THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1924 a |For Bale OUR BUSINESS 18 Transp portation By automobile, buggy, * or horse-back We move freight, express and supplies -by wagon, - drays or pack: ~ horses. We will, move you or your goods and distance does not scare us. . Telkwa Transfer Hoops & Mapleton Telkwa - B.C. Telkwa Lumber Co. DEALERS - MANUFACTURERS Building - Contracting Cabinet Making Wagon Repairing Allkinds of building material carried in stock TELKWA Bulkley Valley Hay and Oats ALWAYS ON HAND LARGE or SMALL QUANTITIES ——— BOYER & CARR City Transfer Co. Yona B.C. Send for our yellow sheet price list QUALITY DRUGS EASTMAN KODAKS, FILMS PARKER DUOFOLD FOUNTAIN PENS W. J. McCutcheon Northern B.C.’s largest mail order medicine house | Prince Rupert The Omineca Herald Printed every Friday at NEW HAZELTON, B.C. ' PUBLISHER Cc. H. SAWLE ~~ Advertising rates--$1.50 per inch per month; reading notices 16c¢ per line Airat insertion, 10¢ per tine each ee in ; eyear = °% $2.00 Sa months + - ” 100, U. S. and British Iales - $2. 50 per year Notices for Crown Grants - * - $12.00 Purchase - » 7.00 Hon. John Oliver may well,be entitled to the nickname of Hon- est John, but he could hardly be called Modest John. He admits that if only he could get into the Legislature again he would glad- ly be premier, minister of rail- ways, minister of finance, chief fighter for equalized freight rates and the leading spirit in all other movements. His ability, he ad- mits, is unlimited, and that all others in B. C. are but dumbells by comparison. It was this mod- esty that caused his defeat in Victoria, and it also makes it dii- ficult for other ridings to accept him. Modest Honest John should tell the people more about him- self and what he ean do. , to commercialize its scenery. in B. CG. |Lake-Endako highway, - leaving « Tisence t Prosneet for Goal - 9.00) There is one thing British Col- umbia has in abundance—scenery The best bet the province has is As \an industrial province it can not stick—taxes are not only driving out what industry was started, but nothing new can get started. Visitors hunting for something new can be skinned for a time. and there is lots of new scenery] .. lt would help somewhat if the newly-acquired incorporate diz- nity. : Good progress is: being made by the government steam shovel as it plows its way towards Tin-| - tazel on the work of the Burns behind it a good surface for the grader to put the finishing touch- esupon. The course being fol- lowed recommends itself as to grade and economy. ~ Arthur Wood made a trip to his Taltapin mining” property last week. On the property investi- gation has disclosed some. very. rich ore close to the surface, and |. work on this showing will be started at once. Myr. Wood is now in’ Vancouver to make the necessary arrangements. — V. Schjelderup and party went to: Stuart Lake to tie in some land, returning later to do some surveying near Forestdale. - The high school building will be a credit to Burns Lake when completed and every effort should be made to obtain the highest possible attendance from.those children in the district who are eligible to attend. Capt. Turner has resumed op- erations on the property -at Dor- reen owned by Mr. Duthie. Sidelights on a Great Industry Three Pillars Let KODAK sell. your | snestoc | Reproduced i in, breeders’ magazines and. fair catalogues, and included with business letters, pictures of your cattle,. horses, sheep, hogs, . are selling arguments that cannot be denied. Kodak gives you just such pictures the easiest way—and the cost is little enough.. Choose the Kodak you need from the wide assortment on display at our Kodak counter.. Autographie Kodaks $6.70 up Kodak Film—Finishing -Ormes Limited | DISPENSING CHEMISTS. - a | 8rd Ave, & 6th St. PRINCE RUPERT x. of the Industry) | Progress of f Province Due to Maintenance of two cabinet ministers from the north get busy on an -effort to that would utilize the forests on the Skeena, Kispiox and and trib- utary rivers, The timber is all ready and is even wasting. At bilt is jooking for a site’ and for timber, FIRE, LIFE, AND ACCIDENT . Insurance Farm Land" —and— Town Lots List your property now while the demand is good Agent for— . - SmithersTown Property -. District Agent for “FORD CARS SMITHERS Agent for the Best Companies G.T.P. AND NORTH COAST . VS, Henry: start a pulp and paper. industry |. the same time millionaire Vander- | Huge Purchasing Power Vast Developments by Land - and Sea. Due to Initiative. - of Lumbermen There are three great spending forces in the British Columbia forest in- dustries with its purchasing power of 5100, 000,000 per annum. “The imberholder—the, pioneer investor in the raw material. 9, The Logger—the harvester of the Burns Lake ; timber crop. 3. The Manufacturer—the builder up of markets. Upon the unimpeded functioning of these branches depends the fair pro- of Rose Lake. for Smithers later, . of Mrs. C. Calvert this: week. business visitor last week. C. Hinton, of Francois Lake paid a visit to Smithers last week, nesday. of last. week. © | visitors on. Saturday.’ te . stein. cow; will rod. 8 Five-year-old. “Hol-| ait them: ‘tivo: ‘eattonda. of effects an be} from the prairie, bringing. wit Conver & Owens, of Tinkut Lake, have disposed of . their team and outfit to C. Knutson, Mr, Owens left|. Mrs. Frank Keefe.and Gladys, of Francois Lake, are the guests T. Brewer, of Smithers, was_a -Mrs..W. D. Lukins, of Palling, motored to. Burns Lake on Wed-| S.. H. Hoskins and Chief Ser-|® Golam vice, of Smithers were official . Two new- settlers. have arrived on 1 aE ‘by the Tim ress of British olumbia’s vital in- ustry, set-back to one spelis diaaster to nn thre ~ The timberhulders of the. provined, faced with fire and storm risks against which ‘there is. no insurance, have contributed over $46,000,0 000 to the rovincial. treasury during the last fteen yeara. “A world’s record in similar taxation. — The loggers spend annually very ‘large sume on new and costly equip. ment to keep pace with. modern seience and ‘overcome the eyer varying ob Bight hundred miles of private rail- memorial of this energy. '| The manufacturers. of lumber, shingles, pulp and paper, boxes and other forest producta, are also forced to expend: millions. every year.on new machinery to maintain the efficiency of ‘their planta. “In that way alone can they. -meet-the keen world competition bia lumber manufacturers, by dint . of strenuous market extension work; :. have: incre theit export shipments ” twelvefold. in. ten . years, il ports of British Columbia, ae For ANYOX veceuuahanecsceesesecuetanegensseesesse .. Wednesday, 10.00 p.m. R..F. McNaughton, District Passenger Agent, Prince Rupert, B.C. . s S, PRINCE RUPERT or PRINCE, GEORGE will @ sail from Prince Rupert for VANCOUVER, VIC- - 1 ‘PORIA, SEATTLE and intermediate points each gay Monday, Thursday and Saturday at 11.00 p.m. i For STEWART......--..--+ 6. . QUEEN yA ELOPTE ISLAND SERVICE, effective June 80—The s. 8 PRINCE JOHN leave Prince Rupert for ‘Massett, Port Clements and Bulkley Bay each Monday, 8 p.m For Skidegate and all South ‘Taland Forts, ‘each Wednesday, 8 p.m. Passenger Trains Leave New Hazelton: Eastbouni--1.17-a.m. Daily except Monday Westbound--8.16 a.m. Daily except Tuesday. For Atlantic steamship sailings or further information apply to any Canadian National Agent or - ALL FROM THE -PINEST. TIM-— _ BER AND THOROUGHLY SEASONED - Finished and Rough LUMBER. St ital & Pohl | ‘CARNABY, ‘B.C. : = "Your, nearest supply point” — FLOORING AND - SPRUCE SHIPLAP. a Rates on application —- ae stacles that nature puts in theix paths. | * “|roads; now in actual operation, is one| justify their product. The British . ‘Their. efforts ‘have indisputably’ been oo ‘the main facter. in, building. up’: the 5 sea BUILDING MATERIALS os Cement - --Lime.: Plaster’ ‘Fireclay” | - Brick::_.Building Papers » Roofing’ sah Sash & Doors. 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