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THE OMINECA. HERALD, NEW. ‘HAZELTON, B. Ge WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1936

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NO, 3

Work to Stat
Very Soon On
New Roadway

K.T. Kenney, M.A. paia a visit to
‘ie dateriar the flrst of the we wck, he
ne ying “‘eome vast from Terrace on ihe |
first train that he was able to get tiad
he vetnrned tu Terrace oon ‘Pausday

His chief mission was to get work
started on the new road . eonstrue-
tion program as soon as possible

This work involves the expenditure of
$15,000 between Smithers and Terrace
on the main provincial highway, and
it will give employment to a lov of
men. Jt will be done by contract and
the contractors should now. be getting
together’ their. équipment. The work
from Smithers to New Hazelton will
he? tn “the
from here “on: it’ ‘will be call) new. con:
struction work.’ There has been n. lit-
tle local. sectional agitation:as to the
location of the road, but it is not like-
vy that this will be allowed to hold up
the plans or the work,

Hay Crop Should be in the barn, but

he Ready Shortly

The farmers of the Bulkley Valley
and along the Skeona and In the Kis-
Wor alsoare beginning to wonder
Ivew they are going to get their crops
ent of the fielis. There has been such
abosterdy rain for about a cmouth or
more that thé hiiy is ‘Deling ‘Jost and :it
was a big erep Tt has lodged and is
teehiming to ret on the ground: When
the ground does dry up, if It does; the
senson Will be so late that. the;. . grain,
will be ready 2 ‘Some of the. farmers
did start cutting ‘alfalfa and timothy:
The alfalfa ds. in eock and the timothy
is lying flat, none ot tt ‘being much use
now. Ta: add: to. ‘those troubles nll the
‘ivaflable men. are now. being taken on
road work right’ ‘through, the district
and the farmers will-have to do the
hest they can." What: looked: like a‘ biz
crop of ever ything is likely to turn out
pio he a frost.

we &
CANADA YEAR BOOK 1S. READY:

ine Canada Year Book is now ready
for distribution nnd. can. be bad from
- the” Genern! Statistics Branch of thé
Nominion. Bureau of. Statistics: at Ot
tawa, on: the payment of $1.50. Hor
‘reasons of economy: the free distribiu-
{ion of the ‘Canada"'Year Book’ ts .this
yenr ‘confined to only. ‘public. librarle,
By a specinl cond&saloii ‘bona fide mind)
isters of ‘the , Gospel, °, students and
<chool “teachers” "may > ‘obtain: ‘paper
hound copies: for- 5Oc. ¢ “This: hook ig a oS

. Committes Now:

“wayof improvements, - Ame

[fo it to seo what can and cannot be

FARMERS UP AGAINST IT HARD)

is not Even Cut yet—Grain will - |

‘the “west and. hort

ance of 451. miles farther sweat, and
111. miles ‘farther north:- . Four-fifths ‘
of. this westerly movement ‘and ‘nearly {
all: of .the northerly movemeut : have
been dn the Inst thirty. Years,

Selecting Site
_ For New Farm

A ‘eanimittee ® amposed | of Harry
Bowinan, of the LN, R. Colonization
Dept, Mr. Preston of the Provincial
Agricultural Pept. and A. Berner of
‘the Soldier Settlement Dept, is now
eximmining lands in the interior for a
site for the proposed new experimental
tu be established by the Dominion Gov-
ernment: ‘The committee will take in-
to cansiderution | the sof], the climate,
“ain fall accessibility. te the farming
~entres, and.several other things. . As
soon as they have-the information de-!
saved: they will report te Ottawa ‘and
may recommend one or more sites. | It
ix then expected that a man, will be
gant aut front Ottawa to make fin
‘orton, The work is mider Way now
and it_is hoped to have the farm’ or-
eaniced and work ‘started next’ year.
The ahove ‘aiiimittee: showld- be an
iQeal one for the work to he done and
t shonld. not take them long as. there
ave few who know the country 80 “well:
‘The prev inelal government has‘offer-
ed? te transfer any ‘of ffs Jand free of
charge, if such land is fonud suitable
“or the -purpose. Phen tle Nominion
Government through its Saldier Settles
ment department. has already, fh quan:
fity of land-that may. be selected. It
is doubtful if any of the present set-
tlers or absent settlers will: be, able to
sell aut’ to the government, _
Experimental -stationg. are proving
very anceessful - thronghout the Domin-
ion. No more experimental farms will
he established as there are a number
TOW. earrying.on that work.:: The sta-
tion is: practiqnily the same except. the
id irtion-dnesamoare. spractical garmin
andl Te. selentific investigation -—
. The station Will he Gn’ charge of. real
capatie farmers and helpers, and when
tt gets going should be of preat value
to all the settlers who can and will go

done with a chance of stiecess,

CPENING OF THE NORTH WEST

When we Canadians look at a map
we ere apt fo have.a super-agrecalle
impression of our national importance
On a map.of the North American con-
tinent pur Dominion seems enormous
ts compared w ith Mexico," but the
Snopulated®? . part is. -renlly no Inrger |"
than that of the’ “southern republic.
Ninety-fonr, p ‘Tent, of our, people. live
in aliont one: ifth of our nren (Only
six {% ure scattered over the’ “anpop-
wated four-fifths of the country’s str-
fuce, a territory, of more than tio and
a half million square miles.

There is some ground for pride, in
the fact that onr yeople have been con
sistently spreading out and settling
new areas. Righty years reo the parts
of the country that could. be called
populated amounted. to no more than
187,000 square niles, and while there
is still more ‘then halt. of our popula-
tion in these same small: sectlons, we
have in the interval definitely peopled
1 new area nearly fotir times ‘ag large.
On terms of area it is almost, exactly
as if: the people of the British Islea
had, spread out. over: the . areas of
France, Spain: ‘and. Germany, Moat of
our, spreading has,: vor ‘course, deen ‘to’
‘Mighty? years ago
the centre of gravity of the Canadian |:
population. was. ‘at Sonlanges, Quebea; |]
now itis in’ Algoma, Ontarlo, a dist-

anid: betaine tei “three-qu ldrter

Crop Field Day
: Sproule Farm
- Quite an. Event

The amma crop field duy ‘at the ex-
perimental plet-on the farm of Wi. A.
Sproule, hetyeen Telkwa and Smithers
was, held on Friday last in the rain.
That did not dampen the enthysiasin
of the farmers and the young farmers
who xe -interested in, thelr work and
who were able to get there. HH. M.
Tall, superv isor of experimental. plots
wes present. - This work is carried on
bby the Dominion government, Harry
Bowman of the CNR, Colanization
i Department, Preston of the provinelal
department and Howell, cow tester in
the Bukley. Valley were all there and
‘so was Olof Hanson, M.D. who gave an
address, directing his remarks in part
fartienlarly to the young people whe
were there. and showed a lot of inter-
est in the proceedings.
There wis a, jndging contest for the
yonng people and dairy cows were the
subject. This was in charge of Mr.
Preston and Mr, Howell, the latter he-
ing partiedarly interested in the work
of boys and girls clubs.
A enuple of hours were ‘spent at the
experimental plots of alfalfa, grain.
grasses are: grown and the result of
yarions fertilizers used was shown.

gathering, about. fifty in number, went
to the house where Mr. and Mrs.
Sproule served ice cream and cake, and
where the various speeches were made
Mr, Hall of course gave the folk a-talk
of an edneational nature. ,

" 'TFACHERS RE-ENGAGED FOR

4

School ‘House ‘to. He Pau Gen D.
. Parent was: ‘Re-electeil ‘Trustee *

There: was “not. a very large ‘attend:
ance at the annual meeting of the’ rate
payers of. New: Hazelton at the annual:
school meeting on Saturday night ani
everything. passed’ off harmoniously.
Geo. TD. Parent, retiring trustee, Was
re-instnted in that position for another
three yerrs. Thestwo schools Will be
carried an next term aud-the same two
tenchers were’ re-engaged. The trea-
surer repovied a balance on hand of a
comple of hundred dollars, and the
same financial requirements as last
year were passed. This will «allow
the hoard to paint the school Imilding
nad.to renew the insurance ‘on the
building. and equipment...) 0

On Saturday the work of framlvg
the first bent for the new seclim of
the Skeena bridge approach was.start-
ed. This was completed on Monday,
and moved down to the ground in read
iness ‘for erection. «At the same time
conetete pouring is going: aheda stentl-
‘ly. As yet the river. is: too high for
the Inst bent to be worked on, but i¢ is
hoped now that the river is dropping

this work con he pr oceeded with ina
few days.

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After a trip to Prince Rupett where
a new ptern bearing was installed: the
‘Llewellyn: boat. is ‘making. giead. ri

, We hile in Bethurem, faform

mot valuable ope. and: howl be in

: whe aie B. C. : Ameen Board s

Following this study in the field the]: aa
Public Works Dept. lulletin issued -at |.

“ravae: “TT eRS ‘dpivmge= “Wrong ‘side of}:

[7 per

available made a ton a day, but today
nt single Canadian paper-making mach-
ine can turn out 200 tons. .

largest individual sheets
ahont a yard squire A medern Can-
adian newsprint machines
sheet seventeen feet wide and a. mile
long in four minutes—hait an acre of
paper no minnte.

Farmers Getting
Anxious for Hay),

Qu a short trip around the interior
.the latter part af last week one of the
| hig surprises was the very paor eondi-
I then of the road from Telkwa up the
Aa townrds the chief settlement ‘of
Tvee, Lake and west We only went
along it for a few miles and found it
anything but n credit to the country.
Tr were formerly the main highway
throuch the country and was, and if
still is one of the higgest revenue pro-
ducing reais in the interior. That is
the ouly road many have to haut their
stnff ta and from .the railway, and
those people really de ship stuff. An
excrse night be nade for the public
works: department were the road made
of gumbo, but it [s not. “Tt is sidehilf
meh of the way and no cutting into
the hank bas heen necessary. There
is gond natural drainage and good ma-
rorhul for making ronds, It is just a
‘nntter of neglect and an indifference
pa to the bost interests of the country.
The contlition of that road is only one
reason why so many vote C.C.F. or any
other thing so long as a hope of seme
change in policy may come about.

CARS DRIVING STRAIGHT HAVE
MOST ACCIDENTS

Accarding to the July issue of ‘the

Victorin, the nseless waste.of life and
property resulting from car accidents
on roads has brought about intensive
study on the. methods to improve
highway ‘transportation during recent
veors, From an analysis of 3,000 ac-
cident reports during ‘the year 1934 it
was shown tha in 27% of the. cases
the aviv er. did’ not, haye the .right of

driving off roadway, and
failing to signal, following. with 11 ta
eent.” Car standing in Yoadway
or car following too closely : accounts
for 18 per cent, Cars going straight
were jnvoved in’ 68% of all accidents.
Wenther is described as’ clear.“at the
time of 68% of accidents, raining dur-
ine 219% and cloudy and foggy in 18%.
~-This wonld snggest that the engin-
cers should lay the reads. out with a
alg-xag course or drivers should drive
etooked. The information may he of
‘valine te some, but for practiea] road
building it is ap absoute waste of time
and money, The cost of those few fig-
ures wonld have built severn] miles of
rod,

the pond. :

‘NEWSPRINT ‘AND “NEWSPAPERS -

In 1810 a mnu could only make a
few sheets of paper a day by hand.
In 1845 the best prper-mnking-machine

When paper was made by hand the
were. only

makes A

In 1810. only 500 .tons
of paper were made.in North America,
In 1935 Canada made two-and three
quarter: million tons ‘of newsprint pa-

ment to 30,000men:
forests fram: fire,

Moye Work at
Saw Mill Will

Start up Again

New life is ‘to be injected into’ Usk
at a very early date which will more
than compensate the people for the bi¢
loss from the recent floods. Besides
several mining operations on the rail-
way side of the river and almost in the
village itself there will soon be started
the saw mill on the far.side of the riv-
er where once #2 good many thousands
of fect were cut. Last week J. G.
Rjornstad and 1, §. Steensland of Min-
neapolis, Minn., arrived in the north
and are now at Usk with the view of
getting the saw. mill running again.
It is reported that some large export
orders for this lumber are on hand
it the starting of the mill has a fer
greater significance to the whole north
thin just shipping ont rough lamber.

Columario Mine
is Reorganized

The following from Toronto is also
of preat importance to Usk-—Special
general meetings of shareholders of
Columario Consolidated. Gold Mines, .
Ltd.. have been ‘called. for Friday, July
3 for the purpose ‘of giving approval to
the granting of an option by.Columario
Consolidated to purchase, and, if .ap-
proved the sale of.all. ita: iproperty and
assets in consideration’ the: ‘satisfae-
tiow of its liabilities and 250,000 shares
of capital stack of a Tey: eompany to
he formed. The. new. “company will
have an: authorized. capital of 1,560,000
shares. of . F100: par, Yalue, sof. -Whieh
appr ‘oxitnately 240, 000 shares are'to le -
issucd, subject to ‘pool for’ two yeara,
Shareholders ‘are nlso asked to approve
the distribution .of the assets: of. the
company after the payment of all ‘debt
and liabilities and a inding - ip the
company. ,

HAZELTON SCHOOL MEETING

R, 5. Sargent was re-elected school
trustee in Hazelton Inst Saturday
hight at- the annual school meeting.
His term will be for three years, Ax
last -Year..was & heavy one for the
schaol . hoard it. was necessary to raise
the financial requirements by. $200),
making a total of $1; 700 needled for
the coming year. It is uhderstoo:l
that” Babry: Youug wilt #étum “to. take
up his duties as high ‘school teacher.
Miss Nelson of. the public. -Bebool. re-
signed and as yet no other teacher lins
been selected, but one will be in due
course.

The W. A; to the Hazelton’ Hospital
are serving a cold supper: with’ rasp.

berries and creain-on Friday, duly a4,"
To be held ini the United: Church, Haz-
clton: from: 6 ‘ocloek: to” 8 o'elock,
musical brogram will follow. -.

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B. rol forests | nornially: ‘give! ‘employ-
‘Help’ protect the

per alone and now supplies -the world
with two-thirds of the newsprint it
uses, ;
When ‘paper was: “made of aes ‘the|

magazines - and: -newspap-

(i were /for’ the: first’: time, available} -

ote “ a

: Tyo, ‘hundred years: ato “there. ‘were,

, tow a
“Ted: the News sa i was att “nls only ten. newspapers in all tnt Amert- a

zie and: widely diatri- e