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Bailing vessels and prosecute the seaIf'Lsher-y as they did in years gone by. Ther-e
are not many sbeamer-« to contend against in these days, and the majority of them
are now very old and ......i11 soon pass out, of existence.
It does not need a pr-ophe-,
tic eye to For-esee that in the hunt after 'Wealth in the shape of mineral, timber
lands, et.c , ,
Labrador in the future 'Jill take a prominent p.lece , and if we ere to
judge from the reports of American, Canadian and other exp'Lorer-s, ecfent.Lat,s, et.c , ,
'Who have visited that portion of our Colony, these sources of wealth are in abund-,
ence , and only await the enterprise, capital and labor to develop them.
At the
same time ve should not lose Bight of the fact that 8 great portion of that country
be Long s to NevfoundIand , ....hich was fully proven by our l a t e illustrious Prelate
Archbishop Ho....ley in his little book, published some years ago, and 'We should take
every care to safeguard our interests, and, above all, the interests of our fisher...
men.
In the course of time, when many of us older folk will be flapping our little
....ings up aloft (l~t us hope on the front seats ....ith the harps and changers) , civilization
will be marching Northward and
Labrador will become a great producing
country, \.lith its mines, lunber mills.,- fishing industrlC's, etc:., 'and the Ilt6rchants"
will have their own fleets of beaeeLe to carry the products to market .
Up to a
feu years ago Siberia vas considered only a fitting place to send convdct.s-c-bar-r-en,
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desolate and the most miserable COWltryon. the face of the ear-the
Waht is it
today? If properly developed it would be, in fact it is recognized today, one of
the r-Lcbe st. countries in the world, only the Rueai.ens do not possess sense enough
to thank Providence for the great benefit conferred upon them . Then, what is to
hinder Labrador from becoming one of the most prosperous and productive portions
of the British Empire if all, or even half we rend about it turns out to be
ccr-reett
Alaska was not considered worth keeping a little over fifty years ago
'When the Ruasf.ens sold it to 'the United States for 8
few hundred thousand dollars.
Look at it t.odeyl