THE OMINECA HERALD. NEW ee B. C, Mirra XUN —_ The Omineca Herald)" “2 NEW BAZELTON, B.C. Published Every Wednesday Cc. H. Sawle - vans Publisher CRUDE AFFAIRS AT FIRST When ovr ancestors gavve up their migratory life and began to adopt e Advertising rate, Display 35¢ per inch per issue; reading notlees'15¢e for the first Insertion ond -10c each subse- quent insertions; legal notices 14¢c and lle. Display 40c per inch $15.00 $15.00 Certificates of Improvements...... Water Notices CANADA'S RAILWAY PROBLEM Most people in Canada are worrying ahont the state of the ratlways In the country. This has been brought about hy huge deficits, by politicians: in the House of Commons and in the Senate nud by many newspapers. Cnification co-operation and what have. It is just whout time that the railways were told to go to it und find their own solution. Competition is away ahead of any new idea thus fur advanced, and go far as the Canadian National system is con- corned, the only thing the Dominion (iovernment shonld say is, “Go to if hoys, but pay your way.’t dian system has by far the hetter coun- try to go through and they should be fide to stay in that country and de- velop it, rather than to sneak into the C. P.R, territery and try ta steal away the business that company developed. the C. XN. Ik has apparently forgotten hout- developing new business and country. They have been devoting all their resources to taking something not (heirs by rights, We again say that the C, N. I. has by far the greatest {orritovy and the richest resources, but thus fur do aot seem to have anyone {a their offives who apprecintes this or knows how to profit by it. So much for the country and the resources, The C. N. R, has a far superior grade wi} the way across Canada it has a harbor at Prince Rupert that has no superior in the world, and the CG, NLR. rat primitive society well behind them, The Cana- |. more centralized system of living, they built homes for shelter from the rigors of a coll climate. Until they learnt to saw wood or.shape a stone, their habi- tations were erude affairs. Turf huts were common—not such w ell-equipped turf-walled dwellings as may be seen in some parts of Canada even today, for they had no glass or plastic win- dows to allow the Heht of heaven to dispel the darkness, But they were xotting somewhere. ; With the nomadic character of much people arrived at the period of central- ized living. They began to live in com- into vogue, A good Ded. is more, com- fortable than a bag of skins on the hard ground. It is ensier to feed out pt: fn bow! placed on a table than it is to dip into a hig iron pot of stew or to hack a chunk of meat off an ox roast- ed whole. A choir is. handier- than squatting upon the damp earthen or stone floor. lt is not’ diftieult to visualize the rapid yrogress that was made as soon as the good folk decided to end thelr whuderings, A pillow that was good enough for Jacob, and which now re- poses in Westininster Abbey, soon be- came too hard fora man’s’ head, ‘al- though it wasn’t so bad for thé earlier fellows with their uncut growth of hair as for 1s roundheads, their descendant ning, o£ course. Gathered together they were less. liable to: attack by-their enemies in the shape of man or beast. Individual notes came. later. . That-was the poiut at which real fur nitnre:: ‘stepped. in. The - individual home. yas the outcome ‘of a settled-and relatively . settled life. Once -you built & home,.you have a -place wherein to keep-things. It follows'that. you fash- fon a real, bed and A big. chair where on. ei htt double the loads through the monutains that auy other road ean, The C.N.R. hag the equipment, and ill along its ronte acorss Cannda it has cool mines or water power for use if onty it will use them, instead of going to foreign countries for fel ofl to fat- ten mp seme alrenily over fat pluta- crats, ; ., The C. N. R. has long sinea reached |: the stnee of the boys of olden days that the father took to the front gate, gave a kick in the pants and teld hin to go forth and fend for himself. _ Most of | ( those boys made good, So will the C, sented .in Stone were not given ‘seats ‘ta’ sit on, bug, later.on the: gods‘and. their w worshippers equipped * with chaits: or| not necessary to take the Tailways out of polities, but-take the politicians out kuew what he.was talking about or The- -earliest: ‘deities iat y were repre- , Someone said recently that it was Wf the railways. Whether that person N. I. if given a chance and made to not, the fact remains that no organi- A "Department ¢ of Mines The value of mine production i in 1837 was: $74, 475, 902. an increase. of :$20,393,935 tia minng industry have volumn and. value. : Province, ‘apply to: “For “copies. of thie annual report of ‘the | ‘atinigtis’g of, ‘Mthes " an d some other pubitentiong, deghng. with - the’ Thtaing” ‘dididstr; ‘ . DEPUTY; MINISTER OF MNS - VICTORIA, B. O. over. 1936. All phases oh: shown ‘increases. in hott. poo ad i munities. Beds, tables and chairs came |. . It was community life in the begin- * | aia not exactly take out thelr “rages” : distance it is also quite safe for, motor spuce, , ; had. a beautiful, , oa one ‘could 6 zation in Canada iss SO active, political: ly, as are’the~ rilwys, ules it be the @hurches? * sim Four men packed. a fifty pound sack of rezistered Margitis wheat over the Monkmnn Pass road to Prince George. no great feat in. itself, -but the wheat ws worth $1.00 per Ib. for seed, and the stunt was pulled off, to’ advertise the Monkinan Pass rotite for a toad, a * s The Guardinn Oil Co,, Ltd., has start | ed to drill for oi] in Pouce Coupe field, They propose to go 5000 ft. The pre- sident of the company tells of plans to run a pipe line from the well to Bella ‘Coola, something over 400 miles and to ‘Vancouver, something over 600 miles, If all the oil from that -well just: start-. ing cannot be sold at Bella Coola and ‘at Vancouver there is-no reson why Q “pipe line should not be ruu to- London. eee ‘The Salmon Arm Observer recently published a 48 page special addition for. the benefit of tourists, The paper was well gotten up and no doubt was of much benefit to the publisher ag well as. to the tourists. The Prince George Citizen also did itself proud re- cently by issuing a large special addi- tion in which it was well supported by the merchants and husiness men of the town and community. Those places are progressive and the business men always do their part: in ‘advertising their ‘own businesses and their dist- ricts,. They want more business and they get it. That makes it easy for their local papers to meet costs of pro- ducing special editions and their re- gular w eekly additions, ‘ mk: ® To The Editor on eee ‘Usk, B.C,, Tune 10, '38 Editor The Omineca Herald, ‘ New Hazelton, B.O.,, ‘Dear Sir :—We thank you ‘for pab- lishing our notice for a. Raking Bee, ‘The “Boe” was not postponed as we the women were entirely serious. They as misprinted,; but their “rakes” and in pretty good nature considering -all the “rages” they are entitled to when they sée. what is. being done on rond ‘Twolk w hen it’ could be as well. applied to where. it is necessary and “Would | give relief to a large proportion of the Usk tax payers, _. The women have . been. out. to work Clenred. the road of ‘the described im vedimenta for a distance of approxi- mately 1800 feet, ‘mostly on: the main highway in the heart of. the town, 80 it is, ‘now possible to walk, ete, With the greatest of ease and. nlso for that tintttic: and for the passing pedestrian, Su, Mr. Kenney, Public. Works Dept., ‘and ypu, too, Mr, Editor,. hnve ‘our cor- iiiproy emnent which we have made, “Ty by the men working for the “govern- this work tinished.. to our satisfaction, Thanking, ypu “Mr, Riditor, ifor: this Phe Ladies of Usk one ; nyse Comments . _ Relkwa Te 5 bes iz Ay, Editor kee t were ma ‘places 4 i ft i the government’ d abs er F two Wednesday afternoons and have| quent in road seryice here, we intend to. set out one day each, week until ive: get}. |. more effect thar a few western wolves. | Omineca .and .Skeena fet busy about: this rain business, the new settlers will think they. might bavé “better ” stayed |e with -THitler, and :the nidivilizéd ‘and |! inhuman scnm_ of perdition in. Europe and Asin, . 25 Ser 7, Unies: ‘he meinbers for Prince George-hothers, w ill ge ret their wits ‘to work ‘ang ‘do* something” about the. nit-wit iden OF Stopping, farmers. “front. working tax- ‘We suppose the farmers have got rehet arrears: about clenned up, anid . Some- wind: bag has. convinced: the-gov- - ernment that, the. farmers. have, rench- *-.8 Tt minty not be just the best time, and ‘ed Prosperity again. i ‘In any case this whole terrible graft. the farmers are the circumstances ‘are ‘not too “promis-| getting away with, merely amounts to jig,’ but the present. agitation: for a|the.foct.that all. farmers can now do grain dryer at Telkwa, ‘in’ condéection - few days, work on the roada, and “in-. with the Seéd Growers, would: fill’ a | sted of drawing a few dollars they can long felt want, and we trust the mat-| switch the money~to their taxes. It ter will receive careful consideration. almost looks as if: the farmers were 8 - ‘merely .supposed (to pay taxes -and hake it soft for all the rest-of the pop- ulation. - Even though the farmers do have a good crop, which. is not-yvery ~ certain, the fact remains that to sell enough produce for cash money, is oft: - en a-yery hard job itself, but in selling - for cash it is usually customary for the buyers to put on-a diseount of 15 to 2595 . It might be a bright idea for the dumb uiossbacks to.wake up ani - start a little disturbance om their own. account, or do they -like getting the short end of everything? | Mystitied | We hope some poor sap does not get the idea that we need a herd law’ in thia district. The ‘idea may be O.K. for those who have ‘plenty of money, and do not have to ship dairy products at the present sheep-stealing prices. 4% - We trust the manufacturers will ap- preciate the. business they. get from’ New. Zealand and Australla, by reason of the Canndian statesmen? permitting the country to be flooded with import- ed butter just as the farmer had been ; getting almost. the price of ‘prodvetion lg! for the first time in seven years, Pos-|° *: sihly the old women ‘and baby-face Hepburn, being closer to Otiawa, had - arp, Bussinger of elkwa was a ris- Iter’te Hazelton: on Monday Inst. f "#* The present , transcontinental motor cycle record is 77 hours.and 53 min- ees We trust ‘the Farmers’: ‘Tustitartes, and the Liberal | Associations, and some ntes, held by Earl Robinson. as ‘tial, Anvitation to. come: and note ‘the |" -° . "|1£ (yon are not. satisfied that the re: |" : nulinder..of the roads in the village |’ -"). can be jiut.in the same condition quick- 1 ta ‘the ppro: a to. some other |. : wht ‘classitieaion of" eo | crime We ual that. com under? wo oe NE hundred and. nine. ‘million dollars are ; invested and twenty-eight * thousand - workers “tind employment in the forest product industries’ of British - 1. ‘Columbia. Forest protection | ds. therefore’ vitally - Important, - | . " Never leave a camp fire until you ure. sure it is’ out: Nee ‘eyery” ‘e a _care with matches and cigarettes, wk 3° BRITISH COLUMBIA FOREST SERVICE | ep | me _Dept. of Lands Sey “BUILD CAMP... FIRES:-NEAR. 3