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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1924
Page
7
Minutes show the 46 mill tax rate for the year, down from 93 mills years ago. A ten percent early payment discount cuts the rate to about 41 mills if paid before November 20, with the reduction driven by careful management and economy.
E. W. Beatty notes improved western morale after a recent inspection. British Columbia faces a wave of construction with a $460,000 logging railway, a $1,000,000 mill, a $200,000 amusement center, a $200,000 saw mill, and about $300,000,000 in power plants planned, signaling strong regional progress.
A survey of recent developments includes glass incubators for trout in Ontario hatcheries, a Californian device for spraying sulfur on grapevines, and freight feed networks in California ranches. It notes a glow worm light efficiency, a million and a half dollar factory in Ontario, artificial silk from pulpwood, and rapid cross Atlantic service by the Empress of France. Canadian productivity, wolf-hunter moves near Great Slave Lake, and German express trains with wireless telephones are reported. A Holstein Friesian record in Williamsburg is claimed, and the Railway Guide discusses new air railway interchange with Canadian Pacific at Anglers.
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