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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 14, 1921
Page
5
A farmer notes that motor vehicle accidents affect livestock quality, describing Berkshire pigs and pedigreed birds with high values. Separately, Britannia House signals a new concentrator and mill reconstruction to begin soon,预计 twelve months and about one million dollars in expenditure.
Canada has 18 chartered banks now, down from 30 a few years ago due to amalgamations. The banking system operates about 4,500 branches, an increase of 1,500 since 1914. The figures reflect ongoing consolidation and expansion in the industry.
Victoria announces seals and registration for private liquor stocks by Friday the 15th under Liquor Control Board orders. Owners must register quantities and attach seals reading Possession Approved, with inspectors to verify later in major cities. New stores planned in Nelson Courtenay Kelowna Abbotsford Rossland Chilliwack Trail and more. Ottawa notes Canada’s 1917 income tax total of 9 million and rising receipts through 1919 surpassing prior years. Australia’s 1915 first year tax receipts stood at 18 million.
EDMONTON Alberta surveys aim to drain Manawan Lake 23000 acres Chip Lake 19000 acres and Lane s Lake 3000 acres to expand cultivable areas in Central Alberta If practicable ditching could begin next year boosting farm land across the fertile districts.
Fernie Free Press reports the Fernie Fort Steele Brewery near Fernie with about twenty to twenty five workers and an annual payroll around forty thousand dollars has shut down. The suspension may be temporary or permanent, plant closed indefinitely. The company cites coercive measures and false public portrayal, alleging discrimination impacting the local public and output for Fernie liquor store.
John Keen former member of parliament visited Reston with the roads committee of the Liberal association to inspect the trans provincial highway segment toward Kitchener. The committee pressed for keeping the route passable amid rising tourist traffic while a planned broader road project proceeds.
A major timber acquisition in British Columbia expands Prince Rupert Pulp and Paper Co holdings. It buys the North Empire Timber Company's BC estates near Prince Rupert, totaling about 1 000 000 000 feet, with 90 percent spruce and hemlock. Largely Iowa controlled, the deal price is undisclosed but believed large, making Prince Rupert one of the province’s largest timber groups.
Forest fires in the British Columbia forest belt totalled 158 by the end of last month, per Chief Forester P. Caver rill. Vancouver district, aided by showers, remains the safest with 37 fires and about two thousand dollars spent on fighting them. Other districts report Nelson 19, Vernon 2, Kamloops 28, Cranbrook 11, Caribou 11, Prince George 20, Prince Rupert 30.
Special to the Herald Invermere July 9 Transitions include R F Mills moved from Lake Windermere constable post to Michel and W L Henley appointed in Vanderhoof. Firefighting begins on a brush blaze near Campbell Meyers camp. The Coleen launches from Invermere for Golden with crew and passengers on a 100 mile Columbia River voyage. Tourism grows as summer visitors arrive from the U S and beyond. Major F B Young named Wool Growers Association director. J L Palmer and others tour Windermere and Sinclair Hot Springs. Miss Florence Erickson returns after hospital study. tragic death of Lt Col H M Cherry noted in Vancouver.
Ottawa census progress includes universal registration of people and livestock. Quebec plans extensive forest regeneration with strict rules and European consultation for best practices. The C R C club announces meetings, library access, a children’s picnic, and a July 27 guest event with the Biss of Chestra from Fernie. Membership information is available from Instructor A G Mitams.
Orville Leonard the fire ranger asks readers if they have witnessed the destructive blaze from smoke and flames to ash and wrecked homesteads, urging care with camp fires and cigarettes to prevent wildfires.
The Windermere district gains attention as a holiday resort after a Canadian Pacific publicity push in Coast sections. A Vancouver World feature praises Lake Windermere as a rustic Canadian Rockies retreat with sandy shores, near Golden or Colvalli, offering bathing boating riding golf automobiling fishing and big game hunting. The CP has cabins and an auto road from Banff is under construction by the Dominion Parks Board.
Montreal reports a large export deal for pulpwood from Canada to Holland. Shipments will be 100,000 cords monthly, totaling 6,000,000 cords across several years. The agreement covers multiple years with steady monthly dispatches.
Canada reports 1200 irrigation and water supply projects, completed or planned. The Canadian Pacific Railway has invested millions in 18 750 miles of ditches to irrigate a million acres, with drought conditions described as an assured fact in Western Canada.
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