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Automobileg, Buses, or Rigs
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HEADQUARTERS FOR TOURISTS
AND COMMERCIAL
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Dining room in connection
MEALS AT ALL HOURS

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A Rea Goodo HOTEL

Prince Rupert
B.C.

H. 8. ROCHESTER, Manager

Rates $1.50 per day up.

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New, clean and comfortable
First-clasa Dining Room in connection

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{The Bulkley Hotel

E. G. Orchard. Owner

-European or American Pian

The .headquarters for the Bulkley
Valley. Tourists and Commercial men
find tnis a grand hotel to atop at.

All trains met. Autoa, livery or rigs

fet saddle horses provided.

Smithers. B. C.

investigations

. Auditing
Books of Account. - Prafit and Logs
Written Up - Statements

Balance Sheeta ;
Income Tax Returns Prepared

S, Bazett-Jones
PUBLIC, ACCOUNTANT |
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o the average person a railroad

shop is perhaps the most un-
interesting institution one could pos-
sibly think of, It sugzests to one’s
mind everything that is eold and
jnanimate—dry--grimy. Eiven the
fence surrounding these stolid prem-

ises looks forbidding, like a prison
wall,

But during the great Canadian

grain rush from West to Hast there
are few places in the West more in-
teresting than the Weston Shops of
the Canadian Pacifie Railway, at
Winnipeg, where 500 cars a day are
snatched in off the main line, re-
paired and shot out tle next day to
resume their place in the big rolling
movement of the world’s grain car-
avan, .
This institution, quietly situated
on the western outskirts of Winni-
“peg, ranks among the big. industrial
organizations of the West. It em-
ploys eighteen hundred men tha year
round, and has a monthly payroll of
$220, 600, Weston Shops, which last
year repaired 39,518 cars, 200 coaches
and 494 engines—and manufactured
& million and a half dollars’ worth
of material—gives one the impres-
sion, of being a big, self-contained
corporation, instead of a minor part
of a big railroad system.

Under Works Manager BH, B.
Bowen, there axe.815 men working

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here who have held their jobs for
more than ten years, and there are
another 100 men who have been in
the service for twenty years and
over.

Weston Shops cover 23 acres of
land, fenced in and guarded at each
entrance by an attendant, Inside the
fence is a separate railroad yard
containing 40 miles of trackage, One
thousand cars are being shifted
about continuously by three shift
engines. Every day in the week from
400 to 500 cars are repaired and
shunted out of ita gates into the
regular yards,

These shops use up $300,000 worth
of material annually and they burn
120 tons of coal each day, alk West-
ern Canadian coal. :

One of the most interesting parts
of this institution is an apprentice
school, where 140 boys attend school
in the company’: '3 time, receiving reg-
ular wages. They are learning tha
technical side of railroading. They
study arithmetic, geometrical and
mechanical drawing and enter regu-
larly into the practical side of shop
ife, ;
A unique part of the shops is a
section where all the scrap iron and
metal wastage from Fort William to
Calgary is gathered and shipped in
to be re-made into iron castings. The
company saves $35,000 a year from
this reclaimed metal. From these
erstwhile wastages the shops manu-

‘to the entire train.

facture all bolts and iron casting
parts for the entire western lines
of the company. Each month 106,000
tons of cast iron is manufactured
here.

It is interesting to go through
these shops and see some of the
biggest engines in the service being
stripped right down to their wheels
and completely rebuilt. An engine
ean be rebuilt here in about eighteen
days.

“There is an engine that went into
the rock-slide in the Rockies two
months ago,” says the foreman. All
one can see of this engine is its
frame, just steel bars on wheels. It
is being re-made, boiler and every
thing.

Passenger and freight car wheels
for western lines are also made here.
The wheels must be ground while
both wheels are on axle, and both
must be made exact in size within
a hundredth of an inch For, if, as
the foreman explained, one wheel is
an eighth of an inch larger than the
one on the other side of the axle,
that larger wheel will want to travel
an eighth of an inch farther every
time the other one turns over, thus
wearing down the flange and _spoil-
ing the track—and causing danger
Annually. 16,-
C00 pairs of new wheels are made
here. - ;

And on these wheels rol] tha
world’s grain caravan.

PLACKHEADS

= Blackheads

simply dissolve and
disappear by

this: one simple safe
and sure method. Get two ounces
of peroxine powder from any drug store-
aprinkla it on a hot, wet cloth, rub the face
‘triskly—and every blackhead will be gone.

Wed Like to
Send You Our
Catalogue.

We are getting out this
year a beautiful illustrated
catalogue, and whe ready
we would like alfour cus-
tomers and friends to have
one.

Many of the prices are :
specially marked low to
compete with the mail order
catalogues. If you'd like
a catalogue let us know.

The goods are aff gua-
ranteed and we will cheer--
fully refund. money if some-
thing does not please you.

ohn Bulger

JEWELLER
Prince Rupert, B.C.

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There's a feller I know—he’d

But was suttinly green, when he

The stringer was small, about
half an inch wide. .
An old sourdough said, “It’s

Another ‘remarked,

An expert appeared to look at

He was also, you see, a Govern-

He fished out his camera, instria-

|On the strike and the dip he took

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been to school, :
But prospecting went—he
wasn’t a fool,

struck alead
That he thought was good—in
his urgent need. +

only a slide.”’ .

“Just a bit
of float i.

Flung down by a glacier—it’ a
you that’s the goat.’’ «

the place
Who took in the bearings with
quite a long face. ot

ment man, ..
And on avery wild- catter he’d
- just put-the ban, =

ments too,
‘Took pictures and altitudes be-|-
fore he was through’. :

careful note, . ...

+ \And i n alf that he saw he

“assiduously wrote.

be old and bent..

You see, it’s like this— Tnat sil-
ver-lead ore
In voleanic rock was not known
befcre.
The whole thing is wrong and
should not be here,
And you wont get enough for
a souvenir. ,

I’m a Government man,. and this

being the fact,
You’re right up against the
Development Act;
You can pick and can shovel, and
‘blast if you dare, ;
But in asking for money or
help—have a care,’

Now, this feller was stupid, ‘He
saw the dope
He’d worked at for years with
only one hope.
He’d stinted and starved for
powder and steel,
And you can imagine just how
‘he would feel,

‘However, he still went to work

asbefore, |. 4

In spite of “knoekings” and
curses galore.

The lead that he followed i in time

 . got to shine— .

Well, you fellers all know the
old ‘Graft-killer”’ mine!

—0O. W. OWENS,

Francois Lake, B. C..

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to $70 in: Vancouver, ~The crop.

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Brick

Building Papers

Roofing

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Fir Finish a Specialty

ALBERT & McCAFFERY, LTD.

Prince Rupert, B.C.

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