SS es eet WEHEPIVDPO/E PEED OAR SPEEDS oot a re 2 wt. SSPE SATAN PT OH ATP INS REPORT a tt Se, : sc eseat are e PeFat,, COO EPR? tea Y pps esa ese ee Se eae aetsGegrSPMGPSVGPT GM SMPLAL SCADA ASAE Cate atoee oat iloloecofateteLofel atcalcMWipcolceiecueritatatatetedeteelatecnetetatetetatalst Meh M Mais tatat fultetatatafeletoleletatrLostiSealefitasstateretatePorateatarstetsstate sareta eiatartalyvattire riers sinetitesiionatetestonuseintelttatefotieletetlatatetelt eeatatatatatetstitetabetetetatetatebetat beSititobtutate a : aceite . ; . set Mende tne “ é OU ae ata SR a a oe COE Sa Sr SS oC 2, ate aerate! Se OR o atatitatattatstatetelateatettte’h ab ass ae 8 a ee ess MH Mn SE * “ we = a Farming was once important to the economy of the Terrace area. Logging (note Skeena Forest Products mill grounds in picture) "is now the mainstay. 30's farming meant meeting costs supplying the stores with fresh vegetables. Their place, located in: the Horseshoe area of town, has been gub- divided. ar C.H.- Thomas came from Prince Rupert in the twenties and went into the poultry business with 1,000- chickens. James McConnell raised fruit and had, 500 chickens, Nigel Sherwood had 500 chickens and also acted as the town clerk. There were a number of other — « farms going too. ” oo. dey both natural and mananade sasters, many people gave up rming ; ' at that time. But the Franks continued. . Since there was not much else that could mireyinesiyerae ieee eatatieat By BILL MARLES Special te the Herald ‘One of the most prominent pioneer families in Terrace is the Franks. They were farmers. Farming here has had its ups and downs over the years. B Franks stuck it out and over long term prospered. In 1965, the ye Floyd Frank retired, they had 135 acr¢s under cultivation and 70 mature cows. The farm had become sc prosperous and therefore demanding, he had to give it “Floyd Frank was born in 1904 at Port People of that day were only making 40 of 50 cents an hour, But marri people made their meager incomes ‘stretch further by keeping gardens and chickens. and cows. They didn’t buy everything from the store as many people do today. Frank notes that people are going back to their gardens and even rajsing chickens now, because of the high cost of . Commercial farming in the Terrace area continued strong until prices took a tumble in the depression. It got to the point where farmers were only making Floyd Frank : s on ES ss S = a Pa * 2 4 : 7 : : : é _ : ‘ Essington on the mouth of the Skeena enough to cover the cast of production. River. Four years later his familycame __ be done, they just kept clearing land. ; ..,. The depression hit the farmers sud- to Terrace on the "Port Simpson It was heavy work. jhere weren’t bue “Logging has killed farming here,” enly. The Kitsimkalum Farmers In- Bi ad er ceitl and became the is 2egs in those faye. The Franke wed says J Floye Frank, “it’s so much easier fhe ter later to play an important role | in a = fami ithe area, Floyd’s..;,.. hand :toolg: and horses..on-logs .two-to working eight hours aday.andyoumake . “the founding of the Terrace Co-op, | Pa & youre ‘scoihiee Soe a ne let. “three feet thick. There wére big’atiimis “more money.""" ~*~ 9%" " * “started to do'its own ordering of feed, .2 = white child born in the area, to get rid of, too. But progress. was Strawberries were very important. after finding the stores were charging & = ' AboutS0yearsago, inthe twenties, the gradually made.‘ . ‘until about 1930 or °31, when the too much. Frank ordered a six week 3 = Franks were still in the process of Land was cheap. Frank s + peonle depression hit. Terrace farmers used to supply of food for James McConnell’s 3 & developing their farm. They had cleared = would almost pay him to take their ship as far as Edmonton. Alberta people ‘thickens. When he came back for 5 = 15 to 20 acres and had about five acres of hands, So the Franks acqujleg ‘some found these berries had a better flavor. | another order, he found McConnell had = + # potatoesand oneacreofstrawberries. In —_adjoining land. When wartime ,the ° “Strawberries could come back gone out of business. 2 = addition, they had a few cows and pigs. Franks were in a position gf the “because here the berries ripen and just Potatoes are animportant croptoday. If the crop was poor, Floyd’s father © demand for farm products," #° = ° © come into peak production when the But in the late twenties, a terrific in. % % would go logginggg iiinnn ‘ ttthhhe Framing enjoyed-a bit of g gbirth . Fraser Valley. berries are going off festation of wireworms came and = & % winter.esJeft Hamblin and Ross after the Second World War, Ae@enber . market,” says Frank. destroyed much of the potato crop. % % Thompson came to Terrace after the of Dutch immigrants came and: # rked --— Potatoes were alsobig. Farmers here. Surprisingly enough the wireworms & = First World War. They bought 20 acres — the land. But their children have not would send two, three or five or ten tons have now gone away on their own. But = = and went into partnership market continued and the ald folk are reaching of potatoes to the wholesaler in Prince the potato industry is not what it once = % gardening. They did a good business _ retirement age. oo Rupert was. e Sa epee ease pant ge nD aaa PEPE ae NZAL Le See ea teSecialedeledodbTolsedetadeo filet date ter ititas satiataeteoedetdoteboetodtebgeneennenceheeh FORMERPREMIER © Lesage breaks silence | to question minister 7 QUEBEC (CP) — audience to ask Inter- THE HERALD, Friday May i3, 1977, PAGE AS RESIDENTS ALARMED Dam threatens. Pincher Creek PINCHER CREEK, Alta. (CP) — The pastoral far- ming and ranching country around this southern Alberta community is brewing upa storm about a proposed dam on the Old- man River, ‘A government report released last fall said more water is required for irrigation in the area and a dam is needed to increase the supply, preferably at the Three Rivers site below the confluence of the Oldman, Crowsnest and Castle Rivers. The 30 farming families who live in the Three Rivers district don't think much of the idea. They have rormed the Committee for the Preservation of Three Rivers and damn the. dam for the tiegative effect it would have on the local economy and environment when 6,-900 acres are flooded and 22 faritis torced to relocate. _ Committee member Ron Buchanan said concerned residents are not anti- developers. They only want to see “good reasons - for orderly development with the teast amounl of damage.” The committee, noting that irrigation is the biggest user of water in the Oldman River basin, said #2 dam would not be needed if water was used more effectively, that two-thirds of the water now entering the irrigation system is lost before it reaches crops. Jake Thiessen, general manager of the St. Mary River Irrigation District, is somewhat annoyed at the publicity the preservation committee has been getting, at the expense of those with an 0 ng view. oP southern Alberta would benefit’ from an Oldman River reservoir,” Thiessen said, “but most of us have gone unheard.” The district, in a brief re- sponding to the government report, said : additional. water storage is “definitely © needed”’ if agriculture and related foad-processing industries are to ‘have sustained growth in southern Alberta. The Alberta trrigation Projects Association ex- pressed the opinion that ail rivers in southern Alberta must be regulated in order to develop even part of the land classed as irrigable. Efficiency of irrigation has been a key point of dispute in the dam con- frontation. The Three Rivers committee estimates about 150 billlon gallons of water were wasted in the Oldman Basin irrigation districts in 1973. The St. Mary's River Irrigation District admits there were losses in the system through seepage and weed growth but insists these can be controlled by canal lining. The district said on-farm irrigation efficiency has shown marked im- provement in the last 20 years due to major in- vestments by farmers in: sprinkler systems and land levelling. The district also had a re- sponse for dam opponents who point to possible detrimental effects on the environment. . It suggests that “responsible decision makers !uok bevend verbal theatrics to delerinine if the ‘long-term benefits of a proj- ect outweigh the. zegative effects.” The district notes that the preliminary study gives the impression that a storage reservoir would have & negative effect on hundreds of miles of natura) stream channel of the Oldmun River and its tributaries, when in actual fact a dam . would affect only the area flooded by the reservoir—a small part of the entite river valley. 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