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Page 4 - CARIBOO OBSERVER - Thursday, March 1, 1951 May Increase Rural Delivery . INCREASED rural dehvery service south of Quesnel on ^'llllllllllllllilllilllllimilll|)lllllllllllllllllltlillllllllllM^ I LEGION I I DANGE I FIRST & THIRD SATURDAY Each Month = Lej,î«>n Hall = s admission s 1 Genis. $1 Ladies 75c 1 s Refreshments s iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiii Phone 29R2 the Cariboo Road may he provided as a result of the patient effort of Mrs. Esther M. Wells, Kersley Women's •Înstitute, and Mrs. Mary Ann Broughton,'R.R. 1, Quesnel, another Institute leader. ^ Postal authorities at Ottawa are asking for new tenders for the R.F.D. service on a three-times-a-week basis. Formerly the mail "left Que.snel twice a week. At Ottawa George M. Murray, M.P,. for Cariboo, said that the new service could be held back oWing to the coldwar tightening purse strings for everything but defence. On the other hand he said that he hoped that the call for tenders would precede enlargement and extension of the services of R.F.D. in the Quesnel area, For Results Use Observer Ad-Briefs Id Fu^ls. Lid Sawdust— Slabwood Plywood Cores Box 424 7 and 8 inches in diameter - Ideal for Fence Posts, Building Logs or Lumber Rollers. ORDERS TAKEN FOR STOVE WOOD ANY LENGTH Save Time-Save Labour—Use MCCULLOCH , PRODUCTS • High Speed •Convenience • Operating Economy • McCulloch Earth Drill. Full 5 hp weighs only 75 lbs. This high-power, high-speed tool is like no posJ-hole digger you ever. saw before. Has a special 5 hp McCulloch gasoline engine. Digs fast, handles easily even in hard clay. Available with 6-, 9- and 12-inch augers. • Two for one. The McCulloch Earth . Drill converts " into a standard McCulloch 5-49 Chain Saw in less than a minute, just by attaching a saw assemijiy. For little more than the price of one, you can have TWO of the finest, most useful farm tools on the market. • 3-25 THE AMAZING 3-hp SAW THAT WEIGHS ONLY 25 lb.! One-Man McCulloch 3-25 Chain Saw with 18" Blade. This saw is powered with fhe Special McCulloch 3-hp engine and' saws at full power in any position. Controls are grouped for easy, one hand operation. Equipped with automatic clutch, automatic-rewind starter and push-button chain oiler. Correct chain tension is provided automatically. • MCCULLOCH PORTABLE PUMP Completely portable, has a capacity of 15,000 gallons per hour with a suction lift of 28 feet. It's powered with a special McCulloch 5-hp engine with all antifriction bearings and high fuel economy. Fast self-priming, it has non-clogging cast-iron impeller and replaceable wear plate. Engine has all McCulloch simplicity oj operation and automatic features. Fuel tank is built in and there is a three-way valve for an auxiliary tank. FOR COMPLITI INFORMATION prlc»», and operating defatit wrlu LEMERY DISTRIBUTORS LTD. EXCLUSIVE MCCULLOCH AOINTS IN CANADA 220. West 1st Avenue 224 George St. N. Vcincouver, B.C. Peterboro, Onl. BEATH MOTORS LTD. Quesnel, B.C. MURRAY TELLS OF CARIBOO MIMERALS GEO. M. MURRAY, M.P., Cariboo, stated in the House of Commons that the Cariboo District possessed wide deposits of war minerals which are desperately needed for Canadian defence industries. As reported in Hansard, February 19, the member for Cariboo said in part as follows: ' • "Mr. Speaker: I was very much impressed the other day by the address of the Minister of Trade and Commerce. In referring to the alarms of war that we are hearing he stated that we are short of certain strategic metals. He said-we needed cobalt, molybdenum, antimony, tungsten, chromium, magnes ium, cinnabar, titannium and manganese.^ - "In my own riding of Cariboo are ample supplies of many of these strategic metals. The old-t'mers knew where there was manganese The Valent'ne Dance held "in Windt's Hall on Saturday, February 17, was an enjoyable affair. There wasn't a big crowd but those who attended had a splendid time. Mrs. Bill Broughton won the door prize, and Joe Macalister was the lucky, ticket holder in the raffle. The;, school children have statred school again, most of , them are back to norrnal a-; gain, as far as the cbughingis concerned. The canasta and whist drive held at Henry Moffat's, and sponsored by the A.W.I, last Satvirday night was well attended. A nice sum of money was realized. 'P. ® (!) ® i ® ® the northwestern part of this country; so that next fall the Right Hon. Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr. Howe) might be able to rise in his place and tell'us that, we in . Canada have an abundance of these vital metals" Following Mr. Murray, J. H. Harris, M.P., Toronto- Danforth, strongly , supported the idea of search for war ' metals in Canada. Hansard reports Mr. Harris, one of the leading industrialists in /Toronto and one of Canada's richest men, and a right hand supporter of Hon. George Drew, Progressive Conservative, as saying as follows: "The responsibility in connection with "property and civic rights still rests with the - provinces, but the responsibility, with respect to our nat ural resources rests with us because Providence has been kind to us and has distributed an abundance of these nat for instance. They knew ural resources throughout where there was molybden- this great country. For that um; but there was no market reason I find it very easy to for these metals in old days endorse what has been said and we lost track of the dis- by the hon. member for Carcovei'ies that were made from iboo. But just how are we go time to time in the Cariboo,, ing to bridge that gap be in the Cassiar country, in the tween the division of respon Omineea, in the Yukon and sibilities under the British Northwest Territories, whei-e North America Act and the these metals may be found in God-given natural resources great quantities. of this country? That is a "Let this government as problem to which the next sist the mining communities generation or two must give of the country by helping a great deal of thought." train the necessary men. This Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe stat very spring we could send ined in the House that the one to the field geologists, pros weakness in Canada's propectors and others to search gram for defence is the difficulty of getting the war me Alexandria News tals listed .by_ Mr. Mun-ay. The new Sabre-type planes, which are now rolling off assembly lines in Canada, weigh seven tons each and contain mostly metal. The Red Chinese armies cut supplies of tungsten from interior China along with chromium - and manganese. Wartorn South Asia is no longer supplying others of these war • metals. \ Tungsten has been found ] in the Barkerville area and i some molydbenum. But there XXXXXXXXXMXXXXXXXXXTXXX ® t?) Prompt and Efficient Transfer Service DIFFICULT JOBS ARE SPECIALTY LONG DISTANCE HAULING iSiiiilli Ti'iinsiiM' Phone 16-R-3 QUESNEL -:- B.C. A MOTOR REPAIRS - Wc are equipped for all types of Electric Motor REPAIRS - REWINDING OVERHAULING Prompt Expert Service QUESNEL ELECTRIC REID ST zxxxzzxxzxxzxxxxxxxxxzxx QUESNEL WELDING SHOP Portable Equipment Electric & Oxy-ncetylene Welding SEE ME FOR THOSE FROZEN WATER PIPES | AND CRACKED ENGINE BLOCKS (; Ken Burch i .'\( Present Working from Residence, . ^ West Quesnel, 1 li> Blocks West of Scliool Mmt Hotel and hk RAKliOW STREET \ :U) YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE \ CATERING TO THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC ^ TRY OUR MEALS ^ ''THE BEST IN THE NORTH COUNTRY" has never been a concerted drive to bring: prospects into production largely because of low prices in peace times and difficulty of ^transportation at all times. Cobalt, recently bonused fifty cents a pound by the government of Canada has been found in the Babine Lake country and many spee-^ imens are now in the possession of Norman E. Kerr at Vanderhoof. |llltMlllllinillllltHIMMIIIIIIItllllllMIIII!llllltlllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIilllllllllllll^ * • ® $ ; Cariboo Branch. No. 94 § iCanadidri Legion ® ® B.E.S.L. [2 Pres.—Norman Palmer ® Secty. - Edna Cashman Prospective members are cordially- invited to attend. Meeting .on first^ Tuesday •of the rhonthat the • Legion Annex ' S 8 p.m. I 8i®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®^^ I Cariboo Farmers' Co-op. Assn. | j • " Quesnel, B.C. | I MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS CARIBOO BUTTER j 1 agents for s I FERGUSON TRACTOR and EQUIPMENT j îHllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItl^ Gel Set For Spring • BE READY FOR DRIVING FUN • TO HANDLE HAULING • OR WORK YOUR FARM Here Are Quality Used Vehicles To Suit Every Need... '49 MONARCH SEDAN (a beauty) '49 FORD CLUB COUPE, Ready to Go '48 CHEVROLET SEDAN, a Family Car '46 CHEVROLET SEDAN, Mechanic's Special '37 TERRAPLANE COACH, a Bargain 1949 FORD PICKUP 1948 FORD .3-T0»?!j TRUCK 1947 CHEV 2-TON TRUCK 1941 INTERNATIONAL 1-TON 9N Ford Tractor THIS IS AN ESPiEClALLY GOOD VALUE Ford'h4onarch Dealers A MAM IS KNOWN BY THE WHrSKY HE SERVES COMPARE THE PRICE . . . THE FIAVOUK DISCOVER FOR YOURSELF THE BEST BUY IN FINE CANADIAN WHISKY Calvert MOUNT ROYAL CALVERT DISTILLERS (CANADA) LIMITED AMHERSTBURG • ONTARIO This advertisement is not published or di.splayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of Britfth Columbia.
• t SALMON INTEREHS GIVE STAND ON QUESNEL HYDRO The Editor, ^. • tributes directly, through tax- . other runs, but it had the ad Cariboo Observer, = \: .atioh, to ,the revenue resourditional hazard of the tailings Quesnel, B.C. ces of the Governrhent. It from the Bullion mine, plus shares, with other industries, the. hazard of the darn itself DearlSir:—r wpuld apprec in the establishment of funds as well as placer mines on iate it\,you yifQtild allow me for research (hydro-electric the spawning grounds. Tliese the opportunity of comment research), social security and obstructions, together with ing . on an editormht^ ap other governmental measur-' the slide at Hell's Gate, depeared.'in a .recent issue of •es. Were the existence' of^the creased this run — once the yom*p aper entitled " Obsti'uc- industry: to be threatened, greatest — to a size smaller tiopists: In FullCr y." In this the ' entire econothy of' the '. than that on any of the other editbrial you implied that the province woufd be weaken major watersheds. These haz fishing" ihdiistry was opposed ed.ards hav enow been remov to pow.ei: development in Bri- Contrary to the' iimijlicaed, and the run is well on tish Columbia, and to subtion which you have made its way to recovery. stantiate this view, you quotregarding, "pressure groups," In 1945, after the Hell's • ed certain remarks made by the industry has done no Gate fish ways had been con myself on behalf of the in more.than ask for considerastructed, 3,000 spawners dustry regarding the' protion of itS' case through the were counted in the Quesnelposed . construction of a hy normal and oiTieial channels. Horsefly system. Four years dro-electric plant on the Our case is a simple and later, in 1949, 12,000. There . Quesnel River. reasonable one,, it has the " is every reason to believe, I would like to state first',' • support of the Federal De and this belief is based on • asemphaticallya s T possibly partment' of Fisheries which experience in other areas, can, that the industry is NOT is responsible for the man- that the escapement will in ann has never been, opiiosed a,gement and regulation of crease many fold in the next to carefully planned powes the resource. . • . big year. The recovery of the development in this province. We ask for no more than Adams River run, where in The stand taken by the in Ihe fullest co-operation and^ many ways the conditions arc dustry at the public hearing collaboration between fisher- • similar,, has followed- a sim of the Aluminum .Company's jesi and power autliorities in ilar pattern of build-up in the • 'application • for watel- rights the planning and eoinstruc- third cycle year. .' on the Naehako and Nanika, lion of hydro-electr'c instal I might point out that the and offie'al .submi.ssions to lations to the end that fish industry, nnd indeed all fish the government before and that spawn in inland waters ery groups, are voluntarily since. provide convincing and which represent more making eon.siderable 'sacri pi'oof of this statement. than 60 per cent of the total fices in catches in oi-der to We i-ecognixe that there is B.C. fishery, shall not * be permit as large escapements a tremendous demand for destroyed. We have suggest as po.ssible to the Quesnel in British Columbia. We re- ed that wherever it is feasible an dother spawning areas be ^ al'/.e that this demand,will, streams non-productive of cause it is confident that' the have to be met, lo a large ex fish life .should be utilized ultimate goal of maximum tent, by harnessing many ol fii'st for the production of hy- production on all potential our inland streams and rivdro-elrcli''c power, and that areas can be achieved. ei's. At the sametime, we be wherever this is not possible, The. restora,tion ,of the lieve, and have consistently every scientific fi.sherj' con Quesnel run of sockeye is es maintained that the producservation measure be employsential for the maintenance f'on of power and the expaned to safeguard the fisheries of the industry'at its present sion of industry can proieed, resource. levels. Provincial reports in on a planned and co-opera- You make specific referdicate that, even with- all' the :live bas's, without unnecesence "in your editorial to my other streams in full produc .sary damage to our valuable- statement that the Quesnel tion, the industry cannot hope fisheries resource. run of sockeye salmon is po for continued developnienl It is most unfair to label tentially the most 'rriportant without the successful with with the term "obstruction in the whole Fraser waterout the succes.sful rehab'litaist" any group that advocat- shed. The industry feels ful • tion of the Quesnel; the • es the-conservation of an im-' ly .iu.stified in making such greatest producer "in the early ; portant, self-perpetuating re a statement because it is bas days. source which is, after all, the ed on reliable records of early The industry is fully cog . property of every cit'zen of runs, on known factors which nizant of the powêr potential this pi'ovince. Although lo- accounted for depletion, and of the Quesnel .system. How- • cated "on the coast," ,as you on reports of the 'Internation . ever, we have been adv.i.«ed ; point out, the fishing indusal Pacific Salmon Fisheries that the North Fork offer.'j a try since the earliest tirr>r>s Commission which give reas potential for power-sufi'-cient has played an important role onable hope of-a return of to supnly the foreseeabJo in the development of the the run in large number.s. needs of the Quesnel, Wil- whole province. Today, as an It is quite true that there liafns Lake. -Prince George exist'nga nd flourishing in has not been a run df anv area. You say that to" condustry, it provides a profit magnitude to the Quesnel struct the plant onthe Norfl>. able » livelihood for many River in the past forty years. - Foi'k "would place tho pro thousands of British Colum The Babcock Repoi't, issued jected development in a rebian wage earners and it con- by the Px-ovinc'al Governmote pai'tion of the inierior ment in 1909, places the num and add very materia]Iv to ber of spawners in that year construction costs." We have It. W. ROBERTSON & at 4,000,000' fish. From "that been informed that there ex ASSOCIATES big year the run dwindled ists only 2.3 to 35 miles dif rapidly.and almost ceased enference in transmission IMIP.'.; PUBLIC tirely until fhe first signs of as the various possible sites ACCOUNTANTS rec6v£ry in 1949. and that there are indications But to compare the restor that the overall costs of pov.'-, ation of the Quesnel race of er in the area would be sub }3{)okkccping Service; Sockeye with the more Î'omstantially the same 'regard Income Tax is'ng return of sockeye to the less of the site developed. Auditing Nechako, Chilko and Adams • In referrin gto the total is io ignore other factors power potent'al on the Ques P.O. Box 1614 Tel. 59R2 which dejileted the Quesnel' nel system -— and you have Office: run and almost destroyed it used the figure of 300.000 Now Located on McLean St. completely. The Quesnel Riv horsepower — you have ig- Next te Municipal Hall er fishery was damaged not noT'ed the fact that at least only by Hell's Gate, as were half of this potential is available on the North Fork, which stream is not isssential for the propagation of '-ockeye. It would have been much fairer to have drawn a . comparison ' separately . bc- ' tween the power potential on the Nor'th Fork or the main ANNOUNCEMENT... stream and the fishery' po •) tential, rather than to have V ' compared the total power pq- •J . Icntial with present runs. WATCH FOR TIIE OPENING OF AN EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE _ • ... •. •| Jn rrcrnises Formerly Occupied By i; . ... " . YVOIVNE'S STYLE.SHOP ••'')'''. '• • - '' • I'- ... 'i) '*( (.•) (•) (•) cj if). (•) BOOTS and SHOES TO FIT EVERYONE IN THE FAMILY B. BARRETT I would like to add- that the . exiDeriments being conduct- ' ed by the International Commi,ssion on the Quesnel River are not, as you have stated, "a closely guai'ded se- | cret." Both provincial and Federal governments, the industry and the press have been fmniished with periodic reports of this investigation leading to the rehabilitation of the Quesnel sockeye. The facilities located on the river are always open to the pub- I'c and wo have found that the Commission is more than willing to furnish information on the .progress of this imimporta'nt work. I hope that in this" letter I have been able to allay some pf the doubts which may have arisen in the minds of your readers about the ii-nportance of the main stream of the' Quesnel as a vital salmon producing stream; More important, I hope that yout readers will believe that the fishing industry is not opposed to carefully planned power development in this province. I am sure that they will agree that conflict and misunderstanding in the use of our natural i-esources should be avoided and that real progress can only be achieved by collaboration and co-operation based on mutual respect and a sincere interest in the full development of British Columbia. S. M. ROSENBERG, Salmon Canners' Operating Committee. NOW CARIBOO OBSERVER - Thursday, March 1, 1951 - Page 5 PACIFIC GREAT EASTERN RAHiWAY TRAIN SCHEDULE BETWEEN VANCOUVER AND QUESNEL (Effective September 25, 1950) PACIFIC STANDARD TIME ~ NORITIBOUND Vancouver (Union Pier) Mon., Wed. and Fri. Lv. .9:30 a.m. Wilhams Lake * Tue., Thurs.. and Sat. " Lv. 5:35 a.m. Quesnel Tue., Thurs., and Sat. Ar. 8:45 a.m. SOUTHBOUND Quesnel Tue., Thurs., and Sal Lv. 7:30 p.m.,. Williams Lake Tue., Thurs., and Sat. Lv. 11:30 p.m. Vancouver (Union Pier) Wed., Fri., and Sun. Ar. 6:30 p.m. • Stage connects with train at Quesnel tor passengers to and from Prince GcorRc. Barkerville and Wells. 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