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REAL ESTATE Vancouver, B. C.\nPOINT GREY and\nSOUTH VANCOUVER SPECIALISTS\n\u20ac[ During the past year we have sold 12 Subdivisions in Point Grey and South\nVancouver. We buy only the very choicest acreage and, as a result, have no\ndifficulty in selling.\nGRANVILLE TERMINUS\n\u20ac[ In July we offered this beautiful subdivision for sale. In one month we have\nsold two-thirds of it. This is a record for the quietest month in the year. We\nhave still for sale some of the very best lots. The name suggests the location.\nLet us show you its many advantages and, if your own judgment does not lead\nyou to invest, we are willing to hold for the profits that are sure to come.\nFARM LANDS\n\u20ac\u00a7 We own -some of the best farm lands in British Columbia which we will sell in\nparcels to suit purchasers. This land is in the Agassiz Valley, close to town and\nstation. Very easy terms to actual settlers who will improve the property.\nIF YOU HAVE ANYTHING REALLY GOOD\nIN ACREAGE, WE ARE OPEN TO BUY.\nLatimer, Ney & JVLc Tavish\nI\n419 Pender Street West\nVancouver, B. C.\nS\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS\n\/ Page 4]\nBSD- V\n$&&\u25a0'\u25a0\n\"BEA UTIFUL\nHAIR and\nArtistic A nanaement\n$\u25a0\ns-v\na Necessary adjunct to a\nComplete Toilet\nVERY WOMAN experiences a thrill of pride when she realizes the wonderful\nimprovement made in her appearance by the simple arrangement of the hair. The\nLadies of Vancouver may experience this joy by calling at our parlors and inspecting- our new shipment of the Luxuriant, REAL LIVE HAIR SWITCHES,\nPUFFS and CURLS in all natural shades and graduation of natural wave, at heretofore\nunheard of prices. If you live too far away for a personal visit to us, take advantage ot\nour mail order system, which is complete in every detail and through which you wTill\nreceive ihe most careful attention.\nq. We are recognized as the most exclusive HAIRDRESSING, SHAMPOOING,\nMASSAGE AND SCALP SPECIALISTS on the Pacific Coast. Our parlors are the\nmost up-to-date and best appointed in the Northwest, are light and airy, and under the\ndirect supervision of an expert, which, in a great measure, accounts for our large and evergrowing business.\n&\nIJ Electrolysis BY COMPETENT PERSONS. Superfluous hair, warts and other\nannoying facial defects removed for all time. Patrons are given the advantage of our\nmany years experience in this treatment and are attended to by the most competent and\nskilled operators.\nq Great Reductions are being offered in Combs, Pins and Barrettes. These are the latest\nimportations from Paris, very artistic and harmonize in every detail with the present mode\nof hairdressing. You should take advantage of the exceedingly low prices prevailing\nthroughout August. They are not likely to be so low again.\n^\nMADAME HUMPHREYS\nThe Largest, Most Up-to-date Establishment of its kind on the Pacific Coast\n723 Pender Street, W. the fairfield building VANCOUVER, B. C.\n^lione looo\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 19\/0)\nO P P O R T U N I T I 1-: S\nPusc 5\nT &\n% H N GALER, President A. C. FLUMERFELT, Chairman Board of Directors \u2022 W. L. GERMAINE, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Mgr. 4\n*\n4\u00bb\n*\nWrite us for B. C. FARMS AND FARM LANDS in p-acts of from 5 acres up.\n1 STOCK RANCHES FRUIT LANDS DAIRY FARMS\nI\nX NECHACCO VALLEY LANDS from 160 acres up. @ $7.50 per acre on easy term\n# !\t\nCOTTON BUILDING 2\u00a3 IJ 2 Hastings Street West\nGEO. D. TURNER, A. S. WILLIAMSON, Managers Real Estate and Lands Dept.\nI \"BRITISH ^AMERICAN TRUST CO. LTD. f\nf\nAll kinds of INSURANCE WRITTEN. &\n*\nX VANCOUVER, B. C. %\nI\nA. F. NICOLL, Manager Insurance Dept. 4\u00bb\n\u2666^\u2666HK^M^^^^^^'M^^M1 \u2022\u00a3\u2666*\u00a7> \u2022^\u2666S^\u00abJh&\u00bbJ\u00bb*$>*\u00ab\u00a7> *^^#^^^*^*<^\u00abi\u00bb^*\u00ab$\u00bb^\u00ab$\u00ab ^4nj\u00bb^\u00bb^\u00bb#\u00abH*\u00abH\u00bb\u00bbJ\u00ab#\u00abJ\u00bb^\u00abJ^^^\u00ab5^\u00abJ^\u00bb^*^,5^\nN. E. Lougheed PHONE 1506 W. J. Coates\nLOUGHEfcD & COATES\nGENERAL BROKERS\nREAL ESTATE I\nAND INSURANCE\nWe Specialize in South Vancouver and Burnaby\n633 Pender St., W,\nVANCOUVER, B. C,\n,.\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb. .\u2022..\u2022-\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\n\u25a0^\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022..\u2022\u2022.\u2022..\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022..\u2022..\u2022.,\nh\n.\u00ab..\u00bb.*j.\nJ. Christiansen\nP. O. Box 1531\nJ. F. Brandt\nWe have LARGE TRACTS of Land\nfor Colonization Purposes\n10 ACRE BLOCKS, TERMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS\nPrompt and Personal Attention Given to all Enquiries\nSole Agents for\nThe Grand Trunk Development Company, Limited\nFarm Lands, Timber Lands, Stock Ranches\nalong- the Grand Trunk Paeifie Railway\nThe Christiansen-Brandt Co.\nReal Estate and Insurance, City Property\nPRINCE RUPERT, BRITISH COLUMBIA\n\u00bb\u00a3\u00ab.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022->\u2022-.\u2022-<\n.\u00bb..\u00ab..\u00a3.\n\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022*i\u00bb\nFORT OEO\nTOWNJITE\nWe offer 1*^ Acres at the Same Price that adjoining 25 Foot Lots have been sold at\nTELEPHONE, 6466\n31Q HA^TiNQj St. FOiTER. & FliHER Vancouver, B. C.\nPort Moody\nOUR SPECIALTY\nFor over a year our attention has been devoted to PORT MOODY properties. Our unbounded faith in the\ntown made us enthusiastic.\nIn view of recent developments there\u2014full accounts of which appeared in the Vancouver papers\u2014we are more\nenthusiastic than ever. BUY IN PORT MOODY. SEE US.\nThe CANADIAN INVESTMENT CO., Ltd.\nBO Hastings St., W.\nPhono 27BO\nVancouver, B. C,\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS\n** Page 6)\nOPPORTUNITIES\nY)Q YOU REALIZE\nWhat the present phenomenal era of\nRAILWAY DEVELOPMENT\nthroughout Canada and British Columbia means to\nthis Province, to this CITY AND DISTRICT of\nNEW WESTMINSTER?\n\u2014Comprising* the cream of the Province, the whole of the rich Valley\nof the Lower Fraser.\nADDED to the two Transcontinental Railways we now have\u2014the C. P. R. and the\nGreat Northern\u2014it means within three or four years, two more\u2014THE CANADIAN\nNORTHERN, construction on which has begun at its Western Terminus, RIGHT\nOPPOSITE THIS CITY, and the GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC, which will have a\nline from Fort George, on the Upper Fraser, passing\" throug\"h the whole Fraser Valley to\nNew Westminster.\nq IT MEANS\u2014with the construction, too, of the B. C. ELECTRIC RAILWAY from\nthis City through the Lower Fraser Valley, now nearing completion\u2014the expenditure of\nMANY TENS OF MILLIONSOJELJDOfcLARS within the next few years.\n{J IT MEAJ^LSHrrre^iiiirnediate opening up, and making tributary to such centres as this,\nofjji\u00a3--w1ToTe vast Empire of British Columbia, with its perfectly incalculable wealth of\ntimber, minerals, fisheries^agricultural, dairying and fruit lands, water privileges and\nfrontages, natural opportunities of all kinds, and location and terminal advantages.\n\/\nq IT MEANS a vast and p-r-ofitable immediate home market for our products and all\nother markets brought to our veryBoors.\nq IT MEANS that NOW IS THE TIME for you to take steps to realize your share\nin this great harvest, soon to be garnered. We can help you to do so.\nf^3 NEW WESTMINSTER City and District Property a Specialty. Write or phone,\nstating the kind of property you prefer to invest in\u2014timber, city or district realty, water\nfrontage, improved farms or farming lands, dairying farms or fruit lands, suburban\nproperty\u2014and we will present for your consideration the best propositions going.\nHALE BROS. & KENNEDY\nLIMITED\n^eal Estate, Timbei and Insuzance\nOVER MERCHANTS BANK, COR. COLUMBIA AND BEGBIE STS.\nNEW WESTMINSTER, B. C.\nTELEPHONE 335\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS OPPORTUNITII\nVol. II.\nHUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C\u201e AUGUST, 1910.\nNo. 2\nVancouver Exhibition\nBy W. R. Usher\nLooking into the future with the same\neyes as James J. Hill, William Jennings\nBryan and scores of other world-famous\nvisitors to the City of Vancouver, B. C,\nduring the past few years, a little group\nof men, a year ago, mapped out a site\nwhereon would be held annual exhibitions showing the commercial and industrial greatness of the Liverpool of the\nPacific\u2014for such did many of these visitors style the city on Burrard Inlet.\nentered even more strenuously than at\nChicago into business hub-bub. Relief\nfrom the dust and noise of street could\nbe sought only in hotel or restaurant.\nWhat a different view, what different\nsurroundings, will greet the visitor who\ncomes to Vancouver in August to attend,\nnot as yet a World's Pair, but an exhibition worthy in its beginning even of the\ncoming centre of Pacific Coast commercial and industrial life and of the vast\nboth electric and steam railway and by\nwater. But its appearance this year, in\nits birth, will be as nothing compared to\nthe changes it will undergo before next\nyear, when the forty acres, set aside for\nbuildings\u2014there are twenty acres of\nnatural park\u2014are sown well to grass,\nwhen the art of the gardener is given\ntime to show, and when other buildings,\nyet more imposing and substantial, are\nerected. Gradually, and without doubt,\nWhen, on August 16, Canada's Premier,\nSir Wilfrid Laurier, formally opens the\nfirst Vancouver Exhibition, the initial\nreward of the planning and labor of these\nmen has come.\nHuman plaining could scarcely have\nchosen better in the location of site for\nsuch an exhibition. Chicago's great\nWorld's Fair in 1893 was located on the\nshores of Lake Michigan, in the midst of\na huge and green-appealing park to which\ningenuity added sparkling fountains and\nartificial lagoons, but there was but the\nplainest of flat backgrounds. Just without the exposition's gate one entered into\nthe turmoil of business and every-day\nlife. St. Louis' World's Fair of 1904 was\nnot even so well located, but the additional beauty devised by man in landscaping and building made it in some\nways more beautiful. Outside its gates,\nhowever, the visitor, tired of sight-seeing\nARROW LAKE PRODUCTS.\nprovince of British Columbia itself. Vancouver's fair site has been plucked from\nthe virgin forests, sloping down to the\ngreen of the sea, standing out boldly\nconscious of the protection of the snowcapped mountains-r-its\" ^background on\nthe one, fyanG,' bTjA'tsie, invSiJjfrfg green of\nwoods car the otfye?,. Through* its\/gf ounds\nand over its visSto'rs blows the untainted\nbreeze of a new, coimtEy, frosjily and*syieet.\nNb neeij. ^neJ\u00ae to face^ %ok J^Undyxg beaCof '\nwhite pavements\u2014even were such heat\ntypical of the country\u2014the green of a\nnatural park, part of the exhibition\ngrounds awaits the visitor by day, and\nat night there is no stepping out into\nbusiness life, but into more green of\ntrees, and so, gradually, back into the\ncity.\nThe spot is admittedly ideal from the\nstandpoint of beauty and transportation facilities, as it can be reached by\nthe Vancouver annual exhibition will be\nturned some day into a Canadian National Exhibition, and thence into a World's\nFair. For Vancouver, in the plainest of\nunvarnished facts, is the meeting-place\nof the greatest lines of steel rails on this\ncontinent and of the steamship lines of\nthe world. At its port already touch\nsteamship and windjammer from every\nport of consequence on the globe, and\nfrom it go out to the world's centres\nships laden with the products of fertile\nBritish Columbia and Canada.\nThe exhibition is to open to the public\nAugust 15, and continue until August 20.\nThis year the grounds will contain a\nmagnificent Industrial Hall, Machinery\nBuilding, dog-show kennels, stock and cattle barns, sheep and pig pens, an administration building, band-stands and all the\nlesser appurtenances necessary for such\nan affair. And what was said about the Page 8]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\nconstruction of more buildings next year\nis borne out by the fact that entries for\nthis year's fair have been more numerous than can be taken care of properly.\nThey have come from all parts of Canada and the Northwest states. There\nwill be shown the best of Canada's stock\nand cattle, the best of her agricultural\nproducts, the best of her mineral and\nother natural resources, the best of the\nhas the backing of unlimited opportunities\nand resources, that she numbers among\nher own citizens some of the most far-\nsighted and capable men of any nation,\nthat she is democratic in view and is\nseeking to build up the entire western\ncountry as well as her own, to promote\npractical and scientific husbandry in all\nits branches, to disseminate the best of\nmechanical and scientific knowledge, en-\nm.i*^%0tofj#mtM\ni MB?! HIISJ1 PSPif J PSW^ j ]\niS\nINDUSTRIAL HALL, VANCOUVER EXHIBITION\nproduct of her factories and mills. Poultry, the ever-growing and important industry of Canada, will be fully represented. And in Vancouver will convene\nthe farmers of Alberta and the poultry-\nbreeders of British Columbia\u2014an object\nlesson of the increasing prominence of\nthis western metropolis.\nApart from the more serious nature\nand value of the exhibition will be a\nwell-handled and provided for amusement\nend. The fair grounds are at present\nblessed with one of the best and fastest\nrace-tracks in Canada, and on this will\nbe held daily matinees, trotting and pace\nraces\u2014and all devoid of the curse of the\nordinary track\u2014betting. There are to\nbe many other amusement concessions,\nand four bands will hold forth on the\ngrounds.\nThat the energy of the exhibition's promoters has been appreciated and that\nthe value of the fair has been taken into\ncareful consideration is seen from the\nfact that $30,000 in prizes has been raised\nfor exhibits and races, in addition to\nwhich prominent men and firms from\nvarious portions of Canada have contributed special premiums.\nThis, in brief, is the nature of the first\nbroad exhibition to be given by Vancouver to demonstrate to the world that she\nThe only gilt-edged, commercial Oil\nproposition on the market, Amalgamated\nDevelopment Company, page 39.\ncourage the cultivation of the beautiful\nin nature and art, promote trade and\ncommerce, and develop the rich mineral,\nfishing and lumbering resources of the\ncountry.\nIn the years to come, when the slopes\nof the mountains across the Burrard Inlet are peopled thickly, and when the\nhomes and factories of Vancouver have\nreached wide tentacles out into all the\nsurrounding country of the province, her\ncitizens will have cause for nothing but\npride when they recall the holding of the\nfirst exhibition. Then, as now, she will\nhold open wide arms of welcome to the\nbest settlers in the unselfish idea of\nbuilding up a happy and prosperous\nworld, in the furtherance of the arguments for world-wide peace advanced by\nex-President Roosevelt and other noted\nmen of \"\u00a3h;eJ\u00ab present day\u201e* \u201e\u2022 \u2022 * . *\nMr.\" ;J\\ -Miller is *t\\& rpresidefht; of' the\nExhibition Association**Mr. E. J.\" Clark,\ntreasurer^ and M\u00bb.- James- JEtoy,. manager. ,\n'The* foifowinjl * wfere*. selected! as ictirec-*;\ntors to have charge of the various departments :\nSpeed\u2014H. S. Rolston, J. B. Tiffin and\nRobert Kelly.\nBreeding Classes\u2014H. S. Rolston and\nW. S. Holland.\nHarness and Hunting\u2014W. Dalton and\nW. S. Holland.\nDogs\u2014F. W. Welsh.\nPoultry and Pet Stock\u2014J. R. Seymour.\nMachinery\u2014Alderman McTaggart.\nDairy Produce and Honey\u2014J. T. Little.\nAgricultural Products\u2014J. J. Miller.\nCattle\u2014J. T. Walker and W. Dalton.\nEducational\u2014Professor Odium.\nFloriculture\u2014J. J. Miller and Thomas\nA. Prentice.\nGrounds and Buildings\u2014Thomas Bell\nand E. J. Clark.\nWomen's Work\u2014Professor Odium.\nAttractions\u2014E. S. Knowlton.\nConcessions\u2014E. S. Knowlton and H.\nS. Rolston.\nBANK OF VANCOUVER.\nOn Saturday, July 30th, an unique\nevent in the annals of financial history\ntranspired in Vancouver. On that, day\nthe Bank of Vancouver opened its doors\nfor business for the first time. The new\noffice is ideally located, being situated\nat the corner of Hastings and Cambie\nstreets. \"For British Columbia, first,\nlast and all the time,\" is the motto of the\nBank of Vancouver. Under the management of Mr. A. L. Dewar, backed by\na strong board of directors, the success\nof this institution is assured.\nA glance at the directors' list below\nwill show how true the foregoing is:\nR. P. McLennan, Esq., president McLennan, McFeely & Co., wholesale hardware, Vancouver, B. C.\nM. B. Carlin, Esq., vice-president; capitalist, Victoria, B. C.\nHis Honor T. W. Paterson, Lieutenant-\nGovernor of British Columbia.\nL. W. Shatford, Esq., M.L.A., Merchant,\nHedley, B. C.\nW. H. Malkin, Esq., the W. H. Malkin\nCo., Ltd., wholesale grocers, Vancouver,\nB. C.\nH. L. Jenkins, Esq., president H. L.\nJenkins Lumber Co., Seattle, Washington,\npresident Vancouver Timber & Trading\nCo., Ltd., Vancouver, B. C.\nJ. A. Mitchell, Lsq., capitalist, Victoria,\nB. C.\nE. H. Heaps, Esq., E. H. Heaps & Co.,\nLumber and Timber; president Columbia\nTrust Co., Ltd., Vancouver, B. C.\nJ. A. Harvey, Esq., K.C., formerly of\nCranbrook, B. C, Vancouver, B. C.\nMr. Dewar will be general manager,\nand his assistant will be Mr. F. Dallas,\nformerly of the Dominion Bank, Toronto.\nThe bank got its charter on March 18,\nand immediately set about the securing\nof premises, and in this they have been\nsingularly fortunate.\nThe bank, on its bills, will advertise\nBritish Columbia. On the backs of the\nbills will be a picture of the Parliament\nBuildings, Victoria. The five-dollar bills\nwill have on the front a view of Vancouver harbor. The ten-dollar bills will show\na timber cutting scene.\nShipped 7 miles of pipe to Katalla\nOil Fields\u2014Amalgamated Development\nCompany. See page 39. 1910}\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 9\nBritish Columbia as a Truit Country\nProduction Increasing with Great Jfapiditp\nThat the prospects are that the province will derive a return, multiplied at\nleast three times over that of any previous year, from this source of wealth, is\nthe statement in a few words of R. M.\nPalmer, formerly of the department of\nagriculture and one of the best authorities in the province. The movement of\nthe fruit crops from the orchards of\nBritish Columbia is well under way.\nEarly varieties of peaches are being shipped, and plums, cherries and apples are\nbeing sent to the markets.\nAt the present time Mr. Palmer is interested in an enterprise which has for\nits object the conversion of six thousand\nacres of sterile land, on the west side of\ntne Thompson river, opposite Kamloops,\ninto a fruit-raising proposition. \"We\nare,\" said he to an interviewer, \"engaged\nnow in building an irrigation canal and\nthe work will be advanced as fast as conditions will permit. When the irrigation\nis available the land will be subdivided\nfor fruit holdings and a considerable\nacreage will be planted, designed especially for Old Country investors, who\nlike to find their holdings developed for\nthem. The Canadian Northern railway\nwill pass through this property, so that\nshippers of fruit will have the advantage\nof choice between two lines of transportation.\"\n\"The prospects for the fruit crop this\nyear,\" said Mr. Palmer, \"are excellent.\nThe peach crop is well advanced and early\nvarieties are being shipped. The quality\nis first rate and the shipping facilities\nare better this year than they have ever\nbeen before. The Okanagan Fruit Exchange is systematically pushing the sale\nof British Columbia fruit in the Northwest and individual firms like Stirling &\nPitcairn, of Kelowna, are also actively\nengaged in packing and shipping.\nThe crop is being well taken\ncare of and well distributed. It\nis estimated that the product will total\nabout sixty cars of peaches this year.\nIn comparison with other seasons this is\nremarkable. We have never had anything like it before. The bulk of the\nshipments will go from the Summerland\ndistricts, while large contributions will\nbe made from Peachland, Penticton and\nKelowna. To a great extent the increase\nis accounted for by the large acreage of\nyoung orchards which are bearing their\nfirst crop.\n\"Early apples are also commencing to\nmove. Also some varieties of plums.\nEverything indicates that the crop of\napples will be of an unusually good\nquality and well colored. Of course, our\nsuccess with the crop depends a good\ndeal on the condition of the Northwest\nmarket, but there is a wide field in which\nto market the crop.\n\"Vancouver Island has commenced to\nship, the Olivets and yellow cherries\nbeing particularly noticeable from there.\nThere is an active demand for this class\npeach exports will run anywhere from\n75,000 to 100,000 crates, by far the biggest output yet. One reason for this is\nthat last year the peach crop suffered\nbadly from frost, and this year, of course,\nmore trees are in bearing than ever before.\nThe Okanagan fruit crop is only just\nPEAPS\u2014R.JtT PALMERS ^ORCHARD, VICTORIA, B.C.\nof fruit. These cherries go iorward by\nexpress.? 8 Tbjey' aiie marketed iit.\"STiotorjaA\nVancouver! and cth,\u20ac*r loca*U markets; as\nwell as in the prairie country.\"\nTaking the fruit crop as a whole, Mr.\nPalmer said it will be three times greater\nthan in any previous year, and the returns to the orchardists will run into\nvery large figures.\nReports received by Inspector Cunningham from the Okanagan Valley show\nthat a splendid fruit crop will be picked\nthere this year. It is- estimated that the\nbeginning to come in and will not be at\nits .fullest for several weeks yet. The\npeaches are said to be far superior in\nquality to those imported from California, and those who wish to use them\nfor preserving purposes are advised to\nwait a little longer. It is predicted that\nthis year will show that the Okanagan\nis coming into its own as a rival of the\nWenatchee, Hood valley and other great\nfruit-growing centres of the Pacific\nNorthwest.\n201075 Page 10]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\nThe Great Northern railway has issued instructions to Its Kaslo agent to\noolleot specimens of Kaslo's fruit for Its\npermanent exhibitions. Heretofore these\nexhibitions have been confined to St.\nPaul and Chicago only, but the railway is\nextending Its scope and Intends placing\nsuch exhibits in New York, Pittsburg,\nBoston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Kansas City, St. Louis and Seattle. The\nfruit collected at Kaslo will be forwarded\nby express to W. J. Wessels in Spokane,\nwho will put it through a process which\npreserves the fruit and makes it appear\nas fresh aB when picked, If received in\ngood condition.\ninent of agriculture at the recent Winnipeg exhibition, appeared as follows:\n\"British Columbia is well to the front\nwith its magnificent display of fruit, the\nPacific Province being wide awake to\nthe great possibilities of fruit culture.\nIt is easily seen from the specimens\nshown that great strides have been taken\nby the fruit-growers of British Columbia\nduring the last few years In the selection\nof varieties and In the grading and packing. No one can examine the Btand\nclosely without being impressed with the\nadvance made in this department. There\nIs an increasing demand for fruit; every\nyear the prairie provinces are absorbing\nand currants are shown. There is also\na large section of the stand given over\nto bottled and preserved fruits. These\nare in excellent condition and are tastefully arranged, giving the visitor to the\nshow some idea of the size of the fruit\ntue most western province can produce\n\"The fruit industry of the province is\nstill only in its infancy, though a robust\none; there is every likelihood that in\nthe near future instead of shipping eight\nor ten thousand tons of fruit away, she\nwill be shipping double that quantity.\nWith Improved facilities for shipment,\nand with possibilities of lower freight\nrates, the future for British Columbia\ns+\n\u25a0jf\nft\nis\n\\A.\nPPM!\nsir *<-. %\nrrmM^mm\n\u00bbwm\nm\nm\niitffJW*-'\nm\nm\n^fit-\n*j\u00bb\u00abi vwflSW\nffi&rrcaa\n-0Y\u00ab\n\u25a0at\n1\u00bbH2\n6JB\nm\nMMm\nsa\n\u2022\u00bb\n'**\/*+*\u00bb\nI\n\u00ab*\u00bb!*$$\nr*?M\nr'M'^T'^f'\"^\n8*55$\n3sfe\nam\nl \u00ab>,!.\u25a0 ;l\nw\n$8$\nKste\nBl\ni^\nray\nIffiH\n>**F\nfiWSttjap\nf(wfyrite\u00a3l)t\\\n\"-wi\nJames Drummond, manager of the Victoria Fruit Growers' Exchange, says:\n\"We have been shipping a large quantity of fruit to the prairies this yoat, jMifc'\noannot get anything like enough to*'su$>\u00ab\nply the market, i? We have handled between fifteen and twenty thousand orates\nof berrleB alone at an average price of\n$2.00 a orate. During the month of June\nwe turned over $:t 5,000 for berries. This\nis some indication of the amount of fruit\nwhich is being marketed.\nIn the Winnipeg Free Press of Friday,\nJuly 15, a eulogistic reference to the fruit\nexhibit shown by the provincial depart-\nAN ORC11 aki) NEAR NELSON, B. C.\n'gpeatiet dirantlties,* .and .the Old Country\n\/\\ ill ;11 ways rejpiiiv big\" .'.supplies.\n\"With these* \u00bbf acts in'ijiew British Columbia is oarfylng out. a sound business\ni'ioi i\u00ab\u2022\u25a0 y i,u* attending isafefa iiy to. the selection \" of\" \u2022 those v \u00ab h<.'i.k>s \" of fruit which\nhave passed the best tests, and also by\nimproving the grading and packing for\nlong distance shipment.\n\"The exhibits of cherries are a really\nfine, well-grown lot, and are most attractively set out, the town of Nelson sending some very choice specimens which\nwould do oredit to any district. The\nsmall fruits are fairly well represented;\nstrawberries, raspberries, gooseberries\nfruit growers is indeed rosy. The climate is most suitable for the purpose and\nthe Industry has now passed the initial\nstage and Is entering upon a bold attempt\nto place Itself In a flrst>class position, inferior to that of none as a fruit growing\ncountry.\nThat this province is quite capable of\nproducing some of the finest fruits in\nthe world is readily shown by the position her fruits occupy when brought into\ncompetition with those from other countries. There is the greatest credit due\nto those officials of the province who\nare responsible for the stand. It is well\nlaid out and a credit to them.\" 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 11\nBritish Investors and Tarm Lands\n(By R. Thompson Tinn.)\nThe \u2022 emigration returns show year by\nyear a rapidly increasing number of\nBritish emigrants making for different\npoints in Canada. British Columbia is\ngetting its quota and as it becomes better known it is becoming increasingly\npopular.\nApart from the attractions in the unrivalled fields of sport, and the beautiful\nwoodland, lake and mountain scenery of\nBritish Columbia, there is another great\nattraction that lies in the temperate \u2022 climate, which is suitable in every way\nto natives of Great Britain.\nThere are thousands of men in the old\ncountry who have the desire to come\nout here and take up small farms but\nwho hesitate to take the first step because they have not enough definite information.\nFirst they want some1 sort of assurance\nthat the undertaking will be sufficiently\nremunerative to provide not only the\nnecessaries of life but a little extra\nfor the luxuries too. Then there are\nso many kinds of farming and so many\ndifferent methods chosen by novices that\nthe intending emigrant allows the\nstrength of his intention* to evaporate\namidst the maze of difficulties that arise\nwhen he gives thought to the question.\nSmall Holdings Preferable.\nIn this article and the article\u00ae that follow, the writer intends to deal with all\nphases of farming, but first it is advisable to give attention to the particular phase of farm life which in British\nColumbia is the most in favor among\nnew settlers of a certain class and which\nin the opinion of the writer, is the most\nsuitable form of farming for men and\nwomen coming from large industrial centers in Great Britain.\nThe small five or ten acre holding near\nsome business and social center is the\nform of farming we allude to and the\nclass of people we are considering are\nthose with small capital..\nThere are men who can come out to\nCanada and take up homesteads in the\nNorthwest, miles away from even a\nneighbor, much less a town and who possess the pioneer spirit to such degree\nthat they become contented and often\nhappy in the lonely, solitary life led\nby the pioneer farmer. But few such\nmen are bred in and near the great cities\nin the old country. And quite the majority of British emigrants are city bred\npeople.\nProfit and Satisfaction.\nA substantial income can be got from\nfive acres of good land and that five acres\nis near a town where at least some of\nthe phase\u00ae of city life are to be found,\nwhere the probability is that the new\nsettler will be more satisfied with the\ngreat change from his former life and\nsooner learn to love the land of his\nadoption, and more easily and stronger\nwill the love grow if he locates in so\nbeautiful a province as British Columbia.\nIt is possible now to buy five or ten\nmers. With ordinary foresight and care\none man can by his own labor care for\nand develop to the utmost five acres\nof land, carrying say, potatoes, cabbages\nand small fruits, but when he exceeds\nthis area he has to calculate on the coat of\nlabor and the difficulty of securing it.\nThe novice has plenty of difficulties to\novercome without including that of la-\nJ. J. CAMPBELL'S TEAM, NELSON, B. C.\nacre tracts near towns, which though\nsmall at present will most probably in\nthe future become large cities. In the\nevent of a city extending its borders\nyear after year the land adjoining inevitably rises in value, for the simple\nreason that the demand from the increasing population exceeds the supply of\nland. Thus many small farms near growing cities will in the future become very\nvaluable. We could cite many cases\nwhere small fortunes have accrued to\nthe owners of five acre tracts because\nof the rapid growth of the nearest city,\nwhich at first may have been say seven\nmiles distant, and has grown until now\nits suburban borders hem the farmstead\nall round.\nWe do not mention this as a sine qua\nnon in the purchase of a small homestead, but it is a factor which from a\npurely business point of view ought to\nbe considered.\nThe Labor Problem.\nLabor is also a point which should be\nweighed carefully by all intending far-\nbor in his category, so as a beginning he\nwould be wise to confine himself to an\narea he can manage by his own efforts\nand those of his family if he has one.\nIt is hardly necessary to point out\nthat five acre tracts are not used for\ngrain growing. They generally make\nsmall mixed farms, which the the safest\nfor the small capitalists and also the\nmost interesting and instructive.\nIn subsequent articles we shall enter\ninto the question of returns and revenues\nderived from different products. We\nshall finish this article with a few remarks concerning the initial steps which\nare advisable before the intending emigrant decides on the point of his possible location and the amount of capital\nQuestion of Agents.\nThere are agents at all points in Bri-\nto sell farm lands of all sizes and many\nof these agents have already done satisfactory business for people from all\nparts of Great Britain. Therefore, if the\ninvestor desires he can often get British\nreferences and many even get references\nin the locality where he lives. Through Page 14]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\nBritish Columbia, is potentially the\ntheme of many a moving tale. It is\na spice of the Orient in our Occidental\nliterature which is being overlooked. As\na magazine editor I have often wondered\nwhy this fruitful field has not been tilled.\nSomeone will say: 'What's the use?\nKipling wrote about the East. Why not\nleave well alone?' The answer is that\nthis is a bit of the East transplanted\u2014\nthe brooding East thrown by the scruff\nof the neck into the bustling West\u2014making its destiny under difficult and hostile\nconditions. It figures out in new complications that Kipling never dreamed of.\nfor being of the yellow man in British\nColumbia. Therefore, put him into short\nstories before circumstances push him\noff this part of the map.\n\"Talking of yellow reminds me of that\nother rainbow, color\u2014red. You have the\nIndian still with you. He seems to me\nshiftless\u2014somewhat dirty, too\u2014but he\nis to be prized for similar reasons. The\npotlach, they tell me, is a thing of the\npast. Totem poles are few and far between. When Chief Matthias wants to\nput on his war paint to welcome that\nother great chieftain, Laurier, objections\narise. The day approaches when the\nthe dry belt the other day. Mine host\ntold me he was an Oxford man who had\nlost caste and didn't care to do much\nof anything now except fish, eat and\nsleep. I am afraid his end is in sight.\nIf he goes any further west he will have\nto wade the Pacific ocean. Meanwhile\nthe storytellers of British Columbia have\na chance to take one last crack at him.\n\"I would like to say something about\nthe prospectors\u2014the gaunt, stubble-\nfaced, dream-eyed fellows who drift up\nand down this coast in search of gold.\nI do not wonder they seek for gold\nwhen there is so much of it in the sun-\nMl\n^^\u00a3:\u00a3&\u00a3?\u00a5\u00ab^\u00a3\nm3m\n3*?^*b\u00abK\nSTRAWBERRY PATCH IN THE FIRE VALLEY'B. C.\n1 \u2022 T\u00abS\u00bb*\nLet all the word-painters and sociologists\nand rubber-necking tourists, who take\nYim Boy dinners in Chinatown, and try\nto get a peep at something like the\n'Gate of a Hundred Sorrows,' get busy.\nIf any politician carps at my opinions let\nhim remember that I am simply viewing\nthe yellow man as literary material. He\nlooks upon him as a peril, and he may\nbe right. But until he finds out what\nto do with him let us make the best\nof him in our kitchens, sawmills, fruit\norchards, canneries and other humble\ntasks a white man spurns. This is not\na profound statement of policy. I simply offer it as a modus Vivendi, a reason\nSquamish reserve across the inlet, will\nbe cut up into town lots. What will\nthe Indian\u2014I speak of the Vancouver\nIndian\u2014do then, poor thing? What can\nhe do but become humdrum and civilized? I tell all the authoresses here\ncongregated\u2014and I know there are some\npresent\u2014not to forget the Indian. Use\nhim while he lasts. The East would\nlike to read more about him.\n\"Another fading touch of color is the\nlotus-eating Englishman, the remittance man. The work-a-day spirit nas\nshoved him out of the middle west. He\nseems to have crossed the Rocky mountains. I saw one of him at Savonas in\nshine of this glorious land. When one\nbreathes it in the very air it stands\nto reason that it must exist elsewhere\nin more solid form. The prospector is\nalways on the brink of a great secret.\nHe is going to find the mother lode\nor the father mountain\u2014at all events\nthe source from which all metalliferous\nblessings flow. The canyons beckon\nhim to follow them up. The little creeks\nand rivers, with gold in their beds, say,\n'Come along.' Why, someone asks, does\na mountain stream hide gold in its bed?\nWhy does any traveller put his money\nunder his pillow? It is the prospector's\nbusiness to puzzle out the tricks of the 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 15\nmountains and rivers\u2014where they hide\ntheir money. Are you surprised that he\nspends a lot of his idle time drinking bad\nwhiskey? It helps guessing. He is very\nmuch like a man I knew who said he\ncould never understand Revelations unless he had a quart of Scotch in him.\nThe prospector waits for a revelation all\nthe time. He is full of good stories.\nSomebody ought to tap him.\n\"The fisherman and the sailor are at\nyour hand, waiting to be written up.\nThere are all sorts of missions to take\ncare of him and to make him better.\nI speak from a selfish point of view\nwhen I say that there ought to be another mission to raise him to the realm\nof best sellers. Rex Beach has done\nsomething with the salmon industry but\nhe has touched only the fringe of it.\nThe water-front of Vancouver alone is\nthree miles of inexhaustible fiction. The\nlogger and the miner must not be left\nout of the count in the sum of human\ninterest. They are right at hand too\u2014\nit's no trouble to reach them.\n\"I pass now from the human integers\nin the British Columbia color scheme\u2014\nof whom I have mentioned only a few\u2014\nto the great backgrounds nature offers\nto the story teller in this blest province. Going back to my clue words I\nfind 'Douglas fir.' Douglas fir will work\nup into as many paragraphs for the\neditor as a log of it will into'boards for\nthe saw mills. Meanwhile it is enough\nto say that it makes your forests look\nlike Gothic cathedrals. Never was a\ntree of such straight, clean upstanding t\ntowering splendor. Such a tree must\nhave mountains to countenance it. That\nis the reason why it grows in British\nColumbia. Anywhere else it would dwarf\nthe surroundings and make man feel\nsmaller than he really is. The Douglas\nfir is big and strong, from the bigness\nand strength of a province that has\nmore and more varied natural resources\nthan any one of the other eight in the\nDominion of Canada. It looks grand anyway you take it. Even the stumps of it,\npiled up into great pyramids by those\nPharohs of real estate who make town\nlots out of the wilderness impress and\nawe the eye. What a Gargantuan bonfire\nthey must make. Is one of them to be\ntouched off before I leave Vancouver?\nTo come to the figures I should like\nvery much to assist at a stump fire that\nmeans three hundred dollars an acre to\nclear. I know a New York newspaper\nman who came all the way across the\ncontinent to see Vancouver and found\nhis feature story in these very stump\npiles.\n\"Ranging as far north as Prince Rupert I seem to find British Columbia\ndivided into two great parts\u2014the north\nor silver land, the south or golden land.\nThe warm Japanese current\u2014another result 1 suppose of the Anglo-Japanese al\nliance\u2014mingles with the cold waters\ncoming down from the north, turning all\nabove certain latitudes into mist and\nfog and rain. Through this moist curtain the sun shines like a silver shield.\nI talk now of summer. The valleys hold\nvapors as luminous as the fire Rider\nHaggard's She bathed in. The mountains\nwrap themselves in white scarfs, the\nalbs and surplices of the Almighty. The\neagle likes this chill air. But south,\nwhere Vancouver lies, is the land of sunshine, God's country, where even the\ntrees seem to be glad that they are living. What a riot of flower and fern.\nLet the eagle have the north or any\nwho cares to perch high. I am for the\nSouth. I am told, however, that it rains\nsometimes in Vancouver. I cannot believe\nit.\n\"Having suggested a theme for the\npoets I come to the greatest natural\nbeauty of all\u2014the beauty that is to\nbe a joy forever after all the timber\nis cut and there isn't enough left standing to make scenery\u2014I mean the mountains. Over on the plains they will tell\nyou that all the mountains in British\nColumbia were made just to serve as a\ndam for their wheat-fields, to keep the\nPacific Ocean out and give Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba a chance to be\nthe granary of the empire. Another theory is that their tallness and bigness was\nset up as an antidote to the flatness of\nnine hundred miles of prairie. People in\nobservation cars are inclined to credit\nthis. At any rate they heave a great\nsigh of relief when the Rockies loom\nup on the horizon. Still another theory\nis that the C. P. R., a very powerful\nrailway corporation of which you must\nhave heard, put the mountains there first,\nas a background to their summer hotels,\nand then built the railway afterwards.\nBut this seems absurd. Surely the railway would have been built first and the\nmountains have been moved in afterwards if the company had wanted to\nsave money. Even a government subsidy\ncould not excuse such extravagance.\nWell, just leave the mountains to Providence, which is, after all, the only reas^\nonable explanation.\n\"British Columbia is full of highly\nsuccessful mountains up and down and\nvalleys in between. There are all kinds\nof mountains, tall stately mountains,\nwith snow on their heads like grandes\ndames at a bal poudre, little mountains\nwith baldish heads as if they had lost\ntheir hair through typhoid fever; lazy\nsprawling giants of mountains turned\nover on their backs, having their feet\nwashed in the warm water, mountains\u2014\nBut what's the use of cataloging? Any\none of 'em little or big is high enough\nto overtop the price of town lots in\nCalgary or Vancouver or Prince Rupert,\nand in Prince Rupert the town lots are\nso high that your next neighbor uphill can overlook your faults. That\nwill give you an idea how high the smallest of British Columbia mountains is.\n\"We have no mountains like these in\nOntario. Hamilton, Ont., has a hill which\nToronto regards as vaulting ambition,\noverleaping itself at about 1,500 feet.\nAt Ottawa we get a peep of the Lauren-\ntides across the river. The Laurentides\nare the oldest hills in the world. It\nseems to me old age has wizened them.\nNone of them thinks of going higher than\n2,000 feet. They don't compare with the\nBritish Columbia mountains, where\n4,500 feet is just a starter. What would\nDavid have said if he had seen these\nmountains? There isn't a mountain in\nPalestine that would be a patch on the\nleast of these, and yet David lifted his\neyes to them and got strength that has\npassed down the ages in some of the\nmost beautiful words ever penned. What\nshouldn't a British Columbia poet be\nable to do with an inspiration so much\nbigger? There are poets in British Columbia. I have heard at times sweet\nvoices singing in the wilderness. I have\neven had some of their songs under my\neyes. But, alas, it is not my passion\nto buy poetry. I hope all the same some\nof these scattered notes will swell into\na grand chorus. The mountains will be\nexcuse for it all. I should not be surprised if the great Canadian epic,\nif the great Canadian play, likewise the\ngreat Canadian novel, came out of British\nColumbia.\n\"The mountains of British Columbia\nexist not only as an inspiration to\npoets and story writers, but to mountain climbers as well. Thousands of untrodden peaks wait to be challenged. The\nonly reason they haven't broken as many\nnecks as Mount Blanc is that they\nhaven't had the people to do it with.\nThe Alpine Club of Canada makes haste\nto remedy this grievance. Its object is\nto make the mountains cheap and accessible to students, clergymen, school\nteachers, clerks and others who like to\ntake their vacation that way. At present the mountains are rather dear\u2014\nonly to be reached with ease by fat\nmillionaires, who want to climb nothing\nharder than a hotel elevator. I am with\nthe Alpine Club in any movement to\nmake the mountains of British Columbia\nat least as free as the rarified air around\ntheir summits. The Alpine Club might\ngo further. It should start a university\nextension movement, a short course, a\ncorrespondence school in mountains. It\nshould issue illustrated text books, explaining what a chimney is, a snow wall,\na crevasse, a saddle, and so forth and so\non. How else is the beginner to get the\nterminology of the thing? After that,\nthey might classify mountains into freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior mountains, with a list of the stiff post-graduate monsters only to be tackled by\nseasoned veterans. Vancouver has a HSi\nPage 16]\nmountain-climbing club. May it flourish\nlike a green bay tree. Mountain climbing is a good sport for men and women-\nIt strengthens the muscles, stiffens the\nback, clears the eye and braces the courage. A stout alpenstock and a stout\nheart will carry one a long way. When\nthere is so much climbing to be done in\nsociety, mountain climbing ought to be\ngood practice for the harder work done\ndown here on the level. Let the ladies\nclimb mountains, too. It enhances the\ncharms of face and figure, with which\nthis city is so bountifully endowed. There\nis more than joking in this talk about\nmountains. Many of them are highly\nmineralized. The prospector ranges mostly\nabove the tree limit. He pays little attention to what is below among the trees\nand brush. What is to prevent a party\nof amateur climbers stumbling across a\nmineral treasure the prospector has overlooked? There are plenty of mountins\naround Vancouver. Their presence suggests that they were put there for Vancouver people to climb them. What's\nthe gocd of having a mountain in your\nbackyard unless you use it?\n\"Don't mistake my meaning if I have\nspoken of British Columbia as a great\ntreasure house of local color. I have\ntreated it as food for literature, because\u2014well, because it's in my line. It's\nshop talk, and I hate to see a splendid opportunity being neglected. I hope\nI have said enough to make everybody\nin British Columbia with a writing itch\n'go to it.' All this local color may be\nhad for stretching out a hand. It exists cheek by jowl with a high state of\nculture and civilization, which makes it\nall the more piquant.\n\"I could have dwelt on the more material aspects of British Columbia, but\nI leave that to more serious persons who\ncan pound the pulpit better than I can.\nIt may be that in my bushel of chaff you\nwill find a grain or two of common sense\nwhich will bear fruit.\nAn after-thought suggests itself 1o\nme. I have been talking of British Columbia as food for literature. What about\nfood for the stomach? I hear that British Columbia brings all her hogs in\nfrom the United States, all her mutton\nfrom Australia, all her butter from somewhere else. This land flows with milk\nand honey, but so far there is no agriculture to speak of. Fruit farms and\nother fancy touches, yes. But butter,\neggs, milk, no. The permanent basis of\nprosperity is mixed farming. Isn't it\nabout time to get around to the useful\nthings? The farmers should farm, not\nwait around until their land is cut up\ninto town lots. While they wait until\nthe real estate ship comes in somebody\nelse skims a handsome profit which\nshould be staying right here at home.\nThe Women's Canadian Club can help,\ntoo. There is nothing your globe-trotter\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910 1\n\u25a0 HISS wBmm\nVB\n\u00bbM\niSlPl\nAPPLE ORCHARD NEAR NELSON, B.C.\nlikes so much as sampling the native\ndishes and products of the soil. For instance, in Boston you ask for baked\nbeans, in Rhode Island for turkey, in\nNewfoundland for codfish, and so on.\nEvery hostess should be a gentle booster\nfor British Columbia. For instance, when\nyour guest exclaims, 'What a mealy potato!' you will say, 'From Ashcroft.' Or,\n'What a luscious apple!' your answer is,\n'Okanagan Valley.' You take my meaning. Get at the observant man through\nhis stomach. That is the way to his\naffections. Sir William Thompson, knighted in the eighteenth century for being\na good doctor to a rather rickety king, has\nwritten a didactic treatise to the effect\nthat the Almighty has allotted each land\nthe fruits, vegetables and other garden\ntruck which he intends should be eaten at their proper season. This way\nlies health. While not going so far as\nThompson and rejecting the out-of-season\ndelicacies which the whole world lays\non our tables, we can admit that it does\nno harm to praise and push our own.\nA sugar beet factory, to be operated\nunder the name, Fraser Valley Sugar\nWorks, Limited, is soon to be established\nat Mission City, where an excellent site\nwith water frontage has been secured.\nBehind this enterprise is Fraser Valley\nand Vancouver capital to the extent of\n$300,000. It is expected the plant will\nbe in running order within a year. 1910\\\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 17\nBritish Columbia as a tourist Resort\nmountains and Sea offer many opportunities for Pleasure\nThe whole vast province of British Columbia presents an unequalled area to\nthe tourist from any land, and, by virtue\nof its magnificent panorama of mountain,\nstream, and forest, attracts and holds\nly through the veins? The noble\nheads of thousands of mountains, grand\nin their sublime nobility, are raised to\noffer him a field unexcelled even in the\nAlps for his venturesome quest. From\nA MOUNTAIN LAKE ON THE WAY FROM PENTICTON TO KEREMEOS, B. C.\nspellbound the attention and interest of\nthe entire world. It is not many years\nsince the great western province was\nfirst known as a splendid tourist resort,\nand, in the short time that has elapsed,\nwhat marvellous changes, what mighty\nrevolutions of public opinion and esteem\nhave occurred! Unheralded by the flar-\nirg advertisement\u2014unsung by the vaunting praises of \"boom\" writers\u2014this\ngreat province rushed into the arena\nwhere wealth and beauty had arrayed\nthemselves, and competition fled from it,\nas from the glance of Destiny. Previous\nto the arousing of world wide interest\nthere was little effort made to draw the\ntourist to this country by promises of a\nland of wonders\u2014little by little the\npatronage was attracted, and the effects\nof the campaign of worthiness was soon\nshown in the development of tourist traffic\u2014a 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\nby wealthy tourists of every nationality\nas, probably, the most desirable land on\nthe face of the earth for purposes of\ntravel and recreation\u2014a consideration\nentirely removed from its enormous\nvalue as seen from a commercial point\nof view.\nWhat is there that the tourist would\nwish to see or do? The scaling of grand\nmountain peaks, with the snow of ten\nthousand years glittering in the morning sun, and the keen breezes of those\naltitudes making the blood course swift-\nthe towering, ice-clad giant of fifteen\nthousand feet of stone and challenge,\ndown to the pine covered peaks of three\nor four thousand feet, especially designed for the beginners and the timid, British Columbia has, in superb abundance,\nall that could be desired by the most\nenthusiastic mountain climber. Would\nhe hunt or fish? British Columbia can\nshow the most magnificent lakes, rivers,\nstreams, and other waters, where fish,\njustly famed all over the earth are teeming, and forests, plains, and glades where\nevery variety of game, whether the terrible grizzly bear or the wary grouse,\nmay be found in an abundance not by\nany means approached elsewhere in Canada. In fact, this province is to-day an\nexception, peculiarly unique, to state\nments as to the depletion of the world's\ngame supply. Exploration may be the\nmagnet. If so, the illimitable stretches of\ncountry in the interior and the north, or\nthe thousands of beautiful islands lying\nalong the coast, afford opportunities that\ncannot be rivalled in the new world. A\nquiet trip taken for the full enjoyment\nof the beauty of British Columbia, and\nconducted leisurely over the whole province must leave the tourist impressed\nwith a mingled memory of natural beauty\nat times rugged and grand, as only\nthe Rockies can be, at others soft\npnd mild as a rural spot in the south of\nEurope, and the hurry and activity of new\nc it ies and towns. It is a strange condi-\nt:'cn of affairs\u2014that which exists at the\npresent moment. When the splendid\ngorges and canyons of British Columbia's\ninvincible barrier of mountains have been\nwcndered at and admired, the traveller\nis taken suddenly from the overwhelming and awesome peaks and glaciers that\nsurround Banff, and placed in the midst\nof the smiling fruit lands of the interior,\nflanked and guarded by great forests and\ncharming lakes.\nThe progressive cities along the Canadian Pacific Railway, and those built by\nthe broad lakes and the huge rivers, will\nall attract the tourist's favorable notice,\nand extend to him an irresistible invitation to linger there and enjoy life. But\nthere is too much to be seen in British\nColumbia to permit of a lengthy sojourn\nin any one place. The journey through\nto the coast is replete with lovely scenes,\nas the train rushes by wide spread farms\nand ranches; hurls itself around the\ngranite walls of precipices and through\nthe inky blackness of tunnels; puffs into\nprosperous towns, and flares its searchlight at night upon the white-washed\nVANCOUVER HARBOUR Page 18]\nwalls of sleeping hamlets. Past lake,\nriver, forest and mountain until the cities\non the coast are reached, then the commercial wonders and scenic fame of Vancouver; the vista of river, mountain,\nand prosperity of New Westminster; the\nlovely sail to Victoria, and the calmness,\nsolidity, beauty and strength of the capital. A trip through thousands of islands\nand past a coast striking in beauty and\never fresh in charm, will bring the tourist to the famous Prince Rupert, destined to become the commercial metropolis\nof the new, gigantic, hardy and stupendous northern section of British North\nAmerica. There is Stewart, the centre of\nOPPORTUNITIES\non his separate path across the world\nstops for a time to tell others of the size\nand beauty of British Columbia. Thus\na name was made and is maintained.\nAmong the many British Columbian\ncities offering unrivalled advantages to\nthe tourist trade, the city of Kamloops is\none of the most prominent. It has all\nthe beauty of situation\u2014all the attraction\nof splendid climate\u2014and all the grandeur\nof scenic surroundings to draw the traveller, and invite him to repose. The future\npossibilities of Kamloops as a tourist\nresort and a magnificent residential site\nto please the tourist and invite him to\nmake the city his permanent home, can\nhardly be over-stated.\n[1910\nstages of trading post distributing point,\ncow town, railway construction centre,\nstraggling town, the growth has been\nsteady and substantial until the one-time\nhamlet has become an incorporated city\nboasting many of the conveniences of\nmodern metropolitan life. The city has\nthe reputation in the province of being\nconservative and inclined to be easygoing, yet this young city has its own\nelectric light and water systems, an\nelectric fire-alarm system and a modern\nsewerage system. It has an up-to-date\nfire-fighting apparatus, and a conveniently\narranged central fire hall. It has broad\nWXwR*>K8\nmam\ni^feSHwSfeSl:\n*\"^S\npractically inconceivable mineral wealth,\"\na city that will one day bring forth gold\nin such quantities as to make other and\nless fortunate nations than Canada gasp\nand wonder.\nIn fact, there is the whole province\nopen to the tourist, who is eagerly welcomed wherever he may go. The lights\nof the northern skies shining on great\nlonely spots may fascinate him; the glorious sunsets over the Pacific may lure\nand draw; or the vast interior send forth\nher myriad attratcions, for there is that\nin the province that calls to all men, no\nmatter what their race, creed, opinion or\nprejudice. They come and go, and each\nSee Amalgamated Development Company's ad. on page 39.\nSCENE ON SEYMOUR CREEK, NEAR VANCOUVER\nPicturesquely situated along the base of\na high plateau which fringes the south\nbank of the Thompson river, and opposite the mouth of the North Thompson\nriver, Kamloops has been favored by\nnature with an ideal site. Its population\nis upwards of 5,000 which is rapidly\nincreasing. The situation was chosen by\nthose intrepid pioneers who erected the\nfirst fort in 1812, and one is almost led\nto believe that it was selected not only\nfor its strategic position at the centre of\nan immensely rich country, but also for\nthe added charm of scenic beauty. Since\nthe first stockade fort was built a century\nago, the place has gradually increased in\nsize and importance. Through all thb\nand well-kept streets, lined with an abundance of graceful shade trees, and trim\nvelvety lawns making many comfortable\nhome sites that are owned by a settled and\nprosperous people. Besides the conveniences of modern life which are owned by\nthe city, the residents have all the usual\nones supplied by other concerns. Telephone connection with all the points on\nthe lines to the south, telegraphic communication with the world; express and\nmoney-order offices; good schools and\nhospitals, churches and lodges, in fact all\nthe requirements for a comfortable, convenient existence amidst the most desirable surroundings.\nThe Amalgamated Development Company has made good. See page 39. 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 19\nThe city of Chilliwack is one of the\nmost attractive communities in British\nColumbia. It is replete with advantages\nfor tourist trade, possessing many facilities, and being justly famed for great\nnatural beauty, and, in addition, all\nbranches of trade and professions are\nwell represented, and everything that can\nbe found in a large city can be had here.\nThe Bank of Montreal and the Royal\nBank of Canada have important branches\nhere and employ large staffs. Five first-\nclass hotels give the best possible accommodation to the travelling public, being\nmodern in every respect. An opera house\nhaving a modern stage, with a seating\ncapacity of 600, attracts good companies,\nwhile a roller skating rink, bowling\nalleys, billiard rooms, etc., provide amuse-\nmail delivery is given to the people living\non the roads traversed by the different\nmail carriers daily. The city is served\nwith excellent water direct from the\nbeautiful mountain falls in view of the\nwhole valley, and the fire protection is\nvery good on account of the splendid\npressure. Comfortable homes are a feature of Chilliwack, and in the summer,\nsurrounded by her wealth of fruit and\nflowers, it is no wonder that people who\ncome to see, remain and make it their\npermanent home.\nThe climate of Chilliwack is the Coast\nclimate with some favorable features in\naddition. Its mild winters are greatly\nenjoyed by those who have for years\nendured the below-zero weather beyond\nthe Rockies. Once in every few years\nseveral large agricultural valleys of peculiar promise. It is the terminus of the\nShuswap & Okanagan railway, 46 miles\nfrom Sicamous Junction, and has in addition to the government offices, branches\nof the Bank of Montreal and the Royal\nBank, and also two newspapers which\nhave creditably reflected the enterprise\nof the district. It has daily communication via the Canadian Pacific railway\nwith the southern country, and as far as\nthe international boundary by means of\nsteamers on the Okanagan and Dog lakes*\nand by stages to various points of the\ndistrict.\nThe city is beautifully situated and\nthe climate is healthful and exhilarating\nand will undoubtedly attract a large\npopulation of tarmers and small holders\nARBUTUS TREES, SAVARY ISLAND\nment to those in search of such. In summer all outdoor field games are indulged\nin, driving through the beautiful country,\npicnicing, riding, fishing, etc., and in\nwinter, music and dancing clubs hold\nsway, Chilliwack being noted for her\nhospitality to the stranger within her\ngates. The churches\u2014Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Catholic\n\u2014are all in a flourishing condition with\nlarge congregations. Many fraternal\nsocieties have large followings, among\nwhich are the Masonic, Odd Fellows,\nForesters, Knights of Pythias, Orangemen, United Workmen, Templars, etc.\nThe postal facilities are good, and a handsome .new office is to be erected by the\ngovernment this year. Some 14 sub-\noffices throughout the valley are served\nfrom the Chilliwack office, and a rural\nthe thermometer astonishes everyone by\nfalling to zero, but only for a day or two\nat most, and winter after winter has been\nknown to pass without any cold snap at\nall. A few days' snowfall may be had,\nand its appearance is hailed with joy,\nespecially by the younger generation, as\nbeing a great novelty. Being inland, the\nvalley escapes the fogs that are troublesome on the Coast, and has a brighter and\ndryer air. The rainfall is most heavy in\nNovember and December, but outdoor\ntemperature may reach 90 once in a\ngreat while, but the west wind from the\nsea gives the valley a pleasant coolness.\nRains are very warm. In summer the\noperations are never suspended, and\nthunder storms are practically unknown.\nVernon is a centre and chief supply\nfor the Okanagan district which contains\nfrom other parts of Canada, seeking for\nsuch conditions as exist there. It is the\ncountry town of the valley and has a\npopulation of about 3,000, which is rapidly increasing. It boasts of all modern\nimprovements, such as municipally\nowned water and electric light systems,\nsewerage, public and high schools, five\nchurches, two banks, many fine mercantile establishments, well-equipped hotels,\nfruit-packing houses, saw mills, sash and\ndoor factories, and other flourishing industries. Many fine drives and good,\nlevel roads lead to the large tract of\norchards by which it is surrounded. It\nhas two beautiful lakes within easy distance, one being two and one-half and\nthe other five miles from the city. The\nshores of these lakes are the summer\nresort of a very large portion of the Page 20]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\ninhabitants of the city, affording as they\ndo excellent advantages for boating,\ncamping, fishing, etc.\n.The climate is bracing and pleasant,\nfairly hot in summer with cool nights,\nsloping, grassy banks surrounded by the\ncliff bound mainland shores and the towering mountain peaks, it is a veritable\ngarden spot amid a wilderness of rugged\nprecipice and rock. The whole atmos-\nlures, and, in the proper season, the rod\ngives place to the gun, and the wild\nducks, brant, and geese afford the sport\nfor the hunter. As far as the fishing\nis concerned it is made doubly enjoyable\niggSsa\n;*\u00absvi\n*#\u25a0\nA\nAl3TYPIC\\L \"POINT GREY HOME\nLBY COURTESY OF F. N. TRITES & CO.\ncold in winter, averaging 44.7 with occasional dips to zero and below. Climatic\nconditions may generally be described as\nvery fine, although the city sometimes\nhas exceptionally hot days in summer,\nand extremely cold ones in winter. The\nwinter temperature for four months\nwould not, however, average over 10\ndegrees of frost, with from one foot to\none and a half feet of snow. The ideal\nconditions of soil and climate in the\nmidst of beautiful and inspiring scenery,\nand the ready sale at good prices for\neverything produced are fully appreciated by men who have been \"grubbing\nalong\" in the worn out fields of older\ncountries, and their glowing reports are\ninducing thousands of farmers in Eastern\nCanada, United States, and the British\nIsles to \"sell out\" and secure land in\nBritish Columbia which is destined to\nbecome, in a measure, the \"Orchard of\nthe Empire,\" as the prairie provinces are\nits granary.\nCHARM OF SAVARY ISLAND.\nThis delightful island is situated in\nthe Gulf of Georgia, some forty miles\nfrom the city of Vancouver, opposite\nthe little village of Lund, and within half\na day's journey of either Vancouver or\nVictoria. Nestling, as it does, on the\nbosom of the calm Gulf waters, with\nphere of the enchanting spot breathes\nof restful calm, and extends a wordless\ninvitation to summer pleasures. In most\nenticing terms it allures to sweet siestas\nbeneath the spreading branches of heavily branched trees, or moonlight strolls\nalong the shores, and one can almost\nhear the merry shout and laughter of\nhappy children paddling along the sandy\nbeach as the tide comes rippling in over\nthe warm, white sands.\nThe island is crescent shaped, and about\nfive miles long from east to west, the\npoints of the crescent forming a long,\nshallow, sandy bay on the north side,\nwhich at low tide becomes an expanse of\nlevel white sand, perfectly smooth and\nfirm, with only a few isolated boulders,\nwhich simply serve to set it off properly\nby supplying the necessary touch of contrast. This wonderful beach is by no\nmeans confined to the north side, however, but extends from a quarter of a\nmile to a mile in width at every point\nalong the shores of the Island. In the\nsummer the water becomes luke warm\nafter its long trip across such a hot expanse of sand, which has been exposed\nto a summer sun between tides. Hence\nthe bathing is the best imaginable. For\nfishing, Savary Island is a paradise, resembling closely the famous Catalina.\nLarge salmon and salmon trout respond\nwell to the trool and the fly, and other\nby the possibility of distinguishing objects at a depth of twenty feet on a\nfine day, the water being wonderfully\nclear all around the island. It is in\ntended to install glass bottomed boats at\nthe resort, and thus make it possible to\nobserve the habits of fish and other inhabitants of the waters.\nThe accessibility of the island is an important feature. It is only one mile\nfrom Lund, which is a regular calling\nplace for practically all the coast boats,\nand these will easily be tempted to call\nat Savary when the wharf is erected,\nand the island is as thickly populated as\nit is certain to be in a very few years.\nAt present there is no difficulty in reaching it from Lund or from any of the well\nknown surrounding points on the mainland, or even from Victoria or Vancouver\nby launch. There is a splendid hotel at\nLund, and ample accommodation of all\nsorts to meet the demand that is certain\nto come in the next few months. Cottages are already being erected on the\nisland, and everything points to a splendid future for Savary Island as a charming summer resort.\nIt is reported that the entire holdings\nof the Pacific Coal Mines Company, on\nVancouver Island, have been purchased\nby the C. P. R. for $44,000,000.\nA forfeit of $1,000 was put up by\nthe Amalgamated Development Company\nin case their representations were not\ncorrect in every particular. Three\nnewspapers sent representatives who\nreport,\u2014better than - represented. See\npage 39. 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 21\nTHE PROMISED LAND.\nThe curly ships, rushing along the\nfiftieth parallel as if it were a tight-rope,\nbring the immigrants eager to make a\nhazard of new fortunes in the last new\ncountry\u2014the strong, out-doors worker\nwith the sun-toasted skin, the drab-faced\nmechanic of the shops, and the human\nfungus detached like a worthless coupon\nfrom an ancient family tree, the man of\nmoral lassitude and no taste for labor,\nover whose soul the blight creeps like\nmould. It is a color-splashed, interesting\ncrowd that comes ashore when the steamer bumps the dock, \"great stuff\" for the\npsychologist, the candler of human eggs.\nIn the mind of every man who has seen\na ship landing immigrants are little snapshots of one of the most humanly interesting scenes.\nEmigration is a racial chess game, in\nwhich the world is the board, the players\nimmigration agents, governments and\nsteamship lines, and the emigrants the\nchessmen. From many-roofed Europe\nthe human pawns are moved to the wide\nunsheltered plains, and the new wide-\nstreeted cities of the western world,\nwhere roars the mighty smelter which\nwill in the sweep of time smelt all this\ncosmopolitan pentecostal crowd into good\nthe English papers have reflected a nervous feeling that soon there may not be\nmuch good land left in Canada. Let not\ntheir hearts be troubled. Of good land\nthere is plenty left. In the three prairie\nprovinces the C. P. R. has still about\neleven million acres to sell, land companies and private owners have perhaps fifty\nmillion acres to dispose of for money;\nand the Dominion Government has almost forty two million acres to give away\nfor free homesteads. There are vast\nspaces of tillable land in the Peace River\nand other unorganized districts of Canada. British Columbia alone has room\nfor a white horde of the sons of mortal\nmen, upon whom she has gifts to bestow\nmore generous than the largess of storybook fairy princess\u2014every good thing\ncoveted by the human heart, including a\nclement climate and a chance to \"expand\nwith the good times.\" The Fraser, the\nBulkeley and the Skeena rivers drain a\ngreat area of good agricultural land. A\ngreat deal of it is slightly timbered and\neasily cleared. Much of it not timbered\nat all. Long summers and short winters\nmake it ideal for ranching, dairying, stock\nraising and mixed farming. There is\nvery little snow and zero weather is unknown. In other parts of British Colum-\neries and the unmeasured timber lands.\nHere under the temperate western sun,\nand the newly-minted stars, the settler\ncan find all that mortal man could wish\nfor.\u2014\"Vancouver Province.\"\nWANTS SOME LAND BEFORE IT ALL\nGOES.\nMr. W. O. Varnsdale, of Wichita, Kansas, the home of Congressman Murdock,\none of the insurgent leaders who has\nbeen making things lively for President\nTaft's administration, recently visited\nVancouver, for the purpose of investing\nin a few acres of British Columbia land\nbefore it is all off the market, which he\nthinks will not be long at the present\nrate of settlement.\n\"A great many Kansas people are coming to this section of the Dominion this\nyear,' he said, \"and they include the very\nbest class of our farming community.\nW7hile Kansas is all right and will have\na fair crop this season, there are many\nthere who are compelled to rent and are\ndesirous of securing their own homes,\nand this country appears to be in the\nminds of most of them.\n\"The large majority of those who will\ncome are in fairly good circumstances,\nI {SOUTHSSHORE, SAVARY^ ISLAND*\nCanadians, and vitalize some of the fungi.\nHundreds of thousands have come, but\nthey only dot the vastness of Canada\u2014a\nfew to the square mile. Lately some of\nSee Amalgamated Development Company's ad. on page 39.\nbia there is much excellent land available\nfor farming and fruit-growing. Mineral\nresources claim attention too. The half\nhas not yet been bragged about the\nmineral resources of British Columbia.\nWonderful is the opulence of the fish-\nenergetic and progressive and will make\nthe very best citizens in the development of the country.\"\nThe refinery plant is all shipped to the\noil fields at Katalla, Alaska, belonging\nto the Amalgamated Development Co.\nSee page 39. Page 22]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\n\u00bb\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022..\u2022\u2022.\u2022..\n\"t\u00ab\u00bb\"\u00ab\"\u00bbii\u00bbii\u00bbi'\n.\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\nBritish Columbia\u2014the Land of Opportunity\nOPPORTUNITIES\nIncluding the\nREAL ESTATE REVIEW\nA Monthly Journal Devoted to the Growth,\nDevelopment, Resources and Possibilities in British\nColumbia\nEntered in the Post Office of Canada as second-class matter.\nSUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR\nAdvertising rates on application.\nPublished by\nOPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.\nSuite 87, Hutchinson Block, 429 Pender Street, W.\nPhone 6926 Vancouver, B. C.\nFraser S. Keith, Managing Editor.\nOUR AIM:\nTo furnish, at home and abroad, more complete information regarding British Columbia and the wealth of possibilities she offers for Investment\u2014in Real Estate, Fruit\nand Farm Lands, Timber, Mining and Industrial Companies\u2014for Health; for Travel; for Recreation; for Sport;\nfor Education and for Enterprise.\n..\u20ac\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u00bb..\n'\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2666J.\n\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022-\u2022\u2022-\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00ab\u00a3\u00ab\nffergmmtr? (Enttqu^rja\n(\u00a3rtttttjB, tfjat jwwrr mliith; ImzzUb mortal rtjrra,\nJa oft httt pnzmtmntt in Majgmar.\n(ftotttimunta rffort of ttarlf, tmpltra\n3m aptir of rotwtlraa falla thr powrr to riar.\n'2faitxt failure a\u00abh aurrraa tip? pnittfa an fin?\nMtn aomrttmra know not inhnt th^tr irrnrh tbr Unr \u2022 \u2022\nAnn oli! rtmtf trur, tm>n afratea of hottbt Mamag,\n*W\\a often oarfoat piat hrforr thr hag.\nA littlr morr prratatrnrr, nwragr, otm!\n\u00a3>nrrraa mtU hanrn o'rr fatlurr'a rhmhtj rim.\n\u00a9h*n takr tljia ffotwjj for th* hittrrrat tup:\n\" \u00a9Ijrrr ia no failure, aaur in gttmut. \u00abp.\n5fa rral fall aa lotto; aa nnr atill trira;\n3For arrmtno, ari-barka makr tljr atrotut. matt oriar.\nalirrra no hrfrat tn trtttli, aaor from within;\nHttlraa gowVr bratrn tlyrrr, ijou rr bornxo to mm\"\ni^mrg Attatttt\n4c* *\u2022\u2022*\u2022*\u2022 \u2022*\u2022\u2022**\u2022\u2022\u25a0\nAppreciation plus Cooperation\nWhen introducing \"Opportunities\" to the public,\na deep consciousness of the need, to proclaim to the\nworld our priceless heritage, created within us a steadfast resolve to perfect an adequate medium of publicity.\nWe were decidedly pleased to note the appreciative\ntone which characterized the references to our magazine by various contemporaries, immediately following\nthe first issue. The commendations and expressions of\ngood will were regarded as additional evidences of the\nexistence of a capacious field for a periodical possessing \"Opportunities' \" aim.\nDuring the elapsing of the subsequent mouths our\noriginal purpose has been intensified and our pleasure\nenhanced, by the manner in which each community we\nhave visited, has co-operated.\nNever has the communal spirit been better exemplified.\nAt the outset the absence of a competitor was recognized. It was then our desire not to compete, but to\nco-operate with all others. In those respects the situation is unchanged. The laborers are incommensurate\nwith the harvest. The capacity of the field, the urgency\nof the demand, and the strength, alertness and industry\nof our neighbors to the South, renders the co-operation\nof British Columbians imperative.\nThere never was a better opportunity and a greater\ncall for concerted action. While we are engaged in\na laudable endeavor, the task is, nevertheless, of colossal dimensions; greater than Vancouver, Victoria,\nPrince Rupert or any other of the great cities of this\nProvince may hope to accomplish singly.\nFor several decades all the manufacturing nations\nhave been paying considerable attention to Asia. The\nnine hundred millions of inhabitants of that continent\nafford a rich field for exploitMjpj|| The building of the\nGrand 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\ntrade.\nNow that the Panama Canal is nearing completion,\nthe competition between the different States and Provinces bordering on the Pacific, from Panama to Alaska,\nis 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\nof all British Columbians to be used as a medium of\npublicity for our mutual and collective good. Our desire is not to sarcastically gloat over the failure of\nothers just as worthy, who have for various reasons\nbeen unable to realize their laudable aims. We banish\nthe thought of posing as \"the great and only,\" making\ngreat promises and in the same sentence denying them.\nIn our attitude to all contemporaries we intend to foster\nan atmosphere pregnant with, at least, one good quality\n\u2014appreciation plus co-operation. 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 23\nthe Visit of Sir Wilfrid\nEvery citizen of British Columbia, no matter of\nwhat stripe or creed, or no matter how far his personal\nopinions and convictions may differ from the great\nleader, will welcome his coming visit to this Province.\nSir Wilfrid Laurier represents the highest development\nof Canadian statesmanship, and when the British Dominions over the seas are represented in the Imperial\nParliament, should he be spared in health and strength\nto that time, amongst the notables there assembled, he\nwill command a leading place. Although British Columbia did little to strengthen the Premier's party at\nthe last general election, Sir Wilfrid Laurier will find a\nwelcome awaiting him in the Pacific Coast Province not\nsurpassed by any other during the course of his. transcontinental tour. It is particularly incumbent upon\nVancouver to pay him special attention, in view of the\nfact that her member has not been characterized by any\nfavorable attitude towards the Premier personally. Sir\nWilfrid will see scenes calculated to surprise and inspire\nhim\u2014evidences of progress and development that, as\nPrime Minister and in closest touch with all the progressive forward movements in Canada, he can scarcely\nrealize. Mingled with those feelings of surprise and\nwonder, Sir Wilfrid Laurier should carry away with\nhim 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\npower to bring about that desired end.\nZhe Importance of the Jtpple\nAlong the line of the progressive development of\nthis Province the apple is going to play an important\npart. The inauguration of the First National Apple\nShow for Canada, having its inception in B. C, will\ngive every opportunity to prove, to greater advantage\nthan ever, the superior conditions existing here for the\ncultivation and growth of perfect fruit. Every one in\nthe Province is interested directly or indirectly in the\ncoming Show, so that every support should be given the\nmanagement to make it of the greatest possible success.\nCanada's first National Apple Show is an epoch-\nmaking 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\nthe undertaking possible.\nFruit growing is the supreme test to which.soil and\nclimate can be subjected. Therefore, when the world is\ncalled and witnesseth the magnificent exhibits of apples\n-the king of all fruits\u2014as now grown from Canadian\nsoil, there will be great rejoicing throughout the land,,\nfor it will be found that the first Canadian National\nApple Show will have done more than any other one\nthing to fix in the public eye that Canada is a desirable\nplace in which to live; and that for the pursuit of\nwealth and happiness, no better opportunity exists on\nthe face of the earth, than here and now.\nThe tremendous value of the big Show from an\nadvertising point of view is universally conceded. The\nkeeping before the world the fact that fruit growing,\nwith never failing crops and of superior quality, was\nnot only possible, but profitable, gave to the Pacific\nNorthwest States their prestige and has been the chief\nfactor in peopling that region with a desirable class of\nsettlers. It started in Eastern Washington, over twenty\nyears ago, with a district fruit fair, and these fruit\nfairs soon became famous and were known throughout\nthe United States and Canada, with the result that settlers came by the thousands, until, today and within a\ndecade, the Inland Empire's annual fruit crop is worth\n* 10,000,000.\nThe first National Apple Exhibition was launched\nin Eastern Washington, and the third exposition is now\nwell in hand. Each of these exhibitions cost $40,000,\nbut over 100,000 acres have been added to the orchard\narea of the country as the result of the first two shows.\nDoes it pay? What do you think of it?\nIt is needless to say that the members of the Board\nof Management regard the Canadian National Apple\nShow as the most practical undertaking yet inaugurated\nfor the exploitation of the Province from a development\nand commercial point of view.\nThe Vancouver City Council expressed their appreciation of its importance and put the stamp of their\napproval upon it when they appropriated $6,000 toward\nraising the necessary funds for its support.\nIrrigation Progress\nAs we go to press the Western Canada Irrigation\nAssociation 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\nproductiveness, is some index to the importance to this\nProvince of the present gathering, where representative\nmen are discussing the problems, policies, undertakings\nand results of irrigation enterprise. The importance of\nthe gathering is further shown by the presence there of\nPremier McBride and other members of the government. The question of water, rights is being dealt with,\nas it constitutes probably the most important problem\nbefore the present convention. Individual rights must\nbe 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\ndemonstrated what irrigation can do in the dry belts\nof British Columbia. Everything conducive to making\nfurther areas of this land available and productive'\u25a0\nshould be given the heartiest assistance. The effect of\nthe present convention cannot but be stimulating in\nthat direction, and far-reaching in its effect on the immediate development of British Columbia. And it\nshould be the proud object of every British Columbian\nto lend his hand towards this worthy object. ^\u00bb_^__^\nPage 24]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\nIndustrial Progress in British Columbia\nShares of the Hedley Gold Mining Company are now listed on the Boston Exchange.\nWest Fernie school building is nearinj\ncompletion. A second new school will be\nadded in Fernie annex at an early date.\nEight inches of galena have been encountered on the Dominion claim, near\nthe city of Greenwood.\nA large force of men are engaged on\nPrince Rupert's sewer system which is\nmaking splendid progress.\nConstruction of the new provincial\nbuildings at Ft. George is to be started\nimmediately, in order that they may be\ncompleted before winter.\nArthur Stringer, the well known writer,\nin a recent article on the American\nin Canada, estimates United States investments in British Columbia mills and\ntimber at the colossal sum of $50,000,000.\nCapitalists in East Kootenay are considering establishing a pulpwood mill at\nWardner, where an ambulance of raw\nmaterial and ample electrical power is\navailable.\nNearly every month more than $50,000\nworth of gold is shipped from Greenwood.\nThe box factory at Arrow Lake is working night and day to keep pace with the\nheavy demand for fruit boxes.\nReports from the Bayonne camp on\nJohnny Bull mountain indicate that the\nowners believe they have some strong\nveins of ore. One of the best is the\nEcho vein, owned by a Vancouver syndicate.\nDuring the month of June the Crow's\nNest Pass Coal Company mined the largest tonnage in its history from Coal\nCreek and Michel, 116,447 tons being\ntaken out, Coal Creek alone producing\n74,372 tons.\nA report is current that a huge mining deal, involving several million dollars, affecting rich claims at Stewart,\npossibly Red Cliff mine, is pending.\nRumor has it that a large English syndicate is interested.\nThe British Columbia Copper Company's smelter at Phoenix is operating\nat capacity once more, treating close\nto 2,000 tons daily. Development work\nat this company's Rawhide mine is also\nprogressing rapidly.\nA group of rich gold claims will shortly be worked near Kamloops by J. H.\nSherman in the interests of Vancouver\nbusiness men. Samples taken from the\nproperty assayed a very high average\nof free milling gold.\nWork has now started on the construction of the Kettle Valley Railway,\nMerritt, a station on the Spences Bridge-\nNicola line of the C. P. R., in the Nicola\nValley, being the point from which the\nwork will progress this season.\nThe Merritt Liberal Association ha&\npetitioned the Government at Ottawa for\na drill hall, assistance toward the formation of a regimental band, an experimental farm for the Valley, and a\nseparate telephone office building.\nThe Princeton holdings of the Columbia Coal and Coke Co., Ltd., are being\nworked extensively. Estimates furnished\nby prominent engineers prove these deposits to be extremely valuable. Vancouver and Winnipeg capital is heavily\ninterested in this company.\nA new wireless station will be erected\nthis month at Lawn Hill, near Queen\nCharlotte City, Graham Island. Useful\nfor shipping purposes, it will also form\na connecting link between that part of\nthe island and the mainland, bringing\nthe settlers in direct communication with\nother points.\nThe Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company will erect immediately a thoroughly\nmodern hotel at Victoria, according to\nW. P. Hinton, general passenger agent,\nWinnipeg, who recently visited the\ncoast. The site chosen faces the parliamentary buildings.\nNew Westminster is experiencing a\nbuilding boom this summer. Many\nbeautiful residences, apartment houses\nand office and store buildings are being\nerected. Ground is also being broken\nfor the erection of several manufactories.\nAn important deal was recently consummated in the amalgamation of the\nBritish Columbia Sand & Gravel Co. Ltd.,\nVancouver, and the Victoria Contracting\nCo. Ltd., Victoria, under the style The\nProducers' Rock & Gravel Co. Limited.\nThe business of the old companies at Albert Head and Royal Bay will be continued and greatly enlarged.\nThe refinery plant is all snipped to the\noil fields at Katalla, Alaska, belonging\"\nto the Amalgamated Development Co.\nSee page 39.\nA Vancouver syndicate will invest\n$40,000 in a brick making plant, with\ndaily capacity of 25,000, at Nanaimo.\nThe plant, according to the agreement\nwith Mr. R. P. Wallis, the party who put\nthe deal through, is to be installed and\nin running order within six months.\nDuring the past twenty-eight months\nthe Nugget Gold Mines of Sheep Creek\nturned out brick and ore shipments to\nthe value of $385,000, with a four-stamp\nmill and a comparatively small force.\nWith electrical power early this fall the\ncamp's output will be greatly increased.\nA twelve-story building costing half\na million dollars will be erected at the\ncorner of Homer and Pender Streets,\nVancouver. The plans in the hands of\nMessrs. Donnellan & Donnellan, architects, show a beautiful structure, most\nup-to-date in every respect. Excavation\nwork will be commenced within a month.\nWork is now progressing at Esquimalt\nfor the erection of one of the largest\nlumber mills in the province, to have a\ndaily output of 250,000 feet. The mill\nis to be constructed by Eastern Canadian capitalists, who, it is reported, have\nalso absorbed the B. F. Graham Lumber\nCompany.\nThe Adams River Lumber Company of\nChase, B. C, with a mill of 150,000 capacity, are engaging men for a long run.\nThey have discarded the \"pack your\nblankets\" system and instead supply\nsprings, mattress and bedding. Their\ncamps are new and as good as can be\nfound. They pay the employment fee\nand will assist men with part pay if\nneeded.\nIn connection with alleged gross exaggerations in fire reports sent to outside papers, the Nelson Board of Trade\nhas issued the following bulletin: \"The\nreports circulated regarding forest fires\nin the district of West Kootenay have,\nfortunately been considered exaggerated.\nSo far, owing to the extremely dry\nweather, these fires have been somewhat\nnumerous, but they have been altogether\nlocal and have been kept in check. Some\ndamage to mining property has occurred\nand in one case it was unfortunately accompanied by loss of life, but there is no\ncause at present for the anxiety which\nhas been excited by the many alarming\nreports that have been circulated. The\neffect of the vigorous carrying out of the\ngovernment regulations by the gold commissioner of the district is being beneficially felt.\" 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 25\n^%5\n\" Soothing Succeeds like Success.\"\nWESTERN JUCCEii\n\/^AWING to the Increase in Our Business, we found\n^-^ it necessary to seek Larger Quarters, and now\nhave Our Own Building in Course of Erection.\nINSURANCE\nFize\nAccident\nSickness\nPlate Glass\nVA\/1C?0VtR-TRU!>T- (WA\/1Y- DUILDI\/1G-\nINSURANCE\nLife\nLaunches\nAutomobile\nLive Stock\nA GENERAL TRUST BUSINESS TRANSACTED\nStocl\n..\u00bb..\u00ab..\u2022..\u00bb..\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022 \u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022 .\u2022..\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u00ab\u2022..\u2022\u2022*\u2022*. 9* \u25a0\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022*\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022'\nMrs. J. 1 Elliott i\nHand-made Goods a Specialty J\nThe most Ip-to-Date Store i\nFor Neckwear, Blouses, Underwear \u2022\nand everything needful for \u2022\nInfants and Children.\nPhone R313 i\n730 Yates St. VICTORIA, B. C. !\n:\u00bb\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u2022.\u00bb..\u00bb.\u2022\u00bb.\nI.\u00abI.\u00bbM\u00abW\u00bbM>..\u00bb..|\u00ab\nSteam Heat, Gas, Electric Light, Telephone\nHot and Cold Running Water in Each Room\nTHE NEW SYLVESTER, 715 YATES ST.\n AND\t\nTHE NEW TOURIST HOTEL\nBannerman Home Bldgr., 628 Johnson St.Cor,Broad\nVICTORIA, B. C.\ni\nI Port Alberni\nf The Future Port of the Pacific\n4>\n*\n\u2666\n.\u2666\u2666\nin\n\u2666\nV\nf\nLOTS FROM $75oo UP\nAll classes of Good Acreage from\n$80 \u00b0\u00b0 per Acre and upwards\nGOOD AGRICULTURAL\nLAND\nTownsite Lots For Sale, also\nTIMBER LANDS\nJ I G. R. NADEN CO., Ltd. j\n% Prince Rupert, B. C. I\nV T ?\n<|\u00bb \u2022 Mines, Stocks and Real Estate. Farm Lands \u2666\nV f in the Skeena, Bulkley and Kispiox Valleys ?\ni\u00a7> \u2022 i\njg \u2666\u00a3..\u201e.....\u201e. ..\u00ab..............\u201e..\u00bb..............,........,...\u201e..............,;.\n\u25ba\u00a3\u2666\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022>\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00ab\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.*.\n! j G. W. ARNOTT ft CO. j\n% 1 Heal Estate and Insurance !\n% \\ Drawer 1539 if Prince Rupert I\ny j Splendid Opportunities for Investors\n*** ?\nm\n<%> 1 - *-^m\nThe McCombe Realty Co. I\n| LeeBlk., Cor. Johnson & Broad St. I\nVICTORIA, B. C. X\n4\n^\u2666>^*\u00a7K*$*^4^,!^4^<^^^-i*.\n**K*<\u00a7*M^*f>**-:\u00ab ^\ni\n4\u00bb\nI\nt\nWE ARE SPECIALISTS IN\nPortland Canal Stocks\nAND CAN GIVE YOU FULL INFORMATION\nON ANY COMPANY OPERATING IN THAT\nDISTRICT. DAILY QUOTATIONS RECEIVED.\nN. B. MAYSMITH & CO., LTD.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nMEMBERS PACIFIC COAST STOCK EXCHANGE\nOlfices : Victoria, B. C, Vancouver, B. C, Stewart,\nB. C, Nanaimo, B. C, Seattle. Wash.\n* \u2666^\u2666^^\u2666^\u2666^\u2022jH^<\u00a7\u00bb\u00abJ^4^\u00abJ^*J^f'\u00abH^>\nT\nt\n*\n#\n1\n4*\n4\n4*\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 28]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[19\/0\nKerrisdale, Point Grey\nGreater Vancouver's Greater West End\n.^r-\u25a0.-.---\u00bb- :\u2022 ..\n4\nRESIDENCE OF CAPTAIN STE\"WART, KERRISDALE, POINT GREY\nThe extraordinarily fast growth of\nVancouver into a manufacturing city,\nand the steady expansion of the business\narea, have already aroused those residents who desire above all else the\nprivacy and advantages of a capacious\nhome, removed from the bustle, smoke\nand turmoil of manufacturing and business centres. Fortunately a reminder of\nthe great extent of residential sites, joining the city, tends to relieve the anxiety.\nSo far the West End has supplied the\nneed, but business interests are fast\ncrowding this beautiful residential quarter out of existence. Its natural successor is Point Grey.\nThe extremity of Point Grey is a mina-\nture plateau, three hundred and fifty feet\nabove sea level, overlooking the Gulf\nof Georgia. Commanding an entrance\nto English Bay, and in such proximity\nto the entrance of Burrard Inlet, it may\naptly be termed the outpost of Vancouver's harbor. With miles of waterfront-\nage on English Bay, the Gulf of Georgia,\nand the mouth of the Fraser, the municipality of Point Grey affords as beautiful\na residential site as one could wish to\nfind. Comfortably removed from the din\nand dirt of city life, to windward of the\nmetropolis, catching the full benefit of\nthe Pacific's balmy breezes, this beautiful suburb is excellently equipped to\nclaim the distinction of being the premier\nresidential district of Greater Vancouver.\nThe hub of Point Grey is Kerrisdale.\nThis community might, so to speak, be\ncalled Point Grey's county seat. From\nhere the development of the new suburb\nradiates. At Kerrisdale all the public\nbuildings of the municipality are located,\nincluding the post office, which cost\n$4,000, the municipal hall and public\nschool. There are various stores, including a grocery and meat market.\nThere are already many magnificent residences; some costing $40,000, some even\nmore. The occupants of these homes\ninclude Messrs. Bowser, Alvensleben,\nTweedale and R. S. Ford.\nThe price and size of the lots and the\nfertility of the soil also add important\nfactors in securing those comforts folk\ndesire in a home.\nIt is in this district the C. P. R. cultivates twenty-five acres, and produces}\nvegetables for their hotels and dining\ncars. The soil is noted for the growth\nof roses, on account of which the Vancouver Floral Company has established\nan extensive plant and gardens. The\nRoyal Nurseries Company have forty\nacres under cultivation.\nBut the chief factor in bringing this\nbeautiful land in touch with the City is\nthe recent ratification by the Point Grey\nmunicipal council of the street railway\nagreement with the B. C. E. Ry. Co.\nThis company has been granted a forty-\nyear franchise to extend their system on\nall or any streets in the municipality,\nthough not exclusive. The company has\nalready acquired five acres near Twenty-\nfourth avenue, upon which they contemplate building a power plant in the near\nfuture.\nSo with all the preceding facts and\nprospects, Greater Vancouver's Greater\n\"West End\" is assured.\nBUILDING PERMITS EXCEED\n$7,500,000.\nThe report of Building Inspector Jar-\nrett, of Vancouver, for the first seven\nmonths of the year, shows that the value\nof the buildings authorized during the\nperiod is over $7,500,000. This brings\nthe total, covering only a little over the\nhalf year, $250,000 in advance of the\nbanner annual record of $7,258,565.\nThe July total was 644,480, which represents an advance of about $100,000 on\nthe record for the corresponding -period\nlast year.\nS\u00bb5\u00a33\u00a3K\u00a7\u00a3&&&&i\n\u25a0Si\nH&ttHii&BH\u00a30i\u00a3\nRESIDENCE OF COUNCILLOR ST. CLERE, KERRISDALE, POINT GREY 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 29\nA Far Better\nInvestment Is\nTIMBER\nROUGHLY, Seven Tenths of the\nTimber in British Columbia is\nnow held by American Syndicates.\nWe ape now buying* on behalf of a\nGerman Syndicate.\nENGLISH INVESTORS should\ncommunicate with us and we will\ngive particulars of the latest timber\ndeals and the profits they show.\nVifarif, Burmester &\nVm \u20ac raevenitz\n4-11 Pender St., Vancouver, B. Cm\n!\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb.\u25a0\u00bb..\u00bb.\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00ab.\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0.\u00ab. %,.,\n.*\nThe fort George Country\nIs the last great undeveloped central area in the Province\nof British Columbia, if not in all the world. We have for\nsale 160, 320 and 640-acre tracts. Good water, rich soil,\neasily cleared, big open patches, close to railroad, close to\nFort George. Surveyors' notes and every description.\nSmall cash payment handles this, balance spread over five\nyears.\nWILLIAM HOLDE,N\n333 HOMER .STREET\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\njar\nI Point Grey .:. Point Grey\n# \/^vUR Famous X> \/^ AND H Acre Homesites in this\nW ^~*^ most desirable part of Point Grey are meeting with\n# much success.\n)jtt They are Large Enough to make an ideal home.\nw (Read the sizes again), )^, % and ^ Acres, almost a\nW. ranch. Beat them if you can.\nw If You Contemplate Buying in this beautiful dis-\n*$? trict, see us at once and save money.\nf MOLE 6- KEEFER\n\u00ab\u00bb The Point Grey Specialists\n1065 Granville St. Phone7070 Vancouver, B.C.\nm\n(Jj^SCADLJ Tl?e Beet with\u00b0ut a peer\niti)\n#\n,.*\n\u00bb'\u00bb>M|Mi \"\u2666M#lltMtM|||fw#M|\nm\nWHEN YOU'RE TIRED OF LIVING\n\u2014Where you are now, call on us and let us help you choose your next Homesite in Beautiful Point Grey.\nPOINT GREY HOMESITES FROM $900.\nV\n4oy Tendez St. W.\nHerman House Company\n'Vancouver, ^B. C.\ny\nKERRISDALE\nPOINT GREY\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u25a0\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u25a0\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\nx :\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n4 MILES FROM VANCOUVER POST OFFICE. Vancouver's New West End. All the\nconveniences of the West End, with the advantages of purer air, no fog\", less rain,\nmore sunshine, more room, 5c car Fare. $100 secures a Homesite.\nBalance of purchase money can be spread over 2 years.\nMr. Familyman, look ahead and secure a homesite in Kerrisdale now while prices are low.\nROOM 4\n532 Granville St.\nAPPLY\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS\nW. H. WINDLE\nVancouver, B. C Page 30)\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[19\/0\nWith the Brokers\nH. W. Windle, 532 Granville street, is\nmaking a specialty of the Kerrisdale district, which is quickly becoming the favorite residential quarter. Mr. Windle,\nspeaking concerning Kerrisdale and\nPoint Grey, said, that the municipality\nwill be busy \"spending nearly $1,000,000\non improvements, such as roads, sidewalks, water mains, parks, and the B.\nC. Electric Railway will spend a large\namount on new lines in this district, also\nin double tracking the present Lulu Island Railway. Kerrisdale is only 4 miles\nfrom the postoffice, 1% from Shaugh-\nnessy Heights and on account of the\nsouthern exposure, Kerrisdale is warmer and has less rain than \"Vancouver and\nno fog. Anybody with regard to health\nfor wife and family, should live in Kerrisdale, where there is plenty of room\nand fresh air and schools. An investment in a homesite now will be very\nprofitable also from a financial point of\nview. Several ladies in the West end,\nhave signified their intention of residing\nin Kerrisdale in the near future.\nThe East Coast of Vancouver Island\noffers splendid opportunities to the fruit\ngrower and farmer. Around the district\nof Nanaimo land can be purchased very\nreasonably, both cleared and uncleared\ntracts from five acres up. The advantages of this district are numerous.\nThere is a delightful climate, magnificent\nscenery, close proximity to the mainland.\nNanaimo being the nearest port on the\nisland to Vancouver, with excellent shipping facilities, and lastly there is a ready\nmarket in Nanaimo City itself for all\nthe produce that can be grown for miles\naround. To give our readers an idea of\nvalues in this district, we give te'ow a\nfew farms which are listed with A. E.\nPlanta, Ltd., the best known and oldest\nestablished real estate agents in Nanaimo and district. Mr. Planta possesses\nthe experience of a lifetime spent in this\nneighborhood, and is fully qualified to advise both large and small investors as to\nthe most suitable sites for their needs.\nHere are three farms which will give an\nidea of the variety of properties which\nthis firm have for sale.\nFive acres about one mile from City\nlimits, nearly all cleared, 200 chickens,\nsow and pigs, 3 roomed house, small quantity household furniture\u2014Price, $1,800.00.\nTwenty acres, about fourteen acres\ncleared, large house, 50 good trees in\nbearing, 16 head cattle, horse, wagons,\nhocse-rake, cultivator, separator, implements, tools, goodwill, distance of property from Nanaimo, about 4 miles.\u2014\nPrice, $3,700.00.\n360 acres, fifty cleared, large orchard,\nhouse, 9 rooms, barn, granary, stable, 40\nhead cattle, 4 horses, plough, harrow etc.,\ntennis court, delightful country.\u2014Price,\n$16,000.00. \t\nMessrs. Ward, Burmester & Von Grae-\nvenitz have now moved into their new\noffices in No. 411 Pender street. These\noffices have been fitted up in an attractive but quiet style. This firm deal\nprincipally on behalf of clients in Germany and Englaad, to whom the conservative style of business more particularly appeals.\nThe Canadian Investment Company\nhas a good thing in Port Moody, and they\nhave found it out in their summer season, when realty is usually quiet. They\nreport a steady increase in the demand\nfor this townsite property, because people have become more attracted to this\nvicinity owing to recent important developments there. They still have some\nchoice lots in this rapidly expanding district and are always willing to give complete information and advice to intending buyers of Port Moody property.\nThe North Coast Land Company is receiving hundreds of letters asking about\nthe Fort George district. This Company\nis very heavily interested in the Nechaco\nand Bulkley Valleys as well as the Fort\nGeorge district, and has sold a great\nmany 160, 320 and 640 acre tracts to\nwide-awake investors and farmers all over Canada and the United States. The\nofficials of the Company have been agreeably surprised at the enormous amount\nof business at this season, which is generally the worst time of the year for the\nsale of farm lands. Those who are in\ntouch with the tremendous development\nschemes and colonization projects already formulated, are of the opinion that\nthe number of actual settlers going into\nthese districts next year will be ten\ntimes as great as the number who are\ngoing this year.\nM. H. Franklin Co. advise demand for\ninside property not brisk but in a healthy\nstate, and increasing. No snaps in outside holdings but prices good. Predict\npresent quietness will prevail, with some\nimprovement, for a few months.\nMeessrs. Lougheed & Coates, of 633\nPender street, report that there has been\na very noticeable increase in the demand\nfor all classes of residential property,\nmore particularly in South Vancouver,\nwhere the majority of purchasers are\nbuilding their own homes. The Kitsil-\nano district is also in demand, with very\nlittle speculative buying. The arrange\nment that this firm has of building homes\nfor cash or on terms brings considerable\nbusiness in this line. Mr. Lougheed has\nhad a large experience in home building,\nand is competent to execute plans and\nspecifications for any sized house, pretentious or otherwise. They are specializing bungalows, as this style of home\nseems to be the most up-to-date and is\nthe choice of the most particular buyers.\nAn inspection of their work will prove\nthat they know their business in this\nline. They are also handling good farm\nlands in the Nicola Valley, at prices\nwhich are away below the average for\nland of this description in British Columbia.\nThe John T. Stevens Trust Company\nreport many indications of increased activity in real estate in West Fairview, as\nalso an increasing number of inquiries\nfor homes and homesites. The develop-\nmet and laying of the new car lire\non Broadway, west of Granville street,\nshould cause shrewd investors to turn\ntheir attention in that direction. The\nprospects for both seller and buyer are\nlarge and encouraging and buyers who\nknow good values should at once look\nover the ground, so that they may acquire something worth while when the\ngreater activity commences which is expected within the next thirty to sixty\ndays. Bona fide investors and home-\nseekers would do well to call on the John\nT. Stevens Trust Company as their knowledge in this particular locality should\nbe of great advantage to buyers. We are\nsure no effort will be spared to suit\ntheir requirements and the usual personal and courteous treatment will be\ngiven to one and all. We advise you to\ncall at their Branch Office at 2435 Granville street, 'phone 4265.\nMole & Keefer, Point Grey specialists,\nreport steady market for their well located homesites in Point Grey. The advent of the new carline has undoubtedly\ncreated greater interest in this beautiful\nresidential section, and it is not too much\nto hope that, with the usual autumn revival of the realty market, Point Grey\nproperty will be in even greater demand\nthan at present. A homesite should have\nall the environs that go to make a real\nhome, and as all people who know Point\nGrey are fully aware that it possesses\nall the advantages which are requisite\nin a homesite, it is little wonder that this\nprogressive firm find such good demand\nfor their choice holdings in this district.\nIt might be well to note that they have\nmoved to 1065 Granville street, next door\nto their old premises. 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 31\nThe real estate firm of Harwick & Dea-\nkin, recently of Broad and Johnston Sts.,\nhave merged with the Royal Realty Co.\nand have moved into excellent and commodious offices, on the ground floor at\n615 Fort street, Victoria. They are commanding considerable respect as Insurance and Financial Agents. The extended business experience in Victoria, of\nMessrs. Hardwick and Deakin is proving a valuable asset to the new firm.\nThe Shaw Real Estate Co. of 707%\nYates street, Victoria, are enjoying their\nfull share of Victoria's prosperity. They\nreport a healthy demand in city property, also in timber, farm and fruit lands\nThe different real estate agents report\nbrisk inquiry and a number of deals\npending. Messrs. Currie and Power have\njust put through a tract of acreage in\nEsquimalt. The sales of this firm during several days total over $20,000.\nIn a recent interview with Mr. R.\nThompson Tinn, our representative was\ngreatly impressed by Mr. Tinn's confidence regarding the bright future before\nNorth Vancouver and Burnaby. Mr. Tinn\nis one of our first-class brokers and has\na reputation for being conservative in\nhis business, so his opinions come with\nconsiderable force.\nMr. Tinn says: \"The Second Narrows\nBridge, talked over for so many years,\nis now in the hands of men who are able\nand eager to do things. Already their\nplans are far advanced and it is almost\ncertain that construction will begin this\nThe Amalgamated Development Company has made good. See page 39.\nyear. What the bridge means to North\nVancouver is certainly not realized, even\nby many of our leading real estate men.\nAt least three large industrial corporations will locate on the North shore directly the construction of the bridge is\ncommenced. North Vancouver will have\na large business centre of its own, with\nwarehouses, business blocks and large\noffice buildings, just as we have on the\nSouth side of the Inlet. The value of\nresidential property will take big jumps\nwith the development of industrial life;\nand the beautiful sites available for\nhomes make north Vancouver exceptionally desirable.\"\nMr. Tinn's opinion is that now is the\ntime to buy on the North shore, to reap\ncertain profits, the size of which one hesitates to name, the future is so bright.\nContinuing, Mr. Tinn remarks: \"Burnaby and Hastings Townsite will also\nbenefit greatly by the proposed improvements in communication. For those\nwhose business compels them to locate\non the South shore, he would thoroughly\nadvise an examination of the possibilities of Burnaby. Quarter acre lots can\nbe bought there for prices no greater\nthan is being paid for 33-foot lots in\nother districts surrounding Vancouver\u2014\nand Burnaby is just as accessible. There\nare two steam and two electric railroads,\nand another electric railroad nearing\ncompletion; and still another steam railroad charter applied for\u2014all of which\nare to connect and develop the districts\nlying between Vancouver and New Westminster. Most people here make money\nso easily in real estate that they do\nnot stop to reason closely and calculate\nwhere they are likely to get the largest\nreturns.\"\nPACIFIC COAST STOCK EXCHANGE.\nN. B. Maysmith & Co., Ltd.\nBid. Asked.\nPortland Canal Stocks-\nBear River Canyon .11\nBitter Creek .90\nGlacier Creek .13 .25\nKing Edward Mines\t\nLittle Wonder \t\nLittle Joe \u2022). K. Fraction \u2014\nMain Reef .35\nOlga (Pooled) .25\nPortland Canal 31% 34\nPortland Wonder .25\nRush Portland .18\nRed Cliff 1.30 1.50\nRed Cliff Extension .14\nStewart M. & D 2.50 3.25\nVancouver Portland 1.00\nStewart Land Co 26.00\nMiscellaneous\u2014\nAmerican Canadian Oil.. .14 .16\nB. C. Amalgamated Coal. .01 % .02\nB. C. Permanent Loan... 130.00\nB. C. Pulp & Paper Co 15 .26\nB. C. Oil Refining Co 60 .80\nBakeries Limited 7.00 8.00\nCanadian Northwest Oil.. .25\nGreat West Per'nt Loan. 120.00 127.00\nInternational Coal & Coke .67\nMcGillivray Creek Coal,. \u2014\nNicola Valley C. & C 62.00\nPacific Whaiing (Pfd.). . . 60.00\nPingree Mines 02% .04%\nRadio Wireless Tele\t\nRambler Caribou .22 .25\nRoyal Collieries 20 .25\nSouth Africa Scrip 650.00 700.00\nSilica Brick \t\nDiamond Vale Coal & I.. . .14\nLasqueti Island MinFg Co .12\nNorthern Oil .18\nDr. Earl T. McCoy has opened Optical\nParlors, 65 Fairfield Building, and he\nwill be pleased to look over your eyes at\nany time. Dr. McCoy employs the latest\nmethods of optometry and makes a specialty of muscular trouble. He gives satisfaction where others fail. If your\nglasses are not entirely satisfactory, it\nwill pay you to call.\nA forfeit of $1,000 was put up by\nthe Amalgamated Development Company\nin case their representations were not\ncorrect in every particular. Three\nnewspapers sent representatives who\nreport,\u2014better than represented. See\npage 39.\nCnaXrXZXIXXIXXrriXIIIXIITTTTTTTTTTTTTyTTTTTTTTTTIITTT^IIIIITITIIITTTTYTTTTTTT^\nH M\nCable and Telegraphic Address :\n\"STECO,\" Vancouver, B. C.\nCodes Used :\nA. B. C, 5th Edition, and Western Union\nCORRESPONDENCE INVITED\nReference: Bank of Montreal\nSAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT\nPhones :\nHead Office, - 5604\nBranch Office, 4265\nResidence, - 5694\nThe John T. Stevens Trust Co.\nMercantile Buildinsr, 318 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C.\nBranch Office: 2435 Granville Street\nEstates Managed\nFunds Invested\nCompanies Organized\nStocks, ''Bonds, cMines\nf\nWE ARE PREPARED TO ACT AS MANAGERS, TRUSTEES (UNDER\nPOWER OF ATTORNEY), REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS FOR\nCLIENTS, INVESTORS, MORTGAGERS, AND PROPERTY OWNERS.\nCONSULT US. WE PLACE MORTGAGES ON 50% MARGIN OF\nVALUATION YIELDING 6% TO 8% INTEREST\nTimber Limits\nFarm Lands\nInsurance\nColonization\nftx xx x-Cdcxxtxxxxx x_\nl\u00bb\u00abIIIIIETXTIT\u00bbTTiriTIIIXITTTXXX:rXXTXTTTTTTTTTYTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTYTTrT^^\n\u2666 _____________________ ____________________________\nBULLEN & LAMB (Late Bullen Photo Co.)\n'HONE 4018\nThe House of Ideas\n743 Pender Street, W.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nThe Highest of Ideals\nArchitectural Photography\nEnlargements\nAmateur Finishing\nPicture Framing\nCameras and Supplies\n._.._.._.._.._.._\u2022\n\u00bb\u00ab.>\" >_>__.-_._.. _-._*._-\u2022__\u2022\u00bb-_.\u25a0_\u25a0! _.._.._..\u00bb.._.._,,_,._,,\u00bb ,. _.i_.i _.._,._.. _.._\u25a0\u25a0\u2014! _..._._.._-._..\u2022\u2022-_<\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS\n._.._.._.._.. Page 32]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\nProgressive Hew Westminster\n31 n appreciation\nBy A. Edward Roberts.\nIt is doubtful if there is another place\nso richly endowed by nature with so\nmany attractions, which appeal to the\nsettler, as the district of New Westminster. The river transportation is. excellent and the railway facilities are all\nthat could be desired, while the climate\nsoil and geographical position are the\nvery best. Give any man the before\nmentioned environs and it is only a\nmatter of time before he can attain a\nposition of independence. This is not\na mere assertion when applied to the\ndistrict in question, you have only to\nBritish Columbia. He could not resist an\nexclamation of delight when he saw it.\nYou would do the same; because it\nmeans that New Westminster is not following, but leading most other cities in\nmunicipal improvement. Columbia street\nis just one of a whole line of progressive\nmovements that is taking place in this\nrapidly growing city. Verily New Westminster is coming into her own. Her\ncitizens have become fully alive to her\ngreat heritage. And heritage it is. Few\ncities have such a splendid future as\nthis beauty spot, which at the same time\nent is the real \"ground floor\" of this district. At no time in its history was it\nmore conducive to individual advancement than the present. The whole\nFraser valley is on the verge of a great\nwave of commercial activity which will\nsurprise the world and mean the circulation of millions of dollars among its\npeople. It is surprising how rapidly this\ndistrict is filling up; and the joint efforts\nof these new and active citizens are\nnot only increasing their own personal\nwealth but are adding to the wealth of\nthe whole community and are also in-\nW&^^^f^^^'\nGENERAL VIEW OF NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C\nwalk or drive along the banks of the\nmighty Fraser and see the long line\nof substantial houses, golden and green\nfields, sleek cattle, beautiful orchards\nand general air of prosperity that prevails everywhere in this district, to be\nconvinced that here amid such scenes\nof prosperity and contentment one\ncould, by less exertion than in less favored lands, gain that independence of\nthought and action which is so dear to\nthe heart of every man. Westminster\nCity itself is sharing in this great wave\nof prosperity which is sweeping the surrounding country. The writer of this\narticle has from time to time visited\nthis charming city, with its beautiful\nlocation on the banks of that truly wonderful river the Fraser. He was never\nmore struck with its progressiveness\nthan when alighting from one of the\nsplendid interurban cars which run between this city and Vancouver, and beheld Columbia street as it is today.\nImagine a beautiful wide street, with\nstreet car poles in the center, with well\ndesigned cluster lights on either side,\nlined with handsome business; blocks,\nbeautiful banks, and federal buildings\nand you have Columbia street, New\nWestminster, the best lighted street in\nhas the throb of youthful activity and\nthe environs of a future city of wonderful size and importance. One has only\nto gaze upon the wonderful panorama of\nthe Fraser valley to be convinced that\nthe optimistic and broad-minded view\nof its ambitious citizens is well founded.\nOne might ask, \"What class of people\nwould succeed best in this prosperous\ncommunity?\" I would say that there are\ngood chances in all walks of life. I\nthink there are few places where the\n\"Back to the land movement' could be\nmore successfully carried out. What\nBritish Columbia needs is more farmers,\nmore producers; and there are few\nplaces where farm life is more enjoyable and profitable than the district in\nquestion. A small holding only is necessary to make a good substantial living\nand leave a good surplus, because the\nsoil is so fertile, the growth so luxuriant\nthat it is practically no time before a\nholding becomes a home. Then the\nmarket for fruits, vegetables, poultry,\netc., is right at the very doors of the producer so to speak, while the prices for\nthese necessities are at all seasons of\nthe year good and amply repay the wise\nindividual who has the courage to work\nfrom the ground up. And truly the pres-\ncreasing the price of land in general.\nLand at $300 per acre to-day can easily\nbe made worth $800 to $1,000 per acre\nin four or five years. Many a man who\nstarted in a small way in Westminster\ndistrict five years ago is in an independent position to-day, and the chances are\nbetter now than ever.\nDairying, poultry raising, truck farming have already assumed tremendous\nproportions. The prevailing prosperity\nand the rapidly incoming population to\nall parts of British Columbia is daily\nadding strength to the home market,\nwhich will justify any \\ number of new\nfarms.\nI am no prophet, but when I visit this\ndistrict in question and see those splendid rich fields and thickly planted\norchards, and beyond the vast areas still\nawaiting the producing hand of man, I\nfeel that one need not be one to predict\nthat here is, and will be a land flowing\nwith milk and honey, a land where any\nman with an ordinary amount of the\npioneering spirit can make a comfort^\nable living and home of contentment,\nsurrounded by a good class of progressive people, and a climate and general\nenvironment which are unsurpassable. A\n\"farm well cultivated is a joy forever,\" 19\/0]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 33\nand if one has a farm, no matter how\nsmall, in this favored valley, there is no\nreason why one should not have all the\njoys in life and a full share of independence. If, however, one leans more to\nthe commercial and industrial side of\nlife, there is room and opportunity for\nall in the cities and towns, which are\nrapidly growing in size and importance.\nWhatever your calling in life or li\u00a3e-work\nmay be, whatever your ambitions, you will\nfind it hard to find a more pleasant spot\nto work out your destiny than the beautiful yet prosperous district of New Westminster.\nPOINTERS ON THE CARE OF THE\nFEET.\nMr. John Jackson, Vancouver's chiropodist, of suite 305, Loo Block, Hastings\nstreet, who is a graduate of the School\nof Chiropody in London, England, and\na man of considerable experience in the\nart of relieving the pains in the pedal\nextremities of suffering humanity, gives\nthe following free advice:\nWhat To Do and What To Avoid To\nObtain Well Formed and Beautiful\nFeet.\n1. Never wear a shoe that will not\nallow of your five toes having plenty of\nroom.\n2. Never wear a shoe the sole of\nwhich is narrower than your foot.\n3. Never wear a boot or shoe that\nis tight anywhere; it stops the flow of\nblood and weakens the muscles.\n4. Never wear a shoe that is to large\nin the heel or instep. Friction is as bad\nas pressure.\n5. Never wear high heels as they will\nin time give you headaches; your eyes\nwill trouble you; the spine will become\nweakened and your internal organs will\nbecome misplaced.\nThe only gilt-edged, commercial Oil\nproposition on the market, Amalgamated\nDevelopment Company, page 39.\n6. Never allow your children to wear\nheels: it weakens the ankle and it causes\nthe arch to become flat. The spring heel\nis the shoe.\n7. Never avoid bathing the feet too\noften as cleanliness is next to Godliness.\n8. Wear sandals as much as you can\nin summer. There is no reason except\nvanity why the feet should not be as\nfree from pain as the hands.\n9. The feet should be bathed once a\nday in the winter. In summer they\nshould have two daily baths, one morning and evening.\n10. We are departing a long way from\nnature in wearing stockings at all, but\nit is one of the concessions paid to civilization.\n11. Be more than ever careful in your\nchoice of boots and stockings for summer wear. Remember that heat expands\nand cold contracts. But don't think the\nstockings are immaterial. A good gown\nis made over a good lining. Is it not so?\nSo a well-fitting shoe should go over a\nwell-fitting stocking.\nI have known thoughtless women, who\nasserted and proved that they wore well-\nfitting shoes, wonder why their feet were\nstill tender, and I have found that they\nwore stockings a size or more too small.\nThe shoes were indeed roomy, but the\nstockings were so tight that they forced\nthe toes to over-ride each other or press\nso close together that they caused soft\ncorns and stopped the circulation of the\nblood.\nAny further information regarding the\ncare and protection of the foot will be\ncheerfully given by Mr. Jackson, free\nof charge, at his suite of offices, 305 Loo\nBuilding, corner Hastings and Abbott\nstreets, Vancouver. He will also remove\ncorns, bunions, callouses, etc., paihTessly\nand quickly, at a moderate charge. During the past six months Mr. Jackson has\nsuccessfully treated over 600 cases without a single complaint.\nFOR LADIES.\nMadame Humphreys, the progressive\ndermatologist of Vancouver has another\nimportant announcement to make to the\nladies of British Columbia. She wishes\nto inform all her patrons both in and\nout of town, that she has secured the\nrights in British Columbia for the new\nNestte Permanent Hair Wave.\nThis is an ingenious creation and the\nfact that damp weather only tends to\nmake it more wavy and that it will not\nwash out, signifies its superiority over\nthe older form of hair waves. For many\nyears the wave has been a success on\ncut hair but owing to the severe process\nnecessary, it was found impossible to\nwave the hair on the head. Now, thanks\nto electricity, Madame Humphreys informs us that it can be done in this way\nwithout injury to the hair or head, with\nexcellent results.\nIn all parts of Europe society ladies\nhave taken kindly to the treatment, and\nlook upon the Nestte Permanent Hair\nWave as a great boon.\nMadame Humphreys would be pleased\nto give any ladies interested in this new\ncreation complete information regarding\nit. Her Hair Dressing Parlors are at 723\nPender St. W., Vancouver, where her\nvalued services are always at the disposal of her many patrons.\nA company has been formed at Salmon\nArm for the purpose of establishing and\noperating a creamery there.\nMr. Agate and his party of eighteen\nhave completed the reconnaisance survey for the B. C. & A. Railway between\nLytton and Lillooet.\nThe Dominion Department of Indian\nAffairs contemplates the early erection\nof a new Indian Industrial school at the\nSt. Eugene Mission.\nThe refinery plant is all shipped to the\noil fields at Katalla, Alaska, belonging\nto the Amalgamated Development Co.\nSee page 39.\nSAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT\nSAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT\nSAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT\nPhone 589\nThe British Columbia Trust Corporation\nP. 0. Box 903\nHead Office:\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n4%\nSpecial Act of Provincial Legislature, 1907\nINTEREST\nPAID OJSf DEPOSITS\n5%\nAuthorized Capital:\n$100,000,000.00\nDIRECTORS\nP. S. BARNARD, Chairman\nHON. F. CARTER-COTTON, Chairman of Executive\nWILLIAM FARRELL ROBERT KELLY\nRICHARD HALL THOMAS ELLIS\nDAVID R. KER J. C. ARMSTRONG\nEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE\nHON. F. CARTER-COTTON, Chairman\nWILLIAM FARRELL J. C. ARMSTRONG\nROBERT KELLY\nOFFICERS\nF. J. P. GIBSON, Manager\nJ. B. BARRY, Secretary\nPossessing modern facilities in banking\nrooms and vaults, an efficient Board\nofDirectors and Officers, and ample\nresources to guarantee the security of\nfunds entrusted to our care, we invite\nyour business in- our Savings and\nTrust Departments.\nSAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT\nSAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT\nSAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERT ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 34]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\no_\nW\n0.\nw\nw\nQ\nQ\n<\n<\nK\nD\nCQ\nW\nW\nPQ\nw\n>\nfa\no\n> 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 35\nBURNABY AND DEER LAKES.\nThe picture on opposite page shows\nthe beautiful valley containing Burnaby\nand Deer Lakes\u2014the summer homes of\nsome of Vancouver's best ciitizens are\nshown on the shores of Deer Lake. It\n?vas impossible to show all the improvements on and adjoining these lakes.\nFor the benefit of those who do not\nknow this Valley, we would say to them\nto go out at the first opportunity and\nthat they will be amply repaid for the\ntrouble.\nAs the soil is first class and capable of\ngrowing all kinds of fruits and vegetables, it is a profitable, as well as a\npleasant undertaking, to own and .cultivate a piece of ground from a half acre\nup in extent.\nThe new extension of the B. C. Electric\nto New Westminster, passing as it does\nbetween these two lakes, makes these\nproperties very accessible.\nCO-OPERATION IN PUBLICITY\nCAMPAIGNS.\nThrough a proposal of Mr. H. G. Hall,\nthe Nelson Board of Trade has taken definite steps toward enlisting the co-operation of the entire Kootenay and Boundary districts in a comprehensive scheme\nfor advertising the district and attracting settlers and capital.\nThe Amalgamated Development Company has made good. See page 39.\nThe establishment of an agent in London is proposed, also to induce strong\ncompanies to invest in large tracts of\nland, and by clearing the same bring in\nnumbers of settlers.\nThe effective displays of Kootenay\nfruit and flowers at the exhibitions at\nCalgary, Brandon, Winnipeg and Toronto,\nhave conclusively proven that in advertising the land of the Kootenays for settlement the Publicity Committee has a\nvery fertile district to recommend. Regarding the exhibits mentioned, the Publicity Committee expressed appreciation\nof the assistance rendered by the C. P.\nR, in donating express charges.\nThe City Council of Victoria voted\n$4,000 towards this year's work of the\nVancouver Island Development League.\nThe Bank of Montreal donated $200 for\nthe same purpose.\nIn appreciation of the excellent work\nthe Prince Rupert Publicity Club has accomplished, the Board of Trade and the\nCity Council of Prince Rupert have voted\nsubstantial sums to swell the exchequer\nand meet the expenses of the club.\nThe energy of the Nanaimo Citizens'\nLeague and their Secretary, H. R. Hick-\nling, has been rewarded by monetary\nassistance from the Nanaimo City Council.\n\u2022To the joint efforts of the Boards of\nTrade of Alberni and Port Alberni, is due\nthe great success of the recent conven\ntion of the Vancouver Island Development League, held in that district.\nSCHOOL FOR CLOVERDALE.\nPlans are being drawn for the erection\nof a modern four-roomed school at Clo-\nverdale, for the municipality of Surrey,\nthe architect being Mr. C. H. Clow of\nNew Westminster, whose design and\nscheme of arrangement have the approval\nof the department of education. Tenders\nare to be invited very shortly and it is\nexpected that no delay will occur in\nawarding the contract.\nLARGE EXPENDITURE.\nEstimated expenditures by the C. P. R.\nfor repairs during the present year in\nthe Nelson district and exclusive of the\nProcton hotel project, will aggregate\n$1,080,000. Some three hundred miles of\nrailroad will be built; several new steel\nbridges are under construction, seventy\nmiles of road will be laid with the eighty-\nfive-pound Steel rails, wooden bridges\nwill be filled in, retaining walls of stone\nmasonry built, sixty miles of track ballasting done, a brick round-house built\nat Smelter Junction and a multitude of\nsmaller jobs handled. Between 500 and\n600 laborers are now at work at the\nvarious points and within a few weeks\nalmost as many more will be engaged.\nOil in large quantities\u2014Amalgamated\nDevelopment Co., page 39.\nFor Burnaby Property\nOn Either DEER or BURNABY LAKES.\nOn the NORTH SIDE of BURNABY LAKE\nwith Southern Exposure.\nOr on present\nTRAMLINE TO NEW WESTMINSTER.\nSee Ross & Shaw\n318 Hastings St. W., Vancouver, B. C,\nTHERE ABB OPPORTUNITIES IH _BVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEI_IENTS Page 36]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\nFAR FLUNG INFLUENCE.\nAlthough but a short time in the field,\n\"Opportunities\" is attracting attention\nfrom distant parts of the world. It is a\nsource of satisfaction to the management to have numerous letters coming\nfrom foreign parts, where the desire to\nknow more and more concerning British\nColumbia grows as the months advance.\nFollowing up a circulation campaign in\nEngland, we are about to launch one\ncovering the entire. Dominion, and continued throughout the United States,\nfrom which sources many of the future\ncitizens of British Columbia will come,\nand whence will be sent large sums of\nmoney for investment in this province.\nWe have been careful to avoid the publication of anything concerning the province that is overdrawn or exaggerated.\nThe bare facts concerning British Columbia are in themselves sufficient to attract\nattention throughout the entire world.\nEvery loyal citizen of this province believes that never was there so favored a\ncountry. At no time in the world's history has a man or a people been able to\n...............\n................\n\u2022\u2022\u00ab\u00a7\u2022\nBaxter & Johnson Co. 1\nLIMITED\nOFFICE OUTFITTERS\nUnderwood Typewriter\n\" Macey Filing Cabinets\n\" Gunn Sectional Bookcases\nSteel Vault Fittings |\nPHONE 730\n721 Yates St.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n\u25a0-\"\u00bb\"_\u25a0\u25a0_\u25a0\u2022\u00bb\u25a0'\n>............................................................................^\nSTEWART'\nAt the recent Government Auction of\nStewart Townsite lots, 70 feet on Fifth\nStreet realised $10,000. We own 86 feet\nadjoining Northern Hotel (the best Hotel\nin Stewart), fronting on Fifth Street and\nrunning back 256 feet to Sixth Street.\nPrice $6,500, one-third cash, ?\nbalance one and two years.\nI Indo-Canadian Brokerage Co. {\n| P.O. Fox 952 VICTORIA, B. C, ?\nT. HARRISON W. AKENHEAD\nDaily Stage to Cowichan Lake\nLIVERY\nMODERATE RATES\nComer GOVERNMENT and STATION STREETS\nPhone 12 DUNCAN, B. C.\nlook forward to the future with greater\nassurance; and nowhere, we believe, are\nthe returns from capital or labor invested\nso rich and bountiful.\nA couple of representative letters are\npublished herewith, showing in their own\nway the interest that is being taken in\nBritish Columbia and in \"Opportunities.\"\nRenk, Upper Nile Province,\nSudan\n18-6-10\nThe Manager,\n\"Opportunities\" Magazine.\nDear Sir:\u2014\nIs it possible to send your magazine to\nthis out-of-the-way spot for six months?\nIf you will let me know how muh it is\nI will 'Send you six months' subscription\nfrom England. I hope to come out and\nhave a look at British Columbia next\nyear, and, perhaps, eventually to settle\nthere. I, meanwhile, want to get hold of\nany information I can with a view to\ninvesting a little money.\nYours faithfully,\nC. P. BRUME.\nIndex to advertisements\n45 Montpellier Terrace,\nCheltenham, England.\nJuly 4th.\nDear Sir: \u2014\nI am just in receipt of the \"Opportunities,\" for which I thank you, and will be\nglad if you will kindly forward me your\nmonthly number to this adress. Enclosed you will find P. O. O. for 4s 6d, as\nI would like to subscribe to your charming little paper.- If you issue any special numbers I shall always be glad of\na copy, which will be paid for on receipt.\nI have enjoyed reading your June number, which is full of interesting news\nfrom beginning to end.\nSincerely yours,\nROSE H. TAYLOR.\nrnr\\j\\STJiru\\Tu\\T\\su\\njru\\riJxr\\jTj\\nj\\j\\ _T_n_p\nHENRY CROFT\nH. G. ASHBY 5\nAssoc. Mem. Inst. C. E. \\ c _i j\nM. Inst. Mech. E. | England\nNotary Public\nCable Code : BEDFORD MACNEIL.\nCable Address: CRAS, Vancouver\nTelepbone 5937\n1 CROFT & ASHBY\nREAL ESTATE, TIMBER\nMINES, GOAL LANDS\nAbsolutely Finest farm in B. C.; 40 miles from\nVancouverj Net Income 10%: 1911 will be\n20 % on purchase price\u2014$100,000.\nOther Good Farms from $3,000 to $30,000.\n4000 Acres First Class Agricultural Land ; level\nrolling country, North End of Vancouver Island, adjacent to Hardy Bay, @ $7.50 per\nacre.\n\u2022CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\n->\u25a0\u25a0}\u00bb\nLRoom 5, Winct Bidg. Vancouver, B_ G- p\nu u-Ln_TJT_rT_n_rLr _jTrurr__xn_ru_jT_riJT_n_ru__T_ro\nAuld, Gwinn & McLarty 39\nArmes, James Back cover\nAnderson & Clayton 38\nArnott, G. W. & Co 27\nAustin, A. E. & Co 38-2\nBritish-American Trust Co., Ltd 5\nBritish-Canadian Securities, Ltd 36\nBagshawe, E. C. B. & Co 38\nBaxter & Johnson Co., Ltd 36\nBeeman, H 38\nBritish Columbia Trust Corporation. .38-33\nBullen & Lamb 31\nCanadian Investment Co 5\nCapital City Realty Co 38\n\"Cascade\" Beer 29\nChappell & Blair 38\nChild, E. & Co 39\nChristiansen-Brandt Co 5\nCollinson, J. A 38\nCroft & Ashby 36\nCurrie & Power 39\nDallas Hotel 42\nDevine, H. T. & Co., Ltd 38\nDominion Glazed Cement Pipe Co., Ltd 40\nDresser, W. W. 38-2\nDuthie & Wishart 38\nElliot, (Mrs) J. E.\nElis, W. H\t\n38\nFlexman & Browne 2\nPoster & Fisher 5\nFranklin, M. H. & Co 38\nGoddard, H. & Son 38\nGoodyear & Matheson 38\nGrandy, E. & Son 38\nGranville Brokerage Co 38-41\n\u25a0 Harman & Appleton 38\nHarrison, Samuel & Co 38\nEiarrison & Akenhead 36\nHaslett & Whitaker 38\n\"H. & W.,\" Nanaimo 2\nHale Bros. & Kennedy 6\nHenderson, E. & Co 38\nHewlings & Co 38\nHinkson, Siddall & Son 38\nHodgson, T 38\nHolden, William 29\nHumphreys, Madame 4\nImperial Realty Co 38\nIndo-Canadian Brokerage Co 36\nJackson, John 39\nLeonard & Reid 38\nLeek, George 38\nLougheed & Coates 5\nLatimer, Ney & Tavish 3\n38\n9r\nMarriot & Fellows \t\nMaysmith, N, B. & Co., Ltd _w\nMeed, William 42\nMole & Keefer 29\nMoncrieff & Co 38\nMorgan, E. S 38\nMcCombe Realty Co 27\nMcCoy, Dr. Earl T 39\nNaden & Co 27\nNanaimo Machine Works 42\nNational (The) Real Estate Co 38\nNew Tourist Hotel (The) 27\nNorth Coast Land Co \". 2\nPalace Hotel\t\n\"Pantorium\" \t\nParker, Chas. L. .\nPattulo & Radford.\nPemberton, C. C.. . .\nPlanta, A. E., Ltd.\nPlimley, Thos. . .. ,\n 27\n 42\n 38\n 38\n 38\n 38\n 27\nPhilpot & Lang 42\n\"Portland\" (The), Victoria \u2022. . . 39\nPotter, J. W 27\nRea, C. Arthur 38\nRoseborough & Harris 42\nRoyal Realty Co 38\nRoss & Shaw 35\nSeabrook, F. H. & Co 38\nShaw Realty Co 38\nSmith & Jones 38\nSmith & Smith 38\nSparhawk, M. M 39\nStevens, John T. Trust Co 31\nTinn, Thomson R 43\nVancouver Brokerage, Limited 38\nVancouver Trust Co., Ltd 25\nWard, Burmester & von Graevenitz. ... 29\nWescott & Letts 38\nWestminster Hall 42\nWindle, W. H 29-38\nWoodworkers (The), Limited 42\nYoung & France,\n27\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 37\nKERRISDALE\nIn making any investment\u2014bonds, debentures, stocks, or real estate, one should carefully consider the character of the house offering the security.\nA reliable house builds up a clientele who do all their investing through that house. To\nretain and increase the number of these customers the house must not only deal fairly but\nmust make sure of the stability of each offering.\nOne dissatisfied customer hurts such a house more than can be remedied by a dozen\nsatisfied clients.\nLet us tell you more about this phase of the question at any time you are considering an\ninvestment of any nature. Right now we have some real good offerings in debentures and\nstocks. We do not neglect real estate, either. For instance, we have a good deal of\nfaith in Kerrisdale. We believe property there will advance in price. It is a most\ndesirable locality for a home.\nAmong 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\nproperty has a frontage of 140 feet on Wilson Road and a depth of 325 feet.\nKerrisdale is only about 20 minutes from Hastings Street, and has a 5 cent car fare. As\na home one could not wish anything more delightful and as an investment we believe this\nproperty to be one of the best we have to offer. The price is $12,500, on terms. Let\nus tell you more about it.\nBRITISH CANADIAN SECURITIES, LIMITED\nDOMINION TRUST BUILDING.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 38]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\n\"Opportunities\" Brokers' and Business Directory\nZbc progressive Brokerage, financial and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia.\nPhone 2900\nA. E. AUSTIN & CO.\nReal Estate and Insuranoe.\n328 Granville St., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nT. B. ANDERSON & C. CLAYTON\nReal Estate\nPhone 5913\n1069 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nE. C. B. BAGSHAWE & CO.\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n1112 Broad St., Bownass Building\nPhone 2271 - - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 5726 P. O. Box 536\nH. BEEMAN\nSpecialist in Point Grey\n221 Winch Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nB. C. TRUST CORPORATION\nBk. B. N. A. Bldg., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 589\nJ. A. COLLINSON\nReal Estate\nPhone 4154\n!40a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nCHAPPEEL & BLAIR\nReal Estate\nPhone 4802\n443 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. W. DRESSER\nInsurance, Real Estate\nPhone 3020\n438 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nH. T. DEVINE COMPANY, LIMITED\nReal Estate, Loans and Insurance\n437 Seymour St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 1627\nPhone 3628\nDUTHIE 8b WISH ART\nReal Estate and Financial Agents\n520 Pender St. W. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. H. ELLIS\nInvestment Broker\n1122 Government St., VICTORIA, B. C.\nM. H. PRANKLIN CO.\nReal Estate Brokers\nAcreage, Building' Lots and Homes\nPhone 970\n449 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGODDARD & SON\nLand Agents, Notaries\nPhone 3202\n329 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nLEONARD & REID\nReal Estate and Fire Insurance\nMining1 Properties in Portland Canal,\nHazelton and Queen Charlotte\nDistricts\nPRINCE RUPERT AND STEWARD\nB.C.\nTel. 5852\nGOODYEAR & MATHESON\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n106 Loo Building VANCOUVER, B. C\nGRANVILLE BROKERAGE CO.\nReal Estate, Insuranoe, Commission Agts.\nPhone L4560\n1017 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nHARMAN & AFFLETON\nReal Estate\n534 Yates Street - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 1918\nSAMUEL HARRISON & CO.\nBrokers and Financial Agents. Agents\nStewart Land Co., Ltd.\nStewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.\nHASLETT & WHITAKER\nReal Estate, Timber, Insurance\nPhone 5807\nRoom 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nHEWLINGS & CO.\nReal Estate, Timber, Etc.\nPhone 1734\nRoom 4, 1109 Broad St. VICTORIA, B. C.\nHINKSON, SIDDALL & SON\nReal Estate and Insurance\nPhone 869\nNew Grand Theatre Bldg. 1311 Gov't St.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nt: HODGSON\nReal Estate and Insurance\nBox 604 - NANAIMO,\nB. C.\nIMPERIAL REALTY CO.\nReal Estate and Insurance\n307 Loo Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGEORGE LEEK\nReal Estate, Notary Public\nExchange Block PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.\nW. P. Moncreiff P. E. Townshend\nW. F. MONCREIFF & CO.\nReal Estate and Financial Brokers\nRoom 304, Winch Bldg. Hastings St. W.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nMARRIOTT & FELLOWS\nReal Estate\nPhone 1077\n134 Hastings St. - VANCOUVER, B.C.\nE. S. MORGAN\nIndustrial Sites, Waterfrontage on Bur-\nrard Inlet, etc.\nSuite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.\n429 Pender St. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 5833.\nW. O. Shrumm H. Lambert\nTHE NATIONAL REAL ESTATE\nLoans, Insurance\nPhone 6320\n58 Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPATTULO & RADFORD\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nP.O. Box 1535 PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.\nCable Address: \"Patrad\"\nC. C. PEMBERTON\nReal Estate and Notary Public\nRoom 11, 707V2 Yates St. - Phone 1711\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nCHAS. L. PARKER\nBroker and Commission Agent\nSuite 50-51, 429 Pender St.\nPhone 3859 - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nC. ARTHUR REA\nLate of Brandon, Manitoba\nReal Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc\nLaw Chambers, VICTORIA, B. C.\nROYAL REALTY COMPANY\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nPhone 2394 Notary Public\n'615 Fort St: - VICTORIA, B. C.\nSHAW REAL ESTATE CO.\nCity, Timber, Farm and Fruit Lands\n707% Yates Street - VICTORIA, B. C.\nSMITH & SMITH\nReal Estate and Commission Agents\nP.O. Box 41\nJ. H. Smith W. R. Smith\n4th Ave. - - STEWART, B. C.\nGEO. H. SMITH & ARTHUR JONES\nDealers in Property in Vancouver, New\nWestminster and the Fraser Valley\nP. O. Box 165 - - - Phone 1743\nP. H. SEABROOK & CO.\nReal Estate and Timber\nPhone 4043\n316 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nVANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.\nReal Estate and Loans\n62 Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nWESCOTT & LETTS\nReal Estate and Insurance Agents\nRoom 3, Moody Block - Yates St.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nH. W. WINDLE\nReal Estate Broker\nPhone 5320\n532 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u2022$-\u2022_\u2022>\n........ \u25a0_\u25a0!_.._.!$\u25a0\nf\nNANAIMO\nThis is not a ' Boom\" Town, although VALUES ARE STEADLY INCREASING.\nTODAY IS THE RIGHT TIME TO BUY IF YOU WISH TO MAKE MONEY.\nWe are the oldest established Real Estate firm in the City and can give reliable\nadvice to Investors and Homeseekers. Write or call\nA. E. PLANTA, LTD., Real Estate and Insurance Agents, NANAIMO, B. C.\nEstablished 1888\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022_.._.._\u2022\u25a0_\u2022\u2022_.._.._\u2022._.._.._..\n\u00ab&W\".\"-\"-\u00ab\n\u00bb\u00a7*\u2022.....\u2022.._.._... .\u25a0_.._.._.._... .._.\u25a0.......\u25a0\u25a0_....\u25a0_.._........_.._.._........X.\nj SHAMROCK LIVERY!\nTEAMINGandFEED STABLES\nE. GRANDY AND SON\nPost Office Address: PORT ALBERNI, B. C.\n.%......\u25a0_.._...\u25a0\n.__._.._..\u2022.._..\n>._.-j-\n__\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0._\u25a0._.!\u00bb\nRes.: 3030 Quadra St. Office Phone 2418\nE. HENDERSON & CO.\nFarms, Timber and Mines\nFRUIT LANDS\n711 Yates Street\nRoom 1, Sylvester Block\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n\u2022\u2666\n.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.,\n'\u2022\u00ab*.._\u2022\u25a0__ \u00bb$\u00bb\nE. J. Bright\nT. A. McQueen\nThe Capital City Realty Co.\nREAL ESTATE\nFINANCIAL AND INSURANCE AGENTS\n618 Yates St. Phone 2162 VICTORIA. B.C.\n...._.._\u25a0._.._.._\u25a0._\u25a0\u25a0_.._.._.._.\n..............\n\u2022*_*\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 39\nWe make a specialty of Business, Farm and Residential\nProperty.\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\nmm & power\nREAL ESTATE and INSURANCE AGENTS\n1214 Douglas Street P. 0. Box 316\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n\u00bb\u00a3\u2666\u2022_\u00ab<\n............._.._.._..\n-_.._.._.._.,\ni\n.\n\u00bb!\u2666\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\nTHE PORTLAND\nMrs, Baker. Proprietress\n723 YATES ST. Phone 2404\nThe only modern rooming house in town.\nSteam heat, running hot and cold water and\ntelephones in all rooms. Newly furnished\nthroughout, and up-to-date in every respect.\nTERMS MODERATE\nVICTORIA, B. C\n._.._.._.._.._........_....._....._.._....._.._..........._.._.._.._....\nEYES EXSMINED\nBY LATEST METHODS OF OPTOMETRY\nDR. EARL T. McCOY\nEYE8ICHT SPECIALIST\nGLAS8ES FITTED\n65 Fairfield Bldg., Cor. Granville & Pender St_>.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n19\nDATES OF PROVINCIAL FALL\nFAIRS.\nVancouver\u2014August 15, 16, 17, 18,\nand 20.\nVictoria\u2014September 27 to ^ocober 1.\nWestminster\u2014October 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.\nKamloops\u2014September 28, 29 and 30.\nVernon\u2014September 15, 16 and 17.\nChilliwack\u2014September 20, 21 and 22.\nNelson\u2014September 28, 29 and 30.\nArmstrong\u2014September 22 and 23.\nComox\u2014September 22 and 23.\nAlberni\u2014September 14 and 15.\nNanaimo\u2014September 16 and 17.\nNicola\u2014September 13 and 14.\nKelowna\u2014September 20 and 21.\nSalmon Arm\u2014September 23 and 24.\nCrarikrook\u2014September 23 and 24.\nAgassiz (Kent)\u2014September 27 and 28.\nCranbrook\u2014September 23 and 24.\nLadner\u2014 September 23 and 24.\nEburne\u2014September 29 and 30.\nMaple Ridge\u2014September 21 and 22.\nSummerland\u2014October 17 and 18.\nNorth and South Saanich\u2014October 7\nand 8.\nCoquitlam\u2014September 20.\nLangley\u2014September 28.\nSurrey\u2014September 27.\nIslands\u2014September 21.\nNew Westminster's new lighting\nsystem, on Columbia Street, was recently\ncompleted, and produces a decidedly\nsatisfactory and pleasing effect.\nJ Phom\n\u2022\n. 953 P. 0. Box 817\nE.\nCHILD 0 CO.\n\u2022\n*\n\u2022\n_\n\u2022\nREAL ESTATE\nFort George Lands\nJ\n. Room 9, 707M YATES STREET\n\u2022\n\u2022\n\u2022\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nI\nI\n1\nI M,M, SPAR HAWK |\n\u2022 .\nI GENERAL MERCHANDISE |\n1 I\n\/? We carry a full line of latest Imported Goods \u00ab\nColumbia near 4th Ave.\nSTEWART, B. C,\nHours 9 to 6\nPhone 3351\nJOHN JACKSON\nScientific Chiropodist\nCorns removed without pain. Bunions, Ingrowing\nNails, Club Nails, Callouses, Pedicuring, Fetid\nOdors and Sweaty Feet successfully treated.\n350 Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.\nVANCOUVER, B.C.\nOIL!\nOIL! \u00a9IL! OIL!\nAmalgamated Development Go.\nOIL!\nOur Statement Triumphantly Confirmed!\nREAD\nTHIS!\nCordova, Alaska, August 3.\u2014The party of shareholders in the Amalgamated Development\nCompany have now spent a week in looking\" over the oil holdings of the Company, and are\nimpressed with the extent and nature of the resources. The party has visited Katalla Wells,\nRedwood Well, Chilcat Well, and Headquarters at Chilcat and Burls Creeks. The members\nhave seen the oil bubbling in the borings and numerous seepages. The only pump already\nrigged up at Chilcat Well No. 1 yesterday pumped fifty-six barrels in a two-hour test. The\nhigh quality of the oil is unmistakable, and the party has been taken by surprise by the extent\nof the improvements on the property, which include twenty-one miles of wagon road, two and\na quarter miles of tramways, camps and machinery. Construction of a pipe line to Kanak\nHarbor and the installation of additional pumps, so that heavy shipments can be made in the\nnear future, are the next steps.\nThis stock can be purchased by holders of Northern and International Certifi-\ncate of Exchange for $1 per share. Others can buy for $2 per share, par value $1\nALJLD. GWIN & MceLARTY\n518 HHSTINGS ST. W.\n\u2666\u00ab^\nTELEPHONE 4327\n'^w^^'B^n^\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IK EV ERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 40]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nSewer Pipe Satisfaction\nUSERS OF SEWER PIPE will rejoice in the fact that they\ncan now secure\neONeRETE\nSewer Pipe\nfor every requirement, which will eliminate all their worries in\nthat direction.\nOur pipe represents perfection in Sewer Pipe.\nIt is absolutely true, it is easily laid. You save the breakage\ncost incurred by other pipe.\nBest of all, it costs you no more than ordinary\nclay pipe. El *\nWe can quote you immediate delivery from a large stock.\nEvery Builder, Plumber and Contractor in British Columbia\nshould be using\" our pipe, and we know that before long- such\nwill be the case.\nEndorsed by the leading Engineers,\n% Architects and Contractors of British\nColumbia for Sewer & Irrigation Work\nPhone in your orders to 6926, or address\nDominion Glazed Cement Pipe Co., Ltd\n429 Pender Street, Vancouver\nGENERAL OFFICES, DOMINION TRUST BUILDING\nFACTORY AT FALSE CREEK\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910]\nLulu Island Snap\nTen acres on No. Six Road, now planked.\nWill have water past the property this fall.\nProperty on both sides held at $300 an acre.\nWho wants this at $250 per acre? It is the\nbest and safest investment you could make.\nBox M, Opportunities Pub. Co.\nThousand Dollar Bonus\nThe man who secures this will have made\none thousand dollars as soon as the deal is\nthrough. A ten-acre block situated east of\nNew Westminster with trackage and facing\non government road. A beautiful piece of\nproperty which will be worth $500 an acre\nwithin a year. Surrounding acreage off the\nroad and without trackage now selling at $350\nper acre. This for a quick sale at $250 per\nacre; $1400 cash, balance over three years.\nBox L, Opportunities Pub. Co.\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 41\nSU\nERHOME\nHere is a chance to secure a summer home\non the north arm of Burrard Inlet at a low\nprice. A 3-roomed cedar bungalow at Woodlands with a superb view overlooking the\nentire inlet. Lot three-quarters of an acre.\nMountain water piped past the property.\nGood boat service convenient for business\nmen. Ideal location. This is a genuine snap.\nPrice $1200; one half cash, balance over 2\nyears. Address,\nBox K, Opportunities Pub. Co.\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666^\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\nTHE GRANVILLE\nBROKERAGE CO,\nReal Estate, Insurance and Commission Agents\nmm\nBULKLEY VALLEY\n160 ACRES at $8 per acre; 2 miles from G. T. P.\nRailway, under construction ; close to River ;\nspecially adapted to Mixed Farming. If you are\nlooking- for an ideal spot to become Independent,\nYOU SHOULD LOOK INTO THIS-^f\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\nGRANDVIEW PROPERTY A SPECIALTY\n1017 Granville Street J\u00a3 VANCOUVER, B, C.\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u25a0\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\nqjxn\nnjxr__Tr_j\"__TnnjTr__Tn_r^^\ns\nDo You Want I\nto Make\nSome Money?\n_1_~l_p\nF you have a little spare time it\nwill pay you to act as representative to ''Opportunities\" in your district,\nor better still, if you can give us all\nyour time you can make a handsome\nrevenue with little difficulty. A card\nwill bring you sample copies and an\noutline of our proposition, which is a\nmost liberal one.\n*\nADDRESS CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT\nOPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.\nDxrurui_TJi_TruTnruTn_r_JTJ__T^ r__T_rir__vt-T-nnja_Tr__Tj^^\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 42]\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[1910\nTRANSIT!\nAND LIVERY\nROSEBOROUGH & HARRIS\nSECOND AVENUE\nPort Alberni, B. C.\n.\u00a3..\u00ab.._.._.._..\n____\u00bb\u00bb.\u00abw..\u00ab..\u00ab..|t\n\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u00ab..\nThe Best of Workmanship\nTelephone 1396\nThe Woodworkers\nLIMITED\nShow Gases, Bank, Store\nand Hotel fixtures, Doors\nand Windows of all kinds\nLumber, Lath, Shingles, Etc.\nOffice and Factory: 2843 Douglas Street\nVICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA\n,.\u2022.._.._.....\u2022.._.._..\n...\u2022_.._.._.._.._.. e \u00bb\u2022.\u2022.\"-.....-.\u25a0_ \u2022\u25a0_.<\n........ \u2022\u2022\u2022_.._.\u2022_\u2022 ._.._.._\u2022._.\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022_.._.._.._\u25a0._.._.._.._.. 0\"_..-\".\"\u2022\u2022\u2022-.\u00ab\u00a3\u2022\nDALLAS HOTEL\nThe only Seaside Hotel in the City\nFifteen minutes walk from P. 0.\nOne minute s walk from street cars\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nWjf _\u25a0'_\u25a0\u25a0 _\u00ab-_-.__\u25a0\u2022\u25a0-\u25a0\u00bb'\n.-.._.\u25a0\u00ab\u25a0\u25a0........._.-_.._....._....._.._..\u00a3.\n\u00bb*.._.._.._.._.._..\u00ab.._....._.._.._.._.. ......_.._.._.._.._.._.._..\u00bb.._.._..\u00ab.._..*.\nf P. 0. ox 413 Telephones: L97, House L207\n\u25a0\n\u2022 Agents tor tlic Fairbanks-Morse Gas and Gasoline\n\u2022 Engines\nt\nf Dealer in Bicycles and Sundries\ni\nI Automobile and Bicycle Repairs on Shortest\n? Notice\na\nj CAPACITY FOR STORING FOURTEEN AUTOS\nNANAIMO MACHINE WORKS\n{ R. J. WENBORN, PROPRIETOR\n1 Chapel St. NANAIMO, B. C.\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022-\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022_.\n.\u2022..\u00ab..\u2022..\u00ab..*..\nPANTORIUM\n1\na\nlofing\nPh\none 1823\nRenovating\ns\nuil\n.s Sj\n_>ong\ned\nand Pi\n\"essed\nfor 50c.\no\nne\ntrial\nwill\nma!\n.e you a\nregular\ncustomer.\n313 Gamble St. Vancouver. B, C.\nCONCRETE PIPE WILL SAVE CITY\nTHOUSANDS.\nNew Firm Awarded Contract for Next\nYear's Sewer Work.\nThat the Board of Works has saved\nthe city of Vancouver thousands of dollars by alloting the contract fcr sewer\npipe for the coming year to the Dominion\nGlazed Concrete Pipe Company, Ltd., is\nthe opinion of experts who have for some\ntime been comparing the newer article\nwith the old clay style.\nAt the Board of Works session last\nevening the above-mentioned iirm secured the contract for the minimum amount\nrequired for sewer purposes during the\ncoming year, the figure submitted being\n$70,910. Two other tenders were sud-\nmitted, these being for the clay article,\none from Evans, Coleman & Evans at\n$76,930.50, and the other from C. Gardiner Johnson & Co. at $75,261.50. The contract awarded yesterday calls for pipe\nall the way from four inches in diameter\nupwards.\nOn the four-inch article the price is the\nsame as for the older clay style, but above\nthat size the city saves on every foot\nin the quotations submitted by the Dominion Company, the reduction running\nfrom 35 to 50 cents per foot above the\n12-inch size. This latter condition is accounted for by the fact that when the\nclay pipe is laid over the 12-inch diameter, it has to be encased in cement, a\nprecaution not necessary when the glazed concrete article is used. The life of\nthe latter, as* compared to that of the\nformer, also is pointed out as a strong\nargument in its favor.\u2014\"Vancouver Province.\"\nPLANNING SHIPBUILDING PLANT.\nThe British Columbia Marine Railway\nCompany is notifying the Ottawa Government that it proposes to put in a\nsuitable shipbuilding plant and will submit a tender for the construction of a\nCanadian cruiser of the Bristol type at\nEsquimalt. Tenders are now being invited for the construction of a warship,\nand G. J. Desbartes, deputy minister of\nthe naval service, is advertising inviting\nfirms to cotify him of their desire to\ntender. The plans and specifications of\nthe new vessel, which have been approved by the British Admiralty, are\nof a confidential nature and will be submitted only to approved firms, which will\nhave to show that they have, or propose\nto establish, suitable plants considered\nsufficient for building vessels of the Bristol class. The intention is to build the\nvesell for the Pacific Coast, and the British Columbia .Marine Railway Companyq\nis the only concern capable of carrying\nout the work. The Atlantic vessels will\nprobably be built on the eastern coast. No\nwarships may be built on the Great Lakes,\nthe Rush-Bagot treaty providing against\nthe construction of vessels in these\nwaters.\nrn_Trar_njrT_n_ra_TJT_^^\nH. W. Philpot H. W. Lang 5\nTELEPHONE 6604\nPHILPOT & LANG\nREAL ESTATE\nTIMBER INSURANCE\nMONEY TO LOAN\nHomes in all parts of the Cit.\\\n1403 DOMINION TRUST BUILDING\nC Vancouver, B.C. p\nm_^u-_i xjuiJTjrnjrnj u\nWHOLESALE\nFruit\nProduce and\n! Provision Merchant\nf-\n._.._.._.._........_........_.._.._.._.._.._.\n\u2022t\nI Westminster Hall\n{ VANCOUVER, B. C\nI Tlie Presbyterian College of th\\e West\nThorough training in all years\nof the Theological Course.\nTutorial Department for men\npreparing for Arts. \u00abJf & &P\nThe most distinguished\nscholars from all parts of the\nworld lecture from time to time.\n{ SUMMER SESSION\na\nI For calendar, write PROF. G.\n{ C.PIDGEON,D.D., Registrar\ni\n.\u2022_-\u2022_-\u2022-\u2022\u2022*\u2022\u2022-\n-\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\"\ni\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNI T>f ElS\nS\n\/ %\nPage 3\nI\nOPPOR TUN IT IES\nWE 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\nreason is that Vancouver is a great seaport city in the making*. Property\nmust steadily increase in value during\" the period of its growth. It is stated by the\nbest of authority, that we will have a population of 500,000 in fifteen years. The city\nhas all the natural conditions to make it a very important centre. It has untold mineral\nwealth and great timber areas. Its fisheries are world renowned. Its climate is deligfhtful.\nEmigration is pouring\" into Canada from all parts of the world and into the\nprairies and British Columbia in particular. The prairies may be likened to a great\nmilk pan, the cream of which flows naturally into British Columbia.\nAs the prairie farmers become wealthy, they will find their way into British\nColumbia, to take advantage of its excellent climate and enjoy its magnificent scenery.\nHon. Wm. Graham, Minister of Railways, stated in his speech here at the Premier's\nreception, that no transcontinental railway can afford to keep out of Vancouver. We will\nhave, at least, five such terminals.\nIt is absolutely certain that Greater Vancouver will first include South Vancouver\nand Point Grey, and it is stated on reliable authority, that if every acre in these two\nmunicipalities were subdivided into 33 ft. lots, allowing four persons to the lot, this\nwhole area would not accommodate 250,000 people. We have yet subdivided only 8^\nsquare miles, while Winnipeg has subdivided 44 and Seattle 76 square miles.\nIf these statements are true, and we believe they are, then each dollar invested\nintelligently in Point Grey and South Vancouver will grow into many dollars.\nWe own property in both these localities, the most select of which is Granville\nTerminus. We are in a position to hold all we have indefinitely ; but, as we are in\nbusiness to buy and sell, we will let you have any lots we own at as low a price as you can\nbuy the adjoining acreage, and give you three years to pay for it.\nIf you are interested, call and talk it over. Should you not wish to buy, perhaps\nyou might have some good acreage to sell, and if you have, we are ready to buy right now,\nbut remember, we only buy choice property on main thoroughfares or carlines.\nLatimer, Ney & JVLc Tavish\n419 Pender Street West\n+ %*\nVancouver, B. C.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS OPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n>.TS?Ti\n^\n*\nn\n^ L_4 \u00a3WZ># Y\nH _^o_^ f_4 c_&s\n\/feye y\u00b0H2: \/face MFas\/reJ\na\/2 J Ironed\/\n_\u00abi\nv^ HIS is the very Latest Beautifying Method. You are privileged to enjoy its\n^h Great Superiority before women anywhere else in the New World, because an\nExpert from Berlin, instead of stopping in New York City where her services\nwere in urgent demand, came, for personal reasons, direct to Vancouver.\nShe is with US. Her process is the fruit of the painstaking and scientific research for which the German people are distinguished.\nIt is the Best Face Treatment yet devised. Warm oil is ironed into the\nskin with a gently heated electric iron. The effect is very soothing, and is also very\nbeneficial. The pores are opened and cleansed much more thoroughly than by ordinary\nmassage and cold cream, and the cuticle receives greater nourishment than by any other\nmethod. The result is that the skin is given new life and color.\nA further enhancement of Woman's natural beauty may be obtained by a\nsimple arrangement of the hair, supplemented by our luxuriant, real hair switches,\npuffs and curls, in all shades and graduations of the natural waves. Superfluous hair,\nwarts, and other facial defects are removed for all time by the process electrolysis\npractised by skilled operators.\nWe are now offering Great Reductions in combs, pins and barrettes. These\nhave been imported from Paris. They are very artistic and harmonize in every detail\nwith the present mode of hairdressing.\nYou will be surprised at the reasonableness of our prices and should take\nadvantage of them now. If you live too far away for a personal visit, remember that\nyou can write us a letter, which will receive the most careful attention.\nMADAME HUMPHREYS\nThe Largest, Most Up-to-date Establishment of its kind on the Pacific Coast\n723 Pender Street, W. the fairfield building VANCOUVER, B. C.\n_P_? _>_?_: iooo\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 5\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\nt\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\nw\nE HAVE THE \u00aeIL!!!\nThe Remarkable Progress of the\nAMALGAMATED DEVELOPMENT CO.\nhas been unprecedented in the history of Oil Industry.\nFull possession to all of this Company's immense holdings was not completed until the 20th of June\n\u2014Just two months ago.\nSince 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\nNine Miles of piping to convey the product of their Oil Wells to tide water.\nCan this record of progress for two months be beaten ?\nThe present week will see the stock of the Amalgamated Development Co. quoted upon one or\nmore of the local Stock Exchanges. Watch it Rise.\nPrice of Stock: One and Two Dollars per Share. Apply\u2014\nHULD, GWIN & MceLftRTY\n518 HASTINGS ST. W.\nTELEPHONE 4327\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n1\n\u2666*\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00ab\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666 \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666<\u00a3\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666*\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666 \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\n\u2022H\n-H\n\u00bb*\nN. E. Lougheed\nPHONE 1506\nW. J. Coates\nLOUGHEED& COATES\nGENERAL BROKERS\nREAL ESTATE\nAND INSURANCE\nWe Specialize in South Vancouver and Burnaby\n633 Pender St., W. VANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u2022*^.\nJ. Christiansen\nP. O. Box 1531\nJ. F. Brandt\nWe have LARGE TRACTS of Land\nfop Colonization Purposes\n10 ACRE BLOCKS, TERMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS\nPrompt and Personal Attention Given to all Enquiries\nSole Agents for\nThe Grand Trunk Development Company, Limited\nFarm Lands, Timber Lands, Stock Ranches\nalong* the Grand Trunk: Paeifie Railway\nThe Christiansen-Brandt Co.\nReal Estate and Insurance, City Property\nPRINCE RUPERT, BRITISH COLUMBIA\n\u00bb*\n_\nPort Moody\nOUR SPECIALTY\nFor over a-year our attention has been devoted to PORT MOODY properties. Our unbounded faith in the\ntown made us enthusiastic.\nIn view of recent developments there\u2014full accounts of which appeared in the Vancouver papers\u2014we are more\nenthusiastic than ever. BUY IN PORT MOODY. SEE US.\nThe CANADIAN INVESTMENT CO., Ltd.\n80Hastings St., W.\nPhono 2790\nVancouver, B. C.\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 6\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nKERRISDALE\nProperty in Kerrisdale appears to us to be an excellent investment at prevailing prices.\nBelow we present a number of opportunities, all of which should be considered.\nAbout one acre, just off Wilson Road, at Kerrisdale Station for $2700.00,\non easy terms.\nThis is probably the best buy in the district.\nA large lot close to Angus Station for $750.00. $150.00 cash for quick sale.\nTwo fine lots, facing the municipal hall, at $700.00 each.\nFine small home on Wilson Road, close to Kerrisdale Station. Lot 140x325\nfeet. Price $12,500.\nBodwell Road, fine high corner overlooking the city. Lot 84x140 feet. Price\n$1500.00; only $500.00 cash required. An excellent chance to make money.\n2 lots, just off Wilson Road, 33x125 feet each to a lane, close to a station,\noffered at less than adjoining property was sold for. Owner needs money.\nPrice $1375.00 for the two.\nBRITISH CANADIAN SECURITIES, LIMIT\nDOMINION TRUST BLDG.,\n1 VANCOUVER, B. C\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERT ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS\n:E3 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 7\nIndex to Advertisements\nc___x___xxx___xx_____rr__a\n_-3XiX__Kziix______i________r_____r3\nAuld, Gwin & McClarty.\nAnderson & Clayton\nArnott, G. W. & Co\t\nAustin, A. E. & Co\t\nBritish-American Trust Co., Ltd.\nBritish Canadian Securities, Ltd.\nBritish Columbia Electric Co\t\nBagshawe, E. C. B. & Co\t\nBaxter & Johnson Co., Ltd\t\nBeeman, H\t\nBullen & Lamb \t\nCanadian Investment Co.\nCapital City Realty Co..\n\"Cascade\" Beer \t\nChappell & Blair \t\nChild, E. & Co\t\nChristiansen-Brandt Co. .\nCollinson, J. A\t\nCroft & Ashby\t\nCurrie & Power\t\nDallas Hotel \t\nDevine, H. T. & Co.\nDresser, W. W... . .\nDuthie & Wishart\nLtd.\nSi-\nElliot (Mrs), J. E.\nElis, W. H\t\nFoster & Pisher \t\nFranklin, M. H. & Oo\t\nGoddard, H. & Son\t\nGoodyear & Matheson. .\nGran dy, E. & Son\t\nGranville Brokerage Co.\nHarman & Appleton\t\nHarrison, Samuel & Co..\t\nHarrison & Akenhead\t\nHaslett & Whitaker\t\nHall, Harry B\t\nHarris & Co., R\t\nHenderson, E. & Co\t\nHewlings & Co\t\nHinkson, Siddall & Son\t\nHodgson, T\t\nHolden, William \t\nHowell, Alf. M\t\nHumphreys, Madame \t\nImperial Realty Co\t\nIndo-Canadian Brokerage Co.\nJackson, Jno\t\nKennedy Bros., Ltd ,\t\nLeather Goods Co\t\nLeonard & Reid\t\nLeek, George \t\nLougheed & Coates \t\nLatimer, Ney & Tavish\t\nMaple Leaf Clothes Drier\t\nMerchants Trust & Trading Co.\nHarriot & Fellows \t\nMaysmith, N. B. & Co., Ltd\t\nMeed, William \t\nMole & Keefer\t\nMoncriefC & Co\t\nMorgan, E. S\t\nMcCoy, Dr. Earl T\t\nb\n40\n39\n-40\n43\n6\n38\n40\n7\n40\n31\n40\n27\n40\n39\n5\n40\n39\n42\n40\n40\n40\n39\n40\n2\n40\n40\n40\n40\n40\n40\n40\n27\n40\n7\n27\n40\n40\n40\n40\n40\n40\n4\n40\n7\n39\nLtd.\n27\n40\n40\n38\n40\n39\n42\n43\n40\n40\nNaden & Co\t\nNanaimo Machine Works\t\nNational (The) Real Estate Co.\nNew Westminster Exhibition . . .\nNorth Coast Land Co\t\nPalace Hotel \t\n\"Pantorium\" \t\nParker, Chas. L\t\nPattulo & Radford\t\nPemberton, C. C\t\nPlimley, Thos\t\nPhilpot & Lang \t\n\"Portland\" (The), Victoria.\nPotter, J. W\t\nRea, C. Arthur\t\nRoseborough & Harris \t\nRoyal Realty Co\t\nRoss & Shaw Back cov\nSeabrook, F. H. & Co\t\nShaw Real Estate Co\t\nSmith & Jones \t\nSmith & Smith\t\nStevens, John T. Tru t Co\t\nSylvester, The New\t\n39\n42\n40\n29\no\n27\n42\n40\n40\n40\n39\n42\n39\n7\n40\n42\n40\ner\n40\n38\n40\n40\n31\nL\nj-iimite\nLtd\t\nVancouver Brokerage\nVancouver Trust Co.\nvictoria Exhibition\t\nVictoria Gulch Mine.. ,\nWalker, Henry M\t\nWard, Burmester & von Graevenitz.\nWestcott & Letts \t\nWestminster Hall \t\nWindle, H. W\t\nWoodworkers (The), Limited\t\nYates, The ,\nYoung & Francev\t\n8\n38\n40\n42\n-43\n48\n39\nAM PREPARED TO ADVISE\nINVESTORS\nHOW TO MAKE MONEY\ncxxxxxx___x___xxx__)-X_-____:___xx___xxxx-_\n_xx_____n_x_\nM\n_ u\nTf HAVE HAD OVER TWEN*\n11 TY YEARS EXPERIENCE\nIN REALTY Values in Vancouver.\nLots, Acreage for subdivision,\nFarms and Timber. Some fine Business Opportunities. :: :: :: ::\n_X__XXXXXXXXXXXXX!C_XXX__r_3XXXXXXX_-_XXX_^_XXX__XX__C__\nHARRY B. HALL\nReal Estate and Business Opportunities jj\nUNION ADJUSTMENT CO. I\n401 HARRIS STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. B\n\u00a7,.\u201e.....\u201e,.,.. ____ 1\n_xxxxxxxxxxx_^_rx_cxxxx____cxxxxxxxxx__xxxxr__Tx___xxx__t_____xxxx_\nHY SHOW CARDS\n\u2014 catch the Eye!\nThey are Snappy, Original, Artistic.\nThey BRING BUSINESS.\nDrop in and see for yourself.\nL. J. TROUNCE\nSHOW CARD WRITER\nDominion Trust Building:\nPhone 6748 VANCOUVER, B. C.\nEstimates Cheerfully Given Phone 6481\nHENRY M. WALKER\nContractor for Land Clearing, Stumping,\nBlasting, Etc.\nOffice, 552 Barnard St., Vancouver, B. C,\n.._....._....\ni_n_i._il$l\nBaxter & Johnson Co.\nLIMITED\nOfNCE OLTflTTERS\n\" Underwood Typewriter\nr* Macey \" riling Cabinets\n\" (junn bectional Bookcases\nSteel Vault Fittings\nPHONE 730\n721 Yates St.\n.\u00ab.._.._.._....\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n._._\u00bb..\u00bb.._.._.._\u25a0._\u25a0\u25a0_.._\u25a0\u25a0_.. \u00bb.._M_.\nDE. G. B. PRICE\nEYESIGHT\nSPECIALIST\n108 LOO BLOCK\nvfif^i^0p^&r (First Floor up)\nCor. Hastings and Abbott Sts.. VANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u00ab^\u00ab...._\u2022...._.\u2022_\u2022\n,._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._<\n>_\u25a0\u00ab$\u00bb\nSTEWART\nAt the recent Government Auction of\nStewart Townsite lots, 70 feet on Fifth\nStreet realised $10,000. We own 86 feet\nadjoining Northern Hotel (the best Hotel\nin Stewart), fronting on Fifth Street and\nrunning back 256 feet to Sixth Street.\nPrice $6,500, one-third cash,\nbalance one and two years.\nIndo-Canadian Brokerage Co.\nVICTORIA, B. C\nP. O. Box 952\n\u2022....... _<._.._.._.._..\n\u00abtll>l.|l<|ll.ll|ll|ll>MJl\nJ. W. POTTER\nArchitect and Structural engineer\nReinforced Concrete a Specialty\nLAW'BDTLER BUILDING\nPRINCE RUPERT, B. \u00a9\nP. \u00a9. B\u00a9X 271\n 191\t\nOPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.\nHUTCHINSON BLOCK.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nGentlemen:\u2014\nPlease enter \u2122yr name as a subscriber to your paper for one year,\nfor which Je agree to pay One Dollar in advance.\nTEEEE AXE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 8\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nPROVINCIAL EXHIBITION, VICTORIA FAIR and HORSE SHOW\nSEPTEMBER 27 TO OCTOBER 1, 1910\nLarge and increased Prizes for Fruit, Live Stock, Agriculture, Horticulture,\nManufactures, Art.\nExcursion Rates from all points.\nFive days' Rough Riding and Roping Contests. Al. G. Barnes' 3-Ring Circus.\nEntries close September 12th.\nFor all Information and Prize Lists, write Box 705, Victoria.\nGEORGE SANGSTER, Secretary\nDon't\niss Your Chance\nh 1 ^HERE are Big Things doing in and opposite\n* New Westminster. The foundation is being\nlaid for the Terminal Gity of a Third Transcontinental Railway. This City will rival\nVancouver soon, and enhance the Values of all\nkinds of Property within a radius of miles of\nthis Great Centre of Railway Activity.\nWe can present for your consideration the\nBest Proposition Going.\nWRITE OR PHONE\nKennedy Brothers, Limited\nSuccessors to Hale Bros. & Kennedy, Limited\nREAL ESTATE, ETC.\nOver flerchants Bank, cor. Columbia and Begbie Streets\nPhone 335\nNEW WESTMINSTER, B. C.\nTHESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS OPPORTUNITIES\nVol. II.\nHUTCHINSON BLOCK. VANCOUVER, B. C, SEPTEMBER, 1910.\nNo. 3\nVancouver Island's New Era\nAs Suggested by the Coming- Exhibition at Victoria\nBy John Collins\nAn impressive object lesson in the\nsubstantial wealth and resources of this\nProvince will be given late in September in Victoria, when the British Columbia Agricultural Association, of which\nA. J. Morley is president, and George\nbe particularly educational. You will\ndiscover, for instance, that here is an\neasily accessible region which is overflowing with natural wealth. You will be\nimpressed by what you see, but if you\nhave imagination, you will be more inl\nand beautiful displays of fruits, flowers,\nand vegetables, products of Vancouver\nIsland soil and sunshine. Many fine\nspecimens of live stock will, in their\nsleekness and contentment, bring to the\nmind's eye pictures of rich grazing lands.\nSangster is secretary, will hold its fiftieth annual exhibition. While the whole\nprovince will be adequately represented,\nthe location of the exhibition on Vancouver Island will bring especially full\ndisplays of the products of this rich section. These will tell the story of the\nVancouver Island of to-day, and, more\nimportant still, will suggest the Vancouver Island of to-morrow.\nBecause few sections of the world so\nblessed by nature are so little known,\nit may be assumed that your knowledge\nof Vancouver Island is not as extensive\nas it should be. In this case your journeys through the exhibition grounds will\nA VICTORIA FRUIT DISPLAY\npressed by what these displays promise\nfor the future. You will learn that Vancouver Island has fifteen thousand\nsquare miles of territory which have\nlain fallow through the ages, and only\nnow are beginning to attract general attention on the part of those who go to\nMother Nature for their wealth. You\nwill feel at this exhibition the spirit of\nstrong expectation which is natural in\npeople who are looking to the future and\nnot the past, who, as far as the development of their country is concerned, are\nat the beginning of the day's work.\nYet much has already been achieved.\nThere will be at the exhibition luxuriant\nThe horse show, it is said, will eclipse\nall previous efforts. A large number of\nproud roosters and industrious hens of\napproved varieties will illustrate the\nsuccess of poultry raisers, one of whom\nsaid recently that the man who knows\nhis business can net a yearly return of\na dollar on each fowl.\nThe lumber will be a hint of the vast\nsupply of timber, which is, and which\nwill be for a great many years to come,\none of Vancouver Island's greatest resources. This timber is heavy and is\nwidely distributed. It averages about\n50,000 feet to the acre, and its varieties\nare those in the greatest demand. It is. Page 10\nattracting more capital to the Island than\never before. One tract of timber land\nwas sold last year for two millions of\ndollars, and there is a constant investment of fresh capital in lumber and\npulp mills, and in other industries dependent upon big trees.\nThe array of minerals will bring\nforcibly to your attention the fact, among\nother things, that Vancouver Island has\na great present yield and even greater\npromise in coal production. About a million and a quarter tons were mined last\nyear. The acreage of coal mining is\nbeing continually extended. Many of the\ndeposits have not yet been touched.\nThey are distributed over a wide territory, and constitute an immense and\npermanent source of wealth.\nYet coal is only one of numerous mineral resources. The copper deposits have\nbeen pronounced by authorities to be\nvery great. At a Vancouver Island\nsmelter twenty-two million pounds have\nalready been produced. A huge steel\nplant is projected for the utilization of\nextensive deposits of iron ore, which are\nrapidly being acquired by capitalists.\nGold has been discovered in numerous\nplaces. Some of the most beautiful\nmarble on the market comes from Van-\nCPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nmm\u00ae\u00ae\n^mm!i4Ammtii^>\n_a__.^__B_*_^ - - <_H*i^_!___Sr\nr__- -_-_[*\u25a0**'--.. ___;.>.-_-_ _>_\u25a0 E__ll___r_\u00ab_-\"\nVICTORIANS ASSEMBLED FOR THE BOAT RACES\nBehind the resources there must be,\nof course, people imbued with the progressive spirit. A particularly attractive\nand convincing evidence of this spirit\nwill be seen at the exhibition in the work\nof the women, who have devoted much\nconstant care to beautifying the grounds,\nand to making, in the Women's Building,\nthe displays of feminine work especially\nrepresentative. That the people of Vancouver Island have that keen zest for\nVictoria herself, to those not already\nfamiliar with her charms, will be no less\ninteresting than the exhibition. When\nyou approach her from the water, and\nsee the stately government buildings\nand the majestic hotel looming in the\nforeground, you get the impression that\nVictoria is distinctly serene, or even\nhaughty, in her attitude toward the\npassing world. You will retain this impression until you prove yourself in Vic-\nSOUTH VANCOUVER ISLAND IS A LAND OF FLOWERS\ncouver Island, and building stone, fire\nbrick, pottery, and Portland cement, are\navailable in large enough quantities to\nplay which distinguishes the most effective workers will be seen at the exhibition in rough riding, roping contests,\nmake these products the bases of great amateur horse-racing, and two daily per-\nindustries.\nformances by a three-ring circus.\ntoria. Then you will find the warmest\nhospitality. Victoria has excellent reason for not unbending with undue haste.\nShe is the capital of the Province. She\nis, perhaps, the richest city, per capita, 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 11\non the continent. She has many charms\nof scenery\u2014woodland drives, sweeps of\nbeach, cottage-dotted shores. One of the\noldest cities on the Pacific Coast, she\nhas acquired the dignity of years. She\nhas quite recovered from the youthful\nimpetuosity which marks Vancouver and\nSeattle, her lively sisters to the North\nand South. Thus it is that she has an\nair of some aloofness. But this disappears when you become well acquainted\nwith her. Then you begin to think that\nVictoria is the only place on earth. It is\nsaid, on as good authority as can be obtained, that a Victoria lady, upon going\nto heaven, was escorted to where she\ncould obtain a good view of the scenery\nand then was asked how she liked it.\n\"It is very nice, very nice, indeed,\" she\nanswered. Then she paused, and added\nwith a little sigh, \"but it isn't Victoria.\"\nThe city has a charming flavor of old\ntimes. Its representative people find\nleisure for the finer shades in the big\npanorama of life. You can see courtly\ngentlemen bowing over tea-cups, equestrians who look like English squires\ntaking the air on thoroughbreds, golfers\naddressing the ball with much earnestness, young people assembled ,at the\ntennis courts and gliding in canoes over\nHOW VICTORIANS ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL DRIVEWAYS\nsteadily, on even keel, like a ship on\nsmooth seas. And she is sailing to richer\nports than she has ever entered. The\nB. and N. Railway is extending its line,\nthe Canadian Northern is about to start\nconstruction from. Victoria along the\nWest coast to Barkley sound. Leading\nBeautiful country, virgin territory that\nrarely has been trodden by the foot of\nman, will begin to contribute bountifully\nto the needs of civilization. Young men\nwill find new opportunities, industrial organizers will be made rich, or richer,\nand the general prosperity will see a\nV. '- ^N ORCHARD JN.'T\/t\u00a3 SEASON OF PROMISE,\nSOME CHARACTERISTIC .SCENES ON VANCOUVER ISLANE\ncalm waters between\nwoode\nid shores.\nSocial life is mellow.\nVictor\n[ans have\nlearned how to play.\nYet they have by no\nmeans\nforgotten\nhow to work. Victoria\nIs mov\ning ahead\ncapitalists, _ dwakened at last\" ..b' cho\n-\u25a0 _\u25a0_\u25a0 \u00bb_ _ . \u2022-*\u00ab\u2022\u2022,\ngreat future of Van'couver\"1 * Island,\" are\npouring in their millions. The present\nindustries are growing bigger, and new\nones are being launched continually.\nlargg .\u2022 increase in the flow of natural\nwealth to the markets from Vancouver\nIsland\u2014the island which has everything,\nbut which has waited long for the period\nof full development now at hand. Page 12\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nPROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS\nEMPRESS HOTEL AND CAUSEWAY, VICTORIA 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 13\nBritish Columbia, Now and Tomorrow\nAs Indicated by the Recent Exhibition at Vancouver\nBy j. h. w.\nIt is safe to say that no city on the\ncontinent has had a first industrial and\nagricultural exhibition as successful in\nall respects as the one which was held in\nVancouver last month. To begin with\nits outward aspects, the general beauty\nof the location has not been surpassed\nby exhibition grounds anywhere. From\nalmost any point within the gates the\nvisitor could obtain an inspiring view of\nBritish Columbia is still close to nature\nand virgin resources.\nA little journey through the industrial\nbuilding was an education in the present\nachievement, and the great industrial potentialities of this province. To begin\nwith mining, which has been one of the\ninitial industries of British Columbia, it\nwas instructive to glance at the rich display of minerals from the Kootenay min-\nJ. J. MILLER, PRESIDENT VANCOUVER EXHIBITION ASSOCIATION\nblue water, forests, and mountains rising\nto snowy heights. Only a few steps from\nthe commodious and artistic building in\nwhich the industries of British Columbia\nfound adequate display, was the shade and\nquietude of primeval woods, where the\nsight-seer could retire from the turmfcil\nof thousands of people looking at thousands of products, and find on benches or\nmossy logs opportunity for rest, and consideration of the fact that industry in\ning district. Here were pieces of rock,\nyellow with pure gold, and a great array\nof ore of a kind which has brought fortunes to the lucky owners of the mines.\nOne feature of the display promises the\ndevelopment in the Province of a new\nindustry of importance. This display was\nof that curious mineral, asbestos, which\nhas recently been discovered in large\nquantities in the Kootenay district. The\nasbestos is in strips about seven inches\nlong, which fact acquires significance\nwhen it is known that the asbestos of\nQuebec from which the world's supply of\nthis metal is chiefly obtained, has a\nlength of only about an inch for each\nstrip. The longer the strips the greater\nthe market value of the product. No\nwhere else on the continent are thero\nasbestos deposits of as great commercial\npromise as those recently uncovered in\nBritish Columbia. They average in value\nabout three hundred dollars to the ton,\nand, according to E. M. Widdowson,, provincial assayer of Nelson, there are millions of tons on the three claims. During\nthe period of the exhibition negotiations\nwere pending with Vancouver capitalists\nto take over the property, and to develop\nit completely. This will mean the building of a large mill for the separation of\nthe asbestos from the rock, and will involve at the outset the expenditure of at\nleast a quarter of a million dollars. The\nindications are that this discovery of\nasbestos will give British Columbia a\ngreater production of asbestos than has\nQuebec, and will bring to this province\none of the greatest of its future industries.\nPassing from products underground to\nthose which grow above it, the observer\nat the exhibition was much impressed by\nthe wealth of fruits, vegetables, and\nflowers. New Westminster had on display an exhibit of the bounty of the earth,\nwhich would indicate that her soil was\ncapable of producing all the growths of\nnorthern climes. The Wonnock farm\nlands were also represented by profusion\nof fruits and vegetables. In the display\nof The Great Pemberton Meadows were\npotatoes of unusual size, which, it was\nstated, had been planted early in May\nand lifted early in August, and had attained their magnitude wholly without\nthe aid of irrigation. One of the most\ndecorative effects of the exhibition was\nthe profusion of the roses and many other\nvarieties of flowers around the long balcony. An interesting fact is that the\nseason for these flowers is much longer\nthan that for similar growths farther\nsouth, but also farther away from the\nbenign trade winds of the Japanese current, which give this section of British\nColumbia some of the aspects of climates\nwhich are regarded as almost semi-tropical.\nOn the main floor one saw many\nagencies for articles made in other\nlocalities, and much more important,\nmany products manufactured here. For Page 14\ninstance, there were tiers of boxes of\ncereals milled in Victoria, and made from\noats grown in the Fraser Valley, one of\nthe finest sections in the world for this\nparticular grain. The local demand for\nthese cereals is so great that the Victoria\nmill is grinding night and day, and none\nOPPORTUNITIES\nthe North. In connection with the shoe\nand harness factories here, it is a little\nstrange that British Columbia now has no\ntanneries. It is said that the conditions\nfor tanning in certain sections of this\nprovince are as good as in other localities,\nwhere this industry is a great source of\nEZ\nF-\"-\"\"1\n.-I\n~^P3m\u00ab\u00ab*\nrtf*.\n\u00ab\u2022\n\u00ab*- \u00a3\/\n\u00ab_iy\njjlsia*\nissssssssr\nINDUSTRIAL BUILDING AT VANCOUVER EXHIBITION\n\/e\"*i%J\nof the product is sent to points outside of\nBritish Columbia. Another interesting\nindustry of British Columbia represented\nwas that of sugar making. The sugar\nin its raw state is brought from the Fiji\nIslands, where the company has its own\nplantation, but here in Vanouver it is\ntransformed into numerous varieties of\nsugar of the highest grade, for which the\ndemand is growing constantly.\nA surprising exhibit to all but those\nwho know the Province well was that of\ntobacco from the Okanagan valley. The\ncompany which started tobacco growing\nin this valley had on display a large\nquantity of excellent cigars made of leaf\nfrom the plantations in Cuba, one hundred acres under cultivation. The output\nof leaf and the finished product is steadily\nincreasing. Some southern experts expressed themselves as astonished that so\nfine a tobacco could be grown in this\nlatitude, and after careful investigation\nof the conditions took steps to acquire a\nlarge acreage for themselves. There is\nevery indication that the tobacco production will bring large revenues to the\nProvince.\nIt was not known by many persons\nuntil they visited the exhibition that Vancouver has a flourishing shoe factory,\nwhich began making shoes for rough use,\nbut now has a constantly growing trade\nin men's fine shoes for city wear. Within\ntwo years the company has moved into a\nnew factory, and it is constantly adding\nmachinery to the plant. A kindred industry in Vancouver, represented at the\nexhibition, is that of harness and saddle\nmaking. A great many sets of harness\nand saddles are shipped to the prairie\ncountry, and recently the capacity of the\nplant has been taxed by the demand in\nprofit to the community. While the supply of bark best suited for tanning is\nperhaps not as great as in Ontario, where\nmany of the Canadian tanneries are located, the other facilities here are excellent, and it has been stated that there is\nno reason why one or more tanneries in\nthis Province should not do a flourishing\nbusiness.\nOne of the most impressive examples\nof what may be accomplished by the\n1910\nA Victoria industry shown effectively\nat the exhibition was that of stove making. The Victoria product, particularly\nthe cooking and heating equipment for\ncountry use is as fine as any on the\ncontinent. The success of this stove\nfactory, the only one of its kind in British\nColumbia, indicates that with the growing\npopulation, there are promising openings\nfor other industries of a similar nature.\nAn interesting exhibit was that of a corporation which will manufacture gas\nproducers and other lighting and heating\nequipments for homes and buildings of\nall descriptions. The attitude of the\norganizers of this company is that a great\nmany articles which are now imported\nmight just as well be manufactured here,\nwith the natural result of greatly increased revenues for British Columbia and\nVancouver and an even more pronounced\ngrowth than we have already seen in the\nprosperity of the people who have cast\ntheir fortunes with the Province.\nThese enterprises are mentioned to\nindicate not so much the present development in manufacturing in British\nColumbia as to arouse an appreciation of\nwhat can be accomplished. One of the\nmost striking phases of the exhibition\nwas seen in the large number of agencies\nfor products manufactured elsewhere.\nMany of these could undoubtedly be produced within the Province, and there is\nno doubt that as time goes on most of\nthem will be, with financial results of a\nmost satisfactory character to those who\nhave sufficient enterprise and initiative\nto take the first steps.\nIt may be urged that in this section\nthere is a dearth of the skilled artisans\n: ONE OF THE PONIES AT THE EXHIBITION\nright kind of enterprise in new industries\nin British Columbia was seen in the exhibit of knitted goods. This line of\nmanufacturing was taken up only about\na year ago and yet the product is now in\ngreat demand throughout Canada and as\nfar east and south in the United States\nas New York City.\nnecessary to carry on these industries,\nbut in the exhibition was an answer to\nthis objection. The display of the handicraft of the pupils of the British Columbia\nschools was remarkable. The Vancouver\nHigh School, the Evening Schools, the\nStrathcona, Seymour, Simon Fraser, Fair-\nview and Lord Roberts schools were re- 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 15\npresented by furniture and other products\nwhich would have done credit to the\nmost skillful and experienced workers.\nIt was made evident that the schools are\nturning out young men and women fully\nequipped for supplying all the demands\nfor expert workmanship. In this connection it was interesting to note the\nambitious efforts of the pupils of the\nSechelt Indian School. It was plain that\nthe Indians have become imbued with\nthe spirit of progress which animates the\nwhole population, and it seems reasonable\nto say that they may be depended upon\nin the future to contribute a fair share to\nthe industrial development.\nThe horses and other live stock lent\nspecial interest to the Exhibition. The\nhorses, in particular, would commend\nthemselves to any expert familiar with\nthe best horse shows on the continent.\nMany of the finest animals were bred in\nBritish Columbia. This industry of horse\nbreeding was begun here only four years\nago, and yet the horse show last April\nin Vancouver was superior to any other\nwhich has yet been seen on the Pacific\nCoast. With the unusually auspicious\nstart which has been made in this direction, there is every reason to believe that\nBritish Columbia bred horses will become\ncelebrated. The fine sheep, the great variety of superior breeds of poultry, the\ncattle and the dogs of high degree constituted a live stock exhibit that surprised those who have not kept in touch\nwith British Columbia progress in stock\nraising.\nBehind commercial industry is, of\ncourse, the home, and at the exhibition\nwere many samples of work of home\nwomen. The lace display, for example,\nwas particularly large and beautiful.\nNumerous products of the culinary art as\npractised by girls in the schools and\nothers, were arranged temptingly. One\nof the exhibits of women most pleasing to\nthe eye was that of leather and metal\nwork, bookbinding, stenciling on crash\nand china painting. A considerable number of Vancouver women are studying\nthese forms of art, and are enthusiastic\nover their constantly growing attainments\nin making their own homes beautiful.\nSome of them intend to take advantage\nof the opportunities in Vancouver for\nhome decoration as a profession.\nAnother important phase of women's\nwork was reflected in the tea rooms in the\nindustrial building. No less than forty\ndifferent women's organizations in British\nColumbia were represented here under\nthe auspices of the Women's Council,\nwhich, as explained by the president, Mrs.\nMcNaughton, has for its aim the moulding of the efforts of all progressive women\nin the Province, into a single force for\nthe betterment of conditions which in\nany way effect the homes and social life.\nRepresenting the less utilitarian forms\nof artistic endeavor were the excellent\npaintings of the British Columbia Society\nof Fine Arts. These portrayed the impressive mountains, the picturesque\nstreams, and, in general, the beautiful\nbits of landscape which make British\nColumbia one of the finest scenic sections of the world.\nThe exhibition was a most auspicious\nbeginning in the important work of\npresenting concretely each year the\nremarkable achievements and the even\nmore remarkable promise of British Columbia and Vancouver. The exhibition\nrepresented all phases of progressive life\nin this community, and told a dramatic\nstory for those who had eyes to read it, of\nthe rise of a complex civilization in what\na few decades ago was a comparatively\nunknown wilderness.\nThe Awakening, of Windermere\nThe Columbia Valley is on the Eve of Big Developments\nBy Herbert Welch\nAs your train pulls into the town of\nGolden, you notice beside the track a big\nsign which announces that you are at\nthe \"Gateway of the Beautiful Windermere Valley.\" The words are alluring.\nThey suggest delightful pictures. This\nvalley, you feel, must have unusual\nmerit to cause the citizens of Golden to\nproclaim it so confidently to the traveling public. They must be proud of the\nvalley; it must be worth a visit. Why\nnot stop over, and go on a little journey\nof exploration?\nFrom the station platform you watch\nyour train dwindle in the distance. Golden, you find, is a very peaceful town. It\ngoes to sleep early, and so do you. While\nthe light is yet mellow in the morning,\nyou breath with zest the cool mountain\nair as a team of smartly trotting horses\nswings you down past the big lumber\nyard to the- boat landing. The river\nsteamer, with a huge paddle wheel behind, glistens with white paint. The\ncaptain, a brisk and cheerful man, shouts\norders about the cargo, and beams upon\nthe passengers. In a little while the flat-\nbottomed craft is poking her nose against\nthe rapid current of the Columbia.\nLogs, coming down stream serenely,\nconstantly bump the bow. Overhanging\nbranches brush the upper deck. Beyond\nthe thick foliage of the shores rise the\nmountain benches, gently rounded and\nnearly free from undergrowth, like terraces in parks. On the eastern side of\nthe river they reach away like great steps\nto the Rockies' scarred and broken\nslopes, towering to snowy heights. On\nthe western side is the vast jumble of\nthe Selkirks. At frequent intervals you\nsee clearings, the compact houses of\nfarmers, vegetable and flower beds, orchards and alfalfa fields. Paths run\ndown to the water's edge, and at most\nof these the steamer pauses, snuggling\nagainst grassy banks while goods are\nbeing put ashore.\n\"There seems to be quite a population\nalong the river,\" you comment to the\ncaptain.\n\"There is,\" he answers, \"and we're its\nerrand boy. If a rancher has sent to\ntown for a plug of tobacco we stop and\nunload it for him.\"\nThe day passes pleasantly on the\nboat. Among the passengers are people\nwho tell of coming out from England or\nEastern Canada as pioneers, and of\nspending years in the valley. In the talk\nis the bouyant note of moderate prosperity, of health and hope. Evening comes.\nAt last through the twilight you see the\nriver spreading widely. You are gazing\nout over the placid bosom of Lake Windermere, ten miles long and a mile in\nwidth. It is the source of the Columbia\u2014\nan excellent mother, for the river from\nits very start is a lusty stream, sweeping\nstrongly to its destiny as the great waterway which the poet Bryant celebrated\nas \"the mighty Oregon.\"\nYou are now nearly a hundred miles\nto the south of Golden. The lights of a\nhamlet, Athalmere, twinkle on the level\nwestern shore, and moored to the bank\nis a house-boat, which, you find, is used\nas a sort of dock, and is also a hotel.\nYou sleep there, and in the morning, if\nyou really want to gather information\nabout the valley, you travel on horseback\nor in a buggy four miles down the river\nto the village of Wilmer, where Randolf\nBruce has his home.\nYou will discover Mr. Bruce to be a\nScotchman of unusual energy and enthusiasm. He came to the valley about\ntwelve years ago with no capital but\nhis energy. He quickly acquired his\nenthusiasm, and now. he has agricultural\nand mineral holdings worth a great deal\nof money. This is because he was one of\nthe first to see the opportunities in the\nvalley, and has been foremost in making\nthe most of them. Page 16'\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n\"Tnis valley,\" he will tell you, \"has a\ngreat future. It will have a far bigger\noutput of alfalfa than it has yet seen. Its\nsoil and climate are highly favorable to\nthe growing of certain species of apples\nand other fruits. Already we raise strawberries so large that you have to cut\nsome of them in two to eat them. Our\nvegetables would delight a market gardener. To turn from agriculture to min-\nneglected by the railroads,\" you remark.\n\"You're right there,\" Mr. Bruce answers quickly, \"and for this very reason\nthe period of backwardness in the Columbia Valley is near its end. We are going\nto have our railroad. Fourteen miles'of\ngrade up the Valley have already been\nmade for a branch from the main line at\nGolden south to the Crow's Nest division.\nThis work was done some time ago. It\nready for the water that flows down from\nthe mountains in creeks and brooks.\nThis ditch, built with the money of a few\nCanadian capitalists, is eight feet wide\nat its base, and will provide an abundant\nsupply of water for twenty-five square\nmiles of virgin soil which, as has already\nbeen proved through experiments by\nmyself and others, will yield great returns in fruits and vegetables. By de-\n&&4Z3\na___. ^\nA SCENE TYPICAL OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER AT LAKE WINDERMERE\ning, these mountains have rich deposits\nof gold, silver, lead and copper. Great\nareas of them have never been prospected. One of the few mining properties\nadequately developed is my own. I have\nalready shipped about one hundred\nthousand dollars worth of silver and lead\nore, and have at least a million dollars\nworth blocked out. There are numerous\nprospects which show indications of richness, and there is a great deal of promising mineral land which has never been\nstaked out. I am confident that in the\nground of our 'Happy Valley' there is\nagricultural and mineral wealth for many\nthousands of people.\"\n\"If this is true, why has the development been so slow?\" you ask.\n\"There are two reasons,\" replies Mr.\nBruce. \"The first is that much of the\nsoil requires irrigation. The second is\nthat the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company has been so busy with settlers in\nthe great wheat country in Alberta that\nit has not as yet been able to give much\nattention to the development of the\nmountain sections. Our lack of transportation facilities has held us back.\"\n\"But a rich section does not remain\nwas suspended, and a few of our people\nbecame discouraged. But within a few\nmonths the company has let contracts\nfor the completion of the grading and the\nlaying of rails. The officials, moreover,\nare giving careful consideration to a proposal to build a fine hotel near Lake\nWindermere, in a location which has\nalready been selected, and which is ideal\nfor a summer resort. Whether or not\nthe hotel project goes through in the\nnear future, the railroad is now a certainty, and we are enthusiastic over the\noutlook.\"\n\"Yet the railroad is not all. An agricultural expert representing the government at Ottawa arrived here early in the\nsummer. He verified all our reports of\nthe agricultural possibilities, and announced before leaving that the government\nwould establish in the valley a forty acre\nexperimental farm. The only question\npertains to the site. Two are being considered, and work on one of them will be\nunder way this Fall.\"\n\"But what about irrigation?\" you inquire.\n\"I'm coming to that,\" answers Mr.\nBruce. \"Four miles of ditch are nearly\ngrees the irrigation system will be extended. Already one of the most\nbeautiful sections of British Columbia,\nthis valley is destined to become one of\nthe most productive. It offers great opportunities to men of industry and\nintelligence who come in before the\nadvent of the railroad which will bring\na rush of settlers. The Columbia is the\nlast of the fertile valleys in Southern\nBritish Columbia which a man can still\nenter much as he might have done\ntwenty-five years ago as a pioneer.\"\nThe statement of Mr. Bruce as to railroad construction, the experimental farm,\nand the irrigation project, have been confirmed in other authoritative quarlcrs. A\nbig development is assured for the Columbia Valley. It has the latch string out.\nThe settler can still get in on the ground\nfloor, so to speak. Its opportunities are\nmade the greater by the fact that it is\nnot yet widely known.\n\"I am surprised,\" said Earl Grey to a\nrancher during a recent visit to the valley, \"that you have been able to keep the\nbeauty and promise here so great a\nsecret.\" 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 17\nGiant Strides of Young Vancouver\nHard Faqts Tell a Story of Wonderful City and\nProvincial Progress\nThe story of Vancouver's wonderful development is reflected in the annual report, just issued, of the Board of Trade.\nThe facts and statistics may seem somewhat dry, but when you remember that\nbehind them is a vast amount of ambition and endeavor, you may feel their dramatic significance as sign-posts in the\nprogress of individuals and of a great\ncity. Here are some of the things the\npresident said in his annual address:\n\"The year 1909 will be remembered as\nthe great turning point in the history of\nthe city; as the year in which the port\nand city of Vancouver, on account of their\nphenomenal growth and activity, gained\nuniversal recognition. The city has advanced from one of progress and youthful promise to a city certain of becoming\none of the greatest commercial highways\nand coast cities on the American continent. This widely recognized fact, combined with the enterprising and progressive spirit of the West, and the general\nprosperity of the Province, has been a\nstimulus to trade, and has created a still\nmore active dealing in the quickly advanced values of real estate, attracting in\nvestors, and resulting by an increase of\ncapital and by a liberal spending of gains\nin a much greater volume of profitable\nbusiness being done in every branch of\ntrade.\n\"The outlook is brighter than ever for\nmanufactories in this city, and for extending the commerce of the coast to interior and prairie points. The changed\nconditions in favor of both of these are\nthe greatly increased facilities for getting\nmerchandise and raw materials by water\nto our city at very favorable rates.\n\"Regarding the harbor, it is gratifying\nto note the great increase in shipping entering and leaving this port. As instances\nof this, the China Mutual Line brought\n42,591 tons, as compared with 33,328 tons\nin 1908, and took out 16,368 tons, as\nagainst 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\ntons 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\nteen shipped to Mexico 200,000 bushels,\nand to Europe about 60,000 bushels. Arrangements for the erection of an elevator with independent water-frontage, are\nso far advanced as to warrant the expectancy that they will be able to handle this\nyear's crop when it is ready for shipment.\n\"Regarding the industries of the Province, mining in 1909, notwithstanding\nstrikes, want of coke, and legal and financial difficulties, resulted in a production of $24,040,000, or about $200,000 in\nexcess of 1908. There was a considerable\nreduction in the market value of copper\nproduced, which was more than made up\nin coal and zinc. The lumber produced\nin 1909 is estimated at 12 million dollars,\nwhich is equal to the best year in the\nhistory of the industry, and the outlook\nfor 1910 is so bright that a considerable\nincrease may be anticipated in all its\nmany branches, whose direct influence on\nthe prosperity of the province is very far-\nreaching. As to fisheries, the total production is estimated as likely to exceed\nthat of last year; for Fraser River salmon\n1909 was a 'big run' year, but Canadian\nfishermen had to contend not only with\nA BIT OF VANCOUVER AND HER HARBOUR Page 18\nadverse weather and disappointing conditions, but the regulations and a closed\nperiod of 42 hours, which were observed\n\u2014as against regulations and a closed period of 36 hours on the U. S. side on Pu-\nget Sound, which were not observed. The\npack was 567,203 cases. The total British\nColumbia salmon pack was 967,920 cases.\n\"Great headway has been made in new\nplantings of fruit, and the future prospects\nof this growing industry are most promising. The Canadian National Apple\nShow in Vancouver this fall is deserving\nof every encouragement, in the interest\nalike of the city, the Province and the industry itself. Tobacco is now being grown\nwith good results in the Okanagan.\nOPPORTUNITIES\nwhile the Province, and Vancouver in particular, is enjoying a time of progress\nand prosperity, there is evidence in our\ncontentment of neglecting to give due importance to that which is the foundation\nof prosperity\u2014agriculture.\n\"Vancouver has shown a very marked\nincrease in the volume of shipping using\nher wharves during the past official year,\nthe total registered tonnage having been\n6,456,838, as against 3,837,131 for 1908-9.\nThe wharfage area has been greatly added to, and the foreshore is being rapidly\nacquired to the full extent of the harbor\nproper in Burrard Inlet and is held at\ngreatly augmented values. Some marked\nshipping features have been in evidence,\n1910\nfor itself, of course, in the story of Vancouver's strides ahead. The city is now\nfourth among those of Canada, being numerous millions ahead of all but Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg. The post\noffice revenues of Vancouver for this year\nhave shown an increase of 25 per cent,\nover 1909. The customs returns for the\nyear were only a little less than, four\nmollion dollars, and were nearly a million dollars more than in the year before.\nThe number of sea-going vessels sailing\nin and out of the port of Vancouver during the year was over 16,000. The exports from the port to the United States\namounted in money value to over three\nand a half millions.\nis\nJfi\nyr\n^'.^Wii _H______9\u00ae \u2022_&\u00a3\n?I1_\u00a7SI1\n!^J^%\\\n\u25a0\n_H_\nlift!\nfill\nLOADING GRAIN AT VANCOUVER\n\"**m*k.\n\"The great developments of manufacturing industries in the Province, roughly\nestimated by the Provincial Government\nat a production of 30 millions, is the most\nimportant factor in the year's prosperity.\nNew provincial industrial companies were\nchartered during the year, with authorized capital aggregating 48 millions, not\nincluding extra provincial companies, and\nafter making a liberal allowance for unlikely schemes, this shows an active interest in industrials. Since last year the\nimports of agricultural produce have increased from 7 to 11 millions.\n\"As a Province, we are chiefly dependent ' on three great natural industries;\nlumbering, mining and fisheries: and\nnamely: the demand for grain in Mexico,\nthe growing importance of the Tehuante-\npec route for European freight, the activity in construction of the Grand Trunk\nPacific Railway, the building of the city\nof Prince Rupert, the awakening development of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and\nthe mining activity on Portland Canal at\nStewart and elsewhere.\"\nThe total value of all British Columbia\nfisheries for the official year was $6,465,-\n038, 'an increase over the previous year of\n$342,116. The Vancouver bank clearings\nfor the twelve months ending March, 1910,\nwere $327,835,557, or nearly 237 millions\nmore than they were the year before.\nThis remarkable advance speaks loudly\nIn the city of Vancouver the- marked\nprogress of the previous year has continued without interruption and in increasing ratio.\nThe transference of real estate has\nbeen very extensive and values have been\nmuch enhanced, sales on Hastings and\nGranville streets having been made at\nfrom $2,500 to $4,000 per front foot, while\nthe opening up of new suburbs at Shaugh-\nnessy Heights and Point Grey to the\nsouth and west, and of Hastings townsite\non the east, along with considerable activity in North Vancouver, have attracted\nmuch outside capital and have raised the\ndaily clearing house returns to over $1,-\n000,000.00. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 19\nThe fire brigade is admittedly one of\nthe finest motor brigades on the American continent. Building has been, and is\nvery active. Several modern office blocks\nare now under way, and apartment blocks\nrendered necessary by the demand for\nhousehold accommodation, are becoming\nquite a feature between Granville street\nand Stanley Park. Reinforced concrete\nis the popular material in use, with facing of stone, or of brick with stone sills.\nRailway activity has assumed more definite shape and much work has been planned covering the next three or four years,\nthe competition for traffic through the\nport of Vancouver when the Panama Canal is completed being prospectively very\ngreat. Other factors to be considered are\nthe awakening in China, and the more active development of this Province as well\nas the neighboring Province of Alberta.\nBy the addition of \"The Traders Bank\nof Canada,\" the list of Eastern banks has\nbeen raised to 14, while the newly incorporated Bank of Vancouver was opened\nin July.\nThe lumber and shingle mills on the\ncoast have been considerably increased\nboth in number and capacity. A large\nnumber of new companies, covering a\nwide range of enterprise, have been incorporated during the year, while as entirely new industries now in operation,\nmay be mentioned: The Canadian Pacific\nSulphide Pulp Co., Ltd.; the B. C. Wood\nPulp & Paper Co., Ltd.; the B. C. (Oil)\nRefining Co., Ltd., and the Paterson Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (makers of roofing\nfelt, 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\nso much impetus to manufacturing generally in this city and throughout the entire lower mainland district.\nThe real estate valuation at the close\nof 1909 was: Real property, $76,927,-\n720.00; improvements, $29,644,755.00; total, $106,572,475.00. From 1895 to 1905\nimprovements have been taxed at 50 per\ncent, of value; 1906-1909, at 25 per cent.,\nand for 1910 will be exempt. The tax rate\nfor 1909 was 2 per cent. The gross tax\nlevy was $1,258,769.\nOne of the strongest evidences of the\nnotable growth of Vancouver may be\nfound in the showing of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company, which\ncarried over thirty-three million passengers during the year as against about\ntwenty-five millions for the previous year.\nThe company increased its trackage by\ntwenty miles, now having 117 miles in\noperation. Summing up in a word, it\nmay be said that British Columbia and\nVancouver have not been surpassed in\nsubstantial progress during the period under consideration by any section of the\nworld.\nA Glance at Mining Progress\nAs Shown by the Month's Developments at the\nMines and Prospects\nORE DOCKS ON KOOTENAY LAKE\n(Courtesy of the Kootenay Silver-Lead Mines, Limited)\nGreat activity has marked the mining port has been denied, the public con-\nindustry. Several important strikes tinues to show great interest in this rich\nhave been reported, and deals have been section, which has seen a more extensive\nconsummated which mean new capital and mining development than any other in\na fresh impetus to British Columbia min* British Columbia. Sheep Creek camp is\ning. The outlook is extremely promising a center of activity.\nfor a greater production than ever before. The production of tne mines Gf Sheep\n Creek in ten years, including 1909, has\nSHEEP CREEK PRODUCTION. been:\nmi. t_ _. \u00ab v'l Tons Total\nThe report that Robert Guggenheim,\none of tne brothers who control the smel- Mines Mined Value\nter industry in the United States, has Yellowstone 16,987 $124,331\ntaken a four months' option on the Queen 51,543 522,348\nNugget gold mine, near Nelson, on a Kootenay Belle 5,106 100,015\nbasis of .$350 a share for 285,000 shares of Mother Lode 616 46,683\nthe company's stock, has attracted fresh Nugget 6,723 161,907\nattention to the Nelson mining division in \t\nthe Kootenay district. Though the re- Total 80,975 $985,284\nThis gives a general average value of\n$12.17 per ton for the ten years, covered\nby the foregoing statistics. The average\nvalue per ton of the product of the several mines respectively is as follows:\nYellowstone, $7.32; Queen, $10.72; Kootenay Belle, $19.59; Mother Lode, $75.78;\nNugget, $24.08.\nProgress in 1910 has been more marked\nthan in any other previous year. While\nproduction of ore, and consequently of\ngold, is not likely to show a large increase\nover that of 1909, there not having been\nmade any considerable addition to stamp\nmilling facilities, development work has\nbeen more extensive and prospecting has\ncovered a much wider area. The outlook,\ntherefore, is distinctly encouraging, and\nstill more important developments and a\nmaterially augmented production is confidently expected to take place next year.\nSMELTER OUTPUT.\nDuring the year ended June 30, the total out put of the Trail smelter of the\nConsolidated Mining & Smelting Company of Canada was $5,911,767. This is\nan increase of $400,000 over the figures\nof the year 1908-9. As the Trail smelter^\nhandles nearly all the custom ore of the\nKootenay and Boundary districts there\nis no institution in industrial British Columbia more closely in touch with the\nKootenay mining industry, or one more\nvital to the interior's prosperity. The\ngrowth in output indicates a correspond- Page 20\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\ning expansion in mining activity. In\nthat activity the Consolidated has itself\nborne the leading part, having added to\nits list of great mines during the year the\nSullivan, the Queen Victoria and the Molly Gibson, the two former of which are\nnow leading shippers.\nREPORT ON PORTLAND CANAL.\nR. W. Brock, director of the geological\nsurvey of the Ottawa Government, writes\nin part as follows of his visit in July to\nthe Portland Canal district: \"Portland\nCanal forms part of the boundary between\nBritish Columbia and Alaska. Its length\nis a little less than 60 miles. At the head\nof Portland Canal on a flat at the mouth\nof Bear river, the new mining camp of\nStewart is being established. The claims\nare situated on Bear river and its tributaries, commencing about four miles up\nfrom tidewater at Stewart.\nThe country is of the character which\nhas become recognized as typical of\nsouth-eastern Alaska. The valley occupied by Portland canal and Bear river is\nabout a mile wide, flanked on either side\nby somewhat precipitous mountains rising to a height of about 5,000 feet, with\nan occasional peak 1,000 or 2,000 feet\nhigher. The canal is navigable to its\nhead for boats of deep draught. ' The\ncamp lies in a metamorphic zone along\nwhat is probably the eastern limit of the\nCoast Range granite. The granite forms\na long and relatively narrow belt along\nand near the coast, extending from the\nFraser river to the White river basin in\nthe Yukon, a distance of 1,100 miles. Its\nwidth is from 30 to 60 miles.\nTwo classes of ore were exhibited at\nStewart; quartzose ore, carrying silver,\ngold and lead values, and a pyritic copper gold ore. The persistence of the\nveins is noted by all, a succession of\nclaims being located on what is said to\nbe the same vein traceable throughout.\nThe quartzose ore contains galena, sometimes blende, and silver minerals such as\n\u2022argentite, and native silver.\nThe Portland Canal Mining Company\non Glacier Creek, operating on a vein\ncarrying gold-silver-lead values has done\nthe greatest amount of work. This is\nthe first company to put in an aerial\ntram and concentrator. The latter will\nhave a capacity of 50 tons per day.\nNEW MINING TOWN.\nA new mining town, to be known as\nWednesbury, is to be established in the\nComox district of Vancouver island. The\ntown will be built in connection with the\ndevelopment work which the Canadian\nColleries company, which recently took\nover the holdings of the Hon. James Duns.\nmuir, and is operating diamond drills in a\nnumber of places with a view to locating\nthe best points for sinking new pits.\nWith the growth of the operations of\nthe island colliery plant a large number\nof additional expert coal miners will be\nneeded, and to procure these the management has entered into negotiations with\nthe Imperial Federation League, of which\nMr. Graham Forester of Victoria is the\nBritish Columbia commissioner. The\nleague will bring out miners from the\nold country, who will supply the needs\nwhich an enlarged scope of mineral labor\ndemands.\nstation has been cut and drifting started\non the ore bodies north and south. This\nstation is cut in ore of the best grade\nof a width of over 10 feet, assaying on\nan average 5 per cent, copper and $4\nto $6 gold.\nReports from Hudson Bay Junction\nstate the town is greatly excited over a\nrich discovery of gold thirty miles north\nof that place. Practically every male inhabitant has gone to stake a claim.\nENTRANCE TO MINE TUNNEL\n(Courtesy of the Kootenay Silver-Lead Mines, Limited)\nWEALTH IN PEACE RIVER COAL.\nThe great resource of the British Columbia Peace River country is its coal.\nSouthward from the Peace and between\nthe 122nd and 123rd degrees of longitude it is to all appearances coal country\neverywhere. The outcrop is bituminous,\nof the highest quality (for surface coal)\nand of excellent cooking qualities. The\nfield will probably rival that of the Crow's\nNest Pass when the country obtains facilities for railway transport. The proximity of the coal measures of the Peace\nRiver Valley to the richly mineralized\nadjacent district of the Omineca has also\nto be taken into consideration in approxi.\nmating the natural future of both districts, for as the Omineca mines are opened up, coal will here be readily available\nfor the economical operation of smelters.\nThe distance of Fort George may be\nplaced approximately as 150 miles from\nthe coal fields; and the coal bearing territory has many small patches of agricultural land, which, judiciously utilized,\nwould produce sufficient vegetables and\nall similar products to satisfy local requirements as the country develops.\nAn exceptionally rich gold strike has\nbeen made on the property of the Portland\u2014Bear River Mining company located 12 miles up Bear river. The white\nquartz exhibited comes from a well defined vein measuring from one to three\nfeet in width, liberally sprinkled with the\nyellow metal. Assays gave returns of\n$21, $112, $164 and over $600 in gold.\nThe new fifteen stamp mill which has\nbeen in course of construction at Long-\nlake in connection with the Jewel mine, is\nnow completed. The mill has been constructed for the purpose of testing a\nslimes-treating process of separating gold\nfrom tailings. The new process, which\nwas invented by H. Nichols, manager of\nthe Ymir mine, and is being promoted\nby the Slimes Treating company, promises to revolutionize present methods\nobtaining in the handling of similar ores.\nKarl Brell M. E. of New York, has been\nengaged in making an examination of the\nproperties of the Fife Mines, at Fife. He\nhas expressed great satisfaction with conditions there and recommends a very\nvery greatly increased plan of operations.\nThe force will soon be largely augmented\nand more machinery added. The winze\nin main tunnel is now 235 feet deep and a\nAn important strike has been reported\non the Free Silver property, in the Ymir\ncamp. Samples of the ore are said to\ncarry the highest lead values of any ore\never found in that camp, being especially\nheavy in galena. The property is about\ntwo miles from the town of Ymir.\nA company known as Bitter Creek Prospectors, Limited, has been registered in\nLondon with a capital of \u00a352 500 in 200,-\n000 ordinary shares of five shillings each\nand 50,000 deferred shares of one shilling\neach, to carry on the business of prospecting, exploring, mining, etc. 1910\nOP PORTUNITIES\nPage 21\nRecord Timber Yield\nFigures compiled by the Supervisor of\nScoles, Robert Hamilton, show that the\nlogging camps tributary to Vancouver are\nthis year turning out more raw material\nthan ever before. The record for July\nran up to 56,000,000 feet as against\n42,680,000 feet for July, 1909, and the\nofficial compilations show that the cut\nof logs for June was 70,000,000 feet and\nfor May 69,000,000, making the past three\nmonths a banner quarter. This record\nis approximately double that for the.same\nthree months last year.\nOne of the largest transactions yet\ncompleted in this country has been\nat any price. I remember counting 22\nworking sawmills not long ago on a\nlittle trip on a railroad for which the\nticket cost me only 35 cents. It can't\nlast long at that rate. For quantity,\nquality and availability we have here\nthe best timber field on the continent.\nOld Country capitalists are becoming\nmore interested in British Columbia timber. The demand is for spruce, although\nfir and cedar are also wanted. New York\nis also interested and an agent was here\nlooking over the timber propositions for\na paper-making syndicate. Fifty per\ncent, of the wood required is spruce.\nthere are nearly as many cohoes being\ntaken as sockeyes.\nAt Rivers Inlet the fishing is nearly\nover for the year. The catch there has\nbeen very large, the seven canneries\naveraging about 20,000 cases each, or a\ntotal pack for the inlet of 140,000 cases.\nThis is a much larger catch than usual,\n12,000 cases being generally considered\na paying catch.\nAt the other northern canneries the\ncatch has been equally good, and on\nthe Fraser the fish are still running well.\nIn Alaska the catch has been large\nat Cooke Inlet, but on Bristol Bay it has\nfallen below the average.\nFindlay, Durham & Brodie report that\nthey have had a good season with the\nspring salmon. While the Todd canneries get most of the sockeyes, the\n_____\u00ab%_..\nclosed in the purchase by an English\ncompany of the mills and limits of the\nMundy Lumber Company of Three Valley,\nB. C, and of a number of other properties.\nThe deal will involve several millions of\ndollars by the time its various branches\nhave been consummated.\n\"They can't make any mistake in buying this British Columbia timber land,\nproviding it is accessable,\" says Archibald\nGilchrist, well known as an authority on\ntimber land values. \"They've got to come\nto British Columbia for their timber in\nfive or ten years. I have been all over\nthe southern states, eastern states and\nprovinces and the Northwest. There is\nonly one tract of considerable size in the\nsouth to-day and the Grand Rapids man\nwho owns it will not sell any part of it\nSOME BRITISH COLUMBIA LOGS\nTHE FISHING SEASON.\nNow that the sockeye salmon season is\ndrawing to a close, it is possible to review the situation. Already the fish have\nnearly stopped entering the traps on\nthe Vancouver Island side of the straits.\nThere has been a large catch there this\nyear, but this catch has been confined\nto one or two of the traps, the others\ngetting very few. The catch from the\nfour Todd traps alone this year has\nbeen larger than from 22 traps which\nwere operated there four years ago, and\nmost of these have been taken from one\ntrap.\nIt is not expected that many more\nsockeyes will come up the straits, but\nthere will be the cohoes later; already\nother traps get most of the spring\nsalmon. The sockeyes are canned, but\nthe spring salmon are salted and exported to Europe in immense tierces,\nweighing nearly half a ton each when\nfull.\nDuring the seven expired months of the\ncurrent year, to August 1st, the mines\nof the Boundary district shipped an aggregate of approximately 1,020,000 tons\nof ore. Of this total, Granby Company's\nmines produced more than seventy per\ncent, and the British Columbia Copper\nCompany's mines nearly twenty per cent.\nOf the remaining ten per cent., practi-'\ncally all was shipped from the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company's\nSnowshoe mine. Page 22\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nA Monthly Journal Devoted to the Growth, Development,\nResources and Possibilities in British Columbia\nEntered in the Post Office of Canada as second-class matter.\nPublished by\nOPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.\nSuite 87, Hutchinson Block, 429 Pender Street, W.\nPhone 6926 Vancouver, B. C.\nSUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR\nAdvertising rates on application.\nFRASER S. KEITH, Publisher and Proprietor\nHEDLEY ROGERS, Advertising Manage HERBERT WELCH, Editor\nOUR AIM:\nTo furnish, at home and abroad, more complete information\nregarding British Columbia and the wealth of possibilities she offers\nfor Investment\u2014in Real Estate, Fruit and Farm Lands, Timber,\nMining and Industrial Companies\u2014for Health; for Travel; for\nRecreation; for Sport; for Education and for Enterprise.\nVol. 2.\nSEPTEMBER, 1910.\nNo. 3.\nThe Influx of Capital.\nWhen one considers the elusiveness and coyness\n_.nd timidity of capital, and then remembers that capital in constantly increasing \\ Glume is moving confidently and even eagerly toward this Province, no doubt\nis left as to the solidity of the foundation of British\nColumbia's prosperity, liailroad directors are expert\njudges of the extent of a region's resources. They do\nnot spend many millions in constructing new lines\nunless 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\nVancouver. Big mining capitalists examine with extreme care the question of the permanency of ore deposits before they invest their money. Within a few\nmonths they have shown a greater activity than ever\nbefore in acquiring British Columbia mineral land.\nTimber kings are interested only in forests in which\nthere are large reserve supplies of lumber. Among\nthese magnates the timber lands of British Columbia\nare in great demand. Builders do not construct costly\nstructures unless they are sure of a community's continuing growth. Building permits in Vancouver foi\nthe eight months of this year show a total of $8,-\n259,045, as against $4,883,312 for the same period last\nyear. Old World capitalists, who always scrutinize\npropositions from the vantage-ground of long experi\nence and conservatism, entertain only those which give\nhigh promise of bringing enduring returns. English and French capitalists are preparing to invest more\nheavily than ever before in British Columbia. One oi;\nthem, Mr. J. Norton Griffiths, member of parliament,\ncaptain of industry, and representative of a syndicate\nof English money lords, said recently in Vancouver;\n' 'My investigations in British Columbia have convinced\nme that this will become the richest province in the\nDominion.\" Mr. Griffiths and his friends propose t\n\u25a0\u00bb%>\ncAround the Corner on Hastings Street, Opposite Post Office\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666 \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666<\u25ba\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666 \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\n.*-.._.._<._.._..\n.._.._.............._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._....._\nCASCADE HI\nwithout a Peez\n<$*\u2022\u2022 _._..__._..\n._.._....._.._.\n.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._..\n'^_t\u00bb~\u00ab\"\u00ab..\u00ab~\u00ab_l\u00ab-^..\u00ab-^~\u00bb~\u00ab^\u00ab_.\u00ab..\u00bb..>~\u00ab~\u00bb~>..\u00bb_.\u00ab_.\u00ab_.\u00ab~\u00bb..\u00bb\"\u00abll_l.\u00bb.._.._.l\u00ab..\u00ab~\u00bb-^.._M\u00ab.._..\u00bb..\u00ab..-..>'.-\">.l_.l_.._ll\u00bb\"-\"-\"-\"\u00bb.\u00bbl\u00bb\nIS SCOTCH BAGPIPE ONLY A DUDEL\nSACK?\nJury at Milwaukee, Wis., So Decides and\nHighlanders Take Exception.\nScotch ire is rising. \"The Cock o'\nthe North\" resounds from the bagpipes,\nthe beacon fires burn, and from clansman to clansman flies the blood-besmeared talisman of strife. Onto the\nLowlands will pour the Scotch hordes,\nbut it is not hapless North England\nthis time, but the land of the Teuton,\nperhaps the home of the Yankee, which\ntwo countries have been responsible for\nan insult to the ancient war musical instrument of the hardy race, says the Portland Telegram.\nAn American jury at Milwaukee, Wis.,\nhas declared that the Scottish bagpipe\nis not a musical instrument, and that its\nproper name is the \"Dudel-Sack.\" The\ncase arose in this way. An enthusiastic\nScot was favoring the Milwaukee citizens\nwith a performance on the national instrument, when an American horse on\nhearing the .round of the pipes, straightway reared up, fell down and died. The\nowner sued the performer for the price\nof the unmusical beast.\nThe defence was: \"The horse was\nguilty of contributory negligence in permitting its nerves to go off at a tangent\nat a musical sound.\" The horse owner\ndenied that the bagpipe was capable of\nproducing music, and the jury actually\nsustained him. But worst of all, the jury,\nwhich contained several Germans, insisted\nupon calling the bagpipe a \"dudel-sack.\"\nScotsmen have heard many opprobrious epithets hurled at the great Highland bagpipe, but never before was it\ncalled a \"dudel-sack.\" This demanded a\nprotest, and the protest came. From all\nparts of the United States indignant dis\nsents from the findings of the Milwaukee\njury have come from insulted Scots.\nOther nationalities have replied, and the\ncontroversy has waxed so warm that the\nMonroe doctrine is simply nowhere.\nOne authority declares that the mere\nfact that Scotsmen use the word \"music\"\nin regard to the sounds emitted by the\n\"dudel-sack-' simply proves that they have\nno intelligent conception of what music\nis. The sounds of the \"dudel-sack\" are\n.merely \"stridulous cacophony\" and a mediaeval instrument of torture. Patriotic\nHighlanders point to the many glorious\nvictories achieved to the strains of the\npipes, and are met with the retort that\nthe enemy had only two courses open\u2014\neither to flee or remain and lose all desire for life. The \"dudel-sack,\" they say,\nrouses barbarians to frenzy, and fills them\nwith a burning desire for universal murder.\nThen, again, when confronted with its\ncapabilities for social enjoyment and dancing purposes, the insulting Yankee admits the bagpipe will make a Highlander\ndance, but so will a redhot stove if he\nsits on it in his national costume. One\ngood purpose is admitted to have been\nserved once\u2014it made the English run at\nBannockburn; but as one gentleman says,\nthat is not to be wondered at, as it is \"a\nh\u20141 of a noise.\" Such are the Insults\nhurled at the Scottish national music, and\nthough Venezuela and Cleveland's threats\nmay in time be forgotten, the \"dudel-sack\"\nincident will rankle in the brains of all\npatriotic Scots for ages to come.\n\u2666 \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666<*\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\nThe Wall Street Journal says that witn\nan influential if not dominant voice in\nRock Island, Harriman interests now control railroad properties with a combined\nincome from operation and investments\nof approximately $145,000,000.\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\nThe\" Red Cross\" Sanitary Closets\nare Strongly Commended by Physicians\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\nare Highly Recommended by Fire Chiefs \u25b2\nI\ni\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666 The Ajax\" Chemical Fire Engine\n\u2666 The I Simplex\" Fire Escape\n\u2666 Our Aluminum Advertising Novelties\nare Greatly Appreciated by\nLive Advertisers\nWE ARE SOLE AGENTS\n| R. HARRIS AND COMPANY \u2666\n^ Telephone 656 - \u2022 Hall and Lavery Block X\nNEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. \u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666*\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666*\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\n_.\n.t.._....._...-._.-_.._.-_.._\nT. HARRISON\nW. AKENHEAD\nDaily Stage to Cowichan Lake\nLIVERY\nMODERATE RATES\nCorner GOVERNMENT and STATION STREETS\nPhone 12 DUNCAN, B. C.\n\u25a0_.\u25a0_.._\u25a0__.._.._\u25a0._.._.,\n\u25a0\u2022_.._\u25a0\u00bb$\u00ab\nPhone 7132\nRoom 112 Carter-Cotton Bid.\nVancouver, B. C.\nYOUNG & FRANCEY\nENGINEERS & DRAUGHTSMEN\nBlue Printing, Tracing, Maps, Show Card Writing\nDesigns and Specifications for Steel and Concrete Buildings\nDrawings for Real Estate and Contractors\nArchitectural Perspectives Page 28\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nAmong the\nGrowers\nNumerous exhibitions, already held and\nyet to come, have greatly stimulated interest and activity in the big fruit growing industry of British Columbia. Preparations are under way for the first\nNational Apple Show to be held in Vancouver at the end of September, and, in\ngeneral, the progressive movement is\nvery marked. Fruit growers are showing\nthe applicant furnishing five acres of\nland which the government will work and\nplant. The owner is then expected to\nfollow the government's directions in\ndeveloping the tract, and demonstrations as to proper methods of spraying,\npruning, etc., will be held by the department experts for the benefit of the\nneighborhood.\nRye\n*____'\n'*&&\nP$i_\ng5__i.\n\u00a3_1_\n__Pw\n^MM&w.\n\"BPTfr&SW\nONE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA'S FERTILE FIELDS\na stronger tendency than ever before to\nco-operate in the solution of problems\nincidental to their business. They are\nmaking progress in their competition\nwith growers across the border to the\nsouth, and are constantly attaining a\nstronger realization of the possibilities of\nthe industry in British Columbia. Not\nfor a moment losing sight of the continual\nexpansion of this market, and that of the\nprairie country, they are preparing for\na larger output next season than ever\nbefore. The fruit crop this year has been\ntreble that of any in the past, but all the\nindications are that it will be greatly\nexceeded by that of 1911. Below are\nsome items showing the progress of the\nmonth.\nDemonstration Orchards.\nDeputy Minister of Agriculture Scott\nstates that within a month demonstration\norchards will be selected throughout B.\nC. Present plans consider locations as\nfollows: Vancouver Island, 2; lower\nmainland, 2 or 3; Yale-Kamloops, 4; Okanagan, 4; Columbia Valley, 1; Boundary,\n1 or 2; Kootenay and Arrow Lakes, 6.\nThe horticulturists of each district will\nconsider from the applications the best\nparties to whom the work will be entrusted. The present plan contemplates\nB. C. Fruit at Eastern Fairs.\nThe reports that continue to come in\nat the Department of Agriculture are\nmost gratifiying as they refer to the success of British Columbia fruits at the\nprairie exhibitions. The Brandon fair\nwas, at the last moment, able to provide\nspace for the exhibit from this province,\nand in every way the appearance of the\nfruit was most attractive. In view of\nthe Dominion Fair being held next year\nat Regina, the Department of Agriculture\nis taking active steps to secure space.\nThe first offer of the best location, at this\nexhibition has been granted to E. Bullock-\nWebster, the British Columbia commissioner. In connection with the exhibit\nat this year's Regina show, the report\nfrom the fruit commissioner to Mr.\nWilliam E. Scott, the deputy minister, is\nmost satisfactory. Great interest was\nevidenced in the display made by this\nProvince on the grounds. The British\nColumbia stand was thronged throughout\nevery day of the exhibition.\nThe Saskatoon fair was a centre for\nBritish Columbia fruits at which Bullock-\nWebster has been so fortunate as to\nsecure the entire end of the Horticultural\nHall, so that the fruit had a most central\nposition and attracted wide attention.\nLabor and Fruit Growing.\n\"The labor question in the fruit districts is becoming acute,\" says W. E.\nScott, deputy minister of agriculture in\nthis Province. \"It will have to be met\nfairly and squarely before long, as the\nlabor scarcity is having the effect of\nkeeping capital out of the Province. I have;\nknown several cases where men who\nwould otherwise have invested here were\nfrightened away by the high prices for\nlabor on the fruit ranches. This labor\nrisk is retarding the fruit industry and\nabout the only solution which occurs to\nme at the moment is for the government\nand the railway company to get together\nand make arrangements so that large\nnumbers of Old Country people of the\nright class could be brought out here\nfree of cost. There are many who would\ngladly come were it not for the great\nexpense of passage.\n\"At the present time orchard laborers\nin many parts of British Columbia command $3 per day, while across in Washington and Oregon they can be secured\nfor half that sum. This gives the Ameri.\ncan fruitgrowers a great advantage and\neven with the duty against them they can\nship their fruit into the Canadian markets\nat lower prices than the British Columbia\ngrowers can afford to sell for.\" Mr. Scott\nplaces his estimate of the fruit crop for\nthis year at three times that of previous\nseasons. This he regards as a conservative figure. He thinks that at least a\nthousand cars will be exported.\nStrawberries in the North.\nLakelse and Kitsumkalum strawberries are developing a reputation that\nwill do much towards settling the beautiful and fertile valleys which lie back of\nPrince Rupert. Last year a few boxes\nof strawberries were picked and brought\ndown. They were superior to berries\nbrought up from the south. This year\nthe\" residents of the two valleys planted\nmore vines and recently have been making large shipments to Prince Rupert,\nSeattle, and Vancouver. The berries are .\nof finest quality and their cultivation is\nvery profitable. The great feature of the\nLakelse and Kitsumkalum strawberries is\nthat they come in just at the close of the\nseason in California, Washington, and\nother southern districts, thus making\na particularly long season on the coast\nfor fresh fruits. Next season there will\neasily be a market a hundred per cent,\ngreater for them than there was this\nyear, and there is a fortune in their\ncultivation in the valleys along the Grand\nTrunk Pacific. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 29\nCANADA'S TREK.\nBy Hedley Rogers\nGermany's Iron Prince once lamented\nthat while France had colonists she possessed colonies, and Germany had colonists but no colonies, England was the\nhappy possessor of both. This was true\nthen, and is to-day. Great Britain not\nonly proudly possesses colonies, but colonies within colonies. The Briton's heritage outshines everything in history.\nWith pride which the gallant ancient\nRoman would have envied, he may rove\nover twenty-four of every hundred square\nmiles of the earth's surface and not be\nobliged to take out even his intention\npapers of naturalization. Alike, do\nKlondike's icy mountains, India's coral\nstrand, Africa's fertile plantations and\nAustralia's golden sands, join with Canada's broad acres in bestowing bounties\nupon him.\nWhen the precincts of the I\\_ other\nLand become too strait he may hie\nacross to the Dominions beyond the seas.\nWhen the East of those vast territories\nare developed, his progeny with all the\nvim of youth, may trek to the West,\nwrest from the bosom of nature a new\nDominion and there develop a new nation within a nation, thus assuring the\nperpetuation of the greatest of all great\nEmpires.\nIn this respect Canada is as well blest\nas any. No need exists for her youth\nemigrating to a foreign land, or even to\nanother colony within the Empire. Tens\nof millions of Canada's acres are yet in\ntheir virgin condition. While the rich\ngrain fields of Manitoba, Saskatchewan,\nAlberta and the other Northwest territories afford bounteous homesteads for\ntens of millions, the natural resources of\nBritish Columbia offer even greater rewards.\nIt is very gratifying to know that our\nEastern ancestors and cousins are being\nawakened to these facts. No country\nhas contributed to this Province a more\nhonorable and sturdy stock as have our\nEastern Provinces. Almost every train\ncarries Westward to us those whose\ncoming vouchsafes to our race the preservation of those qualities, characteristic\nof Canadian and British nationality.\nOne of the most interesting families\namong the recent arrivals is the Brown\nfamily, originally of Chatham and Dresden, Ontario, and later of the town of\nMcTaggart, Weyburn District, Sask. The\nmale folk consist of four sturdy men,\nfather and son and two nephews. Albert,\nthe elder, is father to Harry, and uncle\nto Alt\", and Roy. Geo. W. Brown, who is\nfather to the latter two and brother of\nAlbert, is still prominent in municipal\naffairs in the old home town. He is at\npresent councillor of Chatham Township.\nThis family is an exceptional exemplification of the commural spirit of brother\nhood. All four are working partners in\nthe one business.\nAs an evidence of their appreciation\nof the climate and resources of British\nColumbia they have each invested most\nof their means in and around the city of\nVancouver, and intend to invest the remainder of the capital, added to more\nthey expect to interest, in fruit and farm\nlands elsewhere in the Province. Those\nfour gentlemen comprise (what has become already familiar to many investors)\nThe Brown Realty Company. At the cor.\nner of Keefer street and Victoria drive\nthey have established well equipped\noffices, where they bid fair to assist in\npreserving to the real estate and brokerage business, that reliability so desirable in that field of commercial endeavor. Already they have acquired and have\nsale sub-divisions in Burnaby, South\nVancouver and Point Grey, in addition to\ncity business property and residential\nsites, particularly in Grandview.\nWith a record of fifteen years in the\nlumbering business in Ontario, owning\nlands in the Northwest, and having had\nyears of experience in ranching in those\nterritories, these boys are capable of\nproviding reliable advice, as to the relative values of property in each of the\nprovinces. The West will welcome from\nthe East many more such families as\nthe Browns.\nPROVINCIAL EXHIBITION\nOCT. 4 to 8 (inclusive), igi o\nQUEEN'S PARK, NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C.\nm FALL EXHIBITIONS \u00bb.\nLACROSSE\n$50,000 in Prizes\nBASEBALL\nUnder the Auspices of the R. A. & I. S. of B. C. .:. W. H. Keary, Manager.\nAbsolutely the GREATEST SHOW in British Columbia\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 30\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nUpward Trend in Real Estate\nThe renewed business activity which\nusually comes with the fall is evident in\nthe\" real estate field. The summer was\naccounted dull, but all the indications are\nthat the autumn will see much brisk\nbusiness. While there have not been\nmany 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\ninto the city after the crops have been\nmoved, the prospect is that it will continue to increase for several months. This\ndesire on the part of a great many people\nto acquire homes in Vancouver or its suburbs is a more pronounced feature of\nthe real estate situation here than in\nprobably any other city on the American\ncontinent, and is an excellent indication\nof the stability of the population flowing\ninto this city. The advent of new comers\nis also indicated by the great demand for\nrooming houses. These are taken as soon\nas they are placed upon the market, and\nare at once filled.\nIt is reported that British and American capitalists have recently invested\nhundreds of thousands of dollars in\nVancouver building securities.\nOne of the most substantial signs of\nthe building progress in this city will be\nseen in a fine twelve story building of\nsteel which is about to be erected on the\ncorner of Homer and Pender streets. In\nthe basement will be a dining-room with\naccommodation for five hundred guests.\nThe first story will be used for stores and\nthe upper floors will contain three hundred and eight offices.\nReal estate is particularly active in\nVancouver's suburbs. Hastings townsite\nis attracting the attention of speculators\nand home seekers because of its elevation and good transportation facilities.\nThe projected improvements in the Point\nGrey and Eburne car services, as well as\nin the roads and drainage, have had the\neffect of stimulating interest in these localities. Numerous lots have recently\nchanged hands. The False Creek bylaw\nhas had a tendency to enhance the values\nof Grandview. Among centres of real\nestate activity at a distance from Vancouver, Port Mann may be mentioned as\nnow attracting much attention because of\nthe announcement of the C. N. R. of an\nintention to develop this section as an\nocean port. Trade in lots has materially\nincreased in Clover dale since the extension of the Chilliwack line to that\npoint, and the opening of service by the\nB. C. E. R. The railroad extension to\nthis district makes it a promising field\nfor real estate investment. Interest in\nBurnaby, South Vancouver and Point\nGrey is growing constantly. There have\nbeen numerous inquiries as to Lulu Island real estate since the report of the\nintention of the C. N. R. to tap this\nterritory. The demand for fruit lands\nin the Okanagan Valley is continually\nincreasing. Twenty-five hundred acres\nhave been sold this month.\nBusy Days for Brokers\nThe making and extension of roads and\nthe opening of new streets has greatly\nstimulated activity in the beautiful suburb of Point Grey. On the Clere and\nWilson roads and the Marine drive business has been particularly brisk. Mole\nand Keefer, Point Grey specialists, have\nfound the uplift in the market very mark,\ned. The same is true of W. H. Windle,\nwho deals extensively in Kerrisdale and\nPoint Grey properties. Mr. Windle advises the family man to secure a home\nsite in Kerrisdale, where there is plenty\nof room and sunshine for the children\nas well as adults who appreciate the\ncharms of suburban life.\nBritish American Securities, Limited,\nare staking their firmly established reputation as a careful and conservative house\nupon the future of Kerrisdale as one of\nthe most desirable of Vancouver's suburbs. They have some excellent offerings\nthere, and report that the section is attracting more and more attention from\ninvestors and home seekers. In the Hastings townsite the National Real Estate\nCompany is finding difficulty in meeting\nwith the demand for houses. This demand is greatly stimulating construction in this section. Surrey, Point\nGfey, and South Vancouver are the centos of an activity which is absorbing the\nattention of Marriott & Fellows, who report a decided increase in the interest of\nspeculators and farm seekers. M. H.\nFranklin is making numerous sales in\nand around Port Moody, and is finding\nbusiness better than it was last year. A\nmaterial increase in transactions is also\nreported by Lougheed & Coates, who are\nfinding the advance most noticeable in the\nconstruction of new houses, they have\nrecently let several building contracts.\nMany inquiries for farm land have come\nto them, particularly in the Nicola Valley, in which they are specializing. They\nanticipate a larger volume of business\nin residential properties this fall than has\nbeen seen for many months. The Kitsil-\nano district is attracting the attention\nof many home seekers.\nFacilities for handling their rapidly\ngrowing business have recently been provided by Latimer, Ney & McTavish, who\nhave moved into attractive new offices.\nThey are finding a keen demand for\nGrandview and Eburne properties. Numerous options have been closed. The\nnew townsite of Fort George, in one of\nthe last undeveloped areas of the province, is attracting much attention because of the good water, fertile soil, and\nclose proximity to the railroad. William\nHolden is supplying many inquirers with\ninformation about this fertile section, and\nis closing deals there as well as in Vancouver. Foster & Fisher are doing more\nbusiness in North Vancouver than at any\ntime since the beginning of summer. God-\ndard & Son recently closed a deal for\nsixty-six feet on Pender street which was\npurchased by the French Auto Company\nfor forty-five thousand dollars, or about\nseven hundred dollars a front foot. This\nprogressive firm has made a number of\nother substantial sales within a few\nweeks.\nMessrs. Foster & Fisher of 310 Hastings street, who are well known in Vancouver as energetic real estate brokers,\nhave incorporated their business as a\njoint stock company. Mr. Thomas H.\nIngram, accountant of this city, who has\nrecently returned from a five months' trip\nto England and Europe, has placed a\nconsiderable amount of stock in the new\ncorporation. 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\nof Opportunities. The officers are A. P.\nFisher, president; G. H. Foster, manager\nand director; Thomas H. Ingram, secretary and treasurer.\nThe Capital City Realty Company is\nmaking a specialty of fruit and farm\nlands and finds a healthy demand for this\nkind of property. They have negotiated\nthe sale of a number of lots in the northern part of Vancouver within a few days. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 31\nThe progressiveness of L. W. Bick, the\nwell-known Victoria real estate operator,\nis illustrated by the literature about Victoria which he is scattering broadcast.\nThis consists of beautiful booklets and\nhandsomely illustrated pamphlets, which\nare bound to bring returns both to Victoria and to Mr. Bick, who is thoroughly\nconversant with the best opportunities\nfor Victoria and Vancouver Island real\nestate investment.\nW. S. Cameron, manager of Federal\nInvestments, has found inside real estate business good during the last six\nmonths, despite the general quietude in\nreal estate. He fully expects that the\nnext six months will be even better in\nboth inside and outside property. Mr.\nCameron is secretary and treasurer of\nThe Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. He\nsays that there is much activity on the\nstock market.\nOne of the most experienced real estate operators in Vancouver is Harry B.\nHall, of the Union Adjustment Company.\nMr. Hall has made a very close study of\nreal estate conditions in all parts of this\ncommunity, and is in a particularly good\nposition to advise prospective buyers as\nto the best possible investments in the\nVarious kinds of property here.\nD. D. Mann's presence in Stewart aroused great interest. He stated that his expenditures have amounted close to $750,-\n000 for payments on mining properties\nand development, and another $150,000\nwould be added before the close of the\nyear.\nThe Yukon territory has shipped to the\nouter world $150,000,000 in virgin gold.\nThe greater part of this has been produc.\ned within fifty miles of Dawson, and perhaps 90 per cent, within one hundred\nmiles. Klondike's output is increasing,\nwhereas some of the other camps are experiencing a falling off in yield. The output of this camp last year was $4,000,000,\nand this year it is expected to reach\n$5,000,000. The extensive operations of\nthe Yukon Gold are to be rivalled by those\nof a giant new company now entering the\nfield headed by A. N. C. Treadgold. Two or\nthree other big companies are in the field\nwith dredge companies, and two or three\nothers are investigating this season with\nprospects of coming.\nDan Greenwalt, a prospector well\nknown in Nevada and other parts of the\nwest, has reported a rich find on the\nSkagit river, near the international boundary. The values, he says, run from $150\nto $1,000 to the ton. Mr. Greenwalt's discovery was made on Steamboat Mountain.\nThe district is situated forty miles in a\nsoutherly direction from the settlement\nof Hope, where Mr. Greenwalt's arrival\nand report occasioned a great real of excitement.\nThe lure of the newly-discovered gold-\nfields has been felt strongly by the more\ndaring of Vancouver's prospectors. A\nparty of fifteen, headed by Dan Green-\nwait, W. A. Stephens, B. A. Jennings, S.\nA. Thompson and C. C. Grant, will spend\nthe winter working on a rich lode staked\nby the quartet. Over one hundred claims\nhave already been registered by Vancouv-\nlerites.\nOPPORTUNITIES IN DEER PARK.\nOpportunities for market gardens and\ncountry homes are what are attracting\npurchasers in the Deer Park division of\nBurnaby. The property which is the center of interest is on the border of Deer\nLake, with a gentle southern slope, and\nexceptionally good soil for gardening and\nfruit raising. The section has been slow\nin developing for one of so many natural\nattractions. The reason for this has been\na lack of transportation facilities. This\nobjection will be swept away by the tram\nline between Vancouver and New Westminster, which will put Deer Park within\neasy reach of the markets and the commercial center of British Columbia. But\nthe opportunities in the section are still\nground floor ones. They offer the contentment of a charmingly situated country\nhome, or the profit of a market garden,\nor both, upon an investment in property\nwhich is growing in value steadily. Ross\nand Shaw, of 318 Hastings Street, Vancouver, will tell you all about Deer Park.\nThe extensive investments of D. D.\nMann in the Portland Canal Mining district prove his faith in this rich mineral\nsection of British Columbia. Mr. Mann\nsays he is satisfied that Stewart will be\na permanent low grade camp. The miner,\nalized area is extensive, and the character\nof the ores bodies is varied.\nThe G. R. Naden Company, one of\nPrince Rupert's most progressive real\nestate companies, reports a strong demand for Prince Rupert real estate.\nTheir sales last week amounted to\n$40,000.\nEf-__-_-X-_-11 it i t TTTT_3__rr----_-r_xr_-_X-:\nrTTTTTTTT . 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C.\n..._\u00bb\u2022\u00ab.\u25a0_-._..>..__._\u25a0. ._.+..\u00bb\u00bb\u00ab.i>.....>..\u00bb..\u00bb. ).im_i_|i\nArchitectural Photography j\nEnlargements f\nAmateur Finishing\nPicture Framing\n| The House of Ideas The Highest of Ideals CAMERAS AND SUPPLIES\n\u00ab{\u00bb\u25a0\u00ab\u25a0\u25a0.\"-\".\u25a0\u25a0_\u25a0\u25a0_\u25a0'_\u25a0\u25a0_\u25a0\u00bb_\u25a0\u25a0_\u25a0\u25a0 _m_i.>ii.\u25a0\u25a0\u00abii\u00bbm\u00bb.i>.i\u00bbii_.\u25a0_\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0 .\u25a0\u25a0.\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0i\u00bbii\u00bbii\u00bbii_.._M\u00bbn>n>n_.i\u00bbmn>n>iHi.\u00bbii.ii_ii\u00bbii>ii_ntiii __i.h_h.ii_i tut\"_\u25a0!_\u25a0\u25a0\u2022\u25a0\u25a0-\u25a0\u25a0*\"\u00bb\"*\"-\"-\"-\u25a0\u25a0-\"\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0>\u25a0\u25a0-\u25a0\u25a0-\u25a0\u25a0_ii>n_\"_ii\u00bbn_n_ii>n_n_i._u_ii#M_miHiianfi\nTHESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS ^\nPage 32\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nSome Exhibition Displays\nOne of the most artistic displays at the\nVancouver exhibition was that of L. J.\nTrounce, the show card writer. His work\ncaught the eye of all passers-by, and\nfire engine mentioned has commended itself strongly to fire chief Watson of New\nWestminster, where R. Harris & Company have their offices.\ncompany has over 5,000 feet of development already done. It controls an immense deposit of silver-lead, and the\nboard of directors have just employed between thirty and forty additional men.\nThey propose increasing the number of\ntheir employees from month to month\nuntil the mine becomes the first shipper\nin Canada. The Company's mill is one\nof the best equipped in the Kootenay-\nSlocan district, 280,400 feet of lumber having been used in the construction of the\nbuilding alone. The machinery has a\ncapacity of 200 tons per day. An automatic gravity aerial tramway 5,500 feet\nlong connects the mill with the mines.\nThere is an abundance of timber for\nyears to come. Detailed information may\nbe obtained gratis by applying to the Company's office, 429 Pender Street, Vancouver.\nANT ARTISTIC DISPLAY OF SHOW CARDS\naroused unanimous admiration. It showed a refreshing difference from that of\nmost show card writers, who are prone\nto be stiff and mechanical in their product. Mr. Trounce gives drawings a snappy originality which immedately attracts\nadmiring attention and thus makes them\nparticularly effective as advertising mediums. In addition to their commercial\nmerits they have a distinctive art quality\nwhich plainly indicates that Mr. Trounce\ncould successfully compete with magazine cover artists and other designers of\nthe highest class. It is safe to say that\nin his distinctive field Mr. Trounce has\nno superiors and few equals on the continent.\nA FINE DISPLAY AT THE EXHIBITION\nAn effective display at the recent Vancouver exhibition was that of R. Harris\n& Company, who had on the counter of\nKOOTENAY SILVER LEAD MINES WIN\nFIRST PRIZE.\nAt the Vancouver Exhibition, under the\nsilver-lead section, first prize was awarded\nto the Kootenay Silver Lead Mines Limited. The Dominion Government strives\nto foster this industry by paying a lead-\nbounty of from 65c. to 80c. per 100 lbs.\nof ore mined, and from this source alone\nthe Highland Mine (one of the claims of\nthe Kootenay Silver Lead Mines Ltd.)\nreceived $27,326 in one year. The value\nof the concentrates, inclusive of the bounty, varies from $37 to $39 per ton. This\nNEW SASH AND DOOR FACTORY.\nThe new sash, door and planing mill\nof the Woodworkers, Limited, of Victoria, will in a short time be in operation with a capacity of 300 doors and\n100 windows a day. The machinery is\nof the very latest designs. The dry kiln\nrooms are equipped with what is known\nas the fresh air system and are heated\nto from 180 to 200 degrees. All material\nis steamed before the dry heat is applied.\nEverything in the plant is as perfect\nas it is possible to make it. The Woodworkers manufacture all kinds of building material. Every need of the builder\nin construction work is supplied at this\nfactory.\ntheir booth\njreat array of aluminum\ngoods designed for novelty advertisement.\nAs is well known among advertisers, aluminum articles constitute one of the\npopular and successful means for effective special advertising. Cecil T. M.\nSapsford, who is associated with the com-\n1 .\"i y, has recently taken the exclusive\nagency for these goods in Vancouver. In\naddiuor to the aluminium display the company handle and had on exhibition \"Red\nCross\" Sanitary Closets, which gained\nthe favorable attention of many physicians, the \"Simplex\" Fire Escape, and\nfire fighting equipment in general. The\nDISPLAY OF R. HARRIS & COMPANY AT THE VANCOUVER EXHIBITION 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 33\nATTRACTIONS OF THE PORTLAND.\nVictoria has been slow to realize that\nshe must cater in an efficient manner to\nthe visitors that continually fill her\nhotels and restaurants. Evidence of the\nfact that she has awakened to this neces.\nsity is found in her latest European plan\nhotel, \"The Portland,\" centrally situated\non Yates Street, two and a half blocks\nabove Government Street. This hotel,\nconsisting of about 50 rooms, is one of\nthe most modern of its kind on the Pacific coast. Every room is equipped with\nsteam heat, hot and cold water, and telephone. Mrs. C. Baker, the proprietress,\nwhose charming personality and unfailing courtesy have gone far toward making the success that this hotel undoubtedly enjoys, is to be complimented on\nher foresight and management.\nUP-TO-DATE ROOMING HOUSES.\nSeveral new, up-to-date rooming houses,\nwith hot and cold water, have recently\nbeen opened in Victoria. Among them\nare the Tourist, in the Bannerman &\nHome Building; the New Sylvester, in\nthe Sylvester Block on Yates Street,\nnear Douglas, and the Yates, at the corner of Yates and Broad Streets. These\nare under the management of George\nGeis, formerly with the Waldorf-Astoria,\nNew York City. These new rooming jjj|\nhouses fill a long-felt want in Victoria\nBOOTH AND STAFF OF OPPORTUNITIES AT VANCOUVER EXHIBITION\nFrom left to right : John Squire, Circulation Department ;__A. E. Roberts, Manager of\nExhibit; Miss Sampson, Secretary ; Herbert Welch, Managing Editor ;\nF. S. Keith, Publisher and Proprietor; Hedley Rogers, Advertising Manager.\nThe United Farmers of Alberta waited\nupon Sir Wilfrid Laurier and petitioned\nfor a reduction in the tariff and for the\nestablishment of government owned and\noperated terminal elevators at Victoria,\nVancouver and Prince Rupert. They also\nurged a further development of shipping\nfacilities by way of the Pacific. Sir\nWilfrid gave assurances that he would\nlook into the matter.\nMAPLE LEAF CLOTHES DRIER\nNECESSITIES FOR THE HOME.\nThe ladies were much in evidence at\nthe demonstration of the Maple Leaf\nClothes Drier at the Exhibition. This\nremarkable invention is a great boon\nto housekeepers and will eventually be\nfound in every home.\nIt is fitted into any ordinary kitchen\nceiling. The attachment consists of an\nordinary socket inserted into the beam\nof the ceiling. Into this socket is\nscrewed an iron rod and on this rod is\na wheel that can be raised and lowered\nat will. Eight or sixteen basswood rods,\neach four feet in length, can be inserted\ninto the wheel, and on these rods are\nhung the clothes so as to form a complete circle.\nIt is undoubtedly the most simple, ingenious and useful clothes drier that\nhas been invented. The entire apparatus is fitted up in any home at a total\ncost of $3 and can be purchased at the\nRonald McMaster Co., 2327 Granville St. Page 34\nWONDERFUL GAS PRODUCING\nMACHINE.\nReceived Highest Award at Vancouver\nExhibition.\nOne of the most up-to-date and best\nexhibits at the Vancouver Exhibition was\nthat of the firm of Piper & Co., of 1075\nGranville street, which is organizing a\nbig company to be called the British Gas\n& Light Company, Limited, which will\nextensively exploit their remarkable gas-\nOPPORTUNITIES\nheating the water instantly. When you\nhave sufficient hot water you simply\nturn the tap off, which at the same time\nturns off the gas, so the only expense is\njust when you use the' hot water.\nOne charge of the machine will last\nabout six months, so there is no worry\ninvolved in watching for a leak in the\ntank.\nThe gas machine is entered on the\npermitted list issue by the consulting\n\"jHm\n'\u00ab__\"\u2022_-_*_*?\u25a0\n% 4ft. A\nml tit\n___**& _w \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\n'\"*__\u00bbKf\ngas producing machine;;\nproducing machine, adaptable to any\nhouse, home, church or building of any\nkind. This machine is at once compact in size, and unlimited in the range\nof their usefulness. It produces gas for\ntwenty-four cooking burners, a large gas\nrange, hot-water heater, and lighting for\na large building. It did not only do it\nat the Exhibition, but has survived the\ntest of practical experience at the Alexandra Domestic School of Science. It is\nan invention that must appeal particularly to the housewife or a keeper of any\nlarge building. The machine means an\nimmense saving of expense in the matter\nof lighting. For instance, where incandescent, electric or acetylene lamps\nwould cost 50 cents an hour, the gas\nfrom this machine can be furnished at a\ncost of about three cents an hour. And;\nbesides this, it actually gives a 1000 candle-power, while the more expensive system only corresponds to 800 candle-power.\nIn addition to this greatest virtue of\neconomy, this wonderful invention has\nthe advantage of being a great labor-\nsaver. It supplies gas to one of the most\nmarvelous water heaters that was ever\nconceived, as well as to a beautiful gas\nstove for cooking. All you have to do, if\nyou want a bath or hot water in any\npart of your home, is just to turn the tap\nand your hot water begins to flow\nthrough this wonderful water heater,\nengineer of the National Board of Fire\nUnderwriters in Class A.\nThere are three virtues attainable in\ndomestic arrangements, and these gas\nburners and heaters possess all three.\nThese are safety, cleanliness and econ-\nomy, but the greatest of these is economy.\nm\n\u00bbk\n4\n4_U-\n1910\nTHE PROBLEM OF DISTRIBUTION.\nBy Hugh Chalmers.\nTHE LATEST WATER HEATING INVENTION\nThe business problem before the American people to-day, commercially speaking, is the problem of distribution\u2014of\ngetting things from where they are to\nwhere they ought to be. The two big\nfactors in this problem are advertising\nand salesmanship. Now, the relationship between the two, in my opinion, is\nthe closest relationship it is possible to\nhave. It is closer than a team under\na single yoke; it is closer than friends;\nit is closer than brothers; yes, it is\ncloser than the relationship between\nman and wife, because there can never\nbe a separation or a divorce. Advertising is salesmanship, and salesmanship is\nadvertising. Every ad. is a salesman,\nand every salesman is an ad. There is\nthis difference: advertising is salesmanship plus publicity; salesmanship is advertising plus getting the order signed.\nAdvertising creates the atmosphere of\nbusiness, and the salesman follows and\ntakes the orders. It is like a chemical\ncombination. For instance, glycerine in\nitself is perfectly harmless, but combined with certain chemicals it forms one\nof the most powerful explosives known.\nThe same is true of salesmanship and\nadvertising, it takes brains to combine\nthem and nerve to set them off, but the\nresults are worth while. A man says,\n\"My business is so thoroughly established I do not need to advertise it.\"\nIt puts me in mind of a man with blue\ngoggles winking at a girl. He knows he\nis winking at the girl, but she doesn't.\nNow the close relationship between the\ntwo is most noticeable when you get\ndown to the bedrock of business and\nfind out what is the foundation of all\nbusiness. The foundation of business is\nconfidence. And advertising and publicity are the greatest builders of confidence known to the business man. Big\nadvertising looks like big sales; it makes\nthe public familiar with the seller of the\ngoods and will create confidence in those\ngoods. Some people mistake advertising\nfor merit. Please bear in mind that advertising never added one dollar to the\nmerit of any article advertised. Advertising merely telJs the merit; it does not\ncreate it. Goods must have merit in\nthem to sell, and they must also have\nmerit, when sold, to stay sold. A sale\ndoes not end nowadays with the making\not it; it never ends as long as the man\nis using the article you sell. I think most\nadvertising men I have seen who do\nthings realize what advertising needs\nmost.\nThrough advertising we are enabled to\nbuild up volume, and that volume enables us to cut expense, and the more\nwe are enabled to sell the more advertising we should do. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 35\nThe Financial Situation\nAs may be expected during the summer\nmonths, there has been since June a\npause in the great business activity of\nlast spring. But the dullness is passing\nwith the summer. The autumn is bringing fresh vigor to commercial enterprise.\nMoney which has been used during the\nwarm months to harvest crops is already\nbeginning to flow back into the main\nchannels of circulation, and thus is again\nbecoming available for general investment. Until nearly the first of the year\nthis process of accumulation will continue, resulting in a steady increase in\nthe volumn of money at hand for the\nlaunching and extension of commercial\nenterprises. The signs of the business\nstimulus which always comes in the\nfall when times are normal, are now\nnumerous in Vancouver, particularly in\nthe fields of real estate and building.\nThe local financial situation is, of\ncourse, dependent in considerable measure upon that throughout the Dominion\nand that in the United States. This\nsituation has recently shown marked improvement. Because of drought upon\nthe Western plains, it was thought that\nthe crops, which are, of course, the basis\nof prosperity, would be at least a partial\nfailure. These fears have not been realized. In many sections, particularly in\nBritish Columbia, the harvest will be\nabundant, and, speaking generally, the\ncrop in Western Canada will be good. It\nhas been estimated by experts, for example, that the grain production for the\nthree great wheat growing provinces of\nCanada will amount this year to between eighty-five and ninety-five millions\nof bushels.\nA sustaining factor in the general financial situation has been the publication\nof the annual report of the Canadian Pacific \"Railway, showing gross revenues of\nwell over one hundred millions of dollars,\nand the most profitable year in the history of this great corporation. It is to\nbe noted that other railway companies of\nCanada are spending immense sums in\nconstruction. A progressive movement\nof this kind would not be in evidence\nif the astute financiers who direct the\ndestinies of these companies had the\nleast anticipation of business depression.\nThe constantly growing activity in the\nVancouver stock market is reflected in\nan official statement to the effect that\nthere were transactions during the last\nfiscal year in 1,829,716 shares of stock\nan increase of about 250 per cent over\nthe previous year. There are indications\nthat the current year will show a mater\nial increase over these high figures. Mining progress has within a few months\nbeen substantial. Numerous new strikes\nhave been reported, and companies are\npreparing for more vigorous development\ncampaigns than they have yet instituted.\nFor several reasons, which may not be\ndetailed here, the market for the big\nindustrial securities in the financial centres has fallen this summer to low levels,\nbut there are no factors in the commercial situation which can long continue\nto have a depressing effect. The general\nfeeling is one of buoyancy and optimism,\nand there is every promise that the financial trend is upwards.\nNORTHERN FARM LANDS\nThat twenty-five per cent, of northern\nBritish Columbia is good agricultural land\nis the opinion of George L. Brown of\nSeattle and Quesnel. Mr. Brown has just\nmade a tour through the north country,\ngoing in by way of Ashcroft to Quesnel,\nFort George, Hazelton, and the numerous\nfertile valleys which separate and surround those places. He is enthusiastic\nabout the country and is of opinion that\nthere will be immense changes there\nwithin a year. This year thousands of\npeople went in, but this is as nothing to\nthe number that will go next year, when\nthe railway is nearing completion, he\nsays., Mr. Brown brought out samples of\nthe grain, wheat, potatoes, tomatoes, and\nother products of the country. They are\nvery fine and show that the possibilities\nof agriculture are very great. Next year\nMr. Brown expects to pierce the Peace\nRiver country, where there are still more\nmillions of acres of undeveloped lands.\nJAMES ROY, WHOSE EFFICIENT WORK AS MANAGER WAS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR\nIN THE SUCCESS OF VANCOUVER'S FIRSTlEXHIBITION Page 36\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nRailroad Construction in British Columbia\nThe best augury for the development\nof a country is to be found in adequate\nrailway construction. The meaning of\nthe building of new lines and the extension of old ones is that the most\nastute financiers are certain of the permanent character of the resources of the\nterritory through which they project the\nsteel trails. The fact that there is probably more activity in railroad construction in British Columbia than anywhere\nelse on the continent speaks for itself in\nits bearing upon the continued development and future of this region.\nnext summer it will be running into\nHazelton. By the end of September the\npiece of line between Winnipeg and Lake\nSuperior junction will be in operation,\ngiving a clear run from the prairies to\nPort Arthur, in time to help carry out\nthe wheat crop. This will be a great\nrelief to the situation there, as, for a\nnumber of years past, the traffic over the\nC. P. R. has been badly blocked.\nKettle Valley Work.\nConstruction on the Kettle Valley railway, out of Merritt, is proceeding satisfactorily. One of the big steam shovels,\nmade overtures to the government of\nBritish Columbia for securing aid in the\nconstruction of hundreds of miles of\nbranch lines in various parts of the province. Premier McBride recently said:\n\"I have been in conference with Mr. D.\nD. Mann, Vice-President of the Canadian\nNorthern relative to the extension of the\nlines of the company on Vancouver\nIsland and the mainland of the province.\"\nOf course it is essential that following the\ncompletion of construction of the main\nline of the railway it should have branches which may serve as traffic feeders.\nTRACK LAYING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA\nGrand Trunk Construction.\nBefore the year is out the Grand Trunk\nPacific Railway will have trains running\ninto British Columbia at its eastern and\nwestern boundaries, and the work will be\npushed from both ends until these meet\nand make a through service from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The trains are\nabout to run through to Edson, the\ndivisional point 130 miles west of Edmonton, and by autumn they will probably\nbe operated as far as Jasper Park and\ninto the eastern confines of the province.\nThe railway will be operated for sixty\nmiles east of Prince Rupert this fall, and\nShipped 7 miles of pipe to Xatalla Oil\nFields\u2014Amalgamated Development Company. See page 5.\nwith a capacity of 70 tons, is on the\nground. The donkey engines are at the\ncoast ready for shipment. A. V. McDonald, who was awarded the sub-contract\nfor the first ten miles of the road, has\nwithdrawn from the field, but his withdrawal has in no way affected the progress of the work. Sub-contracts have\nbeen let for the different portions of the\nline out as far as 10 miles. Just as soon\nas the donkey engines and the rest of\nthe shovels arrive, the contractors say\nthey will take on all the men they can\nget. \"We will take 1000 men if we can\nget them, because we want to get this\nwork through.\"\nProvincial Aid to C. N. R.\nThe Canadian Northern Railway has\nIt is probable that in order to bring about\nfurther development of various portions\nof the province, through the furnishing\nof transportation facilities, the government may consider the advisability of\nlending such assistance to the railway\nas will bring about the object desired.\n\"The Canadian Northern is desirous of\nconstructing an additional hundred miles\nof line on Vancouver Island. Such an\nextension there would mean building\nfrom Alberni north to the northern end\nof the island, a locality now unserved\nby rail transportation. The company will\nalso build branches into the Okanagan\nand Kootenay. The question of granting\nOil in large quantities-\nvelopment Co., pag-e 5.\n-Amalgamated De- 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 37\naid to the building of the branches and\nextensions may be dealt with at the next\nsession of the legislature.\"\nC. N. R. at Port Mann.\nPreparatory work on the right-of-way\nof the Canadian Northern railway south\nof the Fraser River has now begun in\nearnest, and clearing gangs have been\nthe C. P. R. is well prepared to handle\nit. The crop movement may be expected\nto begin about the first of September.\"\nC. P. R.'s Great Land Holdings.\nCandaian Pacific is one of the largest\nland holders in the world, says the Wall\nStreet Journal. Exclusive of the receipts\nof the past fiscal year, $66,610,000 has\n**_*.--\u00a3\nA BULKLEY VALLEY FIELD\ndistributed between Port Mann and Port\nKells and other points along the valley.\nThe Johnston Construction company has\nabout 300 men at work \"brushing\" ana\nclearing the townsite of Port Mann, and\nit is understood that this force will be\naugumented next week by a force of\nseveral hundred men now being outfitted\nin Seattle.\nNew route for Nimrods.\nBy the 15th of September or the 1st\nof October at the outside, the E. & N.\nrailway company will inaugurate a\nservice over the Alberni extension as\nfar as Cameron Lake. This lake is one\nwhich, thus far, has seldom been visited\nby sportsmen habitually. A good number\nhave occasionally made an excursion that\nfar inland and always have returned with\nglowing reports, not only of the fishing\nto be secured, but of the plentitude of\nsmall game. Therefore it is probable\nthat, with the new line in operation\nabout the time of the opening of the\nshooting season, for a time at any rate,\nthe major portion of the travel will be\nmade up of nimrods.\nBig Freight Tonnage.\n;W. B. Lanigan, assistant freight traffic\nmanager of the C. P. R. says that the\nfreight tonnage of the railway in Western\nCanada is growing steadily year by year,\nbeing a striking index of the company's\ndevelopment. In the Kootenay, the lumber tonnage this season is heavier than\nusual, while the ore tonnage about maintains its position.\n\"There will be a considerable grain\ncrop to handle although not so large as\nusual,\" says Mr. Lanigan, \"and as usual\nThe only gllt-eclged, commercial oil proposition on the market, Amalgamated Development Company, page 5.\nbeen received from the sale of parcels\nof land out of the original grant of 25,-\n000,000 acres, and of this amount, approximately $36,193,521 have been expended on the company's property, with the\nresult that fixed charges amount to only\n$954 per mile. This compares with $1123\nfor the Great Northern, $2279 for Northern Pacific, and $2795 for Union Pacific.\nCanadian pacific now holds notes\namounting to over $18,000,000, representing part payments on land. The interest\non these notes has enabled the company\nto pay an extra dividend of 1 per cent,\nsince 1906, making the annual interest\nrate 7 per cent.\nit is conservatively estimated, $7,500,000\nto the company's gross for the past fiscal\nyear.\nThe company is moving rapidly in the\nmidst of a large programme of extensions\nand improvements. The total mileage,\nprojected is 635, of which 410 miles are\nto be completed before the end of the\nautumn of 1910. For next year and the\nyears succeeding it, it can be taken for\ngranted that as large, if not larger, programme of extensions will be undertaken.\nRecord Year for C. P. R.\nWell over a hundred millions were the\nfigures issued recently by Vice-President\nI. G. Ogden of the C. P. R.,giving the\nearnings for June, the last month of the\nfinancial year, and also the gross figures\nfor the whole year since July 1, 1909.\nIn every direction records were broken\nand new high figures set, both in gross\nearnings, net profits and working expenses. Gross earnings of the railway\nproper for the twelve months were reported as $94,989,490 or nearer the\nhundred million mark than ever before.\nBut railway earnings are a long way\nfrom covering all activities of the company. It is estimated that the net earnings of the steamships and other services,\nwith dividends and interest securities\nheld, which last year amounted to\n$3,500,000 will be far in excess of thai\nsum. No statement of the gross earnings of the steamship service is issued\nbut boats make a good deal better than\nten per cent, profit. On this basis $30,\n000,000 could be added as gross earnings\nof the steamships and other outside services bringing the probable total takings\nof the Canadian Pacific up to something\nlike $120,000,000 for the year. This is\n%'%m %&$$$\n\u00a3^eu\u00a3~-^f- 7.*:i\"* \".j-.-. #\u25a0\u00ab-\u25a0>-\n.'\"\u25a0 ~;-\u00a7il-|8^^!f^^_Miiri__:^'*'' --:\"^?-->$_.\nr^_\u00bb\u00a3>_P_3t-.WeaST \u201e_'*__iS^2?'v*5_M*^Bfc__-- \" .iw^'.n^r^ it ***\"*\n. .____s_3___. \u25a0 \u25a0 5?s!^^t_lic^____t_s'^?!^!r \u25a0's-ss__r_\u00a3'\n*J'' '*^**_i___r\": ._\"*\u2022' ^Hr^8B-fe,.-'--^C'^^^tj-'^___tt\nPOTATOES IN BULKLEY VALLEY\nThe company is regarded as one of the\nmost expert and extensive colonizers in\nexistence. It is the operator of a 3,000,-\n000-acre farm, and the income from this\nsource, together with the revenue derived\nfrom the operation of a fleet of steamers\non the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and a\nnumber of hotels* located along the line\nfrom Montreal to Vancouver, contributed,\nby far the greatest year in the company's\nhistory and one which few of the transportation companies of the world can\ncompare with.\nA forfeit of $1,000 was put up by the\nAmalgamated Development Company in\ncase their representations were not correct\nin every particular. Three newspapers sent\nrepresentatives who report\u2014better than represented. See page 5. Page 38\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nBULKLEY VALLEY\nThe arable land in the Bulkley Valley\ncovers an area approximately 100 miles\nlong and from one to ten miles wide.\nThe greater portion of this land is timbered lightly with poplars, while the remainder is timbered with spruce and\nblack pine of medium size. The soil is\nprincipally a black loam where the\npoplars are found, and a sandy loam\namong the black pine; almost invariably\nthe subsoil is clay. The first settlement\ntook place in the spring and summer of\n1904, although some ten men had wintered\nthere in 1903-04. In 1904 about twenty\npre-emptors took up land, built themselves cabins, and began preparing their\nlands for cultivation. During the following years settlers kept coming in until\nat the present time there are about 200\npre-emptors living in the valley, who with\ntheir wives and families bring the population up to about 500.\nMR. MERCHANT-\nAfter dark, YOUR WINDOWS, if properly dressed and LIGHTED, will play\nan important part in building up NEW BUSINESS.\nLet us supply you with OSRAM TUNGSTEN LAMPS for this class of\nAdvertising.\nB. C. ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED\nP. O. Drawer 1580 Phone 1609 Cor. Fort and Langley Sts., VICTORIA, B. C.\nMaple Leaf f?\nClothes Drier\nffl'HIS INVENTION solves the problem of drying clothes in wet\n^^ or cold weather. You do not nave to hang them out. All\nyou do is screw a socket into the kitchen ceiling. Into the socket\nyou screw the centre rod and arms. When the clothes are ready\nfor drying, you pull down the rod and arms, hang on the clothes\u2014\nthere is room tor a lot\u2014and push up the rod out of your way again.\nWhen the clothes are dried you take down the Drier and fold it up.\nThis is the new, expeditious, and pleasant way of drying\nclothes. The Drier costs $3.00 and is manufactured and sold hy\nThe Ronald\nMacMaster Company\n721 Robson Street\nVancouver, B. C. - Phone 5058\nThe Victoria Gulch Mines\ncomprise claims lying* between\nthe famous Bonanza and Eldor-\nado Creeks in theYukon.\nThese creeks have produced\n$51,500,000.00 in Gold during\nthe past 14 years and the end is\nnot yet in sight. All this gold\nwas eroded by natural processes\n===:::======= from the quartz leads higher up :===:====^^\nand washed down into the Creek.\nThe Quartz Leads tfyat supplied the Gold are on the properties of the Victoria Gulcli Mines.\nA Company to be capitalized at $1,000,000 is now being formed, to work the quartz\nleads that are literally studded with pure gold.\nCome to l6o Hastings Street West and see samples of the quartz. They are bristling\nwith bright e\"old.\n10,000 Shares\nonly will be sold at\n50c per Share\n10,000 Shares\nonly will be sold at\n50c per Share\nQ:\n10,000 Shares will be offered at 50 cents per share ; the par value of these shares will be $1.00 each, fully paid up and\nnon-assessable. Watch the daily papers and read the advertisements. No more than 10,000 shares will be sold at 50c each.\nGET IN ON THE! GROUND FLOOR NOW\nA. EL. GARVEY, FISCAL AGENT\nJ\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE 0_E\" OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 39\n*\n*\nY\nT\ni\nWE ARE SPECIALISTS IN I\nPortland Canal Stocks\nAND CAN GIVE YOU FULL INFORMATION\nON ANY COMPANY OPERATING IN THAT\n$ DISTRICT. DAILY QUOTATIONS RECEIVED.\nI N. B. M\/VYSMITH & CO., LTD.\n1 VICTORIA, B. C.\ni*\n% MEMBERS PACIFIC COAST STOCK EXCHANGE\ni \u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0 n ,r\n.\u2666. Olfices : Victoria, B. C, Vancouver, B. C., Stewart,\n4* B. C. Nanaimo, B. C, Seattle, Wash.\n4> ^^^^\u2666^\u2666^\u2666\u2022>i\u00a7j\u00bbj\u00bb^>\u00ab^4>,5,^,,_^j,_^^\nA__-,-#.^-^.#_*_*-\u00ab-^_._-\u00bb~..^.._.^.-...\u00ab..,_.,_.,..t_.\u00ab-,\nNEW\nT\nf\nThe PORTLAND\nMrs, Baker. Proprietress\n723 YATES ST. Phone 2404\nThe only modern rooming house in town.\nSteam heat, running hot and cold water and\ntelephones in all rooms. Newly furnished\nthroughout, and up-to-date in every respect.\nTERMS MODERATE\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n\u00bb*-._..\nSteam Heat, Gas, Electric Light, Telephone\nHot and Cold Running Water in Each Room\nTHE NEW SYLVESTER, 715 YATES ST.\n-AND\nTHE YATES HOTEL, 621 YATES STREET\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n[ \u00ae'\n. W. ARNOTT ft CO. 1\nT{eal Estate and Insurance i\n? Drawer 1539 & Prince Rupert j\nSplendid Opportunities for Investors j\n~)\nSUN\nVISIBLE\nL\nTYPEWRITER\nLight, Strong, Durable. Absolutely Guaranteed the Best Light Typewriter in the world\nCASH PRICE $50.00\nSEND FOR PARTICULARS\nTHOS. PLIMLEY\nAutomobile and Bicycle Dealer\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nJ\nCERTIFICATES OF\nATION.\nNCORPOR-\nCertiflcates of incorporation have been\ngranted as follows: Be van, Gore & Elliot, Ltd., Capital, $250,000 in 100\nshares of $1,000 each, and 150,000 of $1\neach; Northern British Columbia Development company, capital, $25,000 in\nshares of $50; Worswick Paving Co., capital, $25,000 in shares of $25; West Coast\nPishing & Curing Company, capital, $50,-\n000 in shares of $100; Mouat Brothers,\nlimited, capital, $35,000 in shares of $100;\nBute Inlet Land company, capital, $100,-\n000 in shares of $1; International Underwriters corporation, capital $250,000 in\nshares of $10; Ashman Coal Mines, limited, capital, $1,000,000 in shares of $1;\nthe Comox Sawmill company, capital,\n$25,000 in shares of $100; St. Patrick's\nHall company, limited, capital, $10,000 in\nshares of $10; M. M. Stephens & Company, limited, capital, $50,000 in shares\nof $100; Vancouver Artificial Stone &\nBrick company, capital, $5,000 in shares\nof $10 (the object is stated to be to acquire a knowledge of the secret processes and formula held by George F. Mc-\nCully on the terms of an agreement between him and J. Ross Archibald and to\ncarry on the business of manufacturing\nartificial stone and brick in Vancouver);\nTucker & Co., limited, capital, $50,000 in\nshares of $1; Farmers' Lumber Manufacturing company, capital, $100,000 in\nshares of $10; Electric Water Heater\ncompany, capital, $100,000 in shares of\n$100; Ottertail Mining & Development\ncompany, capital, $1,000,000 in shares of\n$1; Hazelton Nine-mile Mining company,\ncapital, $1,000,000 in shares of $1; the\nPenticton Herald Printing & Publishing\ncompany, capital $100,000 in chares of $1.\nThe following have been licensed as\nextra-provincial companies:\nThe Princetown Coal & Land company; head office, London, Eng.; capital two hundred thousands pounds,\nshares of one pound; attorney, Ernest\nWaterman, Princetown, B. C.\nPrince Rupert Coal Fields, limited;\nhead office, Montreal; capital, $5,000,000;\nattorney, H. G. Lawson, Victoria.\nThe 41 Market company; head office,\nWinnipeg; capital, $25,000; attorney, F.\nC. Lawer, barrister, Fernie.\nThe Glasgow Assurance company;\nhead office, Glasgow, Scotland; capital,\none hundred thousand pounds in shares\nof one pound, attorneys, A. L. Tregent\nand W. S. Holland, Vancouver.\nThe Western Supply & Equipment\ncompany, limited; capital, $50,000; head\noffice, Lethbridge, Alta; attorney, W.\nP. Ogilvie, solicitor, Vancouver.\nFletcher Manufacturing company;\nhead office, Toronto; capital, $250,000;\nAttorney, D. G. Marshall, barrister-at\nlaw, Vancouver.\nV\"\nPhone 953\nP. 0. Box 817\nE. CHILD 8 GO.\nREAL ESTATE 8\nFort George Lands\nRoom 9, 707><\nYATES STREET\nB.C.\n._.._.._.._.._.-__..\"\nMM J- E- Elliott\nHand-made Goods a Specialty\nThe most Lp-to-Datc Store\nFor Neckwear, Blouses, Underwear\nand everything needful for\nInfants and Children.\nPhone R313\n730 Yates St. VICTORIA, B. C.\nHours 9 to 6 Phone 3351\nJNO. JACKSON\nScientific Chiropodist\nCorns removed without pain, Bunions, Ingrowing\nNails, Club Nails, Callouses, Pedicuring, Fetid\nOdors and Sweaty Feet successfully treated.\n305 Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n._.._.._....._..\n,.\u2022.._.._.._.._..\nlis Ki jn\/<&-__p____i ?jvij\nPrince Rupert, B. C.\nMines, Stocks and Real Estate. Farm Lands \u2022\nin the Skeena, Bulkley and Kispiox Valleys !\nA..\nrri_T_R_T_ri_TJi_Tx__xri_T_r_j_ri _xn_T_rT_T_ixn_nr_rLp\nHENRY CROFT H. G. ASHBY 5\nAssoc. Mem. Inst. C. E.\nM. Inst. Mecb. E.\nNotary Public\nEngland\nCable Code: BEDFORD MACNEIL\nCable Address : ' CRAS,\" Vancouver\nTel\nephone 0\n937\nREAL ESTATE, TIMBER\nMINES, GOAL LANDS\n150,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.50\n86,000 acres Ominica District, at per acre, $4.50\n40,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.00\n7,680 acres Powell lake, go miles from\nVancouver, at per acre $4.00\n;,ooo acres Rupert District, Vancouver\n_re $10.00\nIsland, at p\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\nLRoom 5\ni_n_n_n\nWincb Bldg\nV\nancouver,\nB.C.\n_A_TxiJTJiJa_TjT_ixr__Tr__a_xriruxr__T^\nuisb\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 40\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n\"Opportunities\" Brokers' and Business Directory\nZbt progressive Brokerage, Tinancial and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia.\nPhone 2900\nA. E. AUSTIN & CO.\nReal Estate and Insurance.\n328 Granville St., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nT. B. ANDERSON & C. CLAYTON\nReal Estate\nPhone 5913\n!069 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B.C.\nE. C. B. BAG-SEA WE & CO.\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n1112 Broad St., Bownass Building\n'hone 2271 - - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 5726 P. O. Box 536\nH. BEEMAN\nSpecialist in Point Grey\n221 Winch Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nB. C. TRUST CORPORATION\nBk. B. N. A. Bldg., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 589\nJ. A. COLLINSON\nReal Estate\nPhone 4154\n240a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nCHAPPELi & BLAIR\nReal Estate\nPhone 4802\n443 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. W. DRESSER\nInsurance, Real Estate\nPhone 3020\n438 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nH. T. DEVINE COMPANY, LIMITED\nReal Estate, Loans and Insurance\n.37 Seymour St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 1627\nPhone 3628\nDUTIIIE & WISHART\nReal Estate and Pinancial Agents\n520 Pender St. W. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. H. ELLIS\nInvestment Broker\n1122 Government St., VICTORIA, B. C.\nM. H. FRANKLIN CO.\nReal Estate Brokers\nAcreage, Building Lots and Homes\nPhone 970\n449 Pender St.- - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGODDARD & SON\nLand Agents, Notaries\nPhone 3202\n329 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nTel. 5852\nGOODYEAR & MATHESON\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n06 Loo Building VANCOUVER, B. C\nLEONARD & REID\nReal Estate and Fire Insurance\nMining Properties in Portland Canal,\nHazelton and Queen Charlotte\nDistricts\nPRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.\nGRANVILLE BROKERAGE CO.\nReal Estate, Insurance, Commission Agts,\nPhone L4560\n1017 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nHARMAN & AFFLETON\nReal Estate\n534 Yates Street - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 1918\nSAMUEL HARRISON & CO.\nBrokers and Financial Agents. Agents\nStewart Land Co., Ltd.\nStewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.\nHASLETT & WHITAKER\nReal Estate, Timber, Insurance\nPhone 5807\nRoom 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nHEWLINGS & CO.\nReal Estate, Timber, Etc.\nPhone 1734\nRoom 4, 1109 Broad St. VICTORIA, B. C.\nHINKSON, SIDDALL & SON\nReal Estate and Insurance\nPhone 869\nNew Grand* Theatre Bldg. 1311 Gov't St.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nT. HODGSON\nReal Estate and Insurance\nBox 604 - NANAIMO, B. C.\nALFRED M. HOWELL\nCustoms Broker, Forwarding Agent\nOffice\u201423 Promis Block\nTelephone 1501, Res. R 1671\n1006 Government St., VICTORIA, B. C.\nIMPERIAL REALTY CO.\nReal Estate and Insurance\n307 Loo Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGEORGE LEEK\nReal Estate, Notary Public\nExchange Block PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.\nW. F. Moncreiff P. E. Townshend\nW. F. MONCREIFF & CO.\nReal Estate and Financial Brokers\nRoom 304, Winch Bldg. Hastings St. W.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nMARRIOTT & FELLOWS\nReal Estate\nPhone 1077\n134 Hastings St. - VANCOUVER, B.C.\nE. S. MORGAN\nIndustrial Sites, Waterfrontage on Bur-\nrard Inlet, etc.\nSuite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.\n429 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 5833.\nW. O. Shrumm H. Lambert\nTHE NATIONAL REAL ESTATE\nLoans, Insurance\nPhone 6320\n58 Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPATTULO & RADFORD\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nP.O. Box 1535 PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.\nCable Address: \"Patrad\"\nC. C. PEMBERTON\nReal Estate and Notary Public\nRoom 11, 707% Yates St. - Phone 1711\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nCHAS. L. PARKER\nBroker and Commission Agent\nSuite 50-51, 429 Pender St.\nPhone 3859 - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nC. ARTHUR REA\nLate of Brandon, Manitoba\nReal Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc\nLaw Chambers, VICTORIA, B. C.\nROYAL REALTY COMPANY\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nPhone 2394 Notary Public\n616 Fort St. - VICTORIA, B. C.\nSHAW REAL ESTATE CO.\nCity, Timber, Farm and Fruit Lands\n707% Yates Street - VICTORIA, B. C.\nSMITH & SMITH\nReal Estate and Commission Agents\nP.O. Box 41\nJ. H. Smith W. R. Smith\n4th Ave. - - STEWART, B. C.\nGEO. H. SMITH & ARTHUR JONES\nDealers in Property in Vancouver, New\nWestminster and the Fraser Valley\nP. O. Box 165 Phone 1743\nF. H. SEABROOK & CO.\nReal Estate and Timber\nPhone 4043\n316 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nVANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.\nReal Estate and Loans\n62 Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nWESCOTT 8c LETTS\nReal Estate and Insurance Agents\nRoom 3, Moody Block - Yates St.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nH. W. WINDLE\nReal Estate Broker\nPhone 5320\n532 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u2666|\u00ab._ll_ll_ll_ll\u00abH\u00bbM_.._-i\u00bb.-_-\u00bb\u00ab^\u00bb\u00ab>-.>_.\u00ab_....>^.....|0..t_,>M^.,J,,J..>Wjt\nI SHAMROCK LIVERY I\n| TEAMINGandFEEDSTABLES\nI L GRANDY AND SON\ni Post Office Address: PORT ALBERNI, B. C.\nRes.: 3030 Quadra St.\nOffice Phone 2418\nE. HENDERSON & CO.\nFarms, Timber and Mines\nFRUIT LANDS\n711 Yates Street\nRoom 1, Sylvester Block\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n4jW\n-\n.._....._.\u25a0_.._..........._..\n_-**\nE. J. Bright T. A. McQueen\nThe Capital City Realty Co.\nREAL ESTATE\nFINANCIAL AND INSURANCE AGENTS\n618 Yates St. Phone 2102 VICTORIA.B.C.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nLulu Island Snap\nTen acres on No. Six Road, now planked.\nWill have water past the property this fall.\nProperty on both sides held at $300 an acre.\nWho wants this at $250 per acre? It is the\nbest and safest investmeht you could make.\nBox M, Opportunities Pub. Co.\nThousand Dollar Bonus\nThe man who secures this will have made\none thousand dollars as soon as the deal is\nthrough. A ten-acre block situated east of\nNew Westminster with trackage and facing1\non government road. A beautiful piece of\nproperty which will be worth $500 an acre\nwithin a year. Surrounding acreage off the\nroad and without trackage now selling at $350\nper acre. This for a quick sale at $250 per\nacre; $1400 cash, balance over three years.\nBox L, Opportunities Pub. Co.\nSUMMER HOME\nHere is a chance to secure a summer home\non the north arm of Burrard Inlet at a low\nprice. A 3-roomed cedar bungalow at Woodlands with a superb view overlooking the\nentire inlet. Lot three-quarters of an acre.\nMountain water piped past the property.\nGood boat service convenient for business\nmen. Ideal location. This is a genuine snap.\nPrice $1200; one half cash, balance over 2\nyears. Address,\nBox K, Opportunities Pub. Co.\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 41\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666<\u00bb\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\nI\nTHE GRANVILLE\nBROKERAGE CO,\nReal Estate, Insurance and Commission Agents\nHORNBY STREET\nBest buy on this coming street. Full lot with house,\nclose to Pender. Price $15,000. Easy terms.\nCLARK DRIVE\n33 feet, with small house rented at $8.00 per month, near\nHarris Street. Price $3,700. Good terms.\nGRANDVIEW\nWe have several lots in this district under market value.\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\nGRANDVIEW PROPERTY A SPECIALTY\n1017 Granville Street\nVANCOUVER, B. G\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\nnjTjTLr__xr__Truxr_n-Txi_ri_^^\nrLnp\nDo You Want\nto Make\nSome Money?\nIF you have a little spare time it\nwill pay you to act as representative to ''Opportunities\" in your district,\nor better still, if you can give us all\nyour time you can make a handsome\nrevenue with little difficulty. A card\nwill bring you sample copies and an\noutline of our proposition, which is a\nmost liberal one.\n_-\"LTU\nADDRESS CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT\nOPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.\nn_ri_xixri_TjiA_TJi_TjTjTjTjTji niuxnsuxriiisinrinfinnruvnri nnnnjuuw\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS\n\u25a0LTLTD Page 42\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\"\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0\n..\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00ab..\u00bb_\u00bb#_\u00bb<..\u00bb*\u00bb\u00bb\u25a0 i|ntntn|ii\nTRANSFER\nAND LIVERY\nROSEBOROUGH & HARRIS\nSECOND AVENUE\nPort Alberni, B.C.\n\u2666 \u2666 \u2666\u00bb\u2666-\u2666 \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\n-\u2666-\u2666\u2022 \u2666\n.\nTesting the Eyesight jj\nis not guesswork\u2014It is a scientific pro-\nceedure which only a SPECIALIST can \\\\\nfollow deftly and with certainty. If your o\nEyesight is not what you think it ought \\*\nto be, call and have it tested properly.\nDu Earl T* McCoy \\\nEyesight Specialist X> Glasses Fitted\n65 Fairfield Bldg.,445 Granville St.\n\u2022\u2022-\u2666-\n>\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666 <\u25ba\nBUILDING DOCKS AT RUPERT.\nWork on the construction of the Canadian Fish & Cold Storage Compony at\nPrince Rupert has started. ___. scow load\nof lumber and piling came up from Vancouver and the docks will be built immediately. Teredo-proof piling is being\nused. The company is using the sawmill\ndocks temporarily for the unloading of\nits material. It is reported from an inside authority that the Dominion Government intends to give a bonus of $300,000\nto aid the company in erecting its big\nworks and establishing the fish packing\nindustry in the northern city. This information has not yet been made public,\nbut something of the kind is evidently\ncontemplated. It would be a big boost to\nPrince Rupert industry.\nDALLAS HOTEL\nThe only Seaside Hotel in the City\nFifteen minutes walk from P. O.\nOne minute's walk from street cars\nWith rapid development now in progress, the famous Fraser River Delta\ngives every promise of becoming one of\nthe ricnest and most productive agricultural sections in Canada. Nature seems\nto have designed the Delta for this end,\nand man has obligingly placed big cities\nwithin easy reach of it, so that the delta\nfarmer finds for his products a market\nwhich is already great and is growing\nconstantly. One of those who perceives\nmost vividly the nature of this section is\nJames Armes of 1885 Hastings street,\nVancouver, who has concentrated with\ncareful and capable work upon the\nWhonnock and Ruskin districts, and has\na list of small selected fruit and farm\nlands which should be seen by all who\nare awake to the opportunities here.\nPrices range from $50.00 up.\nVICTORIA, B. C\n\u00ab$\u00bb\u2022\u2022\u2022\n......................\n\u2022-\u2022\u2022\u2022j.\n\u2666$\u2666._.._.._.._.. _.._.._.._.....................~........................_..__._..^.\nWe make a specialty of Business, Farm and Residential\nProperty.\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\nCIMIE & POWER j\n* \u2022\nREAL ESTATE and INSURANCE AGENTS I\n1214 Douglas Street P. 0. Box 316\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n\u00bb|\u00bb-_.._M_M\u00bb.l_..>-i_~\u00abll_ll_ll_M_ll_ll_..>.._..tll>ll_lHlH,H^>_.\u00bb..>..t.t|t\nMany inquiries during the summer as\nto Victoria real estate have been found\nby the Royal Realty Company to be bearing fruit in sales at the present time.\nThere has been considerable activity in\nresidential, business and sub-division\nproperties, resulting evidently from the\nfact that many persons who visited V^-\ntoria during the summer have decided\nthat real estate investment there is both\nsafe and profitable. The outlook for the\nfall is bright.\nPANTCRIUM\nPhone 1823 Renovating-\ned and Pressed for 50c.\nTailoring\nSuits Spon\nOne trial will make you a regular customer.\nI 313 Gamble St Vancouver, B, C, >\nChanges of an important nature are\nbeing effected in the Canadian end of the\nbusiness of the Pacific Cable company.\nJ. Milward, Australian manager, and A. S.\nBaxendale, chairman of the London board,\nhave completed arrangements with the\nCanadian Pacific Telegraph company to\nlease a special wire from the latter in\norder that there may be no break in\nthe Cable company's direct communication across this continent. The business\nof the Pacific Cable company has increased in the last year or two at a\nsensational rate and the present move\nis considered a distinctly forward one in\nthe history of the organization.\nr-T_T_R_Tr__T_ari_T_r_j^\nH. W. Philpot H. W. Lang 5\nTELEPHONE 6604\nPH1LF0T & LANG\nREAL ESTATE\nTIMBER INSURANCE _?\nMONEY TO LOAN\nHomes in all parts of the City\n1403 DOMINION TRUST BUILDING\nL Vancouver, B. C.\nUTj-uioTinriJTriJTj uuTsirinsinjuuTsu\nUT-TD\nWM. MEED\nWHOLESALE\nFruit\nProd\nuce an\nd\nProvision Merchant\nSTEWART,nC.\n\u00ab\u00a3\u00ab.\u00ab.._..\n._........_.._...\u25a0\n.....................\n.......J.\n\u00ab\u00a3\u00ab\u25a0 _.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.\u25a0_.\u2022_.\u2022_.\u2022_\u2022\u2022_...........\n....... \u2022$\u2666\nWestminster Hall j\nVANCOUVER, B. C. j\nTfye Presbyterian College of tfye West' *\nThorough training in all years\nof the Theological Course.\nTutorial Department for men\npreparing for Arts. & &p &P\nThe most distinguished\nscholars from all parts of the\nworld lecture from time to time.\nSUMMER SESSION\nFor calendar, write PROF. G.\nC. PIDGEON, D.D., Registrar\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 3\nOTOn! DTAnT Considering Its Simplicity, Its Effectivenes Creates Wonder\nolUrl ntAUI \/^W\nYou have a strop, and\nmay be a sore face.\nWhy not have a hone ?\nThe strop merely\nsmoothes the edge off\nthe razor, and in time\ntends to thicken it, but\ndoes not bring- it to a\nfine cutting\" edge.\nA razor hone thins it\ndown.\nNotice the \"WIRE EDGE\" breaking off the razor\nwhen passing over the sharp edges of the holes.\nFirst : Hone your razor, giving it five or six\nstrokes over the perforated surface.\nSecond. : Clean off your strop, and strop your\nrazor.\nThird : Wash your face well, removing- any\ndust or dirt that- may collect in the skin or\nbeard as well, it softens the beard ; then dry\nyour face and hands, for wet hands cannot\nhandle a razor.\nFourth: Rub the lather in well, then re-lather\nand shave.\nlip\nHI\nIz|gi8g8:\nWi -58\ngig sm\nmm \\ *\njppji^jijii\nI\nH\nC^v^^^^^^\u00ae^\nS. J. SMITH\nInventor and Sole Manufacturer of The Smith\nPerforated Razor Hone.\nTHE SMITH RAZOR HONE CO.\n838 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C.\nDear Sirs :\nPlease find enclosed $1.00, for which send me\nprepaid, one Smith's Perforated Razor Hone.\nName\t\nAddress\t\nROSENBERG VIEW\nBlocks 2 and 3, District Lot 200\nBEAUTIFUL view lots with southern slope, five minutes from Fraser Avenue and five\nminutes from car when track is continued to connect with the Eburne-Westminster\nline. The B. C. Electric Railway Company is under contract to go to Page Road in eight\nmonths, and will probably make the other connection at the same time. We will guarantee\nto clear and grade all lots, streets and lanes, leaving the property ready to build on.\nThere is a great demand now for cheap property, and this exactly fills the bill.\nLOTS $400 UP\nTerms : $50 cash and $50 quarterly ; or one-quarter cash, balance 6, 12 and 18 months.\nI\nLatimer, Ney &McTavish, Ltd.\nOffice Open Evenings ^ I \u00a3 PeildeZ Stteet W., ZJaiJCOUVeZ, B. C.\n\\\nTHERE ABB OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERT ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 4\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nTHE PERMANENT\nHAIR WAVE\ny^W* ^a^es Your Hair as Beautiful as if\nI Waved by Mother Nature\na?kHE Permanent Wave is new to Vancouver, but has attained great vogue\n\\*j in London, Paris and New York. In addition to its beautifying effect,\nit benefits the hair. The wave is not destroyed, but is enhanced by\ndampness and shampooing. Not for many months, until the hair grows\nout, do you have to think of keeping it in wave. The wave is there, in\nall its freshness and beauty. I have tested its durability carefully, and\nhave been charmed by the results. Now I am introducing it in Vancouver\nwith great success. It is one of the most scientific and satisfactory aids\nto beauty yet devised, a real boon to women who desire to be attractive\nat all times.\nIn considering the Wave, however, do not forget my LAUNDRY\nFOR FACES, in which you can have your face washed in a wonderfully\ncleansing and nourishing warm oil and ironed with a gently heated electric\niron, resulting in a freshening of the complexion which will arouse the\nadmiration of your friends.\nReturning to the subject of hair, I desire to announce that on\nMonday, October 3rd, I will begin a SALE OF HAIR GOODS of the best\nqualities, in which each article will be sold at a reduction of twenty-five\nper cent. At this sale you will find the best at the most reasonable prices.\nIf you can't call, write me a letter.\nV&BBBBSS^&BSSEm\nvK*&&mmsp&>.\ni^^l^^^^^SS^I\nMADAME HUMPHREYS\nThe Largest, Most Up-to-date Establishment of its kind on the Pacific Coast\n723 Pender Street, W. the fairfield building VANCOUVER, B. C.\n^Plione looo\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 5\nFgyVKMS^gCTvaftMtfgBSIHHWr\nSa8E5S2SSE5SE\u00a3S\n^%4^s^r^^-rS^^:rJWA''raS)S:\nEESw^^SttBSiBB^BaBEgSBaig\nPORT1MANN\nAs a Transcontinental Terminus and great Sea Port, is an assured fact.\nIf.' The CANADIAN NORTHERN Railway Co. have not only decided to\nmake PORT MANN their PACIFIC TERMINUS, but they are ACTUALLY BUILDING THE CITY.\nWe have, RIGHT IN THE TOWNSITE, One Acre Lots to 80 Acres. This is the best investment on\nthe market to-day. \u20ac][ We have a man on the ground who will show you the property, which includes a\nnumber of good buys if taken at once.\nH. P. LATHAM,\nManager National Finance Co., Ltd.,\n657 Columbia Street, New Westminster, B. C.\nDear Sir:\nPlease forward me by return mail full particulars regarding the acreage you have for sale right in the townsite of Port Mann.\nName\nAddress\nNational Finance Company, Ltd.\nH. P. Latham. Local Manager\n657 Columbia Street, New Westminster, B. C.\nNew Westminster\nBranch :\n5^SSW?^\u00abBe!i\u00ab3SMSr5aa^\u00ab*^!\u00abSe=BBi^\nTelephones 1193, R 4008 and 1,1533\nEstablished 1888\nMUTRIB & BROWN\nMAKE AND SAVE MONEY for their Clients every day. They have been doing this since 1888,\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^= and have started thousands of Clients on the road to Fortune.\nReal Estate Valuators. Insurance, Money to Loan. Houses and Stores for Rent\nAcreage, Building Lots and Homes in any district you desire. See our lists and prices before buying.\nMUTRIE \n7\n40\n39\n34\n40\n40\n6\n40\n29\n37\n37\n40\n40\n41\n40\n40\n40\nTravelers Hotel\nTrounce, L. J. .\nVancouver Brokerage, Limited\nVancouver Trust Co., Ltd. ..,\n40\n27\nWalker, Henry M 7\nWard, Burmester & von Graevenitz .. 37\nWestcot t & Letts 40\nWestern Business College 41\nWindle, H. Vv 39-40\nWoodworkers (The), Limited 39\nYates, The \t\nYoung & Francey\n61\n7\nrrum njiJTnjTrxnjiruTJTnjann^\nH. W. Philpot H. W. Lang %\nTELEPHONE 6604\nPHILPOT & LANG\nREAL ESTATE\nTIMBER INSURANCE\nMONEY TO LOAN\nHomes in all parts of the \nEyesight is not what you think it ought *'\nto be, call and have it tested properly, jjj\n__________^_________________ M\nDi\\ Earl T* McCoy j\nEyesight Specialist X Glasses Fitted \\\n65 Fairfield Bldg.,445 Granville St. t\n\u2666 \u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666 |\n\u00abJ\u00bb.\u00bb~\u00bb..\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00ab~\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00bb\u00ab\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00ab..e\u00ab\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00bb^J\u00bb\nPhone 953\nP. 0. Box 817 f\nE. CHILD 0 CO.\nREAL ESTATE\nFort George Lands\nRoom 9, 707;< YATES STREET }\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n\u00abtn\u00bb\"\u00ab\"\u00bb\"\u00ab\"\ni\u00bbii>ii\u00abii\u00bbii|i\nPORT MANN\nIS NOW THE BOOMING PLACE\nBE WISE\nAND FOLLOW THE CROWD\nWe can put you on to all the Best Snaps\nas we know Surrey values If Send for\nOUR FREE MAP of PORT MANN\nand Price List of SPECIAL SNAPS\nM. G. MORRISON &CO.\n536 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B. C.\n\"Telephone a7ao\nReal Estate Window Designs\nII IHMCTBil\u2014\u2014i\u2014B\u2014^iM\u25a0^\u25a0^\u2014\u2014\u25a0\nSmart Snappy Original\nSHOW CARDS\nMan Designs\nL. J. TROUNCE\nSHOW CARD WRITER\n1210 Dominion Trust Building:\nPhone 6748 VANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\n\u2666 The\" Red Cross\" Sanitary Closets X\n\u2666 are Strongly Commended by Physicians \u2666\n\u2666 The \"Ajax\" Chemical Fire Engine \u2666\n\u2666 The I Simplex\" Fire Escape \u2666\nX are Highly Recommended by Fire Chiefs ^\nt Our Aluminium Advertising Novelties \u2666\nM are Greatly Appreciated by T\n55 Live Advertisers T\n\u2666 WE ARE SOLE AGENTS \u2666\n| R. HARRIS AND COMPANY \u2666\n\u25b2 Telephone 656 - - Hall and Lavery Block _^\nX NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. \u2666\n\u2666 \u2666\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\nJ. W. POTTER\nArchitect and Structural engineer\nReinforced Concrete a Specialty\nLaW-BCTLER BUILDING\nPRINCE RUPERT, B. 6,\nP. 0. B\u00a9X 271\n\u2022\u2022\u00ab\u2022\u2022\u2022$\u2022\nj G. R. NADEN CO., Ltd. j\nPrince Rupert, B. C. t\nMines, Stocks and Real Estate. Farm Lands ?\nin the Skeena, Bulkley and Kispiox Valleys ' t\nl\"\u00bb\"\u00ab-\u00bb\u00abtM\u00ab\u00bb\u00bbH\u00ab\u00bb\u00bbM\u00abl.\u00bb.l>lltll\u00bb.,t1.t.ltntlltllHl\u00abmil|lHl.|lHl \u00ab}\u2022\nEstimates Cheerfully Given Phone 6481\nHENRY M. WALKER\nContractor for Land Clearing, Stumping,\nBlasting, Etc.\nOffice, 552 Barnard St., Vancouver, B. C\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IJT EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS BOB\nPage 8\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nOPPORTUNITIES ?\nWell, Yes. Here's a bunch of them.\nIf you want BIG THINGS we have\n\\ 55 Acres on B* C* Electric near Port Mann*\nJ 60 Acres just back of Port Mann, close in*\n27 Acres at South Westminster, close to B* C* E* R*\nG* N- R- and C N* R-\nThese are great acreage and lot sub-division propositions, with big profits for investors at present prices.\nParticulars on application.\nLots of good smaller acreage and lot propositions where prices are rapidly advancing. Also valuable\nwater frontage near the city, and choice New Westminster City and District property.\nKENNEDY BROTHERS, LiniTED\nSuccessors to Hale Bros. & Kennedy, Limited\nREAL ESTATE, TIMBER AND INSURANCE |\nPhone 335\nOVER MERCHANTS' BANK, MC\\U U\/CCTPIIMCTCn O n\nCOR. COLUMBIA AND BEQBIE STREETS 1> C W W CO I 1 UrNO 1 CK, t>. C\ny\nTHE SOUTH VANCOUVER AND BURNABY SPECIALISTS\nSOME OF THE\nMOST DESERABLE\nSUBURBAN LOTS\nARE ON\nTHIS ROUTE\nCITY LIMITS TO CAR TERMINUS\n\u25a0WHtttnnnuMtititiMriii\n\/^hoice residential lots. . . .$450 up\n^ ar line frontage $40 foot up\nGoddard & Son.321 Pender\nEdmonia\ntfojr .salo Ifjr\nCLOSE TO\nEDMUNDS AND\nMUNICIPAL HALL\n66ft. LOTS\n$350 AND UP\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1910, AT 7.30\n35 WORKING MEN'S LOTS\nwith City Water and Electric Light\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 1910\n40 INVESTOR'S LOTS on the Westminster Rd.\nRight in the line of Developments.\nBuy Near!\nThe Coming f\nUniversity Suburb IH\nM $50 Cash\nAcreage: $1250\nHi per Acre and up\n\"THE PROPERTY MART\"\nP. 0. Box 674\n321 PENDER ST.\nI\nAUCTIONEERS\nNOTARIES H\nVANCOUVER, B.G.\nS\nBRANCHE8: CEDAR COTTAGE AND CENTRAL PARK.\nm\nTHESE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS OPPORTUNITIES\nVol. n.\nHUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C, OCTOBER, 1910.\nNo. 4\nA Metropolis in the Making\nNew Westminster, Western Canada's Great and only Fresh\nWater Port, is a Centre of Opportunities\nIt would need considerable power of\nexpression to adequately describe the\ngreat Fraser Valley and its metropolis.\nThe city is so situated that from almost\nany street is presented a panorama of\nsnow - capped mountains, torrential\nBy Hedley Rogers\ntruly, is the \"homeseeker's haven,\" and\nan \"investor's paradise.\" \"Go West,\nyoung 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\nlater re-christened New Westminster by\nQueen Victoria, after her own birthplace.\nFourteen of the original sappers are\nstill alive, and reside in the district, together with a number of old settlers who\nVIEW OF NEW WESTMINSTER EXHIBITION GROUNDS\nstreams, heavily timbered hills, expansive alluvial plains untouched by industry, yet offering homes for thousands,\nand fertile islands stationed as sentinels\nin the mighty Fraser as though endeavouring to thwart its progress toward\nthe long arm of the Pacific ocean, only\ntwelve miles distant, where, in the Gulf\nof Georgia, the great river completes its\nseven hundred miles' journey to the\nsea.\nThe first fruit of an awakening to the\nfacts is a desire to tell the story. The\ncontemplation of myriads of our fellow\nbeings huddled in large cities and in\nmany portions of the Mother Land,\nprompts one to ask the question, why?\nwhen so many millions of virgin acres,\noverflowing with natural wealth, await\nthe coming of the industrious. Here,-\nFraser River, Western Canada's Father\nof Waters, are ready to bestow bounties\nupon millions of earnest settlers.\nThe Founders.\nNew Westminster, which now has a\npopulation 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\nImperial Government, at the time of the\nfirst discovery of gold on the Fraser\nRiver. Colonel Moody, after whom Port\nMoody is named, mapped out the city\nas it stands to-day, intending that the\ntown of Sapperton\u2014a corruption of\nSappertown\u2014now a suburb of the city,\nshould be the Capital of British Columbia. The name formally chosen for the\nnew city was Queensborough, but was\n\"rounded the Horn\" in those same old\ndays, when the white-winged fleets of\nthe sea had not yet yielded the palm\nto the floating palaces and aquatic greyhounds of to-day.\nMost of these pioneers are expected to\nvisit New Westminster Exhibition during the first week in October, 1910, as\nthey did the one last year. While sojourning in the important town they\nfounded, how appropriate it would De\nfor them to be given the freedom of the\ncity and entertained as guests of the\nCivic Fathers.\nWhile most of the history of the\nFraser River Valley dates from New\nWestminster's inception, yet the first\nsettlement was made almost one hundred years previously. The first portion of the river occupied was Port Page 10\nOPPORTUNITIES\nI9i0\nLangley, where the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post. They\nalso intended their site to be British\nColumbia's Capital.\nHarbor Facilities.\nThe harbor facilities of New Westminster are exceptional. Forty miles of\nwaterfrontage are subsidiary to the city\nand all the wharves have sixty feet of\ntaken from a salt water harbor, after\nonly thirteen months' use, which is so\nhoneycombed as to take very little strain\nto break it. As is well known, valuable\nwharves have been destroyed in four\nmonths by teredos. So small are they\nthat they will penetrate a pile through a\nhole the size of the smallest needle-head,\nand having once penetrated they develop\nrapidly, eating away the wood and be-\nFRASER RIVER BRIDGE|\n\u00ab*\u25a0\u00a3\u00a3\nwater. Even at the mouth of the river,\nwithout harbor improvements, the\nshallowest place is twenty-five feet deep.\nWith veryjittle expenditure on training-\nwalls and dredges, at present contemplated by the Provincial and Federal\nGovernments, the shallow place referred\nto can easily be deepened sufficiently to\nadmit the largest ships. A dredge costing a quarter of a million dollars is already in operation and a million dollars\nmore has been appropriated for this\nwork by the Dominion Government. The\nfresh water gives the harbor one of its\nmost interesting and valuable characteristics.\nWhile only twelve miles from the sea,\nthe mighty volume of water flowing for\nseven hundred miles from the Rocky\nMountains renders the river so fresh\nand cool that all barnacles and other\ndevastating molluscs of the sea are\ncleansed from the bottom of the ships\nin a few hours, thus saving large sums\nin dry-docking and scraping. Also in\nwharf construction and the building of\nwarehouses, New Westminster harbor\nenjoys a freedom from such pests as the\nteredos or ship worms, which are parasites notorious for the destruction they\ncause by perforating submerged wood.\nThe \"New Westminster Courier,\"\nquoting Mr. W. A. Gilley, an expert on\nthis subject, says that specimens of piles\ntaken from the Fraser on view in Mr.\nGilley's office, show these piles to be\nas good as when sunk beneath the waters\nnearly a quarter of a century ago. Beside them on exhibition, is a sample\ncoming as large as a man's finger, with\nthe appearance of a fresh-water clam.\nNothing so far has been discovered\ncapable of giving immunity from the attacks of this salt-water scourge, and\ntherefore the site of his wharves and\nwarehouse's, becomes a vital question for\nthe shipper and merchant. He cannot\nafford to overlook the advantages of\nwharfage in a deep fresh-water harbor\nlike that of New Westminster.\nIndustries.\nIt is difficult to name the most important industry in the New Westminster\ndistrict. Fishing, lumbering, manufacturing, fruit growing, horticulture, and\nthe larger phases of agriculture, are all\nof great importance.\nFishing.\nThe world-wide fame achieved by the\nFraser River salmon perhaps justifies\nprimarily mention of the fish industry.\nAt the numerous canneries at New Westminster and adjoining towns, salmon\npacking has become a fine art. The\ncommercial fishing for rainbow market\ntrout, halibut, and sturgeon are hardly\nless important industries.\nLumbering.\nThe available lumbering timber in the\nFraser River district is three billion\nfeet. In one year the mills at and near\nthe city cut thirty million feet of lumber, exclusive of laths and shingles. One\nmill alone cuts as many as three hundred\nand forty thousand feet in a ten-hour\nday. Naturally, with raw material of\nsuch immensity and with excellent transportation facilities, extensive allied industries have developed.\nAgriculture.\nThe New Westminster country has\nbeen correctly called the agricultural\ncentre of British Columbia. The equable\nand moist climate, resulting from the\nbalmy influences of the Japan current,\nand the exceptionally fertile alluvial flats\nand islands and sloping highland forest-\nlands with a southern exposure along the\nriver, together create ideal conditions for\nthe propagation of various kinds of farm\nproduce, also for dairy and poultry\nfarming and stock raising. With\nproper care, excellent crops of wheat,\noats, hops, most kinds of vegetables,\npeaches, apples, apricots, and berries,\nmay be secured. The New Westminster district covers an area of five mil-\nA CATCH OF FRASER RIVER SALMON 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 11\nlion acres, and at least one million acres\nis rich agricultural land.\nThe British Columbia Investor gives\nthe following particulars as obtained\nfrom a Delta, New Westminster district,\nfarmer: In 1907, from one and three-\nquarter acres of onions, eighteen tons\nwere sold, netting $1,080; in 1908, from\none and one-quarter acres sixteen tons\nwere raised and sold for $960. In 1908\nseven acres of land produced fifty-six\nand one-half tons of potatoes, the\nlowest price realized was $30 a ton. On\nthe next farm the crop was twenty-four\ntons to the acre, selling at $25 per ton.\nSixty acres of oats yielded one hundred\nand fifteen bushels an acre. This is by\nno means an uncommon yield. In Surrey, Mr. Wickersham raised one hundred\nand fourteen tons of turnips per acre,\nfor which he realized $6 per ton. Mr.\nPearson, of New Westminster, gives\nthe following: items of interest to the\nthe men in this valley,\" said W. J. Kerr,\n\"who have 'push,' 'go,' 'ginger,' 'savvy,'\nmen who will go to it and hustle as they\nnever hustled before to achieve a man's\nposition, to have their own roof over\ntheir heads and be able to stroll a few\nminutes around their domiciles without\nbeing on some other fellow's land. Incomes of $3,000 a year up await such men\naccording to the amount of land they\nwill tackle. Have you the above qualities?\"\nMarket for the Small Farmer.\nThough many large cities are within a\nfew hours' travel, yet in New Westminster an excellent market is afforded\nthe producer. A well equipped modern\ncity market is owned by the municipality.\nOn Friday all roads lead to this excellent institution. Before dawn on market\ndays all the trains, and steamboats, and\nhundreds of wagons and buggies are\ncrowded with farmers, fruit growers, and\nSport and Athletics.\nTo assure the development of a sturdy\nrace mentally and physically, it is well\nrecognized in New Westminster that\nwork must not be made a drudgery.. In\nthe now famous and beautiful Queen's\nPark and other grounds of recreation,\nthere are ample facilities for healthful\nsports. Here is the home of the lacrosse\nteam, which for two years has held the\nchampionship of the world. It is stated\nthat no other game requires more self-\ncontrol, fertilitiy of mind, and quickr-\ncf the eye and body. Shooting, boatinrr\nand fishing are unexcelled. Pheasants,\ngrouse, English partridge, ducks and\nsnipe abound. Also are to be found deer,\nbears, wildcat, beaver and mink.\nLife Out Doors.\nFor summer campers ideal conditions\nprevail. For those who prefer the fresh\n\"\"water, there are, along the banks of the\nNEW WESTMINSTER FROM THE HARBOR\nfruit grower: A Spy apple tree yields\nfrom $15 to $25 a year. One man alone\nshipped forty thousand pounds of rhubarb to the North-West at two cents a\npound, which gave him a yield of over\n$1,000 per acre. Early vegtables are far\nshort of the demand, and are marketable from one to two months earlier in\nthe Fraser Valley than in any other part\nof Canada.\nThe Haven of the Homeseeker.\nFor the man with small means there\nare excellent opportunities in this district to emancipate himself and family\nfrom the thraldom of thickly populated\nCentres, where nothing but starvation\nwages prevail. The opportunities and\nthe kind of men needed are well described in an article taken from the New Westminster Courier, as follows: \"We need\nproduce dealers \"bringing in their\nsheaves.\" Many have held their\nstands for years. Here the producer and\nthe consumer get together for their mutual good.\nEducation.\nIn the public schools, colleges and\nseminaries of high repute, the New\nWestminster district is well equipped.\nThis year one college has ninety-four\nresident students, with a faculty of ten\nprofessors. While Mayor Lee and other\nofficials of the Board of Trade have\nmade a strong fight for the location of\nthe University of British Columbia in\nNew Westminster, they have also, regardless of the ultimate location of the\nUniversity, vigorously recommended\nthat provision be made for advanced\nstudy in forestry, mining, music, horticulture and fish culture.\nFraser and its tributaries, the Pitt, the\nStave and smaller streams, beautiful\ncamping grounds, with the giant pines,\ncedars and firs overhead and rapid\nstreams at one's feet. For those who\nwould rather inhale the balmy breezes\nof the Pacific and bathe in the salt\nwaters of the Gulf of Georgia, a journey of only seven miles is necessary.\nWith oyster beds close by, Blackie Spit,\nWhite Rock Beach, arid Boundary Bay\nvie with each other as pleasure resorts.\nOpportunities for the Investor and\nManufacturer.\nA return to cold facts of interest to\ncapitalists is necessary. Although $55,-\n000,000 of gold has been mined from the\nFraser Valley, the mineral wealth i-^\nmerely scratched. In the selection of\nshipping and industrial -ites there is Page 12\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nevery opportunity to get in on the\nground floor. For the manufacture of\neverything from a needle to a battleship,\nevery facility is at hand. Palatial river\nboats ply regularly up and down the\nFraser and its tributaries. Ocean vessels from all parts of the world have\neasy access, making practical connections with several transcontinental railroads. The Canadian Northern Railway\nCompany have selected on the shores\nof the river opposite New Westminster,\nand connected with the city by a million dollar double-decked steel bridge,\nthe townsite of Port Mann for their\ntranscontinental terminal. Hundreds of\nmen are busy performing the initial\nwork of building what will soon be a\nmagnificent shipping port, where a\ncolossal trade will be developed with\nAsia, and with the vast and wealthy\ncontinent and islands of the Antipodes.\nGood Citizenship.\nLike most communities, New Westminster has had conflicts in her public\nBritish Columbia. With his staff of assistants he has everything in readiness\nfor the forty-fourth annual exhibition of\nthe Society to be opened at Queen's Park\non the 4th of October, 1910. This exhibition is expected to eclipse all that have\npreceded it.\nMayor John A. Lee is a merchant of\nlong standing and high reputation. He\nis at present head of Lees, Ltd., a wholesale and retail furniture house. In politics he is a Conservative. Having been\nrecognized by the party for years as a\nman of ability, he was eventually elected\npresident of the local association. As\nvice-president and later president of the\nBoard of Trade he did much for the\ncommercial and general interests of the\npeople. In his high office of chief magistrate he has proved himself a strong\nman and a capable administrator. His\nopposition to the Coquitlam dam will\nlast only until he is assured of the maintenance of the purity of the city water\nsupply,, and the absolute security of life\nthe resources of nature for civilization.\nThey are seeking the first requisites,\nnamely, men and money. Mr. Stuart-\nWade's pioneer experience on a journey\noverland into the Yukon by the Edmonton route during the first rush into the\nKlondike as a travelling correspondent;\nas immigration commissioner for British\nsettlers in Alberta; and for five years as\na magistrate at Edmonton, besides many\nyears of public work in England, has\nwell prepared him for the splendid work\nhe is doing in the interest of New Westminster and the Fraser Valley generally.\nOne of his chief achievenients was the\nestablishment of an association of\nBoards of Trade of the various municipalities of the Fraser Valley. Soon after\nhis appointment to the secretaryship of\n\"the New Westminster Board of Trade\nin March, 1909, he announced his desire\nto make a greater New Westminster by\nassociating the city with the surrounding\ndistrict and by identifying the interests\nof the entire Fraser Valley with those of\nNew Westminster. As a result, boards\n4-\n1 W^s^^^f^\nSfawte\norganizations. But these, as is often the\ncase, have been conducive to the public\ngood. The writer regrets a lack of personal acquaintance with most of the\nmen whose good citizenship has accomplished so much for the advancement of\nthe community. Suffice it to say that\nan acquaintance with a few, who are now\nbefore the public, is enough to convince\none that the city possesses men of industry and integrity, who should command the respect, assistance and gratitude of all good citizens. The fact that\nW. H. Keary has been elected eight\ntimes to the highest office is sufficient\nevidence that he has done much in the\nyears that have passed, that the voters\nhave been appreciative and have given\nhonor to whom honor is due. While\nhaving given place to a younger man,\nMr. Keary is still honored with the management of one of the most important\npublic organizations, namely, The Royal\nAgricultural and Industrial Society of\nNEW WESTMINSTER SHIPPING\nfrom such a structure as a dam rising\nto a height of 75 feet.\nNew Westminster's Publicity Commissioner.\nNew Westminster was fortunate in securing as publicity commissioner and\nalso as the secretary of the Board of\nTrade, Charles Henry Stuart-Wade, F.\nR. G. S., J. P. In view of the increased\nactivity of publicity organizations in\nWestern Canada and the approaching\ncompletion of the Panama Canal, our\nfriends to the south are feverishly\nstrengthening their publicity campaigns.\nWith millions of money they are flooding the world with literature, intending\nto stop the great flow of capital and people in our direction. Our own publicity\nmen need encouragement and support.\nThey are our salesmen. Of what use are\nour natural resources if we are unable to\nprocure means to develop them? Publicity men form the vanguard in the army\nof men and women who are developing\nof trade were formed by him in the\nmunicipalities of Surrey, Richmond-\nPoint Grey, Maple Ridge, Matsqui-\nSumas, Delta, Burnaby, South Vancouver, Mission, Chilliwack City, Lang-\nley and Coquitlam. The area is\nsixty miles long and approximately sixteen miles wide. Each of these boards\nhas achieved valuable results, important\nto the district which they cover, in the\nway of reduction of freight and passenger rates, improvement of roads, and\nvarious other matters.\nThe success attained locally has inspired Secretary Stuart-Wade to bring\ncloser the association of the various districts. A plan has been submitted by\nhim to each municipality mentioned for\nthe formation of a New Westminster and\nFraser Valley Development Federation,\nwhich will not be confined or restricted\nto membership in any board of trade but\nwill be open to all individuals and associations. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 13\nThe Horse Triumphant\nA Great Breeding Industry is Starting in British Columbia, Which has the\nFinest Horse Show in Canada ^\nBy Samuel L. Howe, President Vancouver Horse Show Association\nOne of the most significant factors in\nBritish Columbia life is the horse. The\nrise of our equine friend to his present\nconspicuous position in the Province bespeaks the prosperity of our people, and\ntheir zest for wholesome outdoor life.\nevery authority to be superior to all\nothers in Canada, and to all in the United States, with the single exception of\nthe autumn horse show at Madison\nSquare Garden in New York City. In\none respect even the New York show\nMISS TREGENT ON TRIXIE\nMore than this, the horse presents a rich\nopportunity for the development of a\nBritish Columbia breeding industry\nwhich has already had such an auspicious beginning that it gives high promise of becoming celebrated throughout\nthe world.\nThis promise, which is practically sure\nof realization, is based upon ideal conditions for breeding here, and upon a\nremarkable enthusiasm for the horse\u2014\nan enthusiasrii which has received striking manifestations at the Vancouver\nHorse Shows. At the last show, held\nin April, it will be remembered that citizens of Vancouver and visitors were so\neager to obtain boxes, at $65 each, before the opening of the sale, some of\nthese prospective purchasers waited all\nnight on the line before the ticket office\nin order that they might be sure of obtaining a box before all were taken.\nThis public support, combined with the\nzealous Work of the directors of the\nHorse Show Association, resulted in an\nexhibition which may be regarded as\nalmost a miracle of achievement.\nThough it was only the third horse\nshow ever held here, it was declared by\nwas surpassed. We had more classes of\nhorses entered. While the general average in quality was slightly superior at\nMadison Square Garden, it must not be\nforgotten that the show there has been\na national institution in the United\nStates for many years, has an immense\nterritory to draw upon for its horses,\nand is backed by a great many millions\nof dollars. In view of these facts the\nnearly equal merit of a show in its third\nyear may be considered little short of\nphenpmenal.\nThe rapidity of this development is\nunprecedented in the history of horse\nshows, and marks British Columbia, potentially, as the greatest horse country\nin the world. While the Vancouver\nshow is naturally larger and more complete than those in other sections of the\nProvince, the exhibitions at Victoria,\nNew Westminster, North Vancouver,\nand other centres are doing much to foster the British Columbia horse. I believe that within ten or fifteen years this\nProvince will become a more important\nhorse breeding centre than any other\npart of the North American Continent,\nand will even outstrip England and Scotland in this important industry. Instead\nof importing $60,000 worth of high bred\nhorses, as we have done within a year,\nwe will export animals of the best\nclasses.\nWhile our horse shows advance the\nsocial spirit, and are a source of keen\npleasure both to the exhibitor and the\nspectator, the basic reason for the existence of these exhibitions may be found\nin the stimulus they give to breeding.\nThe ring is a centre of friendly rivalry\nA SHETLAND PONY TURNOUT Page \/4\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nTHE UNBEATEN CHAMPION HEAVY DRAUGHT TEAM OF ALL CANADA\nand competition. The horseman notes\ncarefully the points of an animal which\nwins a blue ribbon, and in his own\nhorses endeavors to duplicate the features which have been pronounced by\nthe judges to be most desirable in horse\nflesh. Thus the general standard is improved.\nIn addition to the stimulus of the enthusiasm of the public and the rivalry\nof the exhibitors, our association gives\nthe very practical encouragement of\ncash prizes. Some of the owners have\nwon so many cups and other trophies\nthat they hardly know what to do with\nthem. They welcome a change in the\nform of prize, and naturally have no\nobjection, no matter how well to do they\nmay be, to any partial return that may\nbe forthcoming from their heavy expenditures for their horses. At the last\nshow money prizes amounting to $8,000,\nof which $3,000 went to breeders, were\ngiven, and proved a distinct incentive\nto horse owners. Another factor which\nhas played a considerable part in the\nsuccess, of the Vancouver show is seen\nin the.3rhorse show building, which is\nthe result of very careful planning on\nthe part of architects and the directors\nof the association, and is one of the\nmost attractive, e and conveniently arranged structures of its kind on the\nContinent. These various elements have\ngiven horse breeding in the Province the\nimpetus which is resulting in a- steady\ndevelopment toward the great future I\nhave already indicated.\nBut horse shows and the enthusiasm\nof the people would avail but little without the right conditions for breeding. In\nmany parts of British Columbia, and\nparticularly on Vancouver Island, the\nconditions leave nothing to be desired.\nThere are wide ranges, a great abundance\nof rich grass, and a climate so mild that\nfor the greater part of the year horses\ncan be left out of doors, and thus be\ngiven the benefit of the free exercise and\nbracing atmosphere which are so conducive to full growth and high spirits in\na horse. Moreover, the fact that the\nbreeder can let his animals roam through\nbig pastures and feed where they will\nfor so much of the time, makes breeding\nhere more economical than it is in many\nother sections.\nThus it is that the British Columbia\nbreeding industry, while yet in its infancy, is developing so auspiciously that\nin a very few years our breeders will be\nable to supply not only the steadily\ngrowing home demand for fine horses,\nbut will have plenty left for export to\nthe various parts of the Continent, where\nthe British Columbia horse will be regarded as the best of his kind.\n-Breeders here are giving much atten-\nCLOVER LEAF AND FILLY, OWNED BY W. S. HOLLAND 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nRage 15\nCanada's Great Horse Show\nIMPORTED HACKNEY MARE\ntion to the hackney, and I am confident\nthat the British Columbia breed of this\nsplendid animal will become far famed.\nThis is likewise true of the thoroughbred, which, as a saddle horse, gives our\nhorsemen and horsewomen so much\npleasure on the beautiful roads of Vancouver, Victoria and other cities. The\nstandard bred animal and other horses\nof the best classes will also be developed here to a high degree of excellence. A\nspecial word must be said for the\ndraught horse, which has already done\nmuch for the reputation of British Columbia animals. As is well known, a\nteam of this type which has won the blue\nribbon throughout Canada may be seen\ndaily in Vancouver streets. The draught\nhorse is commanding great attention on\nthe part of breeders because of the prominence it has already obtained in this\nvicinity, and because breeding of fine\nhorses for heavy work is highly profitable.\nIn conclusion I may say that the British Columbia horse stands for remarkable achievements and for even greater\npromise. His high place in the estimation of the people of the Province is\nCOMOX AND NELSON, OWNED BY W.\nS. HOLLAND\npartly due, perhaps, to the fact that his\nphysical beauty and fine energy are in\na sense representative of the eager British Columbia spirit.\n\u2014 \u2014 v y f;:\t\n\u2022 For Port Mann snaps see M. G. Morrison & Co., 536 Hastings Street west,\nor phone 6730.\nThat successful institutions are a product of slow growth, would seem to be\ndisproved by the remarkable achievements of the Vancouver Horse Show\nAssociation within the brief period of\nthree years. Yet the seeds were sown\nlong before the Association was born.\nThey were planted many years ago,\nwhen horsemen of New Westminster\nestablished the first horse show in the\nProvince. Little by little, by shows in\nvarious sections which have increased\nthe interest in the horse, the enthusiasm\nfor this friend of man has been developed until it has born impressive fruit in\nthe Vancouver shows. These by no\nmeans are local to Vancouver. Their\nremarkable success is due to a general\nmovement throughout the Province.\nThey are representative of the progress\nmore earnest. A chance idea and a\nchance remark had begun to blossom\ninto an institution, which, as it has developed, has already given keen pleasure\nto many thousands of people, has become famous among owners of horses\nof high class on this Continent, has put\nmanifold activities into motion, and promises, in the impetus it has given to\nhorse breeding, the establishment of an\nindustry which will become celebrated\neverywhere.\nWhen the small group of horsemen at\nthe Burnaby fair formulated the plan for\na horse show in Vancouver, it was too\nlate for an exhibition that season, but\non the tenth of March, 1908, in the Drill\nHall, Vancouver's first horse show was\nopened to the public.\nCompared with the two exhibitions\nwhich followed, it was, of course, a\nA LILIPUTIAN\nof all British Columbia in her forward\nstrides toward great achievement in\nmany directions. The specific beginning\nof the Vancouver Horse Show Association was a small one. Its time was early\nin October, three years ago, and its place\nwas the agricultural fair of the Richmond Municipality at Burnaby. A party\nof horse enthusiasts of Vancouver went\nto 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\nat the exhibition caused a seedling idea\nto sprout in the mind of one of them.\n\"It would be a good thing,\" he remarked causally, \"to have a horse show in\nVancouver.\"\nIt would be an excellent thing, the\nothers agreed, and then and there a discussion of ways and means began. As\nthe talk went on it became more and\nEQUIPAGE\nmeager show, but it aroused the enthusiasm of the crowds that thronged\nthe hall. It brought to light more\nstrongly than ever before the wonderful\ninterest in the horse in the Province. It\nseemed to be just the kind of robust recreation the public most desired, and\nwas so successful in all respects that the\nprime movers in the project realized that\nthe only thing to do was to establish an\nannual horse show, and to organize a\nhorse show association. This was done\nduring the early summer of 1908, and\nthe original directors were: H. W.\nKent, A. L. Russell, W. S. Holland, C.\nR. Gilbert and Thos. Tees. At the first\nmeeting S. L. Howe was elected president of the Association, and because he\nenjoys the confidence of all the horsemen in the Province he has since held\nthis office.\nThe question of funds for a building Page 16'\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nand other expenses was now taken up.\nThe City Council was asked to vote one\nthousand dollars for this purpose, and\nfinally made an appropriation of seven\nhundred and fifty dollars. It had been\ndecided, however, that ten thousand dollars would be needed. Pessimists began to loom up, doubtful persons who\ndeclared that it would be impossible to\nraise ten thousand dollars for a horse\nshow building.\n\"I'll prove that you are wrong,\" said\nMr. W. S. Holland, with characteristic\nvigor. In two afternoons he obtained\npledges for nearly six thousand dollars.\nIllustrating the old adage that nothing\nsucceeds like success, things began to\nmove. Men who had hesitated now affixed their signatures to agreements to\nsubscribe for stock. The. sum determined\nupon was obtained with a promptness\nwhich astonished the lethargic and sceptical ones who had gone amiss in their\nappraisal of the British Columbia spirit.\nThe association was now in a position to\nconsider the matter of a building. The\nexpected when high-bred horses are on\nparade before society. The people of\nVancouver and visitors to the city gave\nvent to expressions of admiration. They\nrealized that the proudest horses on the\ncontinent had at last a true setting in\nVancouver for their grace and beauty,\nthat society had acquired a new function\nof much importance, that Vancouver,\nwith the annual show in this building,\nwould make big strides toward that fashionable aplomb which lends sparkle to\nmetropolitan social life.\n\u2022Those who had ever been in Madison\nSquare Garden in New York City during\nthe brilliant horse show week, noted a\nsimilarity in the gay atmosphere of the\nVancouver show. Fashion was much\nin evidence, but unlike the state of affairs so conspicuous in the New York\nshows, the fair ladies in beautiful costumes did not obscure the horse. There\nis too sincere an interest in him here,\nand the spirit of British Columbia is too\nvirile for any such perversion of the true\npurpose, of horse shows. Yet not to be\nA VANCOUVER TANDEM IN ACTION\narchitects were asked to submit plans,\nand night after night for nearly six\nmonths the directors' discussed and\namended these. At last the award was\nmade. But in the meantime financial\nsupport for the movement had become\nso strong that instead of a light shed\ncosting ten thousand dollars, the adopted plan called for an edifice involving an\nexpenditure of between fifty and sixty\nthousand dollars.\nThe first spadeful of earth was turned\non January ist, 1909, and construction\nwas pushed with increasing speed as\nthe time approached for the horse show\nin April. A day or two before the opening the building was still without a roof,\nbut the carpenters worked all night, and.\nwhen the doors were thrown open for\nthe second annual show, the people who\nthronged in saw a spacious interior,\ncontaining many tiers of seats and a big\narena over which hung hundreds of brilliant flags. The whole aspect was one\nof the gaiety and smartness which is\nseen at the Vancouver show was to argue\nyourself socially unknown. This exhibition was so great that it is proper to\nname the gentlemen who were chiefly\nresponsible for it. They were: S. L.\nHowe, D. Burns, Victor Spencer, H. S.\nRolston, H. W. Kent, W. S. Holland,\nThos. Tees, E. R. Ricketts, T. L. Smith,\nD. C. McGregor, James Fullerton, F. S.\nTingley, A. L. Russell, C. R. Gilbert, and\nCharles Lewis.\nAs the time for the horse show last\nApril approached the public became\nmore and more keen in their anticipation. Vancouver took on a distinctively\nhorse show atmosphere. Gay flags and\nbunting appeared in shop windows. The\nhorse, for the time, was king. On the\nevening before the opening of the show,\na crowd assembled outside of the horse\nshow building, and many persons waited\nthroughout the night on a line before the\nticket office, so determined were they to\nobtain boxes before all were taken.\nWith the growth of the population of\nBritish Columbia, and the spread of the\nfame of the Vancouver Horse Show, the\nexhibition scheduled for next April will\nbe even finer than those already held,\nand even greater will be the desire to see\nand be seen as the horses go through\ntheir paces beneath the gayly festooried\nflags. In the meantime the Assodta-gbn\nwill hold the regular annual meeting in\nNovember of this year. There will be a\nfew changes in the personnel of officers\nand directors. Since these are the gentlemen to whose efforts is due the remarkable success of the Vancouver shows, and\nwho are also representative horsemen of British Columbia, it is interesting to name them. They are: President.\nS. L. Howe; first vice-president, H. W.\nKent; second vice-president, D. C. McGregor; treasurer, Chas. R. Gilbert;\nmanaging director, D. Thos. Tees; directors, D. Burns, J. A. Fullerton, E. R.\nRicketts, E. W. Rounsefell, J. A. Russell,\nJ. G. Woods, A. H. Wallbridge, F. C.\nTingley, Victor Spencer, T. J. Smith,\nhonorary vice-presidents: H. Abbott,\nVancouver, B. C; W. A. Anderson,\nAgassiz, B. C; J. S. Baker, Tacoma,\nWash.; H. Bonsall, Chemainus, B. C;\nDr. Boyce, Kelowna, B. C; John W.\nConsidine, Seattle, Wash.; A. L. Coote,\nChilliwack, B. C.; A. M. Cronin, president Hunt Club, Portland, Ore.; Harry\nCorbett, Portland, Ore.; Alex. Davies,\nLadner, B. C.; C. S. Douglas, Vancouver, B. C; Hon. Price Ellison, M. P. P.,\nVernon, B. C; A. Evans, Chilliwack, B.\nC; J. D. Farrell, Seattle, Wash.; G. V.\nFraser, Chilliwack, B. C; D. E. Frederick, Seattle, Wash.; Archie R. Galbraith,\nGreenacres, Wash.; G. E. Goddard,\nCochrane, Alta.; J. B. Graves, Douglas\nLake, B. C.; Thos. Griffiths, Spokane,\nWash.; Geo. H. Hadwin, Duncan, B. C;\nJ. R. Hull, Kamloops, B. C; Frank Jackson, Quilichena, B. C; Andrew Laidlaw,\nSpokane, Wash.; F. W. Leadbetter,\nPortland, Ore.; J. A. Mitchell, Victoria,\nB. C; Duncan Montgomery, Port Gui-\nchon, B. C; T. S. McGrath, Portland,\nOre.; D. E. McKay, Eburne, B. C; S. R.\nOneal, Vancouver, B. C; A. D. Pater-\nson, Ladner, B. C; F. S. Roper, Cherry\nCreek, B. C; Geo. Sangster, Sidney, B.\nC; S. H. Shannon, Cloverdale, B. C.; L.\nW. Shatford, M. P. P., Penticton, B. C;\nJ. J. Sparrow, Abbottsford, B. C; Joseph\nSteves, Steveston, B. C.; Joseph Tam-\nboline, Westham Island, B. C; Louis D.\nTaylor, Mayor of Vancouver, B. C; W.\nJ. Taylor, Victoria, B. C; S. Tingley,\nAshcroft, B. C; Joseph Thompson,\nSardis, B. C.; T. J. Trapp, New Westminster, B. C.; H. W. Treat, Seattle,\nWash.; H. M. Vasey, Kamloops, 3. C,\nCaptain Watson, 108-mile House, Cariboo, B. C; Ed. A. Wells, Chilliwack, B.\nC; A. Welsh, New Westminster, B. C;\nIrving H. Wheatcroft, Providence, Ky.;\nJ. H. Wilkinson, Chilliwack, B. C;\nClaude Wilson, Chilcoten, B. C. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 17\nWomen's Work for the Common Good\nThe Women's Councils are Doing Much to Promote Social Progress\nin British Columbia and the Dominion\nBy Alice Townley\nPerhaps in no particular is the tendency to a wider outlook on the part of\nwomen shown more strikingly than in\nthe evolution of those columns in publications devoted to reading matter especially intended to interest women.\n\"Of Interest to Women,\" a few years\nago usually entitled a page wherein a\nreader might confidently expect to find\narticles dealing with frills and fashions,\nmanicuring and hairdressing\u2014manifold\nand curious directions regarding the\nbeautifying and preserving of face and\nfigure, odds and ends of cooking recipes,\nadvice on the care of children, various\ndomestic problems\u2014and these alone.\nTo-day the editor\u2014even the office boy\n\u2014recognizes the fact that while these\nalluring topics perrennially retain their\nhold on minds feminine, added to them\nmust be discussion of those problems of\nthe day, those social reforms, those conditions of life that are of national interest.\nThe desire to be beautiful physically is\nvery properly one of the fundamental\ncharacteristics of woman's nature; Beauty\nof person and charm of manner are instinctively and often unconsciously recognized by the sex as powers to hold\nand sway, attributes not to be lightly\nrelinquished, allies to be cultivated and\nretained to the last. May they never be\ncarelessly held nor relinquished unnecessarily. The intelligent woman realizes\nthat these gifts, rightly used, are most\npotent factors in the sum of that in\nfluence she would fain bring to bear\nin righting the wrongs of the weak; in\nassisting towards the removal of the\nsordid and selfish considerations of a\nsection of mankind, which her less clouded vision sees blocking the progress of\nBut though cooking and the management\nof a household are an important part of\nwoman's province, the broad-minded woman does not let the four walls of her\nhouse limit her horizon. She no longer\nprides herself in being spoken of as a\nSEWING ROOM IN VANCOUVER SCHOOL\nthose great ethical movements that make\nfor the bettering of humanity\u2014for the\ncleansing of the blots and blurs that soil\nthe pages of the social and public life of\nto-day.\nThe sacredness of the home, the importance of home-making and home influence has perhaps never before been so\nclearly understood by woman as to-day.\nTHE KIND OF SCHOOL WORK PROMOTED BY WOMEN'S OQUNC\nmodel wife and mother who is so concerned in the perfect running of her own\nhome that she has neither time nor inclination to look beyond the confines of\nher narrow circle. While caring for the\nphysical comfort and moral training of\nher children, she yet looks out into the\nwide world and considers the conditions\nher girls will have to face when her\nmotherly protection fails them, the temptations and lures that will beset her boys\nwhen they pass from her control and go\nout to make their way. She sees that\nthe very foundations of the home rest\nupon the conditions of society, and she\nis eagerly and earnestly desirous of doing her part in helping to improve those\nconditions. The home and the nation\ncan have no diversity of interests.\nWhile individual efforts along these\nlines have always been made by men and\nwomen of late years, the benefits of organization have become more generally\nunderstood. The National Council of\nWomen of Canada, for instance, whose\nProvincial Conference was held in Vancouver in September, exemplifies the\nidea that the more intimate knowledge\nof one another's aspirations and work\nresults in larger mutual sympathy,\ngreater unity of thought, and therefore\nin more effective action. Page 18\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nIt may be as well to repeat here for the\nbenefit of those unacquainted with the\naims and work of the Council of Women that this organization is a federation of associations of women which are\nworking in any way for the common\nwelfare of the community. Its executive\nis composed of representatives of each\naffiliated society. It is a means of communication and of common action between women's organizations in the various countries, twenty-two in number,\nwhere national councils exist. Every five\nyears an International Council is held- \u2014\nthe quinquennial\u2014to which each country\nmay send ten delegates. At this International Council\u2014held in Canada last\nyear, and one of the best advertisements\nwe could have had\u2014the work of the preceding five years is reported on, resolutions sent in by various National Councils are discussed, and the further policy\ndecided upon. The Council is in fact\na parliament of women, where the representatives vote upon any measure that\ncomes up, according to the instructions\nof the societies that sent them there. It\nis not organized in the interest of any\none society or work, and has no power\nover the organizations which constitute\nit, beyond that of suggestion and sympathy. Therefore no society entering\nthis Council is interfered with in respect\nto its complete organic unity, independence, or methods of work, nor is it\ncommitted to any principle or method of\nany other society.\n\"Do unto others as you would that\nthey should do unto you,\" is the motto\nof the Council. Its members are banded\ntogether in large tolerance, broad unity\n\u2014working for the highest good of the\nfamily and of the State, and endeavoring\nas occasion may arise, to apply the\nGolden Rule to society, custom, and law.\nIn this way women interested in philanthropy, art, and social reform, meet as\na solid co-operative body, and when they\ndetermine to initiate some good work\nor urge needed reform, the matter is far\non the way to accomplishment.\nFor instance: many years ago by\nbringing to the attention of the public\ndeplorable and unnecessary loss of life\nthrough the ravages of consumption, the\nCouncil was instrumental in organizing\na crusade against that evil. All the antituberculosis societies in the world to-day\nare the direct result of the efforts of\npioneer women to stamp out that fell\ndisease. The standing committee on\nhealth is always actively engaged in combatting detrimental conditions. Such\nsubjects as pure milk, pure food, pure\nwater supplies, better sanitation and\nhousing of the poor, demand and receive\nconstant attention. The treatment and\ncare of dependent and destitute women\nand children, the consideration of preventable causes of insanity, the urging\nof prison reforms and needed alterations\nin the laws, are some of the subjects engaging attention.\nFrom the efforts of the Council of\nWomen have directly come the Juvenile\nCourts, the system of Associated Charities, the Victorian Order of Nurses, Aberdeen Associations, Domestic Science\nand Manual Training in the public\nschools, and the vigilance of one of its\nstanding committees has succeeded in\nhaving tons of impure literature, that had\nbeen brought into the country for immoral purposes, destroyed.\nIt would be difficult to find any sane\nand charitable work within their province, that the Council of Women is not\ninstrumental in forwarding.\nThe Vancouver Local Council of Women\nOne of the most progressive women's\norganizations on the Continent is the\nVancouver Local Council of the National\nCouncil of Women Comrades. The local council is an affiliation of forty different women's societies in Vancouver\nand represents thousands of women in\nilization much depends upon beginnings\nin the right direction, and feel that here\nin British Columbia is one of the greatest opportunities women have ever had\nto shape affairs towards the best ends\nfor the home, the young, and social life\nin general.\nSCHOOL GIRLS AT CLASS EXERCISE\ntheir aims and progressive works for the\nimprovement of social and industrial\nconditions. ,Women of many sects are\nmembers of this council. On many questions their view points are different, but\nthey are all united in a strong desire to\nlend the potent weight of woman's influence to every movement which promotes the legitimate opportunities of the\nindividual, and makes life in Vancouver\nand British Columbia more healthful and\nmore replete with satisfaction and contentment. They realize that in a region\nopened recently to highly developed civ-\nThe feeling that there is much to do,\nand much that can be done more successfully by the women than by the men,\npervades of course, all the Local Councils of the Province, and is prompting a\nunited activity in women's works which\nis more pronounced here than in most of\nthe other sections of the Continent, and\nwhich will result in enduring good. Besides Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, Nelson, Vernon, North Vancouver, Nanaimo, and Revelstoke all\nhave Local Councils, and there are plans\nfor still others in the Province, all of\nWORK IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL LABORATORY 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 19\nthem are welding public spirited women\nof many societies into a single force for\nthe accomplishment of various progressive purposes. At the recent meeting of\ntheir representatives in the second Provincial Conference in Vancouver there\nwere discussions of such questions as\nlaws affecting women and children, citizenship, public health, and technical\neducation.\nThe work of the Vancouver Council is\ntypical. One of its chief interests is education. The valuable courses in manual\ntraining and domestic science in the*\npublic schools are largely the product of\nthe activity and influence of women of\nthis community, who, however, are by\nno means content with this achievement.\nThey are now working for a great trades\nschool which will be open at certain\nhours during the day for the pupils of\nthe public schools, and at night for boys\nand girls who are compelled to earn their\nown living. The purposes of this school\nare to supplement the practical courses\nalready established and to widen the opportunities for that special training which\nwill supply young men and women with a\ndependable means of livelihood, and will\nalso supply the steadily growing demand\namong British Columbia manufacturers\nfor skilled employees.\nOther vital matters which are engaging the attention of the Local Councils\nof the Province are immigration, the\nimportation of girls for immoral purposes, child labor, and the public health\nas it is affected by impure milk and careless and unsanitary customs among the\nignorant. In the words of Mrs. Mc-\nNaughton, president of the Vancouver\nLocal Council, \"the women of British\nColumbia, as represented in the Councils, are endeavoring to do many things\nwith quiet earnestness, as women's work\nshould be done. It is our aim to foster\nall that is good and true and pure in\nwomanhood, and in manhood.\"\nA Women's Exhibition on Vancouver Island\nBy Ernest McGaffey\nThe agricultural and horticultural possibilities of the districts close to Victoria\nwere never better exemplified than in\nthe exhibition given under the auspices\"\nof The Ladies' Institute of Metchosin\nand Colwood on September 20th and\n21st. It was a revelation even to those\nwho knew these flourishing districts)\nwell. The arrangement of displays was\nextremely tasteful, and the variety and\nexcellence of the exhibits in the various\ndepartments occasioned the most en-\nclass could have been shown anywhere.\nAmong other kinds to be noticed were\nDuchess of Oldenburg, Gravenstein,\nAlexander, Maiden's Blush, Pippin Cellini, Wealthy, Blenheim Orange, Yellow\nBell Flower, Lemon Pippin, King of\nTomkins, Ribstone Pippin, Winter\nBanana, Rhode Island Greening, Baldwin, Northern Spy, Spitzenburg, Golden\nRusset, Ben Davis, Canada Red, Stark,\nSalome, Fallowater, and several varieties besides. The Goddess Pomona\nGROUP AT THE WOMEN'S FAIR ON VANCOUVER ISLAND\nthusiastic comments from the large\ncrowds in attendance. If there was one\nparticular line of display which attracted the most attention it was the exhibit\nof fruit and in the way of individual excellence the apple was king. It is safe\nto say that no greater variety of equal\nwould have blushed with as deep a delight as mantled the rosy fruit itself, if\nshe could have entered the hall where\nher orchard treasures held such sway.\nIn size, coloring, and flavor the Metcho-\nsin-Colwood apples cannot be excelled,\nand indeed, rarely equalled.\nThe display of pears, plums, prunes,\npeaches, crab apples, quinces and apricots was also notable for its variety and\nhigh class, while logan-berries and blackberries rounded out what was undoubtedly a really wonderful exhibit of fruit.\nThe showing of grain, oats, wheat, rye,\nand the exhibits of various grasses,\nclover, timothy, orchard grass, vetches,\npeas, forage plants in general, and hops,\nfodder corn, etc., was especially creditable, and showed the magnificent possibilities of the districts as dairying\ncentres, as well as fruit-growing districts.\nThe exhibit of vegetables and roots was\na splendid one, and demonstrated in an\nunanswerable way the quality and size\nof the garden produce which could be\nraised in the districts.\nThe women's exhibit of bread, pastry,\nhome-made candy, etc., was a large and\ntoothsome one, and the \"Oh's\" and\n\"Ah's\" of the visitors showed that only\na stern sense of moral rectitude kept\nthem from sampling the various dainties\nso temptingly displayed. To make and\nbake pie-crust properly, is to be a gen-<.\nius. In what Kipling described as \"the\nGreat Pie Belt\" of the United States, it\nis claimed that soggy pie-crust is responsible for half the crime committed\nthere.' If the unhappy sojourners ir.\nthose most unhappy parts knew half the\nmagic which lies tucked away in the\nflaky folds of a Metchosin-Colwood piecrust, what a blessing they would encompass. The Duke of Clarence in an\necstatic moment devoutly wished to end\nhis days by being drowned in a butt of\nMalmsey, but a better, and a longer-\ndrawn-out method would be by being\nsmothered under a cloud of delicious\nMetchosin-Colwood pies. A very fine\nexhibit of women's work in the line of\nneedle-work and knit garments and rugs\nwas shown, and some work in oils and\nwater-colors which bespoke the born\nartist.\nIn every way possible the Exhibition\nwas a triumph for the ladies; for the\nfew men allowed about the premises\nwere only permitted by special dispensation to act as mere hewers of wood\nand bearers of water\u2014to say nothing of\nwashers of dishes. The Exhibition was\nopened by Mrs. Henry Croft. Honorable W. J. Bowser, Minister of Agriculture, made a brief opening address\nwhich was liberally applauded. Many\nprominent visitors were present, among\nthem J. S. H. Matson and Mrs. Matson,\nHon. H. Dallas Helmcken, K. C, Dr.\nA. T. Watt, Hon. W. J. Bowser, W. E.\nScott, Mrs. Pooley, Hon. John Jardine,\nM. P.; Mrs. Bampfylde-Daniell, and a\nlarge number of others from Victoria\nand elsewhere. The Exhibition closed\nwith an eloquent address by Hon. H.\nDallas Helmcken, and the singing of the\nNational Anthem. Page 20\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nProtection and Industry\nThe most important convention of the\nyear in Canada was the recent one in\nVancouver of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association. This body of progressive men gives its attention not alone\nto matters which have to do specifically\nwith manufacturing, but also to agriculture, colonization, transportation, irrigation, political conditions, insurance,\ntechnical education, to all interests, in\nbrief, which have an influence upon the\ndevelopment of the Dominion. It might\nfittingly be called, if its whole scope\nwere suggested in its title, the Canadian Progress and Prosperity Association.\nMatters of vital importance to Canada were ably discussed at the Vancouver convention. The chief of these was\nthe question of protection for Canadian\nproducts, a question which has recently\nbeen brought conspicuously to the front\nby an agitation on the part of Alberta\nagriculturists for a letting down of the\ntariff bars, particularly between Canada\nand The United States, on a reciprocity\nbasis.\nThe opinions on protection expressed\nby President John Hendry in his address to the delegates were endorsed by\nthe Association as a whole. Some of the\nmost salient of these opinions are as\nfollows:\n\"As an association of Canadian manufacturers, it is- our proud boast that we\nstand first, last and all the time for the\ninviolability of the British preference.\nWe maintain, of course, that under all\ncircumstances the minimum tariff should\nbe so framed as to afford adequate protection to legitimate native industry, in\norder that we may the more effectually\ntransfer to Canadian workshops much\nof the manufactures that we now procure\nabroad. We recognize, however, that for\nsome of our requirements we must always be dependent on outside sources of\nsupplies, and it is with a view to directing this business largely as may be into\nimperial channels, 'that we declare .ourselves in favor of a substantial preference to the Mother Country and to our\nsister colonies. ********\n\"Canada to-day stands in no need of\nreciprocity with the United States. Forced by their policy of rigid isolation to\nlook elsewhere for markets, we have\ncast about us and have found those markets. Some of them we have built for\nourselves with a protective tariff, by\nmeans of which we have provided ourselves with a population of consumers\nwithin our own borders. Others we have\nfound by joining hands with Mother\nEngland, who, unlike the United States,\nwas glad to come to our assistance in\nour time of trouble. Last year our exports of merchandise to the United\nStates were $110,000,000; to the United\nKingdom (hey were $149,000,000; so that\nnotwithstanding her less favorable geographical situation and her smaller consuming power, the Mother Country has\ntaken 40 per cent, more of our products\nthan the United States. Are we now to\nturn our backs upon those who have befriended us and with whom, God willing,\nit is in our power to build up the greatest and grandest empire the world has\never know? I, for one, sincerely hope\nnot.\n\"Next, I maintain that Canada to-day\ncannot 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\nprotection, they are still dwarfed in comparison with the gigantic establishments operating on the other side of the\nborder. By the consolidation of capital\nand by the specialization of output the\nUnited States industries have grown tremendously powerful, so powerful, indeed, that in time of depression, despite\nour tariff wall, they can sweep this country from end to end, leaving idle machinery, unemployment and poverty in their\ntrail. To redtice our tariff at their bidding for the purpose of accepting some\ndoubtful advantage, made attractive under the guise of reciprocity, would be\nnothing more or less than acquiescing\nin our own impoverishment.\"\nConcerning British Columbia, and\nVancouver, Mr. Hendry brought out\nsome important facts as follows:\n\"While we in Vancouver take a pardonable amount of pride in the varied attractions we have to offer the tourist, we\nknow that you as business men, have\ncome here primarily for business purposes, and that in the selection of our\ncity as the place of this year's convention, you have but given us the recognition which is our due as a factor of our\never-growing importance in the industrial development of the Dominion. You\nwill, I trust, pardon me if I venture to\noffer a few figures bearing upon this latter point.\n\"The value of British Columbia's lumber cut for 1909 is placed at $12,000,000,\nwhich is equal to the best year in the history of the industry. Our mineral pro-\n\u2022 ductions for the past three years have\naveraged $24,000,000, our fisheries over\n$6,0000,000. The Provincial Government\nestimate the value of the output of our\nmanufacturing industries for 1909 at\n$30,000,000. Some indication as to the\nprobable growth in this direction may be\ngleaned from the fact that the new industrial enterprises chartered by the\nProvince last year aggregated $48,000,000\nin capital. This year it is expected that\nthe crop from our celebrated fruit lands\nwill yield the farmers nearly $2,000,000.\nThe mileage of the railways now in operation within the Province is.2,307, while\nthe 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\ntime to come.\n\"Of Vancouver itself I feel that I need\nsay very little. The stories of its wonderful growth are familiar to you all,\nwhile the evidences of that growth, now\nthat you are here, are apparent on every\nhand. In 1901 the assessment of real\nproperty was $12,792,350; this year it was\n$76,927,720. In 1901 the population of\nthe city was 26,133; this year it is conservatively estimated at 115,000. Last\nyear our building permits totalled $7,-\n250,000; this year the permits of seven\nmonths alone have exceeded that\n.amount. Truly, we have had a most remarkable development. And yet it is\nperhaps no exaggeration to say that\nwhat has been our experience, has, in a\nproportionate degree, been the common\nexperience of all the more important\ncenters of population west of the Great\nLakes. The sudden recognition by the\nworld at large of the enormous wealth\nlying dormant in our mines, in our forests, in our fisheries and particularly in\nour land, has induced such a stream of\nimmigration that, not only have our\nvillages outspread themselves into towns\nand our towns into cities, but the whole\nlifeblood of our nation has tingled with\nthe resultant prosperity.\"\nThe manufacturing strides of Vancouver are in a measure representative of\nthose in various sections of the Province.\nThe metropolis now has 211 factories, in\nwhich are employed 7j3\u00b0\u00b0 hands at wages\naggregating well over half a million dollars a month. The value of their output\namounts each month to about three and\na quarter million dollars. These products have a market throughout Canada,\nin the United Kingdom, Australia, the\nUnited States, Mexico, the Philippines,\nChina, Japan, and South Africa. All of\nthese markets are developing. They will\nconsume more and more of the manufactured goods of British Columbia. With\nincreased transportation facilities, a readjustment of freight rates, the opening\nof the Panama Canal, and the westernization of China, an enormous manufacturing industry will develop in British\nColumbia. The start has been a strong\none. The future has brilliant promise.\nManufacturing in this Province offers\none of the richest fields of opportunity in\nthe world. 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 21\nBusy Nanaimo\nBy\nH. R. Hickling-\nThe city man who is interested in profitable investments; the tourist who has\nan eye for wonderful scenery; the angler\nwho likes to fish in the sea or in rapidly\nflowing streams; the nimrod who is fond\nof hunting both four footed animals and\nbirds; the man or woman who has a due\nregard for the advantages of a superior\nthese transportation facilities there is a\ndaily steamer connection with Vancouver. The manufacturer who proposes to\nlocate in British Columbia should by all\nmeans familiarize himself with the conditions in and around Nanaimo before\nfinally deciding upon a factory site. I\nfeel certain that such an investigation\nof the markets of Victoria and Vancouver.\nThe dweller in Nanaimo finds here all\nof the comforts of civilization and most\nof the luxuries. There are electric\nlights, gas, a telephone system, two telegraph offices, one belonging to the C. P.\nR. and one to the Government; a customs office, a Dominion Fisheries office,\nand an Inland Revenue office. The city\nprides itself upon its educational facilities, having five schools and a High\nSchool, with a total enrollment of about\none thousand scholars. There are two\nexcellent hotels, and numerous fine roads\nA NANAIMO FARM\nclimate\u2014all of these will find much to\ninterest them in Nanaimo and its vicinity.\nNever before have there been in Nanaimo so many opportunities for the\nlarge and small investor, so many rewards for brains and energy. The city\nis at the beginning of a new era. Its\npeople are looking to the future and are\npreparing in many ways for a growth\nwhich will make Nanaimo one of the\nmost populous commercial centers on\nthe Pacific Coast. There are numerous\nconspicuous 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\nconnect Nanaimo with all the outlying\ndistricts, and will eventually run to Lady-\nsmith; an elaborate sewerage system is\nwell toward completion; three big brick\nbuildings have been erected this year\nand plans are being drawn up for numerous others; a new coal wharf is being\nbuilt in the Newcastle Townsite by the\nVancouver-Nanaimo Coal Company, and\na wharf for the shipping of lumber will\nbe constructed this year by the Red Fir\nLumber Company. Projects for numerous other improvements of this nature\nare under consideration and will undoubtedly be carried into effect.\nCapitalists and manufacturers are\nshowing a constantly growing appreciation of the advantages of Nanaimo as a\ncity for factories. Its harbor will float\nthe largest vessels, and is unsurpassed by\nany on the Pacific Coast. There is railway connection on the south with Victoria, and in the near future Nanaimo\nwill be connected by railroad with Alberni on the west coast. In addition to\nwould bring conviction that Nanaimo has\nnatural facilities unexcelled by any other\ncity in the Province.\nTo 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\nraising, fruit farming, truck farming and\nagricultural pursuits in general. Land\nlead in all directions for the auto enthusiast and the horseman.\nAn estimate of the monthly pay-roll of\nthe city shows it to be about $300,000, of\nwhich The Western Fuel Company pays\n$120,000 to fourteen hundred employees.\nThis is the Nanaimo of to-day. The city\nis now attracting so much favorable attention, is visited by so many prospective investors, and is receiving such a\nTYPICAL NANAIMO SCENES\ncan be obtained at very reasonable\nprices and Nanaimo offers a market in\nwhich the demand is far greater than the\nsupply. Moreover, this demand is growing rapidly with the growth of the city\nand is increased by the close proximity\nlarge influx of new population that the\nNanaimo of the near future will doubtless show industries and population at\nleast double those of the present. Nanaimo is distinctly a city of opportunities. Page 22\nOPPORTUNITIES\nnw\nOPPORTUNITIES\nA Monthly Journal Devoted to the Growth, Development,\nResources and Possibilities in British Columbia\nEntered in the Post Office of Canada as second-class matter.\nPublished by\nOPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.\nSuite 87, Hutchinson Block, 429 Pender Street, W.\nPhone 6926 Vancouver, B. C.\nSUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR\nAdvertising rates on application.\nFRASER S. KEITH, Publisher and Proprietor\nHEDLEY ROGERS. Advertising Manager HERBERT WELCH. Editor\nOUR AIM:\nTo furnish, at home and abroad, more complete information\nregarding British Columbia and the wealth of possibilities she offers\nfor Investment\u2014in Real Estate, Fruit and Farm Lands, Timber,\nMining and Industrial Companies\u2014for Health; for Travel; for\nRecreation; for Sport; for Education and for Enterprise.\nVol. 2.\nOCTOBER, 1910.\nNo. 4.\nBE STRONG.\nWE are not here to play, to dream, to drift;\nWe have hard work to do, and loads to lift;\nShun not the struggle: face it\u2014'Tis God's gift\u2014\nBE STRONG!\nIt matters not how deep entrenched the wrong,\nHow hard the battle goes, the day how long,\nFaint not; fight on! To-morrow comes the song:\nBE STRONG!\nTHE POWER OF CAPITAL.\nTHE power of the concentrated capital of a great corporation will be strikingly illustrated in the coming\ncity of Port Mann. Most communities possessing any\nstability have been the product of slow growth. Port\nMann, which will be born next March, when the Canadian\nNorthern Railway Company sells its townsite lots,\nwill spring into being as the biggest and most bouncing\nsample of a baby city that has ever been known. A more\nimportant consideration is that it will possess the elements\nof certain life and great growth.\nAs the western terminal and car shops location of a\ntranscontinental railway, it will have an assured population of four or five thousand workmen and their families.\nBut this will be the mere beginning\u2014the nucleus. < Like\nattracts like. With excellent harbor and transportation\nfacilities, Port Mann will be a magnet for other important\nindustries. Several are already reported to have fixed\nupon Port Mann as their future operating base. Port\nMann is heartily welcomed by her older sister cities in\nBritish Columbia. They know she will contribute\nlargely to the credit and prosperity of the family. No\ncity ever came to life with stronger promise.\nPUBLICITY ABROAD.\nIN England, Scotland, and Ireland are many thousands\nof ambitious young men who feel the need of room\nfor growth, who want larger opportunities than they have\nat home. In British Columbia, on the other hand, are\nhundreds of thousands of acres of land ready at the touch\nof the workers to yield up their wealth, a multitude of\nopen paths to prosperity that need only be followed in-*\ntelligently and persistently. In England the man needs\nthe opportunity. In British Columbia the opportunity\nneeds the man. Could not the Provincial Government\nbecome a large influence in bringing the two together by\nestablishing in London a publicity office and bureau of\ninformation? It is a certainty that such an institution\nwould have many daily visitors, and it could be made an\nimportant factor in bringing desirable newcomers to this\nProvince. Its success would depend, of course, upon the\nman in charge. In addition to a thorough knowledge of\nBritish Columbia, he should be able to judge men with\nthat sureness and sympathy which would enable him to\ngive sound advice as to what field of work in British\nColumbia would be best adapted to the prospective settler,\nmaking inquiries. The latter, with this source of information and guidance, would be much better prepared than\nis often the case to benefit himself and the Province by\nhis coming.\nCIVIC WORK OF WOMEN.\nORGANIZED power is, of course, always more\neffective than that which is unorganized. The influence and work of women have constituted the most\nvital factor in the real progress of civilization. But it has\nbeen a factor in which there has been little organization.\nWomen, for the most part, have been content to lend as\nindividuals their strength and inspiration to movements\nin the right direction. Those who are most representative have worked in quiet ways, from the vantage ground\nof the home. Their influence has been the more impelling\non this account. This fact is appreciated by the leaders of\nthe Women's Councils of the Women of Canada, whose\naim is to do womanly work for the public good, aided by\norganization. They have been notably successful, and\nare progressing steadily to even greater achievements in\nthe future.\nThis is no truer of any Women's Councils than of\nthose of British Columbia. The Councils here, in their\ndirect and indirect influence, have played a part in the\nprogress of the Province which is too subtle and widely\ndiffused to be adequately measured in terms of facts, but\nwhich has infused an unusual spirit of helpfulness, and\nsympathy, and humanity, into the fabric of this developing commonwealth. Most of their work is done in the\nsheltered back-ground. Occasionally they come into\npublic view, but their appearances are mere outcroppings,\nindicating rather than representing the golden potency\nbeneath the surface.\nThere are several thousand women in the British\nColumbia Councils, and their endeavors are animated by 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 23\nan enthusiasm and virility which have rarely marked the\nefforts of women in a body. That is because they realize\nthat there is very tangible and definite work to do. The\ncommunities are young. The latter are unhampered by\ntraditions, unrestricted by impinging external conditions\nor any other kind of impedimentia. In a sense they\nstand alone. They are bounded by the ocean, the mountains, the wilderness and the United States. They are\nfree to grow in accordance with impulses given them by\nunderlying forces now gathering strength. The members\nof the Councils realize this, and feel that here is an\nopportunity that has rarely come to women anywhere.\nIn their efforts to make the most of it they do not need\npublic acclaim. This magazine, however, proposes to\nprint from month to month accounts of their progressive\nwork, not with a view to bringing to the workers a public\ncommendation which they do not want, but merely for\nthe purpose of spreading information as to what is being\ndone, and thus rendering some slight aid and stimulus,\nperhaps, in endeavors to make this a land of the best\nconditions and the highest opportunities.\nTHE NECESSITY FOR PROTECTION.\n'\"\"T^HE great majority of the citizens of British Columbia\nJL believe in tariff protection for the industries of\nCanada, 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\nbars between Canada and the United States, it may be\nwell to point out some of the basic reasons why, at this\nstage of the Dominion's industrial development, a protective tariff is a vital necessity. These reasons are particularly applicable in British Columbia.\nIt is granted, of course, that one of the most important and direct highways toward that commanding and\nenduring wealth which we all see in the future for this\nProvince is located in the field of manufacturing. On\nthis road, with a factory output worth over thirty millions\nof dollars a year, British Columbia has already made, and\nis now making, rapid progress; yet she has a long way\nstill to go to realize her manufacturing possibilities in\ntheir completeness, to attain that full measure of permanent prosperity which comes from a great factory production. Nearly two-thirds of the annual yield of\nbetween eighty and ninety million dollars from her industries is yet the result of enterprise in raw material, in\nmining, lumber, agriculture and fisheries, in the order\nnamed. With remarkable wealth in these raw materials,\nwith practically unlimited water power, vast coal deposits,\nagricultural resources much more than adequate for the\nhome demand, and a coast position which will enable her,\nparticularly when the Panama Canal is opened, to command the best markets in the world, British Columbia has\ntremendous manufacturing' potentialities. No region has\nbetter and few have as good. But it must be remembered\nthat her manufacturing industries are still in a state of\ninfancy.\nIn all nature young growths are protected. The\nindustries of the United States have received ample1\ngovernmental protection from the beginning, and that\nnation has become a marvel of wealth. Even those who\nare now of the opinion that the United States should not\nhave a high protective tariff, are for the most part agreed\nthat when her industries were in the formative period\nsuch protection was a necessity. The infant industries\nof the United States in the old days needed to be protected against the already powerful industries of the Old\nWorld. The infant industries of British Columbia in\nthe present need to be protected against a much stronger,\ncloser, and mere aggressive industrial foe than the manufacturers of the United States ever had to face, namely,\nthese same manufacturers, who, by many years of development under protection and other favoring conditions,\nhave established themselves on a basis of huge outputs,\nand, by combinations, have affected large economies and\nacquired immense reserves of capital for competitive\nwarfare wherever there is an opening. If given the\nopportunity by a reduction of the tariff they would sweep\nCanada- with their products, underselling the home manufacturers, even at a loss to themselves, until the market\nwas controlled, sending a great many of these down in\nruin, and eventually bringing the consumers of the\nDominion, as they have those of the United States, under\nthe yoke of monopoly.\nCanada in general and British Columbia in particular\nrequire protection not only for the purpose of preserving\nhome markets for home manufacturers, but also for the\npurpose of enabling these manufacturers to attain a\nstrength sufficient for successful contests with foreign\ncompetitors in the rapidly developing markets of the\nOrient. In this direction lies one of British Columbia's\ngreatest manufacturing opportunities, but she will have\nno protection here, and must be in a position, if she is\nto develop to her full industrial stature without a long\ndelay, to toe the mark with the starters in this free-for-all\nrace for Oriental trade, because the richest prizes will\nprobably be among those first won. It is not at all\nunlikely after a while China herself will put up the bars.\nThe policy of protection can be attacked by only one\nweapon, namely, the argument that this policy causes\nhigher prices for commodities, and is thus an indirect\ntax upon the people. This is true enough, but it is a tax\nwhich brings back returns in multiples of itself in greater\nprosperity for the Dominion and the individual, and for\nthis reason is an excellent investment. Moreover, this\ntax will gradually be reduced by the competition resulting\nfrom an increasing number of manufacturing establishments. Conditions in the Dominion are not as propitious\nas 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\nwill by degrees disappear, while the strong advantages\nwill remain. In the meantime the high prices in\nBritish Columbia, in combination with natural resources\nand favorable location, offer some of the best manufacturing opportunities on the Continent. Page 24\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nThe Apple Show and Fruit Growing\nThe first Canadian Apple Show promises to be the most notable and successful exhibition of the king of fruits\never held. The entries have been surprisingly large and representative. All\nof the apple growing sections of Canada\nand the Pacific Coast country will have\n\"their best apples on display in the Horse\nShow Building in Vancouver and the big\ntemporary structure which has been\nerected beside it for the car-load exhibits.\nAll the indications are that the exhibition\nwill attract world-wide attention, and\nwill open the eyes of this Continent and\nof Europe wider than they have ever\nbeen opened before to the great possibilities in the growing of apples and of\nfruit generally in British Columbia. It\nwill do much more than any other means\nthat could be devised to lift the fruit industry in the Province into the prominence to which its promise entitles it.\nIt will enlarge the market for British\nfruit, and will bring many new growers\ninto the field, to take advantage of the\ngreat opportunities offered by a vast\nacreage of land lying fallow, ready for\nthe production of the best apples and\nother fruits. In this Province there are\ntwo million acres adapted to fruit, and\nonly one hundred and twenty-five thousand acres thus far under cultivation.\nFor the purpose of bringing out full exhibits, over $21,000.00 in prizes will be\noffered at the Apple Show.\nAs the time approaches for the holding of the Canadian National Apple\nShow the interest in it is growing keener\nand keener, and many expressions of\ngoodwill and co-operation are coming\nin. William E. Scott Deputy Minister\nof Agriculture, says:\n\"I have no doubt but that the Canadian National Apple Show will be a great\nsuccess, and will bring forward to everyone the great possibilities of our province as a fruit-growing country, and will\nmaintain our claim that we are going\nto be the orchard of the Empire.\"\nConcerning the fruit industry of British Columbia and Ontario, the Hon.\nJames Duff, Minister of Agriculture in\nOntario, has pointed out that at present\n35 per cent of the demand in Canada is\nsupplied by Ontario, 15 per cent, by\nBritish Columbia and 50 per cent, by the\nUnited States. \"You will thus see,\" says\nMr. Duff, \"that we have an enormous\nmarket for our produce, right at hand.\nIn my province we ship as far west as\nWinnipeg, and British Columbia is sending its fruit to about the same point.\nAnd the demand very far exceeds the\nsupply. Of course when I mentioned\nthat the United States supplied us with\nhalf of the fruit used in Canada I was\nreferring to all kinds of fruit, many of\nwhich, such as oranges, cannot be\ngrown as far north and must necessarily\ncome from the other side of the line. At\nthe same time we need never fear that\nwe shall be in a position to glut our\nmarkets. All we have to do, both in\nmy province and yours, is to use every\nendeavor to increase our producing capacity.\"\nThe Provincial Government will open\ntwo experimental fruit stations in the\nvalleys of the Skeena to serve the ends\nof those who are contemplating locating\non the lands and also as a means of exploiting the fruit possibilities of the\ncountry. The stations will be in the\nLakelse and in the Kitsumkalum valleys.\nThe Government will prepare the ground,\nsupply the trees and plant them, and the\nowner will agree to do all the work un-- \u2022\nder its instructions, including spraying\nand pruning up to an amount per acre\nto be agreed upon between the department and himself, according to the soil\nand other conditions. The plots to be set\naside will be five acres and the agreement is to stand for five years, and after\nfive years to be cancelled at the request\nof either side on giving six months' notice, the owner, of course, to have all the\nproduct. The orchards are to be available for any Government officials at any\ntime to give demonstrations to the public and the owner must agree to send reports to the department of the condition\nof the orchards when required.\nProvincial Fruit Inspector Thomas\nCunningham recently said: \"There will\nbe an excellent fruit crop throughout\nBritish Columbia this season. It is\nprobable that the entire crop will be\nthree times as large as that of any previous year. It is expected that 1,000 carloads of fruit will be shipped out of the*\nOkanagan Valley alone. Reports of conditions in Kootenay are exceedingly favorable. On the lower mainland the yield\nwill be better than the average and the\nsame applies to Vancouver Island.\n\"Where orchards have been carefully\nsprayed, fruit will be of excellent quality,\nbut in orchards which have been neglected a great deal of fruit will be unfit for\nmarket.\"\nMr. Cunningham stated emphatically\nthat infected home-grown fruit would\nnot be permitted to be sold this year. On\nthis point he said: \"After all the education that has been given to the people in\nThe Amalgamated Development Company has made good. See page 35.\nOil in large quantities\u2014Amalgamated\nDevelopment Co., page 35.\nregard to the importance of spraying\nand all assistance that has been given to\nfruit growers, it is unreasonable to expect that growers who neglect their trees\nwill be permitted to put infected fruit\non the market to put down the price of\nfruit produced by careful growers.\"\nBritish Columbia's fine fruit will, beginning this fall, be exhibited annually\nin Winnipeg through the efforts of the\nOkanagan Fruit Union and the Canadian Pacific Railway.\nThe T. Eaton Company gave its fourteen large show windows on Portage\nAvenue, Winnipeg, for two days in September for a display of a car of the finest\npeaches grown, in the Okanagan Fruit\nUnion, and again about the first of November will exhibit British Columbia\napples.\nThis year the exhibit will be confined\nto the Okanagan country, but next fall a\nlarger exhibit will be held which will include the fruits from other parts of this\n\u2022 province also. Heretofore the Winnipeg fruit consumer has known but little\nabout the magnificent fruit grown.in this\npart of the Dominion. He has got the\nidea that it is more or less like the fruit\nof California and that it is not to be compared with that grown in Ontario. As a\nmatter of fact, however, the peaches and\napples grown in British Columbia are de-\ncleared by competent judges to be superior not only in quality to the Ontario\nproduct, but also in size and keeping\nqualities.\n\"The Okanagan fruit crop is an excellent one this year,\" says Mr. F. W.\nPeters, of the C. P. R., \"and we are in\ngood shape to handle it. We have special ice refrigerator cars, which will be\ncarried across the lakes on special\nbarges, and thex arrival of the fruit in\ngood condition at the points of delivery\nis ensured.\"\nVernon and Kelowna are the main\nshipping points, and nearly the whole\ncrop is to be sent to the prairies and the\nEast. There was one difficulty, however,\nwhich the fruit-farmers had to face, and\nthat was the shortage of labor, but nothing could prevent the crop from being\nentirely satisfactory from every.point of'\nview.\n\"In view of the fact that the present\nestimated amount of land available for\nthe growing of fruit in the Kootenays\nincludes only such land as lies at an\naltitude of 2,500 feet or less, it can easily\nbe' seen that the recent successful raising of fruit as high approximately at 5,-\n000 feet above sea level, near Rossland,\nSee Amalgamated Development Company's ad. on page 35. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 25\nBRITISH COLUMBIA APPLE EXHIBIT AT SPOKANE\nmeans that our present fruit land area\nis increased by at least 25 per cent. I\nthink this estimate is not too high,\" said\nM. S. Middleton, assistant provincial\nhorticulturist.\n\"It is a matter of record that in very\nmany cases the soil at, say, 5,000 feet on\na mountain is better than at 2,000 feet\nin the same district. Another important\npoint is that the air drainage, one of the\nmost important questions to be considered by the scientific horticulturist^ is\nalways greater as higher altitudes are\nreached. As you know, fruit is being\nraised with the greatest success in Colorado on lands situated as high as 6,000\nfeet above sea level, and I know of no\nreason why Kootenay growers should\nnot meet with the same good results.\n\"I am told, too, that high lands are less\nsusceptible to frosts than those at a\nlower altitude. This is due largely to\nthe better air drainage. Of course the\nfarmer cultivating these high lands has\nto be prepared for a shorter season than\nthe man operating in lower lands, but\nagainst this is the fact that apparently\nplants mature much more quickly in\ncases where the snow flies late and the\nfrosts come early.\n\"The high lands are not suited as a\nrule for stone fruits, but apples and pears\ncan certainly be successfully raised. A\ncertain amount of experimental work is\nnecessary in order to determine the species and varieties which are most adapted\nfor such regions. All these high lands,\nhowever, are best adapted for mixed\nfarming to which far too little attention\nis being paid in Kootenay.\n\"It is estimated that the amount of\nland available for fruit growing in the\nKootenay district is 580,000 acres, and\nthat suitable for mixed farming is 970,-\n000 acres, a total of 1,550,000 acres. Only\nabout one per cent, of the lands are developed.\"\nTELEPHONES {3Z7\nG.O.George\nSuccessor to T. e. HICKS\nHH6KS\nOn the Stand Day and Night\nOFFICE I\n413 RICHARD8 8TREET\nTrunks, Bags, Suitcases, Ladies' Shopping Bags, etc,\nThe First Store of its kind la\nVancouver\n\\ round the Corner on nestings\nSt.. opposite Post Office\nTHERE ARM OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONI OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 26\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nIndustrial Progress in British Columbia\nIt is announced in Ottawa that Australian trade with Canada is steadily increasing.\nThe C. P. R. has awarded contracts for\nthe construction at Balfour on Kootenay\nLake of a summer hotel which will cost\n$150,000.\nThe Board of Trade of South Vancouver has inaugurated a vigorous publicity\ncampaign to make the district known as\na desirable location for manufacturing.\nThe Rawhide Mine of the Boundary\nDistrict has within a few weeks joined\nthe list of shippers with a consignment\nof thirteen hundred tons of ore.\nA syndicate consisting of Jos. Martin,\nJ. S. Harvey, T. F. Paterson and W.\nInnis has purchased all the assets of The\nBritish Canadian Wood Pulp and Paper\nCompany.\nThe Penticton Municipality has bought\nthe irrigation system from the Penticton Water Supply Co., and will furnish\nwater for both irrigation and domestic\nuse.\nIt has been announced that a colony\nof Finnish settlers will arrive in the\nKootenay district next year and will devote themselves chiefly to the raising of\napples and other fruits.\nThe Nelson Municipality decided at a\nwork of proclaiming in Canada and the\nUnited States the advantages of settlement in Nelson and its vicinity.\nIt is the intention of the Dominion\nGovernment to greatly enlarge its system of horticultural inspection in British Columbia, and to double the size of\nits fumigating plant in Vancouver.\nOrders for thousands of barrels of\nflour are coming to Canadian millers\nfrom the Orient. The demand on Canada for bread-stuffs in China is increasing\nsteadily.\nWilliam McKenzie of The Canadian\nNorthern Railway has announced that\nconstruction on his line will be rushed\nwith the utmost despatch both on the\nmainland and on Vancouver Island. A\nnumber of additional contracts will be\nlet this fall.\nA forfeit of $1,000 was put up by the\nAmalgamated Development Company in\ncase their representations were not correct in every particular. Three newspapers sent representatives who report,\u2014\nbetter than represented. See page 35.\nIt is stated by W. J. White, of Ottawa,\nDominion Inspector of American Immigration Agencies, that the number of\nsettlers coming this year from the United States to Canada is about 150,000,\nand that, despite reports to the contrary,\nvery few are returning to the States.\nThe abuttments and piers of the new\nsteel bridge across the Skeena River will\nbe built this winter. The piers will be\nfive in number and 125 feet high. At the\nSkeena River crossing near New Kitse-\nguekla, a camp of 200 men will be established in a short time.\nJas. Carruthers, a Montreal capitalist,\nhas announced that he will organize a\ncompany with a capital of at least $500,-\n000 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\nfrontage of 1,000 feet has been obtained.\nAccording to an estimate by the Cana^\ndian Government $100,000,000 of United\nStates money has been invested in Canada during the last year. This investment has been very largely in farm lands,\nand the Americans making it have come\nchiefly from the middle West.\nIt is stated that a smelter for demonstrating a new method for the reduction\nof low grade zinc ores will be established\nnear Nelson before the end of the year.\nThe method has been devised by A. G.\nFrench of Victoria, and has already been\ndemonstrated to the satisfaction of the\ncapitalists who have invested money in\nthe project.\nOil indications at the mouth of Muir\nCreek in the Sooke District are so pronounced that the Western Canada Oil\nProspecting Co. is putting down a test\nwell, and expects to strike oil somewhere\nbetween twelve and eighteen hundred\nfeet. A number of Victoria business\nmen are interested in the project.\nOne of the most progressive organizations in British Columbia is the Vancouver Island Development League, of\nwhich Ernest McCaffey, of Victoria, is\nsecretary. The league is doing much to\nproclaim to the world at Jarge the remarkable natural resources of Vancouver Island, and is already preparing for\na building and an exhibit of its own at\nthe International Winnipeg Exhibition\nin 1914.\nYou can make money quicker in Port\nMann than anywhere. See M. G. Morrison & Co., 536 Hastings Street west.\nIt is stated on high authority that industrial progress in China is no more\nrapid than it has been at any other time\nin the history of that empire, and that\nthere is a steadily growing demand for\nthe products of the West.\nThe townsite of Portland Canal was\nplaced on the market early in the month.\nThis adjoins the original townsite of\nStewart on the east and consists of 160\nacres. A water and sewerage system\nwill be installed at an early date. The\nNorthern Pacific Railway will establish\nin Vancouver a land office to handle\nPort Mann and Stewart realty.\nA party of six business men of Great\nBritain passed through Vancouver a few\ndays ago en route for the Far East,\nwhere they intend to develop the British\nmanufacturing trade. They see great\ncommercial possibilities in the opening\nup of China and suggested that the far\nEastern field would be an excellent one\nfor exploitation by Canadian manufacturers.\nOne of the most rapidly advancing sections in the Province is the Comox district, where the development of extensive timber holdings and promising\nmines is being steadily pursued. The\nFraser River Lumber Co. is preparing\nfor a very material expansion of its activities, and the pulp wood enterprises\non the Powell River are taking definite\nform.\nThe Point Grey Municipal Council\nsold in September nearly a million dollars' worth of bonds to a Toronto firm,\nand is developing many plans for a fine\ncity in what, a comparatively short time\nago, was a wilderness of trees and underbrush. The plans embrace extensive\nwater and sewerage systems, road grading on twenty streets, car lines radiating\nfrom a common centre and girdling the\ncity, and a $100,000 park.\nA. W. Donley, Canada's Trade Commissioner in Mexico, sees an opportunity\nfor the development of a large trade between Canada and Mexico in steel and\ncoal. Mexico has great deposits of ore\nfor high grade steel, but has no coal.\nBritish Columbia has plenty of coal, but\nit lacking in ores for making steel. The\nmutual trade in these important commodities will be highly beneficial to both\ncountries.\nThe Port Mann specialists are M. G.\nMorrison & Co., of 536 Hastings Street\nwest. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPogc 27\nr\n%\nThe Vancouver Trust Co.\nLimited\n614 Pender Street West, Vancouver, B. C.\nKamloops, B. C.\u2014Kamloops-Vancouver Trust Co., Ltd.\nInsurance\nWICPOVtR-TRUST- (WAflY- DUILDI\/1G-\nVArt(?UV[R\nTRUST\n(QAPA\/IY\nInsurance\n4% PAID ON DEPOSITS\nA General Trust Business\nTransacted\nH. L. JENKINS, President\nJ. N. HENDERSON, Vice-President\nD. von CRAMER, Managing \/Director\nV=\nJ\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERT ONE OP OTJR AITVBRTiaJfilEBWTS Page 28\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nPROGRESS OF THE VANCOUVER\nTRUST CO.\nThe removal of the Vancouver Trust\nCompany, Limited, into its handsome\nnew home at 614 Pender Street, marks\nan epoch in the career of this remarkably successful financial institution. Ever\nsince its establishment, the business of\nthe company has continued to increase\nat such a pace that it has been found\nnecessary to frequently enlarge the staff\nin order to adequately cope with the situation. Under the able and experienced\nadministration of its popular Managing\nDirector, Mr. D. von Cramer, actively\nsupported by a strong, united and progressive Board of Directors, every department has been brought up to the\nhighest state of efficiency.\nAs a consequence of the enormous expansion of business the office facilities\ngradually became seriously overtaxed\nuntil larger premises were a pressing necessity. Under these circumstances, the\nboard wisely decided that the time had\narrived when the institution should have\nsuitable permanent quarters, and the\npresent structure is the result.\nIts handsome Colonial front presents\na striking appearance from the street,\nand the general design of the building\nis chaste and artistic. The details of the\nexceedingly ornate interior decoration\nand fittings have been worked out most\nharmoniously, both as to colorings and\ndesign, and the beautiful effect obtained\nreflects the greatest credit upon the\nartistic taste, not only of the designers,\nbut also of the president and managing\ndirector, who have both taken the strongest personal interest in the progress of\nthe work.\nThe extensive and thoroughly modern\nburglar and fire-proof vault accommodation for the safeguarding of its documents is another feature of strong interest to its many clients, while its large\ncounter space enables the staff of every\ndepartment to give that prompt attention which is one of the leading features\nof an up-to-date trust company.\nCoincident with its removal into its\nnew offices, a saAdngs department has\nbeen opened for the convenience of its\nclients. This step has been contemplated\nfor some time, but lack of space has\nhitherto prevented it. It is fully expected that this will become one of its\nmost popular features.\nThe company is in possession of\nan exceedingly comprehensive charter,\nwhich enables the scope of its business\nto be extended almost indefinitely within\nconservative lines. It is empowered to\nact as administrator of estates, guardian\nof minors, etc., executor and trustee under wills, and also as liquidator and receiver of estates. In addition to the\nThe Amalgamated Development Company has made good. See page 35.\nabove, it conducts a general business as\nfinancial and property agent and as registrar and transfer agent of shares and\nbonds.\nThe company's charter does not allow\nit to purchase or speculate in real estate,\nbut to act as brokers only, accepting the\nusual commission as their profit, not\nparticipating in the sale as so many do\nfrom a speculative motive, having a part\nownership. This secures to them the\nname of a Trust Company in the true\nsense of the term, and warrants public\nconfidence in their management.\nIt has also secured the appointment as\ngeneral agent for a number of high-class\ninsurance companies, among which are\nthe Des Moines Fire Insurance Company, the Westchester Fire Insurance\nCompany, and the Imperial Guarantee\nand Accident Company of Canada. An\nagency of the company has recently been\nestablished in London, England, and it\nis the intention of the management to\nestablish connections by degrees in all\nother centers of finance, which are now,\nor may become in the future, interested\nin the development of British Columbia.\nThe officers of the company are well\nknown and successful business men. The\npresident, Mr. Jenkins, is also president\nof the Vancouver Timber & Trading Co.,\nLtd., president of the H. L. Jenkins Lumber Co., of Seattle, Wash., and one of\nthe largest individual owners of timber\nand farm lands in the Province, and a\nlarge city property holder. The vice-\npresident, Mr. J. N. Henderson, was\nformerly president of the Henderson\nBros., Ltd., and is also a large property\nowner. The directors are: Mr. L. A.\nLewis, managing director of the Brunette Sawmill Co., of New Westminster;\nMr. J. S. Rankin, vice-president of the\nStock Exchange; Mr. W. Y. Corry,\nM. D.; Mr. E. J. Deacon, Mr. A. H.\nWallbridge, Mr. C. A. Gordon.\nThe managing director, Mr. D. von\nCramer, upon whom devolves the principal executive work in connection with\nthe company's affairs, is peculiarly well\nfitted for the responsibility, having received his early training with the Canadian Bank of Commerce, afterwards\ntransferring to the Royal Bank of Canada, for which he acted as manager at\nvarious points, including Republic,\nWash.; Chilliwack, Cumberland and Vancouver, East End branches. Associated\nas he has been with the company, since\nits organization, he has shown such a\ngrasp of its affairs and executive ability\nas to secure in a high degree the confidence of the board of directors and\nshareholders.\nThe well known firm of Kendall, Sew-\nell & Co. acts as the company's auditors,\na special feature of the company being\nthe monthly audit without notice and\nat irregular periods. Its solicitors are\nMessrs. McKay & O'Brian.\nSUCCESSFUL AS MONEY\nGETTERS.\nKennedy Bros., Ltd., (successors to\nHale Bros. & Kennedy, Ltd.), is one o\u00a3\nthe largest and best known real estate\nconcerns in New Westminster. Their\noffices are a commodious and centrally\nlocated suite of rooms over the Merchants' Bank, corner Columbia and\nBegbie Streets, just opposite the Windsor Hotel, and near the British Columbia Electric and Canadian Pacific Railway stations.\nThe listings of these leading real estate dealers, which are kept right up to\ndate, contain a lot of the very finest\nproperties in the Province, District and\nCity extant, embracing timber lands, city\nand district realty, water frontages, improved farms and farming lands, dairying\nfarms, fruit lands, suburban property,\nand choice city residential lots, with and\nwithout residences.\nAs a specialty in money getters\u2014properties which are bound, with the assured\ngreat immediate growth of New Westminster city and vicinity, to advance-\nvery rapidly and largely in value\u2014Kennedy Bros, have extensive acreage propositions both on Lulu Island, within the\ncity limits, and at and near South Westminster, immediately opposite the city.\nBeing below the Fraser River bridge, for\nthe greater part, and thus free from any\nobstruction to navigation, and being\nclose to or intersected by the British Columbia Railway, or the the Great Northern Railway, these properties have a\nsolid and constantly increasing value of\ntheir own, independent of the value created by proximity to the great Canadian\nNorthern Railway developments, just\nabove the bridge.\n o\u2014\u2014\t\nTHE BEST SHORTHAND METHOD.\nWhen Professor Robert Boyd, a Canadian, discovered that the whole English\nlanguage consisted of various combinations of 112 syllables, and that nine characters governed by three rules would\nquickly and legibly express any word,\nthe first real advancement in shorthand\nwas made. This eliminated all those\ndots, dashes, shadings, positions, rules\nand exceptions which have caused so\nmany failures with the older systems, and\nmade the study of shorthand easy and\nsting. At present the Western Business\nCollege of Vancouver is the only school\nin the Province teaching this system, and\nthe enthusiasm of pupils and graduates\npromises a very busy season for them.\nVALUE OF LIVE STOCK INSURANCE.\nIf you own a small house worth a few\nhundred dollars, you would want it insured at once, yet the house can be destroyed only by. fire, while your horse or 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 29\ncow may be lost to you not only by fire,\n.but by hundreds of other destroying\nagencies. It is interesting to note that\nan anmial stands one chance to be killed\nby fire or lightning to three hundred and\nthirty-one chances to meet death through\nother causes. Herein lies the great value\nof live stock insurance, as represented in\nVancouver by the British Empire Insurance Company, which has paid more live\nstock losses than any other insurance\ncompany in Canada, and has a great\nmany testimonials as to promptness and\nfairness in meeting claims. You may\nsave much money by looking after the\ninsurance of your animals at the company's offices in the Howe Block, opposite the Hotel Vancouver.\nThe latest water heating invention\nused in conjunction with the wonderful\ngas producing machine, exhibited by\nPiper & Company at the Vancouver\nExhibition securing the highest award.\nHORSEMEN AND POULTRYMEN,.\nATTENTION.\nVisitors at the Chilliwack, Victoria and\nNew Westminster Exhibitions will have\nan opportunity such as has never been\noffered before to see the products manufactured in their own Province. Among\nthese nothing will attract more attention than the booth of The Perry-Gordon\nManufacturing Co., in the Agricultural\nHall. A full line of stock food, poultry\nfood and veterinary remedies will be\nshown by this firm, who are taking the\ninterest of the farmer to heart, and are\nplacing on the market a line of goods\nneeded by him, at a price never known\nbefore for these products. The goods,\nhave been on the market only a short\ntime, but the manufacturers of the P. &\nG. brands have reason to feel proud of\ntheir success. P. & G. food for horses\nand cattle is pure, and is absolutely\nguaranteed not to contain a single grain\nof antimony, arsenic, rosin or clay dust,\nand the guaranteed, government analysis\nof the brands reflects much credit upon\nthe makers. The trade in them has increased rapidly since they were introduced.\n-o-\nDO YOU RIDE IN CARRIAGES?\nFacilities for seeing the beauties of\nVancouver in the right way are much\nenhanced by the services of the Stanley\nPark Stables, which have at the disposal\nof visitors and others a choice of the\nfinest hacks, broughams, victorias and\ncarriages, and also have a smart tally-ho\nfor large parties, which makes regular\ntrips through Stanley Park and other\nspecially attractive parts of Vancouver.\nAt the stables are eighty horses in\nactive service, and twenty-three employees. The business is ten years old\nand is growing so rapidly that it has required a new barn for the accommodation of two hundred horses. It is said\nby experts who have seen the plans, that\nthis barn, which is now under construction, will be the best on the Coast. Mr.\nAlexander Mitchell, the manager, has\nbeen in Vancouver for twenty-one years,\nand has been one of those business men\nwho have progressed with the development of the city.\nTHE GREAT WEST LIGHT COMPANY.\nThe Great West Light Company, Limited, a newly incorporated company, are\nputting on the market the latest and\nmost up-to-date Gasoline Lighting Systems of to-day.\nTheir latest and most unique Highlow\nlamps fill a long felt want in the small\ntowns and villages throughout Western\nCanada, where there is no artificial light.\nThe light furnished is a nice white light,\nand is used very extensively by photographers for night work. The company\nhave their offices at 50^ Hastings Street\neast, Vancouver, B-. C.\n..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..%.\n-.\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022....\nD\nP\n(C$\nTHE WARMEST FRIENDS of P. & G. FOOD are those who have tried some other brand said to be \" as good \" as P. & G., and for\nwhich they paid a bigger price. Very easy to say a thing is \" as good \" but not so easy to \" make good.\" P. & G. is the only food of its\nkind that will take the place of grain. We invite you to call in our office and see the Guaranteed Government Analysis of P. & G. Food\nfor Horses and Cattle also P. & G. Poultry Food. Then ask the Makers or Agents of other brands to show you the analysis of their\nfoods, \" That's what talks.\" P.&G. Food for horses and cattle is absolutely pure, guaranteed not to contain a single grain of Antimony, Arsenic, Rosin, or Clay Dust.\n\"P. 6 G. is the Best, but costs you Less.\" See our exhibits at the Victoria and New Westminster Fairs.\n MANUFACTURED ONLY BY\nTHE PERRY-GORDON MANUFACTURING CO. 814 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B. C.\n..\u00ab-\u00bb.\u00bb*<\n\u00bb\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\n\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u25a0\u00bb\u00bb\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u00ab\u2022\u25a0\u25a0\u2022\u2014\"\u2022\u00ab'>\u00ab\u25a0>\u00bb\u00bb *\u2022\u2022\u25a0\n:\nI\n:\ni\ni\nCASCADE bu^\nwithout a Peez\nI\n|il\u00bbu>n\u00bbn>ntii\n\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u25a0>$\u25a0\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 30\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nGreat Activity in Real Estate\nA number of constructive factors have\ncombined within a month to give real\nestate a much greater activity than it\nhas seen since spring. The soundness\nand health of this activity cannot be\ndoubted when it is remembered that it\nhas for its foundation permanent improvements, the solid development of\nBritish Columbia and its leading communities, and the certainty that this development, in increasing ratio, will continue for many years to come.\nWhile there is naturally much speculation, behind this is a strong and steady\nmovement in permanent investment.\nMany new buildings of an enduring\ncharacter are in process of construction\nor are being planned. In Vancouver the\nrecord of building permits is already\ngreater by over $100,000 than during the\nwhole of last year. A ten story steel\nbuilding is being erected on the corner\nof Hastings and Seymour Streets. A\nproject for a million dolTar hotel for\nVancouver is being considered by the\nGrand Trunk Pacific Railway Company\nin Vancouver, and in Victoria this company has already selected the site for a\n, hotel which will cost at least as much as\nthe one projected for Vancouver. A\npermit has been granted for a $45,000\nwarehouse on Water Street in Vancouver. It is reported that borings are\nabout to be begun for the Second Narrows\nbridge connecting Vancouver and North\nVancouver. Plans have been prepared\nfor a large apartment house on Broadway and Woodland Drive, and, not only\nin Vancouver, but also in Victoria, New\nWestminster and other communities,\nwork is under way on a great many dwelling houses, factories and factory enlargements, and other buildings of a\npermanent nature.\nVictoria and New Westminster in\nparticular, are showing a real estate and\nbuilding activity no less pronounced than\nthat in Vancouver. The Pemberton\nBlock in Victoria, on the corner of Fort\nand Broad Streets, and one of the largest office buildings in British Columbia,\nwas opened late in September. As an\nindication of the big banking business\nin Victoria, the property on Trounce Avenue and Government Street has been\nsold to the Union Bank for $145,000. On\nthis site will be erected a very substantial building, the ground floor of which\nwill be occupied by the bank.\nAt Esquimalt, on Vancouver Island,\nthere has been within a few weeks a\ndeal involving the transfer of practically\nthe entire waterfront on Long Cove,\nwhich will be used as the site of shipbuilding yards and a dry-dock large\nenough for the biggest vessels. Construction will be started in the spring.\nThis important enterprise will have a\nstrong influence upon properties in Victoria and Vancouver Island. New Westminster is busy paving streets and making preparations in general for the most\nactive period in her history.\nIn addition to this constructive progress is the activity of the railroad builders in the Province. The operations of\nthe steam railway companies are too extensive to recapitulate here, but the extensions of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company in the immediate\nvicinity of some of the leading centres,\nis well worth noting because of their\ngreat value in permanent development.\nThe line between New Westminster and\nChilliwack is about to be opened, and\nwill prove a potent factor in the development of the Fraser Valley. The great\npower plant of this company on the\nFraser River, the building of which will\ninvolve an expenditure of millions of\ndollars, will, of course, prove a notable\nstimulus to industry in this section of\nthe Province.\nImprovements of the kind touched\nupon above are made to. meet the requirements of a steady and stable growth\nand indicate, in conjunction with numerous other factors, the solid strength\nof the foundation upon which rests British Columbia's real estate activity. A\nspecial influence of a stimulating nature\nin the vicinity of Vancouver at present\nis the announced opening in the spring\n\u2022of the townsite of Port Mann, which has\ngiven rise to many transaction-;\njoining properties, and has lent an impetus to the whole autumn movement in\nreal estate. With the coming to the\ncities of many farmers, lumbermen, and\nminers with the proceeds of their season's work, and with capital used for\nmoving the crops returning to city\nbanks, the real estate market will show\nmuch vigor until well toward the first\nof the year. At this time there is likely\nto be a lull until next spring, when, according to present indications, real estate business in this section will break\nall previous record-;.\nAmong the Brokers\nJohn M. Chappell reports that in addition to a healthy tone generally in the\nrealty market, there is a decided tendency among investors to-day to look\nwest and south for the future developments. The decision of the University\nCommission, advising the locating of\nthe Provincial University in Point Grey,\nhas tended to tone up the values there,\nand, taken in conjunction with the improvements now under way, such as the\ntransportation facilities, the water and\nsewage schemes, there is bound to be a\ngreat deal of buying in this section.\nThis office specializes the Kerrisdale district, in which so many beautiful homes\nare now under construction, and intend-\nOil in large quantities\u2014Amalgamated\nDevelopment Co., page 35.\ning investors would do well to consult\nthe firm.\nThe Merchants Trust & Trading Company reports a considerable number of\nsales during the month in Burnaby and\nNorth Vancouver. These attractive districts are commending themselves very\nfavorably to those who are seeking desirable home sites. Thompson Tinn,\nmanager of this company, is making a\nspecialty of attracting to British Columbia settlers from the Old Country, and\nhe, himself, has recently left on a trip in\nwhich he will lose no opportunity to\nextol the advantages of settlement in\nBritish Columbia.\nThe only gilt-edged, commercial oil\nproposition on the market, Amalgamated Development Company, page 35-\nSince it has been decided to locate the\nUniversity of British Columbia in Point\nGrey, there has been a strong demand\nfor fine home sites on the Gulf of Georgia Terrace, which is one of the most\ndelightful sections of Greater Vancouver. The Terrace is located on a plateau\noverlooking the Fraser River and affording beautiful views of fishing fleets, vessels plying to and from all parts of the\nworld, and other charming water scenes.\nThis is probably one of the most attractive places on the Continent for homes.\nIt is managed exclusively by Mole &\nKeefer, who have just issued a beautiful\nfolder showing a number of artistic\nhomes already established on the Terrace.\nSee Amalgamated Development Company's ad. on page 35. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 31\nWescott and Letts of Victoria, say\nthat during the last three months business has been excellent, and is daily\nassuming proportions that- have raised\nthe hopes of the business men higher\nthan 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\nthe vanguard of the great British Columbia advance which is attracting wide\nattention in Europe and on this continent. A good evidence that our opportunity has come and that we are not\nslow in seizing the same. This firm has\ndone $25,730 worth of business since July\n19th.\nof from five to twenty acres within from\nten to twenty minutes from Vancouver,\nthere being a general feeling that the\ncity will become a great market for all\nkinds of farm produce.\nMessrs. Lougheed & Coates, of 429\nPender Street west, report an increasing\ndemand for houses especially in the best\nresidential districts, several contracts being let recently and many more pending.\nIn the real estate department the demand\nfor choice acreage is strong, especially\nin the Port Mann district.\nThe demand for farm lands along the\nline of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway\nhas been very keen during the last three\nor four weeks. The Fort George country\nhas received more attention than any\nother of the good agricultural districts,\nowing to the large number of men who\nhave just returned from Fort George\nbringing excellent reports as to its great\npossibilities. These men all express the\nopinion that there will be a great rush of\nsettlers to the Fort George country next\nspring. The North Coast Land Company, Limited, in the Winch Building,\nVancouver, have made sales to well-to-\nThe opportunities of British Columbia\nas a field for high-class investment have\nbeen recognized by the new brokerage\nfirm of O. H. Bowman & Company of\nVictoria, who deal in all listed and unlisted stocks and bonds, as well as real\nestate, timber and insurance. The firm\nis supplying the very latest quotations\nand much information regarding investment in both American and Canadian securities.\nRoss & Shaw have received many inquiries for property and have some deals\npending for good apartment house sites\nin the West End. They have made acreage sales in Burnaby, a sale of lots and\nacreage on the car line between Vancouver and New Westminster, and five acres\nnear Central Park, cleared and fronting\non the tram line. The purchaser of this\nproperty intends to subdivide it and put\nit on the market There have been numerous inquiries for Grandview property\nand some sales. Many prospective purchasers are looking for small holdings\nMorrison and Company, of 536 Hastings Street, Vancouver, grasped the Port\nMann situation months ago, made a\nspecial study of its real estate possibilities, and came to the conclusion that real\nestate investments there would be absolutely sound. Their forethought has\nbeen amply justified by results. There is\nnow no possible ground for doubt as to\nPort Mann's % rapid and continuous\ngrowth. Morrison and Company are doing an active business in Port Mann\nrealty because they are impressing upon\ntheir clients the fact that in a few years\nPort Mann will be as well known in the\nshipping world as any Pacific coast port\nfrom Prince Rupert to Valparaiso.\nFor Port Mann snaps see M. G. Morrison & Co., 536 Hastings Street west,\nor phone 6730.\n\u2666^\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022..\u2022\u00ab\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb~\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00ab. .\u00ab..\u00ab\">\"\u2014'\u2014\u00ab\u2014\u2022\u2014\u00bb\u25a0\u00ab\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u2022\u25a0\u25a0\u2022\u25a0\u25a0*\u25a0\u2022\u2014\u2014\u2022'f'\nHaslett & Whitaker, the North Vancouver specialists, report a heavy month's\nbusiness in North Vancouver lots and\nacreage, the principle dealings being in\nproperty east of Seymour Creek. This\nfirm have closed an acreage deal amounting to over $20,000. They have received\na large number of enquiries from the\nEast and also from England for North\nVancouver properties.\nNOTICE\nWe have removed to suite 70 in\nthe Hutchinson Building, 429 Pender\nStreet West, and will be pleased to\nreceive for consideration any proposition you may have to make in Real\nEstate or Home Building.\nWe build homes on easy terms,\nand will consider any good security in\nproperty or cash as first payment, and\nextend the payments over ten years if\n\u2022desired.\nWe loan you 80 per cent of the\nvalue.\nLougheed & Coates\nSuite jo, 429 lender Street\nfmnCritIItttIlIir\u00bbTTII\u00bbftTTTTTTTTTTYrYTTIItTTTTIITTYYTTTrTtTTTTTIII-riTTTTTTTtT'TTTTT\u00bbIITTTITTIirriirrrrrTTTTTTTTTrrrYTYIl rrTTTTTTTTTTTTTT--rTXXTXTXXXXXXXXX:iIXX.I..I..ll*XXXXXXXiCIIIX^J\nCORRESPONDENCE INVITED\nReference: Bank op Montreal\nSAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT\nCable and Telegraphic Address :\n\"STECO,\" Vancouver, B. C.\nCodes Used :\nA. B. C, 5th Edition, and Western Union\nPhones:\nHead Office, - 5604\nBranch Office, 4265\nResidence, - 5694\nThe John T Stevens Trust Co.\nMercantile Building-, 318 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C.\nBranch Office:\nEstates Managed\nFunds Invested\nCompanies Organized\nStocks, \"Bonds, cMines\nf\nWE ARE PREPARED TO ACT AS MANAGERS, TRUSTEES (UNDER\nPOWER OF ATTORNEY), REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS FOR\nCLIENTS, INVESTORS, MORTGAGERS, AND PROPERTY OWNERS.\nCONSULT US. WE PLACE MORTGAGES ON 50% MARGIN OF\nVALUATION YIELDING 6% TO 8% INTEREST\n!435 Granville Street\nTimber Limits\nFarm Lands\nInsurance\nColonization\n&XXM3 CJXXXXXXrXXXXXXXXXTTTTTTTTXTXTTTTTXXSXTXXZrrXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXr^^\n.\u2022..\u2022..*..\u2022..\u2022\u25a0\nI\u00abl \u25a0 \u00bbl \u00abll\u00bbl.\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00bb-\n-\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022'\nl\u00abll\u00bbll\u00bbl t \u00bb \u00bbl >\u25a0\u00bb-\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00ab\u00ab ill\nBULLEN&LAMB (Late Bullen Photo Co.)\nPhone 4018\n743 Pender Street, W.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nThe House of Ideas The Highest of Ideals\nTHESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EYERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS\nArchitectural Photography\nEnlargements\nAmateur Finishing\nPicture Framing\nCameras and Supplies\n\u25a0*\u2014\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022- \u2022*\u2666$\u2022 Page 32\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nda farmers and investors all over Canada,\nas well as in many of the States of the\nUnion. This company also has extensive\nholdings of the best land in the Nechaco\nand Bulkley Valleys.\nIt is significant that several important\nsales in the Coquitlam district have been\nnegotiated during the summer, usually a\nquiet time for suburban property. Reports are in circulation of the establishment of several industrial concerns both\nat Port Moody and Westminster Junction, and it is evident that a big movement will soon take place at both these\ncenters. E. S. Morgan, of 47\nHutchinson Building, Pender Street,\nVancouver, who controls considerable\nproperty in this district, reports several\ngood sales both at Port Moody and\nWestminster Junction.\nCanadian Northern Railway terminal\u2014\nPort Mann. They have made a specialty\nof this district, and last month acquired\nthe exclusive sale of the Paterson Ranch,\nowned by the Honorable T. W. Paterson,\nLieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. This is a beautiful piece of property\nand has been under cultivation for a\nnumber of years. The sale opens on\nMonday, October 3rd,, at 9 o'clock.\nThe John McLeod Company, 516 Pender Street west, Vancouver, report a\nbrisk business in acreage adjacent to the\nThe firm of Ward, Burmester and von\nGraevenitz is selling the portion of the\nDistrict Lot 813 between Lyn Creek and\nthe Lynn Valley car line in lots varying\nin size from 36 feet to 45 feet frontage.\nWithin a fortnight no fewer than 150\nlots were sold while the balance are\nrapidly being taken up. This property\nhas waterfrontage on the creek (Lynn\nCreek) where the lots have a clear and\nuninterrupted view down the Canyon\nand a southerly aspect. The easy terms\non which this property is being sold\nappeal specially to those who have but\nlittle capital with which to\u00abbuild, as well\nas to speculators who wish to benefit\nby the rise in values which will result\nfrom building operations. North Vancouver in general and Lynn Valley in\nparticular are receiving, much attention\nfrom investors and speculators.\nOne of the most progressive real estate firms in British Columbia is that of\nFoster & Fisher, which is devoting itself\nparticularly just now to Windsor Parlc^\nwhich joins the future centre of North\nVancouver, and lies in one of the most\npromising sections of British Columbia,\nclose to the proposed Second Narrows\nbridge and the site of the Imperial Car\nWorks. Windsor Park, with the developments which are insured, will be one\nof the most industrial centres in Canada, and Foster & Fisher, with their\ncustomary far-sightedness, are putting\ntheir clients in touch with the opportunities which lie in this locality. That\nthis is appreciated is indicated by a\nstrong demand for lots in Windsor Park\nand numerous sales.\nPort Mann\nThe Risinp; Star on the Western Horizon\nThere was a time when the despotism\nof Asia\u2014despotism tempered by harem\nplots and professional poisoners\u2014caused\nnew cities to appear and old ones to disappear in obedience to what was sometimes merely the whim of an Oriental\nmonarch. But even at that they usually\ntook much time in the contemplative\nEast for the achievement of their results,\nif the legendary miracles of the \"Arabian Nights\" are accepted.\nThe real age of miracles is now, and\nthe scene of their operation is first of\nall Western Canada. The modern railway king is to the Canadian West what\nthe Oriental despot was to Asia, but\nhis despotism is more and more effectually tempered by a railway commission and his achievements are far more\nwonderful and far more beneficial than\nthose of the ancient rulers of the East.\nIn the City* of Vancouver, which comparative statistics show to be about the\nmost wonderful example of progress in\nNorth America, there is a bright and\nshining example of this modern necromancy. Even a dozen years ago with\nthe Canadian prairies an empty, and to\nall except a few, an unknown wilderness,\nthe rulers of the Canadian Pacific Railway had brought a city into existence\non Burrard Inlet\u2014a city which in the\nlast four years, with the increasing population of the prairies and the western\nportion of the United States, has more\nthan doubled the number of its inhabitants.\nOwing to the fact that in the days\nwhen the powers of the Canadian\nPacific Railway called Vancouver\ninto existence, the population of the\nWest consisted of a mere fringe of settlements on the edge of the Pacific, the\nD. D. MANN\nbirth of the- seaport lacked that spectacular quality which recently attracted\nthe eyes of the world to Prince Rupert.\nBut the future is now pregnant with a\nnew city to be added to the municipal\nfamily of the Pacific Coast.\nNext spring will be born Port Mann,\nalready 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\nthis city and has proclaimed his happy\nexpectations to the world at large. A\nfew days from the time of writing, on\nOctober 5th, the fortunate tenderers for\nfor the work are to start and rush to\ncompletion the preparation of the place\non which Port Mann will stand, a place\nchosen with the care, wisdom and foresight that have enabled Mackenzie &\nMann to create a Canadian Northern\nRailway system\u2014create is used advisedly,\nfor it is not a matter of common knowledge that they have made it out of\nnothing, which was about what they had\nwhen they started.\nIt is these men with the unique, even\nmarvellous, record as railway builders;\nwho are endeavoring to establish a new\nworld-port on the south bank of the\nsnow-fed Fraser River. To consider the\nsite chosen for Port Mann is to marvel\nthat nobody thought of it sooner, but\nthen, that can be said about any successful undertaking since Columbus stood\nthe egg on its end, and discovered\nAmerica.\nAcross from New Westminster, some\ndozen miles up the river from the Gulf\nof Georgia, lies a rim of flat land overlooked by a slightly elevated plateau\nwhich forms an ideal site for a great 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 33\nThere are many Opportunities in Canada\nto-day, but there is only one\nPORT MANN\nThere are many people now beguiling their leisure\nhours and boring their friends by telling of the low\nprices they might have bought Vancouver property\nat, a few\u2014a very few\u2014years ago.\nPerhaps You Are One of Them?\nThere are some, even now, lamenting the farm land\nprices at which they were offered Port Mann property six months ago.\nSix Months from Now\nthere will be a multitude regretting their neglect of\nthe opportunities\nPort Mann Offers To-day\nSee us for information about Port Mann.\nWe have the BEST PROPERTY at the LOWEST\nPRICES and the EASIEST TERMS OBTAINABLE\nCOME WITH US TO PORT MANN\nThe Home Estate So\nSuccessors to Leeson*PbilHps Co.. Ltd.\n334 Hastings Street, West\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 34\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\ncity. The Fraser River, deep and broad,\ncurves around this chosen site and gives\na safe and open waterway to the Pacific.\nLarge ships can now ascend the Fraser\nabove Port Mann to load lumber and\nwith comparatively little dredging of\nthe channel.\nThe authorities have published their\ndecision to make Port Mann their chief\nterminal on the Pacific Coast. They have\nsecured 2,000 acres of land at farm land\nprices and have announced that the\nwaterfront is not for sale. What the\ncompany does not need for its own use\nwill be leased, but not sold, for industrial\npurposes. The company's yards and\nmost important shops are to be established at Port Mann as soon as the\ntranscontinental line can be built to the\ncoast.\nOver 6,000 company employees will\nalone form the nucleus of a big city, and\nthe time is only measured by the period\nrequired for rails to be laid across the\nRockies to the Fraser River when grain\nelevators and flour mills will form an imposing row along the waterfront of the\ncoming city.\nThere is room for a Port Mann as well\nas a Vancouver, even as there is room\non another ocean for a Manchester as\nwell as a Liverpool.\nPort Mann lies only some 13 miles\nby present routes from Vancouver with\nNew Westminster in between. Children\nin Vancouver schools will still be thumbing their text-books when the three will\nform one continuous city, interrupted\nonly by the waters of the Fraser River.\nThe railway compaines of Canada have\nperformed many miracles in city building during the last few years and will\nperform many more during the next few\nyears, but, with a fruitful continent behind her and the world by her waterways\nwithin her reach before her, it requires\nlittle effort of imagination to see in Port\nMann a rising star of the first magnitude\namong the bright galaxy of the future\nteeming cities of Western Canada.\n o\t\nQUARTZ GOLD \u2014YUKON'S CHIEF\nASSET.\nBy H.edley Rogers.\nAfter twelve years of residence in the\nKlondike, the writer left Dawson last\nJanuary, and while travelling 'over the\nremarkable White Pass Road almost five\nhundred miles to the Coast, he intimated\nto the folks along the route his desire to\ngather data for a story on the surrounding country. The information cordially\ngiven confirmed an opinion already formed and also a statement of Daniel Gug-.\ngenheim, that up in that country is an\nempire without a people.\nIt is the intention here not to repeat that story, but to present a\nfew statements of men of authority as\nto the future prospects of the Yukon\nTerritory, for the prosperity of Yukon\nmeans much to British Columbia, the\ninterests of the two regions being identical. So far the Yukon Territory has\nproduced one hundred and fifty million\ndollars in placer gold, and the astounding area of auriferous gravels still untouched will take, it is claimed by our\nbest authorities, fifty or one hundred\nyears more to exhaust. But even this\nvast visible wealth is not Yukon's chief\nasset. Nor is its chief asset the millions\nof acres of magnificent alluvial valleys\nand islands, which produce sweeter and\ntenderer cabbages, beets, parsnips, carrots, especially celery, and most other\nkinds of vegetables found elsewhere.\nThis is due not only to the excellent soil,\nbut also to the bright sunshine and occasional showers which prevail during\nthe summer\u2014a summer which is a long,\nsunshiny day.\nWhen transportation facilities are obtained tens of thousands of British Columbians will feast upon Yukon farm\nproducts. But quartz, quartz gold, the\nsource of the one hundred and fifty million dollars worth of placer gold already\nmentioned, is drawing and will continue\nto draw the world's attention to Yukon.\nQuartz gold is Yukon's chief asset. This\nis confirmed by the following authorative\nstatements: \"Quartz mining is growing\nDALLAS HOTEL\nThe only Seaside Hotel in the City\nFifteen minutes walk from P. 0.\nOne minute's walk from street cars\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n1\n\u2666$\u2666\u2666\u2022\u2022\u00ab\nt\nI\nt\n^^^^^^^^MMWMM!MMMJM^^^^^^\nDOMINION!\nstockandBond i\ncorporation!\n^LIMITED\nCAPITAL $2,000,000\nREAL ESTATE-TIMBER-MINING\nSTOCKS-BONDS-DEBENTURES\nLOANS - FINANCIAL AGENTS\nWINCH BUILDING HASTINGSSTW 1\nVANCOUVER. B.C\nSPECIAL\nBUYS IN\nWest Fort George\nThe coming City of\nCentral British Columbia\nWRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS\nrapidly. A great future lies in store for\nthis class of mining in the Yukon.\"\u2014\nHon. Wm. Templeman, Minister of\nMines.\n\"I am firmly of the opinion that the\nconditions existing in the Yukon Territory are as favorable for many great\nquartz camps as any portion of British\nColumbia. What is needed in the Yukon\nto establish quartz values is money,\nmoney.\"\u2014John Grant, ex-Mayor of Victoria, B. C, and later member for South\nDawson in Yukon Council.\n\"In the Watson and Wheaton Valleys,\nYukon Territory, there are not less than\ntwo hundred claims that have rich surface showings, giving assays from ten\ndollars to ten thousand a ton.\"\u2014Robert\nLowe, Speaker, Yukon Council.\n\"Hundreds of thousands of dollars\nare being spent in Yukon in the development of quartz. The most energetic work\nis being done on the ridge centering near\nthe head of Dominion and Bonanza\nCreeks. Assays show $40 or more to the\nton in free milling gold ore. At the head\nof Victoria Gulch, a tributary of\nBonanza, a quartz mill has been ordered\nfor one of the groups.\"\u2014Frank Lowe,\nformer President Dawson Board of\nTrade.\nTailoring Phone 1823 Renovating\nSuits Sponged and Pressed for 50c.\nOne trial will make you a regular customer.\nj 313 Gamble St, Vancouver, B, C, >\nThe Great West Light Co., Ltd.\nHollow Wire and Tube Systems\nMakers of the Famous\nHighlow Gasoline Lamps\n50'-. HASTINGS ST., EAST\nP. O. Box 140Z Vancouver, B. C.\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 35\nMartin Islands\nKktakl.^\nPlan\nSfiseiwijzty\n^JVells. Pipe Line & Refinery*\n^AMALGAMATI3)BMELQPEMEN1Goi?\nC ONTROLLETm\nKATALLA9ALASKA\n9t\nok\n10 12\nLand Locked\n10*\nHarbour\n*g0t.\nBAY\n-I'^'iSa:\n15\n1^\n^l\nVaneou vtr Jt>a\/tJJQlue9rvni 64*\nOKale* u '6\n^\\'\nPainr\nHEAVY FLOW OF OIL\nThe Remarkable Progress of The Amalgamated Development Company\nThe following telegram was received on the 7th inst.,from O. L. Willoughby, Field Manager,\nAmalgamated Development Company, Katalla, Alaska :\u2014\nTo A. F. GWIN, Katalla, Alaska., September 7th, 1910.\n518 Hastings Street, Vancouver, B. C.\n\"No. 2 Well, uncapped, gushes over one thousand barrels per hour for one-and-a-half hours.\"\nO. L. WILLOUGHBY.\nPRICE OF STOCK: ONE AND TWO DOLLARS PER SHARE\nI 1\u2014\u2014 ======\u2014 APPLY TO ================\nAULD, GWIN & McCLARTY, ?1\u00a3\nAlso CANADIAN AMERICAN REALTY CO., 1204 Douglas Street, Victoria, B.C.\nASTINGS ST. W\nNCOUVER, B.C.\nTHESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 36\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nThe Connecting Linl\nJust across the bridge which spans the\nmighty Fraser River from New Westminster lies a tract of land as level as\nthe water itself. It is bounded on the\nnorth by the Great Northern Railway,\non the west by the approach to the\nbridge, and on the south by the New\nYale Road. A half-mile east of this\nproperty is located the townsite of Port\nMann, the new terminal city of the Cana-\ns.\nBet\nween\nT\nwo\nCiti\nes\none to three acres and is laid out in such\na manner that blocks can be resurveyed\ninto lots 66x132 in the future. All the\nstreets will be uniform without waste.\nThe property, affords not only a chance\nto procure a homesite, but also presents\nan excellent opportunity for investment,\nas acreage, uncleared in parcels adjoining, is held at from $2,000 per acre up.\nThe prices His Honor has placed on\nSCENE ON THE PATTERSON RANCH, PORT MANN, B. C.\ndie-in Northern Railway, after its long\nrun across the Continent to this, the\ngrandest fresh water harbor of the Pacific coast. This property comprises\nabout 168 acres of as fine land as can be\nfound anywhere in British Columbia, a\nfact which, of course, is acknowledged\nby those who know it to be the finest soil\nin the world. And when one has the\npleasure of viewing the heavy yield of\ngrain, roots, fruit, etc., that this acreage\nhas produced this summer, one will\nreadily agree with the broadest statements made by our greatest optimists.\nFor some years this beautiful acreage\nhas been owned and cultivated by the\nHonorable Thomas , W. Paterson,\nLieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, who has been successful in turning\nthe property into one of the Province's\nmost beautiful ranches. However,\nFather Time is no respecter of persons,\nand has now stepped on the scene and\nannounced the development of Port\nMann. Under these conditions thousands of people will be in need of small\ntracts on which to build a future home;\ntherefore, His Honor has yielded to the\nrequests of the public for an opportunity\nto obtain a small parcel of this beautiful\ncultivated land, and has placed the property exclusively in the hands of the John\nMcLeod Company, $16 Pender Street\nwest, Vancouver, for immediate disposal. This firm was selected by the\nLieutenant-Governor after full investigation. This fact in itself is sufficient\nguarantee that all purchasers will be\nfully protected. The property has been\nsurveyed into blocks containing from\nthe property is $1,800 per acre, with one-\nfifth cash and the balance in six, twelve,\neighteen and twenty-four months at six\nper cent, per annum.\nHon. Mr. Paterson also guarantees\nto keep the property in a high state of\ncultivation for the next two years, or\nuntil such' time as the purchaser takes\nup his or her deed of the portion purchased. Even if you take up your deed\nimmediately he will see that your property is plowed for the next two years,\nfree of any expense to you. This will\nkeep your land in shape and make it\npresent the same attractive appearance\nit has to-day. There is one other feature\nworth remembering, namely: This property is underdrained and in condition\nnow for you to build your future home.\nIf you will consider why the shrewd\ninvestor is to-day placing his money in\nacreage surrounding Port Mann you will\nspeedily arrive at his reason. Port Mann\nin the course of the next few years will\nbecome one of the most important cities\non the Pacific Coast. It is the point at\nwhich all through passengers and freight\nto and from the Orient will be transshipped, the point at which all the rolling stock of the Canadian Northern for\nthe entire system will be manufactured,\nall repair work as well will be made\nhere. Wharves will be immediately built,\nwhile the contracts were awarded on the\n26th of last month for the clearing of\nthe entire townsite. Landscape artists\nwill lay out the townsite, and a model\ncity will be placed on the market next\nspring. Railway officials expect this\ntownsite to sell at the rate of $10,000 per\nacre. What will this acreage of Lieutenant-Governor Paterson's be worth on the\nday of the Port Mann sale? Address all\ncommunications regarding the Paterson\nRanch, the sale of which opens on Monday morning, October 3rd, to The John\nMcLeod Company, $16 Pender Street\nwest, Vancouver, B. C.\nH. P. Latham, Local Manager of The\nNational Finance Company, Ltd., New\nWestminster, reports that there is I a remarkable interest in the rich farm lands\nof the Fraser Valley, particularly in\nSurrey, Langley, Chilliwack and Burnaby. This interest has received a fresh\nimpetus within a few days from a large\nnumber of visitors from the North-West\nand other sections, who have been attracted to this region by its great general promise and the New Westminster\nFair. A considerable number of properties have recently been sold in each of\nthese districts by the National Finanice\nCompany, which has many properties\nlisted. This company also have for sale\nproperty in acre blocks, right in the\ntownsite of Port Mann, which is causing especial interest.\nVICINITY OF PORT MANN FROM THE FRASER RIVER 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 37\nt\n%\n4\u00bb\nWE ARE SPECIALISTS IN\nPortland Canal Stocks\ni\nAND CAN GIVE YOU FULL INFORMATION f\nON ANY COMPANY OPERATING IN THAT %\n1 DISTRICT. DAILY QUOTATIONS RECEIVED. J\n| N. B. MAYSMITH & CO., LTD. f\nI VICTORIA, B. C. i*\nf MEMBERS PACIFIC COAST STOCK EXCHANGE\nt Offices : Victoria, B. C, Vancouver, B. C, Stewart,\nB. C, Nanaimo, B. C, Seattle, Wash.\nH\n.%.\u00bb.......\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\n.\u00bb..\u00ab.\u25a0\u00bb..\u00ab ..\u00bb.,\nThe PORTLAND\nMrs. Baker. Proprietress\n723 YATES ST. Phone 2404\nThe only modern rooming house in town.\nSteam heat, running hot and cold water and\ntelephones in all rooms. Newly furnished\nthroughout, and up-to-date in every respect.\nTERMS MODERATE\nVICTORIA, B. C,\n.*..\u2022..\u00bb..\u2022..\u2022.....\n.....\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022.......\nSteam Heat, Gas, Electric Light, Telephone\nHot and Cold Running Water in Each Room\nTHE NEW TOURtST, 107 CORDOVA ST.\nTHE ANGELES, 927 WESTMINSTER AYE.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u00bb*\u00ab\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\n<\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022 .\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022>\u25a0.\u2022\u2022. \u25a0\nG. W. ARNOTT 8 CO. {\nReal Estate and Insurance I\nDrawer 1539 #* Prince Rupert j\nSplendid Opportunities for Investors j\n....\u2022..\u2022..\u2022.....\u2022.....\u2022..\u2022..\nH\nSUN\nVISIBLE\nTYPEWRITER\nX\nLight, Strong, Durable. Absolutely Guar-\ni anteed the Best Light Typewriter in the world\nCASH PRICE $50.00\nSEND FOR PARTICULARS\nTHOS. PLIMLEY\nAutomobile and Bicycle Dealer\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nL\nJ\nS. N. SEMPLE\nPRACTICAL HORSESHOER\nAll kinds of Imperfect Gaits Rectified.\nTROTTING SHOES AND RUNNING PLATES\na Specialty.\nGrossfiring, Interfering and Forging Stopped\nwithout fail by Latest Improved Methods.\nSpecial Attention given to Contracted Feet\nand Lameness.\nPHO N\nNO. 1367\nAddress: 662 SEYMOUR ST.\n\u25a0 >M\u00bb.ltM>ll>n|\u00bb\nf\n\u2022.\u25a0\u2022..\u2022..\u2022........\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..s....\n,.\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb. \u00ab|\u00ab\nFor Kerrisdale Properties\nConsult the Specialist\nJohn M. Chappell I\nRoom 2, 443 Pender Street\nOwners ate requested to list all\nPoint Gtey property with me\n4-\n.\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u00ab...\u2022.<\n.......\u00bb..*..\u2022..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u2022..\u00ab.\n.4.\nHours 9 to 6\nPhone 3351\nJNO. JACKSON\nScientific Chiropodist\nCorns removed without pain, Bunions, Ingrowing\nNails, Club Nails, Callouses, Pedicuring, Fetid\nOdors and Sweaty Feet successfully treated.\n305 Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nStanley Park Stables\nYour impressions of Vancouver\u2014the\n\"Sunset City\"\u2014will be made all the more\nlasting- by seeing the City and magnificent\nStanley Park in one of our comfortable\nHACKS, BROUGHAMS,\nVICTORIAS, SURREYS,\nOR CARRIAGES,\nStanley Park Stables, \"HKSflL\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nPITMAN'S\nBusiness College\nis the Largest and Oldest Business\nCollege on the Coast. Pitman's have\nplaced many Students this year at\nSIXTY DOLLARS PER MONTH\nThey can place\nYOU if vou wor\nTelephone L I5l3\n632-634-636 SEYMOUR ST.\nWe male a specialty of Business, Farm and Residential \u2022\nProperty.\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED |\nCURRIE & POWER\nREAL ESTATE and INSURANCE AGENTS I\n1214 Douglas Street P. 0. Box 316 \u2022\nVICTORIA, B. c 1\n\u00ab{\u00bb'\u00ab\"\u00bb\">n\u00ab\"\u00bbii\u00bbii\u00bbi>\">\"\u00bb\"\u00bb\u00ab\n.\u2022..\u2022..*..\u2022..\u2022..\n\u2022 t\nict.nmn>i.sM>iit\"\u00abii\u00bbii\u00bbi'\u00bb'i\u00ab\u00ab\n\u25a0|iitn|ii|ii>ii|\u00bb\nI Mrs. J. E. Elliott |\nI J\n1 Hand-made Goods a Specialty\nI The most Lp-to-Date Store |\nFor Neckwear, Blouses, Underwear ?\n\u2022 and everything needful lor \u2022\nI .\nInfants and Children.\n2 |\nI Phone R313 |\nj 730 Yates St. VICTORIA, B. C. f\n\u2666\u00a3\u2666.\u00ab.....\n1 Baxter & Johnson Co. 1\nLIMITED\n0EEICE OUTFITTERS\n\" Underwood \" Typewriter \u25a0'\n\" Macey \" Filing Cabinets |\n\" Gunn Sectional Bookcases I\nSteel Vault Fittings f\nPHONE 730 ?\n721 Yates St. VICTORIA, B. C. }\nt\nrrinjannnnnxiJTJxrinJxri ruirLruruTrLn ruxn\nHENRY CROFT H. G. ASHBY 5\nZJ Assoc. Mem. Inst. C. E. 1 c i ,\n\u00a3 M. Inst. Mech. E. \/ England\nP Notary Public\nCable Code: BEDFORD MACNEIL\nCable Address: \"CRAS,\" Vancouver\nTelephone 5937\nI CROFT & ASHBY\nREAL ESTATE, TIMBER\nMINES, GOAL LANDS\n150,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.50\n86,000 acres Ominica District, at per acre, $4.50\n40,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.00\n7,680 acres Powell lake, 90 miles from\nVancouver, at per acre $4.00\n5,000 acres Rupert District, Vancouver\nIsland, at per acre $10.00\n6,400 acres Nechaco District at per acre, $4.50\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\nc Room 5. Wiock Bldg. Vancouver, B. C. P\nuijxnruiiinnniinnsiniinjiTiniisxnsviiinsS\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OTJR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 38\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nPOINT GREY\nThe Home of the University\nof British Columbia\nWe can offer you Beautiful High Building\nLots in this desirable district, cleared ready\nfor building on. These should increase in\nvalue very rapidly.\n$750 AND UP\nAlso 4 fine High View Lots on Johnstone\nRoad, slashed and burnt over. $650\nTERMS: ONE QUARTER GASH\n6, 12, 18 AND 24 MONTHS\nA. E. AUSTIN & GO.\n\u25a0\u2022;?*- BROKERS\n328 Granville St. Vancouver, B. C.\nCHILLIWHACK\nThe Garden of British Columbia\nFarm Lands\nWe have four Hundred acres of Prairie\nLand, dyked, drained, and ready for\nthe plough. Good roads, convenient to\nschools. Four miles from Chilliwhack ;\ntwo miles from tram line. Land guaranteed to be without superior in British\nColumbia. We offer this in lots of 20,\n40 or 80 acres at\n$150 AND $175 PER ACRE\non easy terms extending over four years.\nALEXANDER & McKAY\n1071 Granville St. Ph0nei877 Vancouver, B. C.\n$6 DOWN AND\nA MONTH BUYS A LOT\n IN\t\nNORTH VANCOUVER\nPRICES FROM\nI $150\nUPWARDS\n2SB\nWfard, Blarmesit&r &\nVm Graevenitz\nOffices Phone 5522\n4-11 PenderSt., Vancouver, B. Cm\nm\nPOINT GREY\nThe Recognised Beauty Spot\nFor Beautiful Scenery\nand Large Homesites see\nMOLE & KEEFER\nfa\nThe Point Grey Specialists\n1065 Granville St. Phone 7070 Vancouver, B. C.\nIfc\n^mmmmm^^mm^mmmmmmmmmmm^^mmmmmmmi\nto\nm\noxcxx.\nH\nH\nM\nrrzzxzzzzrxxxxxzxxxzxzzzszzzxzzxxzxzxzz2\nFor the Best and most satisfactory forms of\nrxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;\nAccident Insurance\nor Health Policies\ncovering every form or Accident or\nSickness, see our latest proposition-\nGeneral Agent for B. C. for the\nTRAVELLERS INSURANGE GOT\nHartford, Conn.\nW, W, DRESSER\nttxixxx\n438 Pender St., W., VANCOUVER, B. C\nXZZntZXZXZXZXXXXXIXZXXgXXTTTTTIZTIIXTXXXIXXXIXtXXXXIZXIXIZIXXXXXIXIXXXr\niirxxr'\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 39\n^IVSTIRP Y^df^fTR gTATISTICS show that where one animal dies from fire and\n* ^^^^^ V^mm. lightning-, three hundred and thirty-one die from other causes.\n\u00a5 w w w _t ^^ p^x j*^ g^ w^ ^ur Insurance protects you against all these causes of loss.\nL 1 \\ |^ ^3 I (^J Q5 Iy ft is unwise io take chances. \u00abJ We have PAID MORE LOSSES\n-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-\u2014-\u2014\u2014---\u2014^\u2014\u2014^-^\u2014 than any other company in the Live Stock Insurance business.\nWE PAY THEM PROMPTLY. q No insurance company\nBEARS A BETTER REPUTATION or can show a CLEANER RECORD. .\u00ab..\u00bb~\u00ab>\u00ab~\u00ab~\u00abM\u00abn\u00ab~\u00ab~\u00ab.^..\u00ab..\u00ab.^M\u00ab..*..\u00ab..a..\u00ab.>\u00ab..*..\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00ab..*..*..\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00ab..*..\u00ab..*.>\u00ab.>\u00ab.l\n\u25a0\u00ab\u2022\u25a0.\u2022\u25a0.\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u00ab\u25a0\u25a0.\u2022\u2022.\u2022..\u2022\u2022.\u25a0\u2022.\u2022\u25a0.\u2022\u25a0\u00ab\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u25a0.\u2022\u2022.\u25a0\u2022.\u2022\u2022.\u25a0\u2022.\u2022\u25a0.\u25a0\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u00ab...\u2022\u2022\u00ab\u2022...\u2022\u00ab\u2022.\n..\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022-\u2022-\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00a3*\nBeautiful Burnaby, South Vancouver and Point Grey\nBLJR1VHBY\u2014High 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.\nSOUTH VANCOUVER\u2014Fine large building lots close to car. City conveniences. $100.00 handles, balance\nspread over five years.\nPOINT GREY\u2014Beautiful homesites overlooking the Fraser River and Gulf of Georgia, close to the city's main\nartery, Granville Street. Moderate Prices, easy terms.\nSPECIALISTS IN GRANDVIEW HOMES\nBROWN REALTY CO,\n603 Victoria Drive, Corner Keefer and Victoria Drive\n.........\u2666.................^................\u25a0.II.M\u00bb.'\u00bbII.M.\"\u00bb\".\"\u00bb\".\"\u00ab\"\u00bb\".\"\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u00bb>\"\u00bb\u2022\u00bb>\u25a0\u00ab\u2022\u00ab\n\u00bb\u2022\"\u00bb\"\u00bb\u00ab\u2022>\"\ni\nf\n...4.\nKERRISDALE FICTS\nThe sc\nhool grounds comprise 10 acres, (Haveyou\nmiles. Watermains will be laid in 5 months,\nwant an acre send in your name at once as .\na boy?)\nFine lo\npropose\nThe carfare is only 5c. The distance from the P\n;s can be bought by paying $100 down, balance ove\nto cut up 5 acres in acre blocks. (Acre blocks are\nAPPLY\nast Office\nr 2 years,\nscarce.)\nis only 4\nor if you\n532\nROOM 4 --\nGRANVILLE ST. H .\nw.\nW 1 N D L E VANCOUVER,\nB.\nC.\n*\nWOODWORKERS LIMITED\n\"WHOLESALE and RETAIL Manufacturers of all kinds of\nSash, Doors, Show Cases, Bank, Office and Store Fixtures. ROUGH and DRESSED\nLUMBER. Laths, Shingles, and every kind of building material.\nOffice and Factory: 3843 DOUGLAS STREET, VICTORIA. B.C.\n.\u00ab.\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00bb-\u2022-(..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022.\n\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0.-\u25a0.\u2022\u25a0\u00ab-\u00ab\u25a0-\u00bb\u25a0\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u00ab\u25a0\u2022.\u2022\u25a0.\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u25a0.. .. .. \u00bb-.\u25a0\u25a0\u00ab\u25a0\u25a0\u00ab\u25a0->\u25a0\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 40\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nS \"Opportunities\" Brokers' and Business Directory^ f\nZh* progressive Brokerage, financial and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia.\nPhone 2900\nA. E. AUSTIN & CO.\nReal Estate and Insuranoe.\n328 Granville St., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nT. B. ANDERSON & C. CLAYTON\nReal Estate\nPhone 5913\n1069 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nE. C. B. BAGSHAWE & CO.\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n1112 Broad St., Bownass Building\nPhone 2271 - - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 5726 P. O. Box 536\nH. BEEMAN\nSpecialist in Point Grey\n221 Winch Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C\nB. C. TRUST CORPORATION\nBk. B. N. A. Bldg., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 589\nJ. A. COLLINSON\nReal Estate\nPhone 4154\n240a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nJOHN M. CHAPPBLL\nReal Estate\nPhone 4802\n443 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. W. DRESSER\nInsurance, Real Estate\nPhone 3020\n438 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nH. T. DEVINE COMPANY, LIMITED\nReal Estate, Loans and Insurance\n437 Seymour St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 1627\nPhone 3628\nDUTHIE & WISHART\nReal Estate and Financial Agents\n520 Pender St. W. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. H. ELLIS\nInvestment Broker\n1122 Government St., VICTORIA, B. C.\nM. H. FRANKLIN CO.\nReal Estate Brokers\nAcreage, Building Lots and Homes\nPhone 970\n449 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGODDARD & SON\nLand Agents, Notaries\nPhone 3202\n329 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nTel. 5852\nGOODYEAR & MATHESON\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n106 Loo Building VANCOUVER, B. C\n.....-......\u00ab.....\u00a3.\nI SHAMROCK LIVTRY\nI TEAMINGandFEEDSTABLES\nj E. 0RANDY AND SON\n| Post Office Address: PORT ALBERNI, B. C.\n\u2666$\u00ab'\u00bb\".\"t\"\u00ab~\u00bb\".~.\".\u00bb..^~....'\u00ab.........\u00ab.^.....\u00bb~..^....^..#..f....l\nLEONARD & REID\nReal Estate and Pire Insuranoe\nMining Properties in Portland Canal,\nHazelton and Queen Charlotte\nDistricts\nPRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.\nGRANVILLE BROKERAGE CO.\nReal Estate, Insurance, Commission Agts.\nPhone L4560\n1017 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nHARMAN & AFFLETON\nReal Estate\n534 Yates Street - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 1918\nSAMUEL HARRISON & CO.\nBrokers and Financial Agents. Agents\nStewart Land Co., Ltd.\nStewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.\nHASLETT & WHITAKER\nReal Estate, Timber, Insurance\nPhone 5807\nRoom 2, \"Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W,\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nHEWLINGS & CO.\nReal Estate, Timber, Etc.\nPhone 1734\nRoom 4, 1109 Broad St. VICTORIA, B. C.\nHINKSON, SIDDALL & SON\nReal Estate and Insurance\nPhone 869\nNew Grand Theatre Bldg. 1311 Gov't St.\n| VICTORIA, B. C.\nT. HODGSON\nReal Estate and Insurance\nBox 604 - NANAIMO, B. C.\nALFRED M. HOWELL\nCustoms Broker, Forwarding Agent\nOffice\u201423 Promis Block\nTelephone 1501, Res. R 1671\n1006 Government St., VICTORIA, B. C.\nIMPERIAL REALTY CO.\nReal Estate and Insurance\n307 Loo Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGEORGE LEEK\nReal Estate, Notary Public\nExchange Block PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.\nW. F. Moncreiff P. E. Townshend\nW. P. MONCREIFF & CO.\nReal Estate and Financial Brokers\nRoom 304, Winch Bldg. Hastings St. W\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nMARRIOTT & FELLOWS\nReal Estate\nPhone 1077\n134 Hastings St. - VANCOUVER, B.C.\nRes.: 3030 Quadra St.\nOffice Phone 2418\nE. HENDERSON & CO.\nFarms, Timber and! Mines\nFRUIT LANDS\n711 Yates Street\nRoom 1, Sylvester Block\nVICTORIA, B, C.\nE. S. MORGAN\nIndustrial Sites, Waterfrontage on Bur-\nrard Inlet, etc.\nSuite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.\n429 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 5833.\nW. O. Shrumra . H. Lambert\nTHE NATIONAL REAL ESTATE\nLoans, Insurance\nPhone 6320\n58 Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nFATTULO & RADFORD\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nP.O. Box 1535 PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.\nCable Address: \"Patrad\"\nC. C. PEMBERTON\nReal Estate and Notary Public\nRoom 11, 707% Yates St. - Phone 1711\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nCHAS. L. PARKER\nBroker and Commission Agent\nSuite 50-51, 429 Pender St.\nPhone 3859 - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nC. ARTHUR REA\nLate of Brandon, Manitoba\nReal Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc\nLaw Chambers, VICTORIA, B. C.\nROYAL REALTY COMPANY\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nPhone 2394 Notary Public\n615 Fort St. - VICTORIA, B. C.\nSHAW REAL ESTATE CO.\nCity, Timber, Farm and Fruit Lands\n707% Yates Street - VICTORIA, B. C.\nSMITH & SMITH\nReal Estate and Commission Agents\nP.O. Box 41\nJ. H. Smith. W. R. Smith\n4th Ave. - - STEWART, B. C.\nGEO. H. SMITH & ARTHUR JONES\nDealers in Property in Vancouver, New\nWestminster and the Fraser Valley\nP. O. Box 165 Phone 1743\nF. H. SEABROOK & CO.\nReal Estate and Timber\nPhone 4043\n316 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nVANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.\nReal Estate and Loans\n62 Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nWESCOTT & LETTS\nReal Estate and Insurance .Agents\nRoom 3, Moody Block - Yates St.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nH. W. WINDLE\nReal Estate Broker\nPhone 5320\n532 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\n^..^..W.\u00bb.W.^.~....~.~>~\u00bb.\u00bb.\u00ab..^W...\u00bbl..l.>\u25a0\u25a0.\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0>\u25a0\u25a0'.\u25a0\u25a0.\u25a0\u25a0\u00bbM....H|\u00bb\n* \u2022\ni E. J. Bright T. A. McQueen\nThe Capital City Realty Co.\nREAL ESTATE\nFINANCIAL AND INSURANCE AGENTS\n618 Yates St. Phone 2162 VICTORIA,B.C.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 41\nW. EDMONDS\nPRACTICAL HORSESHOER\n4*\n4\u00bb\n*\nINTERFERING and\nLAMENESS\nSUCCESSFULLY\nTREATED\nPrompt Attention to Orders\n1019 WESTMINSTER AVENUE\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n$\nSHORTHAND IN 30 DAYS\nAT YOUR OWN HOME OR AT SCHOOL\nWestern Business College\n709 DUNSMUffi. ST., VANCOUVER, B.C.\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\nTHE GRANVILLE\nBROKERAGE CO,\nReal Estate, Insurance and Commission Agents\nGRANDVIEW\n66 ft. on Fourth Ave. close to Nanaimo Rd., $2300. Terms.\nKITSILANO\n100 ft. on First Ave., west of Yew St., $7300. Terms over\ntwo years. First Ave. is now being graded from Yew St. W.\nBUSINESS PROPERTY\n25 ft. on east side of Hornby St., close to Pender, $15000.\nThe location makes this the best buy on the street.\nIffSg^\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\ni\n\u2666\n\u2666\n1017 Granville Street VANCOUVER, B, C, f\n\u25ba \u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u00bb\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\nm^*^m@\u00ae^Wm\u00a3&Mf&m\nWAIT for SUNNYSIDE\nThe Big Red Apple District of British Columbia\nUnexcelled Climate :: Richest Soil\nFive and Ten Acre Blocks\nLOW PRICED 1 EASY TERMS\nROSS AND SHAW\n318 HASTINGS STREET WEST\nVANCOUVER, B. O.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVEBTISEMENTS Page 42\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n:a\nJly^\nPhone 3097\nPIPER & COMPANY\nORGANIZING\nC. T. W. Piper\nGeneral Manager'\nTHE BRITISH GAS AND LIGHT\nI COMPANY, LIMITED f\nMAKE YOUR OWN GAS for COOKING and LIGHTING\nINDIVIDUAL GAS SYSTEMS\nShowing our Gas Lighting and Heating Plant, the Greatest Invention\nof the Age. We Guarantee Satisfaction.\nOffice and Salesrooms *\n1075 Granville Street VANCOUVER, B, G\nHighest Award\nBLUE RIBBON OF MERIT\nVancouver's\nGreat\nExhibition\nmo\nOur Wonderful Gas Producer\nInstantaneous Water\nHeater\nSuperb Lighting System and\nGas Ranges\nMtWWBt\nAn. (tw Latimlnf-\n[Hot Water, with our Wonderful Heaters\nDear Sir or Madam:\nA HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL enclosed for you would\nnot begin to compare in value with the advice\nherein contained, which actually offers a\nmeans of cutting one of your largest bills down\nevery month for all time to come, as well as\ngiving you the most up-to-date lighting and\nheating plant that it is possible for you to\nhave. Unless you are a millionaire, you cannot\nafford to leave our proposition without careful\ninvestigation.\nIs there trouble somewhere\u2014staggering bills\nand unsatisfactory lights? The time has come\nwhen you must move for a remedy.\nOUR GAS MACHINE is a solution of your difficulties. It knocks at your door, offering the\nBEST LIGHT known to science in twice the volume, cheaper than city gas, electricity or\nacetylene. It is for your good that you recognize it and let it in your residence or store,\nthat you may save money that you are paying\nfor your present lights.\nBear in mind that you take no chances with\nour system for LIGHTING, HEATING, COOKING, etc.\nOur machine is fully GUARANTEED to do just as\nrepresented, and if it fails in any respect,\nout it comes without expense to you.\nOur GAS SYSTEM is demonstrated in our Showroom every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon by\na competent cook, and we will be pleased to go\ninto detail on any point you do not understand.\nHoping to hear from you promptly with an\norder or for further information, we remain,\nYours truly,\nPIPER & COMPANY.\nPIPER & COMPANY,\n1075 Granville St., Vancouver, B. C. Name \t\nWithout any obligation on me, please\nsend me at once, free, your illustrated Address\ncatalogue, with full explanation of your\nLighting\", Heating and Cooking System. \t\nIB:\n=B\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nI\ns\n\u25a1\nPage 3\nBraBtgraSJg63BBtgMlgEHt\u00abB]B\nROSENBERG VIEW\nBlocks 2 and 3, District Lot 200\nBEAUTIFUL view lots with southern slope, five minutes from Fraser Avenue and five\nminutes from car when track is continued to connect with the Eburne-Westminster\nline. The B. C. Electric Railway Company is under contract to go to Page Road in eight\nmonths, and will probably make the other connection at the same time. We will guarantee\nto clear and grade all lots, streets and lanes, leaving the property ready to build on.\nThere is a great demand now for cheap property, and this exactly fills the bill.\nLOTS $400 UP\nTerms : $50 cash and $50 quarterly ; or one-quarter cash, balance 6, 12 and 18 months.\nLatimer, Ney &McTavish,Ltd.\nOffice Open Evenings \/fig Pendez Stzeet W. % X)ancouvez, B. C.\nnniMWintTarMi\nBritish Columbia Fruit Land\ns\nThere is no better investment on earth\nthan a 10-acre fruit farm in British Columbia. Hundreds of people are making a\ncomfortable living off from 5 to 10 acres.\nThe fame of British Columbia as a\ncountry of wonderful opportunities is becoming world wide. s,;; J\u00a5|\nWe solicit inquiries regarding any kind\nof investments in British Columbia.\nDOMINION TRUST BUILDING\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nLHJiUiEMT trmertr\nm\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS OPPORTUNITIES\n19\/0\nBBaasmaMiiaMMBfl\ncir,ltgwt'r^iy'\u00abraffTii%\nThe PERMANENT\nHAIR WAVE\nMakes Your Hair as Beautiful as if\nWaved by Mother Nature\nCHE Permanent Wave is new to Vancouver, but has attained great vogue\nin London, Paris and New York. In addition to its beautifying effect,\nit benefits the hair. The wave is not destroyed, but is enhanced by\ndampness and shampooing. Not for many months, until the hair grows\nout, do you have to think of keeping it in wave. The wave is there, in\nall its freshness and beauty. I have tested its durability carefully, and\nhave been charmed by the results. Now I am introducing it in Vancouver\nwith great success. It is one of the most scientific and satisfactory aids\nto beauty yet devised, a real boon to women who desire to be attractive\nat all times. It is absolutely non-injurious.\nIn considering the Wave, however, do not forget my LAUNDRY\nFOR FACES, in which you can have your face washed in a wonderfully\ncleansing and nourishing warm oil and ironed with a gently heated electric\niron, resulting in a freshening of the complexion which will arouse the\nadmiration of your friends.\nI am now carrying a full line of Gentlemen's Toupees. Outside\norders respectfully solicited. Write for particulars.\nMADAME HUMPHREYS\nThe Largest, Most Up-to-date Establishment of its kind on the Pacific Coast\n723 Pender Street, W. the fairfield building VANCOUVER, B. C.\n*Pllone iooo\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS\nJ 19\/0\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 5\nW. BROWN\nTelephones 1193, R7811, L1533\nW. H. BROWN\nNotary Public\nW. C. MacBETH\nWE ARE BUSY\nCOME AND SEE US\nProperties 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\nthese lots is they are all cleared and ready to build on.\n\" CONSIDER THESE PRICES\nCome and we will take you on the ground. They are all close to the carline.\nKnight 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\nTERMS ARE EASY\nYou will agree with us that this is the place to put your money; it will be as safe as the bank.\nMUTRIB & BROWN \"\"\"IL'Ji\/StfJE?i-f.'X'\u2122\nLYNN VIEW\n57 ft. x 150 feet\nPrices: $250, $275 and $325\nPayable either\n$100 down and $100 a year or\n$25 down and $25 quarterly or\n$5 down and $5 per month\n10 per cent discount given if ail paid up in one year\nThe Merchants Trust & Trading Co. Ltd., Financial Agents\nCor. Pender and Burrard Sts., Vancouver Telephone 2733\nON THE FROMME ROAD\nNORTH VANCOUVER\nSURVEYOR'S REPORT.\nVancouver, May 18th, 1910.\nPart of D. L. 2004, Gt., N.W.D., North Vancouver.\nI have surveyed this property and find it to be an\nexcellent parcel of land ; having a southerly slope, good\nview, and gravelly soil, which insures good drainage,\nand is almost clear of brush. This property is in every\nway a most desirable subdivision.\n(Signed) Frank Sweatman, B.C.L.S.\nWe are building several\nts\nstrictly Modern Bungalows\non 66 ft. lots in :: :: ::\nKERR\nThese can be built to suit\nyour own requirements for\na small cash payment and\nBalance as Rent\nFoster & Fisher\n310 Hastings Street West\nI SPEC I ML.\nWe offer a new 10 room, thoroughly\nup-to-date home (now under construction),\nsituated on First Avenue, Kitsilano, on\ntop of the hill, with exceptional view of the\nCity and Gulf. The terms can be arranged\nto suit purchaser. See us for full particulars\nLougheed & Coates\n4-29 Pender Street West\nrxrxxrxxrxxxxxxxx.'exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN\nuacxxrxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxixxxxxxxxxxrxxrxrx\nFor the Best and most satisfactory forms of \"\nAccident Insurance I\nor Health Policies I\nH\nH\ncovering every form or Accident or B\nSickness, see our latest proposition.\nH\nGeneral Agent for B. C. for the h\nTRAVELLERS INSURANCE GOT\nHartford, Conn. g\nW, W, DRESSER\n438 Pender St., w\\, VANCOUVER, B. C. B\ntljJ.i^LXIIXJXIXaXXXIXZIIIXriTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT,fTTTTTTTTTTTTITTT\"TTYT\"TTITITT1-\"IT^\nEVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 6\nOPPORTUNITIES\n19\/0\nGEORGE B. ELLISON,\nManagez\nPhone 7861\nModern Rooms\nFrench Grill\n320 ABBOTT STREET\nINVESTORS\nOPPORTUNITIES\nWe offer the following* Securities for sale, subject\nto confirmation:\u2014\n500 B.C. Pulp & Paper .31\n5000 American Can. Oil .13\n1000 Diamond Coal .57\n5000 Royal Collieries\n(pld.) .20\n1000 Portland Canal .301\n1000 Royal Collieries\n(free) .26\u00a3\n2200 Olga Mines\n(pooled) .08\n12 Pacific Loan Bid\n5000 Amal. Dev. Co. Bid\n100 Michigan Pacific\nLumber Co. $12.50\n5000 B. C. Amal. Coal. OH\n200 B. C. Oil Refining .55\n1000 International Coal .71\n200 Nugget Gold .96\n100 Red Cliff 1.10\n1000 Canadian\nN. W. Oil .12\n1000 Maricopa Oil .40\n500 Carmannah Coal .40\n5000 Bear River Canon .05\nWe are Agents for the Victoria-Senora Mining Company\nof Mexico.\nFull particulars on application.\n0. H. BOWMAN & COMPANY\nSTOCK BROKERS\nP. O. Box 1048 8 Mahon Building\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nPROPERTIES in every\nD. L. around Vancouver\nWESTMINSTER ROAD. Why wait for the Earls\nroad extension to be constructed? Best buying around\nVancouver to-day. Near Victoria road $30 ft. up\nVICTORIA ROAD on carline, choice positions, 68 ft.\nBodwell corner $3400. 34 ft. north James, $1300\nCEDAR\nCOTTAGE\nResidential Lots\nnear car\n$400 and up\nPORT MANN. Get our free map, for quick profits we\nrecommend buying here.\nThe Pioneer Agents near\nf Cedar Cottage\nTHE\n321 PENDER STREET\nLAKE\nDO YOU WANT CASH?\nAgreements of Sale Bought\nMJUMaKMBB\nCHOICE\n$550 up\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 7\nr\nn\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nCONTENTS.\nNOVEMBER, 1910.\nPage.\nApples 11\nThe Man Behind the Apple Show (Joseph Herbert) 1 5\nOpportunities in Forest Products (Judson F. Clark Ph.D.) 1 7\nBritish Columbia in Moving Pictures (Norman S. Ranfyin) 19\nSuccess in Small Farming (Thompson Tinn) 21\nIrrigation in British Columbia 22\nVictoria Council's Work for Good (C. Spofford) 23\nSome Phases of Women's Works 24\nDoings of the Women's Organizations ; 25\nIndustrial Progress in British Columbia .26\nBritish Columbia's Financial Strength (D. von Cramer) 28\nSteady Movement in Real Estate 30\nAmong the Brokers 30\nBook Review (Opinions of Mary) 31\nA City Made to Order 32\nThe Kootenay Fruit Country (C. W. Esmond) 34\nOpportunities in Sugar Beets 35\nL\nJ\n91.\nOPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.\nHUTCHINSON BLOCK\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nGentlemen:\u2014\nPlease enter \u2122* name as a subscriber to your paper for one year,\nfor which Je agree to pay One Dollar in advance.\nCLASSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES.\nWith this issue of Opportunities begins a department of classified business\nopportunities. The object of this department is to tell much in little space. If\nyou have a particular piece of property\nto sell, if you want a partner, if you are\nin the market with any legitimate proposition, to sell, or buy, or exchange, if you\ndesire to make to the public any offer\nwhich will hardly justify a display ad.,\nthis department of classified opportunities is the place for you.\nClassified advertisements are a comparatively new departure in monthly\nmagazines, but there has been a wide\nrecognition of their merit in meeting the\nrequirements of a need which display\nadvertising is in most instances too cumbersome to supply. Classified advertisements, which are modest calls for the\ncooperation of others in the work of\ngetting along in the world, make interesting reading, and all wide awake persons do read them. They cost but little.\nOur rate is twenty-five cents a line, with\na minimum charge of one dollar. They\nreach, in this magazine, aboul twenty\nthousand readers. The outlay is so very\nlittle, in comparison with the results\nthey are likely to bring, that advertisers\nwho do not need big advertising are\nusing more and more these small but\neffective voices for reaching the ear of\nthe listening public.\nCLASIFIED ADS.\nARE you satisfied with your present salary? Would you like to increase it?\nIf so, write NOW to Department A,\nOpportunities.\nWANTED\u2014A live wire in every community. Good salary, pleasant work.\nAddress Box ioo, Opportunities.\nROOMING HOUSES.\nWE have the most select list of 'West\nEnd rooming houses in the city. Only\ndesirable places handled. Prices $400\nto $10,000. Golden Rule Brokerage,\n1117 Granville St., Phone 5346.\nFRUIT LAND.\nGRAHAM ISLAND is situated 80 miles\nwest of the Prince Rupert coast. There\nmay be found that rich loam and clay\nsub-soil so well known on Lulu Island.\nCombined with this it has one of the\nmost delightful climates in British Columbia. Prince Rupert is its natural\nmarket, as may be seen from its situation. Sold in small tracts from $10 up.\nStar Realty Co., 433 Granville Street.\nPhone 7563.\nOF INTEREST TO BUILDERS.\nWE have some choice building lots in\nKitsilano District. Prices right. These\nlots are cleared, ready to build on, and\nare also good buys as an investment.\nJohn M. Park, 1x17 Granville Street.\nf P P O R TjU N I T I E\nA Monthly Journal Devoted to the Growth, Development, Resources and Possibilities in British Columbia\nEntered in the Post Office of Canada as second-class matter.\nPhone 6926\nPublished by OPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO., Suite 87, Hutchinson Block, 429 Pender St., W., Vancouver, B. C.\nS\nOUR AIM:\nTo furnish, at home and abroad, more complete information\nregarding British Columbia and the wealth of possibilities she offers\nfor Investment\u2014in Real Estate, Fruit and Farm Lands, Timber,\nMining and Industrial Companies\u2014for Health; for Travel; for\nRecreation; for Sport; for Education and for Enterprise.\nFRASER S. KEITH, President and Manager\nHERBERT WELCH, Editor-in-Chief\nPAUL W. TROUSDALE, Advertising Manager\nSUBSCRIPTION\n$1.00 PER YEAR\nAdvertising rates on application.\nVol. 2\nNOVEMBER, 1910\nNo. 5\nEDITORIAL\nWe were informed the other day, in a tone of criticism,\nthat this was a \"boosting\" magazine. We admitted readily\nthat such was the case. While we are not particularly infatuated with the word \"boost,\" there is much in the meaning of\nthe word that appeals to us. To \"boost,\" means to elevate,\nto raise up.\nThe fact that the word has become associated with a tendency to lift up the thing boosted a little higher than may\nbe altogether necessary, does not detract from the good work\nwhich the word represents. If \"boosting\" is not carried too\nfar, if it is consistent with facts, it is the best thing in the world\nfor a new country or a new community. <\nFor example, if Christopher Columbus, upon his return to\nthe court of Spain after his voyage of discovery, had refrained\nfrom extolling the wonders of the new land, there would have\nbeen a considerable delay in the development of the Western\nHemisphere. But Christopher Columbus was not so ultra-\nconservative that he neglected to tell Queen Isabella all about\nhis great discovery. He was a \"booster.\" Because of the\nlimitations of time and language he could, however, describe\nonly a small part of what he had seen; nor could he have any\nconception of what the newly discovered continent was to become.\nWe make no pretentions to being anything like Christopher\nColumbus, yet in talking about British Columbia, we are confronted by a difficulty somewhat similar to his. Our gaze into\nto the mists of the future can give us only a very vague and\ninadequate idea of the great destiny of this Province. We\ncan not begin to do justice to what has already been accomplished here. We intend, however, to do our best to tell the\nstory. We expect to \"boost,\" to \"talk big,\" as the saying\ngoes; to be as eloquent as is within our power, for the very\nsimple reason that the facts about British Columbia are big\nand eloquent. We are doing this not only because our theme\ninspires it, but also because we consider it a duty to the many\nthousands who are struggling amid oppressed conditions, in\nplaces where conditions are congested, where custom and\npower and wealth in the hands of a few have made life difficult\nfor the many. There are, for example, a host of such persons\nin Old England. We want to feel that we have played a\npart in showing some of these people \"a way out.\" The old\ncountries of the world have the population. Their people need\nland and opportunities. We have the land and opportunities.\nWe need the population. In publishing this magagine we are\nendeavoring to bridge these needs.\nOpportunities goes to numerous parts of England, to South\nAfrica, to Australia, to remote regions like the Upper Nile,\nto many sections, in brief, where there are English speaking\npeople who have heard of the wonderful development of British Columbia. Our magazine has already been influential in\nbringing new settlers to this Province. As time goes on it will\nbe a factor in pointing out to more and more people the paths\nto prosperity which, in British Columbia, are so many.\nIn this work, we desire, of course, to be as successful as\npossible, and therefore we have formulated plans to make the\nmagazine more and more comprehensive and truly representative of this Province. We have, for instance, arranged for a\nseries of papers on the natural resources of British Columbia;\nfor a series on the present status and the promise of manufacturing here; for a series dealing with the life stories of British\nColumbia's most successful citizens. We publish each month\na review of all the industrial progress of the Province; we aim\nto keep our readers thoroughly informed upon all the real estate,\nbuilding, and other important phases of the upbuilding of this\ncommonwealth.\nWe believe that what we are doing and what we intend to\ndo in this magazine is a work which entitles us to the support\nof everybody who is interested in the progress of British Columbia. While the Province is already well known, there are\na multitude of people whose information about its present and\nits promise is extremely meagre. The Province needs publicity,\nmore publicity and still more publicity. The better support\nwe 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\nwe receive in proclaiming to the world at large the great merits\nof the Province for business and home life will be a good investment. It is very likely to bring direct results from among\nour thousands of readers, and will lend just that much assistance in the big work of forwarding British Columbia's onward\nmarch. Vol. II.\nOPPORTUNITIES\nHUTCHINSON BLOCK. VANCOUVER, B. C, NOVEMBER, 1910.\nNo. 5\n^~\nF^OR ages the apple has been\n.: called the king of fruits.\nThis sounding title is supposed to do it honor, but a\nmuch better idea of its true\nstatus in the world can be conveyed by\nsaying that the apple is becoming more\nand more important as a stepping-stone\nto independence and contentment. It\nis a symbol of clean-cut and honest opportunity, out under the open sky. In\nthe spring, when nature is calling to humanity, the city man still must find his\nmeans of livelihood under roofs,. in accounts and ledgers, while the orchard\nowner sees his prosperity in a wealth\nof fragrant blossoms. In the summer,\nwhen the city man is still toiling in the\nclose confines of walls, the orchard owner, drawing in with every breath the\nvigor of fresh breezes and pure air, is\nwatching his maturing fruit. In the\nautumn, when the city man is yet bending over books, the orchard owner is\nharvesting his red and golden apples.\nAnd in the winter, when he reckons up\nhis financial profits, he finds them greater, as a rule, than those of the man\nwho has turned his back on nature in\nan office.\nAppreciation of this is growing. The\ncall of the orchards is receiving a greater and greater response in cities. Many\nmen who used to strive and struggle in\novercrowded businesses and professions\nhave solved in fruit growing the problem of making the most of life. This\nis particularly true in the Pacific Coast\nstates of the domain of Uncle Sam, and\nin even larger measure it will become\ntrue in British Columbia. The apple\nand other fruits in this Province are\nprophecies of a golden future. In the\nlives of numerous men here the apple\nblossom will become the symbol of\ntheir rise to affluence and contentment.\nIn generations to come there will be\nmany families which might fittingly, if\nsuch ornaments survive, adopt delicate\nblossoms, instead of shields, as the\nground-work of their coats-of-arms,\nthus 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.\nIn history we read of the triumphant\ncelebrations of Roman warriors when\nthey returned to Rome. In the present\nyear, during the first week in November, we may see in Vancouver, the triumph of the apple. Never in all its\nreign has the king of fruits been paid\nsuch honor as upon the occasion of the\nfirst National Apple Show. It is interesting to glance for a moment at the\nmonarchs of the orchards receiving the\nhomage of the public. In the Horse\nShow Building's big arena, gayly bedecked with flags and filled with music,\ntwo millions of the finest members of\nthe kingly clan of Pomona, in boxes arranged in tiers and rows, are being\ngazed at and admired by thousands of\nvisitors. Judges stroll about, decorating some of the boxes with ribbons of\nroyal blue, and holding discussions as\nto which of these fruit aristocrats shall\nshare the twenty-five thousand dollars\nin prize money, or be awarded medals.\nIt is a proud occasion for the apples,\nbut its importance lies in the fact that\nit will mean much for the fruit growing\nindustry in this Province. Never be-\na;limb op APPLES IN FORTUNE'S ORCHARD, SALMON ARIf \u20225m\nPage 10\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n\\r\nfore has the British Columbia apple\nbeen so effectively advertised; never\nbefore has the business of growing apples here received so strong an impetus.\nThe apple show will call wide attention to the notable opportunities which\nthis Province presents in fruit growing.\nThese opportunities are based upon\nnearly ideal climatic and soil conditions;\nupon the availability of great areas of\nfine orchard lands at more moderate\nprices than prevail in other regions\nwhere the natural conditions are equally good; and upon constantly improving rail and water connections between-\nBritish Columbia and the great markets\nof the world.\nSince many men are now starting\nalong the path to financial independence\nthrough the orchards, it is worth while\nto touch, in brief outline, upon the situation which confronts them. Let us\nsuppose that you are one of these, that\nyou have a modest amount of money,\nplenty of industry and intelligence, and\na zest for the comparatively happy occupation of successfully raising fruit.\nAmong the first questions you will consider, of course, is that of the cost of\ngood fruit lands in favorable localities.\nYou will find that there i-s a wide variation in prices, which are dependent\nless upon the adaptability of the soil for\nfruits than upon whether the regions in\nwhich the lands are located have already established reputations in the\nfruit markets, and upon the accessibility of the lands to a railroad.\nThe Okanagan Valley and the Koot-\nenays in general comprise the fruit section of British Columbia best known as\nyet in the markets of this continent and\nEurope. The high reputation of its apples in particular brings them a ready\nsale at excellent prices. The Okanagan\nValley and the Kootenays lie in the\nsouth central part of the Province, and\nconsist of bottom lands along the big\nlakes, and benches reaching like huge\nsteps up the mountain slopes. The climate is dry, with a great deal of sunshine. The weather in the win or is\nclear and bracing, with a comparatively\nlight snowfall, and a temperature which\ndoes not often fall below the zero mark.\nThe soil for the most part is a volcanic\nclay or loam, reaching deep and lidding moisture. Excellent fruit lands in\nthe Okanagan, cleared for orchards and\nprovided with water for irrigation when\nnecessary, may be obtained for sums\nranging from two hundred dollars to\nfour hundred dollars an acre.\nTen acres gives you a tract of about\nthe right size for the \\ beginning, although not a few fruit farmers are deriving substantial incomes from five\nacres of mature trees. You need not,\nof course, pay for your orchard all at\nonce. A first payment of a thousand\ndollars, or even less, is accepted upon a\nten acre tract at the average price of\nthree hundred dollars an acre, and in\nthe matter of the further payments the\nland companies pursue a liberal and\nhelpful policy toward the man who is\ndoing his best. There is never any de\nsire to \"cinch\" him. Uncleared land\nof excellent quality may be obtained, of\ncourse, at prices much lower than that\nwhich is asked for acreage ready for\nthe orchard.\nYour first step after you have acquired your land is naturally the cultivation of it. There is no space here to\ndescribe the details of cultivation, so\nwe will pass on to the trees, in their relation to initial costs. For ten acres\nyou will need a thousand trees, that is,\none hundred to the acre. It is well to\nalternate with apple and peach trees,\nplanting the former thirty feet apart,\nand (lie latter in between. These trees\nwill cost from twenty-five to thirty dollars a hundred for the best, and you\nshould have none but the best. They\nshould not be more than two years old,\nand yearlings are even better. Adding\ntheir cost of about three hundred dollars to your first payment of a thousand\ndollars on the land, you have an outlay\nin the beginning of about thirteen hundred dollars for an excellent ten acre\nfarm in a highly favorable locality. In\naddition to this expense, there is, of\ncourse, that of building a cosy little\nhome on the property and numerous incidentals. Twenty-five hundred dollars\nis a conservative estimate of the sum\nyou out to have to start.\nIt must be remembered that even the\ntrees that will be the first to put you in\nthe market as a fruit seller will not do\nso in less than five years, and that some\nof the varieties of apples which will eventually become of the greatest com-\nHOME OF A FRUIT FARMER 1910\nOPP OR T-UNlTIfiS\nPage tl\nmercial value in the orchard will hang\nback for seven or eight years before\ncontributing to your bank account.\nThis sounds rather appalling. You will\nexclaim that you can't live for five years\non what is left of twenty-five hundred\ndollars after the land company, the nurseryman, the lumber dealer, and numerous others, have been satisfied with\nchecks. Nobody expects you to. While\nyou are waiting for the fruit you may\nput your land to other dollar-producing\nuses Tn the orchard between the trees\nj'ou may plant strawberry vines, potatoes, beets, and other vegetables, which\nwill spring up speedily to your aid, and,\nif you are properly diligent, will do a\ngreat deal, even during the first year,\nto keep the wolf from howling around\nthe door.\nWhen at last the apple trees reach\ntheir period of full production you may\nsafely figure upon a profit of a hundred\ndollars each season for each acre of the\ntrees. This is a very conservative estimate. The profits per acre in some orchards are in multiples of one hundred\ndollars, but the personal equation has\nmuch to do with these larger yields.\nSome men, as is well known, are much\nmore successful than others in whatever\nthey undertake. Besides your returns\non apples and other varieties of the bigger fruits, you have those on your vegetables and berries. The strawberry, for\ninstance, is looming up more and more\nprominently as an income-maker for the\nBritish Columbia fruit farmer. You can,\nmoreover, as your revenues grow, increase your orchard acreage. As a general statement, it may be said that it\nwill be your own fault if you don't find\nprosperity and con*tentment on your\nfruit farm.\nAPPLE PICKING, SALMON ARM\nYet there are pitfalls\u2014dangers to b\u00ae\navoided. In selecting a site for an or7\nchard, for example, you will be wif\u00ae\nto choose one situated on a bench rather than in a bottom land. If you had\nstarted several years ago you would\nprobably 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\nconsiderable cost that light frosts will\nnip and kill the tender blossoms in the\nlowlands when those on the benches are\nuninjured. This is because there is a\nbetter circulation of air, or what is called air drainage, on the higher ground,\nwhere the free play of the breeze banishes the frost more quickly than does\nthe more stationary air below. Even on\nthe benches there may be depressions\nwhich Jack Frost finds congenial. The\nfruit grower must avoid the \"frost pockets,\" wherever they may be.\nAnother important precaution against\nthe light frosts of spring is to select for\nthe orchard a western rather than an\neastern slope. On the latter the sun\nstrikes the blossoms too early on a frosty morning. The petals, exerting all\ntheir power to resist the cold, find the\nchange to warm sunshine too sudden.\nThe shock to their systems, so to speak,\ncauses them promptly to give up the\nghost. On the western slope, on the\nother Jaand, the warmth comes so grad-\nually that the blossom has time to make\na readjustment, and emerges from the\nordeal as strong as ever. Another advantage of the western exposure lies in\nthe fact that here the blossom receives\nfor a longer period the benefit of the\ngenial sunshine of afternoon.\nIt must not be assumed from these remarks on means to avoid the menace of\nfrosty mornings that these are any\nmore prevalent in the region tinder consideration than they are elsewhere in\nnorthern climes. The truth is that they\nare-;^ less prevalent than in numerous\nmore southerly latitudes in the United\nStates, for the reason that the benign\nwinds of the Japanese current blow\nfrom the Pacific Ocean across the mountains into central British Columbia. It\nis only that everywhere in the north\ntemperate zone Jack Frost, banished by\nthe sun from the domain in which he\nheld sway, likes to steal back in the\nnight and kill the growing things that\nhave dared to raise their heads upon the\nassumption that his reign is over.\nIn the rich and beautiful valleys of\nthe Kootenay and Okanagan lakes there\nare great areas of land, fine for fruit\nfarming, \"which are still awaiting the\ncoming of the industrious and competent. Many of the Okanagan tracts need\nirrigation, but water for this is provided by the various municipalities, which\nhave taken over the water rights of\n-companies and individuals, and, by\nmeans of flumes and ditches, supply, in\na manner fair to everybody, plenty of\nmoisture at a rate of from two and a half\ndollars to five dollars an acre annually.\nThus the settler need not worry\nabout his water supply, but he needs*\nto give -careful attention to the proper\nuse of it. Methods of irrigation Have\nbeen blocks over which many a fruit\n\u2022farmer has stumbled into error. Those\nwho do not know have an idea that the\nmore the merrier is a good rule of irrigation. They keep their orchards well\nliquidified until August days have come, Page 12\nO P P O RT UNITIES\n1910\n\\s\nwith the result that their apples become\n\"water-logged,\" if the term may be used.\nThey lack sugar, and flavor, and keeping qualities. It sometimes happens that\na man buys a piece of ground of the porous sort. In this case he must keep\nirrigating frantically until the end, like\na man pouring water futilely through a\nsieve. The moral is that he should\navoid this gravelly soil, which is good\nonly for hay and vegetables. If the farmer has good land for fruit, as most of\nthose in the south central part of British Columbia have, he should forget all\nabout irrigation after the first of July\nand depend during the remainder of the\nsummer upon cultivation. There is,\nhowever, such a thing as a too frequent\nturning of the earth. Just where to\nstop is a matter to be determined by the\nfruit farmer's individual judgment,\nwhich, by the way, must be applied\nmany times, in many different ways, in\nthe process of building up a successful\nfruit farm.\nAfter the harvest has been gathered\nthe proper system is to encourage the\ngrowth of a cover crop of weeds and\ngrasses, which, when turned under, give\nbody to the soil. These growths may\nbe stimulated in the early fall by irrigation. It is true that there are some\nfruit men who contend that this fall\nmoistening has a tendency to make the\ntrees too soft to wholly withstand the\nbite of winter, but the best experience\nis that this is not the case unless the\ntrees have been debilitated by irrigation\nthrough July and into August. There\nare, of course, numerous other considerations in the fine art of developing and\nmaking the most of an apple orchard.\nFor instance, there is the pruning. Even more important is the spraying. Old-\nfashioned growers have been inclined to\nscoff at spraying. Until recently the majority of those of Eastern Canada have\noverlooked the value of this effective\ndefence against the attacks of injurious\ninsects. On the other hand, it has been\nrealized vividly by the fruit men of British Columbia, where the inspection is\nthe most rigid kind. This Province has\nbeen in the vanguard in adopting and\nadvancing the best methods in fruit\ngrowing, and this is one of the big reasons why British Columbia apples are\ncoming so strongly and rapidly to the\nfront.\nThe conditions of fruit growing so\nfar touched upon have been those\nwhich prevail in the Okanagan Valley\nand the Kootenays only because these\nregions have been the first to achieve\nprominence in the fruit industry, and\nnot because they are in any way superior to a number of other sections of\nthe Province. The Salmon Arm district, for example, gives high promise of\nbecoming one of the greatest fruit growing centers on the continent. Good fruit\nlands here are as yet cheaper than in\nthe Okanagan Valley, uncleared tracts\nselling for fifty dollars an acre, and\nthose which are ready for orchard cultivation ranging upward from one hundred and fifty dollars an acre. A great\nadvantage in the Salmon Arm section\nlies in the fact that no irrigation is\nrequired. Practically all of the orchards\nare still young, but those which have\nentered the producing class are showing\na yield which throws a golden light upon the future of the Salmon Arm orchards. This season's production of\none of these, consisting of five acres,\nwas six thousand boxes, which sold in\nthe market for $8,000. The direct cost\nof harvesting, packing and shipping\nthese was thirty-five cents a box, or\n$2,100, leaving the orchard owner with\n$6,900 to pay for the work of himself\nand his family during the two-thirds of\nthe year devoted to orchard cultivation\nand apple growing. This instance is\nnot cited as the most conspicuous example of success in the apple industry\nat Salmon Arm, but merely because the\norchard is one of the most advanced in\nthe section, and illustrates what others\nmay achieve through the efficient cultivation of small acreages of Salmon\nArm orchard lands.\nWhile the conditions for fruit raising\non the mountain benches of Salmon\nArm are ideal, the outlook for the industry in some other sections of the\nrovmce is\nequally promising. Tl\nus\nSOME APPLES\nis true of Lulu Island and the neighbor- 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 13\ning country along the Fraser River. A\npeculiarity here is that the Chinook\nwinds give the lie, so to speak, to the\ndegrees of latitude, and cause a climatic\nmildness in which flourish certain varieties of peaches, apricots, grapes and\nsome other fruits that are generally regarded as almost semi-tropical. It is\npredicted that within a few years Lulu\nIsland will become a wonderland of orchards. Several other sections are attracting attention for their promise in\nfruit production. Some excellent varieties of apples are grown along the\ncoast of the mainland, and Vancouver\nIsland, which is just beginning to awaken to its possibilities, is already pouring\na wealth of fruit into British Columbia's horn of plenty.\nIn considering the outlook for the\nfruit industry and its opportunities in\nthis Province the big factors to be remembered are that British Columbia\nfruits have a high and steadily widening\nreputation, that the markets for them\nare constantly expanding, and that the\nfacilities for reaching the markets are\ncontinually improving. The supply at\npresent is not large enotigh to supply\nthe demand of even the home people\nand of those of the Canadian prairies.\nYet the East, and England, and Australia, and South Africa, are calling:\nmore and more insistently for\n>ntish\nColumbia fruit. An apple dealer recently shipped from Vancouver to Australia\nmany thousands of boxes of apples\nwhich he obtained in Oregon. He said\nthat he would have much preferred to\nhave consigned British Columbia apples,\nbut that, at the time, he could not obtain a sufficient quantity. One of the\nlargest fruit importing houses in Cape\nTown, South Africa, has notified a fruit\ngrowers' association here that next season they will want fifteen thousand cases\nof our apples, and that each year will\nprobably see a large increase in the order.\nPeople in civilized countries are eating fruit more and more, and more and\nmore the leading dealers in the big markets are turning toward the British Columbia product. In the fruit growing\ncenters there is great activity in keeping pace with this growing demand.\nThe 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\nyear. Thousands of young orchards\nwill add their quota to the total in two\nor three years, and the apple output will\nprobably be trebled yearly. This progressive movement in the fruit industry\nis being materially aided by the provincial government, which\/ in addition to\nwhat it has already done for fruit growing has completed plans for establishing twenty-five demonstration orchards,\nfor the purpose of giving object lessons\nin the best methods for obtaining the\nlargest returns for fruit labor and investment. For the purposes of the de-'\nmonstration orchards the Province has\nbeen divided into five fruit growing districts. Each of these will be in charge\nof a horticulturist, and all will be under\nthe supervision of the chief horticulturist of the department of agriculture.\nVancouver Island and the lower mainland will constitute one of these districts, and will have six orchards, two\non the Island, one in the Delta, one\nnear Chilliwack and two in the Dewd-\nney riding. Another district will comprise Shuswap, Armstrong, Nicola, Salmon Arm, and Penneys, and will have\nfour orchards, two in the constituency\nof Yale and two in that of Kamloops.\nA third district will include Vernon,\nKelowna, Summerland, Pen-ticton and\nKeremeos, and will have either three\nor four orchards. The fourth district\nis made up of the regions of the Arrow\nLakes, Kootenay, and the east Boundary. Arrow, Slocan and Kootenay\nlakes will each have one orchard, and\nthere will be one near Cranbrook, one\nat Windermere, one at Rossland, and\none at Midway. The fifth district will\nembrace Northern British Columbia,\nwhich will have two orchards, one in\nthe Kitsumkalum, and one at Lake\nLesse.\nWhile these demonstration orchards\nand the extensive new orchard lands\nwill greatly increase the fruit production of the Province, this will not lessen prices, but will enhance them, for\nthe reason that it will bring British Columbia fruit more strongly into the\nworld's markets, and will cause orders\nin larger and larger volume to flow in\nthis direction. It will be many years,\nif it ever happens at all, before growers\nSOME MORE APPLES Page 14\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nhere will be able to meet the full demand for the fine specimens of the Northern Spy, the Jonathan, the Wealthy,\nthe Yellow Newton, and the Spitzen-\nberg, and other varieties, for which the\nBritish Columbia orchards are already\nfamous.\nThese apples have all the qualities\nwhich are essential in a meritorious\nmember of the family. It may be interesting to the beginner in apple lore to\nknow just what these attributes are. One\nof the most important of them is the\nrichness of the apple, as distinguished\nfrom insipidity. This richness is determined by the amount of sugar and malic\nacid the fruit contains in proportion to\nits other constituents. Another attribute is the flavor of the apple. This is\na quality distinct from its richness. It\nis the perfume of the apple\u2014a delightful\naroma gained from a qertain volatile oil\nwhich all apples contain in greater or\nless degree. A third feature is the firmness of the apple. It should be firm,\nnot spongy; crisp, not hard; tender,\nnot soft; and have a melting quality\nwithout being too juicy. These characteristics of a good apple are dependent\nupon its cell structure. A fourth attribute is the apple's color. This is not\na safe guide to the richness or flavor or\nfirmness of the fruit, but is an important factor in the selling quality. A\nfifth consideration is the form of the\napple. Those which are nearly globular\nare the most desirable because they are\nbetter adapted to packing. A sixth feature is size and uniformity. Generally\nspeaking the size preferred has a diameter of about three inches and a\nweight of from six to eight ounces. Uniformity in shape is advantageous for\nthe reason that it saves time and money.\ni\nm\nMi;\nWi\nYOUNG ORCHARD, GRAND FORKS, B. C.\nin sorting for shipment. A seventh\ncharacteristic in judging an apple is the\nskin. This should be smooth and tough,\nbut thin, because it is protection of this\nkind that saves the fruit from the attacks of insects and renders it less liable to injury in handling and shipping.\nThe eighth consideration is one of the\ncore and seeds. The core should be\nsmall and the seeds few, thus giving the\napple a greater proportion of the part\nwhich is useful to man. A ninth consideration lies in the time of the maturity of the apple. It is desirable that\ncommercial varities in an orchard mature at about the same time, so that they\ncan be harvested all at once. The tenth\npoint is the adherence of the fruit to\nthe tree. If it has a weak stem it falls\nto 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\nsooner in the list has to do with the cul-\nir-w >%\u25a0**.!>\u25a0\u00bb.<\ninary qualities of the apple.- Those\nwhich are sweet make insipid pies, but\nare best for baking. Those which are\ntart make the best pie and apple sauce.\nA final characteristic, of' much importance in shipping*to distant markets, is\nthe staying quality of the apple. Those\nwhich decay easily are not, of course,\nas useful for the market as those which\n.remain sound for longer periods. All-\napples are affected by climate and varying temperatures. Those which best resist these influences are naturally the\nbest for commercial purposes.\nThe history of the apple, since the\ntime when Eve, in the Garden of Eden,\nhanded one to Adam, is full of interest,\nbut the story is a long one, and, to the\npeople of British Columbia, the apple's\nfuture is more important than its past.\nIt represents one of our big hopes, and\npresents sun-lit and happy opportunities.\nSfcfciSa\nTYPICAL B. C. ORCHARD\nPIONEER FRASER\nThe First Settler of Salmon Arm 19\/0\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage\nThe Man Behind the Apple Show\nBy Joseph Herbert\nA\" LWAYS there is the man\u2014\n' the one man. A large work\nmay have many phases, and\nengage a thousand minds,\nbut behind it all is the main\nidea, the main plan, and this, if you trace\nit out, leads to a single individuality.\nHere we find the central power station,\nso to speak,\u2014the propelling thought, as\nintangible in itself as any other, and yet\na force which has set, perhaps, a host of\nhuman beings in motion. It is interesting to know about the source of the energy that is moving all these invisible\nstrings of life. Who is the man? What\nis he? How did he happen to get into\na position where his brain throbs cause\nso much stir?\nA large number of persons have already been very busy over the first Canadian National Apple Show. It will\nmean much in the near future and in\nthe far future. It will give an impulse\nto apple growing in this Province which\nwill bear directly upon the lives of thousands, for whom it will open new paths\nto prosperity and contentment. Appreciating the far reaching influence of this\nfirst big celebration of the Canadian apple, we look for the man behind, and\nfind him easily.\nHe stands out in a crowd\u2014a personality. He has, to begin with his appearance, the looks and manner of the West.\nHe wears a slouch hat, and his hair is a\ntrifle long behind, although it is not noticeable in front. He has a flowing and\ngraceful contour of mustache, the prominent nose and chin, the optimistic eye,\nthe breezy manner, and the lengthy slim-\nness which seem to be typical of the son\nof the Golden West, as we know him in\nlooks, and see him, in these days, too\ninfrequently. Yet Maxwell Smith, more\nwestern than most westerners, was transplanted from the heather. He was born\nin Scotland, but was a very young sapling when his parents brought him across\nthe ocean to a farm in northwestern Ontario, and set him out, as it were, to absorb the sunshine.\nIt is evident that he absorbed a good\ndeal of it. This warmth for the source\nof life has been transmuted in Mr. Smith\ninto enthusiasm, and this is the chief\nreason why he is the man behind the\nBritish Columbia apple. It requires no\ngreat keenness in reading human nature\nto know, upon short acquaintance, that\nwhen Mr. Smith really becomes interested in a thing he becomes enthusiastic.\nHis interest in the apple began in the\ndays of long ago back in his father's\nMAXWELL SMITH, FRUIT ENTHUSIAST AND MANAGER OF THE APPLE SHOW\nOntario orchard. There were occasions\nwhen his interest was too great, when,\nbeing immature himself, he disturbed the\napple when it, too, was immature, with\nthe result that the apple punished him.\nBut he does not hold this against it now.\nHe gives it all honor.\nSince enthusiasm is born of imagination, Mr. Smith has the seeing eye\nwhich has enabled him to perceive thousands of orchards and millions of red\napples where now there are only woods\nand -tones. He is not in the habit, however, of spending much time among the\npictures of imagination. He is too busy\nturning them into actualities. He realized a good while ago that to bring the\napple into its own in Canada in\ngeneral and British Columbia in\nparticular, its trumpet must be\nblown; the people of the world must\nbe told that no better apple is grown on\nearth, and that in the apple lie golden\nopportunities for those who will come\nand take advantage of them. Hence\nthe first Canadian National Apple Show.\nIt was Mr. Smith's idea\u2014a seed of\nthought which sprouted in his mind two\nyears ago. The soil for this particular\nseed happened to be especially rich.\nNo irrigation was required. The sun\nof enthusiasm shone upon it, and it had\nbecome robust by the time Mr. Smith\nbrought it to the public gaze. Then he\nhad to fight for it, as is usually the case\nwhen an infant idea that has any element of newness in it is brought to the\nattention of a callous world. There\nwere plenty of people who could not sec Page 16\nany fruit on this tree, and, with that confident wisdom which reaches its limit at\nthe end of the nose, they decided that\nbecause the fruit was not already there,\nthe tree was not worth cultivating.\nThis often happens. The earth is unfortunately cumbered with a large number of persons who, if left to their own\ndevices, would not have advanced beyond the stone age. Their great defect\nis a lack of imagination. They cannot\nhelp it, but they are not interesting, so\nwe will forget them as speedily as possible and pass to those, who, in the case\nof the apple show, could see, when it\nwas pointed out to them, a great expanse\nof orchards along the horizon of the future, and could see the \u2022\"Usefulness of the\nshow in making these orchards real.\nThey helped to cultivate this sapling of,\nan idea. In two years it has matured,-,\nand we see its fruit, the biggest apple\nshow ever held anywhere.\nThe man behind it is not as eloquent\nas many when asked to talk about himself. He told me briefly that he grew\nto young manhood on the Ontario farm,\nand then went to the western regions of\nthe United States, where he followed\ncommercial pursuits for a number of\nyears. Ontario called to him, and he returned, engaging in the publishing business in Toronto. But he had become a\nwesterner in spirit, and Toronto was already too effete. He struck out for the\nLast West eighteen years ago, and ever\nsince then his home has been in Vancouver. The fire burns brightly on his hearth\nOPPORTUNITIES\nand is reflected in the eyes of his wife\nand children. When you visit him of\nan evening in the heart of his family\nthe apples are passed around. It is the\nsimple life, as becomes a man who has\ndevoted his life to fruit.\nFor seven years Mr. Smith was provincial fruit inspector, appointed by the\nDominion Government. During this period he did much to improve the quality\nof British Columbia fruit. There had\nbeen carelessness and even deception in\npacking for the market. Some of the\nfarmers could have been prosecuted, but\nfew were, for the reason that Inspector\nSmith had a better way. He labored\nwith the growers, lectured them,\ninstructed them, carried on continually a campaign of education calculated to prove that absolutely legitimate methods in preparing fruit for\nthe market, and careful and approved\nmethods in growing, constitute by far\nthe best policy not only for the industry\nas a whole, but also for the individual\ngrower. In this work he did not spare\nhimself. He has been known to travel\ntwo hundred miles to point to a single fruit farmer, by moral suasion, the\nerror of his ways. The results more\nthan justified the labor. A large part\nof the high reputation of British Columbia fruits in the great markets has been\ndue to this campaign of education.\nBut one is not told so by Mr. Smith.\nWhen you lead him around to the sub-\nject of himself he becomes evasive and\nf910\nswings back as quickly as possible to\nthe fertile theme of the apple. You\nlearn a great deal that is full of interest\neven to the man who merely eats apples. You learn of the remarkable and!\nsteady increase in the consumption of\napples, of markets which are growing so\u00bb\nbig 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*\nplanting time there; of two million acres'\nof land in British Columbia which are\nhighly favorable for orchards, of a thousand and one facts about the apple. One\nof the points which Mr. Smith emphasizes in his apple talks is that there are\ntwenty-four hundred varieties grown in\nCanada where it would be better if\nthere were only twenty-four. He strongly advises the growers of the different\ndistricts to concentrate upon those varieties which flourish best in these districts. In British Columbia, for instance,\nwe should confine ourselves mainly to\nthe Yellow Newtown Pippin, the Grimes\nGolden, the King of Tompkins, and the\nSpitzenberg. By careful devotion to\nthese important members of the apple\nfamily, says Mr. Smith, they can be\nmade to attain an excellence here which\nwill be unsurpassed anywhere, and\nequalled in extremely few sections of the\nglobe. People throughout the civilized\nworld will want them. Already- fine,\nthey are the harbingers of a prosperity\nwhich will be even greater than that of\nthe British Columbia of today.\nf\nWATERING THE MILK AT SALMON ARM 19\/0\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 17\nOpportunities in Forest Products\nBritish Columbia will have the World's Greatest\nLumber Industry\nBy Judson F. Clark, Ph. D.\nBi RITISH COLUMBIA is still\ndistinctly in the pioneering\nstage\u2014the stage when the\ndisproportion of natural resources to population intoxicates the mind and holds out\nopportunities for the capable and energetic which are but dreams and memories in the older provinces and states.\nIn no department of industry are the\nopportunities for men with brains and\ncapital, or even with brains without the\ncapital, greater than in the line of forest\nproducts.\nIn the development of the lumber industry in the neighboring State of\nWashington we see the promise of the\nfuture of the industry in British Columbia. In 1880 the value of the product\nof the lumber industry of Washington\nwas $1,700,000; in 1890, $17,500,000; in\n1900, $30,300,000; in 1907, $100,000,000.\nThis year the value of our forest products will be about $18,000,000, or equal\nto that of Washington in 1890. In seventeen years (1890-1907) Washington increased her lumber output sixfold and\nrose from a very minor position as a\nlumber producing state to a position at\nthe top of the list as the greatest lumber\nproducing state in the world, a position\nof distinction which she has since retained and is likely to retain until dis-\nNOTE:\u2014Few men on this continent are\nas well qualified to write of the timber and\nlumber industry as is Dr. Clark. With an\nextensive practical experience he combines\na very unusual technical training in forestry.\nAfter his graduation from the agricultural\ncollege of the University of Toronto, he\ntaught forestry in this college, and when\nCornell University established in 1898, the\nfirst school of forestry in the United States,\nDr. Clark was invited to teach forestry there.\nHe rose to a full professorship at Cornell\nin 1901, and for the purpose of obtaining as\ncomprehensive a knowledge as possible of\nforestry, he went to Europe and spent several\nmonths in a close study of the methods\nwhich have been evolved from hundreds of\nyears of experience in conserving the great\nforests of Germany and other parts of the\ncontinent. In 1903 he went to Washington,\nD. C, as an expert on the staff of the United\nStates Forest Service. He was Provincial\nForester of Ontario from 1904 to 1906, when\nhe came to British Columbia, where he has\nbeen managing director of the Continental\nTimber Company of Vancouver, secretary-\ntreasurer of the British Columbia Timber\nand Forestry Chamber of Commerce, and\nconsulting forester of the B. C. Lumber,\nLogging & Forestry Association. In response\nto a strong demand in Vancouver for scientific instruction on the best methods for conserving the great timber lands of British\nColumbia, Doctor Clark has within a few\nweeks taken a class in forestry which has\nbeen organized under the auspices of the\nVancouver Board of Education.\u2014Editor.\n(Natural Resource Series, No. 1)\nplaced by British Columbia about ten\nyears hence.\nBritish Columbia's advance to a preeminent position among the lumber and\npaper producing countries of the world\nis assured by its forest resources and by\nthe development of its markets and\ntransportation facilities. These same\nconsiderations also assure a much more\nrapid development than was realized in\nthe State of Washington.\nBritish Columbia's resources in standing timber, taken in all three aspects of\nquality, quantity, and price, defy competition. As in Washington, the Douglas Fir is the most important tree on\nthe southern portion of the coast. It\nfrequently exceeds two hundred and fifty\nfeet in height and reaches fifteen feet\nin diameter. In general, however, it\nruns from three to six feet in diameter\nand cuts from one hundred to two hundred lineal feet of logs. In quality of\nwood it resembles the Southern Yellow\nPine, but, of course, gives much larger\ndimensions and a much larger proportion of clear lumber.\nNext to the Fir in importance is the\nGiant Arbor Vitae, or Red Cedar. It\nreaches a height of about one hundred\nand seventy feet, and averages three to\nsix feet in diameter, though occasionally\nmuch larger. Already it supplies about\nseventy per cent, of the shingles consumed in Canada and the United States.\nThe Spruce, which replaces the Douglas Fir on the northern coast, is at\nleast equal to the best spruce elsewhere\nfor pulp purposes, and on.account of its\nlarge size, gives a very much larger proportion of clear lumber. The Western\nHemlock and the Balsam are trees of\ngreat size and beauty, and further excell\ntheir eastern cousins, the former by an\nentire absence of shake and brashiness\nof grain, and the latter by its uniform\nsoundness.\nThe sixth and only other important\ntree of the coast forests is the Cypress\nor Yellow Cedar. It has all the good\nqualities of the cedars, including great\ndurability and evenness of texture, and\npossesses in addition a degree of\nstrength and elasticity not to be found\nin any cedar. It is also a very beauti\nful wood. Without doubt it is the coming canoe and b,oa$ builders' wood of the\ncontinent.\nBut forests, no matter how magnificent, must await the development of\nmarkets and of transportation facilities\nbefore a great lumber industry may\narise. British Columbia has been waiting in this sense for many centuries, but\nher day has now come. The lumber\nconsumption 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\nthe rest of the world combined. Nor has\nthis enormous demand shown any tendency to decrease with advancing prices;\non the contrary, it has more than kept\npace with the increase in population, and\nthe latest statistics indicate a per capita\nconsumption in North America of about\nfour hundred cubic feet of wood, including five hundred feet board measure of\nsawn lumber. On the other hand, the\ndiminishing of the forest resources of\nEastern America has reached an acute\nstage. Three-fourths of the remaining\nforest resources of the continent lie\nwest of the Rockies, while nine-tenths\nof the markets lie to the east.\nSo much for the vast and growing\nhunger for wood products in the East,\nand the wonderful forest resources of\nthe West. A word as to transportation\ndevelopments. Already the products of\nthe British Columbia forests\u2014notwithstanding our limited rail facilities and\nDOUGLAS FIRS NEAR VANCOUVER Page 18\nOPPORTUNITIES\n19\/0\na freight cost of all the way up to $25\nper M.\u2014reach every important market.\nWith the advent in the near future of\nthe Grand Trunk Pacific, the Canadian\nNorthern and other projected railroads,\nour rail facilities will be at least trebled\nand perhaps more than quadrupled,\nwhile a veritable revolution will be\nwrought by the completion in 1914 of\nthe Panama Canal. The canal will reduce the distance from Vancouver to\nNew York by water from nearly fourteen thousand miles to less than six\nthousand miles. It will also convert it\nfrom a sailing to a steam route, cheap\nsuch as should interest (1) the large\ninvestor who desires a field for investment, giving large returns with small\nrisk; (2) the investor of moderate means\nwho wishes to conduct a business which\nwill give profitable employment for his\ncapital and at the same time, ample\nscope for his own activities; and (3) the\nman of brains and energy who has no\nfinancial backing, but who has a lot of\ncapital in the way of confidence in himself and in the country.\nFor the large investor British Columbia timber lands present at the present\ntime one of the safest and most profit\ning value of standing timber has made\nits 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\nsupply of timber is being cut some threefold faster than it is being renewed by\ngrowth. The stumpage values of the\nleading timbers of North America east\nof the mountains. have increased from\nthirty to ninety cents or more per thousand feet board measure per annum\nduring recent years; the average for all\nsoft woods being: more than fifty cents\nf\nBITS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FORESTS\ncoaling being available, thus reducing\nthe time in transit, which is now from\nfour to seven months, to less than thirty\ndays, with a corresponding cut in interest and a still larger cut in insurance\ncost. More important still, perhaps, it\nwill enable eastern builders and other\nlumber users to have orders for special\npurposes shipped by water with a much\ngreater certainty of prompt delivery\nthan can be hoped for by rail. Many\nhope to see the present freight rates of\nfrom $12 to $16 per M around Cape\nHome cut in half when the Canal is\nopened. A saving of one-fourth of the\npresent rates would revolutionize the\nlumber industry of the British Columbia\ncoast.\nThe opportunities presented by present conditions in the development of the\nBritish Columbia lumber industry are\nable fields. British Columbia tide-water\ntimber lands are unusually safe in regard\nto the only serious risk, the fire hazard.\nThis is due to the heavy rainfall, ranging from sixty-four to one hundred and\ntwenty inches annually, and the almost\neternal dampness of the dense forests.\nThe topography, too, presents barriers\nto the running of fires over large areas.\nFurthermore, the durability and large\nsize of the Douglas Fir and the Red\nCedar, together with the comparative\nabsence of injurious boring insects on\nthe burned-over lands, make it possible to log these timbers for many\nyears after they have been killed by fire.\nThe Red Cedar is especially good in this\nrespect and is sawn into the finest of\nlumber and shingles fifty years after being killed by fire. It is bound to be profitable, as for half a century the increas-\nper M per annum. What has become\nhistory east of the mountains will certainly become fact on the Pacific Coast\nupon the completion of the Panama\nCanal. This indicates an enormous return for stumpage at $2 per M, but first-\nclass stumpage may still be secured for\n$1, or even less, a figure which may well\nbe regarded as nominal when the high\nquality of the timber is considered.\nThe doubling, trebling and quadrupling of the logging and manufacturing\nfacilities during the coming decade will\nalso offer large scope for the investment\nof capital. This will be an especially attractive field for the far-sighted men\nwho will have earlier secured a suitable\nreserve of raw material. An earnest\nof what is to come along these\nlines is the completion last year of one\nof the largest sawmills in the world on\nJ 19\/0\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 19\nthe Fraser River, and the present building, at a cost of several millions, of a\nvery large and strictly up-to-date paper\nmill at Powell River.\nBut the door of opportunity is open\nnot alone to the investor of large means.\nThe British Columbia coast is peculiar\nin the amazing length of its coast line\nand the wonderful series of protected\ninside channels which admit of cheap\ntowage of logs to central points for\nmanufacture. These waterways are\nbordered with timber tracts, many of\nwhich are of small size and therefore\navailable for the men of moderate means\nwho are looking for a start in business.\nAdvantage has been taken of these favorable conditions and the coast is already dotted with small logging outfits.\nOpportunity in this direction will be\nopen for some years to come, but all\nthe easy logging opportunities will,\neventually have been worked, and logging will have passed into hands financially strong enough to build railways\nand 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\n\u25a0 vSSsS^.^:^W^-':'..:- \u25a0 -'?.\u25a0\" :\n^H lit: \u2022\u2022'\nA BIT OF TIMBER\nStates to come to British Columbia for\ntheir shingles. If this has not already\ncome before the Panama Canal is completed it will then be assured, and small\nshingle mills will presently be found\ndotting the coast, utilizing the vast quan\ntities of cedar now left as waste on the\nslashings.\nBut the great future of the lumber industry of British Columbia will assure\nlarge opportunity for the man of brains\nand energy, although without capital\nother than confidence in himself and the\ncountry. The opportunities will range\nfrom that of logging camp foreman or\nsales agent, to that of manager of large\nenterprises. A field which has as yet\nhardly opened, but which must in future\ngrow Idfge and ever larger, is that of\nforest engineering. Undoubtedly the\ntime is at hand when the Provincial\nGovernment will employ technically\ntrained men to look after the public forest interests. Private owners and operators will follow suit just as soon as they\nsee that it is profitable to do so. Undoubtedly the course of events will follow closely the story of developments\nin the United States, where serious inroads have been made in the staff of the\nUnited States Forest Service by the lumbermen east, south, and west, who are\nwilling to pay more liberally and advance more rapidly capable forest engineers than is practicable in the government service.\nBritish Columbia in Moving Pictures\nAn Episode in the Work of Advertising the Province\nVisually to Twenty Millions of People\nBy Norman S. Rankin\nAuthor of \" Behind the Scenes,\" \" Moving Pictures of the Prairie,\" etc.\nA GROUP of people, gathered\non a float, beneath the\nbridge that crosses the Gorge\nnear Victoria, were gesticulating wildly as I came up,\nand with faces indicative of excitement,\nsurprise, hope and despair, fervently implored some invisible person to greater\neffort.\n\"Come on, Herb,\" they yelled encouragingly, \"Come on, Old Man! Come on!\nFor Heaven's sake put your back into\nit, and push her along; don't let up;\nNOTK: This sketch is a description of\none of many incidents in a sojourn in British\nColumbia late last summer of members of\nthe Edison Moving Picture Company of New\nYork City, who were brought across Canada\nfrom Montreal by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, to portray to the world at\nlarge the resources and attractions of the\nWestern Provinces. Each of the series of\nmoving pictures, made for this purpose, tells\na story and at the same time illustrates the\nsalient features of some important industry.\nThe pictures will be displayed in the great\nmajority of moving pictures of this continent\nand England, and, viewed by between fifteen\nand twenty millions of people, will constitute\nthe best advertising British Columbia has\never had. The pictures will be seen in Vancouver, Victoria and other cities here before\nthe first of the year.\u2014Editor.\nstick to it; stick to it, and you'll win.\"\nThey waved their handkerchiefs and\nhats, swaying their bodies to and fro\nin their excitement, in their keen de\nsire to urge this somebody on to victory.\nI looked at them in amazement; uncomprehending; bewildered. What was\nTHE OLD AND THE NEW\u2014INDIANS PREPARING TO RACE\n(Empress Hotel, Victoria, in the Background) Page 20\nOPPORTUNITIES\n19)0\ns\nhappening? Was I awake or dreaming,\nor had I got into a lunatic asylum by\nmistake? It was an extraordinary performance. Here were fifteen or twenty\npeople\u2014nice looking, well-dressed people\u2014staring intensely at the blank, sloping face of the river bank\u2014staring at\nnothing, absolutely nothing, and agonizingly beseeching an invisible \"Herb\"\nto \"come on and win out.\"\nWin out what? Who was Herb?\nWhat was he doing? Where was he to\ncome, and how?\nThe Gorge on Vancouver Island, close\nto Victoria, is one of the most beautiful spots of that locality; a summer recreation grounds, and pleasure park; a\nboating and bathing resort, a picturesque drive. For some miles from the\ncapital, it stretches inland between wooded park-like banks, which rise to a fair\nheight on either side. Charming homes,\nand pretty, cosy bungalows, line its\ncourse, each with its brightly colored\nboat house, half in and half out of the\nwater.\nThe bridge across the Gorge, at the\npoint where the banks narrow and force\nthe turbulent waters in a seething mass\nheadlong through, was crowded with\ninterested and surprised spectators,\nmany of whom, like myself, strained\ntheir eyes in astonishment at what was\ngoing on. They, like myself, had evidently never seen anything like this\nperformance.\n\"For Heaven's sake,\". I couldn't help\nexclaiming, as I slowly wedged myself\nto a point of vantage, \"have all those\npeople gone mad? Am I foolish, or\nwhat? Is that animated mob composed\nof human beings, or crazy people? Do\nthey see something that we don't see,\nor that I don't see? Can you see anything to cheer at? Do you see any\n\"Herb\" to howl at?\"\n\"Of course they do,\" said somebody,\na spectator at my side, \"of course they\ndo, but then, they're only the actors of\na moving picture company rehearsing a\nSOME OF THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY AND GUESTS\npart; they're the audience urging on\ntheir favorite to renewed effort in the\nIndian canoe race. They don't really see\nanything, of course, but in their imagination they do; they are witnessing the\nstart and finish of a tremendously exciting contest, and when that scene is\nthrown on the screen to the audience,\nfollowing the pictures of the race itself,\nit will put a fitting climax to a very attractive film story. When that \"crazy\nmob\" get the part down to the satisfaction of the extremely exacting stage\nmanager, they'll finally play it off before the moving picture camera. See\nhim over there to the right?\"\nI drew a deep breath of relief.\n\"Well\"\" I answered with a sense of satisfaction at the information. \"I surely\nam glad to know my mental state is in\nno way deranged. I seriously feared it\nwas. I truly did. I would not have\nbeen surprised to have next seen snakes\nand crawling things.\"\n\"Now, you watch,\" said my volunteer\ninformant, \"now you watch, and you'll\nsee the next scene, which properly\ncomes before the one we have just\nMOVING PICTURE CAMERA IN POSITION FOR A PICTURE\nviewed. In this moving picture business, the various scenes are played out\nirrespective of their numerical position,\nwhen and where is most convenient.\nThe stories are prepared beforehand,\nwith the scenes all laid out and numbered, so that any one may be taken at\nany place. The detail and characters in\neach scene are also arranged and notice\ngiven to the players so that after the\nstage manager looks over the ground\nand decides up-on the location, all he\nhas to do, is say, \"Scene So and So,\"\nand prior to its transmission to the camera, hold a rehearsal. The players immediately know, from their advice\nsheets, who is comprised in the picture,\nwhat dress they must wear, and what\ntheir cues are. They are then put\nthrough a stiff rehearsal, one or ten\ntimes, as the case may demand, and the\nscene is then run off on the film.\n\"Before you came up,\" went on my\ncompanion, \"they held most of the race\nscenes; the start, two intermediate\nviews, and a closely contested spurt. See\nthe Indians over there in their canoes\nresting after their last strenuous exertions.\"\nI looked in the direction indicated,\nand saw what he pointed out, three long,\nnarrow, rakish looking dugouts, each\nwith its crew of eleven dusky Indians,\nstripped to the waist, and leaning on\ntheir broad, light paddles. Around them\non the water, circled all descriptions of\npleasure boats, light Peterboro canoes,\ngasoline launches, speedy power cruisers, and sailing skiffs.\nSuch a scene as one would see at\nany popular summer resort in any part\nof America, but nevertheless remarkable in one respect. On one hand, the\nancient dugouts with their crews of\ndusky Songhee Indians, stolid, indifferent, stoical; on the other, the most up-\nto-date, modern pleasure craft, light,\nfrail and graceful, filled with freights of\npretty, attractive girls, gay in their 1910\nOPPORTUNITI'ES-\nPage Zt\nbright summer clothes-, and\" attentive,\nathletic young men in spotless flannels.\nNor did the contrast fail to draw the\nattention of the spectators. Here was\nthe ancient and the modern, in the living man, side by side, in as great a contrast as were the Indian tepees or shacks\nand that most modern and comfortable\nof Canadian hostelries, the \"Empress\nHotel.\"\n\"There they go again,\" yelled a small\nboy excitedly, from his perch in a tree\nnearby, \"there they go. Watch 'em, everybody. Whoop-ee! Hurrah! Ler 'er\ngo, Gallagher. Let 'er go.\"\nThe three canoes had, by this time,\nlined up across the Gorge, about a hundred yards down, preparatory to a spirited finish under the bridge, the canoe\nwith \"Herb\" in it being nearest. He\nwas the only white man among the thirty-two Indians, and had his face and\nhands stained, and was dressed to the\npart. Needless to say, he was looked\nupon with much suspicion by the rest\nof his crew, who evidently failed to understand who and what he was. I discovered afterwards that Chief Cooper\nof the Songhee Tribe, with whom the\narrangement to produce the Indians was\nmade, did not even to stop to explain to\nhis braves who \"Herb\" was; it was\nenough for them that the Chief ordered\nhim into the canoe, and what did they\ncare anyhow? Behind, at an advantageous post, was posed the camera man,\nready to reel off the film at the proper\nspeed, when the director gave the word.\n\"Stand by,\" commanded the director\ncurtly, casting a wary eye over his stage\nsettings., \"Stand by, everybody. Hey!\nthere,\" he shouted, waiving his hand\nvigorously at a saucy little steam launch\nthat was slowly poking her nose across\nthe course, \"Keep clear of the course,\nplease,\" and then, with a crack of the\npistol, thirty-three paddles spurned the\nwater at one time, and thirty-three bodies bent as one man. The canoes sprang\nforward in a swirl of spray, flashing of\npaddles and cheers from the spectators,\nwho, as well as the actor-audience, could\nnot help but be roused to enthusiasm by\nso inspiring a sight. With \"Herb's\"\nslightly in advance, they plunged past\nthe winning post, to a second crack of\nthe starter's revolver. This scene was\nfollowed by a prize giving, and then the\nwhole flotilla made off down the river\ncitywards, as ff nothing out: of the* ordinary had happened!-\n\"That's a revelation to me,\" I said to\nmy companion, as we wended our way\nback to the hotel, \"that's a great thing.\nI didn't before realize what a wonderful\nart motion photography is. Such a film\nas that, run off before thousands of people in the East, will do more to advertise the West than a hundred lectures\nwill, yes, or a thousand, for that matter.\" \"\n\"Yes,\" he assented, enthusiastically,\n\"it will indeed; I've followed closely\nmoving picture development, and I understand that this film, and others representing mining, fishing, ranching,\nand other typical Western industries\nwill be exhibited before twenty millions\nof people\u2014in some ten thousand picture halls in the United States and Canada, and a like number in Great Britain\nand Europe.\"\n\"The West itself moves fast these\ndays,\" I answered him, and with balloons, aeroplanes, automobiles and moving pictures, this might fitly be entitled\n\"The Moving Age.\"\nSuccess in Small Farming\nN my last article on this subject, which appeared in the\nAugust number of Opportunities I dealt with the questions of the size of the holding, the labor problem, the advisability\nof locating near growing cities, and the\namount of money necessary to start\nwith.\nI pointed out that five acres of land is\nenough for one man to develop. Ten\nacres is certainly the most any novice\nshould attempt to farm, the chief reason\nbeing, as I mentioned before, the difficulty of obtaining labor.\nNo one should commence with less\nthan \u00a3200, or $1,000 capital. This is the\nleast amount one can possibly succeed\non, and then only by well sustained industry and grit.\nThe price of good land varies from\n$100 to $250 an acre, uncleared. By uncleared I mean land covered with trees\nand bush, and which accordingly must\nbe cleared before it can be ploughed.\nAs to how long it would take one to\nclear ten acres, we can only say; it depends on the man entirely. A healthy\nman with moderate strength and little\nskill would need at least eighteen\nmonths to thoroughly clear ten acres of\nland.\nBy Thompson Tinn\nMany readers will immediately exclaim,\u2014have we to wait eighteen months\nbefore even commencing to raise produce? Not by any means. Most beginners buy as many hens as they can, and\nhave a source of revenue from the start.\nGood hens cost on an average $1.50\neach, and each hen ought to give at\nleast $2 yearly profit. Thus, two\nhundred and fifty hens ought, with ordinary care, to produce a revenue of\n$500 a year.\nAfter the settler has built himself a\nsmall habitation his next work should\nbe to clear enough land to erect outhouses in which to keep his hens.\nThis can be done in the first six\nmonths. Thus, after this period, one\ncan count on an income. Revenue can\nbe obtained in other ways if the settler\nfelt uncertain about his ability to successfully run a small chicken farm.\nEmployment can always be obtained\nin 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\nbeing $2.50 per day and the demand far\nexceeding the supply.\nIn his spare time a man can build his\nown shack and clear his land by degrees, and at the same time \"keep the\npot boiling\" by doing work of this sort.\nSettlers always have the preference in\nimprovement and development work.\nTherefore, if a man comes out with\nenough money to make a year's payment on his purchase of ten acres, say\n$500, and has the balance of $500 to buy\nlumber to build his small shack and\nouthouses, he can count on earning and\nsaving sufficient by his daily labor to\nmeet future payments on his land and\ncommence to stock his farmstead as his\ncircumstances and desire direct.\nThe great fact which cannot be too\nstrongly insisted on is that hard and even severe toil is demanded, of the man\nwho sets out and succeeds at this branch\nof human effort.\nBut the reward is well worth it. In\ntwo years his homestead should be paid\nfor. In five years at the most by working only in spare time his land should\nbe all cleared and producing. Then one\ncan look forward to happy, healthy labor not too arduous, a source of income\nas sure as any in the world, and an income large enough to give the owner\nsufficient margin to enjoy his independent, free life, no matter how hardly won.\nFrom ten acres of good -land well\ntilled there should be a revenue of at\nleast $3,000 a year. And the more labor expended on the land the more valuable it becomes. Surely such a goal is Page 22\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nworth a great effort, in the first years of\ntoil there is always the bright future\nahead, giving heart and hope to the\ntoiler.\nIn future articles we shall deal with\nthe possible revenues from different\nsmall fruits and vegetables, In atty ease\nWe must impress upon our readers the\nfact that these estimates are only made\nfrom what we know is done. We cannot guarantee to everyone that they\nwill do the same, for the simple reason\nthat human nature is too variable a\nquantity. But We do say, and say it\nemphatically, that if any healthy man\nbegins with the clear conviction that he\nhas to do five years hard, earnest work\nand is willing to do it, then success is\ncertain. And to secure a source of income which makes him independent for\nthe rest of his life by following at his\nown time and will the vocation of the\nsmall farmer is surely worth five years\nhard toil of any man's life.\nIrrigation in British Columbia\nWater is Bringing Rich Producton to Great\nAreas of Land\nHE activities of the Western\nCanada Irrigation Association\nare of the utmost importance\nto British Columbia. Most of\nus can remember the time when\nquestion of irrigation claimed the interest of very few. The representative attendance at the Kamloops convention\nshows how widespread has become that\ninterest, and to what extent the importance of irrigation methods has\ntaken a hold upon everyone interested\nin the welfare of the country. It is asserted by Prof. Carpenter that no less\nthan three-quarters of the food supply\nof the world is grown by means of irrigation; therefore, stop these sources of\nsupply and the greater proportion of the\nhuman race would be reduced to starvation. How important a part irrigation\nplays in China and India is comparatively,\nlittle known, but the wonderful irrigation\nworks on the Nile, made possible by\nEuropean skill and capital, have drawn\nmuch attention to the subject. In Australia irrigated areas are increasing every\nyear. In the Murray river district water\nis pumped three times before it reaches\nthe level where it is used in growing\ngrapes and currants.\nThese fruits are dried and shipped to\nEngland as raisins and currants, and\ndominate the London market. To come\nnearer home, immense sums are now\nspent in the semi-arid states of America\nin making water available for the dry\nand thirsty but fertile soil. From these\nfacts we learn two things; first of all the\nimportance of the subject and the amount\nof skill and energy being exercised in\nplanning and carrying these works to a\nsuccessful issue, and, secondly, the favored position of Saskatchewan, Alberta,\nand British Columbia in having so much\nwater so easily available for irrigation\npurposes.\nThe fertility of the soil of the interior\nof British Columbia, where water could\nbe put on it, was soon recognized by the\npioneers of fifty years ago and the creeks\nwere recorded under government regula\ntion, an arrangement which worked very\nwell until an ever-increasing number of\nsettlers caused a shortage and bickerings, which frequently culminated in lawsuits. In this way the development of\nthe dry belt of the Province has been\nseriously retarded.\nThe reasons are obvious. Every irrigator has been a law unto himself\u2014a\nvery liberal law to himself, but a very\nmiserly one to his neighbors. The first\nrecorder may be an estimable man until\nthere is a water shortage; then he becomes a waterhog in the eyes of his\nneighbors, who, if put in his place, would\nact in exactly the same way as he does.\nThe mischief of it is that not one in a\nhundred has ever given an hour's study\nto the proper handling of water. Overflowing ditches, flooded arable land and\npastures turned into swamps have been\nand still are the ethics of their irrigation,\nand the scientist who would show a more\nexcellent way is politely, and not always\nthat, thrust aside, and the waste continues.\nRESULT OF INTELLIGENCE AND IRRIGATION ON A SMALL FARM 1910]\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 23\nThis seems the more aggravating, because in the majority of cases, water from\nthe creeks is monopolized by agriculturists on the bottom lands within a\nfew feet of a mighty river or an extensive lake, every mile of which contains\nenough water to flood the whole valley\nand would, if utilized, leave the creeks\navailable for settlers on the higher levels.\nTo advance this view is to be met with\nthe emphatic statement that vested\nrights must not be interfered with; in\nother words, that a monoply purchased\ntwenty or thirty years ago for from |10 to\n$25 must be maintained with all its\noriginal advantage. Undoubtedly the\nrights have become exceedingly valuable.\nShould they not be taxed accordingly?\nThis alternative would be acceptable to\neverybody but those holding the earlier\nrecords, but a still better way would be\nfor the government to take the matter in.\nhand and encourage the investment of\ncapital for pumping water by electricity\ngenerated by the falls which are to be\nfound in nearly every district in the\nProvince.\nIt may be urged that private companies are already at work. This is true, in\na sense, and the Fruitlands Company of\nKamloops, 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\nvalley, are fine examples of what can be\ndone in this respect.\nIf these estates can be made to pay\nbig salaries and dividends to their owners, surely the Provincial and Dominion\ngovernments, the railway companies, the\nimportant real estate owners could do\nlikewise for the multitudes they seek\nto attract here. The feasibility of large\nworks of this character has been demonstrated by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's enterprise in Alberta.\nThe pity of it is that no counterpart of\nJ. S. Dennis is available to solve British\nColumbia's difficulties on an equally large\nscale, and at so moderate a cost that land\nbelow the ditch is not appreciably raised\nin price to the purchaser, while his water\nrights\u2014his beyond dispute\u2014are held\nwithout the slightest inconvenience to\nhis neighbor.\nVictoria Council's Work for Good\nBy. C. Spofford\n\"Your Excellency's first appearance on\nthe Stage!\"\nS* O whispered the private secretary of Her Excellency, the\nCountess of Aberdeen, as\nsurrounded by a group of\nmen and women prominent\nin good works, \"the first lady of our\nLand\" waited to go on the stage of the\nVictoria Theatre one evening in November, 1894, to address a meeting of citizens on the object and methods of an\norganization of which she was the founder and the national head, namely, The\nCouncil of Women.\nIt was the one occasion in the history\nof the theatre when every seat from the\norchestra to the gods was a \"reserved\"\n\u2014when standing room from lobby to\ngreen room was at a premium. The interest centered no less, if not more, in\nthe distinguished speaker than in the\nnew woman's society of which she was\nto speak.\nThrough the instrumentality of the\nWomen's Christian Temperance Union,\nHer Excellency had been prevailed upon to address a public meeting on the\noccasion of her first vice-royal visit to\nthe Province, with a view to organizing\na Council in this city. And so impressed was the audience with the admirable\nexposition of the advantages which\nwould -accrue through combining all the\nwomen's societies in a community, into\none central body, that then and there a\nprovisional committee was appointed\nand a week later the Victoria and Vancouver Island Local Council of Women\nwas organized, with nineteen societies\nin affiliation, and officered by Mrs. (Col.)\nBaker, president; Mrs. R. S. Day, vice-\npresident; Mrs. Edith Hilda Scaife, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Gordon\nGrant, recording secretary; and Mrs. A.\nE. B. Davie, treasurer.\nBefore the organization was fully on\nits feet suggestions from various sources\nwere made as to questions of public interest with which the women of the city\nmight properly and successfully cope,\nthe first being a systematic relief of the\ndistress prevailing, consequent on the\ntrade depression existing at that time.\nThis appeal, touching as it did the key\nnote of womanly impulse and smypathy\nresulted in the organization of a scheme\nof associated charters known as The\nFriendly Help Association, which, for\nsixteen years, has continued to administer the charitable relief work of the city\nin a most satisfactory manner.\nEncouraged by the success of its initial undertaking, the Council went on\nto other equally important work, as varied in nature as the requirements which\npresented themselves. It secured an\namendment to the School Act, by which\nwomen were made eligible as school\ntrustees, 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\nProtection Act, which gives to the Children's Aid Society the custody of children whose parents prove themselves incapable of their sacred responsibility. It\nhas exerted a strong influence for the\nShops Act, and for many other measures\nwhich have been in the interest of the\nHome and Childhood.\nAt an approximate cost of four hundred dollars the Council equipped a cen\nter for domestic science in the public\nschools. For many years it gratuitously\nmanaged the Woman's Department in\nthe Agricultural Exhibition, raising the\nstandard of handiwork of women so high\nthat it was equalled by few and excelled\nby none in the Province or even the Dominion. The Council raised over one\nthousand dollars for the Lady Minto\nMaintenance Fund for Cottage Hospitals from which British Columbia was\nlargely benefiting, but toward the maintenance of which it had not contributed.\nThe mention of these efforts serves\nonly to indicate the nature of the work\nundertaken, and the very wide scope of\noperation of this unique organization of\nwomen. Perhaps it greatest accomplishment has been that of providing a common platform on which may be met the\nentire organized force of womanhood of\nthe community, where the purposes-and\nactivities of all the others may be learned, where each may learn to know the\nleaders in the various lines of woman's\nwork, and gain the personal touch which\nenlarges the vision and broadens the\nsympathies of all, thus making each\na better worker in her own particular society. \"I shall always\nregret the years I have lived here\nand have not known the splendid women\nin all these socities,\" said one of the\nCouncil's first presidents.\nThe membership of this Council has\ngrown from nineteen to thirty-five affiliated socities, which may be grouped as\nreligious, philanthropic, benevolent, and\nfraternal. Each of these is endeavoring\nin its own way to apply the Council's\nmotto, \"Do unto others as ye would that\nthey should do to you.\" Page 24\nOPPORT UNI TIES\n1910\nSome Phases of Women's Work\nAmong women who are devoting their\nenergies and lending their influence to\nwork for the common good in British\nColumbia- the month of October has\nbeen an active one. In Vancouver, Victoria, Nelson and other centers, there\nhave been numerous evidences of fresh\ninterest and enthusiasm with the coming of the autumn. The various clubs\nand other organizations have seen material membership increases, and there\nhave been numerous developments\nwhich indicate that this winter will bring\nTrained nurses were appointed to visit\nthe schools. By their examination of\nthe children and advice to the mothers\na much better condition of the health\nof children was brought about. But\nit was seen that there was need for medical inspection. One morning in May\nof this year sixty women attended a\nmeeting of the trustees. Their object\nwas to convince the board that it would\nnot be right to give the whole of the\nwork of school inspection into the hands\nof a young medical man. As a conse-\nman sang a suggestive song. Since that\nmore stringent measures had been adopted to keep little children from taking-\npart in these entertainments.\nMrs. Huestis described the great loss\nof life and illness which resulted from\nthe bad drinking water of Toronto.\nWomen had been instrumental in helping to procure the passing of a by-law\nby a great majority authorizing measures to make the water pure. Now\nthey are agitating that more money\nshould be expended in hastening forward the work. They believed that the\nloss due to the ravages of typhoid fever\nin one season was greater than the\nmoney needed to push the work to\nmore rapid completion.\nMISS PERRIN'S FAREWELL RECEPTION TO VICTORIA L.C.W., AT BISHOP'S CLOSE ON RETURNING TO ENGLAND\nthe most tangible results yet seen in\nthe organized work of British Columbia women.\nThe efforts of the members of the\nVancouver and Victoria Local Councils\nreceived a decided impetus through inspiring addresses delivered before the\nwomen here by Mrs. Huestis, president\nof the Toronto Local Council. Mrs. Huestis described the remarkable progress\nof the work in her own city, and since\nthis work is identical with that in Vancouver and Victoria it was absorbingly\ninteresting and full of helpful suggestions. It was found, said Mrs. Huestis,\nthat of the forty-three thousand pupils\nin the public schools of Toronto five\nthousand were absent on an average every day. The women believed that\nthere was no good reason why there\nshould be on every day of the year five\nthousand sick children in the city.\nquence of their representations Dr. Helen McMurchy was appointed to work\nwith Dr. Graham to conserve the health\nof Toronto children.\nMentally defective children have\nbeen removed to schools of their own\nwhere their needs can be specially attended to and where they will not interfere with the progress of others.\nMuch had been said of evils of picture shows and as there are forty-eight\nof these places of entertainment in Toronto, the Council felt that although\nthere was a city censorship the truth\nshould be known as to its effectiveness.\nSo on a given night council women very\nquietly attended these places of amusement. Every precaution had been taken\nto prevent their purpose being known.\nNot an objectionable picture was thrown\non the canvas. But one little girl was\nfound too young to take part and one\nOf a similar nature and if possible\nmore importance was the establishment of milk depots and the reform of\nsanitary conditions in the stables from\nwhich Toronto gains its milk supply.\nThe statement of Dr. Bryce that 25,000\nchildren in Canada die annually from\ndrinking impure milk has roused the\nwomen as well as the government to\naction. A commission was appointed\nwhich presented an excellent report,\nand made recommendations.\nMrs. Huestis showed tiny bottles of\nthe purest milk obtained for the\nlittle ones. She told of the help of experts who examined the milk as to its\npurity and praised the generosity of the\npublic who furnished the wherewithal\nto pay the difference between the high\nprice charged for the sealed bottles of\npure milk and the \"market price of ordinary milk. 910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 25\nIn connection with milk depots lectures to mothers by doctors had been\n; istituted and a dispensary opened\n[\/here needful medicines could be obtained.\nOn more than one occasion the physician had found that it was the mother and not the baby who needed the\niiilk most. The work done in procuring better houses was described. The\ni'reed of the woman who, living a lux-\nrious life, made fifty per cent, on her\nlapital by renting dwellings unfit for\nluman habitation and the inconsistency\n,' f the church that owned similar proper-\ny was spoken of with scorn by the\nind-hearted lady. Many of these buildings had been pulled down and better\ntnes erected.\nThis led to a consideration of the\nlife led by girls in these houses. What\nwas the use of curfew bells in such a\nquarter. The women had appealed to\nthe employers for help in erecting\nhomes for the working girls, of whom\nthere were 40,000 in the city, $50,000\nwere raised and one home built and\nanother proposed.\nMrs. Huestis then went on to show\nthe wonderful work that had been done\nin establishing playgrounds in Toronto.\nThere were ten of these, which had\nbeen opened within four years. The\nappointment of a good committee and\nsupervisors, young, energetic and resourceful were the points insisted upon most by this lady who has the\nhappiness of children at heart.\nDoings of the Women's Organizations\nAt a meeting held during the month\nty the Vancouver Local Council, Miss\nBreeze, who has had much experience\ns a nurse in connection with medical\ninspection in the public schools, spoke\n[nterestingly of this work. The inspec-\norship, said the speaker, was started\nve years ago, and had been of much\nalue. The inspection of each pupil only\nequired about one minute, there being\nbout ten thousand public school pupils\ntn the city. It was decided that the usefulness of this work would be increased if\n[here could be someone to go to the\n[lomes of the pupils and instruct the\nparents along hygienic lines. Miss\npreeze was accordingly appointed, after\n[he plan which had succeeded well in\n[>ther Canadian and in American cities.\nMrs. W. H. Griffin announced that she\n|vas forming a collection of books to\nbe sent to the provincial industrial school\n[it Point Grey, at the instance of the\n[lelegates, and asked if the ladies who\nhad suitable books to dispose of could\nhelp her. A letter was read from Capt.\n'\u25a0 \"oilier, thanking the ladies for the boys'\nfames sent to the detention home.\nA committee was organized to wait\nnpon the directors of the large wholesale\n[ind retail firms throughout the city to\n[iscertain in the event of technical train-\nI ng schools being established, whether\n^reference would be given applicants for\nPositions who had attended those schools\nor a period, and if, in consequence, re-\nInuneration would be increased should\nf corresponding efficiency be noted. The\nhesult of this inquiry will be placed be-\nI ore the commission which is to look into the same, when it reaches this city.\nThe application of the Ladies' Aid of\nSt. Andrew's Presbyterian church, North\nIV'ancouver, for affiliation was granted\nfind the following new members were\nlidded to the general list: Mrs. Chap-\npel, Mrs. A. F. Perry, Mrs. Edward\nStark, and Mrs. Fulger, of North Vancouver.\nWomen's Canadian Club\nAt the first annual meeting of the\nWomen's Canadian Club, Mrs. C. S. Douglas, of Vancouver, who was re-elected\npresident, expressed her hope for the\nclub in part as follows:\n\"My year's experience has inspired me\nwith the belief that this organization\nwill prove of great benefit in the upbuilding of the social and intellectual life\nof this marvelous young city.\n\"To widen the influence of the club\nand extend its benefits to a greater number, it should be made known to the\nthousands of women who have come to\nour city from all parts of Canada and\nthe Old World, many of them strangers in a strange land, that herein they\nmay make pleasant acquaintances and\nform new friendships that will to some\nextent- relieve the heartaches caused by\nseverance from old friends and associations, and I trust that every member of\nthe club will constitute herself a committee of one to carry out the idea, so\nthat at our next annual meeting we may\nboast a membership not of hundreds, as\nnow, but of thousands, all actuated by\none common impulse to strengthen and\nincrease the love of Canada and our\nEmpire among our citizens, and to assist in the uplifting of the social and\nintellectual life of our city.\"\nIn its initial year the club has grown\nfrom a nucleus of twenty members to\n482. The election of officers resulted as\nfollows:\nPresident, Mrs. C. S. Douglas, re-elected; first vice-president, Mrs. C. Gardiner Johnson; second vice-president,\nMrs. James Macauley; third vice-presi\ndent, Mrs. Jonathan Rogers; fourth vice-\npresident, Mrs. C. G. Henshaw; secretary, Mrs. J. J. Banfield; literary secretary, Mrs. C. R. Townley; treasurer,\nMrs. F. M. Cowperthwaite, with a committee composed of Mrs. MacKay Fripp,\nMrs. J. B. Mills, Mrs. Ewing Buchan,\nMrs. I O. Perry, Mrs. R. C. Stoddard,\nMrs. W. H. Griffin and Mrs. Alexander\nBethune.\nMrs. J. H. MacGill reported re the\nproposition to erect a women's club\nbuilding, which was brought up in June\nand laid over to be dealt with later.\nSince then she has been visiting the different women's clubs to ascertain their\nattitude and advocated the appointment\nof two members of each organization\nto confer on the matter.\nIn recognition of her many public\nservices and of the part she played in\nthe founding of the club, Mrs. M. A.\nMacLean was made honorary president\nfor life.\nWork of Nelson Women\nAn indication of the public spirit of\nthe women of Nelson is seen in the good\nwork in the Nelson and District Women's Institute, which, under the administration of the new president, Mrs.\nJames Johnstone, has numerous plans\nfor women's work in Nelson and vicinity. The Institute has the same general aims as the Nelson Local Council of\nWomen, and works along the same lines\nfor the common good. The Nelson\nCouncil was formed by Lady Aberdeen\nin 1898. Since then it has engaged in\nmany activities for the advancement of\nsocial conditions in Nelson, and has\nbeen an important factor in the progress\nof the community. To the work of its\nmembers is due the public library in\nNelson. 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\nbrought pressure to bear upon the Provincial member of Parliament which resulted in a woman warden for the jail.\nIt has co-operated actively in the war\nagainst tuberculosis, and has promoted\neducation in numerous general and\nspecial lines. Several plans for work\nthis winter are beginning to take definite\nform.\n o\t\nFull of activity and zest is the\nLocal Council of Victoria, which is taking up numerous matters of importance.\nIn Victoria, moreover, there is a Woman's Parliament, which has become a\nregular institution, which, in addition to\nthe monthly meetings, will hold annually\na public conference marked by much of\nthe pomp and ceremony which is characteristic of the meetings of the regular\nProvincial Parliament. Page 26\nOPPORTU\nN I T I E S\n1910\nIndustrial Progress in British Columbia\nA movement is under way to clear the\nColumbia River for navigation for steamers from Portland to Nelson. This would\nresult in a great saving of freight rates\nby Nelson business men and would put\nthe city on a sound footing as a distributing center in the Kootenay district\nand Western Alberta.\nIn the Burnaby district is a big bog\nand the substance beneath the brush is\npeat, one of the best and cheapest of\nfuels. There are millions of yards of it,\nand it is now being shipped in bales like\nthose of hay to the extent of about\ntwenty-five tons a day to various points\nin British Columbia. It has been chiefly\nused thus far as bedding for horses, but\nwill be utilized more and more for producing heat.\nIt is said on good authority that several sections of British Columbia are\nbetter adapted to the growing of grapes\nthan the famous vineyard localities of\nEurope. A grape grower of long experience says he is convinced that British Columbia can produce the finest\nquality of grapes that reach the market.\nThese grapes, he states, are better flavored, larger and more highly colored\nthan any produced in either California\nor Central Europe.\nThe land known as the Crawford\nTownsite has been purchased by the\nMcGoldric Lumber Co. for use as a logging station. The company is now ready\nto proceed with the construction of its\nmill at Fairview. Another mill in course\nof construction is the Porto Rico. The\ncompletion of this will give Nelson three\nlarge mills and will assist the city very\nmaterially in its progress toward a position as an important manufacturing center.\nEngineers are now at work on surveys\nfor the project of The Canadian Collieries for the development of 50,000 horsepower on the Puntridge River in the\ncenter of the Comox coal fields. This\npower plant will cost about $1,000,000,\nand construction will be started on it by\nhundreds of workmen within a few\nweeks.\nOutfits are being rushed in for construction work on the Kettle Valley railway. There are now five camps along\nthe banks of the Coldwater river leading\nout of Merritt and the clearing of the\nright-of-way is completed for twenty\nmiles. Track-laying will start in two\nmonths.\nPlans for a dry-dock at Vancouver\nhave been filed with the minister of public works. They provide for a second-\nclass, which means that if the plans are\napproved the company will be entitled to\na 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\non the Pacific Coast. It will be over 600\nfeet long. Docks of the first or battleship class, such as it is proposed to build\nat Esquimalt, get a subsidy of 3 1-2 per\ncent, on an expenditure of four million\ndollars for twenty-five years.\nOrders meaning an expenditure of over $500,000 and calling for half the output of the Wire & Cable Company of\nMontreal for the next six months as\nwell as a large proportion of that of the\nNorthern Electric Company of the same\ncity, have been sent East by the B. C.\nTelephone Company, which is greatly increasing its equipment to meet the rapidly growing requirements of Vancouver. Over 250,000 feet, or nearly forty-\neight miles, of cable are required for\nthe purposes of the telephone company.\nThe capacity of the Northern Electric\nCompany, another telephone manufacturing firm with a plant in Montreal, is\nalso being severely taxed by the demands of the British Columbia Telephone Company. As many as fifty-two\nswitchboard sections have been asked\nfor Vancouver and North Vancouver, being more than the firm is Pt present making for the whole of the rest of Canada.\nA meeting was held last month, in\nDuncan, B. C, to discuss the project of\nestablishing a co-operative fruit canning\nand packing establishment, and the following resolutions were passed unanimously:\n\"Whereas the Cowichan district can\nand does produce most excellent fruit,\nboth of the large and small varieties;\nand whereas at the present time there\nare no means available for the proper\ngrading and packing of the same for\nthe market; and whereas there is a very\nlarge amount of good clean but small\nand sometimes overripe fruit wasted\neach year; therefore be it resolved, that\nthis meeting herewith appoint a committee, for the purpose of procuring\nfacts, figures and all data necessary to\nthe establishment of a co-operative fruit\npacking house, together with a canning\nand jam factory in the Cowichan district.\nThe sheep industry in Canada has for\nseveral years been on the decline, but a\nmovement is now on foot to revive ill\nThe Minister of Agriculture has appointed a committee to investigate the situation. They will visit all the provinces\nand will interview important sheep men\nand manufacturers as to the difficulties\nand drawbacks which have heretofore\nretarded the sheep industry. From the\ninformation thus obtained a plan will be\nformulated to put the growing of wool\non a firm basis.\nIn his annual report to stockholders,\nGeneral Manager William H. Parker, of\nthe British Columbia Packers' Association, says, in part: \"WTe have purchased\nthe steamer Roman to supply halibut for\nfreezing and fresh shipments; she is the\nfinest vessel in the business. Owing to\nthere being three Canadian vessels fishing for halibut, the limited market is\nkept well supplied and prices are lower.\nWe have purchased two more canneries\non the Skeena river\u2014the Dominion and\nAlexandra\u2014and have rebuilt the Cun-\ningham cannery. The balance sheet\nshows a net profit of $356,527 after deducting $45,123 for depreciation. We'\nhave on hand and consigned salmon valued at $83,835, and have used in preparation for the 1910 pack (including\namount inventories of materials) $641,-\n134. We paid during the year 23 per\ncent, in dividends to preferred shareholders.\nThe Dominion minister of public\nworks is now considering a huge dry-\ndock 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.\nMessrs. Bullen are applying for a subsidy for a dry-dock of the first, or largest class. It is proposed to be located\nat Esquimalt and will cost .approximately three million dollars.\nMr. C. J. Johnson, of the Northern\nConstruction company, which has the\ncontract for construction of the western\nend of the Canadian Northern railroad,\nannounces that despite the problem of\ntaking the Canadian Northern across the\nCascade mountains, he is under instruction from Mackenzie & Mann to go out\nafter the record and that the work now\nis being framed for the fastest railway\nconstruction campaign ever brought off\nin the we>t. OPPORTUNITIES\nPage 27\nThe Vancouver Trust\nCompany Limited\n614 Pender St. W., Vancouver, B. C.\n\"N\n\"Vancouver Trust Building'\nWe are now ready to receive\nDeposits for Savings Accounts\nInterest i-i-H allowed\nA General Trust Business Transacted\nSTOCKS\nINVESTMENTS\nBONDS\nREAL ESTATE\nMORTGAGES\nRENTS COLLECTED\nEXECUTORS\nTRUSTEES\nASSIGNEES\nLIQUIDATORS\nV\nKamloops, B. C.:\nKAMLOOPS-VANCOUVER TRUST COMPANY LIMITED\nTHESE ABE OPPORTUNITIES XN EVERY ONE OF OtJR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 28\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nA promising oil territory is that to the\nwest of the Flathead River, along the\nInternational Boundary, where there are\na number of seepages of petroleum as\nwell as some highly promising seams of\ncoal. The oil prospects, however, are\nnow receiving more attention than the\ncoal, and one well has been sunk. In\nview of the prospects for both oil and\ncoal the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget\nSound Railway Co. and also the Great\nNorthern Railway Co. have surveyors\non the ground. The Flathead Valley is\na fine open stretch of land about twelve\nmiles wide with a soil well adapted to ter to connect with existing Canadian\nwheat raising and general farming. Northern services at Edmonton.\nApplication will be made to the legislative assembly at its next session for\namendments 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\nStewart in a general easterly- direction\nto the eastern boundary of the province\nat or near where the Peace River intersects the boundary, from which point it\nmay be extended under an Alberta char-\nWith the intention of conducting a\ngeneral steamship business, a local syndicate is now being formed which will\nbuild a modern steam freighter here for\nuse in British Columbia coast waters.\nThe plan is to operate the new boat\nwherever business offers and to build\nor charter additional steamers whenever\nnecessary. The steamer will be 125 feet\nlong, 22 feet beam, 10 feet deep and will\nhave a carrying capacity of 150 tons\ndead-weight.\nBritish Columbia's Financial Strength\nBy D. Von Cramer\nAmong students of finance and close\nobservers of the causes and results that\nlead to the rise and fall of commercial\nprosperity, the phenomenal progress of\nthe Province of British Columbia affords at the present time a subject of\nconsiderable interest.\nA decade ago this, the largest Province of the Dominion of Canada, was\ncomparatively unknown. At the present time of writing no country in the\nworld is more in the lime-light as a\nMecca for enterprise and the investment\nof capital. A number of causes have\ntendered to this remarkable state of affairs, and it is the purpose of this article to try to point out a few of the\nleading ones.\nIn the first place, it may justly be said\nthat, from the financial standpoint at\nleast, it has been but recently discovered. Only within the last few years have\n\u25a0 its stupendous possibilities really dawned upon the financial, and consequently\nconservative world. Ever since this\nawakening British Columbia has been\nsteadily establishing itself, not by flam-\nbuoyant advertising, but by definite results, as the last and gfeatest West.\nProbably the most striking feature\nabout British Columbia is the fact that\nit is almost absolutely self-contained. It\npossesses within its own wide boundaries practically all of the essentials which\nmake a country independent of all other\ncountries. The range of its natural resources is more extensive than that of\nany other. Almost every mineral of any\nimportance is found in abundance somewhere within its borders. Its coal and\niron deposits are among the greatest\nknown, and occur in close proximity to\neach other in almost every instance,\nwhich makes the economic production\nof those greatest elements in a nation's\nprosperity, iron and steel, a mere matter\nof enterprise. Huge deposits of copper\nand lead have already been located. Valuable deposits of the precious metals,\ngold, silver and platinum, are being partially developed and recent discoveries\nare continually adding to the list. Mar-.\nble, practically all the economic clays,\nand cement, are present in inexhaustible\nquantities.\nThe timber resources of the Province\nare known to be the greatest and of the\nfinest quality in the world, and the waters along its seven thousand miles of\ncoast line teem with valuable fish. Its\nmany splendid habors afford unequalled\nfacilities for shipping, and three Canadian transcontinentals have extended their\nlines northward to get their share of the\nenormous trade which is being rapidly\nbuilt up. Wonderful water powers pour\ndown British Columbia mountain sides.\nThis power when harnessed, will be capable of driving innumerable wheels of\nindustry. Over one hundred thousand\nelectrical'horse power is already produced within fifty miles of Vancouver,\nand more is contemplated.\nBritish Columbia's agricultural possibilities are almost boundless. All the\nimportant cereals, with the exception of\nrice, respond bountifully to a husbandman's plough. The fruit of the Province\nis becoming noted in the markets, not\nonly of this continent but in the old land\nand the antipodes. Hops, hemp, flax, tobacco, and many other valuable crops\nare numbered among the list of its products, which list is receiving continually\nadditions as the various sections are\nopened up.\nAll that was required to bring its vast\npotentialities to the front was the capital\nnecessary for development, and that has\nbeen coming during the last few years,\nand is coming now in an ever-increasing\nstream, and from many directions. At\nfirst Eastern Canada and the United\nStates sent their quota, somewhat timid\nly it is true, but with increasing courage. Then scattered British investors,\nattracted largely by the name and the\nclimate, so much like their own, began\nto invest their idle pounds. The results\nwere so satisfactory for the investors\nthat soon the attention of financiers\nthroughout the world began to be attracted, with the result that British Columbia has been steadily coming into her\nown.\nOne of the most important features,\nlooked at both from a financial, capitalistic and investors' point of view, is the\ngovernment of a country. In British\nColumbia financiers and investors cannot but be impressed by the careful manner in which the finances of the Province\nhave been handled, as can be seen by\nthe splendid financial report of the Minister of Finance, in which is shown a\nsurplus nearly sufficient to redeem the\nbonded indebtedness of the Province.\nCoincident with this marked develop-\nVANCOUVEK POST OFFICE 1910\nO\nPPORTUNITIES\nPage 29\nment of her resources, important new\nmarkets for the products seemed to rise\nat just the psychological moment. The\nawakening of Japan and China has created a market which is increasing by\nleaps and bounds. Australia and New\nZealand are becoming more and more\nimportant and the trade with the Orient\nand the Antipodes is fast becoming a\ngreat factor in British Columbia's wealth\nproducing power. The astonishing peopling of the prairies of the Canadian\nWest during the last few years has created a vast new market for practically\neverything this Province can raise. Particularly is this the case in regard to\nlumber, fruit and fish. In this connection it may be mentioned that the wheat\nof Alberta and Saskatchewan is being\ngradually diverted to its natural outlet,\nwestward, a by no means inconsiderable\nitem 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\nquantities of them are being carried annually by special refrigerator trains and\nboats.\nAnother factor of considerable moment in the upbuilding of the Province,\n\u2022financially and in even more important\nways, is the fact that, attracted by its\nsplendid climate and beautiful scenery,\nmany residents of the provinces and\nof the Western States are coming in\ncontinually, people who are coming here\nfor homes after accumulating a competence amid less congenial and harsher\nsurroundings. These naturally bring\ntheir capital for investment, and this in\nthe aggregate amounts to a very large\nsum.\nAs an instance of how much money\nhas found its way into British Columbia\nduring the last few years, it may be\npointed out that five years ago the\nbranch banks throughout the Province\nwere compelled to draw largely upon\nthe resources of their head offices in\nthe East, to supply the local demand for\nordinary business purposes. This is now\na thing of the past, as the local deposits\nare proving quite sufficient to meet the\ndiscounts, notwithstanding the vast expansion of trade which, during the same\nperiod, has taken place.\nIn this connection it is worth while to\nnote that, in striking contrast to the methods largely followed in the Western\nStates, the policy of business concerns\nin British Columbia has been to follow\npopulation and supply its needs as they\narise, rather than to establish branches\nand wait the arrival of population. As\na result of this conservatism there is\nhardly a line of business in the Province\nwhich is not in a thoroughly sound and\nflourishing condition. Permeated as the\natmosphere undoubtedly is with West-\nTHREE GOOD BUIS\nHalf Mile Waterfrontage, between New Westminster and\nEburne, deep water; also good acreage. Only $250 All\nacre. $10,000 cash, balance over years, 6 per cent.\nAcreage on B. C. Electric Railway, also fronting on\nWestminster Road, adjoining a railway station, level and\nalways dry; 15 acres and only $6000 to handle this. Good\nterms.\nRichards Street, 800.block, good house, rents for $35 per\nmonth. This is the cheapest buy in this block. Only\n$14,500 ; third cash and balance to arrange.\nC. WAKLEY\n441 PENDER STREET WEST\nPHONE 4120\nern optimism, it is none the less tempered with that business caution which\nis a prevailing characteristic of both\nCanadians, and British, as opposed to the\nmore reckless methods of their American neighbors.\nOne of the most powerful arguments\nas to the future of British Columbia is\nthe probability that no matter how any\nof the older countries may be affected\nfinancially, only slight and temporary\nsetbacks can \u00a9ccur here. Should there\nbe a slump in securities, caused by the\nspectre of Ex-President Roosevelt's big\nstick, the effect would be to frighten\ncapital northward to a land of promise\nwhere the skies are clear. The passing\nof the Lloyd-George budget in Great\nBritain, by discouraging the buying of\nreal estate there and thus closing one of\nthe greatest avenues for investment, has\nhad the effect of sending millions of\npounds to Canada, and there are more\nmillions on the way.\nAs British Columbia appeals to the\nBritish investor in many ways, it is get-\n>\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00ab\nBEAUTIFUL\nBURNABY\ni\ni\ni\ni\ni\nA choice residential district,\nful scenery, good elevation-.\nBeauti-\n50 ft. Lots from $180 to $250\nTerms: quarter cash balance\nover two years.\nBrown Realty Co.\n603 Victoria Drive\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nting and is likely to get, a lion's share.\nThe higher the taxes rise in Germany\nand France, the more capital moves this\nway. 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\nscarcely effect British Columbia, as such\nconditions would not prevent the influx\nof capital from abroad, as this favored\nProvince, though united politically \u00bbnd\nsentimentally with the rest, in reality\nstands alone.\nGOOD SEWING MACHINES.\nOne of the interesting exhibits at the\nNew Westminster Exhibition was that\nof the Raymond sewing machine, which\ncommended itself to all housewives as\none of the most useful machines on the\nmarket.\n*\u2022\u25a0\u2022-\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022-\u2022\"\nThe Great West Light Co., Ltd.\nHollow Wire and Tube Systems\nMakers of the Famous\nHighlow Gasoline Lamps\n50K HASTINGS ST., EAST\nP. O. Box 1401 Vancouver, B. C.\nTHERE ABB OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OVB ADVERTISEMENTS Page 30\nOPPORTUNITIES\n19\/0\nSteady Movement in Real Estate\nAlthough there was a lull in real estate early in October, the market has\nrecovered buoyantly. It is beginning to\nshow the tonic effect of the arrival in\nthe city of farmers, lumberman and others from the North and East who have\ncompleted their season's work and have\ncome to the centers of population with\nmoney for investment. This upward\ntendency is expected to continue until\nwell into December, when the approach\nof the holiday season will cause a pause\nuntil after the first of the year. From\nthat time until the summer lull the demand for good offerings at fair prices\nwill be, it is safe to say, at least as great\nas the supply.\nOne of the strongest evidences of the\nsound condition of British Columbia real\nestate is seen in the great number of\nbuyers of sites for homes. A large majority of the persons who come to the\nPro-vince to look into the business prospects and opportunities here, quickly realize the stability and expanding nature\nof British Columbia's prosperity, and\nmake arrangements for permanent settlement. Most of them belong to the\ndesirable class who want homes of their\nown. The fact that a large proportion\nof these have not sufficient capital for a\nlarge investment in this direction has\ncreated a special real estate need which\nis being handled effectively by many of\nthe most progressive operators. The\nlatter offer to build bungalows and cottages to order for a small cash payment,\nwith the further payments made in the\nsame manner in which rent is paid. The\nreadiness -with which sales are -made on\nthese terms is one of the most significant elements of the real estate situation in Vancouver.\nIn regard to localities in the vicinity\nof the metropolis which figured largely\nin the market during October, Point\nGrey, Port Mann, and South Vancouver\nmay be mentioned as perhaps the most\nconspicuous. The development of Point\nGrey has been given a strong and enduring impetus by its selection for the Provincial University, which will lend the\nneighborhood a certain atmosphere very\ndesirable for residences. The great interest in Port Mann as an industrial center is as strong as ever and will continue\nfor a long time to come. The Patterson\nRanch, adjoining the Port Mann town-\nsite, was taken up practically in its entirety as soon as it was placed on the\nmarket. There have been several other\nimportant deals in this locality, and it\ncannot be doubted that fortunes will be\nmade in Port Mann realty. South Vancouver property has been active in the\nmarket as the result of the demand, mentioned above, for homes on easy payments.\nThe substantial character of real estate investment in Vancouver is indicated by the plans for new buildings. A\nbig project of this kind involves an expenditure, it is said, of $500,000 for a\ntwelve-story office building on the southwest corner of Pender and Homer\nstreets. Another building project which\nis a significant indication of the growth\nof the city is that for two additions to\nthe Hotel Vancouver. These consist of\nlarge annexes and will be completed in\nample time for the large tourist patronage next summer.\nA transaction of magnitude early in\nthe month, involved the purchase of the\nproperty on the South-East corner of\nGranville and Cordova streets for nearly\nhalf a million dollars by a company of\nlocal capitalists who propose to erect on\nthe plot a sixteen-story office building,\nwhich, it is said, will be the most modern and handsomest structure of its kind\nin the city.\nStill another indication of the rapid\nincrease in population is found in the\nplans of the Canadian Pacific Railway\nfor important terminal improvements.\nThe railroad company has found that\nthe volume of its traffic is growing to an\nextent that has made the present passenger station wholly inadequate. The\nintention is to either tear down this station or to materially enlarge it. A similar congested condition prevails on the\nC. P. R. docks, and the company proposes to increase the wharfage facilities by\nbuilding additional piers west of the detention shed and beyond the site of the\npier completed last year. This company\nhas also announced an intention to double the capacity of the grain elevator\nerected last season in order to handle its\ngrowing business in exporting grain,\nparticularly to Mexico. Another building project which helps to tell the story\nof the development of Vancouver is that\nfor a new opera house, which will be\nconducted, it is said, under the auspices\nof the celebrated firm of Klaw & Er-\nlanger of New York City, and will be\none of the finest theatres in the West.\nVictoria will also have a beautiful new\ntemple of dramatic art. It is said that\nwork on these structures will be started\nin the near future and that they will be\nready for the opening of the theatrical\nseason next year.\nAmong the Brokers\nO. H. Bowman & Company, of Victoria, report that the demand for acreage\nand lots in and around Victoria has been\nvery active during the last month. This\ncompany also handles stocks and bonds,\nand find great activity in Amalgamated\nDevelopment, Maricopa Oil and Portland Canal shares. From all indications\nthey look for a. busy winter in the stock\nmarket.\nGoddard & Son state that they have\nmade several deals in Port Mann. The\npublic appear to be grasping the opportunity to make money around the town-\nsite before it is put on the market by\nauction next spring.\nA firm which has its own property and\ndeals with it exclusively, is that of Latimer, Ney & McTavish. Ten days ago\nthey opened up a sub-division in the\nsouth end which they called the Rosen-\nburg division. This consisted of eighty\nlots, and already the firm has disposed of\nhalf of it at remunerative prices.\nRoss & Shaw are finding great interest\nevinced in Sunnyside Orchard lands.\nThis is one of the most favorable localities in British Columbia for the growing\nof fine fruits, one of its great advantages\nbeing its close proximity to the large\nmarkets.\nBesides selling most of the lots in Lot\n3, Block 17, H. W. Windle has sold\nsome acreage blocks and has prospects\nof selling some more in the Point Grey\nMunicipality, especially Kerrisdale. The\ntalk of the University site being at Point\nGrey has stimulated enquiries. He has\nbeen told that the water mains will be\nlaid in five months from now, also that\nrail laying and double tracking will soon\nbe started.\nNorthey & Wooley are the agents for\nthe fruit growers of Creston, which is\nsituated on Kootenay Lake. That Creston apples are among the finest grown\nanywhere will be proved at the first 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 31\nCanadian Apple Show, at which the SALMON ARM FRUIT LANDS.\nCreston growers have a big exhibit.\nNorthey & Wooley are also handling\nten thousand acres of farm lands in the\nBuckley Valley, and are doing an active\nbusiness in Vancouver realty.\nOne of the chief interests of the firm\nof Foster & Fisher lies in Kerrisdale,\nwhere the firm is building to order a\nnumber of attractive bungalows. Kerrisdale has been somewhat held back by\na lack of city water, but seventy miles\nof water pipe will have been laid by\nspring, and Kerrisdale is on the eve of a\nbig development.\nMr. Ralph S. Clark, manager of the\nImperial Realty Company, reports a recent sale of eighty feet of frontage on the\nMarine Drive. His firm is specializing in\nKitsilano and Point Grey properties and\nfind a good demand for them. The company has also large holdings in South\nVancouver for which there is a steady,\nthough recently not very active, market.\nAmong those who have a keen appreciation of the great future of Chilliwack\nis the firm of Alexander & McKay,\nwhich has, within easy reach of the City\nof Chilliwack, four hundred acres of\nlevel land, dyked, drained, and ready for\nthe plough. Land like this is bound to\nhave a constantly increasing value because of the development of this whole\nsection\u2014a development which has very\nrecently received a strong impetus from\nthe opening of the electric railway line\nbetween Chilliwack and New Westminster.\nWHEN YOU WANT A HACK\nIt frequently happens that when one\nmost wants a hack or other conveyance\nit is most difficult to find one. This difficulty is solved, however, by knowledge\nof the fact that G. D. George has various\nvehicles available for any customer both\nday and night. Fix in your memory his\nname and his telephone number, which\nis 722, and you will never be at a loss\nfor a hack.\nOne of the most attractive fruit propositions in British Columbia is that of the\nSalmon Arm Fruit and Land Company, of\nVancouver, which is transforming extensive tracts into orchard lands. These\nwill become highly productive and profitable to their owners because, as is\nwell known, Salmon Arm is one of the\nbest regions on the continent for apples\nand other fruits. In addition to its financial opportunities in fruit growing,\nthe climate is delightful and the town\nitself is very attractive. One of its features, characteristic of the whole community, is the Montbello Hotel, which, in\nits comfort and general equipment, would\ndo justice to a big city.\n-o-\nDUSTLESS FLOOR BRUSH.\nA unique exhibit at the New West\nminster Exhibition was that of the Dust-\nless Floor Brush. The practical demon-\n\u201e jiron i-n(vnf!\nstration given, together with the strong\nendorsement of many Vancouver housekeepers, business men, schools and\nchurches, is convincing evidence of the\ngenuine worth of the article. Che use of\nDUSTLESS FLOOR BRUSH\na -small quantity of coal oil, supplied\nthrough a reservoir, keeps the brush\nmoist enough to not only keep dust\ndown, but to actually clean the floor, as\nthough it were scrubbed. Mr. W. Carter,\n44 Broadway, west, Vancouver, who is\nthe representative for British Columbia,\nwas in charge of the exhibit.\nGrading for the construction of the\nKootenay Central railway is now in full\nswing. It is not likely, however, that\nthe rails will be laid into Fort Steele before the snow flies, and possibly not before the spring.\n>P?xn--^xxxxxxxxxxxx3a^xxxxxxxxxxxxx?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx^xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx^\nCORRESPONDENCE INVITED\nReference: Bank op Montreal\nSAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT\nOPINIONS OF MARY.\nThe lighter phases of everyday life\nmay not greatly arouse the imagination,\nbut when presented by a writer with humor and discernment they are bound to\nhold the interest. The Opinions of Mary,\nput into an attractive book by Mrs. Alice Ashworth Townley of Vancouver,\nare not in the least startling, yet one\nis in danger of sitting up late with Mrs.\nTownley's book. When you reach the\nend of one of the clever essays, another\nbeckons on the opposite page, and even\nthough the hands of the clock are pointing out the hour accusingly, you are apt\nto succumb to the temptation.\nThis is because Mrs. Townley has\nturned a bright light upon some of the\ndetails in the picture of life which, for\nmany of us, have become blurred or\nhave been overlooked. We see afresh,\nand gain a new insight into some of the\nphases of the world around us. The\nlonely bachelor, for instance, attains a\nnew understanding of the baby's outlook\nupon life when Mrs. Townley tells about\nit. Some of the true inwardness of sentiment, sympathy, the society column,\nsummer, the small boy, the barbar, the\nminister and his wife, the householder,\nand numerous other things and persons,\nare exposed to the gaze in a manner\nwhich cause smiles and a pleasant self-\nappreciation due to a feeling that we\nhave realized all the time, though we\nhave never mentioned it, the truth of\nwhat is pointed out. Several of the\nsketches have a serious import which\ngives them special value, like the one on\nInfant Literature. This should be read\nby every conscientious mother.\nMrs. Townley achieves her effectiveness through the medium of a clean-cut\nand incisive style and a humor which is\nnever absent, though at times its form\nis caustic. People who have out-grown\nthe products of the literary sensation\nfactories will find much to interest them\nin the Opinions of Mary, which was published in 1909 by William Briggs,\nToronto.\nxxxxx^cxxxxxxxxxxxxxxixxxxtxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxicxxxx:\nCable and Telegraphic Address :\n\"STECO,\" Vancouver, B. C.\nCodes Used :\nA. B. C, 6th Edition, and Western Union\nPhones :\nHead Office, - 5604\nBranch Office, 4266\nResidence, - 5694\nThe John T Stevens Trust Co.\nMercantile Building\", 318 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C.\nBranch Office:\n_!\u2022>.)\nEstates Managed\nFunds Invested\nCompanies Organized\nStocks, ''Bonds, aMines\nf\nWE ARE PREPARED TO ACT AS MANAGERS, TRUSTEES (UNDER\nPOWER OF ATTORNEY), REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS FOR\nCLIENTS, INVESTORS, MORTGAGERS, AND PROPERTY OWNERS.\nCONSULT US. WE PLACE MORTGAGES ON 50% MARGIN OF\nVALUATION YIELDING 6% TO 8\u00b0j\u00a3 INTEREST\na\u00abXnaii^llx11;wl^^rTTTTTTTTTirrrTTTTTTTTItTTirTTTTYniMTTrniItTTir^^\nGranville Street\nTimber Limits\nFarm Lands\nInsurance\n(.olonixotion\nriTTTTTTTTTTrTTTTTTHTITTf\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES XV BT\u00a3EY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 32\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nA City Made to\nImperial, on Point Roche, Will be a Centre of Industry\nand Population\nNo longer do towns have to wait\nmany years for their development into\ncities. Owing chiefly to great accumulations of capital and the big industries\nof today, cities are now made to order.\nThis will be the case with Port Mann,\nand it will also be the case with another\nindustrial center which is rising on the\nhorizon of the near future in close proximity to Vancouver. This city will be\ncalled Imperial, and will be located near\nRoche Point, on the north shore of Bur-\nrard Inlet where the inlet makes a turn\nalmost at right angle and becomes\nknown as the North Arm. Roche Point,\nwithin a few months, will be one of the\nbusiest sections of the continent.\nThe beginning of Imperial, the city-\nto-be, may be traced to the brain of an\ninventor, John J. Loughran, who has\nobtained no less than one hundred and\nfifty-four patents for sleeping car improvements, and who, having been able\nto interest capital, came to Vancouver\nabout a year ago looking for a suitable\nsite for car shops. After numerous negotiations Mr. Loughran and his associates bought at Roche Point two hundred acres of ground, with about a mile\nof water frontage. After acquiring this\nland the company began to look around\nfor a townsite, and found one in the\nproperty of the Rosslyn syndicate, consisting of three hundred acres and another half mile of water frontage. Here\nwill rise Imperial.\nIt will have a water frontage where\nthe largest vessels ever launched may\nrest after their voyages on the seas. This,\nof course, is a great asset for a young\ncommunity, and it has already brought\nindustrial prospects far beyond the first\nideas of Imperial. Because of its deep\nwater, Imperial will havq the million and\na half dollar drydock which has been\nsubsidized by the Dominion Government to the extent of $42,000 a year for\ntwenty-five years. When Imperial was\nfirst contemplated there was no notion\nof the dry dock. The promise of the\nunborn city was great without this big\nberth for ships. Now, of course, the\npromise is much greater.\n| For a number of years certain citizens of Vancouver have been devoting\nmuch time and energy to the work of\nprocuring a drydock near the metropolis. They had succeeded in interesting\nan important coterie of English capitalists, but when the latters' representative\ncame to Vancouver and inspected the\nsite which had been selected he \"turned\nit down\" for the reason that in his op\ninion it was too small for expansion in\nthe future. He examined the entire water front of Burrard Inlet in his search\nfor another site and found that Roche\nPoint offered by far the best facilities.\nThe company which had been promoting the project and the car company got\ntogether. The corporations were combined, making a single company with\nassets of not only the rich prospect in\ncar building but also with the subsidized drydock project. The car construction plans, in the meantime, were progressing steadily. A tract of land about\nten miles from the site of the shops,\nrich in iron deposits, was acquired. Arrangements were made for the establishment near Point Roche of one of the\nmost modern saw mills in the world,\nwith a capacity of one hundred thousand 4*\nyear. The saw mill company will forfeit $25 a day if their mill is not running\nby the first of next March. Very soon\nthe drydock will begin to take tangible\nform.\nTo make assurance doubly sure that\nImperial will become an industrial center the capitalists behind it have adopted\na most effective plan for the bringing in\nof other manufacturers. They offer to\nany of those whose business is important enough to justify it, a site along\ntheir seven thousand feet of waterfrontage free of charge. The manufacturer,\nhowever, after showing that his plant\npromises to be successful, must sign a\ncontract to the effect that he will employ continuously one skilled mechanic\nfor every two feet of waterfrontage he\ntakes up. At the end of six years he and the\ncompany owning the water frontage will\ngive formal consideration to the value\nof the site. If. they fail .to agree as to\nthis, the decision of an arbitrator will\nbe accepted as final. After four more\nyears the manufacturer may at his op-\n\\ tion buy the property at the price so\nIMPERIAL WILL HAVE A DRYDOCK LIKE THIS\nfeet of board measure for each ten hour\nday. In connection with the saw mill,\nplans were drawn up for the erection of\na new plant equipped for extracting all\nthe by-products of this and other mills.\nIn consideration of the granting to it of\nfour hundred feet of water frontage, the\nmill company guaranteed to provide and\noperate a car ferry with tracks extending\nalong the water front.\nThese plans are now becoming actualities. The initial steps are now being\ntaken for the actual construction of the\ncar shops, which, it has been announced,\nwill begin to rise before the first of the\nfixed, without regard to its increase in\nThe object of this proposition to manufacturers is, of course, to attract to\nthe city of Imperial progressive and\nthriving industries\u2014industries which will\ngive employment to thousands, thus\ncausing Imperial and surrounding localities to develop rapidly into a center of\npopulation. The company is already\npreparing home sites. The whole area\nhas been laid out in accordance with\nthe latest and most approved plans for\ncities. Imperial, instead of growing in\nthe old fashioned, slow and haphazard\nway, is being made to order. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 33\n^S^^fr.S--7^*^^^\u00bb\u00abT^^pK5^;a^\n-**A^S\u00abM\u00abSBWSKW\u00ab*S\u00bb..''\nNDAI\n_-\/\nNORTH VANCOUVER\nD.L.\n622\nOne quarter of a mile from the property of the Imperial Car, Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and\nbetween that property and the City of Vancouver. One of the best opportunities in British Columbia for\nthe Investor to get sure and quick returns for his money.\nLots are 50 and 60 feet wide, and a well graded road runs to every lot. Very easy clearing. Lots are\nlevel, free from rocks and gullies, have a deep loam soil, and will have a view over the entire Inlet.\nPrices : $300 to $500. Terms: One fifth cash, balance over two years.\nWhen the industries located at Imperial are running full time, and the Second Narrows bridge is built,\nthese lots will be worth thousands of dollars each.\nNOW is the time to buy. A good many lots are already sold. If you want to be sure of securing one\nor more lots, send a deposit at once, and we shall select for you the best property left at the price you name.\nThese lots are going fast, therefore we reserve the right to refund your money if all lots are sold by the time\nyour application arrives.\nD. MacL UR G\n340 Pender St. W. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nTo\nNi\nD.\nobtain maps\n2me\t\nand particu\nars\nfill\nup\nand mail this c\naup\non\nAddress\nMacLURG,\nPlease se\n340\nnd me\nPond\npart\nerSt\nrul;\nITS\nof\nVANCOUVER\nER1NDALE\n> B.\nC.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IK EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 34\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nThe Kootenay Fruit Country\nBy C. W. Esmond, B. S. A.\nFormerly Editor Maritime Farmer, later Associate Editor of the Northwest\nFarmer, of Winnipeg, Man., now of Vancouver, B. C.\nThough a citizen of British Columbia\nI had been a stranger to the Kootenay\n\u2014had heard much, but had never seen\nit. Sir Edmund Walker, President of\nthe Canadian Bank of Commerce, said:\n\"Few parts of the northern world will\ngive so generous a response to the labor applied to the land as British Columbia.\" I shall not attempt to discuss\nhis observation, but shall merely tell\nwhat I saw, and you may judge of the\napplication of this statement to the\nKootenay.\nYou go into the Kootenay either from\nRevelstoke on the C. P. R. main line at\nthe north, or by way of the Crow's Nest\nbranch of the C. P. R. from the south.\n1 f entering from the States, you can\ncome in from Spokane over either the\nC. P. R. or Great Northern. I enjoyed\nthe unsurpassed scenic trip from Revelstoke by rail down the Columbia River\nValley to Arrowhead, and thence by\nsteamer down the Arrow Lakes. The\nArrow Lakes are merely an expansion\nof the great Columbia. The Kootenay\npeople believe that when the Columbia\nis made navigable to the sea, a large\nproportion of the Western Canada grain\ncrop, as well as other products, will be\ntranshipped from the railway at Kootenay points and be carried down the river to the tide-water.\nOn leaving Arrowhead the quaint\nstern-wheeler draws out into the lake\nfrom the shadow of the beetling mountain that overhangs the town\u2014a cluster\nof houses and humming sawmills. The\nlake varies from one to a little over two\nmiles in width. We swept on past snowy\npeaks and green mantled hills.. We pursue our course through a land that is\nbeginning to bloom wi\u00a3h happy homes.\nThe climate is delightful. The valleys\nare warm in summer, but snow-capped\npeaks are always in sight, and ice-cold\nstreams trickling down the mountainside constantly refresh the receptive soil.\nThe winters, bright and clear, are never\nextremely cold. Government meteorological statistics show that for a period of\nthree years the highest temperature re\ncorded was 94 degrees Fahy and the\nlowest 6 degrees below zero.\nKootenains attribute this mildness of\nclimate to the warm, moisture-laden\nbreezes that flow up the Columbia Valley from the Pacific Ocean. To the same\ncause is attributed the rainfall of 27,91\ninches, of which the greatest amount\nfalls in the month of June. It is these\nclimatic conditions, together with the\nsuitability of the soil, that has given the\ngreat impetus to fruit growing of late.\nIt was my opportunity to visit a number of the fruit ranches. Mr. John\nBangs, a sturdy old pioneer in Fire Valley, has been growing fruit of all kinds\nfor a dozen years, getting $1 per box,\nand sometimes as high as $2 for apples.\nHis land yields him two or three tons\nof hay to the acre, worth upwards of\n$20 per ton. Potatoes give him 8 tons\nto the acre, and sell for from $20 to $60\nper ton. His orchard, formerly in meadow now receives careful cultivation,\nand is developing into a splendid revenue-producer. He has never lost from\nfrost or hail or drought\u2014he is always\nsure of a crop, and his neighbors have\nthe same happy tale to tell.\nAcross the lake at the Needles, I\nvisited the large ranch of Mr. G. Fauquier, who has been here for about ten\nyears, and who contracts to supply certain quantities of fruit each year to Calgary wholesalers at certain fixed prices.\nThe boat calls each day during the fruit\nseason, and takes away the consignment\nfor that day. Large areas are given over to small fruits, and Mr. Fauquier\nstated that he clears about $350 per acre\nfrom strawberries, after deducting all\nexpenses, and from raspberries he has\ncleared as high as $600 per acre.\nThose who are not familiar with the\nPacific Slope do not appreciate the rapid, vigorous growth of the trees, nor\nthe early age at which they bear. Mr.\nFauquier's young orchard of about 1400\ntrees, or approximately 20 acres, is just\ncoming nicely into bearing, and he\npointed out one young Spy tree that had\nyielded 8 boxes, nearly three barrels, at\nfive years of age. Let those who are familiar with the Spy in the East note this\nfact.\nThe laden branches of the young trees\ntrail the ground, heavy with fruit. No\nfruit pests have yet invaded this region.\nThe government maintains a careful inspection of all fruit trees brought in, and\nalso of any fruit that may be imported\nfrom other districts. The growers all\nspray as a precaution, and infection is\nprevented. This, of course, places an\nimmense advantage with this section as\na producer of superior fruit.\nIf there is one fruit more than another\nthat reaches perfection in the Kootenay,\nit is the cherry. By Mr. Gibbet, along\nthe Arrow Lake, we were invited to help\nourselves at a particularly fine, well\nloaded Royal Anne cherry tree. The\nfruit seemed to be about the size of crab\napples as I have known them, and the\nflavor could not be improved. The little boy's idea of heaven as being a place\nwhere he could' camp beneath a cherry\ntree and indulge without stint struck\nus as being pretty correct. Here is an\nexample that shows Kootenay cherries\nin the light of revenue producers. Mr.\nJ. T. Bealby, near Nelson, whose ranch\nI visited, told me that from one tree this\nyear he had taken $75 worth of fruit, and\nfrom a third of an acre of cherry trees\nhe had taken over $5\u00b0\u00b0 worth of fruit.\nThe financial successes of a large\nnumber of individuals outside of those\nwhom the writer was privileged to visit,\nseem quite as brilliant as those at the\napple shows. A few examples will suffice. Mr. James Johnston, of Nelson,\nhas made a net profit of $500 to $600 per\nacre from apples alone, the trees being\n7 years old. Mr. Hyslop, of Nelson, has\nobtained $900 per acre from 12 year old\ntrees. For a young orchard, in which\nboth potatoes and apples were grown,\nMessrs. Mawdsley and Eskrigge, of\nKaslo report a return of $320 per acre.\nThe above mentioned Mr. Hyslop has\nreceived $900 per acre from raspberries,\nand Mr. Johnston's average gross return\nfrom cherries is at the rate of $1050 per\nacre.\nThere are some fruit ranches near\nNelson for which $1000 per acre has\nbeen refused, but sufficient time has not\nelapsed for many plantations to reach\nthis stage of value. The prevailing price\nfor unimproved land suitable for fruit\nis $100 per acre. The land costs $50 to\n$100 per acre to clear. Land that is\n1 KERRISDALE FACTS\nThe school grounds comprise 10 acres, (Have you a boy?) The carfare is only 5c. The distance from the Post Office is only 4\nmiles. Watermains will be laid in 5 months. Fine lots can be bought by paying $100 down, balance over 2 years, or if you\nwant an acre send in your name at once as I propose to cut up 5 acres in acre blocks. (Acre blocks are scarce.)\nROOM 4\n32 GRANVILLE ST.\nAPPLY\nH. W. WINDLE\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS r\n1910\ncleared and set to young trees costs $300\nper acre and upward.\nIt is quite usual for the fruit rancher\nto clear his land gradually and make his\nliving off the portions first cleared by\nraising berries, potatoes and other vegetables, and by keeping poultry. Prices\nfor poultry and eggs are particularly\nhigh, and the conditions for poultry raising are exceptionally favorable. The soil\nwill make money for the owner all the\ntime that the trees are coming into bearing.\nI liave given you facts about the Kootenay\u2014what do you think of it? I wanted to tell you more but the Editor says\nmy space is gone so I induced him to insert this coupon. If you are interested\nin the Kootenay country and if you want\nOPPORTUNITIES\nto know more, of its fruit growing possibilities, use this coupon:\nOPPORTUNITIES,\nDepartment F,\nVancouver, B. C.\nGentlemen:\nI want to hear more about fruit\ngrowing in the Kootenay. Will you send\nme some further facts about the country.\nYours' truly,\nSign Name \t\nand Address \t\nPlainly. \t\nOpportunities in Sugar Beets\nHNE of the most important industries ever projected for\nBritish Columbia is that\nwhich will involve the utilization of many thousands\nof acres of farm lands for the production\nof sugar beets. An appreciation of the\ngreat value of the development of a beet\nsugar industry in this Province will be\nreached when it is known that, accord-\n;ing to high authority, the great present\n\u2022prosperity of Germany is based chiefly\nI upon its widespread industry of making sugar from beets. Since the conditions in British Columbia are as good\nras in Germany for the raising of sugar\ni beets, it is highly probable that the\n[wealth of this Province and the prosperity of thousands of its citizens will in the\nhiot distant future be very materially increased through the medium of the su-\ni gar beet.\nAs is well known, this vegetable has\n[already given rise to several large sugar\nI making plants in the Dominion of Canada. There is a big factory at Wallace-\n[ burg, Ont.; one at Berlin, Ont.; and one\nat Raymond, Alta. These have done\nI much for the sections in which they are\n[ located, and yet careful experiments\n[ made under the auspices of the Domin-\n[ ion government show that the soil of\n[ British Columbia is better adapted for\n\\ the sugar beet than is that of any of\n[these sections in the East. In Ontario,\nE for instance, the amount of sugar in the\nRbest ranges from sixteen to seventeen\nl per cent, and in Alberta is in the\nI neighborhood of fourteen per cent.;\nI while along the Fraser river, in\nI the vicinity of Aerassiz and Mission,\nexcellently well adapted to the production of the sugar beet. This acreage\nwould produce an annual output of sugar\nworth $20,000,000 and with the developing markets, there will be no danger of\nover-production.\nThis output of $20,000,000 worth of\nbeet sugar a year is, of course, not an\nimmediate probability, and is mentioned\nonly to give an idea of what the industry\nin the Province is very likely to become\neventually. In the meantime the pioneers in beet sugar making here contemplate the utilization during the first year\nof about 2,500 acres in the neighborhood\nof the factory at Mission, which, it is\ncontemplated, will be opened by this\ntime next year.\nDr. George Schumacher and Mr. W.\nO. Peters are now engaged in showing\nthe farmers how by raising sugar beets\nthey can greatly increase the financial\nreturns upon their land, and can at the\nsame time very materially improve the\nquality of this land for other crops.\nThese gentlemen are suggesting to each\nfarmer that at the beginning he devote\nten acres to sugar beets. This will mean\na production, on the ten acres, of one\nhundred and fifty tons of beets, which\nthe sugar manufactory will guarantee\nto buy at a rate of at least $5 a ton, giving the farmer a return of $75\u00b0 \u00b0n this\namount of land planted in beets. Not\nonly does the farmer obtain this profit,\nbut, as has been said, he also improves\nhis land for other crops.\nThe testimony of farmers in Ontario\nand Alberta is that no other crop so effectually cleans the land or so well fits\nit for barley, oats or wheat in the fol-\nwhere the British Columbia beet sugar lowini\nseason as a well tilled crop 01\nactory wil\nbe located, the percentage\n>ucrar beet:\nt will kill out, they say,\nPage 35\nhoe has cut its stem the broad leaves of\nthe beet shut out the light of the sun\nfrom its roots and they die. There is no\ndoubt that the land is greatly improved\nby the cultivation it receives, and the operations are so simple that cheap unskilled labor if properly directed will\nserve the purpose.\nThe growing of sugar beets is equally\nbeneficial to the live stock on a farm, because the pulp, returned to the farmer\nfrom the factory free of cost, makes the\nbest of fodder. For instance, a certain\nnumber of farmers who raised 3441 cattle before they began to grow sugar\nbeets, raised 54\u00b09 afterward. They raised\n732 heifers before, and 1087 afterward;\n31 hogs before and 9119 afterward; they\nfattened 635 cattle before and 2681 afterward. The reason of this great improvement in their stock was that they were\nable to keep their cattle in the stalls after they began to grow sugar beets and\nto feed them on the pulp.\nIt is the intention of the projectors of\nthe beet sugar factory in British Columbia to begin the erection of their factory,\nthe site of which has already been acquired, on the Fraser river at Mission\nnext spring, so that they may be ready\nto produce sugar immediately after the\nharvesting of the beet crops next October. They expect to continually expand\nthe acreage devoted to beet growing in\nthe Province by proving to the farmers\nthrough actual demonstrations that one\nof the greatest sources of prosperity is\nBritish Jfmerican trust\nCompany, Ltd.\nCity and Suburban Real Estate\nFarm Lands.\nDairy and Fruit Farms.\nSafety Deposit Boxes from $5.00 per year.\nAll kinds of Insurance written.\nCotton Building, Vancouver, B. C.\nfPANTORIUM\nTailoring Phone 1823 Renovating\nSuits Sponged and Pressed for 50c.\nOne trial will make you a regular customer.\nL313 Gamble St, Vancouver, B\u00bb C, )\nof sugar averages eighteen per cent. that tough-lived pest the Canadian this-\nIt is estimated that in British Co- tie; and when asked how it destroys the\nJumbia there are 120,000 acres of land thistle they will tell you, that after the\nRaymond S\nowing Machines\nTry the \"Es\nsv Running- Raymond\"\nMade in Canada\nGuaranteed for Ten Years.\nOur ]\n'rices are Right.\n432 HOMER ST.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nF. P. M00NEY. M\nana ,'f r PHONE 4467\nTHERE ABB OPPORTUNITIES IN EV ERT ONE OF OT7R ADVERTISEMENTS Page 36\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nto be found in the sugar beet. In the beginning they will have a farm of their\nown devoted exclusively to the beet.\nHere the farmers of British Columbia\nwill be able to observe the best method\nfor growing this crop. From this farm,\nmoreover, instructors will go to various\nsections and teach the farmers how they\nmay make the most of their land for\nbeets. Moreover, there will be on this\nfarm the most approved machinery for\ncultivating and harvesting the beet, and\nthis machinery, at a nominal rent, will be\nat the disposal of those who are engaged\nin raising beets.\nSince the period of manufacturing beet\nsugar and the harvesting of the crop will\nextend, at the beginning ,over only about\nninety days, the company intends to\nequip a plant with fruit canning machinery. This will be a boon to the farmers,\nfor the reason that it will give them a\nprofit on hundreds of tons of fruit too\nripe to send to the big markets, and\nwould be, without the canneries, a dead\nloss. This fruit, immediately on picking, can be taken to the factory, where\nit will be paid for in cash. In this way\nnot only will the farmer derive, a very\nconsiderable profit from the beets, but\nhe will also obtain a larger yield in money from his fruits than up to the present\ntime has been the case.\nThe importance of the development of\nthis industry in British Columbia is fully realized by the Provincial Government, which has given assurances that\nit will guarantee the payment of the interest of five per cent, on $200,000 worth\nof bonds which are being placed in the\nfinancial markets. Moreover, the railroad companies have promised an unusually low freight rate between their local stations and the factory. On all sides\ngreat interest has been manifested in the\nstarting in British Columbia of this industry.\nAs to beet sugar itself, it has the merit\nof being cheaper than cane sugar, and\nin no way inferior in quality. In fact, no\nchemist, however expert, can tell the difference between sugar produced from\nbeets and that produced from sugar cane.\nThus the development of this industry\nin British Columbia will be advantageous\nto the consumer; will have a strong effect in increasing the stability of British\nColumbia agriculture, and will give em\nployment to a large number of people in\nthe 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\nthe sugar is merely refined, beine\nbrought from Pacific Ocean islands in\nthe raw state. A very considerable proportion of the millions of dollars which\nconsumers of Canada pay for their sugar\ngoes to these islands instead of remaining at home to enhance the prosperity of\nthe home people.\nDoctor Schumacher and Mr. Peters\nare sugar experts who had their training\nin the German centers of the industry.\nThey are organizing the industry here\non a co-operative plan. They are desirous of arousing on the part of the farmer as great an interest as possible in\ngrowing sugar beets, and are therefore\ngiving him an opportunity to share on\na very favorable basis in the profits of\nthe company. This co-operative plan has\nbeen adopted with great success in Germany, and it is believed that in British\nColumbia it will prove to be the best\nplan for the rapid and stable development of the industry.\n^\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\"\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022~\u00ab~\u00bb~\u00ab\u00ab \u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\n.\u00bb..\u00bb..:.\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..:.*..\u00bb..*\u201e!..:.9..\n.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022^\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00ab\nWOODWORKERS LIMITED\nWHOLESALE and RETAIL Manufacturers of all kinds of\nSash, Doors, Show Cases, Bank, Office and Store Fixtures. ROUGH and DRESSED\nLUMBER. 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C.\nThe Highest of Ideals\nArchitectural Photography\nEnlargements\nAmateur Finishing\nPicture Framing\nCameras and Supplies\n\u00abfM>ii>n>n\u00abi'\u00bbi\u00bb\u00bb^\u00bb..\u00bb~\u00bb~\u00ab\"\u00bb~>>.\u00bb^\u00bb~\u00bb^>.'\u00ab\"\u00bb~\u00ab>'\u00bbWM\u00bb~\u00ab^\u00bb..\u00bb..>^\u00bb^\u00abM>..\u00ab^>l.>..\u00ab..>M\u00ab..>i.\u00bb.\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb..>\u25a0.\u00bb..>..\u00bb..>..>..>.. \u2022..\u2022\u00ab\u2022..\u2022\u00ab\u2022..\u2022\u00ab\u2022\u00ab\u2022..\u2022\u25a0\u25a0\u2022..\u2022\u25a0\u25a0\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u25a0.\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u25a0.\u2022..\u2022\u25a0\u00ab\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u25a0\u2022\"\u2022'.\n\u00bb\u2022\u00ab\u00ab>\u00bb\u2022>\u00ab\u25a0\u00bb\u2022\u00bb$\u00bb\nf\n..%..%\u00bb%..%..\u00bb..*\n\"\u2022..\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022. \u2022--\u2022-\u2022\u2022-<\n#-\u00bb.\u2666\u00a3\u2666\nFor Kerrisdale Properties\nConsult the Specialist\nj John M. Chappell }\n* i\nj Room 2, 443 Pender Street \\\nOwners ate requested to list all\nPoint Grey property with me\n>I\u00bbII\u00bbII\u00bbII\u00bbII\u00bbII\u00bbII\u00bbH\u00abI1\u00bbH\u00bbI1\u00bbM\u00abM\u00bb..>II\u00abI.>\u25a0\u25a0\u00ab\u25a0\u25a0\u00ab\u25a0\u2022\u00bb..\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0>\u25a0\nTrunks, Bags, Suitcases, Ladies' Shopping Bags, etc.\nThe First Store of its kind in\nVancouver\nAround the Corner on Hastings\n- St., opposite Post Office\n\u25a0|n|ii\u00bbi|ii\u00bbii|il|ii|\"|i'tii>\"\u00abN\u00abiitn>ii|ii|iiiit\u00bb|n>i'ti'>i \u00ab\u2022\u2022\n(^ASf^A T)E T1?e \"B^z without a Peez\n<\u00bb.\u00ab~\u00bb~\u00bb~\u00bb-^~\u00ab~\u00ab-\u00ab~\u00ab'\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\"\u2022\u00ab\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00ab\n\u2022\u00bb\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u00ab\u00ab\u2022\u2022\u00ab\".\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u2022\u2022\u00bb..\u00bb.\u2022...\u00bb i\u00abh\u00bbh\u00bbii\u00bbi 1\u00ab \u00bb-\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00ab\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u2022.\u00ab-\ni\u00abii\u00bbiHiitii\u00bbii>ii\u00bbil\u00bbn\u00abii\u00bb \u00bb i>n\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u2014W\u00bbi\u00bbii> l\u00bbi \u00ab i\u00bbii\u00bbi \u00bbii\u00bbii>ii\u00bbii\u00bbii\u00bbii>ii\u00ab It Hii>ii\u00bbn\u00bbi't\"\u00bb \u25a0\u00bb'\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u00bb\u2666\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 37\nEggs Wanted\nEggs are in great demand, but the\nkind the public are looking for are the\nones obtained from healthy fowl\u2014and\nat this time of the year hens are not\nhealthy--but they mav be kept\nhealthy and your egg supply increased\nby feeding P. & Q. Poultry Food, approved by government test.\nCall and see our analysis on P. & G.\nPoultry Food and P. & G. Stock Food.\nFor Sale by all dealers or direct from\nus, charges prepaid.\nThe Perry-Gordon Manufacturing\nCompany |\n314 HASTINGS ST. W. VANCOUVER, B. C.\ni\nI\nBaxter & Johnson Co.\n\u2022 LIMITED\nOFflCE OUTFITTERS\n\" Underwood \" Typewriter\n\" Macey \" Filing Cabinets\n\" Gunn \" Sectional Bookcases\nSteel Vault Fittings\ni PHONE 730\ni 721 Yates St.\ni\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n.>..\u00bb..\u00bb..>..>.\u25a0>\u25a0.\u00bb..>\u25a0\u25a0>..\u00bb M\u00bb.\u00bb>n\u00bb..\u00bb..\nJ. W. POTTER\nArchitect and Structural engineer\nReinforced Concrete a Specialty\nLHW'BUTLER BUILDING\nPRINCE RUPERT, B. \u00a9,\nP. 0. B\u00a9X 271\nEstimates Cheerfully Given Phone 6481\nHENRY M. WALKER\nContractor for Land Clearing, Stumping,\nBlasting, Etc.\nOffice, 552 Barnard St,, Vancouver, B. C\nPhone 7132\nRoom 112 Carter-Cotton Bid.\nVancouver, B. C.\nYOUNG & FRANCEY\nENGINEERS & DRAUGHTSMEN\nBlue Printing, Tracing, Mapa, Stow Card Writing\nDesigns ana Specifications for Steel and Concrete Buildings\nDrawings for Real Estate and Contractors\nArchitectural Perspectives\nUNNECESSARY IMPORTS.\nBritish Columbia last year spent $12,-\n000,000 for imported foods, at least 75\nper cent, of which might have been raised in this Province. Although British\nColumbia can raise every kind of fruit\ngrown in the temperate zone and although an infinitestimal fraction of the\nfruit lands of the Province are in orchard, we import annually 1,000 tons of\napples alone. We paid out last year $2,-\n000,000-for two-thirds of our butter supply, although British Columbia has\nmillions of acres of the grandest dairy\nlands under the sun. With millions of\nacres of land suitable for grazing and\nmixed farming we import more than\nhalf our beef supply. For hog products\nlast year we paid $1,800,000. We import\nhundreds of thousands in mutton. We\nbring in hundreds of tons of vegetables\nand small fruits. We don't begin to\nsupply our own hay and coarse grains.\nWe spend hundreds of thousands annually importing horses, yet we have the\nfinest horse breeding conditions in Canada.\n o\t\nCAPITAL FOR CANADA.\nOne feature of Canada's great commercial and financial expansion during\nthe last few years has been not only the\ncapital induced to come here from Great\nBritain and several European countries,\nbut also from the United States. This\nis not confined to the American manufacturer, who desires to participate in\nthe ever-widening Canadian market and\nbuilds a branch of his factory here, nor\nto the farmer from the Western States\nwho brings over his goods and chattels\nin addition to a goodly collection of\ncash.\nThere is another factor working toward directing the flow of capital this\nway. The new-comer is the man who\nregards the political situation in the\nUnited States with distrust, and is looking for a country where there is less legislative interference with business.\nA POULTRY ASSOCIATION.\nA British Columbia Poultry Association, affiliated with the American Association, has been organized with the following officers: President, W. E. Cole,\nBurnaby; Vice-president, W. A. Nach-\ntribe, Victoria; Secretary, W. Stone-\nhouse. It is purely a British Columbia\norganization. Members exhibiting stock\nnot of their own raising will be penalized by suspension for one year from the\nprivileges of the association. It was\nstated in this connection, that in some\nplaces it was a common thing for persons to purchase Eastern stock for exhibition as their own.\nLEAN RSHOW CARD WRITING\nWithout giving up your present\nemployment. We conduct day\nand night classes. Private lessons\nand correspondence courses given\nspecial attention.\nL. J. TROUNCE\nSHOW CARD WRITER\n1210 Dominion Trust Building', Vancouver, B. 0.\n\u2666\n1\n1\n\u00a7\ni\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\ni\n% The\" Red Cross\" Sanitary Closets\n\u2666 are Strongly Commended by Physicians\n\u2666 The \"Ajax\" Chemical Fire Engine\n\u2666 The \" Simplex\" Fire Escape\nare Highly Recommended by Fire Chiefs\nOur Aluminium Advertising Novelties\n\u2666\n\u2666\nJ Telephone 656\n\u2666\n\u2666\nare Greatly Appreciated by\nLive Advertisers\nWE ARE SOLE AGENTS\nr, mmis AND COMPANY t\nHall and Lavery Block\nNEW WESTMINSTER, B. C.\n*\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\ni+\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\n>-\u2666-\u2666-\u2666\u2022\u2666\nI Testing the Eyesight j!\nis not guesswork\u2014It is a scientific pro- \u00b0\nceedure which only a Specialist can <>\nfollow deftly and with certainty. If your\nEyesight is not what you think it ought\nto be, call and have it tested properly. 0\nDr. Earl T. McCoy f\nEyesight Specialist X> Glasses Fitted\n65 Fair field Bldg.,445 Granville St,\nTELEPHONES {j^t\nG\n.D.George\nSuccessor to T. e. HICKS\nHaeKs\nOr\ni the Stand Day and Night\nOFFICE :\n413\nRICHARDS STREET\n.................\nPrince Rupert, B. C.\nMines, Stocks and Real Estate. Farm Lands\nin the Skeena, Bulkley and Kispiox Valleys\n\u2022 \u2022\u2022\u2022^\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022e-.-u-..\" \u00bb\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00ab..\u00ab.....t.\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 38\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n\u25a0*c^Hroiw*tw^^)aiiwvw\u00ab*^j*\nPOINT GREY\nThe Home of the University\nof British Columbia\nWe can offer you Beautiful High Building\nLots in this desirable district, cleared ready\nfor building on. These should increase in\nvalue very rapidly.\n$750 AND UP\nAlso 2 fine High View Lots on Johnstone\nRoad, slashed and burnt over. $650\nTERMS: ONE QUARTER GASH\n6, 12, 18 AND 24 MONTHS\nA. L AUSTIN & GO.\nBROKERS\nI\n328 Granville St.\nVancouver. B. C.\nCHILLIWACK\nThe Garden of British Columbia\nFarm Lands\nWe have four hundred acres of Prairie\nLand, dyked, drained, and ready for\nthe plough. Good roads, convenient to\nschools. Four miles from Chilliwack ;\ntwo miles from tram line. Land guaranteed to be without superior in British\nColumbia. We offer this in lots of 20,\n40 or 80 acres at\n$150 AND $175 PER ACRE\non easy terms extending\" over four years.\nALEXANDER & McKAY\n1071 Granville St. phoneiszz Vancouver, B. C.\n\u00ab=\u00bb\n^g?\nAG'REA GE\nIn blocks of one acre and upwards\nFROM\n$4-&& an acre\nIN A DIRECT LINE WITH THE\nSECOND NARROWS BRIDGE\nNorth Vancouver\nThe Lillooet road goes right through this property,\nthe greater part of which we guarantee to contain no\ngrade over a two per cent grade.\nTerms: quarter cash, balance quarterly\nover 30 months.\nWWard, SSurmester &\nVm Qraevenitz\nOffices Phone 5522\n411 Pender St., Vancouver, B.&\n\u00abt\nGULF OF GEORGIA TERRACE IN\nPOINT GREY\nThe southern slope and sunny side, all lots\ncommand an unexcelled view of the Gulf\nand Fraser Valley- Terms of four years.\nMOLE \u00a9\u2022 KEEFER\n| 1065 Granville St. Phone7020 Vancouver, B.C.\n%\nSOUTH VANCOUVER\nTHE IDEAL RESIDENCE DISTRICT\n$50 cash buy? a homesite within three blocks\nof the Grandview car line. This is your\nopportunity. GRASP IT.\nINVESTORS LAND CO.\n317 Gambie Street Vancouver, B. G\nPHONE 2328 OPEN EVENINGS\nM\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 39\nI WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN\n$\n$\n1\nPortland Canal Stocks\nAND CAN GIVE YOU FULL INFORMATION\nON ANY COMPANY OPERATING IN THAT\nDISTRICT. DAILY QUOTATIONS RECEIVED.\n| B. MAYSMITH & CO., LTD.\nVICTORIA. B. C.\nMEMBERS PACIFIC COAST STOCK EXCHANGE\nOffices: Victoria, B. C, Vancouver, B. C, Stewart,\nB. C, Nanaimo, B. C, Seattle. Wash.\nif\u00bbi\u00bb\">\"\u00ab\"\n\u25a0>ii\u00bbi|\">\u00bb\nThe PORTLAND\nMrs. Baker. Proprietress\n723 YATES ST. Phone 2404\nThe only modern rooming house in town.\nSteam heat, running hot and cold water and\ntelephones in all rooms. Newly furnished\nthroughout, and up-to-date in every respect.\nTERMS MODERATE\nVICTORIA, B. C,\n\u2022\u00a3*\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022 \u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0.\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022.\n.\u00ab..\u00ab..\u00bb..\u2022.....\n\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb'\u25a0>\u25a0\u2022\u00ab\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb->\u2022\u00bb\u2022\u25a0<$\u2666\nSteam Heat, Gas, Electric Light, Telephone\nHot and Cold Running' Water in Each Room\nTHE NEW TOURIST, 107 CORDOVA ST.\nTHE ANGELES, 927 WESTMINSTER AVE.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nG. W. ARNOTT ft CO.\nReal Gstate and Insurance\nDrawer 1539 <*\u00bb Prince Rupert\nSplendid Opportunities for Investors\n\u00bbt\"\u00ab'l>\u00bbttl'\u00ab\u00bb\u00bb\u00bbt''\u00bb''\u00bb\"\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\"t\"\u00bb\"t\"\u00ab\"\u00bb\"t\"t\u00ab\u00bb\u00bb\u00ab\"\u00bb''\u00ab\"t\"lll\u00bbl^t\nMrs. J. E. Elliott I\ni I\nHand-made Goods a Specialty\n{ The most Lp-to-Date Store\nFor Neckwear, Blouses, Underwear\nand everything needful for\nInfants and Children.\nPhone R313\n730 Yates St. VICTORIA, B. C.\n\u25a0>\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0.\u00abii\u00bb,i\u00bbir\u00abn\u00bbil|l\ni\ni\nll>..\u00bb.l>M\u00bbl.\u00bb,l\u00bb,l\u00bb,t\u00bb>\nS. N. SEMPLE\nPRACTICAL HORSESHOER\nAll kinds of Imperfect Gaits Rectified.\nTROTTING SHOES AND RUNNING PLATES\na Specialty.\nOrossfiring, Interfering and Forging Stopped\n\u25a0without fail by Latest Improved Methods.\nSpecial Attention given to Contracted Feet\nand Lameness.\nPHONE NO. 1367\nAddress : 662 SEYMOUR ST.\nrn JTruTJiruiTLn uxruxirnjTJTJirLrirLririj;\nHENRY CROFT H. G. ASI\nC Assoc, Mem. Inst. C. E. ( c , ,\nI M. Inst. Mech. E. \/England\nP Notary Public\nCable Code : BEDFORD MACNEIL\nCable Address : \"CRAS,\" Vancouver\nTelepbone 5937\nCROFT & ASHBY\nREAL ESTATE, TIMBER\nMINES, GOAL LANDS\n150,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.50\n86,000 acres Ominica District, at per acre, $4.50\n40,000 acres Cariboo District, at per acre, $4.00\n7,680 acres Powell lake, go miles from\nVancouver, at per acre $4.00\n5,000 acres Rupert District, Vancouver\nIsland, at per acre $10.00\n6,400 acres Nechaco District at per acre, $4.50\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\nLRoom 5, Wmcb Bid*. Vancouver., B\u201e G-\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 40\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n\"Opportunities\" Brokers' and Business Directory\nZht progressive Brokerage, Tinancial and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia.\nPhone 2900\nA. E. AUSTIN 8s CO.\nReal Estate and Insurance.\n328 Granville St., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nT. B. ANDERSON ft C. CLAYTON\nReal Estate\n\" Phone 5913\n1069 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B, C.\nLEONARD & REIO\nReal Estate and Pire Insurance\nMining- Properties In Portland Canal,\nHazelton and Queen Charlotte\nDistricts\nPRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.\nE. C. B. BAG-SHAWE ft CO.\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n1112 Broad St., Bownass Building\nPhone 2271 - - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 5726 P. O. Box 536\nH. BEEMAN\nSpecialist in Point Grey\n221 Winch Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nB. C. TRUST CORPORATION\nBk. B. N. A. Bldg., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 589\nJ. A. COLLINSON\nReal Estate\nPhone 4154\n240a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nJOHN M. CHAPPBLL\nReal Estate\nPhone 4802\n443 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. W. DRESSER\nInsurance, Real Estate\nPhone 3020\n438 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nH. T. DEVINE COMPANY, LIMITED\nReal Estate, Loans and Insurance\n437 Seymour St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 1627\nPhone 3628\nDUTHIE & WISHART\nReal Estate and Financial Agents\n520 Pender St. W. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. H. ELLIS\nInvestment Broker\n1122 Government St., VICTORIA, B. C.\nM. H. PRANKLIN CO.\nReal Estate Brokers\nAcreage, Building Lots and Homes\nPhone 970\n449 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGODDARD ft SON\nLand Agents, Notaries\nPhone 3202\n329 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\n\u2666$\u2666\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u00bb..\u2022..\u00ab.\u2022$\u00ab\nj SHAMROCK LIVERY |\n\\ TEAMINGandFEEDSTABLES\nj E. GRANDY AND SON\n| Post Office Address: PORT ALBERNI, B. C. ?\n.?*\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022<\u2022\u2022-\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022-\u2022<\u2022\u2022-\u2022\u00ab<-\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022-<\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022..\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..e--*-.^\u00ab\n?el. 5852\nGOODYEAR ft MATHESON\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n06 Loo Building VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGRANVILLE BROKERAGE CO.\nReal Estate, Insurance, Commission Agts.\nPhone L4560\n1017 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nHARMAN & AFFLETON\nReal Estate\n534 Yates Street - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 1918\nSAMUEL HARRISON ft CO.\nBrokers and Financial Agents. Agents\nStewart Land Co., Ltd.\nStewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.\nHASLETT ft WHITAKER\nReal Estate, Timber, Insurance\nPhone 5807\nRoom 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nHINKSON, SIDDALL ft SON\nReal Estate and Insurance\nPhone 869\nNew Grand Theatre Bldg. 1311 Gov't St.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nALFRED M. HOWELL\nCustoms Broker, Forwarding Agent\nOffice\u201423 Promis Block\nTelephone 1501, Res. R 1671\n1006 Government St., VICTORIA, B. C.\nIMPERIAL REALTY CO.\nReal Estate and Insurance\n307 Loo Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGEORGE LEEK\nReal Estate, Notary Public\nExchange Block PRINCE RUPERT, B.C\nW. P. Moncreiff P. E. Townsherid\nW. P. MONCREIPP ft CO.\nReal Estate and Financial Brokers\nRoom 304, Winch Bldg. Hastings St. W\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nMARRIOTT & PELLOWS\nReal Estate\nPhone 1077\n134 Hastings St. - VANCOUVER, B.C.\nRes.: 3030 Quadra St.\nOffice Phone 2418\nE. HENDERSON & CO.\nFarms, Timber and Mines\nFRUIT LANDS\n711 Yates Street\nRoom 1, Sylvester Block\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nE. S. MORGAN\nIndustrial Sites, Waterfrontage on Bur-\nrard Inlet, etc.\nSuite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.\n429 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 5833.\nW. O. Shrumm H. Lambert\nTHE NATIONAL REAL ESTATE\nLoans, Insurance\nPhone 6320\n58 Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nC. ARTHUR REA\nLate of Brandon, Manitoba\nReal Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc,\nLaw Chambers, VICTORIA, B. C.\nPATTULO ft RADFORD\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nP.O. Box 1535 PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.\nCable Address: \"Patrad\"\nC. C. PEMBERTON\nReal Estate and Notary Public\nRoom 11, 707^ Yates St. - Phone 1711\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nCHAS. L. PARKER\nBroker and Commission Agent\nSuite 50-51, 429 Pender St.\nPhone 3859 - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nROYAL REALTY COMPANY\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nPhone 2394 Notary Public\n615 Fort St. - VICTORIA, B. C.\nSMITH ft SMITH\nReal Estate and Commission Agents\nP.O. Box 41\nJ. H. Smith W. R. Smith\n4th Ave. - - STEWART, B. C.\nGEO. H. SMITH & ARTHUR JONES\nDealers in Property in Vancouver, New\nWestminster and the Fraser Valley\nP. O. Box 165 - Phone 1743\nP. H. SEABROOK ft CO.\nReal Estate and Timber\nPhone 4043\n316 Pender St. $ VANCOUVER, B. C.\nVANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.\nReal Estate and Loans\n62 Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nWESCOTT & LETTS\nReal Estate and Insurance Agents\nRoom 3, Moody Block - Yates St.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nH. W. WINDLE\nReal Estate Broker\nPhone 5320\n532 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\n..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022.\u2022\u2022..\u2022~*.-*..\u00ab\u00bb*xJ*\nT. A. McQueen\ni E. J. Bright\nI The Capital City Realty Co.\nREAL ESTATE\n> FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE AGENTS\n? 618 Yates St. Phone 2162 VSCTORIA.B.C\n**\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS r\n1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nimMmmmmmm\\\\\\\\\\mmiimw\/\/mwMmt\n\u25a0D0iM|||ipiiii\nSTOCK Aibl\nCO.R:ROMAJT:|01i\nCAPITAL * 2,000.000\nREAL ESTATE-TIMBER-MINING\nSTOCKS-BONDS-DEBENTURES\nLOANS - FINANCIAL AGENTS\nWINCH BUILDING HASTINGSSTW\n^'Mst*. VANCOU^EB. B.C.\nSPECIAL\nBUYS IN\nWest Fort George\nThe coming City of\nCentral British Columbia\nWRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS\nDALLAS HOTEL\nThe only Seaside Hotel in tne City\nFifteen minutes walk from P. 0.\nOne minute s 'walk from street cars\nVICTORIA, B. C.\n\u2022\u2022\u2666*.\n+\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022 M\n>*\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2666\u00a3\u2666\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666J\n! THE GRANVILLE I\nBROKERAGE CO, j\nI Real Estate, Insurance and Commission Agents I\nX HORNBY STREET |\n\u2666 East Side, near Pender\u2014Full Lot with Good House. \u2666\n\u2666 Price, $15,000. Terms over 2 Years.\n1\nf\n\u2666\n% Twelfth Avenue\u201466 feet\u2014$1950\u2014Terms.\n\u2666 Sixth Avenue\u201425 x 100\u2014$1200\u2014Terms.\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\nI 1069 Granville Street\n\u2666 \t\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\nGRANDVIEW\nNORTH VANCOUVER\nD.L. 611\u201450 feet\u2014$275\u2014Easy Terms.\nPOINT GREY\nLot 25, Block 30, D. L. 2027\u201460 x 130.\nPrice only $775 on Terms.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nWE TOLD YOU TO \"WAIT\" FOR\nt\u00a3\nsummrsiDE\nWW\nNOW INVESTIGATE }\nTHE FINEST FRUIT GROWING DISTRICT IN THE WORLD\nWhile visiting the 1 APPLE SHOW,\" don't fail to call at the\nSUNNYSIDE booth or at our office for literature and bird's\neye view of this wonderful district. Hailed free on request.\nROSS AND SHAW\n318 HASTINGS STREET WEST\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 42\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n3~\nrospective Settlers\nIN BRITISH COLUMBIA\ni\nThe road to Independence is not easy to discover. Many good men are handicapped by their\nlack of funds. Opportunity may have knocked at\ntheir door many times and each time they have\nbeen forced to turn her away because they were\nunable to surmount the financial barrier. To a\nman of that kind a\nCO-OPERATIVE\nsystem is a necessity. We want to help you reach\nthe goal of your ambition by co-operating with\nyou in\nBeet Sugar Growing\nand Manufacturing in the Fertile Fraser Valley\nof British Columbia. We are experienced sugar\nmanufacturers and need you to grow the beets on\nour co-operative plan. Mail us a card and it will\nstart you on the road which in the end\nBRINGS INDEPENDENCE\nFRASER VALLEY SUGAR WORKS CO.\n3ig PENDER STREET\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 3\nSOUTH VANCOUVER\nAND\nPOINT GREY\nWe own some of the very best\nproperty in these districts. If\nDeal direct with the owners\nand get terms to suit you\nAgassiz Earm Lands\nWe own 200 acres of the cream\nof the Agassiz Valley. It is\nclose to town and as choice\nland as there is in British Columbia. We will sell en bloc or\nin parcels to suit purchasers.\nLatimer, Ney and\nMcTavish, Limited\n419 Pender Street, Vancouver, B. C.\nPhone 4894\nThe Pleasantest\nFeature of a Trip to\nNew York\nIs making the round of the Cafes\n^f Here in the gay atmosphere of\ncreature comforts and good cheer, one\ncan enjoy the flavour of perfect food,\ncooked to the individual taste; rare\nwines, properly cooled; music by splen-\ndid artists, and deferential, noiseless\nservice.\n\u20acfl An atmosphere of gaiety pervades\nthe artistic surroundings; an atmos-\nphere of dash and go which is\nheightened by the constant arrival and\ndeparture of beautiful women and well\"\ngroomed men.\n^ Vancouver is not New York\u2014at\nleast, not yet, but\nThe Carlton Cafe\nCordova and Cambie Streets, Vancouver\nis in every respect, equal to, and remf\niniscent of the best restaurants of that\ngreat metropolis. \u20ac| This is especially\ntrue since the arrival of JAMES\nMORGAN, the New Manager.\n^f Here is a man who knows his New\nYork well, a man who has played the\ngame from both sides of the table.\nHe has traveled far and wide. He has\nstudied the traveling public for years\nand catered successfully to its wants.\nUnder his management, the Garlton is\nbound to appeal to the class of patronage \\phich knows \"good living,\" and\npractices what it knows.\n. A. OLDS, General Manager\nPHONE 6756\nWINDSOR PARK\nAdjoins the Future Centre of\nNorth Vancouver\u2014Lies in the\nvicinity of SECOND NARROWS\nBRIDGE and IMPERIAL CAR\nWORKS.\nPRICES, $125 forinside Lots,\n$150 for Corners. TERMS,\n$20 Cash, Balance $5 per\nmonth.\nFOSTER & FISHER\n310 Hastings Street West\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nTelephone 6488 Open Evenings\nLearn Show Card Writing\nI give a complete course consisting of:\nIS Different Alphabets\nDesign Work, Borders, Scrolls\nIlluminated Letters\nStencil and Air Brush Work\nT T T T? CI TT M H W- 633 GRANVILLE ST.\n\u00b1*4. J . 1 X\\ KJ U \u00b1y \\*s J2j (Over Tourist Association)\nVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA\nXXXXXXXXXIXXXXXXXXXX\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN\ncxxxxncxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxgxxrxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\nFor the Best and most satisfactory forms of\nAccident Insurance\nor Health Policies\ncovering every form of Accident or\nSickness, see our latest proposition.\nGeneral Agent for B. C. for the .\nTRAVELLERS INSURANCE COT\nHartford, Conn.\nS WWlM DRESSER\n438 Pender Su W., VANCOUVER, B. a\nM\n8 I\nEVERY ONE OP OTJB, ADVERTISEMENTS Page 6\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n(0\nc\n\u00a9\no\nCO\nIII\n>\nD\nQ\no\nz\nM <\n< >\nz\no\n(0\n<*\n0\n< u\nQ\nQ\nO\n0\nS100 Cash Secures\nl\/i acre at Port IVIann\nin\noc\nh\nCO\nOC\nu\nQ\nZ\nIII\nQ.\n5\no\n\u25a0*-\u00bb\nUJ\nCO\n\u25a0M\no\n-J\n(0\nbJ)\nW\nCO\nC\n>\nO\no\nc\n9\n>\no\n(0\nIII\nIII\nK\nIL\n(0\nQ.\n<\n2\n\u25a0D\nCD\n-C\n(0\na\nO\nCO\nc\nCD\n\u00a3\nCD\nCD\nbO\n<\nMARICOPA OIL COMPANY\nOF LOS ANGELES\nAre you satisfied with small returns on your investments?\nIf not, it will pay you to investigate the opportunities for larger returns offered by investment in California Oil Shares. We have a few\nshares in THE MARICOPA OIL COMPANY of Los Angeles, for\nsale. \" The Company that will show results.\"\n0. H. BOWMAN & COMPANY\nINVESTMENT BROKERS\nMahon Bldg. VICTORIA, B. C. P. 0. Box 1048\nThe Grandview of Burnaby\nJust a few left. Over 100 lots sold in four months. Nearly\ncleared, electric lights, telephone, water, macadamized\nroads, sidewalks being put down, \"and only four blocks\nto earline.\nInside Lots - $225\nDouble Corners, $550\nOne-quarter cash, balance easy. Delays are dangerous.\nTime is money. Don't hesitate.\nBROWN REALTY CO.\n603 Victoria Drive\nVancouver, B. C.\nALEX. McINTOSH\nNotary Public\nEARLE C. BROWN\nWE SELL\nPoint Grey Property\nThe prettiest suburb of Vancouver, 300 yards\ndue west from the far-famed Shaughnessy Heights\nand only nine minutes ride on the car from Granville Street, with city fares. We have choice view\nlots, each 50 x 130, all slashed and practically\ncleared. This property fronts on the new park and\nsite at the corner of Block 88, one street south of\nKing Edward Avenue, which is 132 feet wide and\nthe coming car line street.\nPrice $700 Per Lot\nTerms Very Easy\nPhone 424s\nMcINTOSH & BROWN\n543 Granville Street, Vancouver\nFiscal Agents: Great West Land Co. Ltd.\nJOHN M. PARK, Broker\n1117 Granville Street, VANCOUVER, B.C.\nPhone 5346\nRIOHARDS STREET\u20147 room house, renting at $45\nper month. This property is going to be a choice\nbusiness lot. Price $12000 ; cash $5000.\nGORE AVENUE \u2014 Corner lot on this coming street\nbringing in an income at present of $500. Property\nin this quarter is at a premium, and this will prove a\ngood investment. Price $30,000 ; cash $8,000.\nGRANVILLE STREET \u201427 feet near Fourteenth\nAvenue, $10,000 ; easy terms.\nIf you are looking for a rooming house I have quite a number of all sizes, and some of them can be secured on\nvery reasonable terms.\nRESIDENTIAL PROPERTY\u2014West End, 11 roomed\nhouse on Comox Street, fully modern in every respect.\nFine garden, etc. Price, $9,000 ; cash $4,000.\nKITSILANO\u2014Elegant seven room semi-bungalow, one\nblock from the car. This home is beautifully finished\nand contains three bedrooms with large clothes closets, front and back balconies commanding an excellent\nview of the city and the bay. There is a large living\nroom, dining room with fireplace, also den with fireplace and a separate entrance, making it very suitable\nfor an office for a doctor. The kitchen and pantry are\nwell laid out. The basement is cement, full size, fitted\nwith laundry tubs, coal bins, etc. Good furnace. The\nprice of this cosy home is $6,400, with the easy cash\npayment of $1,500 and the balance over two years.\nI also have a select list of other houses in Kitsilano and\nGrandview.\nTHEBE ABB OPPORTUNITIES IW EVEEY OOTB OP OVA ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 7\n~1\n<*&\n'\/<\n^5\nipporhmities\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nCONTENTS.\nDECEMBER, 1910\nrage.\nThe Prospector Who Became Vancouver's Mayor. . (\/. Herbert Welch) 1 1\nImmense Wealth in Minerals (Richard McBride) 1 3\nA Year's Output in Minerals 14\nThe Great Value of Alfalfa (George Schumacher, Ph.D.) 18\nTriumph of the Western Spirit ( William Ford) 16\nFarm Opportunities for Capitalists and Settlers. . . . (George H. Reynolds) 20\nArt in British Columbia (Bernard McEvoxi) 22\nChristmas Giving (Alice Ashworth Totpnley) 25\nThe Rise of Keremeos 26\nSalmon River Mining 27\nThe Victory, a Christmas story (\/. H. W.) 28\nIndustrial Progress in British Columbia 32\nA Swelling Tide of Capital (H. Goddard) 34\nHow Steamboat Camp was Located 34\nVancouver Real Estate Activity 36\nInvestment Opportunities in Victoria (D. C. Reid) 36\nPortland Canal Mining 37\nOpportunity Awaits in Richlands 38\nL.\n.J\n191\nOPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO.\nHUTCHINSON BLOCK\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nGentlemen:\u2014\nPlease enter \u2122yr name as a subscriber to your paper for one year,\nfor which Je agree to pay One Dollar in advance.\nCLASSIFIED ADS.\nWANTED\u2014Buyers for our 5, 10, 15 and\n40 acre farms in Langley, 20 miles\nfrom Vancouver, near two railroads\nand tram line. Prices low and very\neasy terms. Kraus, Reynolds Co.,\nLtd., 503 Dominion Trust Building,\nVancouver, B. C.\nFarm Lands, partly improved, 6 miles\nfrom Manor, Sask., $18 to $23 per acre.\nBlack & McDonnell, 60 Hastings\nStreet East, Vancouver, B. C.\nTHE JANUARY OPPORTUNITIES\nIt is difficult, in a single issue of a\nmagazine, to present material which will\nbe representative of all the important\nactivities of a great section of the world\nlike British Columbia. Yet this is what\nwe will endeavor to do in the January\nnumber of Opportunities.\nSince this issue will be the first after\nthe New Year, we will publish a review\nof the progress in numerous directions\nin British Columbia during the year now\ndrawing to a close. This review will\nembrace articles on industrial development, on agricultural progress, on the\nwork of bringing the rich natural resources of the Province to the uses of\nits people; on the growth of British Columbia's leading cities; on real estate\nand building progress; on legislation oi\nmoment; on civic movements ot importance. All this will give you a grasp\nof British Columbia as she is, and an\nidea of what she is likely to become in\nthe immediate future.\nSince movements are intelligible only\nwhen we trace them to the men behind,\nwe believe in personal sketches in a\nmagazine, and the January issue of\nOpportunities will have one of Premier\nMcBride, including a live interview with\nhim and pertinent anecdotes which have\nnever been published.\nThe third article of our series on the\nnatural resources of the Province will be\ndevoted to coal, one of British Columbia's greatest assets. There will be another illuminative article on scientific\nfarming, by Dr. Schumacher; another\nhuman interest essay by Mrs. Townley;\nanother strong story of lumbering, by\nJ. H. W.; a record of what the progressive women of the Province are\ndoing; an article on British Columbia\neducation; several articles on sections\nwhere Opportunity is awaiting the industrious settler; the regular departments, dealing with industries, real estate, and building, and several other\nfeatures, all of which, well written and\nwell illustrated, will make the January\nnumber of Opportunities especially valuable and interesting to those who desire to follow the big forward movement\nof this Province.\nTHEBS ASS OPPORTUNITIES IK EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 8\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nTwenty thousand families\nlike these are moving into\nBritish Columbia each year\nA hundred thousand more\npeople are studying\nOPPORTUNITIES\nfor Investment and locating in the\nRichest Province of the World.\nThe Magazine\u2014Opportunities\nIs designed to supply them the specific information which they seek.\nCan you\u2014as a shrewd advertiser\u2014afford to ignore so receptive an audience.\nOPPORTUNITIES is keeping pace with the growth of British Columbia.\nOPPORTUNITIES is reaching out over Canada, the States and Great Britain.\nOPPORTUNITIES is making opportunities for British Columbia.\nOPPORTUNITIES enters the homes of the Province.\nOPPORTUNITIES is selling something more valuable than big circulation\u2014the good will of\nits readers.\nOPPORTUNITIES will help you, if you will co-operate.\nOPPORTUNITIES will reach both the big and the little buyer in every line.\nOPPORTUNITIES has the confidence of the owner and its staff, from editor to office boy.\nWill you not investigate it seriously, to see if it is not worthy of yours ?\nWe know that we have a paper that can help your business- Will you read the evidence?\nTHE MAN WITH AN IDEA\nThe owner of Opportunities is \"a man with an idea. ' His\nidea is that British Columbia is the finest spot on God's green\nearth. He believes in this idea so strongly that he wants other\npeople to know about it. That is why he started Opportunities.\nWHAT OPPORTUNITIES HAS DONE\nIn one year Opportunities has appeared promptly every\nmonth-\u2014which fact alone is a sufficient criterion of success.\nBesides this, it has gained a bona fide paid-up circulation, both\nin the Province and out, which has been built up by hard work,\nboth in the editorial and business departments. This circulation\nis of the very first class, the kind that will stick. The articles\nwhich have appeared have been by some of the best known\nmen and women in British Columbia. Time and time again\nwe have been congratulated upon the excellence of our contributions. The cuts and press work have been the best which\ncould be turned out in the Province. Are these facts not worth\nyour consideration?\nWHAT OPPORTUNITIES IS DOING FOR ITS\nADVERTISERS M\nWe believe that the first way in which a magazine can\nhelp its advertisers is by looking carefully after the interests of\nits readers. Opportunities is doing this in many ways. In the\nfirst place every cent which the paper makes is going right back\ninto improving its quality. For example, have you noticed our\nnew cover designs? They are the work of one of the best\nand highest paid artists on the Pacific coast\u2014a man of metropolitan experience and study. If you will notice, you will sec\nhow the grade of our editorial matter is being improved. More\nphotographs, more cuts, more art work, and enlarged editions\nare the programme for the coming year. With the readers thus\ncatered to, and the special campaign for circulation carried out\nwhich is described in the following paragraph, do you not\nthink, Mr. Advertiser, that Opportunities should be included\nin your advertising appropriation?\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERT ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\n[Page 9\nTHE CANADIAN NORTHWEST\nFour focal points of circulation are being concentrated\nupon at the present time. These are, British Columbia, the\nPrairie Provinces, the Central and Middle Western States, and\nGreat Britain. The method taken to secure this circulation\nis by sampling, circularizing selected lists, and direct appeal by\npersonal letter or solicitation. In Great Britain we have made\narrangements for special representation. If you have confidence in your business and its ultimate success, remember that\nwe have confidence in ours. Our business is to help you\ndispose of your goods. We propose to conduct our business\nTO WIN. We want to command your esteem and respect.\nWe want you to consider us your co-workers, auxiliary salesmen as it were. Any suggestion we can give to improve your\nadvertising efficiency we will gladly extend. We have men\nspecially trained in the science of advertising whose services\nwe can place at your disposal, men who have brought results\nfor others, and can do the same for you. A little before we\nspoke of Great Britain and the States as prospective fields for\nyour offerings. Think how keenly interested the British\ninvestor has become in British Columbia; think how the wealthy\nfarmers of the Middle West are looking longingly towards\nBritish Columbia as a place to spend the proceeds of their rich\nharvests; think of the young men of well-to-do families in those\nsections whose parents are willing to see them started in a\ncountry which offers the brilliant future most of any; think\nhow the whole trend of civilization is towards this Last Great\nWest. And then think of the service which Opportunities is\nrendering in supplying a fund of reliable information fresh\nevery month right from the ground. Is such a publication not\nworthy of your support from a community interest as well as\na personal one?\nSOME THINKING POINTS FOR YOU TO\nCONSIDER.\nConsider the advertising value of a magazine which offers\nopportunities for its readers to increase their capital and welfare.\nConsider the class of subscribers we are appealing to.\nConsider the value of integrity and reliability in your\nadvertising medium.\nConsider our very reasonable advertising rates.\nConsider the results accomplished in the last twelve months.\nConsider the improvements in Opportunities.\nConsider the territory we are dealing with and its future.\nConsider some of the following testimonials as to the\ncharacter and drawing power of Opportunities.\nConsider Opportunities as the best opportunity for\nadvertising.\nVancouver, B. C, November 15 th, 1910.\nAdvertising Manager \"Opportunities,\"\nCity.\nDear Sir:\nWill you please send one of your young men around to\nsee me to-day or to-morrow, as I have something new which I\nwould like to have mentioned in my advertisement next month.\nI have been so pleased with the results of my advertising\nin \"Opportunities\" that I have wanted for some time to express\nmy appreciation of your magazine, and take this occasion to\ndo so. I have been advertising rather extensively in the different\nnewspapers and magazines of British Columbia, and have\nfound that my announcements in \"Opportunities\" have brought\nme more results than any of the others.\nI must say I think the magazine is excellent, and hope\nthat you will have continued success with it.\nVery truly yours,\n(Signed) Mde. E. A. HUMPHREYS.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN BV\nVancouver, B. C, November 14th, 1910.\nEditor \"Opportunities Magazine\"\nVancouver, B. C.\nDear Sir:\nI have before me a copy of the November issue of\n\"Opportunities.\" It is my opinion that a magazine of tljis\nkind and character is a great benefit to the Province of British\nColumbia. I am sure that it will be welcomed by anyone who\nis fortunate enough to get hold of a copy in foreign lands, as\nthe information obtainable from the columns of \"Opportunities\"\nwill surely be the means of putting British Columbia opportunities before the public as they should be; facts that are not\nexaggerated. The truth of the possibilities of this favored\nProvince are plenty good enough.\nThe success of a live, wide-awake magazine such as\nOpportunities\" is assured. To read it once means to become\na permanent subscriber.\nWishing you the best of success, I am,\nYours truly,\n(Signed) GEORGE GORE,\nGeneral Agent The Salmon Arm\nFruit and Land Co.\nVancouver, B. C, October 22nd, 1910.\nTo the Editor \"Opportunities,\"\nCity.\nDear Sir:\nWe have great pleasure in stating that the results from\noUr advertising with you have been most satisfactory. We can\ntrace more actual sales directly to the medium of your paper\nthan any other advertising we do outside of daily papers.\nYours truly,\nFOSTER & FISHER. J|\n(Signed) THOS. H. INGRAM.\nONE WORD IN CONCLUSION \u00a7|\nPerhaps you have never seriously considered this magazine before as an advertising medium. Perhaps you have\nheard it knocked by the man who has tried it once and \"not\ngotten results.\" In either case just remember one thing and\nthat is this: The investor can not be reached with one single\ninsertion. Men do not invest their money without careful\nthought and consideration. The deliberations preceding an\ninvestment may reach over a period of years. Would you\nyourself expend any considerable sum of money as the result of\nreading a one time \"ad\"? The man who is going to derive\nthe most benefit from a magazine like Opportunities is the\nman who advertises consistently and keeps his copy up to the\nminute. That is why we make such liberal discounts to long\ntime contracts. Did you ever think of that before? Suppose\nyou read this coupon which follows, very carefully, and if it\nmeets your approval fill out and send it without incurring any\ncost whatsoever.\nPublisher \"Opportunities\"\nAddress \t\nI have read what you have to say about Opportunities\nand would like some suggestions as to how you can help me\nincrease my business by advertising. It is understood that this\ndoes not in any way commit me to the promise of taking space.\nName\nAddress \t\nERT ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS OPPORTUNITIES\nA Monthly Journal Devoted to the Growth, Development, Resources and Possibilities in British Columbia\nEntered in the Pott Office of Canada as second-class matter.\nPhone 6926\nPublished by OPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO., Suite 87, Hutchinson Block, 429 Pender St., W., Vancouver, B. C.\nOUR AIM:\nTo furnish, at home and abroad, more complete information\nregarding British Columbia and the wealth of possibilities she offers\nfor Investment\u2014in Real Estate, Fruit and Farm Lands, Timber,\nMining and Industrial Companies\u2014for Health; for Travel; for\nRecreation; for Sport; for Education and for Enterprise.\nFRASER S. KEITH, President and Manager\nHERBERT WELCH, Editor-in-Chief\nPAUL W. TROUSDALE, Advertising Manager\nSUBSCRIPTION - - $1.00 PER YEAR\nAdvertising rates on application.\nVol. 2\nDECEMBER, 1910\nNo. 6\nEDITORIAL\nThe other day we had a little interview with the Christmas\nSpirit. She was beautiful\u2014in a tender way. Her eyes glowed\nsoftly. There was sunshine in them, and also the mellow lights\nof sympathy and understanding. Her smile was sweet, with\njust a touch of gayety, and her voice was clear and low, like\ngently flowing waters.\n\"Thi\nrked.\nis is your season, we rema\n'Yes,\" she smiled, \"but I hope it is my season no more\nthan any other. I am of all seasons, of all days. It would\ngrieve me much to think that I was remembered only now. I\ndo not think so. It is merely that when the greatest of holidays approaches, the world gives me a special name. I am\npresent always in the hearts of people who know how to live.\nI have been sent as a messenger from the bright realm which\nshines out a little through the stars, and my message tells of\nhow to draw the most and best from life.\"\n\"What is your message?\" We leaned forward eagerly.\nThe Christmas Spirit indulged in quiet laughter\u2014laughter\nthat somehow brought a subtle suggestion of soft music in the\ndistance on a summer night. \"Oh, you have heard my message many times. It is what you would call a commonplace.\nIt is so very simple that you may feel a little scorn\nfor it. It is only this\u2014Have kindly thoughts and do kindly\ndeeds\u2014do them for their own sake. If you think of the\nreward, it will be less.\"\n\"But are there not situations that call not so much for kindliness as for strength?\" we asked.\n\"For firmness, yes; but beneath this there must be deep\nkindness, for otherwise little demons of hatred and discontent\nleap forth to become your own enemies, and to do evil in the\nworld.\n\"In this Province of British Columbia we hear much of\nthe taming of the wilderness, of the building of cities, of\nmaterial achievement and advancement. This is well, but it\nwould be futile if it were not a help to happy living\u2014living\nwhich is to be found only in kindliness, helpfulness, and\nharmony.\n\"So it is that I am concerned less with the great projects\nthan with the spirit behind them, and find my deepest gratification in some phases of activity here which, to what you call\nthe practical eye, may not seem to be of the most importance.\n\"For instance, there was the raising of a great sum to\nprovide for the young men of Vancouver, in the Y. M. C. A.,\na home which will take the place of the homes they\nhave left behind. That was fine work\u2014more vital and far-\nreaching in its effect than even the development of a new\nindustry.\n\"'Then there is the old men's home at Kamloops, the\nsanatarium for consumptives, the hospitals, the Christmas dinners for the poor, the work of the Women's Councils and other\nsocieties whose members are putting forth earnest endeavors\nto give each man and woman in British Columbia better opportunities to attain the best in life.\n'This unselfish work, inspired by kindliness, brings happiness to those who perform it and to those who receive its\nbenefits. It is greater than its manifestations, because it nurtures\nthe true spirit of living and brings a closer alliance with the big\nharmony of creation.\n'You may say that less of it is seen here than in many\nother sections of the world. This is because there is less to\ncall it forth. The bitter struggle for existence has not yet\nreached this Province. It need never reach it. The country is\nnew to civilization\u2014you are still at the beginning, and are thus\nin a position to profit by the mistakes of old communities, which\nhave pushed forward in material progress without due regard\nfor the most vital factor in a wholly successful and permanent\nupbuilding, namely, the need to give each individual his opportunity to achieve the goal of happiness. In these old sections\nthere is much to undo.\n\"In British Columbia there is little to undo. Here the\noppressor may be curbed before he becomes too strong. Here\nmay be inaugurated at the outset public measures which will\nhelp, 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\nmost fertile fields of work, not at the Christmas season only,\nbut through all the year.\" OPPORTUNITIES\nVol. II.\nHUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C, DECEMBER, 1910.\nNo. 6\nThe Prospector Who Became Vancouver's Mayor\nA Story of Opportunity and Success in British Columbia\nBy J. Herbert Welch\nIt may be interesting, and encouraging, to the man in British Columbia\nwithout money, to know that fifteen\nyears ago the Mayor of Vancouver, and\nproprietor of a highly successful newspaper, was in British Columbia without\nmoney.\nIn the course of a talk on British Columbia opportunities, Mayor Taylor\nmade known this fact. He mentioned it\nto emphasize the point that in this Province a man does not need capital, nor\nprestige, nor family connections, for an\nauspicious start on the highway to\nachievement.\n\"What he needs,\" said the Mayor,\n\"may be summed up in three words\u2014ambition, energy, and intelligence. British Columbia will do the rest. She is\nOpportunity, knocking every day on the\ndoor of every man who is alert enough\nto hear her call, and energetic enough to\nanswer it.\"\n\"This is because there is immense and\nsteady progress here. The new comer,\nwho has not observed the advances already made, may not realize it, but there\nare big undercurrents of development;\nnew plans of much importance are continually in process of formation. One\nby one these come to the surface in\nexecution, and call for men\u2014men who\ncan make good\u2014men who have steam\nin their mental boilers.\n\"The supply of such men is far short\nof the demand, and yet the need seems\nto create the man. He may have been\nonly an average man when he arrived in\n| British Columbia\u2014the kind whom nobody would notice particularly in the\ncrowd; but if he is adaptable, and if he\n[ has within himself any sparks that can\nbe fanned into flame, he becomes good\n1 working material for the spirit of the\nNorthwest. In one respect this spirit\n. is like a current of free air that gives\na flue good drawing power. It lights up\n; the latent fires, and we have the man\nof steam, the man who can make good,\nwhere, back amid the banked-up condi\ntions of the place from which he came,\nthis same man may have been cold to\nlife, or may have flickered foolishly, and\nwas a failure.\n\"This enlivening spirit, of course, does\nnot always take effect immediately, and\nit often happens that the man who comes\nto Vancouver, for instance, begins to\nthink, after he has been here a month\n*\u00bb\"\nte*J\nadjust themselves to our conditions and\nare inclined to look down upon our new\ncivilization. If he is this sort of a\nperson he is a misfit here. Opportunity\ndoesn't care much for him, and turns\nfrom him coldly to bestow her smiles\nupon the man who is eager to adjust\nhimself to her special requirements in\nBritish Columbia. All the latter needs\nm>\nTHERE IS IMMENSE AND STEADY PROGRESS HERE,\" SAID MAYOR TAYLOR\nor two, that Opportunity is somewhat\nslow in getting around to his door. He\nexpects too much; he is too impatient; he\nhas not yet got into sufficiently close\ntouch with British Columbia life to become a part of its onward movement. By\ndegrees he will get into it, that is, he\nwill if he is not one of those rigid and\nself-complacent persons who decline to\nis a little patience. His first year in the\nProvince is his critical period. If he\nhas enough staying power to stick this\nperiod out, even if things do not come\nhis way as rapidly as he had hoped, he\nis lost forever\u2014to the rest of the world.\nOld memories may call him back to the\nold surroundings, but it is rarely long\nbefore his steps are again turned in this Page 12\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\ndirection. This is because he prefers\nOpportunity young and buxom to Opportunity old and wizened.\"\nAmid the pressure of his work at the\nCity Hall, Mayor Taylor, a quiet man,\nwas talking quietly, smiling often, but\nnever ceasing to convey a strong impression of the seriousness of his character.\nIn speaking of the growing population of\nVancouver he mentioned the fact that\na certain company has plans involving,\nduring the years immediately ahead, the\nexpenditure of five mililons of dollars.\n\"They are staking their prosperity,\" he\nsaid, \"upon a population here of three\nhundred thousand within the next decade. They are business men of caution,\nand they won't lose.\"\nThe Mayor also commented upon the\nfact that the number of telephones installed this year in Vancouver and vi-\nago, and there were plenty then. It\nwould take me a good while to mention\nall the men who came here at about the\nsame time I did, and in the same condition, with nothing, and who have since\nrisen to affluence and prominence. They\nhad, of course, rising powers within\nthemselves, but it was in considerable\ndegree a case of swimming with the\ntide. You see, the tide was rising.\"\nIt was at this point that Mr. Taylor\nwas induced to tell something of his\nown start in British Columbia. He had\nbeen assistant librarian at the Michigan\nUniversity at Ann Arbor, his birthplace.\nAfter several years of this, the library\nwalls began to seem cramped to him.\nHe had plenty of opportunity to read, and\nread much of the far West, of the open\ncountry where a man could stretch himself, and grow, and work out his own\n\"I AM IN THOROUGH SYMPATHY WITH THE MAN WHO EARNS\nHIS LIVING WITH HIS HANDS\".\ncinity has been greater by thirty-three\nper cent, than the number placed in all\nprevious years, and twice as many as\nhave been put up during this period in\nLos Angeles, which city leads all others\non the continent, outside of Vancouver,\nin ratio of growth. The Mayor pointed\nout numerous other progressive movements and high auguries for the future\nof Vancouver and British Columbia.\n\"A great many men have already made\nmoney here,\" he said, \"but it must not be\nassumed from this that the opportunities\nfor commercial or any other kind of\nsuccess are fewer than they were. They\nare greater. We are just beginning. The\nconstantly widening activities in the Province are opening up more and more\npaths to prosperity. There are many\nmore than when I came here fifteen years\nsalvation in his own way. All this made\na strong appeal, and finally he pulled up\n'stakes, without financial resources, trusting, as many another young man has\ndone, to the West, and to himself.\nMining, he figured, was a likely road\nto wealth, and British Columbia, he believed, was waiting for his arrival to\nbless him with virgin gold. So he crossed the border and became a prospector.\nHe penetrated the wildness of the north,\nprospected along the Skeena River and\nin other regions where primeval forests\nstand and mountains raise great barriers, and man is seldom seen.\n\"Did you find a mine?\" I asked.\n\"No,\" he answered, with a smile, \"it\nwas all I could do to find enough to eat.\"\nAfter a while he gave up mountain\nclimbing, and came to Vancouver.\n\"What did you do here?\" I enquired.\n\"Not much of anything,\" he replied.\n\"I looked for a job, but I didn't find one\nin which I thought I could make progress, so I sought other pastures.\"\nThis is worth special note. Here is\na man, the Mayor of Vancouver, and the\nowner of a great daily newspaper, who,\nless than fifteen years ago, was \"up\nagainst it\" in the city in which he has\nsince achieved his conspicuous success.\nIt shows, of course, that he has had\nno special advantages, that he has not\nstepped to one of the higher rungs of the\nladder from some superstructure reared\nby others, but has climbed cleanly from\nthe ground. Here is encouragement for\nthe man who is starting from the ground\nin British Columbia now.\nThe path of Mr. Taylor led him to\nRevelstoke, and here, at the Canadian\nPacific railway station, he obtained a\njob handling freight and luggage. He\nwas a \"baggage .smasher.\" But Vancouver called again, and he returned to\nthis city, becoming a clerk in the freight\noffice of the C. P. R. In the course of\ntime he made a connection with the\nDaily Province and learned the newspaper business\u2014learned it well. In 1905\nhe took control of the Vancouver World,\na newspaper whose chief asset was its\ngood name. It had a feeble circulation\nand a worn out equipment.\n\"The press,\" said Mr. Taylor,, \"was of\nthe vintage of about 1850. To keep it\nfrom falling to pieces we had to tie it\ntogether with ropes and wires, and were\nnever sure that it wouldn't collapse before we got an edition off.\"\nIn six months the World was carrying more advertising than any other\npaper in Vancouver, and it has since\nachieved the distinction of having more\ncolumns devoted to advertising than any\nother paper in the world. Next spring\nit will have an imposing structure of its\nown\u2014a monument of rapid achievement\nin building up a newspaper.\nA year ago Mr. Taylor was elected\nMayor of Vancouver. \"My aim in administering this office,\" he said, \"is to\nrepresent all the people. I treat the corporation as an individual. I fully appreciate its usefulness, but do all in my\npower to curb it if it shows grabbing\ntendencies. We want capital in British\nColumbia, but we don't want any money\nmenace. We want opportunities for all\n\u2014the poor man as well as the man in\naffluent circumstances. I am in thorough\nsympathy with the man who earns his\nliving with his hands. He is the backbone of the country\u2014the fundamental\nforce and first source of wealth.\n\"During my days in the library back\nin Ann Arbor, I began to read books on\npolitical economy, and became interested in the writings of Henry George. I\nsaw much merit in the single tax, with 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nkj\nage\n13\nmodifications, in accordance with the specific municipal conditions to which it\napplied. It has been a great satisfaction\nto me that 1 have been in a position to\ntest it in practice, and that it has proved\nso eminently successful. Very few persons in this section now dispute the advantages of the single tax, which, as is\nwell known, is a tax upon the land, and\nnot upon the improvements on the land.\nOn this account it discourages the selfish\nholding of city lots for higher prices\nwithout erecting houses on them. It\nstimulates building and is a spur to the\nprogress of a city. It means more work,\nmore homes, and lower rentals.. All of\nthis has been amply proved in Vancouver. The single tax is distinctively a\nmeasure for the people. Its success here\nhas attracted wide attention. It will,\ndoubtless, be adopted by numerous other\ncities, both in Canada and in the United\nStates, but Vancouver has shown the\nway.\nDuring his first term as Mayor, Mr.\nTaylor has made a winning fight for\nan eight hour day for men engaged on\ncity work, and for numerous other measures for the common good. Taking\nhim \"by and large,\" he is an example of\nwhat British Columbia will do, without\ntoo much delay, for the man who makes\nthe most of his opportunities here\u2014opportunities which include, for the man\nof initiative, the making of opportunities\nfor others.\nImmense Wealth in Minerals\nIndividuals and the Province are being Enriched by British Columbia Mines\nBy Richard McBride\nPremier and Minister of Mines\n(NATURAL RESOURCES SERIES, No. 2.)\nNature has been lavish with her mineral gifts to British Columbia. The Province is particularly rich in coal, gold,\nsilver, copper, lead, and other minerals\nwhich contribute greatly to wealth in\nnatural resources. The production has\nalready been heavy, but when one considers the great extent of the Province\nand the difficulties of transportation to\nthe more remote parts, it will be seen\nthat only small portions of the mineralized sections of British Columbia\nhave been prospected, and that the yearly\nproduction in future years will beyond a\ndoubt be much larger than it has been\nduring any year in the past.\nAt the close of 1909 British Columbia\nhad produced in coal and other minerals\nof value no less a total than $347,820,584,\nwhile for the year 1909 the output was\n$24,443,025. There is vast potential\nwealth in coal, which is very widely distributed. There are coal fields of great\npromise which have not yet been developed. East Kootenay produced in 1909,\n923,865 tons; Nicola, 62,210, and Vancouver Island, 1,414,525 tons. In addition to the output in these sections there\nare producing deposits in the Similka-\nmeen, Thompson River, Queen Charlotte Islands, Peace River and Talkwa.\nIn the Upper Skeena and Naas sections\nthere are large fields which have not yet\nbeen developed.\nOf minerals other than coal the Province has thus far seen a production of\n$164,359,421. The output last year was\nvalued at nearly $16,000,000.\nIt is not possible in brief space, to\nmention in detail the various mining districts of the Province, but I can call attention to the very encouraging fact\nthat in the Slocan District, as\nthe shallower deposits are exhausted, ore is being found in the\ndeeper workings. This, as is well known\nto every mining man, is the chief factor\nR|\nS\\ <\nr*%\nVtem\n\u00ab5r?\n-jJK*#yj\n%l\nTHE BEGINNING OF A MINE\n:^--v,:\nin the matter of permanency in a mining\ndistrict. \"Does the ore go down?\" is a\nquestion which every miner asks in obtaining information upon which to base\na judgment as to the merits of any mining country. At Sheep Creek in West\nKootenay, new discoveries have made\nthat camp an important producer. It is\nwell to note that these new ore bodies\nhave been found in a camp which is old,\nand which might by this time, have been\nworked out were it not for the important fact that this ore is found in the\ndeeper workings.\nThe Boundary country produced nearly one and a half millions of tons of ore Page 14\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nin 190$, 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\nthe opening up of transportation routes,\nand that as connection facilities increase\nmany deposits of mineral now valueless\nbecause of the impossibility of reaching\nthem and transporting the ore to advantage, will add their share to the general\nwealth.\nIn gold last year, the Province produced a value of $4,924,090; in silver, $1,-\n239,270; lead, 44,396,346 lbs., valued at\n$1,709,259; copper, 45,597,245 lbs., valued\nat $5,918,522.\nIn 1909, as in the two years immediately preceding, the Yale (Boundary)\ndistrict had the honor of first place on\nthe list. The Coast district comes second, and is followed by the West Kootenay district, which was for many years\nour greatest producer. The East Kootenay takes fourth place. The Coast and\nEast Kootenay districts owe a considerable percentage of their outputs to the\ncoal mines within their districts, whereas, in the other districts, the production\nis almost entirely from metal mines.\nWhat the production in the sections\nwhich have recently been opened up by\nnew transportation lines will become,\nremains, of course, to be seen, but it\ncan be said that these have high promise.\nFor twenty years coal mining has been\na constantly increasing industry, while\nlode mining did not begin practically\nuntil 1894. Since then, it has risen with\nremarkable rapidity. Placer gold was\nthe magnet which drew attention to the\nmining possibilities in British Columbia\nin 1858, when the discoveries' were made\non the Fraser River. Then came the\nhistory of the Caribou country. These\nplacer operations brought, about eighteen\nyears ago, the beginning of quartz mining, in which probably lies the greatest\npart of the production of the future.\nFrom Atlin on the north to the boundary line on the soutk1.. and from the\nIsland and coast on the Pacific to the\nRocky Mountains, the mining industry\nhas spread; smelters and mills have been\nbuilt, and one can safely predict immense wealth in the future from the\nstores of mineral in British Columbia\nground.\nA Year's Output in Minerals\nAn informal and unofficial statement\nfrom' the office of the Minister of Mines\nat Victoria, is to the effect that while it\nis as yet impossible to say what the mineral production of British Columbia for\n1910 will be, the output of the mines will\nprobably at least equal that of 1909, and\nmay be considerably greater. There have\nbeen some local and temporary conditions which have had a retarding effect\non the industry, but, on the other hand,\nthere has been a constantly progressive\n<*\u00a3\nA MILL, NELSON MINING DIVISION\nmovement in discoveries, development\nwork and mine equipment, with the result that mining gives greater assurances\nthan ever before of contributing in a\nlarger and larger degree to the wealth\nof British Columbia.\nIn the statement for Opportunities by\nPremier McBride, some statistics are\ngiven of the most salient features of the\nindustry up to the beginning of this\nyear. It will be interesting to mention\nsome additional facts:\nThe number of mines from which shipments were made in 1909 was 89, and of\nthese 52 shipped more than 100 tons each\nduring the year, while 32 shipped in excess of 1,000 tons each. Of these latter,\n8 were in the Nelson Mining Division, 5\nin the Boundary District, 5 in the Ains-\nworth Division, 4 in the Slocan District,\n3 in the Coast District, 3 in the Trail\nCreek (Rossland) Division, 2 in the Fort\nSteele Division, 1 in the Trout Lake\nDivision, and 1 in the Queen Charlotte\nDivision.\nThe metal gold, obtained from both\nplacer and lode mining, amounts to a\nvalue of $125,950,790, the greatest amount\nderived from any one mineral, the next\nimportant being coal, the total gross\nvalue of which, combined \"with that of\ncoke, is $102,904,261, followed by copper\nat $55,871,893, silver at $29,850,586, and\nlead at $23,259,255. The value of gold\nproduced from lode mining in the Province during the year 1909 was $4,924,-\n090. The greatest increase in output has\nbeen in the Nelson District. There was\nalso an increased gold production in the\nCoast District. The Boundary District\nmade an increase of $35,000 in its gold\noutput. About 86.5 % of the lode-gold\noutput of the Province was recovered\nfrom the smelting of copper-bearing ores; 1910\nOPPORTUNITI\nthe remaining 13.5 % was obtained from\nstamp milling, etc.\nThe production of placer gold in 1909\nwas about $477,000.\nThere is no question that, in the known\nplacer camps of the Province, most of\nthe more easily available deposits have\nbeen worked out, leaving only those the\noperation of which called for greater\ncapital and plant, with greater attendant\nrisks and less security of immediate\nprofits.\nThe total amount of silver produced in\nthe Province during 1909 was 2,532,742\nounces, valued at $1,239,270. About\n98 % of the total silver was produced\nfrom ores in which it was found associated with lead, the remainder being obtained from copper-silver ores.\nThe production of copper in 1909 was\n45,597,245 pounds, valued at $5,918,522,\nThe bulk of the copper was mined in the\nYale (Boundary) District.\nThe lead output was 44,396,346 lbs.,\nvalued at $1,709,259, an increase over the\nprevious year of 1,200,613 lbs., with an\nincreased value of $76,460. The greater\npart was derived from the Fort Steele\nMining Division, with the Ainsworth,\nSlocan, and Nelson Divisions following\nin the order named.\nThere was a comparatively small quantity of zinc ore produced, although the\nindustry was not neglected. The total\namount of zinc ore and concentrates produced and sold during the year was\nabout 10,000 tons, ranging from 38 to\n48 % zinc.\nExcellent building stone of various\nsorts is found in abundance in almost\nevery part of the Province, but the fact\nof its widespread distribution has been\nsomewhat against the establishment of\nHAMILL CREEK, AINSWORTH MINING DIVISION\nlarge quarrying industries, as a sufficient\nlocal supply could always be obtained,\nand, except within reach of the larger\ncities, few regularly equipped quarries\nhave been opened.\nThe demand for brick is rapidly increasing with the growth of cities, but\nthe manufacture does not seem to have\nkept pace with the demand, as large importations of brick have been made from\nf^mm\nH.C. Pare**'?! \"MiifiSi\n-aJl\"Ni\n'A GLORY HOLE,\" GRAN BY MINES, PHCENIX: Page 16\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nPuget Sound points. There are unlimited clay deposits available, but the brickyards of the Province are for the most\npart worked on rather primitive lines.\nThe manufacture of lime is conducted\nin a small way at a large number of\npoints in the Province, but only on the\ncoast has any attempt been made at\nmore extensive operations.\nThe only company manufacturing cement in the Province is the Vancouver\nPortland Cement Company, with works\nat Tod Inlet, on the Saanich Arm, about\ntwelve miles from Victoria. The capacity of these works\" at present is about\n300,000 barrels a year, and in 1909 the\ncompany manufactured about .238,000 barrels of cement, valued in the neighborhood of $360,000.\nIn the Flathead Valley of East Kootenay, seepages of oil occur and a great\nnumber of locations of oil claims have\nbeen taken up. In the vicinity of Sooke,\nVancouver Island, some oiL locations\nhave been made, but have yet to be\nproved of value. A deposit of oil shales\nhas been found on the North Thompson\nRiver, which carries a fair percentage of\noil, and it is probable that in the near\nfuture, serious attempts will be made to\nprove the value of the deposits from a\ncommercial point of view.\nConcrete construction has become so\nextensive on the coast that companies\nhave been formed to supply suitable material for such work.\nTriumph of the Western Spirit\nAs Manifested by the Recent Record-Breaking Campaign in Vancouver\nto Raise Funds for the Young Men's Christian Association\nBy William Ford\nAs we all know, a great deal has been\nsaid about the notable progress of British Columbia and. Vancouver. This has\nbeen attributed chiefly to the great\nwealth of the Province in natural resources. The spirit of the people has\nbeen mentioned in this connection, but\nhas not been particularly emphasized.\nThat the remarkable development has\nbeen due in very large measure to the\nvirility and enthusiasm of the people has\nbeen, within a few weeks, indicated in a\na population of 560,000, while Vancouver has a population of about 115,000.\nDetroit raised $423,000 in twenty-three\ndays. Detroit has a population of 465,000.\nToronto raised $800,000 in twelve days,\nbut three gifts were very large\u2014one of\nthem being for $100,000 and two for\n$50,000 each. Toronto's population is\nmore than double that of Vancouver.\nOttawa, with a population of 85,000, did\nwell by raising $208,000 in twelve days.\nMontreal, with a population of 454,000,\nThe closest approach to this achievement\nin the history of these campaigns, was\nin Cleveland, where the young men's\ncommittee raised $83,000 in fifteen days.\nIn this connection it must be remembered that Cleveland is five times as large\nas Vancouver.\nIt would be impossible to convey an\nadequate idea of the great upwelling of\nenthusiasm and the practical, hard work\nto which this movement gave rise in\nVancouver. Many men who have not\nstriking manner. Vancouver has raised\nabout five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for a new Young Men's\nChristian Association building in record\ntime. In five days she has raised this\ngreat sum, and in this work has far outstripped cities much larger than herself.\nTo grasp the full significance of Vancouver's achievement, it is necessary to\nglance at what some other cities have\nrecently done in Y. M. C. A. money raising campaigns: Cleveland, Ohio, raised\n$540,000 in fifteen days. Cleveland has\nA Y. M.C. A. CLASS AT EXERCISE\nraised $320,000 in twelve days.\nIt will be seen from this record of\ncampaigns in other cities, that Vancouver has greatly exceeded them all. There\nis one phase of the work in which her\nsuccess has been particularly impressive\nand significant. The managers of the\nVancouver campaign, some of whom\nhave been in this work for many years,\nwere astonished at the results -achieved\nby the special committee of young men.\nThis committee alone, in the five days\ngiven to the work, raised $282,420..50.\nbeen in the habit of giving money or\nattention to any public project, and who\nat first listened coldly to the words of\nthe Y. M. C. A. workers, were in the\nend fairly swept from their feet by the\nfervor of the movement, and contributed\nhandsomely to the fund. The campaign\nwas the most impressive illustration yet\nseen of the remarkable latent power of\nthe spirit of Vancouver, which needs\nonly to be aroused by some laudable\ncause to achieve results which have not\nbeen duplicated in the older cities. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 17\nThis campaign began about two\nmonths ago in a very quiet way. A quiet\nman, C. R. Sayer, came to the city in\nresponse to an invitation from the Board\nof Directors of the local Y. M. C. A.\n' Few persons knew that he had arrived.\nWithout any preliminary heralding of\nthe big project which he had in mind, he\nwent to work. In co-operation with the\nauthorities of the local Y. M. C. A. he\nmade a list of what he calls the \"key\nmen\" in the community, that is, men\nwho were likely to support with their\nwork a movement of this kind. This list\nin the beginning consisted of several\nhundred names. It was culled and picked over until finally it had been reduced\nto about half a dozen particularly representative and public-spirited citizens.\nThese were made the active heads of the\nmovement. One was made chairman\nof the business committee; another was\nmade chairman of the young men's committee; others were made captains of\nthe teams. They assumed responsibility\nfor the success of the campaign, and\nthey were the kind of men who would\nleave nothing undone to attain the goal\nupon which they had set their hearts. Mr.\nSayer supplied them with an admirable\nbusiness plan of organization which was\nthe result of twenty years' experience\non his part in this work. These men\nselected others upon whom they could\ndepend. Teams were organized. Each\nof these was made up of ten of the best\nmen which the team captains could\nobtain, and it may be said that these\nhad no difficulty in enlisting the services\nof those upon whom they called. Each\nfelt that the request was an honor, and\neach, a picked man, went to work with\nthe system and care which characterizes the undertakings of men of their\ncalibre when they set their minds and\nhearts upon a project.\nIn the course of the preparations Mr.\nSayer met the captains and team members almost daily at luncheons and other\ngatherings, and thoroughly discussed\nwith them all details of the work they\nhad undertaken. During this preliminary stage of the campaign very little was\nsaid publicly about what was afoot, but\nsuddenly a general meeting was called,\nan inspirational address was delivered,\nand the real campaign was on.\nThe workers were lifted by the momentum of the campaign out of the routine of every-day life. They felt a\nstronger and more glowing appreciation\nthan many of them had felt for years\nof the fact that there are b\\gger and\nmore vital things in the world than\nbusiness. They left their commercial\naffairs in charge of their clerks and stenographers, and spent the days on the\nstreets and in other offices, inspiring\nother men with their own feeling that\nhere was a project which deserved the\nsupport of every progressive citizen, and\nalso that this was a time when the prestige of Vancouver was at stake. They\nhad but little difficulty in this. As has\nalready been shown, the citizens of Vancouver were quick to respond. The\nVancouver spirit had been appealed\nto and it answered in a manner which\nshows that it has few, if any, counterparts anywhere outside this Province of\nBritish Columbia.\nDuring the five strenuous days of the\ncampaign, there were numerous episodes\nwhich revealed the existence of thjs spirit\nin unexpected places. For instance, on\nthe first day of the campaign a particularly hard-headed business man, who has\nbeen very successful because of his close\nattention to business and nothing else,\ndeclined, absolutely to make any contribution to the movement. On the second\nday he still declined, but with less vigor.\nthe team worker that it was not so much\nthe money as the spirit behind it which\nwas important, and that this contribution, if not one of the most valuable,\nwould be one of the most valued on the\nwhole list. There were numerous incidents of this nature, all of them showing\nthat the big Vancouver spirit is by no\nmeans confined to people who are successful and important, but is a force\nwhich permeates the citizenship of the\ncity, and is thus a particularly good\naugury for the continued development\nof the community.\nHow this feeling has its foundation and\ngreatest potentiality, not in the minds of\nthe rich, but in the hearts of the poor,\nis indicated by a little episode which occurred in the campaign which Mr. Sayer\nconducted last spring in New Westminster. He had devoted considerable attention to obtaining a contribution of\nC. R. SAYER, THE MAN BEHIND THE RECENT Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN IN VANCOUVER\nOn the third day he decided to think it\nover. On the fourth day he made a large\ncontribution. On the fifth day he thanked Mr. Sayer earnestly for being persistent enough to lift him out of his rut, up\nto a mental altitude, where he could feel\npublic influences higher than those of\nbusiness.\nOne of the team captains was approached by a nine-year-old boy who\nsaid that he had saved five dollars and\nthat since he wanted to join the Y. M.\nC. A. when he was old enough, he would\nlike to contribute his share to the new\nbuilding.\nAnother team worker was approached\nby a poor widow in a street car. She\ntold him that she had a son who had\ndied, and in honor of his memory she\nwanted to contribute her mite to the\ncause. In an apologetic manner she\ndrew from her pocketbook seventy-five\ncents, explaining that it was all she could\npossibly afford. She was informed by\ntwo thousand five hundred dollars from\na business man who could well afford\nthis expenditure for the cause, but who\nhad declined emphatically to contribute\nmore than one thousand dollars.\nMr. Sayer gave up hope of obtaining\nany more from him, but on one of the\nlast days of the campaign he received\na message to drop into the office of this\nNew Westminster citizen. It seemed\nthat the latter had an apprentice boy who\nreceived a very small stipend. In glancing over the list of contributors in New\nWestminster, this business man happened to note that his apprentice had subscribed twenty-five dollars to be paid\nover a period of years.\n\"If that boy can afford to give you\ntwenty-five dollars,\" said the business\nman to Mr. Sayer, \"I certainly can afford\nto give you two thousand five hundred\ndollars, and I'll sign a pledge for it now.\"\nAnother business man in a recent campaign contributed two thousand dollars Page 18\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nin memory of a son who had died. \"I\ncan hardly afford it,\" remarked this man\nto Mr. Sayer, \"but I had intended to\nspend two thousand dollars in sending\nthe boy to college. Now that he is gone,\nI want to give the Y. M. C. A. the\nmoney.\"\nStill another citizen who has attained\na prominent financial and political posi\ntion, made a large contribution to the\nY. M. C. A. for the reason, as he explained to Mr. Sayer, that in his early\ndays his joining of the association had\nbeen a turning point with him and had\nled him away from a path which was\ndownward.\n\"In these campaigns,\" said Mr. Sayer\nto the writer, \"our success is the result\nof five essential factors. We have, in the\nfirst place, a work which makes a strong\nand wide appeal. We take hold of this\nwork witlj* co-operation, concentration,\nand a careful system. By adding persistent effort to these units of success,\nwe achieve our results. To broaden my\nstatement a little, I may say that these\nare the chief factors of success in any\nwork or any career.\nThe Great Value of Alfalfa\nAnd how it may be Successfully Grown in British Columbia\nBy George Schumacher, Ph. D.\nA farmer is often inclined to scoff at\nscientific achievements in agriculture.\nWe hear very often expressions: \"That\nlooks very fine on paper, but it is no good\nto me,\" or, \"It does not bring me any\nmoney profits.\" Such farmers are shortsighted. Science can be made highly\nprofitable if the individual farmer will\napply to his own land the conclusions\ndrawn from scientific research.\nA farmer has to reckon with some\nconditions which he cannot change.\ncan and has to work very often against\nthese conditions in order to get the best\nresults and make the best profits. Of\ncourse, a rancher who has thousands of\ncattle running about on thousands of\nacres of prairie land, who can afford to\nlose hundreds of cattle through frost\nand want of feed every year, needs no\nscientist to help him, nor does the farmer\nwho farms large areas of wheat land\nwithout much cultivation, without any\nforethought, without manuring, who\nland; and to drain it, if it is too wet. He\nmust learn to combat diseases by spraying, etc. Science in agriculture shows us\nwhat particular plants require or do not\nrequire, and the practical farmer must\nprovide the requirements of the plant on\nhis farm. He must add what is needed,\nor take away what hinders the growth.\nBut the scientist does not know the soil\nof every farmer, nor the moisture and\nsunshine at his disposal, and each farmer\nmust adopt methods suited to his con-\nEMPIRE DAY NEAR KEREMEOS. LAND LIKE THIS IS EXCELLENT FOR ALFALFA\nThese are his location, soil, climatic and\nlabor conditions. They may be favorable\nfor a good crop or the reverse, and he\nThis is the first of a series of articles on\nscientific farming, by Dr. Schumacher, who\nhas had the benefit of study and wide experience in Germany, where, as is well known,\nfarming has been developed along scientific\nlines more thoroughly, probably, than in\nany other section of the world. The Doctor\nis a graduate of a German technical school,\nand of Erlangein University, and has made\na specialty of chemistry in its application\nto soils and farming. Since coming to British Columbia he has made a close study of\nagricultural conditions here and therefore\nhas a special equipment for writing of the\nscience of farming in its bearing upon agriculture in this Province. His articles will be\nof great value if followed closely.\nseeds and harvests only, and who is satisfied when each acre produces a few\nbushels of wheat a year. But such farming is not always possible, and is not\ndesirable. Its detrimental results are\nonly too apparent in the poor quality of\nthe beef and the poor average returns of\nwheat in Canada and the United States.\nAs soon as land becomes expensive,\nthe farmer must work more intensively;\nhe must increase his crop, or he is unable\nto make a living; he must learn to produce a crop even if the natural conditions\nare adverse.\nHe must learn to keep the moisture in\nthe ground by manuring and cultivating,\nor if this is not sufficient, to irrigate the\nditions. And if he does not get the expected results, he must not blame the\nscientist, but himself, because he was\nunable to draw the right conclusions.\nAlfalfa may be taken here as an example of how scientific achievements\nshould be adapted to particular conditions. It is the opinion of most British\nColumbia farmers that this splendid feed\ncannot be grown in the Fraser Valley.\nThese farmers are wrong. To understand\nthe growing of alfalfa, we must first\nknow what alfalfa is, and what is aimed\n\u2022at in growing alfalfa.\nAlfalfa, the lucerne of England, France\nand Germany, has been grown for thousands of years in Persia, and was brought 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 19\nTYPICAL BRITISH COLUMBIA FARM HOUSE AND ORCHARD\n^to Europe a few hundred years ago. It\n^belongs to the clover family, is some-\nttimes called eternal clover, and is no\nidoubt the most marvellous food and for-\njage plant we possess. Its value as fod*\n*der is based on the large quantity of\niprotein it contains. \"Protein\" is a flesh-\nfouilder, and as the percentage of protein\nkin alfalfa is at least as high as in oats,\nwheat, corn, etc., its value as a fodder is\n[evident. All animals on the farm, from\njfchickens up, will eat alfalfa. The pigs\njrthrive on it, sows will go through winter\non it. It is good for the mares; weanling colts, which are fed on alfalfa and\nshelled oats come out fat in the spring\n|and shed off in March. It supplies more\nIgreen food for hogs than anything else,\n[it is a great preventive of hog dis-\nSease. It is splendid for cows and increases the milk production.\nOne ton of alfalfa is worth more than\nttwo tons of timothy. In other words,\nif hay sells at $25 per ton, alfalfa is\n[worth $50 per ton, and the practical\nfarmer has found that the results justify\n[this valuation. Nevertheless we frequently find that a dairyman prefers to\n[buy hay at $25 per ton, even if he can\nget alfalfa at the same price.\nAlfalfa can be sown from May to Aug-\n[ust. It will give green fodder in the\n[spring; it gives two to three cuts in summer and in southern climates when irrigated, up to six cuts. Alfalfa holds out\ntwenty-five years. It is in its best from\nthe fifth to tenth year. The average\nyield of an alfalfa field will be twice\nthe average of timothy, and we can get,\ntherefore, four times the feed value off\none acre of alfalfa as we can get off one\nacre of timothy.\nAll this has been ascertained by\npractical farmers. Science has proved\nthat its chemical constitution accounts\nfor this high value of alfalfa.\nBut science has proved something\nmore in connection with alfalfa, something which will be worth millions of\ndollars to the farmers, when they learn\nto make proper use of it. As mentioned\nabove, the feed value of alfalfa is based\non its contents of protein, and protein\ncontains nitrogen. Alfalfa needs, therefore, nitrogen in large quantities. So\ndoes grain. If nitrogen is lacking in the\ngrain fields, the crop diminishes. To\nproduce larger crops we must bring to\nthe ground manure and fertilizers which\ncontain nitrogen in a form that can be\nassimilated by the plants. Saltpetre and\nsulphate of ammonia contain nitrogen\nconvertible into plantfood.\nBut alfalfa contains no more nitrogen than grain, and does not need fertilizers. It goes on growing better from\nyear to year. The reason for this is\ntold us by the scientist. On the roots\nof alfalfa there are thriving and multiplying bacteria able to convert the nitro\ngen of the air into a form which can be\nused and assimilated by the plant.\nWhat sulphate of ammonia, nitreates,\nguano, stable manure, and a good deal of\nlabor have to do for other crops, do myriads of bacteria for alfalfa without labor\nor expense.\nScience shows us how we can make\nuse of the work of these bacteria for\nother crops which require nitrogen.\nAfter we have taken the crop, we can\nplow the alfalfa field. The deep roots\nprovide humus and nitrogen feed for the\ncrops which are now planted. The money\nvalue of such nitrogen at disposal for\nsubsequent crops is placed as from $20\nto $50 per acre. Science has proved this,\nand the farmer has to make intelligent\nuse of it.\nPotatoes are harder on the soil than\nany other crop. They impoverish the\nground, and the advice of a well known\nagriculturist is quite justified for certain\ndistricts, namely, a farmer should not\ngrow more potatoes than he wants for\nhis own use. But we find that in Colorado a rotation of alfalfa, sugar beets,\nand potatoes gives excellent results. In\nthis case the alfalfa replenishes the\nground with nitrogen, allows a splendid\ncrop of sugar beets, and the cultivation\nof sugar beets leaves the field in such\nexcellent condition that a crop of seven\nhundred bushels per acre is the average.\nWe take it as a matter of course that\nONE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA'S RIVERS Page 20\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nfarmers in Colorado, using this rotation,\nadd the other fertilizers to their soils if\nneeded, such as potash and phosphates,\nand especially lime.\nBut if we now attempt to grow alfalfa,\nwe find often that it will not grow at all,\nor will give very unsatisfactory results.\nAnd science has taught us the cause of\nthis as well. The absence of the nitrogen converting bacteria prevents the\ngrowth of alfalfa. If we bring these\nbacteria into the soil, alfalfa will give\ngood returns provided of course, that\nall other conditions required for the\nproper multiplication of these bacteria\nand for the proper growth of the plant\nitself, are attended to. In such case the\ninocculation of alfalfa fields with bacteria is necessary. The experimental farm\nin Lacombe, Alta., reports the following results with inocculated and non-\ninocculated ground:\nInoccu- Non-Inoc-\nlated. culated.\nFirst cut \". .10,820 lbs. 4,880 lbs.\nSecond cut 8,080 lbs. 2,080 lbs.\nTotal 18,400 lbs. 6,960 lbs.\nThese plots were inocculated with one\nhundred and twenty-five pounds of soil\nper acre, taken from an established alfalfa field. The inocculation with pure\nbacteria culture is also possible, but its\napplication is not so simple. Science has\nproved us the value of alfalfa as a food\nand as a nitrogen restorer to the soil; it\nhas shown us how to proceed to get a\ncrop. The rest must be left to the\nfarmer, who has to apply the benefits of\nalfalfa according to the conditions prevalent on his farm. If he orders now some\nseeds and soil of an established alfalfa\nfield, puts the seed down in the usual\nway, he will sometimes get a crop and\nsometimes he will not. The farmers in\nthe Fraser Valley do not get any alfalfa\ncrop, and they either blame the soil or\nthe scientist for their failures.\nBut let us see if these farmers have\nreally understood alfalfa and have provided the needs of this plant in their\nsoil? We are told that the bacteria in\nthe soil converts the nitrogen of the air\ninto plantfood. Besides nitrogen these\nFARM LANDS IN THE BULKLEY VALLEY\nbacteria require another part of the air,\nnamely, oxygen, and if they cannot get\nat the air, they cannot convert the two\nsubstances into the required form. Alfalfa can thrive only when plenty of air\ncan enter the soil. A soil which is not\ndrained and is water-logged, will not\nallow the bacteria to work. In order to\nair the soil, all low lands must be drained, and there must be such cultivation\nas will allow the entrance of air into the\nsoil, but at the same time will retain sufficient moisture. Alfalfa requires quite\na lot of water, but can draw this out of\nvery deep ground, owing to the plant's\ndeep roots.\nPlowing, discing, and harrowing will\nprepare the ground mechanically. But\nif the chemical composition of the ground\nis unsuitable for the growth of the bacteria, all seeds, all inocculation, all plowing, discing and harrowing will not help\nmuch. On newly cleared land as well\nas in low, wet land, the soil is generally\nfull of humus and full of acids. The bacteria produce, in the first place, acids,\nwhich must be neutralized to be available for plant food. Sometimes it may\nhappen that the ground contains sufficient lime or other bases to counteract\nthe influence of the acids, and when the\nground is tilled several times -and wintered, the seeds of alfalfa may grow up\nafter a while. It happened that a farmer\nwho put down alfalfa seeds, did not get\na crop at all, plowed his field again, and\nwas surprised to find in the third year\na splendid crop of alfalfa. But this was\na chance we should not take. Such results are only possible in soils containing\na good amount of lime. In districts\nwhere the soil is lacking in lime, the\nonly certain way to get good alfalfa\ncrops is to lime the ground, not only in\nthe beginning, but regularly every year.\nTherefore, the farmer need not blame\nthe soil or the scientist. He should\nblame himself, because he has not had\na general knowledge of agriculture and\nhas not made himself fully acquainted\nwith the nature and habit of the plant.\nTo prepare limeless land, freshly cleared ground, low land, etc., the following\nprocedure should be followed: Drain the\nland, when required; put a liberal dressing of ground lime rock or spent lime on\nthe ground, say one ton to the acre,\nplow in the autumn, put more lime on\nin the spring, disc and harrow. Put the\nseed in with a drilling machine, cultivate a few times with a hoeing machine\nand get rid of weeds, and alfalfa will\nsoon bring you money. If you wish\nto keep the same field in alfalfa for any\nnumber of years, put basic slag on in\nthe spring and do not forget a liberal\ndressing of lime. Harrow, and if required, use the hoeing machine.\nFarm Opportunities for Capitalists and Settlers\nBy George H. Reynolds\nIf the people of Vancouver should be\ninformed through the daily press that\nwithin forty miles of the city there was\na gold mine capable of producing ten\nmillion dollars-or over yearly, and that\nit would take comparatively little development work to get that amount, and\nthat instead of the mine \"pinching out,\"\nit would increase in the value of its output each year for hundreds of years, and\nthat, with proper care, it would never be\nworked out\u2014if the people were informed of all this, would they \"sit up and\ntake notice?\" Would we see a grand\nrush to stake claims? We rather imagine we would.\nAnd still, such a mine exists within\nthe distance mentioned. But instead of\nit producing in ores, it will do it in\ncrops; the mine is the fertile Fraser\nValley, right at Vancouver's door, served\nby the very best and latest method of\ntransportation, endowed with the finest\nclimate in Canada, with as rich soil as\nthe sun ever shone upon, and capable,\nwhen improved, of producing unlimited\nmillions in farm and garden crops, and\nof adding untold millions to the permanent wealth of the Province in farm and\nhome improvements, besides furnishing 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 21\nPROSPERITY IN SMALL FARMING\nhomes and building bank accounts for\nthousands of home loving people now\nekeing out a- scant living in the crowded\ncities. When so improved, this valley\nwill be one of the garden spots of the\nDominion, and something for future\npoets to write about.\nThis Province now imports eight to\nten millions annually of farm and garden\nproducts, all of which could easily be\ngrown in this valley, and not only keep\nthat vast sum at home, but double the\npopulation of this locality. Vancouver\nis justly proud of its vigorous growth\nduring the past few years, and of its\nprospect for future development; but\nher citizens should realize that to make\na permanent and solid city, a good improved farming community back of it is\npractically a necessity, and experience\nhas shown on this continent that such\ncities are not only more stable, but that\nthe class of citizens are better by reason\nof such close proximity to a flourishing\nfarming community. We should remember that the source of all wealth is the\nland, and while farming, perhaps, is not\nas alluring an occupation as mining, and\nwhen compared to the few big mining\nstrikes, is not as rapid a road to wealth,\nwe must all admit that if more slow, it\nis more sure. As an illustration, eggs,\nthe output of the lowly hen in one of\nthe farming states across the border,\nexceeded in value last year the output\nof the silver mines of a neighboring State\nwhich holds first place among the States\nfor the production of that metal.\nWhat the Fraser Valley needs most\nright now is good industrious settlers to\ngo on and improve the land and bring it\nunder a proper state of cultivation. True,\nthere is hard work connected with the\nimprovement of virgin forest land, but\nhere there are places with only a light\ngrowth, which can be improved first,\nand a start made. Nature has made\namends for this heavy clearing by furnishing a fine climate, and a soil that will\ngrow anything that can be produced in\nthis climate.\nIt is our opinion that all the land\nalong or near the new Chilliwack tram\nline will be cut up into small tracts of\nfrom five to fifteen acres, and when\nthis is done, and intensive farming practiced, this territory will not only support\na large population, but will produce sufficient products of all kinds to supply the\nneeds of the large mining and industrial\nT\ncenters that will soon be built up in the\nProvince.\nHere is a vast and remunerative field\nfor capital. Clearing the land or parts\nof it on each five or ten acre block, building small cottages ready for the families\nwho will be ready to buy when such\nstart has been made, and selling on long\ntime and small cash payments.\nReady-made small farms should be\nthe watchword to attract the settler, and\nby showing him that already in this district people on such farms have and do\nclear as high as $2,000 a year raising\nchickens, to say nothing of the possibilities along other lines, when land is farmed intensively, and the feed for said\npoultry is raised on the place instead of\nbeing bought outside at high prices.\nResidents of this valley have in the\npast week\u2014November 15th, 1910, to be\nexact\u2014picked quarts of ripe raspberries.\nAnd strawberries were quite common,\ngrowing in the garden up to November\n1st. The man of small means can here\nfind a chance for the ideal small farm\nhome, put in direct and rapid communication with a city population of one hundred and fifty thousand by electric street\ncar line\u2014daily mail service, rural tele\nphones, good\nroads, near by\nA GREAT SOURC\nOF\nWEALTH\nschools and churches, and surrounded by\nan intelligent, hard working class of people, free from the worry of hired help\nsuch as the general farmer on broad\nacres has; instructed free of charge by\nnumerous experimental farms and orchards, maintained by our Provincial\nGovernment; near two leading sea port\ncities of the Pacific, and within an hour's\nride of a great university-to-be. Such\nis the prospect for the dweller in the\nFraser Valley. Page 22\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nArt in British Columbia\nThere is a sort of \"invidious bar\" that\nstands in the way of him who would\nwrite of artists\u2014whether of the brush or\npen\u2014of any period or country. He is\nlikely to be told that \"comparisons are\nodious.\" If he should start upon the\nplan of making his article as inclusive\nas possible, he either runs out of adjectives before the writing is complete, or\nhe is in danger of making it look like a\nmere list of names, such as might remind one of a directory, or of the\ngenealogical chapters of the Book of\nChronicles. If, on the other hand, he\nshould adopt a selective attitude, he will\nbe complained of for exclusiveness, and\na want of appreciation of native or resident genius. On a racecourse of any\nkind there are sure to be a few winners,\nbut there are also numbers of whom it\nBy Bernard McEvoy\nall people the most sensitive. It is a\nnecessity of their being.\nOf British Columbia as a field for art\nit is not necessary to say very much.\nLooked at in the large way there are few\nplaces that are not good fields for art.\nFor art consists in making its own translation of things that exist, into pictures\nthat suggest. Set a true artist down\namidst the smoke of Pittsburg and out\nof his surroundings he would make pictures of beauty. On the other hand set\na mere copyist amid the mountain\ngrandeurs of British Columbia, and he\nmay only produce the most obvious pictures of magnificent boulders and\nNoah's Ark trees. As a matter of fact,\nBritish Columbia is so spectacular as\nto present difficulties to the artist. Its\nmountains are too immense, its climatic\nOCTOBER AFTERNOON, FROM A PAINTING BY THOMAS BAMFORD\nmay be said that they \"also ran.\" And\nthe \"also rans\" have as much natural expectation of being mentioned, in any\ndissertation on the art of a province, as\nthe winners.\nBut this article does not pretend to be\nexhaustive or entirely comprehensive. It\nwill have to pass over many who have\ndone good work in the cause of art.\nIt is not possible to speak of everybody,\nso that a selection must necessarily be\nmade. If then, those who are annoyed\nbecause they are not mentioned, will\nmake mention of it themselves to the\neditor, the mistake of omitting them may\nno doubt be rectified at a future time.\nLet it be understood that artists are of\neffects too elusive. In its scenery there\nis too much of everything. The tyro\ndoes not know where to begin, and the\nexperienced artist does not know where\nto stop. It may be said, however, that\nartists have not been slow to find British Columbia out. There has been a\nregular procession out here of Eastern\nartists. Some of them have done better\nthan others, while all have done something. On the principle that he who\nwould fail at a target may, perhaps, hit\na haystack if he tries, the limners who\nhave come out to paint the mountains,\nthe rivers, and falling waters of this\nProvince have always been able to carry\nback canvases that have been very in\nteresting to dwellers in the more prosaic\nregions of Eastern Canada.\nThe scenery of British Columbia has\nbeen much more painted than its inhabitants, and it is the present weakness of\nthe art of the Province, that it has not\ntaken advantage of the great variety\nof types that are observable in almost\nevery part of it. A cosmopolitan crowd\npasses through its cities. The Chinaman, the Hindu, the Indian, the Mexican; travellers from the Orient, and from\nthe United States; loggers, Scandinavians, longshoremen, sailors, hunters,\ntrappers and miners, are all waiting to\nbe painted, and are presenting an opportunity to our artist's of which they should\nnot be slow to take advantage. We have\none or two painters of nautical things,\nnotably S. P. Judge, who, in this line,\nhas made what has probably been hitherto, his greatest success. But the difficulties in the way of the artist have been\ntoo great to allow of the devotion of\nsufficient time to the study of genre to\narrive at any very great success in that\ndirection. The day will come when the\nnoble field for figure painting, and the\npainting of typical scenes in which fig\nures occur, which British Columbia presents, will be utilized. Here and there,\nscattered in isolated homes, there are\nalready a few examples of genre. But\nat present they are few and far between,\nand make no showing as compared with\nlandscape art. Exception to the general\nrule is, however, found in the excellent\nwork of Mrs. Beanlands, formerly Misi\nPemberton, of Victoria, a native daughter of the Province, whose native genius,\naided by her studies abroad, enabled her\nto produce works which were exhibited\nwith credit not only in British Columbia,\nbut in European galleries.. Among other\nartists who have done successful figure\nand portrait work, may be mentioned\nMiss Mason and Mrs. Bampfylde\nDaniell, of Victoria, both of whom have\ndone credit to their artistic training by\nworks which have been exhibited in the\nRoyal Academy, London. Mrs. Daniell's\nearly taste for art led to her removal\nfrom Devonshire\u2014her birthplace\u2014to the\nartistic circles of the metropolis, where,\nunder specially favorable conditions, she\npursued her studios under the care of\nmany famous Royal Academicians.\nIt may also be said that much of the\nartistic skill that, under other circumstances, might have gone into pictures,\nhas necessarily been employed in what,\nfor want o'- a better name, may be called T910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 23\ncommercial art. A comparatively young\nand small community, as British Columbia is, despite its few historic spots,\ncould not be expected to form very much\nof a market for masterpieces of genre.\nBut in every centre \u00b0f population there\narises a necessity for the work of the\nillustrator, whether applied to the advertising booklet, the newspaper, the\nmagazine, or in the thousand other ways\nin which \"line-cuts\" are used. A demand\nof that kind means bread and butter, if\nnot something better, and in a country\nwhere the first necessity of the newcomer is some sort of paying work, it\nis natural that much artistic talent should\nbe absorbed in a line of business, which\nthough its returns may be regular and\nimmediate, offers but little guarantee of\nfame. The newspaper illustration, the\ninvoice or letter heading, or the cartoon,\nthus utilizes the brain and skill that\nmight otherwise have produced genre\npictures to be remembered.\nOne of the first pioneers of art in this\nProvince was William Ferris, who came\nto Vancouver in 1888, after some years\nof the legal profession in London, where\nhe had had the advantage of the companionship and help of many painters,\nsince famous. His week-ends and afternoons were frequently devoted to\nsketching with these congenial comrades, and he attained considerable dexterity with the brush. It was natural\nthat he should, on coming to British\nColumbia, begin to sketch the scenery\nhe saw around him. One of the earliest\nof these sketches had for its subject the\nwreck of the steamship \"Beaver\"\u2014a\npicture that may now be regarded as\nthe best actual representation of that\nill-fated vessel. Sketches of Cedar Cove\nand various objects and scenes along the\nwaterfront attest his skill, and are valued\nevidences of what Vancouver was in\nthose early days. Along with others, he\nwas instrumental in the inauguration of\nthe Art, Historical and Scientific Association, which has remained in existence\nuntil this day. Under the auspices of\nthis Association Vancouver's first exhibition of art was held, consisting partly\nof loaned pictures and partly of work\ncontributed by the members. It was\nopened by the Governor-General, who\nhappened to be in the West, and was,\nfor that day, a very considerable success.\nAmong those who contributed to this\nearly exhibition was H. J. De Forest, a\nnative of the Maritime Provinces, who\nwas prepared for an artistic career by\nvarious courses of study and a more\nprolonged opportunity of travel than\nfalls to most men. When he had secured all the elementary training that\nCanada could give him, he started for\nLondon in 1879, where he took full advantage of study at South Kensington,\nfollowing it up with further courses in\nParis and Italy. During a prolonged\ntour that lasted until 1882, he saw most\nof the great masterpieces of the world,\nand stayed long at the principal artistic\ncentres. Returning to Canada, he came\nWest, and has ever since been regarded\nas one of the pioneers and chief exponents of the art he loves so well. An enthusiastic lover of nature, he has painted\nBritish Columbia scenery in a way which\nhas earned deserved encomiums from all\nwho know his work.\nAmong the various societies that have\nfrom time to time been started in British Columbia to further the cause of\nart, the Vancouver Studio Club is entitled to a prominent place. It was\nstarted .in 1904 under the presidency of\nMr. H. Abbott, who still retains that\nposition. Himself an enthusiastic amateur in water color, Mr. Abbott was\nalways ready to do what he could in the\ncause of art, and in November of- the\nabout twenty, the object of the society\nbeing to consolidate the interests of\nthose who are engaged in artistic pursuits, and to stimulate an appreciation of\nworks of art on the part of the public.\nThe society has held several exhibitions\nof works of art with considerable success. Among its members, in addition\nto William Ferris and H. J. de Forest\nalready mentioned, is Thos. W. Fripp, a\nson of the eminent water colorist of\nthe same name who was a well known\nmember of the English Royal Society\nof Painters in Water Colors. Mr. Fripp\ntherefore, comes by his well known skill\nin the direct line of descent, and his\npaintings are much admired. As an exponent of British Columbia scenery in\nwater color, he takes a high place; the\nexcellence of his drawing, and the purity\nof his color, distinguishing him in a\nquite remarkable way. He has also displayed eminent ability in figure pieces\nand portraits. John Kyle, A.R.C.A., is\ntill ...i.\nt, mX'-I\u00ae^\nsamm\nSALMON BOATS, FROM A PAINTING BY S. P. JUDGE\nsame year he assisted in the gathering of\nan important loan collection of pictures\nwhich were exhibited under the auspices\nof the club, and which contained many\nvaluable works of art. The Studio Club,\nthen as now, conducted classes for the\nteaching of art, S. P. Judge and J. Macintosh being successively its instructors.\nThe club has held several highly creditable exhibitions, and its classes are now\nunder the superintendence of Miss Anne\nBatchelor, Miss L. Beresford Tully, and\nMiss Walker. As an association for the\nencouragement of art, the Studio Club\nduring the six years of its existence, has\nhad a highly creditable history. Prominent among its workers have been Mrs.\nRussell, Mrs. Creery and Mrs. Frame.\nThe British Columbia Society of Fine\nArts was inaugurated in 1908 and duly\nincorporated by the Provincial Government; the Rt. Hon. Earl Grey, the Governor-General, accepting the office of\npresident. It now has a membership of\nanother prominent and useful member\nof the society. Of Scottish birth, he\nstudied art first at his native place, and\nwas successful in taking the highest\nSouth Kensington prize in his year,\nopen to the entire Kingdom, for\nArtistic Anatomy. He proceeded to\nSouth Kensington, where he went\nthrough various courses with great\ncredit, and studied for a time afterwards\nin Bruges. Coming to Vancouver, he\nfor some time held the position of art\ninstructor in the public schools, subsequently being appointed in the same capacity in the Normal School, a post\nwhich he at present holds. Mr. Kyle\nhas taken an important part in the establishment of technical evening classes\nin 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\nmuch to say that in his art teaching in\nthe public schools, he has done much Page 24\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nfor art in this Province. The work of\nthe scholars which has been shown at\nvarious exhibitions, indicates that the\npupils have been taught on right principles, and we may, therefore, look for a\ngrowing number of artists in the rising\ngeneration. As a painter, Mr. Kyle's\nwork is of a high grade.\nW. P. Weston is another member of\nthe organization who is engaged in\nteaching. He is an artist of considerable capacity, and in some of his seascapes displays a power and vision which\nhave made his contributions in this line\nof art to local exhibitions very acceptable.\nAllan Brooks, another member of the\nB.C.S.F.A., is a painstaking and exceedingly able painter of birds and game\nsubjects. As an explorer of the mountain recesses of this Province, as a\nhunter and prospector, he has made a\nrecord. The clearness of his observation and the ability of his pencil are\nseen in his masterly book illustrations\nas well as in many separate paintings.\nHis illustrations in the large and important work, \"The Birds of Washington,\" by Dawson & Bowles, are a sufficient testimony to his great ability in\nthis particular line.\nEducated in Scotland, J. Macintosh\nGow is an able and successful painter,\nwith a keen eye for color, and for the\npoetic aspects of nature. Though he\nworks chiefly in water color, he is successful also in oil, in both devoting himself chiefly to landscape. His works\nalways take a high place in the B.C.S.F.\nA. exhibitions. N. H. Hawkins is a\nwater color painter whose vivid impressions of nature are conveyed with a\ndelicacy and purity of tint which give\ngreat value to his work. He is also taking much interest in figure design.\nS. P. Judge, before mentioned, has\nmade a special and successful study of\nmarine painting. He is also an able and\nbrilliant artist in black and white, and a\ncompetent scenic artist. As secretary of\nthe B.C.S.F.A., he has done very valuable service, while his ability as a teacher\nhas been fully recognized. Stanley\nTytler's Australian studies marked him,\nduring his residence in the Commonwealth, as a competent observer of\nNature's moods, and he has found in\nBritish Columbia many good subjects\nfor his clever brush. His technique is\nbold, and his grasp of the principles of\nart comprehensive. He leans to a broad\ninterpretation of what he sees; his capacity for selection is evident, and his\nmethod sincere and direct. Mrs. Alice\nBlair Thomas, B.C.S.F.A., is another\nbroad worker in oil, whose frequently\nlarge canvases convey a poetic rendering\nof mountain scenery. She is equally successful in pastoral effects, while her\nwork in water color has found many\npurchasers in Vancouver.\nGrace Judge, B.C.S.F.A., has not only\noriginal faculty and a style of her own,\nbut she possesses an imagination that\nbusies itself in dainty and refined\navenues of thought. In her quaint devices which have for their \"motif\" the\ndress and customs of bygone days, she\ndisplays an insight and technique that\nare both admirable and industrious.\nNoel Bursill's training as an artist was\nobtained in London. His black and\npoetic transcripts of British Columbia\nscenery are to the manner born, for she\nis a native daughter of the Province. Her\nmanner is distinctive, and her effects\nbold and striking.\nThis article would not be complete\nwithout some mention of the Island Arts\nClub of Victoria, which has recently held\nits first exhibition, and in the promotion\nof which Mrs. Bampfylde Daniell has\nbeen a most valuable worker. This club\nextends its schedule to any kind of\nartistic craftsmanship, and seems likely\nA BOOK PLATE, BY HERBERT S. STUDY\nwhite work is excellent, and he has a\npeculiarly good sense of color, which,\nwhen displayed in an imaginative subject, is particularly pleasing. George\nS. Gibson is a painter of much ability,\nwhose bold washes of color are very enjoyable to the discerning art lover. He\nis competent in drawing, and his capacity for the selection of the features\nof a scene decidedly above the average.\nMiss Amity Carr is another highly\nvalued member of the B.C.S.F.A., whose\nto do good work in its own district. Nor\nthough we have spoken chiefly of painting, must we forget the sculptor Marega,\nwhose vigorous modelling work has\nadded a pleasing feature to Vancouver\nexhibitions, and who is the teacher of\nmodelling in connection with the Vancouver evening classes before mentioned.\nMr. Marega is an artist to the fingertips, and his modelling work and sculpture has a vivid and vigorous beauty that\ncompel sincere admiration. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 25\nChristmas Giving\nBy Alice Ashworth Townley\nD.EAR me!\" said Mrs. Giventake,\nhow time flies! To think of\nChristmas being only about a\nweek off, and a hundred and\nfifty things one ought to attend to before\nthen, too. I'm that busy I don't know\nwhich way to turn. Are you giving\nmany Christmas presents this year?\"\n\"Well, not as many as usual. I really\ncan't afford it; and it always seems to\nme that this empty giving of presents\njust because people expect it of you, and\nit's the custom, is a mistake. I think\npresent giving should be the spontaneous\noutpouring of affection or gratitude, and\nnot a tax levied on us by the season, an\nempty exchange of compliments,\" returned Mrs. Samy, in the tone of one\nwho realizes the weakness of surrounding humanity.\n\"Just exactly what I think, and what\nI've often said. You know, I cannot understand this business-like idea of giving just to see what you'll get in return\n\u2014like some people do. I don't see how\nthey can be so mercenary.\"\n\"Nor I, either. I couldn't do it. The\ncalculating, mean spirit some people\nshow in bestowing their gifts where they\nwill bring most return is abominable.\nThere's Mrs. Grabber, I met her down\ntown to-day buying an expensive dressing grown for that rich old uncle of hers.\nShe'd have done better to give it to her\nbrother-in-law, who has been ill so long\n\u2014I hear they are just starving\u2014but he\ncouldn't give her anything, and she expects old Moneybags to substantially remember every child in her family. If\nhe were as mean as John's uncle, it's\nvery little they'd get from him. He's the\none that knows how to hang on to his coppers\"T He hardly ever gives the children\na *thing at Christmas time\u2014and we all\ngive him nice presents every year. Not\nthat I'm mercenary, you know; but it's\nonly sensible to please him if one can.'\nHe could do so much for the boys; and\nhe'll have to leave his money to someone before many years are past. Old\nCurmudgeon! I'd a good deal rather\nspend the money on poor old Grandpa,\nEDITOR'S NOTE.\nThis sketch is taken by permission from\nMrs. Townley's clever book, \"Opinions of\nMary,\" which is made up of short essays on\nmany phases of every day life, written in an\nincisive style, with much humor and keenness of observation. Because Mrs. Townley is\"\na Vancouver woman, the volume has special\ninterest here, and would make a particularly\nappropriate and appreciated Christmas gift.\nWe are glad to say, for the sake of our\nreaders,, that Mrs. Townley has very kindly\ngiven her consent to the publication in\nOpportunities of one of the sketches each\nmonth.\nhe's so fond of my children. But, then,\nit's no use talking, you can't do everything\u2014and Grandpa knows we all love\nhim.\"\n\"Yes,\" agreed Mrs. Giventake, regretfully, \"it seems too bad that one can't\nafford to give to everyone one would like\nto do something for. There's poor old\nCousin Jane, she's been awfully good to\nme. I send for her first thing when any\nof us are sick, and she always will take\ncharge of the children if I want to go\nanywhere, or help me out with the sewing. I wish I could give her something\nreally nice, but I don't see how I can.\nThere are so many people one is obliged\nto remember. That five o'clock tea cover\nfor my husband's mother has cost me\never so much more than I thouglit it\nwould\u2014she gives me so many handsome\nthings, I have to give her something\nreally nice\u2014and my sister's children get\nsuch a number of lovely gifts from their\nfather's people that we have to spend a\nlot of money on them or they don't think\nanything of what you give them. Spoiled\nyoungsters they are! So different from\nMary's children. A few cheap toys will\nsatisfy them. It's just struck me I'll\ngive Jane that plaid dress length my\nmother-in-law gave me two years ago\n(I wish she had better taste). I'll never\nwear the ugly thing, and it will make\nJane a nice, serviceable.?dress. It's a pity\ngreen doesn't suit her better, but I can't\nhelp that. It will be a good, handsome\npresent.\" And she gave a little sigh of\nsatisfaction in the settlement of that\nquestion.\n\"What are you going to give your husband, Mrs. Giventake?\"\n\u2022'I'm not quite sure,\" responded that\nlady, doubtfully. \"I wish I could be\nquite certain what he intends giving me.\nI've been hinting for the last six months\nthat I want a new dinner set, but men\nare so obtuse. If I could be sure of\nthe dinner set I'd give him a shaving\nstand, for I've quite a lot of money saved\nup, and it would look nice in the room;\nbut I must have the dinner set, and if\nhe isn't going to get me one I'll have to\nbuy it myself and pretend it's a present\nfor him. I'm bound to have it, anyway.\"\n\"That's a good idea,\" laughed Mrs.\nSamy, \"but it is so annoying,\" she went\non, gravely, \"that one doesn't know before hand. Now, last year I was as sure\n\u25a0 as sure that John intended giving me a\nnew black silk, so I got him a pair of\ngold sleeve-links and a new muffler, and\nwould you believe it, the mean fellow\nhad nothing for me but a rocking chair.\nI was that disappointed I could have\ncried. I'll be even with him this year,\nthough; I'm just going to get a new hat-\nrack for the hall and pretend it's a handsome present for him to use to hang his\nhat and coat on. The rocking chair, indeed! We needed it for the sitting room\nanyway. I do hate people to get you\nsomething useful, or that they want\nthemselves\u2014all the time letting on it's\na present for you.\"\n\"Yes,\" assented Mrs. Giventake, drearily, her mind evidently yet dwelling on\nthe dinner set. \"Do you know, I'm almost sure he'll get it, and I would like to\ngive him some nice handkerchiefs and\na new umbrella. I suppose,\" with the\nair of one to whom a bright idea has just\noccurred, \"I could have the umbrella\nsent home the day before Christmas, and\nthen, if the dishes didn't materialize, I\nneedn't say anything about it, and send\nit back on Saturday to change for something else for myself.\"\n\"Are you going to have many for dinner on Christmas Day?\" presently asked\nMrs. Samy.\n\"Yes, the whole crowd. Isn't it a\nnuisance? That's the worst of marrying\ninto a large family. I don't mind my\nown people, but John insists on having\nhis relations this year. There will be\nsixteen altogether, and my cook's raging. I'll have to give her nearly everything there is in the house to keep her\nin a decent temper or she'll burn the\nturkey or have a sick mother and have\nto go home. I suppose Christmas will\nbe a great day for you, too?\"\n\"No, thank goodness! We're all going to my sister's. She hates entertaining, but she has a large house, and\nthere's nothing to prevent her, so she\nhadn't the face to wriggle out of it this\nyear, as mother is staying with her. If\nI had everything I wanted, like she has,\nit would be a pleasure to entertain. Of\ncourse, with only one servant, and such\na small house, I am differently situated,\nand I really can't do it^'\u2014and so on.\nBut enough of the business-like and\ncalculating exchange of presents and\ndinners which, to some few to whom\nChristmas is but an empty sound, passes\nmuster as being the giving of gifts and\ndispensing of hospitality.\nThe only true giving is done from love\nor compassion, and without the least\nthought of return. Yet, when did the\noutflowings of generosity and unselfishness, tender consideration and compassion for our less fortunate brothers, forgiveness and kindly feelings towards Page 26\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nthose who may have injured us, fail to\nbring into our hearts- the return tide of\nsweet satisfaction and content? You\nthat have a plenty of this world's goods,\ntake from your hoard and purchase far\nyourselves, by providing for the needs\nof others, a happiness, a comfort, an internal glow that will warm you, mayhap,\nthrough cold and dreary days of advancing age and loneliness.\nA season of joy and gladness! A time\nof feasting and mirth! Think of the\nmany within touch of our hands upon\nwhom the burden of sorrow or want or\ncare presses heavily. Think of the\nChristmas dinners that will choke the\nnarrowed circles, where Death has been\nbusy since the last anniversary, that\nvainly strive to be cheerful;. Think\nof those other dreadful abodes that the\ngaunt fingers of poverty have robbed of\nall semblance of a home, where miserable children cry for food and old age\nhuddles trembling by the fireless stove.\nYou that don your furs\u2014glad that suitable weather has come in which to wear\nthem\u2014think how the bitter winds penetrate the ragged garments of many that\nare homeless and destitute; of more that,\nbuttoning up their thin coats over breaking hearts, are bravely trying to hide\ntheir poverty, and, well nigh desperate,\nare facing a world that seems filled with\ndisappointment and misery and want.\nAnd if we can aid in ever so little, by\nmaterial and assistance, or sympathy, or\nencouragement, let us not hold back, remembering the life-long' self-sacrifice of\nHim whose birth we celebrate.\nThe Rise of Keremeos\nThe Young Town of Opportunities in the Valley of\nthe Similkameen\nMuch has been written descriptive of\nthe beauties and resources of British\nColumbia, but the most valuable articles\nare those which deal with concrete facts\npertaining to sections in which a man\nmay establish an attractive home and a\nprosperous business. Here are some\neloquent facts about the Similkameen\nValley.\nIt lies in the southwestern portion of\nthe Province, taking its name from the\nSimilkameen River, which, in the Siwash\nlanguage, means noisy waters. The river\nin its lower stretches, is about two hundred yards wide, from four to ten feet\ndeep, and flowing rapidly, furnishes\nample power for the wheels of industry,\nand also an abundant water supply for\nirrigation where this is necessary. The\nwhole valley, and especially the section\nwhich has the town of Keremeos as its\ncentre, is now at the dawn of a new era.\nFor many years this rich country has\nwaited for the coming of the steel rails\nwhich will put it in close touch with the\nrest of the world and the big markets.\nThe Great Northern Railway, reaching\nup from Spokane, in Washington, has\nnow passed through and beyond the\ntown of Keremeos, on its way to Van\ncouver and the coast. It is announced\nthat this important connection will be\nready for traffic by the middle of next\nsummer. Herein lies an opportunity for\nthe man who has not yet acquired property holdings in the vicinity of Keremeos. Because the railroad is not yet\ncompleted, land may be obtained at\nlower prices than will be possible when\ntrains are running between Keremeos\nand Vancouver.\nFrom the latter point to Keremeos\nthe trip by rail now involves a long detour up to Sicamous on the C. P. R.,\nthence down to Okanagan Landing,\nTHE BEAUTIFUL KEREMEOS EXHIBIT AT THE FIRST CANADIAN APPLE SHOW 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 27\nthence by steamer down the lake to\nPenticton, and then by stage to Keremeos. This journey requires two days.\nWhen the line to Vancouver is completed, the trip will consume five hours.\nThis will mean much to the Keremeos\ncountry. It will mean that land that can\nnow be obtained at low prices, considering what Mother Nature has done for\nthis section, will greatly rise in value,\nand that the man who is fortunate\nenough to now hold or to acquire property before the advent of the railroad\nwill see a large increase in his own property through what economists term\nthe \"unearned increment.\" It is quite\nsafe to say that with transportation facilities, this will become one of the most\nproductive sections of its size in British\nColumbia or on the continent.\nIn telling the story of the Similkameen\nValley and Keremeos, it is not necessary, however, to dwell much upon the\nfuture. The present shows much\nachievement. To begin not on the\nground, but beneath it, it can be said\nthat the valley is rich in mining resources. Large mines have already been\nfully developed, a number of them are\nshipping coal, copper, gold and iron. Big\nplatinum deposits are being worked. It\nis not a country of prospects or \"wild\ncats.\" In the camps where there has\nbeen sufficient development, the ore\nbodies have been proved. Hedley, known\nas \"The town of the full dinner pail,\"\nwhich is just twenty miles up the valley\nfrom Keremeos, has been referred to by\na Dominion Government authority on\nmining as the greatest producer of gold\nalone of any camp in British Columbia.\nThe Nickle Plate mine has turned out\n$3,000,000 in bullion. It and many other\nmining properties are still in the early\nstages of their production. Impressive\nas the mineral output of this section has\nalready been, there is no doubt that\ncoming years will bring multiples of this\nproduction. Besides Hedley, there is\nthe \"collier\" town of Princeton, which\nis forty-five miles west from Keremeos,\nand is underlaid with sub-bituminous coal.\nIt has been estimated that one of these\nseams alone is capable of producing fifteen hundred tons of coal a day for one\nhundred and forty years. The coal is\nall of excellent quality. Here is another great source of wealth in the; Similkameen Valley.\nBut so far we have dealt only with\nthe underground riches of this section.\nThose above ground show even greater\npotentialities of prosperity for a large\npopulation. Indeed, mining has been\nmentioned not so much on account of its\nown wealth creating attributes, as to\nbring out the fact that Keremeos and its\nvicinity will not have to depend upon\noutside markets for her agricultural products. These, and fruit and vegetables\nin particular, probably constitute the\ngreatest asset the valley has. The soil is\nparticularly rich in the elements necessary to the growth of fruit and cereals.\nIt is even in texture, and has in remarkable degree, the power of retaining\nwater. That the valley is one of the\nbest sections in British Columbia for\nraising fruit is proved by fruits already\nraised there. At the recent Apple Show\nin Vancouver, the Keremeos display\naroused great admiration. This display\nwas one of the most beautiful and impressive of the whole show, and created\na great deal of fresh interest in the Keremeos section.\nOther fruits which find this locality\nsuited to their best development are,\npears, peaches, plums, prunes, cherries,\nstrawberries, blackberries, blueberries,\ngooseberries and currants. All of these\nflourish in a degree which is highly\ngratifying to the grower. The conditions\nfor the production of wine grapes are\nalso propitious. The Similkameen apples\nwon the gold medal at the New Zealand\nNational Exhibition in 1906. At the\nNational Apple Show at Spokane in 1908\nBritish Columbia apples captured thirteen first and three second prizes out oi\nsixteen entries, and Similkameen apples\nare unexcelled by those of any other\nsection of the Province. At the New\nWestminster Fair in 1909, the Keremeos\nexhibit won fourteen firsts and six second prizes out of twenty entries.\nThe fact that the conditions for raising small vegetables are as good as those\nfor raising fruit is important to the fruit\nfarmer for the reason that while he is\nwaiting for his orchards to mature, he\ncan plant them out with numerous vegetables, which will bring him.a good profit for his expenditure of time and labor.\nThe region is already well known as a\ngrazing region, and offers special advantages for the production of butter,\ncondensed milk and cream, eggs and\n> poultry.\nIt would be difficult to imagine a better climate. The valley lies in the heart\nof the dry belt, with a precipitation of\neight inches in the lower valley and\ntwenty-four inches in the upper or western at higher levels. The air is pure. In\nit the germs of malaria and tuberculosis\nhave no chance. There are no extremes\nof heat and cold. The warm Chinook\nwinds from the Pacific ocean find a way\ninto the valley and so temper the climate that ploughing in most years can\nbe done throughout the winter months\u2014\nSo it is that in this favored section\nthe dweller has at his command all the\nfactors . necessary for commercial success and pleasant home life. This is\nbeing more and more widely recognized.\nThere was but little movement of population into the valley until 1905, but\nsince then the settlers have been enter\ning in a constantly increasing stream.\nMany of these have written to their\nfriends in the old sections enthusiastic\nletters of their homes and prospects in\nthis new land of promise, and these letters have brought yearly a large influx\nof population. Yet the valley, hidden\naway among British Columbia mountains, has been so newly discovered, so\nto speak, that there is still a large\namount of land waiting to yield up its\nrichness to the industrious settler. Success awaits him here, if he has it in\nhim to make the most of the valley's\nopportunities.\n-o-\nSALMON RIVER MINING\nThe Salmon Bear River Mining Co.,\nLtd., was recently formed for the purpose\nof working three properties in the Portland Canal District. A rich strike of\ngold and native silver running over $2000\nto the ton was recently made on one of\nthe properties. A fifteen foot ledge was\nuncovered and traced for over 5,000 feet,\nshowing ore for the entire distance.\nAssays taken from it ran from $267 to\n$2,098 per ton in gold and silver. A second vein was uncovered on one of the\nother groups, showing about five feet of\ngalena ore, assaying from $30 to $60 per\nton in gold, silver and lead. This ledge\nis from eight to ten feet wide, and was\ntraced for over 1,000 feet.\nThe property is situated up the Salmon\nRiver Valley some two and a half miles\nin a westerly direction from the famous\nRed Cliff. It was located last summer\nby Stewart prospectors. These properties have some of the best and richest\nshowings in the district.\n-o\t\nMaple Leaf Emblem.\nStewart Paterson, senior chaplain of\nthe Red River expedition of 1870, says\nthat the Maple Leaf was the recognized\nemblem of Canada long before i860, the\ndate claimed for its first recognition. On\nthe initiative of the late Dr. Richardson,\nof Toronto, he, as secretary of a patriotic association of Peterborough in 1858,\ndesigned a badge on which there was a\nwreath of maple leaves. He also wrote\nverses mentioning the maple leaf and\nranking it with the rose, shamrock and\nthistle.\n-o-\nAdvices have been received from the\nofficers of the British Columbia & Alaska Railway company, of which Mr. Jean\nWolkenstein, of New York, is president,\nthat their reconnaisance surveys are now\ncomplete between Fort George and\nQuesnel. The line as projected is to extend from Lytton through the Chilcotin\ncountry and Fort George to the Alaskan boundary. Page 28\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nTHE manager wants to see you,\nsaid the pretty stenographer\nwhen McAndrews entered. In\na moment the young man had\nseated himself by the desk in the private\noffice, and the manager, turning a keen\nglance upon him, began to speak.\n\"Mr. McAndrews, I want you to go up\nthe coast on the boat to-night. At our\ncamp in the Toba Inlet the foreman and\nthe crew don't seem to pull together.\nThe foreman, Mears, is a crackerjack of\na logger, but he's got in wrong with the\nmen. They're lying down on him. Now,\nI want to get that timber cleaned up before the first of the year, and we've only\nabout three weeks left. My idea is to\nhave you go up there and see if you\ncan't straighten matters out, and get the\nlogs off. It's a kind of ticklish job, because Mears is an tfgly man to handle\nwhen he gets a grouch. This is one\nreason why I have selected you. You\ncan take care of yourself. I know your\nrecord as a college athlete, and you certainly look the part.\"\nThe manager gazed with smiling admiration at McAndrews' lithe figure. \"I\nhave another reason for sending you up\nthere. This is confidential. There is a\nvery good position open in this company, and I want to put you into it. Two\nor three of the directors have another\nman in hand, but when I take your name\nbefore the board I can put it through\nThis is the first of a series of stories by\nJ. H. W., dealing with various salient features of life in British Columbia. Next\nmonth we will have a story of the further\nadventures of McAndrews, who figures\nlargely in the above tale. British Columbia\nis peculiarly rich in literary material, and\nwe believe that these stories will prove of\ngreat interest.\nif I have something pretty strong to back\nit up with. This is the chief reason why\nI'm giving you this chance. You can\nget away to-night, can't you?\"\n\"I sure can,\" answered McAndrews,\nwith enthusiasm, \"and I'll make good if\nit takes a leg.\"\nIn a state of some excitement he 'phoned a girl, and, on his way to his own lodgings, dropped in to see her. They had\na long talk, and a certain great event was\narranged for January, provided he succeeded in this mission to the lumber\ncamp. She waved him a farewell that\nevening from the Vancouver wharf, and\nthe Petrel, sliding out through the hills,\nturned her nose toward the north.\nIn the small smoking room McAndrews tried to read a magazine, but literature had a forlorn chance amid these\nsurroundings. The room was filled with\nlumberjacks returning to the camps and\nwork, and they were continuing on the\nboat the celebration of Vancouver holidays. Flasks were being passed from\nhand to hand, and a goodly portion of\nthe passengers moved about with an unsteadiness of gait that was by no means\nwholly due to the pitching and rolling of\nthe Petrel.\nEven so, McAndrews had succeeded\nin concentrating his mind upon a magazine article when the words \"You're a\n liar!\" cut through the general\nnoise. Two men had abruptly risen, and\none of these let loose his fist. The other\nreeled back against the window. The\ntwo were enwrapping each other in an\nembrace that was far from fond, when\nthe purser, a small individual, shot out\nfrom the office. He tugged at the man\non top, admonishing him severely. He\npulled him off, and led him to a seat on\nthe other side of the smoking room.\nThen, with a warning that was terse and\ncompact from long practice, he retired\nagain to the office and his ledger.\nThis first fight of the evening increased\nthe gaiety of the company. Lumberjacks\nwho had been drooping in morose silence,\nevidently dispirited by memories of\npleasures passed and the contemplation\nof work to come, aroused themselves\nwith the light of freshened interest in\ntheir eyes. One of them turned to\nMcAndrews.\n\"That was a pretty good wallop old\nJack give the other cuss, but say, y'\nought t'ave seen the fight I seen just\nbefore I come out this last time. Mears,\nthe foreman up at one o' th' Hercules\ncamps, gave one of his crew as nifty a\nbeatin' up as a man'd want to put his\nlamps on. The other was as big as\nMears, too. Oh, 'e's a wonder with 'is\ndukes.\"\nMcAndrews cast a quick glance at his\nnew acquaintance.\n\"Yes, sir,\" the latter went on with\nponderous emphasis, perceiving that he\nhad found an interested listener, \"Mears\nhas got 'em buffaloed. They'd quit 'im\nif they wasn't scared he'd lick 'em one\nby one.\"\nMcAndrews was lending a careless ear\nto the rambling accounts of the prowess\nof Mears and others when the purser\ncame up with the information that, because the boat was overcrowded, and a\nberth had not been engaged in time, the\nbest he could do would be to provide\nMr. McAndrews with a blanket on the\nfloor beneath the table in the cabin. The\nlatter was grateful for even this, and lost 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 29\nno time in turning in. Some half inebriated passengers who occupied chairs\naround him, kept up an endless argument, but at last the monotonous drone\nof their voices died away, and he awoke\nsuddenly, with the dim light of early\nmorning creeping in beneath the cabin\ntable.\nIn a moment he was out on the narrow deck, breathing deeply of the fresh\nsalt air. He felt his spirits rise. Eagerly\nhe gazed out over the tumbling waters\nat the stately mountain ranges. Along\nthe shore were gentle grassy banks that\nbecame lost in the shadow of the timber;\ngreat slopes reaching away to trees that\nwere high and small against the sky;\nbold promontories, complacent islands,\nquiet inlets. The sun rose tardily but\nbrilliantly over the long phalanx of hills,\nbanishing the grey of early morning,\nlighting up the picture of restless water\nand sombre forests with a tint of mellow\ngold. Youth and strength surged in\nMcAndrews' breast. He felt within himself a pent-up force. His clear eyes\nshone. \"Mears may be a wonder,\" he\nsaid to himself, \"but I feel this morning\nas if I could eat him up.\"\nAt last the Petrel, flinging the water\n.imperiously from her bows, treading her\nway nimbly through the combating seas,\nveered slightly shoreward. A cliff loomed up ahead, and then seemed to move\naside like an old sentinel of the sea that\nhad received the countersign. McAndrews saw calmer waters, a curving\nsweep of beach, some small buildings\nclinging to the hillside, a long chute, and,\nmoored close to the shore, a heavy raft\nof logs. Up to this the Petrel glided.\nLines were thrown over and made fast.\nThere were greetings. Some freight\nwas unloaded and a packet of mail handed out. McAndrews watched the deck\nhands swing his trunk to the raft.\nHe paid little attention to the men who\nhad come down the hill and were on\nthe raft when the Petrel edged alongside, but he knew at once which one\nwas Mears. Under a battered slouch\nhat, pulled down in front, was a long\nface that looked as if it had been hewn\nout of rock. Big, freckled arms, with\nthe sleeves of the blue flannel shirt\nrolled above the elbows, hung loosely\nfrom heavy shoulders. Nature seemed\nto have designed those arms to swing\nan axe, or strike a blow. In the work of\nhandling the freight, Mears gave orders\nroughly, with a tinge of contempt in\nhis voice and manner. He did not seem\nto notice McAndrews, but when he came\nto the trunk he kicked it, glared\ndown at it, and demanded in a loud tone,\n\"What the is this?\"\n\"That's my trunk, Mr. Mears,\" replied\nMcAndrews, stepping forward. \"I'm\nfrom the company, and I am going to\nstop up at the camp for a while. You'll\noblige me by keeping your feet off that\ntrunk, and also by having some of your\nmen take it up to the office.\"\nMears shot a red-eyed glance at McAndrews and then began to look him\nover, slowly, from head to foot.\n\"I'll oblige yeh, huh!\" he exclaimed,\nsuddenly. \"You seem sort o' sure of\nit, but what d'y' take us fur\u2014a\t\nbunch o' baggage smashers?\"\n\"I've got a letter to you from the manager, Mr. Mears,\" said McAndrews,\nquietly. \"It's a note of introduction.\" He\nsmiled slightly and produced the letter.\nMears waved it aside. \"I don't take\nletters from every rah rah boy that blows\nup the coast. I ain't got time. The mails\nis good enough fur me. Y' kin toss yer\nletter to th' bookkeep' if ye happen to be\nstrollin' up toward th' office.\"\n\"All right, but you and I are going to\nhave a little talk. I'll see you at the\noffice.\"\nMcAndrews turned quickly away, rapidly crossed the log between the raft\nand the shore, and made his way up the\nsteep hill to the small building which\nstood at a little distance from the barnlike bunk-house. As he entered the\ndoorway the bookkeeper raised a pair of\nmild blue eyes at him across the high\ndesk, and then, apparently divining the\narrival of a representative of the Vancouver office, slid from his stool and\nlooked at McAndrews enquiringly.\n\"I guess you're Mr. Perverilly,\" remarked the latter, smiling.\n\"Yes, sir,\" responded the bookkeeper,\nwith a touch of apprehension in his manner.\n\"Well, my name is McAndrews, and\nI've been sent up by the manager in\nVancouver to sort of look over things.\"\nMcAndrews spoke in a cordial tone, and\nextended his hand, to allay any fear in\nMr. Peverilly's mind that his own job\nwas in jeopardy. Then he delivered the\nletter and explained that he had not yet\nhad his breakfast. Mr. Peverilly was distressed to hear it, and, all alacrity, seized\nhis hat and hastened toward the door.\n\"Come right over to the cook-house. The\ngrub ain't much for quality, but there's\nplenty of it, and the cook's just about\ntackling his own breakfast. You'll be in\ntime.\"\nMcAndrews was at his heels. He began to rather like Peverilly, a small man,\nneither young nor old, who wore a constant smile, and seemed to have a strong\ndesire to please. The cook, upon the\nentrance of the two, rose from the board\ntable at which he was regaling himself,\nwiped his hands, shook the one which\nMcAndrews extended, and without any\ndelay retired to the rear, in the direction of the stove. In five minutes, balancing dishes on either arm, he returned\nwith a breakfast that would have been\na compliment to the appetite of the big\ngest of the lumberjacks. McAndrews\nwas equal to it\u2014every mouthful\u2014and\nthis won the cook's respect. The two\nindulged in a smoke together, and exchanged observations on various subjects, until McAndrews, having seen the\nlarge bulk of Mears come up the hill and\nturn toward the office, tucked his pipe\naway, thanked the cook, and sauntered\nover to the little building for his second\nencounter with the foreman.\nThe latter, seated beside the big stove\nbehind the bookkeeper's desk, was figuring in a note book when McAndrews\nentered. He glanced up with a heavy\nfrown. \"Have you read that letter yet?\"\nenquired McAndrews. Mears got to his\nfeet and in violent language declared that\nhe hadn't read the letter and didn't intend to. \"If anybody has anything to\nsay to me, let 'im say it to me face, or\nthrough th' mails.\"\nMcAndrews surveyed the big man\ncalmly from his chair. \"Since you're bull-\nheaded enough not to take this letter\nfrom me,\" he remarked, \"I'll tell you the\ngist of it. In the first place, it is from\nthe manager of the Hercules Lumber\nCompany, the man who makes out your\ncheque every month. It introduces me\nto you, in a nice, polite way. Then it\nstates that it is imperative to get this\ntimber claim cleared up before the first\nof the year. Then it expresses the hope\nthat you and I will work together, in\ncomplete harmony.\" McAndrews smiled.\n\"Finally, it says that I am to have full\nauthority to do whatever I think best\nto get this work cleaned up at the time\nset. That's the letter, Mears. What do\nyou think of it?\"\n\"I think, by , that ye'd better go\nout an' shoot chipmonks till th' boat\ncomes down th' coast again. Then ye'd\nbetter waltz aboard an' sit tight till she\nlands ye in Vancouver. When I git a\nletter in th' reg'lar way sayin' I'm fired,\nI'll quit. Till then I'm boss here, an'\nany gazabo that feels like arguin' about\nit is run off th' lot.\"\nMcAndrews kept himself well in hand.\n\"All right,\" he called after Mears, as\nthe latter stamped toward the door, \"I\nfeel like arguing, and even at that, I expect to stay here a while.\"\nMr. Peverilly had been applying himself closely to his books during this little\npassage-at-arms. Now that the foreman\nhad gone out, he turned slowly around,\nwith a grin that was obviously assumed\nto conceal his feelings that this was a\nserious affair.\n\"He got pretty hot under the collar,\ndidn't he? The fact is, Mr. McAndrews,\nthat Mears is a hard man\u2014what you'd\ncall a bully. He's reckless, too. If you\nwould pardon a suggestion \"\n\"I know what you're going to say,\" interrupted McAndrews, quickly, with the\nflush of the encounter still upon him. Page 30\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n\"You're going to suggest that I sing low\nuntil I get in touch with the Vancouver\noffice and then fire Mears by mail. But\nI'm not going to do it. In the first place,\nthere isn't time. The work's behind\nnow, and they've put it up to me to get\nthis timber off before the first. Some\nfresh ginger has got to be put into\nthese men right away, and I'm going to\ndo it, on my own hook. In the meantime, Peverilly, would you mind giving\nme a lift with my trunk up from the\nlanding?\"\nThe bookeeper hesitated. McAndrews\nlooked him straight in the eyes. \"You've\ngot to make a choice, Peverilly, and\nnow's the time. Which is it, me or\nMears?\"\nMr. Peverilly made haste to get off his\nstool. \"Why\u2014why, of course, Mr. McAndrews, I'll help you with your trunk.\"\n\"Good!\" exclaimed McAndrews with\na smile. \"And when we get back here\nwe'll fix up an extra cot. I suppose\nMears sleeps here in the office. We'll\nmake a happy little family, won't we?\"\nNot caring to have any more futile\ncombats of words with Mears, McAndrews used a little diplomacy with the\ncook, and obtained his dinner and supper before the crew reached the cookhouse. He spent the afternoon on the\ntimber claim, watching the work. There\nwas no spirit in it. The hook tender\nseemed indifferent, and his attitude was\nreflected in the men. When a log jammed between two stumps the order to\n\"skin 'er back\" was only half-hearted,\nand the men mounted the log with laggard steps. The signal boy leaned\nlanguidly against the stump. Even the\nblasts of the whistle seemed to lack aggressiveness, and the logs moved lazily\non their way. McAndrews made no\ncomment on this, and exchanged no\nwords with Mears. The latter did not\ncome to the office that night to sleep.\n\"Mears evidently is not yearning for\nmy society,\" said McAndrews, jocularly,\nto Peverilly as they were turning in.\n\"It's an even break so far. I don't show\nup at meal-time and he doesn't show up\nat bed-time. Each army is waiting for\nthe other to make the first manoeuvre.\nI guess I'll have to make mine to-morrow morning.\"\nThe men had finished breakfast and\nwere lighting their pipes for a smoke\nbefore work when McAndrews strolled\ninto the cook-house. Taking a stand\nnear the head of the long table, he surveyed the company. The talk ceased immediately, and all eyes were fixed on\nthe face of the young man.\n\"Boys,\" he began,, amid a silence that\nwas oppressive because it had come so\nsuddenly, \"you've seen me around here\nsince yesterday morning, and I suppose\nyou are wondering what I'm here for.\nMr. Mears probably hasn't told you.\nWell, to put it to you straight, I'm here\nfor the company, to find out why the work\nis dragging. The company is making a\nparticular point of having this claim\ncleaned up before the first, and the manager has given me full authority to do\nwhat I think best to push the work along.\nThis is all set down in black and white\nin a letter I have here for Mr. Mears.\nHe won't open it, but I will, right here\nand now, if you don't believe me. I\nhaven't come up here to butt in. I came\nbecause I've got a job with this company, just as you have, and have been\ntold to come. Now, as you're going on\nat present, you won't finish this work on\ntime. You know it. You also know as\nwell as I do that it can be done if we\ngo about it in the right way, without\nfriction. Most of you have had a lot\nmore experience in the woods than I've\nhad, and you can teach me a lot, but\nthis is a simple job. All that is needed\nis somebody whose orders you are willing to carry out promptly. The company\nhas put it up to me. Will you do as I\nsay? If you will, we can finish up this\nwork in time for Christmas holidays for\nall of us, with full pay for everybody and\neverybody satisfied.\"\nMcAndrews stopped and glanced\nkeenly up and down the table. \"Are you\nagreed, boys? Say the word.\"\nThe silence continued, and McAndrews felt in force against him the prejudice with which the uneducated man\noften regards the man who has had this\nadvantage. The hook tender, whose\nwide mouth indicated the oratorical tendencies which caused him to assume the\nrole of spokesman, rose to his feet.\n\"Ye've given us a straight talk, Mr.\nMcAndrews, and we'll give you one.\nYeh come up here an' say ye're this an'\nthat, an' say yeh 'ave a letter to prove it.\nBut it ain't yer letter to open, an' we\nain't 'ad no official notification that yer\nin charge here. Mr. Mears here may\nhave his faults\u2014we all have, but that's\nbetween ourselves. Yeh ain't one of\nus. Yeh ain't been in the woods long\nenough, fur one thing. As fur takin'\norders, we'd rather take 'em from someone whose as good a man as we are at\nswingin' an axe, or handin' out a wallop,\nfur that matter. Mears is that all right.\nWe've been in the woods a good while,\nan' we ain't hankerin' after no kid glove\nrule from what ye call the campus. When\nyeh prove yerself as good a man as any\none of us, it'll be time fur yeh to be tellin'\nus what to do. Is that right, boys?\"\nThere was a general murmur of approval.\n\"If this is what you think,\" exclaimed\nMcAndrews, hotly, \"I'll say no more\u2014\nfor the moment, but before we're through\nI'll have a lot more to say. I'll\u2014I'll call\nyour bluff.\"\nMcAndrews made a quick exit, and de\nvoted a part of the morning to thinking\nover the situation. He decided that he\nwould have to meet these men on their\nown ground\u2014one that was distinctly\nphysical. He ate supper with them that\nevening, but they did not speak to him,\nnor he to them. Finally, after the pudding had been dispatched, and pipes had\nbeen drawn out, McAndrews rose, and,\nleaning carelessly on the back of his\nchair, began:\n\"Gentlemen,\" he said, with sarcastic\nemphasis on the word, \"I'm going to insult you. You've got strong backs but\nweak heads. You can't see anything in\nlife except the animal. Your spell-binder\nhere this morning handed me some hot\nair about taking orders only from a better man. He meant a better pug. Do\nyou back up what he said?\"\nMcAndrews paused, glancing half\nsmilingly into the heavy unfriendly faces\nranged along the table. \"You bet we\ndo,\" was the effect of the muttering replies.\n\"Good, good!\" exclaimed McAndrews\nwith enthuiasm. \"In this case you will\nhave to take orders from me, because I'm\na better man than any of you, even on\nyour own ground of exchanging wallops.\nWho are you all afraid of? Who's got\nyou all buffaloed? Why, Mears here, of\ncourse. Well, I can lick Mears.\" McAndrews turned suddenly toward the\nforeman. \"Isn't that true, Mears? I can\nlick you, can't I?\"\nMears started from his chair. \"\t\n you, I'll break you in two!\"\nMcAndrews lifted up a restraining\nhand. \"Hold on, Mears, you're a little\nhasty in rushing to the slaughter. We\nwant to make the most of this fight and\ngive the boys the pleasure of anticipation. What I propose is that the mill\nbe pulled off in the bunk-house a week\nfrom to-night, not as a cheap rough and\ntumble, but as a clean-cut affair, carried\non according to the rules of the game.\nI brought a set of gloves up here for\nfun, but will be glad to use them for\nbusiness. They're regular prize ring\ngloves, and not any too soft, as you'll\nfind, Mears, when I land on your ugly\nface. Pick out your seconds. I think\nMr. Peverilly and the cook will act for\nme. I'll leave it to you boys to select\nthe referee, feeling sure that while you\ndon't like me, you'll give me a square\ndeal. As to putting the fight off a week,\nI'll be frank with you. Mears has been\nliving the outdoor life in the woods, while\nI've been doing nothing but office work\nlately, and have been smoking a shade\ntoo much. I'm a little soft, and want\nto go into training. I want to make this\nfight worth seeing. If I lose I'll fade\naway as soon as I'm able to be about. If\nI win, I'll expect every man of you to\ntake my orders and take them quick. I\ndon't mind telling you that I used to be 1910\nchampion boxer at college. Your orator\nlast night referred sneeringly to the\ncampus. Well, we'll see how the campus\nstacks up against the woods. How do\nyou feel about it, Mears? Not nervous,\nI hope. Do we have the mill, or don't\nwe? Are you afraid, or not?\"\nMears jumped to his feet and was\nstarting toward McAndrews, when he\nwas seized by those around him. \"Sit\ndown, Mears, sit down,\" admonished the\nhook tender. \"This here talk of a shipshape scrap, arranged proper, sounds\ngood to us. Are yeh game fur it?\"\n\"Game fur it?\" shouted Mears, \"Why\n\u2014why, I'm only afraid I'll kill 'im.\"\nMcAndrews watched the work the next\nday, and was gratified to observe that the\nmen were very decidedly speeding up.\nThey seemed to feel that life held an\ninterest after all. The hook tender was\nputting fresh vigor into them. The main\nline jammed. A log stopped. In an instant the signal was thrown\u2014\"Stop! skin\n'er back!\" The rigging crew jumped\nupon the log, shifted the choker, signalled the engineer, and in the twinkling\nof an eye the log was again on its way.\nThere was a new snap in the work. With\na certain gaiety the men attacked the\n. logs, and in much more rapid succession\nthan had been the case before, the latter\nthundered down the chute and leapt into\nthe water.\nOnly a part of the day did McAndrews\nspend on the timber claim. He took a\nquick dip in the cold salt water, rubbed\nhimself vigorously, went for a three mile\ndog trot around the curving inlet, and,\non the limb of a tree on the far side of\nthe office, out of sight of the bunk-house,\nhung a punching bag of sand. He also\ncarefully laid away his pipe.\nThe next day he increased the vigor\nof his exercises, and on each of the following days added a little to his training stint. He had been a favorite of\nthe wise trainer back at college, and was\nwell versed in the art of getting into condition quickly. His spirits were high,\nbecause on the timber claim the men\nwere keeping up their speed. He felt\na subtle change in their attitude toward\nhim. It was one of more respect. He\nknew that he could win complete authority over them by one means\u2014the fight.\nIf he defeated the redoubtable Mears,\npractically every lumberjack on the coast\nwould be his to command. It he lost it,\nhe would be a laughing stock, and would\nprobably have to seek other fields for his\nwork as a logging camp boss and forest\nengineer. Toward the end of the week\nhe ceased the heavier part of his training and devoted himself exclusively to\ndeveloping to top-notch his speed and\nwind.\nMears has got an arm like a sledgehammer,\" he remarked to Mr. Peverilly\non the evening before the event, \"and\nOPPORTUNITIES\nI've got to keep him from landing on me\nwith all his force. It will be a cinch for\nme to out-box and out-manoeuvre him,\nand in the second or third round I'm going to try to close his eyes. Then I'll\nconcentrate on putting him out with a\nclean jolt to the 'jaw.\nMr. Peverilly gazed at McAndrews\nwith awe, with an admiration that was\nalmost too deep for words. This affair,\nhe felt, was the biggest thing in which\nhe had played a direct and important\npart, and he was leaving no stone unturned to be equal to his responsibility.\nHe and his fellow second, Mr. Garvey,\nthe cook, had numerous conferences with\nMr. Hansen and Mr. Murphy, the other\nseconds, and also with Mr. Williams, the\nhook tender, who had assumed the role\nof referee. The latter had shown a desire to conduct the fight according to the\nbest ethics of fistic combats, and McAndrews, after going over with Peverilly\nthe arrangements in detail, was well satisfied.\n\"The best man will win,\" he remarked,\n\"and that's all I want. I don't look at\nthis scrap as a mere physical battering\ngame. I have several reasons for wanting to win, but in addition to them I\nwant to show these fellows that education needn't necessarily be weak-kneed\nand puny around the shoulders. I want\nto increase their respect for learning.\"\nMcAndrews laughed. He was feeling\nvery fit.\nLate in the afternoon of the seventh\nday after his proposal in the bunk-house,\nhe took a nap. Five hours intervened\nbefore the time scheduled for the fight.\nHis programme was to sleep for an\nhour, walk an hour, devote an hour to\nan easily digested supper, and then to\nrest and read for a couple of hours before entering the ring. He carried the\nfirst three parts of his programme out as\nhe had planned, and was settling comfortably with a book by the student lamp\non the office table when Peverilly came\nin excitedly.\n\"There's a yacht swinging over toward\nthe landing,\" he announced.\n\"There is?\" exclaimed McAndrews in\nastonishment. \"What do you think has\nbrought her here?\"\n\"Heaven only knows. She's come from\nthe south, from Vancouver, I suppose.\"\nThey picked up their hats and hurried\nthrough the darkness down the road.\nThe launch slipped gracefully along the\nedge of the raft. A man jumped off,\nmade her fast, and then, extending his\nhands, helped two young women to\nalight. A fourth figure followed. McAndrews heard laughter\u2014musical laughter. He knew it well, and for an instant\nhe felt as though his heart had ceased\nto beat. One of the girls stopped suddenly, peered through the gloom, and\nthen, as rapidly as she dared on the un-\nPage 31\ncertain footing of the logs, advanced\ntoward him.\n\"Oh, Jimmie, I'm so glad that you're\nhere to meet us. We've come up from\nVancouver to surprise you. We were\nplanning an excursion in Mr. Frazier's\nyacht, and someone, I guess it was I,\nthought it would be a great lark to see\na real, live logging camp. So here we\nare. We can sleep aboard the yacht, you\nknow, but I want to see your own quarters and your lumberjacks.\"\nDoing his best to play the part of the\ndelighted host, McAndrews shook hands\nwith Miss Dinwiddie, with whom he was\nwell acquainted as the chum of the girl\nwho was in his thoughts so much; with\nMiss Dinwiddie's young brother, and\nwith Mr. Frazier, her fiancee. He was\ntalking at random as the party carefully\ncrossed the long log between the raft\nand the shore, and began to move up the\nhill. All he could think of was\u2014\"They'll\nthink it's a stall\u2014a frame-up. They'll\nthink I'm so yellow that I had to call my\ngirl to the rescue.\"\n\"Aren't you glad to see me, Jimmie?\"\nshe asked him suddenly, when, after a\nmoment, they happened to be walking\na little apart from the others.\n\"How could I help being, little girl?\"\nhe answered. \"This has been such a big\nsurprise that I can hardly talk, that's\nall.\"\nAfter they had \"inspected the office to\ntheir satisfaction she turned to him with\nan air of briskness. \"Now, Jimmie, of\ncourse I want to have a nice, long chat\nwith you, but before that we must pay\na visit to your men. It's only a few days\nbefore Christmas, you know, and we\nthought we'd bring them some little gifts,\nto be presented to them in your name.\nAnd we thought we'd have a little music,\ntoo. Alice plays the violin divinely, and\nBob has brought her instrument. We'll\nsing some Christmas songs. I think it\nwill be fine to make the men feel the\nChristmas spirit. Their lives must be\nhard enough. Let's go over now, so\nthat\u2014so that we'll be able to get back\nbefore it gets too late, dear. Just think,\nit's been nearly two weeks since we've\nseen each other.\"\n\"Why, of course we'll go, Dora, oh,\nof course!\" McAndrews laughed somewhat loudly. \"But I'd better tell them\nfirst.\"\nHe appeared in the bunk-house with a\nflushed face. \"Men,\" he said, with a hesitation of manner that the lumberjacks\nhad not seen before, \"I've had some\u2014\nsome unexpected sruest\nA\nmom\na em\nare two young ladies, and they want to\ncome over here to introduce a little of\nthe Christmas spirit. It's an odd place\nfor it, under the circumstances, but we\ncan't deny the ladies, you know. Don't\nthink for an instant,\" he added, noticing\nthe expression on the face of Mears, \"that Page 32\nOPPORTUNITIES\n19\/0\nI want to sidestep the business we have\non hand. There will be no postponement. The Christmas spirit will come\nbefore the fight, that's all.\"\nThe party entered the bunk-house,\nwhich had been hastily cleared of socks\nand shoes and other articles which were\nnot decorative. The violin was laid upon\nthe table, in the center of tbe long room,\nand Bob Denwiddie untied a large parcel,\nrevealing an array of excellent pipes.\nDora picked out one which was a trifle\nlarger than the others, and, holding it\nup, looked brightly into the faces of the\nmen.\n\"These are just little Christmas gifts,\"\nshe explained. \"Your own sisters and\nmothers, those who are most dear to you\nare far away, and we thought we might\nbe able to take their places, just for a\nmoment, just a little bit. Which of you\nis Mr. Mears?\"\nMears squirmed in his chair, glanced\ntoward the back door, and then rose with\ngreat awkwardness and embarassment\nDora advanced toward him and placed\nthe pipe in his inert hand.\n\"Since you're the foreman, Mr. Mears,\"\nshe said, with a charming smile, \"you naturally receive the largest pipe. The\nmanager of the company gave me your\nname, and I'm presenting the pipe with\nthe compliments of Mr. McAndrews.\"\nMears struggled for speech without\nsuccess, and Dora, hastily picking up\nmore pipes, turned quickly to the others,\nmaking each presentation with a little\nspeech. \"And here is a big jar of tobacco\nfor everybody,\" she exclaimed in conclusion, \"and I hope that these will be\npipes of peace and contentment, and that\nyou'll all have many happy returns of\nthis beautiful Christmas season.\"\nEven the hook tender, the referee-to-\nbe, was at a loss for words, and Miss\nDinwiddie, who had been tuning her\nviolin, swung into the strains of \"My\nBonnie Lies Over the Ocean.\" Bob Dinwiddie chimed in. M r. Dinwiddie took\nup the air, and suddenly the full and mellow voice of Dora soared forth like a\ntriumphant bird of song. New lights\ncame into tbe eyes of these men of the\nwoods. Old memories were being stirred. In a moment nearly all were singing. There was song after song. The\nviolin, with sobbing notes, reached back\nto other days, and some of the men bung\ntheir heads. In buoyant tones it seemed\nto tell joyously of the future, and expressions of fresh hope came into these\nheavy faces. Above it always rose the\nappealing tones of Dora's voice, bespeaking the softness and sweetness of\nthe world.\nWhen the party were leaving, McAndrews spoke hastily to Dora and Frazier.\n\"You people go down to the yacht. I've\ngot some important business here, and\nwill join you just as soon as I can.\"\nDora gazed at him wonderingly and reproachfully, but, seeing the intensely serious expression in his eyes, made no\ncomment. He went hurriedly to the\noffice, stripped to the waist, threw a coat\nover his shoulders, and returned to the\nbunk-house. Mears was waiting for him,\nready. The table had been pushed aside,\nrevealing the ring, marked off heavily\nwith chalk. The seconds took their\nplaces. The referee announced the rules\nand adjusted the gloves for each man.\n\"Take your places,\" he commanded.\n\"Now, then, go to it.\"\nMears swung, and McAndrews smilingly dodged the blow. He let the opening pass. The lumberman swung again,\nand McAndrews, ducking, tapped him\nlightly on the cheek. Mears drew himself\nup for a mighty blow, but seemed to hesi\ntate and the blow went harmlessly over\nMcAndrews' shoulder. The latter, closely\nfollowing the lumberman's eyes, saw\nthem rest momentarily upon his new\npipe, which was lying on the table, and\nthen it came suddenly to the young man\nthat the heart of his antagonist was not\nin this fight. He let Mears hit him on the\nneck, and found that the blow had little\nforce. He danced around his man, driving in with a beautiful play of muscle,\nbut with a lightness ibat could do no\ndamage. The round ended without a\nscratch on either. There was no applause\nand no hissing. The spectators seemed\nto lack interest. The referee, while the\nmen were sitting in their corners, made\na couple of hasty, pondering turns across\nthe ring, and then, stopping suddenly,\nheld up his hand for attention.\n\"Boys,\" he said loudly, \"this here\nfight's a farce. Neither man wants to\nhurt the other. But we know that they're\nboth good men, and I guess we're willin'\nto work along with 'em for the best interests of all. Am I right, boys?\" There\nwas a burst of applause. \"Good. Then\nI declare this fight a draw. I think I\nkin say in addition that the real winner\nis the Christmas spirit.\"\nMears was filling his pipe from the big\nbowl when McAndrews happened to pass\nhim.\n\"Hold on, McAndrews,\" he exclaimed\ngruffly. \"I've had a grouch for a good\nwhile, but the doin's to-night has kind o'\nmellered me up. There needn't be no\nhard feelin's. We'll get the logs off on\ntime.\"\n\"Thanks, Mears,\" replied McAndrews.\n\"I appreciate this.\"\n\"That's all right,\" responded the foreman, \"but don't take no credit to yourself. It' was that fine girl o' yours that\ndone it.\"\nIndustrial Progress in British Columbia\nThe Fraser Valley Progressive Association is being organized by C. H.\nStuart-Wade to advance the interests\nof the Fraser Valley.\nThe Dominion Saw Mill Lumber\nCompany has taken over all the interests\nof The Bowman Lumber Company, the\nRevelstoke Saw Mills Company, and\nthe Yale Columbia Lumber Company,\nfor a sum of money aggregating over\ntwo millions.\nThe Dominion Government is completing three new fish hatcheries on Vancouver Island. The*\"? are situated at\nCowichan Lake, Anderson Lake, and\nKennedy Lake, and will each have a capacity of about 8,000,000 fry.\nPlans have been drawn up for a hotel\nin Prince Rupert which will cost eighty\nthousand dollars, and will be one of the\nbest equipped hotels of its size on the\nPacific Coast.\nThe Canadian Fisheries and Cold\nStorage Company has obtained a site\nof seventy-four acres on the Skeena\nRiver, near Prince Rupert, as the headquarters for its big salmon, halibut, herring, and codfish industry.\nA company with a capitalization of\nfifty thousand dollars has been organized\nby James Drummond, manager of the\nVictoria Fruit Exchange, for the establishment of a factory for the production\nof jams, evaporated fruits and preserves.\nThe power plant of the Northern\nLight, Power and Coal Company, which\nwill operate in the Yukon district, has\nbeen completed at a cost of about two\nmillion dollars. The power will be utilized chiefly in the development of quartz\nmining properties.\nIt has been announced that the Idaho\n& Washington Northern Railway will\nbegin next year to build north into\nSouthern British Columbia, through the\nSalmon River Valley as far as Salmo,\nthence down the Beaver Valley to the\ncity of Trail. This extension will play\na big part in the development of one of\nthe richest sections of the Province in\nmining, fruit growing, ranching, and\ngrazing. 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nr\nH. J. JENKINS\nPRESIDENT\nThe Vancouver Trust\nCompany Limited\n614 Pender St. W., Vancouver, B. C.\n'Vancouver Trust Building\nINSURANCE\nFIRE\nACCIDENT \u00a7\nAUTOMOBILE\nEMPLOYERS' LIABILITY\nA General Trust Business Transacted\nModerate Charges Efficient Service\nA Trust Company Assures Safety\nKamloops, B. C.:\nKAMLOOPS-VANCOUVER TRUST COMPANY LIMITED\nV\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 34\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nThe Kootenay Jam Company is making arrangements for a larger site because of the increased demand for Kootenay jams, and the increased supply of\nfruits available for this product.\nIt has been announced that extensive\ncoal territory on Graham Island at the\nnorthern end of the Queen Charlotte\ngroup, is about to be opened, and that\nthis will mean the development of a section of country which will contribute\ngreatly to the wealth of the Last West.\nBusiness men of Nelson and the West\nKootenays in general are organizing for\nan aggressive publicity campaign, which\nwill include an agency in London, for\nthe purpose of getting into direct personal contact with progressive settlers\nand investors.\nThe Quesnel Hydraulic Mining Company has undertaken a project to dam\nthe Swift River in the mountains of\nNorthern Caribou, and to carry the\nwater over a mountain divide and across\ndeep ravines, finally distributing it by\na system of canals throughout their\nextensive hydraulic mining works.\nIt has been announced by C. H. Cahan,\npresident of the Western Canada Power\nCompany* that the Stave Lake plant\nwill be ready by the first of the year to\nsupply about thirty thousand horse\npower for Vancouver, New Westminster and the surrounding country. The\ncompany has already spent about three\nmillion dollars on this plant.\nIn the annual report of the Chilliwack\nTelephone Company, it is announced\nthat the cost of extensions during the\nyear brings the amount invested up to\n$31,000, and the net revenue has amounted to not less than 20 % on the capital\ninvested.\nThe E. & N. Railway Company has\ninaugurated a service on its branch line,\nextending from Victoria to Cameron\nLake, about thirty miles north of Wellington. This will be an important factor in the development of Alberni and\nadjacent points.\nFive more whaling steamers are to be\nbuilt for the Pacific Whaling Company\nin British Columbia.\nIt is reported that the C. P. R. and\nG. T. P. contemplate adding four steamers to the British Columbia coast ser\nvice.\nOver the Salmon River, near Salmo,\na bridge half a mile long is being constructed.\nThe Grand Trunk Pacific Railway will\nbuild next spring in Victoria one of the\nfinest hotels in the Dominion.\nThe Kootenay Fruit Growers' Union\nhas been organized to market the fruit\nproduct of the Kootenays.\nA bill will be introduced at the next\nsession of the Provincial Legislature\nproviding for a stock exchange in Victoria.\nThe Ogilvie Milling Company, the\nlargest flour and grain elevator corporation in the British Empire, is considering a project to erect a big flour mill and\ngrain elevator \"in Vancouver.\nOver 40,000 fruit trees were planted in\nthe Creston District this year, and over\n50,000 will be planted next year. Of this\nnumber far the greater majority are\napple.\nMr. Sinclair Chandler, director of the\nBritish Empire Bridge Works, has announced that his company, which is one\nof the largest of its kind in the world,\nwill probably establish a plant in British\nColumbia, and will employ from five\nhundred to a thousand men.\nThe progressive citizens of Rossland\nare contemplating an aggressive advertising campaign for the purpose of bringing to the attention of mining investors\nand the world at large the merits of mining properties in the district. A number\nof these properties require only capital\nand the right kind of development to\ncontribute largely to the mineral production of the Province.\nA SWELLING TIDE OF CAPITAL\nBy H. Goddard\nIn England the Budget, with labor,\nsocialistic and commercial unrest, has\neffectually stopped both the large and\nsmall capitalists from investment in real\nestate, and many enterprises. The land\nvalues in England are depressed an'l\nthere is a complete stagnation in the\nproperty market. Owners are watching\nevery opportunity to turn their holding-;\ninto money, and when they succeed m\nthis, the proceeds in a large degree, find\ntheir way to Canada and British Columbia. Vancouver has received much of this\ncapital from the old country. This is\nto be expected, because, in my opinion,\nthe metropolis of this Province presents\nmore good investment opportunities than\nalmost any other city in the world, outside of British Columbia. Vancouver\nhas \"come into her own.\" Her prosperity has a rock foundation, and can carry\nwith profit a heavy, superstructure of investment. This, in proportion to her\nsize, is likewise true of Victoria, and of\nothers of the most progressive communities in British Columbia.\nConcurrently with sales of land in\nEngland, there is a marked tendency on\nthe part of certain large land owners to\ninvest in real estate in the Colonies.\nLord Harrowby, who is just now in\nCanada, has been explaining that he purposes buying land in Western Canada;\nit is no secret that the Duke of Sutherland has property in the Dominion, and\nthat the Duke of Westminster owns a\nlarge area in South Africa. In view of\nthe great future which lies before\nCanada, it would not be surprising if\nsome day the bulk of the peerage were\nto be settled here.\nWith possibly no seat as of right in\nthe House of Lords and English land\ntaxed far beyond its capacity, it is quite\nwithin the bounds of possibility that\nthose who are now great land owners\nmay spend most of their time on their\nestates on this side of the world, going\nto London for three or four months in\nthe season. The seat of Empire is ever\nshifting further west, and the future of\nCanada no man can divine. The one\nthing of which we can be sure, is that it\nmust necessarily be a great future.\nHow Steamboat Camp was Located\nThe sun beat down relentlessly upon\nthe sage brush desert of Humbolt\nCounty, Nevada, and yet Dan Greenwalt,\nprodding two burros, pushed steadily on.\nHe was looking, as he had done since\na boy of sixteen, for elusive gold. He\nfound no gold, but at last he came in\nsight of what he thought was a deserted\ncabin. Upon entering it to camp for\nthe night, he found that he was not\nalone. John Henderson, an old placer\nminer, was in the cabin. He had come\nto the Humbolt hills in search of placer\ngold.\nIn relating that night over pipes the\nexperiences of the past, Henderson said\nhe had once been at the head of the\nUpper Skagit River, in British Columbia,\nwhere he had found some fairly good\nplacer; but that the quantity of gravel\nwas too limited to work profitably.\nGreenwalt suggested it was possible that\nthe gold was from the quartz ledges\nabove, and asked Henderson if he had\nprospected the ledges. \"No,\" said Henderson, \"I didn't have an outfit for quartz\nprospecting, and, besides, I never pros- 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 35\npected for quartz, though there are a\nnumber of big, strong ledges in the district, especially on Steamboat Mountain.\" Henderson gave Greenwalt a map\nshowing how to get into the country,\nand of the creek which he had panned\nfor placer.\nThis was two years ago. Last spring\nGreenwalt secured the necessary capital,\nand started with W. A. Stevens to look\nfor the creek. To find it was not an easy\nmatter, as the mountains in the vicinity\nare very steep and rugged. Several times\nthe two gold seekers thought they had\ncome to the right stream, as they had\nsecured good pannings from several of\nthe small creeks, but none of these\nstreams exactly answered Henderson's\ndescription.\nIt was not until after the 15th of June,\nthough the prospectors had been in the\nneighborhood for nearly a month, that\nthey finally discovered Steamboat Creek.\nWhen they came upon the stream they\nfound gold in its bed, and knew that it\nwas the stream for which they had been\nhunting. They made camp at the foot\nof the mountain and began to prospect\nthe ledges on either side of the creek\nsystematically. They were in no hurry,\nbecause summer was just beginning, and\nin the valley were plenty of deer, and\nfish in the Skagit River.\nIt was not until the 29th of June that\nthey found the rich ledge from which the\ngold came. But there it was, close to\nthe upper end of the creek. They wondered why they had not found it before.\nThe water coming down the creek had\n*\n+<\n&\n\nFamous\nChocolates\nIn handsome baskets, unexcelled\nfor Christmas gifts. Order early.\n740 ROBSONSTREET\n438 GRHNVILLE STREET\nwashed out a portion of the ledge eight\nfeet wide, leaving the walls on either\nside standing almost upright. The next\nday they staked the Steamboat Group.\n\u2022 After taking a large number of\nsamples, many of which showed free gold\nto the naked eye, they left camp for\nVancouver, where they had the assays\nmade, some of which went $4,000 to the\nton. There was then no need for\nsecrecy, and in a few days dozens, and\nthen hundreds, were going to Steamboat Mountain to prospect. Among these\nwere experienced prospectors, and not\na few tenderfeet. The experiences of\nsome of them were amusing as well as\npainful.\nAmong those who went in first were\nS. A. Thompson, C. C. Grand, Alaska\nJack, John Vincent, and B. A. Jennings.\nPerhaps Thompson and Grand had one\nof the most thrilling experiences of any.\nThe second day out, after reaching the\nmountain, they located a rich ledge\nabove and to the north of Stevens and\nGreenwalt. As it was getting late, they\ndecided to take a short cut home, but in\ndoing so they lost their way. A glacier\nconfronted them, and in crossing,\nThompson slipped and slid some forty\nor fifty feet. Had it not been for his\nprospect pick, which he dug into the ice\nas he shot along, he would have undoubtedly gone over the edge, fifteen\nhundred or two thousand feet below.\nIn attempting to climb a steep mountain they came to an abrupt wall standing almost upright. This they found impassable, and in attempting to return\nfound that also impossible, for night had\novertaken them and a misstep might\nland them hundreds of feet below. The\nprospect of spending the night on the\nmountain side was far from alluring, in\nview of the fact that they had had nothing to eat since morning, were very\nthinly clad, and the night was bitter cold.\nIn attempting to build a fire they discovered their matches were wet, so there\nwas nothing to do but hold on until\nmorning. Thompson finally made his\nway into camp about 1 o'clock the next\nafternoon, all but exhausted. He found\nDan Greenwalt and B. A. Jennings, and\ntold them as near as he could where his\npartner, Grand, was.\nTaking food and some prospector's delight along, they started out to find him,\nwhich they succeeded in doing after\nthree or four hours' hunt. He was almost overcome by fatigue and hunger.\nAfter he had eaten he felt stronger, but\nhad to be carried along the precipice\ninch by inch. After he had recovered\nhis strength at camp, Grand said that\nno matter how rich his property turned\nout to be, he felt as though he had\nearned it.\nSteamboat Mountain was named thirty\nyears ago, when, during the Ruby Creek\nexcitement, a party of prospectors built\na boat on the Upper Skagit River and\nstarted for the new diggings. After\ngoing some miles they struck a log jam\nand the boat went to pieces. This was\njust opposite the high, rugged mountain\nupon which now is located a hopeful\nmining camp.\nPORT MANN\nPhone 1506\nInvest in acreage in the vicinity of the coming' Metropolis.\nI can sell you 4t9 acres close in at low figures of $650\nper acre on terms over 5 years\nREMEMBER ! Delays are Dangerous\nW. J. COATES 429 PENDER ST. W.\nPHONE 2733\nBURNABY\nD. L. 98, between Royal Oak and Highland Park stations. Quarter acres adjoining the Vancouver\nand New Westminster carline. Prices $500 and $550. -\u00a7- Cash, balance over 3 years to suit convenience of purchaser. These tracts are slashed, the land is exceedingly good, and the property is in the highest\npart of Burnaby.\nMerchants Trust & Trading Co., Financial Agents\nCOR. PENDER AND BURRARD STS. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nTHIS! AjSE OPPORTUNITIES IN 1TERT ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 36\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nVancouver Real Estate Activity\nOne of the most important announcements in its bearing upon real estate and\nindustrial progress in this section for\nsome time, has been the one to the effect\nthat the Canadian Pacific Railway has\nacquired in Coquitlam a block of land\ntwo miles in length and one and .1 half\nmiles wide, for the round-houses, shops,\nond freight sheds for the Pacific division. This has given rise to a strong\ndemand for Coquitlam holdings, which\nhad alreadj' doubled in value within a\nyear, and now have received a most decided additional impetus.\nAnother stimulating factor in the\nrealty situation was an auction sale late\nin the month, of the C. P. R. subdivision\nadjoining Shaughnessy Heights. There\nwas a large attendance of investors at\nthe sale, and the prices obtained were\nsurprising, even for Vancouver real\nestate. Some of the double corners on\nthis ground, which has been merely\nslashed and not yet cleared, brought as\nmuch as $9,000. This indicates the great\nconfidence that investors have in the\nfuture of Vancouver suburban realty.\nThe real estate market has as its sustaining and compelling elements, the great\nbuilding activity in the city; important\nmunicipal improvements, street railway\nextensions, False Creek improvements,\nthe coming of the Grand Trunk Pacific\nand Canadian Northern railways to Vancouver; a proposed union station for the\nGreat Northern and other railroads: the\nSecond Narrows bridge between Vancouver and North Vancouver; new tram\nlines to surrounding municipalities; the\nmovement for a greater Vancouver; increasing agricultural production; and, in\ngeneral, the remarkable and continuing\ngrowth of Vancouver and British Columbia,\nThe month has been marked by some\nof the biggest transactions yet recorded\nin the metropolis of the Province. The\nmost conspicuous of these deals has\nbeen the sale of the Dominion Trust\nBuilding to English capitalists for a\nprice which has been reported to be in the\nneighborhood of $1,000,000. The substantial character of real estate investment is indicated by the great activity\nin building. The Vancouver Conservatives have prepared plans for a magnificent ten-storey structure on the corner\nof Dunsmuir and Seymour Streets. Another addition to the growing list of big\nbuildings in the city will be one of ten\nor twelve stories, which will be erected\non the south side of Pender Street by\nthe Commercial and Athletic Clubs.\nThese clubs will occupy the upper floors,\nwhile the lower ones will be made into\noffices. It is said that this structure will\ncost several hundred thousand dollars.\nR. be\nThe opening of the. B. C.\ntween New Westminster and Chilliwack\nhas had a very beneficial effect on these\ntwo cities. Those who are in close\ntouch with the real estate situation\nstate that there is not the slightest doubt\nthat here may be found some of the\nsafest realty investments in the Province.\nThese statements are substantiated by\nthe fact that Chilliwack has a highly\nfavorable situation for consistent development, and has behind it the solid backing of a productive agricultural country.\nInvestment Opportunities in Victoria\nBy D. C. Reid\nA new era is dawning in the business\nand realty situation of Victoria. The oldest city on the Pacific Coast, and the\nCapital of British Columbia, she has been\nknown heretofore as a city of homes, her\npopulation staid and conservative in\nbusiness and exceedingly wealthy per\ncapita. During the past four years her\npopulation has increased from thirty\nthousand to fifty thousand or sixty thousand. Perhaps no better example of the\nspirit of the new Victoria can be given\nthan to illustrate the keen business foresight of some of her leading business citizens by reciting what took place after\nthe big fire on the 26th of October, when\ntwo of the leading department stores,\ntogether with about thirty other business\nfirms, were entirely destroyed, with a\ntotal loss estimated at $600,000. Before\nthe fire had ceased to smoulder one of\nthe leading firms had purchased the second largest hostelry in the city, with an\nentire frontage on View Street from\nBroad to Douglas, on which stood the\nDriard Hotel and the Victoria Theatre,\nwhich they immediately converted into a\nstore, and were open for business and\nselling goods while the ruins were still\nsmoking.\nFor some time the idea of extending\nView Street from Broad to Government\nStreet, now the principal street of the\ncity, had been mooted, but this had\nnever been taken up seriously until the\nfire had removed the barrier and opened\nup the way.. The citizens have been alive\nto this opportunity, and there is every\nindication that the project will be carried out. Although expansion in the\nDusiness area was inevitable, yet the\npresent activity in the real estate situation really emanated from this source,\nwhich naturally enhanced values along\nthe thoroughfare. During the last month\nthere has been keen competition for the\npremier business locations. This competition has rapidly spread throughout\nthe business section generally, with the\nresult that prices have been increasing\nalmost daily.\nWe naturally ask the question: \"Is\nthere any justification for this keen buying and enhancement in values?\" and\nto this we say \"Yes,\" and offer our reasons. It is a fact that all properties, both\nbusiness and residential, are cheaper\nthan in any other city of the same size\nin Western Canada. While properties\nhave increased in value during the past\nfive years, the increase has not been so\nrapid as in other Western cities. Residential lots can be purchased from $250\nto $3,000, of sizes varying from fifty to\nsixty feet frontage, with a depth of 120\nfeet, having the benefit of all modern\nimprovements. The highest price paid\nfor choice business lots is $3,000 per\nfront foot, which can hardly be taken\nas a basis of value. While the choice\nlots on Government Street are held at\n$2,500 per front foot, this is due to the\nfact that the business section is confined\nto a very small area, but must expand to\nmake way for the development which is\nabout to take place.\nAs one who has had the privilege of\nliving in many provinces of the Dominion, with a residence of five years in\nVictoria, I can safely say that there is not\na city in Canada which offers like attractions as a residential city on account of\nnatural scenic attractions and climatic\nconditions.\nVictoria to-day is on the eve of one\nof the greatest industrial and business\ndevelopments that has visited any Western city in years. The opportunity for\ninvestment of capital in legitimate en-\n(Continued on Page 43) 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPROSPECT TUNNEL OF GLADSTONE MOUNTAIN MINE\nPortland Canal Mining\nAccording to authorities, the comparatively recent discoveries of rich ore in\nthe Portland Canal mining section of\nBritish Columbia will mean a heavy increase in the wealth of British Columbia\nand fortunes for individuals who are interested in good mining properties in this\ndistrict. Portland Canal is an inland\nwaterway one hundred miles in length,\nextending from Dixon's Inlet at the City\nof Prince Rupert, to Stewart, one of the\nnewest and most promising of the mining camps in this Province of wonderful\nnatural resources. . The canal is from\na quarter to half a mile in width, is navigable to the largest vessels, and offers\na very advantageous means of transportation, at low rates, for the ore which\nis now being uncovered in this section.\nThis important advantage in mining, in\ncombination with the strong mineral\nshowing, indicates a highly prosperous\nfuture for the district and its mine\nowners.\nD. D. Mann, the leading spirit in the\nbig project of extending the Canadian\nNorthern Railway to Portland Canal, recently said that he expected to make\nmore money from his mining properties*\nin the neighborhood of Stewart than he\ndid from his railroad.\nThe wide spread attention which the\ndistrict is receiving is due, of course, to\nthe rich ore on the leading properties.\nOne of these is now owned by the Mount\nGladstone Mining Company, recently\nchartered under the stringent Companies\nAct of British Columbia, which became\na law in July, 1910. The company is\ncomposed of citizens of high standing\nin Vancouver and vicinity. In acquiring\ntheir property, which is situated just\nacross the Bear River from Stewart,\nthese gentlemen have obligated themselves to purchase the claims outright\nfrom their original holder, F. A. Scott,\nand have also obligated themselves to\nplace in the treasury $15,000 as a working fund for the development of the big\nledges. They are spending their own\nmoney to demonstrate the value of the\nproperty. Only upon the strength of\nsuch demonstration do they expect to\nask the co-operation of the investing\npublic.\nTo a certain extent the ledges have\nalready been developed by the elements.\nWhen the snow has thawed in the spring\nit and rain have come down from above,\nand have carried away the soft surface\nto a degree that has exposed the main\nledge for a distance of nearly two thousand feet. This ledge has an average width\nof about fourteen feet, and carries consistent values of $24.00. a ton \\p. gold, silver\nand lead. The pay streak already un\ncovered is about three feet wide, and\nshows, at a depth of twelve feet, average values of $57.95 to the ton.\nThe development of the property will\nbe under the supervision of a highly\ncompetent mining engineer. The syndicate heads of this proposition are composed of Messrs. E. W. Leeson, of Lee-\nson, Dickie & Gross; J. D. McNeill, Great\nNorthern Transfer Co.; R. G. Chamberlain, Chief of Police; McLellan & Savage, barristers; Wm. Haight, capitalist;\nF. W. Leeson, capitalist; Wm. Currie,\ncapitalist; Bishop, Gaskell & Co.; R. D.\nRorison & Son; His Worship L. D.\nTaylor, Mayor of Vancouver; Chas. E.\nReid, N. G. Blachfield, W. A. Rutherford,\nE. S. Knowlton, E. C. Townsend, F. D.\nGross, A. N. Daykin, C. L. Gordon, C.\nA. Crysdale, Jas. Mackenzie, all of Vancouver; His Worship Jas. A. Lees, Mayor\nof New Westminster; E. W. Gilchrist,\nand T. S. Annandale, also of New Westminster; Lawrence Manson, Nanaimo;\nArnold D. Keeley, Esq., ex-Mayor of\nNorth Vancouver; Henry T. Thrift,\nWhite Rock.\nThe company was organized and is being financed by the Sutcliffe Investment\nCo. of California, and 317 Pender Street,\nVancouver, B. C.\nThe Sutcliffe Investment Company issues a regular market letter, which will\nkeep you posted on late developments of\nBritish Columbia mines and California\noil. This will be mailed to your address\nregularly and free for the asking. Z\u00a3\nPage 38\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nOpportunity Awaits in Richlands\nThe Richlands country is said by\nthose who have devoted much time to\ncareful investigations of it, to offer advantages for fruit raising which are unexcelled anywhere and equalled in very\nfew sections of the continent. Here are\nextracts from a couple of letters which\nspeak for themselves. They were written by men who have high standing as\nauthorities on fruit growing in British\nColumbia:\nKelowna, B. C, Sept. 29th, 1910.\nMessrs. Melhuish, Kirchner & Co.,\n800 Granville Street,\nVancouver, B. C.\nGentlemen:\nReferring to my recent visit to Rich-\nlands, B. C, I can say that Richlands\noffers one of the great opportunities to-\neration for its climate and altitude,\nwhich mean heavy bearing and long life\nto fruit trees. The production of the\nabove mentioned standard apples is\nequally as profitable as the Transcendent\ncrabs, and because of the comparatively\ncheap land there, the total absence of\ninsect enemies, and a soil so well adapted to fruit production, offers splendid\ninducements for the intelligent fruit\ngrower. Its rich soil, besides producing\ncrops of fruit, will produce the small\nfruits such as strawberries, raspberries,\ngooseberries and currants, which are\ncharacterized by high flavor and color.\nUnusual quantity and quality in grains\nand vegetables are also obtained at Rich-\nlands.\nRichlands possesses a panorama of in-\nA RICHLANDS FARM SCENE\nday for the fruit grower. The section\npossesses a large area of bench land, instead of deep gullies and gulches usually\nfound at the foot of mountain ranges.\nThere are many miles of light, rich,\nfriable soil, wonderfully clear of stones\nand bedrock, with no more timber on\nit than any purchaser would desire for\nfarm buildings, fuel and fences.\nIt has a favorable elevation for fruit\ngrowing, and is peculiarly adapted to\nthe production of the \"Mcintosh Red,\"\n\"Wealthy,\" \"Jonathan,\" and summer and\nfall apples as well as the Transcendent\ncrabs and hardy pears. It will undoubtedly prove, on account of its mountain\nprotection, absolutely free from codling\nmoth and other insect pests. The absence of the codling moth makes it possible to sell the Transcendent crabs in\nthe Eastern markets at a very good\nprofit to the fruit grower. Because of\nthis fact the market for crabs is sure to\nincrease as the production increases the\nprofits to be made in growing crab apples\ncan easily be seen.\nRichlands deserves immediate consid-\ndescribable beauty. Scatteied along are\nwell tilled ranches, extending over foothills to the pineclad mountains, For\nabout a dozen years fruit has been successfully raised here, and is no longer an\nexperiment.\nThe section is ideal for homes, being\nunexcelled in healthfulness because of its\nideal altitude, pure mountain air, and\nabundance of pure mountain water.\nTo prospective settlers here, unprecedented opportunities are offered in\nabundance. The former isolation of this\ndistrict has left to this generation a flood\nof chances for home, independence, and\nprosperity.\nI am, very truly yours,\nR. T. HESELWOOD.\nVernon, B. C, July 29th, 1909.\nDear Sir:\nI have just returned from the Rich-\nlands subdivision at Cherry Creek, having spent the past three days making a\npreliminary examination of the country\nwith a view to installing a system of\nirrigation there. This makes my third\ntrip there and you would no doubt be\npleased to hear my opinion of the land\nand its possibilities for fruit growing.\nI may say that the more I see of the\ncountry the more favorably it impresses\nme as being one of the finest fruit growing valleys in the Okanagan District.\nThe soil is wonderfully rich, being a\nheavy leaf mould on the surface with\na very deep volcanic ash and silt subsoil, which cannot be excelled for fruit\nraising, as you are aware. The country\nin the valley is almost flat, there being\njust sufficient slope to insure good drainage and to facilitate irrigation operations.\nAs to irrigation, there is ample water\nin Fall Creek to irrigate the whole tract\nand provide water for domestic purposes\nas well. There is no reason why\nthe water should not be put on\nthe land ready for next year's\nplanting. I feel assured that the\nCherry Creek District will prove one of\nthe very finest apple districts in British\nColumbia, while cherries, plums or\nprunes should do equally as well, in addition to all the smaller fruits. You\nhave a first class proposition in the Rich-\nlands subdivision and I predict that in a\nA RICHLANDS ROAD 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 39\nThe Opportunity of the Hour\nA Wealth-producing Apple Orchard will\nmake you lndepen dent for Life\nCall or write today, and we will show you by proven facts and figures that you will be assured of an annual revenue of at\nleast $3000 from one of our ten-acre blocks of irrigated fruit land in our famous\nRICHLANDS SUBDIVISION\nin the Okanagan Valley, and it only costs you\n$i25o FOR A io-ACRE BLOCK; CASH $3oo, BALANCE OVER 2 YEARS\nYOU RUN NO RISKS. Richlands is pronounced by experts to be the choicest apple valley in the Okanagan, on account\nof its situation, the wonderful qualities of its soil, and its perfect irrigation system ; and mind you we will plant your trees and\nlook after your orchard until it is revenue-producing at cost, if you wish it.\nRichlands is a commercial investment, not a real estate speculation.\nFruit lands in the famous Wenatchee Valley and Hood River District cannot be-bought under $2000 per acre, and it is safe\nto say that your ten-acre orchard will be worth at least $1500 when revenue producing, and will show you an annual income of at\nleast $3000.\nIt costs you nothing to investigate this exceptional opportunity to make yourself independent for life, which is within the\nmeans of everybody. Call or write to-day.\nMELHUISH, KIRCHNER & CO.\n8oo GRANVILLE ST.\nRICHLANDS DEPT.\nPHONE 438\nSalmon, Bear River Mining Company, Ltd.\nNon-Assessable\n570 Granville Street '\u25a0$- I VANCOUVER, B. C.\nA ground floor proposition in one of the richest properties in the Portland Canal District.\n100,000 shares in the Salmon, Bear River Mining Co., Ltd. are now offered at the very\nlow price of 5^ cents per share.\nThe Company is capitalized at $1,000,000.00 divided into 4,000,000 shares of a par\nvalue of 25 cents each.\n2,200,000 shares have been given the original owners in payment for the properties.\n1.800,000 shares have been placed in the treasury to be sold to acquire money necessary\nfor developing aud equipping the property.\nThe Company owns three first class properties in the Portland Canal District.\nA series of open cuts were made on a 15 ft. vein which exposed large bodies of ore in\npaying quantities.\nA very rich strike of gold and native silver running over $2,000.00 to the ton, was recently\nmade on one of the Company's properties.\nBuy before prices advance\nExcellent Properties. Responsible Directors. Conservative Management.\nWrite for prospectus.\nApplication for Shares may be made to :\nGILL & CASEMENT\n439 RICHARDS STREET\nPhone 2939\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERT ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 40\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nTWO LETTERS:\nMoncton, Ont., October 6th, 1910.\nTo G. A. BARRETT:\nDear George:\nIt is now over twenty years since you and I first played checkers together in the old farm house in Logan. You have wandered over\na 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\nstrayed 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\nplaying checkers, sometimes winning a game, and sometimes losing, but I always was a pretty good player, and so have won more than I\nhave 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\nyou 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.\nYours till then,\nBOB. SMITH.\nThis is only a part of Bob's letter, but s enough for the purpose. Below is my answer.\nWhat I said to him, I say to you. Moreover, I will say this: I will personally give $1,000\nto 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.\nI do not expect you to take my word as my old friend did, but I do ask you for your own sake\nas 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.\nMy Dear Bob: Vancouver, B. C, Nov. 1st, 1910.\nIt 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\nto by-gone days). I am sending you a proposition regarding our Company. I may say we have so wrapped our proposition up in\nmoney making assets that it cannot fail. The way it started was like this. Some chap on the United States side of the line invented\na Sleeping Car as much better than a Pullman than a Pullman is better than a box car. Just think, ihey had 154 patented improvements\nover the BEST PULMAN CAR OF TO-DAY. I will tell you one. You may then realize partly what they must all mean: THE\nCAR IS ABSOLUTELY DUST PROOF, AS DUST PROOF AS YOUR WATCH. This one thing, would make the car famous.\nWell, 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\nmodel, 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\nland 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\napplied to the Dominion Government for a subsidy to build a 15,000 ton Dry Dock, and they succeeded in getting over a million dollars\npayable so much every year. This has all been done, and the agreement between the Government will be signed November 16th, so you\nsee we cannot fail when we have the Dominion of Canada practically paying the interest on all our liabilities for the next twenty-five years.\nIn about three years' time, when all our ship yards and car works are in full blast, employing possibly three or four thousand men, and\nthe 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\nlots 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\nwaterfrontage and easily get a thousand dollars a foot when it cost us hardly anything in comparison.\nThe Pullman Company has paid in the last twelve years $187,000,000 in dividends. There is no reason why we cannot even do\nbetter 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\ndreamed of HAVING. Still, if we do ONE-TENTH as well, it will be better than anything else we could put our brains and money\ninto. 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\nto $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\ntime as anything can possibly in this world.\nThe 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\nsending you an application form, which you can fill out. You can pay one-third cash, and the balance three and six months at six\nper cent. Hoping I may see the old place again some day, I am, as ever,\nGEORGE A. BARRETT.\nThis is my answer to my friend, and what I say to him, I say to everyone. Take some\nof this stock while you can get it. It is the best investment you could possibly go into. To\neveryone who will read these letters, and will ring up, call, or drop a card, I will mail free, a\ncopy of the \"Search Light,\" a semi-monthly magazine, full of bright, up-to-date, well written\narticles, that will be found both interesting and instructive.\nImperial Car, Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation, Ltd.\nPhone 1259 or 485\nHead Office: 282 Hastings Street East\nIMPERIAL CAR, SHIPBUILDING & DRYDOCK CORPORATION.\nPlease allot me shares of the IMPERIAL CAR, SHIPBUILDING & DRYDOCK\nCORPORATION, LIMITED, at the price of Fifty Dollars per share, for which I enclose 33 1-3 per cent, of full amount of\nshares asked for, and agree to pay balance in two equal quarterly payments, with interest at 6 per cent, per annum.\nNAME ADDRESS \t\nOCCUPATION \t\nMake all cheques payable to Imperial Car, Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation, Ltd.\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 41\nWe are B. C. Agents for the following\nwell known Cars:\nChalmers\nOverland\nPope-Hartford\nLocomobile\nThis makes a range of\nCars to suit all buyers,\nfrom the two-passenger\nrunabout at $1,275, to the\nbig touring ear at $6,500\nWrite us for particulars or\ncall and get a demonstration\nWEST END GARAGE (0. Ltd.\n924 Granville St VANCOUVER, B.C.\nThe Great West Light Co., Ltd.\nHollow Wire and Tube Systems\nMakers of the Famous\nHighlow Gasoline Lamps\n50' HASTINGS ST., EAST\nP. O. Box 1401 Vancouver, B. C.\nThe Dust less Floor Brush\nShould be used in every Home,\nStore, Church and School.\nWrite W. CARTER\n44 BROAD WA Y W. VA NCO U VER\nfew years' time one of the most prosperous fruit growing communities in British Columbia will be located here.\nNo one who sees the vallej' can help\nbut be pleased with it, and after careful\ninspection of all points, I am enthusiastic over the future possibilities of the\nRichlands subdivision as a fruit growing\ncentre.\nYours faithfully,\nNOEL HUMPHREY,\nB. C. Land Surveyor.\nA ten-acre block of irrigated fruit\nland in Richlands, planted in commercial\napple trees, will show a revenue of at\nleast $3,000 net per year, while the outlay until the trees begin to produce\nand twenty-four months at six per cent.\nWhile his orchard is maturing he can\nobtain all the work he wants at $2.50 a\nday. In five years his revenue will be at\nleast $3,000 a year, with increasing returns as the trees grow older.\nAs to the present development at Rich-\nlands, there are seventy settlers in the\nvalley, and by spring there will be over\ntwo hundred. Over $150,000 worth of\nthe property has already been sold. The\nirrigation system is the best that science\nand money can produce, and has cost\nover $70,000. Trees to the number of\n50,000 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\nTHE RICHLANDS FARMING COUNTRY\nrevenue, should not exceed $2,500 spread\nover five years. If you cannot give your\norchard personal attention, it will be\nlooked after until it produces revenue\nby expert horticulturists at absolute cost.\nThe man who wants to live on his\nground can purchase a ten-acre block\nfor $1,250, with a cash payment of $300,\nand the balance in six, twelve, eighteen\nyear's planting. Wood pipe to the extent of 13,000 feet is ready for shipment\ninto Richlands. The community is already a hive of industry, and promises\nwithin a few years to become the most\nnoted apple valley in the Okanagan District. There is plenty of work for everybody. Richlands is a valley of opportunities.\nTELEPHONES i ^7\nG.O.George\nSuccessor to T. e. HICKS\nHaeKs\nOn the Stand Day and Night\nOFFICE :\n413 RICHARDS STREET\nPhone 7132\nRoom 112 Carter-Cotton Bid.\nVancouver, B. C.\nYOUNG & FRANCEY\nENGINEERS & DRAUGHTSMEN\nBlue Printing, Tracing, Maps, Show Card Writing\nDesigns and Specifications for Steel and Concrete Duilatngs\nDrawings for Real Estate and Contractors\nArchitectural Perspectives\nJohn Matthews late of\nNew Era Renovators\nPhone L4045\nBROWN & MATTHEWS\nCLEANERS AND DYERS\nDry Cleaning a Specialty\nPrices on Application Club Rates $2.50 per month\n534 AND 536 BROADWAY WEST\nF 1\nj G. R. NADEN CO., Ltd. [\nPrince Rupert, B. C\na\nI Mines, Stocks and Real Estate. Farm Lands\nX in the Skeena, Bulkley and Kispiox Valleys\n. \u2022*.\u00ab.. \u2022\u2014 \u2022..\u2022*.\u00ab..\u2022.\u2022 \u2022\u00ab \u2022\u00ab\u2022\u00ab-\u2022- \u2022\u2014\u2666*\u2666\nTHEEB ABB OPPORTUNITIES IM IT ERY ONE OP OVB ADVERTISEMENTS Page 42\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nKEREMEOS APPLES\nWere PRIZE WINNERS at the\nFirst Canadian National Apple Show\nRecently held in Vancouver, B. C.\nContinuous Sunshine, Abundant Water Supply\nRichness of Soil\nAll coutribute to make KEREMEOS the ideal Residential and Fruit Growing\nDistrict of the Province.\nSecure a Ten Acre Lot while they are to be had. We will plant and take care\nof it for you, or if you wish to take over the care of it yourself you can derive a splendid income from growing small fruit and vegetables until trees come into bearing.\nAdopt the ideal life and become a fruit grower.\nWrite us for particulars and we will tell you what a little money and industry\ncan do in KEREMEOS. p. ' f | |\nKEREMEOS LAND CO., LIMITED\nKEREMEOS, B. C.\nTHESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 43\nWE ARE SPECIALISTS IN\nPortland Canal Stocks\n1\ni\nAND CAN GIVE YOU FULL INFORMATION\nON ANY COMPANY OPERATING IN THAT\nDISTRICT. DAILY QUOTATIONS RECEIVED.\nN. B. MAYSMITH & CO., LTD.\n[ VICTORIA, B. C.\n\\ MEMBERS PACIFIC COAST STOCK EXCHANGE\n, Offices : Victoria, B. C, Vancouver, B. C., Stewart,\n> B. C, Nanaimo, B. C, Seattle, Wash.\n^..\u00bb...........\u2022\u2022\u25a0..\u25a0.\u2022.....\n................\n.\u2022\u2022..\u2022-\u2022\u2022.\u2022\"\u2022.\u2022\u2022~\u00bb~\u00ab~\u00bb..\n\u2022\u00ab.$\u2666\nThe PORTLAND\nMrs, Baker, Proprietress\n723 YATES ST. Phone 2404\nThe only modern rooming house in town.\nSteam heat, running hot ana cola water and\ntelephones in all rooms. Newly furnished\nthroughout, and up-to-date in every respect.\nTERMS MODERATE\nVICTORIA, B, C,\n>|i.\u00ab..\u00bb,.\u00bb1.\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..>..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb^\u00ab\n...............^\u00ab .\nSteam Heat, Gas, Electric Light, Telephone\nHot and Cold Running'Water in Each Room\nTHE NEW TOURIST, 107 CORDOVA ST.\nTHE ANGELES, 927 WESTMINSTER AYE.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n.%.......................\u00bb\n\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00ab$\u00ab\nG. W. ARNOTT ft CO.\n1{ea1 Estate and Insurance\nDrawer 1539 <** Prince Rupert\nSplendid Opportunities for Investors I\n\u25a0\u25a0\u2022*.\u25a0.....-\u00ab.\u25a0......\u00ab.\u25a0...\u00bb................................................,,\u00a3.\nStanley Park Stables\nYour impressions of Vancouver\u2014the\n\"Sunset Cily\"\u2014will be made all the more\nlasting- by seeing- the City and magnificent\nStanley Park in one of our comfortable\nHACKS, BROUGHAMS,\nVICTORIAS, SURREYS,\nOR CARRIAGES,\nStanley Park Stables, ALEMxAffi\"ELL\nVANCOUVER. B. C.\nHours 9 to 6 Phone 3351\nJNO. JACKSON\nScientific Chiropodist\nCorns removed without pain. Bunions, Ingrowing\nNails, Club Nails, Callouses, Pedicuring, Fetid\nOdors and Sweaty Feet successfully treated.\n305 Loo Building, Abbott and Hastings Sts.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nVictoria Investments\n( Continued from Page j6j\nterprises is unexcelled. The population\nis increasing rapidly, the hotels have\nfound it necessary to expand in order to\naccommodate the influx of population,\nwhich is true of every point on Vancouver Island. More hotels are needed, as\nwell as apartment houses, retail stores,\netc.\nLet us consider a few of the projects\nalready in sight. The British Columbia\nElectric Railway is now constructing\ntheir new power plant at Jordan River at\na cost of a million and a half, which will\ngive sufficient power to extend their lines\nthroughout the city, as well as their\nproposed extension throughout the Saanich Peninsula. The building of the Grand\nTrunk Pacific Hotel, the construction of\nthe Canadian Northern Railway, which\nwill open up a large area of timber and\nagricultural lands in the southern part\nof the Island tributary to the city; the\nsettlement of the Songhees Indian Reserve; the establishment of the Canadian\nFleet at Esquimalt; the building of large\ndrydocks at that point; the proposed\nbusiness blocks now under consideration,\nand the improvements which have already been passed by the Victoria City\nCouncil, in extending streets and pavements, means an outlay of something\nlike $15,000,000, which is already in\nsight, to say nothing of new projects\nwhich have yet to come to light.\nVictoria will easily hold her place as\nthe second city in British Columbia in\npoint of population, and easily hold her\nplace as the premier city as regards\nwealth. She offers to-day, perhaps, the\ngreatest opportunity for investment of\ncapital to be found in Western Canada.\nPhone 1584.\nP. O. Box 880\nFire, Burglar''Proof and Manganese\nVictor Safes\nVault Doors, and Safety\nDeposit Boxes\nWESTERN CANADIAN AGENT\nE, G, PARNELL\n\" THE SAFE MAN\"\n513 HAMILTON STREET\nVANCOUVER, - - B. C.\nPANTORIUM\nTailoring Phone 1823 Renovating\nSuits Sponged and Pressed for 50c. )\nOne trial will make you a regular customer. (\nL313 Gamble St, Vancouver, B. C, >\n*\u00a3\u2666\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022#\u00ab \u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\n*l>SI+ll\u00bbM\u00bbM\u00bbll\u00ab\"\u00bb\u00bbt$>\nMrs. J. E. Elliott\n-\u2022\u2022\u25a0H.V.. I\nHand-made Goods a Specialty |\nThe most Ip-to-Date Store i\n\u2022\nFor Neckwear, Blouses, Underwear |\nand everything needful for \u2022\nInfants and Children. i\nI Phone R3I3 j\n1 730 Yates St. VICTORIA, B. C. I\nA... ' J.\nS. N. SEMPLE\nPRACTICAL HORSESHOER\nAll kinds of Imperfect Gaits Rectified.\nTROTTING SHOES AND RUNNING PLATES\na Specialty.\nOrossfiringIInterfering and Forging Stopped\nwithout fail by Latest Improved Methods.\nSpecial Attention given to Contracted Feet\nand Lameness.\nPHONE No. 1367\nAddress : 662 SEYMOUR ST.\nrrxuiJTJTJTJTxiJTJijTnjTrxruT^\nHENRY CROFT H. G. ASHBY 5\n? Assoc. Mem. Inst. C. E. \\ r. . ,\n| M. Inst. Mech. E. J Holland\nh Notary Public\n5 Cable Code: BEDFORD MACNEIL\nCable Address: CRAS, Vancouver\nTelephone 5937\nCROFT & ASHBY\nREAL ESTATE, TIMBER\nMINES, GOAL LANDS\n150,000 acres Cariboo District\n86,000 acres Ominica District\n40,000 acres Cariboo District\n7,680 acres Powell lake, 90 miles from Vancouver\n5,000 acres Rupert District, Vancouver Island\n6,400 acres Nechaco District\nCORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED\n5 Room 5. Winch Bidg. Vancouver, B. G. 5\na\\i\\s\\s\\i\\i\\rii\\s\\s\\riT\\s\\T\\s\\ru\\i\\s\\s\\i\\i\\si\\i\\.\nTHEBS ABB OPPORTUNITIES OT ETEEY ONE OP OVB ADVERTISEMENTS Page 44\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nKERRISDALE FffiCTS\nThe school grounds comprise 10 acres, (Have you a boy?) The carfare is only 5c. The distance from the Post Office is only 4\nmiles. VVatermains will be laid in 5 months. Fine lots can be bought by paying $ 100 down, balance over 2 years, or if you\nwant an acre send in your name at once as I propose to cut up 5 acres in acre blocks. (Acre blocks are scarce.)\nAPPLY\nROOM 4\n32 GRANVILLE ST.\nH. W. WINDLE\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\n^M\u00bbl\u00abl^\u00bb>\u00ab\u00bbHMtlHM|l.tMt\u00bbtHt\u00ab\u00ablltll>ll|\u00bb|ll>Htll\u00ab\u00ab\n.%..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb.\n\u25a0\nWOODWORKERS LIMITED\nWHOLESALE and RETAIL Manufacturers of all kinds of\nSash, Doors, Show Cases, Bank, Office and Store Fixtures. ROUGH and DRESSED\nLUMBER. Laths, Shingles, and every kind of building material.\nOffice and Factory : 2843 DOUGLAS STREET, VICTORIA, B. C.\n^.\u2022.....\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022.....\u2022.....\u2022... .......\u2022\u00bb\u2022\u00bb\u2022.\n.\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\n..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb.,\n'\u00bb\u2022\u25a0\u00bb\"\u00bb'\u25a0\u00bb\u2022\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u00bb\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00ab\u25a0\u25a0 \u00bb\"\u00bbM>\u00ab.\u00ab\">\"\u00bbM\u00bbII\u00bbH>\"\u00abM\u00bbM\u00ab<\u00bb\u00bb\u00ab~\u00bb~\u00ab~\u00ab..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00ab..\u00ab..\n\u00bb\u2022\u00ab.\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0>\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0>\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u2022>..\u00bb\u00bb\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u00bb\u00bb.\u2666\nFor Kerrisdale Properties\nConsult the Specialist\nj John M. Chappell\n} Room 2, 443 Pender Street 1\nOwners ate requested to list all\nPoint Grey property with me\n\u00ab\u2022\">\">\u25a0\u25a0>\u25a0\u00bb\u00bb\u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022\u00bb\u2022\"\u25a0\">\"\u2022\u25a0\u00ab>\">.\u00bb\u25a0.'\n..\u2022\u2022.\u00ab..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\u2022..\nA New TYPE WRITER for $22.00\nThe New \" BENNETT \" Portable Typewriter is the latest in Writing\nMachines. It is guaranteed for one year, is visible writing, has standard\nkeyboard of 84 characters and is a PRACTICAL TYPEWRITER for the\nmany who need it and the thousands who ARE BUYING IT. Its full\nefficiency, durability and portability, at such a moderate price, makes it at\nonce everyone's machine. Send for free catalogue and sample of work.\nAddress: ROY C. HERRICK, Representative\nARMSTRONG, B. C.\n\u25ba\u2022\u2022\u2014\u2022\u25a0'\u2022\"\u2022\u25a0\u25a0\u2022\"\u2022\u25a0\u2022\u2022-\u2022\u2014\u2022\u25a0'\u2022\u25a0\u25a0<\">tl^HH<..>.l..#..g..g.\u00bb>.l>M>l.<>l#W>ll^ll^llgll>\u00bb ^ .*.\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u2022.\u2022\u00bb.\u2022\u2022\u2022#.\u2022\u2022.<\n'r\u00bbii\u00abi.\u00abM>ii>ii\u00bbiitilaM>i.\u00bb..\u00bb.i\u00bb.i\u00bbn\u00bbn\u00bbii\u00bbii>i.\u00bbii>ii\u00bbii>ntiin.\u00bbinii>m,i>w\n\u2022..\u00ab..\u2022-\u2022\u25a0'I*\nCASCADE M\ne ^eez without a Peez\ni|m'H\"\u00ab'H.\u00abn|i'|ii\u00abn|i.t\u00bb\u00bb.\u00ab->\u00ab\n'\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\u25a0.\u00bb..\u00bb..\u00ab.!\n\"W**w**w**\u00bb**w**B**w**WM\u00bb***'*W**\u00bb*****W**w'***,\u00bbi*\u00bbf'***w**w,'#,*w**^M\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 45\n\\ \\\n%\nm\n\/\n**ZL\nA LIFETIME OF I %\nEASY SHAVING FOR\nONE DOLLAR!\nThis new Smith Razor Hone has won over 400;>\ndelighted purchasers in. the City of Vancouver alone,\nduring the last three months\u2014a convincing protf of\nits worth to the man who shaves himself.\nMen with tough, wiry beards; men with tender faces, and\nmen who worry the best barber while shaving them, are writing us\nevery day of the smooth, easy home shaves they are having, now\nthey can hone their own razors.\nTHE SMITH PERFORATED RAZOR HONE is the only\nhone made that can be used successfully by the ord inary man. No\nmatter how dull the razor may be, a few strokes over this hone will\nquickly bring the edge up into perfect shaving condition.\nGet one of these hones at your local druggist or hardware\nstore. If he hasn't any send us his name, and one dollar, and we\nwill send you one bj7 mail. If you are not satisfied that it is worth\na great deal more to you at the end of 30 days, return it and we\nwill cheerfully refund your dollar.\nREAD WHAT THESE MEN SAY\nThe hone is all you claim for it; I am\nentirely satisfied.\n(Signed) Frank Schiffer, Hilton, B. C.\nYour Perforated Hone really does make\nshaving' easy ; and as I am hard to shave, I\nfeel more than satisfied.\n(Signed) D. Weir, North Bend, B. Ci\nI am much pleased with your hone, as I\nfind it superior to any I have previously used\n(Signed) A. A. Cliff, Wellington, B. C.\nYour Hone is all you claim for it; I can\nnow shave in comfort.\n(Signed) R. E. C. Hooper, Broker,\nVancouver, B. C.\nSend for one to-day. Don't let & dollar stand between you and an easy shave.\nAddress: The SMITH PERFORATED RAZOR HONE CO.\n838 Homer Street VANCOUVER, B. C.\nYour business ability\nis often judged by the\nappearance of your\ncorrespondence.\nIf you want neat,\naccurate stenographic\nwork, call or phone\nThe Exchange Typewriting and\nBookkeeping Company\nPublic Stenographers\n63 Exchange Building Phone 6229\nMY SPELLING IS CORRECT, MY\nPUNCTUATION ACCURATE and\nMY TYPEING CAREFULLY DONE\nLegal Work a Specialty\nA Trial will Convince\nWINN I FRED McKAY\nPUBLIC STENOGRAPHER\n504-5 Crown Building Vancouver, B. C\n[S your correspondence accurately\n-\u25a0- written; is the spelling and punctuation correct ? I f it is not, give me\na trial and we will both be satisfied.\nMISS SOMMERV1LLI\nPL'BLk STENOC.RAPF\nRoom 7(H\u00bb Bower B'ldg. Phone 1014\nTHERE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERT ONE OP OTJR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 46\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nTHINKI\nwhat a beautiful Residential Section\nPOINT GREY\nis BOUND to become in the very near future\nHERE is an opportunity which is certain ;\nthere is no speculation in buying1 well\npositioned lots here, the future is assured,\nand buying- to-day at the following figures\nmust therefore, surely be a sound and desirable investment.\nWe are selling splendid high building lots\nentirely cleared up, every stump taken out,\noverlooking the Country Club and golf links\nand near car line, at\nI $75 O\nand up. Terms: one quarter cash, 6, 12, 18,\nand 24 months.\nMake yourself a Christmas present of one of\nthese and you will not regret it.\n.\nA. E. AUSTIN & CO.\nBROKERS\n328 Granville St,, Vancouver, B. C.\nThe Canadian Century\nis now presenting a series of articles on British\nColumbia, following out its policy of giving\nattention to every section of the Dominion.\nThese will be followed by other descriptive\narticles of the Great West.\nTfye Century \u00a7\ngives each week illustrated articles of\ntimely worth, bright fiction by Canada's best\nknown authors, illustrated by the best\nCanadian artists, discussions of important\nnational questions by the leaders of thought\nand action in Canada and illustrations of\nDominion happenings.\nKatherine Hale's Woman's department is\nunusually bright and informing.\nThe weekly article on finance attracts Dominion-wide attention.\nA SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST\nThe Canadian Century\nMONTREAL\nAt all News-stands By the year $2.00\nw.\nsv\n^ tester & von W*5^\nOFFICIAL AGENTS OF\nThe British Columbia Homes Trust, Ltd.\nThe Warburnitz Piano House, Ltd.\nREPRESENTATIVES IN EUROPE\nDeutch-Amerikanische Handelsges, Berlin N W 7, Mittelstrasse, 23.\nHerr H. von Soeder, Hamburg, Amsterdamm, 63.\nBRANCH OFFICES\n1132 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C. (Phone 4595)\n443 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver (Phone 114)\nCables: \"Warburnitz,\" Vancouver ABC Code, 5th Edition\nHead Offices : 411 PENDER STREET, VANCOUVER. B. C.\nTelephone 5522\n*\nSecond Narrows Bridge Will be Built at Once\nLOTS IN D. L. 204\nWe have exclusive sale of a large number in the locality at the right price.\nGet in on the low price and wait development, which is guaranteed.\nCommercial Brokerage\n341 Cambie Street\nPhone 7284\nSOUTH VANCOUVER\nTHE IDEAL RESIDENCE DISTRICT\n$50 cash buys a homesite within three\nblocks of the Grandview car line. This\nis your opportunity. GRASP IT\nINVESTORS LAND CO.\n314 Cambie Street\nPhone 2828\nVancouver, B. C.\nOpen Evenings\nTHEBB ARE OPPORTUNITIES IV EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 1910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPhone 8132\nMines at Steamboat, B.C.\nDAN GREENWALT, Sec-Treas.\nSteamboat Mountain Gold Mines\nLimited\n(NON-PERSONAL LIABILITY)\nHEAD OFFICE\nRoom 7IO Bower Building, 543 Granville Street\nI Vancouver, B. C.\nThis Company owns the discovery\nclaims located by Greenwalt and\nStevens on Steamboat Mountain.\nStock in this Company may be obtained while it lasts. If ISot over\nfour thousand or not less than two\nhundred to any one person.\nC. D RAND, Fiscal Agent\n450 Granville Street\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nM\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 48\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\nm W' \"Opportunities\" Brokers' and Business Directory I\"\nZbe progressive Brokerage, TinanciaJ and Industrial Tirms and Institutions of British Columbia*\nPhone 2900\nA. E. AUSTIN ft CO.\nReal Estate and Insuranoe.\n328 Granville St., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nT. B. ANDERSON & C. CLAYTON\nReal Estate\nPhone 5913\n1069 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nE. C. B. BAGSHAWE ft CO.\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n1112 Broad St., Bownass Building\nPhone 2271 - - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 5726 P. O. Box 536\nH. BEEMAN\nSpecialist in Point Grey\n221 Winch Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nB. C. TRUST CORPORATION\nBk. B. N. A. Bldg., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 589\nJ. A. COLEINSON\nReal Estate\nPhone 4154\n240a Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nJOHN M. CHAPPBLL\nReal Estate\nPhone 4802\n443 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. W. DRESSER\nInsurance, Real Estate\nPhone 3020\n438 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nH. T. DEVINE COMPANY, LIMITED\nReal Estate, Loans and Insurance\n437 Seymour St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 1627\nPhone 3628\nDUTHIE & WISHART\nReal Estate and Financial Agents\n520 Pender St. W. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nW. H. ELLIS\nInvestment Broker\n1122 Government St., VICTORIA, B. C.\nM. H. FRANKLIN CO.\nReal Estate Brokers\nAcreage, Building Lots and Homes\nPhone 970\n449 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGODDARD ft SON\nLand Agents, Notaries\nPhone 3202\n329 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nLEONARD & RBID\nReal Estate and Fire Insurance\nMining Properties In Portland Canal,\nHazelton and Queen Charlotte\nDistricts\nPRINCE RUPERT AND STEWART, B.C.\nTel. 5852\nGOODYEAR & MATHESON\nReal Estate and General Brokers\n106 Loo Building VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGRANVILLE BROKERAGE CO.\nReal Estate, Insuranoe, Commission Agts.\nPhone L4560\n1017 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nHARMAN ft AFPLETON\nReal Estate\n534 Yates Street - VICTORIA, B. C.\nPhone 1918\nSAMUEL HARRISON & CO.\nBrokers and Financial Agents. Agents\nStewart Land Co., Ltd.\nStewart, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C.\nEASLETT ft WHITAKER\nReal Estate, Timber, Insurance\nPhone 5807\nRoom 2, Winch Bldg., 739 Hastings St. W.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nEINKSON, SIDDALL & SON\nReal Estate and Insurance\nPhone 869\nNew Grand Theatre Bldg. 1311 Gov't St.\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nALFRED M. HOWELL\nCustoms Broker, Forwarding Agent\nOffice\u201423 Promis Block\nTelephone 1501, Res. R1671\n1006 Government St., VICTORIA, B. C.\nIMPERIAL REALTY CO.\nReal Estate and Insurance\n307 Loo Bldg. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nGEORGE LEEK\nReal Estate, Notary Public\nExchange Block PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.\nW. P. MoncreifC P. E. Townshend\nW. P. MONCREIFP ft CO.\nReal Estate and Financial Brokers\nRoom 304, Winch Bldg. Hastings St. W.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nMARRIOTT ft FELLOWS\nReal Estate\nPhone 1077\n134 Hastings St. - VANCOUVER, B.C.\nE. 8. MORGAN\nIndustrial Sites, Waterfrontage on Bur-\nrard Inlet, etc.\nSuite 47, Hutchinson Bldg.\n429 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. \u00a3\nPhone 5833.\nW. O. Shrumm H. Lambert:\nTHE NATIONAL REAL ESTATE\nLoans, Insurance\nPhone 6320\n58 Hastings St. W., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nFATTULO ft RADFORD\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nP.O. Box 1535 PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.\nCable Address: \"Patrad\"\nC. C. PEMBERTON\nReal Estate and Notary Public\nRoom 11, 707% Yates St. - Phone 1711\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nCHAS. L. PARKER\nBroker and Commission Agent\nSuite 50-51, 429 Pender St.\nPhone 3859 - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nC. ARTHUR REA\nLate of Brandon, Manitoba\nReal Estate, Insurance, Money to Loan, Etc\nLaw Chambers, VICTORIA, B. C.\nROYAL REALTY COMPANY\nReal Estate, Insurance and Financial\nAgents\nPhone 2394 Notary Public\n615 Fort St. - VICTORIA, B. C.\nSMITH ft SMITH\nReal Estate and Commission Agents\nP.O. Box 41\nJ. H. Smith. W. R. Smith\n4th Ave. - - STEWART, B. C.\nGEO. H. SMITH ft ARTHUR JONES\nDealers in Property in Vancouver, New\nWestminster and the Fraser Valley\nP. O. Box 165 Phone 1743\nP. H. SEABROOK ft CO.\nReal Estate and Timber\nPhone 4043\n316 Pender St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nVANCOUVER BROKERAGE, LTD.\nReal Estate and Loans\n62 Hastings St. E. VANCOUVER, B. C.\nWESCOTT ft LETTS\nReal Estate and Insurance Agents\nRoom 3, Moody Block - Yates St\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nH. W. WINDLE\nReal Estate Broker\nPhone 5320\n532 Granville St. - VANCOUVER, B. C.\nPhone 815 P. O. Box 735\nThe City Brokerage\nReal Estate, Timber and Fire Insurance\nA. T. ABBEY, Manager\n1218 Douglas Street VICTORIA, B. C.\nReal Estate Insurance Loans\nRooming Houses Business Chances Collections\nJOHN M. PARK\nGOLDEN RULE BROKERAGE\nPhones: Office 5346\nResidence 3662\n1117 Granville St. Vancouver, B. C.\nPHONE 8294\nCOLUMBIA REALTY CO.\nREAL ESTATE AND ROOMING HOUSE;\nAGENTS\n<\u00bb2iy, PENDER STREET WEST\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 910\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 49\nBritish Hmerican trust\nCompany, Ltd.\nCity and Suburban Real Estate\nFarm Lands.\nDairy and Fruit Farms.\nSafety Deposit Boxes from $5.00 per year.\nAll kinds of Insurance written.\nCotton Building, Vancouver, B. C.\nJ. W. POTTER\nArchitect and Structural engineer\nReinforced Concrete a Specialty\nLHW-BCTLER BUILDING\nFRINGE RUPERT, B. \u00a9.\nP. \u00a9. B\u00a9X 271\nDALLAS HOTEL\nThe only Seaside Hotel in the City\nFifteen minutes walk from P. 0.\nI\nI\ni\nI\n\u2022\nI\nI\nOr\nne minute's walk from street cars\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nfcif \u25a0\u25a0<>\u25a0\u00bb I \u25a0\u00bb\u25a0!<\u00bb# II\n.*$.\n\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666*\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\nTHE GRANVILLE\nBROKERAGE CO,\nI\nReal Estate, Insurance and Commission Agents t\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n!\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\n\u2666\nPOINT GREY SNAPS\nChaldecott Road (near Clere) double corner, 90x130.\n$2000. Good terms.\nCENTRAL I\n37^ feet with 9 roomed house in 800 block Homer\nStreet. $15,500. Only $1500 cash.\nSOUTH VANCOUVER \u2666\n25th Avenue near Fraser Avenue, 33 feet, high and \u2666\ndry. $900. Good terms. i\n166 feet on Bodwell Road carline $1650. Terms. \u2666\n33 feet near Victoria Road Car. $400. Terms. \u2666\nI\n^ I I II I I M \u2666\n1069 Granville Street VANCOUVER, B, C f\n\u25ba\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\n^^^s\nThe Finest Apples in the World\nAre Grown in British Columbia's Famous DRY BELT DISTRICT\nTHE YIEJUD IS GREATEST and the\nPRICKS OBTAINED ARE THE HIGHEST\nYOU SHOULD LOCATE AT\n\"SUNNYSIDE\"\nIt is in the HEART of this wonderful district\nand 5 ACRES of its RICH, DEEP SOIL will make you a GOOD LIVING\nWrite for illustrated folder, ATTRACTIVE PRICES and EASIEST of TERMS to\n1 ROSS \u00a9\u2022 SHAW\n318 Hastings St. W.\nVancouver, B. C.\nTHESE ABE OPPORTUNITIES IN ETEB7 ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS Page 50\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1910\n*s?\n\"1\n\"Cover\" Your Real Estate Investments\nI With SUGAR 1\nI want to tell you some things a man told me to-day about beet sugar\u2014a man who, apparently,\nknew exactly what he was talking about. In fact, before he got through, he had me convinced that\nthe one industry which would do most towards developing the agricultural possibilities and protecting\nthe real estate values of British Columbia was the raising of sugar beets and the manufacturing of\nbeet sugar.\nThe first thing that he pointed out to me was the enormous and never failing demand for sugar,\nsecond only to the demand for flour.\n\"CANADA IS IMPORTING TO-DAY $20,000,000 WORTH OF SUGAR.\nTHERE IS NO REASON,\" said he, \"WHY THAT AMOUNT OF SUGAR CAN NOT\nBE GROWN RIGHT HERE IN THE FRASER VALLEY.\"\nNow, I am an every-day sort of man, probably pretty much the same sort of a man as\nyou who read this page. I told the man he would have to show me. Well, he did.\nIn the first place it seems that the project is already well under way. The site has been\nsecured, the necessary acreage is available, the plans of buildings and machinery arranged, and\nfarmers from all over the Fraser Valley have agreed to co-operate in keeping the plant supplied with\nsugar beets. These same farmers have also subscribed stock, thus showing their faith in the practicability of the enterprise in the mpst convincing way possible.\nAnother thing this- man did\u2014he went into the town where the plant is going to be, and out of\n120 possible shareholders he secured 95. That speaks well for the proposition, doesn't it?\nFurthermore, he pointed out to me how the Michigan Sugar Company, organized 12 years ago,\nwith a capitalization of $200,000, had expanded into a company of which the capital stock was over\n$7,500,000\nA share which costs in the original company ten dollars, is now worth $135.00, and pay* as\nhigh as 30 per cent, dividends. He convinced me that the raising of sugar beets not only improved\nthe land for other agricultural purposes, but formed the backbone of real estate values in those communities in which it was established.\n\"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.\"\nBut why continue? He presented to me a straight forward business proposition, which I as a\nresident, property owner, business man and well wisher for the future of this Province, could not\nbut see the value of. And when he asked me to subscribe\u2014I walked right in.\nIf 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\u2014\nIf you want to learn some intensely interesting data which will throw an entirely new light\non the sugar beet as an investment\u2014\nIf you want to know how to put a small sum of money on the easiest terms where it will bring\nyou splendid returns, improve the value of your other properties, and advance the welfare of the\nProvince, I advise you to write your name and address on this page, tear out the page, and send\nit to the\nI\nFRASER VALLEY SUGAR WORKS, IM.\nFactories: MISSION CfTY, B.C. Offices: 3ig Pender Street* VANCOUVER. B.C.\nh&SJ\nTHERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY ONE OP OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 911\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 3\nVery Special Investments\nNothing Better, Nothing Cheaper and\nNo Surer Moneymakers\nTwo Lots, 74 feet frontage by an average depth of about 148 feet, all cleared and\nstreets graded; outlook unsurpassed. Price $2700; % cash, balance over 3 years.\nDouble Trackage Corner on B. C. E. Railway, over 165 feet trackage. Lots\nall cleared and streets graded. Price $2,500 for the pair; y^ cash, balance\n6, 12, 18, 24, 30 and 36 months.\nTriple Corner on Knight Road. Lots all cleared and ready for a block of\nstores. This is an absolutely certain moneymaker, and will be wanted for the\nvery purpose above suggested. When street car passes down Knight Road\nthis property will immediately double in value. Our price now, $5000, and\nwill give three years to pay for it.\nWe are building some strictly modern houses in that beautiful southern, sunny\nslope, called South View. Call and see us and we will build according to\nyour instructions and sell to you on very easy terms.\nLatimer, Ney & D\/LcTavish, Limited\n419 PENDER STREET\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nWhen in New Westminster,\ndine at the\nKINGS HOTEL CAEE\n1\nThe Cafe has been\nremodeled throughout, the cuisine\nis excellent,\nand cleanliness is our motto.\nWe cater especially\nto out-of-town supper parties.\nColumbia St., New Westminster\nJ. ACKROYD, Manager\nCARLTON CHEER\n^ Is becoming a household word with\nthe people of Vancouver who appreciate\ngood living. The cheery, home-like atmosphere, the cheer or perfect cuisine, the\ncheer of perfect service and of vocal music\nwell rendered all combine to make the\nGarlton the home of good cheer.\n^ This is especially true since JAMES\nMORGAN has taken over the active\nmanagement. Jimmie caters especially to\nthe travelling public, and extends a cordial\ninvitation to all his local and out-of-town\nfriends to drop in and spend a pleasant\nhour or two with him at the\nThe Carlton Cafe\nCordova and Cambie Streets, Vancouver\nPhone 5728 for Table Reservations\nPLEASE MENTION OPPORTUNITIES WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS. THANK YOU. Page 4\nOPPORTUNITIES\n191\n0^\n-**\u00a33\nWinter s frost\nand cold\nare not conducive to a smooth skin, but\nwith o-ood health it is easy to remove\nall sip-ns of roup;hness with the many\npleasant and harmless salves and creams\non the market. Every spot and blemish can be eradicated.\nFor roughness caused bv wind and\ni&\ncold there is nothing to equal our\nOrange Flower Cream\nto be used at night and after washing.\nThe first application relieves. Price 35c.\nFor unsightly pimples and blackheads, use EGYPTIAN SKIN FOOD and\nplenty of hot water and Castile soap. Peroxide Cream will be found excellent to\nheal and bleach the skin without causing- any discomfort.\nFalling hair, dry and itching scalp and dandruff can all be eliminated by the\nuse of DOCTOR TROUVILLE'S ECZEMA SALVE. 35c. per jar.\nSend for prices on Toupees for gentlemen. All work done by French expert.\nGreat Reductions on all Hair Goods\nAll orders sent in before January 15th will receive the benefit of reduced\nprices. Over One Thousand Dollars worth of stock still to be sold at reduced\nprices.\nMADAME HUMPHREYS\nThe Largesti Most Up-to-date Establishment of its kind on the Pacific Coast\n723 Pender Street, W. the fairfield building VANCOUVER, B. C.\n'Pfyone iooo\nJ\nPLEA8E MENTION OPPORTUNITIES WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS. THANK YOU. 911\nOPPORTUNITIES\nEDSONf\nEdson is one hundred and thirty miles west of Edmonton. It is the first divisional west of\nEdmomon, and its chances are very good for becoming' the biggest one west of Winnipeg\non the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.\nLf ^\/-Jq s~\\ -f^t tJrt 1 (~i h ^Q Edson Heights is the beauty of Edson and its commercial possibilities are unequalled. Start\nJ-L\/LLC^UIt -tivtg'ttO the .Mew Year right. This means you Mr. Small Investor and Mr. Large Investor alike.\nEdson was good enough for a large corporation like the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway to invest in and many other large corporations\nwho invested large sums, why should it not be good enough for you? Everybody looks for a ground floor proposition where the\nbig money is all made and now is your chance to get in on Edson Heights at the right price. These lots can be had, at present, at\na very small cash payment and easy terms. Prices run from $50 to $150 per lot and $25 extra for corner, guaranteed to be high and\ndry and a fine location. Come in and let us tell you all about this fine proposition ; the information will be furnished you by us with\nthe greatest of pleasure and will not cost you a cent. If you cannot call, write for full particulars and do it to-day. Don't wait\nuntil prices have gone away up and then say what you could have done, but just be one of the so-called suckers, and make money.\nDominion Investors Corporation, Limited\nTelephone 6756\n213 Dominion Trust Building\nORGANIZES YSTEMIZEIgl1 is here' \u25a090i\"9\nto be a big one\u2014Prepare\nYou require the greatest efficiency in your Office Equipment Service. CJ Prompt\ndelivery, quality goods, honest prices are going to win out. C| Our store is chuck\nfull of Labor Saving Devices; bright, snappy ideas.\nDid it ever occur to you that we can help each other ?\nWESTERN SPECIALTY LIMITED\nPrinting, Bookbinding\nLoose Leaf Systems\n314 Pender Street West\nOFFICE EQUIPPERS\nPhone 5938\nTypewriters, Filing Systems\nJoint Stock Companies Supplies\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nWINDSOR PARK\nsaamassKunaiaieieiausis^BE^Ba^BSsaa a\nAdjoins the Future Centre of\nNorth Vancouver Lies in the\nvicinity of SECOND NARROWS\nBRIDGE and IMPERIAL CAR\nWORKS.\nPRICES, $135 for inside Lots,\n$150 for Corners. TERMS,\n$20 Cash, Balance $5 per\nmonth.\nCanadian National Investors\n(Successors to Foster & Fisher)\n310 Hastings Street West\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nTelephone 6488\nOpen Evenings\nHnWMBHHHHHiallMHmiitKHHiaHMiHiA.\nPLEASE MENTION OPPORTUNITIES WHEN\nMY SPELLING IS CORRECT, MY\nPUNCTUATION ACCURATE and\nMY TYPEING CAREFULLY DONE\nLegal Work a Specialty\nA Trial will Convince\nWINIFRED McKAY\nPUBLIC STENOGRAPHER\nPhone 5523\n504-5 Crown Building Vancouver, B. C.\n(fxrxxsncxxTzxrxxixxxxxjaxxxzxzxirrxxxxxxrxxxxixxxzxzrrxxxzxxirjcEixxxxixxzxxxxDL'\nH\nH\nP For tne Best and most satisfactory forms of\nM\nM\nI Accident Insurance f\nI or Health Policies\na covering every form or Accident or\nB Sickness, see our latest proposition.\nH\nM General Agen|.for B. C. for the\nS TRAVELLERS INSURANCE COT\nH\nH Hartford, Conn.\n1 W, W, DRESSER\nB 438 Pender St., W., VANCOUVER, B. C.\nM\nM ;a- \t\n'tl* \" >TTT|TWm\u00bbmitTTIHIIinmmiIT|ny|ryiTTTTTtTITTTTTTTTTiTTTTTITTTTT1 \u25a0\nWRITING TO ADVERTISERS. THANK YOU. Page 6\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1911\nFIVE YEARS\ni^HBBBBBBBI^^EBra \"\"la\nWe can give you five year's time in which to\ncomplete your payments on the purchase of\n132 feet square on the corner of Lome Street\nand Main Street (Westminster Avenue.)\nThis is an exceptionally good buy at\nour figure.\nPEMBERTON & SON\n326 HOMER STREET\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nSHAREHOLDERS\nIf you are interested in stocks or bonds, send for our free\nmarket letters, showing1 the very latest buying and selling prices\non all kinds of securities. These market letters keep the Investor\nadvised on the market value of his holdings, and at the same time\nentitle him to the use of our free information bureau.\n0. H. BOWMAN & COMPANY\nMahon Bldg. VICTORIA, B. C. P. 0. Box 1048\n\" SPECIALISTS IN CALIFORNIA OIL SECURITIES.\"\nReports furnished free on all Companies.\n[\" S your correspondence accurately\n-*\u25a0 written; is the spelling and punctuation correct ? If it is not, give me\na trial and we will both be satisfied.\nMISS SOMMERVILLE\nPUBLIC STENOGRAPHER\nRoom 709 Bower B'ldg. Phone 1014\nAnnouncement\nfjT W. H. PAWSON,\n-^ Engineer and Architect,\nbegs to announce to his\nfriends and public that he\nhas opened his office at 410\nCrown Building, Vancouver,\nB.C., and is ready to furnish\nplans and specifications for\nany class of building or\nengineering feat.\nPLEASE MENTION OPPORTUNITIES WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS. THANK YOU. 1911\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPaSe 7\nr\n\u25a0~i\nVANCOUVER, B. C CONTENTS. JANUARY, 1911\nPage.\nRising to the Premiership \/. Herbert Welch ] 1\nCo-operation among Farmers George Schumacher, Ph.D. 1 4\nWhat British Columbia Needs Most Henry A. Stone 1 7\nCoal 18\nSuccess on a Fraser Valley Fruit Ranch D. H. Nelson 20\nOn Elud ng Responsibility Alice Ashworth Townley 22\nFostering British Columbia Art Mary Daniell 23\nThe Call of Basque 24\nThe Need for Dairying C. S. McKee 26\nA Race for Timber (Story) J. H. W. 28\nThe Conflict in the Old Country C. M. Burmester 32\nIndustrial Progress in British Columbia 33\nThe Auto and British Columbia's Prosperity\t\n C. F. McConnell and F. M. Hunter 36\nThe British Columbia Timber Situation Paul W. Trousdale 38\nt\n\"*\\\nr>\nDESIGNER AND\nILLUSTRATOR\nlill\n\u20ac| Drawings for Advertisers, Designs\nand Illustrations for Newspapers,\nMagazines, Catalogues, Etc. \u20acfl Ex\nLibris, Book Plate Designs. 1\u00a7 Bird's\nEye and Perspective Drawings.\n<2 Cover Designs and Book Illustrations. ^| Monograms, Trade Marks,\nLabels ana Letter Heads. 4\u00b0 4\u00b0 H1\nVANCOUVER B C\n3I9*PENDER'' W\" TELEPHONE Consultations, advice and preliminary\nSlJlTE 304 8098 sketches free\n\\=\nJ\nCLASSIFIED ADS.\nWANTED\u2014Buyers for our 5, 10, 15 and\n40 acre farms in Langley, 20 miles\nfrom Vancouver, near two railroads\nand tram line. Prices low and very\neasy terms. Kraus, Reynolds Co.,\nLtd., 503 Dominion Trust Building,\nVancouver, B. C.\nFarm Lands, partly improved, 6 miles\nfrom Manor, Sask., $18 to $23 per acre.\nBlack & McDonnell, 60 Hastings\nStreet East, Vancouver, B. C.\ntome\nare welcomed by the folks\nwho stayed behind. You\nrealize this and consequently\nyou write as often as possible\nare you able to tell them as\nmuch about your new home\nas you would like to |\nC| Have you reliable information to send them, or having that, have you the time\nto send it?\nlet 'Opportunities' do this for\nyou | It costs only one dollar\na year, and will give the\nhome folks a very much\ngreater amount of information than could possibly be\ncontained in letters.\n^ Send us the name and address, together with $ 1.00,\nand the paper will be sent\nimmediately.\nOpportunities Publishing\nCompany\n429 Pender Street Vancouver, B. C.\nPLEASE MENTION OPPORTUNITIES WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS. THANK YOU. Page 8\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1911\nB' IRTHDAYS are naturally days of retrospection, and for this reason Opportunities, which\ncompletes its first year of life with this issue\nof the magazine, may be pardoned for glancing back for a moment, and saying something about its\nown beginning and its progress through the year.\n*I In these days every big movement or development\nmust, of course, have a public voice The growth of a\ncommunity or a commonwealth is highly important not\nalone to the people who are in the midst of it, but to\nthe world in general, because it means new markets,\nnew openings for investment, new opportunities for\nmaking the most of life. The world must be told of\nthe new channels for human effort. It needs them; and\nthe new commonwealth, of course, needs the world.\nThis mutual requirement creates the demand for the\nvoice, the publication. You think of the daily newspaper in this connection before you think of the monthly\nmagazine, but the newspaper, however able, does not\nfill the full measure of the demand. Its chief concern\nis of the day. Its purpose is more to tell the community\nabout the world than to tell the world about the community.\n*I When Mr. Fraser S. Keith established this magazine\na year ago he knew that there was a vast amount that\npeople in general did not know about British Columbia,\nand that there was a vast amount of misinformation.\nHe also knew that in the New and Old Worlds there\nwere millions of people who were looking for roads\naway from invironments which, for some reason or\nother, had become oppressive. He felt that one of the\nbroadest and most hopeful of these roads led to British\nColumbia, a rich land of beginnings, where men and\nwomen could work out their destinies without being\nhampered by the rigidity of conditions which exist in\nold sections where, on the principle that \"like attracts\nlike,\" wealth and power have been accumulated in the\nhands of the few, to the detriment of the many. Mr.\nKeith saw in British Columbia a comparatively open\nfield for all comers who were workers, and to proclaim\nit to people everywhere in all its most significant phases,\nhe started Opportunities.\n\u20221 Horace Greeley is reported to have once remarked\nthat the saddest words in the English language were,\nVol. 1, No. 1.\" It is quite true that most young\npublications have a troubled voyage through the first\nyears of life, and ground upon the shoals of financial\nstringency, and strike the rocks of receiverships, and\npass the straits of changing hands before they finally\nreach the calm waters of influence and prosperity. But\nthere are exceptions to the rule, and Opportunities has\nbeen one of them. The passage through this first year,\nwhich is invariably the hardest year of all, has been\nsurprisingly smooth. Everybody has been at the table\nthree times a day. The magazine has been a constantly\ngrowing success. Each number has gained it new\nfriends, a more enduring support, and a wider influence.\nWithin a month we have received letters from readers\nof Opportunities in South Africa, Australia, Asia,\nSpain, Germany, and the West Indies, to say nothing\nof the scores from the British Isles. The magazine is\nmaking its way into more homes in British Columbia\nand Canada generally, and into more and more of the\nfar corners of the globe.\n*I We do not plume ourselves too much on this; we\nattribute it in large measure to the world-wide interest\nin this Province. But it gives us a feeling of added\nresponsibility, and a desire to make our magazine\nmore and more truly representative of what is really\nimportant in this new land of opportunity. It is by no\nmeans our intention to ignore the flaws. There are\nsome\u2014there are bound to be\u2014and we expect to speak\nof them from time to time, in the hope that what we\nsay may have some effect in bringing about the remedies.\nBut always we intend to hold up to public view the big\nresources, the big opportunities, the big future of\nBritish Columbia, and to encourage men and women to\nsettle here, for the reason that while this Province is not\nan Eldorado, nor a nook for the tired, nor a boulevard\nfor a leisurely stroll into Easy Street, it offers surer\nand better rewards for hard, intelligent work than does\nalmost any other region on the earth. The reason can\nbe summed up in a word or two. British Columbia has\nan abundance of natural wealth, and is just beginning\nto develop it.\n% To mention our magazine once more, we, too, are\njust at the beginning. We realize, perhaps, more\nvividly than do others that we have ample room for\nprogress and improvement. We intend to grow with\nBritish Columbia. This is our opportunity, and is\nequally the opportunity of every man within the\nProvince who has the ability and inclination for good work OPPORTUNITIES\nA Monthly Journal Devoted to the Growth, Development, Resources and Possibilities in British Columbia\nEntered in the Pott Office of Canada as second-class matter.\nPhone 6926\nPublished by OPPORTUNITIES PUBLISHING CO., Suite 87, Hutchinson Block, 429 Pender St., W., Vancouver, B. C.\nOUR AIM:\nTo furnish, at home and abroad, more complete information\nregarding British Columbia and the wealth of possibilities she offers\nfor Investment\u2014in Real Estate, Fruit and Farm Lands, Timber,\nMining and Industrial Companies\u2014for Health; for Travel; for\nRecreation; for Sport; for Education and for Enterprise.\nFRASER S. KEITH, President and Managing Editor\nHERBERT WELCH, Editor-in-Chief\nPAUL W. TROUSDALE, Advertising Manager\nSUBSCRIPTION\n$1.00 PER YEAR\nAdvertising rates on application.\nVol. 3\nJANUARY, 1911\nNo. 1\nEDITORIAL\nWE care little about the past for its own sake; the tree\nis dead. But we have its fruit, the sweet and the\nbitter, and it contains the seeds which will make the\nfuture. We will therefore glance backward for a\nmoment toward 1910 in this lusty Province of\nBritish Columbia. It can be said at the outset that 1910 in\nBritish Columbia was a good year, a big year\u2014the biggest\never\u2014and that it has left us with a huge stepping-stone to\ngreater progress.\nVancouver probably showed a greater ratio of growth\nduring the year than did any other city on the globe. The\nbuilding permits represented plans for structures to cost\n$13,144,215. The total for 1908 was $5,950,883, and in\n1909 the amount was $7,258,555. The increase in 1910\nwas about ninety per cent., and came chiefly from new office\nbuildings and warehouses. In this connection it must be said\nthat in making the total returns for the year the building\ndepartment omitted nearly a half of South Vancouver, namely,\nShaughnessy Heights, and the section from Sixteenth to Thirtieth Avenues. The permits for these districts in 1910 called\nan expenditure of about four millions of dollars. This brings\nthe grand total up to over seventeen millions of dollars. This\nrecord for Vancouver is given added significance by the fact\nthat not another city en the Pacific Coast equalled in 1910\nits building record for 1 909. The other municipalities of the\nPacific family felt, during this year, retarding influences that\ncaused a slackening of the pace. Vancouver nearly doubled\nhers. In greater and greater degree she is becoming the Mecca\nfor those who want to grow with growth.\nUILDING operations are, of course, only one of\nthe sign-posts of progress for Vancouver and the\nProvince. From numerous other fields of activity\ncome big contributions to the proofs. For instance,\nthe statisticians of the British Columbia Railway\nCompany have announced that while the company carried\n21,112,780 passengers in its Vancouver cars in 1909, it\ncarried 30,050,927 in 1910, which is an increase of about\nforty-two per cent. In these dry figures, if you glance at them\nwith just a little imagination, you can see city streets pushing\nfarther and farther out, and can see the glow of modern home\nlife, where, only a few years ago, old forests stood.\nTHE customs returns for 1910 tell a tale of sheer\ngrowth, but not so good a tale of real progress. The\npeople who come must still send out for most of the\nluxuries and many of the necessaries of life. In 1909\nthey paid $3,559,010 in import duties; in 1910\nthey paid $5,615,494. This amount, of course, is but a small\nfraction of the whole sum spent on importation. It has been\nestimated, for instance, that between fifteen and sixteen\nmillion dollars were paid to producers in other sections for food\nconsumed in British Columbia. This was not because this\nfood, and a great deal more, cannot be produced right here\nat home. It was because a very large number of those who\nhave sought out the Province have not been trained in the vital\nagricultural art, and because those who do know it, and are\nwilling to practice it, have not yet had time to bring the\nfertility of British Columbia fields to the rescue of the hungry\nhordes. It is pointed out in special articles in this issue of\nOpportunities that in the meagerness of food production lies\ndanger for the Province, but this is like the menace for a vessel\nof rocks on a distant shore. We must guide the ship aright,\nbut we still have plenty of steerageway, and the man at the\nwheel, the Premier, is a good pilot. By his direction a number\nof fruit and vegetable farms are being instituted under the auspices of the Government for the purpose of encouraging growers\nand showing them how they can obtain the best results from\nthe tilling of the land. Government inspectors and instructors\nare spreading the gospel of good farming. To a certain extent\ncreameries are subsidized, and the Premier and his ministers are\nready to do all within their power to foster other agricultural\ndevelopments. Thousands of new orchards each year are\nmaking their contributions to the horn of plenty. The first\nNational Apple Show in the autumn of 1910 gave British\nColumbia fruit a new prominence and assured a fresh appreciation of the opportunities in growing it. The same general\nresult is being obtained by the fruit exhibit of the Province\nnow on display in the Old Country. The fruit and other\nagricultural production in 1911 will be far greater than in\nany previous year. It can be said with truth that what has\nbeen accomplished is only a small part of what the situation\ndemands, but the plans are comprehensive, and it must be\nremembered that a baby commonwealth, like any other infant,\nmust creep before it walks. British Columbia, economically,\nis still very young, and early youth must always be nourished\nby other hands before it can make its own living. Page 10\nOPPORTUNITIES\n191}\nLL the time the strength of this Province is becoming\ngreater. Her industrial life blood is being constantly\nenriched by fresh contributions of capital. Money\nfrom England, Scotland, and Ireland, from Germany and France, and from the United States, is\nflowing in for the development of her natural resources and her\nmanufacturing possibilities. Tbe bank clearings, the most\nsignificant of the barometers of business, show in Vancouver\nduring 1910, a total of $444,988,819, an increase of forty\nper cent, over 1909. Manufacturing in British Columbia is\nstill at its beginning, but in 1910 products were manufactured\nwhich, according to the estimates of the Government, had a\nvalue of $30,000,000. Yet this production supplies only a\nvery small portion of the British Columbia market, and the\nmarket, with the continual pouring in of people, is expanding\nconstantly. The demand always is for more. There are the\nbest sort of facilities for supplying more. The Lower Mainland has a water supply which is estimated at over one hundred\nthousand horse-power, with thirty thousand horse-power already\navailable. Many varieties of raw material are close at hand,\nand British Columbia has vast stores of coal. For foreign\nmarkets there is the long arm of the Pacific Ocean reaching\nup to Vancouver and Victoria and New Westminster\u2014an arm\nwhich, when the Panama Canal is opened, will convey a greater\nand greater number of ships down to the sea and to the great\nmarkets of the world. In manufacturing, the achievement is\nyet small, but the promise is big. No very prophetic eye is\nrequired to see many factories on the skyline of the future, and\nthe sun obscured by the smoke of industry.\nROM the time when British Columbia began to\nimpress herself upon the world at large as something\nmore than a great area of mountains and untracked\nforests, mining has been her most conspicuous industry, and still ranks second only to manufacturing\nin the total value of the product. In 1 909 this was $24,000,-\n000. The figures for 1910 have not yet been compiled completely, but it is safe to say that they will show progress, and\nthat 1911 will show a production greater than that of 1910.\nNew 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\ncontains much valuable metal, and it is believed that the\nrecently discovered ledges on Steamboat Mountain, in West\nKootenay, will be worked with profit. New discoveries are\nbeing made in the old districts, and excellent values are being\nfound in the deeper workings. With mines already developed\ngiving every indication of production well into the future, with\nnew mines becoming shippers, and with the mechanical facilities for getting out the ore improving constantly, there is a\nglowing prospect for a steadily increasing output of precious\nmetals in British Columbia. This is no less true of coal, of\nwhich there are vast reserves as yet untouched. It is also true\nof iron and copper. It is estimated that in one iron mine alone,\nthat on Texada Island, there are 33,000,000 tons of iron ore,\nand it is believed that the Duluth capitalists who have recently\ntaken over this property, will build a large iron and steel plant\non the coast. In. the Portland Canal District large bodies of\ncopper ore have been uncovered. So it will be seen that nature\nhas given British Columbia plenty of gold and silver to embellish\nthe ship of industry, plenty of coal to make the wheels revolve,\nand plenty of iron, besides some copper, for the metal ribs.\nBRITISH COLUMBIA fishing has immense\npossibilities which as yet are not fully appreciated.\nThere are thousands of miles of off-shore waters\nwhich teem with edible fish, and long reaches of\nriver in which salmon swarm. It has been said by\nauthorities that the Province will have the world's greatest\nfisheries. An important step in their development was made in\n1910 when Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann interests took over\nand began the reorganization of the whaling industry.\nHE remarkable industrial and agricultural expansion\nin progress and in contemplation in British Columbia\nwill, of course, necessitate greater transportation\nfacilities. These are on the way. Grand Trunk\nPacific trains are now running for a hundred miles\neastward of Prince Rupert, and it is stated that in four or five\nyears the steel rails that are being laid from Prince Rupert\neast, and from Edmonton west, will be brought together, with\nthe result of giving Canada another transcontinental route, and\nof opening fully to civilization and industry the rich north\ncountry of British Columbia. Another instrument to this big\nend will be the Canadian Northern Railway, which, according\nto its officials, will be completed to the Pacific seaboard even\nsooner than is the Grand Trunk Pacific. This will mean that\nwithin the comparatively short period of half a decade three\ntranscontinental lines will be putting British Columbia in close\nand constant communication with the great centers and markets\nof the world. It is not improbable that the Portland Canal\nShort Line Railway will eventually become still another line\nacross the Canadian continent. The Canadian Pacific is\nkeeping pace with British Columbia's growth. Work is under\nway on the Kootenay Central, which will extend south from\nGolden through the Columbia Valley. Another important\nCanadian Pacific Railway enterprise is the completion on\nVancouver Island of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo branch\nfrom Wellington to Alberni. The great system under the\ndirection of James J. Hill is also expanding in British Columbia,\nand there are a number of other railway projects which supply\nthe strongest kind of proof that the railroad builders, men who\nowe most of their power to their ability to read the future, are\npreparing for a far bigger and closer fabric of population and\nagriculture and manufacturing in British Columbia than the\nmajority of us even dream of. Mr. McBride estimates that\nthe railroad construction in the Province within the next four\nyears will involve an expenditure of at least fifty millions or\ndollars, and that the Government's outlay for public works\nduring this period will amount to at least twenty millions or\ndollars. These streams of capital will be but two of many.\nIn view of this, it is hard to conceive of anything but steadily\nincreasing prosperity for the Province and the workers.\nE cannot, however, close our eyes to tbe rocks on the\nshore\u2014the menace of consumption out of all proportion to production. The adjustment will come\nthrough the operation of natural laws, but the more\nimpetus we give it, the more we encourage settlers to till the\nground and manufacturers to establish plants, the sooner will\nthis Province be removed from a state of vassalage to producing\ncenters, and will have a prosperity derived from her own\nresources instead of from the expectations she has aroused on\nthe part of an opportunity-seeking world. OPPORTUNITIES\nVol. III.\nHUTCHINSON BLOCK, VANCOUVER, B. C, JANUARY, 1911.\nNo. 1\nRising to the Premiership\nSome Facts about Richard McBride's Earlier Days and an Interview\nwith him on British Columbia Opportunities\nBy J. Herbert Welch\nHEN a man climbs high on the\nhill of power and prestige we\nlike to contemplate him. Up\nin the big currents of politics\nor finance, he stirs the imagination. If\nhe is a political leader on his travels, we\nsee him in a setting of flags and bunting,\nband music, and the salvoes of his fellow-\ncountrymen. If he holds high office we\nMR. McBRIDE AS AN ORATOR\nsee him at his work within stately halls,\nand instinctively we impart to him some\nof the calm majesty of the architecture\nPrime Minister! President! Premier\nThese are words to conjure with. We\nspeak them softly in the lofty corri\ndors of buildings of government, and\nwhile waiting in the ante-room of the\n, inner sanctuary, we sit lingering our\nhats amid oppressive -ilence. This, as\na frivolous poet wrote, \"is no time for\nmirth and laughter.\" After a long, long\ntime, we are told in a half-whisper that\nthe Premier will see us now, and we\nbrace ourselves for our brief ascent to\nhigh Olympus. Immediately we find\nourselves in a room of noble proportions,\npervaded by what seems to be eternal\ncalm, and dominated by a personality\u2014\na big man at a big desk.\nIn the instance in our mind just now\nthe man is Premier McBride, who, as\nwe 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\nare still fingering their hats in the anteroom may have their turn.\nMr. McBride, it may be said in passing, has the statesman's look. He is.\nbig; he has firm lips, quiet, watchful\neyes, an air of reserves of power, and\nlast, but perhaps not least, iron gray\nlocks which Henry Irving himself could\nnot have improved upon in portraying\nthe character of a statesman.\nWe make our plea, and the Premier\nbegins to speak, \u2014 melodiously, with\nwords well chosen, in an unhurried man\nner, which causes us to forget for the\nmoment that he has much to .do. We\nfeel at ease. The Premier's personality\nis not mountainous, like that of some\nmen of power, but reminds us of a\nbroad plain, with the sun shining from\na serene- sky. Mr. McBride has magnetism\u2014a great deal of it. We begin to\nunderstand his widespread popularity.\nOpportunities, the magazine, is mentioned, and this leads on to the opportunities of British Columbia. Mr. McBride has begun to warm up. The theme\ninterests him, because his biggest work\nis to mould Mother Nature's gifts to\nBritish Columbia into opportunities for\nmen.\n\"The title of your magazine,\" he says,\nleaning a little further forward, \"furnishes a text particularly applicable to\nany general observations that one may\nmake on the Province of British Columbia, because this, above all other\nparts of the continent, is a land of oppor-\nmil*\nPREMIER McBRIDE GREETING THE PEOPLE AT NAKUS1 Page 12\nOPPORTUNITIES\nTHE PREMIER AND SONGHEE CHIEF\ntunities. The reason is self-evident. We\nhave immense and varied natural resources, and these give great openings\nfor investment, and great scope for men\nof brains and industry.\n\"I might quote statistics. Look at\nthe area of the Province\u2014nearly four\nhundred thousand square miles, our seaboard of more than seven thousand\nmiles, and our wonderful inland waters,\nfurnishing great navigable arteries and\ntremendous power for wheels of industry, and after these, the almost incalculable natural resources stored within\nthis vast territory\u2014our minerals, our\nforests, our agricultural lands, and our\nfisheries. Even the least observant man\nmust admit that here lie sources of great\nprosperity, and opportunities for a progressive people to develop a great community.\n\"Imagine, if you can, woodlands of\nwhich the marketable timber is conservatively estimated as able to produce three\nhundred and sixty billion feet of lumber\nannually for one hundred years.\n\"Our fisheries are already employing\ntwelve thousand men and are still at the\nbeginning of their development. Our\nmines produced last year some twenty-\nfive million dollars; our timber industry\namounts to about twelve million dollars\na year, and the products of our agricultural and fruit lands now have a value\nof eight million dollars a year. And all\nthese industries are still at their beginnings, and are being carried on by a\npopulation which is still comparatively\nsmall. It is inevitable that they will see\ngreat expansion and will offer more and\nmore opportunities for the people who\nsettle among us. Each year will greatly\nincrease the number of these people. The\npopulation is growing at a very rapid\nand satisfactory rate, yet it is still a\nmere handful compared with the number\nwhich this Province can sustain.\n\"Along all lines there has been most\nsubstantial progress. Our cities are\ngrowing; the country is being settled;\nshipping and railway building are increasing at a wonderful rate; and the\nfruit industry, within a very few years,\nhas developed from obscurity to the\nfront rank. The land devoted to fruit\nten years ago was 7,460 acres; to-day it\nis one hundred thousand acres. Our\nland will support a very large number\nof people in contentment and prosperity.\nAs to recreation, it may be said that the\nfishing and hunting in British Columbia\nare unexcelled, and the climate is particularly favorable to pleasures out of\ndoors.\n\"There are many other opportunities,\nand the people of British Columbia are\nmaking the most of them. We have an\nenergetic, enterprising, resourceful and\nconfidently hopeful citizenship. The\nvery atmosphere of this Last West, the\nnewness of our civilization, and the\nknowledge of the many things which are\nyet to be done, inspire our people with\nfresh ambition and stimulate them to\ngreater efforts than they would have put\nforth had they remained in the communities of the East. Whether or not a man\nwho comes to British Columbia has capital, he can make good if he has energy,\nintelligence and persistence.\"\nThough the Premier grew enthusiastic\nin speaking of British Columbia and her\npeople, he \"dodged the issue\" when an\neffort was made to swing the conversation around to himself. The subject did\nnot seem to interest him, and it was\nMR. McBRIDE AT THE OPENING OF THE\nSONGHEE RESERVATION\nTHE PREMIER AT THE RECEPTION TO\nSIR WILFRED LAURIER\nnecessary to seek elsewhere for a map, so\nto speak, of Mr. McBride's progress\nfrom New Westminster, where he was\nborn forty years ago, to his present high\nposition.\nNo attempt will be made here to give\neven an outline of what Mr. McBride\nhas achieved as Premier. This would\ninvolve the consideration of many matters which will be taken up in future\narticles. It is enough to say at this time\nthat the Premier has commended himself to the most intelligent observers\nas a man who is really \"big,\" a man who\nhas already accomplished much for British Columbia. Glancing at him as a\nparty leader, it has been said that he\nis the strongest man in his party in the\nDominion. Looking at him as a public\nservant, it has been said that his progress is in the direction of the Premiership of Canada.\nFor the purpose of touching upon Mr.\nMcBride's start in life, we will take a\nlittle trip to New Westminster where, as\nhas already been indicated, he spent his\nearly years. We find there many old\nfriends of his, men still young, who went\nto school with him, played marbles and\nswam and fished with \"Dick McBride.\"\nThey all call him \"Dick.\"\nYou ask about his school days and\nlearn that he was not a youthful \"highbrow.\" He played marbles and swam,\nit seems, better than he did problems in\nmathematics or recited history. He was\ngraduated from the common school,\nand then from the high school without making any splash in the pool of\nlearning. He studied law at college in\nHalifax, Nova Scotia, and here, according to an old college-mate of his, he took-\nmuch more interest in the mock-parliament than in the moot court, that is to\nsay, his tendencies, even in early youth,\nwere more political than legal. 191\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage\nHe returned to New Westminster in\n1892, was called to the bar and began to\npractice. At this time he was tall and\nslender, with great physical activity.\nOne of the older citizens of New Westminster tells a story which illustrates\nhis promptitude in action. This citizen\nwas driving a milk wagon one morning\ndown a hill on his way across the railroad track. A train was approaching. A\nChinaman, crossing the road in front\nof the wagon, dropped his bundle, and\nin scrambling for it frightened the horse\nwhich went careering down the hill\ntowards the coming train. Vainly the\ndriver tried to stop the animal. It plunged on and a collision between it and the\nlocomotive seemed inevitable.\nvincial Legislature, as the member for\nDewdney. This time he was elected.\nTwo years later there came a crisis in\nhis political career. He was offered the\nportfolio of Minister of Mines, but for\ncertain reasons the acceptance of the\noffer would have meant the sacrifice of\nsome of the pledges which he made to\nthe people who elected him. It would\nhave been a great step ahead for so\nyoung a man, but Mr. McBride put the\nopportunity aside, and materially augmented his growing strength with his\nfellow citizens. He came back to the\ncountry in 1901, and was once more returned from Dewdney. He had another\ncontest on his hands in 1903 and was\nagain successful.\nerrand to the Government building. The\nPremier immediately cut to the bone of\nthe matter, showing that he was familiar\nwith it in all its details. Upon leaving\nthe office the companion of the New\nWestminster man remarked that the\nPremier must have prepared himself for\nthe call. The New Westminster man\nreplied that he himself had no intention\n.of visiting Victoria until within half an\nhour of his start.\nAnother valuable asset of Mr. McBride in his political career is his remarkable memory for names and faces.\nIt is said that he never forg'ets either.\nFor instance, once in the north country\nhe met a young man whose first name\nwas George. Some years afterward, in a\nIk\n:4\/ Jt\niiiiiiili\n\u00a3\u00a3\nm\nm^- *\"~Z\nm&mm\nPARLIAMENT BUILDINGS AT VICTORIA\n\"Dick\" McBride happened to be passing. He rushed to the horse's head, seized the bridle and jerked the animal off\nthe rails only a few seconds before the\nlocomotive thundered by. The shafts\nof the wagon were broken, and the\ndriver, reeling from his seat, broke his\narm. He attributes the fact that he did\nnot lose his life to \"Dick\" McBride.\nHe practiced law in New Westminster\nuntil 1896, when he entered into a political contest with Mr. Morrison, now\nJustice of the Supreme Court, for a seat\nin the Dominion Parliament. He made\nan aggressive fight in this campaign, but\nled a forlorn hope and lost.\nThis defeat merely stimulated his political ambitions. In 1898 he again entered the arena in a contest for the Pro-\nIn the meantime he had, because of\nhis magnetism, grasp of public questions,\nand instinctive leadership, risen to be\nthe Leader of the Opposition. There\nwas another faction headed by Joseph\nMartin, now a member of the British\nParliament, when the Opposition came\ninto power, and a hot fight arose within\nthe ranks. Mr. McBride won, and since\nthen has been Premier.\nHis grasp of all questions and conditions affecting British Columbia is illustrated by a little episode when a New\nWestminster man went to Victoria on an\nerrand which rested not with the Premier, but with one of the department\nheads. When calling on Mr. McBride\nto pay his respects, the New Westminster citizen happened to mention his\ndelegation of citizens who met the Premier at a train in another part of the\nProvince was this same young man. The\nPremier, though he had seen thousands\nof people in the meantime, greeted him\ncordially as \"George.\"\nThis is merely one trivial instance,\nbut it is representative of a great many.\nThe Premier remembers because he is\nnot wrapped up in himself. He is interested in other people. He is fond of\nthe simple life, nature and adventure.\nOne of the periods of the year to which\nhe looks forward with great zest is the\ntime in September when he dons the\ngarb of a pioneer and seeks the wilderness. In the early days he and one or\ntwo companions were fond of starting\nfrom New Westminster and rowing for Page 14\nOPPORTUNITIES\n19\nmany miles up the Fraser River and\ninto the lakes to the north. Now he\nutilizes a launch for these trips, but his\nexperiences in the woods are hardly less\nstrenuous than they used to be.\nThree or four years ago the two or\nthree of his old friends who usually accompany him on these journeys, decided\nto penetrate the wild country around\nGreat Harrison Lake. After an arduous\njourney by boat and wagon to the foot\nof the lake, it began to rain. It rained\nthroughout the day, and throughout\nthe next day, with such persistency that the Premier and his party\nwere forced to abandon their tents and\nseek refuge in a logging camp a few\nmiles down the creek that flows out of\nthe lake. Here for several days they\nhad to be content with loggers' joys. But\none morning the sun returned. They\nmade their way up the creek to the lake,\nand up the lake ten miles to a cove,\nwhere they established a camp and began to fish.\nBut hardly had they cast their lines\nout before the heavens again opened.\nThe camp was nearly washed from the\nnarrow shore under the precipitous cliffs,\nand it became necessary to beat a hasty\nretreat. There were two boats. One\nof these was a canoe, and in this embarked the Premier and one companion.\nThe ripples on the lake had become\nwaves, and the canoe was swamped. The\nvoyagers righted it at last, but it was\nagain swamped. Again, after strenuous\nwork, these lake mariners righted it. A\nthird time the waves lifted it and turned\nit over. The Premier and his fellow-\nsufferer started to swim for shore, but\npractically there was no shore. The\ncliffs came down to the water's edge.\nThe shipwrecked ones stood on a rock,\nwaist deep in water, and with the water\nbeating down, waiting to be rescued.\nThey waited a long time, but finally,\nthrough the driving rain, they saw the\nboat of the other members of the party\nreturning for them.\n\"There they are!\" exclaimed Mr. Mc-*\nBride. \"Call to them! Call to them!\"\nHis\" companion endeavored to raise his\nvoice, but failed; then the Premier made\nthe attempt, but was unsuccessful. The\ntruth was that both were so weak and\nnumbed with cold that they could not\nshout. They were seen, however, and\nthus it was that the Premier was taken\noff the submerged rock to continue his\nservices for British Columbia.\nHe and his friends have had numerous\nother adventures in their annual journeys back to nature. The Premier likes\nthem, being an out-door as well as an\nin-door man. He has all-round development. He is typical of British Columbia. He has made a long and close study\nof the Province in all its aspects. He\nknows its needs perhaps better than any\nother man, and is putting forth all his\nunusual energy and ability to supply\nthese needs.-\nCo-operation Among Farmers\nWhy it is so Often a Failure and How it can be Made Successful\nBy George Schumacher, Ph. D.\nWHAT cooperation has done for\nindustry, cooperation can and\nmust do for the farmers. We\nall know the splendid condiJ\ntion of the small intensive farmer in a\nsmall country in Europe. I refer to\nDenmark. Here we see cooperation at\nits best. A perfect organization collects\nthe \u201e raw products of the numerous\nsmall farmers, manufactures these into\nthe finished product, when required, in\nan up-to-date building and with up-to-\ndate machinery, and controls the sale\nof this product at home and abroad. As\na result, this small State exports more\nagricultural products than all Canada\ntogether.\nWe see cooperative concerns flourishing in Germany. Beet sugar factories\nto the number of five hundred are really\ncooperative farmers' concerns, controlling capital amounting to millions of\ndollars. We see many thousands of\nbutter and cheese factories conducted\non the same principal. We see a great\npart of the milk delivered in the cities\nby farmers' cooperative concerns. We\nsee starch and spirit factories, canneries,\netc., all controlled by farmers, and we\nsee as the greatest combination of all,\nbuying on a cooperative basis. One\nfarmers' cooperation in Germany handles\n(Agricultural Series. No. 2)\nfertilizer to the value of several hundred\nmillions of dollars.\nWe see cheese factories in the East\nnow on a solid basis, after a great many\ndifficulties, and we see in the West now\nand then a successful creamery or fruit\ngrowers' association, but there it ends.\nMore often than not, we see derelict\ncooperative concerns, with their buildings either empty or operated by enterprising individuals who are able to make\na profit which the farmers could not\nmake. I am told that unsuccessful\ncooperative enterprises on both sides of\nthe international boundary number many\nhundreds. This is deplorable.\nThe Government has, or believes it\nhas, fostered cooperative creameries, advancing money at a reasonable rate of\ninterest, provided a sufficient number of\nfarmers' join in the undertaking and\nguarantee milk from a certain number of\ncows. What is the reason for so many\nfailures? The general answer is that\nthe farmer is not a business man. With\nthis the subject is usually dismissed, but\nhere our work only begins. Gentle pressure was necessary to make the cheese\nfactories in the East successful, and\ngradually satisfactory business methods\nwere adopted and satisfactory results\nobtained.\nIf farming cannot be profitable without cooperation, the latter must be\nadopted under all circumstances, and the\nfarmer must be made a business man.\nOf course, to make a business man out\nof the farmer, we must start at the root,\nand 1 am firmly convinced that if we\ndo not alter our present school system in\nthe country, we will never raise a generation willing to stay on the land and\nAN IRRIGATED FIELD AT BASQUE Ml\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 15\npie to become efficient and satisfied\njrmers. Our young men on the farms\nlave for the cities as soon as possible,\nthey see only drudgery in farm func-\npns. The education of the younger\nfeneration must be taken in hand with\n[view to making good farmers, able and\nfilling to cooperate with their neigh-\nhrs. I will refer to this matter later on,\nfit for the present will deal with the\nLuse of failures on cooperative concerns\n[lder existing circumstances, and point\ntit how these difficulties may be\nl\/ercome.\n[ Let us see a typical creamery. Let\nU find out how it started, how it was\nmanaged, that is, mis-managed, and why\nfailed. The farmers grumble about\n;ie high railway rates, of the difficulty in\nfiling their milk, talk about cooperative\n\u2022\u2022eameries, have half a dozen palavers,\nyear. What is really needed is an able\nmanager, who is experienced, is engaged\nunder a long contract, and has power to\nenforce all rules under all circumstances,\nagainst all members, no matter what\ntheir importance may be in the association. The manager must be unhampered; his position must not depend on\nthe will or temper of any big boss in the\nconcern. In preference, he should come\nfrom a different district. The association\nshould have an accountant if the manager has not time to attend to this; and\nan auditor to examine the books thoroughly and investigate any matter which\nmay require investigation. These two or\nthree officers can do all the work required. Board meetings do more harm\nthan good. The board should be content\nwith announcing the yearly dividend\nwhich the auditor recommends. The\ntake my milk as it is or I will not have\nanything to do with this cooperative business.\" He has either bad cows and gets\nbad milk, and knows it, or is fond of the\npump. Cooperative creameries must insist upon clean stables and properly fed\ncows and good milk, under all circumstances. Well conducted cooperative\ncreameries can and must be the best\nfactor in the production of healthy milk.\nPresent conditions in British Columbia are very far from being satisfactory.\nWe all know, more or less, the quality of\nmilk for sale in the towns. We know\nthe report of the sanitary inspectors, and\nwe see with regret few, very few milk\nestablishments which are reported as\nsanitary. Ninety-eight per cent, of the\nfarmers could not join a creamery at all\nat present, or would be fined out of the\nconcern if the rules were enforced by a\nA SCENE IN THE \"DRY BELT,\" NEAR ASHCROFT\n.nd make up their minds to start acontract made by the farmers with the conscientious creamery manager. The\nreamery under the rules laid down by\nhe Government. They get the loan\nifter having found the necessary cows\nind cash, the latter very often with difficulty, half of the farmers repenting their\npromises on the way home, and think-\nng of ways to avoid the obligation. But\n:hey start, elect half a dozen directors, a\nDoard of control, or whatever it may be\ncalled, nominate one of them as secretary, appoint a manager, and the game\noegins. The most necessary part has\nbeen forgotten, namely, an effective sales\norganization. Instead of considering\nfthe sales, which must be made at the city\n[end, the farmers believe the butter and\nEcheese making alone is important.\nIf they have six directors, they have\n[exactly six directors too many. They are\n[not needed. There should not be more\nI than one, or at most two meetings in the\nassociation must be binding, not for a first aim of the Government, therefore,\nfew months, but for a number of years, must be to insist upon a fairly uniform\nnot only for quantity, but also for qual- sanitary condition in the cow barns, in\nity. There must be a penalty clause at- the handling of the cows, vessels, etc.\ntached to every part, and this must be The remainder can be well left to the\nenforced against all. manager. Example and competition will\nAn influential member may deliver do the rest. If bad milk or watered milk\nmilk which is sour. The manager becomes unsaleable the cooperative\ngrumbles and declares that he cannot creamery will have a sound basis; if the\nmake good butter out of it. But it often manager can strictly enforce the rules,\nhappens that he must take it, knowing without fear from the board, it should\nthat if he refuses it he will get the sack succeed. I?he forcing of the bad farmers\nnext week. The good farmer with a\nclean stable, clean milk vessels and properly fed cows, has no advantage, at\npresent, over the farmer who delivers\ndirty milk, and his products do not improve the bad quality his neighbor\ndelivers.\nI know farmers who object to the milk\ntest. \"No milk test for me. You must\nout of business will be a benefit to the\ncountry.\nWhat has been said here about creameries is true of other cooperative concerns, whether these be canneries, fruit\ngrowers' associations, or sugar works.\nIf a fruit cannery is regarded as the\ndumping ground for the worst kinds of\nfruits, good for pig-feeding only, no can- Page 16\nOPPORTUNITIES\n911\nnery or jam factory can be successful.\nThe manager must have the power and\nwill to reject anything that is unfit and\nmake such reduction as the quality demands. In other words, a cooperative\nbusiness must be run on exactly the same\nlines as any other business, on business\nlines pure and simple.\nIt is always necessary that the manager be an effective business man, and at\nthe same time have the expert knowledge\nthe particular work requires. Because\n\"Fred\" has worked the separator and has\nturned the butter churn, and has had\ncharge of six cows, \"Fred\" is not always\nable to handle the milk of 1,500 cows.\nInstead making \"Fred\" the manager, and\ndischarging him in a month, a search\nmust be made for a man whose former\nexperience and whose character warrant\nfrom the government is required to make\nfarmers move for their own benefit and\nfor the benefit of the whole country. The\nrecent resolutions of the Board of Trade\nin Vancouver touch the same question,\nonly in a different way.\nThe production in the United States in\npoultry and eggs alone, is $50,000,000\nlarger than the total production of all\nthe agricultural products of Canada together. The import of poultry and eggs\ninto British Columbia amounts to $5,000,-\n000 a year, and of butter and other farm\nproducts, to $8,000,000. If we take away\nwhat the diligent Chinaman produces in\nvegetables, there remains very, very\nlittle.\nAccording to Mr. Bowser, 108,000\nacres are at present in fruit, but most\nlikely only a part of this is at present\ncities may be good enough, but I am\nsure that the schools in the country are\nnot at all what they must be, if we want\nto raise a generation of farmers with\nbusiness abilities.\nI do not pretend to be an expert in\n\"re scholastica,\" but I see in my mind a\nschool house, a teacher, and a system of\nteaching which will bring benefit to the\ncountry, which will benefit present and\nfuture generations, and create prosperous and satisfied farmers.\nI see a school house having no less\nthan six rooms, comfortably fitted for a\nfamily. It is the living house of the\nteacher, with a roomy annex of two\nrooms for the school proper. I see this\nroom cleanly painted, with pictures on\nthe walls, and a collection of specimens\nof natural history, collected by the\nA FARMER'S HOME IN THE SIMILKAMEEN\na long contract with him. If these things\nare not attended to, the board starts\nquarrelling, and the cooperative concern\nsoon drops to pieces.\nAs I said at the beginning, the selling\nend of the business must not be forgotten. The manager should look after this\nbefore he starts with the buildings. The\nbest thing for a number of cooperative\ncompanies, embracing a district, or even\nperhaps, the whole Province, is to combine for a large selling organization.\nThe Government must step in, find a\ngood organizer, draw up rules and engage a manager. It may be said that the\ngovernment interference might go too\nfar, but without it the thing will never\nget on its feet, I am afraid. If I am informed rightly, the New Zealand Government even runs retail meat shops in\nEngland, and history has shown all over\nthe world that some degree of pressure\nbearing, and Mr. Bowser considered it a\nmarvellous result that the total production in fruit, in British Columbia, is valued at $2,000,000. Analysing these figures\nmeans a gross production of less than\n$20 per acre, and this is nothing to boast\nof.\nThe Upper Fraser Valley alone could\nproduce $20,000,000 worth of sugar per\nannum, and the by product of this industry, namely pulp and molasses, converted\ninto milk, eggs, butter, etc., would present a larger value than the present imports. But, for the present, we can only\ndo patch-work. We must, as I said before, start at the root and alter our\nschool system in the country\nWe pay carpenters or bricklayers $4.00\nto $6.00 per day. We pay the firemen\nand policemen 50% more tnan the\nteacher, to whom we entrust or tuture\ngeneration. The schools in the large\nteacher and pupils, nicely and carefully\nmounted. I see this house set in a ground\nof two acres, and I notice the best\nkept garden in the village and specimens\nof plants otherwise not to be seen. I\nsee a model cow-shed and two well-fed\ncows, and further away, a small pigsty, and a model poultry yard, and I see\nin the garden carefully kept patches of\nall kinds of vegetables, and one acre\ndevoted to growing feed for the cattle\nand hogs. And I see the teacher, a married man with a helpful wife and healthy\nchildren, and he explains to me that the\nhouse, garden, cow-shed and all are provided by the school trustees. He is engaged for life, and although his salary\nis small, he has an income from the\ngarden from which he manages to save\nsome money and increase the private\nlibrary of which he is so fond, and which\nenables him to give grood advice to the 1911\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 17\nfarmers. He tells me that he gets a\nsmall increase in salary every three years\nand that the trustees provide an accident\nand pension insurance for him. He shows\nme his cow-shed, carefully kept records\nof the milk production and the food used.\nHe explains to me that he studies the\nexperimental farm reports and gives\nlectures to the farmers from time to time,\nand that he impresses on them the necessity of keeping records of everything\nbought and sold on the farm.\nHe is especially fond of his poultry\nyard. The Government has seen the\nneed of better poultry all around and\nhas given him a special bonus to introduce a new mode of raising a special\nstrain of poultry. He is obliged to give\neggs for hatching to the farmers, at a\nnominal price for a number of years.\nHe conducts me to his garden, and the\nfirst thing I notice is a rain-measure, and\na recording barometer and thermometer.\nHe informs me that the teachers in the\ncountry districts are obliged to make.\nregular telephonic reports to Victoria\nabout the weather conditions, which form\nthe basis for the meteorological forecast\nprepared for the Province and are posted\nin the post offices. I notice also that all\nplants are carefully marked and notes\nare made.about the time of planting, the\nfertilizer used, etc., and I see what a\nsplendid opportunity the Government\nhas to keep the farmers informed about\nall matters referring to agriculture at\nsmall expense, at less expense, in fact,\nthan is devoted to prizes for agricultural\nexhibitions.\nI am surprised when I go with the\nteacher to his class. The older boys and\ngirls are working out an example of cost\non milk returns, simple, but very instructive, and the teacher points out a\ngirl of fourteen who is keeping the milk\nreports for her father, and tells me that\nsince the time the girl began to keep\nthese reports the father has made much\nbetter progress. The whole course in\narithmetic is laid out with a view to\nmake the boys and girls fit for the work\nthey have to do in the future, and the\nreading is directed to the same end. This\nmatter is very ingeniously arranged, in\norder to make the boys and girls acquainted with the things connected with\ntheir future life as farmers.\nI see this all in my mind, and I hope\nthat other people will also see the necessity for proper schools in the farming\ndistricts. Universities, technical schools\nand agricultural colleges are useful and\nabsolutely necessary, but Canada is a\nfarming country. We want to keep our\nfarmers on the land and we want to\nmake them efficient. To make them efficient, schools in the country must be\nimproved. To achieve this, we need\ntraining schools for the teachers and a\ndifferent organization. If we have this\nwe can create properly educated farmers\nwho will become effective members of\ncooperative associations, and contribute\ngreatly to the stability of prosperity.\nWhat British Columbia Needs Most\nThe Province Must Have More Producers to Provide for\nConsumption Already Great, and Growing Rapidly\nBy Henry A. Stone\nFormer President of the Vancouver Board of Trade\nTHE tilling of the soil for future\nneeds was the first problem\nwith which man had to deal;\nwise provision for the protection and encouragement of agriculture\nhas been the foundation of the policy of\nthe greatest known statesmen. Neglect\nof the soil has resulted in the downfall of\nempires; and agriculture is no less today than ever the corner stone of wealth,\npower and . solid prosperity. It is the\nnecessary partner, of industrial development and the greatest safety valve in\ntimes of depression.\nEgypt's decay has been stayed, her\nyears of famine turned into those of\nplenty, by irrigating the soil. Of the\nEuropean nations, France is the most\nwealthy, not through her excellent manufactories or her resources, but because\nevery square yard of her soil is made to\nyield its most, and because of the immense savings of her thrifty farmers.\nRussia's unlimited agricultural resources\nforeshadow her becoming the most influential power of the Old World.\nAnd what has agriculture done for the\nNew World? The grain of the United\nStates has been the only coin with which\nthe capitalists there have been able to\npay interest on the enormous Enerlish\ninvestments in railways and industries,\nand Canada is paying in like manner\nto-day.\nEvery wide awake state and country is\nrealizing the importance of this question,\nand is leaving no stone unturned or opportunity passed over to secure settlers.\nAustralia is receiving from England\nthousands of immigrants, who, with\ngovernment assistance, are carried twelve\nthousand miles for between fifteen and\ntwenty dollars, and the securing of homesteads is made easy for them. New Zealand is pressing the advantages of her\nclimate; Japan is teaching her subjects,\nnew and old, to make the land give up its\nlimit of production.\nThe settling of the great North-West\nhas revealed a granary of imperial capacity, a stream of production that is\nfast becoming a river of such enormous\ninfluence as to be the controlling pivot\naround which the broader questions of\ngovernment and destiny of the world's\ngreatest empire must centre.\nThe revelation of prairie production\nhas brought the hardened farmer from\nDakota to secure the sweeter fruits of\nlabor obtainable in Alberta, and has\nawakened too late the diplomats of Uncle\nSam to seek closer trade relations with\nso prosperous a neighbor.\nAnd how about British Columbia,\nwhere nature has provided a magnificent\nwestern doorway to receive the products\nof the ports of Europe and the Pacific\nocean, 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\nlower mainland, and we may well ask\nourselves,\u2014Are we providing for the\nfuture need of British Columbia in agriculture? Are we even making any reasonable effort to provide for the present?\nFigures are dry reading, but a few may\nbe to the point: The production of British Columbia for 1909 was $82,500,000.\nThis includes mining, lumber, fishing,\nand agriculture, the latter representing\none-tenth of the whole. Our imports\nof agricultural products, which two years\nago were $8,000,000, are now in the neighborhood of $16,000,000.\nBetween 1904 and 1909 our exports increased only 45%, while our imports\ndoubled and are rapidly increasing. Mining, our largest producing asset, has only\nincreased 50% since 1903, and it is evident that our natural products cannot\nincrease as rapidly as our imports are\nincreasing. We know to our cost that\nliving is high; and that with thousands Page 18\nOPPORTUNITIES\n1911\nof acres of the finest kind of hay as well\nas other agricultural lands at our doors\nin the Fraser Valley waiting development, that a trainload of hay was\nactually received at recent date from the\nProvince of Quebec.\nFor the $16,000,000 worth of farm produce we import, we are are paying good\ngold, every dollar of which is lost to this\nProvince, though it is sorely needed for\nre-investment and development.\nWe must remember the great difficulties of attaining the desired object of\ngetting settlers on the agricultural lands\nof this Province, but so absolutely necessary is it to British Columbia as to demand the greatest possible efforts to that\nend.\nThere is but little suitable land near\npresent communication that is not held\nat prices that drive away settlers without\nconsiderable capital, and the easy to purchase and easy to plow lands of the\nprairie are ever before the settler.\nBy survey and enquiry the Government has ascertained that we have 81,-\n000,000 acres of agricultural lands\nthroughout the Province. One-tenth is\npossibly wheat lands, and if one hundredth part of these were well settled\nand cultivated, that $16,000,000 might\nstay annually within our Province.\nA large part of these lands is not\nreasonably accessible to any market, and\nfor this reason the Government cannot\nand does not encourage settlers to locate\non them, requiring as they do, pack\nhorses to reach, and rafts when rivers\nhave to be crossed. There are difficult\nproblems of clearing and draining, or\nirrigating and building lines of communication. The Provincial Government's\npolicy is to build roads and survey lands\nin the vicinity of coming railroads. It\nhas already, and wisely, reserved large\nSEPHA >'\nA SCENE NEAR BASQUE, WHERE IRRIGATION BRINGS GREAT FERTILITY\ntracts of lands in various parts for\ngenuine settlers alone. It gives financial\nassistance to dairying, encourages fruit\ngrowing, supports farming institutions.\nIt will, I feel sure, assist any sound agricultural proposition. But do not present\ncircumstances demand some more practical and definite policy of securing settlers at once, on the most accessible of\nthe agricultural lands available? Settlers,\nit should be remembered, are knocking\nat our doors by thousands. Could not a\nscheme of assisting settlement be inaugurated, with the brains and knowledge\nand money at the disposal of the Government? Why not create a department\nwith this great object? Why not select\na few localities, place a government\nagent in each, assist to clear or drain or\nirrigate; subsidise a steamboat service or\neven a railway, for securing communication? Why not get busy and have a few\nspots to which settlers could be directed,\nand where they could be encouraged to\nsettle?\nSuch a policy, no matter how expensive, would, I feel, have the endorsa-\ntion of every well wisher of this Province. A generous policy on these lines\nwould be warmly welcomed. We must\nnever forget that in times of depression\nwe shall not always have the rapid increase of land values to pay our imports\nwith, and that the farming industry is\nthe least affected and becomes the prop\nof other industries. In times of prosperity it is judicious to spend the money\nrealized from the sales of desirable lands\nfor the development of those less\naccessible.\nCOAL\nA Great and Enduring Asset which will be a Vital Factor in the\nDevelopment of Big Industries in British Columbia\n(Natural Resources Series, No. 3)\nHNE of the greatest and most\nsubstantial of British Columbia's natural assets is coal.\nWidely distributed in the Province are coal deposits which give every\nindication of being extensive enough to\nsupply fuel in great quantities for many\ncenturies to come. A large proportion\nof these coal fields have yet been mined\nbut slightly or not at all. There is no\ndoubt that the production of coal in\nBritish Columbia will become larger and\nlarger as the years pass, and will con\ntinuously augment the wealth of the\nProvince.\nThere has already been, for a number\nof years, an annual increase in the mining and marketing of British Columbia\ncoal. This increase has been fairly regular, amounting to a yearly increment of\nbetween fifty thousand and sixty thousand tons, with an increase in the annual\noutput of coke of from thirty-five tons\nten years ago to 258,703 tons in 1909.\nThe marked expansion of the coke industry has been due to the development\nof ore smelting within the Province. As\nan indication of the development of coal\nmining, the production in 1909 was\ngreater than in any previous year, and,\nthough the official statistics for 1910\nhave not, of course, yet been announced,\nit is believed that the production this\nyear will materially exceed that of 1909.\nThe total value of all the coal produced and used as coal in the Province\nin 1909 was $7,022,666, representing 2,-\n400,600 tons of coal. Of these 394,124\ntons were consumed in making coke,\nwhich had a value of $1,522,218, making\nthe total value of the products of the 191\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 19\ncollieries $8,574,884. This was an increase over 1908 of $1,218,018, or a little\nover 16%.\n^Vancouver Island has made so far\nthe largest coal production in ny one\nsection. The Island's output in 1909 was\n1,414,525 tons. East Kootenay came\nnext with 923,865 tons, and Nicola, in\nthe south central part of the Province,\nwas third with 62,210 tons.\nThe coal areas of Vancouver Island\nare well distributed, extending in general\nfrom Saanich to Seymour Narrows,\nalong the east coast; from Fort McNeil\nto Fort Rupert, and reaching to Coal\nHarbor on Quitsino Sound. There are\nalso valuable coal deposits in the Alberni\nand San Juan Districts. A new chapter\nin the history of the coal fields on Van-\nLadysmith__and Union Bay will be remodelled and, in general, a most progressive campaign inaugurated, involving the\nemployment of thousands of men for the\ncomplete development of the great holdings of the new company known as the\nCanadian Collieries. These holdings\nembrace the coal beneath the land grants\nof the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway,\nconsisting of tracts of 1,900,000 acres on\nthe east coast of the Island, with a width\nof from fifteen to thirty miles, and extending from Saanich to Campbell River,\na distance of one hundred and sixty\nmiles. In addition to this proved coal\narea, there are croppings in various districts which are traceable for miles and\nindicate rich deposits beneath. The\nareas which have thus far contributed\nshow expansion and will yield increasing wealth.\nEast Kootenay was not far behind\nVancouver Island in its coal production\nin 1909, and the output here is increasing\nin greater ratio than anywhere else in\nthe Province. While only about forty\nper cent, of the total coal sold by the\nBritish Columbia collieries in 1909 was\nexported to the United States, the East\nKootenay collieries exported across the\nborder about 72 per cent, of their coal\noutput. Crow's Nest Pass, located\nin the extreme south-east, is the principal coal producing center of the East\nKootenay section. The Similkameen\nValley also has a substantial coal production, with the center of the industry\nlocated at Princeton. The Flathead sec-\nMp?\nHwW\nI9D8.-\nrife\n\u00bbn@\na*.-*\n\u25a0acsy\u00bb--iia3g\niWfrS\nsfe\n,C.': Bore*ri' of'-MM***\ni.O*A.\ncouver Island was begun last year when\nMessrs. Mackenzie & Mann purchased\nfrom the Dunsmuir Company their extensive holdings and collieries for\n$11,000,000.\nIn connection with this purchase it\nhas been announced that about $3,000,-\n000 will be spent in opening and equip-\ning new coal mines and increasing the\noutputs of the present collieries by the\nadoption of the most modern methods\nand machinery in coal mining. One of\nthe features of the new plan will be the\nutilization of a 50,000 horse power waterfall in the Comox District, situated on\nthe east coast of the Island, for the generation of electricity which will be so\ndistributed that it will operate two lines\nof railway, various machine shops and\nthe coal mines. The shipping docks at\nENTRANCE TO TUNNELL, HOSMER COLLIERIES\nmost to the total production are the\n\u2022Extension and the Comox fields. The\nfirst is situated inland on tide water\nabout ten miles from Ladysmith, which\ntown is located on the east coast of the\nIsland, south-west of Vancouver. The\nComox field is about seventy-five miles\ninland from the shipping port of Union\nBay. These mines are connected by\nstandard gauge railways with the shipping ports. The collieries at Extension\nhave a daily output of fifteen hundred\ntons, and have employed one thousand\nmen, with a monthly payroll of $70,000.\nThese big operations, however, will become small in comparison with the\nwhole industry as it will develop on Vancouver Island within the next few years.\nIt is quite safe to say that for many years\ncoal mining on Vancouver Island will\ntion, near the international boundary, has\ncoal croppings, and is being actively\nprospected.\nThe third important coal producing section is the Nicola Valley. Here is a\nlarge coal basin which has received as\nyet but little attention except in the\nstratas on or near the surface by the\ncompanies which are now operating in\nthis field. The years immediately ahead\nof us will undoubtedly see a great increase in coal production in the valley,\nand the towns of Merritt, Coutlee, and\nothers will become centers in the coal\nmining industry.\nThese three sections, Vancouver\nIsland, East Kootenay and the Nicola\nValley, are the only ones in which coal\nmining has been carried on to any important extent, but there are other coal Page 20\nOPPORTUNITIES\n19\nareas which are even larger and give\nevery indication of eventually swelling\nin great degree the coal production of\nthe Province.\nThe Rocky Mountain coal fields lying\non either side of the main ridge of the\nRocky Mountains in British Columbia\nand Alberta, have been said by authorities to be the most extensive coal areas\nin Canada. About eighty per cent, of the\ncoal here is believed to be on the British\nColumbia side. Very few people recognize the remarkable extent of these fields,\nor the enormous influence that they will\nhave on the future of the country. As\nis well known, the coal fields of Pennsylvania have made that State the greatest\nmanufacturing section of the Union. The\nhistory of Pennsylvania will probably\nbe duplicated in south-eastern British\nColumbia because of its wealth in coal.\nThis section is beginning to develop\nrapidly, and promises to become, at no\ndistant date, the Pennsylvania of the\nPacific Slope. The northern area of\nthe Rocky Mountain coal fields begins\nabout twenty-four miles north of Michael\nCreek and extends northward to the\nhead waters of the Elk River, a distance\nof about forty miles. The maximum\nwidth of the area is about seven miles.\nIt embraces altogether about one hundred and forty square miles, and contains, according to the estimate of D. B.\nDowling of the Geological Survey of\nCanada, about fourteen billion tons of\nhigh 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\ntransportation facilities. The Canadian\nPacific Railway and the Great Northern\nRailway both have lines constructed as\nfar up the Elk River as Michael Prairie\nat the mouth of Michael Creek. From\nhere a line has been surveyed as far north\nas Aldridge Creek, a distance of forty-\neight miles. This road will have so\nslight a grade that its construction will\nbe comparatively easy and inexpensive.\nShort spurs will be built from it to various points to open up the coal, all of\nwhich lies to the east of the Elk River\nValley. The southern portion of the\nElk River coalfield has a length, north\nand south, of about thirty miles, and a\nmaximum width of twelve or thirteen\nmiles. Its estimated area is two hundred\nand thirty miles, and its largest shipping\npoint is the town of Fernie.\nThe Crow's Nest coalfield is undoubtedly on the same general zone as the\nupper Elk River field, but, through geological action, has been separated from\nit by about twenty-four miles of country\nwhich is now barren of coal. The\nnorthern field, while fairly well surveyed\nand mapped, has as yet only been prospected. Its great importance in production lies in the future.\nAnother section of British Columbia\nwhich has much potentiality in coal production is the Peace River country, lying\nabout five hundred miles to the north of\nthe location already mentioned. This\npart of British Columbia has been but\nlittle explored as yet, but, according to\na government agent who has penetrated\nand studied the region, it has a great\nasset in coal. The zone is reported to\nextend southward from the Peace River\nbetween the 122nd and 123rd degrees of\nlongitude, and to have a length sufficient\nto give it promise of becoming eventually as large a contributor to the coal\nproduction of British Columbia as the\nCrow's Nest fields. At about the same\nhigh latitude, but between two and three\nhundred miles farther west, are good\ncoal prospects along the Upper Skeena\nand Naas rivers.\nStill another section which gives great\npromise of wealth in coal is Graham\nIsland, at the northern end of the Queen\nCharlotte group. The isolation of Graham Island kept it more or less obscure\nuntil the town of Prince Rupert was\nfounded as the western terminus of the\nGrand Trunk Pacific Railway. This industrial development has made the\nislands easily accessible, and has brought\nthe coal deposits on Graham Island conspicuously to the attention of the public.\nLarge areas of coal exist both at Robertson's and Wilson's camps, and give\nindications of an extent which will make\nthem one of the largest producing tracts\nof unbroken coal lands on the Pacific\nCoast. They lie less than one hundred\nmiles from Prince Rupert, and will be\nprovided with excellent shipping facilities to the various important coal markets of the world. British Columbia\ncapitalists have already acquired much\nof this coal area and are starting an\nactive campaign of development and production.\nBritish Columbia's coal deposits, located approximately at her four corners,\nas one may see by consulting a map, are\ndestined to play a great part in the industrial development of the Province.\nSuccess on a Fraser Valley Fruit Ranch\nBy D. H. Nelson\nT was two years ago last March\nthat I started in to cut the first\ntimber on my place near\nAbbottsford. I now have fifteen acres under cultivation and about\nten acres under pasture. I have 550 fruit\ntrees planted. Last spring I started a\nnursery and grafted 8,400 one-year-old\nseedling stocks; the varieties being the\nNorthern Spy, Jonathan, and Golden\napples for a late fruit, and the Graven-\nstein and King of Tompkins for fall\napples. I was very careful about my\nscions for grafting, sending for them to\none of the most reliable fruit growers in\nthe Province. The young nursery has\ndone very well. I intend in 1911 to graft\n10,000 French crab-apple stocks for\nwhich I have sent direct to France, because the French crab-apple seed makes,\nI have learned, a better and hardier root\nfor grafting than the native stock. Next\nspring I expect to plant about 200 more\napple trees, the varieties being the Northern Spy, Jonathan and the Grimes\nGolden. These three varieties are my\nchoice for winter apples. For fall apples\nmy experience has been that the Graven-\nstein, Wealthy, and King are preferable.\nA fruit grower who goes into the market\nwith these six varieties is bound to sell\nthem at good prices.\nOn a ten-acre plot I would plant\ntwenty each of Gravensteins, Wealthy,\nKing, Northern Spy and Grimes Golden\nfor fall and winter apples. For summer\napples I would plant two Yellow Trans-\nparents and six Duchess of Oldenberg.\nAs to fruit trees other than apple, I\nwould plant in plums, one Bradshaw, one\nYellow Egg, one Italian Prune; in cherries, six Bing and two Royal Ann; in\nearly pears, two Bartletts; in October\npears six Sheld'ons. This last variety\nhas always done well for me and has\nalways found a ready market at good\nprices.\nI give my permanent trees, such as the\nNorthern Spy, a space thirty feet wide\nand thirty-five feet in the rows, and set\nthe other varieties in the rows seventeen\nand a half feet between the Spys. This\ngives me thirty feet of clear space for\nraising strawberries and other small\nfruits. I prefer the square method in\nplanting trees. The young trees should\nhave a clean cultivation. A man starting\nin on a new place cannot always give\nthem this, in which case he should cultivate a space about three feet around each 1911\ntree, digging a good foot deep in the\nearly part of February and keeping the\nsurface hoed during the spring and summer until about the last of July. A good\nmuck of red clover is excellent for young\ntrees where you have not much farm\nmanure. This should be plowed under\nin September and harrowed well down so\nthat it will rot for the coming spring.\nYou can plant lo advantage about seventy trees to the acre, and, for the first\nOPPORTUNITIES\nthousand dollars a year. It is necessary\nto say, though, that you cannot count\nmuch on financial returns from your fruit\ntrees until they are six or seven years old,\nand in the case of Northern Spys, until\nthey are eight or nine years old. But\nin the meantime a good living can be obtained from other fruits and from vegetables, if your ranch is located within\nfairly easy reach of the large markets, in\nwhich the supply for fruit and vegetables\nthree or four years, can grow strawberries between the rows. These should\nbe kept back from the trees about six\nfeet on each side so that you will have\nplenty of room to drive your sled along\nfor spraying the trees and keeping them\nclean.\nA man is foolish who thinks that after\nhe has planted his trees they will look\nafter themselves. This is a mistake that\ncauses some growers to become discouraged. They get this feeling not because\ngood profits cannot be made in fruit\ngrowing here, but because the prospect\nof a lot of work discourages them.\nTake the item of strawberries alone.\nAn acre in strawberries in a good year\nwill yield, clear of expenses, $400, and\nthis is a low estimate. Moreover, you\ncan raise potatoes and other vegetables\nbetween your trees. The total profit\na man can derive from a ten or fifteen-\nacre fruit farm depends very largely\nupon the man, but after the farm is well\nstarted this profit ought to be several\nA FLOURISHING PEAR TREE\nat good prices is not often equal to the\ndemand.\nAs to the cost of starting as a fruit\ngrower, you must first take the price of\nyour land into consideration. Good acreage around Abbottsford, which is representative of the best sections of the\nFraser Valley, is held at from $250 to\n$300 an acre uncleared. In addition to\nthis you must figure on from $100 to\n$150 an acre for clearing and preparing\nthe land for planting. A man ought to\nhave between $5,000 and $6,000 to make\na good start on ten acres. He can buy\non time, paying $1,000 down and the balance over a term of, say three years.\nAfter he has made this payment he must\nhave enough money left to build a home\nto live in, and a barn and chicken houses.\nHe must be able to buy a good horse,\na plough, cultivator, a light wagon and\nharness, and tools. He can clear two\nor three acres a year as he gets time. 1\nwould say to leave the stumps for three\nor four years because, although they\nPROFITABLE VEGETABLE\nGROWING\nOnions, carrots, potatoes, beets, celery\nand cabbage are the principal roots and\nvegetables grown for shipment, and the\nmen growing them are making money\nout of them. Large returns can be made\nat vegetable farming, if the person farming understands his business and gives\nhis attention to the work. This peat\nland, which was at one time supposed to\nbe good for very little, is the very best\nto be found for gardening, and the yields\nfrom it are enormous. This year, which\nwas one of the driest seasons that Chilliwack has experienced for some time, a\nyield of 12 tons of cabbage has been had\nfrom the land. This product, when sold\nby the carload lot, nets the farmer $22\nand $23 per ton; for smaller shipments\n$25 a ton is made. Another product of\nthe garden that yields big returns is\ncelery. This truck yielded easily five\ntons to the acre and an average price\nfor it is $80 a ton. Page 22\nOPPORTUNITIES\n191\nf\nV\nOn Eluding Responsibility\nA Suggestion for the New Year, from \" Opinions1 of Mary\"\n========== By Alice Ashworth Townley =\n^\nJ\nF you want to have what you\ndo for people really appreciated, don't do too much. I've\nbeen thinking this thing out\nand gathering data, and talking to Mary\non the subject, and have reluctantly accepted the obtrusive conclusion that the\npeople who are most self-sacrificing and\nunselfish receive far less praise and\ngratitude than those who rarely indulge\nin the pleasure of doing anything for\ntheir neighbors. From those who are\nalways considerate we are apt to take\nkindness and attention as a right, while,\nreceived from people from whom it is\nnot expected, we are quite overcome.\nIn nearly every family you find some\nmember of whom nothing is expected.\nIt may be a careless and inattentive son,\nupon whom his mother thankfully waits.\nHe must not be expected to take his\nsisters anywhere, because a young man\nhates to be trammelled. No one dreams\nof his staying at home to help entertain\nheavy guests, or taking his mother home\nfrom church, or doing anything in a\nsocial way that does not commend itself\nto him as being pleasant and agreeable.\nHis linen must be immaculate, his possessions unborrowed by the rest of the\nfamily, and domestic arrangements made\nto fit in as nearly as may be with his\nideas on the subject. No one expects\nhim to light the furnace, or bring up coal,\nor clean away the snow. I don't say he\nrefuses to do it\u2014but no one seems to\nthink it possible he might be called upon.\nThen some day, if he takes his mother\nout for a drive or asks his sister to go\nto the theatre (when his best girl has\ndisappointed him, and he has tickets),\nthey nearly weep with delight and gratitude, and say to one another, \"Such a\ngood fellow after all! So kind and\nthoughtful!\"\nAs a rule the family are all very fond\nand proud of this representative, and\ngrateful to be allowed to contribute to\nhis happiness.\nOr it may be a pretty daughter who is\nabsolved by mutual consent from all\nexertion on behalf of others. She may\nnot have been very strong in her childhood; she may be incompetent, or she\nmay be the beauty. She is not fond of\ncooking, and does not care for plain\nsewing. Fresh air is good for her. So\nher mother and sisters make her clothes\nand help her dress her hair, and let her\nsleep late in the mornings and accept\nevery invitation that comes her way; and\nthink not to suggest that she should\nwash the dishes or stay at home and get\nthe dinner on Sunday morning. No one\nexpects her to accept any responsibility\nor let the rest of the family play her\npieces of music or borrow her bracelets.\nShe does not always need to be cranky\nabout it\u2014they somehow don't seem to\npresume upon her good nature. There\nappears to be an understanding that she\nis not to sit up at night if anyone is\nsick, or to have to read to her grandmother, or do without a new hat\u2014no\none expects it of her. If she makes an\neatable cake or trims a bonnet for her\nmother, the whole family are lost in\nadmiration of her cleverness (though\nany one of her sisters does much more\nwithout notice). It is \"See this lovely\ncake, father; Maude made it! Isn't she\ngetting to be a fine cook?\" \"Thank you,\nmy dear, for trimming my bonnet so\nbeautifully; they couldn't have done it\nbetter at Murray's!\" If she gives her\nlittle sister a ribbon she doesn't need,\nthe child is as pleased as Punch\u2014and\nshould she offer to read to her grandmother, the old lady is as grateful as if\nshe had no right to expect such an attention every day of her life.\nSo it seems to me that if you accustom\nsurrounding people to the idea that you\nmust be considered by them, and that\nthey need not depend upon you in return, you get more praise and glory when\nyou do exert yourself for their benefit\nthan if you were always at it. If you are\nknown to be amiable and unselfish, people take it as a matter of course that\nyou should put yourself aside. They take\nit for granted that you do work and unpleasant things because\u2014in some mysterious way\u2014they come easy to you or you\nlike it; and if you should desire a little\npleasure yourself or give up relieving\nthem of their duties, they possibly let you\nknow what they think of such an unreasonable and utterly selfish creature.\nIf you want appreciation, be advised,\nand don't make your good office too\nmuch of a certainty.\nI was in a house the other day where\na fond mother who was dressing her\nchild displayed to me an ugly and badly-\nmade little pinafore. \"This,\" she told\nme, as she put it on, \"was made by.\nAunty May; wasn't it good of her? She\nso seldom does anything of that kind\nthat I feel quite complimented; it's\nawfully good of her!\" Nearly every\nother garment on the child\u2014and dozens\nmore like them\u2014had been fashioned by\nanother relative who was sitting by, but\nnothing was said of them. Aunt Jessie'\nwas \"fond of sewing,\" and \"always did\nthings\" for one, so why make any remark about it?\nThere are so many ways of eluding\nwork or responsibility, and nearly always somebody will turn up to assume\nthe burden if you don't. You can do\nthe \"standing from under\" act quite\ngracefully, and in such a way that very\nfew will recognize it. It is not in the\nleast necessary to make a fuss or be unpleasant over it\u2014there are many admirable plans in daily use. One good way,\nin the family circle anyhow, is to be\n\"perfectly willing\" but rather stupid and\nfind difficulty in understanding the mechanism and working of quite ordinary\nthings\u2014how pipes are put up, and clocks\nwound, and doors fastened, and the\nlawn-mower oiled, and the furnace regulated. If you are very stupid about\nlearning (you can stop the clock a couple\nof times, put the fire out by opening\nwrong dampers, and let them find the\nback door unlocked a few mornings),\nand cause enough difficulty and annoyance, they will give up trying to teach\nyou and do it themselves.\nThen, be forgetful. With the best intentions in the world, suffer from lapse\nof memory. If you are young, and your\nmother bids you mind the baby, \"and\nbe sure not to let him get into mischief\nor dirty himself,\" become interested in\nsomething else and allow him to play\nin all the puddles and wander out into\nthe roadway and get knocked down\n(you can see that he does not absolutely\nget killed). Let him pull up all the\nflowers in the garden and give his new\nhat to the puppy to tear to pieces. You\ncan be awfully sorry\u2014but you \"forgot!\"\nThe same with messages. Play on the\nroad, or lose the money, or bring home\nthe wrong thing. You may get a few\nwhippings, but if you persevere they will\nstop bothering you, and some of your\nmore dependable brothers or sisters will\nbe pressed into service.\nA poor memory is a fine thing for a\nmarried man, too. If he persistently\nneglects to order things, buys ridiculous\narticles she doesn't want\u2014pretending he\nthought that was what she told him\u2014 1911\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 23\ninvariably loses all the samples she gives\nhim, and mislays every parcel entrusted\nto his charge, his wife will cease to depend upon him and attend to things herself. I know it's hard to consciously\ngo home to a hurriedly procured beefsteak because you must swear you forgot the lamb and green peas she told you\nto order\u2014but, like the whippings, it's\nworth it, securing, as it does later, your\nemancipation from domestic care. As\na rule if you do everything badly enough,\nand always make a point of forgetting\nwhat you were told, or getting the directions hopelessly mixed, you may with\nimpunity politely offer your services\nwithout the dread of having your assistance accepted. This makes it very comfortable for you, shows a pleasing spirit\nof willingness on your part, and yet pre\nvents your being imposed upon. The\nimpression is given that if you only knew\nhow to help you would labor vastly, but\nsomehow you confess you are not much\ngood at that sort of thing. It's a splendid idea to find most things very difficult\nto learn. If you give enough trouble and\ndestroy a good deal of material\u2014always\nperfectly willing, but a little awkward\u2014\npeople will give up trying to teach you\nand do it themselves as the least evil.\nDiscreetly doled out praise, especially\nif you are not commonly very lavish of\nthat commodity, is an excellent means to\ninduce others to relieve you of disagreeable tasks\u2014particularly if the person you\nwish to work upon be rather young and\nimpressionable. There are always some\nridiculously willing creatures in the\nworld ready and glad to wear their\nfingers to the bone for a word of commendation or appreciation. Praise them.\nThey might as well be working for you\nas for anyone else. Thank them sweetly.\nTell them you really don't know what\nyou should have done without their help.\nBe amazed at their dexterity and apparent ease of accomplishment. As likely\nas not they will generously volunteer to\ndo the whole thing for you, and feel\nquite repaid by your thanks and approbation. And these incomprehensible\npeople rarely find out that they are being\nimposed upon; one who understands how\nto manage it can get an immense amount\nof exertion out of them.\nOh, there are many ways of shirking\nyour fair share!\u2014if you care to go in for\ndoing that sort of thing.\nFostering British Columbia Art\nBy Mary Daniell\nOTHING, perhaps, marks the\nreal progress of a great city\nas much as the interest taken\ngenerally in art matters. The\nstudy of the fine arts has ever been the\nhall-mark of education and refinement.\nIt is equally an indication of 'set-fair\" in\nthe municipal barometer.\nEqually in the old country as in new\ncommunities utility must be considered\nfirst, but when the wooden shacks and\nlog cabins give way to stone buildings,\nand streets are widened, there must be\npublic gardens and a use of the art of\nthe sculptor; the picture gallery must be\ninaugurated. Otherwise the new city is\nneglecting an important phase of progress in the real civilization.\nThe city of Hull, on the Humber, has\njust completed a fine art gallery, with\nan impressive marble staircase, and other\nfeatures of a fitting temple for the conservation of those things in life which\nare fine and beautiful. I do not know of\na less likely city for such an art building.\nHull, as I remember it many years ago,\nis by no means that which would attract\nan artist. But the city is very \"sporting\" as regards offering inducement to\npainters to make the best of Hull, and\nI have no doubt that before long some\nfine paintings will be sent forth from the\ncity to let the wide world know that\nthere is a glory, never dreamed of by\nthe general public, in that cheerless,\nsmoky manufacturing town by the colorless river.\nArtists, as a rule, are sensitive to surrounding influences, and require sympathy in others before their best work\ncan be done. When they reach a place\nwhere there is no sympathy, they move\non.. The point for a city to consider is\nwhether art is useful as a commercial\nasset or not. One need not be an artist\nwhen travelling in Europe to know that\nthe first question of the tourist on arriv-\nand fine church in Prague, where was\nsome of the finest stone carving I ever\nsaw. It was so old that the name of\nthe architect and almost the date of the\nbuilding had been erased by the finger\nof time. But down in a dark crypt, and\n-\"-Si* .\nKW*\n\u00bb\nBRITISH COLUMBIA MOUNTAIN SCENE\nFrom a Painting1 by Mrs. Daniell\ning in a strange town is, what pictures\nand churches there are to be seen? Both\nare everywhere in profusion, because in\ntimes long passed, cities as well as individuals did their best to foster art in all\nits branches. I remember a very old\nbehind a door which opened back against\nthe door, where none could see unless\nthey went to look for it, was an exquisite\npiece of carving, just as beautiful as that\nwhich appeared in the full light of the\nday above. This is the true spirit of art Page 24\nOPPORTUNITIES\n191\n\u2014the same spirit which made Fra\nAngelico paint his sacred subjects on\nhis knees, and which gave us the beautiful work of the monks of the middle\nages. In this hurrying age, where utility\nis of the first importance, consideration\nof the beautiful is apt to be overlooked,\nand undervalued.\nThe arts and crafts societies all over\nthe world have done much to prevent\nmany industries and crafts from being\ncompletely forgotten\u2014and in a new\ncountry they are calculated to do at least\nas much good, for, living so far from\ncenters of art, there is little to remind\nus of what painting and sculpture really\nare. It is well known that until a few\nyears ago American artists had to go\nto London and Paris for recognition.\nThe reason was not far to seek. The\nmillionaire who bought pictures had, as\na rule, no knowledge of art, and, not\ncaring to trust to his own judgment, purchased only the work of artists well\nknown in the great cities of Europe. His\nchildren, better educated, are better\nqualified to judge, and act accordingly,\nthus encouraging artists to remain on\nthis continent. The right education of\nthe., children will bring picture galleries\nto every city.\nIt has long been held as a matter of\nregret among lovers of art in Victoria\nthat artists come to the city, but do not\nremain; and it is to* create some feeling\nof friendliness and goodwill toward\nthem that the \"Island Arts Club\" has\nbeen started. Though it came into existence only a year ago, it now has about\neighty members. Great things often develop from small beginnings, and it has\nbeen felt that if something can be done\nto arouse interest in art and crafts generally, much in this direction can be\naccomplished.\nA great deal can be done by cooperation that cannot be effected otherwise.\nThe club already has good work to its\ncredit. Mr. J. J. Shallcross, the President, has thrown himself into the work in\na whole-souled manner that is beyond\npraise, and his well known good taste as\na critic is one of the best guarantees of\nthe future success of the club. The entry\nfee is the nominal one of two dollars a\nyear, and the club meets once a month\nat the Alexandra Club rooms, where art\nmatters are discussed, and specimens of\nhandicraft of all kinds are displayed, as\nwell as prints, etchings, engravings and\nexamples of Oriental arts and crafts.\nThe first exhibition of the club, held\nat the Victoria Fair last September, was\nacknowledged by those best qualified to\njudge to be the best collection of modern\npictures ever seen in Victoria. The specimens of handicraft, though few in number, were of a high order of merit. Some\nvery fine and beautiful designs executed\nin wood, copper, etc., in highly finished\nstyle, were greatly admired. There\nwere also fine examples of book covers,\nthe making of which is an art in itself. I\nshould like to see again some of the\ncharming necklaces and ornaments\nwhich are often seen at arts and crafts\nexhibitions elsewhere, and which are\nvery popular in England. No doubt\nwe will have these later on. There is\nbent iron work, too, which vvould find\nmany admirers if good example-; of u\ncould be seen. I know of one lady in\nthe West End of London who has quite\nthe monopoly of fire screens in this material. It is not as hard to manipulate\nas it looks, and the results are most satisfactory. No doubt this beautiful craft,\nand also work in brass and copper, will\nbe taken up as it should be here. At any\nrate, the Island Arts Club has come to\nstay, and it is to be hoped that it will\nreceive the support and encouragement\ndue it from all lovers of the beautiful.\nI The Call of Basque ^\nWhere Orchards and Sunshine bring Prosperity\nand Contentment\nN numerous regions of the\nworld there are dry belts,\nwhich, in all likelihood, will\nnever be anything but barren\nwastes, because there are neither rain\nclouds nor streams to furnish water for\nthe thirsty soil. In British Columbia\nthere are dry sections, but these need not\nand do not remain dry, because there are\nstreams ready with ample water to\nawaken the parched land into luxuriant\nfertility. This is strikingly true in the\nAshcroft District, in the south central\np'art of the Province, where at Basque\nand other points, the original product\nof sage brush is giving way more and\nmore to orchards and fields of vegetables.\nThis region has about three hundred\nand forty days of sunshine in the year;\nits rainfall is about ten inches. This' is\nnot enough for vegetation that yields\nfood for man, and so it was that in the\nearly days most of the travellers to\nBritish Columbia who saw the Ashcroft\nDistrict passed on without delay. They\ncould see no promise of fertility in the\ngray volcanic ash and gravel which is\n.the characteristic soil of this locality.\nThey did not know that here was dirt\ncontaining more of the elements of enduring riches than that which carries\nvirgin gold. ' They could not look into\nthe future and see orchards of golden\nfruit on this land. To their eyes it was\nwholly barren. Thus it was that few\nof them remained, despite the sparkle of\nthe sunshine and the tonic in the air.\nBut among the few who did linger\nwere some natives of southern Europe,\nwhere, on the slopes of the Pyrenees\nmountains they had seen soil of volcanic\nash sustain luxuriant vineyards and olive\ngroves. They recognized the similarity\nof soils, and settled down, naming the\nlocality Basque, after the little section of\nEurope which they had left. They provided primitive irrigation and planted\norchards, some of which are flourishing\nto this day.\nBut these Europeans were not to remain in sole possession. Others came;\nCONSTRUCTING WATER PIPE FOR THIRSTY LAND 191\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 25\nthey extended the irrigation operations,\nand now the fruits and vegetables of\nBasque are commanding more and more\nattention at the agricultural exhibitions\nand in the important markets. It has\nbeen discovered that in this region the\nconditions for such fruits as apples and\ncherries, and for a number of the staple\nvegetables, are ideal. Insect pests, for\nexample, cannot exist in air as dry and\nclear as that at Basque, and so it is that\nthe fruit of the locality is never attacked\nby the small insidious enemies which\nare so prone to ravage orchards elsewhere. Neither scale nor blight, nor\nany other fruit disease gets a hold upon\nthe apples of Ashcroft and Basque. The\napples and cherries and other fruits\nOn the Basque Fruit Farms, for instance, there will be a reservoir which\nwill supply water to the extent of thirty\ninches for each acre for all of the four\nthousand acres of this holding. Since it\nhas been already proved that the soil\nmakes a rich response when its thirst is\nassuaged, there are comprehensive plans\nfor even more extensive irrigation.\nBut man has done more for this region\nthan to awaken its fertility.\nIt has been put within comparatively\neasy reach of the big markets. The\nCanadian Pacific Railway runs through\nBasque, with three express trains a day\nconnecting it with Vancouver, two hundred miles away. The main line of the\nCanadian Northern Railway, now in\n$1.25 to $1.60 a box. Another orchard\nin this vicinity, the property of a feminine grower, well known as the \"Widow\nSmith,\" has won wide fame. This\norchard has been producing for forty\nyears. About twenty-eight acres are\nunder cultivation, and for the last ten\nyears the average annual shipment has\nbeen ten thousand boxes. This season\nsixteen thousand boxes have been shipped at prices ranging from $1.10 to $1.60\na box on the trees. Mrs. Smith's orchard\nis noted not only for the quantity of its\nyield but also for its quality. Her apples\nfor ten years in succession have taken\nfirst prizes at the Victoria and New\nWestminster fairs. They were awarded\nat the Apple Show in Spokane last year\n.adH;\n**&mt0*.:\nft\nIPr\nM\n\u25a0\u25a0$m$Wm\n&J&!$&i&&\natfJHMS\n&e$M\nif&\n:3\u00a3\nA FARMHOUSE AND IRRIGATED GARDEN AT BASQUE\ndraw rich nutriment from the volcanic course of construction, will also run\nash just as soon as the dryness of the through Basque and will materially\nSoil is mitigated by irrigation. For this expand the markets for its fruit and\nreason, progressive men have busied vegetables. Thus it is that the section\nthemselves with big projects to bring looms up with rich promise for the\nfuture.\nThe best idea of what the future will\nbring to Basque may be obtained by a\nbench lands of Basque will contribute brief glance at the present beginnings\nto the markets not only apples, cherries there. One firm of fruit growers has\nand potatoes, but numerous other fruits orchards which for the last thirty years\nand vegetables, and when thousands of have been yielding Golden Russet,\nplenty of water to this eager region.\nThey are paving the way to the time\nin the near future when the beautiful\npeople will live at Basque in prosperity\nand contentment. Mr. W. II. Hammond\nand others have big and scientific plans\nfor giving settlers rich opportunities in\nsmall farms, but their first ^tep is to\nfurnish water.\nGrimes Golden, Spitzenberg, Northern\nSpy, Jonathan, Baldwin, Rhode Nland\nGreening, Delaware Red, Winesap and\nWinter Banana apples. The yield has\nbeen from ten to thirty boxes a tree and\nthe prices on the trees have run from\nthree gold medals and a silver cup. Their\ncrowning triumph was at the exhibition\nof The Royal Horticulture Society in\nLondon, England, where they were\nawarded the gold medal over competitors\nfrom numerous nations.'\nNot only apples but cherries flourish\nsurprisingly at Basque. The cherry trees\nyield from seven to ten boxes to a tree\nwith a value of $1.25 to $1.60 a box\nunpicked. Pears and plums do equally\nas well, and prunes, peaches and apricots are of excellent quality. Cherries\nripen early in May, and currants and\nraspberries early in June.\nYet this region does not depend wholly\nupon its fruit. The Ashcroft potatoes Page 26\nOPPORTUNITIES\n191\nare famed along the Pacific Coast. The\nyield for 1910 approximated sixteen tons\nof potatoes to the acre and sold at $22.50\na ton. This means a yield of $350 an\nacre for potatoes, with an unlimited\nmarket. There are excellent crops of\ncorn, with ears from twelve to eighteen\ninches long, and yielding from seventy-\nfive to one hundred and twenty-five\nMOWING IN THE ASHCROFT DISTRICT\nbushels to the acre. Asparagus is ready\nfor the market in April, and tomatoes,\nripening early, are as good as those\ngrown anywhere else in the world. The\nvegetables do not require separate fields,\nbeing grown between the rows of fruit\ntrees.\nIn addition to prosperity from the products of the earth the settler may find\npleasant living in this vicinity. Over the\nCanadian- Pacific Railway there is easy\ncommunication with the outside world.\nThere are churches, schools and other!\nfacilities for advancement and contentment. The people of Basque reflect in\ntheir eyes the brightness of the sunshine\nand the high promise of the future.\nY far the greatest need in British Columbia to-day is the\nneed for more producers. We\nhave plenty of consumers;\ntheir number is increasing daily. People\nare flocking to this Province from all\nover the continent, and from the British\nIsles, but most of them, unfortunately,\nadd nothing directly to the wealth of the\nProvince in the vital matter of continuous production. They bring in each case\na certain amount of capital with them,\nbut only a comparatively small part of\nthis money stays here. It is sent to\nEastern Canada and the United States,\nand to some extent to England, for the\nnecessaries of life, which we could and\nmost certainly ought to produce right\nhere at home. There are large surpluses\nin the British Columbia banks, but these\nare chiefly the results of money which\nis brought in, and not of production here.\nThe situation is that British Columbia is\ncontinually eating into its principal, and\nthe danger in this situation is that the\nThe Need for Dairying\n,;:':;i By C. S. McKee, M. D.\nSecretary of the Vancouver Medical Association\ntime will come when this process of sending away money, or spending principal,\nwill 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\ncharges of hauling commodities from a\ndistance, will have become so great as\nto bring immigration to a standstill.\nI do not say that this will happen. I\ndo not believe it will happen, but it is a\ndanger which lies in the remarkably\nrapid increase in the population of consumers in this Province. What we must\ndo is to produce more. In some way or\nanother we must bring here more\npeople who will get down to the ground,\nwho will devote themselves to the work\nof growing food for this great\npopulation.\nThis is not alone a vital need of the\nProvince; it is a big opportunity for the\nsettler. I have already indicated that our\nmarkets are continuously expanding.\nAlways the cry is for more, more. Not\nonly does the grower have the advantage\nof a great and surely developing market,\nbut he also has the advantage of soil\nand climatic conditions which are excelled nowhere in the world for producing^\nmost of the staple articles of food.\nBecause of my position as secretary\nof the Vancouver Medical Association\nand Milk Commissioner, my attention\nhas been brought specifically to milk,\nand in regard to this highly important\nfood I can say that the demand is so\nfar outstripping the supply that there is\na danger of a serious milk shortage in\nVancouver next summer. We must have\nmore milk, and therefore we must encourage and foster in every possible way\nthe industry of dairying.\nIn the lower Fraser Valley there are\ngreat opportunities for milk production,\nand in the no less fertile valleys of the\ninterior and on Vancouver Island there\nare fine openings for butter and cheese\nmaking. I can say from a careful investigation of this subject that dairying 1911\nOPPORTUNITIES\nPage 11\noffers larger opportunities in British Columbia than any other branch of agricul-\nsture, and this is saying a good deal. A\nman with a forty-acre farm within easy\nreach of the markets of Vancouver can,\nby specializing in the production of milk,\nin combination with the raising of butter, small fruits and vegetables, make\na moderate fortune within a few years.\nThis, however, is not a proposition for\na man without means. While excellent\nland for dairy farming can be obtained\non easy terms, the price per acre is not\nparticularly low if the land is close to\ntransportation. In the interior, however,\nland is cheap. It will rise in value with\nthe extension of railroad systems, and\ncan be made to yield increasing profits.\nTo start on a dairy farm for himself,\na man should have an initial capital of\nbetween $2,500 and $5,000. More than\nthis, he should understand the business.\nIf he has a general knowledge of it he\ncan acquire a knowledge of the specific\nconditions in British Columbia by coming here and beginning on a dairy farm,\nwhere he can get work without difficulty\nat good wages. He must acquire an understanding of the special conditions of\nBritish Columbia dairying, which, because of climate and some other reasons,\nare in some respects unlike those of other\ncountries.\nMany men who are already doing a\ngood dairying business in British Columbia are not making nearly as much as\nthey might for the reason that they are\noverlooking important details. One of\nthe greatest sources of loss to the dairyman lies in the lack of knowledge of the\nexact productivity of his cows. Careful\nexperiments in other sections in this\nhighly important phase of dairying have\nshown that at least half of the cows in\ncertain herds have been encumbrances\nrather than profit-makers. The other\nhalf in these instances have carried the\nwhole herd. The dairyman who desires\nto obtain an exact knowledge of the\nvalue of each of his cows must know the\naverage yield of each animal. Where the\nyield of a cow does not come up to the\nstandard that he has set as necessary\nto make his herd profitable, he must\ndiscard this cow without delay. In this\nway the dead weight can be eliminated;\nwork can be made more effective and\nthe dairy farm much more profitable.\nThe experienced dairyman of the East\nwho has a herd of known capacity can\nbring it to British Columbia, after he\nhas selected his farm here, and make\nmore money in the business than he ever\ndid before.\nThe trouble with the British Columbia\ndairyman is that he has made money so\neasily that, in many cases, he has become\ncareless. He has no excuse for lack of\nknowledge because the Provincial Government is supplying information as to\n