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Matannaka Potatoes for New York
produee market. That is the . object
of the goodwill tour . sponsored this
year liy the Dodge Motor Corporation.

Matanuska is the district in Alaska
that was opened up for settlement. and
the United States put a number of re-
Hef families on the land and assisted,
{hem to get started. A good many got
alcag fine and made good. Of course
seme did not ,but that is not signifi-
«uit, Those who made good have
done something to the American people
which will have a great effect on the
future outlook of those people. The
‘school books of the States will have
to be changed in regard to-Alaska, the

jcountry always considered one big ice |

*Field.-

When New Yorkers réallze that the
finest vewetables in the world grow
‘1 their own ice field (Ala&ka) they
will sit up and ‘take notice. Maton-
uska Potatoes for New York.

(nm Manday a big Dodge truck rolled
into town driven by AL Roden - and
with, Foln Cates as photegrapher.

They bave a house constructed on
truvk in which they carry supplies and
in which they intend to bring back
the Matanuska spuds. They loaded

the car at New Hazelton and shipped]

to Prince Rupert aud from there they
will xo by beat to Ketchikan,. Alaska,
where the potatoes are waiting for
transportation. When the spuds are
on heard the truck wll be brought to
Prince ‘Rupert again on the boat..and
there. the trick will be fitted with
Lange. whels and run on its own. -pow- |;
_ er over the G N ‘R, to New Hazelton,
“wherersthe truck willcberagainsfitted |!
nth heels ‘anid take: to: the -high
way’ again. PIbis® proposed ‘to run not
too: fast through B. C., but once: they
hit Seattle: again they. propose to make
av fast: trip across ‘the continent to the
Atluntie seabourd.. ‘They are making
history. —- .

John Cates, photographer, has nun-
erous cameras.and he has taken -a lot
of pictures. Sometimes he rides; tn
the hood of the truck, and operates a
moving picture .eamera. He took a
rroné many pictures of all “sections
west of Prince George, and especially
around this section. He told the Her-
uid that the scenery, the country, the
clhnate, everything.np here was so dif-
ferent. tothe: south. He said that he
had been informed numerous times in
the southern part of the. province that
he better také: all: his - pictttes' trom
Vancouver and along the Cariboo road
that he might not be able to get over
the reads west of Prince George, He

wished to say that the ronds west of
Prince were, marvelous, especially if
one considered the. sparsely populated
district and the - ‘long distances. They
cnme through in fast time and thor
oughly enjoyed it.

Lest year A. Roden drove a Dodge
truck on a goodwill tour from Mexico
City to Washington‘ and on to Ottawa.
Tt was known as the three’ nation’ good
will tour. He has done quite a lot ot
driving for the, Dodge people, who:
earry an a campaign for ‘safe driving.
Up to the present Roden, has. “driven

three quarters of a maiilion: niles. with- a

. out an cecident.:
The boys are ‘ot confined entirely

to going for and taklng-baok potatoes: rhe.

and pletures. They pick. up numeroua,
curios’ atid’ Interesting: things. Fn: Ore:
pat ‘Cates ‘secured a “black widow"
spider, @live. It sone of the - most
poisonous of the spider , tribe. - He ig
taking. it back to a-friend ‘in Dettoit
. who is in charge of a museum . and has
- not a black widow. spide:

black creature: ds. ‘ealled tricia,
they | do: ‘Hot, ‘take: it to. bet -with then

BOE |

THE OMINECA HERALD, NEW HAZELTON, B. c, WEDNESDAY, oct OBER 13,. 1937

‘NO. 15 *

a

A Fraudulant
Soap Racket is
The Newest Fad

Have you got your, traudulant soap?

Do not miss this great opportunity, Al

couple of young fellows visited some of
the interior points and displayed a fine
sample of a fine soap. They quoted a
price that would make a sockeye sal-
mon bite. But it seems that the soap
delivered to the ptirchasers was not as
good a quality as the sample. Some
of the purchasers were peeved when
they discovered the apparent fraud.
Houstan phoned the police at Smithers
to pick up these fellows. They drove
a hig ear and the license plate started
with 40, Ail soaps have gone away up
in price lately and there is room now
for the boot-legger, ete. The way 4
lot of other articles are being shoved
up is opening the door of opportunity
for many more pedlers who can see a
lot of easy money, and a heavily bur-
dened people. ‘Between the inerease
in prices and the increase in taxes, it
is not worth svhile working.

Fine Response
To Appeal for
Local Produce
When the appeal. «ves made = last
we’. for contributions of surplus feed
svurts fer the dried ont people in Sask-
atchewa: the people in this istrict, a
gee We jority of them, vespended im-
mediately and willingiy. AS a result
Setraullebige over, lilne ions of. produce
der ded on’ the a: Sutureey anil
" ich ¥. ght. , This . ade UE of
over tt Pie ‘
‘two-ani ‘a; halt. ‘tons £0)
of Gl -Fowe | and
‘ktnsion” Ver - two, tons from, ‘Huzetton
and South’ Hazelton; “hale a ton from
Two Mile ‘and over two. ‘tons from
New Wazelton. Word has been recelv-
ed of n-ton and a half of vegetables at
Cedarvale and. arrangements are: being
made ‘to have this picked up by. one of
the regular trains,
2 sual] cash surplus” at Hazelton.
The lst of contributors is as fol-
lows, and there be a few additlons to
make !—Hazelton—D. Lay, Mr. and
Mrs. Turnbull, Mrs. C. V. Smith, Mra,
Sealy, Mrs. Simpson, 0. K. Joe, Mrs.
Sargent, A. Grant, Mr. Halverson, Mrs,
Russell, Mr. Johnston, Mrs, Newick,
Mrs. Irving, Mrs, W. G. Marshall, Mrs
York, Mrs, Fraser, Mrs. McCallum, Mr

Wwe rt

‘Malis, Joe Ham, Jack’ Lee,-R. 8. Sar
gent, R, L, Powell, R, Hunter, Mr. and |’

Mrs, Sweet, @. . Mallinson, Marshall
Broa., 0. Butterill, D, W. More, Mrs.
Bracewell; Mr... Myros,

_ Sonth Hazelton—Jas,
Boden. ‘

Kispiox—Mr. Clemenson, Smith &
Carlson, T, B. Campbell, J, Hough-
land, “wm. Haughland, J. Love, L,
Vingen. *’ : .

New: ‘Hazelton—Mrs, P. Smith, C. H.

McRae, I.

Hazelton Hospital, Gust: ‘Christianson,
DE Goodridge, E. Nelson, Mrs, Senk-
plel, ‘Mrs. Bugg, Geo. D,. Parent, and
the. Willan boys who loaned their
truck and gathered up the vegetables.

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ce ‘ALLOWE'EN DANCE y
he 40, the. H. H. are: - sponser
on Hallowe'en, October 20,.
It is-toibe a masquerade dance. with
prizes: tor best ostumes and dancing
will: start-at: 0 "clock, ‘The Happy Six
orchestra: will furnish the musie and
dance will: ‘bein. -Horticultural Hall,
‘Adnilasion 0c ‘and refreshments will
be served. . A Met time: lg sgared.

Oe le friendships.

fp eae Seer tome

There will-also be

Prince Rupert:

* “he Garden City by the Sea

By Our Own Correspondent

;

Mr. and Mrs. red Rush are honey-
mooning at Burns Lake. The groom
is in the employ of a loca} oil plant,
and. the bride was formerly Miss Dolly
Derry, whose parents. Mr. and Mrs.
WW. H. Derry are well known pioneer
regideuts. The ceremony was perfor-
med, by Very Rev. Dean Jas. B. ‘Gib-
SON, - _
: a
~ Commissioner W. J. Alder’s son Har
vld, was admitted to the bar at Vie
toria about a week ago. The new law-
yer, who was born in Prince Rupert,
tuck an arts course in U. B. C, and
giaduated in law. at ‘Osgoode Hall in

Toronto..-

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Squaw Creek, away up- in a remote’

unbia, smiled: on a couple of. Prince
Rupert prospectors—Barney Furbitt
and Ed. Peterson—not long’ago. Bar-
ney’s pick. hit something. It was a
forty-six ounce nugget, worth maybe,
$1,400. It’s longer than your hand
und as thick as a swanky club beef
steak, Barney followed railway labor-
ing heré at one time. Then he got the

see

Gust Christianson , New Hazelton
hotel proprietor. was a brief visitor to/4
Prince Rupert over the week end. He
had not been here for some years and
he found many (changes. Gust was
looking’ hale aud hearty and renewed

n>

Pree ae

Concerning. pulp mill. prospects. ‘Ru.
pert. folk continue to. watcbfully walt.
‘They are quite proficient. in doing .80;
for they have had considerable .prac-
tice, Taxation concessions have been
grunted, and these inducements were
of-a quite substantial nature. The
plebiscite was practically nnanimous.
Only twelve voted against the proposal

_ eee

Stan Morin, local baseball enthus-
fast, who attended the world series in
New York, was one of hundreds of
thousands who crowded into the polo
grounds, and of all the multitude he
was the one who had travelled the far-:
thest to see the Yankees and the
Giants settle the thing. Maybe ane
or two from Alaska got there.

. MILLIONS OF ROSES
Everybody who knows anything of
flowers is familiar with the tulip beds.
of Holland and the Easter liy flelds of
Bermuda, but comparatively few Can-
niians have any idea that within their
own borders is the largesr rose and
cut flower garden on this | continent,
where blooms each year are counted in
their millions, The ttle > Ontario
town of Brampton is the centre of the
cut flower-industry of Canada. What
is belHeved to be the first flower farm
in that district was founded about six-
ty years ago by an Old Country gurd-
ener and his son. The growing of
rees.Wwas thelr hobby. Following the
success that. attended their efforts
others became, interested, and 80 year
‘by yeur'the green houses” on. ‘the
Brampton countryside ‘and ‘the ‘suberb
quality of the Branipton roges -became
known ‘far and. wide amongst horticul-
turists, who: lifted ‘their’ hats In’ ‘ack-
nowledgement of a triumph. - Millions
of roses are plucked each year in this
district “along: with. countiess. jatilions;

“Lot other flowers, to say nothing of | pro-|
— duction. ‘from. paragus. beds, . ho

: ratfair.

coruer of north western British Col-:

prospecting , img and he made that stick |.

"al Night Attack
Sends Man to
The Hospital

Mr. Malins, mechanic in charge of
Benson's garage, was admitted to the
Hazelton Hospital early Saturday
for medical attention. He has since
been at his home but under the care
of the doctor. It appears that Malins
had been at the early morning train
and took some passengers. back to
town. When he returned to the gar-
age, it is alledged that he went into
Benson's house to deliver a message ‘to
Mré. Benson, Mr. Benson having left
the afternoon before to take Capt. G
C. Mortimer’s car to Vancouver, It Is
reported that Malins was hit with a
blunt instrument and then badly hand-
led. This was sometime between two
and three o'clock Saturday morning.
Up to this morning the police state no
report had been made to them of the

FRUIT. GROWING IS A COMPARA.
TIVEL YOUNG INDUSTRY

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In certain sections of Canada, the
elimate and the soil are eminately ad-
apted. to fruit growing and the Anna-
polis valley, the Niagara Peninsula
and the Okanagan district are world
famous centres of fruit production.
Experimenta! shipments of apples |.
from the Annapolis valley were first
made in 1801, but up to 1890 the. an-

nual production of apples by. Nova
Scotia rarely exceeded 100,000 barrels,
After that. there was @ pronounced in-
erense in aereage and production until
two million, barrels were harvested in
1919. Last year one and a half mil-

In. Ontario where: ‘the commercial
production of. all. varieties of fruit has
‘reached its highest development. ap-
ples. have heen .grown for about two
centuries, but commercial orchatding,
hes developed only during. the last.
sixty years. The building of railways
made the industry possible.

In British -Columbia commercial
fruit growing is of comparative recent
origin, growth in production being par-
ticularly rapid since 1910, ‘From 1891
to 1921 the acreage expanded from six
thousand acres to 48,000." Last year
the farm value of Canadian fruit pro-
duction was over $15,000,000. Half of
that wus due ta apples, with straw-
berries second with almost $2,000,000,
raspberries third at‘over $1,000,000.

mi’ RAINBOR CANYON

Jasper, Oct. 11—How many rain-
bows have you seen at .. one.. time?
Rainbow Canyon, a few miles west of
here on the main Hne of the Canadian
National through the rockies, bonsts
them by the half dozen at a single sit-
ting, At one point where the. rock
walls are sheerest, the trail hiker can
stand between two waterfalls, the up-
per 60 fect and the lower 20 feet in
height. : Mist. and spray fill the gorge,
Ona bright, sumpy day.ag many as
six baby rainbows have been seen play-
ing hide and seek in the swirl qf va-
por. Rainbow .Canyon, however, does
not get its name from this prenomenon
but from the Rainbow. Range in which
it is situated. Mightiest massif in this
upthrust is Mount Robgon (12,972: ft, (
hhighsst. peak.in’ the ‘Canadian rocktes,
mow reserved: as ny provincial park‘ and
possessed of a charming’ bu inktow camp

John Salt ts now: ‘able. to get out ana}:
take o walk about the Hospital zar-
dens.:: He has: improved, 280." much "in|
health t that’ he © hopes: to’ be home s00n.

Alex. Millar is

care Pata!

ap cee batreli: were: -produced.* pe

Drowned When |
Duck Hunting

"A pall of gloom was cast. over Smi-
thers and district last Saturday when
it was learned that Alax. Miliar, the
youngest son of A. §, Millar, Smithers,
had been drowned in Covert Lake in
the Quick district, “Axie’ as he was
known to everyone, was’ out duck
hunting with three companions. He
had: been hunting around the lake in a
small punt and was proceeding toward
shore when the punt filled and sank
with him.

Vie Giraud, who witnessed the ac-

*l!cident, plunged into the icy water in a

plucky attempt to rénder aid, but thes
young fellow was unable to swim and '
was also dressed in heavy hunting
Clothes. Axie bad disappeared before
Giraud could get to him, and after
several futile dives Vie was forced to
make shore hy extreme cold,

The body wes recovered Sunday by
a group of volunteers headed by the
provincial police.

Besides his father he is survived by
one sister, Mrs. C. Griffin of Govern-
ment Ranch. and two. brothers, James
of Seattle and.Craig who is at pre-
sent located in the south of the pro-
vince. The funeral will take place on
Thursday from the United Church,
and interment will be in Smithers
cemetery, .

Swiss Burned Out

A fire of unknown origin completely
destroyed the farm home of Fritz
Gyger, about four miles out the Telk-
wa road from Smithers, on Friday of
last week at about 12.80 noon, Mr.
yey who “is a recent “arrival ft6m:
Switzerland, along with his wife, was
digging potatoes in a field considerab-
ly removed from the house and coud .
not get: to the house in time to save
any of the contents. The building and
contents were a total loss anil: there
was ho insurance. .

Smithers Notes

Badminton is now under full swing
nnd considerable interest is . being
evinced in the game this season. The
games thus far are being keenly con-
tested and it is expected that at some
future date tournaments may be ar-
ranged with other clubs of the district

ae &

~ Cliff. Warner, :-has..returned to Smi-
thera and ‘ia. again back at the old. gob,

st &

’ Wilson,. the mining man; brought a
sample of ore from: his Dome moun-
tain property near Telkwa, that did
things to some of the enthusiastic men
with mining interests The samples
were of native silver; very rich, and it
reported. that considerable of it waz
found, Mr. Wilsen took samples of it
to Vancouver with him.

. sae

A couple of Prince Lupert business
men, Geo. Bryant and Paul Armour,
were here recently bent on hunting a
fow days-on the mountain sides bhere-
abvuts. The first morning was not so
good. They gut away to x good start
hut Paul’s favorite dog ran onto 2
porky who resented such intrusion of
his domain. The buntars had to_-re-
turn. . £9, ‘town . ‘and. hart’ up. 8 medical

thon. to. take the: porks’s quills out, ct
the dog's tongue, :

2: The ‘ladies of. New Hazelton, mem-
With’ considerable sucerss’ on Monday:

evening with thé. dance given in aid. :
of ‘the auxillary : funds. * There WAR a

bere of the W. 4. to the HHL, met °. - (am