24 Prince George Citizen June3'"" A. Great Highway Nears Completion (Continued from Page 17) became so persistent . . .scenting the meat in the camp . . . that 13 of them were rounded up and shot. One savage bear attacked two lone road construction workers and one of the men had to climb a tree to evade their atentions. The other logger had a gun and shot the bear. SUMMIT?) LAKE VIEW Summit Lake, a broad expanse of foresUf ringed blue water is reached kt Mile 32. Here is the old Hudson's €lay Company post. The scene is one of placid beauty. No technicolor filjn could catch the combination of nature and color here portrayed. This is Canada. A sawmill, and six bright red canoes dance on the water. These canoes hsrve a capacity of from four to six tons and are used in the highway construction for transport of men and materials. no after effects of her ordeal. At Mile 19 beyond Summit Lake the road begins to get very bad. The motorist proceeds cautiously between deep soft ruts to the truckers' camp. At a truckers' camp one gets an idea of the enormous amount of preparation necessary for a highway construction project of this magnitude. This is transport and loggers' headquarters. A huge mountain of wood is formed of discarded packing cases, broken planking, the residue of demolished shacks. Hills of cans bear witness to the appetite of the men on the road. There is a small township of huts Pacific Milk Processed In Modern, Hygenic Plant Summit Lake was the site of the last year's base camp and the numerous wooden huts . . . roofless because the canvas tents fitted on top of the walls have been removed. Tools, machinery parts, stacks of lumber still lie about. Mosquitoes are troublesome but not dangerous on the shores and the lake abounds in fish. At Summit Lake, the section of the highway which has been completed and handed over to the provincial public works department for' maintenance, ends. A large "Stop" sign warns motorists not to travel farther. But, the road beyond Summit Lake is even better than that to Summit Lake. Hard, well gravelled and graded, we sped along the broad highway, between Arctic firs. This is the country of abundant musk-rats and on either side are the swamps In which these animals delight. Also in the clearings are beaver lakes. A feature of these lakes is the silver sand shores which ex tend in shallow water for 30 to 40 yards. Many beaver dams had to be broken up by the contractors on this stretch. CONSTRUCTORS' BATTUSFIEIjD Although the highway here is something of which any contractor could be proud, let no one imagine that it was an easy task to build. At the side of the highway are stretches of oozy mus-; keg. Caterpillars sank into this J mud during construction. At one and a saws, . large axes, cookhouse; power caterpillars and trucks to help equip an army are in the vicinity. Few trucks venture beyond this point. The next stage in construction is to take the builders down to Davie Lake, one mile away, where they embark in canoes to Mile 42 along the Crooked River. At Mile 42 they work northwards to the Peace and southwards to the truckers' camp. GREAT ENGINEERING PEAT To drive this great and broad highway from Prince George to the truckers' camp has been a magnificent engineering feat. Yet the traveller has seen but a fraction of the sights and difficulties overcome farther on. He has to see the bridge thrown across the Parsnip River, 450 feet in length, or, the newly built Pine River Bridge, 123 feet long. He can imagine how the engineers forded or crossed with makeshift ferries the rushing waters and the problems which flood conditions and the difficulty of handling heavy equipment in virgin country, caused them. No one on four wheels ever got far beyond the truckers' camp. But caterpillars have been there They have rough graded 25 miles roughly along the banks of the Crooked River to Lake McLeod They have laid the road bed along the shores of Lake McLeod to Mile 68. Loggers and caterpillar; are at work grading the stretch through the Misinchinka Valley to Lake Azouzetta, 124 miles from Prince George and Mile 94 on the Highway. The tender for the road from Summit Lake to Azouzetta alone amounted to $1,823,' 555. A British Columbia-owned industry that has contributed its share towards the general prosperity of this province is the Fra-ser Valley Milk Producers' Association, manufacturers of the popular brand of Pacific Evaporated Milk. Since the inception of this organization in 1917, over $84,000,-000 has been paid to the co-operative farmers of this area for milk. Practically all the supplies used in the manufacture of Pacific 97,000 to 75,000 acres, will be the | Milk, such as containers, boxes first ever granted on Vancouver Island and the second in the THIS WEEK VICTORIA—A forest management licence will be granted to the Canadian Western Timber Company, Limited, which plans a $25,000,000 pulp mill at Duncan Bay, north of Campbell River, it was announced by Hon. E. T. Kenney, following a meeting of the> provincial cabinet this week. The licence, which will cover province. Construction of the plant, larg-est on the island, would mean a vast step forward in the industrial development of the island. Power for the project will come from the new Hart development on Campbell River. It will also mean a revolution in the utilization of forest waste. The mill will be specially designed to take small logs, now left on the ground in timber operation. The company plans to salvage timber waste from vast areas now logged off in addition to planning sustained yield by scientific reforestation in the area covered by the management licence. POWER PROJECTS Two important power projects have been authorized by the government on the recommendation of the B.C. Power Commission, it was announced today by Prem- and labels are made in British Columbia, all of which have had a far-reaching influence on the growth and prosperity of this province. It is generally accepted that the first axiom of a co-operative organization is to standardize and improve its product, and this is what the manufacturers of Pacific Milk have done from the beginning. Pacific Milk was first made in two factories in the Fra-ser Valley, one at Ladner and the other at Delair. In the year 1928 these two factories were merged in a large and modern concrete structure at Delair, and recenUy further improvements have been made in modernizing the plant to meet the growing demands of this 100 per cent B.C. product. This modern plant is situated in the heart of the most intensive dairying section in the Fraser Valley, and Pacific Milk is in the cans a few hours after coming from the cows, all of which are govern- 'Build B.C. Poyr.ll,. FAVORITE BRITISH COLUMBIA PRODUCT Farm-fresh Fraser Valley milk, vacuum for your protection . . . j Packed! for your health and so necessary in your favorite red Ask for Pacific Milk, a favorite for with British Columbia housewives mar>y years PACIFIC MILK IRRADIATED AND VACUUM PACKED ier Byron I. Johnson.' The cost | ment-tested and entirely free from peET UP The highway at Azouzetta j gy time four caterpillars were trap-1 climbs to a height of 3,000 feet ped by the mud. Much excavating and filling had to be done to get a road foundation and the mountains of gravel, occasional rusty caterpillar tracks and other broken equipment witness to the battle the road builders fought with nature in the raw. Streams are crossed on small wooden bridges. "Throw a hook over any of those bridges and you'll bring up a trout," says the driver. A few miles from the "Stop" sign brings one ujp a height to a magnificent look-out point. Beneath the hill is the Crooked River, badly flooding forest and meadows in which the ripples of fish breaking water are visible even at this height. The eye travels over a vast pine-clad valley to the rising ground, top- and all equipment, food, camps for the workers had to be moved in over specially "built" tote roads, sometimes rn deep snow and bitter cold. The road climbs through magnificent scenery over Pine Pass, bending and winding round the heights of Murray Range to continue on an already existing narrow road to Commotion, East, Pine, Progress and Dawson. Hunters who now get into this country by starting out from Dawson will be agreeably surprised by the ease with which they can reach the great game grounds when this last section of the highway is widened and re-graded. Not -only is the. goal of this highway, the Peace, rich in min- involves a total of more than $200,0(10. The major project is at ilver Creek, B.C., where construction and installation of a hydro-electric power plant will be carried out to supply electrical power for the village of Hope and the area adjacent thereto. The cost of this project is $180,000. The other undertaking is the rehabilitation and improvement of the hydro-electric power plant at Nakusp for the purpose of improving the availability of electrical power supplied .to the village of Nakusp and adjacent areas. The estimated cost of this project is $28,000. In each instance, equipment obtained by the acquisition of properties on Vancouver island have made these improvements and in stallations possible. In connection with the Nakusp improvement, it was pointed out that the work there was of a temporary character to cover the transition oeriod leading ultimately to the servicing of the district from the Whatshan Lake development when the needs of the district ustify extension of the transmission lines to that area. ONTR4LCT AWARDED. Western Bridge and Steel Fabricators Limited, Vancouver, has been awarded the contract forjthe construction of a steel scow "Tor Twelve Mile Ferry on the Arrow akes, it was announced by Hon. I. C. Carson,. minister of public works. The firm tendered to build the scow for $24,480. ped by Coffee Pot Mountain. Thisjerals, but it is believed the high- is also a country of buck rabbits and harmless garter snakes. The snakes grow large for these parts and one was seen recently two feet in length. This highway has cost not only money, but lives. A little way back the pretty wife of a construction worker was burned to death when the gasoline in which she was cleaning clothes caught fire. Death came in spite of a heroic rescue effort by another man. HIGHWAY COST LIVES One worker was killed when a truck overturned in the muskeg and crushed him. Many scores of people suffered axe cuts or other injuries. A cutting into the Hart Highway near here is named Eternity Hill. On this hill a man who was taking a pregnant woman to hospital had the misfortune to capsize his truck. The truck overturned several times down a steep slope with the woman inside.. The woman gave birth to the baby, it is reported, while still trapped in the truck. When eventually brought to the hospital she apparently had suffered way, traverses a section of country;" rich in natural resources but hitherto not accessible only to the most determined individualist. On the eastern end of the work, a bus service has been operating out of Dawson Creek three times weekly, carrying passengers and supplies. The great Hart Highway "construction job, one of the toughest on the continent, is a project of the British Columbia government. The contractors are Campbell Construction Co. Ltd., and Fred Man»ix and Company. , A FUTURE VISION It will be a highway along which even the most jaded world-traveller will find new pleasure. It will transform the economy of the interior of B.C., bringing additional prosperity not only to the present population but to the many millions of newcomers who could find an outlet in this new world. Those who have inspired the Hart Highway deserve credit, and credit is due especially to H. G. T. Perry, former minister of education and speaker of the House, for nearly 20 years parliamentary re- Bankers Closely Watch Western Crop Condition Canadian bankers are watching crop developments closely, in western Canada particularly, says the Financial Post, for the volume of their loans next autumn depends to a large extent on the size of the western crop. Eastern crop conditions are important, also, but the eastern farmers usually have other sources of income besides any one crop, and total crop failures in eastern Canada are not common. Farmers' loans .for seed grain and to finance spring work generally have in most cases been negotiated already. In some quarters these loans are said to have been considerably curtailed in recent years because the farmers in many cases are in such excellent financial condition that they needed to borrow verv little. bovine tuberculosis. Pacific Milk is the first and only evaporated milk in Canada to be packed under the improved and hygienic method Qf vacuum-sealing. It is sealed in what is known as the sanitary can—an open container which is thoroughly washed and sterilized before filling, the lids being clamped on as each can passes through the vacuum-closing machine where the cans are hermetically sealed without the use of solder. Another improvement to this product is the installation of the Steenbock Irradiating process whereby Pacific Milk is irradiated with that health-giving vitamin known as vitamin D, the lack of which in the diet is. likely to cause the disease of rickets and other aliments. This improved dietary factor does not impair the taste, flavor or appearance of the milk which is treated by this ultra violet ray process. Travel restrictions have been lifted and camping facilities for tourists are being improved along the Alaskan hightway, stretching 1,500 miles between Dawson reek, and Fairbanks, Alaska. NEW - IT'S HERE The'PIONEE With blades up to 30 inches, this NEW IEL One Man Saw falls two-foot timber and larger economically in time and cost. It is the bucker's friend, saving his energy, speeding his work and keeping him up with the falling crew. Unquestionably superior in every way. 28 Poui Without Bar oW< MORE P0\ LESS WEK NO INCRf IN C0ST1 4.1 H.P. Industrial Engineering Limit* 503 East Render St., Vancouver, B.C. Sold and Serviced in Prince George by Northern Magneto & Electric, 321 Fourthi progentative of Fort George, whose vision and persistent urging of construction spurred government interest in the project. The inhabitants of Prince George have also visions of greater things arising from this highway. It is within the realms of possibility that the advantages of an already existing additioncl highway to the north will not be lost on American interests who are pressing for more road and rail links with Alaska. •GROWN •OWNED 1 .-• B.C. PRODUCTS BUILD B.C. PAYROLLS 9+7