those mentioned above, but
not as good in quality, can be purchased
at about one-third less than the figures
given. It may be also said that there
are reliable firms in Vancouver who will
supply these articles for one-third of the
purchase price in cash and the balance
in monthly payments, with no advance
upon the cash price, the only difference
being that the buyer pays one per cent,
per month until the account is settled.
As to the smaller articles in the equipment of an artistic home, a half set
dinner service, consisting of half a dozen
of each sort of article costs from $5 to
$15; half a dozen glasses cost from 25
cents to $1.50 each; a crockery bed room
equipment costs from $2 to $7.50 for
each room; a reading lamp for the dining or living room costs from $3.50 to
$10; a low priced table cloth costs $1.50,
and one of high quality, $4; a dozen napkins cost $2.50; two pairs sheets cost
$2; four pillow cases cost 45 cents a pair;
bath towels cost 60 cents a pair, and face
towels 40 cents a pair. Good blankets
cost $5 a pair, and bed-spreads from $2
to $3; pillows cost from $1.50 to $2.50 a
pair. Such things as wall pictures and
other decorative touches of this kind are
not mentioned because the amount of
money which may or may not be spent
upon them depends altogether upon the
individual taste.
The facts given above convey the general idea of the cost of acquiring and
equipping a five-room bungalow in Vancouver. The expenditure of money in
this way has the merit of being an outlay
for articles which the family owns. It is
one of the best investments that could be
made. It eliminates the improvident
practice of paying in rent a very high
rate of interest on property owned by
others. A long period, of course, is
required to clear a bungalow of all indebtedness by paying $25 or $30 a month,
but there is always the increasing value
of property in growing cities like Vancouver or Victoria, and the householder
at last has his home paid for, which, of
course, is never the case as long as he
continues to pay rent.
How I Acquired a Vancouver Home
By A. Young Newcomer
m&
AFTER being graduated from
school at Rochford, Essex, Eng-
, land, I studied engineering for a
year and then went to London,
where I obtained a position in
the office of a merchant as junior clerk.
After five years of service I had become
assistant buyer, but was still earning an
extremely modest income and could not
see much ahead. I knew that under
conditions existing in this and most
other London mercantile establishments
promotion would be very slow and my
salary would be increased so gradually
and meagerly that it would be a long
time before I could achieve the greatest
desire of my life, namely: to marry the
nr
who was good enough to  say she
would have  me.
So it was that I began to look over the
world for a place in which I could settle
with promise of more rapid advancement. My attention was called to British Columbia, and one day, at the office
of a publication devoted to the colonies,
I met Mr. Thomas H. Ingram, of the
Canadian National Investors, who was
visiting England. He gave me facts about
this country which were extremely interesting and which fired my ambition to
cast my fortune with the new land. The
upshot of the matter was that early last
summer, with about seventy-five pounds
as capital, I started for Vancouver.
About twenty pounds of my money was
spent on the journey. When I arrived
here I had fifty pounds left and made
inquiries as to what would be the best
use to which to put my modest competency.    I was advised to  put it into a
A HOME JOY
home. The statement that I could
acquire a home of my own with so small
an amount of money surprised me, but
investigation convinced me that it could
be done.
I looked at a lot in South Vancouver
about two blocks west of Main Street
at the end of the Ferris Road car line,
and made a contract whereby I was to
have a five-room bungalow, built more
or less according to my own ideas,
erected on this lot by the payment of
$250 down and $25 a month, giving a
mortgage on the property, which carried
an interest of less than ten per cent.
In the meantime I had obtained a
position here in Vancouver. Soon afterward I slightly increased my income by
taking another position. This gave me
enough   money  to   live   on,   but  I   was
living more in the future than in the
present. I was looking forward eagerly
to the completion of my home. My
home! The words looked pretty big
to me.
When I had said good-bye to my
fiancee at the dock on the other side I
had told her that I would send
for her just as soon as I had a home of
my own in the new land, but at that
time I did not have the slightest idea
that I would so soon be in the way of
acquiring one. So it was that the building of this bungalow interested me intensely. After office hours I used to
go out to watch the progress of the
work. It was a dream of mine which,
with astonishing rapidity, was becoming
real. The house was complete about
the first of September, and after fitting
it up temporarily, with enough furniture
to suffice for a bachelor, I moved in.
I will say here that this bungalow consists of a hall, a sitting room, two bedrooms, a bath room, a kitchen and a
full sized basement. The plumbing is
modern, the bath room is attractively
finished, the sitting room i s wainscotted
and has burlap on the walls. A sideboard is built into the house. There is
a furnace. One of the most pleasing
features of the living room is a commodious fire-place, which, with a given
limit of expense, 1 was allowed to select
myself.
Having a taste for carpentry and other
work of this sort, I have put in numcr
ous evenings and holiday afternoons in
adding to the house touches of my own
handiwork, and rather pride  myself on Page 28
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1911
ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME
the feeling that I have increased its
attractiveness. When the young lad}-
comes out in March she will bring with
her some furniture as settler's effecis
and our new home will be attractively
equipped.
Within a short time I have obtained
an even better business situation than
those I held when I first arrived, and
feel very well satisfied with my outlook
in British  Columbia.    I need hardly say
that I am very glad I came. As to the
home making proposition I am particularly well content with it. Instead of
paying rent I am paying for a home of
my own. I am subjected to the exactions of no landlord. I know that there
is no danger of my home being sold
over my head when I have become nicely
settled, and thus being compelled to
leave, or of having my rent raised. I
forgot  to  mention  the  fact  that  within
a month after the completion of my
house I had an opportunity to sell it
for three thousand dollars. I gave this
proposition no consideration for the reason that in buying this home I was not
making a real estate speculation. However, this brings out the fact that in purchasing a domicile one is making a very
good real estate investment. With the
steadily growing population of Vancouver, the price of land and dwellings is
increasing. Thus it is that in going into
a proposition of this kind one is not only
acquiring the independence which comes,
from having his own home, but is also,
in most cases, "playing safe" with his
money for the reason that almost always
he can sell at an advance. I have been
told that my own bargain was a particularly good one, and that such a house
as I have could not be now obtained for
less than $2,750, but this does not lessen
in any depreciable degree the desirability
on the part of a young man with a
steady income obtaining a home on these
terms. My own experience has been
that it is the best investment he could
possibly make. It gives him a standing
in the community that he would hardly
have otherwise, and starts him on the
path to prosperity under the best
auspices.
Vancouver's Architectural Beginnings
and Development
By G. W. Grant
|0 other city in the world has
come out of the wilderness as
rapidly as has Vancouver.
Glancing over the city to-day
we see impressive office buildings, fine shops, long streets of attractive
residences, in fact, all the features of a
big and thriving urban community.
Twenty-five years ago this same ground
was a tangled wilderness, a forest of big
trees, in which dwelt eternal twilight.
Here the hunter could have found deer,
could have had an occasional encounter
with a bear, and, at his camp fire at
night, could have heard the wild cries of
the  cougar  stalking prey.
The only vestige of civilization in the
early eighties was the Hastings saw mill.
It was not until 1886 that civilization
gave any indication of being interested
in this remote and virgin region. In that
year it was announced that the western
terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway would be located, not at Port
Moody, as had been proposed, but at the
present site of Vancouver, and this
"neck of the woods" came suddenly into
the  limelight.    People  from  many  sec
tions began to make their way in this
direction. In the spring of 1886 there
was almost fevered activity at the saw
mill, and small frame buildings began
to rise along the waterfront where Cordova Street now stretches. Many men
began to clear the wilderness. The first
steps were being taken in the building of
a city. A fire in June, 1886, destroyed
all but one of the frame buildings, but
new and better ones were immediately
erected on the sites of the ruins. This
was a summer of fires. As the fine timber was felled it was given to the flames,
which burned continually. The desire
then was not to make money selling
lumber, but to proceed with all possible
speed in the clearing of the wilderness
for the city. Cordova and Hastings
Streets were roughed out, and when, in
1887, the railroad people began to build
the Vancouver Hotel, Granville Street
ceased to be a mere trail through the
woods, and took on something of the
appearance   of  a  thoroughfare.
The first substantial building was a
three-story structure of which I was
the architect.    It was built of brick, was
called the Wilson Block, and is now part
of the Metropole Hotel. Numerous other
buildings were erected at about the same
time. During this early period there
was, of course, considerable activity in
the buying and selling of lots. A large
portion of the townsite had been government domain which had been ceded by
the authorities at Victoria to the railway
company for changing the terminus from
Port Moody to Vancouver, but not a
little of the land was owned by private
individuals and this began to change
hands rapidly. Most of these owners,
unable to look into the future and see a
big city rise from this wilderness of
stumps, felt that the time to sell had
arrived.
Practically none of the persons, or
their heirs, who were land owners in
the Vancouver of those days now have
any holdings. They felt that they were
doing remarkably well by obtaining
from one to two thousand dollars for
well located lots, which now have a market value of at least $100,000.
The truth is that the rise in real estate
values   was     comparatively     slow  until 1911
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about ten years ago. At that time, for
instance, lots which had sold in the first
transfers at a couple of thousand dollars
had not increased in value to more than
eight or ten thousand. It has been
within the last decade that Vancouver
has loomed up as a marvel of growth
among cities.
Architecturally, she now compares
favorably with any city on the continent.
The newer office buildings, restricted by
law to a height of ten storys, or 120 feet,
are all that could be desired, and many
of the residences reflect the best in
architecture. While there is no conspicuously dominating type, the bungalow, in its numerous variations, has had
a pronounced influence. It is in keeping with Vancouver's natural setting. It
has a simplicity in harmony with the
newness of our environment, and a com
fort and cosiness in attractive contrast
to the more or less primitive conditions
which still prevail in our suburbs. In
this matter of giving a residence an
individuality which conforms to its setting, I think that log cabin types would
be effective here. They give scope for
much elaboration, and for highly artistic
effects, and would typify one of our
great natural resources. While this type
has as yet not been developed to any
extent in Vancouver, I believe that it
will be, and will help to give the city,
architecturally, a character all its own.
Because of the impressive views in almost every section, of big expanses of
water, and wooded shores, and majestic
mountains, Vancouver has, I think, a
more beautiful natural site than almost
any other city on the continent. It
remains for man to  make the  most of
what nature has done. I am confident
that it would be a wise move on the part
of the city fathers to enact laws providing a system of building that would
enhance the beauty of the city. Small
prizes could be given to home builders
in different classes who maintained the
best kept lawn, the best arrangement
and variety of shade trees, and so on.
This would bring prominently to the
attention of the public the utility of
making the city as attractive as possible
and would stimulate owners with a spirit
of competition in giving their own homes
special touches of beauty. The people
would be made to realize that urban
attractiveness is a great asset, which has
a very direct and marked effect upon
the prosperity of the city, arousing as it
does, a keen desire on the part of visitors to settle in the community where
there  are many pleasing vistas.
A PIONEER'S HOME
By Beatrice Nasmith
|OUSES there are that win us
with their gracious courtesy, disclosing unexpected attentions,
providing unexpected conveniences. Such a one is the home
of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. McLennan. To
cross its threshold is to turn from the
sweeping scene the house commands to
fresh delights within, a new study of
harmony and simplicity. Here the decorator, Alfred Huggett, has shown a full
realization of the real nature of his task.
The entire scheme of decoration is conceived with dignity, and is replete with a
quiet beauty and unimpeachable probity.
Colors of blue and russet predominate
in the wide reception hall, where rugs
and draperies blend themselves into a
restful harmony. Incidental colors of
carmel and warm though subdued tones
of Oriental shades add to the general
charm. The rugs, stair rugs, and wall
papers were made to the special design
and order of the decorator, and are beautifully colored to suit the prevailing
tones. The blue velour curtains are
richly trimmed in antique gold, and the
furniture, comprising types of the Jacobean period, are suitably covered with
old tapestries. The decorator has given
form to his ideas in the metal work,
which is manufactured in armour-bright
iron. The electroliers and newel post
light are fitted with specially designed
spiral glassware which softens and beautifies the brilliance of the light.
Various apartments open off the reception room, all spacious, well arranged
and  well  lighted.    The  dining  room  is
finished in fumed oak in conformity to
the Tudor period, the freize of table, dinner-wagon and chairs being richly carved
to conform to the dignity of this somewhat severe period. Above the handsome eight-foot panelling of the walls, a
very beautiful freize in relief affords a
delightful opportunity for the expression
of movement and grace, representing as
it does, a richly robed cavalcade of ladies
and nobles, mounted on prancing horses
on their way to the banqueting hall of
Henry V. Window curtains in stencilled
linen carry out the details of the general
conception of the room and are overhung
with "Thorian velvet" in tones of golden
brown and handsomely appliqued with
heraldic tapestry. The soft, rich Persian rug blends admirably with the essen
tial colors of the room, and gives prominence to the artistic merits of the fine
oak chairs, upholstered in specially dyed
tan morocco. Hand-wrought antique
brass characterizes the electric fittings
and adds a final note to the refinement
and good taste of the decorative scheme.
In the spacious living room the designer has kept the main object, utility,
well before him, with the result that use
and beauty are combined in due proportion. It is a room that suggests 'that
saving health of the soul, sincerity," and
its soft, retiring tones of russet and
green continually invite to rest and ease
—an ease which stimulates to quiet
thought and work that does not pall. The
furnishings comprise in most part large
VANCOUVER RESIDENCE OF R. P. McLENNAN
(Grant & Henderson, Architects) Page 30
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1911
VIEW OF LIVING ROOM
(Albert Huggett
lounge chairs and settees, and a delightful inglenook with a big open fire-place
where the logs glow and crackle. The
fumed oak woodwork, rich in coloring,
harmonizes splendidly with the entire
color treatment. The walls are covered
with a russet leatherette paper panelled
by studded banding. The curtains are
in a beautiful tone of green velvet, trimmed with galoon of metal. The fine
linen window curtains are stencilled
artistically to introduce the color scheme
of the room and carry out the general
design of border in the Donegal rug
which, but for a-margin of oak parquetry,
covers the spacious floor. The electric
fittings of antique brass are designed to
suit the very handsome club fender which
covers the entire hearth in the inglenook.
There is a suggestion of gentle and
courteous formality about the reception
room which is very delightful. The
"Sheraton" style, developed in tones of
rose, ivory and green, comprise an apartment of much refinement and a restful-
ness and charm which appeals to all
lovers of the truly artistic in decorative
effort. The walls are treated in a delicate, almost pearl ground paper with
soft overcolorings in rose and green and
the woodwork is enamelled in ivory
white. The reception room windows
command a magnificent view of the
waters of the gulf. The curtains are
truly beautiful, being made of ivory silk
repp with an applique of rose and green
flowers to suit the motive in the wall
paper. The rug is a rose centered
Donegal with a border of ivory, and the
portiere curtains are also in rose and
richly appliqued. The furniture is in
choice   pieces   of    Sheraton,   while    the
IN McLENNAN RESIDENCE
Interior Decorator)
electrolier and brackets are in old candlestick brass and crystal, making in all a
most delightful room and representing
the essentials of a treatment which makes
criticism   almost  an   impossibility.
The "Voysey" style of design and coloring enters into the treatment of the
large billiard room. The walls are panelled in oak and above is a four-foot
freize of richly stencilled Fabricona in
greens, cream, and soft terra cotta. The
billiard room rugs were made to order and
the window and door hangings of old tapestry design are in consistent harmony
with - the general scheme. The hand-
beaten, armour bright iron of the
electric fixtures makes them unique, and
the soft terra cotta shades with their
lining of ivory give the lights a mellow
glow. The billiard table is the work of
a well known London manufacturer and
has a cover in tapestry to blend with the
rugs and hangings.
An enviable combination of the qualities, "artistic" and "homelike" characterizes the cosy "den." Colors of blue and
tan and gold blend here with an effect
of restfulness, and personal comfort is
luxuriously provided in the deep chairs
and settees and the homelike window
seat. Two walls are lined with books
and an open fire affords the cheer and
solace that is so essential to the leisure
hours of the busy man. The design and
color scheme' follow the lead of the
famous "William .Morris," so eminently
suitable to a room of this kind. Rugs,
curtains, upholstering, and wall treatment are all richly simple, and harmonize
in producing an effect of quiet, unalloyed
enjoyment. The hardware and fittings
are in Tudor bronze, and the lights are
shaded with opalescent glass. This room
also commands a view of the gulf and
mountains. In the accompanying illustrations it is unfortunately impossible to
convey the beauty of the coloring.
Throughout one sees the touch of the
kindly thoughtful human hand, and it is
this that fixes the charm, endears the
place and makes it not a show place for
costly furnishings, but a real home.
DINING ROOM IN McLENNAN RESIDENCE
(Albert Huggett InteriorjDecorator) OPPORTUNITIES
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Why He Treated Her to Luncheon
Club Women From the Viewpoint of Two Husbands at Home
By Ethel Grant
E business man was alone,
except for the companionship
of his pipe and evening newspaper. He therefore welcomed
the impromptu visit of the
young lawyer who lived in the same
block and often came in for an exchange
of thoughts.
"Alone as usual?" queried the lawyer
after he had settled in a comfortable
chair and looked about for the tobacco
jar.
"Now, don't rub it in. Here's the tobacco; help yourself. And if it's a fair
question,  where  is  your wife?"
"Gone to a meeting of the Educated
Thought Society.  Your wife is—?"
The business man chuckled. "As
president of the Anti-Suffrage League
she is attending to her duties this
evening."
The lawyer grinned and puffed his
calabash pipe in expressive silence, which
lasted for several minutes. Men have a
decidedly comfortable habit of sitting
silent in each other's company. Provided, of course, that each one of them
has an offering from "My Lady Nicotine" between his lips.
"I have been thinking that husbands
are a bit neglected these days," began
the lawyer. "There are so many clubs
and societies for women and every woman seems to want to belong to at least
half of them, and the consequences are
that home and husbands are second considerations."
"That's just like you specialty fellows,"
answered the business man. "Your minds
are trained in one line and you think it
is up to everybody else to agree with
you."
"A chance for an argument there," said
the other, and chuckled in anticipation
as he struck a match. "What is your
contention?"
"Don't know that I have one in particular, other than that I am glad my
wife is a 'joiner.'"
"Good! 1 am open for conviction. Fire
ahead."
"You have no children, and I have
two. So your argument against women's
clubs and societies would not be as convincing as mine did I throw my net in
your stream. My two boys are tuckeJ
into bed by their mother on an average
of five nights a week, and. it is then at
their mother's knee that they say their
prayers. Now. when my wife goes out
to an evening meeting, I have all the fun
of helping the lads undress and the
pleasure of hearing them say their little
prayers. I tell you, my friend, it does
a man good who thinks he is past praying, to hear his own childhood prayers
from the lips of his small sons. There's
a lot of comfort to me in putting my
lads to bed once or twice a week. God
knows they won't always be little shavers.    But I'm getting sentimental."
"And digressing," tartly suggested the
lawyer, evidently wishing to divert attention from his moist eyes.
"Correct," laughed the business man.
"Well, for instance—will just one do
you?"
"According to the strength of its
evidence," answered the lawyer.
"Well, then, take that organization,
the Local Council of Women:  societies
MRS. McNAUGHTON
President Vancouver Council of Women
with all kinds of aims and creeds are in
affiliation with it, and its tendency is to
broaden the ideas of every member. I
was glancing through its Canadian Year
Book the other night and was amazed
at the amount of work being done
quietly and practically unobtrusively by
this splendid body of women.
"They are strong for women suffrage,
are they not?" asked the lawyer.
"Many of their Councils have, I believe, adopted that policy. But as I take
it, the Vancouver Council is anxious
only for the municipal franchise. The
Victoria Branch is more ambitious and
wants equal rights. The Capital city
women are thoroughly alive (o all questions of the day and it has an amazing
number of clever women among its citizens, many of whom are doing splendid
work in a public manner.    Tbe West
minster Council has not as yet come out
strongly for the franchise. Its members
have the municipal rights and they can
afford to rest on their oars while they
plan carefully for the future and the best
way in which to cooperate with other
cities. The Vernon Council, it is believed, would like to have the franchise,
but it is not likely to become militant
over the matter. Those Vernon women
are wise. They believe in their country
and their men, and from all I've heard,
feel pretty sure that what they work for
quietly will come. The Nelson Branch
has not as yet announced its policy to
the world, but we may always expect
the Nelson women to work for the best
that is going. Great little town, that, in
spite of its hills. But I don't believe its
women are bothering their heads
whether the franchise comes or not."
"It undoubtedly will come, but
whether in our time or not is still a
question,"  asserted   the  lawyer.
"You're perfectly right," answered his
companion, "but in the meantime, look
at the other good work that is being
done—work  that  really  counts.
He paused to refill his pipe, gave the
fire in the grate a stir and resumed, after
ascertaining that the lawyer, comfortable in his deep chair, appeared to be
much interested.
"The Vancouver Local Council has
taken up very actively the matter of
securing a clean city. You remember
'clean up' day?"
"A farce!"
"Not entirely. An undesirable shopkeeper who uses the same lane as we do,
has been dumping trash out there for
years, and his cellar could be scented
for a block. We've had less odor since
'clean up' day, and ours is only one of
many that I have heard about. Then
there's the white slave traffic, supervised playgrounds for children, the regulation of immoral literature, the care of
the feeble-minded, and the infirm poor,
for all of which these Council women
are earnestly working. Then, too, they
are keen on domestic science in the
schools, and have done wonders in that
line, as a glance at our school curricul :m
will show. The Juvenile Court and Juvenile Protection Association are offsprings of this Council, and at present
they are urging the idea of a detention
home for girls. The Victoria Council
is equally as active, it having taken up
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1911
infirmary. Being able to run in most
any day and talk matters over with the
Government, they have excellent opportunities to present their cases first hand
and with but slight expense. These
Councils branch out into every kind of
work which comes along, and any that
makes for the betterment of the world in
general. And keeping that fact in mind,
you can't make me believe that it is not
a good thing for a woman to be a member of such an organization."
"You are a good talker for the opportunities offered by women's societies, my
friend, and perhaps your viewpoint is
the proper one.    But "
"Would  you want your wife  to  be  a
stay-at-home, or at best know nothing
but what she could learn from a round
of calls, bridge parties, and pink teas, and
when she did get among women who
were doing real things in the world, find
that she was a back number?"
"No."
"Then encourage her to keep up her
club duties. Don't urge her to join too
many societies, but help her to select the
best and enter into their aims with her.
You will learn a lot and acquire a vast
amount of respect for these women's
organizations. Why, man, they are nothing less than opportunities knocking at
the doors of women's minds, and honestly  I   can't  see  why they should  not
take them up. The organization I have
just been talking about is undoubtedly of
the.best, and "
Just then a latch-key was fitted into
the front door, and a moment later the
business man's wife entered the room.
Her eyes were bright and she looked to
be thoroughly alive.
"Didn't I tell you it was good "for her?"
asked the business man after the greetings were over, and he noted the look
of approval on the lawyer's face.
"Guess you are right. I think I will
hit the trail for home now and take a
new look at my wife. If her club has
had the same effect on her, I will treat
her to lunch to-morrow."
Now for the Home Garden
HE INCREASING number of
people who are establishing
homes of their own in the
suburban districts of Vancou-
er and other British Columbia
cities brings conspicuously to attention at this time of the year the opportunities for saving money and for healthful exercise in the cultivation of a home
vegetable garden. In the environs of
Vancouver and Victoria are many cottages on lots having an average width
and depth of thirty-three feet by one
hundred and twenty feet. The cottage
does not ordinarily extend into the back
half of the lot. This means that there
is a plot of ground fifty or sixty feet
deep and thirty-three feet wide which
can be dedicated to the uses of a garden
in which can be grown various staple
vegetables for  the home table.
In starting a garden of this kind it
would be well for the amateur gardener
to confine himself to potatoes, beets,
onions, radishes, carrots and cabbages.
These vegetables require less care and
knowledge in their cultivation than most
others, and can easily be raised successfully by the gardening novice. They are
more practicable, for instance, than such
products as peas and beans, which require more space and more care.
The first work of the gardener should
begin, in this climate, about the first of
March, or as soon afterward as the frost
is out of the ground. It sometimes happens that the first week in March is
cold; in this case the digging of the
garden can be postponed until the first
propitious days. The start should be
made by obtaining from a near-by stable
a load of manure. This usually can be
had by merely paying the hauling charge
of about two dollars a load. Unless the
ground is particularly poor or sour one
load of manure is sufficient for the
amount of ground in question. This fertilizer is better for the garden than any
other, but if it cannot be conveniently
obtained, the gardener may purchase a
bag of bone meal from any seedman.
The fertilizer should be spread evenly
over the ground, and then with a spade
the soil should be dug up. Then it
should be well pulverized with a hoe and
the manure  dug in.
After the garden has been dug it
should be allowed to lie fallow until
between the middle of March and the
first of April, depending upon the
weather. Many amateur gardeners take
advantage of their freedom from office
or shop work on Good Friday to begin
the planting of the garden.
In selecting the vegetables they are
sure to include lettuce, which can be
obtained in sufficient quantities to supply
a family of three or four all summer by
planting two rows in lettuce seed. A
package of seed may be bought for five
cents. The general rule' in planting this
and other vegetables is to place the seed
in the ground four times the length of
the seed. This means a very shallow
planting for the lettuce seed.    It should
be barely covered, and should be scattered along the " rows liberally, because
seeds on top will dry out and those too
deep will be smothered. When the
sprouts begin to appear it is probable
that there will be too many of them. For
this reason the rows should be thinned
out to give the plants more room and
air in which to mature. Care should be
taken not to thin too freely. It will be
easy to thin again if necessary, when the
plants  grow larger.
The matter of watering, not only lettuce but also other vegetables, is one
of much importance. Most town people
water their gardens too often. It is
much better to water once a week, thoroughly, than to water once a day, superficially. In the latter case the surface
soil is made too wet, while at a little
depth .remains nearly dry. Instead of
devoting half an hour daily to watering
the garden it is much better to devote
about two hours to this process weekly.
The danger of too much water is particularly applicable to potatoes, which rot
when the ground is cold and soggy. To
mention lettuce again, the crop matures
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in from four to six weeks after planting.
A new crop can be planted and this can
be succeeded by others throughout the
summer, with the result that the housewife can have fresh lettuce until autumn.
The observations in regard to lettuce
apply also to radishes.
The garden will yield in a season only
one crop of beets, carrots and onions.
The conditions of planting these are
similar to those proper for lettuce and
radishes. The rows should be about
eighteen inches apart.
Potatoes are not planted until about
the first of May, because the pieces
which are put into the ground would
rot during the cold, wet weather in the
early spring. Seed potatoes are obtained
from the seedman and cut into pieces,
each of which has one or two eyes in it.
Three or four of these pieces are planted
in a single hill, the hills being about two
feet apart, in straight rows, with two feet
between the rows. The pieces of potatoes should be planted about six inches
deep. After the plants have been out of
the ground a couple of weeks they should
be hilled up; that is, the earth should be
hoed up around the stocks, for the reason
that   this   enables   the   latter   to   absorb
more nutriment from the soil. It is well
known that the deeper the tuber is in
the earth the better will be the flavor
of the potato. The plant should be hilled
up every two weeks until the potatoes
are matured. It is necessary, of course,
to keep down weeds, to keep the soil
well pulverized, and as has already been
mentioned, to be careful not to soak the
surface too profusely with water. The
potato grower is not bothered by such
pests as potato bugs, but he must be careful to avoid potato rot. Early potatoes
mature about July first. A quarter of the
garden plot under consideration planted
in potatoes ought to provide a family of
three or four with a sufficient supply for
several months.
The best way to plant cabbages is to
obtain from a seedman some young
plants and place these six inches in the
ground about the first of May. They
should be planted liberally and thinned
out as they grow, until each cabbage
plant is about a foot apart. These young
plants, it may be said, cost ten cents a
dozen. Cabbages require from four to
five months for maturity. It is best to
leave them in the ground until the leaves
begin to fall, because frost has a tendency
to   whiten   the   hearts   and   crispen   the
leaves.
Several other varieties of vegetables
are, of course, grown in larger gardens, but those mentioned are the
ones most suitable to the small home
garden. They can be raised at nominal cost The total expense, including fertilizer, all seeds and incidentals, ought not to amount to more
than five dollars. From this small
expenditure and a moderate amount of
intelligent work, produce can be obtained
worth at least twenty times the amount
of money spent. The work in the garden
is, of course, not arduous. It is just
sufficient to give a man pleasant exercise between office or shop hours and
his evening meal, and it keeps him in
good physical condition. 'The more
gardens the fewer doctors' bills," is a
saying containing much truth. Moreover, there is a distinct appeal to the
palate and the appetite in vegetables
which come fresh from your own garden
instead of passing through many careless hands. It is safe to say that the
home vegetable garden gives better returns than almost anything else for the
expenditure of a little time and healthful
labor, and a very small amount of money.
Industrial Progress in British Columbia
A Glance at the Province's Big Momentum in Many
Lines of Constructive Industry
The first ten-mile stretch of steel on
the Kettle Valley Railroad out of Merritt
was laid in  February.
The British Columbia Steel Company, capitalized largely in Paris, will
establish a ten million dollar plant at
Port Mann.
Preliminary work is under way on the
big drydock at Esquimalt where will be
built the Pacific squadron of the Canadian Navy.
Salmon canneries in British Columbia
have spent over half a million dollars
for equipment and supplies for the canning season this year.
The most extensive gypsum properties
of the West, it is said, are located near
Spatsum, on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and will be made
the basis of a big gypsum refinery and
factory.
The Western Steel Corporation, for a
sum said to be one hundred thousand
dollars, has purchased nine iron ore
claims on Louise Island, in the Queen
Charlotte group.
Construction has been started on the
Canadian Northern Railway between
Popkum and Hope, a distance of twenty
miles.
Over fifteen thousand acres of fruit
lands in Fire Valley, it is said, have been
sold this winter to coast and eastern
capitalists.
The gross value of metals passed
through the smelter at Trail for the six
months ending December 31st, was
$2,294,000.
The building of a special cable steamer
for laying and repairing the telephone
cable is under consideration by the
British  Columbia Telephone  Company.
The Vancouver Exhibition Association
is now actively preparing for the Fair
in the late summer or early fall, and has
decided upon plans for a main building
costing about $30,000.
The water commissioner and city engineer of Victoria have begun on pipe
lines and other construction work for
the bringing of water to the city from
Sooke Lake.
The Grand Trunk Pacific has secured
the Indian Reserve at North Fort
George for townsite purposes.
The Victoria city engineer is preparing to spend approximately a million
dollars for asphalt paving authorized by
the city council.
Price Ellison, Provincial minister of
finance, has made estimates calling for
the expenditure this year by the Government of about twelve million dollars.
Construction work is being rushed on
the Port Mann wharf, which will be five
hundred feet long and one hundred feet
wide.
It has been pointed out that the breeding of deer for meat, skins and horns, is
more profitable than raising cattle, and
it is said that encouragement of this
new industry is being considered by the
Provincial authorities.
A syndicate of British capitalists,
under the name of the British Columbia
Shipping Company, has been formed to
operate large colliers for loading ocean
steamships with  bunker coal. Page 34
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1911
WATER POWER IS ONE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA'S GREATEST NATURAL RESOURCES
It has been announced that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company has given
an order for a steamer which will be
similar to the Princess Adelaide and.
which will ply between Vancouver,
Prince Rupert, and Stewart.
A Canadian Pacific Railway official
has announced that the company plans
to start this spring on extensive improvements and new trackage in the
vicinity of Coquitlam and will spend
millions   of  dollars  in  this  work.
It is said that five hundred men will
be put to work in the early spring constructing an irrigation system for sixteen thousand acres of land which have
recently changed hands in the Columbia
Valley.
A well known steel corporation of
Montreal has taken options on three
sites near Vancouver, having waterfrontage, for a steel plant. It is said
that a large tract on the Fraser, almost
opposite Port Mann is the most favored
site.
Tfie growth of population in Vancouver is indicated by the fact that the P.
Burns Company, the wholesale and retail
butchers, have decided upon plans to
double their abbatoir capacity at a
cost  of  about  $200,000.
Fifty-foot lots to the number of several
hundred in West Fairview and Kitsilano
which are now being cleared by the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company, will
be offered for sale by auction some time
during the spring.
The Westminster Board of Trade
throws light on the rapid development
of their city by announcing that during
the last year the local land registry
office returns show an increase of 54 per
cent; the customs office 45 per cent.; the
post office 30 per cent., with 22 per cent,
increase in stamp sales and 50 per cent,
in the amount of mail handled.
The fisheries of British Columbia are
bound to greatly expand. The markets
for our canned salmon is already world
wide, and the demand for other fish products of the Province is increasing
steadily.
It has been announced that a syndicate of British capitalists have bought
the property and assets of the Central
Okanagan Land Company, including
eight thousand acres near Kelowna, and
the irrigation system and water rights,
for considerably over a million dollars.
The purchasers intend to subdivide the
property into five and ten-acre farms.
Canadian Pacific Railway officials are
discussing a project to extend Granville
Street through the present station out
to the Inlet, on steel and concrete arches,
for the purpose of having a direct connection between the street and the big
passenger   steamers.
Lulu Island has recently become a
center of real estate activity as the result
of a report that the Canadian Northern
Railway has taken options on waterfront
property near Steveston, with a view
to facilitating its deep water transportation.
The Provincial Government estimates
for this fiscal yenr call for over fi<ur
million dollars for roads, streets, bridges,
wharves, and other similar improvements in the Province. Of this total
Vancouver Island has secured nearly
half a million dollars.
The Western Steel Corporation has
obtained railroad freight rates which
will enable it to cut under Pittsburg
prices in supplying steel to the Northwest, and will, it is said, spend half a
million dollars this year on its Fraser
River plant. It is said that United
States steel men are seeking sites near
Vancouver in order to compete for the
steel  business  of  the  North-west.
Kootenay exports to the United States
in 1910 were more than double in value
those of 1909, and the number of shippers during the same period increased
over 100 per cent. The total value of
exports to the United States from the
Nelson Consular District during 1909
was $2,782,480, and in 1910 it was $5,631,-
667. The largest single item was blister
copper, from the British Columbia Copper  and   Granby  Company's  smelters.
The Grand Trunk Pacific branch line
between Fort George and Vancouver
will follow Harrison Lake and the Lil-
looet River to Pemberton Meadows and
thence east by way of Seaton and
Anderson Lakes to the Fraser at Lil-
looet, where the line will follow the
river up the west bank seventy miles to
Big Bar, crossing there to the east side
and  thence  on  to  Fort  George.
The Dominion Development Railroad
Company has been organized to build a
new transcontinental line that will open
up an expansive section of Northern
British Columbia, Saskatchewan and
Alberta. It will have its western terminus at a point near the mouth of the
Naas River on the British Columbia
coast, and after following the Naas to
its source will be extended in the direction of the head-waters of the Omineca
River. 1911
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Laws Governing the Pre-empting of
|N view of the fact that there is
a great deal of crown land open
to pre-emption in the regions
which will be opened by new
railroads, it will be useful to
persons to have a knowledge of the
British Columbia laws governing land
pre-emptions. For this reason a brief
synopsis of the more important laws is
given below:
Crown Lands—Crown Lands mean and
include such ungranted Crown or public
lands as are within the Province of British Columbia, and whether or not any
waters flow over or cover the same.
Pre-emptions — Crown lands, where
such a system is practicable, are laid off
and surveyed into quadrilateral townships, containing thirty-six sections of
one square mile in each. Any person
being head of a family, a widow, or a
single man over the age of eighteen
years and being a British subject, or any
alien, upon making a declaration of his
intention to become a British subject,
may, for agricultural purposes, record
any tract of unoccupied and unreserved
Crown lands (not being an Indian settlement and not being timber land) not
exceeding  160  acres  in  extent.
No person can hold more than one preemption claim at a time. Prior record of
pre-emption of one claim and all rights
under it are forfeited by subsequent
record or pre-emption of another claim.
Land recorded or pre-empted cannot be
transferred or conveyed until after a
Crown grant has been issued.
Such land until the Crown grant is
issued, is held by occupation. Such
occupation must be a bona fide personal
residence of the settler or his family.
The settler must enter into occupation
of the land within sixty days after recording and must continue to occupy it.
Continuous absence for a period longer
than two months consecutively of the
settler or family, is deemed cessation of
occupation; but leave of absence may be
granted not exceeding six months in any
one year, inclusive of two months'
absence.
Land is considered abandoned if unoccupied for more than two months consecutively. If so abandoned, the land
becomes waste lands of the Crown. The
fee on recording is $2.00. The settler
shall have the land surveyed at his own
expense (subject to the rectification of
the boundaries) within five years from
the date of record.
After survey has been made, upon
proof in declaration in writing of himself
and two other persons of occupation for
two years from the date of pre-emption,
and of having made permanent improvement on the land to the value of $2.50
per acre, the settler, on producing the
pre-emption   certificate,   obtains   a  certi-
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Carrots, Onions and Cabbages, all make bonanza crops. We own
some of the best land in the Fort George District, Nechaco Valley
and  Bulkley Valley.
You can still buy p-ood land at reasonable prices and on easy terms.
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North Coast Land Company, Ltd.
PAID UP CAPITAL, $1,000,000.00
411 Winch Building
Vancouver, B. C.
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Please send your pamphlets and other advertising'
matter to the above address.
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ficate of improvement upon the payment
of a fee of $2.00. After obtaining the
certificate of improvement and paying
for the land the settler is entitled to a
Crown grant in fee-simple. He pays
$10 therefor.
The price of Crown lands pre-empted
is $1.00 per acre, which must be paid in
four equal instalments, as follows: First
instalment, two years from date of
record or pre-emption, and yearly thereafter, but the last instalment is not payable until after the survey, if the land is
unsurveyed. Two, three or four settlers
may enter into partnership with preemptions of 160 acres each, and
reside on one homestead. Improvements
amounting to $2.50 per acre made on
some portion thereof will secure a Crown
grant for the whole, conditions of payment being same  as  above.
Coal and petroleum lands do not pass
under grant of lands acquired since
the passage of the Land Act Amendment
of 1899. No Crown grant can be issued
to any alien who may have recorded or
pre-empted by virtue of his declaring his
intention to become a British subject,
unless he- has become naturalized. The
heirs or devisees of the settler are entitled to the Crown grant on his decease.
Purchases—Crown lands may be purchased to the extent of 640 acres, and
for this purpose are classified as first
and second class, according to the report
of the surveyor. Lands which are suitable for agricultural purposes, or which
are capable of being brought under cultivation profitably, or which are wild
hay-meadow lands, rank as and are considered to be first class lands. All other
lands other than timber lands shall rank
and be classified as second class lands.
Timbered lands (that is, lands which
contain milling timber to the -average
extent of 8,000 feet per acre west of the
Cascades—Coast Range—and 5,000 feet
per acre east of the Cascades—Coast
Range—to each 160 acres) are not open
for sale. The minimum price of first
class lands shall be $5.00 per acre, and
that of second class lands $2.50 per acre.
Provided, however, that the Chief Com
missioner may for any reason increase
the price of any land above the said
prices. No improvements are required
on such lands unless a second purchase
is contemplated. In such case the first
purchase must be improved to the extent
of $3.00 per acre.
When the application to purchase is
filed, the applicant shall deposit with the
Commissioner a sum equal to fifty cents
per acre on the acreage applied for.
When the land is finally allotted the purchaser shall pay the balance of the purchase price.
Leases—Leases of Crown lands which
have been subdivided by survey in lots
not exceeding twenty acres, may be
obtained; and if requisite improvements
are made and conditions of the lease
fulfilled at the expiration of the lease,
Crown grants are issued. Leases (containing such covenants and conditions as
may be thought advisable) of Crown
lands may be granted by the Lieutenant-
Governor in Council for the following
purposes: (a) For the purpose of cutting
hay thereon for a term not exceeding ten
years; (b) For any purpose whatsoever,
except cutting hay as aforesaid, for a
term not exceeding twenty-one years.
Leases shall not include a greater area
than 1,000 acres. Leased lands may be
staked by an agent.
Exemptions—The farm and buildings,
when registered, cannot be taken for
debt incurred after registration; and it
is free for seizure up to a value not
greater than $500. Cattle "farmed on
shares" are also protected by an Exemption Act. Pre-emptions are exempt from
taxation for two years from date of
-record, and there is an exemption of $500
for four years after record.
Homesteads—The Government of British Columbia does not gran' free homesteads. The fact of a person having a
homestead in another Province, or on
Dominion -Government lands in this
Province, is no bar to pre-empting
Crown lands in British Columbia.
Dominion Government Lands—All the
lands in British Columbia within twenty
miles   on   each   side    of    the   Canadian
Pacific Railway main line are the property of Canada, with all the timber and
minerals they contain (except precious
metals). This tract of land, known as
the Railway Belt, with its timber, hay,
waterpowers, coal and stone, is now/
administered by the Department of the
Interior of Canada, practically according
to the same laws and regulations as are
the public lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Territories. Dominion Government agencies are established
at Kamloops and New Westminster. The
Dominion Government also owns 3,500,-
000 acres of land in the Peace River
country, lying between the 120th and
122nd meridians. Any British subject
who is the sole head of a family, or any
male of the age of eighteen years, may
secure a homestead of 160 acres on any
unoccupied land within the Railway Belt,
on application to the local land agent,
and on payment of a fee of $10.00. The
homesteader must reside on the land for
six months in every year, and cultivate
at least fifteen acres for three years,
when he will be entitled to a free grant
or patent.
How to Secure a Pre-emption—Any
person desiring to pre-empt unsurveyed
Crown lands must observe the following
rules:
1. Place a post four or more inches
square, and four or more feet high above
the ground—a tree stump squared and of
proper height will do—at an angle or
corner of the claim, and mark upon it
his name and the corner or angle represented, thus:
"A. B.'s land, N. E. corner post,"
(meaning north-east corner, or as the
case may be), and shall post a written
or printed notice on the post in the following  form:—
"I, A.' B., intend to apply for a preemption record of acres of land,
bounded as follows:   Commencing at this
post, thence north chains; thence
east chains; thence south	
chains; thence west chains (or as
the  case may be).
"Name  (in full)	
"Date"	
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2. After staking the land, the applicant
must make an application in writing to
the Land Commissioner of the district
in which the land lies, giving a full
description of the land, and a sketch plan
of it; this description and plan to be in
duplicate.   The fee for recording is $2.00.
3. He shall also make a declaration, in
duplicate, before a Justice of the Peace,
Notary Public, or Commissioner, in
Form 2 of the "Land Act," and deposit
same with his application. In the declar-
same with his application. In the
declaration he must declare that the land
staked by him is unoccupied and unreserved Crown land, and not in an Indian
settlement; that the application is made
on his own behalf and for his own use
for settlement and occupation, for agricultural purposes; and that he is duly
qualified to take up and record land.
4. If the land is surveyed the pre-
emptor must make application to the
Commissioner exactly as in the case of
unsurveyed lands, but it will not be
necessary to plant posts.
5. Every pre-emption shall be of a
rectangular or square shape, and 160
acres shall measure either 40 chains by 40
chains (880 yards by 880 yards) or 20
chains by 80 chains (440 yards by 1,760
yards); 80 acres shall measure 20 chains
by 40 chains; and 40 acres, 20 chains by
20 chains. All lines shall be run true
north and south and true east and west.
6. When a pre-emption is bounded by
a lake or river, or by another pre-emption or by surveyed land, such boundary
may be adopted and used in describing
the boundaries  of the  land.
7. Sixty days after recording the pre-
emptor must enter into occupation of the
land and proceed with improving same.
Occupation means continuous bona fide
personal residence of the pre-emptor or
his family, but he and his family may
be absent for any one period not exceeding two months in any year. If the pre-
emptor can show good reason for being
absent from his claim for more than two
months,   the   Land   Commissioner   may
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grant him six months' leave. Absence
without leave for more than two months
will be looked upon as an abandonment
of all rights, and the record may be cancelled.
8. No person can take up or hold more
than one pre-emption.
9. The pre-emptor must have his claim
surveyed, at his own expense, within five
years from the date of record.
10. The price of pre-empted land is
one dollar per acre, to be paid for in four
equal annual instalments of twenty-five
cents per acre, the first instalment to be
paid two years after record.
11. After full payment has been made
the pre-emptor shall be entitled to a
Crown grant of the land, on payment of
a fee of $10.00.
12. A pre-emption cannot be sold or
transferred until after it is Crown
granted.
13. A pre-emption cannot be staked or
recorded by an agent.
INTERIOR  EFFECTS
In redecorating one or more rooms in
your home, it is advisable to take into
consideration the period of furniture
manufacture on hand. But a living room
papered in mellow tones of chrome yellow will always convey an impression of
sunshine, which is really one of the
essential features to be desired in such a
room. Stripes or very quiet designs
should be considered rather than pronounced conventional patterns. This
treatment will make the walls effective
though unobtrusive, and will allow
the room furnishings to assert their
individuality.
Drawing room or parlor color schemes
are usually more decorative; soft pinks,
greens and tans on an ivory ground are
very effective and pleasing. When choosing carpets or rugs for such a room try
and harmonize along the shades in the
paper, or, if walls must be fitted to rugs,
choose colors which will seem to have
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VANCOUVER, B. C.
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Provincial Receipts and Expenditures
WHILE the Budget speech of
Price Ellison, Provincial Minister of Finance, is well worth
reading in its entirety, it is
much too long for reproduction here and therefore a few items are
selected which give special indication of
the remarkable development of British
Columbia.
"As an instance of the great activity
in real estate, $408,206 was derived last
years from registry fees. The interest
on cash deposits in the bank in 1903-4
amounted to $7,886, and in 1909-10 to
$157,493, the latter figure being nearly
double the income of the year previous.
When the present government came into
power in 1903, the estimates showed a
revenue of $2,193,476 and an expenditure
of $2,491,566. This year's estimates show
a revenue of $8,192,101, and an estimated
expenditure   of   $11,030,790.
"I trust that no one will become
alarmed at the prospect of a deficit of
$3,000,000. The Government has decided
to meet the requirements of the country
in the way of public improvements
squarely, even at the expense of our surplus. There is an immense amount of
money required to open up an immense
extent of territory.
"The revenue tax depends upon the
population and the latter is increasing
at the rate of from 50,000 to 100,000 a
year. We have allowed $25,000 additional under that head. From real and
personal property and income I have
anticipated an increase of $75,000. It
may  be   more   than  that.     Land   taxes,
which include wild coal and timber lands
are placed at $250,000. The mineral tax
has become a more or less steady source
of income and no change has been made
in the item of $100,000. The royalty on
coal, however, has been increased to
$200,000 from $150,000.
"There is an item which I am sure we
all regard with a great deal of satisfaction, and that is bank interest to the
extent of $200,000, an increase of $50,000
over last year's estimates. This represents interest on $6,666,666 on deposit
in the banks doing business in the
Province. In estimating the above receipts for the coming fiscal year, the
Government has been very conservative,
and I feel quite safe in saying that the
actual receipts will very considerably
exceed  $8,000,000.
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SPECIALISTS
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Kootenay Gold lines Limited
(NON-PERSONAL   LIABILITY)
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to you the fullest proofs of its earning capacity,
the value of its property and the soundness of
its business organization. Surely this is worth
while investigating.
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placed at par value, $1.00 per share, on very
reasonable terms.
C| Cut out this "ad," write your name and
address across it, and we will forward prospectus and full particulars.
Investors Trust & Mortgage
| Corporation Ltd*
134 Hastings St, West
VANCOUVER
OFFICIAL AGENTS OF
The British Columbia Homes Trust, Ltd.
REPRESENTATIVES  IN  EUROPE
Die Deutch-Amerikanische Handelsges, Berlin N W 7, Mittelstrasse, 23.
Th. von Roeder, Hamburg, Alsterdamm, 63.
BRANCH OFFICES
1132 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C. (Phone 4595)
443 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver (Phone 114)
Cables: "Warburnitz," Vancouver ABC Code, 5th Edition
Head Offices:   411 PENDER STREET, VANCOUVER, B. C.
Telephone 5522
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MBritish Columbia
The Opportunity of your Life
^ Don't wait till transportation is in, and have to
pay four times what you
can buy for now. We
have transportation from
Quesnel, B. C.
^ If you want to purchase with small cash payment, see or write us.
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505 Cotton Building
H. McINTOSH
:at west
Vancouver, B. C.
D. GARNHAM
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G-OLiXDT
You know all about the fortunes that have been dug out of the ground. All the great
fortunes of the ages have been made out of the utilization of the natural resources of the
earth—oil, coal, gas, silver, iron, lead, gold and all the other minerals that contribute so
largely to the profits of industrialism. Everybody knows that this is true and nobody knows
it better than men like Rockefeller and Carnegie and Morgan. The only serious problem is
to find the RIGHT PLACE. AND THERE'S GOLD AT STEAMBOAT, PLENTY OF
IT, BASKETS FULL OF IT!
GOLD!
It's what you all want. And there is NO PLACE IN THE WORLD TO-DAY
THAT HOLDS THE PROMISE OF SUCH BIG RETURNS AS THE STEAMBOAT
-MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. Every mining expert who has visited SEAMBOAT predicts
that the next two months will witness a rush to STEAMBOAT which will equal the rush
to California in '49 and the subsequent rushes into Cripple Creek, Nevada, Alaska and the
Yukon. Those who are on the ground first are the men who are going to win. Last year
C. S. Walgamott and his associates went into the STEAMBOAT region. They discovered
several rich claims. THE ORE TAKEN FROM THESE CLAIMS SPARKLES WITH
GOLD; IT IS IMPREGNATED WITH IT. THE STEAMBOAT CENTRAL MINES,
LTD., has purchased SADDLE ROCK, SADDLE ROCK No. 3 and KILO No. 5, from
Mr. Walgamott and these properties are full of—
T
Do you want to share in the vast wealth of the STEAMBOAT MOUNTAIN region,
where $520 a ton is the AVERAGE value shown in NINE ASSAYS taken from TWO
DIFFERENT TUNNELS? Assays taken from the surface show an average of $19.50 in
gold AFTER ELIMINATING ALL VALUES OVER $30. And experts estimate that it
will cost only $2.50 PER TON TO MINE AND MILL THE STEAMBOAT MOUNTAIN ORE. These figures ought to interest you. They tell a story of OPPORTUNITY
UNEQUALLED since the discovery of Goldfield, Nevada. DO YOU WANT TO SHARE
IN THIS OPPORTUNITY? If you do, let us know. We are disposing of $50,000 worth
of stock that has a par value of $1.00 a share at 25 cents a share. IT IS THE BEST
CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY YOU WILL EVER HAVE. Let us talk with you. Our
address is Suite 806 Bower Building, 543 Granville Street.
WALGAMOTT   &   EAMES, Fiscal Agents
STEAMBOAT CENTRAL MINES LTD.
Remember the Steamboat ore we'll show you isnspecfcled with
gs-ox_.:di
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1911
"Opportunities" Brokers' and Business Directory
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E.   C.   B.   BAGSHAWE   &   CO.
Real   Estate   and   General   Brokers
1112 Broad  St.,  Bownass  Building
Phone   2271        -        -        VICTORIA,   B. C.
Phone   3628
DUTHIE   &   WISHART
Real   Estate   and   Financial   Agents
520   Pender   St.   W.,   VANCOUVER,   B. C.
SAMUEL    HARRISON    &   CO.
Brokers   and   Financial   Agents.       Agents
Stewart   Land   Co.,   Ltd.
Stewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.
A.   H.   HARMAN
Real   Estate
1317 Broad St. - VICTORIA,  B.  C.
Phone 1918
ALFRED   M.    HOWELL
Customs   Broker,   Forwarding  Agent
Office—23   Promis   Block
Telephone   1501,   Res.   R1671
1006    Government    St.,    VICTORIA,    B. C.
LEONARD,   REID   &   CO.
Victoria Real Estate,
Vancouver Island Lands and.  Timber
420, 421   and  422  Pemberton   Block,
VICTORIA,   B. C.
HAMILTON   &   MYERS
We run an up-to-date Pool Room, Bowling
Alley and Shooting  Gallery
We  also  carry a full  line  of  Cigars,
Tobaccos   and   Confectionery
Specialties.
Opposite Oddfellows' Hall
Sumas,
WASH.
GEORGE   LEEK
Real   Estate,   Notary   Public
Exchange Block,  PRINCE RUPERT, B. C
P.   O.   Box  247
Phone  178
T. J.  POLLEY & CO.
Real     Estate,     Fire,     Life     and     Accident
Insurance.        Plate   Glass   Insurance.
Conveyancing.      Notaries.
Agents for Canadian Home Investment Co.
and  Commercial  Loan and  Trust Co.  Ltd.
CHILLIWACK,  B.  C.
Phone 815 P. O. Box 735
The City Brokerage
Real Estate, Timber and Fire Insurance
A. T. ABBEY, Manager
1218 Douglas St. VICTORIA, B. C.
Real Estate Insurance Loans
Rooming Houses     Business Chances     Collections
JOHN M. PARK
GOLDEN RULE BROKERAGE
Phones:  Office 5346
Residence 2662
iii7 Granville St.      Vancouver, B. C.
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Mrs, Baker, Proprietress
723 YATES ST. Phone 2404
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telephones in all rooms. Newly furnished
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connection, covering B. C.
H. J. McLATCHY, Manager
Phone 1937 615 Pender St. W.
Hours 9 to 6
JNO.
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Phone 3351
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PATTULO  &  RADFORD
Real     Estate,     Insurance     and     Financial
Agents
P.  O.   Box  1535    PRINCE  RUPERT,   B. C.
Cable Address:  "Patrad"
C. ARTHUR  REA
Late  of Brandon,   Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc.
Law  Chambers,  VICTORIA,   B. C.
ROYAL   REALTY   COMPANY
Real   Estate,   Insurance   and   Financial
Agents
Phone   2394 Notary  Public
615 Fort St. - VICTORIA, B. C.
SMITH  & SMITH
Real   Estate   and   Commission   Agents
P.  O.  Box  41
J.   H.  Smith W.   R.  Smith
Fourth   Ave.        -        -       STEWART, B. C.
ALFRED WILLIAMS
Construction  Engineer
Temporary Office
New   Metropolitan   Building
Hastings St. W.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
A. SCHUMACHER
Dealer in Clothing, Furnishings,
Sporting Goods
SUMAS,
WASH.
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Room 112 Carter-Cotton Bid.
Vancouver, B. C.
YOUNG & FRANCEY
ENGINEERS  &  DRAUGHTSMEN
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(late western business collkge)
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The Farmer and the Sugar Beet
A Combination which Promises to Establish the Province
of British Columbia on a Solid Financial Basis
in Spite of Tariff Disturbances
i.
Much thought, time, energy and many words are being expended upon the question
of Reciprocity.
If one-half the energy which is being wasted upon futile discussions of this subject could
be devoted to an intelligent study of the subject of intensive industries for Canada there
would be no need for alarm upon the tariff question.
The future of British Columbia depends entirely upon the way its industries are encouraged, developed and fostered.
Agriculture is the backbone of the future financial independence of this Province.
Sugar Beets grown under proper conditions are the most profitable and economical crop
a farmer can grow.
The soil of the Fraser River Valley and the adjacent territory offers ideal conditions
for such growth.
We can prove this to you by a score of witnesses.
It is the duty of every property owner to foster this industry, because it assures and
enhances the value of his holdings.
The Fraser Valley Sugar Company has been formed to demonstrate that this industry
can be made to pay large and quick returns upon a modest investment.
Every dollar turned into its treasury is used for honest development. Its directorate
have devoted gratuitous service and labored hugely for this development. The German-
American farmers of the North-west have become intensely interested and have agreed to
provide the beets.    A good portion of the capital has been subscribed.    More is on the way.
If you are interested in the proposition and want to share in the honorable rewards of
home industry, send for Booklet K, which describes the whole subject from Alpha to Omega.
Stock selling at $10 to-day will sell for $130 in a few years, if precedent can be relied upon.
The Fraser Valley Sugar Works
LIMITED Main Office:
Plant: MISSION CITY, B. C. 319 Pender St. W., VANCOUVER
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1911
YOU  can keep posted on   all  the new and important developments   in   the  PEACE  RIVER, the   CARIBOO   and   the
FORT GEORGE COUNTRY
by reading our FREE Monthly, B. C. BULLETIN OF INFORMATION, which gives
all the news, impartially clipped from the leading dailies, weeklies and magazines, articles
bearing on B. C, covering Farm Lands, Fruit, Lumbering, Mining, Fishing, New Railways,
also Synopsis of Mining, Land, Lumber, Immigration and other laws.
We are Joint Owners and Sole Agents of FORT GEORGE Townsite
situated at the junction of 1100 miles of navigable waterways, the strategic point for the building of the second largest city of British Columbia, having more varied and important natural
advantages than Spokane. Seven railroads building and projected—$100,000,000 (estimated)
will be spent in next five years in railroad building, radiating from Fort George—millions of
agricultural acres waiting for farmers—coal, timber, lands, water power and rich gold mining
country all tributary to Fort George.
Ifl Write us to-day.  We don't ask you to buy—just get posted—then do what you think is wise.
Natural Resources Security Company Limited
409 BOWER BUILDING VANCOUVER, B. C.
LYNN
VALLEY
€J This is one of the most beautiful districts adjoining
Vancouver. Good building Lots forty minutes from the
Post Office can be obtained cheaply.
^ Our present Subdivision is D. L. 2023. We are
selling lots for $300. $25 cash, $10 monthly. Five
cents car fare; five minutes from present car line.
^ We reserve the right to withdraw these Lots, or increase prices and terms at any time owing to the great
developments now pending in North Vancouver. For
further particulars apply to
MERCHANTS TRUST & TRADING CO, Ltd.
PAID UP CAPITAL, $100,000.00
Branch Office:
Cor. Pender, and Burrard Sts., VANCOUVER, B. G 34 old Broad street, London, Eng.
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WESTERN SPECIALTY LIMITED
LEGAL AND COMMERCIAL STATIONERS AND PRINTERS
314 Pender Street West Phone 5938 VANCOUVER, B. C.
Mr. E. G. Parnell,
513 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, B. C.
Dear Sir:
We are pleased to advise we had a Victor Safe,
No. 14, which went through the hottest part of the
fire on Sycamore Street, starting at 2.30 on the morning of December 21st, and lasting two hundred and
thirty-four hours and forty-nine minutes. This safe
fell directly over a three-inch gas main which burst,
and we enclose clipping which might be of use to
you. The safe was taken from the ruins, opened
with combination first trial and contents found intact.
We are now located in our new quarters and
have, of course, another Victor Safe.
Yours truly,
(Sgd)    The TAYLOR-POOLE  CO.
Windsor Park
IS LOCATED only a short distance from
the proposed location of large saw mills,
car works, shipbuilding and dry-dock enter-
prizes on the shores of Burrard Inlet around
Roche Point.
IT   IS   LAID   OUT   in   Large   Lots,
41 # x 132 feet.
PRICES :
Inside Lots,       $125.00 Each
Double Corner, $275.00 Each
Canadian National Investors
LIMITED
310 Hastings Street West
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Telephone 6488
Open Evenings
MY SPELLING IS CORRECT, MY
PUNCTUATION ACCURATE and
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WINIFRED McKAY
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
Phone 5523
504-5 Crown Building     J Vancouver, B. C.
For the Best and Most Satisfactory Forms of
Accident Insurance
or Health Policies
covering every form of Accident or
Sickness, see our latest proposition.
General Agent for B. C. for the
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Hartford, Conn.
W,   W,   DRESSER
438 Pender Sl W„
VANCOUVER B. G.
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or seller, send me your name and
address and I will mail you a map
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JOHN M. CHAPPELL
Room 2, 443 Pender Streeet Vancouver, B. C.
Kerrisdale Branch : Wilson Road
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1911
Vancouver Horse Show Association Limited, Vancouver, B. C.
FOURTH ANNUAL
HORSE SHOW
$8000 offered in Cash Prizes and Trophies
ADMISSION: 25c. to $1.50
Mornings, Afternoons and Evenings   April    25,    26,    27,    26   aild    29,     1911
ENTRIES CLOSE APRIL 8th
Are You Looking for a Desirable
Summer Home?
Here is a Snap for Someone
A three roomed cedar bungalow, situated
at Woodlands, North Arm of Burrard
Inlet—the most popular Summer resort
on the North Arm.
Cfl It commands a beautiful view.
€| Included is nine-tenths of an acre of
ground—not wet, but soil unexcelled for
fruit growing.
C|[ Mountain water piped to the property.
(j[ The boat service enables the business
man to live at his summer home and
keep his regular business hours in the city.
Note the Price: Only $1000
on good terms. Full particulars from
owner.
FRASER S. KEITH
Phone 6926   ::   Suite 57, 429 Pender St., Vancouver
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VANCOUVER, B. C.
CONTENTS.
APRIL, 1911
Page
Editorial  9
All Hail the Horse William Ford 1 1
Giant Draught Horses : F. D. Gross 12
The Thoroughbred Robert Layton 1 3
Dogs of Quality W. M. Coats 1-5
Old Country  Doubting  Thomases C. M. B. 18
Agriculture's Debt to Lime Geo. Schumacher, Ph.D. 20
House and Home—Lure of the North Arm E. T. Julian 22
Planning and Building a Home E. Stanley Mitton 24
How Stella Won Out Ethel Cody Stoddard 26
Dressing the Home for Spring Alfred Huggett 29
To Beautify Vancouver W. Marhury Somervell 29
The Flower Garden  . f.  30
Velvety Lawns §• .,* iW;  31
On Gardens Alice Ashxoorth Townley 33
Civil Service Opportunities \?:  34
HThe Great North Chas. M.  Wilson 38
Industrial Progress  40
L.
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Point Grey Homesites
Bounded by Heather and Willow Streets,
between 20th and 21st Avenue, the land is
cleared ready for building" This is a close-in
block and we recommend the property to
speculators and home builders as a good
investment.
Call at office for particulars.
JOHN J. BANFIELD
Fire Insurance and Loans
607 Hastings Street
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who stayed behind. You
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British J/merican trust
Company, Ltd.
City and Suburban Real Estate
Farm Lands.
Dairy and Fruit Farms.
Safety Deposit Boxes from $5.00 per year.
All kinds of Insurance written.
Cotton Building,    Vancouver, B. C.
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1911
.
SMAGINE yourself in an areoplane over a huge spread of unplowed prairie. You see it in
its virgin state as an immense expanse of stillness. But, with a mental finger, push the
dial of time on a few years, and take, from above, another look at this prairie. Out in front
you see the buildings of a city silhouetted against the sky. To the right and left you see towns—
big patches on the plain. Far flung in all directions you see the homes of farmers; and the wind
runs over grain fields as over a sea. You look instinctively for the explanation of the wonderful change the few years have wrought, and see, coming up over the horizon, two parallel
threads of glistening steel.
THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY
is bringing this transformation to Northwestern Canada. For this immense and fertile section
the railroad is the parent of Opportunity. For a miltitude of people whose environments are
now too cramped, it is showing the way out into the sunshine of prosperity and independence.
A FIELD IN THE HARD WHEAT BELT
For instance, here is the town of Cudsworth, in Saskatchewan, forty-five miles north-east of
Saskatoon, on the Prince Albert branch of the Grand Trunk Pacific. The great fertility of the
country around Cudsworth has attracted many farmers. But it is only now that they have the
railroad. Cudsworth will be the terminus, for 1911, of the Grand Trunk Pacific branch between
the main line and Prince Albert. This, of course, will mean a big jump for Cudsworth. And
here is Meacham, on the same branch, thirty-five miles north of Watrous. In this vicinity are
already a large number of thrifty farmers, but many more are moving in. And here is Griffin, at
the junction of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Pacific—a town which is now to what it
will be in the future, as the acorn is to the oak.
These and a number of other towns created or vitalized by the coming of the Grand Trunk are
making very rapid strides ahead. They are towns of Opportunity. Some of them will become
cities. Those who arrive now, and make the most of the openings, will grow with the community they select. This is a law of nature; its working is inevitable. The most substantial prosperity on this continent is that which has been achieved by those who have supplied Mother
Nature's need for men, by those who have pioneered, who have obtained footholds in growing
sections in the early stages of their development. In the communities under consideration there
are yet a great many ground-floor opportunities.
Write for maps and full details to the j
Transcontinental Townsite Co., Ltd.   Land Commissioner, G.T.P. Railway, Winnipeg
 OR	
HENNESSY & BOUCHARD,
160 Hastings Street West
VANCOUVER, B. C.
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APRIL, 1911
No. 4
EDITORIAL
COME IN ON THE TIDE
SOME ESSENTIALS FOR "MAKING GOOD"
' RITISH COLUMBIA'S  Minister of Finance,
J      the  Honorable   Price   Ellison,   recently  stated
that during the fiscal  year the population of
this  Province has increased to the extent of
between seventy-five and one hundred thousand persons.
There is no doubt that the ratio of increase is growing,
and that the present year and succeeding years for a long
time to come will each bring greater population to
British Columbia. Thirty per cent, is the present ratio
of growth. The population in 1910 was three hundred
thousand. Basing an estimate on these figures alone we
find that in five years British Columbia will have a
population of one million. Since it is men who make
opportunities for other men, the fact is obvious that with
the passing years the opportunities in the Province will
steadily increase in numbers. Markets for every kind of
agricultural and industrial products will each year see
expansion, and more and more workers will be required
in our developing industries. This process, as has already
been mentioned, will continue for years to come, there
are certain kinds of opportunities which have a tendency
to diminish. These are the ground floor opportunities.
The longer a man remains away from this growing
Province the less will become his chances of obtaining a
directing hold upon a business ; the greater will be the
probability that he will have to be content with a
position as an employee rather than an employer.
British Columbia is one of the magnets of the world.
In many sections of the United States, as well as across
the Atlantic, time is constantly stiffening the industrial
structure, with the result that it is steadily becoming more
difficult for a young man without any special advantages
to rise above the crowd. Many thousands of such young
men are beginning to appreciate the advantages of working out their careers in sections where conditions are
newer and more volatile, and they are therefore turning
their eyes and footsteps to British Columbia as one of
the last corners of the continent where a man can rise in
a general upward movement. This is the reason why
there is a great flow of population to British Columbia,
and is also the reason why it behooves the man who is
contemplating casting his fortunes with this Province
to act without too much delay, so that he may be well
forward in the procession instead of in the rear ranks.
MAN from the Old Country, one day a few
^^ months ago, came into the office of
Opportunities and told us that he had recently
arrived from England with a wife and children/
and, having no friends here, was finding "difficulty in
obtaining a position. Because Opportunities is constantly heralding the opportunities in British Columbia
we felt something- of a sense of obligation to our visitor,
and interested ourselves in his behalf.
Being
a
good
mechanic, he found, in a couple of weeks, work as a
mechanician in an automobile shop. We heard no more
of him until very recently when we received a letter from
him written in one of the towns in England. He stated in
his letter that, not finding British Columbia up to his
expectations, he had returned to the Old Country, but
had discovered that it was impossible for him to resume
the old prosaic life amid stationary conditions, and was
extremely anxious to return to Vancouver. He requested
us to obtain another position for him and then to cable
the good news. Upon receipt of the message he would,
he said, begin at once the journey back to this Province.
This episode brings to the attention several factors
which an old country man must reckon with in reaching
a decision in the vital matter of starting life anew in
what, from his view point, is a distant land. He must
rid himself, in the first place, of the idea that his prosperity is assured just as soon as he sets foot on British
Columbia soil. While conditions here are particularly
propitious for achieving success, these conditions are not,
of course, such that will enable any man to stroll into
easy street. Here, as elsewhere, time is required before
the stranger can adjust himself to his environment, make
friends, and find the door to his opportunity. The first
few months are always the hardest, and it often happens
that during this time the newcomer may find no openings.
But if he is the right sort, he is steadily making new
acquaintances and is penetrating, so to speak, the unresponsive surface of a big and busy city. If a man is
persistently looking for opportunities to work, it almost
invariably happens that what may be termed the period of
probation begins to merge quite suddenly into a time
when offers and openings arise in several directions, and
his problem develops from one of finding work into one
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experience of practically every Englishman without
means who has come to British Columbia and has eventually achieved that success which is the envy of his relatives and friends in the Old Country. It is obvious that
to gain this highly desirable foothold, a man must be well
endowed with persistency and a determination to win.
The weakness of being easily discouraged is fatal to real
success in this Western ccountry. A man coming here
from England must have a sufficiently strong confidence
in himself and in the future of British Columbia to
regard his trials and hardships as merely incidents in an
undertaking in which he is sure to come out a victor.
The letter from our Old Country friend who went back
emphasizes another phase of this matter of migrating to
British Columbia. This is that a man who comes here
and for some reason or other returns to England, is never
wholly satisfied with conditions there. He sees with new
eyes the social and commercial rigidity which has been
developed through the centuries, and which leaves
practically no stepping stones for the average man who
has not been favored by fortune at his birth. He contrasts this ossification with British Columbia's continual
growth, which carries up the man who is able to keep
pace with it. In England he finds himself again in an
environment of economic middle age. and feel strongly
the call of the economic youth with which British
Columbia is blessed.
Another point to which the letter in question calls
attention is the fact that a man has but a slight justification in expecting to land a position here unless he is
here himself. His record and recommendations may be
of the best, but it is the custom in the New World, and
particularly in its younger communities, to judge a man,
not by what he has done in the past, but by what he is
likely to be able to do in the future, and an employer
does not care a great deal about what others think of a
man. His own impressions are the principal basis of his
judgment. He must see the man. Winning out in
British Columbia is a face to face proposition, and every
man must climb the ladder of success with his own hands
and legs.
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A REASON FOR INVESTMENT HERE
HE Manager of the Bank of Montreal, Mr.
Campbell Sweeney, who recently returned from
s a trip abroad, has made observations which
bear significantly upon the future of British
Columbia. Mr. Sweeny says that the Province
occupies the leading position in the minds of several
important groups of capitalists as a field for investment.
This highly favorable attitude on the part of these financiers is due to very successful investments here in the
past, and also to their appreciation of the fact that
British Columbia has remarkable natural resources which
are still comparatively undeveloped, and which the world
wm demand more and more
tiungrily
Owing to the
present taxation policy of the British Government, and to
some other conditions in the British Isles, a huge amount
of English capital is looking for investment in the
colonies. Mr. Sweeney's observations have reinforced
the belief that an immense portion of this money will
play its part in developing British Columbia's industries.
This alone is an excellent augury for British Columbia's
steady industrial expansion.
The truth is that the Province is one of the last and
greatest store-houses of Mother Nature which have not
been so levied upon that the supplies are becoming
exhausted. In the United States the resources which
have brought great wealth to many men are becoming so
depleted that industrial and political leaders of the nation
are looking with anxious eyes toward Canada as the
source of relief from the grave danger of production
falling below demand, with results which, without a new
source of supplies, would be extremely disastrous to the
welfare of the people and the stability of the government.
This apprehensive feeling in the United States has
recently found strong expression in the reciprocity
negotiations with the government at Ottawa. The United
States has gone beyond the point where she merely wants
to drive a sharp bargain with Canada. President Taft
and her other leaders are anticipating the time when she
may be, figuratively speaking, on her knees to the Dominion, pleading for the products of the earth which her own
domain is no longer supplying in sufficient quantities to
keep her great population provided with the necessaries
of life. The natural resources of the United States, as
has already been said, have made great fortunes for those
who were able to obtain a hold on them. But because the
demand for necessaries on this continent is very much
greater in the twentieth century than it was in the nineteenth, it is reasonable to. say that the natural resources
of Canada will bring materially greater returns in money.
This is why the most astute of British and American capitalists are turning more and more to the Dominion in
general, and British Columbia in particular, with the
great sums which will enable them to exploit this great
store-house of natural resources. For British Columbia
this enormous inflow of capital means, of course, constant
strengthening and enriching.
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A GREAT CITY IN THE MAKING
FIGURES are dry reading, but those of the City
and Port of Vancouver are indices of one of the
most impressive urban growths in the history
of civilization. In the customs office in Vancouver, all former records were annihilated in
the month of March. The general revenue for the month
was $655,366, and the total customs receipts for the fiscal
year ending on April 1st, 1911, were nearly double those
of 1910. The total for 1911 was $6,230,780, while that
for 1910 was $3,392,338. In the matter of building
permits March showed a total of $2,524,998, which
amount very materially exceeded that of any other month
in the history of the city, outdistanced the record of any
other city on the Pacific Coast, and pressed closely on the
heels of the building records for March in ( anada's three
largest cities, namely Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg.
It can hardly be doubted that the total permits for 1911
will be well beyond $15,000,000. The record for March
in bank clearings was $44,084,854, while in March, 1910,
it was $35,415,061, and in March, 1909, was $20,884,698.
While these statistics are dry enough, it requires only
the eye of the imagination to see behind them an immense
amount of human endeavor and progress, to see thou-
d«
he working" out of
anos of new people coming in, to see
strong ambitions of many minds, to see, in brief, the big
forward strides of a great city in the making. OPPORTUNITIES
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HUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C, APRIL. 1911.
No. 4
All Hail the Horse!
The British Columbia Spirit Will Find Striking Expression in
One of the World's Greatest Horse Shows
By William Ford
N many directions the people of
Vancouver have shown an ambition and ability to take the
lead in public movements, and
in nothing is this progressive quality more impressively
brought out than in the annual
exhibition of the Vancouver Horse
Show Association. The record in
achievement of the Association
is without precedent anywhere. Its first
show was held only four years ago.
The show this year beginning on April
22nd, will rank above all others in
Canada and above all others in North
America, except the great Madison
Square Garden Horse Show in New
York City, and above all others in the
world except the Olympia Horse Show
in London.
The three Vancouver horse shows of
the past have done much to spread the
prestige of British Columbia, but the
show in April will excel all previous efforts. It will be at least a third larger
than the show last year, which, so far,
has been the best. In several classes the
quality of the horses will be even higher
than heretofore. Special attention is being given this year to military horses.
The eyes of the public will be focused on
these fine animals, and the great
interest will be fully justified, because some of the finest animals
of this class in the world will go
through their paces at the Vancouver
show. The attention of British Columbia
horsemen has been drawn sharply to the
military type by a recent rather surprising happening.
The War Department of the United
States Government some time ago set
out to find a horse which conformed as
nearly as possible to the ideal for military purposes. The officers who had this
matter in charge searched throughout
the country without pronounced success
until, at the Madison Square Garden
Show in New York last November, they
found the horse. He was a superb Irish
hunter, 16.2 hands high, beautifully built,
of course, and the possessor of the great
heart and lungs which are essential in
animals which must undergo the hardships of military service. The army officers were enthusiastic. They had at last
come upon the ideal war horse.
The most interesting part of this story
from the view point of the people of
British Columbia is that the horse, called
"Earl of Balinasloe," is the property of
T. J. Smith, of Vancouver. Late in March
general for the purpose of fixing it as
the type to which army horses will hereafter be bred.
The "Earl of Balinasloe" was purchased by Mr. Smith in Dublin. He is
nearly pure thoroughbred, but is heavier
than the average, and has in much greater degree those qualities of endurance
and vitality which are so necessary in
horses which must carry heavy weights
for long distances, and must, in general,
be  subjected   to   the   gruelling   service
A PRIZE WINNING STALLION
Mr. Smith received a letter from the
War Department in Washington to the
effect that the "Earl" had been selected
as the type and that it would be desirable to obtain as much information as
possible about him and his breeding, and
also to have a considerable number of
photos of him in various poses. The
War Department proposes to spread the
data about this animal among its own
horse breeders and  among breeders in
which falls to the lot of horses in military campaigns.
Other classes in which the equine representatives will show higher quality
even than last year are the heavy harness, light harness, draught and pony
classes. To say that the show will be
better in these classes than heretofore is
saying a great deal, but the truth is that
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have its interests most at heart are outdoing themselves to not merely sustain
this reputation, but to enhance it. A
number of the leading horsemen of the
Province have imported fine animals
from Eastern Canada, the United
States and the British Isles for exhibition at the April Show, and many of the
prominent horse owners of the Pacific
Coast as far south as Los Angeles will
be represented here with the best products of their stables. The Horse Show
Building itself will be materially improved by an increasd number of boxes
and other changes, and, in general, the
show will constitute a very remarkable
display of what careful breeding has
done for the equine friends of man.
The  impressive   development   of   the
Vancouver Horse Show is more to   be
wondered at from the fact, as one horseman expressed it the other day, that less
than five years ago, when the first show
was held "there was hardly a decent
horse in the Province." The real significance of this lies in the spirit behind it—
the spirit which has lifted Vancouver
with wonderful rapidity from the wilderness, and is making it one of the world's
great centres of notable achievement.
Giant Draught Horses
By F. D. Gross
N a Los Angeles Hotel not
long ago I happened to meet
a man by accident who told
me he had been in Vancouver,
and intended to return to the
East by way of this city for one rather
odd reason. He said that he was a
horseman and had noticed in the streets
here a particularly fine team of draught
horses. They had made such an impression on him that he desired to take another look and, in general, to make a
little study of the British Columbia
'draught   horses.
During his conversation I could not
refrain from smiling, and explained to
him that what he said was very interesting to me because I was the manager of
the company which owned this pair of
horses, that I had myself purchased
them. This coincidence'brings out the
fact that one of the .first things which
catches the attention of the observer in
Vancouver is the big, impressive horse
of the working type. He is more frequently seen here than in any other city
on the continent. He is helping tgf-ad-
vertise the city and the firm which uses
him. He is becoming more and more in
demand and is giving rise to excellent
opportunities in the horse-breeding industry.
British Columbia is one of the best
places on earth for the development of
horses of this type. The climate is such
in the south-western parts of the province that the horses can be turned out
to graze at any time of the year, and
open-air life is as good for horses as it
is for human beings. Moreover, the fact
that grass is luxuriant in this section is
a very material help in raising these big
animals.
While there are a number of breeders
of draught horses in the Province, they
produce only a fraction of the number
annually purchased in Vancouver and
Victoria. Last year, for instance, there
were, I should say, at least a couple of
thousand of fine draught horses
imported from Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba and other sections.    This year the
number brought in will be even greater.
I have observed since the first of January about twenty cars of draught horses
arriving in Vancouver. This indicates,
of course, that there are excellent opportunities for local breeding of such
animals.    The horses can be sold when
number has not grown in proportion to
the general development of the Province
within the last five years, for the reason
chiefly that such high prices have obtained for hay, grain, and dairying products than some ranchers who formerly
bred horses are now specializing on the
FANCY PAT"ftMAKING A BOW-OWNED BY P. BURNS
hardly more than colts for at least $275
a head, and it does not cost anything like
this to raise them.
One Would imagine from this that
there would be many breeders in the
Province, but as   a matter of fact   the
products mentioned. Others in sections like Nicola, Douglas and North
Thompson valleys are finding the local
demand for their horses so great that
they are sending comparatively few to
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compelled to bring our horses across the
prairies from the East in increasing
numbers every year. This means, as I
have already pointed out, big opportunities in the future for draught horse
breeders.
There is little danger of the motor
truck superseding the draught horse.
The demand for them will grow in direct
ratio to the development of such cities
as Vancouver and Victoria. Business
people who used horses are realizing
more and more the advantages of having
big, impressive animals. For instance,
the patron of a transfer company has a
much better opinion of the responsibility
of the firm if a team of large, fine horses
is driven up to the front of his house.
Such animals advertise a business and
give it a certain impressiveness that
cannot be attained in any other way.
Some people who know but little about
the matter have an idea that the big
horse costs a lot more than the one of
average size. This is not the case in
any appreciable degree. The medium-
sized horse usually eats as much as the
big animal, while the latter does more
work. For example, a team of big
draught horses will haul eight tons to
the load, while horses of average size
can haul only five or six tons. Moreover,
the big team will haul more loads every
day, so it will be seen that these great
animals are economical, as well as striking to the eye.
At the coming horse show in Vancouver there will be a large display of some
of the finest draught horses on the continent—horses which, in their class, are
not excelled by any in the world.
The competition for prizes on the part of
their owners will be very keen because
of the pride which we take in our horses,
and also on account of the advertising
which success with them gives us.
While on the subject of the horse show
I want to say that I do not think   the
methods now in vogue of judging
draught horses are based wholly on common sense. For instance, the judges look
too much to action and not enough to
weight and general make-up. If a horse
paddles a little or rolls his body he is
turned down for horses that are smaller
and less efficient. Graceful action is, of
course, one of the chief considerations
in horses used solely for pleasure, but,
assuming that the draught horse has
reasonably good action, his size and
working ability ought to be the principal points in judging him.
Many of these horses weigh eighteen
hundred pounds as two-year-olds. They
seem to flourish better here almost than
anywhere else on the continent. I believe that lower British Columbia will
become world-famous for its draught
horses. These fine animals, in addition
to their direct utility, are doing not a
little in the good work of stamping upon
the minds of the people of the earth the
rich productivity of this Province.
The Thoroughbred
By Robert Layton
BECAUSE Vancouver is a very
"sporting" city, the thorough-
i bred or race-horse has always
been held in high estimation by
her most representative people,
and will be more than** ever- to the fore
this summer at the fine- races we will
have at Minoru Park. For these meets
of running horses preparations are being made which will undoubtedly cause
the races to be the most successful yet
held in Vancouver.
One of the changes of plan will be the
elimination of the book-maker and the
substitution, for the betting, of the Pari-
Mutuel machines, in which the odds are
automatically regulated by the amount
of money which the public may wager
on a horse, instead of by arbitrary
agreements among the bookmakers.
Moreover, the money lost by some betters is won by others, and not by the
book-makers, who, on successful days in
the past, have taken many thousands of
dollars from the public. The big advantages of the machines, from the viewpoint of the public, is that the only money taken from the racing patrons is the
small percentage which goes to the association for operating the machines.
There has been so great a hue and cry
on this continent against betting on
horse races that the Vancouver Jockey
Club and British Columbia Thoroughbred Association, which will conduct the
running races at Minoru Park, have
compromised the matter by introducing
the Mutuel machine. With this improvement, and with new horses looming up,
we look for the biggest and best meet
we have ever had here.
These races will, in a measure, constitute an asset for the city. They will
provide the people with a certain number   of   days   of   the   sport   which   is,   I
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sun glinting on the gaily colored raiment of the jockeys as the horses come
careering down the home stretch, these
are contests which make the blood tingle,
which lift people high above the humdrum of every-day existence, which give
them fresh zest for life, which make
them   more    energetic   and   efficient   in
E. S. RICKETTS AND TWO OF HIS HORSES
think, the most inspiriting and enlivening ever devised by man. No substitute
can be found for the color and dash and
excitement of a good race between
thoroughbred horsese. With flags flying, with the sunshine on a big and symmetrical area of grass and trees, with
thousands of people cheering, with the
their private affairs. The wonderfully
spirited effect of good races on a picturesque course gives visitors brilliant
memories of a city and valuable first
impressions of vim and cosmopolitanism. This is the reason why I say that
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The running races at Minoru Park,
which will begin in June, will fulfill the
expectations of the most ardent patrons
of this sport of kings. All the
competing horses will be thoroughbreds of the purest strain—horses of the
kind which have won stellar honors on
the great tracks of the United States and
England. Most of these horses have
been brought from California, where, as
is well known, the breeding of thoroughbreds has been for many years a most
impressive industry. Because of adverse legislation against horse racing in
nearly every state of the Union, however, the demand for thoroughbreds has
greatly fallen off, and British Columbia
owners will have their choice of better
race horses at lower prices than ever before. To indicate the great blow receiv-
help to spread the fame of the Province. However, the raising of racehorses cannot be regarded as a commercial proposition. It is to be considered,
primarily, a means of pleasure for the
horse-lover of wealth. The latter is justified in going into it on higher grounds,
perhaps, than that of developing horses
for racing. All of the best saddle and
driving horses have some thoroughbred
blood. The strain gives them courage,
and, in general, what might be called a
fine spirit.
The climatic conditions in this part of
British Columbia are particularly auspicious for the development of horses, and
what is even more important, the people
are of the right calibre. As is well
known, they are full of zest for every
kind of legitimate sport, with a special
late the examples of Hildebrandt, one
of the most famous American jockeys,
who is a product of the Northwest. I became personally acquainted with this
jockey when he was a stable boy in
Seattle, earning about ten dollars a
month as an apprentice. I noticed that
he had a fine pair of riding hands, an excellent seat, and plenty of courage and
intelligence. I and others took an' interest in him, and during his first season
as a rider he had thirty winning mounts
on the Northwest circuit. He was still
earning nominal wages, but the next
season he went East and earned, on the
big tracks, about forty thousand dollars.
For several seasons, until he became too
heavy to ride, he repeated his successes,
making a fortune every year.
The trouble with most American jock-
THOROUGHBREDS READY FOR ACTION
ed by breeding through the activity of
the legislature it may be said that before
this general legislation in the United
States in 1906, there were eight thousand thoroughbred colts foaled during
the year. Last season there were only
two thousand, and this year it is not
probable that there will be more than
fifteen hundred. California's greatest
breeder, J. B. Haggin, had on his big
ranch in 1906 forty thoroughbred stallions and six hundred brood mares. Because of the embargo on horse racing in
the United States, Mr. Haggin has given
up breeding for the market. In this
dwindling of the breeding of thoroughbreds in the States there is an opportunity, I think, considering the fine conditions here, for the development in British Columbia of a thoroughbred breeding   industry   which    would    materially
enthusiasm for the horse. The proneness
of Vancouver people to seek the horse
for recreation is conspicuous on every
bright day in Stanley Park, where one
sees hundreds of horsemen and horsewomen moving gracefully along the forest roads. I believe that in proportion to
the population Vancouver has a greater
number of horse-back riders of both
sexes than any other city in the New
World.
One of the results of the general aptitude of British Columbians for handling and riding horses is that we have
several young jockeys of excellent quality, who, in one or two instances, are
likely to achieve much more than a local
reputation if racing in the United
States is rehabilitated, as it promises to
be, within the next three or four years.
Some of our boys are ambitious to emu-
eys is that they make so much more
money as mere boys than do the great
majority of even highly successful business men, that they are apt to contract
severe cases of "swelled head." This
was the principal difficulty with Tod
Sloan, perhaps the most celebrated of
American jockeys. I knew the young
man well as a sensational rider on the
great English tracks. Sloan acquired the
habit of posing before the English public
as a great "dandy." He used to change
his clothing about four times a day, was
a conspicuous figure at the most fashionable London restaurants, had a box at
the opera nearly every night, employed
three valets, and all that sort of thing.
Since the jockey in his occupation is not
regarded by the English people as a
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which were disastrous to him. He was
not actually barred from the English
tracks, but the action of the stewards
amounted to the same thing. Since I
am personally familiar with the details of this episode, it may be interesting to convey a little first hand knowledge of it.
A great Australian plunger named
Gardner selected a horse upon which he
placed such big hopes that when he was
entered in one of the stellar
Newmarket events he stood to win
between eight and nine hundred
thousand dollars. Having such a tremendous stake on this one race, he was naturally anxious to obtain the best jockey
possible, and so arranged with the man
under whom Sloan was riding by contract for the services of Tod. One of
the rules of the English tracks is that no
jockey shall accept gifts of any kind except from the man for whom he is riding
regularly. Mr. Gardner, however, informed Sloan that if he won he would receive
a   present   of   thirty   thousand   dollars.
Without committing himself particularly
as to the acceptance of the gift, Sloan
said he would do his utmost to win the
race.
It was a great contest, and Sloan's
mount lost by a nose. Even so,
Mr. Gardner had so placed his
bets that he won a large amount because the horse had finished "in the
money." Thus it was that Mr. Gardner
was grateful to Sloan and made him a
present of several thousand dollars.
The acceptance of this was not exactly
a violation of the spirit of the rule, but
it was a breaking of the letter of it. The
consequence was that Sloan was called
before the stewards, and, while not actually debarred, was told that he had
better not apply for a license for the
next season. If Sloan had not been
quite so pretentious in his mode of life
in England the action of the committee
might not have been so drastic. As it
was, this was the beginning of the end of
Sloan's great prestige as a jockey. He
did not ride much the next season, and,
as is true of all jockeys who retire for
even a short time, he was never able to
recover his best form.
The fact remains, however, that Sloan
was the best jockey on the English turf,
and brought into general practice the
method of riding with very short stirrups on the withers of the horse, with
the head pressed to the neck to make the
wind resistance as slight as possible.
So it is that in certain features of horse-
racing the people of this continent can
give pointers to those abroad, although
it must be remembered that the
thoroughbred horse had its rise in
England. The historic animals Herod,
Matchem and Eclipse, which were alive
during the period from 1749-1760 were
forebearers of all the pure thoroughbreds of today. The ancestors of these
horses were Arabian steeds imported
into England, where, at the time of
James the Second, began the development of the magnificent thoroughbred,
also the development of the sport,
which, under proper restrictions, is, in
my opinion, the most inspiriting in the
world.
Dogs of Quality
By William M. Coats
O part of the continent can
boast of better dogs than British Columbia. This is due
mainly to the presence here of
so many English people, who
are famous for their love of dogs. Another reason for the variety and excellence of sporting dogs is to be found in
the fact that British Columbia is a
hunter's paradise. Many men go hunting, and, with rare exceptions, every one
who goes out with a gun wants to have
a good dog with him.
Game dogs here are represented by
pointers, setters and retrievers. The
pointer has no superior as a sportsman's
dog. In one respect in particular he is
superior to the settler; he can go a longer time without water. But the English
setter is a somewhat finer dog to look
at; in fact, with his clean-cut lines and
slick coat he is in the opinion of many
the most beautiful dog in existence.
Moreover, he is very sociable, which is
a trait not to be overlooked when a
hunter is on a long tramp with no other
companion. Another useful quality of
the setter is to be found in the good padding of his feet, which enables him to
work with great ease over stubble "fields
and stoney ground. The setter, however requires a great deal of water on a
hunting trip. The Irish setter is of
lighter build than the other varieties. He
has some excellent attributes, but is not
as popular in British Columbia as the
English setter. The Gordon setter is
the largest of the setter family, and a
very useful, old-fashioned dog.
In the canine population here the
English setter is among the most prominent, and is represented by some fine
field and bench dogs. One of these, the
champion, Mallwyd Bob, which was imported from England by J. P. McConnell
of Victoria, and is now owned by Savage
and Elliott of Victoria, was no doubt in
his day one of the best show setters that
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ever entered a ring, having won in England, the United States, and Canada. In
many shows he was judged the best dog
over all breeds. Another rare one, imported by J. S. Hickford of Victoria, is
Mallwyd Major. This dog has become
a champion since arriving in Canada.
Bob and Major each cost their owners
over two thousand dollars, but have
yielded excellent profits. In this connection it can be said that high prices
can always be obtained for good show
dogs.
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The term retriever applies to any
breed which is used for retrieving game.
Among these are the retriever, curly or
flat coated Labrador, Irish water spaniel, springer, and Chesapeake. All these
breeds are in demand in British Columbia at good prices, and are represented
by some fine show and working dogs.
In pointers, William Gordon has a
champion in Mason's King, a dog
which   has won   all the   way from New
of rats. Vancouver can boast of a very
high class lot of them, among which is
the champion, Ingalistone Rustem, the
best fox terrier in Canada, having defeated every other dog of his breed in
the Dominion. He was also a big winner in England, and his full brother won
the Challenge Certificate for the best
smooth-hair fox terrier at the 1909 show
in the Crystal Palace, London. Rustem
is not only a big winner himself, but is
SOME PUPPYgSPANIELS
York to Vancouver. J. P. McConnell
imported a pair last summer which
cleaned up everything at the dog show
at the Vancouver Exhibition. Some
other fine pointers are owned by Mr.
Hill, Mr. Hatch, Mr. C. H. Wilson and
Mr. Jack Wolfson. In addition to these
there are D. G. McDonnell's field pointers which have made great records at
almost every field trial run in the United
States and Canada.
Besides these hunting dogs, British
Columbia is very strong in big game
breeds, first and foremost of which is the
Airedale terrier. This family has grown
greatly in popularity during the last few
years. The dogs are extremely game ;
they are bigger than most of the other
varieties of terriers, and cannot be surpassed for bear hunting. British Columbia is represented by some particularly
fine Airedales. They are perhaps the
most profitable breed we have. The
litters run from six to twelve, and good
puppies will bring from twenty-five
dollars up. Some breeders specialize in
them. N. McConnell of Vancouver owns
the champion, Majestic, the imported
dog, Killarney Sport, and several other
fine ones; Thomas Wyndham of Vancouver owns the champion, Flockmaster,
and  Binks.
The fox terriers exceed in numbers
other breeds in British Columbia. These
active little dogs are often caiied chicken
house policemen. They are great enemies
also the sire of more prize winners than
all other fox terrier sires put together.
Perhaps the foremost fox terrier fancier
in the Province is W. D. Bruce, who
has imported and spent more money on
fox terriers than all the other fanciers.
He has brought here such good ones as
Maid of Millgate, and numerous others
of similar high class. One of the latter
is the big English prize winner, Marco
Meddler, which is by far the best wire-
hair fox terrier ever imported into Can
ada. In the English shows last summer
he won prize after prize. Other leading fanciers are R. P. Forshaw, who at
present has a fine lot of fox terriers, M.
C. Hamilton, Thomas McAuliffe, Hall
Chein, Mr. Hilton, Mr. Welch, Mr.
Burns, Mr. Alberto, Mr. Stewart, Mr.
Pierce and Mr. J. Chappell. The most
flourishing fancier's club in British Columbia is the Fox Terrier Club. The
officers are as follows:
President, W. D. Bruce; vice-president, R. P. Forshaw; secretary-treasurer,
Wm. Gordon; executive committee, >M.
C. Hamilton, W. M. Coats, C. O Patterson, T. M. McAuliffe and Mr. Hilton.
Another very popular dog in the Province is the cocker spaniel, which is always represented at the shows by some
fine dogs. J. W. Creighton, Charles
Aetzel and Charles Bolton are the leading British Columbia breeders of cocker
spaniels. The fact that we have in the
Province so many dogs of the highest
quality is due in a considerable measure
to the efforts of the officers of the Van-
ver Kennel Club, who are as follows:
President, C. H. Jackson; vice-president, H. M. Cottingham; 2nd vice-president, Thomas Wyndham; \ secretary-
treasurer, Fred. C. Hill; executive committee, Thomas M. McAuliffe, Jas.
Littlewood, J. J. Tulk, W. M. Coats, C.
B. Stewart, J. J. Bostock.
The annual show of the Kennel Club
will be held in the Vancouver Horse
Show Building on April 6, 7, 8. Many
fine dogs have been entered from
cities and towns along the Coast.
Charles Lyndon of Toronto, a judge of
world-wide fame, will allot the ribbons
in all classes, and the show will be the
largest and best yet held in the Province.
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Old Country Doubting Thomases
Cautious Investors Who Cause British Columbia
Promotors Many Anxious Moments
By C. M. B.
ITTLE BINKS was obviously
in a bad humor, so I offered
him one of my best cigars in
silence. He t ook it with a
grunt  and   flopped  disgustedly
into   an   arm-chair   before   the   smoking
room fireplace.
"D d   disheartening   I   call   it,"   he
groaned.
"Oh, the weather is a little trying just
now," I chirruped, "but then I would
rather have Vancouver's warm rain than
"Rain be blowed," snapped Binks, and,
fearing trouble, I forebore and slowly
snipped the end of my cigar.
'I wish I could only get at those fools
of relations of mine at home," growled
Binks, after a long pause, during which
he broke three matches before lighting
his cigar. After a further pause I timidly ventured to ask the reason for his
evident desire to do bodily harm to his
own kith and kin.
"You know as well as I do, Jones, that
one's people at home are a most sceptical lot of fools regarding investments
out here."
I nodded assent, but murmured that
It was better so.
"Yes, it leaves all these glorious chances to us out here, I admit, but we can't
gulp the whole tureen, or even a small
fraction of it, and the result is that these
Yankees chip in and get the plums."
Binks had a way of mixing his metaphors when excited, but it must be admitted that the topic was a painful one,
as every Vancouver Englishman will bear
witness. I consequently sought refuge
in further silence, well knowing that the
cosy warmth of the fire and my good
cigar would sooth Binks' ruffled feelings
and encourage him to indulge in confidences.
"Forty-five dollars," growled Binks
savagely. "Do you hear, Jones? Forty-
five dollars, yes, nine golden sovereigns
I spent the day before yesterday on a
long cable to my cousin in London"—a
pause—"Wouldn't have done it, only I
got a letter from him only a few weeks
ago saying he fully appreciated Vancouver's prospects, trusted me entirely—
you know the sort of thing, Jones?"
I  nodded,   it being far safer    not   to
speak because I saw that we were near-
ing the grievance which had made Binks
so irritable.
"Yes," he fiercely ejaculated, "nine
pounds spent on a cable, all for nothing,"
and he puffed the cigar furiously. "What
was the proposition?" I ventured to ask.
Binks screwed his cigar firmly into his
cheek and looked at me with a tilt of
his eyelid.
"Know anything about moving picture
shows?" I started, and moved my chair
nearer to his, for the subject promised
to be full of interest.
"H'm, I see you do. Well, I got a
chance of buying the leases of the
'Diadem' and 'Glory,' in Victoria, for
thirty-five thousand dollars for the two."
At this I gasped, for the two theatres
Binks referred to were the best in that
city, and their monthly average takings
were a minimum of two hundred pounds.
"Yes," continued Binks, "I 'phoned
you yesterday to see if you would come
into a small, syndicate to buy 'em, but
they. told me at your office that you
hadn't returned from Indian River. I
then 'phoned Gerrard and Macallister,
but Gerrard had just put his last-two
thousand dollars into a halibut syndicate and Mac. was himself trying to sell
his house and furniture in order to pick
up a dead snap bargain in real estate and
had only two days to do it in."
I flicked the end of my cigar thoughtfully.
"How long are the leases, Binks, and
what does the owner want for them?"
"One lease has seven and the other
five years to run. The net profits of
the two are well over two hundred
pounds a month, and the total price is
seven thousand pounds."
"Not bad," I remarked, sententiously.
"Not bad," rapped out Binks. I should
like to know what better investment people at home could wish for than one
which shows a profit of one hundred per
cent, over six years coming back, together with the invested capital, at
once!"
"That's true," I replied, "but an ordinary real estate subdivision will double
your money in three years."
Binks sniffed.
"Yes, but you usually can only distribute a dividend to your client after nine
months or a year and they are mostly
very fidgety long before that. No, Jones,
you must get something for your home
investors which doubles their money at
once and enables you to send 'em back
their cash and profits a week after they
have sent it out."
A hearty laugh greeted this piece of
sarcasm as fat Burrows swung noisily
in at the door.
"Dash it all, Burrows, what d'ye mean
by making such a row?" complained
Binks    testily.
"What ho! Binks, me lad, grousing at
your poor old home investors again?
Cheer up, me boy, cheer up. I've just
got a nice little proof that there's at
least one broad-minded investor in Old
England," and, saying this, Burrows
handed Binks a cable which he glanced
at and passed it on to me.
"Cabled a thousand pounds," exclaimed Binks. "Why, I've got the very investment—was just giving the outlines
of it to Jones here. We'll form a syndicate, the two best moving picture theatres " but  Burrows waved a  fat
forefinger at him.
"You can keep your flicker shows,
they only show a paltry hundred per
cent, profit, and what I've got beats them
into fits."
So saying, he drew a third chair near
to ours and began. The tale he told
was no novel one to us. It was the tale
of a man who had jumped into prosperity three years ago by indulging in judicious speculation.
"Yes," bitterly interrupted Binks,
"those fools in England call it speculation; out here we call it grasping your
opportunities."
We laughed, and Burrows continued.
It appeared that, three years ago, with a
few hundred dollars saved as the result
of a year's hard manual toil, a certain
man had bought some plots of land in
Vancouver and had also put options on
others which were situated along probable car-line routes. His judgment was
accurate, he resold at very large profits,
and extended his operations in all directions. He got options on almost everything from peanut stands to hotel businesses. The more wealthy he grew the
more numerous became his chances of
making further splendid investments. In ^
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his case, as always in this far West, the
old adage proved true "money breeds
money." In his anxiety to grasp as
many opportunities as possible he had
temporarily run himself short even of
ready cash to pay his household bills.
"You'd never get these fools at home
to believe it," growled Binks. Burrows
grinned and continued.
"He was determined to hold on to his
timber limits, out of which he is bound
to make a clear quarter of a milion dollars profit, and hated the idea of selling
either of his two hotels. He thought of
sacrificing the property which he had
bought on Westminster Avenu e last
year and which is now worth double
what he paid for it, but in view of the
impending    developments    and   car-line
quarters offices in Montreal or Ottawa,
to finance wheat, I suppose. He met
me down at the telegraph office and we
started talking things over. I asked him
how long he'd got to find the five thousand in, and he said four days. After
talking it over he said he would even
sell a third share in the coal measures
for five thousand dollars, which was
what he needed to keep the property."
"Humph!" exclaimed Binks. "Undeveloped coal measures, I  suppose?"
"Yes," said Burrows, "but there's a
merger being formed in Montreal to
take over all undeveloped but staked
coal lands in the Queen Charlotte
Islands at ten dollars an acre."
"I see," said Binks." In other words,
he  only  needed  a  thousand  pounds  to
you   never   succeeded    in   getting  your
friend in England to swallow that."
"Of course not." replied Burrows, with
a boisterous laugh. "I told him that the
coal measures were worth a dollar an
acre to-day, which means a profit to him
of only one hundred per cent. Had I
told him the truth he would never have
believed it, and I should not have .got
his thousand pounds." At this we all
laughed heartily, when we were interrupted by Dallimore, who, buried behind
a newspaper, had apparently been paying
no attention to the conversation.
"Well, you fellows may think you
know something of investors, but let me
give you an experience of mine. An
Eastern Canadian friend was telling me
that   people   in   Montreal,   Ottawa    and
A BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING TRAMWAY
construction in the neighborhood by the
B. C. Electric, the property will certainly
redouble again in value during the next
year. Of course he has some waterfront on the Fraser River, but with the
Great Northern and Canadian Northern
Railway developments in that direction,
his property there has gone up from so
much an acre to so many dollars a
front foot. On the other hand, he was
absolutely compelled to find five thousand dollars to meet the government fees
for the staking of his thirty thousand
acres of coal measures on Vancouver
Island. So what was he to do? The
banks, as you know, have very little spare
cash here. It nearly all goes to Eastern
Canada on instructions from the head-
get the government to issue him license,
when he would turn his thirty thousand acres over to the merger at ten
dollars an acre."
"Exactly  so,"   replied   Burrows.
"What will have it cost him roughly to
get hold of the property, stake it, and
pay up for his license in full?" I
enquired.
"Oh, somewhere between six and eight
thousand dollars, I should say at
a guess," replied Burrows.
"Quite so," said Binks. "For one thousand pounds your home investor will get
a third share in thirty thousand acres
which will be bought by the merger at
ten dollars an acre before twelve months
are out.    But I will bet all my money
other cities in the East are even more
sceptical than the people in the Old
Country. He told me that there are
people there, very wealthy people, who
are still drawing five per cent, on their
money and consider themselves lucky.
I told him that I have clients in England who have never seen me but have
only heard of me from those of my
friends for whom I have made some
profits. He told me flatly that his friends
in Eastern Canada would say that such
an investor was  stark,  staring mad."
A loud guffaw from all followed this
amusing anecdote.
"Yes," I remarked, "the conception of
an honorable man who is also a gentleman is apparently not so wide-spread in 1911
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Canada as it is in the Old Country."
"True," observed Dallimore, "and I
would suggest that our friend Binks be
more sparing in his abuse of the home
investor for the very reason that it is the
Old Countryman who, above all others,
does know what the word gentleman
means. I told my friend that the investor in question was one of the
wealthiest and most astute business men
in London, but although he was too polite to say so, he certainly looked incredulous."
"It's no use generalizing," cheerily
remarked Burrows. "I've met plenty of
Canadians who know a gentleman when
they see him, and who would trust him
just as implicitly."
"H'm," grunted the incredulous Binks.
"It seems to me," said Dallimore, "that
it would be nearer the truth to say that
it has only lately become fashionable for
Englishmen, who are also gentlemen, to
emigrate here."
Binks grunted again, but this time in
in a non-committal kind of a way.
"Still," I remarked," that is not much
comfort to our esteemed friend Binks
here who has just had an undoubtedly
splendid hundred per cent, investment
refused."
"As far as that goes," said Binks, "I -
don't grumble so much that the oppor-'
tunity has been lost, because I know
that either I -or one of you fellows""will
have found something equally good, in a
few weeks' time; but what does get me
is that my own cousin, with whom I
played as a kid at school, should turn
me down, as they say out here, especially after he had asked me to look out
for something good for him."
"Oh, that won't worry you when you
have been in the business a little longer,"
said Burrows. "He has probably been
'got at' by the London representative of
an opposition firm. My own experience
has been that the last to believe my
statements were my own relations, and
the result is that although they have
made excellent profits they have not
done so well as my first clients, many of
whom  were  total  strangers  to  me."
"Poetic justice!" ejaculated Binks.■—*■     **
"It seems to me," said Dallimore,
"that one of your greatest poets, Milton,
I think, has something appropriate to
say  on  the   subject."
'O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-
handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden
wings.'
"I don't know much about poetry,"
said Binks, "but if you'll copy out those
words for me I'll have 'em put on calendars and send 'em out to all my friends
and relations in England."
Another laugh followed this sally, and
then came a pause in the conversation.
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I now thought it my turn to contribute
to the discussion.
"What excuses, Dallimore, do your
home clients usually urge in reply to
your arguments in favor of investing in
British Columbia?" I asked.
"You can classify their arguments under one class," said Dallimore.
"You can go further than that," said
Binks, "you can classify all the objectors
under one class—they all, every one of
them, without exception, start by saying
that they have no money to invest."
"That's true," said Burrows, "that's
merely their polite way of saying you
are a liar," at which we all laughed
again, j
"Well," I mused, "if they believed us
straight   away   there   would   soon   be   a^.
tremendous stream of money coming out
this way."
"And the Province needs every penny
of it," interrupted Dallimore. "It is ridi-,
culous the way the most psojriising
businesses and concerns here have to be
run on ludicrously small sums of capital.
Look at the huge undeveloped central
portion of this Province, not touched
yet. Look at the coal, gold, silver, copper, timber. The average Englishman
knows nothing of geography and cares
less; statistics don't convey anything to
"him simply because, living cooped up in
his little country he has only got a puny
standard to measure them by."
"The most startling thing to me," interposed Burrows, "is that the people at
home don't seem to realize the fact that
Canada must grow four times as fast
during the next quarter of a century as
the United States has done during the
last whole century. Any marine engineer will tell you why. The novels of
the last fifty years have made splendid
copy of the subject of American millionaires, but I will wager that Canadian
millionaires will very speedily cut them
out."
"That's all very well," grumbled
Binks, "but it doesn't help me much to
educate my relations at home and in-
cidently build up a good investment
agency for myself. It's a fact, and I
defy you fellows to deny it, that not one
Englishman at home in five knows what
the Mackenzie country is like, or even
where it is situated. Not one in five
knows that country contains vast prairies capable of raising food for hundreds
of millions."
"Yes, that's true," said Dallimore,
"and what's more, when Seton Thompson was there" in 1907 he calculated that
there were thirty million caribou roaming over the rich prairies of Eastern
Mackenzie "alone and that these grass
lands furnish better feeding for animals
than Wyoming, Nebraska, or Colorado."
How long the conversation would
have lasted in this strain I don't know,
but just at that moment we noticed the
barman, Jim, hovering in the doorway.
"What's up, Jim?" asked Burrows.
"Waal, it's like this," added Jim, who
is a Western American, and one of the
best. "I've got a cinch on a proposition
that looks good to me, an' as the biggest
bunch o' my dollars are tied up right
now, I guessed one o' you would take a
chance on it. Anyhow*, I had a hunch
that way."
We all looked at each other and
laughed, and then crowded round Jim,
who unfolded to us the details of his proposition, which promised so much and
which was nevertheless so soundly and
moderately estimated that we decided
to go into its merits on the spot, and,
if possible, finance it ourselves. Want
of space, however, compels me to postpone the history of these most interesting deliberations* which, when completed, will be divulged in a subsequent
"conversation." Page 20
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Agriculture's Debt to Lime
This Substance is a Vital Factor in Most Plant Growths
By George Schumacher, Ph. D.
(Agricultural Series, No. 5)'
O plant, except sea-weed, can
exist or grow without lime, If
we cultivate a plant in soil
which   does   not   contain   any
lime at all, the seed will germinate, a few roots or even leaves ajsnay
develop, but then the growth stops. All
seeds contain lime, but after this store is
used the plant must take lime from the
surrounding soil in order that it may be
developed further. All soil contains
lime, but the more lime the soil contains,  the  better  generally for  the  pro-
Red clover cannot be grown in soil with
less than one per cent, to twelve per
cent, of lime. Plants requiring very little
liine cannot show much improvement in
the first year, but generally the second
crop will show the influence of lime. Of
all plants, alfalfa requires the most lime.
Alfalfa cannot be grown unless the soil
contains two to three per cent, of lime.
In a plant lime is of great importance in
fitting the plant for human or animal
food. The human system must have
lime  for  bone  making.     Human  beings
other useful functions in the direction of
bringing about important chemical
changes in the soil.
Lime decomposes organic substances.
In other words, manure or organic fertilizer acts more rapidly in the presence
of lime than without. More intensive
cultivation is therefore possible with the
aid of lime.
In peat land the addition of lime will
get rid of too much humus, and by lime
action the peat can be destroyed entirely.
.As I intend treating the very interesting
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FARM LAND IN THE SIMILKAMEEN VALLEY
duction of the crop. Naturally fertile
lands always contain lime in abundance,
sometimes twenty per cent, and more.
To a trained agriculturist a plant will
show at once if it was grown in soil rich
or poor in lime. More branches, better
fruits, the absence of certain diseases, are
sure signs of soil rich in lime. Alfalfa,
clover, beans, peas, and cabbage, require
more lime than other plants. Potatoes
and rye grow in soil with very little lime.
Oats and  barley require  slightly more.
and cattle fed with plants deficient in
lime cannot grow properly. Many diseases can be traced directly to want of
lime. Cattle fed entirely on grasses
which lack lime, will die. Children fed
on milk free from lime cannot live. Milk
always contains a certain proportion of
lime, and a cow should have plant food
containing lime, not only for the upbuilding of its own body, but for the
production of good milk as well. Lime is
not only a direct benefit, but has, as well,
subject of the cultivation of peat land
another time, I will not go into details
here about the very important part that
lime plays in the cultivation of such
land.
All nitrogen contained in manure
must be transformed into saltpetre
before it can be used by the plants.
Formerly saltpetre was made from manure, and it was soon found that the
transformation of organic nitrogen compounds into saltpetre took place only in 1911
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the presence of lime. This action is the
result of certain bacteria. Each manured
field is, or should be, a factory of saltpetre assisted by the presence of lime.
In certain soil pyryte and dioxide becomes saturated with sulphuric acid,
making the ground unfit for any cultivation. Lime neutralizes this unorganic
acid as well as organic acid.
I have spoken of the chemical action,
but the physical condition lime produces
is also important. Clayey soil, without
lime, is tough, sticks to the spade and
plough, and can be broken up with difficulty, while soil containing lime disintegrates easily and forms loose soil. The
action of the lime helps in disintegrat-
if not, he has to look out that his soil
always contains not less than ten per
cent, of lime, if he wants good crops
regularly. If it has less, he must add
lime till the soil contains at least the
above  amount.
It is not necessary to add lime every
year. If the liming is done properly
and in the right quantities it is sufficient
to lime the ground every fifteen or
twenty years, and the quantity required
can always be determined by a chemical
analysis of the soil. Carbonate of lime,
if pure, contains 56 per cent, of calcium
oxide. The latter must be made a basis
of the analysis of the lime and soil, and
the quantity determined accordingly.    If
out the quantity required. If a farmer
wants to grow alfalfa his land must contain  more   lime.
For undrained, water-locked land,
neither lime, manure or any other fertilizer is of any use; it must be understood
that lime is only one of the ingredients
that plants need. Sulphate of lime
(gypsum) may be useful under certain
circumstances, but as carbonate of lime
is always at the disposal of nearly all,
this should be used. The use of burnt
lime should be entirely discouraged. It
is a useless expense, because the burning
adds to the cost and its handling is
troublesome and expensive. As soon as
the burnt lime is put on the ground it
PARTLY CLEARED LAND ON VANCOUVER ISLAND
ing, whereas in soil without lime this
change of physical condition is absent.
Now we know that loose soil is ideal
soil. It gives up the surface moisture to
the sub-soil, on the one hand, and allows,
by proper cultivation, the retaining of
the right amount of moisture, on the
other hand. Lime will, therefore, improve the physical condition of the soil.
Now we have to see on which soil
we need lime. A careful farmer, knowing what he is doing, will take a bottle
of hydro-caloric acid with him if he
wants to buy land, and see by the effervescence of carbonic acid gas if the soil
contains lime, and submit the soil to a
chemist or analyst. If he can buy land
rich in lime he need not bother liming,
the soil needs to be enriched to the depth
of one foot with one per cent, of lime,
a quantity of two and three-quarter tons
per acre is required.
As mentioned before, for alfalfa two to
three per cent, is the minimum, and for
such the lime contents should be
brought up to five per cent.; the more
as alfalfa by such application of lime, can
be made to flourish in the same field for
twenty years or longer. For other crops
two per cent, to three per cent, should
be sufficient.
According to the circumstances, liming should take place at regular intervals in similar quantities. It must be
remembered that very few limes are pure
but  any  chemist  will  be   able  to   work
is transformed into carbonate of lime
again very rapidly owing to the carbonic
acid gas present in the soil. Carbonate
of lime is found in this Province in large
quantities, as lime rock and marble, and
needs only finding to become valuable
for agricultural purposes. In other
countries soft lime, such as whiting, is
available in abundance, and such is preferable to lime rock. Where clam shells
or oyster shells or similar material is
available, it can be used to great advantage. However, there is one other form
of lime which is preferable to any other.
This is the spent lime of the sugar beet
factory, which contains a certain proportion of nitrogen and pho'sphates, and
is a very efficient fertilizer of the soil. OPPORTUNITIES
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THE LURE OF THE
NORTH ARM
Vancouver Has a Charming Summer
Cottage Colony at Her Doors
BY E. T. JULIAN
OR     situation
unique
Vancouver     is
As   a
among cities.
J commercial center it has every
facility of shipping by water
or rail, and that, too, without
any special engineering difficulties. As
a watering place and summer resort for
bathing and boating it has but few rivals,
and for mountain scenery and ease of
access thereto it is hard to find its equal.
To the resident citizen, however, tne
land-locked inlets extending from ten to
one hundred miles between the mountains, their little bays and projecting
points, their facilities for boating, and
the many scenic spots for summer
homes, are probably the most attractive
and enjoyable.
The harbor is one of these bodies of
water. The main branch thereof, about
twelve miles long, Commerce claims as
her own, • and is welcome thereto. A
narrow branch, however, known as the
North Arm and extending about fourteen miles almost due north, and an
extension of about three miles long,
known as Bedwell Bay, are ideal for
recreation. Together, they afford a shore
line of about thirty miles, along which,
during the last few years, numerous cottages have been built, and wharves or
floats placed as landings for the many
craft which, in the summer, ply the quiet
waters of the North Arm and Bedwell.
The names given to these places, such
as Belcarra, "the place of sunshine,"
Coombe, "a sheltered hollow," Cozy
Corner, and Woodlands, are simple and
descriptive. Others, such as the Wigwam and Mesliloet, show a desire to
link the past and present—the savage
and the civilized. Whatever the name,
however, each place has something so
specially and peculiarly insinuating and
attaeactive as to induce the summer
dwellers in each locality to believe that
they have the beauty spot of the whole
Inlet. The following Wtfll illustrate this:
Mr. A. says: "Boys, your places'aren't
in it. Mr. B. was at my place on Sunday, and when he had got seated and
had seen the glorious views from my
verandah, he could not contain himself,
but said 'Why, Mr. A. I thought that
we had the finest place on the Arm, but
you have us beaten.' "
This the "boys" repeated to Mr. B.
and the latter says: "The old sinner told
you that, did he? Why, sirs, I couldn't
say it. I would not change our place for
ten of his."
"Quite so," replied a little lady who
lives on a rock whence a view can be
had all down the Inlet, and on a clear
night all the way up to the polar star.
"We know we have the most beautiful
place, but we do not brag.      We let it
•go at that."
The truth is that every bit of water,
crag and peak has a beuty of its own.
Summer resorts- are mostly places for
showing off peacock colors and surface
politenes. The forests, mountains and
fiords of British Columbia put these out
of court and call for manliness of a different order. The campers on the North
Arm instinctively adapt themselves to
the scenery and become strong, natural,
healthy and unaffected. Rushing torrents, cascades and waterfalls, precipices,
ravines and mountains, are all there and
nature's wild creatures. They make a
strong appeal of course, but do not con-
s^tute the whole appeal to those who
know and feel ■esHswronment.
Indefinable spirits, *ali pervading,
moulding everything with simplicity and
strength, seem to take possession of the
soul and build likenesses therein of
themselves. The great snake which the
Indians say lives on the peaks along
the Mesililoet River no more surely
devours every Indian who wanders lost
through the mountains, than the air, and
the freedom of the sea and heights holds
a healthy fascination for every cottager
and every visitor.
This influence acts upon the home.
The places suitable for cottages are scat-
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tered. In hardly any case can two be
placed together or be alike. The shore
is never level; it is sometimes vertical,
and always steep. The preliminary work
of placing a landing or float for the
craft, the steps up, the terraces, the
winding walk, and the toil to get the
site ship-shape, call for picturesque skill
and loving labor. This work often costs
as much and sometimes more than the
cottage itself. Yet the feeling that one
is living in a location like that of a Swiss
mountaineer, or a mountain goat, is in
itself worth while, and nobody chooses
a pancake site. The infinite variety
which the irregularity compels is one of
the chief charms of the Inlet, and doubtless the cause of each cottager being
sure that his site is the choicest of them
all.
As to the cottages themselves, they
should conform to the surroundings;
they should be simple and rugged, yet
comfortable. At present they mostly
consist of a good kitchen, a few'small,
plain bedrooms, a roomy day room, and
a large veranda. Many of them have big
open fire-places built of rubble masonry
or cobble concrete. Finicky detail is
out of place, and is never thought of, but
a sense of the beautiful pervades the
mind and compels one to so place the
doors and windows that every opening shall frame a living picture of
Nature's own design and painting. ' A
friend once having a special opportunity
in one of his views, failed to make the
most of it in this way, and ever since
then, morning, noon and night, somebody reminds him of it; and the sea
and mountains, clouds and sky, cry
Amen.
The sixty or seventy cottages already
built vary considerably in size, and in
price  range  from four  hundred  dollars
to about fifteen hundred each. Most of
them are fitted only for the summer, but
a few are well adapted for use all the
year around. A few of the sites have
a little land suitable for cultivation. In
most cases, however, the location is too
rugged, and the formality of lawn and
garden would detract from its enjoyment. The end sought and the end
gained is recreation by a healthy relaxation in touch with nature. The apparent
inaccessibility of many of the sites adds
to the delightful feeling of being out
with Mother Nature, "far from the
madding crowd" and "the haunts of
men." The pleasures for the active-
bodied are those of bathing, rowing, sailing, and motor-boating.
■fw
For those who have no cottages, the
Wigwam, at the head of the Arm near
the mouth of the Mesliloet River, affords
a most enjoyable hostelry at which to
spend a day or a week, or a month.
The sites available and suitable for
hotels are not many, and for picnicers
there are not many places spacious
enough for spreading out the tablecloths. The best is the much belabored
Isolation Hospital site at the entrance of
the Arm. If the City Council be wise
it will give up the hospital notion, build
a fitting wharf, open out a few trails, and
make this place a "picnicer's paradise,"
rnd "children's delight."
As the city grows and wealth increases, cottages will multiply and, built
of rubble masonry or cobble concrete,
as well as wood, they will harmonize
completely with the surroundings, and
become, as it were, a natural outgrowth
of the rugged shores of the North Arm.
And the Inlet will gradually but surely
come into its destiny—a summer city
of simple pleasures and fostering influences for people of strength and
patriotism.
Most of the owners of cottages have
either a canoe or motor-boat, and spend
many a happy hour in going to and fro.
In addition, all through the summer
there is a double steamer service, arriving in the city in time for business every
morning and leaving from half-past five
to six o'clock every evening. So it is
that every summer day crowds of people
with the freshness of the wind and sunshine in their eyes .journey between the
big city of Vancouver and the untrammelled wildness of the North Arm,
stimulated and helped by each in its way
to play their parts in life.
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E. T. JULIANS' SUMMER BUNGALOW
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Planning and Building a Home
By E. Stanley Mitton
OME is the sacred refuge of
our life," sang the poet, and
certain is it that the desire to
own one is a natural instinct—
as natural as that which
prompts the birds to build their nests,
and, to use a less poetic, but equally apt
simile, the bear and the wolf to seek
shelter in hollow trees and rock-girt
caverns.
One does not live in a rented house;
there, a mere existence is all that is possible. Rent day is always coming round.
The landlord's cry of "move on," not infrequently rings in one's ears. Tenants
are obliged to go without those little
conveniences which would lighten labor,
of me." What satisfaction should you
then be homeless and unable to pay
rent?
The way to get along in this world,
and to be independent and happy, is to
own your own home. And this doesn't
require a great deal of money, cither.
A very little will do to start, and you
can from that time forward pay rent to
yourself and own your home. Lots of
cosy little cottages and bungalows can
be built for as little as $1,800. Lots of
people will gladly lend $1,800 for as
little as eight per cent. Interest on
$1,800 at eight per cent, doesn't amount
to such a lot; less than twenty-five cents
a  day—the price  of a couple  of cigars.
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and the gratification of the esthetic
senses is virtually impossible; one does
not feel like spending a great deal of
money in beautifying the house of another, in sowing that others may reap.
And when you move from place to place
there is no incentive in making the place
cheerful and homelike. In the matter
of repairs, you are always at the mercy
of the landlord, and if new paper is required on one of the walls, or some
shingles on the roof, the landlord knows
that you would go to the expense of
doing the work yourself rather than
move. What satisfaction will it be to
you in after years  to say:
"I always paid my rent promptly.   My
landlord never had to ding-dong it out
And yet there are plenty of people who
imagine they cannot afford to own their
home. To many the idea of a mortgage
is repugnant, but any plan that will effect
a saving in rent is warmly welcomed.
The following proposition is worthy of
the most careful consideration at the
hands of the rent payer:
"Improved property nets the owner a
yearly income equal to ten per cent, of
the market value of the property, that is
to say, a house that rents for $30 a
month or $360 a year, is worth at the
outside $3,600. Money can be borrowed
at eight per cent., which means that
you agree to pay the lender $8 a year
for every $100 that he lends you. Interest on $3,600 at eight per cent, amounts
to $288 a year, or $24 a month. Why
not save that $6 every month, and use
it to pay back the borrowed money, little
by little?"
Having devoted this much attention
to the economic side of the home-builder's problem—the study of ways and
means—having endeavored to show the
wisdom of owning a house, considered
solely from a dollars and cents point of
view, let me now give a brief summary
of the  best way to  go  about  building.
As a man builds well or ill, the finished
result of his labors may become a millstone about his neck or a means of
economy and a source of the greatest
happiness. The considerations that enter
into a wise judgment about house-building naturally include the choice of a
building lot or site and the location of
the dwelling, its design, the selection of
materials and modes of construction, the
exterior finish, interior furnishings and
decorations.
If properly designed and carefully
built, your house should have a cash
market value at any time greater than
its total cost; should cost little for maintenance, seldom standing in need of repair; and should increase, rather than
depreciate in value, with the years, besides being the embodiment of complete
satisfaction to yourself and to your
family.'
Judging from what several of my
friends and clients have told me, I am
inclined to think that the selection of
the plan is the stumbling block which
causes so many house-builders, to use a
slangy but expressive phrase, "to fall
down." The infinite variety of designs
which present themselves is bewildering. "Why take this one in preference
to  that?"
Here, as elsewhere, analysis must be
resorted to and individual needs and requirements carefully studied. Very often
the size of the family is a factor; if
there are many children, accommodation
of course, must be provided for them,
and if one is in the habit of inviting
friends to spend vacations, a guest room
is   essential.
When your plans are elaborated into
working drawings, and approved of by
you, get your architect to call for
tenders, relying on his experience and
judgment to get a reliable contractor.
Apropos, the following extract from a
magazine may not be out of place here:
"The excellence of the builder's work,
as well as that of the architect, depends 191
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to a considerable extent upon the spirit
in which it is undertaken and executed.
Cheap men do cheap work, and there are
as many different types and grades of
contractors as there are types and grades
of mechanics. A cheap man goes ahead
in a heedless manner, willfully disregards or heedlessly slurs over details
clearly embodied in the plans and specifications, slips in inferior materials, and
skimps his work whenever he thinks he
can escape detection. It is a mistake to
suppose that close and conscientious
superintendence will more than partially
offset a contractor's incompetence or
shirking. There are builders and workmen who never have and never will do
good work, and neither an architect nor
an owner can suddenly educate them
to change their methods. The most
carefully made plans and specifications
are seldom so drawn that some slight
changes and some extra work will not
be required in the course of construction. The honest contractor doing work
can, and usually will, do extra work at
a reasonable profit, while the unscrupulous or losing constractor will set an
exorbitant price upon every departure
from the terms of the original contract."
And now, just a few remarks that will
start you thinking along lines of development—ideas that may save you time
and money when you come to build. If
you have a laundry, remember to place it
convenient to the kitchen, and have a
clothes chute from the chamber floor.
It should be wired for an electric iron,
so that your ironing can be done here
instead of in the heat of the kitchen.
"Should the funds at your disposal permit, have a telephone in every room.
This will prove very convenient, saving
steps and ensuring an often required
privacy when conversing over the wire.
When the house is being wired for
electric light, have the wires built in,
entering  from  the  ground,  where  they
will be out of sight.    The meter should
be easy of access, and boxed in.
In the construction of your house, see
that first-class lumber is used, as satisfactory results, durability and freedom
from draughts and leaks, cannot be obtained from that which has been culled.
The extra cost is trifling, and will be
repaid many times in comfort and permanence. The fireplace should be arranged so that every person sitting in
the room can see the fire. Book cases
may be put at a convenient height at
each side; the impulse to reach for a
book or a magazine is a very natural
one. Sliding doors are to be preferred
in place of swinging ones, for the latter
often prove awkward, having a tendency
to get in the way,' upset vases and bric-
a-brac, disarrange the carpets  and rugs,
and otherwise prove themselves objectionable.
Built-in furnishings are very much in
vogue now, and for good reasons—they
save both time and money. If properly
designed, and constructed of the same
wood as the other woodwork of the
room, finished in the same fashion, built-
in furnishings are a part of the house itself and serve to link it closer to the
needs of every-day life. Like other
structural features, they add to the interest and beauty of the rooms. Bare
wall spaces are very hard to live with.
Walls covered with pictures and draperies put there only to cover them are
even worse. But wall spaces that are
occupied by book-cases, cupboards, built-
in seats for windows, fire-places and
other nooks, are in themselves altogether
delightful. Built-in furniture makes for
simplicity by doing away with many
pieces which might otherwise disturb the
restfulness of a room and give it the
appearance  of  overcrowding.
Whatever its dimensions, a house
should have plenty of free space unencumbered by unnecessary partitions and
over-much furniture. All these things
may rightly be considered to be among
the comforts of home. There is one
other important point which must be
reckoned with as one of the necessities
of home life, namely, a plentiful supply
of pure, fresh air. Be sure that your
architect, in preparing the plans, has
made provision for the ingress of good
air and the egress of bad. But there
should be no drafts. Looking at the
matter by and large, as the saying goes,
it is a big truth that only the man in
his own home—a real home—gets the
most and best out of life.
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HOW STELLA WON OUT
A True Story of a Stenographer's Struggles
and Success
By Ethel Cody Stoddard
M
OTHER, why couldn't I be a
stenographer? It's one of the
easiest ways pf making money.
Look at Carrie Wylie; she is
earning forty dollars a month
and has such convenient hours. Do let
me try for that, mother. I am sure I
could learn." Stella Warren gazed
eagerly into  her  mother's  face.
Mrs. Warren looked anxiously at her
daughter. "I know, dear, it seems easy,
but isn't there something else you would
rather do?"
"I don't think so, mother. Let's go
down to the business college this afternoon and see how much a course will
cost, and then if it isn't too much 1 can
start  right away."
When trouble came to the Warren
family, that is to say when the father
and bread winner died, ii was two desolate-hearted women who were left be-
ihbad to face life together. Their lawyer
had carefully explained that it would
take all of the small bank account to
pay the doctor's and other bills. That'
done, there would only be three thousand dollars of Mr. Warren's life insurance left for them to live upon.
Mrs. Warren gradually came to realization of the fact that, whilst she and
Stella had something between them and
starvation, there was decided need that
action should be taken in order that the
insurance money could be husbanded. It
had been difficult for her to suggest this
to her daughter, and she was therefore
very thankful when Stella entered into
the idea with spirit.
Stella Warren had, like many other
girls, been brought up not expecting to
have to go out into the world and earn
her own living. She had always wanted
to, but her father preferred that she remain at home and be a help to her
mother. Mr. Warren had always maintained that too many girls went out
into the world to pick up a living. A
very great many of them did not require to do anything of th» sort. But
a great many of them went into stores
at small salaries and thereby kept down
the wages of girls who really needed
the money. The"y~ became office clerks
and   stenographers   at  moderate   wacres
A SUCCESSFUL PROFESSIONAL WOMAN
and made it exceedingly difficult for
girls who must make a living to get a
proper salary. He also argued that the
mothers of daughters were neglected.
Too often the daughters went out to
work just to earn six or seven dollars
a week for spending money, while their
mother was left at home to continue
doing just as hard work as she ever had
done. So Stella Warren had remained
at home.
The principal of the business college
to which Mrs. Warren and her daughter
applied gave a glowing account of the
opportunities in stenography. In six
months, he said, Stella would be ready
for a position not less than forty-five
dollars a month. The course would cost
her seventy-five dollars, and .as that
meant individual tuition, she would reap
every possible advantage from her
money invested. This course included
typewriting, shorthand and business
correspondence. He would not advise
taking up bookkeeping at the same time
because even if a pupil attended closely
to her studies she would require all her
six months' study to attain speed and
proficiency. The bookkeeping course
required individual attention, arid, while
some students included it with the sten
ographer's course, he thought ii unwise,
since one or the other study must be
more or less neglected.
Mrs. Warren was enthusiastic when
they left the school, but' Stella insisted
en going to the other business college
and ascertaining the views of its principal, also the prices and curriculum of
the school. The principal of the second
school was most entertaining and hopeful in his remarks. He showed them
testimonials by the yard, all of which
referred to the excellence of his school,
therefore in that particular there was
apparently no difference. But when
the school they had just visited was
mentioned, he shrugged his shoulders
and made vague but disparaging remarks.
"I think that last school will be the
best for you, dear," said Mrs. Warren,
when they were once more on the street.'
"I don't," asserted Stella.
"Why, dear?"
"My dear! Why not? Did you not see
that Mr. Brown did not like to tell us
outright, but he certainly considered the
other'school a fraud?"
"Yes, mother, and that is just the
point. A man who will deprecate another man to you will do the same for
you in some way. I am for the first
school."
For six months Stella worked diligently. It was no easy task to go to
school again, but she possessed determination. It was a proud day when she
received her diploma as a full-fledged
stenographer.
Through her own enterprise in keeping her eyes open, a position was wa't-
ing for Stella Warren as soon as she left
school. Banks & Blank were a busy
firm of lawyers, and Stella's speed record
was tested many a time when in their
office. At first the steady attention to
her work told upon her. She was eager
to please and did not spare herself at
all. Her mother soon recognized the
fact and insisted that she walk to the
office in the morning and again at night,
and in this way get fresh air exercise.
Stella's pay was eleven dollars a week,
and  this  seemed  to  her to  be  a large 911
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sum. Her hours were from ten to five,
but there was so much work to be done
that she soon found herself in the habit
of being at the office at about nine in
the morning, staying till after five, and
also coming back on Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Warren observed all this, and,
though she remonstrated gently, she did
not urge the point very strongly. Stella's eleven dollars a week and the money
received from one roomer in their
house, was all they had to depend upon,
and positions were not picked up every
day.
Stella liked her work, but found it
very heavy. This was because she was
doing the work of two stenographers,
and was getting the salary of only one.
In conversation with other girls who
were doing work similar to hers, she
discovered that while the majority of
them received ten dollars a wee'.c, they
were not rushed with work. Banks &
Blanks were of a different calibre; by
paying a girl a dollar a week more they
expected her to double the work. One
day when her head ached and her back
felt numb from long sitting, she decided
to ask for more money. Mr. Banks, the
business manager, was in his office, and
she approached him with her heart in
her mouth.
Mr. Banks looked rather surprised
when she entered, "Yes, Miss Warren;
what is it?" he asked.
Stella's heart went down to her boots.
She almost turned and left the office,
but her tired back and a ching head
urged her on.
"Mr. Banks," she began.
"Yes, yes, I'm waiting.""
"'Could you—would you—consider the
idea of—of giving me more money?" she
faltered.
"Not for an instant, Miss Warren."
"But L'm doing.the work of two girls."
Mr.    Banks    frowned.    "Sorry,    Miss
Warren,  but  if  you  find  our  work  too
heavy,    we'll   accept   your    resignation.
There   are   others   coming   out   of   business  college whose  services  we  can secure.    Think it over.    Good afternoon."
Stella went quietly back to her work,
but her heart was sore. She felt she
dared not resist or jeopardise her position.
Jt^was just a week after her interview
with Mr- Banks that Stella caught a cold
which- settled on her lungs and kept her
home \ for several days. When she returned to; the office there was plenty of
unfinished work waiting to be done and
her duties were thus doubled. All that
month her work and her health preyed
on'; her constitution to the extent of
keeping her home a good deal.
Finally,she had to give in and remain
iri^d for a few days. The night before
she intended to return to work, she decided to accept an invitation to a young
people's dance. A year's steady work
between school and office had made the
girl hungry for some of the good times
which rightly belong to youg people.
She put on a pretty white frock and
looked very sweet indeed when young
Tom Manton came for her.
The evening was a delight to Stella.
All her old friends were present and they
flocked up in groups and couples to
greet her. The young men filled her
program. Troubles were forgotten and
Stella felt that after all it was good to
be young, to have a profession, and to
be able to enjoy life with other young
people.
But the next morning she was not so
well,  and  was  compelled  to  remain   at
"Never mind, dear. There is surely
some mistake. You get down to the
office early yourself and apply over
again for the position." She tried to
draw a smile from Stella, but her grief
was too great to allow anything of the
kind.
It was too late to 'phone the office,
and nothing could be done until the
morning. Stella and her mother talked
the matter over till their heads ached
and their throats were stiff. It meant
very much to both of them.
"Mother, I have a plan, and if you
will help me, I think I can make it
work," Stella said next morning. "But
don't ask me about till I come home.
I'm almost afraid to breathe my plan for
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home. That evening as she was looking through the newspaper, an advertisement for a stenographer caught her
eye.
"Oh, mother," she cried. Then throwing the newspaper on the floor she began to cry.
"Stella!" her mother shook her in her
anxiety. "What is the matter? You
must tell me."
"Can't—can't you read it ?"_ cried
Stella hysterically.
"Read what?"
"That advertisement for stenographer."
"Where? Show me."
Stella's eyes were so full of tears that
she  could  scarcely find the  terrible  advertisement.       But    when    found,     her
mother read the following:
"Wanted at once, a lady stenographer for  office work.  Apply
to Banks & Blanks,	
Street."
It was now Mrs. Warren's turn to be
overcome.     Tears   sprang, to   her   eyes,
and she put her arms around her daughter in silent sympathy.
fear it will fly away. Kiss me good luck,
mother."
"She must have something wonderful
in her mind or she would not look so
bright and pleased," said Mrs. Warren,
as she watched her daughter go down
the street toward town.
When Stella entered the office she
went directly to Mr. Banks' office. That
gentleman gave her a stiff salutation and
waited in evident surprise to hear what
she had to say.
"What does that advertisement in
last night's paper mean, Mr. Banks?" she
asked.
"Just what it says, Miss Warren. We
must get someone who will be steady.
You have been so uncertain of late that
our work has usually been behind. This
is especially unsatisfactory to us when
we hear that though you cannot come
to business, you can attend dances. We
will pay you a week's salary and let you
go."
Then Stella looked Mr. Banks square
in the face, and told him that she had
not been well enough to dance the night s
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1911
before, that her health was being
wrecked by overwork and poor pay. Mr.
Banks looked taken aback, but said nothing.
"I will help finish up this week's
work," continued Stella, at which Mr.
Banks looked much relieved.
That day at noon Stella sought out a
real estate office and when she emerged
from it had made what she considered
an excellent bargain. A well lighted corner of the office was to be given over to
Stella and her typewriter. In return for
this she was to do the business correspondence.
Mrs. Warren listened dubiously that
night to Stella's plans. "I'm sure I'll
succeed, mother. There is usually an
opening for a public stenographer who
does accurate work. There's Miss Wel-
ford, who is making three times what
I did at Banks & Blanks and does not
work half as hard as I did. Though,
mother, all employers are not like that
firm. Other girls have nothing like the
work I had to do. Carrie Wylie is getting ten dollars a week and never has
to work overtime. Her firm sends extras
out to a public stenographer. That's
the class of trade that I'm going after."
At noon the next day Stella ordered
a thousand neat cards, stating that Miss
Stella Warren was a public stenographer,
and that work of any kind would be
quickly and accurately performed. Her
business address completed the card.
Then she ordered a large number of
blotters whose smooth face was similar
to the cards. The following day at noon
Stella rented a typewriter feeling that at
the start it would be better to rent than
to buy, particularly as the machine agent
kept it in order and supplied the ribbcns.
The cards and blotters came the next
day and Stella distributed quite a large
number of them. The following day
found her established in her new quarters. Every person who came in was
given a card or blotter, and the first
morning brought her two commissions.
During the week that followed she got
through with Leonard's work and made
six dollars on her own account. Her
mother looked dubiously at the first
week's money and could not echo
Stella's enthusiasm over prospective
work.
But it came in steadily, and, though it
meant strict attention to duty, Stella's
heart was light. The second week
brought good results and Stella ventured
to rent another machine and kept it at
home. I n this way she did double work.
Her mother objected to this, but Stella
begged her not to do so. She argued
that it would only be for a little while
till she got started.
In a little over a month Stella was
doing   more    work  than   Mr.   Leonard,
which fact brought forth many jocular
remarks. He was a kind-hearted man,
and always had some of her cards in his
pocket to distribute. Stella worked hard,
and it told upon her, but she got out of
doors more than she had previously done
and she took pleasure in working for
herself.
Through her energy in getting after
business she found that in three months'
time she had more than she could manage herself. She thought the matter
over and hired a helper at nine dollars a
week. Then she brought her machine
from home and the two girls easily
handled all the business that came in.
Mrs. Warren became as enthusiastic as
Stella when she saw how much monev
it meant to her.
Just a year from the time she started
for herself, Stella left Mr. Leonard's
office for  one  of her  own. Through
energy and perseverance she had built
up an excellent connection and she felt
that better results would follow and a
decided prestige given herself if she had
an office. She secured in one of the largest office buildings of the city, a room for
twenty-five dollars a month. She had a
telephone put in and rented four
machines. She raised her assistant's
salary to seventy-five dollars a month,
because through her proficiency the girl
was able to earn that amount. She also
engaged another girl at forty-five dollars
a month, and one at forty dollars. This
arrangement allowed her to be in a
position to supply shorthand typists by
the hour, day or week. It also gave her
two grades, the experts and the juniors.
The former averaged  five dollars a day
and the latter two dollars and seventy-
five cents. This did not include machines
or traveling expenses. Circular letters,
addressing envelopes, and mimeographing were now made more easy of accomplishment, and as there was a steady
demand for such work, Stella wanted to
be in a position to handle it.
While she had three assistants it did
not mean that Stella was idle. She went
after business personally and saw to it
that the demand for her services was
kept on the increase. The girls handled
most of the work and were paid for
overtime, though Stella usually tried to
do all such work herself and so save
extra expense. New clothes, new furniture at home and good times in the
evening were now possible to her, and
she looked back on the early days of
her profession with an easy sigh, to
think of what it had lead her to. But
she always acknowledged that those first
hard months put the business spirit into
her, gave her sufficient experience and
confidence to make her seek independence for herself.
She considers her profession one of
the best for a girl to follow, and maintains that if properly followed, will give
as good, if not better, remuneration than
many another calling in life. She has
made a decided success of the profession
of a stenographer, but it has meant
a clear head, and strict attention to
details. She is a real live girl, not a
story-book maid, and her experiences in
making a success of life as here set
down, are true and are not drawn from
imagination.
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Dressing the Home for Spring
HE coming of spring not only
causes nature to manifest new
life, but arouses an innate desire on the part of humanity
to throw off the old and put
on the new. This feeling finds expression in many directions, but its manifestation in home decoration is what concerns us here. I will endeavor very
briefly to call your attention to some
of the treatments which will give the
home that atmosphere of newness and
freshness which harmonizes with spring.
It is necessary in the first place to
properly cleanse and paint a house, inside and out, every three years at least,
and the walls and ceilings should be
treated artistically, though not expensively, at the same period. There can
be nothing so clean as white painted
wood-work.     It     may     involve   a   little
By Alfred Huggett
more work to keep it clean looking, but
see how bright and cheerful it makes a
room when it becomes the frame-work
of a well chosen wall treatment; almost
any color will be enhanced by the light
paint.
The colorings in this season's wallpapers are as varied as a milliner's stock,
or almost as diversified as nature's great
garden of loveliness. For bedrooms, we
have dainty tones in grey, blue, rose,
yellow, straw, and so forth; or the effective chintz colorings which are rivals of
the grandmother styles of sixty to seventy-five years ago. Reception rooms
are treated in much the same colorings,
though the style of designs will 'represent a wider range.
Dining room i suggestions are in
stronger colorings, while there are many
soft, rich tones which make very effective backgrounds for pictures and plate-
rail decorations. The library, hall, and
den have received much consideration in
the minds of wallpaper artists, but perhaps apart from the bedrooms there is
no apartment of the house so extensively
provided for as that which is fast coming
to be known as the living room. For
this there is a wealth of color and design in almost every range.
The home must have its fair treatment as far as attire is concerned.
Others see your clothing more than
you do. In your hours of leisure you
are confronted at every turn by your
own home, and your rest and contentment, your health, and general efficiency,
are all enhanced if this home, besides
being comfortable, gratifies your innate
sense  of the  fitting and  harmonious.
To Beautify Vancouver
PROBABLY no phase of human
effort better illustrates our advance from pioneer days—the
days of struggling with elemental conditions—than the demand on all sides for beauty. This
turning of the human mind from the accomplishing of purely material results
to the desire for something more lovely
—something aesthetic—began on this
coast only a comparatively short time
ago. The rude house of the successful
business man became the neat villa or
mansion of to-day; the hideous furniture
and florid wallpapers gave way to the
things which all can have now in any
town. The poorly built, irrational buildings of a larger type, have become supplanted by the commodious, well
arranged, and properly designed structures which now adorn our principal
thoroughfares.
One important phase, however, until
very recently has been overlooked. I
refer to civic beauty, which means the
doing of things civic in the best possible
way, which is always the beautiful way.
Now, what are the practical applications
of the civic art to the needs of Vancouver, and how can the city benefit by
them?
It may be said at the beginning that
the art requirements of the city must be
divided into three distinct heads. The
first of these deals with utilities and
conveniences, including streets, avenues
of communication,  car  lines  and  other
By W. Marbury Somervell
utilities of cleanliness and ease. The
second is that which includes public
hygiene—sewers, perks, smoke abatement, and regulations which guard
against encroachments on light and air.
The third and last requirements, often
erroneously placed first, consist of those
features which are installed for beauty's
sake alone—such as fountains and
statues.
Vancouver, with its magnificent outlook on the bay and mountains, its easy
grades, and its energetic population, is
fortunate in promising the prime essentials for becoming a wonder spot of
beauty and an object lesson to all coast
cities. Our streets are wide and well
laid out; our large park is one of the
most beautiful in the world; our new
city hall is in a large enough plot of
ground to give it the importance which
its design merits.
These things being granted, we have
an opportunity now—an opportunity
which will soon vanish—to create, first
of all, around the new Court House a
group of public buildings which will be
a unit from which which the city will
radiate into its proper grouping. This
grouping of public buildings will not
only achieve an aesthetic result, but will
also effect an enormous saving in the
transaction of public business, as all the
affairs of the city government, in its
various branches, are more or less
closely related. With perfect propriety
the   City   Hall,   Court   House,   Customs
House, and the Public Library could be
grouped into a symetrical unit which
would be impressive in scale, would
indicate to the visitor that we are a
great city and would remind the citizen
of his ability to accomplish results commensurate with his civic pride.
Again, an effort could be made, by the
cooperation of the property owners
whose land lies on the steep slope to the
waterfront, to have those sides of buildings which face the bay as well designed
and as interesting architecturally as the
front. The impression of a stranger
arriving by boat is at present a trifle
disappointing. Buildings which may
look all right on their street sides,
appear to be turning their backs on the
visitor and to say that the don't care
what impression is produced by their
backs, as long as the front is satisfactory.
Every detail of utility, telegraph poles,
trolley standards, electrolier's receptacles for refuse, can be made by judicious effort to show that they have at
least been thought worthy of consideration and that they may be useful without being unsightly. Parks must soon
be provided in the residence sections
and in those parts of the city which are
fast becoming congested. As for monuments, fountains and frescoes, let us
tolerate and contemplate none but the
very best. To this end it is obvious that
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The Flower Garden
BNE of the chief delights of home
life in Vancouver and other
parts of British Columbia is
the flower garden. The climate
here is particularly conducive
to luxuriant growth as is indicated both
in gardens and in the semi-tropical
tangles in the forests. The more southerly sections of the Province promise to
vie with California as a land of flowers.
In preparing a home flower garden,
the first consideration has to do, .of
course,  with  the  kinds   of  plants  which
ing time begins toward the end of March
and extends into April. It is usually
most practicable to put into the ground
small plants obtained from florists but
with sweet peas the seed itself is planted
because sweet peas do better when they
are not compelled to undergo the check
of transplanting. Sweet peas are usually placed along a fence for the reason
that this affords a convenient support
for the vines, and serves to cover up
fences which are not decorative. But
even better support is given by wire net-
is of doubtful wisdom for the reason
that the large amount of rain in this
climate washes out the manure and .thus
robs the plants of a good deal of
nutriment.
Climbing nasturtiums play, in some
respects, the same part in the flower
garden as do sweet peas; that is, they
prove useful in concealing board fences
and other unsightly objects. Dwarf nasturtiums are planted usually in rows with
taller growths behind them. These flowers,  like  sweet peas, are hardy and are
A PARK FLOWER BED
will give the best results. Prominent
among these are - asters, calceolias,
dahlias, geraniums, gladiolas, nasturtiums, petunias, pansies, roses, sweet
peas, stocks and nerbenas.
The preparation of the ground for
these flowers is practically the same as
for a vegetable garden; that is, it is
necessary to hoe the soil well, remove
the stones, break up the lumps and use
plenty of fertilizer. This process of cultivation begins about the first of April,
or as soon as the frost is well out of the
ground.
Some of the hardier varieties of flowers may be planted at about the same
time the ground is cultivated. This is
true of sweet peas, for which the plant-
ting held up by posts at intervals. Sweet
pea vines are very often used as a screen
for the back garden—a background for
the lawn. It need hardly be said that
these beautiful blossoms and delicate
leaves make a most effective setting for
an attractive front yard.
The best way to plant sweet peas is
to dig a trench about eighteen inches
deep and to fill this to within six inches
of the top with good cow manure, well
tramped down. Upon this place two
inches of soil. In this soil place the seeds
and cover them with two inches more
of soil. Sweet peas are among the first
plants with which the gardener busies
himself in the spring, but some gardeners
advocate planting in the autumn.    This
planted early in the season. The latter
part of March and the first week or two
in April are good times to put them into
the  ground.
Planting time for most of the other
flowers begins about the first of May,
and most of them are set out as young
plants. Pansies should have positions
which are shaded during the heat of the
day and need a soil which is well enriched. Asters, for their first development, need more lime than ordinarily is
found in the soil in this section. This
lime can be supplied by adding bits of
old plaster or air-slacked lime to the
flower beds. Asters should be planted in
rows  about a foot apart.
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apart in beds or along borders. The
young plants should be given plenty of
space because they fill out and make a
solid bed, the flowers spreading from the
stiff stems like a bouquet.
Verbenas also need plenty of space,
being low growing, spreading plants
which will fill up considerable space. For
this reason they are not ordinarily
planted in rows or in any regular form.
Petunias  also  branch  out  a  good  deal.
diminish the number and size of the
blossoms. This also applies to the
calceolias.'
Dahlias should not be planted until all
danger of frost is over. They require a
rich soil. Those cultivated from plants
obtained from florists begin to bloom in
July. Some gardeners like to grow
dahlias from the tubers, which must be
cut into pieces with an eye in each piece,
as  is  the  case  with  potatoes.     Dahlias
arid effective flowers is, of course, the
rose, which in almost all of its varieties
does excellently well in this climate.
Rose bushes may be planted early in the
season but should have rich soil. The
bushes to be set out should be two years
old and each should have a space of two
or three feet. Good bushes bloom luxuriantly early in the summer and continue to put forth blossoms throughout
the season, although too much cannot be
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They may be planted in beds, in patches,
in borders, wherever the fancy dictates.
They flourish  in  ordinary soil.
Geraniums are, of course, great favorites with home gardeners, and can be
made particularly attractive in a bed
by using lobelias for an outer border;
then planting another border of yellow
calceolias, and filling the center with
scarlet geraniums. The larger plants
should be put about a foot apart. The
smaller ones may be planted about twice
as thickly. In cultivating geraniums,
care must be taken not to give them too
much water, which causes them to run
to wood and leaf and has a tendency to
grown from tubers are apt to be stouter
and stronger than those cultivated from
young plants, but they do not bloom as
early, August being about as soon as
flowers can be expected. Because they
attain a considerable height, they should
be used as a background and should be
put in about three feet apart.
Gladiolas are tubers which are planted
about the first of May and which grow
with unusual rapidity. They are tall and
slender, and may be put among other
plants here and there. Each plant should
be staked to keep it from falling over.
One  of  the  most  universally  popular
expected, of  them during the  first  summer after their transplantation.
As to the preparation and cultivation
of the flower garden, a couple of loads
of manure should be well hoed in as one
of the first steps; the ground must be
kept free from weeds and well watered,
but not too well watered. One of the
mistakes most often made by the amateur gardener is to water the flower garden superficially every evening. It is
very much better to water thoroughly
once a week. As a sort of axiom in cultivating a garden in this section, it may
be said that the hoe is better than the
hose.
Velvety Lawns
A VELVETY lawn is delightful
to look at, and the care of it
, affords just the right kind of
easy exercise for the business
man. It lends distinction to
the grounds and is one of the leading
sources of home satisfaction. The
English people of such cities as Vancouver and Victoria are manifesting their
innate love for fine lawns, with the result
that these are becoming distinguishing
features of our cities in the summer.
In preparing to seed a new lawn the
soil should be worked up to a depth of
four to six inches, but none of the clay
or poor subsoil should be brought to the
surface. That is, where the soil is shallow only the top soil should be worked
over for planting, and where grading or
filling in is to be done the rough soil
should be dug over or plowed and harrowed before the better top soil is put
on. Make the surface as fine as possible
with a sharp steel rake or with a   fine-
toothed harrow before sowing the seed.
The seed should preferably be sown
early in the spring but can also be sown
at any time during the summer or early
fall, and will germinate well if there is
sufficient rainfall and moderately cool
weather at the time of sowing to start a
good growth of grass. It is of advantage in hot weather to sow about one
bushel of oats per acre with the grass
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it a better chance to start. The oats in
this case will not be allowed to grow
tall but kept closely cut with the grass
and will die out during the winter.
When the ground has been made as fine
as possible the surface should have a
good application of finely ground bone
dust or a good super-phosphate applied
at the rate of four to six hundred pounds
per acre to be raked or harrowed into
the surface before sowing the seed.
When the surface has been thoroughly
prepared the seed should be sown
broadcast on a quiet, still day, so that it
can be spread as evenly as possible.
Generally the air is more still between
five and six o'clock in the morning than
it is later in the day, making this time
the most satisfactory for sowing the
seed. The surface to be sown should be
gone over as evenly as possible from end
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should be again raked over after seeding,
so that the seed will be properly covered,
and if dry at the time of seeding it
should be well rolled or copiously sprinkled with the hose or watering can. The
more thoroughly the soil can be loosened
and made fine before seeding the better
will be the result in securing a good
stand of grass. On a larger scale an old
lawn thinly set with grass can frequently
be renewed by working over the surface
with a sharp spike harrow and then using
liberal amounts of bone-dust and grass
seed, as recommended for the smaller
plots above. Treated in this way an
old or run-out sod can generally be renovated and a good stand of grass secured
•without plowing up the lawn.
If the lawn is well cared for, properly
fertilized and kept closely mown, the sod
will improve from year to year, as many.
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if applications are put on regularly—say
in the early spring and the early fall
of each year.
Many gardeners think that the grass
should be let grow rather taller late in
the fall to make a protection for the
roots, but that is a mistake, and the lawn
should be kept closely mown all through
the fall months and until it ceases to
grow, for if left to get tall in the fall, a
great deal of the grass will die out during
the winter, and this long dead grass will
have to be raked out by hand in the
spring before the lawn can be made to
take on a fresh velvety appearance. If
it is closely mown late in the fall it will
start into growth very early the following spring, and will not have to be raked
over except where a dressing of
coarse manure has been applied during
the winter months.
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to end and then again from side to side,
to insure an even distribution of the seed
and to make sure that every portion of
the surface is properly covered. The
seed after sowing should be lightly covered with fine soil, either by going over
the surface lightly with a fine rake or
with a roller, using the latter only when
the soil is sufficiently dry not to stick
to the surface of the roller. Under ordinary conditions it would probably be
best to use both the rake and roller in
covering the seed if practicable.
To obtain a close, thick sod quickly,
a liberal quantity of seed should be used.
Seeding at the rate of fifty to sixty
pounds per acre is recommended, but it
would be better to use seventy-five to
one hundred pounds per acre where it is
desired, to have a good, close turf from
the start.
For lawns already set with grass, but
which have become bare in spots, the
surface of the bare spots should be loosened with a sharp rake and then treated
to a good dressing of finely ground bone-
dust and liberally seeded.    The surface
of the old English lawns have been established and maintained continuously for
over two hundred years. The close, frequent cuttings keep weeds and coarse
grasses from getting any foothold in the
lawn, and if the roots are well and frequently fed with bone-dust and other
suitable fertilizers, the finer grasses
spread and become more dense, excluding the coarse crab grass which is apt
to smother out the finer grass in lawns
during the hot summer months in some
sections.
Where stable manure is used as fertilizer for the lawn it should be put on
after the ground freezes in the fall, when
either fresh or rotted manure can be
spread broadcast on the grass. This
dressing should be allowed to remain on
the grass all winter, removing the straw,
coarse litter, etc., early in the spring before the grass starts into growth. As
the manure makes the lawn unsightly
during the winter months in most localities, bone-dust or commercial fertilizers
are to be preferred as a lawn dressing
and will answer the purpose quite as well
IMMIGRATION FIGURES
Immigration into Western Canada
during the first four months of the
fiscal year has totalled 92,400, according
to J. Bruce Walker, Commissioner of
Immigration. Of these no less than
35,000 came from Great Britain and
46,500 from the United States. Mr.
Walker estimates that the Americans
alone have brought into Canada
$50,000,000 during the four months in
addition to farm implements, cattle, etc.
In the fiscal year 1909-10, there were
208,794 immigrants—103,798 being from
the United States.
General Superintendent Mehan of the
Grand Trunk Pacific, says that this
spring will see a tremendous rush for the
development of the mineral and agricultural resources in the interior country
in the vicinity of Hazelton, and that by
the time the steel is linked up at the
end of 1913, there will be a great many
farms bringing excellent returns from
hay, wheat, oats and other crops. 1911
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Some "Opinions of Mary" on Gardens
By Alice Ashworth Townley
J
'M going to have a garden
this year," announced Mary,
importantly, the other day, as
she entered my sanctum (I am
a bachelor maid and a scribbler). She laid a voluminous packet of
gayly colored pamphlets on my table,
while she seated herself and removed
her gloves. "I'm going to have a garden,
and I just brought these catalogues over
so that you might help me choose what
seeds  I'd  better buy."
"Don't you think you had better buy
the young plants instead of bothering
with seeds?" I suggested; "it's so much
surer."
"Surer! Why, you mean dearer, don't
you? I've been reading over these catalogues, and I find if I buy seeds I can
have all sorts of things for about one-
quarter the money I would have to
spend to buy plants. Then think how
interesting it will be watching the dear
little things growing, and I'll have such
lovely new varieties. Just read over
these."
"Yes, I know; but supposing your
seeds   don't   grow?"
"What's to prevent them growing?
I've been reading all about gardening—
it's the easiest thing in the world, and
with proper care things always grow.
Wait till I read you what one lady says
about her garden. She had only a tiny
bit of ground, you know, in a poor situation, too, and she grew sweet peas and
mignonette that were the envy of the
neighborhood, and nasturtiums and tuberous begonias that were one mass of
bloom, and stocks and lovely creepers,
and "
But her breath gave out before she
reached the end of this wonderfully successful woman's list, and she turned on
me an eloquently convincing glance and
sat back for a moment to recover herself
and pick out the right pamphlet to confront me with.
I was not as much impressed as she
was, even after she had read me a fascinating description of what had been
achieved by this flower-loving sister, and
the remarkable results obtained by another from ten cents worth of seeds,
some old tin cans, and a tub filled with
earth,
"And you know I have a better chance
than that.    There is a nice little plot in
our yard, in a sunny situation; I've had
it dug and raked over and it's all ready.
I wish I had thought of a garden early
enough to have made a hot-bed. It's no
trouble at all, but it's too late now." And
she sighed at the thought of what might
have been. "However," she went on,
cheering up again, "nearly all the annuals do well here in Toronto if planted
in the open air. You only have to wait
a little longer for them to flower. Come
and tell me which ones you'd get."~
So we looked through the illustrated
lists, where the glowing beauty of mag-
nificient bloom overlaid and hid the few
unobtrusive leaves on the compact and
shapely plants shown; where the new
varieties of well known favorites far surpassed anything ever seen before in that
line; where the novelties "for the first
time introduced at great cost" from far
off countries made one long to dwell in
such flower-blessed lands—and we found
it difficult to decide.
Mary said she didn't want an ordinary
commonplace lot of flowers, when she
could just as well have nicer ones. With
the wisdom born of experience and disappointments, I suggested petunias as
being showy and a pretty sure crop—but
she laughed at me. I spoke of candytuft, alyssum, marigolds, and" she intimated that I had common tastes. I
ventured on zinnias, and she scorned
me. Nasturtiums and mignonette appeased her somewhat; but when I recommended poppies and scarlet runners
she picked up her books and left me.
She said she was not cross, but our ideas
seemed so entirely at variance that perhaps we had better not discuss the matter any longer.
I hear she has planted a choice variety
of highly recommended seeds and is
looking forward triumphantly to being
able to demonstrate to me—having faithfully followed the books on gardening—
what an amateur gardener can produce
if he or she sets to work properly.
She may prove that I don't know a
thing about it, but till she does I will
go on believing that I do, and—but
haven't we all observed the experience
of the novice who suddenly bethinks him
that he will make garden behind his
house? He invests in a spade, hoe and
rake, and hies to his yard, maps out the
portion he intends to cultivate, and be
gins removing the sod. This he generally finds more laborious than he anticipated, and, unless he is unusually persevering he quickly concludes that he
has not time to spare from business just
then, and engages a man to do that portion of the work. And the man being
there he lets him dig it also.
It may be that he enriches it a trifle,
but the necessity for this very probably
escapes his mind, and he contents himself with picking out the bits of brick,
stones and other extraneous matter that
appear even to him to have no nourishing properties. Then he rakes it neatly
and pats it down smooth.
If it is to be a vegetable garden, from
the catalogue he chooses those seeds
illustrated by the most enticing pictures.
Peas, whose smiling pods never could
have met over the rounded loveliness of
the plump and delicious contents displayed; beans, whose drooping abundance of pods is a marvel; radishes, guaranteed to mature in a remarkably short
space of time. But no need to go over
the list—he plants them. Then he sits
down and dreams happily of the delicious dinners he will enjoy, and calculates the saving it will make in household  expenses.
Poor man! He doesn't know that a
late frost will probably nip his beans;
that the pink beauty of his radishes will
prove a congenial home for descendants
of the harmless looking black fly; that
his cucumber plants will be mysteriously
cut off at a tender age; that green worms
will infest his cabbages and cauliflowers,
and that the tomato plants that gave such
promise will be overtaken by the autumn
frost before their burdens ripen. Neither
does he realize that the cat will probably
haunt his lettuce bed, the gate be left
open some fine day and a stray dog
devastate the premises; that he will
wake up some morning and find his
neighbor's hens making merry a.nong
his treasures.
If flowers should have been his choice
—and the seeds happen to come up—
things are no better. The same woes
wait upon them; and what straggling
plants reach maturity are strangely unlike his expectations.
If he invests in roses, the leaves will
disappear and the promising buds be
things of the past before he realizes that Page 34
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hellebore is the most satisfying diet for
their enemies; and later on his mignonette is apt to share the same fate. The
flower stock of his lily will probably be
entered in an unobstrusive manner near
the ground by a grub whose "excelsior"
proceedings end only when it reaches
the topmost bud, and the hollowed stalk
turns yellow and refuses longer to support the cluster that, to this time, has
filled the owner with delusive hope. If
his china asters seem coming on in a
refreshingly flourishing way, likely some
day the baby will elude maternal vigilance and gayly pick the buds off all of
them.
And creepers—who ever knew anything more disappointing than creepers?
We had one last year that the book inti
mated would climb up a two-story house
in one season and twine around the
chimney, so luxuriant was its promised
growth, and it was to be covered with
rich bloom during the whole summer.
When winter overtook it it was reaching
out in a listless way for the top of the
porch, and the few inconspicuous blossoms that adorned it were apparently
too ashamed of their meagre proportions
to hold their heads up.
But there is the dry weather that
burns things up, and the wet weather
that drowns them out; the winds that
break them down and the heavy rains
that flatten them. Truly the gardener
has much to contend with, and disappointment is often his lot.
I  have had many illusions  destroyed,
and amongst the rest the idea that it is
very easy to have a successful garden
and requires no experience. I have also
come to hold an admiration and esteem
for those deserving plants that may be
depended upon to do their best and be
some satisfaction even under adverse circumstances. (That is why I have devel
oped an ever growing respect and fondness for petunias, potatoes and a few
such).
When I plant flowers now I am warv
of novelties, and cling to the sweet, old-
fashioned, hardy varieties that with rich
earth and ordinary care will repay your
efforts.
And I should not be surprised if Mary
were to do the same next year.
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Civil Service Opportunities
HILE the opportunities in the
Civil Service may not be brilliant, they provide a certain income and a reasonably sure
'* future, and for this reason are
attractive to many persons. For the
benefit of these is published the British
Columbia Civil Service requirements for
the positions of junior clerks and
stenographers:
"1. The general competitive examina
tion for junior clerkships and for positions of stenographers shall be held during the first week in July in each year,
and shall be presided over by the examiners appointed to examine candidates
for teachers' licenses. Forms on which
applications for these examinations shall
be made will be provided by the Civil
Service Commisisoners, and may be had
on application to the Registrar of the
Public  Service.     Examinations  shall be
held in the following places: Armstrong,
Chilliwack, Cumberland, Enderby, Golden, Grand Forks, Kamloops, Kaslo,
Kelowna, Ladysmith, Nanaimo, Nelson,
New Westminster, Peachland, Revelstoke, Rossland, Salmon Arm, Vancouver, Vernon and Victoria, and also in
any other localities in which hereafter a
high School may be established.
"2. No   person   shall   be   admitted   to
such examinations unless he is a natural- 1911
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born or naturalized British subject of the
full age of sixteen years, and not more
than twenty-one years, and presents certificates as to health, character and
habits.
For Junior Clerkships
"3. The general competitive examination for junior clerkships shall include
the  following subjects:
"(a) Writing—To be determined from
the paper 'on copying manuscripts.
"(a) Typewriting—plain copy and
simple tabulation. Special importance
attached to accuracy and neatness of
work. A speed of at least thirty words
a minute will be expected.
"(b) Stenography—Special importance
attached to accuracy. A speed of at least
sixty words per minute will be expected.
Tests will be given at the rates of sixty,
eighty and one hundred words per
minute.
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"(b)  Spelling—Writing from dictation'
and the correcting of mis-spelled words
from a printed paper.
"(c) Composition (including grammar
and precise writing)—A test of ability
(a) to write letters on given subjects, or
to embody in letters certain given information in a grammatical and intelligible
form; (b) To give the essential features
of letters, reports or other documents of
a non-technical nature, in clear, concise
and grammatical form.
"(d) Copying manuscripts (including
writing)—To make a neat and accurate
copy of a manuscript which has been
altered and amended in various particulars. This paper will be taken as a test
of writing also.
"(e) Arithmetic—The elementary rules
fractions (vulgar and decimal), interest
and discount, and simple problems involving these.
"(f) Geography—With special reference to Canada, and a general reference
to North America, Western Europe and
the British Empire.
"(g) History—A general outline of the
History of England and Canada from the
discovery of America.
"4. The competitive examination for
typewriters and stenographers shall include, in addition to writing, spelling,
composition and copying manuscripts,
prescribed for junior clerks, the following subjects:
"5. To successfully pass these examinations candidates must make not less
than 34 per cent, in each subject, and not
less than 50 per cent, in all subjects.
"6. All competitive examinations for
entrance to the Civil Service will be advertised in the British Columbia Gazette
at least four weeks before the examinations are to take place. Such advertisements shall state the subjects to be
covered by the examinations and the
places at which the examinations may be
held.
"7. Every successful candidate before
receiving a permanent appointment to
the Civil Service must furnish the Civil
Service Commissioners with a certificate
of good health which will be filled out on
standard forms to be furnished by the
Commissioners.
"8. Intending candidates for examinations must file their applications not later
than the first of June. Under no circumstances will applications received after
this date be accepted. An acknowledgment of the receipt of an application will
be sent to all candidates, and anyone
filing an application who does not
receive an acknowledgment within a
reasonable time should at once write to
the Registrar, Civil Service Commission,
Victoria, B. C.
"9. As soon as practicable after the
examination the papers of the candidates
will be marked, and their standing ascertained and communicated to them by the
Registrar. Prior to that time no enquiries addressed to the Commissioners
will be answered.
"10. Within one month after the
publication of the results of a Civil
Service Examination, any candidate who
considers that his answer papers have
not been correctly valued may make
application to the Commissioners to
have his papers re-read. Such application must be accompanied with a fee of
$5.00. In cases where the appeal is
granted, the fee   will be returned.
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Own Your Own Coal Mine and
Secure Your Coal at Cost Price
The Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries Limited, does not guarantee you
$22.50 return for every dollar invested, but it does guarantee to sell you
coal at actual cost of production when its mines are shipping, providing
your are a shareholder.
The Trustee, F. R. Laing, is offering for sale
a limited number of shares at ground floor price
of 25 cents per share.
COAL IS THE PREMIER ASSET OF THE
PROVINCE. It is the greatest producer of wealth
in minerals. It has made many millionaires in the past
and will make many in the future.
COAL      ON      GRAHAM    ISLAND      IS    OF A
SUPERIOR QUALITY, being heavily impregnated
with fixed carbon, hence less ash than coal from other
fields. Eminent engineers distinctly state that Graham
Island coal fields are destined to be the most active in
the world.
HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF IN PRINCE
RUPERT JUST AS SOON AS THE GRAND
TRUNK   PACIFIC   RAILWAY   IS   COMPLETED.
You will see a city in Prince Rupert equally as large
and important as any of the other prosperous railway
terminals on the Pacific coast.
The property of the Prince Rupert-Nanaimo
Colleries, Limited, is situated right in the heart of the
Graham     Island     coal       fields     and       COMPRISES
14,080 ACRES OF COAL LAND WITH AN AREA
OF 22 SQUARE MILES. No company organized to
develop and erect into a commercial factor the coal
resources of Graham Island has a brighter outlook or
more certain assurance of prosperity in the future than
The  Prince  Rupert-Nanaimo  Collieries,  Limited.
The Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries, Limited, is
chartered under the laws of the Province of British
Columbia. The capital of the Company is $1,500,000,
divided into 1,500,000 shares, having par value of $1.00
per share.
Of this amount there are but 500,000 to be sold, the
first block of 100,000 being now offered to the public
at 25 cents per share on terms of 10 cents per share
and the remainder in three equal monthly payments
without interest. No application will be accepted for
less than 100 shares. Shares are fully paid-up and nonassessable.
THE MANAGEMENT OF THE COMPANY
The Directors of The Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Colleries are fe=
EDWARD QUENNEL, Nanaimo, B. C.
ERNEST W. J. HARDING, Nanaimo, B. C.
DR. GEORGE B. BROWN, Nanaimo, B. C.
E. T. KINGSLEY, Vancouver, B. C.
. M. H. D. EAKIN, Vancouver, B. C.
W. R. FRAMPTON, Vancouver, B. C.
M. S. OULSON, Vancouver, B. C.
The Officers of the Company are :—
PRESIDENT—Edward  Quennell.
1st VICE-PRESIDENT—E. T. Kingsley.
2nd VICE-PRESIDENT—Dr. George B. Brown.
SECRETARY—J. I. Eakin.
The Trustee of the Company, Mr. FRANK R.
LAING, is well and favourably known in Vancouver,
and is a man of irreproachable character and sterling
integrity.
The Mining Engineer of the Company is MR. P.
VAN HULLE, one of the most practical and thoroughly experienced engineers in the Province.
The Company's Solicitors are MESSRS. BUCHANAN & BULL, of Vancouver, B. C.
Bankers, THE BANK OF HAMILTON.
Auditors, W. T. STEIN & CO.
You cannot allow the opportunity of acquiring shares
in this great co-operative Company to pass. Call at
the office at once and make out your application, or
send in a reservation by letter, telegram or telephone.
Those who acquire an interest in this Company,
will enjoy the unique privilege of being able to buy
their coal at the actual cost of production, since it is
the intention of the management of the Company to
provide the shareholders of the Company with fuel
at cost price, just as soon as the Company's mines
are shipping.
Direct your application and make your cheques,
drafts and money orders payable to Frank R. Laing,
Trustee, The Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries, Limited, 39 Bank of Hamilton Building, Vancouver, B. C.
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Offices open daily for sale of shares from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m
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The Great North
A Land which is Coming Into Its Own with Astonishing Rapidity
By Chas. M. Wilson
1911
HE GREAT WEST is familiar
to everybody. The Great
North, with the climate of
two thousand miles south-east
is a new country. The Great
North has its dawning centre in Prince
Rupert, the most promising port on the
Pacific Coast. It has for its subjects
paying tribute, the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway, the Government of British Columbia, which has made it a headquarters, and the Dominion Government,
whose pet child it is as the terminus of
its adopted railroad, the Grand Trunk
Pacific.
The Imperial Government, which
needs an all-red route without a digression into the United States, is its sponsor, and never did a youthful city begin
its career under better auspices. With
a powerful corporation and three governments behind it, whoever doubts its
future would be better buried. This
summer will provide great opportunities
for the long-sighted. Three years from
now, owing to the connecting up of the
Grand Trunk Pacific transcontinental,
real estate will be worth four times its
present value.
At least three of the larger islands
adjacent to Prince Rupert contain several hundred thousand acres of good
farming land, with a local market at
prices about twice what Australia
obtains for produce in London after
shipping    it    fourteen    thousand    miles
A STREET IN STEWART
round the Cape of Good Hope. The
Lakelse and Kitsumkalum Valleys,
which are far enough inland to escape
the rain belt, and not far enough to run
the slightest risk of summer frosts, will
before long be worth three figures to
the acre. Kitsumkalum can only be
homesteaded, but Lakelse has been open
for purchase ■ and although every acre
of really good farming land is already
taken up, some is still to be got for $10
per acre. To sit down in the summer
and pick all the berries one can eat
within a few  yards,  grown  and  ripened
RESIDENCE STREET IN PRINCE RUPERT
in spite of the spreading trees overhead,
gives some inkling of what this section
will one day produce in fruit. There
will come a day when the land will be
worth from $500 to $750 an acre in improved fruit farms.
Graham Island is in for a great boom
and to-day, talking to a friend aboard
the Prince Albert just before she sailed,
I found the steamer, thus early in the
season, March 17th, with about twice the
passengers as she had accommodation
for, all for Queen Charlotte Islands, and
nearly all for Massett.
Banks Island is another field of opportunity which has recently been taken up
by a syndicate for colonization. Here
the land is crying out to be grazed and
cultivated, and here deer at this time
of the year can be shot butter-fat, thus
proving how cattle would run out all
the year on the grass meadows. Having a flat surface to the west, the rainfall is probably the lightest on the
Coast.
Land on Porcher Island, at Prince
Rupert's door, although all home-
steaded, can still be bought at $8 an
acre; on this land the finest of garden
truck can be grown in spite of considerable rainfall.
For more than a month Prince Rupert
harbor has been a living mass of herring.
Anywhere in its mile and a half width,
you could throw out a bare hook and
pull in a herring, hooked sometimes in
the side, sometimes in the tail. In fact,
you could dip in a rake and pull out the 91
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fish. These could have been caught in
thousands of tons, salted and Shipped to
the prairie farmers at a large profit. To
see the salmon crowding up the creeks
on the townsite of Prince Rupert in the
fall is almost unbelievable. Residents
on lots have severel times been compelled to abandon their homes owing to
those crowded to death by the others
smelling so much.
At Hazelton there will be one of the
greatest mining booms on record the
moment the ice breaks and permits navigation. On Nine-Mile Mountain, Four-
Mile Mountain and Six-Mile Mountain
startling results have been obtained from
smelted ore. Values running into $200
and $300 to the ton of galena are quite
usual, and the Silver Cup Company,
which has driven two tunnels and shipped a quantity of ore, claims an average
of clean ore of $200 a ton. On Four-
Mile Mountain even greater averages
are announced. The entire population
of Hazelton has gone mining crazy, and
will stampede for the hills on the first
sign of spring. The old town of Hazelton will be put out of business by the
railroad being on the other side of the
river. The only logical place for a
townsite, Taylorville, having been taken
in hand by a very powerful company,
will boom to an undreamed of extent
this summer.
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and on the direct route to the Orient,
the former of which has been taken in
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forward.
A BIT OF STEWART
Stewart will this summer get her second wind and with a Canadian Northern
Railway transcontinental through the
fabulously rich Peace River country and
over the Pine Pass—the lowest of all
the Rockies—to end at the Gateway
City, her future may even rival Prince
Rupert.
Prince Rupert, the Baby City, having
finished kicking and slapping at its parent, the Grand Trunk Pacific is in for
such a rush of outside capital as will
surprise even itself.
She is the terminus of some ten thousand miles of railroad under one system, by far the longest railroad in the
world, with prairie grade over the Rockies, so that one locomotive can do the
work of three on other roads. With the
distance to the Orient shortened by over
eight hundred miles and by two and a
half days; with all the Alaskan trade
bound to pass through her portals in
bond; with all these things in sight, who
doubts that Prince Rupert will have a
great future?
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1911
Industrial Progress in British Columbia
The Burnaby Council proposes to
spend half a million dollars on street
and other improvements.
The Victoria building permits for each
February for the last three years are as
follows: 1911, $182,940; 1910, $151,760;
1909, $122,680.
The Vancouver Gas Company, a concern subsidiary to the B. C. Electric
Railway Company, proposes to spend
over a million and a half dollars on the
Inlet waterfront of Hastings Townsite.
Elaborate plans are under way for the
"Made in Canada" Fair, which will be
opened on June 14th, and will, it is believed, do more to advertise Vancouver
and British Columbia than any other
publicity   project   yet   devised.
About a million dollars, it has been
announced, will be spent this year by the
Canadain Pacific Railway Co. on the
mountain section of the railroad. The
work will include new roadbeds, switches
and side-tracks, heavier rails, and a new
station at Field.
A group of Vancouver capitalists, it is
said, have bought several hundred acres
of land at Pitt Meadows, for the purpose
of establishing there a model garden
city, to be called Vivian.
The contractors for the Kettle Valley
Railroad have announced that track laying will be completed by the middle of
June, and that thirty miles of the line
will be in operation a month later.
It is reported that the American Car
and Foundry Company of Pittsburg, proposes to establish near Port Mann a
great plant for the building of freight
cars and, eventually, for Pullman and
other high types of passenger coaches.
VICTORIA INDUSTRIES
The Canadian Pacific Railway plans
for repairs and extensions which will
involve the expenditure of over $14,000,-
000, the work taking in nearly every
division  in   British  Columbia.
The immigration agent of the Canadian Northern is now in England endeavoring to induce five thousand youn.g
women to come to British Columbia and
Alberta on the prospect of relieving the
loneliness of some of the thirty thousand
bachelor farmers in Western  Canada.
Fifty-five thousand acres of some of
the best agricultural- land in the Peace
River district have been sold through R.
W. Clarke to Eastern Canadians for a
figure in the neighborhood of $250,000.
The land, which has been purchased for
colonization purposes, lies to the south
of the Dominion Government reserve.
"Our manufacturing is rapidly increasing," said Ewing Buchan in his address
in retiring, in March, from the presidency of the Vancouver Board of Trade.
"Many new lines have been started during the last year, and careful estimates
indicate upward of $35,000,000 as the
output of the Province for 1911, as
against $30,000,000 in 1910."
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A charter has been granted by the
Dominion Government incorporating
the British Columbia Steel Corporation,
with a capital of $10,000,000. The plant
will be erected at Port Mann.
A pulp mill of about 200 tons capacity,
and employing about 3,000 men, the
damming of the Columbia River, the
erection of saw-mills at Revelstoke,
Arrowhead and throughout the Boundary country, involving an initial expenditure of several millions of dollars are
some of the projects of the Diamond
Mills Company and the Dominion
Securities Company for the coming
summer.
The $10,000,000 plant of the American
Car and Foundry Company will be built
at Port Mann. This announcement has
been positively made by A. P. Gillies.
Victoria syndicates have acquired the
control of 400,000 acres of land in Northern British Columbia, running from a
point thirty-five miles east of Stewart,
through the northern portion of the
Province, as far as the Peace River
Country. R. W. Clarke, who is acting
for these syndicates, says that numerous
colonization projects in that portion of
the Province will be undertaken during
the coming summer. The land in large
part is ideally adapted for agriculture.
The diversion of European emigration
from the United States to Canada is said
to be seriously affecting the Atlantic
steamship lines.
For a million dollars the Patrick Lumber Company conveyed to the British
Columbia Lumber Corporation, with
headquarters at Montreal, its mill at
Crescent Valley and nine thousand
acres of white pine, spruce and cedar on
the east and west branches of the little
Slocan River. These timber lands are
among the most valuable in the interior.
The sawmill's capacity on an ordinary
run is 30,000,000 per year.
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Contracts have been awarded by the
Canadian Northern Railway Company
amounting to $8,000,000 for grading on
main and new branch lines in the West
this year. The whole of the grading
work has been given over to two of the
largest firms in the country—the Northern Construction Company and the
Cowan Construction Company.
On behalf of an American and two
Winnipeg syndicates, H. P. Carper of
Winnipeg recently closed deals for the
purchase of approximately nine hundred
thousand acres of land in the Peace
River district of British Columbia. The
amount involved in the three transactions is about $5,000,000, the vendors
being the British Canadian Securities
Company and the Grand Trunk Lands
Company of Vancouver.
An English syndicate, it is reported, is
completing plans fort he building of a
chain of Canadian hotels, which will be
located at Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ottawa,
Toronto and Montreal, and each of
which will cost about a quarter of a million dollars.
Mayor Robinson of Kamloops, recently stated that he has had assurances
that the Canadian Northern Railway
Company will begin work this spring on
a spur into Kamloops, and that the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company will
spend five hundred thousand dollars on
changing their tracks from Main Street
to the river bank. Mr. Robinson has
said that at least two and a half million
dollars will be spent in Kamloops this
year on new railway and other construction.
During March, 1131 applications were
made to the Land Registry Office, an
increase of 256 over the same month of
last year. The fees were almost
doubled. For March of last year they
were $4,928.70. Last month they were
$8447.93.
It is estimated that the stand of merchantable timber, tributary to Revelstoke, is something like fifty billion feet,
and the recent advent of British capital,
culminating in the organization of the
Dominion Sawmills Company, promises
to give an additional stimulus to this
important industry. The new company
has acquired control of six sawmills located at Taft, Three Valley, Revelstoke,
Comaplix, Nelson and Cascade, possessing a total capacity of about 400,000 feet
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1911
The customs collections for March at
Westminster were $27,044,23 as against
less than $24,000 for the same month last
year. The outports were $16,403.90
against $7,028.49 for the same period in
1910.
The first quarter of the year showed
an increase of no less than forty-five per
cent, in the number of passengers
carried upon the Victoria lines of the
B. C. Electric Company. The growth of
passenger traffic over the corresponding
period a year ago is eloquent testimony
to the growth of population in Victoria.
The following officers were elected
last month at the annual meeting of the
Vancouver Board of Trade : President,
Mr. A. G. McCandless; vice-president,
Mr. F. L. Carter-Cotton. Council—
Messrs. W. H. Malkin, H. A. Stone, G.
Buchan, C. E. Tisdall, W. Godfrey, Aid.
Jonathan Rogers, A. B. Erskine, D. von
Cramer, F. T. Walker, R. P. McLennan,
James Ramsay, E. H. Heaps, Geo. J.
Telfer, Gilbert Blair and Walter Hepburn. The first twelve constitute a
Board of Arbitration.
The Canadian Pacific, on June 30,
1910, operated, direc^y and indirectly,
15,225 miles of railway, Tbesides sixteen
steamships on the Atlantic, four on the
Pacific trading to Japan and China, and
a large coast service on the Pacific and
on the lake^-and rivers of Canada. Its
gross earnings last year were $94,989,000,
and its net earnings $33,839,000; its fixed
charges were $9,916,000, leaving a
dividable surplus of $27,258,000. After
paying dividends at the rate of 7 1-2 per
cent, there was a net surplus undivided
of $13,896,000.
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A. E. AUSTIN & CO.
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328 Granville St.,  Vancouver, B. C.
LYNN
VALLEY
Lots, rough cleared, $300 and up; cash $25.00,
balance $10.00 monthly. .
We help you to build your house.
These lots are 35 minutes by car and ferry from
Vancouver. They are 500 ft. above sea level;
high, healthy and beautiful homesites.
Own your own homesite.
MERCHANTS TRUST & TRADING CO, Ltd.
PAID UP CAPITAL, $100,000.00
Branch Offices:
Cor- Pender and Burrard Sts.f VANCOUVER
LONDON, England
NEWCASTLE, England
and Lynn Valley, B, C,
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VANCOUVER, B. C
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LUMBER.   Laths, Shingles, and every kind of ouilding material.
Office  and  Factory :   2843   DOUGLAS   STREET, VICTORIA, B. C
BULLEN & LAMB
LATE BULLEN PHOTO CO.
Tlie Leading* House for
Commercial and Architectural Photography
Amateur Finishing and Enlarging.    Picture Framing
743 PENDER STREET WEST, 2 Doors from Orpheum Theatre
POIMT   QDPV    Choice Residence Property in any part of Point Grey.
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532 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C.
Dear Sirs:
Without obligating myself in any manner, please send me full particulars regarding your
ground floor Fruit Land Subdivision, showing an estimated net profit of 500%.
Date
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"Opportunities" Brokers' and Business Directory
tbe progressive Brokerage, Tinancial and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia.
SAMUEL    HARRISON    &   CO.
Brokers   and   Financial   Agents.       Agents
Stewart   Land  Co.,   Ltd.
Stewart, B.  C. Prince Rupert, B.  C.
A.   H.   HARMAN
Real   Estate
1317 Broad  St. - VICTORIA,  B.  C.
Phone 1918
ALFRED   M.   HOWELL
Customs   Broker,   Forwarding   Agent
Office—23   Promis   Block
Telephone   1501,   Res.   R1671
1006    Government    St.,    VICTORIA,    B. C.
Phone 815 P. O. Box 735
The City Brokerage
Real Estate, Timber and Fire Insurance
A. T. ABBEY, Manager
1218 Douglas St. VICTORIA, B. C.
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Mrsi Baker, Proprietress
723 YATES ST. Phone 2404
The only modern rooming house in town."
Steam heat, running hot and cold water and
telephones in all rooms. Newly furnished
throughout, and up-to-date in every respect.
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VICTORIA, B, C,
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LEONARD,    REID   &   CO.
Victoria Real Estate,
Vancouver  Island   Lands  and  Timber
420, 421   and  422  Pemberton   Block,
VICTORIA,   B. C.
SMITH  & SMITH
Real   Estate   and   Commission   Agents
P.   O.  Box  41
J.   H.  Smith W.   R.  Smith
Fourth    Ave.        -        -       STEWART, B. C.
ALFRED WILLIAMS
Construction  Engineer
Temporary Office
New   Metropolitan   Building
Hastings St. W.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
A. SCHUMACHER
Dealer in Clothing, Furnishings,
Sporting Goods
SUMAS,   -    -   WASH.
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C. W. FOSTER
R. McKELVIE
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Tailoring   Phone ism   Renovating
Suits  Sponged  and   Pressed for 75c.
One trial will make you a regular customer.
c   313 Gambie St,  Vancouver, B, C,   >
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And become a competent Stenographer in 30 days
You can accomplish this by correspondence.   Others
have done it.    You can too.    Price $25 for complete course.
BOYD'S SHORTHAND INSTITUTE
(late western business college)
709 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver, B. C.
GEORGE   LEEK
Real   Estate,   Notary  Public
Exchange Block, PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.
Real Estate Insurance Loans
Rooming Houses     Business Chances     Collections
JOHN M. PARK
GOLDEN RULE BROKERAGE
Phones:  Office 5346
Residence 2662
1117 Granville St.      Vancouver, B. C.
I Mrs. J. E. Elliott
Hand-made Goods a  Specialty
? The most Dp-to-Date Store
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j and everything needful for
Infants   and   Children.
Phone R313
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Real     Estate,     Insurance    and     Financial
Agents
P.   O.   Box  1535    PRINCE  RUPERT,   B. C.
Cable Address:  "Patrad"
C. ARTHUR  REA
Late  of Brandon,   Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc.
Law   Chambers,   VICTORIA,   B. C.
J. W.  POTTER
Architect and Structural engineer
Reinforced Concrete  a  Specialty
LaW--BUTLER BUILDING
PRINCE   RUPERT,   B.   e.
P. ©. BOX 271
HAMILTON    &    MYERS
We run an up-to-date Pool Room, Bowling
Alley and Shooting  Gallery
We also  carry a full line  of  Cigars,
Tobaccos   and   Confectionery
Specialties.
Opposite Oddfellows' Hall.
SUMAS       ------      WASH.
P.   O.   Box  247
Phone  178
T. J. POLLEY & CO.
Real     Estate,     Fire,    Life    and    Accident
Insurance.        Plate   Glass   Insurance.
Conveyancing.      Notaries.
Agents for Canadian Home Investment Co.
and  Commercial Loan and Trust Co. Ltd.
CHILLrWACK,  B.  C.
G. W. ARNOTT 8 GO.
Jfeal Gstate and Insurance
Drawer 1539    a*    Prince Rupert
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ALL DOUBLE CORNERS
I     f     LOTS 25 and 26, BLOCK 17, D. L. 391 and 392
I DOUBLE CORNER KNIGHT ROAD AND HORNE J
1   j|      iPrice for pair, $3750
Lots 26 and 27, Block 1, D.L. 710, Cor. Knight and McCarrigle Roads
1 Price for pair, $1800
Lots 1 and 2, Block 3, D. L. 200, Corner on Rosenberg Road
Easy terms to suit purchaser
Price for pair, $1150 |
Double corners any place are always great moneymakers. The lots offered here are all exceptionally well situated, par
ticularly the Knight Road lots. We are informed on reliable authority that the B. C. Electric Railway will run a car line to
Bodwell Road as soon as the property holders will give the land to widen the streets. Most of the owners have already signed
an agreement to do so. As soon as the announcement of the building of this* line is made, we will double the above prices
immediately, so if these choice corner lots appeal to you get busy and buy, as we will not hold the lowest prices open
more than ten days.
Latimer, Ney & JVLcTavish, Ltd.
419 Pender Street, Vancouver, B. C.
or
ANDREWS & SON, Eburne
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To-Day, Telephone 6109
The Shrewd Investor desires
Revenue Producing
Property.
See Harry Bett%
For Business Property
Fire, Life or Accident
Insurance.
Mortgages Bought and Sold
Loans Arranged.
All Business conducted on
strictly Commission Basis
J04 Robson Street      Vancouver, B. C.
Point Grey Land & Investment Go,
LIMITED
Have the largest list of the choicest lots
in the best parts of Point Grey, adjoining
the city limits, on the route of and close to
the Tenth Ave. and Clere Road carlines.
All lots are cleared, with stumps taken
out ready for building on.
Prices from $750 each
One quarter cash, balance 6, 12, 18 and
24 month's time.
BUY NOW
A. E. AUSTIN & CO.
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BROKER8
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PHONE8 9130, 9131
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the thin hair becomes thick again, but until then the toupee will add
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beauty. I also want to call your attention to the Face Laundry. This
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skin and improves the complexion wonderfully. You will be charmed
with it and its results. Sife »    -   III     KWIl
fl I have one of the best equipped establishments on the continent, and
have a very large stock of complexion creams, hair goods, and so on. I
do ajarge mail order business, and if you live out of town, I will be very
glad to give you valuable information in a letter.    Write to me.
MADAME  HUMPHREYS
723 Pender Street W.        the fairfield building      VANCOUVER, B. C.
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WESTERN SPECIALTY LIMITED
P. A. BIGGS
Phone 5938
P. H. MURPHY
314 Pender Street West
Mr. E. G. Parnell,
513 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, B. C.
Dear Sir:
We are pleased to advise we had a Victor Safe,
No. 14, which went through the hottest part of the
fire on Sycamore Street, starting at 2.30 on the morning of December 21st, and lasting two hundred and
thirty-four hours and forty-nine minutes. This safe
fell directly over a three-inch gas main which burst,
and we enclose clipping which might be of use to
you. The safe was taken from the ruins, opened
with combination first trial and contents found intact.
We are now located in our new quarters and
have, of course, another Victor Safe.
Yours truly,
(Sgd)    The TAYLOR-POOLE CO.
FORT GEORGE
V/4 Acre Blocks from $475
per Block
10% Cash, Balance $15.00 per Month
Writing from Fort George under
date of March 31st, 1911, a client
who has just gone up there and who
owns eight of the above ij4 acre
blocks, says: "Fort George is grand.
1% acre blocks are Great Buying and
perfectly level/'
Here is your opportunity—Invest
now.
Canadian National Investors
LIMITED
310 Hastings Street West
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Telephone 6488 Open Evenings
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Legal Work a Specialty
WINIFRED McKAY
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
Phone 5523
504-5 Crown Building Vancouver, B. C.
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The Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries, Limited
Controls 22 Square Miles of Rich Coal Lands
Will be one of the most active Properties in British Columbia.
Development work to be rushed forward with all despatch
and mines placed on paying basis.
The Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries, Limited, has been organized with a capital of
$1,500,000, divided into 1,500,000 shares, having a par value of $1.00 each.
The Company has been brought into being for the purpose of developing and placing on a
shipping basis 14,000 acres of coal lands situated on Graham Island.
The property of the Company is located directly opposite to Prince Rupert and distant
therefrom but 60 miles.
The output of coal and coke in British Columbia is not increasing as rapidly as the markets
demand. These demands are increasing yearly in excess of the supply, thereby maintaining regular
prices, with occasional advances, so that if the output goes on increasing rapidly for many years
to come, it will still find an open market.
San Francisco imports 200,000 tons of coal annually from Australia, Japan and British
Columbia.
British Columbia exported to the United States in 1908, over 500,000 tons of coal and over
35,000 tons of coke, while in 1910 the total tonnage of coal exported to the United States reached
over 700,000 tons.
Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, Seattle, Portland, and many other towns and cities
in the States of Oregon and California, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian Northern, Northern Pacific and several other great railway systems', consume enormous quantities
of coal annually.
Steamers running north have to carry sufficient coal for the round trip and large freight
steamers with cargoes for Prince Rupert and northern points have to make the run to Vancouver Island Collieries for coal, and with the further development of the North Pacific Coast, a
coal supply nearer than Vancouver Island is absolutely necessary.
The reader will therefore see at a glance that a colliery situated as is the property of The
Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries, Limited, will have an unlimited market for its output and is
surely in the pathway of large profits.
Shares in a well organized and honestly administered corporation such as The Prince
Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries, Limited, is without question, one of the safest and most profitable
investments on the market to-day.
The men at the back of The Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries, Limited, are men of substance, men who have made a success of their own business and men in whose hands the affairs
of  this  great  corporation will  be well  and  honestly taken care  of.
The Trustee of the Company, Mr. Frank R. Laing, is well and favorably known in Vancouver.
He is a man of irreproachable character and sterling integrity. The shareholders can rest assured
that their interests will be well looked after by Mr. Laing.
There remains but a small block of the 25 cent shares to be sold, and those desirous of acquiring an interest in this great co-operative company should send in their reservations at once, either
by letter or telegram.
These shares are being sold on such easy terms as 10 cents per share cash with application
and  the remainder in three  equal  monthly payments.     No interest.
Shares have a par value of $1.00 each and are non-assessable. When you have paid your 25
cents per share in full you will receive a certificate.
No application will be accepted for less than 100 shares.
Prospectus of the Company, maps, plans, etc., furnished free of charge on application to the
head office or to any of the Trustee's branch offices.
Direct your application and make your cheques, drafts or money orders payable to F. R.
Laing, Trustee.
The Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries, Limited
FRANK R. LAING, Trustee H
HEAD OFFICE: SUITE 39, BANK OF HAMILTON BUILDING.
(Corner Hastings and Hamilton Streets)
Vancouver, B. C,
Branch Offices:
VICTORIA, B. C.
NANAIMO, B. C.
KAMLOOPS, B. C.
JALLAND BROS., General Agents P. VAN HULLE, General Agent HARGRAVES & PARKER, General Agents
622 Johnson Street Herald Bldg., Commercial Street    (Kamloops & Fort George Realty Exchange'
All Offices open daily for sale of shares from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
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CONTENTS
MAY, 1911
Page
The Dawn of History on the Pacific     9
Oil for Steamships  11
Land for the Settler W. E. Play fair 12
Mildred Wright's Problem Ethel Cody Stoddard 14
Wealth From the  Sea  17
Community Advertising Chas. F. Rowland 18
The Young Stranger R. D. Clarke 19
Timber Claims More Valuable  19
House and Home—Wall Pictures. Beatrice McDowell 20
Doctoring Invalid Trees  21
Economizing Space  22
Beautifying a City  23
Opportunities in the Pen d'Orielle ,  24
Mineral Resources  26
Fruit Growing Districts of B. C  27
Diamonds in B. C  30
Oaks in Oak Bay Paid Victoria, B. C. (Illustration)  31
Opinions of Mary—The Householder Alice Ashworth Townley 32
Industrial Progress in British Columbia  33
The Rush to Steamboat  34
Happy Valley Lands—The Grower's Paradise  36
Canadian Northern Extension  37
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Farm Lands.
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All kinds of Insurance written.
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Port Mann
Here is the Chance You've Been Looking For
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36 Lots right in what will be the heart of the business section of P.ort Mann City.
Note the arrow.
Block 22, Section  11, Block 5, North, Range 2, West
Look at the map and note the ideal situation of this property.      It is one of the
very few blocks that is not owned by the Canadian Northern Railway.
4 Double Corner Lots 66x132, price $3,000
28 Inside Lots 33 feet wide, $1,250 each
Terms :    One quarter cash, balance 6, 12 and 18 months.     7  per cent,  interest.
T. H. McCORMICK
GENERAL   AGENT
613 Columbia Street Phone 927 NEW WESTMINSTER
S. G. ROBBINS, Branch Agent, Revelstoke, B. C.
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MAY, 1911
The Dawn of History on the Pacific
The West Coast of Vancouver Island Plays an Important Part
History Making Incidents of Many Years Ago §|
HN the western coast of Vancouver Island, and about midway
between the city of Victoria at
the south and Cape Scott at
the north, there is a deep indention known as Nootka Sound, shut in
from the Pacific Ocean by a large island
bearing the same name. An inner arm
of the Sound is known as Hope Bay. It
was here that history dawned on the
Canadian Pacific Coast one hundred and
thirty-three years ago. During more
than a century and a half before that
time there had been permanent settlement and organized government in a
considerable portion of the territory
forming Eastern Canada. The French
regime of one hundred and fifty-two
years, from the founding of Quebec by
Champlain in 1608 to the surrender at
Montreal by Vaudreuil in 1760, had
passed away, and Canada had been a
British possession for eighteen years
when the earliest explorer of our Pacific
Coast dropped anchor in Hope Bay„-
Nootka Sound. That explorer was the
famous Captain Cook, one of the most
illustrious of Britain's great navigators,
who from the days of Raleigh and Drake
sought out the unknown parts of the
earth and enlarged the bounds of
civilization.
It was in the summer of 1776—the
summer following the defence of Quebec
by Carleton—that Captain Cook set sail
from England on his third and last voy-
age. The expedition, which was fitted
out by the British Admiralty for the
purpose of obtaining geographical know
ledge, consisted of two small ships, the
"Resolution" of 462 tons burden and 112
men, and the "Discovery" of 300 tons
burden and 80 men. To-day it would be
thought almost madness for men to set
out on a voyage half-way round the
world in vessels of the size that Captain
ing the coast of this continent rough
weather was encountered, and when the
western coast of Vancouver Island was
reached the ships put into the first available harbor in order that repairs might be
made. That harbor was Hope Bay,
Nootka  Sound.
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THE FATE OF AN OLD TIMER
Cook commanded. Although the expedition sailed from England in the summer
of 1776, it did not reach the shores of
British Columbia until March, 1778,
much time having been spent in visiting several South Sea islands, including
Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand,
leaving sheep, goats and pigs on them
for breeding purposes.   When approach-
The ships had no sooner anchord than
they were surrounded by canoes filled
with natives who seemed anxious to
welcome the strangers, but who at first
would not go on board the vessels. The
fame of the arrival of the visitors
traveled far and fast, for on the following day as many as five hundred canoes
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carrying, on an average, five persons.
There was much speech-making, which,
of course, was not understood by Cook's
party, and there was singing by the
natives, which, relates the narrative of
the voyage, "was far from harsh or disagreeable."
Upon better acquaintance the natives
went on board and then the white men
learned that their guests were most
expert thieves, although, strange to say,
very honest in trade. For barter with
the whites the natives brought valuable
furs of various kinds, such as the skins
of bears, wolves, foxes, deer, raccoons,
and in particular the pelts  of sea-otter.
cannibalism was practiced among these
Pacific Coast natives.
Captain Cook and a party from the
ships visited several native villages,
which, as a rule, consisted of a number
of large houses, each containing several
families. The methods of curing and
drying the fish were explained to the
visitors, mats were spread for the party
to sit on, and every mark of civility
shown.
In describing the appearance of the
natives the narrative states that "both
men and women are so encrusted with
paint and dirt that their color could not
positively be determined.    The children,
coast of British Columbia, and in the
following January, he reached the Sandwich Islands, and there in the following
month the voyage of his life came to a
tragic end. A number of his crew landed.
One of their boats was stolen by natives,
and while assisting his men to recover it
the great explorer was killed.
In another and somewhat curious way
Captain Cook is connected with Canadian history, and in this case with the
history of Eastern Canada. It will be
remembered that when the Province of
Upper Canada was created in , 1791,
Colonel John Graves Simcoe came out as
the first Lieutenant-Governor of the then
GOLD MINING AT SOMBRIO RIVER, PORT RENFREW DISTRICT, VANCOUVER ISLAND
They also brought garments made of
furs, a cloth made by weaving the fibres
of the bark of the cedar; also weapons,
beads, and ornaments of metal shaped
like a horse-shoe, which they wear suspended from their noses.
" But," continues the narrative, " the
most extraordinary of all the articles
which they brought to the ships for sale
were human skulls and hands, not yet
quite stripped of the flesh, which they
made our people plainly understand they
had eaten; and indeed some of them had
evident marks that they had been upon
the fire."     From   this   it   appears   that
whose skins have never been stained by
paint or discolored by smoke, are nearly
as fair as Europeans."
Having completed the repairs to his
ships Cook sailed away to survey the
northern coast. He followed it to
Behring Strait which he crossed to the
Asiatic side. He thus ascertained the
width of the strait separating America
from Asia. Although the navigator,
Behring, after whom the strait is named,
had sailed through it before, owing to
mist and thick weather, he had not seen
the American coast.
In March, when Cook arrived off the
backwoods province. At first he established his capital at Newark, the Niagara
of to-day, soon removing it to Toronto,
which he re-named York. The place
contained no suitable residence, and for
a couple of winters he and his family
lived in a canvas house which he had
purchased from Captain Cook in London
several years before coming out to
Canada.
After the death of Captain Cook his
ships returned to England, arriving
there in October, 1780. The report they
brought back added greatly to geographical knowledge and laid the foundation
of the Pacific fur trade. 1911
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Several of the officers who served
under Cook continued the explorations
he had begun, and in the early history
of British Columbia are preserved the
names of many of them, such as
Vancouver, Broughton, Bligh, Burney
and Dixon. Knowledge of the profit to
be made in the fur trade of the North
Pacific Coast spread rapidly, and a spirit
of adventure and commerce was created.
In 1786 four expeditions were organized
in different parts of the globe to engage
in this new trade, without any knowledge of each other's designs. The
pioneer in connection with this new
enterprise was Captain James Hanna.
His vessel of only seventy-two tons burden, with a crew of thirty men, was fitted
out in China in 1784 by an English merchant. In August of the following year
he arrived at Nootka, where Cook had
been before him. In comparison with
Cook's ships, Hanna's little vessel looked
to the natives small and weak. Encouraged by appearances they attacked
Hanna and his small crew, but they were
speedily repulsed. Hanna then purchased
a cargo of sea-otter skins which he disposed of in China at a profit of $26,000.
He returned in the following year, but
two British ships having arrived before
him, he did not find trade so good as on
his first visit. And so the trade grew,
every season finding British ships on the
Coast buying furs from the natives.
Among the many ship-captains who
contributed to the foundation of British
Columbia's trade, one of the most remarkable was Captain John Mears of
the Felice, a vessel of two hundred and
thirty tons burden, a mere yacht in comparison with the vessels of to-day. Mears
did a number of things worthy of note,
and some of historical importance. One
was to bring Chinese to the Pacific
Coast. That was in 1788. The question
of Oriental immigration is, therefore,
more than one hundred years old.
The Felice had a companion ship, the
Iphigenia, commanded by Captain Douglas, and the crews of both vessels comprised mechanics, Chinese smiths and
carpenters, as well as European artisans.
"The Chinese," writes Meares, "were
shipped as an experiment ; they have
been generally esteemed a hardy and industrious as well as ingenious race of
people. They live on rice and fish, and,
requiring but low wages, it was a matter
of economical consideration to employ
them, and during the whole voyage there
was every reason to be satisfied with
their services." That voyage from China
to Nootka occupied almost four months.
The natives in canoes came out to
inspect Meares' ships in much the same
manner as when Captain Cook was there.
Two of their chiefs went on board, one
of whom, wrote Meares in his rather
quaint style, "had a fine open arrangement of features.    The inferior   people
were very proper and personable men.
A sealskin filled with oil was immediately handed on board, of which the chiefs
took a small quantity, and they ordered
it to be returned to the people in the
canoes, who soon emptied the vessel of
this luxuriant liquor."
Meares promptly set his artisans, both
Chinese and European, to work constructing a house to be used by those
whom he would leave at Nootka, and to
form a headquarters for his trading
operations. The house was surrounded
by a breastwork on which was mounted
a small cannon.
out with clearness and strength showing
the brave Captain to have been as clever
the Pacific Coast/ The negotiations
dragged on for some time and both
nations prepared for war which, however, was happily averted by an understating being reached. Spain agreeing
to make compensation for the loss inflicted by the raid at Nootka, and Britain
undertaking to prevent British subjects,
with the pen in stating a case as he was
in navigating a ship or in bartering with
the aborigines.
The     British     Government   promptly
took up the matter, and this opened   up
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The next undertaking was the building
of a vessel—the first built on our
Pacific Coast — and christened the
"North-West America." It was of forty
tons burden, and in its construction the
Chinese carpenters were employed.
Two of Meares' ships traded along the
coast, one to the north and the other to
the south, and, having collected a cargo
of furs, it was sent to China to be sold.
In the following year, 1789, an outrage
occurred which for a time paralyzed
British trade on the northwest Pacific
Coast and nearly brought about a war
between Great Britain and Spain. The
latter country, having acquired Louisiana from France, set up the preposterous
claim of ownership of the Pacific Coast
along which the English captain's ships
had been trading with the natives. In
May Spanish warships arrived at Nootka
and seized Meares' ships on the ground
that they had been poaching on the territorial waters of Spain. In a lengthy
memorial Captain Meares laid his case
before the British Government, annexing
a statement of damages which in all he
estimated at over six hundred thousand
dollars. The memorial was exceedingly
well written and every point was brought
the whole question of Spain's rights to
who were engaged in the fishing industry in the South Seas from carrying on
an illicit trade with the Spanish settlements.
OIL FOR STEAMSHIPS
The announcement that the "Princess
May" had recently started on her initial
trip for the north, equipped with oil
burning apparatus, means the inauguration of a policy on the part of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which
will eventually extend throughout the
entire system of its steamship service.
The demand for crude oil by the general
adoption of such a policy will be enormous. It adds further incentive to prospectors and others interested in oil lands
on the coast. There are many indications on the coast of British Columbia
and on the islands that would lead to
the belief that oil will be found in large
quantities. Numerous sections of land
have been staked with this in view, and
we believe one party has drills in operation for that purpose on Graham Island,
the outcome of which is eagerly awaited
by many people. Page 12
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Land for the Settler
Where the Settler May Find Land or Pre-emption in British
Columbia, and Some of its Characteristics
By W. E. Playfair
RITISH COLUMBIA has been
represented as being, and as a
matter of fact is, a Land of
Opportunity. The investor has
here a field of endless variety,
lumber, mines, fisheries, lands, all the
varied resources with which Nature can
bless   a   fortunate   land.     Getting   back,
The soil of these areas is as rich as the
soil of the prairie provinces at their best.
Let this idea percolate. It is the text of
this sketch of the Central Interior.
Until three or four years ago but little
was known of the great country drained
by the Fraser, the Nechaco, and the
upper waters of the Peace rivers.      The
that had lain idle for so long sprang into
prominence. Men began to inquire what
manner of country it was, and, finding
no other way to answer the question,
went up to see for themselves. They
discovered a vast inland empire, level,
well drained, traversed by great navigable   rivers,  rich   soil,  an  equable  cli-;
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however, to first principles, to the truest
source of wealth, British Columbia is
also the promised land of the farmer.
We have been accustomed to think
that, with the boundless wealth of British
Columbia in other directions, she could
afford to leave to provinces farther east
supremacy in agriculture. We claimed
leadership in fruit-growing, but not in
general soil culture. Whether we admit
it or not, we have been somewhat swayed
by the general. misinformation that led
one writer to describe British Columbia
as a "sea of mountains."
British Columbia has vast, compact
areas of arable land, even as have
Alberta,  Saskatchewan,   and   Manitoba.
fur trader knew it, and occasional exploratory parties passed through it, this way
and that. Government bulletins dealt
with it under the title of the "New British Columbia," but in a manner so vague
and contradictory as to be altogether
valueless. There was no exact information to be had of the district, and, being
somewhat busy on more pressing matters, the People of British Columbia did
not seek for any.
Then came a sudden change. The new
transcontinental railroad, the Grand
Trunk Pacific, came along, and, in its
sweep to the Pacific, its line was projected through the very heart of the
Central   Interior.     At   once   the   region
mate.   Some of them returned to "boost'
the Central Interior as the "best British
Columbia of all."
The British Columbia Government has
officially recognized the agricultural possibilities of this great region. That the
land speculator recognized this also is
evident by the recent action of the Government in reserving from purchase
practically all the land, in order to prevent the speculator from cornering it.
The Government is proceeding systematically to survey the reserved land and
throw it open to pre-emption, with the
idea of giving the bona fide settler every
possible advantage. 1911
At present a block of surveyed land
including 200,000 acres is available to the
pre-emptor in the Central Interior. This
is the largest and best block of surveyed
agricultural land in British Columbia.
Another block of equal area in the same
district will at once be surveyed and
thrown open. This land lies north of the
Nechaco River at Fort George, between
the Salmon and Stuart Rivers. It was
surveyed during the season of 1910 by
Messrs. Green Brothers & Burden for
the British Columbia Government. The
land is surveyed into sections, with a
post at each of the four corners of the
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the same latitude as the British Isle. The
climate is singularly delightful, extremes
of temperature not being as great as
those met with on the prairies. In summer the days are warm, but never oppressively so, while the nights are cool
enough, as a rule, to make a blanket
a welcome companion. Diaries kept for
many years at Hudson's Bay posts
throughout the district contain no record
of excessive rainfall, or the lack of sufficient moisture. The winter months may
be described as remarkably mild for this
latitude, although the thermometer occasionally  takes   a   big   drop   for   a   short
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of this country was the bed of a vast,
stagnant lake. The silt is often white,
and is easily pulverized, with not a particle of grit in it. In some instances it
has been found to be forty feet in depth.
The luxuriant growth prevailing everywhere attests the producing qualities of
this soil.
The problem of clearing is an easy one
to solve in the Central Interior. Dense
forests of fir such as we know in the
vicinity of Vancouver are unknown there,
and one fire is enough to take off the
timber growth. Years ago a destructive^
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section and one in the center, thus allowing a person to pick out his quarter-section and know exactly what land he is
getting.
A good many factors enter into the
making of a rich farming country. The
climate is to be considered, the nature
of the soil, the clearing, water supply,
transportation and markets. A glance
at these various phases of the Central
Interior may prove interesting to some.
First, as to climate. Because Fort
George is north of Vancouver some hundreds of miles, it is not fair to argue
that the former city is in the Arctic
region. The land now offered for preemption  in  the Fort George District is in
period. Even at such times, however, the
cold is not penetrating, owing to the
dryness of the atmosphere. Livestock
may be wintered in the open on the natural pasturage, and come through sleek
and fat, but the custom of the Indians is
generally to provide enough hay for
three months' feeding.
Coming next to the soil, the country
passes muster well in this regard also.
Although the rivers of the Central Interior generally flow between high-cut
banks of gravel, it is a peculiar fact that
once the river banks are left the soil
changes to a deep silt with clay subsoil.
It is evident that at one time a great part
country north of the Nechaco and the
heavy timber disappeared, except in
scattered sections. In some places a
light growth of poplar, balsam and
spruce has sprung up, but in others the
land is open meadow, with a heavy vegetation of pea-vines, nutritious grasses of
all kinds, wild flowers and small fruits.
In some instances this vegetation grows
to such a height as almost to obstruct
progress through it.
The great problem of the Central Interior, transportation, is about to be
solved. The lack of transportation has
been the one factor that has kept the
country back so long, and  the  coming Page 14
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of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway will
afford ample transportation. Many other
railroads are projected through the country as well, but the transcontinental will
upon its completion at once bring a
market to the farmers' doors.
Before the completion of the railroad,
however, a market is already assured,
and a generous one. Owing to the fact
that only a minute proportion of the
entire Central Interior is under cultivation, the supplying of food to an army
of railroad builders during the next few
years will afford a lucrative and useful
industry for the men who now take up
pre-emptions north of the Nechaco. It
is estimated that over $100,000,000 will
be expended in railway construction
alone in the Central Interior in the next
five years. This great sum spells prosperity for the farmer, who can command
the very highest prices for his products.
This surveyed area now open for pre-^
emption is, thanks to the recent action of
the Government in appropriating the sum
of $65,000 for the purpose, to be well
supplied with roads. A Government ferry
is being constructed across the Nechaco
from Fort George, and from this roads
are being opened through various parts
of the district. This will bring the settler into close touch with Fort George,
which is to be the metropolis of the
Central Interior. Without doubt the
proximity of these lands to what is destined to become a large city will cause
them to increase in value greatly in a
very few years.
At present, and until the coming of the
Grand Trunk Pacific, Ashcroft, on the
main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, is the gateway of the Central Interior. From Ashcroft there is a wagon
road to Fort George, and from May 1st
to October 1st there is excellent steamboat transportation from Soda Creek to
Fort George on the Upper Fraser.
In conection with these Government
lands it is always well to remind the pro
spective pre-emptor of the scarcity and
high cost of supplies in the Central Interior, facts which make it advisable for
him to go in provided with some cash '
money. Owing to the difficulty of getting
freight into the country from Ashcroft,
the cost of transportating supplies is
about six cents a pound. That renders
machinery, as well as the ordinary
staples, extremely expensive. This is in
a large measure offset by the high prices
farm products command, six cents a
pound for potatoes being one instance on
record.
Another feature that will work in favor
of the settler is the fact that he will be
able to get work to do at good wages
on railroad construction during the time '
he can spare from working his land. This
will enable many energetic men whose
capital is small to get a footing on their
holdings until one or two crops will
have started them well on their way to
fortune.
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MILDRED WRIGHT'S PROBLEM
By Ethel Cody Stoddard
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.      . IHF.RF,   is   something   troubling
! you,  Miss  Wright.    Can  I  do
anything for you?" Mrs.
Morrison's glance had taken in
the new pucker on Mildred
Wright's brow as she sewed that
afternoon.
"Something very much the matter, I
am afraid, Mrs. Morrison," replied
Mildred.
There was indeed cause for the new
wrinkle on Mildred's brow. She had been
taken that morning from her sewing to
consult an occulist and his .verdict had
been that she must stop her present
work and be out in the air as much as
possible. Mildred was not as young as
she might be and the prospect of having
to give up the one thing she knew how to
do well, frightened her. But her eyes
pained her a great deal and she knew
that some relief must come to them at
once.
"Oh, dear! That is too bad! But
whatever am I going to do without you?"
exclaimed Mrs. Morrison when Mildred
had told her what the eye-specialist had
said.
Mildred smiled sadly.
"But what are you going to do; how
make your living?" continued Mrs. Morrison a few minutes later.
Tears filled Mildred's eyes. "Indeed I
can't set my mind to think of that part
yet. Oh, I don't know what I shall ever
do." She threw down her work as she
burst into sobs.
During the week that followed Mildred
Wright finished her work for Mrs. Morrison and cancelled her booked engagements with other customers to do their
spring sewing. On the whole they were
very kind, and when they understood the
situation made no serious complaint.
With a pride that was characteristic of
her, Mildred did not tell people what her
future prospects were. She felt that she
must fight her own battles.
The night after she finished her work
at Mrs. Morrison's she took account of
what money she had on hand. Recent
illness had depleted her little savings,
and the occult's bill reduced her worldly
possessions to just eighteen dollars. This
startled her, but as the specialist had
warned her against worry, she tried to
be brave.
"I'll buy a newspaper in the morning,"
she said to herself. "And in the meantime I'll go to bed early, rest my eyes,
and get a good night's sleep if I can."
Thanks to her will power she was able
to do as she planned, and woke in the
morning quite ready to face whatever
was in store for her.
She went out early and bought a
newspaper and took it back to her little
room. She looked it over and over but
could find nothing that offered any sort
of outside work. Then she went out and
bought a newspaper of the evening before. This seemed not to offer anything
better than did the morning journal. She
was almost discouraged when her eyes
caught this advertisement:
"WANTED—Ladies and gentlemen to sell property. Good
commission. Apply Blank &
Co., Front Street."
Now, Mildred Wright knew as much
about real estate as a bird does about
sawing wood, but the tone of the advertisement savored of the open air, and
that was what she must have. She therefore took her courage in her hands and
set out for the office mentioned in the
newspaper.
As it happened the property in question was a subdivision, and the lots were
being sold at a very low price. The commission given was excellent indeed; it
even appealed to Mildred, who knew '
nothing of such things.
"I'll try it for a month," she finally
told the agent.
"And I am sure you will make good,"
answered the man. "Come to me at any
time and I will give you all the informa- 911
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tion I possibly can, and help you in any
way that I am able."
He then supplied her with maps and
details, and she went away from the
office quite light-hearted.
Mildred's first move was to go and see
the property she was intending to try
and sell. It required some trouble and a
good deal of walking, but the fresh air
was a joy and her enthusiasm kept her
heart light. She planned as she walked,
and as such planning was a new experience, it became a pleasure.
The next day Mildred was up early.
As she ate her breakfast she went over
her plan of campaign. A thorough canvass of her recent customers and a few
of her friends whom she thought might
be interested, was what she intended to
do first,
"I have been over the ground and I
know just what it is like," she assured
Mrs. Alexander. "You can see for yourself that the property is very reasonable
in price, and it can undoubtedly be
turned over and net you a nice little
sum."
The result of her first call was that
when she left Mrs. Alexander, that lady
had promised to take a lot.
Much elated, Mildred went to another
customer, Mrs. Mills. But real estate
was far from Mrs. Mills' plans and she
would not even look at the maps.
Mildred called on half a dozen other
recent customers of hers, but with no
result. Some of them were almost insulted ; some were nice, but could not
be persuaded    Mildred  looked longingly
"How are you getting on?" asked the
friend.
"Not so badly," hedged Mildred, afraid
lest tears of disappointment would betray her.
"Well, I've been thinking over what
you told me the other day. I wonder if
I could see that property?"
"I'll take you to it," answered Mildred.
And the two were soon tramping over
the sub-division. The result was that a
sale was made, the agreement signed and
the first payment made that day.
The following day Mildred made a
house to house canvass, with the result
that in two instances she was asked to
come back in the evening when the man
of the house would be at home. This
sort of thing went on for a couple of
weeks, and at the end of them she   had
A FREIGII TRAIN IN THE NORTHERN INTERIOR OF B. C.
It was with some considerable trepidation in her heart that she made her first
call. Mrs. Alexander was an old customer of hers and was more or less pleased,
to see Mildred. But her eyes widened
when "Miss Wright, the seamstress,"
commenced talking real estate.
"But, my dear Miss Wright, I don't
want to buy any property;   I can't."
"Never mind that, just please look at
this map." Mildred spread the blueprint out on a table and in a few minutes
was surprising even herself with her
convincing arguments.
back at Mrs. Alexender and wondered
how she had ever persuaded her to make
a purchase.
Two weeks went by and she had not
made a cent. And to make matters
worse she had only eight dollars to bless
herself with.
-"I don't know what I am going to do,"
she said to the real estate agent, Mr.
Blank. "But I will stay with it for two
weeks more."
As Mildred left the office she ran
across a friend with whom she had talked
a week before.
eighty dollars commission coming to her.
It had not been won easily, however, and
she realized that every dollar had been
well earned.
One day shortly after she met a man
on the street whom she knew. He
stopped her and asked how she was and
What she was doing.
"I can give you a tip," he assured her.
"Go to Brown & Co. and ask them for
their lists. Use my name. You don't
have to stick to one firm."
This was a new idea to Mildred and
she grasped it quickly.      She went im- Page 16
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1911
111 < - < I i:111 -1 v to the real estate firm, explained her position and eventually got
their lists. This gave her a new outlook
and new interests.
As in the former case, so she did in
this one. She went and looked at the
lots that she thought she could sell. And,
too, she kept to the smaller priced ones.
Experience is an excellent teacher, and
every day Mildred learned something.
She kept up her house to house canvass,
kept her ears open for possible purchasers and followed quickly every possible chance that came her way.
All that summer she kept hard fit ii,
and though she averaged twenty dollars
One day, while in an office, a good
piece of property was thrown on the
market. 11 seemed too good to the
clerk who took it in to let it go by. The
result was that six of the office staff, including Mildred Wright, put up a
certain sum each and made the first
payment on the property. Mildred was
so excited she could hardly stand still.
She was a property owner.
"There, Miss Wright, take it and sell
it j the whole commission is yours if you
do. We will all try, but you have your
chance,   said the head clerk.
By sheer good luck Mildred was able
to   sell   the   property,   and,   beside her
every bit of information she could. If
she had a lot to sell she could always tell
her customers just why it was better
than other buys and what its special
qualifications were. In this way she
gained the confidence of those who
dealt with her, and earned any recommendation they might give of her to
others.
As time went on she kept buying property for herself and re-selling it. This
gave her the full commission and equity
for her own and helped materially., In
three years' time she had a nest-egg in
the shape of good property and a first
mortgage or two.
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a week, she had but three evenings to
herself <luring all that time. It was not
easy work, nor yet was it very difficult,
and, on the other hand, her eyes were
much stronger from their long rest. The
life out of doors put new vigor into her.
11 was indeed a new existence and one
that made her glad to be alive.
She made herself known to several
firms, and soon won their confidence.
What she sold for them meant half commission, and at th:n nine meant much to
her.
commission, reaped in the profits. This
put her well on her feet, and her delight
knew no bounds.
After that she worked hard, and every
day s experience kept her up to the mark.
She was from time to time able to go in
with others on "good buys, and once or
twice she bought on her own money.
One thing she made a rule to do was
to go and see every bit of property she
had for sale. She never misrepresented
things.    She was alert, and picked. up
To-day she is a rich woman; lives in a
cozy flat; works when she feels like it—
to keep herself occupied—and is very
contented, and, withal, is a real, not a
made-out-of-the-brain women. Her property is increasing steadily in value, and
she has no reason to .apprehend the
future. She takes trips to other countries; has no one to dictate to her; indulges in charity work, and says she
grows younger every day. And it is all
because she graped an opportunity when
it came her way—and remained with it. 1911
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Wealth From the Sea
Harvest of the Pacific Coast Fisheries Last Year $40,000,000
British Columbia's Share Enormous
S1 OME striking figures on the
extent and ramifications of the
Pacific Coast fishing industry
are furnished in the annual
number of the "Pacific Fisherman" which has just been published in
Seattle. According to this publication
the fishing industry of the Pacific Coast,
a capital of $6,823,852 employed on the
fishing industry of this Province, requiring the labor of 19,500 persons, with their
earnings totalling $5,580,000. In all the
economic value of the industry of the
Pacific Coast is represented by its employment of 58,826 men, and. its wage
contributions  of $18,000,000 annually.
duces in pounds, 55,542,400; Oregon, 18,-
161,000; California, 4,884,800; Alaska,
1,200,000, and British Columbia, 2,500,000.
Lots of Halibut.
Halibut ranks next, with 53,006,376
pounds, valued at $2,650,880. Of this
total   British   Columbia   contributes   22,-
WHALES AND WHALING AT VANCOUVER ISLAND, B. C.
including Alaska, British Columbia,
Washington, Oregon and California, produced in the year 1910 the enormous
amount of 523,391,601 pounds of food
fishes and fish products, valued at $39,-
706,400, or enough meat to sustain an
army of a million men in the field on a
ration of one pound a day for a year and
a half.
British Columbia's Big Share.
Of the total amount, British Columbia
contributed $8,602,306, which represented
Big Salmon  Haul.
A study of the production by varieties
of fish used for food purposes is as striking as the total. The production of
canned salmon leads with 4,310,082 cases
of forty-eight pound cans, valued at
$23,024,825. Alaska produces the largest
quantity — 2,387,814 cases, valued at
$13,132,977, and British Columbia next,
762,201 cases, valued at $4,192,105. Next
in value is the production of fresh salmon, amounting to 82,198,200 pounds,
valued   at  $4,578,479.    Washington   pro-
500,000 pounds, valued at $1,125,000
against Washington's state production of
30,506,376, valued at $1,525,880. Mild
cured salmon comes fourth in the list,
with 23,045 tierces, weighing about 850
pounds each, and valued at $2,074,050.
For British Columbia the total in mild
cured salmon is 1,638 tierces, valued at
$147,420. The other great fish food products, such as salt and dried salmon, herring, oysters, and other shell-fish, make
up the total quoted, namely: A value
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products, oil and guano and the products
of the fur seal rookeries which are to be
subtracted to get the actual value of fish
food products to be credited to the
Pacific fisheries.
Most Varied Fishing.
To   British   Columbia  is  given  credit
for showing a more varied industry than
any other district on the coast with the
exception of Alaska, for having the most
valuable halibut fisheries in the world;
for her herring fisheries in the vicinity
of Nanaimo, not being eclipsed on the
coast; for her whale fisheries off the
west coast of Vancouver Island having
proved  a  remarkable  source  of  wealth
and putting her at the head of the list
in this respect.
Nearly  $40,000,000
With an annual production of natural
wealth of nearly forty millions dollars,
the fishing industry of the Pacific Coast
is surely one of the richest of the many
resources of this coast.
Community Advertising
By Chas. F. Rowland
^N the advertising of a community, whether it be a federal or
provincial, a city, a town or
district, there are three things
that make for success and
those are: First, Organization; second,
Funds; third, Management. I think you
will agree with me when I say that community advertising is a big business.
Federal, provincial and municipal executives, in Canada and the United States,
are all out to improve along agricultural,
commercial and industrial lines, and
every effort is coupled with the expenditure of large sums for advertising.
Figures compiled by a central bureau
show that in 1910 $7,500,000 was expended by cities and districts in the
United States alone. Last year the
Dominion Government appropriation
was $900,000, and for this year $1,150,000
are the figures in the preliminary estimates. The several provincial appropriations this year for immigration and
advertising will exceed half a million
dollars, and that will be supplemented
by even a greater sum by the three
Canadian transcontinental railway systems.
Canadian cities and towns will add to
the publicity fund for advertising this
year, another quarter-million, which
makes a probable total of $2,350,000 for
community advertising for the year 1911.
Advertising a Necessary Thing.
The question arises, is it necessary, is
it business, that such a sum be invested
in the general advertising of our resources and possibilities? The answer is
Yes. Wipe that appropriation for federal, provincial and municipal advertising off the slate to-day, and where would
Canada stand in the eyes of the nations
of the world?   j
It is as absolutely necessary for any
community that would be great to maintain its merits before the public with a
thoroughly organized system, as for any
big commercial  enterprise  to  invest in
advertising space to profitably market
their merchandise. People can be drawn
into a country, a province, a city or district in the same manner as we see so
effectively employed in drawing them
into a store.
That community advertising has
proved effective is easily shown by the
cities, towns and districts in Western
Canada that have organized for that
purpose.
Getting back to our general subject
again, I might say that to-day there is
probably not a town of any importance
—surely none with ambition—that has
not a live Board of Trade and a publicity
organization. As I have pointed out, the
railway companies, the Federal and Provincial Governments believe in advertising and are to-day doing a great work
for Western Canada.
In replying to enquiries regarding the
agricultural resources we cannot arid do
not discriminate between any outside
districts. Here is the real basis and
reason for community advertising—here
is positive proof that cities, towns and
districts should direct attention to their
special advantages.
The work of the railways, of the governments and of the city of Winnipeg
and the work of advertismg.^_a^ty district all work hand in $a>nd. Without
>the former you could g££*4ittle results,
but with this great combination, pulling
men, money and brains into the country,
cities have an opportunity in getting results at a minimum cost.
Handling  the   Campaign.
Under management comes the man
behind the gun. This man has simply
got to make good to successfully handle
a campaign of this kind. He must be a
thoroughly good organizer, a past
master as a press agent and in this connection his newspaper experience will
help him a lot. As a promoter he will
find something doing all the time, and
last, but most important, must be a suc
cessful man on design and copy. How
to create a home spirit, to kindle it, and
keep it alive, and to smoulder out the
pessimist, are points that test his ability
as a manager.
System in handling the daily correspondence so as to properly classify and
key and follow up all enquiries, is a
requisite.
This man should be under ^salary—
well paid in fact—in order that the
responsibilities for success shall rest
upon him and find warrant for doing so
in the pay he gets.
Persistent effort must also be made to
secure a better combination of business
interests on the part of local firms in
order to keep money in circulation at
home.
Your office must also be equipped to
perform the functions of a free information bureau, open to all visitors and citizens, where information calculated to be
useful to business men, can be found
tabulated and  filed.
Convention delegates and the more
important visitors to the district should
be subjects of tactful and untiring attention on the part of the manager and committees in charge, and tours of the district should be organized on their behalf.
How to Advertise.
Booklets and pamphlets concerning
your community should be profusely
illustrated, the subjects carefully chosen
and a new standard set by which you
will achieve a high reputation for cleverness and taste in your advertisements.
Let your souvenirs and printed matter
go directly into interested hands. There
is one way to get par value for the literature you send out, and that is to advertise in newspapers and magazines for the
people you wish to reach. You may
employ agencies other than these you
reach by direct advertising, but let them
be side issues and not interrupt the
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The Young Stranger
By R. D. Clarke
"Have you ever been to Victoria?" I
asked of the young stranger by my side.
"No; I have not," he answered, "but I
am on my way. I have heard so much
about Victoria, have seen so many pictures of the City and Vancouver Island
that I could withstand the lure no longer
and do trust that I shall not be disappointed in my mind-pictures of the
place.
Now, place yourself in the same position as this young stranger was. He
said that he had "heard so much about
Victoria," "had seen so many pictures of
the City and Vancouver Island that he
could withstand the lure no longer." He
also hoped that he would not be disappointed by the mind-pictures he had
drawn of the place. Disappointed, did I
say? Well, pardon me, I certainly have
made an error. To be disappointed in
Victoria is impossible, even though you
be a hardened skeptic. Yes, your nature
must be void of all that which tends to
make life worth living; beauty and happiness go hand in hand in this City of
Victoria. Why, even the worst hated
crank feels that at last he has found a
place to stop, where everything is as it
should be.
The entrance to the harbor is simply
grand and beautiful, and as your boat
winds its way to the dock you begin to
realize that Victoria is all that is claimed
for it, and is indeed "The City Beautiful."
As for the young stranger who had pictured the city in his mind, he was more
than satisfied when his gaze fell upon the
city, and after going to the hotel and
securing a room that gave him a broad,
sweeping view of the bay, he was satis-
vfied that he had not been disappointed in
his "mind pictures."
Some years ago, when Victoria was
spoken of, many were wont to say, " Oh,
yes, a beautiful, old-fashioned English
city, but, goodness, it is quiet." To-day
you don't hear these same people express
themselves as they did some years ago.
No, indeed, you hear them say, Oh !
Victoria, yes, that is a real live town, and
believe me, you have to go a long way to
beat it.
Now you are asking yourself what has
made this change in a few years. Well,
first of all, Victoria would always have
remained a beautiful city, because man
could not change the works of God, but
man now has made beautiful the parts of
the city that the all-wise Father did not
deem necessary. The inner harbor, for
instance, is now made so that the deepest
draught vessels can berth within a
stone's throw of the Empress Hotel.
Man has filled the erst-while tide lands
and built streets, made lawns, planted
shrubs and beautiful flowers in the spot
where the canoes of Indians used to
land. These improvements, with new
driveways, new hotels, new harbor improvements, and new buildings on the
business streets have earned for Victoria
the title of "The City Beautiful."
Now, how, we wonder, did the young
stranger read about Vancouver Island.
Years ago one did not meet many people
who had read very much about Vancouver Island. Why should this young
stranger say that he had done so.
The answer is simple.
The loyal citizens of Victoria and the
sturdy pioneers of the Island got together and builded for themselves an
organization that is for the one purpose
alone of telling the world of Victoria and
the Island. These men worked with the
might of right as their slogan, and to-day
the result is that the young stranger, and
many like him, from all parts of the
world, are reading about Vancouver
Island.
So many tourists are heard to remark,
Well, why   under   the sun does  George
spend his vacations in L , where he
has to keep running away from mosquitoes, and is sweltering, when he could
come here and be so comfortable. Well
George does not know what an ideal
climate he is missing, and perhaps he
does not know that the festive trout, the
elusive deer, and the big bear are but a
few hours' journey from Victoria. I
mention game because George is a man,
and show me a man that would not
travel afar to just get a glimpse of big
Bruin or pretty Mrs. Deer in their native
haunts, to say nothing of taking a day in
the wood, and whipping the silvery
streams for trout. Yes, George does not
know now, but he will soon "be on his
way" for Vancouver Island.
Perhaps, Mr. Reader, you are a tiller
of the soil, perhaps an orchardist. Now,
bide me a few more minutes and let me
try to say something on this subject.
First of all let me tell you that Vancouver Island is the Mecca for the farmer. There are thousands of acres of
excellent soil that are rapidly being
bought up by the farmer of the East and
the Old Country. These acres are
worth more to the farmer than can be
told here. There is never the fear of
droughts, cyclones or floods, and the
land gives forth two-fold in coin, compared to the amount of labor expended.
And what a variety of farming one can
go into. Small fruits, barley, oats, hay,
vegetable^, in fact there is hardly a thing
to be mentioned that grows in a   tem
perate clime, that is not raised on Vancouver Island.
Now, if you are like my young
stranger friend, or perhaps you are like
George, just take a bit of advice from
one who has been, and one who has seen,
and see for yourself. If, on the other
hand, you are simply an invalid, seeking
that which you have despaired of—good
health, plenty of God's natural beauty—
be a young stranger and begin to paint
mind pictures of Victoria and Vancouver Island. You will not be disappointed.
Timber Claims More Valuable
Lease holders of timber lands in the
Dominion Government railway belt are
rejoicing over a recent notification from
Ottawa withdrawing a former order that
all timber had to be cut from certain
areas classified as agricultural land
within a stated period under penalty of
cancellation of leases. This gives leaseholders an opportunity, not only for a
longer period during which the timber
may be cut, but also a chance to present
a statement to the authorities who have
agreed to  re-classify the land.
Over a year ago the Minister of the
Interior, acting on reports that the delay
of leaseholders in removing the timber
was resulting in preventing settlers taking up homesteads, issued a peremptory
order that the land on certain designated
areas comprised in these limits would be
thrown open to pre-emptors; in some
instances where the timber was supposed
to be light the owners were only given
ninety days to remove it.
Representations were made to the Dominion Government that the reports
made to the Department by its officials
were unfair and that the classification
was erroneous; that certain sections designated as agricultural lands were really
heavily timbered and that owing to their
remoteness from the railway, sawmills
could not be installed and the timber
removed within the prescribed period.
Two months ago a deputation representing the leaseholders, headed by Mr. John
Hendry and Mr. J. P. McCormick, visited Ottawa and took up the matter with
Hon. Frank Oliver, Minister of the
Interior.
The effect of the new order agreeing
to a re-classification of timber leases and
allowing the owners to be represented at
the examination of these lands by the
Government representative, will affect
hundreds of thousands of acres within
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To enter the home of a friend or
acquaintance in a critical frame of mind
is not, of course, in accordance with the
spirit of hospitality in which you are
probably being received, and yet you
cannot avoid those first impressions
which mark the family as one of good
taste or otherwise. Among the strongest
of these impressions is that conveyed by
wall pictures.
When you enter the "parlor" you
notice the general effect of the furnishings, and because they are on about the
level with the eyes, you observe the pictures particularly. If these are family
portraits you are compelled to conclude
that your host and hostess are at least
very old-fashioned.
Pictures of one's relatives or ancestors are no longer hung in the room
which is given over to the reception of
people who may be only casual acquaintances or even strangers. Such pictures
are regarded as too intimate for a more
or less public inspection. Hanging them
in the parlor is something like telling the
people whom you may know but slightly
about family affairs, in which they are
not interested, or have no right to be
interested.
The placing of photographs of friends
in this room is even farther removed, if
possible from the modern standards.
And still more removed from the practice of people who make a study of such
matters is the presence in the parlor of
portraits done in crayon. These may be
good liknesses, but they never have any
real artistic merit, and are no aid to
decorative effect. All pictures of those
near to the host and hostess should be
hung in rooms which are open only to
themselves and their closest friends. As
to the crayon portraits, their day is past,
and it is just as well to relegate them to
the attic.
Past also is the fashion of placing pic-
. tures in elaborate gilt frames.   It is, after
all, the picture, and not the frame, which
is hung up  to be  seen, and where   the
latter is obtrusive in its massive elegance
the effect is distinctly inharmonius and
inartistic. Such breaches of the best
tenets of decorative art are accentuated
when the frame is expensive and the picture cheap. There is no art in the rapidly made so-called paintings, which are
usually lurid in color and weak in perspective and other details which go to
make up a really good painting. It is
quite true that some pretentious art
stores have such pictures on sale, but the
person who buys them does worse than
waste his or her money, because they
stamp this person with a sad lack of any
knowledge of art.
The fact is that an oil painting worthy
of the name cannot ordinarily be purchased, unless it is very small, for less
than $50.00, and, lacking means to pay
such a price, it is better to avoid the oil
painting altogether and confine one's
self to a few water colors or to the reproductions of fine paintings, which, in
really artistic frames, may be obtained in
good, art stores at moderate prices. For
such pictures sepia tones framed in
brown are in favor in homes of refinement. Such pictures as Millais' "Sower"
or "The Gleaners" suggest the kind
which are suitable for the drawing room.
Pictures of this quality, indeed, are in
excellent taste in any room in the home,
if their colors harmonize with the prevailing tone. One or two of them are
quite suitable, in the hall, although
unless it is a large one, no pictures at all
are really necessary. Neither does the
dining room require many pictures.
Those selected should be unobtrusive. In
the art stores can be found a variety of
scenes portraying hunting and fishing
and other subjects which are particularly
appropriate for dining room decoration.
For the living room the pictures
should have a somewhat warmer and less
formal tone than those which are hung
in the drawing room. Dainty water
colors    and   scenes    of    home    life   are
particularly well adapted to the bedrooms, and here, except in the guest
room, one may hang the family portraits.
For the den, if the home has such a
room, the scenes portrayed in the pictures are fittingly those of ease and good
fellowship. For the library, the pictures
should possess a certain dignity and
literary or historical suggestion. Portraits of famous writers and famous
characters in history or literature are
particularly  appropriate  here.
The purpose of pictures should not be
decoration alone. There should be in
every one some element of instruction or
inspiration. Those that fail in these particulars are not worth the space they
occupy. In selecting pictures for a
home in which there are children it
should be remembered that the childish
mind is particularly impressionable, that
pictures constantly seen in childhood
have a very strong influence in molding
one's standards of art in later years. The
picture makes a more direct impression
upon the childish mind than upon that of
the pre-occupied adult, and the child's
imagination is greatly stimulated by pictures which appeal to it.
Poor pictures, constantly seen, cause a
feeling of discomfort which the child
cannot explain nor understand, but feels
with more or less intensity. I remember
the disagreeable impression made upon
my young mind every time I went to the
house of a neighbor in a country district
by rigid rows of enlarged family portraits. These stiff images were framed
in flaming gilt. In another house there
were highly colored oil paintings in
heavy, showy frames. I never liked to
go into the rooms in which were hung
these crude imitations of real art.
Scattered throughout the land are
many thousands of such meaningless
daubs, and they are having the same
effects upon children as the ones I mentioned had on me. Very much better
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contrast to them I remember a dark,
dim picture of two lions on a desert. The
strong simplicity and dignity of these
well-painted animals impressed me
greatly. I studied them, and through
them acquired better ideas of lions and
the  desert   than   I  could   have   gained
through all the reading in the world.
It may be said in summing up briefly
about the pictures in the home that it is
much better to have too few than too
many; that the general tone of the pic
tures should be in keeping with that of
the room; that the frame should be
unobtrusive, and that a picture, in addition to pleasing the eye with its harmonies of color and composition, should
in some way stimulate the imagination.
Doctoring Invalid Trees
WiHILE Britsih Columbia people
have been more concerned
with felling than with preserving trees, there are many
instances when it is well worth
while to save trees which are threatened
with decay. These instances arise most
often when only a few trees have been
left for the grounds of one's home. In
such cases each fine tree becomes valuable for shade and scenic effect, and it
becomes highly desirable that none of
these trees be lost. For the purpose of
preserving them a knowledge of what
may be termed tree surgery is useful.
Through its employment the life of old
trees may be extended indefinitely,  and
young and middle-aged trees may be
fully protected against the ills which
trees are heir to.
Even the healthiest trees develop a
good deal of dead wood, and this is in-
imicable to the tree's best welfare. When
dead branches break, openings are left
which become points of attack for
fungus diseases, insects and other enemies. Dead branches should be cut from
a tree without undue delay, and should
be cut as closely as possible to the
trunk or branch from which they spring.
If stubs are left they prevent new bark
from spreading over the wound, and thus
offer an opening for decay. To further
prevent decay, all cuts should be covered
with tar or drab lead paint. It is also
desirable to cut weaker limbs which are
interfering with the growth of the
stronger ones. They are apt to chafe
against the latter and make wounds.
Another cause for pruning lies in injury to a tree's roots. In grading, for
instance, some of the roots may be
buried too deeply, and others may be
left so near the surface that they are
unduly exposed to frost, and so forth.
These roots fail to perform their functions, and place upon others too much
strain in supplying the tree with sufficient moisture and other nutriment. The
way to solve this difficulty is to cut off
some of the tree's upper branches.   This
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191
relieves the healthy roots of some of
their work and restores the balance between the roots and the branches.
It not infrequently happens that a
limb will become too heavy for the tree's
trunk. If so, it is likely to break off,
leaving a jagged wound which heals very
slowly. Limbs of this kind, when too
important in the tree's structure to be
off, should be supported by iron bars
fastened to other branches. It is a mistake, however, to attach these bars to the
limbs by means of bands, for the reason
that these choke the limbs just as a permanent collar would choke the throat of
a growing animal. A safe and practical
method is to bore a hole completely
through each limb, being careful to
avoid splitting, and then to use a bolt
and washer in each hole for keeping the
bar in place.
Among the chief dangers to trees are
cavities. In these fungi breed rapidly
and decay spreads. The tree doctor
treats the cavity by cleansing out all the
decayed matter, leaving nothing but
sound wood, and then coating the purified cavity with tar and filling it with
the best Portland cement, laid in wet.
The cement should be made to conform
to the contour of the tree, so that cambium, that is the film or growing tissue,
may grow over it. Some skill is required
in filling a cavity, and it is better to
leave this work to some person who has'
done it before and understands it.
The  principal   afflictions   which   visit
trees are poisoning, injuries from excessive heat or cold, abnormal food and
moisture supply, mechanical injuries,
fungi, and insects. It is an interesting
fact that epidemics sometimes visit trees
just as they do the human family. For
instance, there has been a heavy death
rate among the chestnut trees of this
continent within the last few years. A
sort of plague has been communicated
by sick trees to others. This plague has its
origin in the fact that the fungi peculiar to
the chestnut tree produces a species of
sport which floats through the air, sometimes for miles, and settle on other trees.
If it happens to settle in any sort of an
abrasion or wound in any one of these,
the tree falls a victim to the plague and
is doomed, unless a tree doctor comes
promptly to its rescue. This disease has
become so prevalent in some sections
that all chestnut trees within a radius of
twenty miles are dead and dying. Most
of these trees could be saved by cutting
off diseased twigs, cleansing the fungus
cavities, and treating the latter with a
wash of copper sulphate. This treatment benefits the tree and renders it
incapable of communicating the disease
to other trees.
The insect enemies of trees may be
classified as leaf eaters, suckers and
borers. The leaf eaters, such as caterpillars, and so forth, are most effectively
destroyed by poisoning their food. This
is done by spraying the leaves wtih
certain chemicals. The best solution is
a mixture of arsenate of soda and acetate
of lead, from two to eight pounds of
each mixture being dissolved in fifty
gallons of water. The best kind of a
spray to use is one which causes moisture to fall on the leaves in the form of a
mist, thus spreading the tiny particles of
poison completely over the leaves. This
solution, it may be said, should not be
used so profusely that it will drip from
the trees.
Sucking insects are best killed by
spraying with some oily preparation that
will cover the insects with a film and
suffocate them. The borers bury themselves in the bark and wood, out of
reach of any spray, but their larvae may
be killed by running a wire into each
hole, or by squirting in carbon bisulphite and then stopping up the hole.
Shot-hole borers are particularly pernicious. They are so called because the
insects, which are a species of beetle,
make a large number of holes when they
emerge as adults from the wood and
bark. If a tree shows many of these
holes it is doomed, and the best plan is
to cut it down and burn it, to destroy
the beetles which may still be in it and
which would otherwise emerge and destroy other trees. Borers, however, are
not likely to attack trees in perfect
health.
Tree planting and transplanting is a
process which has as many angles and is
subject to so many conditions that it is
not practical to discuss it here. It
should be attempted only by an expert.
Economizing Space
At this time of high rents most people
are facing the problem of finding a
method of reducing expenses, and if this
can be accomplished, accompanied by an
increased amount of happiness, it is
matter   of   congratulation.     One   of   the
Saving a Room in a Bungalow
most pleasant and satisfactory means of
accomplishing this end is to stop paying
rent and build a home, even though the
funds are not sufficient to pay for it on
completion, as arrangements can always
"be made with some building company to
make monthly payments after the initial
instalment is made.
In designing a home considerable
economy is effected by adopting built-in
features, amongst which might be mentioned   refrigerators,    sideboards,    book-
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cases, desks, seats, mirrors and other expensive and essential articles that go
towards furnishing a home. Another
built-in feature, which is worthy of
special attention as a saver of space in
designing a home, is the disappearing
bed.
The disappearing bed rolls into a ventilated galvanized iron box placed underneath the raised floor of the dressing
closet or bathroom, the dressing closet,
being of ample size to contain the
dresser and leave plenty of room for the
hanging up of clothing. The headboard of the bed is part of the built-in
desk or bookcase in a den or living room,
or of a buffet or serving table of the
dining-room.     Illustrations   are    shown
the bed and bedding and passes out
through a vent and through the partitions to the roof.
Every cubic foot of the house costs so
much, however, and if we are able to
reduce the cost of the house by cutting
off the cost of even one room we are
saving quite a large percentage of the
cost of the house. Therefore, if we may
cut out a space bedroom, say 10 feet by
10 feet and 9 feet high we are enabled to
save the cost of this room, which we will
say will cost about 12 1-2 cents per cubic
foot, or a saving of $112.50 for the room,
and yet we have the advantage of having
a spare bed in which the unexpected
guest or the visitor of a few weeks may
be comfortably housed during their stay.
might well be emulated by other municipalities in this Province. The objects
of the Association are as follows:
1. The improvement and beautifying
of the city and environs; (a) by private
enterprise; (b) by civic assistance and
direct taxation when necessary.
2. The removal of eye-sores and disfigurements.
3. The enforcement of the cleaning
and keeping tidy of all streets, sidewalks,
lanes and public spaces and vacant lots.
4. The encouragement of well kept
gardens and lawns, by prizes if advisable.
5. The planting of trees and making of
boulevards in a uniform and regular
manner.
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herewith of a living room in the daytime, and the same room with the bed
out ready for use. The sketch shows a
four-roomed bungalow by day, providing
for two extra rooms at night.
The process of ventilation is simple
and effective. It is built on the principle
of a chimney draft. When the bed is
encased in its galvanized iron recess it is
practically isolated from the rest of the
building, away from dust, germs, moisture, smoke and the like, and depends for
its ventilation on a current of fresh outside air. The air is conducted to a register in the floor of the recess, and
thence by suction it is drawn up through
Samples of disappearing bed made
after the style mentioned in this article
may be seen at the display room' of the
Holmes Disappearing Bed Co., Room
210, 319 Pender Street West, Vancouver.
BEAUTIFYING A CITY.
The City of Nelson has always shown
itself in the forefront in all affairs where
the public spiritedness of her citizens is
concerned. Lately they have oragnized
an association known as "The Nelson
.Improvement Association," with constitution, by-laws and officers, which will
have as its motto, "Nelson Beautiful."
This progressive movement is one that
6. The improvement and up-keep of
parks, waterfront and public spaces.
7. The enforcement of regulations relating to sanitary and similar matters.
8. The division of the territory into
districts, each district to be looked after
by a special committee of five, of whom
at least two shall be ladies.
9. The proclamation and keeping of
a public holiday as a day for the planting
of shade trees and as a day for special
efforts to clean up the city by the
removal of rubbish, and otherwise.
10. The collection of statistics and information regarding similar work in
other cities. Page 24
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THE TRUE HOME.
Probably nineteen-twentieths of the
happiness you will ever have you will get
at home. The independence that comes
to a man when his work is over, and he
feels he has run out of the storm into the
quiet harbor of home where he can rest
in peace with his family, is sometimes
real. It does not make much difference
whether you own your house or whether
you have only one little room in that
house; you can make that one little room
a true home to you. You can people it
with such moods, you can turn to it with
such sweet fancies, that it will be fairly
luminous with their presence and will be
to you the very perfection of a home.
Against this home none of you should
ever transgress. You should always treat
each other with courtesy. It is often not
so difficult to love a person as it is to be
courteous to them. Courtesy is of
greater value and a more royal grace
than some people seem to think. If you
will be courteous to each other, you will
soon learn to love each other more
wisely, profoundly, not to say lastingly,
than you ever did before.
BEAUTY.
By Terrell Love Holiday.
"Beauty,"  saith  the  cyniG, "is  a  skin
ame."   And, verily, it is true.  For every
woman knoweth it is played with marked
cards.
And no women liveth but attempteth
to play, whether she holdeth cards or not.
She useth a "cold (cream) deck" without compunction. And "filleth a straight"
front" with cotton and thinketh she
doth no wrong.
The beauty may be artistic, but she is
more frequently merely a work of art.
"Beauty is that beauty Does," saith
the proverb; which soundeth well until
beauty "does" Thee. Thereafter thou
art content if she merely looketh the
part.
A proverb likewise saith: "Beauty is
only skin deep." But Fashion saith :
"Beauty must thin keep." And Fashion
is the only law which beauty holdeth
inviolate.
Fiction speaketh of beauty in disguise,
but in real life there is no such thing; for
why is beauty save to be seen?
Of beauty much or little will be seen,
according to the class to which she be-
longeth. For she arrayed herself after
the manner of her kind—the prissy
beauty of high neck, the society beauty
of low neck, and the chorus beauty in
next to nothing.
Beauty is not a thing of joy that re-
maineth forever. But the beauty doctor
maketh the ghostly body to walk long
after the soul is dead.
LOVERS' METHODS.
A Russian journal gives the following
collection of marriage proposals typical
of different nationalities:
A Russian—Natasha, my little dove,
soul of my soul, I love you with my
whole heart, with my whole being—I-
love you madly. I will love you unto
death, and should troubles befall us, my
love will conquer everything. Be mine.
Oh, Natasha!
A  Frenchman—You are divine, ideal.
To-day I will press my suit before yourt
parents, and you, my fairy, you will become my wife.
An Englishman—I am about to start
on a long journey, and I shall be very
lonely. I wonder if you would care to
marry me, and let us make this journey
together.
A German—Fraulein, you are a notable woman. You have read and understood my book. I cannot tell you how
much I admire and esteem you. May
I dare to offer you my hand.
An Italian—Cara mia, you are fairer
than the blushing dawn. Your voice is
more melodious than the soft west wind.
Oh, let me kiss those dark locks of yours,
and let those heavenly eyes not spurn
me, for otherwise I must die. Live without you I cannot.
Opportunities in the Pend d'Orielle
A Large Extent of Country in Southern B. C. Available for Settlement and
as Yet Sparsely Inhabited
STRETCHING south from Nelson to the United States
Boundary, and from the Columbia River oh the west to
Kootenay Lake on the east,
is a territory roughly square in outline
—as may be seen by a glance at
the map—and containing about one
million acres. Now a most important geographical feature of this territory
is this: Along the north-western, north
ern and eastern edges, the surface of the
country rises steeply to the summit only
a few miles inland. But beyond this
comparatively narrow strip and on the
other side of the summit, the surface
slopes gradually down over a distance
southward and south-westward, until it
is terminated by the Pend d'Oreille and
Columbia Rivers.
In view of the fact that so much attention is being directed to Northern and
Central British Columbia, a description
of this country, described by the Nelson
"Daily News," is worthy the attention of
readers  of  this  magazine.
A Big Sunwarmed Slope.
There is thus an extensive district with
a comparatively gradual rise northward
from the Pend d'Orielle and the adjacent
portion of the Columbia, consisting of
successive bench lands rising into low
mountains, and traversed by wide, gradually sloping valleys. Of these valleys,
the chief are those of Beaver and Champion creeks, of the Salmon River and of
the Pend d'Oreille and Columbia. Towards the south and west they are separated by comparatively low elevations,
so that it is possible to pass from one to
another through land, nearly all of which
is suitable for agriculture and for contin
uous settlement. The soil on the various levels is deep and rich, largely free
from stone and consisting of a warm,
dark red loam, abounding in both humus
and limestone—that is in the substances
which go to make ideal fruit land. The
country is watered by a great number of
small creeks and, except on some of the
lower benches along the Columbia, irri
gation is not required. Where it is
needed there is a copious supply of water
from the Beaver, Champion and smaller
streams.
A Long Summer Season
As the mouth of the Pend d'Oreille is
about 50 miles south and west of Nelson,
the geographical position of the district
tends to give it a milder climate and a
longer season. Other conditions accentuate this characteristic. The level of
the river is about 300 feet lower. The
Pend d'Oreille and Columbia valleys extend hundreds of miles southward and
air currents coming up these valleys
bring warmth. So, too, does the water
of the Pend d'Oreille, which in spring,
is notably warmer than that of the Columbia. Again, the country north of the
Pend d'Oreille slopes for a long distance
north to the summit, which as already
mentioned, is but a short distance south
of the West Arm. This country has,
therefore, a southerly exposure toward
the sun, and its soil and the air passing 911
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over it is correspondingly warmed. The
result is to give to the whole district a
long summer season with remarkable
immunity from late and early frosts, even
^rt comparatively high  elevations.
Where  Spring  Comes  Early
When leaving Nelson last week, the
"News" representative observed the land
on the flats above the Hall smelter plentifully dotted with patches of winter
snow, and there was a good deal in
Nelson below the mountain station. It
is, of course, an exceptionally late season. On the same day in the basin of
the Pend d'Oreille the snow was gone
and the ground was warm; rhubarb was
seen coming up in the gardens with several inches of stalk above the ground;
asparagus was showing; violets were
picked; wild flowers were in bloom by
hundreds.
En Route
Leaving Nelson, the summit was soon
reached and the upper waters of the
Salmon River. Even at this height hay
meadows began to appear. At Salmo
the valley is already fairly wide. It continues to the Pend d'Oreille, broadening
out in a continuous tract of land, capable of continuous settlement all the way
to its mouth. The railway, however,
turns westward at Salmo and runs down
the valley of the Beaver. This has an
equally gradual slope to its mouth, but
the stream is smaller and the valley is of
less equal breadth, though in many
places it widens out and large tracts of
good land are to be found. Other valleys
run into it, notably that of Champion
Creek.
On the Columbia
Further on along the Beaver the Fruit-
vale subdivision has been entirely taken
up by settlers. Lower down, near its
mouth, the blue waters of the Columbia
came in view and Columbia Gardens.
Here the waters of the Beaver have been
taken to form an abundant supply of
water for the irrigation of a large and
level tract of some thousand acres of
fertile sandy loam. The water is piped
under pressure through each parcel of
land and is ready for each house to be
erected. The capability of the soil has
been demonstrated by the company by
means of a large orchard which shows
splendid results. Much of the land can
be cleared for less than $5.00 per- acre,
and on the average it can be cleared and
plowed for $10.00 per acre. Some of it
is for sale, ready cleared, plowed and
planted.
The Pend d'Oreille
Five miles south the railway reaches
the mouth of the Pend d'Oreille valley
at Waneta. The river here empties into
the Columbia after running some 15
miles east and west just a mile or so on
this side of the International Boundary.
The valley is reached at this western end
not only by the railway, but also by the
road from Sayward and by the Trans-
provincial Highway which comes over
from Trail across the new bridge now
under way. The Highway already extends up the valley to the mouth of the
Salmon River at its eastern end.
The valley may be entered at this eastern end by the road following the
Salmon River from Salmo and Ymir.
This is to be continued to Nelson and is
to form the direct conection between
Nelson and the Transprovincial Highway. The Washington and Northern
Idaho line coming down the Pend
d'Oreille toward British Columbia, is
now within a short distance of the mouth
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struction. It has procured a charter and
made surveys for the extension of this
line down the valley parallel to the
Transprovincial Highway to Waneta and
Trail and also for a line up the Salmon
River Valley to Sheep Creek.
Can Ride All Over Country.
Going up the river from Wanetat there
is seen across the gorge the south side of
the valley, bordered by low mountains,
thickly wooded to their summits. But
to the left, on the north side, is a striking contrast. Here the country is comparatively open and rises gradually in
successive benches and slopes to the
summit range forty miles distant to the
north and to the east. It is said that before the coming of the white man, the
Indians, after whom the river is named,
used to burn the country over repeatedly.
At any rate one can ride on horseback
almost anywhere for a mile or two back
from the water level and there are many
acres covered only with grass or dotted
with wild cherry, buck bushes and other
shrubs easily cleared.
Variety of Natural Vegetation.
Just at Waneta, the large and fertile
benches of F. Adie's property are here
and there sprinkled with yellow pine and
with cherry, birch and poplar in patches.
Further up the valley the Douglas Fir
occurs most frequently, especially in the
draws. But what is more characteristic
still is the variety of the timber and the
number of deciduous trees. A great
quantity of leaves have thus been deposited on the land for unnumbered
seasons, have turned to humus and the
soil has been correspondingly enriched.
The Gorge Canyon, through which the
river passes for the last ten miles of its
course, is strikingly romantic, and the
general aspect of the landscape is one of
rich picturesqueness, to which an added
grace is given when the wild cherries are'
• in bloom.
Large Area of Arable Land.
There are a few benches near the
water level, but for the most part those
traversed by the Transprovincial Highway are one or two hundred feet above
the river, above the top of the canyon.
Further back the land continues to rise
at irregular intervals, in successive
benches and slopes. The land suitable
for fruit growing extends back for an
average of about two miles, and behind
this is other land which is suited for
other farm operations, in addition to
that which will always be used for
grazing.
It was the excellent pasture and the
fact that cattle could remain out all winter and procure their own food, that
attracted the first pre-emptors to this
valley. Because of this, and because of
the abundant and pure water, it will be
the seat of much dairying even when its
fruit lands are bearing. To the fruit
rancher, the fact that there will be range
pasture available will be an additional
attraction. In many cases the fruit land
and pasture land are so situated as to
make an ideal combination. Along with
the fruit ranch there can be secured well-
watered pasture. Wild fruit abounds.
The clearing, while in no case costly or
heavy, and in many cases almost
nominal, will usually provide ample firewood, and in some cases will provide
saleable timber.
Where Opportunity Still Dwells.
One often hears people wishing they
had been in the Kootenay a few years
ago when they could have purchased
from the original pre-emptors land now
selling for $100.00 per acre, but which
then could have been obtained for $20.00
or $30.00 an acre, or which is now selling
for $300.00 and could then have been
purchased for $100.00. They express regret that such opportunities are not now
to be had.
But there are. There is one part of the
country which has been overlooked and,
as too often happens, it is one that is
unsurpassed anywhere. There is no
better climate, no richer soil than that of
the Valley of the Pend d'Oreille. It is
traversed from end to end by the Transprovincial Motor Car Highway. The
Great Northern crosses its eastern end.
Fifteen miles east the Washington and
Northern Idaho is to enter from the
south and to run the whole length of the
valley to Waneta and Trail, with a
branch up the Salmon River to Sheep
Cre*ek.- For the whole length of the
valley the arable land extends back for
a considerable distance so as to permit
of continuous population. The settler
will not be in a small isolated district,
but in an extensive territory capable of
sustaining a large population and several
good towns. Tourists will pass through
along the Transprovincial Highway.
Railways will bring him within a few
hours of Nelson and other places. Within
a few years there will be one continuous
populated region extending through the
valleys of the Pend d'Oreille and
Salmon, the Beaver, the Champion, and
the adjacent portion of the Columbia.
And the choice, splendidly situated
lands of the Pend d'Orielle Valley are
still almost wholly in the hands of the
original pre-emptors, having escaped the
attention of the Nelson real estate
agents with one exception. Attracted by
the winter range for cattle and the delightful climate they took up pre-emptions and have from time to time staked
additional lands. They have always had
a ready market for all they raised, and
for their own table they have plenty of
peaches, apples and cherries, which have
demonstrated the value of the land as a
fruit growing district. It is a proved
country.
MINERAL RESOURCES
The mineral resources of this Province are winning new laurels with every
district opened up. A correspondent'of
the London "Times" lately in this
Province, speaking of the new district
opened up by the Grand Trunk Pacific,
speaks with appreciation of the mineral
possibilities. He found prospecting'
activity on all sides, and some of the
men were making on an average of 12s.
to 18s. per day panning. But the gold
was mostly alluvial and the creeks require to be followed to ascertain the
existence  of the actual deposits of ore.
At Hazelton numerous rich strikes of
ore were related, especially on Nine-Mile
Mountain. The minerals were gold,
galena, silver and copper for the most
part, both high and low grade in hard
milling rock. At present operations cannot be carried to a very definite conclusion inasmuch as it costs about £20
per ton to bring machinery up from the
coast. By the end of summer, however,
the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway will
be carried into the Hazelton district and
then the difficulties of transport will be
appreciably lessened.
The mineral belt extends for about
100 miles south of Hazelton, adds the
expert. Sixty miles south, two towns
have sprung up at Telkwa and Alder-
mere, and these from their strategical
positions will doubtless prove to be the
focus of industry. A smelter is already
projected at the former town on a flat
fringing the Bulkley River. The Babines
are twelve miles distant on the east and
the Cascades about the same distance on
the west. The whole country was overrun with prospectors. The deputy mining recorder reported that up to the
time of the writer's visit over 600 claims
had been allowed by the Government
and the extensive collection of ores of
all descriptions which he displayed, substantiated the reports that were advanced
regarding the mineral richness of the
district.
Eleven miles north-west of Telkwa is
a massive peak, Hudson's Bay Mountain,
which has been staked from foot to crest,
though only one prospect has been
developed so far owing to the transport
difficulties. This is a rich galena and
silver deposit, the gallery having been
driven in and the solid vein of mineral
tapped. The mine, it is hoped, will be
brought to the producing stage this year.
French and German engineers were in
the country and their mission was
obvious. 1911
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Fruit Growing Districts of British Columbia
From the Viewpoint of the Colonizer's Commissioner
RITISH COLUMBIA now
ranks amongst the very best
countries in the whole world as
an apple-growing country, and,
no doubt, my readers are familiar with that fact; but it is, besides, a
great country for many sorts of other
fruits, and I propose to give a general
description of the Province from that
point of view.
Much has been written about the
charms of the lovely scenery, and, undoubtedly, there is a strange fascination in the mystic mountains, the placid
beauty of boundless lakes of deep emerald waters set in a framework of forests
of giant trees whose summits pierce the
glorious skies, cool aisles of myriad trees
of extraordinary girth, undergrowth begemmed with brilliant flowers, lands of
deep and abounding fertility, blessed by
nature and never to be sufficiently admired—surely one must be indifferent
not to be impressed and fascinated by
all the loveliness that surrounds one.
The magnificent mountains, hoary with
age, whose snow-capped peaks ensure
moisture enough for all horticultural
operations all the year round, impress
the newcomer most of all.
British Columbia is a land of all kinds
of scenery, all varieties of climate and
productions, and offers openings of the
widest possible kind. Faddists there are
who will lavish untold time and trouble
in their efforts to convince you that "dry-
belt" farming is the one and only class of
land which will give you profit upon
your undertaking. The reverse is also
true, and fierce opponents of irrigation
will endeavor to let you see the other
side of the question, and will give you
facts and statistics galore to prove the
utter futility  of using irrigation.
The truth is that each side of the question has its advantages and also its disadvantages, but I am not going to thrash
out this very moot question in this
article. I want to give a general survey
of the Province, and to offer you an
opportunity of coming to some sort of
conclusion for yourself. It will be best
to treat it by taking the individual fruits,
and dealing with the localities where
fruit is  grown.
The apple—easily British Columbia's
finest product—has a very wide range,
and as yet it is difficult to state the precise limits of its commercial production.
Leaving the neighboring Province of
Alberta, one first meets the great valley
of the Upper Columbia River, after passing the Rocky Mountain range, and although   as   yet  practically  undeveloped,
sufficient proofs are forthcoming to
ensure that apples will flourish exceedingly, and yield large excellent crops
aided by irrigation. The normal rainfall
is too scanty to believe that without artificial irrigation apples can be commercially a success. Proceeding westwards
on the eastern slopes of the Selkirk
range,  there  are   excellent  lands  where
the availability of flowing water may
prove to be of great utility. In the average season water applied artificially is
not needed.
The Kootenay District is certainly
curious, inasmuch as at first sight it
appears too rocky for apple culture, and
it is only after careful investigation that
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irrigation is probably an aid, but in some
places apples will grow without any
such help. Crossing the Selkirks, the
famous Kootenay Districts are reached,
and in nearly all parts of the Kootenay
Lakes, Arrow Lakes, Boundary, Revelstoke, and Shuswap Lake localities
apples can be, and are, grown in the
greatest excellence without irrigation.
Newcomers who can locate near some
flowing creek are well advised, because
it may be possible that in some seasons
versy runs riot, but I am convinced that
where apples can be grown without irrigation, the produce is better, the fruit
is firmer, and its keeping qualities are
superior.
Leaving the non-irrigated Kootenay,
the next district of note lies in the
country around the Shuswap Lake, with
Salmon Arm as a centre, and there we
find irrigation not practised, whilst only
a few miles westward beyond Notch Hill
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1911
few miles brings one to an entirely different country, where luxuriant forests
give place to open, park-like country,
which is of itself proof of deficient rainfall. Proceeding southward from the
Shuswap Lake at Sicamous there is a
branch line of the Canadian Pacific Railway which, although not of great length,
quickly passes through a really excellent
connected apple orchards in British Columbia bear witness to the suitability of
the district for the purpose. For miles
one may pass through bearing orchards
of clean trees, laden with enormous
crops of apples, producing the largest
commercial production of the Province.
Irrigation is here developed to its greatest degree for apple culture.
Okanagan Lake and its further extensions along Dog Lake to the United
States boundary are excellent districts,
and then again to the westward, although
cut off at present, lies the Similkameen
Valley, with Keremeos as a centre. A
very large area of magnificent land
is     there     available,     generally     under
irrigation.
COLWOOD APPLES, VANCOUVER ISLAND
fruit country around Mara Lake and
Enderby, reaching Vernon, where the
irrigated lands commence.
Vernon is the gateway and the centre
of a famous apple country, with White
Valley and Coldstream as feeders. There
great irrigation systems flourish, and
prosperous farms of perhaps the largest
Further south still, all along the
Okanagan Lake, are districts where
apples are grown under irrigation, and
whose qualities cannot be surpassed for
fruit produced under similar conditions.
Kelowna is one of the leading centres,
although there are many others.
At   the   southern    extremity   of   the
Turning once again to the northward
and westward of the Okanagan Valley
we reach the Thompson River, where,
in the vicinity of Kamloops, a large area
of fertile land is being placed under irrigation suitable for apple growing. This
is the driest district in the whole of
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Continuing westwards down the
Thompson River, other irrigated districts are being developed, but possess,
as far as I am aware, no particular merits
for apple growing over the cheaper lands
to be obtained elsewhere. Fertile soil
and abundance of water ensure good
crops in that district, however. When
Ashcroft is reached and a few miles westward, the country becomes exceedingly
mountainous, and a swift change of climate becomes apparent once the seaward slope of the Coast Range is
reached.
In the Fraser River Valley an abundance of moisture and precipitation
shows a change of a character unknown
anywhere in the central or western districts of British Columbia. There are
apple orchards, and apples grow luxuriantly, but I am not convinced that any
part of the valley can compete commercially with the inland centres. The
Fraser Valley is, however, unexcelled for
mixed  farming  and  small  fruits.
Leaving the mainland rainfall becomes
greatly diminished, and some of the
islands of the Georgian Archipeligo suffer from insufficient rainfall. Salt Spring
Island—one of the largest of the group—
is famed for excellent apples, and its
gloriously beautiful situation, its ready
accessibility, and its fertile soil render
it a delightful home, where apple growing is a commercial success.
Vancouver Island is becoming better
known as an apple growing district, more
especially the south-eastern extremity—
the Saanich peninsula in particular.
Lands are, however, dear on account of
the social facilities afforded by close
proximity to the city of Victoria. Further west is the Sooke District, which I
anticipate will develop rapidly as it becomes more accessible by the new rail-,
ways  now  being  constructed.
Returning to the northern mainland,
there are probably some really excellent
apple growing districts as yet in their
infancy, and where only pioneer work
has been accomplished. Hazelton, the
Skeena River District, Bulkley Valley,
and the more western portions of the
Nechaco District all look promising, and
irrigation ought not to be necessary. I
have now dealt with all the known districts for apples.
Pears are an important crop in British Columbia and seem to thrive best
where sea-breezes are available. They
can be, and are, grown inland, but for
choice either Vancouver Island, the
Fraser Valley, Shuswap, parts of the
Okanagan, and West Kootenay seem to
be the most suitable.
Peaches and apricots flourish best in the
irrigated lands of the Okanagan, and I
should hesitate to encourage anyone to
grow them elsewhere. Nectarines do
not seem to be grown anywhere in commercial quantities.
Cherries succeed admirably in the
Kootenays, on Vancouver Island, the
Okanagan, and in parts of the Fraser
Valley. For choice I fancy the first two
districts named, but they certainly succeed well nearly everywhere.
Plums are best in the Okanagan and
Vancouver Island, but are grown in
many other districts.
Walnuts I have seen growing in Vancouver Island, but don't seem to be a
success elsewhere.
Dealing with small fruits, strawberries
to my mind are best on Vancouver Island
and Fraser River Valley, but grow abundantly in all districts. Possibly the Kootenay berries are best known in Northwestern Canada, but they are small and
hard compared with British strawberries.
Near Victoria I have had the best berries, and the only ones that can compare
with those grown in Southern England.
On the whole, I do not think they can
compare favorably in any part of North
America with the Motherland's productions. As a matter of curiosity, I have
often asked why more "Royal Sovereigns" and 'Joseph Paxtons" were not
grown, and the reason usually given is
that they are too soft to stand the long
railway journeys to the markets. I have
picked really splendid berries of these
two varieties in British Columbia, which,
for size and flavor would be hard to beat
anywhere.
Gooseberries are most indifferent everywhere in British Columbia, and I wonder that some grower does not try some
standard British varieties. The berry
grows wild all over the Province, and
the cultivated choice varieties ought to
do well in many districts. The ordinary
gooseberries sold in the markets are,
small, hairy, indifferent fruit of no quality whatever. They are invariably very
poor flavor, and have nothing whatever
to recommend them.
Black, white, and red currants are
equally poor, and I certainly think that
good varieties would sell freely. The
Fraser River Valley should excel in their
production.
All over British Columbia wild fruits
abound, and this should be the strongest
testimony that it is a country where cultivated fruit can be produced in great
excellence, and evidence is forthcoming
everywhere that nature has intended the
land to be the home of fine fruits. I have
previously written on the profits and
possibilities of fruit culture in British Columbia and refer my readers to those
articles. In previous articles I have also
given an idea as to the procedure in
selecting fruit lands, and should be
pleased to advise by correspondence upon
any points which I may not have previously covered.
A Scotchman's View on Conditions in B. C.
British Columbia as Seen by a Settler who Speaks From
His Experience in This Province
OUGHLY speaking/ it is a
seven thousand-mile journey.
Until the Grand Trunk
Pacific is finished the intending immigrant will have to
travel by way of the Canadian Pacific
Railway to Vancouver, thence by boat
six hundred miles to Prince Rupert, the
terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Mechanics will do well to stop at
Prince Rupert, which is already a thriving, go-ahead place, and bids fair to become one of the chief cities of this coast.
But outside of carpenters and joiners I
would not advise many other mechanics to
come. Of course there will be lots of
work, and when a man comes to this
country he must come prepared to turn
his hand to anything. The lowest wages
paid here is 14s. per day; carpenters and
painters, 21s.; but there is quite a loss of
time with wet weather in the fall and
winter, and expenses are a little more
than they are at home. The ordinary
cost of boarding houses is Is. per meal,
and at hotels 2s. and upwards; but one
can rent a room and live almost as cheap
as one does at home.   Most of the labor
ing class do so. From Rupert the immigrant will travel ninety miles on the first
one hundred miles of steel, which has
just been laid, and will pass through a
country which is rich in nothing but
scenery and mountains until he has
made that distance, and he will then be
at a place called Kitsumkalum, where
there is a general store, one of the partners of which is Mr. Bruce from Aberdeen.   I am three miles from there.
"There is always some work in the
woods here, clearing and felling the
timber in order to get the land ready for Page 30
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cultivation and making ties (railroad
sleepers) for the railway. From there on
there is railroad work for the next hundred miles, also some saw-milling. It is
a very good place for the navvy, for it is
really all his kind of work, but anybody
with grit may have ho fears of getting
on quite well, and as the country opens
up other callings will be found in plenty.
The lowest wage of a laborer working in
the railroad camps is 3 15s. per week.
His board and logings cost him 25s. per
week; what he saves depends on what it
costs him for clothes, shoes and tobacco.
For nine months of the year one can
have pretty steady work, but for the
three months of the winter you cannot
figure on much more than half-time on
account of bad weather. I think I am
about as well acquainted with the district as anyone, and you may 'bank' on
what I say.
"In the first place, from Prince Rupert,
for a distance of two hundred miles up
the Skeena River, which the Grand
Trunk Pacific follows, there is not a
homestead to be had, as they have all
been taken up long ago—not only close
to  the  river, but from fifteen to   thirty
miles where there is land on either side.
Any land that is not homesteaded has
been bought up by the real estate agents
to be re-sold in small lots to the farmer
with a little capital. Of course there are
still lands further inland, but even there
I fear one will find that the best has been
taken up. There were just a few of us
fortunate enough to get here in time to
homestead in this valley before most of
it was taken, up by purchasers. I have
travelled from the Gulf of Mexico as far
north as Alaska, and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and I find that land will
soon be as scarce in this country of
Canada and the United States as it is in
the Old Country, and the price of wild
land will soon be as great as it is over at
home. Three years ago we homesteaders
bought this land from the Government at
one dollar an acre, and for the last year
it has been selling for forty dollars an
acre, and that is without doing anything
to it. To those who are coming from the
Old Country I would like to say that the
place they are coming to is the same
almost as where I am. The Government
has held it in reserve, and has now
thrown  it open   to the   better   class   of
immigrant. The climate is mild, though
inclined to be wet, and in the winter
there is a heavy snow-fall. The growth
is very abundant and rank, while the soil
is good but heavily timbered, and the
farmer has to hew down the trees and
roll them in heaps and burn them before
he can do anything with the land. The
land will produce anything, and 'is
especially adapted for fruits. There is a
right-of-way cut for a railroad connection
with the Grand Trunk Pacific, which
passes through my place, also down by
the already mentioned reservation, and
thence to Kitamat Arm. If they have
enough money to keep them in food for
a year, immigrants can 'make good'; if
not, then they are 'up against it.' There
are about sixty ranchers in this little
valley where I am, and there is not a
woman in the whole place. Across the
river, in Kitsumkalum Valley, there are
about one hundred and sixty ranchers
and about four women. I wonder if any
of the Scotch girls would like this country. I am the only married man in the
bunch on this side (and my wife is in
North Ayrshire). There are good homes
waiting for some spirited girls here, sure
enougfh."
Diamonds in British Columbia
First Reported Discovery of These Precious Stones in Canada
Occurs in This Province
tFFICIAL announcement has
been made of the discovery
of diamonds on the Tullameen
River. This is the first reported discovery of diamonds
in Canada. Professor Brock states
that the rock carrying the crystals
is a peridotite of the variety known as
dunite, consisting of olivine and chro-
mite. The rock specimens in which diamonds were found were collected by Mr.
Chas. Camsell, on Olivine Mountain,
near the Tullameen River, where Mr.
Camsell has been making a geological
examination on behalf of the survey.
Samples of the rock were submitted to
Mr. R. A. A. Johnson, mineralogist of
the survey, to ascertain the nature of
the chromium minerals. In the course
of his examination, Mr. Johnson secured
some insoluble fragments of crystals
which appeared to be diamonds. More
of this material was separated out and
a series of tests conducted by Mr.
Johnson establishes beyond doubt the
nature of the materials.
The individuals so far extracted from a
number of samples, are small, none of
them being larger than an ordinary pin-
head, but many appear under the micro
scope to be clear and bright and of good
quality, though some are yellowish or
brownish.
The diamonds found occur in the
chromite and not in the olivine of the
rock. The' chromite occurs as short,
irregular, vein-like segregations an inch
or more in width, in irregular masses
and as small disseminated grains through
the rock. Gold and platinum also occur
in the chromite.
On account of the small size of the
diamonds, and the irregular distribution
of the chromite, the discovery is of
scientific rather than of commercial
importance.
It is possible that the placer deposits
found in the streams draining periodotite
rock-mass may contain stones of greater
size, although the fact that placer mining for gold and platinum has been carried on for a number of years without
such a discovery having been made,
tends to lessen the possibility, as stones
of commercial size in the sluice boxes
would be apt to attract the attention of
the miners.
The peridotite in which the diamonds
occur is often weathered to serpentine.
It is interesting to note that it is closely
related to the rocks which form the
matrix for the Arkansas diamonds and
for the South African. The discovery of
diamonds in British Columbia was not
altogether unexpected by the survey,
officials working there have for some
time been on the lookout for them.
Some years ago, the present director
obtained some microscopic crystals
which were believed to be diamonds, and
which gave positive results in all tests to
which they could be submitted. As a
result of which prospectors were notified
to be on the lookout for diamonds in
British Columbia. The present discovery, however, is the first in Canada which
can  be  definitely announced.
A new townsite called "Coalmont" is
being established in the Similkameen
Valley, one hundred and thirty miles
from Vancouver by the V. V. & E. route.
It is situated half-way between Granite
and Tulameen on the Tulameen River.
The company promoting the townsite
have about six thousand acres of coal
land containing an estimated quanitity of
120,000,000 tons. It is twenty-four hundred feet above sea level.  Page 32
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"Opinions of Mary"—The Householder
By Alice Ashworth Townley
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"I hears you're trying to sell your
house. How's that?" inquired the stout
man of an acquaintance he found waiting for an Avenue Road car the other
day. "I thought you said when you
bought that you had at last found a
home that suited you in every particular,
and that you never intended to move
again while you lived."
"So I did, Jones, and it's hard luck to
have to turn out once more. When I
bought that house I thought my troubles
were over; but, bless you, they'd only
begun," responded the man with the
parcel, gloomily. "I've spent more
money on repairs and improvements
than you could count—never done. It's
so far out my wife can't keep a maid.
We thought it would be so nice and
quiet; and here we have a family of
seven roaring children come to the
house beside us, and they've run the
trolley booming past our door. The man
across the street has built out a shop
window on the front of his house and
sells groceries, and they're going to keep
a livery stable around the corner. We
thought the property would increase in
value, but " and an expressive gesture finished the sentence.
I couldn't hear all the annoyances and
disappointments he poured into his
friend's ear during the next five minutes
because of a couple of passing wagons
and the remarks which a lady with two
children found necessary to make to
them; but as he jumped on board his
parting counsel was, "No, take my advice, and don't you buy."
To have a house of his own, a home
secure from the intruding visits of the
landlord, is the ambition of many a man
who pays rent for his prehabitation,
grumbles at its shortcomings, and
speaks feelingly of the unreasonable reluctance to repair or improve the property displayed by its niggardly owner.
The supposition always is that the
landlord is a grasping person of ample
means, only prevented from complying
with the modest requests of a long-
suffering tenant by despicable feelings of
sordid meanness and an utter disregard of
said tenant's comfort.
It is possible that there may be much
to say on the subject from the landlord's
point of view; that experience of the
strange ways and doings of promising
tenants for whom things have been
newly    swept   and   garnished,   and   at
whose blighting touch windows have
broken, door handles fallen away, paint
erased itself, plaster lost its grip, and
the very paper withered from the walls,
may have blunted his sympathy. However that may be, we didn't set out to
discuss the matter from his standpoint,
but from that of the man who wants a
house to live in and is convinced that
the only satisfactory arrangement is to
be his own landlord.
"Look you," says he, "here I am
paying out good money every month—
comes to far more at the end of the year
than the interest on the money invested
in such a house would be—and the
house doesn't suit me. The owner wont
do a single thing for me, and I'm sure
I'm not going to lay out money on another man's property. If it were my
own, now, I'd run up a partition here,
and take down a door there, and redecorate the lower storey. But what's the
sense of doing anything to a rented
house? If the situation didn't suit me
I'd leave it to-morrow. It really wouldn't
take much to fix it up in good shape. If
he'd sell it cheap it might pay me to
buy." So he sits down and goes into
close and elaborate calculations of what
the cost of the repairs and alterations
would amount to, and perhaps comes
to the conclusion to make an offer for
the property—which he presently acquires and quickly begins to set in order.
But did he calculate that five hundred
dollars would be amply sufficient to
cover the expense of remodelling?
Strange how things mount up! By the
time he has put in a new furnace and
cemented the cellar floor, pulled down
a few partitions and put a new window
over the staircase, had the plumbing
overhauled and a proper bathroom fitted
up, and entertained the painters and
paper hangers for a couple of weeks, his
five hundred is but a memory—the verandah has yet to be built and the roof
needs repairing. An old house has
almost unlimited possibilities for engulfing cash.
Or perhaps the- man is wise, and,
knowing the insatiability of an ancient
habitation when it once begins to absorb
"improvements," avoids the hungry monster and fixes his choice upon a perfectly
new dwelling, fresh from the contractor's hands. It is replete with every
modern convenience, there has not been
time  for any portion  of it to fall into
decay, nothing can possibly have been
defaced by former occupants—everything is complete and up-to-date. Nothing will require to be laid on it for years
to come, and with a pleasantly premonition of comfort and satisfaction he is at
last to enjoy, he contended, moves in.
Poor man! He will learn much of the
wily ways of builders within the next
few months. The contractor is often a
man to whom the Prayer-Book specially
applies. He has left undone many things
that he should have attended to, and
done what might well have remained untouched. Surprises wait upon the unex-
pectant householder. Deficiencies which
his unsuspicious eyes had passed over
when buying loom up in their full proportions. He will probably find that the
shutters are lacking on amazingly sunny
windows, and that the first rainstorm
will as likely as not flood his cellar because the foundations have not been
properly banked up yet, that the kitchen
chimney smokes and will require a tin
thing or a cap to be erected thereon
before it deigns to accomplish its destined purpose. The furnace likely will
be too small to heat the house, the grate
may possibly be missing from the drawing room fire-place, and the necessity for
coal-bins and such like almost certainly
overlooked. Presently, when things begin to get nice and dry, the boards in the
woodwork will begin to drift away from
one another, and the fair plastered walls,
corrupted by the evil example, will develop long and gaping fissures athwart
their smooth surface. The doors and
windows will coyly shrink from their
encircling frames, the storm doors and
double windows will be part of his
first winter's expense. He will be fortunate if the waste pipe and sewer are
properly joined and he doesn't have to
get his drains enquired into before six
months are over. Oh, the troubles of a
man who buys a ready-made house are
many. j  j
Then there is the still wiser man who
builds. None of your quickly run up shells
for him. He knows what he wants and
is determined to have it. He pores over
plans and specifications with an architect, whose suggestions he modifies to
suit his own ideas, and having bought a
desirable lot in a part of the city that is
sure to increase in value, erects his
house and is satisfied.   Well, not always. 1911
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To begin with it costs twice as much
as he anticipated, the appearance is apt
to be very different from his expectations, and his wife complains that the
internal arrangemnts are not convenient.
The more he thinks of it the more clearly he sees the mistakes he has made now
that it is too late to rectify them. Then
someone builds on the vacant lot beside
him, making his nice light dining room
dark as a~ hole. A public school is put
up near-by, and all the children of the
neighborhood run yelling past his door
four times a day. The tide of fashion
rolls away from him, and perhaps a
butcher shop is opened across the way.
There he is, burdened with a property he
can't sell for half it cost him—so he
holds it and lives on amidst uncongenial
surroundings.
After all, there are worse things than
occupying a rented house—always provided* you have money enough to pay
the rent comfortably. Why assume responsibilities and worries? Let the other
man do that.
Landlords, as a class, are more accommodating than they used to be. Select a
house as near your ideal in proportions
and position as may be, and make the
best of it. Perfect satisfaction is not for
this world, and there are compensations
in being a tenant. When your wife tells
you that she thinks the paper on the
parlor is getting soiled and the ceilings
are disgraceful you are not forced to
elude her remarks, or, moved by motives
of economy, deny the evidence of your
senses.    You  can  blandly  assent,   ''Yes,
my dear, it does look shabby. We must
get the landlord to do the rooms up
nicely for us." If the roof leaks or the
plumbing is out of order you can insist
on having it attended to "at once," and
the plumber's ample bill depletes not
your bank account. If the children
scratch the paint or hammer tacks into
the window ledges, it doesn't worry you.
And what care you for taxes? Should
the landlord evince a reluctance to comply with your repuests, a threat to leave,
delivered at a wisely chosen time of year
when he might find difficulty in securing
another tenant, will nearly always bring
him to time. And should he retaliate by
meanly raising the rent when he has the
opportunity, you can always leave when
it suits you. A rented house has its good
points.
Industrial Progress in British Columbia
People of Burton,  B. C, are about to
start a canning factory.
Inside real  estate  is  having considerable movement in Nelson.
A $60,000 hospital is to be built in Nelson this year, for which the Government
will provide one-half the funds.
Revelstoke is to have a new Court
House, estimated to cost $100,000, the
building to be one of the best of its
kind in the Province.
A large party of settlers recently
arrived from England en route for
Baynes Lake, B. C, where they propose
settling for the purpose of fruit growing.
Building operations commenced a
month earlier this year at Stewart. Municipal work will be undertaken on a large
scale, pointing to a brisk season in that
city.
A record was established for Richards
Street, Vancouver, south of Pender
Street, recently, when a twenty-five foot
lot in the 700 block was sold for slightly
over $1,000 a foot.
The Dominion Sawmills Limited, of
Revelstoke, is reported to have purchased the interests of the Rogers Lumber Co. of Okanagan at an estimated
value  of  over  $1,000,000.
The sale of bonds to the amount of
$1,660,000 for the Municipality of South
Vancouver means the commencing of
large public undertakings, such as roads,
sidewalks, water-works and schools.
Several seams of coal of surprising
size and excellent quality have been discovered near the head of Bella Coola
Valley recently.
The black sand deposits on the east
coast of Graham Island are being exploited with a view to extracting the
gold therefrom.
The church wardens of St. John's
Church, Victoria, have purchased a site
for their new edifice which will cost in
the   neighborhood   of   $80,000.
A Vancouver syndicate are making
arrangements for the laying out of a
townsite at New Hazelton, at the head
of navigation on the  Skeena River.
The British Canadian Lumber Co. is
about to erect a new lumber mill on
Lulu Island with a capacity of 250,000
feet per day. It will be operated entirely
by electricity.
The steamship Princess May recently
resumed her trips on the Skagway route.
She has been equipped with oil burning
apparatus for her boilers, being the first
C. P. R. boat using oil for fuel.
Construction on over $100,000 worth
of buildings in Nelson is under way.
These include additions and improvements on various structures as well as
new residences in all parts of the city.
Approximately 17,000 tons of lead
were produced in the Kootenay District
during the past twelve months, upon
which the Dominion Government will
pay lead bounties in the neighborhood of
one-quarter of a million dollars.
Work has commenced on the erection
of a new jam factory at Nelson.
A new hotel,  to  cost  $40,000,  will  be
erected in North Vancouver this summer.
A contract has been let for a new
Court House at Grand Forks to cost
$40,000.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company will spend $1,500,000 during the
coming summer.
The Council of Kamloops has decided
to equip the fire department with the
most up-to-date auto fire apparatus
obtainable.
It is announced that 140 new townsites
will be laid out on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway this summer. Fifteen of
these will be on the line running east
of  French  River.
It is announced that the Hudson's Bay
Company will establish great departmental stores in the Western Canada
cities in addition to the business already
being  done  by  that  company.
In order to make emigrants better
acquainted with conditions in Western
Canada the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
has arranged for moving picture performances on through emigrant trains.
An indication of the progress of Victoria is shown by the fact that the city
is calling for tenders for no less than
thirty-six miles of asphalt pavement,
representing an expenditure of nearly
$2,000,000. Puge 34
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The announcement comes from Prince
Rupert that the Harriman Railroad interests will join with the Grand Trunk
Pacific in bringing tourists from the
South-western States, making Prince
Rupert the point of attraction.
Big improvements have been undertaken by the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company on their line between Nelson
and Midway. This will include the laying of eighty-five pound rails, and the
building of two new steel bridges.
The   Granby   Consolidated   Co.   will
erect a smelter at Goose Bay.
Ashcroft, the present gateway to Central British Columbia, is experiencing a
period of marked activity. Settlers for
Fort George and other districts are arriving, and the greatest era in the history
of the town is anticipated for the coming
summer.
Three engineering parties are in the
field locating the main line of the Kettle
Valley Railway. Two are engaged east
and west of Princeton, while the third
outfit is working west from Coldwater
summit to Roberts Pass, a point south
of Aspen Grove.
MINING IN B. C, EAST   VEIN, GEORGE E. CLAIM
A valuable gold strike on the Upper
Naas River is reported from Stewart, the
strike being about twenty-three miles
distant from that city. Last fall a considerable amount of coarse placer gold
was brought out from that district, also
some rich samples of free milling quartz.
Quesnel, on the highway between Ashcroft and Fort George, is awakening to
the fact of her geographical importance.
The movement into the northern interior
during the coming season will mean
much to this  coming centre.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is preparing to handle increasing traffic on
Kootenay Lake by building another
modern boat to ply between Nelson and
Kootenay Landing. The steamer will
be 200 feet long, one of the latest inland
water types, and will carry more than
1,000  passengers.
Local improvements proposed by the
city of Chilliwack for the coming year
include the expenditure of about two
hundred thousand dollars, including macadamizing the streets, the completion of
a surface drainage system, the building
of a new city hall, and possibly a complete sewerage system. Two new bank
buildings will be erected this summer.
The Royal Bank has opened a branch
at Kamloops and will erect a new building there. P. Burns & Co. also propose
erecting a new block in Kamloops this
season.
The British Columbia Electric Railway Company are contemplating building a line to Steamboat by way of Chilliwack, the total length of the route being
about sixty miles.
Negotiations are under way between
the steamship line of Alfred Holt & Co.
and the Grand Trunk Pacific to promote
and equip a steamship service between
Prince  Rupert and  the  East.
Magnificent additions have been proposed for the Parliament Buildings at
Victoria to cost in the neighborhood of
$1,000,000. Detailed plans for the completion of the various groups of buildings
are now being prepared by Mr. F. M.
Rattenbury, who was the architect of the
present  edifice.
The spring trek into the Fort George
and northern districts has commenced in
real earnest. Quite a number of bona
fide settlers arrived, bringing their families and household goods with them, and
the Cariboo road from now on till
October will resemble a country fair in
full swing. From the Western and
Mid-Western States settlers are daily
arriving and the 'Gateway" will be
crowded to its capacity to house and
outfit them for the north.
RUSH TO STEAMBOAT
During the past month a large number
of prospectors have been staking claims
in the Steamboat Mountain District. For
the most part these have been staked on
the snow with no idea whatever of their
covering metal-bearing veins. From samples brought out last fall it was reported
that the country was so rich that a claim
anywhere was valuable. Acting on this
principle, most of the prospectors have
staked their claims, in most cases one
prospector staking a large number for
outside parties. The fame of the camp
has gone abroad such that there is every
indication of a big stampede into that
district in the spring. In fact it has been
prophesied that one of the greatest
stampedes in mining history will take
place there during the coming season.
Already a townsite has been laid out
and is being placed on the market in
Vancouver. If the camp is as rich as is
claimed, no doubt a permanent town will
be established. At present all supplies
going in from Hope costs thirty-eight
cents a pound carriage. 911
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Happy Valley Lands
The Growers' Paradise
ATURE has indeed bestowed
a lavish hand upon Happy
Valley Lands. The lands
largely form one of the pleas-
* antest valleys of the southernmost part of Vancouver Island, and include some of the finest land and the
largest area of uniformly good land in
this end of the Island.
Situated but eight miles from the
beautiful City of Victoria, there is no
question about market for the products
of these lands. When the Canadian
Northern Pacific, which runs through
these lands, is built as far as Snooke,
this will be the easiest and quickest way
of reaching the district. At present the
district is reached by means of the E. &
N.  Railway   (Canadian   Pacific),   or by
GLEN LAKE, HAPPY VALLEY
ROAD NEAR LUXTON STATION, HAPPY VALLEY
berries, currants,- gooseberries; then
there are medlars, walnuts and chestnuts. The garden at "Ferncliffe" contains all these fruits, also one at William
Head and several other ranch gardens.
There are great profits in poultry raising. The favorable conditions are all
here, and successful rearers of chickens
are found on every farm. The great bulk
of poultry product in Victoria is not
from the extensive poultry farms, but
from small places, country homes or
farms of a few acres.
Many Victorians have country homes
on which they reside part of the year,
and many Old Country people, or people
from the East, have bought small or large
properties and are engaged in the most
pleasing of outdoor occupations. It is
significant of the desirability of this section that no less than four Governors
have made their homes here.
means of the splendid driveways running
from Victoria and traversing the lands.
The soil in the district is unusually fertile and easily worked, and varies from
the dark humus found with Alder bottom
to the lighter sandy loam with clay or
gravelly sub-soil that characterises the
land best suited for fruit-growing.
The climate is delightful. During the
last twenty years the average highest
temperature was 84.2, while the lowest
average temperature for the same period
was 17.20 degrees. These figures certainly speak volumes.
There are great possibilities in fruit
growing in this end of Vancouver Island,
which is, one may say, a paradise for the
fruit grower. To give a list of fruits that
are grown here with great pleasure and
profit is an easy task; one can do so offhand: Apples, pears, plums, cherries,
prunes, crabs, quinces, peaches, apricots,
nectarines, grapes, mulberries, loganberries, raspberries, blackberries, straw-
RESIDENCE OF HON. JAS. DUNSMUIR, NEAR HAPPY VALLEY 1911
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If
Interested in Kerrisdale
as buyer oi
* seller, send me
your name
and address and
I will mai
you a map of
Kerrisdale
free,   d   n   a
JOHN M.
CHAPPELL
Room 2,443 Pen
der St. Vancouver, B.C.
Kerrisdale Branch: Wilson Road
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your money tnere.
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London, Paris and Rome, that's the past.
But if investment of money interests you,
come to the Great North, that's the future.
I have acre lots at Masset, Queen
Charlotte Island,.for $200 that will make
your fortune. City lots in Prince Rupert,
a city destined to rival Frisco. Timber,
Coal, Farm Lands. Write me, then come.
CHAS. M. WILSON
Investment Broker, Alder Blk., Prince Rupert,
B. C, and Delkatlah, Queen Charlote Islands
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CANADIAN NORTHERN
EXTENSION.
The Canadian Northern Railway Company is calling for tenders for four sections of its line in British Columbia, as
follows: Hope to Boston Bar, 40 miles;
Boston Bar to Lytton, 28 miles; Lytton
to Ashcroft, 44 miles; Ashcroft to Kamloops, 51 miles.
It is estimated that the most of construction of this 163 miles will total
$15,000,000, as some of the work will be
among the heaviest in the annals of
Canadian railway construction. For instance, between Hope and Kamloops
numerous tunnels aggregating a total of
two and three-quarter miles will have to
be driven. The longest will have a
length of 2,400 feet. It will be located
on the north side of Kamloops Lake, at
Battle Bluff. The next longest will total
2,000 feet. It will pierce a mountain near
Yale. A great deal of construction along
the Fraser River, especially in the canyon, will cost $300,000 a mile, but the
average cost for the entire distance is
expected to vary from $80,000 to $100,000
a mile.
Although no official announcement has
yet been made, it is believed that tenders
for the building of the main line northward from Kamloops to Yellowhead
Pass will also be called for at an early
date.
LILLOOET ACREAGE
One of the best Mixed Farming, Grain, Fruit, Sheep and Cattle Raising Districts in British
Columbia. A small cash payment and balance easy, will secure a holding that will make you
independent. <][ A good investment is cumulative in its effects—get well started and the
going is easy.     €| For particulars of the best start in British Columbia, apply
W. J. MURDOCH, 879 Hastings St. East, Vancouver, B. C
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One way—
and perhaps the best way-to judge the future of
FORT GEORGE
is to compare it with the leading cities of the growing
Canadian and American Northwest—notably with
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area of millions of acres.
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"Opportunities" Brokers' and Business Directory
Zfye progressive Brokerage, financial and Industrial firms and Institutions of British Columbia,
SAMUEL   HARRISON   &   CO.
Brokers   and   Financial   Agents.       Agents
Stewart   Land   Co.,   Ltd.
Stewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.
A.   H.   HARMAN
Real   Estate
1317 Broad St. - VICTORIA, B.  C.
Phone 1918
ALFRED   M.   HOWELL
Customs   Broker,   Forwarding   Agent
Office—23   Promis   Block
Telephone   1501,   Res.   R1671
1006    Government    St.,    VICTORIA,    B. C.
Phone 815
P. O. Box 735
The City Brokerage
Real Estate, Timber and Fire Insurance
A. T. ABBEY, Manager
1218 Douglas St. VICTORIA, B. C.
'••••«2«
The PORTLAND
Mrs, Baker, Proprietress
723 YATES ST Phone 2404
Tne only modern rooming house in town.
Steam neat, running not and cold water and
telephones in all rooms. Newly furnished
throughout, and up-to-date in every respect.
TERMS MODERATE
VICTORIA, B, C
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SMITH   & SMITH
Real    Estate   and   Commission   Agents
P.  O.  Box 41
J.   H.  Smith
Fourth   Ave.
W.   R.   Smith
STEWART, B. C.
LEONARD,   REID   &   CO.
Victoria Real Estate,
Vancouver Island Lands and Timber
420, 421   and  422  Pemberton   Block,
VICTORIA,   B. C.
ALFRED WILLIAMS
Construction Engineer
Temporary Office
New   Metropolitan   Building
Hastings St. W.      -      VANCOUVER, B. C.
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Dealer in Clothing, Furnishings,
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GEORGE   LEEK
Real   Estate,   Notary  Public
Exchange Block, PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.
P.  O.  Box 247 Phone  178
T. J.  POLLEY & CO.
Real     Estate,     Fire,    Life    and    Accident
Insurance.        Plate   Glass   Insurance.
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GOLDEN RULE BROKERAGE
Phones:  Office 5346
Residence 2662
iii7 Granville St.      Vancouver, B. C.
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Mrs. J. E. Elliott
Hand-made Goods a Specialty
The most Ip-to-Date Store
For Neckwear, Blouses, Underwear
and everything needful for
Infants   and   Children.
Phone R313
742 fort St.       VICTORIA, B. C.
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PATTULO &  RADFORD
Real     Estate,     Insurance     and     Financial
Agents
P.  O.   Box 1535    PRINCE  RUPERT,   B. C.
Cable Address:  "Patrad"
C. ARTHUR  REA
Late of Brandon,  Manitoba
Real Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan,.Etc.
Law  Chambers,   VICTORIA,   B. C.
J. W.  POTTER
Architect and Structural engineer
Reinforced Concrete  a  Specialty
LHW»BCTLER BUILDING
PRINCE   RCPERT,   B.   e.
P. 0. BOX 271
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Yes, there are so many in British Columbia that you can not take the
time to tell about them. But if you will send us the name of one of
your friends that has been left behind, and enclose one dollar, the price
of one year's subscription, we will send them "Opportunities," and then
they will be informed as they would like to be.
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By Using The HOLMES
DISAPPEARING BED
the Den is turned into a spare
Bed Room and no space lost
See them at Room 210
319 Pender St., Vancouver, B. C.
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BULLEN & LAMB
LATE BTJIXEN PHOTO CO.
Tlie Leading- House for
Commercial and Architectural Photography
Amateur Finishing and Enlarging.    Picture Framing
743 PENDER STREET WEST, 2 Doors from Orpheuni Theatre
PHONE 4018
l">^N I RJT     ^" O* F^^    ^or  Double  Corners  and beautiful view Lots, 100 and 140 feet frontage
*    ^J ■ ■ ^   ■       \2A im k I      ovelooking Gulf of Georgia and Fraser River on Clere Road Carline, see
H. O. KEEFER, Point Grey Specialist
PHONE 7020
1065 Granville Street
Are You Looking for a Desirable
Summer Home?
Here is a Snap for Someone
A three roomed cedar bungalow, situated
at Woodlands, North Arm of Burrard
Inlet—the most popular Summer resort
on the North Arm.
^ It commands a beautiful view.
€| Included is nine-tenths of an acre of
ground—not rock, but soil unexcelled for
fruit growing".
^ Mountain water piped to the property.
Ifl The boat service enables the business
man to live at his summer home and
keep his regnlar business hours in the city.
Note the Price: Only $1000
on good terms. Full particulars from
owner.
FRASER S. KEITH
Phone 6926   ::  Suite 57, 429 Pender St, Vancouver
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Head Offices:   411 PENDER STREET, VANCOUVER. B.C.
Telephone 5522
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3
Eating Your Cake and Having It
A Curious Phase of the Sugar Beet Industry which helps
to make it both Profitable and Interesting
m
HEN the sugar beet industry becomes one of the leading forms of
remunerative activity in this remarkable Province, there will be
hundreds of people to regret their lack of foresight in not seeing
the rich possibilities offered in the early stages of its development.
Sugar beets offer the investor a chance to "have his cake and eat it,
too," in a manner unlike any other form of security on the market.   Here
is one of the ways it operates:
When the beets are* brought to the factory and ground, 14% of their
weight becomes converted into sugar. For this the farmer receives his
five dollars per ton. As the estimated returns of Fraser Valley soil in
sugar beet tonnage amounts to 20 or 25 tons per acre this means a return
in sugar alone of $100 to $125 per acre. Of the residue that remains
after all the water that can be expressed in the ordinary presses has been
squeezed out, about half is pulp which makes for the feeding of cattle,
cows or hogs, a food richer in carbo-hydrates, proteins and fats than the
best corn ensilage. This is returned free to the grower, unless he desires
to have it dried, in which case a drying charge is made. Once dried,
sugar beet pulp forms a rich meal which will keep indefinitely and sells in
the open market for about $40 a ton.
This is only one of the hundred interesting things we can tell you
about the possibilities of sugar beets in the Fraser Valley. Write us for
the interesting story of "How Sugar Beets Lifted a $14,000 Mortgage in
Two Years." Shares in this company are selling now for $10.00, which in
years to come can not be bought for love or money.
The Fraser Valley Sugar Works
LIMITED Main Office:
Plant. MISSION CITY, B. C. 319 Pender St. W.t VANCOUVER
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O P-P ORTUNITIE
GREAT REDUCTION IN THE
I      PRICE OF GAS      I
Costing about 25c. per thousand
The British Gas & Light Co. Ltd., has been
incorporated for the purpose of supplying a
simple, effective invention for making gas. It
is the Wonder of the Age. The tank i3 simply
fixed out of doors underneath the ground,
charged with petrol; the machine itself is fixed
in the basement or anywhere. It is operated
by weight, working automatically, manufacturing the gas only as you use it, whether it is
one or five thousand lights. The gas is clean,
pure, free from poison, the very best gas for
cooking, lighting or heating. Combined with
our Pittsburg Water Heater, which is the best
Hot Water Heater in the world, it is an ideal
plant, and supplies hot water all over the house
any minute day or night by simply turning the
cold-water tap. These plants make gas at the
rate of about 25 cents per thousand. Compare
this with what you are now charged—$1.50 to
$2.00. Figure it out how quickly you will pay
for your plant and be entirely free from
corporations. Write for further particulars to
1075 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C.
Lillooet and Fort George
Districts
Those buying first make largest
profits on smallest outlay. If An
excellent chance here for the small
investor in blocks of from 5 to
40 acres.
$25.00 cash and $10.00 per month.
Special terms on wholesale lots-—
ten to fifty thousand acres.
>W. J. Murdoch
879 Hastings St. E.      VANCOUVER, B. C.
To-Day, Telephone 6109
The Shrewd Investor desires
Revenue Producing
Property.
See Harry Beit
For Business Property
Fire, Life or Accident
Insurance.
Mortgages Bought and Sold
Loans Arranged.
All Business conducted on
strictly Commission Basis
yc*4 Robson Street      Vancouver, B. C.
$750
Point Grey
Lots
Cleared and graded, close to
Clere Road and 16th Avenue.
Very high—good view.
Quarter cash,  6,   12,  18 and
24 months.
DON'T   MISS   THESE.
A.  E. AUSTIN & CO.
BROKER8
328 Granville St., Vancouver, B. C.
PHONES 9130, 9131
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THE FAIRFIELD BUILDING        VANCOUVER, B.  C.
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Le&al and Commercial Stationers and Printers
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and we enclose clipping which might be of use to
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We are now located in our new quarters and
have, of course, another Victor Safe.
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WINDSOR PARK
$125.00
FOR AN INSIDE LOT, OR
$275.00
FOR A   FINE   DOUBLE   CORNER
Terms:   $20.00 Cash;   Balance $5.d0 Month
Just north ot" proposed Imperial Car Works
and Dry Docks.
Canadian National Investors
LIMITED
310 Hastings Street West
VANCOUVER, B. C.
Telephone 9350
Open Evenings
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Arc You Utilizing Your Opportunities in Life?
If so, Every Dollar You Own
Should be   Working for You
Are you going to labor a lifetime and hand four-fifths of the fruits of your savings to some bank that
is safe because all the other depositors do not ask for their money the same date you do? You know
your cash is not laid away in safety vaults. It is out taking its chances doing business in the very channels
you are afraid to put it into. Someone has more nerve with your money than you have yourself. EITHER
YOU MUST INVEST IT OR SOMEONE ELSE WILL.    WHICH SHALL IT BE? '
DIRECT PROFITS
We are offering you a solution of this great problem; making your money earn more money. WHEN
YOU BECOME A MEMBER OF THE PRINCE RUPERT-NANAIMO COLLIERIES, LIMITED,
YOU MAKE POSSIBLE WHAT YOU ALONE COULD NOT ACCOMPLISH, and you receive the
profits direct from every cent of investment you make. IN BUYING THE SHARES OF THE PRINCE
RUPERT-NANAIMO COLLIERIES, LIMITED, YOU DO NOT PART WITH YOUR MONEY;
you neither risk or jeopardize it, but you put it to   work where it produces profitably and SAFELY.
MILLIONS FROM COAL SHARES 1    If 1     jf
More money has been made from coal than from any other form of security. You seldom or never
hear of a coal mine going broke. On the other hand you do hear daily of those who have made millions
from a ground floor investment in coal shares. It is only a short while since the shares of the Crow's Nest
Pass Coal Co. were selling at 10 cents a share, and to-day you cannot buy them at $400 a share, and history
always repeats itself.
VALUABLE PROPERTY-UN LIMITED  MARKET %:.;
The property of the Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Colleries, Limited, is situated on Graham Island within
a few miles of the town of Masset and 60 miles from Prince Rupert, the Pacific terminus of the Grand
Trunk Pacific. PRINCE RUPERT WILL BE THE MARKET FOR THE OUTPUT OF THE COMPANY'S MINES. The property, therefore, is destined to be one of the most active and most prosperous coal
mines in Bjitish Columbia, and those who are fortunate enough to acquire an interest in same will be in
possession of what will prove to be a most profitable investment, which is bound to advance in value from
year to year.
$1.00 SHARES FOR 25c , |
Only a limited block of stock in this company is offered to the public at 25 cents PER SHARE, in
blocks of not less than 100 shares, the par value of which is $1.00. SHARES MAY BE PURCHASED
ON THE EASY PAYMENT PLAN OF 10 CENTS PER SHARE DOWN, BALANCE IN THREE
EQUAL MONTHLY PAYMENTS WITHOUT INTEREST. Where all cash is paid certificate will be
issued at once.   The shares are non-assessable.
APPLY NOW—PRICE TO ADVANCE
Just so soon as the devolopment work is completed you may look for great activity in the sales of
shares of this company. Get in your application to-day, THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT
YOU CAN MAKE ONE HUNDRED PER CENT. ON YOUR MONEY INSIDE OF NINETY DAYS
THROUGH THE ADVANCE IN THE'PRICE OF SHARES.
When remitting, make your cheques, drafts and money orders payable to the order of the trustee.
FRANK R. LAING, Trustee
The Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries, Limited
39 Bank of Hamilton Building, Vancouver, B.C.
VICTORIA, B. C,
622 Johnson Street.
NANAIMO, B.C.,
Herald Building.
KAMLOOPS, B.C.,
Kamloops and Fort
George Realty Exchange.
CUT THIS OUT AND.MAIL AT ONCE TO
F. R. LAING, Trustee,
The  Prince Rupert-Nanaimo Collieries,  Ltd.,
39 Bank of Hamilton Building, Vancouver, B. C,
Forward  prospectus and full particulars of your qoal company to:
NAME
ADDRESS
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Editorial     9
An Industrial Commissioner Needed.
Vancouver Celebrates.
British Capital All Important.
Long Live the King".
The University of British Columbia. . .By Prof. J. G. Davidson,Ph.D. 11
The Building of an Epoch Marking Fair By F. M. Logan 14
The Rush to Steamboat By K. Myers 16
Our Heritage on the Pacific By R. W. Douglas 18
Allison's Adventure By Ethel Cody Stoddard 20
A Means to an End By P. Howell Poole 22
Huge  Steel Works  for  Coquitlam   26
Stability of Real Estate Values By J. Herbert Welch 33
Progress of Mines in Vicinity of Stewart   .   35
The Value of Time  v........  36-
The Stampede to British Columbia • j   36
Ideal Homesites
and Investments
FIVE ACRE BLOCKS ON B. C. ELECTRIC RAILWAY,
NEW WESTMINSTER, AT KENNEDY STATION ON
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THE MOLE ESTATE
Bounded by Marine Drive, Johnson
and Clere Roads. This property is being
sold in 132 x 297 ft. blocks, it is all clear
and is quite dry. Just compare the price
of $2000 per block with surrounding-
property and notice the terms :. 1, 2, 3,
4 and 5 years,
JOHN M. CHAPPELL
Room 2,443 Pender St. Vancouver, B.C.
Phone 4802      Kerrisdale Branch : Wilson Rd. Page 8
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1911
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Vol. 3
JUNE, 1911
No. 6
EDITORIAL
AN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONER NEEDED
BRITISH COLUMBIA is perhaps the most
widely advertised province on the face of the
earth, and the results of this advertising have
returned a thousand fold in direct business
derived. The present season is witnessing one
of the greatest influxes of population the Province has
yet seen. The bonds of the various municipalities within
the Province are placed in the East and in the Old
Country for the most part at a premium. British and
American capital is pouring into this Province at a rate
undreamed of a few years ago. These results are very
largely traceable to advertising, both direct and indirect,
backed by the wonderful natural resources to be found
here, coupled with an ideal climate or climates, for she
has many of them, giving a wide range of both locality
and altitude from which the intending citizen may choose
a permanent residence. The Provincial Government
maintains a Bureau of Information, which issues thousands of circulars and booklets, gotten up in an attractive
and comprehensive form, dealing with the various
resources and possibilities of the Province. An inquiry
from any source is met with literature which is bound*
to make the recipient feel that this is a desirable country
in which to live. On Vancouver Island there is an Island
Development League embracing every municipality,
whose business it is to bring to the outside world the
many advantages of the Island. Vancouver has a Tourist
Association, supported by the city and by private subscription, which aims to advertise Vancouver. The
transportation companies are also doing much in this
direction by advertising the scenic and natural advantages
both in this country and in Europe.
Lest we be accused of being overly modest, it might
be mentioned at this juncture that "OPPORTUNITIES'"
since its inception, has been an important factor in interesting the outside world in British Columbia, proof of
which is brought to our attention every day.
Heretofore, and as far as every indication eoes, for
many years to come, capital has been and will be absolutely safe in the various channels exploited. Likewise,
safe will be the future of the new comer who settles
on the land and proceeds to follow one or a combination
of the many lines, such as general farming, stock raising,
dairying, poultry, fruit raising or intensive farming.    If
nineteen out of twenty or ninety-nine out of one hundred
or even a greater proportion of the new comers to this
Province followed one or other of these pursuits there
would be small cause to worry regarding the future of
the Province, but such is not the case. We find one-half
or more of the new comers crowding to the centers of
population, Vancouver getting her share and possibly
more. They believe that it is much easier to get along
in this country—so widely advertised—that they must
needs but come here and nature or an all wise Providence,
or some one else, will see that their fortunes are assured.
That is very often due, no doubt, to no fault of their
own, but from grossly exaggerated reports that sometimes get abroad concerning conditions.
To get down to bed-rock, what has Vancouver to
offer to a large body of emigrants coming to this city
with small resources? The city itself employs a small
army of men on the streets, sewers and other public
works. The mills and various industries employ likewise
a great army. The building trades at the present time
are active and earning large returns to the respective
mechanics, but on looking into the matter it is found
that the actual pay roll of our various industries is all
too small in proportion to the population. We must
attract industries, employing all kinds of labor, and assist
them to get a proper foothold in order to provide for
present and future prosperity. We have the communities
in the East as a guide in this direction. Where a publicity
commissioner has been appointed his duty is to prepare
statistics regarding the consumption of the various supplies, to go into the question of available sites, power,
raw material and labor, to act in every way possible to
attract new industries and thus to place the whole community on a more solid footing. At the present time this
is not being done. If one goes to the provincial office
of the secretary of the Canadian Manufacturers' Associa-'
tion, he will find that neither facts or figures are available
regarding manufacturing industries in this Province. We
find nothing whatever is being done towards attracting
new industries. The city of Vancouver is spending
enough money in advertising to cover this field thoroughly. Tt is a most important field as affecting the future
of every city and it is worth the thoughtful consideration
of the powers that be that steps be taken immediately
towards the establishment of such an office, the result of
which cannot but be beneficial to the cities, but to the
Province
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It is a question that might well be taken up by the Provincial Government. We would suggest an industrial commissioner for the whole Province, whose entire energies
would be devoted towards creating, attracting and assisting new industries to locate in the various localities whose
economic conditions were found to be most favorable.
Such an office cannot fail to do good and tend to supply
what British Columbia needs most to-day, next to settlers
on the land, more manufacturing plants, more humming
factories, more centres of industrial activity, and a bigger
pay roll, and consequently more certain employment for
the new comer. This, we believe, is the least the Provincial Government should do in the matter.
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VANCOUVER CELEBRATES
OTHING but commendation can be expressed
in commenting on the form whereby the
twenty-fifth anniversary of Vancouver is to
be celebrated, and particularly upon the object
which the money raised is to be devoted. A "Made
in Canada Fair," described elsewhere in this issue, with
the unique features attached to it should prove a great
success, and we sincerely hope that the promoters and
management may meet with their most sanguine expectations in the results. The establishment of a Convalescent
Home, to which the money secured is to be devoted, is a
fitting memorial of the twenty-fifth birthday of any city,
and Vancouver is to be congratulated on having such a
worthy object in view.
What a change these twenty-five years have wrought.
On the shores of Burrard Inlet has envolved a city with
a metropolitan stride. Large office buildings adorn the
spots where then the black bear reared her cubs. The
hand of man has changed the face of nature to suit his
convenience. • Ask  the   averasre   citizen   of  Vancouver
tor
"What is her future?"  He will reply, "The greatest city
American continent."    That is the spirit of Van-
and that spirit is one of the things combined with
on tne
couver
her many natural advantages that will help to make her
great. It is not wise to prophesy, but if Vancouver increases during the next twenty-five years at a rate proportionate to the last twenty-five, she will surely be numbered
amongst the great cities of the world.
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I'.RITISH CAPITAL ALL IMPORTANT
N a recent issue of "Canada," commenting upon
an article in a former issue of this magazine,
under the caption "Opportunities Overlooked,"
states: "In view of the vast amount of wealth
which has been poured into Canada by all sorts
and conditions of British investors, and to which is
attributable that wonderful development of the country
to which the eyes of the world have been opened, it seems
somewhat strange to find a Canadian periodical with the
exceptional title of Opportunities discussing the hesitancy
of Englishmen to invest money in British Columbia. This
singular conclusion is evidently based upon a misapprehension, and our contemporary, the Colonist, opportunely
points out that the reference is not so much to large
investments as to small ones. While one is not disposed
to traverse this modification of the sweeping assertion,
one might go a step further and opine that the reference
might be narrowed down to a few small, nervous investors
whose speculations are not an appreciable equation. These
small investors, to whom affairs six thousand miles away
cannot appear in their proper proportion, rely mainly
upon the counsel of probably equally timorous friends, in
contradistinction to the capitalist who is au fait with the
movements of the principal markets of the country and
has confidence in his own judgment and the propositions
put before him. Hesitating and nervous small investors
in Britain are not distinguishable from their species in
other countries, and, as the Colonist remarks, there is no
use in finding fault with these people. We can only
add that the British investor as a class has responded
generously to Canada's appeals for financial assistance
during the past few years, and that if occasionally small
capitalists have neglected opportunities that have been
presented to them it is probably due to ignorance of local
conditions rather than to any lack of appreciation of the
merits of particular openings for the employment of
British capital—a point of view which has evidently
impressed itself upon our esteemed contemporary."
We would go further and say that if it were not for
British Capital the present development of Canada would
not exist. British capital built the Canadian Pacific
Railway, linking the West with the East and opening
up a new Empire. British capital is to-day building two
transcontinental lines across Canada, whose effect upon
the localities through which they traverse will be almost
as great as that of the original railway. As effecting;
British Columbia, British capital is very largely invested.
Municipal bonds, railway bonds, street railway stock,
timber, coal land, farming and fruit lands are all being
exploited by British capital. In fact, we venture to assert
that if it were not for British capital invested in British
Columbia to-day, not only would the population be only
a portion of what it is, but the developments we see
everywhere would be but a small fraction of what they
are.
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LONG LIVE THE KING
N the twenty-second of this month the cheers
of the British Empire will resound in every
corner of the globe. The coronation of His
Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fifth
and his consort Queen Mary, is an historical event marking the official commencement of a new reign and a new
era in the history of the British Empire. To follow in
the footsteps of his saintly grandmother Queen Victoria,
and his peace loving and popular father, King Edward
the Seventh, King George has an example set before him
that he may well emulate to his own glory and lasting
renown. He has already shown himself to be a man of
tact, courage and foresight, with the interests of his
Empire above all else. During the reign of Queen
Victoria the Empire really has its birth, and while King
Edward sat on the throne the Empire idea has grown
and the bonds that have held it together have been forged
stronger and stronger. Greater things are yet in store
for the British Empire with the creation of an Imperial
Government or representation by the over-seas Dominions. Giving each national status will make a solid
Empire and one that no petty strife can dismember. The
present peace pact being negotiated between Great Britain,
France and the United States is a step towards universal
peace. With other countries joining in on such an understanding there is every reason to believe that the reign
of King George the Fifth should see that much to be
desired part of the millenium, "when wars shall be no
more."
The Empire rejoices on the advent of the new reign,
the whole world looks on with interest. May the reign
of King George the Fifth be long in years and blessed
with peace, happiness and prosperity. OPPORTUNITIES
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HUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B.C., JUNE, 1911
The University of British Columbia
Some of Its Problems and Possibilities
By Professor J. G. Davidson, Ph. D.
From his Address as President of the B. C. Academy of Sciences at Its Annual Meeting
TO my mind, every man in British Columbia should be interested in our University, and
feel called upon to express his
views both privately and publicly. The chief advantage of this attitude lies in the interest taken, and not
necessarily in getting those views
adopted. However, if many of us have
aggressive views we will evolve .a university that is more or less our own
creation. The type of university on this
continent is by no means fixed as it is
for example, in Germany, nor will it
be for years. About all conceivably
ideas in college organization are
tried with some measure of success, and we surely have an uniqe
opportunity to contribute much since we
are free from the inertia of fixed conditions. The public is awake to the problem of the college, and may be trusted
to do its own thinking. I am* not in
sympathy with the resentment that
many college men feel when subjected
to outside or student criticism, but
rather welcome it at all times. In the
first place, it is often frankly valuable,
and in the second place, it carries final
authority. Public funds support the university, and public opinion will decide
its final type. It is the part of ordinary
common sense in college men to be as
active as possible in moulding that opinion and in meeting it before it develops
into savage criticism. In the United
States to-day the universities are being
industriously attacked, as are indeed all
their institutions. In Canada we are
starting along the same road. Doctor
Robertson, in an official utterance as
chairman of the Commission on Technical Education, said the other day: "There
is general discontent over Canada with
the product of the schools." As I see it,
that discontent is not altogether at any
disability of a boy or girl to take his or
her place at once in business or professional life, but also that men claim to
find it harder to "break, in" a boy, the
longer he has been at school. Moreover,
it is almost impossible to show clearly
that a boy's ultimate achievement will
be bettered by longer schooling unless
he-can show what is required by a business man, namely,; i-mniediate^lrersults.
This feeling is ve^^gene^l^n^fc^iust
be 'met by a state supppr%d^l§^%rr2^f
education. " ■%* ^^J^I
Then, in the last analysis,-vany study
of a university is a study of the extent
to which it meets the wants and needs
of  its  constituency.
the commissioners to place the university near the City of Vancouver. I refer
to the question of daily and even hourly
accessibility for students and staff. It
is easy to see that the difficulty has not
yet been studied and solveds We are
told that the Kitsilano car lines will be
extended to the grounds ' before the
buildings are ready for occupancy. This
will not be sufficient. The grounds are
over six miles from the center of the
city. At the average rate of a city street
car it will take a student away over an
BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF VANCOUVER FROM MOUNT PLEASANT
The Location of Our University
No more beautiful situation than the
tip of Point Grey could well be imagined
as the seat of a great university. It is
probably more uniformly clear of fog
in winter than any other location near
a large body of water on the Lower
Mainland. The soil is excellent for the
purpose, and at the same time the pecul-
liar position brings to the front as of
paramount importance the argument
which was most powerful in influencing
hour each way from the eastern central
parts of the city, and two hours or more
from Hastings, New Westminster or
North Vancouver. Special cars over the
regular city lines could make very little,
if any, better time. This would make it
necessary for students from those parts
to live at the University except for weekends. Again, the transportation of students' baggage and general supplies
the institution and its community is of
rather   considerable   importance.     It   is Page 12
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idle to talk of handling this volume of
freight over the city lines at night or
by regular boats from the harbor to a university wharf. Both of these suggestions
are often and seriously made. Those
who are best acquainted with the volume
of freight needed by a great institution,
such as ours must be, strongly recommend a private railway spur. The importance of the whole question of transportation could be emphasized by those
acquainted with the comparative starving
of such universities as those of California, Minnesota and Michigan, until
adequate transportation was provided
from San Francisco, Minneapolis, St.
Paul and Detroit. However, there is
possible   a  very     easy    solution  of  the
into the heart of the city, and thus an
extra handling of freight would be
avoided. Also the passenger trains could
be run direct from the Hastings Street
car barn? by arrangement with the
Canadian Pacific Railway, when their
yards are moved out of the city. The
British Columbia Electric Railway
would thus be given what would amount
to a right-of-way for suburban trains
which must be provided soon in any case.
With such a concession the company
could easily be consoled for the brief
period of loss while the university community is growing to a size that would
warrant such a line. It would, then, be
quite easy to take students to the
grounds     from     New    Westminster   or
university    laboratories    and    the    city
hospitals.
I am of the opinion that the future
of the agricultural college was not
studied at all in the location of the university. An adequate farm on Lulu
Island would even now cost an almost
prohibitive sum and seemingly the only
alternative is the Government farm at
Coquitlam, about twenty-five miles from
the university. As agricultural colleges
are generally developed, this would
necessarily mean a separate institution.
We would lose all the benefits and
economies of centralization and we
would probably have to face an agitation to have it placed in the Okanagan
or  on Vancouver  Island.    But there is
A DEVELOPED RANCH, OKANAGAN VALLEY
whole matter, one which I am convinced
the Government and the Municipality of
Point Grey should have provided at the
opening of the university. The early
days will be difficult enough, even with
all possible facilities. Let Chaldecott
Road, Twenty-fourth or Sixteenth avenues be made one hundred and thirty-two
feet wide from the Eburne line to the
university grounds. Then let a permanent arrangement be made whereby regular fast cars or trains should run with
a specified maximum number of stops
from Vancouver to the grounds, connecting with the interurban cars from
New Westminster via Eburne. Also let
the right to handle freight over this line
be made permanent. The Eburne line
now connects with the Canadian Pacific
Railway at the Granville Street bridge,
North Vancouver in an hour, and from
the greater part of the city in half that
time.
This question of transportation is
also intimately connected with the future
of the medical and agricultural colleges.
Already our doctors are saying that it
will be necessary to have the last two
years of the medical work done in the
city. This dividing of work is against
all the best tendencies of the day, but it
seems to be necessary in places, and you
know how hard it is to eradicate an idea
once formed. With good transportation
it might be possible to build up a university hospital prior to the formation of
the medical college, and at any rate both
doctors and students could work to a
great  extent  back and  forth  from  the
another possible solution, one about
which I have been dreaming for years.
If we found an agricultural college in
the near future, we will be building from
the top, as we are doing in too many
ways in our other professional colleges,
where, for example, a man intending to
be an electrical engineer can reach the
second year of university work without
hearing physics mentioned in his school
career. We are training no students in
the rudiments of agriculture to-day.
What constituency, then, have we for
such a college? Would it not be infinitely more sensible to establish first, residential schools of secondary grade on
the Government demonstration farms
throughout the Province? Let them be,
on the one hand, trade schools where
boys would ero .throuerh the motions of 1911
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the most approved methods of farming
and, on the other hand, high schools
giving agricultural college and even general matriculation work. They would
also be united as experimental centers
for the university and effective centers
for  disseminating  acquired  information.
This latter problem of encouraging
the use of knowledge already gained is,
to my mind, even more important than
that of experimentation. If farmers
used a little of the information we
already possess, the face of the earth
would be transformed.
Then the college at the university
could be of real university calibre, devoted to scientific experimentation, and
to the training of experts and secondary
agricultural school teachers. A great
deal of the work would be done in
laboratories, and there is plenty of land
suitable for small experimental plots
within easy reach of Point Grey. For
field work, the school and farm at Coquitlam would be within a couple of
hours' run. This policy of secondary
agricultural schools was strongly presented in our argument before the
University Site Commission a year ago,
and was especially recommended by
them in their report to the Government.
Area of Grounds
It is not my intention in this place
to discuss the whole question of an adequate acreage for the campus of a large
university, but some strong remarks will
always be in place until our site is enlarged. No one acquainted with the
needs of a student body would say that
one hundred and seventy-five acres is
sufficient, when a whole country-side was
available. True, most large universities
situated in cities have much less land,
but they are crowded; their affiliated
institutions must find their own land;
they are continually buying ground at
enormous expense, and, worst of all,
they have no room for dormitories.
More and more are university authorities
being forced to accept responsibility for
the home life of the students. Large dormitories have proved undesirable in
many ways, and the tendency is strongly
toward cottage homes on the campus.
As universities grow to-day, we might
well have 4,000 students in twenty years,
two thousand of whom might be in residence, whole the staff would number five
hundred or more. One hundred and
seventy-five acres is not enough for them
all to live and work upon.
Publicly and officially, the finding of
the commissioners was taken as fixing
• the site at Point Grey, but as a matter
of fact they did not strongly insist upon
this in preference to North Vancouver,
or St. Mary's Hill. They did strongly
insist upon not less than two hundred
and fifty acres for the campus, and seven
hundred acres adjoining for agriculture
and forestry purposes. Of course, we
can easily infer that the educational
side of the Government could not have
been satisfied with the area set aside and
that all other influences may have looked
toward decreasing it. To those who
do not know a large university, the area
must seem more than ample, and its
actual cash value a most generous contribution from the people. From this
standpoint, all praise is due those who
had the settlement in hand. Nevertheless, we should see to it that much land
contiguous to the chosen site should not
be sold, or we will some day buy it
back at ruinous cost. The price of such
land should not be considered. No one
thinks of the real estate value of Stanley
Park.
The Work of Victoria College
There is one question that may well
cause us future trouble. At Victoria two
years of general university course is now
being done quite satisfactorily in the
High School. In Saskatchewen, at Regina, similar work was being done when
the university was established at Saskatoon. The privilege was withdrawn
against such violent protest that the university might have been disrupted had it
not been backed by an overwhelmingly
strong government. I am convinced it
would be good policy and desirable in
every way for Victoria to continue that
work, but it could not be supported from
university funds. There would be no
end to that road. Other strong high
schools in distant parts of the Province
should also be encouraged to undertake
it. It is not university work at all,
strictly speaking, and would only raise
the standards of the schools without encroaching on the university. It would
better satisfy the educational desires  of
important cities and would re-act in an
actual increase in university attendance.
The remainder of my remarks apply
to universities in general as much as to
our own in particular.
Bulletin V
As everyone here knows, in 1910 the
Carnegie Foundation employed Mr. M.
L. Cooke, M. E., to investigate the efficiency of the physics departments of
eight colleges and universities, of which
the University of Toronto was one.
Mr. Cooke is one of a group of engineers
who specialize in the " doctoring"
of methods used in industrial concerns,
and he was instructed to approach this
study in his regular manner.
One can find much of humor and of
profit in a survey of his findings and recommendations and their reception by
the general and college public.
On the whole, the efficiency of Dr.
McLennan's organization of the department at Toronto was highly commended. The friends of Toronto have seized
upon this with high glee as a testimonial
for the whole university, whereas we
know that Dr. McLennan's autocratic,
but, in many ways, effective administration is unique and not very popular, not
only in the rest of the university, but
also, perhaps, in the whole educational
world. I have even seen the statement
made that "Presumably, he would include McGill University in the same
class." From the neighborhood of New
York and Boston a considerable protest
has been made: many things at Harvard,
Massachussetts Institute of Techni-
chology and Columbia University were
tacitly condemned by Mr. Cooke, you
see. On the one hand we have had burlesques  of  business  methods  applied  to
( Continued on page 28)
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The Building of an Epoch Marking Fair
The Purposes and Progress of the " Made in Canada Fair/' the Great Summer
Exposition which will draw Thousands of People to Vancouver in June
A whole Week of Educational Exhibits and Novel Amusements
By F. M. Logan
*ROM   comparatively   small   beginnings the "Made in Canada
Fair" has grown to be one of
the most ambitious projects
ever undertaken for charitable
purposes in the West. It aims to be at
one and the same time educational and
inspirational. Its amusement features
are extremely diverse. Its exhibition of
local manufactures the most complete
that has ever been assembled. But the
scope of the Fair is not confined to our
city alone; it is as broad as the whole
Dominion itself—as cosmopolitan as the
varied race which inhabits it.
In the month of December of last
year the King's Daughters and other
ladies interested in philanthropic work,
conceived the idea of holding a Fair and
Bazaar in order to raise money to found
a convalescent hospital for Vancouver.
Every week from forty to sixty patients
are sent away from our hospitals before
they are really able to go because of the
crowded state. Everyone who has investigated the situation realizes that a convalescent home is greatly needed in this
city.
Starting thus in a comparatively
modest way the "Made in Canada Fair"
soon outgrew the original conception and
became so great that the King's Daughters thought it advisable to secure the
co-operation of the City Council. Three
of the aldermen of the City of Vancouver are among the directors. The city
itself has donated five thousand dollars
to^^sit^r^ proposition. Committees
appointed to collect funds have already
received about seven thousand dollars
wajiMr has been subscribed for this pur-
^@?Tand' probably by the time this appears in print the amount will be very
considerably   swelled.
>pihe scope of the Fair is somewhat
comprehensive. Its fics-t object is to
celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of
Vancouver's existence,, something which
will interest the visitor's as, well as old-
iimers and recent '^arrivals. Vancouver
should feel p-roud of the progress she has
made -dnring--:-?$$ese twenty-five years,
and it seems fitting that some step
should be- taken to celebrate the event.
Another object of this Fair, as before
stated, is to give the manufacturers, not
only of Vancouver, but all parts of Canada, a place to display their goods. There
are a large number of articles manufactured in this city of which the average
citizen knows nothing, and therefore
would, if in need of these articles, likely
send East or to the United States for
them when they might be .purchased here
and help industries which are' so much
needed to ensure Vancouver's growth.
The third reason is  to  fittingly   cele-
-brate the coronation of King George. As
British subjects, everyone in British Columbia is interested in this event, and,
while they are not able to attend the
coronation ceremonies, they can take
some part in the celebration of the event
here.
The fourth object is the founding of
the convalescent home. The object is
something which should interest every
citizen   in   Vancouver,    as   our    hospital
F. M. LOGAN, MANAGER, "MADE IN CANADA" FAIR 1911
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conditions are already far too limited,
some steps must be taken to relieve the
situation. When these things are taken
into consideration it is not to be wondered at that the citizens have given
their most enthusiastic support to this
scheme.
Fair  Grounds and  Buildings
The management of the "Made in Canada Fair" have secured for their use the
Drill  Hall and  Cambie  Street grounds.
^m^SS?Wtr^^
WATERFRONT SCENE VANCOUVER HARBOR
One of the greatest advertisements for
the "Made in Canada Fair" was the
erection of the new building in a single
day. This took place on May 24th,
Victoria Day.
From early in the morning till late in
the afternoon Cambie Street in the vicinity of the Drill Hall was literally black
with people. Hurrying passers-by stopped
and remained to wonder. Idlers, out
holiday making, stood keenly interested.
Photographers were there with their
outfits, girls with their cameras, the
ubiquitous small boy was everywhere.
Much the same excitement prevailed as
at a horse race.
Indeed, a race was being run with
time. In this case time did not prove
himself the winner, in spite of his reputation.
The Fair building, 90 by 250 feet in
size, is strongly built; it is complete in
every detail. Begun at 6.30 in the morning, it was finished by 3 o'clock in the
afternoon.
The magnitude of the task will be better appreciated when it is remembered
that the work embraced building a firm
foundation and floor, erecting the rafters
and supporting columns, and boarding in
the ends and sides The building inspector examined the finished structure carefully and reported that it was capable of
bearing many times the greatest strain
that could possibly be upon it. This
desirable result is partly due to the
planning and partly to the fact that
every one of the workers threw himself
into his task with heart and soul. When
the fact is considered that 300 men put
125,000 feet of lumber into place in six
and one-half hours, it must be conceded
that a wonderful feat was accomplished.
Architecturally, the new Fair building
is most pleasing. The contrast of light
and shade are such as to make the most
favorable impression upon the artistic
eye, and there is nothing about the
structure of the bazaar or tawdry to
unpleasantly affect the aesthetic senses
of the most cultured.
Inside, both the buildings and the
entire grounds will be beautifully decorated with a most lavish display of
electric lamps, as well as flags and bunting of every color.
Features of the Fair
Outside of the largest expositions, like
the Pan-American Exposition, which was
held at Buffalo, New York, the Chicago
World's Fair, and the Seattle Fair, it is
doubtful if so many really fine amusement features have ever been gathered
together "to make a Roman holiday."
One of the chief features of the Fair
will be a mammoth floral parade in
which a large number of automobile and
carriage and horse and rig owners in
Vancouver have agreed to co-operate by
decorating their vehicles and taking part.
If the present interest and enthusiasm
in this feature may be taken as any
criterion, this parade will easily be the
greatest even of this kind that has ever
taken place on the  Pacific  Coast.
Those who have not given the matter
experience has proved that artificial
flowers keep their shape better, and look
as well in these parades as natural
flowers.
The executive of the "Made in Canada
Fair" have already arranged with the
wholesale dealers to have on hand a
large supply of tissue paper, and the
ladies of the city have promised their
assistance   in   making  the   flowers.
Passadena has become famous for its
floral parades, Portland has become
famous for its Rose Carnival, New
Orleans has become famous for its
Mardi Gras festivities, and why should
not Vancouver become equally famous
for its Floral Parades? The parade will
be photographed, and will appear in the
leading illustrated journals of the world,
thus proving a great advertisement for
Vancouver.
The Automobile Club of Seattle, have
written stating that they were coming
over here for a day or two during the
Fair week. They have taken a good
deal of trouble in arranging the trip at
this time in order that they might participate in the carnival.
Another feature which the Fair management must congratulate itself on
securing is Mr. J. H. Gibson, who has
secluded himself on the Lieutenant-
Governor's farm at Ladner, constructing
an airship on a most unique plan. Mr.
Gibson's machine is the only one of its
kind in the world, built longer than it is
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a thought, or who are not informed in
regard to the composition of these floral
parades, may think that we have not
the natural flowers here in Vancouver to
make a good show. While this is true
to some extent, it is not necessary for
the succes of the floral parade to have
natural flowers. The flowers may be
artificial,   made  from  tissue  paper,  and
wide. It is fifty feet long. Series of
springs are arranged so that he can
drop anywhere without hurting the
machine. It carries a sixty horse-power
engine weighing two hundred pounds.
The wings are constructed of a specially
selected fibre which combines the
strength of canvas with the lightness
of the  finest silk.    Mr.  Gibson will be Page 16
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on the grounds to explain the working
of his machine, and if weather conditions are favorable he will make flights
every afternoon if there is sufficient
room. Thousands of people have never
seen a flying machine except in photographs or moving pictures, and this exhibition will doubtless prove a great treat.
The outdoor attractions will be of the
most varied character. Dancing pavilions
are being built on which skilled performers will render the characteristic
dances of all nations. All the bands of
the city are co-operating in. a grand
musical festival. The different theatres
of Vancouver will contribute their best
attractions, and other special features
are being secured by the directors.
Advertising the Fair
With the intention of drawing as many
people as possible from all parts of the
Province of British Columbia, and also
from the States of Washington and
Oregon the Fair management has devoted   considerable   thought  and   energy
to this side of the great enterprise.
Artistic window cards will be distributed in the different cities and towns on
the Coast, including Portland during the
Rose Carnival. These cards have been
placed in windows of merchants, and in
the railway stations and ticket offices in
plain view of thousands of people. The
design chosen for the cards is pleasing
and appropriate. It consists of medallion drawings of both King and Queen,
and photographs of Vancouver twenty-
five years ago and to-day, together with
the emblem of the Province, flags, the
national beaver, and other decorative
effects, the whole being elaborately
lithographed in five colors.
The Sells-Floto Show, which has been
exhibiting on the Pacific Coast for some
time past, is hanging in its main tent a
large painted banner which bears the
suggestion "Visit the Made in Canada
Fair, June 14th to 22nd, Vancouver, B.C."
this will appear at twenty-eight performances during fourteen days, and be
seen by two hundred thousand people.
Of Exceptional Magnitude
The foregoing outlines which 1 have
briefly sketched in the few minutes
seized from unremitting activity must of
necessity fail to convey to the reader an
adequate idea of the magnitude of the
Fair itself. Only a small part of the
story has been told, and that in the
briefest way. Within a few days the
Fair will be ready to speak for itself—
speak with all the eloquence of new
buildings gaily decorated with flags and
a myriad of lights, speak with all the
eloquence of festal music, and speak,
most expressively of all, with the carefree laughter and happy voices of many
thousands of people. I think it was
Emerson who said that the ornaments of
a house are the friends who frequent it.
In this case the ornaments of the "Made
in Canada Fair" will not be merely the
magnificent exhibits of the manufacturers, not the scores of gaily decorated
booths, not the enthusiastic spectators,
but the idea which underlines all this
activity—that of mitigating human suffering and ministering to human need.
The Rush to Steamboat
The Newest Mining Camp of British Columbia Where the Lure
of Gold is Attracting Thousands
By K. Myers
WENTY-SIX years ago a
flutter passed over the tiny
town of Hope, which lies but
eighty odd miles up the main
line of the Canadian Pacific
Railway from Vancouver, amid some of
the grandest scenery of the lower Fraser
Valley. Expectations ran high, but the
bubble burst and everything dwindled
away; the gamblers left the town and it
slept. For twenty-six long years it has
slept in the encircling arms of the everlasting hills, around whose base flowed
the waters of the Fraser and the
Coquehalla Rivers, now trickling by
when winter held valley and mountain in
its frozen grip, and now rush torrential to the sea when summer came and
thawed the snow on the mountain slopes.
And all the time the Old Settler Mountain lay sullenly on guard, a heavy
monument to the slow feet of time, while
on the other side of the peak Hope
Mountain has reared his glistening
summit to the skies, an emblem of belief
in the future that may some day come to
those who wait and lose not faith.
The Awakening
And now it is 1911, and the hammers
are ringing all the week along the streets
of the busy town that has been roused
ON THE STEAMBOAT TRAIL
PACK TRAIN SEVEN MILES FROM HOPE
after all these years by the magic wand
of gold. Last spring prospectors came
in from Steamboat Mountain, which lies
some thirty-five miles up the Coquehalla
and Nicolum Valleys, with tales of
quartz, and porphyry dikes, and free-
milling gold, which they said was of ex
ceptional richness. These tales had been
heard before, but this time the miners
were able to enlist capital on their side.
Gold attracted money, and the great
dollar . machine was put in motion.
Tunnels were driven, and what was at
first but a mild excitement developed
into a deep interest, and now the people
of Hope are waiting for a mad rush. All
is preparation; hotels are being run up
of wood and canvas, the Imperial Bank
has opened a branch, poolrooms and all
the other institutions that cater for a
mining community are appearing on the
spot, and even a policeman is in evidence
in the once dead and silent village of
the hills.
And the mining men are there too,
Prospectors and miners have been going
in and out over the snow-clad trail all
the winter long with dogs and sleds,
ponies, and man-borne packs. More
properties have been staked, and companies have been floated, not always,
unhappily, on the soundest of foundations. Man, ruthless in his search for
gold, has violated the mystery oi the
«»nce secluc-.ed valleys and the lonely
hills, and jrospcctois ,.ry into every
rock and crevice, where once the bear
and the wild deer alone had any claim.
The valley at the very foot of Steam 1911
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boat Mountain itself has been made the
battle ground of two rival townsites,
whose opposing champions are real
estate men, who, like the vultures,
gather together wherever men and
money are to be found.
ON THE STEAMBOAT TRAIL
A REST BY THE WAYSIDE
for some time, and various bunk houses
are scattered through the town. Cafes
have been run up, and a pool room is
now in full swing, while many smaller
stores are either being built or are
already doing business. The old court
house and gaol meanwhile stand dilapidated and broken down, mere wooden
cottages cranky with age, among brand
new shacks, that are rising mushroomlike all around them. Further out the
land is being cleared rapidly, and lots,
always lots, are being sold for a considerable distance all around the busy
town.
Up the trail signs of activity are not
wanting. The morning on which the
writer made his trip up to Nine-and-a-
Half Mile House a pack train of about
twenty ponies, tough and sure-footed
little cayuses, stared out with provisions
for Fourteen Mile House. This is about
as far as horses can be taken with any
ease, although it is not more than a
week since one party took in a train as
far as Twenty-three Mile House. There,
however, they were finally compelled to
abandon the ponies, and the remaining
twelve miles the men packed in themselves.   The ponies are only loaded with
On the Trail
Starting up the trail the stranger is
apt to disbelieve the reports of difficulties
with which he may have been regaled
in town, for he finds a beautiful forest
path, well graded, and affording glimpses
of magnificent scenery here and there
through the tracery of the trees. But
when only three miles out he finds a
reminder that all is not as easy as it
seems in the shape of a dead horse lying
at the bottom of a land-slide. Brought
up from Vancouver by a prospector this
horse, unused to the mountain, slipped
and fell, where only two hours before a
whole train of cayuses had scrambled
over safely. Now, however, the bad
place is mended and all can pass without danger, while the waterfall thunders
on,unmoved beside the track.
A little more than six miles out, however, the tenderfoot begins to reconsider
his decision to make the trip to Twenty-
three Mile House in one break. Here
the trail re-crosses the Nicolum to the
left bank, on the north slope of the hill,
out of reach of the snow when the snow
lay some three feet deep through the
thick bush. The trail is very narrow,
and   the  feet  of  the  pack  ponies   have
Prospects
As to the genuineness of Steamboat's
claim to be a great gold camp, nothing
can be stated for a certainty, but it
seems likely that the whole district
from Hope to Steamboat, and from
Steamboat back to Hope by way of
Siwash Creek is mineralized. Discoveries are reportel from all over the
district, and there seems no reason to
think that Steamboat is the only
mountain on which it may be possible
to find good mines. Samples, ostensibly
brought from Siwash Creek, show
equally good values, and strikes are reported within five miles of Hope, while
a considerable amount of staking has
been reported in the neighborhood of
Fourteen  Mile  House.
Situation at Present
And now for a few facts. The population at Hope at the present moment
is a floating one, but it may be said
that there about three hundred men in
town, two hundred of whom are
strangers waiting for the opening of
the trail at the beginning of next month.
The rest consist of old inhabitants,
builders and caters for the amusement
and support of the others. Building is
going ahead fast. Extensions are being
added to the old hotel, which has had
but one bed empty for but one night
during the past few months, and a big
wooden hotel is nearing completion. A
third hotel of canvas stretched over a
wooden frame has been receiving guests
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ON THE STEAMBOAT TRAIL—VIEW OF HOPE MOUNTAIN
one hundred pound packs, while the
men do not carry more than about
fifty-five pounds. The ordinary prospector is content to carry his own pack all
the way, and the going is much easier
for a man on foot than for a horse.
worn a narrow trail in the thawing snow
which has packed hard in hills and
hollows, while here and there a hoof has
broken through the crumbling surface,
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Shortly after striking the snow an
enormous St. Bernard dog bayed the
travellers, and there was a party of
prospectors returning with their hetro-
geneous dog team with which they had
made their way in to the camp. Three
miles more and the new road house at
Nine-and-a-half Mile Post is gladly
sighted, and a rest and a welcome were
forthcoming in the new tent, that by
now is probably worthy of the name of
bunk-house. Many prospectors were
met on the trail to prove that all is not
lies that has been said of activity in the
district. These men did not talk much.
They lay no claims to fabulous wealth,
but they admit that they have staked a
few claims. Oh, yes! Are they good
ones? Well, they don't know, but they
guess they may be. And that is about
all, and then they hit the trail for Hope,
and probably for Vancouver, for the
bulk of those who are waiting to make
tracks for the camp are waiting in the
city, where living is cheaper and excitement of a kind is perhaps more easily
obtainable. For Hope itself, apart
from a rather rough element, which is
inseparable from a mining town, is well-
behaved, on the whole, and the law is
treated for the most part with respect.
But here we must leave this little city
on the threshhold of an uncertain
future. Will it boom, or will it not, is
the great question. Of course, for the
moment, attention is fixed on the mines,
but the fact that the Canadian Northern
Railway is working night and day on
the railroad that passes right through
the townsite, is another argument in
favor of ultimate prosperity, and, when
all else has failed, Hope should always
appeal to the tourist by its unsurpassed
beauty of mountain Scenery, and to, the
sportsman by its fishing streams, where
clear pools and tumbling shallows succeed one another in glorious and sporting sequence.
Our Heritage on the Pacific
l people of the East who
have never personally traversed the Rocky Mountains,
possess but a meagre idea of
the magnificent heritage of the
British race within their portals. A
person may have read fifty descriptions,
yet would still possess a very hazy idea
of the wonderland of the Great West.
As a matter of fact no man can see
clearly a strange  country with another
By R. W. Douglas
are a white man that you will want to
stop in it; that you will want to possess
a portion of it for your very own; that
the Asiatic question will be settled so
far as you are concerned. You will
realize that it is a white man's country.
Why? Because he alone possesses the
aesthetic sense to enjoy it. Its scenic
glories are not for the outer barbarian,
who cares only to procure the wherewithal to carry on existence.    Let him
grandeur, that the scenic beauty around
him, is beyond words, is, in fact, indescribable; that he has entered a new
world. He marvels at the enormous size
of everything. The mountains, the trees,
the rivers, the lakes are all on the same
scale of magnificence. He is told, too,
that the country is nearly as large as
Germany and France combined. Those
two countries support nearly ninety millions pf people.    What a possibility for
WHARF SCENE AT NELSON, B. C.
man's eyes. A mountain would still be
but a mountain, trees would be but trees,
lakes only lakes. It requires something
beyond mere words to give the mind the
bright impression, if one would have the
whole truth. I repeat if you would know
British Columbia as it is come and see
it. I promise that you will be amazed.
There is no land like it in the whole
world.     I   promise you also that if you
find some less favored region to earn his
living; British Columbia is not for him.
The stranger within her gates begins
to open his eyes immediately after passing the Gap. The huge amphitheatre of
mountains surrounding the adventurous
traveller is only an introduction, as it
were, to the tremendous country beyond.
He begins to realize, dimly at first, that
grandeur is only the prelude to greater
British Columbia if only she can allure
the right class of human beings to her
shores! At present there are only, perhaps, the. half of a million, counting
every head except the aborigines. You
hardly believe the statistics that give you
the total of this corporal's guard, the
restless energy of the few making up for
the half-hearted work of the many.
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is a prodigy. You would think to see
her busy streets, her solid, substantial
houses, her great public buildings, that
half a million human beings had their
homes there. They will later, but they
are not there yet. Victoria is a gem of
Old England dropped down on Vancouver Island to enjoy the balmy breezes
from the Pacific. The other towns are
more or less raw, throbbing with life,
magnificently believing in themselves
and their future, and working without
ceasing to carry out their beliefs. Here
and there at long intervals are small
clearings in the primeval forests showing that the fruit farmer or the wheat
farmer is beginning his work. Here and
there  are  tall  steel  chimneys   and  hud-
of fertile land—and she really possesses
many millions of acres of rich land—I
assert that the Pacific Province would
still be the wealthiest Province of the
whole Dominion. Look at the little
Republic of Switzerland, for example.
The whole world has been pouring millions of money annually into that country for generations just for the privilege
of viewing her mountains. There is
nothing else on show in Switzerland,
and yet hundreds of towns and cities,
and thousands of hotels are enriched on
account of this privilege. It was estimated that in the year 1909, Switzerland
collected $200,000,000 from the army of
tourists who invaded her mountain
paths.    British  Columbia is as  large as
thick moss growing over the rounded
sides and top. It is a perfect picture of
symmetrical beauty. There is another of
a very different character: a tremendous
pyramid of granite and ice far uplifted
above the clouds, stark, serrated and
savage; it looms cold, silent, inaccess-
able, grand and impressive beyond
words. And these two types of mountains are everywhere in evidence; there
are thousands of them. They are everywhere typical of British Columbian
scenery.
But the mountains are not her only
beauties. Her giant trees, her beautiful
flowers, her mountain torrents and her
majestic rivers; her lakes and seas—all
help to form a combination that should
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died wooden buildings showing the
miner is delving for riches in the bowels
of the hills. On the banks of some of
the lakes, and on the level benches
above and behind, the stranger will
observe myriads of peach orchards.
Stringing all these various settlements
together are the steel rails of the
Canadian Pacific Railroad—the Providence of this wonderland.
The distances between places are enormous, and, no matter when you travel,
east or west, north or south, you are
never out of sight of the mountains.
They alone are omnipresent. St. John,
Lord Dufferin's secretary, called British
Columbia "A Sea of Mountains," and the
present writer agrees with him. Among
her many glories they are paramount.
Indeed, if she had not possessed a foot
VIEW OF OUTER HARBOR, VICTORIA
twenty Switzerlands rolled into one, and
her mountains are not a whit less magnificent or less beautiful. There is
nothing more certain, judging from the
way the Canadian Pacific Railway is
pouring the world's tourists through the
Northwest, that British Columbia will
become the world's tourist show country.
No matter what her future may be in regard to agriculture, mines, timber, fish
and fruit, which would secure her in any
event, her chief fame in the time to
come will spring from the character,
the variety and the immensity of her
scenic glories. No other country in the
world can vie with her in this respect.
And she has variety in mountains. Here
is one four or five thousand feet high,
covered to its summit by huge trees,
dwarfed by distance until they look like
streams and
they are all
prove  irresistible to the  aesthetic  taste
of the  most exacting.    A  land  of contrasts; mountains and hills
lakes;  torrents and  rivers;
in the same landscape.
And then, think of living
day by day surrounded by all these
splendid beauties of Nature. Well, it is
your privilege, Mr. Canadian, if you care
for them. The new country will be glad
to receive you—is, indeed, longing for
you. Come and help to develop it.
British Columbia is emphatically a
young man's country. I have met with
no one there, originally from the East,
who would care to return, except for a
transient visit. Rest assured that there
will be no permanent set-back to a
country that is progressing as rapidly as
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ALLISON'S ADVENTURE
By Ethel Cody Stoddard
"N
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BELIEVE I'll go to Canada.
It's something new I'm wanting," murmured Allison Campbell to herself, as she looked
he big Glasgow book store
'tad buried nine years of her
days,
around
where she
and which had
suddenly lost its charm for her. "I'll do
it. There's no one to say me nay—
now," she whispered, as she glanced at
the black dresses she wore.
Allison Campbell was one of a family
of nine girls and five boys, of which but
six girls remained. It was now just two
months since the mother of this flock
of- grown-up children had died and so
made them orphans.
Allison had been the most ardent
book-lover of the family, and, when she
left school, she had taken a position in
the store of Smith & Smith, a firm that
had existed in Glasgow for over one
hundred and fifty years. There she had
learned everything that she could about
the book business, and, up till her
mother's death she had been happily
content.
Life in a book store leave much time
for thought, and, as in Allison's heart
was a germ of the wanderlust, she had
listened to everyone who could tell her
about other countries. Canada had
always had special attractions for her,
and she had learned all she could about
that fair  country.
Home had almost been unbearable in
its loneliness since the little mother had
left it; and the old cravings had gradually assailed Allison till she had finally
decided to test for herself the big wide
world beyond Scotland's shores.
Almost unknown to her family Allison,
during the next few days, gathered her
small belongings together and had
them ready to be packed on a moment's
notice. Her bank account was the one
great drawback for immediate departure;
it was so lean in its proportions.
"The Anderson family's away t'
Canada this week," announced Jeanette
Stevenson one day as she and Allison
walked home to their mid-day meal.
"Is it true?" asked Allison, greatly
excited.
"True as fate. They're almost packed.
I had it frae Mrs. Anderson hersel'."
That evening Allison lost no time in
hurrying around to the home of the
Anderson's.    "Is it true you're away t'
Canada?" she burst forth almost as soon
as she was in the house.
Mrs.     Anderson     laughed. "Look
aboot ye, lass.   We're a' packed."
"Then I'm away, too. And, if you've
no objections, I'll throw in my lot with
you," exclaimed Allison.
After the amazement of Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson had been allowed to run its
course, Allison explained her reasons for
wanting to go to the new land. "And
it's British Columbia I'm aimin' for too,"
she ended.
Home objections were next overruled, and the following week saw Allison and the Andersons aboard a ship
bound for Canada.
On that trip across the ocean Allison's
heart nearly failed her very often. This
always occurred when she thought of
the hole her ticket to Vancouver, British
Columbia, had made in her small
savings. But courage never failed a
Scotswoman yet, and she always made
herself believe that she would be taken
care of.
At Winnipeg, Manitoba, -Allison and
the Anderson's parted and she looked
up some old Glasgow friends. They insisted upon her remaining over with
them for a couple of days, in which
time she did a considerable amount of
sight-seeing and greatly enjoyed her
visit.
"Have you plenty of money?" asked
Alex. Fra'ser, as* he was about to say
good-bye, after having seen Allison
comfortably settled in the train for her
eighteen hundred-mile journey to Vancouver.
Tears sprang to Allison's eyes as she
remembered the solitary half-crown she
had. in  her  purse.    "I'll   do   fine," she
tried to assure him.
"Then I'll just lend you a wee bit in
case you lose your purse," laughed
Alex., as he pressed fifteen dollars into
her hands.
What a blessing that money was to
her, because she had not dreamed that
she would be three days and two nights
on the road from Winnipeg to Vancouver. She ate two meals a day in the
dining car, and when she arrived in
Vancouver late one night she felt very
rich with five dollars in her purse. "It's
more than a pound," she said to herself,
the familiar words making a bit of home
in her heart.
As she walked along the platform and
wondered where ever she would go that
late at night, and heartily wishing she
was back in Glasgow, an elderly,
clerical-looking man  accosted  her.
"Are you Miss Campbell?"
"I am," answered Allison.
"Well, Mr. Fraser, of Winnipeg,
telegraphed me that you were coming
on this train and asked me to look after
you." He produced the yellow telegraph form which Allison read through
tears.
"I can take you to a nice boarding
house.    Will you come?" he asked.
"I will," replied Allison, quite satisfied
that she would be safe with him.
"That is good. My name is Chalmers.
Come along and we will soon be at Mrs.
Wetherup's."
They boarded a tram car and within a
short time were being received by a
motherly woman.
"She's all right with me now, Mr.
Chalmers,"  said   Mrs.  Wetherup.
Allison thanked the minister as well
as she could, and in a few minutes he
had   gone.
"One of God's own men is Mr.
Chalmers," remarked Mrs. Wetherup, as
she closed the door upon him. "Now
we'll find you a bed, Miss Campbell. You
look clean tuckered out." She led Allison
to a clean, neat little room whose bed
looked like a haven of rest to the tired
girl.
"And you're from Scotland?" asked the
landlady's daughter of Allison the next
morning.
"I am that."
"Did you find the journey a long one?"
"I did that."
"And is it a situation you are
wanting?"
"Indeed I am, and that right soon."
"What do you want to do?" asked
Miss Wetherup
"Anything."
Miss Wetherup's eyebrows went up.
"Anything? Let me see." She paused
for a moment, then looked keenly at
Allison. "Would   you   take   a   house
keeper's job? I'd like to help you; you've
come so far."
"I'll take anything," answered Allison,
her mind on the solitary pound which
she possessed, and it borrowed money.
"I know a family of two that'd like a
housekeeper.    Mr. Frame is away a lot 1911
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and  his  wife  has  to  have -someone   to
stay with her.   Will I 'phone her?"
"If you would be so kind." Allison's
tone was anxious.
"She'll take you," announced Miss
Wetherup a few minutes later.
"Then I'll go and get my bag and be
off," replied Allison.
"No rush."
"Oh, but I must be making money.
I've come a far way, and it's cost me all
that I had," replied Allison.
Allison found Mrs. Frame to be a
delicate little woman, who, though fretful, was not difficult to live with. The
work in her house was not hard, and
Allison found time to slip away to the
stores and seek out prospects for getting
back amongst her beloved books once,
more.
After she had been two months with
Mrs. Frame she had been able to send
back to Mr. Fraser the money he had so
thoughtfully loaned her, and then she
determined to make a new start.
Canadian faces were kind, but would
they take her word concerning her
abilities. But as there was nothing like
trying she one day hunted up the manager of a department store and told him
her qualifications. He handed her over
to another manager.
"Can you come to-morrow morning?"
asked the second man, whose name was
Mr. North.
"I can't come the morn'," replied
Allison, "but I can begin the week with
you."
The following Monday found Allison
established in the book department of
the big store of Brown & Co., where her
very soul joyed in the smell of her old
friends. She looked eagerly for the
books she knew well, and before her first
day was over had become fairly conversant with the stock.
Once more in her element Allison was
happy, and her interest in her customers soon attracted their attention. It
was not very long before she made many
friends.
"Come Sundey next and have dinner
with us," suggested one woman whose
Scotch accent still remained with her.
"Hoots, wumman. It's fair welcome ye
are," she assured Allison, who seemed to
hesitate over accepting the kind invitation.
"I'll come; and thank you," cried
Allison. And go she did and thoroughly
enjoyed her visit.
After that other people invited her to
their homes, and she thus secured an insight into the home life of the new land
to which she had come.
Meanwhile Allison's salary had gradually been raised till she received twelve
wants being few, outside her board, her
bank account began to look quite respectable.
"Why don't you invest in some property on a small scale?" asked Mr. Fox,
at whose house she was dining one
night.
"I've not enough money," replied
Allison.
Mr. Fox went into details and showed
her how she could buy and pay so much
on it monthly. Through his advice she
bought in a new part of the city and felt
confident in her venture. She was very
proud, too, to be a property owner.
While the department store was giving
Allison the life she wanted, yet she
yearned to be in a real book store, and
it as bad as I did," replied Allison. "And
thank you, Mr. North, for all your goodness to me."
Once established in Richards & Company's big store, Allison's heart sang for
joy. Here was just what she wanted.
Her old customers soon sought her out
and new ones quickly learned her value.
She knew every book and where it was
placed. She systematized the shelving,
and kept the stock well in hand. She
kept her eyes on the publishers' lists,
looked over new books and picked up
all the information she could about
them. The date of arrival of every
magazine and periodical was recorded in
a little book that hung constantly by her
side. She had every magazine and newspaper in its place almost as soon as it
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she kept her eyes open, and her friends
kept her aim in mind.
"Take a look in at Richards & Co. as
soon as you can," whispered Mrs.
Frisby one day. "My husband says
they're wanting some one to take
charge."
Allison lost no time in obeying the injunction, with the result that Mr.
Richards offered her sixty dollars a
month if she would come to him and
take full charge of the books, magazines
and newspapers.
The manager of Brown & Co. objected
strongly when Allison told him she was
going to leave him. "I'll give you a
dollar a week more if you will stay," he
persuaded,
dollars and fifty cents a week, and, her   "Give it to some other lass as'U want
arrived. In short she so arranged her
work that disarrangement was a thing
unknown under her ruling.
Six months later, as she felt well upon
her feet, she urged her younger sister,
who was a professional stenographer, to
come out and join her. Isabel soon obtained employment, and, as she was
thoroughly competent, she received a
salary of sixty-five dollars a month.
Then the two girls took a wee apartment, and two more contented women
it would be difficult to find, because, not
being fiction people, their life is real.
Allison has never been sorry that she
ventured to cross the ocean and take up
a new life in Canada. On the other hand
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A Means to an End
A Mining Story of British Columbia
By P. Howell Poole
UR luck s out even here,
George. I don't believe there's
a bear left in the Kootenays.
They 've   all   made   for   some
other part of British Columbia."
"How the devil do you expect we are
going to get within range of a bear with
you whistling loud enough to be heard
two miles away. I 've hunted bears before, Walter, and even the grizzly is
likely to keep out of the way when he
hears any unusual racket."
"I must do something," the other man
rejoined, "or I shall go '
"Oh, don't fret so much, Walter.
Didn't we come on this bear hunt to
forget our hard run of luck? We may
make it yet. The ore is there, and if we
could only raise another few thousand
dollars. Why should you take it so
hard, Walter? You have no one depending on you."
"It is of you I am thinking, George.
You have a wife and children and you
sold out your store to put money in my
prospect. If you were not my brother it
would not be quite so desperately hard."
"Don't worry on my account, Walter.
I do enough for my s^iare."
"Then I can't help thinking, George,
of our friends in the East and the Old
Country who put in their money. If the
mine had panned out O. K. we should
have been overwhelmed with expressions of gratitude. Now they've lost
their money through our mine. To put
ii mildly we can't expect them to like us
for it. And it is made all the more bitter
to know that a few thousand dollars
more would open up the mine. We have
lost our money and our friends." Then,
after a moment's pause, the speaker
added in tones of deepest dejection "And
I've lost, yes, lost all hope. What a
barren wilderness this world is."
"Oh, forget it, Walter," cried his companion, with a painful effort to assume
a cheerful air. "Hullo 1 Do you see the
smoke in the gulch to the west? Some
prospectors, I guess, or some blamed
fools on a bear hunt like ourselves."
The two men were the Johnson
brothers, whose strenuous efforts to develop a topper prospect a hundred miles
from Nelson had recently ended in
failure. The two men pushed their way
through the heavy underbrush towards
the smoke. They found a small clearing
in which a camp fire was crackling. The
men had hardly stepped into the open
space before they were startled by the
command   "Drop  your  guns  or  I   lire.'
The brothers, looking in the brush, saw
a man with  a gun levelled.
"We were looking for a bear," spoke
up Walter, "but hardly your kind."
"Well, I guess you look as though you
belonged to the mountains and I'll trust
you anyway.''
"What is all this about?" cried Walter.
"No need to get cranky, I didn't mean
anything," rejoined the stranger with
slight confusion. "Get down, pals, on
thai there log and I'll tell you the
straight of it. You scared me shaky.
You see there is a bunch of cut throats
who have sworn to cash me in, and I got
a bug in my head that you might be out
to do the killing of me act. I'll tell you
just how it all stands, and may I never
get three of a kind if I ain't giving you
the straight goods. I come from the
United States. Years ago T swore, that
is, years ago I joined a secret society—
not one of your cocktail-drinking benefit kindergarten crowds, but a bunch who
did things that amounted to something.
In Europe the members threw—never
mind what—over here they hurled explosive red-hot talk. About three
months ago they decided to remove the
head of a government department. The
short rope fell to me. 1 wouldn't do
such a dangerous job. They swore
they'd make me. First,. they killed my
eight children, one after, another, until
the whole nine were gone." Walter,
looking at George, winked slightly as
the stranger hesitated a moment before
continuing.
"That is the whole story.    I fled from
Bu  from  Chicago so as  I wouldn't
get killed myself. That's the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, so help
me God. Wouldn't you be a little leary
of strangers if you was in my place?
Say, pard, you are my size to a razor
edge. Can you lend me an outfit of rags—
overalls, blue shirt and so on. These
New York togs are not the rig for these
parts. Lend me the duds and I'll help
you hunt that bear. You may have
better luck this time," he added, with a
hoarse chuckle.
George was proceeding to make it
clear that they did not wish the stranger
to join them. But to Walter it seemed
the man's prescence would be a Godsend, as it might prevent them from discussing the trouble which weighed so
heavily upon them both.    So  he inter
rupted his brother, saying to the stranger "If you will walk with us to our
camp on the other side of the rill I will
give you a complete outfit, and we shall
be pleased to have you join us."
When the stranger had completed his
toilet the three men proceeded to look
for bears. They found some fresh bear
tracks. These they followed, stopping
every now and then to listen to any
noise that might betray the whereabouts of a bear. But no sound disturbed the quiet stillness of the mountain forest, save, the buzz of insects
about their ears, and the gentle rustle of
the tree-tops far above.
Suddenly, Walter, who was leading,
raised his hand and whispered "Hush."
The men stopped and listened intently.
Somewhere to the right they heard a
sound as of tearing and crunching.
"That's a bear," said Walter.
"I am going to have the first shot,"
cried the stranger.
"Cut that out," grumbled Walter, in
suppressed tones. "If you make such a
row the bear will walk off. If it doesn't
and a greenhorn like you tackles it
alone, the bear is the one likely to do
the killing."
The stranger, ignoring Walter's warning, plunged excitedly into the thick
underbrush. "It won't be our fault,"
muttered George ominously.
The stranger, after forcing his way
through the underbrush for some
minutes, almost stumbled on a huge
grizzly bear. The man, white with sudden fear, hurriedly raised his gun, and,
taking a nervous aim, fired. The report
was answered by a short growl or
grunt and the bear sprang towards its
assailant. The man fired again wildly,
but before he could make a third shot
the savage brute was upon him, bearing
the terror-stricken man to the ground.
The brothers, guided by the bear's
growls, rushed as quickly as the heavy
underbrush would permit to the help of
their companion. A well-aimed shot by
Walter killed the bear instantly and the
animal fell across the prostrate body of
the foolhardy stranger.
With feverish haste the brothers
hauled the carcase off their fallen companion. The ghastly sight disclosed
sickened them. The man was dead and
his face was mauled beyond recognition.
The claws of the maddened bear had
been drawn across the man's face, tearing out the eyes, and pulling away the 1911
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lower lip so that it hung a shapeless mass
over the man's throat.
The brothers shuddered and turned
from the gruesome sight. For a space
neither spoke. At length Water faltered
"Could anything be more horrible?"
"Yes, Walter, that it should be you.
He evidently didn't have a friend in the
world. That yarn he told us and the
way he acted looked as though he was
a pretty bad egg. I don't suppose there
will be anyone to grieve very much
about his death, that's one comfort. How
is he to be identified, I wonder?"
"I noticed him," said Walter, "burn all
the papers that were in the clothes he
left at our camp. Why, anyone might
easily mistake this corpse for my body.
The ma^n has my clothes on, he was my
easy as lighting a fuse. All you have to
do is to disguise yourself by shaving off
your mustache and wear the clothes the
man left at our camp, then go down to
Vancouver, or to Seattle, and get a boat
going round the Horn. You can leave
the rest to me."
Walter looked at his brother reproachfully and said "I will have nothing to do
with such a contemptible fraud."
"Steady, there," shouted George, resenting the allusion to fraud; then he
added coaxingly, "Come, come, Walter,
you have again and again declared that
the insurance companies existed by
fraud. Let's put the shoe on the other
foot and break even. We'd do better,
show some real honesty, for when the
mine  pans  out all right we'll pay back
ness, "George, I will do this thing. I
will disappear, even you will not know
where I am. "I promise on my sacred
love for our departed mother that I will
go to my death before I will reveal this
thing that we do to any living soul."
As Walter made this declaration a presentiment that he would be called upon
to keep his oath vividly filled his mind.
The brothers walked back to. camp.
Walter made the necessary changes and
set out at once. Next morning George
started for town. He had spent a-sleepless night. The more he reflected upon
the wrong of the contemptible fraud the
more convinced he became that he ought
not to do it, and when he thought of
the great sacrifice he was asking of his
brother he despised himself. As George
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SCENE IN THE COLUMBIAN VALLEY
build, even his hair and mustache are the
same color as mine."
"The very thing," cried George, "let's
have your plan."
"Whatever do you mean?" exclaimed
Walter,  startled.
"Why, your idea of passing this body
off as that-of Walter Johnson, then I as
beneficiary collecting your $20,000 insurance. I told you we would get money to
develop the mine."
"What a preposterous idea," cried
Walter. "It sounds like sacrilege to
talk of such a thing near so great a
horror."
"How simple it all is," rejoined George.
"I didn't act as district superintendent of
an old straight life insurance company
for nothing. I know your identification
marks.     Why,   the   whole   thing   is   as
every cent of the money we are going
to borrow—just borrow, that's all, Walter, borrow."
Walter remained silent. George looked
east towards the snow-capped Rockies
and beyond, he thought of his family,
his face softened and he said gently,
"My Anna and our dear little Jack and
Victoria and Alice must never know,
Walter. My Jack, Victoria and Alice,"
he repeated, his voice lingering affectionately on the names as he pronounced
them. "Do this for them, but never let
them know. I am selfish in asking you
to do so much, but you have no wife nor
children and cannot understand that I
would do anything short of murder to
bring happiness to my youngsters."
Walter grasped his brother's hand
firmly and said, with impressive earnest-
neared the  town a man hurried out   to
meet him.
"Why, it's Sam, who worked on our
mine," exclaimed George to himself.
Whatever can have brought him up here.
He's in a hurry to get to me too."
"Good news," cried Sam, as he neared
George, "some toffs from Montreal want
to put money in the Sunny Luck. They
sent me up here to look for you. The
train's just coming in, hurry up, sir."
George just had time to tell some one
that an unknown man had been killed by
in the mountains by a bear. Then he
boarded the train and duly arrived in
Nelson, where he found capitalists
anxious to develop the Sunny Luck. He
was able to make such terms with them
that gave Walter and himself a large interest,   and  promised   liberal  returns  to 1911
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friends who had invested their money
in the Johnson's prospect. Things
moved rapidly with the Sunny Luck and
at the end of a few months George found
himself a wealthy man and able to obtain
anything money could buy, but his happiness was marred by a constant dread
that some great calamity had befallen
Walter, for since his brother had made
that vow up in the mountains he had
never seen nor heard of him.
On leaving his brother Walter had
gone to Vancouver, where he took passage on a steamer for San Francisco.
He then obtained a berth on a tramp
steamer going to England. For some
time Walter remained in the Old Country. He had resolved to go out of his
brother's life completely and not by
word or deed do anything that might by
any possibilty bring trouble upon his
brother and his brother's wife and children. For this reason he feared to
write to George, but the yearning to
hear how his brother had succeeded
became more and more intense as the
months passed. Finally he went to the
United States, going west to Montana,
taking up his quarters, at a small mining
town near Butte. Walter intended to
stay at his place and had his trunks
sent up to the hotel. He felt strangely
uneasy and felt that people were watching him closely. As the days passed his
uneasiness grew to a vague fear of impending evil. And when one morning
a lithe, keen-eyed man barred his way as
Walter was about to leave the hotel, he
started violently.
"Consider yourself under arrest."
Before he could realize the purport of
the words a pair of handcuffs were snapped upon his wrists. Walter groaned
aloud, his face paled, he staggered and
reeled as though about to fall. The
symptoms spelt guilt, and the detective
effecting the arrest smiled grimly, elated
at his capture.
Walter felt all the maddening terror,
all the concentrated soul-anguish which
only a strong man can feel when all he
holds dearest in the world has been
taken from him at a breath.
"What is the charge," he faltered, with
a gulp, and his lips trembled visibly.
"Robbing the mails of train No. 137
near Georgetown, Montana, and murdering the expressman, F. F. Simpson, on
the night of August 26th, 1909."
"I have never been in Montana before
this week," cried Walter, excitedly. The
sudden change to animation and a confident air displayed by the prisoner
puzzled the detective.
Walter, though he stood accused of
the most serious crime in the criminal
code, felt a glad sense of relief when he
first heard the charge, but as he learned
the nature of the evidence against him
he became overwhelmed with a sickening dread. The police had found the
clothes belonging to the man killed by
the bear at the bottom of one of Walter's trunks. The lining of the coat
exactly resembled in texture and color
the material of a mask found near the
scene of the crime and recognized as
that worn by the murderer, and the
cloth from which the mask was made
exactly fitted an opening left by the
removal of a piece of lining from the
coat. One of the trainmen who was on
No. 137 the night of the murder identified Walter as the train robber.
"What can I do?" groaned Walter.
"With that man's clothes on and wearing the mask, even George couldn't tell
the difference between myself and the
man killed in the woods, who no doubt
was the train robber. I can't escape
the circumstantial evidence unless I let
George know and bring him in. - That
will mean ruin, break the heart of his
wife, blight the lives of his children,
and make a living hell for us all."
Walter, prior to the time of the proposed fraud, had lived an upright,
blameless life, obtaining the respect and
esteem of all who knew him, and such
respect had been the dearest treasure
his heart cherished.
"Oh, how my soul is tortured," he
cried. "How dark and blank and horrible is the world. How empty is life
of all but pain, terror, soul agony. My
life, what is it worth? And what must I
give to lengthen the doubtful span? I
must destroy the happiness of those I
love and have my name branded before
all the world as a felon and a thief. No!
No! Life at such a sacrifice is worse
than death. God forgive my sins.
Rather than live in perpetual, horrible
disgrace, I will die in obscurity."
Walter's resolve to go to his death
left him without hope, without power
to connect thought. One idea only
stood out clearly—the certainty of his
impending doom. The one sensation of
which he was fully conscious was a
feeling of black, sickening despair. All
questions he refused to answer, pretending he had totally lost his memory of
events prior to his arrest.
The sherriff of Georgeford County
met the detective with his prisoner at
Georgetown. He scrutinized the captive closely for a mement, then turning
to the detective who made the arrest he
cried angrily, at the same time pointing
to  Walter's  right  hand
"What blunder have you made this
time? There were a dozen of the witnesses who swore positively that the
train robber had lost the first joint of
the first finger of the right hand."
"Well, he's a wrong 'un, anyway," faltered the detective. "He pretends he
can't remember he registered at Pen-
fold, and he had letters in his trunk
addressed to Walter C. Johnson/'
"This man," said the Sheriff, "must be
the brother of George Johnson.. He
disappeared in the Kootenay country
seven or eight months ago." Walter
gulped. "Why," cotinued the sheriff,
"don't you see, you mummy, this man is
crazy. I will telegraph to Mr. George
Johnson at once."
Walter continued to suffer from a
complete loss of memory until he hod
had the opportunity of a quiet chat with
his brother.
A new townsite is proposed near Lady-
smith on Vancouver Island by a new
company which has secured 1,700 acres
of coal lands in the vicinity.
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SMELTER AT TRAIL, B. C. ^r
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Huge Steel Works for Coquitlam
The Establishment of Steel Works a Great Boon
to British Columbia
During the past twelve months
announcements have been made from
time to time that steel works were to be
established in this Province, and as
many as one-half dozen projects were
mooted, and as many or more probable
sites which such a large undertaking
would entail, selected.
About a year ago Mr. William Owen,
M.E., of London, England, came to this
country with the credentials of the Old
Country capitalists to look into the situation and the feasibility for the establishment of iron and steel industries. He
found in this Province every condition
necessary for the successful carrying out
75.000 H. P. WATER POWER FOR FORT GEORGE A GREAT ASSET
of such a project. He found there was
available iron ore of the proper quality
and in sufficient quantity. He found
abundance of coal available. He found
shipping facilities of the best, and, what
was doubly important, a ready market
in this Province and on the prairies for
a large output from such a plant. Mr.
Owen is a man who has had a life-long
experience in the iron and steel trades,
and his high standing amongst those
with whom he has been associated in the
past rendered any report from him absolutely authoritative and acceptable to
the financial world in Great Britain. On
his return there he reported favorably upon the establishment of an
enormous steel plant in this Province,
and soon found that the money was
forthcoming to finance the enterprise on
an enormous scale. Since returning to
this Province about two months ago he
has been quietly getting matters in shape
and looking over the ground with a
view to the best possible location for
the plant. This was selected and secured
about the middle of May, setting aside
all rumors from various localities where
it was hoped the works would be established.
Pitt Meadow Chosen
It was no surprise to the people of
British Columbia when it was learned
that a site of two hundred acres, situated
on the Pitt River, near the Canadian
Pacific Railway bridge, and immediately
across the river from the spot chosen
by the Canadian Pacific Railway for the
establishment of car sheds and a large
industrial city. The property has a
frontage of two thousand feet on the
east bank of the Pitt River and is an
ideal location. In the interview Mr.
Owen states that it is the intention to
commence at once with the establishment of the plant, so as to have their
material on the market at the earliest
possible date.
"Iron ore will be conveyed in scows
up the Fraser and Pitt Rivers to the
plant, whose construction will be undertaken just as soon as engineers lay out
the ground, and locate the position of
the various buildings," said Mr. Owen.
"We shall instal blast furnaces, open
hearth steel furnaces, and erect rolling
mills. The capacity will be one thousand  tons   per  day,  with  an   estimated 1911
annual output of two hundred and fifty
thousand tons of finished product.
Has Applied for Incorporation
"There will also be foundry and engineering shops for renewals and repairs
as well as a plant for the manufacture of
cast iron pipe. The company, an application for whose incorporation is now
pending, will establish two factories for
working up by-products, such as coal-
tar and ammonia from the coke ovens
and utilizing blast furnace slag for
making cement, which is as good as the
Portland cement of commerce. The
slag will also be utilized for the manufacture of cement blocks, bricks and
paving slabs for sidewalks similar to
those in use in Europe. Later on the
additions will include a plate mill, a
shoot mill for making galvanized iron
sheeting and a tin plate mill. Each unit
of the plant, which will represent an investment of nine million dollars, will be
put in operation as soon as completed.
All the machinery will be imported from
Europe. The buildings will be iron
frame-work affairs with iron roofing. It
will take two years to build the plant. A
start will soon be made on the foundations.
"The acquisition of iron properties
and their development will cost from
$1,500,000 to $2,000,000. I have already
secured one and am negotiating for
others, as well as seven thousand acres
of coal lands on Vancouver Island. The
importation of iron and steel products
into Canada is nearly equal to the output of the steel plants of the Maritime
Provinces. The importations last fiscal
year amounted to 573,000 tons, of which
90 per cent, came from the United
States and the remainder from Europe.
Practically all this foreign material was
used in Western Canada. A steel plant
in British Columbia will have the advantage of a duty, as well as a long haul,
as against foreign competitors, and the
advantage of proximity to the Western
markets as against the Eastern Canadian
plants.
Advantage of Open Season
"We have also the added advantage of
an open season the year around, thus
obviating the necessity for stocking up
reserves for use in the winter months.
The greatest factor in our favor is the
saving of freight rates, a proposition our
competitors can not overcome. The
West is still in its infancy and the possibilities of the industry are illimitable.
"It may not be generally known that
the people of British Columbia occupy
the second position in the world for the
volume of trade per capita. My associates have ample capital to handle the
proposed    enterprise.      The    company
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means business and has no connection
with any real estate boom. There will
be a British Columbia board of directors
with  an  advisory board in London."
STEEL PLANTS FOR  BRITISH
COLUMBIA
The general public of British Columbia
has heard considerable lately regardin_
the establishment of iron and steel industries in this Province, and it is believed
that arrangements have been carried
sufficiently far to warrant the expectation Page 28
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the teacher and the laboratory, and, on
the other hand, attempts to discredit the
orthodoxy or appropriateness of such a
report from an outsider. These attempts
have even been made by presidents of
great universities. The underlying motive would seem to be a fear that the
whole spirit and method of the college
world would be revolutionized and true
education made impossible if business
men should take a notion to reform the
colleges. Similar fears were cherished
when first pure and then applied science
forced its way into the universities and
while evolution was being forced upon
the theologians.
Mr. Cooke shows clearly enough how
enormous savings could be made in the
business side of the college work. On
these reforms the world is insisting and
we must measure up to the standards
set. Our buildings, grounds and equipment in American colleges to-day are
worth $450,000,000 at least. The efficient
use of them is, on the whole, a business
proposition. Yet, e. g., a college president, has attempted to ridicule the suggestion that we use the rooms in a
$500,000 building for as many hours a
day as is conveniently possible by suggesting that no one finds fault when a
$100,000 church is used a couple of hours
a week. When a business-like care of
these buildings, grounds and equipment
is urged one is met with a picture of
"the co-ordination of janitor work with
teaching time." The aggregate clerical
and administrative work of American
universities has become a vast business,
but when our engineer suggests that it
should be transacted in accordance with
universally accepted business methods
he is met with the picture of the freedom
and simplicity of the German universities, which are remarkably free from
these appurtenances. The critics forget,
however, that the German gymnasia,
that correspond, on the whole, to undergraduate colleges, have the most perfect
and business-like organization of the
school systems of the world. And, anyway, if we have all these frills there is
every reason to make them as efficient as
possible.
Our bulletin fully recognizes that the
one great end and aim of an undergraduate college is the training and instruction of students. Hence the efficient
use of the student's time is the great
fundamental consideration. The effectiveness of our teaching is judged by the
ability of a graduate to take a place in
the world. There, ignorance of duties is
excusable at first, but two qualities are
essential: 1st, lack of faithfulness and
promptitude in meeting obligations will
not be tolerated, and, 2nd, the spirit of
the man must impel him to reach out to,
and not hang back from, an assigned
task.   Our part in developing the first of
these is to insist on absolute regularity
and punctuality, and faithfulness in the
performance of assigned work. The
second can be absorbed only from the
intangible spirit of the college: if our
students are not eager and enthusiastic
in what work is done, the college will be
held to have failed. And a few graduates
who are shirkers will spoil the reputation of a whole college.
Since the student, at present, gets his
whole "official" training from the teacher
our engineer is impelled to tread lightly
but firmly the holy ground of the
efficiency of the faculty. And therein,
perhaps, lies the rub. When criticism becomes personal it is hard to bear. Here,
again, I think the position taken in the
bulletin is, on the whole, sound. If the
business of the college is to teach, the
teacher is the only really important
officer.    Surely, then, it is good business
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to give him a maximum of time for intensive and contemplative preparation
for a maximum of teaching that he may
do to the best advantage. Functional
management of work other than teaching is recommended in order that the
teachers may be free from administrative
and committee work, and attention is
called to the fact that it is likely to be
the best teachers who are most overloaded in this way. The development of
some method of estimating efficiency of
teaching is recommended but none is
suggested—for very good reasons as we
all know. Jumping from other parts of
the report, objectors picture a "snap and
vigor" test, or an "average word production" test, by which Binks, a famous
astronomer, whose classes are largely
attended, is condemned as not giving
full value for his salary because he
averages only ninety-six words a minute,
etc. There ought to be means of increasing the effectiveness of teachers by
co-operation and correlation of work,
and several devices looking to this end
are recommended.
In the difficult matter of handling of
research, a "General Research Board" is
recommended. At once comes the retort—picture Newton reporting daily to
a committee on the progress of the law
of gravitation, or Darwin being told that
he must hurry up with his data on the
theory of evolution, or Rutherford being
reminded that he had not discovered a
new product of radium for a month. On
the other hand, I have known,personally,
men spending half their time in research
when all agreed that they had no particle of fitness for the work. A "Research Board" in the university could be
invaluable in singling out, training and
then giving opportunities to promising
investigators, and, as a matter of fact,
these functions are now being performed
by various research foundations with
splendid results. When such changes as
these are made we need not fear that our
ideals are being destroyed. Surely the
world has common-sense enough to
appreciate the best conditions of work
for a teacher or an investigator when a
careful study of the matter is made.
The suggestion of the "student-hour"
as. a basis of tabulating the work of a
college has possibilities of useful service,
but its use would have to be carefully
safe-guarded. Think, e. g., of the temptation of loading men with large classes
and economizing in financial expenses in
order to make a good showing in reports.
Tt certainly is proving a good word for
the educational muck-raker. Another
idea was that, of an outside examining
board as a logical thing. This has led at
least one prominent educationist to reject the ' whole report because everyone
who knows anything at all of these
things, knows that such boards were discontinued years ago, as a result of sad
experiences with cramming in lieu of
education.
On the whole, I consider that the
spirit of the bulletin is most sympathetic,
and that many of its recommendations
must be adopted in the near future—and
rightly so. It is true that very few
really new suggestions are made in it,
but its value lies in the publicity given
to these matters The bulletin may be
obtained by writing to the Carnegie
Foundation, New York City.
Matriculation
This question involves that of the
freedom of the high school to serve that
great majority of its students who will
never go to college There is no reason
why a training for college should not
also be as good as can be devised for one
whose education is to end at that point.
Yet no one would claim this for our
Canadian university matriculations. The
result is that our high schools are being 1911
forced to separate students into two
classes with widely different curricula.
I do not consider this a fortunate development. The Fifth Annual Report, of
the Carnegie Foundation advises a combination of certificate and examination
for matriculation: that, in general, the
matriculant should be examined on the
broad outlines of a very few subjects
which he will follow mope particularly
in his college course. For the rest the
high school should be free to provide the
training best suited to all the students,
whether preparing for college or not,
and merely certify that the student has
knowledge and- ability as a student that
makes him of university calibre. This
general plan has just been adopted at
Harvard and is likely to become general
in the Uuited States . I consider that our
high school teachers should be studying
this matter preparatory to holding up
their end in the coming adjustment, so
that their work shall not simply be imposed upon them from above.
Salaries
In my opinion emphasis is being laid
in the wrong place in the matter of salaries by university presidents, who have
the practical control of the matter. The
cry in almost every president's report is
for more funds to tempt and retain the
great men, who in turn will advertise the
institution, draw, and presumably inspire students. President Eliot, in his
great book on "College Administration,"
says a young instructor with his Ph. D.
should start on the amount a young
bachelor could manage to live on. This
averages about $800 a year. After a few
years of annual appointment, a permanent position with a small increase should
be given ($1200), and still later, as assistant professor he should receive a sum
on which he may marry, but without
luxury or costly pleasures. (This begins
at $1800 and ends at $2500). At forty
he may hope for a professorship and a
full salary at fifty or fifty-five ($3500).
President Hodley, in speaking of getting
a maximum of $2500 says: "Most of
these men have been teaching a dozen
years since receiving their Ph. D. They
are competent scholars and devoted
teachers. As individuals they deserve
higher pay—as a policy I think it would
be a mistake to give it to them. Why
this apparent contradiction? Because it
is bad for the university and the man to
make a subordinate position too attractive for a man not likely to reach the
top. If a man after eight years as assistant professor has not proved his claim
to promotion, the chances are he will
never do so. It is, I believe, in the interest of all parties, and conspicuously
in the interest of the assistant professor
himself that he should be encouraged to
go elsewhere," etc. All this sounds to
me very much like telling us to suck
the juice out of the lemon before throw-
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instructors are such that bright young
men will not scorn the positions, the
salaries of our professors will take care
of themselves.
College   Enthusiasm   and   Sport
Open   enthusiasm   for   scholarship   is
decidedly out of fashion these days, while
culture colleges are lacking in this
element of muscular activity as an essential part of education.
We need not be so afraid of decay of
scholarship. I venture the belief that
students to-day are getting a better
education than ever before in modern
universities.     All   that   one   can   get   at
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the college hero is too apt to be the hero
of the track or the football field. And it
is the fashion to draw very pessimistic
pictures of the tendency. We are teaching the world to believe that our students
care not for scholarship but for excitement and sport, and certainly there
would seem to be reason for the belief
when an athletic contest commands
weeks of preparation and earnest, organized effort, while a brilliant, scholarly
effort passes unnoticed. Professors and
popular magazine writers are fond of
wondering what the college would be
like if a student should wax triumphant
over the successful solution of a deduction in geometry, or if a great gathering
should cheer themselves hoarse over a
scientific discovery by one of the faculty.
Many claim—and deplore—that it is
the element of competition that holds
the whole college world entranced during the progress of a contest. I do not
think so. It seems to me that the explanation lies in the gratification of the
dramatic instinct in the human race, and,
if so, it is wholesome. An intercollegiate event is more than a mere
contest: it is an absorbing drama. We
have the same kind of enthusiasm at a
"rally," where students lose themselves
in speech and dance around a bonfire, or
at a big debate where the interest
centres not so much in the logic of the
argument as in the personality of the
debaters upholding the honor of their
college and in the solidarity of the
spirit shown, the songs and answering
cheers. The world grows old rapidly
enough. I, for one, am a believer in a
generous modicum of college dramatics.
Then, also, it is very noticeable that
students in professional colleges do not
crave these demonstrations particularly.
Their hands are kept busy in shop or
laboratory and it would seem that our
college that will stay with him is some
right methods of thought, and a sane
outlook on life with the power of productive thought. To my mind these are
even more important- than a thirst for
knowledge. It may be true that our
students do not study as hard as we did
even in our college days, but I believe
education is continually advancing We
must remember that we really retained
only a small part of the material we
crammed for exams. The competitive
examination is gone and we must at
o.nce find another effective incentive for
work. With competition in scholarship
has gone a great part of its outspoken
enthusiasm. But that is also a habit of
our generation. Where to-day would we
hear real discussions of religious or
philosophical questions? It is not the
fashion, and.why should we expect the
college to be as a different world?    We
we are losing the inclination to dream.
Best of all, science is gradually giving
us the power in ever-widening fields to
dream dreams that are straight and to
see visions that are true, and then to act
sanely thereon. We should not attach
too much importance to our habit of
cheering the visible achievement, nor
attempt to frown down students' "activities" because they talk of little else.
Neither do I need to show that the lessons of sport are, after all, very much
the lessons of life. We must remember
that the problem of the proper balancing
of study, dreaming and recreation in the
time of studies is as old as universities.
I am sure it would encourage us
mightily if we could compare the time
given by a young and competent business man to actual absorption in his
work with that spent by our average
students in actual study. True it undoubtedly is that these things may, and
often do, take far too much of the
student's time to the exclusion of study,
but surely the regulation of that kind of
thing remains with the faculty.
There is another great problem that
has grown out of the development of
college sport, but that logically is itself
fundamental. I refer to the fact that, as
conditions are to-day, the college authorities are responsible for the bodily
health of the students. The responsibility is being widely accepted. Prescribed physical work is becoming
almost universal as are also courses in
physiology, hygiene, sanitation, etc. But
we know very little of the laws of
physical efficiency, and almost nothing
of any means of creating intelligent personal interest in them. The need is, I
think, one of the very greatest in the
civilized world. Very few of us have
bodies that are even decently clean, well-
oiled, efficient machines. Seemingly
very few of our women are fit for the
function of motherhood without positive
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may encourage ourselves by expressing
appreciation of productive thought in
such meetings as these to-night, but the
world does not applaud. The drama of
the mental life to-day must have an
inner setting but I can see no sign that
danger to their own lives and those of
their children. It is to be hoped that
we will not be forced by ultra conservatives in education to fight over again in
our new university the ground that has
already been gained elsewhere.   And yet, optimistic as I ordinarily am, I fear that
we will have the same old battle for the
recognition of university responsibilities
for the physical and community life of
the students. The plain, tangible duty
of a teacher is to impart knowledge of
his subject, arid far too often his remedy
for all that seems to interfere with the
reception of that knowledge is the guillotine with the poor "student affairs
committee" of the faculty as the
executioner.
May I mention here the question of
aquatic sports at our university. I had
hoped to see the site so chosen beside
some stretch of smooth water that boating would be the chief college recreation.
The University of Washington is such
a place. We can never, at least in term
time, take a row-boat or a shell on any
waters within several miles of Point
Grey. We may have a college crew
training on the North Arm of the Fraser
but it would be unwarranted and unsuccessful drudgery without the whole
college in and supporting it all. The
history of boating at many institutions
amply proves this. We can never realize
the drearri of a Seattle-Vancouver event
rivalling the interest and enthusiasm of
the annual Oxford-Cambridge race. It
is of small importance, of course, but I
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confess a rather keen disappointment in
the matter.
An Estimation of Educational
Tendencies
The old combination of mathematics,
the languages and philosophy, with a
little history, broke down a generation
ago, when both the practical and cultural value of the natural sciences were
recognized.
The mathematical problem and the
piece of classic prose are possibly unequalled as mental gymnastics, and it is
almost cruelly easy to keep students at
them for most of their study time. But
the inertia of conservatism is breaking
down. Less and less are students from
entrance to high school to graduation
from colleges being kept fitting dry
bones together when the living problems
of the world are demanding appreciation. It is now a truism to say that it
is acknowledged that the natural and
social sciences furnish plenty of material
for training the memory and the reasoning powers, but to my mind we have not
yet put it into proper pedagogical form.
However, the value of science in a curriculum is fully granted to-day.
I consider that the most amazing thing
in hrman achievement is the volume  of
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scientific discovery Of the last half-
century. The educational world has become intoxicated with the success of it
all. We talk and act as though the hope
of the race lies in mad haste to discover
new facts about the material universe.
It practically has become a fashion to
claim that a man can be of little importance on a university faculty unless
he is an original investigator. Bnt to
my mind there are evident signs of a
new outlook.
Postulated, it would be something as
follows: the great need and imperative
demand of the race is for leaders who
are well equipped mentally and also
possessed of a spirit of service, men who
can inspire good citizenship in others,
who can and will lead in translating
scientific achievements into right living
in the race. I would venture the prediction that within fifteen years the
enthusiastic view point in mental training will be of public service, and the
whole spirit of our universities will be
fostering it. Already, almost every
article dealing with engineering colleges
is demanding training that will direct
engineers into leadership in affairs, while
to-day there is hardly an engineer in
America prominent in public service.
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outlook, and the power to estimate
cause and effect in human life, are now
being most prominently given as justification for the so-called "cultural"subjects
on the curriculum.
From this point of view may I be
allowed the strange privilege of closing
an address to an academy of sciences
with a further appreciation of the study
of classics? These may remain more or
less compulsory subjects of study, but
not because of their disciplinary value,
unequalled as that may possibly be. I
have seen two other lines of justification
—first, that we might draw lessons from
their literature, their triumphs and their
Hence our standard of real living is
ludicrously lower than the level of our
material achievements. We realize our
weakness, but our scientific methods of
thought supply us with only a love of
truth and a knowledge of how to proceed where spirit is not concerned.
Hence our doctrine of service, which is
becoming our interpretation of Christianity, becomes a passion for seeing all
the people well-fed, well-clothed, well-
housed, well-equipped mentally. And,
indeed, the importance of these can
hardly be overestimated, but they do
not necessarily mean living on a high
plane.
widespread appreciation of the spirit of
art, music and poetry, a love of physical
grace and beauty of form. We lack the
exalted patriotism of the Greeks and
Romans, the like of which the Japanese
possessed until after the Russian war,
while they are even now deploring its
decay. It is for our Greek-minded men
to bring us the gift of those noble
qualities, while it is for us men of
natural science to see to it that they may
be the heritage of all the people and not
made possible to a few by the labors of
a multitude of helots and slaves.
Are we not ready to unite our natural
science  with   all  history  and  literatures
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defeats; second, that we may absorb
something of the spirit of Athens and
Rome. I have never seen the latter plea
~put into the form that seems to me to
contain the real essence of the whole
matter.
The scientific method in the last fifty
years has given us an astonishing insight
into nature and a truly marvellous advance in the material things of applied
science. We have learned to think and
act relentlessly straight-forward in
what we may call external things, but
science as yet gives no point of contact
between life and matter and the laws of
life    are    very    much   unknown   to   us.
The spirit of (justifiable?) social rebellion among so many fairly prosperous
people does not lead to high thinking,
-and our experience would seem to indicate that command of the material
things of wealth leads to personal degradation. The mass of humanity accept
complacently the contributions of the
scientist or the social reformer while the
real spirit of his life inspires but few.
We lack the classic spirit that intrinsically united truth, beauty and goodness: the goodness of truth reigns
supreme to-day. We lack the classic
enthusiasm for a symetrically developed
personality, the gift of entrancing expression,   of   spiritual  interpretations,   a
into a new group of sciences—the
science of life—and then spend our best
endeavors in taking it to all men everywhere.
In the words of Carlyle:
"That there should be one Man die
ignorant who had capacity for
knowledge; this I call a tragedy
were it to happen more than
twenty times in the minute, as by
some computations it does. The
miserable fraction of Science which
i our united Mankind, in a wide Universe of Nescience, has acquired,
why is not this, with all diligence,
imparted to all?" 1911
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Stability of Real Estate Values
A Glance at the Foundation of the Values in Land
in Vancouver and the Province
T is probable that more men
have risen to affluence in Vancouver through land transactions than by any other means,
and it is equally probable that
this city, during the last two years, has
seen greater real estate activity in proportion to its size than any other city
in the world.
At present there is comment on the
quietude of the real estate market. For
the benefit of those who are not familiar
with the normal business ebb and flow in
Vancouver it can be said that this calmness always comes toward the end of
the spring. People are beginning to
prepare for their holidays. They are
conserving their money for the special
pleasures of the season. Their minds
turn more toward the recreative side of
life than in the winter. They are not
quite so keenly on the lookout for commercial opportunities. The call of the
sunshine enters potently into the situation. The summer exodus this season
has arrived earlier than usual, because a
large number of people, taking advantage of special railroad rates made primarily for the coronation, have gone
East. Among these are many large real
estate investors as well as operators.
Close students of Vancouver real estate
are wholly certain that, as usual, the
market will come to life again in August
and Will show increasing vigor until
another spring rolls around. But even
now the renting branch of the business
is very active, and will continue so, with
the demand for houses exceeding the
supply. This is due to the thousands of
new people who are arriving in Vancouver weekly, and the peculiar circumstance that hardly one per cent, of the
large number of houses which are now
being built are designed for renting.
The reason is that an owner cannot
reasonably expect to derive an income
of more than ten per cent, from a rented
house, while the same money put into
agreements for sale and certain other
kinds of investments, yield from fifteen
to twenty-five per cent. The house for
rent is being superseded here almost
completely by the apartment house,
which is figured to yield an income on
the average of between fifteen or twenty
per cent.
The present quiet means only that
summer is approaching. The real estate
By J. Herbert Welch
market has certain fundamental supports
which assure a strong activity for years
to come. In considering these supports
we will glance first at the sections where
buying is still buoyant, despite the general calmness, and where buying is
deeply rooted in permanent improvements  and industrial progress.
The first section which comes to mind
is that which comprises Coquitlam and
Port Moody. It has been announced
that the C. P. R. will have large terminal
shops in the Coquitlam district, and that
a $20,000,000 steel mill will be located
here. A large number of peodple will
be employed here, and will have their
homes within easy reach of their work.
Port Moody, which adjoins Coquitlam,
on Burrard Inlet, will see much shipping
of supplies, and so forth. She will have
numerous wharves; ships will constantly
come and go. It is now practically
certain that Port Moody, after waiting
for a quarter of a century, is at last
about to come into her own. Those
familiar with the history of Vancouver
know that the Canadian Pacific Railway
terminus was originally plariried for Port
Moody. The expectation Was that here
would develop the great city of the
British Columbia coast. That was all
chjiriged by Sir William Van Home and
the Canadian Pacific Railway directors
who came to the Coast in 1885 and
shifted the site to the present City of
Vancouver. There was a stampede from
Port Moody, and the clearing in the
forest for the big city was allowed to
again become thick with underbrush.
But the new plans of the Canadian
Pacific Railway have at last, it appears,
brought to Port Moody and Coquitlam
an era of activity and prosperity. As an
indication of what far-sighted capitalists
see in the future of Coquitlam, it may be
said that an English syndicate has recently acquired Douglas Island, in the
Fraser River, off the Coquitlam shore,
for factory sites. It is highly probable
that before a great while an electric line
will be run along the Burrard Inlet to
Port Moody and Coquitlam, and then
around to New Westminster, where connections will be made that will give us a
new tram circuit and make accessible a
large area of country suitable for homes,
small farming and commerce.
Another section which is becoming
more and more conspicuous in  its pro
mise is Roche Point, located on the
north shore of Burrard Inlet, just where
the Inlet swings to the north and becomes the large body of water known as
the North Arm. There are numerous
indications that Roche Point will have
a big dry dock, and will probably be the
location of extensive car works. The big
sawmill here is just starting operations.
The Second Narrows bridge project is
taking form, which indicates that this
bridge will be constructed in the near
future, thus providing the Roche Point
and other North Shore districts with
easy communication with Vancouver. In
dealing with the North Shore, it is interesting to note the fact that extensive
deposits of iron ore exist up toward the
end of Seymour Creek, and that if these
great deposits fulfil their promise they
will probably bring big smelters to this
locality, thus creating in North Vancouver   another   highly   important   industry.
Turning the attention from Burrard
Inlet to Fraser River, it can be said that
along the river as far as New Westminster there will be many factories. The
great availability of the shores for industrial enterprises has been recognized
by the Dominion Government, which
has provided a large dredge for the work
of widening and deepening the channels
of the North and the South Arm of the
Fraser for ocean-going ships.
Since the land in the sections mentioned is in growing demand for industries, it is steadily becoming more
valuable, thus constituting a sound basis
for real estate investments All of this is
said on the assumption that Vancouver
will become a manufacturing centre of
importance. It is therefore desirable to
glance at the factors of industrial growth
which will bring the manufacturers. In
this connection it can be pointed out
that within easy reach of this city is
enough lumber to supply the continent
for a long time to come, and immense
deposits of iron ore. Wood and iron
raw material will probably constitute the
chief basis of British Columbia's manufacturing. They go to make up the
principal parts of a great number of
articles, and therefore will be productive
of manufacturing in many branches.
Her proximity to these important raw
materials gives Vancouver special advantages in the manufacture of wood,
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iron are by no means the only important
raw materials which Vancouver has at
hand. In the Boundary District are
great quantities of copper. This copper
is now shipped to eastern cities of the
United States to be manufactured into
the many commodities o\ which copper
is the basis. Transportation facilities
between Vancouver and the Boundary
District are being improved, and there
is no reason why Vancouver should not
have large factories devoted to transforming raw copper into its many useful
forms. At the present time there is a
duty on copper wire and various other
copper commodities of from 7^4 to
30%. This duty would enable Canadian
manufacturers to compete successfully
with those in the United States for the
constantly   expanding  Canadian  market,
British Isles. This is no less true of
cotton manufactures. Cotton will be
brought here more and more cheaply
and can be marketed effectively. Vancouver, it should be remembered, is the
English port nearest to the Chinese
Empire, where is consumed over half
of the world's output of cotton goods.
So much for raw materials. It is now
necessary to glance at the special facilities which Vancouver .and British Columbia have for transforming these materials into finished products. In this
important matter, it can be pointed out
that close to the British Columbia coast,
within her own domain, are great coal
deposits. It is true that coal in this
Province is still high, but with the opening up of the big coal areas in the North
Country, on Graham Island, and in the
The opening of the Panama Canal in
1915 will provide the products of this
Province with the world's markets. With
abundant raw material close at hand,
with great stores of coal and water
power, and with the markets of the
world, it is entirely safe to predict that
Vancouver will have become a manufacturing center of great importance. This
is one of the principal fundamental supports for real estate values in this city.
Another support is seen in the notable
railroad development which is now under
way and which, within the next four or
five years, will be completed. The Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway and the Canadian
Northern Railway are, as is well known,
now doing construction work which will
give British Columbia two new transcontinental lines, and will open up  vast
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and would do so much to build up the
industry here that our manufacturers
would eventually become strong enough
to meet all competitors in the markets
of the world.
The textile industry is another which
can be developed in this community. The
best wool comes from Australia. This
climate is highly favorable to the manufacture of wool fabrics. Transportation
from Australia to Vancouver is as cheap
as from Australia to London. With the
world markets opened to manufacturers
here through the Panama Canal, there
are strong reasons for saying that Vancouver can become a center of woollen
fabric manufacturing for this continent
and other great sections of the world.
The natural advantages of this city for
developing a great textile industry are
at least as great as those of cities in the
south-western part of the Province, this
fuel is bound to become cheaper than in
most sections of the United States. Another important factor in the supplying
of power for factories is found in the
tremendous water power of the Province.
It is already used extensively for the
generation of electric power, but will be
used more and more. Coal and water
power mean that the manufacturers of
British Columbia will be able to operate
more cheaply than in most other sections
of the continent when the problem of
costly labor is solved. That it will be
solved is inevitable. We will see here
a repetition of the labor experiences of
the older communities, where, at the
beginning of their development, labor
conditions existed which are substantially the same as those in British Columbia to-day.
areas of rich agricultural and mineral
lands in the north. The Great Northern
Railway also has great projects for thi-*
Province. It has been estimated by Premier McBride that at least $100,000,000
will be spent for public and private improvements in the Province within the
next five years. The great railway systems which are coming for the first time
to British Columbia, and, in general, the
remarkable work which is bringing to
British Columbia permanent improvements of great magnitude, will attract a
multitude of people to the Proveince. It
is already growing more rapidly than any
other section of the continent, and will
continue to develop for years to come at
even greater ratio. This is the most
substantial kind of foundation for staple
values in city real estate and country
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While hundreds of new people are
coming to Vancouver daily, the most
progressive real estate men are no longer
content to confine their selling operations to the local market. They are
reaching with their opportunities across
to Eastern Canada, to England, to the
United States, to Germany and France.
They  are  pointing  out  to  an  immense
number of people the advantages of investing in a rich country at the outset of
its development. In a great many
cases these appeals are meeting with success, and so it is that the progressive
real estate men and land companies are
bringing new wealth to the Province,
and thus are doing constructive work in
this remarkable forward movement.
Progress of Mines in the Vicinity
of Stewart
Mt. Gladstone. — Superintendent F.
Hume returned from Vancouver on
Sunday last and left for the mine on
Monday. He reports that development
work will be carried out on a much
larger scale than formerly. Twice the
number of men will be employed, as the
directors of the company are determined
to place the mine on the shipping list at
as early a date as possible.
Little Joe.—Joe Perrault was in town
during the week and reports satisfactory progress in good ore.
Red Cliff.—Work is still being concentrated on the upraise, which is rapidly
approaching completion. Work on the
five hundred ton ore bunker was commenced this week.
International.—Roy Clothier returned
to town last Thursday and went up to
the mine on Friday. He reports excellent progress and expects to increase
his working force at an early date.
Indian Mines.—Superintendent Geo.
Clothier is still shipping in supplies and
building bunk houses, etc., prior to
starting active development work. A
general meeting of the company is to
be held at Prince Rupert on the 16th of
this month.
Portland Canal.—The high grade ore
body which was struck last week is still
maintaining its value and width, and
work is being concentrated to a great
extent  on   I his  level.
Stewart.—At the annual meeting of
the company recently held at Victoria,
Vice-President R. M. Stewart made the
following exceedingly satisfactory report to the shareholders: We take pleasure in stating that the results of the
work for the past year have fully
realized all ottr-cxpectations. Owing to
the advanced price of stock during the
year we were able to dispose of considerable stock at a premium, thus reducing our stock discount so as to
practically net the company par for the
entire issue of stock to date. The tunneling done during the year in the four
ledges amounts to about 1000 feet.    On
has been done, an ore chute of great
promise was encountered. Considerable
work has been done and a winze sunk
to the depth of 50 feet on this ore. The
ledge widened with depth. Careful
assays, taken all the way down, give an
average value of $20 per ton in gold,
silver and lead. This is highly satisfactory, but, owing to the presence of water,
we decided to postpone work on the
winze for the present and continue drifting in the face of the tunnel on this
dedge, which is one of the best on our
the No. 4 ledge, where the most work
property. At the time of .writing we are
advised by the foreman at the mine that
the work on this drift continues to
expose good ore.
The time is drawing near when this
property will have to undergo the change
from a prospect under development to
a shipping mine, the bodies of ore found
in the No. 4 ledge being now considered
sufficient to warrant this. The most
feasible plan for working the property,
as a mine, will be by a tunnel from the
Bear River side. This will obviate the
necessity of constructing an aerial tramway, and will give us approximately 700
feet depth vertically below our present
workings, and drain the mine for practically all time. The mouth of the tunnel
will only be a short distance from the
line of the Canadian North Eastern Railway, which will be in operation before
the end of June. At a rough estimate
the tunnel will be about 1,500 feet in
length, and with a spur from the main
line to the mouth of the tunnel it will
facilitate the handling of ore at the very
lowest possible cost. It is the intention
of your directors to have a survey made
of this tunnel as soon as weather conditions will permit.
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IMPROVED FARM IN UPPER FRASER VALLEY',
THE VALUE OF TIME.
On the clock of time there are three
divisions'—past, present and future, but
only one of these is visible to our eye—
the present. The past has faded from
view and the future remains outside the
range of sight.
Across the dial of the present is written the large and magic word "NOW!"
Nature teaches us a lesson in her
promptness to the call of time. Did she
lag behind even for a moment worlds
would crash, suns would darken, and
system turn into chaos.
The universe is timed with a marvellous exactness. Planets, stars and suns
sweep around their orbits with never a
second's vacation; they perform their
revolutions   with   unerring   precision.
Science has scheduled the round trip
of the luminary of our system and he is
never a moment late at any of the
stations on his one hundred and eighty
million-mile route.
Even those wandering messengers of
the heavens, who sometimes call on us
only about once in a hundred years, are
never behind their pledged time. The
instant they are foretold to arrive, they
put in an appearance.
Our earth as an integral part of the
universe has to be on time in its course
around the sun.   Time thief worst of all.
Time is our most valuable asset, and we
should do  our utmost to  conserve it.
The man who dallies carelessly along
until he is late for his appointment or
his work is throwing away the best gift
heaven has given him, and, though he
may hug to his breast the delusion that
he is doing right, the hidden monitor
within tells him that he is doing wrong.
He cannot get away from the whispering voice of conscience.
When you prowl around and heedlessly fritter away your time, not alone*
are you robbing yourself of a divine inheritance, but you are robbing the people also of what is their due, and instead
of making the world richer you are impoverishing it by your presence.
You are destroying that which you
cannot restore, taking away what you
can  never  return.
Lost wealth may be reacquired by
industry and economy, lost health may
be brought back by sane living and right
thinking, but lost time is gone, irrevocably gone, no wand of necromancer, no
art of man can bring it back again.
He who has no regard for other men's
time is not likely to have much regard
for their money. Time is the equivalent
of money, and its measure is the gold
standard on all occasions.
A   kleptochroniac    is   worse    than   a
kleptomaniac; he is the biggest kind of
a thief, for he steals the most valuable
of all possessions. Such a man cannot
be depended upon, and he soon finds
himself out of a job.
Punctuality Business Mainspring.—If
you get the name of a time stealer it
will stick to you and mar your prospects
as much as that of money stealer.
Punctuality is the mainspring of business— take it away and the mercantile
mechanism runs out of gear.
If the merchant is late at his desk the
employees will take advantage of his
failing and follow his example, patrons
will lose confidence, and the business
will totter and collapse.
Many a promising enterprise has gone
down to ruin because the value of time
was not appreciated.
Don't keep others waiting; they will
get out of temper and you will not be
able to do business with them satisfactorily.
The man who is not punctual in keeping appointments becomes a nuisance,
and the people get so tired of him that
they unite to bury him in the oblivion of
failure, where he can worry and annoy
them no  more.
Napoleon invited his marshals to dine
with him. At the appointed hour they
had not put in an appearance, so he sat
down alone and dined by himself. He had
just finished when they arrived. He did
not admonish them for their lack of
punctuality, but merely said: "Gentlemen, it is now past time for dinner; let
us proceed to the Council Chamber."
THE  STAMPEDE  TO   BRITISH
COLUMBIA
Commenting upon the unparalled emigration from the Old Country to Canada
at the present time, in which mention is
made of the difficulty of securing steamship accommodation, the "Colonizer" of
London, has the following to say regarding British Columbia:
"Perhaps the most striking feature of
the present rush to Canada is the truly
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FARM SCENE IN UPPER FRASER VALLEY
Increase in Land Values
During the past decade land values
have increased very materially throughout British Columbia by the opening up
of new territories by railroad construction and road building, and by increased
population. Recently the Hudson's Bay
Company and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company increased the price of
their lands very materially. It was natural and in the best interests of the
Province that our Government should
do likewise. In fact, it might well have
been done sooner, but with due warning,
thus rernoving the reproach called forth
by many people on account of the actual
manner in which it was adopted.
remarkable number of persons booking
to Vancouver. We have recently made
a somewhat extended trip through England and Scotland, and learned everywhere that the number of people booking to British Columbia has greatly exceeded anything previously recorded.
We, however, desire to give a warning
to our readers that the very large number of workers who have already booked
to Vancouver will be, we fear, in excess
of the demand of that city. It is well to
remember that Vancouver has only openings for a reasonable number of newcomers, ' whereas from what we learn
there would seem to be far too many
gone forward. No one city in Canada
can absorb an excess of newcomers. The
wider the distribution the surer the prospects of each one finding an opening. We
would prefer to see those who wish to
proceed to British Columbia aiming for
the smaller inland towns. Clerical occupations have furnished a large portion of
the possible surplus labor destined for
Vancouver, so we now strongly urge
upon our readers the wisdom of proceeding elsewhere."
While we are anxious to see as large
a number as possible come to this Province, where there is room for all, and
opportunities manifold, there is sound
sense in the warning given regarding the
rush to the larger centres with the expectation of finding plenty of positions
at large pay and little competition. At
the present time we have not sufficient
industries in this Province to provide
for many skilled artisans. The man who
is looking forward to coming to this
country with the expectation of becoming independent  must  consider  settling
on the land and making the soil produce
for him. In the cities competition is
keen, but in the products of the soil
there is none, for a ready market at-highest prices awaits everything he can produce, and the very physical characteristics of this Province warrant that this
will be true for all time to come.
If history or art interest you, go to
London, Paris and Rome, that's the past.
But if investment of money interests you,
come to the Great North, that's the future.
I have acre lots at Masset, Queen
Charlotte Island, for $200 that will make
your fortune. City lots in Prince Rupert,
a city destined to rival Frisco. Timber,
Coal, Farm Lands. Write me, then come.
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I      With SUGAR        I
SWANT to tell you some things a man told me    to-day    about    beet    suger—a    man    who,
apparently, knew exactly what he was talking about.     In fact, before he got through, he had
me convinced that the one industry which would do most towards developing the agricultural
possibilities and protecting the real estate values of British Columbia was the raising of sugar beets
and the manufacturing of beet sugar.
The first thing that he pointed out to me was the enormous and never-failing demand for sugar,
second only to the demand for flour.
Wl "CANADA IS IMPORTING TO-DAY $20,000,000 WORTH OF SUGAR.
THERE IS NO REASON," said he, "WHY THAT AMOUNT OF SUGAR CAN NOT
BE GROWN RIGHT HERE IN THE FRASER VALLEY."
Now, I am an every-day sort of man, probably pretty much the same sort of a man as you
who read this page.    I told the man he would have to show me.    Well, he did.
In the first place it seems that the project is already well under way. The site has been
secured, the necessary acreage is available, the plans of buildings and machinery arranged, and
farmers from all over the Fraser Valley have agreed to co-operate in keeping the plant supplied with
sugar beets. These same farmers have also subscribed stock, thus showing their faith in the practicability of the enterprise in the most convincing way possible.
Another thing this man did—he went into the town where the plant is going to be, and out of
120 possible shareholders he secured 95v    That speaks    well    for    the    proposition,    doesn't    it?
Furthermore, he pointed out to me how the Michigan Sugar Company, organized 12 years ago,
with a capitalization of $200,000, had expanded into a company of which the capital stock was over
$7,500,000.
A share which costs in the original company ten dollars, is now worth $135.00, and pays as
high as 30 per cent, dividends. He convinced me that the raising of sugar beets not only improved
the land for other agricultural purposes, but formed the backbone of real estate values in those communities in which it was established.
"British Columbia," said he, "can well afford to subscribe liberally to an industrial proposition like manufacturing beet sugar, if only to enhance the value of other properties."
But why continue? He presented to me a straight-forward business proposition, which I as a
resident, property owner, business man and well wisher for the future of this Provinec, could not
but see the value of.    And when he asked me to subscribe—I walked right in.
If you, who read this as one of an intelligent public, want to know somesthing about the marvellous returns to be made from raising sugar beets in this Province—
If you want to learn some intensely interesting data which will throw an entirely new light on
the sugar beet industry as an investment —
If you want to know how to put a small sum of money on the easiest terms where it will bring
you splendid returns, improve the value of your other properties, and advance the welfare of the
Province, I advise you to write your name and address on this page, tear out the page, and send
it to the
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Hon. R. L. Borden, Premier.
Courtesy.
City Building.
Prosperity.
Christmastide.
A Change.
Ladner and the Delta Staff Representative      8
The Greatness of British Columbia II. A. R. Macdonald
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British Settlers        16
Perfect Trust (poem)         16
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University to Have Millions      20
Opening Vancouver Island      21
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Another Attack         24
Fleet for Grain Transportation      24
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The   Quest   (poem) Frederic   Peterson    26
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NOVEMBER
,1911
No. 5
EDITORIAL
HON. R. L. BORDEN, PREMIER.
No man in the Dominion of Canada today
has a greater opportunity before him than has
Hon. Robert Laird Borden, recently chosen as
premier of this great land. Even His Royal
Highness the Duke of Connaught has a lesser
opportunity as Governor-General of Canada
than has Mr. Borden as prime minister of
Britain's greatest dominion. The new Governor-General has but to follow precedent.
His duties are prescribed and officially he follows a trail from which most of the thorns
have been removed, leaving naught but roses.
On the other hand, Mr. Borden steps into
office upon the heels of an administration to
which he sat in opposition for many years.
During the Liberal regime Canada enjoyed a
period of wonderful growth, but it is childish
folly to attribute to the Liberals or any other
party the responsibility for such growth. It
was simply a case of Canada coming into her
own at the appointed time, and it is not at all
likely that any material change will take place
either for good or bad because of the late political turnover.
Regardless of party affiliations, the post
of premier is of importance almost alarming
in the extent of its responsibility. Ostensibly
the premier is the head of the government, but
he cannot ride over members of the government, nor of his cabinet according to his own
sweet will. On the other hand, the premiership is an office disastrous to the country at
large if held by a weakling. In short, the
position calls for tact and diplomacy without
cringing; courage without bullying and unusual ability honestly directed in the country's
service.
Canada today is on the eve of greater
events than have yet characterized her growth,
rapid though the latter has been. The mighty
wheels of progress are whirling and whirling
onward, ever onward. At such a time every
citizen should expect to bear his portion of
responsibility in the task of nation building.
The members of our governments, civic, provincial and federal, have an added responsibility. They have opportunities not given to
the average citizen. What then must be said
of the opportunities of the head of Canada's
Dominion Governments
Robert Laird Borden is a human being.
To err is human, so we are informed, and Mr.
Borden may be expected to err. He may even
blunder, but it must be borne in mind that
other truly great men have also blundered. At
the helm of the nation's ship of state Mr. Borden may encounter difficulties, but if he proceeds quietly and steadily onward with honest
effort he may be depended upon to reap the
benefits for himself and his country that his
present opportunity makes possible.
COURTESY.
It is such a simple thing to be courteous;
to be decently %white" in our treatment of
mankind that one wonders wh^ any normal
man can find time to be churlish. Common
civility costs nothing and leaves a pleasant impression upon the recipient.
A case of churlishness may be cited in the
conduct of a certain minor executive or branch
office manager of a great corporation. Brown,
we'll say is the man's name. Now only a few
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Brown, however, was a dogmatic, domineering
sort of soul and was accused of being a ' • labor
agitator.' Anyway he was a mischief maker,
and his fellow workmen were more or less in
turmoil most of the time. Not caring to discharge Brown and risk trouble with the men,
the corporation promoted Brown, making him
manager of a small branch office.
Brown's attitude upon labor questions, as
was anticipated, has changed wonderfully by
reason of his more exalted position. The men
call Brown a "bull dozer,' and his business
associates say he is arrogant and a "self-sufficient ass." Some use stronger terms than
these.
Now, suppose Brown had actually, not
theoretically, possessed some brains. Common
intelligence then would have taught him the
high honor of being polite, considerate and
courteous. But--and the suspicion seems well
founded--Brown's crude, clownish conduct
and shortness of speech can be attributed only
to a fear of speaking too freely, the result of
which might be to betray his lack of grey matter.
'\ Brown, 11 le Boor!'' How much better it
would be if he had even only a couple of friends
who might call him a ''gentleman.' Poor
Brown, there are many of 1hem in this world,
but fortunately they are not in the majority.
CITY BUILDING.
Next month the official Canadian Northern Railway townsite of Port Mann will be
placed on the market. That this will inaugurate the establishment of a third transcontinental terminal city is a foregone conclusion.
How large or how great Port Mann may ultimately become does not concern us at this writing, nor is it our intent to boost Port Mann or
any other individual investment proposition.
The point, however, is this: Vancouver
has become a marvellous city to a large degree
as the result of the Canadian Pacific Railway's
friendly attitude. True, the harbor facilities
are such as cannot be overlooked, and the Canadian Pacific merely happens to be the first
road into the field. Vancouver, though, owes
much to the Canadian Pacific and the city's
present status is an evidence of the powerful
influence exercised by any great railroad in
any community.
Prince Rupert is the terminal point of the
Grand Trunk Pacific, and though this new line
may not be completed for two or three years,
Prince Rupert is already a substantial city,
and is becoming more metropol i < an quite rapidly.   The G. T. I3, is concentrating its effort
upon the making of a great city at Prince Rupert, a city that hopes ultimately to compete
witli Vancouver, Victoria and other cities for
the trans-Pacific trade. There is no reason
why Prince Rupert should not-be able to bid
successfully for this business, and the loyal
citizens of the northern metropolis are justified in their fine confidence in Prince Rupert.
What the Canadian Pacific has done for
Vancouver and what the Grand Trunk Pacific is doing for Prince Rupert, the Canadian
Northern may he logically expected to do for
Port Mann. With three transcontinental railways in commercial competition it is a safe
.supposition that each road will exert its utmost
effort to build up and maintain their respecti ve
terminal points on the Pacific Coast.
Naturally, too, there is now and will continue to be for many years, phenomenal activity and industrial development along the lines
of these Hiree great transcontinental roads. A
terminal point is merely a stopping place unless some effort is made to build up the territory tributary thereto. Consequently much
money is now being spent in the exploitation
of British Columbia's natural resources and
advantages, which are innumerable. The City
of Vancouver, as it stands today, is an ideal
exposition of the final result following railway
development.
Port Mann, Prince Rupert, Fort George
and other cities are now entering into the pioneer life through which Vancouver has successfully struggled. Geographically, these cities
in the making are so situated that their interests do not conflict with each other nor with
those of Vancouver. There is absolutely no<
limit to the opportunities open in British Col-:
umbia to any man of moderate means, a level
head with an average amount of brains, and
an ambition to succeed.
PROSPERITY.
The modern idea of prosperity is a peculiar one. As soon as men hear that a certain
town or city is '! live,'' or booming, they immediately flock to the community in question.
Now, suppose one thousand men are required
for certain work. If two thousand men seek
employment, of necessity there are more men
than positions or "jobs." Then, instead of
being honest with themselves and everyone
about them, the thousand disappointed men
begin to complain of hard times; to damn the
country in general and that portion of it in
which they happen to be in particular.
So ii is in Vancouver. Clerks, for instance, have come here by the hundreds, cheer-
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fully expecting a dozen employers to load them
into a taxi and convey them to a beautiful desk
and a fat "job' in some" lofty skyscraper.
When disappointed they write home abusing
the country without shame, meantime refusing
other offers of humble employment until driven
finally, by desperation, to eagerly clutch at anything offered.
Vancouver's position is like that of any
large city. The province of British Columbia
is like any new country. Both the city and
province require men, lots of them, but they
must be men of the right sort. Railway construction, mining, building, shipping and other
industrial pursuits are being followed with unabated vigor. The country was never so prosperous, so sound and healthy as now, and never
before have the opportunities for brains, brawn
and capital been so numerous as at present.
It is too bad that most of us do not look
before we leap. New blood is needed in British
Columbia, but as a simple matter of common
precaution, one should enquire into conditions
affecting one's own occupation before leaping
in the dark.
CHRISTMASTIDE.
Now cometh the season of our discontent.
Only a few weeks remain until we shall be
worrying and fretting over the many difficulties and trials of Christmas shopping. In the
end, when all is over, we shall be worrying
and fretting over the many difficulties and
trials of Christmas shopping. In the end,
when all is over, we shall be confronted once
again with the same array of carpet slippers,
ghastly neckties, gloves, fancy teapots, cut
glass or imitations thereof, and heaven knows
what not.
But, suppose we do exchange virtually the
same gifts over and over again, what's the differenced If the gift carries with it the right
spirit of the giver the purpose is served. Too
many persons value the gift for itself alone,
which is viewing the situation from an improper angle. A good Christmas cigar or a
box of them from a friend tried and true may
be reckoned as far more desirable than any
other gift of great price from one who gives
with an ulterior object or who expects a handsome gift in return.
A baby's rattle is a very inexpensive gift,
but it pleases the heir apparent most mightily.
1 f the head of the house realy needs a pair of
house slippers or a smoking jacket is it not
reasonable to make such a gift rather than a
more costly one, which he could probablv get
along very well without.
When Christmas buying is conducted
along lines of sanity the Christmas season is
a joyous one. Let us remember our friends
and none other than our friends. Consider
our circumstances and remember that a humble gift fully paid for is of more real vlaue
than a costly one, for which the giver has gone
in debt. Besides, the merchant might make a
mistake and send the bill to our friend instead
of to us.
A CHANGE.
Beginning with the December number of
Opportunities, this magazine will pass into
new hands. The present management and editorial staff have endeavored faithfully to pic-
ture and portray the many great and wonderful advantages, resources and opportunities in
British Columbia for men of all nations and
in all walks of life. Our effort has been successful to a gratifying degree and we are satisfied with the result of our labor.
Other and quite urgent business affairs
have demanded the attention of Opportunities.
Under such circumstances, feeling that adequate justice could not be done to the publication it has been disposed of to Messrs. James
H. Murie and Zach. F. Hickman. Messrs.
Murie and Hickman are in a position to give
Opportunities the time and attention essential
to the success of such a publication, and under
their management and editorial conduct Opportunities may be depended upon to achieve
greater and higher things.
Opportunities has been in the field for two
years, but the magazine is as yet in the infancy
of its greatness. The field is constantly widening and growing larger, but the pioneer trail
has been blazed and the magazine is turned
over to the new owners in the consciousness of
past and trying labors well performed. It
seems like parting with a member of one's
family to relinquish control of Opportunities,
but the magazine is not in alien hands, which
is a matter of considerable gratification.
The retiring management bespeaks for
the new owners of Opportunities the same
generous and loyal support in the future that
has been accorded this publication in the past.
Messrs. Murie and 11 ickman are experienced
publishers, enthuiastic exponents of British
Columbia's wonderful possibilities, and in
their capable hands Opportunities will Miffer
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Ladner and the Delta'
As Seen By Opportunities'  Representative
'The Delta" has been the subject of numerous descriptive articles, some of them handsomely illustrated, and yet
there remains much that may be written upon the same topic.
For this reason, Opportunities recently sent a special writer
to the town of Ladner, the metropolis of the Delta district.
Like many other towns, Ladner has an annual fair or
exhibition. Some of these fairs are good, some extremely bad,
and others more or less indifferent. The Ladner fair was
good, very good, and that is saying a great deal, for it is a
fact that a good fair requires something back of it besides
gaudy posters, side shows and horse races.
The first essential is an array of high class exhibits,
without which any fair is a failure. Now, as has been
written, the Delta district is notable for the annual fair held
in Ladner. First, the Delta district produces live stock, particularly horses, and to specify further, heavy draught horses.
In fact, it has been said that, the Delta farmers are today
raising the finest horses in the provinces, and as this statement has been volunteered by several non-partizan authorities, it may be accepted without question.
The writer well remembers one splendid gelding, a big
bay fellow, weighing eighteen hundred and seventy pounds,
according to the weighmaster's scales. The horse was cleanlimbed, young and without a blemish, as well as being remarkably active for his weight, in short, an ideal draught
animal or heavy cart horse. '> Mr. Cook, the owner, was
justly proud of the beast, and it is from the ranks of such
horses as these that the heavy teams of Vancouver and other
cities are recruited. The showing of draught stallions, brood
mares and colts was exceptionally fine, also.
In lighter horses a number of Delta farmers are breeding Hackneys. The writer saw a number of excellent specimens of the Hackney type, and professing some knowledge of
horseflesh, he ventures the assertion that the Delta district
can stand up against any other section of the West of equal
area in this respect.
Forsaking the horses and turning attention to the soil's
products, one is struck immediately by the wonderful productive ability of Delta land. In the growth of hay, grain,
grasses and produce, the Delta is without a superior and fewr
if any, equals.
The claim has been made that the Delta is also a great
fruit country. This is hardly so according to a number of old
time residents, who want nothing made public concerning
their district except the absolute truth. Delta land, so they
say, is. a little too low for successful fruit growing, likewise
the soil is not quite sandy enough. Some fruit is grown, it
is true, but rather for home consumption than for the public
market.
The Delta farmers have met with unusually fine success
for years in the growth of grain. The soil is rich and easily
tilled, and the yields are such as to be almost unbelievable.
There is a ready market, and the quality of the grain is such
as to always bring the top prices for wheat, oats, barley, etc.
It is stated that the hay lands of the Delta often produce
six or seven successive crops with but a single turning of the
sod. As a result the haying industry of the Delta district is
a mammoth one. Baled hay is marketed in enormous quantities and sells on the wagons in Ladner at a price ranging
upward from fourteen dollars a ton.
In produce the Delta district triumphs, particularly in
the growth of potatoes.    Seven or eight tons to the acre is
considered a modest yield, and the price fetched is seldom if
ever lower than twenty dollars a ton. From this amount it
increases to as high as fifty dollars a ton, the market of course
being regulated by the law of supply and demand. When
in Ladner the writer saw one large warehouse on the dock
piled to the rafters with potatoes. The spuds were being
loaded onto the steamer Transfer from one door, while several teams and wagons laden with potatoes were unloading
at the opposite door. Other vegetables are grown with equal
success in the Delta, and there is always a good market for
cabbage, onions, carrots, beets, etc.
The dairying industry is one of large proportion in the
Delta country. Every farmer has at least a few head of
choice well-bred cattle and many have quite extensive herds
or droves of fine milch cows. Milk, cream, butter and cheese
are shipped out of the country daily, and by reason of their
fine pasture land and home-grown grain the Delta farmers
own cattle of a prize-winning sort, viewed from every angle.
Poultry raising is another feature of diversified farming
in the Delta district. Some of the chicken runs are astonishing in their extent and the returns are almost phenomenal.
Those who understand the poultry business are actually becoming wealthy from a very few acres of land. Others not
quite so familiar with the industry are learning rapidly and
poultry raising in the Delta district as a whole is successful
in the extreme.
On the south arm of the Fraser a number of fishermen
are engaged profitably in supplying the salmon canneries of
Steveston and Ladner. A great many of the fishermen are
Japanese but there are also a number of white men. Thirty
cents is paid for each salmon and for "hump-backs" and "dog"
salmon seven or eight cents. One man, a Jap, brought in
seventy-five salmon as the result of a single day's work, but
it is said that this number is often exceeded.
The trip from Steveston to Ladner occupies a little
better than half an hour's time. It is made on the little
steamer New Delta under Captain Brewster, a capable
mariner who has cruised about the Coast for over twenty
years.
Ladner as a town is prosperous and business conditions
generally are very good. The town has several fine stores, a
law office,, medical surgeon, two banks, two hotels, a public
hall and an excellent exhibition grounds with splendid buildings. There are fine educational facilities and all the important religious denominations are also represented.
Ladner is situated near the mouth of the Fraser River,
twelve miles below New Westminster. There is a daily
steamer service, also a boat line connecting at Steveston with
the B. C. Electric Railway Company's tram to Vancouvei.
Point Roberts, in American territory, is just nine miles south
of Ladner. Excellent roads have been constructed throughout
the entire Delta country and the district is an ideal one foV
motorists.
The territory adjacent to Ladner is a mixed farming
country. There are no failures because the farmers follow
more than one line and as a result several of them are today
numbered among British Columbia's prominent men of
wealth. Land is yet to be had in the Delta district at prices
honestly consistent with its worth and bona fide value. It is
an interesting country and Opportunities frankly commends
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No. 5
The Greatness of British Columbia
v
By H. A.  R. Macdonald
Old time British Columbians have long been aware of
the greatness of this wonderful province, but the phenomenal growth and development of the prairie province have
detracted somewhat from the attention that should first have
There is absolutely no question whatever about the productive ability of Alberta and Saskatchewan soil, but despite
this, many of the newcomers found the prairie winters severe.
Likewise, they missed the trees and the running water.
Naturally, then, there was some disappointment on the part
ffii
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been bestowed upon British Columbia. The cry is now, and
has ever been, for land. The cry comes principally from
the middle west States and the eastern provinces, where
whole families have struggled fiercely for a mere existence.
As the children of a few years ago attained manhood they
became a burden rather than a blessing. The old farm would
not support an entire family of adults. Besides, the young
fellows, many of them, were anxious to marry. All of them
wanted farms of their own. Land values were prohibitive
and so the younger generation had to "pull out" and come
west.
HAS PRODUCTIVE SOIL
of the young farmers. They could not very well return
from whence they came, and accordingly they heeded tales of
British Columbia's wonderful climate, of the possibilities in
grain and fruit growing, with the result that many of them
moved farther west into the Okanogan, the Nicola valley,
the Arrow and Kootenay Lake districts and other sections of
British Columbia. Once within the province they were not
long in observing other possibilities. There was timber, and
rich mineral deposits were scattered broadcast all over the
province. The scenic grandeur of British Columbia, together with the mild climate caused these people to write to
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1911
the folks back home. Then tourists came and began to prowl
around in the hills and glens, hunting and fishing. Tourists
are usually persons of considerable means and in their jaunts
through the mountains they obtained evidence of great timber areas, coal and precious mineral deposits, streams fairly
teeming with fish, great forests alive with fur-bearing animals
and so on. Very quietly a number of tourists began to buy
up valuable properties and in time to develop them. Other
astute individuals looked far enough ahead to see the future of
Vancouver as a seaport when the Panama canal is finished.
Still others were quick to notice the opportunities for establishing wholesale and manufacturing houses and plants. They
saw that the country would soon be honeycombed with railroads, opening up a huge market, with Vancouver as the
principal distributing centre.
Then many of Vancouver's neighboring cities in the
United States "went quiet" for a time. During the lull the
Americans began to look about for other fields of investment,
development and exploitation. Vancouver looked good to
them and they slipped across the line, bringing with them
several bundles of good money. British investors were also
interested and the whole of British Columbia is now enjoying
an era of prosperity which bids fair to outstrip the prairie
provinces in their palmiest days. The awakening was slow
in coming, in fact even now, there are some persons who do
not seem to grasp the magnitude of the situation. Perhaps
they never will, but the average man with half an ounce of
gumption and a reasonable amount of observatory power has
caught the B. C. spirit and is making a strenuous attempt to
get in on the ground floor.
Recently I travelled from Calgary to Vancouver, making
the entire journey by daylight, travelling for ten days or so
and making an occasional side trip. I had been over the
country many times before, but it seems to me now that I
must have journeyed with my eyes shut. It had always been
my impression that the trip was notable chiefly for its scenic
wonder, but one tires of scenery, unless, of course, one is
blessed with an artistic temperament sufficiently pronounced
to lift one above sordid, humdrum commercialism. Personally, I like scenery, but very much in preference to that I
enjoy a live, hustling country, ripe with business opportunities, a country that is throbbing and pulsating in sheer
joy because it is up and doing. Frankly, I hadn't sized
British Columbia up in that light before, but the shock of
surprise occasioned by the present trip was certainly a
pleasant one.
Leaving Calgary, our first stop was Banff, but as that
famous resort happens to be in Alberta, a very brief mention
of that charming playground will suffice for the present.
Most everybody knows about Banff, anyway. It is the Canadian National Park, a veritable Garden of Eden, replete
with sulphur springs, delightful drives over splendid roads,
magnificent rides by launch along some of the most charming
waterways in the world, the haunt of the mountain climber
and the source of a goodly revenue to numerous tradesmen,
hotel proprietors and other gentry with an eye to the accumulation of the Almighty Dollar. It is not intended to
imply that the business men of Banff pursue the said dollar
too assiduously, for it is a fact that the hotel and livery rates
are very reasonable indeed, the boat hire is modest and one
does not require a great sum to properly "do" everything
worth while at Banff.
However, everybody seemed to have a good time at
Banff, from which point our party jumped to Golden, British
Columbia. Now Golden has been considered something of
a joke commercially, but the joke is at the expense of the
fellows who laughed first. Those who are laughing now are
the persons shrewd enough to look ahead a bit and buy up all
the loose property they could possibly purchase. Golden is
situated 475 miles from Vancouver and is the gateway to the
famous valley of the Columbia.   The Kicking Horse River
plunges tumultuously through the very heart of the town,
while along the outskirts the great Columbia moves along
slowly, in quiet dignity and fully aware of her value to
mankind.
Southward from Golden the Columbia is navigable for
a distance of about 100 miles. A first class steamship covers
the distance between Golden and Windermere, calling also at
Athalmer, Invermere and Wilmer. This entire strip of land
is admirably adapted to fruit growing. A huge corporation
owns several thousands of acres of land along the valley, and
this land is being parcelled out to the general public at a
reasonable figure. Much of the land has been cleared, but
most of it is but sparsely settled with timber, so that in many
cases very little clearing is necessary. The strawberries
grown here are shipped principally to Calgary and are said
to be the finest shipped to that city. In larger fruit the
Columbia valley has competed successfully with other fruit
growing communities and produces fruit of a very superior
order.
For the first fifty miles after leaving Golden the Columbia averages in width about two hundred feet. Then the
river enters into the Spillamachene valley. Here the timber
is scarcely noticeable along the river, giving a very charming
parklike appearance to the country. Alfalfa and other grains
and grasses have been grown with great success in this valley
for years, and stock raising has also been conducted upon a
large scale, although this industry is now giving place considerably to fruit growing.
Back from the river a short distance are scores of great
mountain peaks, none of them ever scaled and few of them
even named. The highest peak on the Columbia from its
source to its mouth is Mount Ethelbert. It has never been
scaled. On Toby Creek there is Earl Grey peak, so named
in honor of His Excellency who owns a magnifiicent country
place and shooting lodge in the vicinity. There is also
Mount Farnham, and on Horse Thief Creek, Mount Hammond. The latter is 12,500 feet high and has been scaled
by venturesome mountaineers. Mountain Valley Ranch is
situated fourteen miles up this creek. It is a popular resort,
frequented annually by many persons of international note.
A great irrigation project is now under way in the territory south of Spillamachene. The land is easily irrigated
and will become immensely popular with persons engaging
in the fruit growing business as well as with those merely
desiring an ideal country home. In Sinclair's Pass there are
also wonderful hot springs and medicinal waters, so that it is
no exaggeration to say that the valley of the Columbia is
possessed of all that has made for the fame of Banff. That
this entire valley will soon become as popular with the people
of Vancouver as Banff is with the residents of Calgary is a
foregone conclusion, in addition to which is the fact that one
may own land in this district, something not possible within
the lines of the National Park at Banff.
Late in the afternoon the boat reaches Wilmer. This
pretty little town was founded in 1907 as the base of operations for the "Parradice" mine. It is now the centre of
the great irrigation project and is growing rapidly.
Invermere is a short distance from Wilmer on the shores
of Lake Windermere. The British Columbia Club of New
York have bought a vast tract of land at Invermere and will
shortly erect a very large clubhouse. Most of these club
members are men of wealth and their presence in the district
speaks favorably of the manner in which American capital
looks upon the Columbia valley.
Athalmer is another fine town in the valley. Four miles
from Athalmer is the town of Windermere, a pretty spot,
but as yet only in the infancy of its growth. This is in the
heart of the so-called "Wmdermere Country," and includes
that portion of East Kootenay from Canal Flat (the divide
between the Columbia and Kootenay rivers)  to Vermillion 1911
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Creek. This section is quite properly called the Garden of
East Kootenay. For thirty years the Indians have cultivated
the soil, raising small fruits, vegetables, grains and grasses in
abundance. They have also raised some really good horses,
but the Indians are now drawing farther back into the hills
and their place is being taken by white men intent upon
fruit growing.
From Golden to Cranbrook it is a distance of 180 miles.
The trip is made at present by automobile stage, pending the
completion of the Kootenay Central Railway. This road is
now being rushed by the C. P. R., and when completed will
open up a new country which, although heard of frequently,
is in reality but little known. This entire territory is tributary to Golden and when the road is in operation it requires
no great commercial sagacity to observe its importance to the
town of Golden. Within two years from the completion of
the road the population of Golden will easily double, as
merchandise, whether shipped from east or west, will have
to be transferred at Golden, so that it is apparent that some
person was pretty long-headed in securing immense property
holdings at Golden.
At the present time Golden's chief industry is a huge
sawmill. This institution gives employment to five hundred
men, runs night and day, and is equipped with all the latest
and most highly improved machinery. The town of Golden
is lighted by electricity generated by this company. The
company also controls the steamship service on the Columbia
and owns, through subsidiary companies, a great timber area
and thousands of acres of fertile fruit lands. This is in itself
evidence of the desirability of Golden as a field of investment
and indicates clearly that capital has its eye on the country
and intends to make something of it.
Leaving Golden our next stop was at Revelstoke. A
short distance west of Golden we passed the Alpine club
camp at Hector. At that time a number of enthusiastic
climbers were scaling various mountain peaks, among them
Mount Daly, one of the club's official climbs. Laggan,
Field and Glacier were impressive, of course, with the marvelous scenery round about, together with the splendid hotel
facilities provided by the C. P. R.
It was at Albert Canyon, however, that I witnessed a
truly wonderful sight. The canyon is on the Illecillewaet
River, a few miles west of Revelstoke. It is probably three
hundred feet in depth, but so narrow that one could reasonably expect to throw a stone across the span. Such is not the
case, however, for several of the passengers made the attempt
without success. Almost immediately upon leaving one's
hand the stone begins to drop, apparently drawn into the
great yawning canyon by suction or vacuum.
But what impressed me chiefly at Albert Canyon was
the value of time. Our train of a dozen coaches was halted
for five minutes in order to allow the passengers to view the
gorge. Practically every passenger left the train. Many of
them tried to throw stones across the gap, others photographed the wonderful sight, and the remainder simply
stared. Burhere, in five minutes, an entire train was halted,
some three hundred persons scrambled out of the cars, viewed
the gorge and returned aboard without a solitary passenger
being left. There was no hurry, the passengers moved deliberately, but the train was under way again in five minutes.
The thought occurred to me that a great deal can be accomplished in five minutes if one will but stop to think of
the value of that amount of time. I thought also of the millions of little time periods of no greater duration that the
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general public have allowed to slip by with nothing gained.
For many such time priods the people of British Columbia
have been blind to the opportunities of their home province.
But the awakening has come and the people are now very
much alive to the possibilities and are making every one of
those five minute periods count.
Revelstoke was a great surprise to me. I had not visited
that town for something like nine years; at least I had not
stopped over in Revelstoke, and naturally enough, I was
amazed to note the progress made. Revelstoke is now a real,
live, husky city, standing squarely upon its own feet and
growing at an astonishing rate. Some people say there is a
building boom at Revelstoke, but this is not the case. True,
there is a great deal of building, but there is no boom. The
buildings are being erected to meet a legitimate demand.
Many of them are replacing older structures, but the fact
remains that Revelstoke is now enjoying a well earned commercial expansion. The city is the gateway to the famous
Arrow Lake and West Kootenay country. It has a wonderful territory from which to draw support, but the Kootenay country generally is so well known that a review of that
section of British Columbia is unnecessary at this time. Sufficient to say, for the present at least, that Revelstoke is up
and coming and is one of the big, substantial and dependable
cities of the interior.
From Revelstoke we journeyed to Salmon Arm. It was
originally intended to slip into the Okanagan country from
Sicamous, but the limited time at our disposal prevented this
side trip. At Sicamous, however, there were a dozen travelling men who boarded our train, and the boys weredoud in
their praise of the Okanagan. They declared that buying had
been brisk, much more so than usual, and that all of the
Okanagan towns are stepping right along.
We put in a day at Salmon Arm. As a nice, cosy, comfortable town in which to live, Salmon Arm looks good. The
townsite is gently rolling, slightly timbered and withal extremely pretty and inviting. The town nestles on the shore
of Shushwap Lake and the climatic conditions, according to
official records, are splendid. One of the finest hotels in the
entire west is situated at Salmon Arm and the place offers
many attractions to tourists.
Salmon Arm, however, is making a big run at present
on her fruit growing industry. It must be pretty well known
by this time that the Salmon Arm district occupies a high
place in the fruit growing areas of Canada, for at the Board
of Trade offices I saw an entire window full of ribbons won
in competition at some of the greatest fruit shows in the
world, including the great exhibition at London, and the
apple show at Spokane. The fruit is of a very high order and
the land is very easily cleared. The country is building up
rapidly and ere long I fully expect to see Salmon Arm competing commerciallv as a fruit shipper with any other district
in British Columbia.
Kamloops, too, is rising up in her might and assuming
the position to which she is justly entitled in the industrial
and commercial world. There is another building boom, so-
called, at Kamloops, but as in the case of Revelstoke, there
is a good solid foundation for it. Kamloops will soon be
reached by the Canadian Northern. Already it is a great
railway town, being the divisional point of the C. P. R.
There is a wonderful activitv about Kamloops. The people
are aggressive, but not offensive, in their support of the town.
They believe that Kamloops is not only a comer, but that she
has already arrived. Her business houses compare favorably
with those of any other British Columbia town or citv ; she
has many excellent financial institutions, and an incomparable
climate, the latter a'valuable asset, indeed.
West of Kamloops there is an embryo city called "Wal-
hachin." This town is the centre of. a great fruit growing
project by means of irrigation. A large corporation owns
several thousand acres of land which is being set out in fruit,
plotted into small tracts and irrigated. A monorail transportation system is also being installed, and within another
year this community will become a hustling, energetic, go-
ahead district, peopled with hundreds of good citizens, alert,
industrious and a credit to the province of British Columbia.
At Ashcroft the folks were just getting ready to receive
a camp of Canadian Northern workmen. The town is
pulsating with life and activity, and the streets are thronged
with men waiting for employment on the big road. Rather
more men than are necessary at present have gone to Ashcroft and other points on their own initiative, and consequently, some of them are idle. Nearly every one, however,
obtains employment of some kind within a short time, and
there is very little dead timber among the residents of Ashcroft. The town is also at present the gateway to the famous
Fort George country, so there is no absence of work in and
around Ashcroft for those who really want it. The business
men are jubilant, also, and trade conditions generally are
' very satisfactory.
At the ancient town of Lytton, where the Thompson
and Fraser rivers unite, there is a Canadian Northern camp.
The town reminds one of the old pioneer days, of C. P. R.
construction, or of some newly established mining, camp.
There are hundreds of rough and ready men, clad in overalls,
coarse of speech, some of them, but all gifted with the spirit
of nation builders, proud of their work and proud of the
result of their labor. They are a good-hearted, hard-working
lot, and are doing as much in their own way for the development of the country as are the men of millions by whom
these laborers are hired.
At Spence's Bridge the smoker was depopulated. No, it
wasn't a pestilence, merely a bunch of travellers getting off
for a hike into the Nicola valley. It looked like the advance
guard of the Grand Army of Commerce in its entirety, but
one of the boys told me that they were running behind time
and that probably there were two or three times as many
travellers in the valley ahead of them, but that there was
plenty of business for all hands. The travellers say that the
Nicola valley is unusually busy, that the coal mining and
fruit growing industries are just beginning to come to the
front and that within a very few more years the valley will
be settled by thousands of farmers, miners, mechanics and
merchants. Enthusiasm prevails in all of the valley towns
because the people know they have a good thing and are immensely pleased over having gotten in on the ground floor.
Now most of this territory referred to and including the
Columbia valley and Windermere country, the Arrow and
Kootenay Lake section, the Okanagan, the main line from
Salmon Arm to Ashcroft and the Nicola valley is a virgin
country. Development has come within the past few years,
but this development is as yet scarcely out of its infancy.
The possibilities of trade development for the business interests of Vancouver are phenomenally great. But even now
some of these sections are still neglected. The Windermere
valley, for instance, is passed up every day bv firms which
should now be getting in and becoming acquainted with the
pioneer merchants before the country is opened up by the
Kootenav Central Railway. The country is readily accessible by boat, but many travellers have conceived the false
notion that Golden is a dead town, so they pass it up, and
in so doing forfeit the opportunity of binding solid ties which
will result in big business when the little towns of the Columbia are blessed with railway facilities. That particular
section of British Columbia is geographically nearer to Calgary than it is to Vancouver, and take it from me, there's a
pile of Calgary goods going into the Columbia valley every
day. This territory, however, should belong to Vancouver,
and its acquisition is something to be accomplished quickly
ere it is too late.
The Nicola valley is, of course, unquestionably Vancouver territory, but it pays, nevertheless, to keep actively in OPPORTUNITIES
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touch with such territory, even though it be nearer at hand.
For a considerable time to come the area back of Ashcroft in
the general direction of Fort George is also logically the
field of Vancouver merchants. With better railway facilities
from the east Vancouver will have to compete with eastern
merchants, but now is the time to get in and build up a connection, for it is often easy to obtain a slight preference from
old customers if one has been associated with them for any
length of time.
With such a country behind it there should be no difficulty in accounting for Vancouver's greatness. That this
city is soon to become the greatest seaport on the Pacific
seems a far-stretched statement, but even a stranger, if he be
not utterly blind, can read the signs of the times without
difficulty. Vancouver can challenge comparison with any
other city as the premier port of the Pacific, unless, of course,
her citizens become too confident, and correspondingly
neglectful.
During the past five years British Columbians have seen
their province opened up and exploited in a manner never
before equalled in any number of years. There is no cessation of operations because there is no limit to the vast richness
of the province.    Some enthusiasts declare that in natural
YACHTING BOOST FOR VANCOUVER.
The rapid growth of yachting in British Columbia
waters and the comparable importance of Vancouver as a
centre for this sport is well shown in the October number of
the new Pacific International Power Boat. A goodly portion
of the space in this journal is devoted to descriptions of motor
boating in these waters and of some of the handsome new
motor yachts which have been built recently for Van-
couverites.
Particular mention is made of the rapid growth of the
Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, concerning which the journal
states:
"Probably no yacht club in America has enjoyed the
remarkable growth in the last few years of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club.
"The development of this institution is one of the most
striking facts in the recent history of Pacific Coast yachting.
Their fleet, already large two years ago, has since that time
been more than doubled and today Coal Harbor is crowded
with as fine a squadron of sailing and power yachts as ever
rode at anchor. In fact, the new boats have been added so
rapidly that the yacht basin has become overcrowded, and
IDEAL COUNTRY ROADS
wealth and resources British Columbia is richer than any
other two provinces of the Dominion. This may or may not
be true, but it is a fact that British Columbia is possessed of
sufficient wealth to double her present population within five
years, to double that population within another five years,
and to double even that figure within a period of equal
length.
British Columbia has timber areas so extensive as to be
beyond the most vivid imagination. She has great fisheries,
coal deposits, precious minerals in abundance, farm and fruit
lands, and in order that these natural products may be successfully manufactured at home, British Columbia has unlimited power facilities. She has been tardy in acquiring
transportation facilities, but is now on the eve of wonderful
railway development, and what the future of this great
domain will be no man can say. Many may guess, and their
statements may be hooted, but British Columbia's heritage
is rich beyond the dreams of man, and there is practically
no limit to the play one may allow one's imagination in a
prophecy of the future greatness of British Columbia. The
province is already great, but her greatness of the present
day may be likened unto the greatness of the ocean liner as
compared with that of the humble launch.
some of the larger boats are now anchored outside.
"The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club today claims without dispute that it has the largest membership and largest
fleet among all of the clubs of the Pacific Coast. The principal reasons for this are enterprise, enthusiasm and good
sportsmanship. There is no reason why the Seattle, San
Francisco or Los Angeles clubs shouldn't show the same
growth. Vancouver, it is true, has fiine cruising waters surrounding it, but so have many of the other cities, and by
showing the same spirit their yachtsmen can build up institutions of much larger membership then they now boast of.
"The idea of Vancouver has been to get everybody into
the game for the mere love of it. They have encouraged the
man with the little sailing dinghy and at the same time have
reached out and drawn the interest of the millionaire to the
advantages of the cruising yacht. The result is that a club
that, while cosmopolitan, is founded upon the principle of
good fellowship, true sportsmanship and a common love of
water and the great outdoors.
"Perhaps if these fundamentals were adopted by some
of our other Coast clubs, they, too, could claim over 700
members and a squadron of yachts that would crowd their
anchorage." Page 14
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Practical Poultry Raisin
By M. A. Jull, Live Stock Commissioner for the Province of British Columbia
PART TWO.
The best place for an incubator is one where there are
no draughts of air, and yet where the air of the room is pure
at all times. It is desirable to have an even temperature in
the room, although throughout the greater part of the province such precautions need not be taken as in the East, since
the climatic conditions at hatching time are not so changeable.
Incubator houses which give the best results are usually those
built half in the ground and half out. The best cellar is one
with a four or five foot basement with the rest of the house
above ground. Cement is often used in the construction of
the basement of the house.
Success with hatching chicks depends to a large extent
upon the method of handling the incubator the first week of
incubation.
The eggs require to be turned often, twice daily being
found sufficient. Usually two tests are made, although a
few of the more experienced poultrymen test three times, the
first test being on the fourth day. The time and amount of
moisture supplied the eggs depends upon the season in which
the hatching is being done. The object in supplying moisture
is to prevent the eggs from losing too much weight. Many
fully-formed chicks die in the shell because of lack of moisture. The chicks are weak and the shells are very hard, consequently the little chicks are unable to force their way out.
It seems best to supply moisture especially during the latter
part of the hatching period, and many successful incubator
operators supply it from the beginning. With many makes
of incubators the cooling of the eggs give good results. The
eggs are withdrawn from the incubator chamber, are covered
with a woollen blanket, and are allowed to cool for a few
minutes. The length of the period for cooling should gradually be lengthened.
At hatching time the incubator chamber should be kept
dark. The chicks should not be removed from the incubator
until thirty to forty hours after hatching. During this time
the temperature should be gradually lowered to gradually
"harden off" the chicks. In this way they are better prepared for the brooder.
BROODING.
The main thing in brooding is the temperature. The
chicks' lungs are located along the spinal column, and are not
protected very well anatomically. They have a thin membranous lining over them over which a few feathers grow.
This is very meagre protection, so meagre that the lungs may
become readily chilled, or readily overheated. Then an even
temperature, with as few variations as possible, is most desirable. On the other hand, the "fireless" brooder is being
used with success by many poultrymen in different parts of
the province. It should not be taken up too readily by
amateurs. Artificial heat m,ay be supplied the chicks for the
first week or ten days, and then the "fireless" system should
carry them through for the remainder of the brooding season.
FEEDING.
Feeding the Chicks—After the chicks are removed
from the incubator it is not advisable to feed them for two or
three days, as they have enough nutriment in their bodies to
sustain life for that length of time. During the last few days
of incubation a portion of the yolk sac, which has not been
previously used for the development of the chick, is absorbed,
and this provides for the sustenance of the chick until it is
able to obtain food by its own efforts. The contents of the
yolk sac is nourishing and the chick need not be fed until
about fifty hours after hatching. The chicks should be supplied with clean water and grit from the start. They should
be taught to work for their feed. Through exercise they
become vigorous and strong, and are better able to withstand
attacks of various diseases. Some good commercial "chick
feed" is good to start them on, and after they learn to scratch
they can be fed dry bran or mash from a hopper. The drier
the food for the first few days the better. The dry mash
should not be given them all at once, rather let them have a
little from time to time, as in this way they will become accustomed to it gradually, and will not overeat. A good mash
may be composed of wheat, bran, shorts, oatmeal, cornmealj
equal parts by measure, and from 5 to 10 per cent, beef
scraps. The amount of bran may be increased; in fact, bran
alone is excellent. It seems to be a good tissue-former. The
beef scraps will go towards the formation of bone, which is so
essential in the development of the chicken. Another excellent food which serves the same purpose is skim-milk,
which should always be given sweet. Green food in some
form is necessary. It is surprising what large quantities of
green food little chicks will consume. Lettuce, grass-tops,
and kale are relished. Charcoal, fine grit, and oyster shells
are other requisites for the growing chicks. The premises
should be kept in the most sanitary condition and the food
should also be kept sweet and clean. Sanitation is one of the
most important factors in the poultry industry, and the most
careful consideration should be given while the chicks are
young.
FEEDING THE GROWING STOCK.
All of the chicks are usually in the same flock until
about ten or twelve weeks .old. About this time the cockerels
are separated from the pullets, and all cull pullets which
would not develop into suitable breeders are taken out. Different methods of feeding should be employed with the
broilers, those intended for roasters, and the females which
are being kept for laying and breeding purposes. On all
poultry plants there are always a certain number of male
birds to be disposed of. With the lighter breeds it is most
profitable to sell the cockerels as broilers, while with the
heavier breeds it may be as well to hold them, and later make
roasters of them. There is only a limited market for capons,
but where a market can be found the young cockereles may
be caponised. The method of feeding the broilers, roasters
or capons would not vary much. The principal object is
to secure as rapid flesh development as possible. A chicken
ten or twelve weeks old will not tend to fatten very rapidly,
but if penned up and fed heavily for a few days will add considerably to its weight. Those intended for roasters should
develop as large frames as possible, so that when they become
full-grown they will put on plenty of flesh.
Wet mash along with whole grains tends to give quick
growth. Variety should be used, the principal grains being
wheat, corn and oats. A mash composed of two parts corn-
meal, two parts middlings, two parts beef scraps, one part
bran and one part alfalfa may be used. This may be
moistened with water or skim-milk, and fed once or twice a
day. Different ground grains may be used, but the important
thing is to have a forcing mash.    Broilers may be sold as 1911
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squabs, or held a few weeks longer, when they would weigh
about two pounds.
FEEDING THE ROASTERS.
There is a great scarcity of properly dressed poultry on
the markets of the province. The broiler trade is developing
and roasters are in great demand, also dressed turkeys, ducks
and geese. Prices for all forms of dressed poultry are exceptionally good.
In fowls to be fattened for roasters the first point we
should look for is type; to have the birds as nearly alike as
possible, so that when they are dressed and put on the market
they will have a uniform appearance. The birds must have
a good constitution in order that they may be fattened early
and economically. A good market bird should have much the
same characteristics as a choice beef animal. It should be
fairly low set, broad-breasted, and, as a rule, should be rather
short in the bill, bright in the eye and broad in the head.
Crate fattening is more economical than pen fattening,
although the latter practice is often resorted to because of
the lack of proper facilities for crate fattening. Poultry require a longer time to fatten if kept in pens rather than
crates. Birds fattened in crates, if properly fed, will be
ready for market about three weeks after being put in the
crates. A very easily-made and efficient fattening-crate can
be made of laths, and a few light boards which are used
for ends and partitions. The crate should be 6 feet 6
inches long, 20 inches high and 16 inches wide. The top,
back and bottom are formed of laths, running lengthwise.
The laths on the top and back should be about 1% inches
apart. The slats on the front run up and down and are
placed about 2 inches apart, so that the birds may eat from the
V-shaped trough in front of the crate. The laths on the
bottom are usually placed % inch apart. Care should be
taken to have the back slat on the bottom at least % to 1 inch
from the back, so that the droppings may pass through and
not accumulate.
A V-shaped trough, 2 inches deep and 2% inches wide at
the top, inside measurements, is placed in front of the crate
on brackets, the trough being raised about 2 inches from the
level of the bottom of the crate. The crate when finished
should stand on legs about 2% to 3 feet high.
For the first few days after the birds are placed in the
fattening-crate they should not be fed too heavily, but plenty
of fresh, clean water given at all times, also grit. The success
of fattening depends to a large extent upon the feeding of
the birds the first few days. The crops should never be too
well filled as the appetities should be kept keen. If this
method is practised, it will be found that the birds will feed
better throughout the fattening period than if fed too heavily
at first. No more food should be given at any time than the
birds will eat up clean. If all food is not eaten the troughs
should be taken away or the feed removed, and the troughs
turned over. They should always be kept clean and sweet.
With three weeks' feeding the bird should be ready for the
market.
The following are good mashes which may be used for
fattening:—
1. Two parts oat-chop, one part cornmeal, one part
barley-chop, one part low-grade flour and one part ground
buckwheat.
2. Equal parts low-grade flour, barley-meal and wheat
middlings.
These mashes may be mixed with buttermilk or skim-
milk. Milk is an excellent food for fattening chickens, as
it tends to develop the tissues and apparently improves the
quality of the meat.
FEEDING THE LAYING STOCK.
After the pullets are three months old, they may be
placed in colony houses and allowed free range. The principal object is to have them fully matured into healthy fowls
with plenty of constitutional vigor. The stamina should
be kept up so that they may be able to keep in the best of
health when heavy egg production is demanded of them.
The health of the laying stock has a great deal to do with
success in poultry-keeping, for heavy egg production is principally a problem of how to maintain laying hens in a high
state of health. Before any marked difference may be expected from adopting improved methods of feeding, the fowls
must necessarily have plenty of constitutional vigor, with
inherited stamina. They must be supplied with an abundance of fresh air, day and night, and must also be induced to
take plenty of exercise.
The hen is simply a manufacturer, manufacturing the
raw* materials, the food, into the finished product, the egg.
The food serves various purposes, part of it to furnish energy
to carry on the various activities of the body, and to keep the
body warm; other purposes being that of building up the
tissues and organs, and keeping them in repair, and to supply
material for egg production. For these various purposes different classes of nutrients are demanded. The heat and energy required by a fowl are derived mainly from the fat and
a number of other carbonaceous materials in the food termed
carbohydrates. The organic part of the bone, the tendons,
the internal organs, and the muscles in the body of a hen are
derived from the nitrogenous constituents of the food, commonly termed protein. Then to give substance to the bones,
and other various organs, and also for the formation of the
shell of the egg, ash constituents are required. Then there
are three classes of nutrients, carbohydrates, protein, and ash,
which are used in feeding for egg production. The egg is
also composed of these three classes of nutrients. Then the
object in feeding is to give the hen such foods which are composed of the same constituents as the egg—for it is the egg
we are after—and in as near the same proportion as possible.
The nutritive ratio of a food is the proportion of digestible
protein to digestible carbohydrates, and in the body of the
hen and in the egg it is found to be as two to one. Now, the
majority of the more staple grains have much wider nutritive
ratios, which shows that they are deficient in protein. To
make up this deficiency in protein, foods rich in nitrogen
must be used. This is one method of balancing up the ration.
The feeding-stuffs should be mixed together in such a way
that there is just a proportion or balance between the various
nutrients—when properly balanced the nutritive materials of
the food are used most economically. Speaking more practically, this means that laying hens must have a variety of
grain, and the better the proportion in which the grains are
fed the more economically can the hen convert the food into
the finished product.
Among the more staple grains are wheat, oats, barley,
and corn. Wheat is one of the best grains for the poultry
plant, though some poultrymen claim it to be an expensive
food. However, when the net results are balanced up, poultrymen in British Columbia can readily afford to use this
valuable grain. Since it is a staple of human food, the price
of good wheat usually rules high as compared with other
grains. Broken wheat, frozen wheat, and good wheat screenings are as good for poultry-feeding as the very finest milling
wheats.
Oats make a very good poultry food, but when poor in
quality the percentage of hull is sometimes very large and
such oats are not very palatable or digestible, hence should
not be used. Wrien fed dry or in a mash, they are more
relished by the birds. Sprouting the oats by soaking them
for about twenty-four hours increases their palatability. Oatmeal or rolled oats make a good food for young chicks, and
ground oats without the hull is excellent for fattening fowls.
Barley, like oats, has a large percentage of hull, but it is
a valuable food.
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used in some districts, some poultrymen claiming it to be a
great egg-producing food.
Corn is one of the most commonly used of all grains,
especially in the great corn belts. Corn is rich in fat and
forms an excellent food when used with other grains. Cracked
corn is good as a chick food, while cornmeal is a good fattening food, though it tends to produce the undesirable yellow
flesh.
Besides the whole grains, there are the mashes, green
foods, grits, oyster-shells, and other foods.
The dry-mash system is used much more than the wet-
mash system. In feeding dry-mash, different ground grains
are used and mixed together. This mixture is kept before the
fowls all of the time, in hoppers.
Some good mashes which are largely used are as follows:
1. By measure, four parts bran, two middlings, two
ground oats, one cornmeal, one ground barley, one-half linseed-meal, and one-half beef scraps.
2. By measure, four parts bran, four ground oats, two
cornmeal, one middlings, one cut alfalfa (well cured), and
one part beef scraps.
3. Equal parts by measure of bran, low-grade flour,
and barley chop or meal.
4. By weight, two bran, one cornmeal, one middlings,
one gluten-meal, one linseed-meal, and one beef scraps.
In wet-mash feeding many by-products may be economically disposed of, though this method involves more labor,
especially with large flocks, than dry-mash feeding. Small
potatoes or other refuse may be boiled and mixed with the
mash and fed. Probably the best time to feed a wet mash is
in the late afternoon.
The following makes a good mash:—Bran, shorts,
ground oats, cornmeal, 10 per cent, beef scraps, and green
food, such as clover or alfalfa. Soak the alfalfa-meal over
night in boiling water and mix with mash n«xt afternoon,
then feed.
Alfalfa and clover are two sources of green food. Mangels form one of the cheapest foods for the laying hens and
are easily grown. If the flock is to produce maximum results
it must be liberally supplied with nutritious food.
It is also necessary that animal food be supplied. If
beef scraps or green bone cannot be obtained, then blood-
meal should be used. Grit, oyster or clam shelh, and pure
Water are essentials.
One of the most successful methods in feeding laying
hens is to feed them some whole grain, wheat, in the early
morning as the fowls come from the roosts, and at noon give
them some green food, sprouted oats, and at night a good
feed of corn or corn and oats is given. The whole grains
should be scattered in litter 12 or 14 inches deep, as in this
way the fowls are induced to take plenty of exercise. Dry
mash is kept before them all the time and they are given liberal quantities of green food in the form of alfalfa or mangels.    Clean water, grit, and shells are never wanting.
BRITISH SETTLERS.
The Colonist recently had an interview with the Dukt;
of Sutherland, regarding British settlers for Canada and
British Columbia.
Every Canadian will be in sympathy with this idea.
We want British settlers. His Grace seems to have a preference for Scotsmen, which possibly is not wholly unnatural; but he has facts to support him in this. Experience
with settlers from Scotland in the eastern provinces shows
that of all new-comers they are the least likely to become
discouraged by hardships and disappointments. Instances
could be cited where settlers from Scotland, who were by no
means well placed in respect to locality in Canada, have persevered against very adverse conditions and achieved success. They do not readily give up, and they are not willing
to sacrifice the result of their work, the latter quality leading
them to stick out against conditions which would discourage
people of almost every other nationality. When the Irish
can be induced to go upon the land they exhibit excellent
qualities, but again, speaking from experience in the past,
they are somewhat inclined to drift to the cities and work
for wages in preference to becoming farmers. There are
many conspicuous exceptions, and it would not be difficult
to mention localities, settled wholly by immigrants from Ireland, which are now very prosperous. There are Englishmen and Englishmen, when it comes to speaking of their fitness for pioneer work in a,country like British Columbia.
Here again eastern experience serves as a guide. A resourceful Englishman makes an admirable settler, but for some
reason or other there are not as many of this type as could
be desired. If His Grace will investigate the facts, he will
find that almost any Scotsman can make a success at farming in this new country under pioneer conditions, that most
Irishmen will do the same if the lure of the city does not
draw them away, and that a certain type of Englishmen will
also do so. We are speaking now of the pioneers only, the
men who go out into the wilds and make a farm out of the
rough. When it comes to the purchase of improved farms,
we do not know that there is any difference to be noted between the people of the three kingdoms.
PERFECT TRUST.
We do not care what the world may say
If those whom we love are true;
We do not mind the toil of the day
If we know in the dusk and the dew
There waits someone who will welcome us
As we come home to rest—
Some friend who will say, "Dear heart, I know
That today you have done your best."
We do not mind if the thorns are sharp,
Or the pathway is rough and steep ;
We do not mind if we plough and sow
For others to come and reap,
If we can but hear, when the twilight comes,
And the red in the west grows gray,
Some dear voice whisper the words of cheer:
"You have fought a good fight today."
For the heart doesn't care what the world may say
If those whom it loves are true,
For 'twas always and ever the heart's own way
To long for the love and rue.
You forget the gain, the loss and the pain
That torture your pulsing breast,
If there is one who in sweet blind faith
Can say:    "You have done your best." 1911
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On Tongas Island
"Got any more stories that will hold a candle to the
tale of Puyis?" I enquired of Doc. as we sat together one
evening by a cheerful fire after we had partaken of our
supper.
"If you had held a candle to Puyso's tail there would
have been a howling tenderfoot in that vicinity mighty soon
thereafter, I can tell you," he replied.
"Oh, Doc, that's awful," I laughed, "do they allow
such breaks among the Thinket Indians? But, laying all
jokes aside, tell me another story of your adventures in there,
for I am sure it will help to pass the evening most pleasantly."
Thus urged, the Doctor related a number of his experiences while living with the Indians on Tongas Island, including his first meeting with the old chief, his death and the
wonderful ceremonies connected with the installation of a
new ruler.
We had arrived off Tongas Island which I visited for
the purpose of interviewing a white man I had learned lived
there, hoping to gain information from him which would
prove valuable to us. I found Mr. Turk—that was his name
—quite an intelligent man, who had spent the greater part of
his life among the Indians and was contented with the life
he was living. I also met an elderly Indian woman, who in
her youth, had been at a Hudson's Bay Company's post where
she had learned to speak jargon English. She had a little boy
who was very sick with pneumonia and whose life I virtually
saved, but that is another story.
The next morning after I visited the island the wind
began blowing almost a gale off the mainland, making the sea
around Cape Fox Point, especially at Pacific Point, very
rough, and, for small boats, exceedingly hazardous; indeed,
when the wind is blowing hard it is difficult for even steamboats to navigate these waters, which are known as the
roughest on the coast.
We noticed there was much commotion among the
Indians on shore and for a time were at a loss to understand
the excitement, but presently a canoe came out to the schooner,
containing two Indians, who undertook in the Chinook jargon, to explain the cause of the uproar. Failing to make us
understand they went back to shore and returned to the ship
with the mother of the sick boy, who explained that the chief,
his wife and little daughter had been seen returning home in
their canoe, the sail of which was no longer in sight and they
feared the canoe had capsized in the rough water.
"White chief great, white chief good," she wailed,
"would he not save them from the evil spirit of the waters?"
Turning to the crew, I asked, "Well, boys, what do you
think of it?"
"Let's give 'em a lift," said Cap, and the remainder of
the crew being willing, we started to their rescue.
We had not gone far before we saw the canoe tossing
about like a ship on the angry waves, the chief sitting amidships plying his paddle with all his might, the squaw steering,
while the little girl in the bow was bailing for dear life. We
stood to windward for we could not have picked them up had
we met them while going with the wind, and they thought we
intended to ignore them. Their cries and gesticulations would
have been comical had the situation been less serious, and
several times I thought they would capsize their boats in
their efforts to attract our attention.
We veered around and sailing up behind the canoe
threw them a rope which the chief immediately made fast to
the thwart of the boat.    I ordered the crew to stand by,
with life preservers, and then commenced a struggle with the
elements almost surpassing description, for the wind was
blowing to beat the band and the waves were rolling high.
Bill, the Irishman of the crew, an irresponsible joker, by his
characteristic remarks during the struggle, furnished a large
part of the comedy of the act. When we came close enough
to them to commence saving operations I reached over and
seized the little girl, who with little difficulty was placed
on board the schooner. Their blankets were thrown to us,
then the chief made a lunge for the ship, catching on with
his hands while his feet dragged in the water, but he hung
on, much like the Old Man of the Sea, looking up at us with
a fierce yet ludicrous expression on his swarthy face. We
succeeded in hoisting him aboard in a thoroughly damp* condition, puffing like a porpoise, but otherwise undemonstrative.
When ~the chief made his leap for life he tipped the
canoe, throwing the woman into the water, but she succeeded
in grabbing its edge and there she clung between ship and
boat, every big wave giving her a bump and a squeeze anything but pleasant. She was dressed in a single garment,
closely related to a Mother Hubbard, which adhered closely
to her form, weighing two hundred pounds, reminding one of
a pudding in a sack, but, I tell you, it was no puddin'
getting her aboard.
"Faith, she's slipperly ez an ael an' twicest ez hevy,"
remarked Bill, as his hand slipped off a body hold. Finally,
however, we succeeded in flopping her on deck, as we might
have done with some huge fish, and there she lay sputtering
and puffing for some minutes.
All the while we were rescuing the imperilled Indians
we had been running, before the wind, out to sea, and, by
the time we had the Indians safe aboard, were eight miles
from land in very rough water. I found it difficult to beat
against the wind to the harbor, hampered by the canoe which
was full of water, and therefore ordered it cut loose; thereupon the old chief set up a howl about his "yonke" being
lost, but thereafter we had. no difficulty in handling the
schooner.
When we anchored, Mr. Turk came aboard and it then
transpired that the chief, instead of being thankful for his
rescue, was indignant because we did not save his canoe, and
demanded pay for it. Think of that for gall, and perhaps
you think this did not make me hot under the collar.
"How much does he want for his old skiff?" I asked
Turk.
"He says he should have twenty-five dollars," replied
the white man, with a grin.
"Tell him I'll see him in Tophet first," I sputtered.
But Turk cautioned prudence, argued the Indians might
use their influence farther up the coast, and suggested we at
least pretend to try and recover the boat by sailing away in
the direction it had been seen, and concluding this was good
advice, I ordered the ship got under way.
These Indians have no idea of the value of time or life,
looking upon the saving of the latter as mere pastime. "Life
nothing, yonke (canoe) something," is about the gist of their
reasoning. We sailed out towards the open sea, and as it
happened, sighted the canoe again.
"Let's hook the dom skiff and fool those heathins," suggested Bill.
Acting on this suggestion, we took the canoe in our tow
and rounding the point landed it on the sandy beach where
we knew the-  Indians would find it.    Thus ended my first Page 18
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adventure with the Thinket Indians, of whom I was
destined to learn much more in the future, and, as following
events proved, the canoe incident was worth much more to
me than twenty-five dollars.
As I was returning next year down the coast I stopped
at Cape Fox Point, near which was the settlement of Thinket
Indians I have just mentioned, and, the weather being
rather nasty, my partner and I concluded it would be better
to spend the night at the village than on the bay. We were
making the trip south in a large war canoe, and when we
landed we were met by the usual assortment of curious
natives, men, women, children and dogs, and I afterward
remembered one of the little girls uttered a peculiar cry,
although at the time I gave it no particular attention.
I must mention that I was dressed hunter fashion, had a
fine crop of hair which reached to my shoulders and a full
beard, so completely disguising me I do not think my own
mother would have recognized her son. No sooner had the
cry been given, however, than the crowd rushed for the
canoe, seized whatever came handy and made off with it
toward the village. The Indians had taken about half the
canoe contained, including our blankets and rifles, when
Dad, my partner, stepped to the side of the boat and drawing
his six-shooter, said in no uncertain tones:
"I'll blow the head off the -first son-of-agun that touches
another thing," and although they did not understand his
language they comprehended from his actions, which spoke
louder than words, that he was displeased.
"Don't shoot, Dad," I cautioned, but I was as much at
a loss to understand the situation as the old man himself as
I enquired, "What next?"
"Damfino," he replied, laconicly.
At this moment the ranks of the Indians parted and
the old chief came forward, his little daughter by his side.
She had recognized me, despite my changed appearance, and
it was her voice I had heard when we landed, and instead of
trying to rob us, as we feared, the Indians' intentions were
friendly; we were "tillicums," and when we reached the
village we found all of our belongings safe.
After calling on Mr. Turk, I decided to remain on the
island, but Dad concluded there was nothing in that region
for him, and we therefore agreed to divide up and dissolve
partnership. We went to Port Simpson, where for the last
time I shook hands with Isaac Laugton, and ne'er shall I
meet a man within whom the best blood of true humanity
flows more freely; never shall 1 know a person more worthy
of respect and the love of his fellowmen.
The old chief and I soon became fast friends, going on
many a hunting excursion together, from which we always
returned lavishly laden with trophies of the chase. He was
well versed in natural history, learned, not from books, but
from nature herself, and his stories of the wild were highly
interesting.
One day the chief asked me if I would not like to aid
in capturing an octopus, or more properly speaking, a
pouple, which are very plentiful on this part of the Alaskan
coast, and always ready for an adventure which promised excitement, I readily consented. This terrible denizen of the
deep, powerful enough to pull down a large Indian canoe,
has been too frequently described of late to necessitate further description now, further than to state that it has eight
arms or tenacles, with one hundred and twenty suckers to
the tenacle, each, when fully matured capable of exerting a
suction power of three hundred pounds.
At low tide these strange creatures are to be found in
the caverns of the rocks along shore, and it was in one of
these the chief and I located the one we tackled. We were
provided with ropes, and after a little manoeuvring soon had
Mr. Octopus in the toils, but when we endeavored to haul
him out of his hole we might as well have attempted to pull
over the bluff.    He stuck as tight as a carload of porous
plasters, and although we exerted all our strength we could
not budge him an inch, so firm a hold had he in his rocky
retreat.
The chief obtained a long pole with a slim point, cut
a slit in the end and placed therein a quantity of nicotine
taken from his pipe. This he shoved into the creature's
mouth and immediately there was a circus in that tent which
beat all the gymnastics I ever witnessed. The pouple suddenly began to have a great dislike for his lodging place, the
grub he had tasted not suiting his palate, and, as best he
could, encumbered by the ropes, he made for the outer world.
He was soon hopelessly entangled and thereafter we gave
him his coup-de-grace without fear of his tenacious tenacles.
The octopus is good to eat when there is nothing else at
hand, is similar to other mollusks, but having a more saccharine flavor. The following is the recipe for preparing it:
Hammer with sledge, one week; keep in boiling water, one
week; fry on hot skillet, two days; chop fine and chew with
beaver teeth.
For some time I had been anxious to write some letters,
especially one to my old mother, but unfortunately had
neither pen nor pencil. I had read of the ink sack, located
in the head of the octopus, and now determined to experiment
with it as a writing fluid, and by mixing it with sea water
succeeded in making an excellent substitute. This ink, which
is a deadly poison, is used by the creature for defensive purposes, and when frightened or annoyed by an enemy it expels
the fluid into the water, making its surroundings so dark
that the pouple is rendered practically invisible.
As the time passed it was becoming evident to every
member of the tribe that the health of the chief was fast
failing. He was known to be very old and day by day it
could be observed he was growing weaker and more feeble.
Every attention was given him which loving hands could
administer and we all knew the end was not far distant. He
ceased to go on his accustomed hunts in the woods; he became listless and for hours at a time would sit in melancholy
silence, his head on his breast.
During the last conversation I had with him he said to
me: "I shall soon pass away from these scenes to where my
forefathers have gone before me. The sands of my life have
nearly run out; ere long the sun will have set for the last
time for me. I shall sleep and when 1 awake I shall behold
the glorious land where darkness never comes; where naught
but joy and peace are to be found; where my feet will never
tire or the flesh on my bones grow weary."
I tried to cheer him up and told him that he would soon
recover and be strong again and that we hoped the day was
far distant when we would be parted forever.
Taking my hand in his, he said: "Do not try to deceive
me for I know my time draws near its end. You have been
my good friend and I hope you have many days to live and
enjoy the sunshine and fruits of earth, but I am an old man
and it is well I shall be cut off, for now I am but dead wood
and therefore useless."
Late one afternoon, as the sun was setting in the distant
horizon, he motioned to his wife and daughters, calling them
;dside, for already the power of speech had left him,
to his be
and, as they stood with bowed heads by his couch, he pointed,
with trembling finger, to the open space above the fireplace,
closed his eyes and peacefully passed into that last long repose
from which on earth there is no awakening.
Preparations were soon begun for the last sad rites
which were to mark the closing scenes of the chief's demise,
and with my own hands I made a coffin similar to those used
by white people, and had him laid out in a civilized,manner.
For three days and nights the relatives abstained from food,
chanting meanwhile, almost continually, their wild, unearthly death song which once heard can never be forgotten.
A portion of the side of the house was removed, it being
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through the regular doorway, and through the opening thus
made the remains were conveyed to the large war canoe which
lay iil waiting.
To a small island, quite distant from the one where we
lived, the mournful procession proceeded, a funeral cortege
on the water composed of many canoes folowing each other
in decorous single file, headed by the war canoe containing
twenty men who continually chanted the inexpressible solemn
death song. The last resting place of the departed chief had
been prepared, a strong boxlike structure, in fact a small
house, built wholly above ground, and here, with his face
turned toward the setting sun the chief was laid at rest.
Beside him many of his personal belongings, which, it was
believed he would need in the happy hunting grounds where
he had gone, were placed. It is finished, the last earthly
service has been performed for their king, the mourners return home, partake of food and once more resume the regular
routine of life.
The totem pole of the last ruler having been erected,
preparations were now begun for the coronation, as it might
be termed, of the new chief. It had been over forty years
since such an event had taken place, and the village was on
the qui vive in anticipation of the great event.
A platform was erected at one end of the chieftain's
house to accommodate those who took active part in the ceremonies, which took place in the evening, but it was morning
before these, including the royal feast, were concluded. The
spectacle presented was one never to be forgotten, having
many features both unique and grand.
The medicine man of the tribe is the master of ceremonies, and it was largely owing to his wonderful legerdemain and oratory that the scenes were so impressive and
awe-inspiring. All the paraphernalia employed had been
handed down from generation to generation and is never
used except on these occasions. By the big fire which is built
in the centre of the house an old man and a youth sat, beside
the latter a tub of seal grease which under the instructions
of the aged one, the youth with a ladle occasionally poured
over the.coals, making the scene for the time being as bright
as if lighted by numerous arc-lamps.
Now the big drum sounds its invitation and people
begin to swarm into the big wigwam; old and young, big
and little, men, women and children, all are welcome. Soon
every nook and corner of the large building, except the platform, is filled with dusky faces, all bearing the stamp of
intense curiosity, mingled in many cases with a look of fear.
The low hum of subdued conversation may be heard, but it
is evident that all are waiting with great interest the opening
of the ceremonies.
The medicine man appears on the platform and instantly every sound is hushed. Then through the outer door
comes a strange figure, a human form with a hideous face,
reminding the onlooker of a being bewitched. Straight to
the platform this figure advances, and there with startled
looks and wild eyes faces the assembled multitude.
The master of ceremonies then tells the people that
before this man can assume the great responsibilities of the
exalted position he is about to occupy he must be provided
with ears able to detect the slightest sound many leagues away
and eyes with which he could, on the darkest nights, distinguish small objects at great distances with perfect distinctness. He exhibits in his hand two eyeballs—they are those
of a seal, which more nearly resemble the human eyes than
those of any other animal—and informs his listeners the^e
eyes have supernatural qualities and that he will substitute
them for those with which the man before them has been
accustomed to see.
Turning to the candidate the medicine man, in a deep,
impressive face, asks the question, "Will ye suffer that ye may
see?"
The man inclines his head in assent, whereupon the
magician draws a gleaming blade from his belt, and, with a
swift stroke, apparently plunges it into the eyeball of his
subject. Blood flows down the man's face and drips from the
knife in the hand of the performer. A few rapid passes and
behold, where a moment before was a flashing eye, now only
an empty socket can be seen. Quickly the man of magic
places therein one of the eyes he holds in his hand and bids
the chief be of good cheer.
Again the knife flashes in the light, again the dripping
blood is seen; the empty socket is quickly filled with the
second eyeball of the seal and then the wonder worker stands
aside that all may view the miracle he has wrought. The
cruel knife is plunged into the ears of the man so breathlessly gazed upon by the spectators and therein is placed a
mysterious charm. Meanwhile the fire burns brightly, but
without the open door is inky darkness.
"Can hear?" asks the magician.
"I hear," the candidate replies.
"What do you hear?"
"I hear the tread of the silver fox in the valley beyond
the snow, the whispering of the trees in the land across the
sea.
"Can see?" is the next question.
«IT i T
1 see.
"What?   In the dark, can you see?"
"Yea, five and twenty miles away I see the pebbles on
the beach, the night birds in the air."
"Well done! Away! Seek out the gifts the Good
Spirit gives and guide your subjects to them."
At this command the chief leaps from the platform,
springs, at a single bound, over the fire and vanishes through
the open door. A murmur of awe and admiration sweeps
over the assembly, followed by a hush, for the medicine man
is again speaking. So fine is his oratory the people are held
spellbound as he tells them it is their duty to follow and
obey their chief wherever he may lead; he impressed upon
their minds the idea that the chief can see farther than any
other mortal man and that they must at all times listen to
his voice. He exhorts them to be faithful, promising them as
a reward the best the land affords and a happy existence in
the hereafter.
Once more there is the boom, boom, boom of th^Foig
drum and through the door comes a figure which looks verily
"like the devil," except that it stretches along toward ^he
platform shaking in every limb as if from fear or weakness.
The medicine man assists the "whatris-it" to and places it in
position on, the stage and a ladle of grease is thrown upon the
fire, revealing a most hideous figure. First one and then another old man of the tribe is called to the stage and the
question asked, "Have you ever seen this being before?"
Each in his turn shakes his head in violent negation and returns to his seat.
"He must be hungry," says the master of ceremonies,
and going to the fire pokes out a stone platter, a number of
almost red hot pebbles with which he stands before the
monster.
"Eat, eat," he commands. With a stone spoon he places
a pebble in the man's mouth, who apparently chews and
swallows it. This operation is repeated several times and
each time after the stones had seemingly passed down the
gullet a cloud of steam issued from the ears, nose and mouth
but startling as this act appeared it was a "tame rabbit"
compared to what followed.
The magician passed his hands rapidly before the face
of the now erect and alert subject, muttering, the while,
strange words. Suddenly he gave a command and stepped
to the side. A flash of light and fire was to be seen pouring
from the eyes, mouth and ears of the strange man standing
before the astounded people, and before this supernatural
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forward over the fire and out of sight in the darksome night,
leaving the spectators of the scene in apprehensive wonderment.
In a really able oration but with extravagant hyperbole,
the medicine man told the people that the chief had become
master of the elements and had conquered weakness and
distress.
'The god of fire," he said, in part, "has adopted him as
his son. Move him not to anger, for the flash of his eye is
as deadly as the lightning stroke; the force of his hand as
heavy as a blow from heaven above; the wind from his lungs
like the fierce blasts of the hurricane. Steam is the breath of
his nostrils, beware, beware, beware of his breath, for no
man, or beast, or living thing can withstand its impetuosity.
Boom, boom, boom, a third -time the sound of the drum
announces an approach, and coming through the door we see
a fearful creature, half bear, half mountain goat, but it
stands erect and as the wicked looking claws flash in the
light it shakes its head and makes strange motions. Close
following on its heels are a pair of wolves (boys in wolf
skins) with glaring eyeballs which gleam in the ruddy glow
of light caused by another dipperful of seal grease. As they
take their positions on the stage they present a picture worthy
of the pen of a Dante or the pencil of a Dore.
"Behold the talisman," cries the magician, holding up a
string of "beads," composed of all kinds of claws and teeth
, then, in the most impressive manner, he goes through a
long rigmarole, ending by placing the collection about the
neck of the form before him.
"The chosen shall be anointed and he who hath received
this omnipotent token shall forever defy the. evil spirits,"
saying which the medicine man mixes 'medicine,' as the
Indians say, and beginning with the feet, apparently applies
it to the person of the chief. When the breast is reached the
chief utters a roar which fairly shakes the rafters and causes
the wolves to make a hasty exit.
The magician pauses for an instant, makes a few rapid
passes with his hands, then cries in a loud voice, "It is
finished." W^ith a bound, the chief is over the fire and out
of the door while his subjects sit in spellbound silence.
"Oh ye people," speaks the medicine man, "the Good
Spirit has given you a great chief, be ye worthy of him, ' and
continues for a few minutes in this strain, when he says,
"Make ready, you chieftain comes."
There at the door, in a robe a king might envy, stands
the chief, and, as with majestic tread, he advances to the
front, pandemonium breaks loose; the people cheer and
shout, the big drum booms, the women sing and even the dogs
outside join the chorus. After his subjects had nearly exhausted themselves, the chief, who has taken his place on the
platform, raises his hand for silence and then made a short
speech which he closes by bidding all "eat, drink and be
merry.' A royal feast follows, everyone devouring the many
good things which had been prepared and everywhere "joy
reigned unconfined."
#    *    *
"That show must have had Faust beaten a city block,"
I said after Doc had finished.
"It certainly was a weird performance," he soberly
replied, and one well worth a journey to the far north to
witness.
top to bottom and naturally enough it is highly favored by
road   men and others.
Messrs. Peckham an^l Hutton are alert business men.
It is their constant endeavor to give the public the very best,
possible accommodation, and ' that they are succeeding is
evident from the fact that the Abbotsford hotel is always
liberally patronized.
The cuisine is of a superior sort and the rooms are
comfortable. There is also an excellent stock of wines,
liquors and cigars, so that in short there is every reaosn for
the fine popularity now enjoyed by the Abbotsford hotel and
its genial proprietors, Messrs. Peckham and Hutton.
UNIVERSITY  TO  HAVE MILLION.
The setting aside of the sunt of $1,000,000 out of next
year's provincial revenue for the erection of the first building
at the new University at Point Grey; the intention to ask
for fifty more acres of land for the erection of professors'
residences and other buildings; the early appointment of a
president of the University by the selection of a man "who
has been too wrapped up in his work to have any time for the
making of money," and who would be given a salary which
would free him from all financial worry, and the assurance
that a near relative of the King would lay the corner stone
of the University, were the intimations given by Hon. Dr.
Young, Minister of Education, at the formal opening of
Latimer Hall.
Before outlining some of the plans of the Government
in regard to the educational department, the minister spoke
of the establishment of the University at Point Grey, which,
he said, was now fairly endowed. Originally he had asked
for 250 acres of land, and he had eventually secured 177
acres as the site, which was worth from $2,000,000 to s»2,-
500,000. After the architects had got along with the plans
he found that with those 177 acres there was no room for
professors' residences and other buildings, and he had put in
another request for a further 50 acres, and he was going to
get it.
Today he had given orders for the advertising for tenders
to clear the land, and he had approached the Premier for the
money to start on the new building. The Premier had
promised him that in this year's estimates $1,000,000 should
be set aside out of revenues to enable him to put up his first
building. By midsummer of 1913 he intended to have the
classes ready to open, and he hoped the theologians would
have their building ready by then. They were a1 ready or-,
ganized and they could go ahead. The only condition he
sought to impose was that he wanted their buildings to conform to the general scheme, as the theological bodies would
be an integral part of the University. The Arts courses
would be absolutely free, and the theological bodies would
form the theological college.
He wanted the people of the province to understand that
the Conservative Government of British Columbia had never
recognized that the educational department belonged at all to
politics, and he appealed to British Columbians, irrespective
of party. He wished them to feel that when they sent their
children to the kindergarten they were entering them for
the University of the province.
ABBOTSFORD HOTEL
A Modern and Progressive Hostelry.
Persons visiting Abbotsford will find a home-like atmosphere surrounding the Abbotsford hotel, of which Messrs.
Peckham and Hutton are the proprietors. The hotel is convenient 1\ situated immediately adjacent to all depots and
points of railway connection.   It is clean and well kept from
ROYAL 3ANK OF CANADA.
A Guiding Spirit in North Vancouver's Development.
One of the prominent factors in the upbuilding of
North Vancouver is the Royal Bank of Canada, which concern is well and ably represented in the hustling North
Shore city. The Roy^l Bank of Canada occupies its own
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corner of Lonsdale avenue and Second street, from which
point a large and increasing volume of banking business is
transacted.
Mr. W. Dickinson is the executive director of the Royal
Bank of Canada's interests in North Vancouver. He is a
gentleman well versed in financial matters and may be depended upon to perform his duties in a manner in keeping
with the responsibility of his office. Mr. Dickinson is a
member of the council of the Board of Trade and an enthusiastic worker for the good and welfare of the community.
The Royal Bank of Canada has over thirty offices in
the province of British Columbia and with its powerful
financial standing has accomplished a wonderful amount of
good in the clean, legitimate development of the proivnce,
In fact, few agencies "have done as much and to the Royal
Bank of Canada must be given credit for having performed
a great work in the wealthy province of the Pacific.
The Royal Bank of Canada has a paid up capital in
excess of six million dollars and a reserve fund of over seven
millions. Thus, with assets equal in value to ninety-two
million dollars, there is ample evidence of the Royal Bank of
Canada's stability. Under such circumstances the acquisition of so fine a banking institution is indeed an asset the
value of which cannot be too lightly estimated in North
Vancouver or elsewhere.
ALEXANDEE SMITH & CO.
OPENING VANCOUVER ISLAND.
The Canadian Pacific, through the intermediary of the
Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Company, have very far-
reaching plans for the opening of Vancouver Island. One
of the most interesting features of the work now in hand is
the construction of a horseback trail from the Chalet at Cameron Lake to the summit of Mount Arrowsmith, on whicn
mountain a hut will be erected for the accommodation of
visitors. The route of the trail will be a very good one and
there will.be no reason why any one cannot go to the summit and enjoy the very extensive view which it affords. It
is probable that the trail will be extended down the southern
side of the mountain and to connect with the old Cowichan-
Alberni trail. This will give a route from Duncan to Cowichan Lake and from that lake by way of Arrowsmith to
Cameron Lake, and thence back to Duncan by rail. This is
a "circle" around which one of these days it will be fashionable to swing. The company also is about to explore the
pass in the mountains between Cameron Lake and Home
Lake, which lies not far to the northwest, and to which it is
expected that a trail will be cut.
It is also announced that the company will extend its
line from Parksdale north to a point not yet named, but
presumably at least as far as Quatsino Sound. The line will
follow the shore in a general way, that is it will not strike
out into the interior of the island as far as the plans of the
company have as yet gone. This will prove a matter of very
great importance and will add very materially to the development of that part of the province.
It is hoped by those who are in touch with the needs of
the island that the Provincial Government will see its way
clear at a very early date to direct the construction of a first-
class highway from Alberni to Sproat and Kennedy Lakes,
thereby giving access to Long Beach, which is perhaps the
finest beach on the North Pacific Coast. The steel is now
laid as far as Alberni on the E. & N. Extension, and we
shall soon be able to congratulate the citizens of that promising town upon the enjoyment of the most modern facilities
of travel.
A Factor in the Growth and Development of
the North Shore.
Actively associated with the upbuilding of
North Vancouver is the firm of Messrs. Alexander Smith & Company, realty, financial and
insurance brokers. The company's offices are
at No. 11 Lonsdale avenue, and visitors to
North Vancouver are cordially invited to visit
the company at any time.
Mr. Smith is the president of the North
Vancouver Board of Trade, having been but
recently elected for the year 1912. He is also
a member of the North Vancouver Board of
City Aldermen, and is in short most prominently allied with the interests of the city. He
is an ardent enthusiast, but being a native Scot
he is also conservative in judgment, and may
be depended upon to give sound and sane advice to persons seeking information concerning North Vancouver.
Mr. J. Wylie Donaldson, notary public,
is also a member of the firm. Mr. Donaldson
is identified with public affairs to a large degree, being secretary of the Board of Trade.
His exceptional knowledge of the city well fits
him for this important post, and in every respect Mr. Donaldson may be reckoned as one
of North Vancouver's leading citizens.
Persons interested in North Vancouver
may place every confidence in Messrs. Smith
and Donaldson. They are well informed and
are likewise among the most reputable business
men on the coast. It is with pleasure, then,
that these gentlemen are accorded favorable
mention in these columns.
THE BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
One of North Vancouver's Great Financial Institutions.
Prominently associated with the financial life of North
Vancouver is the Bank of British North America. This fine
bank is situated upon the corner of Lonsdale avenue and the
Esplanade with a second North Vancouver branch upon
Lonsdale near Fourteenth street. Mr. J. Stephen is the
local manager. Mr. Stephen is an alert financial man,
shrewd and capable and a recent arrival from Hamilton,
Ontario.
As is well known, the Bank of British North America
is one of Canada's oldest and most widely known houses of
finance. With a paid up capital of very nearly five million
dollars and a reserve fund in the neighborhood of three
million, the Bank of British North America is indeed well
equipped for the transaction of a general banking business
in all of its numerous and difficult phases.
No distinction is made between large and small depositors and savings accounts may be opened with so small
a sum as one dollar. Interest is allowed at current rates
and the public will find the Bank of British North America
and the North Vancouver staff very pleasant person^ with
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North Vancouver -
The Story of a City
in the Making".
In these days when so many communities are in active
competition for new industries, new trade and new citizens,
the unitiated investor must of necessity face numerous proposals with considerable trepidation. There are many alleged openings in mines, timber, town property of doubtful
value, fruit and farm lands of more or less productive ability,
oil wells and in short almost every proposition of which a
financial genius is capable of devising for the purpose of
gaining access to one's bank roll.
There is, however, one point upon which well informed
persons usually agree, and that is that any community with
an excellent salt water harbor is indeed well fortified for
the fight that is now being waged in the great task of city
building. The traffic of the seas is increasing in volume at
an astonishing rate year after year, and already the harbors
of many of the world's greatest seaports are taxed to
capacity. In several instances there is absolutely no room for
additional shipping facilities, while in many of the larger
cities the price of waterfront property is so prohibitive that
it is impossible for small operators to conduct business at all,
or for the larger ones to extend the area of their holdings
with profit.
Shipping men the world over are of a common opinion
to the effect that Burrard Inlet affords at the present time
to all classes of shipping the most ample facilities to be found
in any portion of the globe reached by commerce. On the
south side of Burrard Inlet the City of Vancouver has already appropriated practically all ot the available dockage
property. This property is held at enormous figures and as
most of it is in small tracts and somewhat scattered the opportunity open to persons seeking a large waterfront area is
not without its difficulties.
On the north shore of Burrard Inlet there are harbor
facilities fully equal to those on the south side.   On the north
shore there is also situated a rapidly growing city of eight
thousand population, bearing the title of North Vancouver.
It occupies the same position geographically as does Oakland
to San Francisco or West Seattle to the City of Seattle.   A
ferry system, owned and operated by the municipal government of North Vancouver, affords splendid accommodation
for the travelling public.    There are three ferry boats and
there is a continuous service to and from across the Inlet
with a five cent fare.   Connection is made in Vancouver and
also in North Vancouver with the electric street cars of the
British Columbia Electric Railway Company, a corporation
said to operate over a greater mileage of electric road than
any other concern in the world.   This company operates electric roads connecting with Steveston, in the Delta district of
the Fraser River; with New ^Westminster, twelve miles distant from Vancouver, and from the former point to the town
of Chilliwack, about eighty miles distant, in the upper valley
of the Fraser.    Connection is also made with the Northern
Pacific at Sumas, in the State of Washington.    Connection
is also made with all railway and navigation lines operating
out of the City ot  Vancouver, and thus it will be observed
that North Vancouver enjoys exceptional advantages in the
matter of transportation.
Negotiations have just been concluded with an eminent
British engineer by the Burrard Inlet and Tunnel Co. to erect
a huge bridge across the "second narrows" of Burrard Inlet.
This bridge when complete will cost slightly over two million dollars and provision will be made for electric and steam
railway coaches and likewise for teams, motor cars and foot
pasesngers. This bridge will be among the greatest engineering accomplishments of the age and steps have now advanced
to such a stage that there is absolutely and positively no
doubt but that the project will be carried to an early and
successful completion.
Wlien this bridge is finished North Vancouver will
then be enabled to grant magnifiicent railway accommodation
to any of the several lines now building toward the Pacific
Coast. The shortest line to the interior of British Columbia
and thence eastward to the prairie provinces and Eastern
Canada will then be via North Vancouver. Ready communication will also be established with northern portions of the
continent and it is freely predicted that North Vancouver
will, at no distant date, be placed in communication with
Hudson Bay by way of the proposed Hudson Bay Railway
Company. As is understood by those who have studied the
situation at all, the opening of a new national port at some
point on Hudson Bay will be the means of establishing a
very much shorter route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
via North Vancouver.
At the present time steps are being taken to promote
the construction of a railway line from North Vancouver in
a northeasterly direction to the great country in the valley of
the Peace River. This country is becoming of wonderful
importance as a grain producer and is so situated geographically that the Pacific Coast is the most advantageous outlet
for its products. North Vancouver is the nearest shipping
point of importance and it is therefore a logical conclusion
that North Vancouver will soon become the Pacific Coast
terminus of the proposed Peace River Railway.
North Vancouver stands to profit by the completion of
the Panama Canal to an extent probably greater than that
to be derived by any other city on the Pacific Coast. Of
course, it is an established fact that the Panama Canal will
be finished at an early date. When this new and gigantic
highway of commerce is thrown open to the world, the
shipping business of all nations will be revolutionized. The
Pacific Coast will almost double its volume of shipping at
the outset and within a very few years the Pacific ports will
rank over those of the Atlantic.
North Vancouver's harbor is such as must command
attention. It is too great an asset to be lightly regarded, and
that North Vancouver will in the next few years become a
seaport of world-wide and fully-established prominence is
a fact beyond dispute. Realizing this to be true, the aggressive citizens of North Vancouver are already actively
engaged in a project designed to secure national docks.
The plan, briefly, is to secure Government aid for the
purpose of- having great wharves and drydocks erected on
the north shore of Burrard Inlet. These wharves are intended to provide for the loading and unloading of the vessels
of all nations. The Government drydocks will make adequate provision for drydocking and repairing of vessels of
all size, manner and description. It is proposed to seek the
appointment of a harbor board or commission under the
direction of which the wharves and drydocks will be conducted.
The citizens of North Vancouver have not gone into this
proposal haphazard. Some of the city's most keen and intelligent business men have devoted practically the whole of
their valuable time to a careful and conservative study of the
proposition. They have amassed statistics covering the situation in detail and are prepared now to submit their case to
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the Government authorities. Furthermore, it is probable
that the proposal will be submitted personally to the Government by a delegation of North Vancouver business men who
have given so freely of their time and energy to this important
task. These gentlemen are sincere in their belief in the
feasibility of the proposed undertaking, and that there is
urgent necessity of such an institution at some point upon
Burrard Inlet is obvious to the most casual observer. Accepting this statement as a fact beyond dispute, the claim is advanced by North Vancouver that the north shore of the Inlet
offers the most favorable inducement for the establishment of
Government wharves and drydocks. In the first place, it is
argued—and with truth—that North Vancouver is possessed
of the necessary space for such a project. Secondly, the completion of the second narrows bridge will provide ample
means whereby -the north shore may be reached by railroad.
The third consideration is that the establishment of Government wharves and a drydock system will necessarily involve
other kindred industries. There will be mills, iron works,
machine shops and other enterprises. Some of them may
start in a small way, in which case they must have property
at a reasonable figure. Other concerns, more powerful financially, may require great tracts of land, consequently, wealthy
though they may be, they will not spend more money for
property than is necessary. There is much land to be had
adjacent to the site of the proposed drydocks and in the
vicinity of the contemplated wharves, and as this land as a
general rule may be had in greater areas and at a lesser figure
than on the south shore, it is apparent that North Vancouver
has an advantage of incalculable value in attracting new
industries and manufacturing enterprises.
Considering the phenomenal growth of North Vancouver and comparing values proportionally with those of
other cities, property values in North Vancouver are not at
all excessive. Realty prices are firmly established and there
is constantly an upward trend, but there have been no sensational leaps and bounds upon a basis of fictitious value.
Eight years ago the population of North Vancouver v/as little
better than one thousand, possibly twelve hundred. Today,
in the year nineteen eleven, the population of North Vancouver is conservatively estimated at eight thousand. A year
ago, when Henderson's official directory was compiled, the
population was given as six thousand. A year prior to the
Henderson estimate above mentioned the population was
given by the same people as thirty-five hundred. Thus in the
year nineteen ten the population increased from thirty-five
hundred to six thousand, an increase of twenty-five hundred,
an increase of over seventy per cent. During the present
year the population has jumped from six thousand to eight
thousand, an increase of thirty-three and one-third per cent.
It must be apparent, then, that North Vancouver is growing
nicely and in keeping with legitimate development. At
present the population promises to increase by at least an
additional one-third before the expiration of nineteen twelve,
but even should it increase by only twenty per cent, the city
in a }^ear's time will have ten thousand inhabitants. And
further, it is an established fact that when a city has grown
steadily and upon a substantial basis to the ten thousand mark
it is only a step to forge ahead to fifteen, twenty or twenty-
five thousand, after which stage the city has passed the period
of experiment, and from which point she may be expected
with reason to climb onward and upward to a community of
national importance.
North Vancouver is fortunately blessed by a powerful
and admirably organized board of trade, of which Mayor
McNeish is the honorary, president. Mr. Alexander Smith,
a worthy exponent of North Vancouver's interests, is the
president, and Messrs. E. H. Bridgeman and A. E. Kealy
first and second vice-presidents, respectively. Mr. J. W.
Donaldson is the hustling secretary of the board, and Mr.
Henrv A.  Shaw the treasurer.    The. executive committee
numbers several of North Vancouver's most progressive citizens and consists of Messrs. Fred. T. Salsbury, C. G. Heaven,
A. J. Henderson, A. G. Perry, J. F. O'C. Wood, George
H. Morden, G. Shepherd, W. Dickinson, J. Stephen and
T. W. Doroney.
The North Vancouver Board of Trade is alive to the
potentialities of the splendid city on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, and the members thereof are doing all within
their power to develop the city on a legitimate basis. Some
very excellent and handsomely illustrated literature has been
prepared by the board, setting forth in detail many good and
sufficient reasons for the claims advanced by the capable
board.
In connection with the North Vancouver Board of
Trade there is also maintained a Civic Information Bureau.
The office in which is situated the bureau is prominently located upon Lonsdale Avenue, adjacent to the steamship landing, and strangers are cordially invited to visit the Civic Information Bureau.
There are splendid hotel accommodations for persons
desiring to remain in North Vancouver over night. The
citizens are hospitably inclined and individually and collectively are glad to meet newcomers. North Vancouver is
indeed a splendid city and those who have cast their fortunes
with the north shore metropolis have chosen wisely and
well.
J. W. McCALLUM,
Real Estate and Financial Broker.
An active and potent factor in the exploitation of
Abbotsford's natural resources and advantages is Mr. J. W.
McCallum. Mr. McCallum enjoys a splendid reputation
in his chosen calling, that of finance and brokerage, in which
field of endeavor he has accomplished much in the settlement and upbuilding of the Abbotsford district.
Mr. McCallum is thoroughly posted upon local conditions and is well able at all times to give reliable information of interest concerning his district. He is a hard working, conscientious hustler and a man in whose word one may
place dependence.
Few men have a better knowledge of affairs and nowhere are there any to be found in whom the general public
have more confidence than in Mr. McCallum. He is courteous and affable and all persons interested in the Abbotsford
district will find it to their advantage to communicate with
Mr. McCallum.
H. J. BARBER
Competent and Popular Chilliwack Druggist.
One of Chillivvack's commercial institutions that is
worthy of favorable comment is the excellent drug and book
store of Mr. H. J. Barber. Few centres of population on
an equal basis with Chilliwack can boast of a drug store so
thoroughly equipped and handsomely stocked as that owned
by Mr. Barber. The dispensary is complete in detail and
prescriptions are prepared with care and attention and from
pure drugs by an expert chemist. A comprehensive assortment of proprietary medicines is also handled and the entire
drug department is really a model of excellence.
Mr. Barber is a shrewd business man, shrewd enough
to realize that to win success he must please the public.
Gifted with a naturally pleasant temperament and being
courteously disposed toward all patrons, Mr. Barber has
built up a business of which he has every reason to be proud
and which speaks well for the esteem he enjoys among his
fellow citizens of Chilliwack.
Mr. Barber occupies the honorable post of president of
the Board of Trade, in which capacity he has officiated with
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ANOTHER ATTACK.
Vancouver has been the subject of another attack from
the pen of one Thomas Knight, who in a letter to the "New
York Evening Sun," says he carried on business here as a
building contractor during 1908 and 1909. Although the
population of Vancouver has increased by leaps and bounds
in recent years, Mr. Knight claims that seventy-five per cent,
of the toilers are trying their hardest to save enough to get
out of Vancouver to the United States or elsewhere, where
living is cheaper, rent lower and wages higher.
Further down in this remarkable epistle, Mr. Knight
becomes descriptive. He proceeds: "The bulk of those few
who do own their own houses live in miserable one or two-
room shacks in the woods, where a decent man would not
care to keep a dog and which they would not be permitted
to erect in New York. With one or two exceptions the town
is without proper roads, and except for one or two short distances the sidewalks are all board walks. There is about one
foot of mud during the rainy season (ten months out of
twelve) and a foot of dust during the dry season."
Mr. Knight, in his flight of imagination, certainly does
not recognize that comparisons are odious. After adversely
criticising Vancouver people for boosting allegedly worthless
properties, he concludes his comment as follows:
"I know nothing about the single tax, but I do know
you pay more for rent for inferior accommodation at Vancouver than I do in New York; also bread, meat, groceries,
and in fact everything is from twenty to fifty per cent, dearer,
although wages are twenty to forty per cent, lower than in
New York for corresponding trades and occupations. I am
no armchair theorist, but just a plain, Ignorant mechanic, but
I know what I have to pay for the necessities in life in cents
and dollars, and the conditions I conduct my business under
wherever I happen to be located, and I also have a keen
recollection of what wages I paid in Vancouver and what I
would have to pay for similar labor here, and I often wondered in Vancouver how they could live with everything
except wages so high."
Mr. Knight's letter, it appears, was provoked by previous letters appearing in the "Sun," in which the writers
laid stress on the fact that Vancouver's marvellous prosperity
was due, in a great extent, to the adoption of the single tax.
Mr. Benjamin Doblin wrote: "When Vancouver carries
the George principles to their logical conclusion, as no doubt
it will, the speculator will give way to the developer. Rent
will be lower, wages higher and labor and capital employed
on
time
Mr. H. C. Maguire, 2315 East Thirteenth Street,
Biooklyn, sent the newspaper clippings to His Worship
Mayor Taylor. In his letter he asks: "Does Mr. Knight
state facts or does he misrepresent, and specifically, when
and where?" The mayor immediately took up the matter
and instructed his secretary, Mr. Walter Hilliam, to compile facts regarding the city and send a general reply to be
printed in the    Sun.
The reply sent was extremely lengthy. It was stated
that Mr. Knight's letter bristled with inaccuracies. At the
end of the year 1910 there were 102 miles of cement sidewalks, 18 miles of paved streets, and 120 miles of macadamized roads. This year 23 miles of cement sidewalks and
12 miles of pavements were being laid. In the outskirts of
the city, outside the jurisdiction of the city authorities, shacks
had been built, but at the present time one had to go a long
way out to be free to live under the conditions described by
Mr. Knight. Taking the bank clearings as a fair critenion
of the prosperity of the city, it was shown that for the first
seven months of 1910 these aggregated $214,195,869. For
the corresponding period of 1911 the clearings amounted to
$296,226,198.   The building permits showed that in July,
1911, Vancouver exceeded the combined amounts for the
cities of Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma and Victoria.
Regarding wages, quotations were made of the union
scale prevailing. These showed that plasterers got $6 per
day; bricklayers, $5.50; structural ironworkers, $4.50; cement workers, $5 ; granite cutters, $5 ; carpenters, $4.25.
There are some men in this world who cannot make a
success of any business, under any condition. If this gentleman did not make money during the period stated, he must
belong to the latter class.
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA.
Abbotsford's Financial Importance Recognized.
A fitting tribute to the financial importance of Abbotsford is the establishment of a branch of the Royal Bank of
Canada. As is well known, this bank is among the greatest
of Canada's chartered institutions, and that the directors
have seen fit thus to recognize Abbotsford is a matter of
congratulation.
The Abbotsford branch transacts a general banking
business, maintaining also a savings department. Drafts,
letters of credit and negotiable paper is issued to and exchanged with all parts of the world and in short every
possible facility is provided for banking in any of its numerous phases.
In Abbotsford the Royal Bank of Canada is operated
under the able management of Mr. S. A. Morley, an experienced financial man and a worthy representative of the
great bank of which he is one of the executors. The Royal
Bank of Canada is deservedly popular in Abbotsford and
Mr. Morley is numbered among the town's leading citizens.
Mr. Morley is a capable manager and here again Abbotsford is fortunate in having at the head of her one bank a
man of such ability and personal popularity.
FLEET FOR GRAIN TRANSPORTATION.
Not only will the Grand Trunk Pacific have a line of
steamships running to the Orient in the near future, but
they will build and operate a fleet of vessels to England on
the opening of the Panama Canal, according to a statement
made by Mr. Hays in Montreal. The steamers will be
built in England under the supervision of the board of directors-of the Grand Trunk Company. They will be designed
especially for wheat carriers and for the Panama route. It
is not yet known whether the line to China and Japan will
take the form of a traffic agreement with other steamship
companies or whether the Grand Trunk Pacific will build
their own vessels for the transpacific trade, but President
Hays' Montreal statement gives definite promise of steamers
belonging to the company carrying between Prince Rupert,
the Pacific terminus of the railway, and Great Britain. This
means that the Grand Trunk Pacific will have a line extending practically around the world.
President Hays states that the principal object of the
company in building the Prince Rupert-Great Britain fleet
of vessels is the carriage of wheat. He says that his company will ship 100,000,000 bushels of wheat from Prince
Rupert to Europe when the Panama Canal is open for traffic, and in order to facilitate the transportation the G. T. P.
will build elevators and more docks at their northern terminus. He expects to have low grade tracks constructed in
time to handle the harvest of 1915.
"We will be able to deliver wheat in Liverpool by way
of the Panama Canal at the same cost and almost in the
same time that it now takes to carry it by way of the Great
Lakes and the Atlantic ports," says President Hays. "I venture to predict that within the next decade as much Canadian grain from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta will
find its waj to Europe by way of Prince Rupert as will get
out by the Atlantic ports." ,-VI,-..-;—■*■• "«-•«•
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Cleveland Boy
By Ross Macdonald
Jim Grant was a butcher. Early in the spring he came
to Red Elk, opening up a most excellent meat market. Before the year was out Grant became one of the solid and
substantial citizens of the town. He was, perhaps, thirty,
and was gifted with a personality of a pleasing nature.    He
was what some of the irreverent folks of Red Elk were
wont to term a "religious duck," but he did not force his
convictions upon the general public, and so, largely by reason
ot a tolerant attitude towards others, Grant was in turn
tolerated by many persons strongly prejudiced against
religion. In short, he was a good mixer, so good, in fact,
that within a month he was "Jim" to most everyone in Red
Elk except the women and the very small children.
One of Grant's ideas was that the Red Elk young men
would be the better lor a club or reading room. It was a
good deal ol an innovation, but Grant made a success of it,
even to the extent of gaining financial support from quite a
number of saloon men, despite the fact that the reading room
lured many young men away from the bars and gaming
tables.
Grant's next move was the organization of a Sabbath
school. True, there had been a haphazard service following
the regular Sabbath morning church session, but Grant
believed the time opportune lor the establishment of a Sabbath school with regular services for children only in the
afternoon.    Here, too, he was successful.
The married women of Red Elk rejoiced. The men
were pleased also, for although a man may make scant profession of religion, if he be a father, he believes at least that
"it is a good thing for the kids." So the family men of Red
Elk were grateful to Grant for having taken the youngsters
in hand. The boys and girls, in turn, were loud in their
praises of Grant, for the latter had a happy faculty of telling
a story in just the proper way to interest the juvenile mind.
The young ladies of Red Elk thought Grant was "a perfect
gentleman," and because he could and did play baseball, the
young men also voted him "a good head."
No door was closed to Grant and being the mixer that
he was, it became his custom to visit indiscriminately among
rich and poor, good, bad and indifferent. If he showed a
preference at all it was for the comfortable fireside of William Standish, the sheriff of Coyote county. Standish was
the proud father of a most winsome lass of twenty years.
Gossipers laughingly remarked that Laura Standish was the
real attraction, but Grant merely grinned and remained
non-committal in response to occasional good-natured banter.
Within the course of a year Grant and Standish became
genuine cronies. The sheriff was an inveterate smoker and
many an evening was spent by the two over their pipes, for
Grant was not a stickler and enjoyed a pipe as well as did
the next man. He never smoked in public, however, believing the temptation to the young an unnecessary one. Smoking quietly the men would swap yarns of by-gone days, but
though Grant never divulged family history, he had visited
many spots frequented by the sheriff in the latter's earlier
days. The sheriff had been an expert cowboy and cattleman
at one time, and Grant had followed the same line prior to
locating in Red Elk. Broncho busting exploits, roping contests, relay races and other sports of the plains gave the men
a common ground of discussion and many and varied were
the tales exchanged.
It was early autumn and the sheriff was departing for
Ragged Canyon, eight miles distant, upon official business.
Driving up the avenue he halted before Grant's shop.
"Come on, Jim!" he cried. "I'm off to Ragged Canyon and want some company. It's not far and we'll be back
by dark."
"All right!" called Grant. "I'll be with you in a jiffy
if you can wait."
The sheriff was driving a magnificent roadster, a fine,
upstanding beast, by long odds the best bit of horseflesh in
Coyote county. The animal was rangy, well muscled and
keen. In color he was a light bay without a white mark
of any kind save a star upon the forehead and a ring or
"boot" just above the off front hoof.
"By Jove!" exclaimed Grant. "I've often admired this
horse, but a fellow has to sit behind him to appreciate his
merit."
The sheriff was mightily pleased and straightway he
launched into a learned dissertation upon the fine points of
his roadster.
"Standardbred all the way," said the enthusiastic Standish. "Registered as 'Cleveland Boy.' You see when he was
a foal he was a perfect Cleveland bay in color, and so, when
they named the colt they substituted the letter 'O' for 'A'
and put him down in the records as 'Cleveland Boy.'
"He was three years old when I got him," continued
Standish, "but I didn't track him much, except in matinees
and once in awhile on the ice during carnival week. He has
a mark in the A. T. A. books of 2:20 flat, and I reckon if
he'd been handled right by a professional trainer when he
was a colt he'd a made a mark of mebbe two ten, anyway.
All I wanted, though, was a good driver, and I've sure got
one. I've won a few cups with him, too, in amateur events,
and I'll tell you right now, Grant, I'm powerful proud of
Cleveland Boy."
"He certainly is a beauty," commented Grant. "Nice
disposition, I fancy, and good action. A good square trotter
and free as the air with his legs. Sound as a dollar, too, I'll
guarantee. There is certainly nothing like a good Standard-
bred gelding for a gentleman's roadster."
"Why, Grant, I didn't know you were a horseman,"
laughed Standish, "but you certainly talk like one."
"Ever hear of 'Chestnut Burr'?" queried Grant.
The sheriff nodded.
"Well, I used to own a full brother, 'Cockleburr' they
called him," continued Grant.
Thus it was that the warm friendship existing between
the two was further strengthened. Upon the return trip
the sheriff surrendered the reins to Grant, a privilegt which,
coming from an expert horseman, has a very significant meaning. Cleveland Boy was on his mettle and responded nobly.
The brute seemed to sense a new touch upon the lines, and
picked himself up nicely as if to demonstrate his ability
before a stranger.
"Great Scott!" enthused Grant, "this is simply great.
Do you know, Sheriff, I'm about half in the notion of picking
up a good one myself, just to give you a bit of a brush now
and then."
"Sure! Go ahead!" chuckled Standish. "Cleveland
Boy won't mind and I'd be tickled to death myself."
Several times after that initial drive Grant accompanied
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"Say, Grant," remarked the sheriff upon one of these
occasions, "isn't it mighty queer the way these farmers are
losing their cattle the last few months back?"
Grant started slightly.
"Why yes, Sheriff," said he, "it is odd. Fact is I lost
a couple of fine steers myself only last week. I meant to
speak of it to you, but the thing slipped my mind."
"Looks to me," continued the sheriff, "like some Yankee
rustlers are raiding our farms over here and driving the
stock across the border. You know it's easy to lose stock
in the big ranges over there and it's my hunch that quite
a bunch of Canadian cattle might be found on the American
side if a man looked hard enough. Guess I'd better drop a
line to my friend Dingwall. He's sheriff of Beaver county,
and maybe he can help me out."
"Probably you're right, Sheriff," agreed Grant.
"Oh, by the way!" he added, "I came across a dandy
roadster down in Winnical the other day. He is a sure
enough mate for Cleveland Boy except that he's all bay. Not
a white hair in his whole hide. Chap named Gardner
brought him up from the South this fall, but he's a trifle
had up now, and wants to sell. The horse is called 'Kentucky Lad,' but I'm not going to tell you his mark, because
if I buy him at all I want to save that for a big surprise."
"Get him by all means," advised Standish, keenly interested and not a little amused.
A week later Grant burst into the sheriff's office, fairly
bubbling with excitement. Quickly he strode across the
room, and seized Standish by the shoulder.
"Well, Sheriff, I bought Kentucky Lad and he'll be
delivered here on Monday."
"Oh, hell!" exclaimed the sheriff.
"Why, what's the matter, Sheriff?" shouted Grant,
dazed by the sheriff's unexpected outburst of profanity.
"Matter?" yelled the sheriff. "Just this much is the
matter. Cleveland Boy is gone! Stolen! What do I care
about your blasted Kentucky Lad.    Damn Kentucky Lad!"
"Surely you're joking, Sheriff. Who is there here who
would steal Cleveland Boy?"
"It's no joke," growled the sheriff, growing calm.
"Cleveland Boy is gone, alright, but may God have mercy
on the thief if I ever run foul of him."
Days passed and there was no trace of the missing horse.
On Monday, as stated by Grant, Kentucky Lad arrived in
Red Elk. He occupied the whole of a boxcar and the sheriff
was present when the beast was unloaded.
"Suffering cats!" exclaimed Standish, "but he sure is a
ringer for Cleveland Boy. Dead mates, I'd say, except for
the white star and the boot."
"Look him over, Sheriff, look him over," invited Grant.
The sheriff poked and prodded the horse, felt of his
limbs and in short subjected the animal to a searching scrutiny.   This done, the horse was led away and stabled.
The next day Grant procured a splendid harness and a
fine, new cutter.
"Well, Sheriff," he laughed, "it looks like you'll have
to ride with me this winter."
"I guess so," admitted Standish ruefully. "You've got
a good horse, anyway, and I'll be glad to ride behind him."
During the ensuing weeks the sheriff frequently drove
into the country behind Kentucky Lad, Grant having volunteered the unrestricted use of the animal.
Then one morning Grant came into the sheriff's office,
stating that he was going to Winnical for a couple of weeks
and would like Standish to keep an eye on the horse. To
this the sheriff readily consented and Grant departed.
Three days after Grant's departure the good citizens of
Red Elk were shocked to learn of the man's arrest in Yellow
Grass, the county seat of Beaver county on the American
side of the line. Grant was accused of disposing of stolen
cattle to a number of American ranchers.   The cattle, so it
was proved, were stolen on the Canadian side and driven
across the border by a gang of rustlers working under the
direction of Grant. It was proved, also, that cattle had
been stolen on the American side by the. same bunch of rustlers, driven into Canada and slaughtered by Grant in the
latter's abbattoir a few miles from the town of Red Elk.
Grant was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment and
the Red Elk folk viewed the fragments of a shattered idol,
each according to his kind.
It was Christmas morning and Sheriff Standish stopped
at the postoffice.   There was a solitary letter in the box.    It
was from Grant and was dated in Yellow Grass.    It read
as follows:
Dear Sheriff:—
Merry Christmas! Just thought I'd drop a line of inquiry concerning the fate of Kentucky Lad. He is a mighty
fine horse and ,1 hope he is properly cared for. Feed him
well; keep him warm and comfortable and clean him thoroughly. If you do the latter and should happen to rub his
forehead the wrong way, you, being a sleuth, may detect a
star. Also, if you rub the right foreleg hard enough you
may discover a white stocking.
This being done, you may confirm your suspicions by
addressing our mutual friend as "Boy." I didn't bother
changing the name when addressing the old hoss personally,
and being an intelligent brute, he responds readily enough
when properly addressed.
I am deeply grateful to you for the unmolested use of
Cleveland Boy. In . return for" your kind offices I beg to
tender you my new cutter and the silver-mounted, harness
with the compliments of the season. I may mention, further,
that you need have no hesitancy in accepting this little Christmas remembrance. I bought and paid for the cutter and
harness, so the only stolen property you are guilty of receiving is your own horse.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES R. GRANT,
No. 1323.
THE QUEST.
(By Frederic Peterson.)
A hundred centuries of towering fanes
To show  the road—yet none  knows where it leads;
Ten thousand years of formulas and creeds
And still the sceret of the world remains!
The round earth bristles with its countless spires
That point the way to all the ends of space,
Where sit the gods that rule our mortal race,
Enthroned amidst the firmament of fires.
Ah, might we follow in the bounds of space,
Lit by illusive beacons, should we find
The why and wherefore that distract the mind,
Or ride forever on a phantom chase.
If we might flash, light light  from sphere to sphere,
Should we disclose the planner and the plan,
Or fail—and then return to earth and man
To dare again the ancient riddle here?
For surely here in man's unfathomed soul,
Shut fast within its narrow, cranial cell,
Lie reaches wide as heaven and deep as hell—
The world, the universe, the mirrored whole! O R T U N I T I
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CHILLIWACK
One of British Columbia's Best Cities
Time was when cheap stage comedians used to drop
into Vancouver and peddle alleged humor to the effect that
they had but recently returned from Chilliwack. Of course,
some folks laughed, and then when the funny man got as
far South as Seattle he palmed off some more canned jokes
at the expense of Vancouver, and the people in Seattle
chuckled also. That day has passed, however, for the people
of Seattle know to their sorrow that Vancouver is no joke
and in the same way the Vancouverites have come to the
point where they no longer laugh or smile when the name
of Chilliwack is mentioned. Stage humor cannot last forever, and besides, most discerning business men of Vancouver and elsewhere have been wise enough to visit the
Fraser and Chilliwack valleys since the inauguration of the
B. C. eclectric service.   What they saw many of them have
legitimate investment. Note that word INVESTMENT;
there is quite a difference between investment and speculation, and it may be said in all truthfulness that money spent
in Chilliwack property is in reality an investment.
Frankly, there is a difference of opinion concerning
values in the country. Some land is held at as high as seven
hundred dollars an acre, sometimes more. This land, however, has been under cultivation for years, ages one might
say; it is cleared of the last stick, stone and stump, and
usually there are some rather fine buildings upon the property; substantial barns, cattle sheds and comfortable dwellings for human habitation. Usually, too, there are splendid
fruit trees, full bearing and developed to a wonderful stage
of productive ability. Such farms are like ready-to-wear
clothing, all fixed for occupancy, and there is none of the
terrible drudgery consequent upon blasting rocks and stumps
and breaking one's back in clearing very small land tracts.
CHILLIWACK
attempted to tell, and those not so gifted merely plunked
down a few dollars in Chilliwack real estate and farm lands,
saying nothing as it were, but nevertheless sawing wood.
Most of these men are wealthy now.
Chilliwack is moving along very nicely. There is no
boom, nor is the curb lined with brokers seeking to shove
corner lots and acreage into one's pocket as one alights from
the B. C. electric tram. Instead a huge paving plant, rock
crushers, road rollers, etc, are busily engaged in making
fine streets and roadways. New buildings are replacing the
old, and although there is undeniably an atmosphere of activity about the little city, the progress of Chilliwack is based
upon the principle of sound, safe and sane growth. Compared with prices asked in many other cities of lesser size and
importance, the realty values of Chilliwack seem to be astonishingly reasonable, and conservative observers agree that
Chilliwack today affords a really excellent opportunity for
Coming down the scale of prices there is much very
fine land to be had at a figure lower by a good deal than
that above mentioned. Some of this land is entirely cleared,
also, and is in admirable shape for dairying, which, by the
way, is the mainstay of the district, fruit enthusiasts to the
contrary notwithstanding. Of course, they grow fruit in
the valley, lots of it, and good fruit, but the genteel "bossy"
is the queen of the valley, a statement that may be verified
any time if one cares to get up in the wee small hours of
the morning and witness farmers coming into town with
countless milk cans for shipment to New Westminster and
Vancouver. There is also another special milk train in the
evening, from which it may be correctly judged that the
dairying industry in the Chilliwack district must of necessity be a great one.
The soil is particularly fertile in the growth of foodstuffs for cattle and in tbe rich pasture lands the cows wax
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fat and give rich, creamy milk. The butter making industry is also one of gigantic proportions. Tons of butter are
produced annually and at an average price of thirty-five cents
per pound the Chilliwack farmers, are a mighty prosperous
lot.    Some of them are rich.
Whenever Chilliwack competes in the exhibition of
fruit, butter and produce the district is always most emphatically heard from. The farmers are scientific, they have
land unequalled anywhere and their dairy stock is chosen
with a care and discrimination for quality that leaves no
possible chance for failure. There are two large creameries
in Chilliwack and they are taxed to capacity turning out
butter and cheese for an ever increasing market. Substantial
prices have been maintained for years and there cannot be a
slump in years to come as the demand is increasing annually.
The result is that dairying and kindred industries in the
Chilliwack district have become permanently profitable and
in this direction there is every opportunity in the world for
money making.    Much valuable dairy land is yet to be had
AROUND CHILLIWACK
at reasonable prices and there is plenty of room for more
dairymen.
In live stock many of the farmers are profitably disposing of well-bred horses. There is always a market for
this class of stock and the prices are satisfactory. Stall-fed
cattle are raised to some extent also, and with profit. Sheep
and swine may be included in the list, and in the rich valley
pastures these animals take on weight rapidly and their meat
is tender and of the highest possible quality.
Remarkable success has been encountered for years in
the growth of fruit, vegetables and garden produce. Apples
and peaches as well as other fruits yield handsomely. The
fruit is of a very good quality and brings a good average
price. In vegetables the Chilliwack district is unsurpassed,
potatoes, onions, beets, turnips, cabbake and other miscellaneous produce being raised to an enormous extent. The
vegetables grade No. 1 in any market and bring the top
price always. Small fruits and berries do well in the district and are disposed of with a wide margin of profit to
the grower.
In the low lying lands of the valley hay is grown in
abundance. The yield is handsome and the hay being in
constant demand there is much money to be made from its
growth and subsequent sale. In short, the Chilliwack district affords an ideal opportunity for mixed farming. In
addition to the produce above mentioned, many persons in
the valley are making big money in poultry raising. This
is a hugely profitable business and one that returns unusually large profit upon the money invested. By following
mixed farming one avoids the danger consequent upon engaging in a single line, and those who have followed mixed
farming in the Chilliwack district have prospered to a high
degree.
In the city of Chilliwack there is a bustle and hum
that speaks volumes for the commercial activity of the city.
Extensive municipal improvements are now being made and
Chilliwack is rapidly assuming a position of equatily with
many cities of much larger population. Sewer and water
mains are being installed and a fine road-making plant is
now engaged in paving the more important of the city
streets.
Several new business blocks have been completed or
are now in course of erection. The retail establishments
compare very favorably with those to be found in many community and the merchants are a pleasant, genial lot of business men. The city also has two excellent creameries and
a milk condensing plant, all three of which institutions find
very little idle time on their hands. There are five sawmills, a splendid fruit cannery and preserving works, a wood
turning plant, automobile repair shop, iron works and
machine shop, five good hotels and an equal number of
Canadian chartered banks, the Bank of Montreal, Canadian
Bank of Commerce, Royal Bank of Canada, Merchants
Bank of Canada and Bank of Vancouver. In fact, there
is practically nothing lacking to make for the success of
Chilliwack and that the city is rapidly taking on metropolitan airs is not at all to be wondered at.
For the benefit of those seeking social and home-like,
there is a high school as well as adequate common school
facilities. All religious denominations of importance are
represented, and practically all of the widely known fraternal organizations are liberally represented by numerous
knights of divers and sundry secret grips.
Climatic conditions in the Chilliwack district are ideal
during the entire year. There is much scenic grandeur in
the adjacent mountains, and in this area there is an abundance of fish and game. The countryside abounds with
good roads and one may ride or drive through a veritable
Garden of Eden for many miles in any direction from
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As a matter of actual fact, Chilliwack offers inducements of a really superior order to persons contemplating
new business ventures or a place in which to make a comfortable, beautiful and permanent home. Chilliwack is today
a city of lovely homes. There are spacious lawns, small
garden and fruit tracts within the city limits, magnificent
residences and all other features that contribute to home-
building.
The city is well supplied with municipal improvements
and from the British Columbia Electric Railway Company
procures light and will shortly be in a position also to retail
power at a very low figures to intending manufacturers.
The Great Northern railway is building a line from
Spokane to the Coast and is already within a few miles of
Chilliwack, and when this line is completed the city will
have additional transportation facilities of considerable importance. Chilliwack will also be situated upon the main
transcontinental line of the Canadian Northern, and this
road is also at the present time within a very few miles of
the city. At the present time connection is had with Vancouver by way of the British Columbia Railway Company's
electric line, and with New Westminster via a daily steamship service of the Fraser  river.    Surely then,  with such
affairs and the executive council of the Board is one of the
most progressive of its kind in the entire province.
Mr. H. J. Barber is the president of the Board. His
term of office expires in January of nineteen twelve and
when the date of his retirement is reached he may well look
backward with pardonable pride upon the record of the
Board of Trade and its operations under his presidency
during the year nineteen eleven. Mr. H. H. Gervan, who
is also a member of the civic board of adlermen, is the vice-
president of the Board, and Mr. H. T. Goodland is the
secretary of the organization. Mr. W. L. Macken is the
chairman of the executive council and in a most difficult
position has proved a worthy officer.
System is the keynote of the Board's efforts along the
lines of promoting the interests of the community. The
Board is well organized into capable sub-committees, each
under the direction of a chairman. For the regulation of all
matters of dispute or argument there is a Board of Arbitration which includes the president, vice-president, secretary,
members of the council and the following gentlemen: N. S.
MacKenzie, Mayor Munro, J. F. Harrison and S. S.
Carleton. This committee has accomplished a great deal in
settling matters where in a difference of opinion is involved
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admirable transportation facilities there can be no question
concerning the greatness of Chilliwack. Mentino should
also be made of the railway connection with Seattle and
American points via the Northern Pacific at Sumas, so that
it is apparent at once that Chilliwack is readily accessible to
all parts of the outer world. Under such circumstances
there is every reason for the unlimited confidence that the
citizens of Chilliwack have in their splendid community,
both rural and city, and that Chilliwack is inevitably destined to play an important part in the affairs of British
Columbia is apparent to the most casual observer.
Chilliwack will soon have a new drill hall for the accommodation of two companies of the 104th Regiment
Canadian Militia, commanded by Capt. A. Leslie Coote.
Also a rifle range will be built for use of citizens and
soldiers.
A contract has been let and construction is starting for
a new federal building, including postoffice, inland revenue
and customs, stone and brick.    Cost $40,000.
In the Board of Trade, Chilliwack has a public organization that has accomplished much in the attraction of favorable attention to the city and district. This body is composed of practically all of Chilliwack's prominent men of
or where it is hoped to secure any particular point or concession upon behalf of the Board of Trade.
The committee on Legislation, Trade and Commerce
is a very important one. Mr. J. H. Ashwell is the chairman of this body and has associated with him Messrs. J. H.
Bowes, N. S. MacKenzie, F. B. Lyle and Alderman H. H.
German. The object of this committee is to promote legislation favorable to the city and district and to secure for
the community such industries or commercial organizations
as are contemplating a new location.
A committee that Is becoming of greater importance as
time progresses is that of Railways and Navigation. Mr.
F. C. Kickbush is the chairman and is supported by Messrs.
J. F. Harrison and W. L. Macken. It is the duty of this
committee to deal with the problems of transportation. At
the present time when the Canadian Northern and Great
Northern are building into Chilliwack and with a steamer
and electric tram line alread\ in operation, it is immediately
abvious that the committee on Railways and Navigation is
indeed a very important one. Invariably a transportation
committee is called upon to handle propositions calling for
tact and diplomacy and unless a wise selection is made in
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hampered.     Fortunately   the   members   of   the Chilliwack
committee on Railways and Navigation are sound business
men and they are most certainly doing their share in making
for the general success of the Chilliwack Board of Trade.
Agriculture  and  Mining   are  important    features   to
which the attention of the Chilliwack Board of Trade is
directed. With dairying, fruit growing and mixed farming
so great a factor in the industrial life of the Chilliwack
district it is apparent that the work of the committee on
Agriculture is of considerable proportions. Farther up the
valley there are mining interests to be looked after by the
citizens of Chilliwack who are intent upon building up an
extensive trade area for their thriving city. Mr. J. H.
Jackson is the chairman of this committee and is assisted
by Messrs. W. G. Lillie, A. W. Munro and J. P. McConnell.
depended upon to see that the report is prepared and drawn
up ship-shape.
The Finance Committee is an important one and under
the guidance of Mr. A. W. Black, the chairman, the committee has rendered very satisfactory service to the Board.
Mr. Black is assisted by Mr. E. J. Boucher and Mr. S. S.
Carleton.
The Advertising Committee is one upon which depends
to a very large degree the success or failure of any Board
of Trade and the Chilliwack Board is no exception to the
general rule. Mr. T. E. Caskey is the chairman and
associated with him are Mrs. N. S. McKenzie, J. M. Miller
and the hustling secretary, Mr. H. T. Goodland. The
latter gentleman, although engaged in business privately in
Chilliwack, is giving freely of his services to the good work
of the Chilliwack Board of Trade. Mr. Goodland is an
efficient publicist and is very well informed upon the many
E.J.Boucher
C IT/ CLERK
H.IGOODLAND
Sect. Board of Trade
Mayor Jas.Munro
HJ. Barber
Pres Board ofTrade
J. B.CROLY
CHIEF • ENGINEER
THE MEN WHO ARE MAKING CHILLIWACK
In the preparation of an annual report there is a world
of work, so great in its scope that one can hardly appreciate
the labor involved unless one has actually participated in
the preparation of such a report. The report must be comprehensive yet concise, and must cover an intelligent resume
of the year's work. It must be clear and logiacl in depicting
the work of the Board and at the same time must cover
the Board's operations in detail. Further, the report should
be prepared by men of affairs and preferably by men possessed of a wide knowledge of local conditions. This committee is one of the hardest to select, but the Chilliwack
Board of Trade has been fortunate in securing a splendid
committee on the annual report. The chairman is Alderman
G. H. W. Ashwell, one of the most prominent merchants
in the city. He is ably assisted by Alderman T. H. Jackson,
who has a fine knowledge of municipal affairs and local
conditions. The third member of the committee is Mr.
J.  H.  Bowes, a barrister,  and a gentleman who may  be
advantages of Chilliwack and the surrounding territory.
At the present time the Board of Trade has some attractive literature on hand, but the achievement of the year
is a handsome booklet which is now on the presses. This
booklet is thorough and complete to the most minute detail,
elaborately illustrated with fine art drawings and engravings and prepared in a neat, handy form for the perusal of
all persons interested. The text was written by Mr. Good-
land and it sets forth in crisp, concise language several very
good reasons why intending homeseekers, investors or business men should give careful consideration to the claims of
Chilliwack. This booklet is a credit to any community and
reflects most favorably upon the ability of Mr. Goodland
as a publicity man and Board of Trade secretary.
Another institution that has figured prominently in
the affairs of the Chilliwack district is the Chilliwack
Agricultural Society, of which Mr. A. Leslie Coote is the
president, Mr.  Horatio Webb the vice-president and  Mr.
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Goodland the secretary. The directors are Messrs. J. H.
Ashwell, H. H. Gervan, T. E. Caskey, Wm. Kngiht, C.
Hutcheson, J. H. Chapman, J. W. Walker, J. T. Maynard.
G. I. Thornton, James Bailey, J. A. Evans and P. H.
Wilson.
In the latter part of September of the present year, the
Chilliwack Agricultural Society held its thirty-ninth annual
exhibition. The Chilliwack "Fair" as it is locally known,
is one of the greatest events of its kind in the province
of British Columbia. With perhaps one exception, the
Chilliwack exhibition is the oldest annual fixture in the
province. Each year witnesses additional triumphs, and
today the Chilliwack exhibition is one that attracts attention
far and wide. It is an exhibition pure and simple, and
here one may observe some of the finest cattle, dairy
products, fruit and produce, hay, grain and grasses to be
seen in any part of the world. The valley is notable for its
cattle and the dairying industry in the Chilliwack district
is of such importance that two special milk trains leave
Chilliwack daily for New Westminster via the British Columbia electric tram line.
Naturally, then, in such a country there can be no
question concerning the probable success 'or otherwise of an
agricultural exhibition. The Chilliwack valley has been in
the agricultural game for fifty years, during the past thirty-
nine of which it has been the custom of the farmers to
compete annually for the honor of producing the best of
which their fertile land is capable.
The nineteen eleven exhibition of the Chilliwack Agricultural Society is said to have been by far the most successful in the long and honorable career of the association.
The executive officers and directors labored hard for the
success of the undertaking and thanks to their diligence and
unremitting toil their labor was handsomely rewarded. The
Chilliwack exhibition is well worthy of attendance from
far away points and smaller communities might very well
study the methods of the Chilliwack Agricultural Society
with profit. The Chilliwack exhibition is a model of excellence in the manner in which it is conducted, and is fortunately blessed also by having behind it an unequalled
district from which may be drawn exhibits of a very superior
sort.
BENT AND GOODLAND.
Among those who have added lustre to the historical
records of Chilliwack's history are Messrs. J. Howe Bent
and H. T. Goodland, the hustling members of the realty
and general brokerage firm of Bent and Goodland. These
gentlemen are thoroughly informed concerning the city and
district surrounding Chilliwack. They know the country
and know it well, having lived in the community and studied
local conditions for years.
Mr. Goodland is the secretary of the Board of Trade
and the Chilliwack Agricultural Society and is a live wire
in advocating the city's numerous advantages and commercial
opportunities. As a public man he is in the vanguard of
various movements for the common good and is rated as one
of Chilliwack's solid and substantial business men.
Mr. Bent is alert and a thorough going enthusiast. He
is proud of Chilliwack's past record, of her present status
and is convinced positively of her wonderful future. Tempered with their enthusiasm, however, is sound judgment,
and both Messrs. Bent and Goodland may be depended upon
to advance clear, concise logic upon behalf of any proposition for which they stand sponsor.
This firm has admirable connections in their chosen
field of occupation and can offer some enticing and legitimate inducements to persons interested in  Chilliwack in
vestments. By all means this firm of Messrs. Bent and
Goodlund should be consulted by intending purchasers, and
a letter to them asking for information will be replied to
fully, together with map and lists.
NEED STEAMER SERVICE.
Recent advices from.the Orient state that the Nippon
Yusen Kaisha line purpose adding a South Sea service to its
present series of services. The new venture, it is intended,
shall begin in the year 1912. To this course the company
has already secured the assent of the Government. It appears
that it was the Government that prompted the company to
take this step, and interested circles are of opinion that the
new line will cause a large development of business between
Japan and the East Indies and Japan and the South Sea. A
Government subsidy for the new line is problematical and
conditional. It will be inaugurated on the basis of no subsidy
but if it fails to be profitable a subsidy will be granted. The
central point of the new combination of services will be
Singapore, and a beginning will be made with a Kobe-Calcutta line, which will, in its sailings, include calls at Moji
(Japan), Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang and Rangoon.
The complete voyage will occupy 70 days, and the sailings
will take place at intervals of 18 days.
CAWLEY & CARMICHAEL.
Prominent Brokerage and  Investment Experts.
Associated to a considerable degree with the advancement and development of Chilliwack is the firm of Messrs.
Cawley and Carmichael. Mr. S. A. Cawley and Mr. Robert
Carmichael are the firm members and in their busy offices
on Wellington avenue are doing much for the settlement
and up-building of the community.
Messrs. Cawley and Carmichael are fortunately so situated as to be able to extend exceptional brokerage and investment facilities to prospective clients. The firm members
are thoroughly posted upon Chilliwack city property and
acreage in the country tributary to Chilliwack. They also
represent a number of standard insurance and loan companies and are unusually well equipped for the pursuit of
their chosen calling.
Messrs. Cawley and Carmichael are reputable business
men and every confidence may be placed in their advice upon
investment matters. Intending buyers will find it profitable
to communicate with Messrs. Cawley & Carmichael concerning Chilliwack property.
THE INEVITABLE.
I like the man who faces what he must
With step triumphant and a heart of cheer;
Who fight the daily battle without fear;
Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust
That God is God; that somehow, true and just
His plans work out for mortals.    Not a tear
Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear,
Falls from his grasp: better with love a crust
Than living in dishonor; envies not,
Nor loses faith in man; but does his best,
Nor ever murmurs at his humbler lot,
But with a smile and a word of hope gives zest
To every toiler.    He alone is great,
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G. R. ASHWELL & SON
Chilliwack's Great Departmental Store.
One of the finest departmental stores in Western Canada outside of the great metropolitan centres of population
is that of Messrs. G. R. Ashwell & Son, of Chilliwack.
This splendid store has just been remodelled, in fact practically rebuilt. Magnificent plate glass windows have been
installed and the store front is now among the most thor-
modern and up-to-date in the province
grasses, and the raising of poultry and live stock. Throughout the entire valley from the Delta up to the mountains
this firm owns or controls for sale thousands of acres of land
of various kinds, and as a result can offer inducements worthy
of careful consideration and attention by prospective buyers.
EMPRESS HOTEL
ouehlv
'rovision
has also been made for additional storage and thus the big
firm is enabled to give its numerous patrons the advantages
Chilliwack's Leading Commercial Hostelry.
Without  question one  of  the  finest  hotels  in  British
Columbia is the Empress of Chilliwack, owned by Mr. D.
of quality and price to be derived from buying direct from
factories in large quantities.
As has been indicated, this establishment is a great departmental store in every sense in which the term is applied.
The stock embraces all lines usually carried in such an
emporium and is complete in detail. Also the stock has been
chosen with-a view to quality first, last and always, as was
evident from a glance at some of the brands of goods displayed.
Mr. G. R. Ashwell is the senior member and head of
the firm. He is an experienced master of the art of successful merchandising and has by constant application to his
work, built up an excellent and systematically conducted
business. He is ably assisted in an executive capacity by his
son, Mr. G. H. W. Ashwell, an expert young business man
and a genial, courteous gentleman whom it is a pleasure to
meet. The Messrs. Ashwell, father and son, have touched
the keynote of success by striving above all things to please
the public. That this has been accomplished is apparent in
the gigantic strides made by the firm of Ashwell & Son, a
concern that has won and merits a liberal share of public
patronage.
Mr. G. W. H. Ashwell is'also a membre of the Chilliwack  Board  of  Aldermen   and  is   fulfilling  his  municipal
BEET SUGAR WORKS, CHILLIWACK
R. McLennan.
duties in a highly creditable manner
F. J. HART & CO., LTD.
Progressive Workers for Chilliwack's Welfare.
Closely allied with the development of the Fraser
valley is the firm of Messrs. F. J. Hart & Co., Limited, with
head offices in New Westminster and branches in Victoria,
Vancouver, Aldergrove and Chilliwack. The company was
established in 1891, twenty years ago, and was incorporated
in 1905, six years ago. During the twenty years since the
company was founded it has created and maintained a magnificent reputation for honorable business methods and today
the firm is universally conceded a high place in the annals of
British Columbia commercial circles.
Messrs. F. J. Hart & Co., Limited, deal extensively
in town property in the cities above mentioned, but specialize
particularly in Fraser river valley acreage and farm lands
suitable for dairying, fruit and vegetables, hay, grains and
The Empress is well equipped throughout,
heated by steam and lighted by electricity. Unfortunately
the sewerage and water supply system of Chilliwack is
scarcely as modern and complete as one would expect and
consequently Mr. McLennan has been unable to install hot
and cold water in each room. A system of sanitation has
been installed, however, and Mr. McLennan is hopeful that
the city fathers will soon see the wisdom of improving the
present system. When this is done, Mr. McLennan proposes an addition to the hotel of thirty rooms with hot and
cold water in each room and also private baths.
The Empress is spotlessly clean from top to bottom
and the rooms are handsomely furnished with a view to solid
comfort. Mr. McLennan's chef is a good one and the
wholesome food is well and quickly served by a competent
dining-room staff. There is also a billiard room and a bar
stocked with choice wines, liquors and cigars. In every department Mr. McLennan is striving to give his guests the
best there is to be had.
Mr. McLennan is an old-time British Columbian, having been in the province for nearly thirty years. He has
lived in New Denver, Trout Lake and various parst of the
Slocan and Lardo countries. He also at one time conducted
a hotel upon the site on which the Winters hotel now stands
in Vancouver.
Mr. McLennan, in addition to being an expert hotel
man, is personally a very fine gentleman. Three years ago
he built the Empress and under his management it has since
been successfully conducted as a first-class hotel in every
respect.
NEW  STEAMERS  FOR  CANADIAN  PACIFIC
RAILROAD.
The construction of two mammoth steamers for the
Canadian Pacific Railroad has commenced.
These steamers are to ply between Vancouver and the
Orient. The length over all is 595 feet, and displacement
15,000 tons. The engines are of 17,000 horse power, capable
of making eighteen knots an hour. They will each accommodate 1,300 passengers. Special attention is given to an
improved method of turning these steamers into gunboats,
which can be done in twenty-four hours. 1911
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ED
UCATION
By Margaret Johnson Griffin
Education is a burning question; every civilized country
is at present struggling with its varied problems.
Education cannot be narrowed down to the mere imparting of certain facts or theories, but is the drawing forth
and developing of all that is highest and best in the pupil,
mentally, morally and physically. It should eliminate as far
as possible all tendencies which degrade, and substitute high
ideas for low ideas, the formation of habits of order—of
perseverance and of conquering of difficulties and of seeking
truth—such aims as these should be in the mind of all true
educators, but the means by which they are obtained differ
according to the conditions and circumstances of each community.
Education is in its essence a preparation for life, for
upon, the training of our boys and. girls depends the growth
or stagnation of our province for the boys and girls of today
are the men and women of tomorrow, therefore it is necessary that the foundations be well laid.
We must remember that education is a term covering
far more than the teaching given in schools or colleges. It
includes all that makes for the healthy and thorough development of the perfect man and woman in body and in
mind.
It begins in the cradle and should g;o on as long as life
lasts, but it is in the more pliable and formative period that
the principal work must be done.
And while education has to do with the growing boys
and girls of our province, let us consider the most practical
means to this end.
Let us begin with the free kindergarten system, whert
the tiny tots are taught to learn by doing.
The work of the child is playing and he can be taught
through his play, without having the fact kept constantly
before him.
The child's reasoning powers and understanding are
developed and the subjects thus imparted are not merely
retained through memory, but have become part of his conscience, and we all know that a little child will run about
from sheer joy of being alive if left alone.
PLAY GROUNDS   FOR  CHILDREN.
The old adage of all work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy is as true today as when spoken, and this fact is
being realized more every day. There is a spiritual law
within every child's nature which tells it, "Thou shalt play."
And if this is not obeyed and given free expansion, sonic
day there will be an unlooked for explosion. We cannot
afford to have our children wait till they get to heaven for
their play-grounds. We must have open spaces where
healthy, normal children can play, and in spending money
for open spaces for play-grounds for the children of our fast
growing cities we will be helping to make the future generation healthier, nobler and better.
The fundamental principles should be well instilled in
the pupils, "the three R's" being still the most essential. It
of course would depend very much upon the pupils and their
circumstances how long they would remain at school and
upon the different callings in life they intended to follow
would greatly depend the course of study taken up.
Many of our girls after graduating will remain at home
and  in  those cases will  much   appreciate   the   course   of
DOMESTIC  SCIENCE,
as it is being taught in our schools, and this should
do much to improve the standard of the home-makers
of the future and as this art does not only mean the teaching
of how to prepare and serve the different foods but how to
select the best of foods and their different values to the body
when eaten, its value to the family can be readily understood.
The girls are also taught to be economical, clean and tidy
about their work.
As the homes of today are. the very centre of our life,
then education is not complete or does not fulfill its vocation
until it fits us for the founding and maintenance of the home
and the highest home ideals. We become like that upon
which our hearts are fixed and great things will be expected
from the girls of our province when trades schools are established, as we are sure they will be in the near future. Classes
in millinery, dressmaking, weaving and fine sewing will be
made up where the girls can learn all that will be required
to make the perfect woman.
While the girls are being taught the domestic scinece,
the boys should be given instruction in
MANUAL TRAINING.
The boy begins first by making a drawing of some
simple object; this is to train the eye and the hand. This
completed, he proceeds to his bench and makes the article from
the drawing he has made. Here comes in the strong points in
manual training—accuracy and exactness. There is no half
way, for it is either right when it is completed, or it is wrong.
The boy can perceive this himself—he does not require the
teacher to point it out to him—and he wishes then to try
again until he gets it right. The will power is also strengthened and self-reliance taught, this of course being due to the
individual character of the work. The boy is face to face
with his own difficulties and has to strive against and overcome them, and in doing this he is forming habits that will
be of great value to him in after life, and while manual training is not trade training there is much to be said for it as a
basis for technical training in after life.
In British Columbia we are face to face with the
problem of technical training ior practical work, and in
view of the fact that a commission was sent to look into the
matter of having such a school or schools in this province
we must see to it that if these schools are to serve their purpose fully that our common or public school education is
in line; and while speaking of trade schools, agriculture
should not be overlooked, as there is a crying need in British
Columbia for men who will take up in an active way mixed
farming in a practical way. This could embrace fruit farming of every description, as there is no country in the world
better adapted than the protected valleys of British Columbia
—stock raising and small grain raising would be very
profitable.
The time is not far distant when this most important
branch of practical education will be included in the curriculum of our technical schools.
Women have also made a success of agriculture in
many of the older provinces and countries, and why not in
British Columbia.
PATRIOTISM.
Patriotism should also be taught in every public school.
What is patriotism ?   Does it mean more than love f
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land?    It should also mean sacrifice for the land in which
we live—the land of our adoption.
The history of our own Canada should be given more
prominence in our public schools; also the meaning of our
Canadian flag dwelt upon more fully, as at present there is
a lamentable laxity in the way of saluting the flag, and
honoring it on every possible occasion.
WOMEN   ON   SCHOOL  BOARDS.
In view of the fact that there are so many women
teachers in our educational department, and the pupils in
our public schools being of both sexes, it has become generally concluded among thoughtful people that women should
have a seat on our school boards.
Whether this would mean an elective office or an appointment would not matter in the least, as long as it was a
means toward the end.
Being mothers, women better understand the needs of
the children and it comes more natural to her to befriend the
child and look after its best interests, at the same time not
losing sight of the fact that it must be well educated.
Women would better understand about the ventilation and
hygiene in general. These and many more reasons might be
cited as to why women should be on the school board.
The public school has the directing of the child nature
during the period of its greatest susceptibility to moral influence and that fact is the teacher's greatest opportunity—
CHARACTER BUILDING.
In the character of our future citizens will depend the
greatness of our province, and much will be expected of the
men and women of this the premier province of this Canada
of ours.
are homes that are really homes, not the kind that have been
built for speculative purposes, but the kind that everyone
wishes for their own. All of them are surrounded by spacious
grounds and are indeed well kept.
On this rise, overlooking the Fraser River, one could
not wish for a more ideal location. Here also is situated the
Provincial Mental Hospital, surrounded on all sides by beautiful and well kept lawns. The air is most delightful and invigorating, and combined with the wonderful view is doubly
pleasing.
But as there is much more than can be said in this limited
space. It is best something be said of the city proper. The
electricity is purchased from the British Columbia Electric Co. and is given to the consumer at a much lesser cost
than if it were purchased direct from the producer. The
water supply is also owned by the City. The police and Fire
Departments are up to snuff, and the City itself has men at
its head who are always looking after its best interests.
If New Westminster were to be called the Pay Roll
City it would not be amiss as there are hundreds of men employed in its many mills and manufacturing industries. The
largest lumber mill in the world is just outside the city limits
(Fraser Mills), and employs hundreds of men who look to
New Westminster as their Mecca for trade.
Inside the City there are some dozen or more large
manufacturing plants beside several great fishing industries.
Connecting the City with Burnaby and Vancouver are
three through Interurban lines that make the run in thirty
minutes.
But last and by no means least is the great Fraser River
that flows at its verv feet.   This river is destined to become
DRIVEWAY TO PROVINCIAL ASYLUM
NEW WESTM INSTER.
Much has been written about this beautiful City, and
the country surrounding it. Yet therevstill remains volumes
to say.
The Royal City, as it is commonly known, was christened by the late Queen Victoria, and everyone of its citizens
are proud of the fact that this much loved and noble woman
ruler gave it a name.
i\ I y first impression of the place was gained from a
street car window as we whisked through the business portion of the down town district, and on all sides the signs of
well-filled and up-to-date shop windows presented themselves.
Leaving the city behind we began the ascent to the residential portion of the place.   On all sides of the pretty streets
one of the greatest shipping points on the American continent.
To digress for a moment, let us go to Seattle and see
what that city has been trying to build for twenty-five years.
A canal from Puget Sound through Lake Union to connect
with rhe fresh water of Lake Washington so that she can
obtain the distinction of having the only fresh water harbor
on the United States side of the Pacific. Millions have been
spent on the project and a great many more will be spent before it is completed. And New Westminster has miles
and miles of deep, fresh water harbor, ready to receive the
largest ships afloat, and kind nature has provided it free of
cost. 1911
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Yes, the time is but a short distance when this valuable
water front along the city will be filled to overflowing with
factories, and we of the west will be manufacturing what we
now have from the east and pay the long rail haul for.
To sum up the future for this wonderful city it is a
conservative statement to make when we say New Westminster will be in a very short time the leading manufacturing
citv in the farthest west.
BEAVERS ORGANIZE.
British Columbia is not to be outdone in the matter
of progression, is evidenced upon every hand and in all
lines of business as well as social happenings.
One of the latest and really progressive events that has
taken place is the organization of a fraternal order known
as the Benevolent Protective Order Beavers. The name of
Beaver is taken from our national animal, the Beaver, and
as the slogan is "We Stick Like Beavers and We Work Like
Beavers" there is no question of the successful outcome of
the Order.
The Supreme Organizers of the Order are Messrs. C.
Doughtry and W. Laurie, who are well known citizens of
Victoria.
Below you will see a cut of the Beaver that the Order
has chosen for its insignia.
J. J. SPARROW
A Prominent Figure in Abbotsford's Commercial Life.
One of British Columbia's trail blazers is Mr. J. J.
Sparrow, who is engaged in the flour and feed bsuiness in
the thriving town of Abbotsford. Mr. Sparrow is actively
in touch with the farmers of the district and has therefore
exceptional facilities for handling hay, grain, feed and flour
in large quantities. With such fine railway accommodation
as that with which Abbotsford is possessed, Mr. Sparrow is
also able to make prompt shipment to Vancouver, New Wesf-
minster or Eastern points.
As a business man, Mr. Sparrow is keenly alert and
progressive. He is alive to the requirements of the public
at all times and is a hustler from the word go. Personally
Mr. Sparrow is a man of his word, fair and square with
everyone and very well liked indeed in Abbotsford. His
home people say he is "on the level, which, after all is
about the highest tribute that can be paid to any man.
ABBOTSFORD DRUG STORE
A Modern, Up-to-Date Concern.
One of the finest establishments of its kind that the
writer has seen outside of the great metropolitan centres is
the Abbotsford Drug Store. This fine store is owned by
Mr. A. J. Stevens, of Mission, but the local management
is in the capable hands of Mr. M. W. Copeland.
The stock consists of an excellent line of drugs and
sundries, confectionery, books, magazines, cigars, etc. In
every possible way the stock is complete and chosen with
the care and judgment of an experienced buyer. The store
has a splendid plate glass front, is clean and well lighted
and the stock is neatly arranged.
\ I r. Copeland, the local manager, is a clever young
man of ability. He is shrewd and alert and enjoys the
benefit of an extensive and far-reaching experience and under
his able direction during the past fourteen months the Abbotsford Drug Store has come to occupy a position of splendid prominence in the community's commercial area.
THE MARRYING MANIA.
A handsome woman who had been so unfortunate as to
find occasion to divorce not one, but several husbands, was
returning from Nevada. In Chicago, she happened to meet
her first husband, for whom, by the way, she always has
entertained a real affection. "Upon my soul, if it isn't
Charlie!" exclaimed the ex-wife, cordially shaking hands
with the gentleman whose name she formerly had borne.
"I'm awfully glad to see you, Charlie!" Then, after a wistful expression of regret had come to and been banished from
her countenance, she added: "Old chap, I've often wondered where you were and what you were doing. It was
too bad we didn't get on better together. I hope your experience hasn't been as unpleasant as mine. I'm just sick and
tired of marrying strangers!"
LAND AND LIME.
How can a farmer know whether his land requires to
be limed ? - He can make a rough test in the following way:
Put a sample of the soil of a field on a plate, make it into a
powder, and then pour a little hydrochloric acid (obtainable
from any chemist) upon it. If the soil effervesces freely,
that is an indication that the soil is not poor in lime; if,
on the other hand, there is a little or no effervescence, it is
a sign that there is a deficiency of lime.
'Ere, Bill, wot's the matter?   You're lookin' worrid."
"Work—nothing but work from mornin' till night."
" 'Ow long 'ave vou been at it?"
begin tomorrow.
M. A. P
Ward, Burmester & von Graevenitz
Official Agents  of
The British Columbia Homes Trust.  Ltd.
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1132 Granville Street. Vancouver, B. C. (Pho
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GAME REGULATIONS.
Regulations made under the Game Act for the open
and close seasons are as follows:
Cock Pheasants may be shot in the Cowichan Electoral
District between 1st October and 31st December, both days
inclusive; in the Islands Electoral District, except the Municipality of North Saanich, between 1st October and 31st October, both days inclusive. No pheasant shooting is allowed in
any part of the province.
Grouse of all kinds may be shot on Vancouver Island,
the islands adjacent thereto, and the Islands Electoral District, between 15 th September and 31st December, both days
inclusive, with the exception of Willow Grouse in the Cowichan Electoral District; Blue and Willow Grouse in the
Richmond, Dewdney, Delta, Chilliwack, and in that portion
of the Comox Electoral Districts on the mainland, and islands
adjacent thereto, on Texada Island, and in that portion of
Kent Municipality situate in Yale Electoral District, between
the 15th October and 31st December, both days inclusive;
of all kinds in the Fernie and Cranbrook Electoral Districts
may be shot only during the month of October. Blue and
Willow Grouse and Ptarmigan may be shot throughout the
remainder of the mainland between 1st September and 31st
December, both days inclusive.
Quail may be shot in the Cowichan, Esquimalt, Saanich,
and Islands Electoral Districts, between 1st October and 31st
December, both days inclusive.
Prairie Chicken may be shot throughout the province
during the month of October.
Ducks, Geese and Snipe may be shot throughout the
mainland and the islands adjacent thereto, between 1st September and 28th February, both days inclusive. Ducks of all
kinds and Snipe may be shot on Vancouver Island and islands
adjacent thereto, and in the Islands Electoral District, between 15th September, 1910, and 28th February, 1911, both
days inclusive, and Geese at any time.
Columbian or Coast Deer may be shot on Vancouver
Island, the islands adjacent thereto, and the Islands Electoral
District, between 15th September and 15th December, both
days inclusive. Throughout the remainder of the province,
except the Queen Charlotte Islands, they may be shot between 1st September and 15th December, both days inclusive.
Wapiti are not allowed to be shot anywhere in the province.
Sale of Game.—Columbia or Coast Deer may be sold
on the mainland only between 1st September and 15th November, both days inclusive.
Ducks, Geese and Snipe may be sold throughout the
province during the months of October and November only.
Note.—Nothing contained in the above regulations affects Kaien Island, the Yalakof Game Reserve in the Lil-
looet District, or the Elk River Game Reserve in the East
Kootenav District.
"Never," said he, "so far as we have seen; and never did
our fathers speak to us of such."
On my return there, five hundred years afterward, I
found the sea in the same place; and on its shores was a
party of fishermen, of whom I inquired how long the land
had been covered by the waters. "Is this," said they, "a
question for a man like you? This spot has always been
what it now is."
I again visited it five hundred years later, and the sea
had disappeared. I inquired of a man, who stood alone on
the spot, how long ago the change had taken place, and he
gave the same answer as I had received before.
Lastly, on coming again, after an equal lapse of time,
I found there a flourishing city, more populous and more
rich in beautiful buildings than the city 1 had seen the first
time; and when I would fain have informed myself concerning its origin, the inhabitants answered me: "Its rise is lost
in remote antiquity; we are ignorant how long it has existed, and our fathers were as ignorant on this subject as
ourselves."
PROVINCES PRODUCING SHINGLES.
The production of shingles increases steadily in Canada, and in a bulletin to be published by the Forestry Branch
of the Department of the Interior, this is shown, together
with the relative importance of the provinces for 1910.
Compared with the Canadian lumber cut, the entire shingle
industry amounted to less than the value of each of the five
most important species—spruce, white pine, Douglas fir,
hemlock and cedar—during 1910. Considered separately,
the shingle production assumes considerable importance, especially in British Columbia. This province is far in advance
of the eastern provinces as a shingle producer, and made up
approximately half of the Canadian 1910 production of
nearly two billion shingles, worth over three and half million
dollars. Over one-quarter of the shingles were manufactured
in Quebec, where the five hundred and thirty-nine million
pieces reported were an increase of sixty per cent, over the
1909 amount. Ontario and New Brunswick produced
nearly equal amounts in 1910, one-tenth of the Canadian
production being from each of these provinces. Ninety-
eight per cent, of the total production was in the above four
provinces, although shingles are made in every province of
the Dominion. Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward
Island,' Alberta and Manitoba together produced two per
cent, of the total. The average price of shingles in 1910
was $1.80 per thousand, the values ranging from $1.51 for
shingles in Nova Scotia to $2.27 in Saskatchewan.
The leadwort (Plumbago Capensis) is the best light
flowered bedding plant. Carry over winter by taking cuttings before frost. These, grown indoors, will make good
plants in four-inch pots for next year. Spring struck cuttings will not flower nearly so well as those struck in fall.
THE FACE OF THE WORLD.
An Arabian Allegory. -
I passed, one day, by an ancient and populous city, and
asked one of its inhabitants how long it had been founded.
"It is indeed a mighty city," he replied, "but we know not
how long it has existed ; and our ancestors were as ignorant
on this subject as we are." Five centuries after, as I passed
•by the same place, I could not perceive the slightest vestige
of- the city. I demanded of a peasant, who was gathering
herbs on its former site, how long it had been destroyed.
"In sooth, a strange question," he replied; "the ground here
has never been different from what you now behold it."
"Was there not of old," said  I,  "a splendid city here?" OPPORTUNITIES
Page 37
Sty? Mm Hdjtttft tlj? 2Upr£0?niaium£
Here we are face to face.
Every man likes to look you square in the eye
when he is talking to you. That's the worst of
printed matter as opposed to conversation. It's
hard to get the personal element into print.
My name is Theodore M. Knappen. I am the
Manager of THE COQUITLAM TERMINAL
COMPANY, LTD., which owns the townsite of the
D
reat C. P. R. Pacific coast terminals at Coquitlam.
I  myself  personally  wrote   every  word   of
the  advertising literature  of the  Company and
I   stand   for   it.     I   studied   this   thing   hard
before I went into it.    I was first attracted to it
because the new terminals are a Canadian Pacific
Railway proposition and I have noticed that whatever that great, reliable, solid company undertakes is always a success.   It never does
things by halves.   I put my money into the Company only after I had assured myself
of the good faith of the other men in the Company, as well as of the legitimacy of
the proposition.    I believe in it from the bottom of my heart.
I insisted on a proposition that would make money for the public.   I have got it.
I have been in immigration, colonization and land selling for eight years. For two
years I was secretary of the Western Canada Immigration Association. Since then I
have worked on colonization and development projects all the way from British Columbia to Florida. I never touched a proposition that wasn't good, but I never saw one so
good as this.   I will stake my reputation on it. Page  38
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And I want to tell you right here that some of our lots are poor lots. I give you my
word that every time you "or any of the rest of my friends sends in an order for a lot
that he hasn't seen, I will personally inspect it or send a trusted employee to do so. Take
it for granted, that if that lot is not what the buyer expects it to be, there will be no sale.
It's up to me, as Manager of this Company, to sell lots, but I want to tell you here and
now that there will be no lots sold unless every deal is fair and square.
So, here we are, out in the open. I dislike personal notoriety of any kind, but,
rather than have you feel that things were being said to you by an irresponsible editorial "We," I have submitted to the unpleasantness of having my face reproduced
here along with this declaration of principles.
Now, take a look at the men behind me—on the next page—our stockholders and directors. I am proud of that list. They are not the kind of men to back any proposition
that is not thoroughly good. Can you think of any other townsite company that can or
does print such a list?
If there's anything you don't understand, write me personally. I am not too busy
to give time to the fullest consideration of the questions or objections of any man with
whom I am trying to do business.
Faithfully yours,
P. S.—Company reference:   Bank of Hamilton, Vancouver, B. C, or Winnipeg,
Man.
Personal reference:   Bank of Commerce, Manager, Vancouver, B.C.; Northwestern
National Bank, Minneapolis, Minn.; American National Bank, St. Paul, Minn. 1911
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OUR   STOCKHOLDERS
A List  That We Are  Proud to  Publish, and Publishing Which Is
Conclusive of Our Good Faith
As water does not rise above its source, a corporation is rarely better than the men
in it. I am proud of the personnel of the Coquitlam Terminal Co., Ltd. No company
was ever organized with a list of stockholders who stand higher than ours in personal
and financial integrity. In doing business by mail the first essential is complete confidence. To inspire you with this confidence and to let you know the kind of people you
are doing business with, we give below the names of our stockholders.
H. Percy Simpson (President), Capitalist, Victoria, B. C.
John F. Langan (Director), Capitalist, Vancouver, B. C.
W. B. Ryan (Director), Capitalist, Victoria, B. C.
Dr. John Brown (Director), Surgeon, Vancouver, B. C.
Hon. C. E. Pooley (Director), Barrister and Capitalist, Victoria, B. C.
H. A. Alwyn, Western Superintendent Bank of Hamilton, Winnipeg, Man.
R. F. Taylor (Director), Manager Merchants' Bank, Victoria, B. C.
A. W. Bridgman, Capitalist and Broker, Victoria, B. C.
J. W. Speck, Accountant, Victoria, B. C.
W. Beresford Fox, Capitalist, Vancouver, B. C.
Wm. Loree, Manager Bank of Hamilton, Winnipeg, Man. •
R. C. McDonald, Broker, Capitalist and Alderman, Winnipeg, Man.
F. Colbourne, Hotelkeeper, Vancouver, B. C.
Capt. R. W. B. Eustace-Robertson, Wokingham, England.
Theo. M. Knappen (Manager and Secretary), Vancouver, B. C, formerly of Winnipeg, Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Ricardo Greenwood, Capitalist, Victoria, B. C.
Ewing Buchan, Manager Bank of Hamilton, Vancouver, B. C.
Fred F. Knappen, Broker, Vancouver, B. C, formerly of Minneapolis and Cincinnati.
Fred C. Grant, Accountant, Bank of Hamilton, Vancouver, B. C.
Marshall Manning, Inspector Merchants' Bank, Red Deer, Alta.
M. M. Taylor, Stenographer, Victoria, B. C.
We would call your attention to the number of bankers enrolled in our list of stockholders. Canadian bankers are well known for their extreme conservatism, and the
fact that thev are identified with our Company speaks volumes for the reliability of our
undertaking.
So
several subdivisions 01 the new terminal townsite are now on sale,
applications have been received.   When are vou going to get in?
ready /
COQUITLAM TERMINAL COMPANY, LTD.,
553 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C. Page 40
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We Can Supply  You
with a machine for making jvuh for cooking,
lighting and giving you hot water all over the
house night or day.   Please write
THE BRITISH GAS & LIGHT   CO.
Limited. Basement Winch Bldg., Vancouver.
ALPRED WILLIAMS
Construction   Engineer
Temporary Office
New Metropolitan Building
Hastings Street W. - Vancouver, B. C.
A. SCHUMACHER
Dealer in Clothing, Furnishings,
Sporting Goods
SUMAS
WASH.
E. W. A. Peter
Manufactures
Hig h - c 1 a s s
Chairs, Loose
Covers and Chesterfields. Repair work and
upholstering a specialty. Estimates furnished.
847 Davie Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Telephone Seymour 5827L
Phone 815
P. 0. Box 786
The City Brokerage
Real Estate, Timber
and   Fire   Insurance
A. T.   Abbey, Mgr.
1218 Douglas St. Vancouver, B.C.
Royal Bank
of Canada
Authorized Capital
Paid Up Capiial
Reserve Funds   -
Aggregate Assets
Head Offfce,
$10,000,000.00
- $(5,200,000.00
- $7,200,000.00
$102,800,000.00
Montreal
K. D. Simpson, Mgr.
LADNER, B.C.
90% OF DISEASE
originates in the stomach and is caused
by incorrect feeding. Health and beauty
depend on pure blood, which is the re--
suit of proper dieting.
My system removes the cause of disease and cures Obesity, Rheumatism,
Constipation, Anaemia, etc. Write for
terms giving full particulars of your
case.
Thos. IVfcCombie
(Late Bernan Macfadden Institute,) and of
Christians' School of Applied Food Chemisty.
1150  Harris St.    -    Vancouver.  B.  C.
W. S.
A. T
Lanning, Fawcett
W. H.
& Wilson Limited
Ladner's Leading
Department  Store
Furniture, Hardware, Groceries,
Dry Goods, Gents Furnishings, Boots and Shoes,
House Furnishings,
Draperies, etc.
The Pioneer Store
Special Attention  to  Country Trade
Freight Wharf                              Concert and
and Scales                                   Dance Hall
Delta
Hotel
1 niw "Mini 11 1    n 1 111    1 i;umLiir\jn' mwiicJW^
Best Wines, Liquors
and   Cigars
J. Johnson, Prop.
Ladner, B. C.
Everything
Modern                                              Phone 2 •
A. II. HARMAN
REAL ESTATE
1817 Broad St.     -     VICTORIA, B.C.
Phone 1918
\ 0. Box 247
Phone 178
T. J. Polley & Co.
Real Estate, Fire, Life and Accident Insurance, Plate Glass Insurance, Conveyancing:,
Notaries. Agents for Canadian Home Investment Co, and Commercial Loan and Trust Co.
Limited.
Chilliwack, B. C
THE IVSOLE ESTATE
Bounded by Marine Drive, Johnson
and Clere Roads. This property is being sold in 132x297 ft. blocks, it is
all clear and is quite dry, Just compare
the price of $2000 per block with surrounding property and notice the terms
JOHN  M. CHAPPELL
Room 2, 443 Pender St. Vancouver, B.C
Phone 4802 Kerrisdale Br.: Wilson Rd
If history or art interest you, go to
London, Paris and Rome, that's the past.
But if investment of money interests
you, come to the Great North, that's
the   future.
I have acre lots at Masset, Queen
Charlottle Island, for $200 1 hat will
make your fortune. City lots in Prince
Rupert, a city destined .0 rival Frisco.
Timber, Coal, Farm Lands. Write me,
then come.
CHAS. M. WILSON
Investment  Broker,  Alder  Blk,  Prince
Rupert, B. C, and Delkatlah, Queen
Charlotte  Islands
—North—
Vancouver
offers the safest and most profitable Real Estate Investments or
any new city in Canada.
Intending Investors please write
to us for further information,
particulars or price lists.
Ours is the oldest Incorporated
Company with headquarters in
North Vancouver.
Irwin & Billings Co.
Limited
Lonsdale Ave., Corner 5th Street
North Vancouver, B.C.
PLEASE   MENTION  OPPORTUNITIES   WHEN WRITING   TO   ADVERTISERS.      THANK   YOU!