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THE OMENECA HERALD, NEW HAZEL

'B. C3 WEDNESDAY,

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NOVEM BER 2, 1930

The Omineca Herald

NEW HAZELTON, B.C.

Published: Every Wednesday
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A GREAT FISH STORY

Not long ago the ‘Canadian Press
sent out a rousing story—rousing to
fishermen at least. It came from New
Westminster, B.C, It was to the ef-
fect that local fishermen hed caught
in a net a giant sturgeon weighing ov-
er 700 pounds. Three hours of strenn-
ous exertion were spent before they
suceveded in bringing the monster fish
md, Haney this—three sturgeon
world weigh more than a ton, Some
cateh,

“he fact that it was a sturgeon that
broke into the neva rarke-s the inci.
Oent all the more intevestiag, for the
sturgeon is a “roynl fish” About nine
hundred years ago when Edward the
Second was King of England] an act of
jnirtiament constituted the sturgeon a

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claimed as his own, such sturgeon ag
were taken from the River Thames
above London bridge. Apparently the
royal people and civie dignitartes each
had a fine taste in fish, even as we
have today. Sturgeon makes a dish
fit for any. King’s table or even the
board of a mayor.

Until the reiiarkable story about the
British Columbian fish came along, our
idens of sturgeon were more Hmited.
It had been described to us as a native
of both sides of the North Atlantic.
There were about twenty species and
these varied in length up to twenty
feet. The largest were said to oceur
in the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, the
Danube, ete. The compilers of school
hooks will now hare to make some
changes, for if ever a sturgeon had
heen: found in- Europe bigger than.that
British Columbia sample we have not
heard about it.

Here are some things we know about
sturgeon. It is a bottom fish and ob-
tains its food by grubbing with its tong
powerfnl snout in the sand and mud,
There are fresh water and sea water
sturgeon, but most of those caught in
Canada appear to he of the fresh water
type. .

Years ago, when the Ottawa river
Was a great fishing ground, the stur-
eon was a caminon sight of a morging
on the local market. But the saw dust
from the mills killed them off, as it

“royal fish” belonging to the sovereign

did most of the other fish. The saw

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throwing match or clgarette out

start a forest fire that will ruin it all,
preserve our forests by using every care with. fire in

the woods.

' BRITISH COLUMBIA FOREST SERVICE
- Dept. of Lands

Grorrous views of cool, green forests —
is one of the principal charms of this vaca-
tion land . .-.. yet.a moment of thoughtlessness in

of a car window can
Please help .

CIGARETTE
BUTTS OUT

| deau canal the bed of the saw dust was

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dust got into their gills and drowned .
them.
tom of the lordly Ottawa river was al-
most unbelievably deep. On one oc-
casion when explosions in the river had
beeome frequent
Were called upon to explain, it was
found that near the outlet of the Ri-

shout forty feet thick. This illustrates
what the march of progress will do to
fish when refuse is dumped into lake
and river. ’ Steps were taken to avoid
the destruction in future, but the dam-
ave bad been done—not irreparable it
js our hope,
The entch of sturgeon in a yenr is
worth to the fishermen around $90,000.
The fish is usually marketed fresh, al-
though. excellent smoked sturgeon is
cecasionally on sale in the. cities. The
roe mikes eaviare and the air bladder
is made Into isinglass. ,

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SECONDARY PRODUCTION
, Secondary produetion provides some
interesting facts. The manufacturing
sroup is head aud shoulders, above any
of the primary groups. Canada has
heen rapidly’ industralized since the
first of the century, and the value ad-
ded. to raw materials by the. mannfat-
toring process is now around one and

The bed of saw dust at the bot:

and the scientists.

'g halt billion ‘dollars in a yeny, and
this large amount: remains after deduct
ine the cost of the raw materials from
the gross yalue of the products.

Snecialization has been carried far.
Many of-the processes performed in
the home or an the farm at the time of
Confederation are now. carried on in
the factory with the use of efficient
machinery, Uriven by electricity or by
steam or internal combustion engines,

ploy six’ hundred thousand persons.

“The services include a great variety
of workers, from professional men to
domestic help, -No fewer than two
hundred, thousand “females are -engag-
cd in domestié — services, -That is a

The mills and tretories of Cannda em- |

‘HE HOTEL OF THE
.PIENDLY HEARTH
we ayy A

“ti SVEN Oh

“The great British fireplace in ihe
general lounge of Hotel Grosven-
< or Warms as. it. cheers—the lovely
“quiet bedrooms invite refreshing
sleep—and the location of the

Grosvenor. cuts steps: and. minutes
on every call in the business, shop-
ping and transportation ‘centres of
Vancouver,

Write for folder.

- Exgatet Good.
Solandid Seruce
Tecate Prices

Looking uveer the’ censas figures of
oi we tind that there were over tivo’

very large nunwer, about one. quarter
of all female employment, yet, pro rata
it is.much smuller than-in England and |
same other countries, Clergymen, phys
icians, lawyers, miusiclans;.:tenchers,
stiticians, bankers, soliders, nurses, |
civil servints and a host of people of
other occupations all comé within the
service class, each of which, along with
the primary and secondary. producers,
IHays an essential purt-in the eompos-
ite social und eeonomic life of the na-
tion, Interlaced with alti is the capita]
structure,

house,

anal a halt million. persons employed
avd earning an income, whether large
or sinall, The average, carnings of
males in a. year warked out at. $927
and of femnles $559. Nine hondrel
aoUars or suwill ‘not ‘go very far ‘in
“the support of-n wife: and) children in-
at Canitinn “city? these: days, Dnt “flve.
hnmilred and fifty dollars is of so "
poor an income for a young girl work- :
or Whose nbode may still be the family“

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