1/ RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT G.T.P. to Build 140 New Stations '""work !£,# Last year the Canadian Pacific ;R.R company established forty thriving ts hew branch lin^s Saskatchewan and Al- Vice-president of the G. T. P., stat- ed in Winnipeg last week that the some lutbe^tlmt in bcrta; This record /Wilk^be eclipsed this year,, however, and,it is^expect-ed that at least fifty new townSv^rill be established' in.the west along Imos of this company. The ,.f this campaign of extension cheated in the announcement recently inadc 'by the assistant land commissioner., J. L. Doupe, to the effect that lots ir) five townsites will be offered for sale "early next month, on the liegina-Colonsay''- Prince Albert bninch", the respective points being Imperial, Kainy river district such Sr ™5u^ 5^ .There have been numerous- inqui- ery effort will be macle to provfde ^^^'"^^^^ :the ^^ al°ng the'line iiS^thJ conveniences of a building for the ^XV^f^S^^ ^S '^'depX SfJne d ulty in connection with the erec- zen will be located on thP Z% R tion oFthese structures was that of; gina arfd York?™ branch^ %? securing T^ufflcient number of car- lill be" fiftwn on theTne rnnni penters. . La>t year a large force the east from Prince Ruoei? a was employed anU^as many buildings tion being located Irl lm, as could be built tffete erected along The balanerwfii l» ^Z f T -""it8' the lines in the pralri^roviLs ' Sfn 1nof the This year, it is -believeVit will he^iree pVairi?provinces possible to do . better thanV 1^6, All theT station S lb. :c. P. &m S -he stations on 1^^ . Cban.ber.in, Tbe now buildlp^m „„ put up It has been rumored that it is the intention of the Dominion government to purchase the telephone line from the Fort George and Alberta Telephone Co, a concern operating a once-in-a-while service between the Natural Resources townsite on the Nechaco river—with an extension to the business centre of the-district in South Fort George — and Black-water, a point fifty miles bouth of here, where the private concern's wire intersects the Yukon telegraph service. It appears quite impossible to receive correct messages over the present system of transmis.^i n, between Ashcroft and South Fort' Geor'go. A telephone is an. excellent iiniao? of carrying on a tete-a-tete with a baby doll, or a business acquaintance at a distance, Ibut in the transfer of messages every letter,of which makes up a. completed message of importance, or a botched an-i. rvyp- tographical nothing - at - all, the Morse alphabet and telegraph instrument has been proved to be the only reliable means of transmission. , The rates now existing between Ashcroft and South Port George ore excessively exorbitant. The local company charge 75c for telephoning ten words 50 miles. Then the Dominion government get in their work at 5 cents a word to transmit this message to Quesnel;; a distance of forty-five miles further south, and 5 cents more to send it to the railroad at Ashcroft, 220 miles further. A total of 12^ cents a word to transmit a message'for 320 miles. If the-Dominion government is not in the market for the telephone company's line, it is up to the Department of Public Works at Ottawa to extend their government telegraph service from Blackwater to South Fort George, in order that a one-line, efficient commercial telegraph service may be at the disposal of the public here. Government Offices to be Erected Immediately Will be Located on the Hudson's Bay Company's Property rov- The fiat has goiie iort\y^fhe deed is done. After months of deliberative deliberation, ,th& (••nors domiciled at James Bay, in the ancient, capital of .Victoria, have Unanimously resoly . ^ LT;i!;t a repr-esentatiy^iind a government office to the district. This is good news, primary,, be-cayse if acids piquant sauce, to enterprise. Secondly, it stimulates heart action in the development of< an auricultui-apsection that owes its existence, almost exclusively, to facilities afforded newcomers to enu'i• urohjands without the irksome, and expensive system in vogue in the past, of having to connections by correspondence with an office removed three hundred miles. This is^how changed. he welcome news arrived yesterday. It was the result of an interchangeof wires/by the secretary <>f the board of trade and the government, through J. A. Fraser, M. P. P., asking what the piveniiaent's intentions were in the matter. The reply.from the member follows:— ¦;¦" F' Quesnel,. B.C.", March 31, 1911. "To P. O'Flaherty, Secretary South Fort George Board of Trade— . ' „ , "Dear Sir: In replying to your wires of yesterday, I may state that I amau/ t homed to announce that the government have definitely decided to erect temporary buildings for offices on the Hudson's Bay Company's land, adjoining South FoptTGeq/ge. Government Agent Walker will be in" charge. • J. A. FRASER." D. L. S., of the provincial department of public works, Alberta, Oast week with a survey party for the north, says the Edmonton Bulletins^ Hith/srto there has tem ovtT 7 Trail Building in the Peace To locate a road around the south north shore of the lake. Few shore of Lesser Slave Lake, A. P. (6. elers have ^attempted the trip by the south shore. ^ Before returning" tp^ Edmonton next winter, Mr. Bel yea will have made a circuit of over-a thousand miles. After locating ''the south road he will survey artra.il '• from Peace Fiver spine traveling south of the lake on Landing to Dunvegan, from Dunve-the shore, wfiich has proved an un- gan^to Grand Prafrie and then from certain and dangerously difficult way^/Grande Prairie to Edson. All of this The party under MrxBelyea 'will .46- work may not be, accomplished this cate an inland trailXstrikin^ off year, but it constitutes the program from Sawridge^jat the e&aVend of of the party which left for the north. Lesser Slave-'Lake and leading to Last year Mr. Belyea surveyed the Grouard, at the western extremity, present trail- from ' the Athabasca Settlers of the Sm Hills districtvLanding^along the north shore of the south of Lessejv Slave lake, will be Athabasca river as far as the Fifth given directaccess tb the east by the Meridian. He also surveyed the road new road.^up to the present, the from Gkpuard to Peace. River Cross-route jf travel from the Swan Hills ing and ^; 5een by way of Grouard and the er. m Grouard to Prairie rtv- TO CELEBRATE? ^VTltE FIRST OF JULY. A iiuei^n^ was held in the Fourth street hati^last Tuesday to discuss the preliminaries of the celebration, to be held fibre on the First of Jv.lv. U. C. Seaman/was elected chairman and J. Munroe^secretary. A. committee was appointed tb^putlifie the (inject and to draft a pro^ra*" their report will be delivered at public meeting two weeks« hence, when ibt' various committees to handle- tin; arrangementdr"systematically i»l'.pointed. Last^year the ^1 uly^celebrations were very and it is the in-t ffiKpromoters to make an er effort this year. The i: y . commfttee consists of Messrs.. \v. p. Cooke>^J. H. Wesley and [.. c. MacHafffe. " WHAPPOO » MILLIONAIRES -> ¦ CH \XGE OF NAME. The (Jiar.,1 Trunk Lands Co., who were olilu< : to change their name af-,erihe riIa!l1 Trunk Pacific railroad "Seemed an injunction restraining- any private concerns from operating un~ "cr-Mjp,,- name,' and whose second woice .in-i^unes, .The. Peace'-River 1 'Pmpn,,y, i ,l(|.;.^yas likewise aftect-e<' by a prior; registration of The. leace Ri>er Land- Co., are now oper-"Vns 'hf i colonization company un-«cr thc-nafiie of the Bledsoe & Mc-i:V'lttton Lauds Co. The scale of charges^ in the British and a quarte/ dollars. If these mill-Columbia Gazette governs the land ion ddllar'tlealers. in -British Colum-advertising rates in^le^itimate news- bia's^irnknown lands are transacting T\v Tjriti«h Col.urn-b*a^ G.h- Ruph^euorrconr d'v/.a, ro fail to see ;ctte rate is not liable to fluctua-^-wny they should enieavor to beat ticJws^ Nor is the Gazette published newspapers. Let us explain. ;¦••' for tne^purnose of profit. It is/con- For three years, this publishing ducted soleljr in the ihterests^of/the concern has handled the land^adver-public at a minimum of,expense to tising for the large operators of the the advertiser. T'bescfile establish- Cariboo district. We bave"*giyen the ed by the King's P^mter is /borne of ¦ public satisfaction by/equipping our-practical knowledge ana^rnerely de- selves with plant^capable of hand-frays the expanse of conducting such ling their business quickly and accu-an excellent' and useful/publication, rately. Then/along comes a firm, As wejiave said before; the rates^n-'e hr.ve bad opportunity of meeting and talking to many" of^the Peace Biver Land •- Company colonization people, and their proposition appears to assure the Peace -River valley of a great influx of well appointed settlers. It is possible that operators, are using the Peace - River field, as exploited by the legitimate operators, in a manner which may/ not be well for the future of th< great valley. . - , ' / -' *The -Herald intends to-send a^staff .correspondent into the Peace/River valley during the coming summer, and we will publish thetrue and absolute facts regarding the climatic conditions of not only, the Peace .River .valley, which is ail under reserve, but also of the Peace J River plateaux, the high table* lands, on which much of the great blocks are -being staked. GRAND TRUNK MAN SAYS RESBRVfijlHAS BEEN ACQUIRED.\. "The Grand Trunk Pacific-Has now purchased the Indian reserve at Port George, which they will subdivide and put on the market by auction sale," said George H. Pope, right-of-way agent^ior the .(,G.T.PV, to *. Bulletin reporter, while in Edmonton last weekf "The station has also been located and the site for the, terminals. Aside from that, how/ ever, /it is not' yet definitely- knoi ier the Vancouver line '' off there or at Tete Jaime, a matter of fact it may leave the lain line at almost any point. Nor has Fort George been chosen as a division point; that depends entirely on the.mileage and how/far removed it is from the last division." SOUTH FORT GEORGE ONE YEAR OLD ¦IN' A ¦pedei Kuw year cspl, river art of u and of simIon fraser. int. of Simon Fraser has been (l f'l.'ni the Herberts, the wisil- Oftiiadiari sculptors, and it '' I'fn-ced on top of the marb!p al erected on Albert u-osccnt, •estniinster-; B. 0., 'about three. n»° in honor of the famous ! who came-down the Fraser |»nd stationed ^Imselfs-at Stu-: kt' — the geographical centre '^'i Columbia"— one. hundred H'CC Vejirs atrn A GOOD MAP. bS ''nv° rcc.e'v-cd a copy of the u'!U•¦'.'V1!1 t0 the Peace River coun- *, winch was published in Vancou- «. last tnonth^bj w. R. Stevenson, .j^IV cnKitieer, who" spent several Jl,'* "'.'this (listrict-laat-sunimer. ed'',,n i"V<'PlSOn is to"be' congratulat- P«Jbli8ho5 "r C()mlliled the first-map rioU\V * .-Bh°wing in detail the ya- Jilikni '•\'lltp-'-' r(*ources and geogra-- ^yaljev--1'- °f tllc -Lowcr Peace River. About one year ago ^fouth Fort George was to all outward appearances a little /Ohc-hbrse hamlet on the banks of the Fraser-River. Its pioneers were at that time.living in shacks. There was no, hotel, "no butcher shop, the two general stores were built of hewn logs. Its population was composed of. tHe pioneers of the country, a few land cruisers, and tbe handful of business men. The mail was only delivered by the-government once a month, and the inhabitants livod on bacon, beans and optimism. There . were no graded ^streets on the townsite and very ¦ ... . little clearing had been done. A tremendous strido i» the .'development of the' place1 has transpired in Ijhe .past year. South- Fort George is now a typical Western "boom" town which has gone through the- stage when its make-up was really primitive. Now large and well finished frame,buildings are going up on every hand where one year ago great wind checked fir trees stood as sentinels amongst the lighter ppplar growth that covered most of the townsite. The public at that period of this itown/s existence, were only commencing 'to \jrealize that the 'stragctic'j-location of this • place as- sured it a wonderful future. Of a place ultimately amongst the^cities^ of western Canada. ^^s The curtain has rung down dn^the scene of this city's pioneer. days,/DUt the incoming hprde who will/flock here from now on, year after year, will witness the evolution/of this wooden city, /into a metropolis of concrete and steel sky scrapers, with electric transportation/and all the rest of the metropolitan frills. ¦ Come to South Fo/t George, yee, who hesitate; and/rest your gaze upon a western' boom town made in one piece so that there is no possibility of the "bottom falling out." As Seen by Frederick A. Talbot • "AT TlIE NORTHERN. f)|] t1, 1 , . . r ¦ ¦ ' North"i.!- ii u now reR'ster of "the loll,. •' n llutt'l arc. ,:registered the I, q inR: peo.-pickeVing, ^Nechaco' j vf,tt m° nnd wifer-Qttosnel.v T.,^ vef' u*5 an acre>whilst the sale pride reaches $360 an "acre. By sub-dividing it into acre and quarter blocks they manage to escape giving-the government a quarter interest,. as under section 37 of the Land Act any land divided into lots containing one acre^or less^ are subject to tbe reconveyance to the Crown of a quarter of the area subdivided. ~.'..['c Their advertisment states! that district, lot 937 will be the centre of Fort;George. District lot 937 is Fort Gedrge, as the townsite on it was registered under that name; TbJL. statement is misleading, and ia of course intended to enhance the.value of the acre and a quarter blocks of land. The centre of the city which will rise • up at the junction of the Fraser and Nechaco rivers will be on the jG. T. P. townsite which is tprbe located on Indian Reserve No. V, and which contains 1366 acres. /In the meantime Soutb~Fort Gfo^ge will continue to be the commercial and industrial centre of the Northern Interior; and after, it will form a part of the- city which\ the G. T.] P. name. WnM': Ax 1 ¦»«k..j. i. Kennedy,,Vair-¦W.' \viiu \t!'• Palm- San Fransisco. couve-,' r¦ • nft'y- J- McEbeevyan--"J. T. "p ¦ • Wronger, Rotterdam. West ^'" ''"' I0°rt -Geo.rRe. William •li'iml't,;• ''p 'yHko- L; Bradter and O. •' -. -V.J1 '."t. l!corge»-' ' "~. ~"-''. . .-: -:.', A BIG Tbc Caim<1ini; Western'^ifmbTrr |Co. ofFrnser rivciv hear New. Westtriin-sttr lute beeiT nwnrded the contract fm- supply^-six million feet of.,.lum-. ,o- t "e usdd in building 125, *tn-tions for' the G. T. P.^in A!berta_ £g SaHkhtchewan^Jo aniggi of- EN! ^TRE^GTHENING-A-BRIDGE. CARPENTERS WILL ORGANIZE. ^|^i||#P||S|- * Wp or carpenters met-in «le as if it would stand^a good deal of—McGaghranzThorne hall on Fdurth.St wear. It consists of" two layers, 3- Wednesday, for ihp 'purpose of talk-inch boardiLfor the lower,, and 2-inch ing over,.-matters with a view to or-for^the upper.; The-lower layer; js be-, ganiziiig a,; labor union.- The step, ingj placed straight across while the they'-maintain) is necessary "for. the upper at an angle_\v.nich will help to establiBhment of a uniform wage in check the: swayiirg^bf the structure. . tlreii* line^_^x_,^ \ V ' *" WALKS. Sidewalks, have been built fronting P. Campbell's store, Ewing's butcher shop No. 2, arid N. H. Wesley's real estate office. This is not a news item to, us. It is published for the purpose of acquainting the?Northern Development ' Qo:, with what improvements^ have, been made, since their resident agent left.last fall. uu