R T^G E 0 R.Gte HER A^L D PAGE THRBiE Having purchased a large number of the Grand Trunk Pacific Townsite Lots at their Auction Sale in Edmonton, we are in a position to offer you exceptional good buys in either the .-. residential or business locality. /opportunity. , They do me/wrong who say I come no more 7 When once I come and fail to find you in, / For this day I stand outside your door. ¦¦¦„ ¦ Brace up, buy a lot and win ! Our new office on THIRD STREET, is the headquarters^or all information regarding.the coming Gity of PRINpE^GEORGE: LISTINGS WANTED FROM .South Fort I'riiiGd^Rupert is going "to take a. d^ni'h census in order to find out hoy X\\ymx people go to church as well a* to inquire why others do not go. ^ In thia • way information will be gathered' that i.s expected to be used by the churches • in making themselves more useful -to the people. ' . X The Progress Glut of Vancouver is . makingarrangeriients to install a com- —j)l etc exli i bi tshowing-the^manuf actur^ ing development throughout British .Colombia intended to include all/provincial industries! The newly/fcnrtned • Manufacturers' A.ssociation>» at work tfli the matter.*" ¦'¦'•. ' ;- Columbians ^fishing industry i* steadily growing in irnpoj'tance^ -'^shipment of wf tons of | ; from the Qiieen Charlotts-'lBTands left Vim^t-ver Octobej>ftt>r the. Orient. When the Gi;anTffrunk Pacific opera its, next year, specially Jxuift ^ ... trains will be put in^servic^e fro in Prince Rupert to the easu liniish Columbia is novKthe/goal of many [ire-emptors. ,tiand,in the'north or tho province, aldng^the line of the ^rand'1-ruiilc Pacific, is the chief prize sought. ' During the tirat six months of tliii year -1250 homeateadera filed on land-hi the province, although during Hie same period of . only ,124 entries ¦VLrc; recorded.- -N '" \ ' apricots are the latest pro-' JiSci of the Okanagan. The Jbegipning of a new industry has b«en made that promises to become important. Ex? pet imeiits have shown that splendid tlnoii fruit can be prepared^in this -way and the^e is a wide demand for. iihe product. X ..A fertilizer factoryto coat $175,000 to ijso the refuse/from the fish canneries of the SWeena River ii a project now uuder>way. The company is to be I'uckecl.by Scotch capital and will turn what is now-waste into a commercia' product. At the annual meeting of the Grand Ttvjnlc Pacific directors inN Montrea" x«l«tember 25, it was officially Btated Lhatthe last spike in the building o" llie main line will I e driven at soin P-Oi'it Nin" British Columbia , ptobabl. t hin the next nine months. ¦ Con has now reached a point 120 miles* west of^Winnipeg through the Rockies, apd^from Prince Rupert eastward through "the Bulkley Valley to Mile 305, leaving a>ection of 236 miles, in British Columbia to be comple>etl. The work of building grade on this last section is being pushed vigorously. is the^ name given in,^th Trunk Pacific con- struction carnp^- for the daredevils along the upperf Fraser who pilot sraws laden wUhrailroad supplies through the cannon. , To'be a cat one must hpe nerve, plus. No self casualty;~cjompaii3r~would insure_t lives for a penny. Daily theyster the bright eyes of dang^ again, until the taJfi-HSecame monpton?' ous from tf^t€Tling,/the &cows vbftve beenhwrften to bUa'fn th^rapids and iirfreight and^the^men who piloted them covejyfne bottom of the river. Water ia^now/Iow in the Fraser and w«r)«nen.are now salvaging the freight , itiearlier in the year. Meanwhile running the canyon goes on, but with 'the advance of the Grand Trunk Pacific construcitipn a safe way wilj soon replace the dangerous/river. The "can-, yon cats" who are lucky enough to outguess the swift-running Fraser" will have big staices to their credit, for they collect over $1000 each for every month of the season. Canyon Cache 'ill be shut down in another month, i hrougn it materials and supplies worth many fortunes have passed during the wo seasons it has been Operated. The 2&che and its maintenance cost over 1150,000, but it was the only way to landle construction so that the new transcontinental could be pushed westward to the Pacific and finished on time. '.A.Landry J. B. McGrboom J. F. Tbnplcton T. A. Kelly, Timber Department Gore & McGregor CIVIL ENGINEERS \ British Cel«MkU Ias« muwrmr+rm Land AirenU ' XimWICruiMm Ckanctry Chamber*. I*nil«y 8tr«»t, VICTORIA. B.C., P.O. Box 153. Phom 684. Mn Third StMgt. SOUTH FORT Qffice and Store Fixtures. HamiltonAver South Fort George Own your own home! You can build your future honie t now at the minimum of expense.- "/' No building is too Jurge . -,--or too small to receive our careful attention. Blue prints and plans furnished. Get our estimates. ANNOUNCEMENT & Contractors and Builders SOUTH FOKT GEORGE .<^ (Member of American C^H«et©i»f Aitociatjon) Will opeiMfr 0^^ for Mercantile Collections and Brcteaga in Sotith Fort George and Fort ¦_.^— George, "^ Collections undertaken in any.part of North America. ; ¦. / Regular monthly accounts collected for a small percentage. s* Temporary Offices: OPPOSITE HOTEL ROWBARTS, THIRD STREET, X SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. C. Central Avenue Signs and Decorating Fort George g Do you contemplate H BUILDING? h«ri investwate' our workmamhf K«t our estimate* DANFORTHI M'lNNIS Green Bros., Brdcn & I j. 8vrvw«of Lante. Warn, ToirMltM Timber •¦x ;- ,• ¦ L.teH«. Etc. , _ FOURTH STREET, SOUTH FORT GEORGE. THE Palace Rooms, recently opened to the public, are the x most up to date and the beft furnished rooms in the city. The new building is well ventilated and heated night and day. Night; attendant always on duty,: , Telephone 41. P. O, Box 39. ANTHONY WEDGIS - - Proprietor P. BURNS & CO. Ltd, VhoktakanTRclnlDeiknadKUstf Fresh and Cured Meats GOODS DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OP CITY. _Jer, Cheese, Eggs; Highest Prlcea Paid for Hides and Lhre Stock fort George and Sooth Fort George. S. J. McDONALD, ¦—J- !.;.-:<¦ '"•'¦