THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1926 ‘We have for sale several FLAT BOTTOM RIVER BOATS WINDOWS COM PLETE— different sizes » Hanson Lumber and Timber Co. Hanall, B.C. Y BUILDING MATERIALS! Cement Lime Plaster _ Fireclay Brick Building Papers Roofing Sash & Doors 3-ply Veneer Paneling Fir Finish a Specialty ALBERT & McCAFFERY, LTD. Prince Rupert, B.C. W. J. PITMAN’S MUSIC STORE PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. STANDARD 4 Goops PIANOS PHONOGRAPHS Stern ARD Everything in Muste PRICES and . SINGER SEWING MACHINES and command. - of advertising! 7 t se os Customers, Cash Registers It takes a steady flow of customers to your store to keep the cash register tin ging with profit-making regularity. ADVERTISING in The Omineca Herald and The Terrace News would help to keep old customers interested in your store and bring new ones. It spreads the news about your store. and its merchandise far and wide to the women of this community. Ad- vertising is the most efficient, eeono- mical business-building force at your ‘Why not investigate the possibilities | Progressive - | Merchants |, “ye | Advertise ©. ae “Issued by Canadian Weekly Newspapers Aggoe’n «1 Profits. The Omineca Herald ‘Printed every Friday’ ‘at NEW HAZEETON, B.C. PUBLISHER Cc, H. SAWLE Advertising rates—$1.60 per inch per month; tine each subsequent insertion. One year Six months. + U.S. and British Isles - $2.50 per year Notices for Crown Grants | - $12.00 Purchase of Land” - . 4 "' Licence t¢ Prosnect for Coan] - a 0 “Trains” Off the Track D. B. Hanna, one-time presi- dent and general manager of the Canadian National Railways, hav- ing succeeded to that position when the C.N.R. and G. T.P. were amalgamated, has blossom- ed out as the inspiration of a book known as “Trains of Recollec- tion.’’ Mr, Hanna was formerly general manager of the Canadian Northern, and probably has been a good railway man, but when it comes to writing a book of the nature of the one which bears his name as author, he should at least refresh his memory and not depend entirely on “‘recollection’’. Information supplied by a man who has filled the important positions that Mr. Hanna hag is usually taken, and rightly so, as authoritative by the rest of the world. Thus he should be parti- cularly careful of his facts and more particular in not allowing his personal, prejudices to run away with his obligation to be fair. ‘In discussing grades through the Rockies Mr. Hanna says the Canadian Northern has a grade. of only twanty- -six feet per mile, and adds that the G.7T.P, grades are almost equaliv as good. As a matter of fact, the G.T.P. grade against westbound and also east- bound freight is only four-tenths of one per cent, or twenty-one feet per mile between Red Pass Junction and Prince Rupert. The Canadian Northern eastbound grade is seven- ‘tenths of one per cent. Mr. Hanna gives the maximum load for a freight train over. the Canadian Northern as 3,768 tons. He does not refer to the more favorable haul on the G.T.P., which is 75 loaded ears, or a total of 4,500 tons. It is true that traffic from the east to Prince Rupert means a rail haul of 189 miles further from Red Pass Junction than it would be to Vancouver. But this is more than offset by the great- er load that an engine can haul. It is also true that Prince Rupert is 275 miles further from Liver- pool than the southern ports, but £2.00. 1.00. - try that distance would add prac- tically nothing to the costs. Therefore, when Mr. Hanna tells his story about grades he is not quite fair to the northern ronte, His unfairness has also been a traffic for the G.T.P. to Prince Rupert. He quoted big figures hauling freight. He did not men- tion:-that in common practice the railways ‘actually give a lower 3 4\ vate for the long-haul than they ~~ do for the short haul. He. was reading natices l6c per line first insertion. 10 per, on traffic going to the Old Coun- |. big disadvantage to developing |) when referring to tiles, but he}. told nothing of the actual cost of Northern branch of the Canadian National Railways at the expense of the G.T.P. branch, Unfor- tunately, many shippers and poli- ticians take his story as gospel, and do. not suspect the camou- flage. The northern route has had much of this unfair treatment from the headquarters staff, es- pecially when most of that staff was recruited from Canadian Northern ranks under Mr. Hanna. It makes it hard now to educate the shippers and the politicians to the fact that they have a really cheaper route to the world’s mar- kets via Prince Rupert than they have by going to the south. Some of the States have stan- dardized the size of bank cheques. That should be carried out in this country, where go many different sized cheques are in use. The Dominion and provincial govern- ‘ments use extra large cheques that will hardly fit a No. 10 envelope. Then some banks here have the little vest-pocket-size cheques. Some private firms also use different-sized cheques.