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. Prices.

~~ Consumers ihoukd be -
prepared. to ‘put -more™

‘ pork on their forks for |

. the next two to three |
years because the price.
atbeet ien't going down, «
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ministry official warns,

Gordon MacEachern,
deputy
minister. (marketing)
‘also forecasts a 20-per-
cent increase in B.C.-
produced swine during
the next four years, -

Two basic reagons for
“increased pork con-
sumption - are: a
_ Gramatic change in
buying habits: and

“Two years ‘ago the
meat industry
calculated it would be
difficult to” get con-
swners to eat more than
30 pounds of pork per
capita a year." he said,

“At that time beef
consumption was about
_ 200 pounds per year per
‘capita, poultry

(chicken) $5 pounds and ~

pork about 45 pounds,”

Now, consumption is
about 70. pounds for -
pork, and leas than 8
pounds for beef.

“The consumer has
beex buying pork in
greater amounts for
almost two years and
once you get that much

of a change, and ac:

ceptance, it is hard to
reverse buying habits."'.

Considering that
consumers can buy twa
pork roasts for dmost
the same price as a
roast of beef, it is casy
to see why shoppers
have made the switch,
MacEachern said

Re forecast that
consumers are unlikely

to eee beet prices below.
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VANCOUVER (Py ‘and! even. the “current
Slight‘beef price slump

‘won't last long.
MacEachern, | ‘who
mntil last fall headed the
“Ottawa-based ”:
. Agftealture -Fieséarch
“Council of Canada, said
enterprising : farmers
will invest..millions’ of .
dollars “in new and
explanded facilities’

evea though-economic

factors :such as. high
interest “rates and in-
lation: are unlikely to.
eape substantially.”

Main reason:
climatic factors aside —-
a world. demand for
wheat and animal feed

“The key is that until
the beef industry in
NorthAmeéricabecomes
more foragebased (fed -
more grass, hay and
silage) cattlemen. will.
have problems main-
taining their share of
the consumer's meat.
consumption, an

"Tt takes 4.3 pounds of
barley to produce a
pound of pork compared
with 10 pounds of barley
to produce a pound of .
beef “during the last 200
' pounds ‘of’ growth on a
steer," he said. "In
simple terms it is
cheaper to produce
pork.”

“Forage land in the |
US. is already, being
converted to grain, thus
shrinking the grass base
for cattle,” he said.
“The push for more
grain production is also |
on in Cansda but in our -
case we have millions of |
acres of unused forage
lands in: the northern -
prairies and in. the
Peace River that can be
used for: beef. ex) =:

PAL Ls es

:

Stns Tea

ag Fo Ch ee ET es ee ee,

oY Patrolling © Canada’s.

, harardous.

But two-way. radio
‘communication, -
“siowmobiles’ and . air-

. craft have improved the
safety margin ‘from
. what it was70 years ago
__ When four members of a
. Royal North West -
" eHtounted Police patrol ”-

_ perished inbrutally cold

. _ weather’ when they

became lost en route:
‘ from Fort McPberson to
. Dawson ity | in the”
~ Yukon, - -

In his book on the
fateful expedition, The -
Lost Patral, author Dick

North says Inspector

remerabered only for
leading his three,
-" pompanions to disaster,
“The Mounties of that
- period travelled tens of
thousands of ‘miles
. throughout «northern
~ Canada,” says North,
“The wonder is that it
took 37 years before a
tragedy such as that of
the lost patrol oe:
curred, "
The region where
Fitegerald and his men
- were lost encompdsies.
several. mountain
ranges and the drainage
Of the Peel River. Six -
" qaajor ‘rivers, contribute
tothe Peel's drainage—
the Ogilvie, Blackstone,
Hart, Wind, Bonnel-

North always has been ;

Francis J,.Fitzgerald is _-

Plume and Snake,
Even, today.only two
of these rivers are

" touched by a road, the
Dempsier Highway,
named for Inspector |
W.L.D. Dempster who -

' commanded the patrol
that recovered the -

. bodies of the four men.

The four —, Fit:

; agerald, Sam Carter, ‘acl
former constable and . |
' guide, and” ‘Constables - ”
George - Kinney and:
Richard O'Hara — left

* gn Dec. 21, 1010 for the .
760-kilometre .trek,.a—

_ routine annual patrol
that had begun in the
Winter of 1904-06 bit was
starting for the. firat -
time from Fort Mc.
Pherson rather ‘than

. Dawson City. -_

. Fitzgerald, who was
“4. when he died, was an
‘experienced traveller in,
“the North. = 2:

At-27 he was one of the
pioneer surveyors of an

- allCanadian. overland .

route from Edmonton to: .
the Klondike ona fa:
mous patrol headed by
Inspector’ J,D: Moodie: -

At 29 he fought in the

‘ Boer War and at 34, .
commanded the first
Mountie detachment on’

_ the Arctic Ocean. When
be was 3% Fitrgerald
* completed: a dog-sled
patrol from Dawson to
:- Herschel Island in .the
Beaufort Sea, making —
him one of only a hand-

ful of men who have ~ :
travelled overland from.”

Edmonton to the Arctic

"? past by way of the Brit-

‘ish Columbla interior
and the Yukon.

He was promoted to —

__[nspector at 40.
- ‘The primary purpose | -

Sat the patrol wae to

* carry‘: -mail and
" dispatehes from. Her-
“schel, Island and ‘Fort
_MePherton in the north —
” is Dawson City in the ‘-
south, In- addition, the
ee was to check on
the condition of Indlans
and - ‘prospectors in the

. area,

The Mounties had the ~
wual trail clothes worn

_; n-such expeditions —

_ long woollen . under-

wear, dungarees or
regular-issue | pants,
wool shitts, duck parkas
with fur-lined hoods,
wool socks, fur-lined
mittens, Indian moc- -
casins and several pairs
of mukluks for each -
man.

They took down-filled
sleeping bags, a stove, a

‘fent and tarps to lash -

their gear to three
birchwood toboggans.
They had 34. kilograms

, of bacon, 4.5 kilograms

of corned beef, 12 kilo-
grams of tobacco, seven

, Mlograms of lard, 13
_Milograms of salt, 45
. Milograms of. butter,

tine kilograms of tinned

"THE LOS?’P

b ve

| pehiombered only f for a deat , trek

of dried fruit,.195 -
kilograms of. ‘beans, oy
eight kilograms ‘of =: ~,
coffee ‘and: tea, three

- kilograms of baking
powder and 16
kilograms of sugar... -
_‘Thefirst day out along
_the Peel River. was
difficult because of

' Fecent snows, Normally

. they. would have bad
.Some kind of, broken
: trail to follow on atleast |.
that n2kllometre leg of.”
the trip. But no trappers:

. or hunters had preceded
them. a

Of they had leit “from :
_ Dawson, where 2 horse *
‘and sled: were often
employed to break trail
for. the first. &0
kilometres, the dogs aid
men could have found
their “trail legs” before’
engaging in the heavier
work of travelling an
* unbroken trail,

. But leaving from Fort
McPherson, they made
slow progress for the
most part. At one point

+ they were battered by ‘a

- brutal seven-day: cold:

. snap during which the

, average = . temperature
tn wasts.6 degrees C.

' Facing bone-oumbing
* cold, deep'.smow, open ~
“water and huge piles of
driftwood on the ice of
“the river, it ‘look the
_ porty seven days to go
: 12 kilometres. - -

. “patrols fate.

On Jan, 12, Fitegerald
gerit Carter’ out to look
for Forrest Creek,
where they had to make
a portage. They now
‘were at: least: 13,-
’ Kitometres past the
creek and Carter could”
not find the trail. Fit-
agerald decided to keep |
_ Solig forward and, says.
North, sealed ‘the -

Fumning short of food
-because of the time
wasted trying to find the
portage and still facing

- bitterly cold weather,
_ Fitzgerald: decided’ on -.

\ Jan. 18 to tum back to

‘ Fort McPherson. That -
night they killed the -~
first of their dogs to. .
supplement their food |

supply.
\Theneedfor kiling a
dog 40 s00n is graphic

evidence that. Fit--.
zgerald waited woefully -
long before. deciding to
turn back,” says North, .-:-
They made . good...

progress on the 19th,
going 4 kilometres, and

- Killed a second dog for
‘food. But the weather .

worsened the following
day, the first of, many
setbacks . the patro)- -
would suffer an the way
back. |:

“The physical etfecta”

of Tiving on: dog), meat.
began to show, The:
men’s: skin‘

 eity found the beédies’ -

. Patrols hired Indian.
began |
peeling off and their lips.

possibly 2 a |
With 160 kilometres to am
goon Feb. 3, Fitzgerald
Was optimistic that they
- would reach Fort: Mo-
Pherson with three’ or

af a
so vara -digey: of, -
' jhe: journey ended on:
“~vFeby 5,101, when the

party was roughly 112° a

~“Kilometres’ from its “

ae In his. last: entry,

“Fitegeraid:. recorded |;

. that they could go only a .
faw miles a day. woe
On Feb, 38;" Demp-7..
tees: party.” left: fron:
Dawson City to search’
‘for thie lost patrol.
Tt faind the bodies of *-
Taylor, 23, and Kinney, ~"

“M4; on March 2t along (7°

with a camp kettle half
- full of moose hide cutin +7

small pleces; evidently - |
- thie hide had been boiled ©] -

for stew, .. veo ag Mahe
‘The next-“day the |

of ° Fitzgerald. and

Carter, 41, atop: a

“snowbank, Dempeter’s <<]. i -
party estimatedthat the [°°
' foiir died between Feb:.-[°!

Mand Feb. 15. -
“The tragedy: led iy
: eftectiive measnres “to.”
‘avoid a reairrence..“

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