Wednesday, Maich 16, 3858 INE, WELLIANIS LAKE, BG. S8sonh Section Page 7 ALL-WEATHER ACCESS FOR MICROWAVE Pictured above are two solutions to the problem of all-weather access to B.C. Telephone Company’s microwave relay stations. Left: The gondola of the aerial tramway on Dog Mountain, near Hope. The two-mile tramway was built to provide access to the summit of the mountain and during the past year was employed in transporting men and materials for the costruction of the microwave station at the top. Right: A specially-designed snow vehicle used for aecess to the Creston relay station. ‘The yehicle, known as a “ Sno-cat,” is capable of travel over deep spow and scales high snowdrifts with ease. The microwave stations are presents undergoing exhaus- tive testing in preparation for the opening of the B.C. portion of the Trans-Canada Microwave System this summer. Final link to be forged in the new coast-to-coast communications network, the B.C. microwaye system will relay hundreds of long dis- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ANOTHER RANCHER alone this will hold true, but if WRITES ON HUNTERS we agree to discuss this matter basis and Dear Sir—In your Febrnary ©n 2 province-wide 26 issue, a letter appeared that|since hunting licences are sold I feel can take some correcting, | on this basis, and I feel it proper and, with my main purpose| that they should, then quite a being simply an attempt to keep|different —sriuation —_ unfolds. your reading public a little] According to the Sloan Report better informed on the relevant|made in 1945, only two percent facts, would you please be kind/of B.C. was, at that time, used enough to give this letter space| by agricultur Perhaps today, in your well written paper,|13 years later, it might be said thanks yery much. |more of the province has been This letter attempts to make|taken over by farming and much of the fact that great sec-| ranching, so we shall increase tions of Cariboo are closed to| Mr. Sloan's two percent to two hunting in genersl. Perhaps if and a half percent, but in so lls an television programs pence ee nuone we a ee8 we restrict ourselves to Cariboo|doing let us remember this in- gS = AD . Ce y) - 7 SM J a (S} ao) BL JOA 2 It’s just ike money in the bank ROYAL. TRIT MOTOR en @ oo When ping-free power fills your tank You get polo pony performance W7ith instant response at the wheel. These motor fuels whip into action And spur on your automobile. With every make of truck or car THE HALLMARK OF MOTORING SATISFACTION... UEDEOOLR BALE . = DAS | At the sign of the Royalite “"R”. cludea all agricuiture in B,C. and ngt just ranching. With this the case then, and with paved roads leading well into many of the world’s finest hunting and fishing areas, all of which are within the boundaries of our grand province, can this letter be accepted as evidence of great wrongdoing py ranchers “post” thelr private property. While it should first be stated that I no longer have any rights as a real property owner in Empire Valley, the fact remains that I did live there for many years and as ranch foreman worked there from 1936 to 1941. 1 can truthfully say that back in 1928 there were only a few deer in the area and that it was with careful and friendly help from we who ranched there that this deer herd built itself up to perhaps as many as 1,000 head at the peak, which was reached only. a few years ago. These animals wintered each year on large sections of priviately owned grazing, along with the them moved in and shared hay as well. Bucks from Empire Valley, in accord with nature, drifted away at two years old, and it is my belief that many a successful hunter, over a very wide area, benefited directly, as did. other areas where bucks were needed for breeding pur- cattle, in bad weather many of! posgs, Howeyer, when word got aroyad that these deer were there, pressure came from all sides that they should be har- vested. Please note, I use the word harvested, not murdered, because myrder it would be if the area was thrown wide open to the public. Much of the country is open range land, with the timbered areas mostly run- ning into bottlenecks, the perfect setup for — slaughtering — if hunting was not managed. Re- member too, this is a breeding ground and common sense will hold that wildlife should be shown some consideration during their breeding season. Un- favorable and grossly misleading publicity has played a hand in making for bad feeling at Em- pire Valley, one article I recall reading intimated that 25,000 deer were being kept on private property there and the writer in this case went on to leave the impression that expropriation was the answer. I have known Mr. Bryson, the present owner of Empire Valley, for 30 years. His father was one of our province’s early settlers, and it is certainly a fact that this fam- ly have paid well with plain hard work for everything they have. It is very hard to know this man as I do and accept mis- leading propaganda against him. Those who do so and use the pregs to further their desires should, in my opinion, at least be sure their facts are correct. We ranchers do feel sorry for the lost souls who stray beyond their ability to find camp, and while the best outdoor man will get himself turned around at times, I can but feel fewer hunters would get themselves lost, if some real form of com- petence test was necessary be- fore a hunting licence was issued. As. the matter stands. about anyone who is old enough can buy a gun and licence and he is at once a hunter. Whether he can see, walk or has ever handled a rifle holds no import- ance when there is a sale of either gun or licence in pros- pect. It certainly hurts me to say this, but when I read about hunters who feel there should be laws made to permit them to hunt on other people's private property, their reasoning to me about compares with that of my youngest son, That little devil ean be given an acre to play in, and if there is two square feet that you tell him not to go near, right there he'll be. 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