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THE OMINECA HERALD, WEDNESDAY. JULY 4, 1927

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QUICK NEWS —

Mr. Peacock, sr, had the misfortune
to get his thumb between a post maul
and o post with serious and paintal
results.

Fred Wright’s father was seriously

ill, but is now improving.

Considerable wheat and barley is
now in head, but the grain needs rain
pretty quick. The light shower last
Friday might have been only a start.
Hay is from a haif crop to nothing.
‘Stock will no donbt-be sold that should
he held for another year.

Angus Kerr drove to Smithers Mon-
day and Friday with beef and pork.
Pork seems to be coming’ back.

There were three rather serious
auto accidents, but to date no one bas

A - heen killed. There are too many

reckless drivers and infants-on the
rouds, and few realize the danger of
speed on the blind ctrves.

The Mortimer and Quick roads are

‘ now receiving some attention.

The Round Lake and Quick schools
held their annual picaie on June 29.
There was a good crowd, lets of eats
and games for the children with a
shower at night.

Mr. Thomas left for Vancouver on
Saturday morning.

Miss Thorsteinsson left Saturday
night for the summer holidays.

Willie Greene left. Saturday morn-
ing for Portland for medical  treat-
ment

Mrs. Taylor is now recovering from
a serious iJness and has returned
from Smithers hospital

It will soon be haying time down on
the farm.

A ROOSTER DAY

Poultry raisers who build up a trade
in strictly fresh eggs known by the
name of “specials” see to it that. the
mail birds do not run with the flock.
Not only do they consume o certain
amount of expensive food but fertil-
ized o¢es do not keep nearly as well
ns those that are sterile. Indeed after
warm weather arrives the male birds
should be done away with, except, of
course, in flocks of thes breeders of
pure bred fowl who produce stock and
eges for breeding purposes. The use-
lessness of the male in the lying flock
ig being recognized in many quarters
and o prominent newspaper in East-
ern Ontario, the Renfrew “Mercury”
has made a novel suggestion that a
“Rooster Day” be- organized. ‘he
Editor in urging this points out that
keeping the male birds throughout the
year is an economis loss which in the
negregate means waste of thousands
of dollars yearly in every township.
The cost of maintanance of such birds
is about $3 per year each, Only those
who. want eggs from their own prem-
ises for hatching, it is pointed. out,
nny need of male birds,’ and. as. the
time is arriving ~when poultry raisers
ave ndopting the practice of renewing
their flocks by the ‘purchase of baby

chicks, there ‘is. no reason whatever.
for keeping : over ‘the mall: birds... A-

Rooster Day, it’ ts ‘believed in a very
real sense be a “booster , ‘day” for the

poultry industry, which. is _stendily ens) Ge

gaining in importance. A leaflet of the
department of agriculture at Ottawa
recommends the killing off of the male

birds after the, breeding season and |. or ;

sets the first of June as" the time when
roosters should be sent to market, be-
cause after that date, it 1s: pointed out,

millions of ‘dollars are-lost- through|

the presence of ‘prasticnlly incubated

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Rev. J. H. Young and: family have.
arrived at their new: hone at Koksilah |:

Mission on. Vancouver. Island.

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-epes in the. prodnee. awhich As market- =

- Uron the arteries of communication depend the
- srowth of the nation. - oa
trails... then the rough oxcart ruts... the wagon roads ee

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ROADS sanz
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_ BRIDGES: The resent valuation

of G3 mi miles of ridgosis is "8848000, 2

RAILS

First the

».. the automobile highways.

. The scattered population of British Columbia
‘has made the construction of roads between
centres a matter of vital importance, yet one
‘of almost insurmountable difficulties. -

-; Mountain sides have to be blasted away... |
ue clefts. and chasms tresselled . . . rivers bridged!

“With the opening of the Cariboo Highway

“through Fraser. Canyon in 1926, the last link

of British Columbia’s great arterial highway
a highway unexcelled the world over as an

engineering feat and one of unmatched scenic

: beauty. ... was forged.

- Eastern British Columbia greeted its western
“brothers! Markets and railways were brought

' closer to the farmer, the miner, the industrial-

“4st. New fields for agricultural and trade
development were opened up.

“or. the ten years just past, an aggressive -

meen highway ‘programme

|. - «Thousands of miles of good roads and dozens
ce of sturdy’ bridges have been built. a

'. Our roads system now totals 31,900 miles... . .
a an increase of over 5,060 miles: during the last

has been carried out.

“ten years, Of. this mileage, : 12,000 miles are

oS the. current ‘pe iod f Briti h-
me arth. Fades, 4000 gravel roads; and - 1,006 _ ‘period: o 8

. Read these. ‘announcements and. inderstand your province s

LL progress 64. clip them out and send them to friends, If Jou:

AL desire extra copies of these announcements-a note to this”
Mele newspaper Ww will bring them. Advertise your Province!

macadam,. bituminous, concrote and cement © wo
.concrete. The 5,000 miles which were added to -. .... |

our roads.system include: 884 miles of. main

trunk roads, 602 miles of lateral roads, 281. ~

miles of industrial and mining roads, 1,133 |.
miles of settlement and farm roads, and 2 000. .
miles of ordinary and ‘mining trails.

During the years just before 1917, a: large aes
number of bridges had been constructed in the a
Province, nearly all of which were temporary.
timber structures. Since 1917, the problem of *
maintenance and renewal of these structures
has been a serious one, involving a large ex-:
penditure, particularly between the years 1920

and 1927,

The policy has been to improve design of and_ ; -

workmanship on temporary bridges and ‘to

renew all the large bridges‘on main highways

over the principal rivers with concrete and steel. .

Today, the valuation of our 63 miles of -
bridges is nine. ‘million dollars.

This construction activity has distributed _

wagés and salaries over our whole Province: . |

and has been a material aid in brin “Cols oe
olumbia's

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