SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 19019, THE FISHERIES IN B.C. k SHOULD CANADA KEEP ALL HER B OWN SALMON? Canners on Pacific ( oast Are Feeling Alarmed Regarding Situation Be- 1 Is Lessening and Last Year a Million Fresh Fish Went Across - the to the United States cause Catel Line OMMERCIAIL Lshing on the i carried on in ways. Trawling is yet fancy as far as British Colun n walers are concerned, last ason having witnessed the operation of the first steam trawler which has eve y ced in com- mission here, iceess of this yenture wa 0 liate that it is i of fishing more widely cartain That will be resorted to fs splendid rder, Yad, and in the since catches of other deep whenever this ves Fishing for near fishes werp. made 1 put out to Sea halibut' which is car- ried on almost exclusively.in the more northerly waters of the province, and which has developed to such an ex- tent that to-day it is second only in point of value to the salmon fishery, is done by the use of very long and immensely strong lines, to which are attached at regular intervals, hun dreds of hooks baited with small herring, The vessels engaged in the halibut fishery are of necessity of large size, since they are compelied 10 go considerable distances in search of the fish, and frequently remain at sea for weeks at a time. The crew of a halibut vessel numbers as a rule from ten to fifteen men, and it is nothing exceptional for each of them to receive several hundred dollars as his share of the profits from a . voyage, for profit sharing is th 1 among halibut fishermen. Unfortmn ately, although en rmous quantities of this fine fish are landed every year, for some seasons past there has been a gradual but Nteady falling rf in the number of fish taken. This is undoubtedly due te the fact that there has been little effert made to locate new halibut banks. while the fishing' which has been going on over the known fishing grounds, has been of so intensive a nature, that it.must have had considerable effect upon-the supply. In 1918 the total catch was 37 per cent. less than it 'had been in 1915, while in 1817 the decrease only amounted to 8 per cent How- ever, to be noted for the season of 1918, when--in-spie-of-every--effortonr the part of the fishermen toe maintain production at as high a level as pos sible, only 1,902,000 pounds were landed at Vancouver as against 5.162,000 pounds in 1917, while at Steveston only 18,000 pounds in all were landed. Princes Rupert also shows a very large decrease in the amount of halibv. landed in 1918, the falling off amognting to no lesy than 3,801,660 poulis This decrease fs amply sufficient t% Justify the alarm which has been felt jest the halibut fishery is becoming a thing of the past. The question of the export of fresh fish to the United States has always been a burning one, and has led to tore heated arguments than even | perhaps the controversy regarding the respective merits of the various forms of net. If fish are exported to the United States for immediate sale as fresh food, there can be no pos- sible objection to the pfactice, and indeed there i much that can be said in favor of such exportation. The spring salmon 1s without any doubt a fish that should be eaten fresh rather than canned, and in this condition is a delicacy which even the most bloatéd plutocrat may well be proud to see upon his table. The great drawbaek hitherto to the ship- ping of these fish in proper condition to points in the east, has been the lack of refrigerator cars, and now that there seems to be every pros- pect of this difficulty being removed. "& very large trade should unques- tionably be worked up. But the ex- port of salmon for this class of trade is not the difeulty. More than a million fresh fish were shipped to the United States last year for can- ning purposes only, the Puget Sound canneries getting the benefit of this trade, while our own Canadian can- neries were unable to obtain all the fish that they could have handled. It has been estimated that in the: year 1916 alone no less than 16,000,900 pounds of British Colum- bia salmon was sold to American can- neries, and thie, it is claimed, would have meant a net gain to Canada of more than half a million dollars if these fish had been canned in this country instead of being exported for packing across the line. The secre- | tary of the Caaners Association is authority for the statement that the cannery machinery installed in the | : Fraser river canneries, working for | eight hours a day, could have put up all the salmon which was packed on teen canneries did not opefate at all during that season, the remainder of those actually operating could have put up the total pack in three and a halt days of eight hours each. Had | the export of this 16,000,000 pounds of fish to the United States canners been prohibited, it is obwious that our own canneries must have very . largely benefitted through being en- | abled to operate at full capacity through a longer period. Precious Metals. Ontario, which has already pro- duced 300,000900 ounces of silver, and has"the greatest gold mimes in Canada, continues to make progress as a mineral producer. The total production of the Ni mine Wishing last year was 50.000.000 ounces of out ef it, Blank stammered: "Ab-er- the most notable falling off Is- CANADA'S TRADE. s Must Be Altered to Restore Value of Dollar. 3 Statistics f the endar year appear e with the United States unately large conditions at any rate better in the corresponding That is, Canada has greater value of goods i States, and importing 1ere'has been a mark- 1 exports as well as March, however, the ports being perhaps due of exchange, which cancellation of many figures from Ottawa IMPORTS 1918 1819. 7.624.700 $59,421,482 185 908 66.622 70,697,035 $275.179,041 EXPORTS 1918 $20,681,092 22,795,703 7,111,492 January February March April € May 36,7 June .... 39.8% 459,118 184,05 34,229 $189,665.69) $196,467,038 tthese figures it will be seen adverse 'balance of trade From that the against Canada the first half of 1918 was $785,513,350, while for the cor- responding period of this year it was 134,168,608. The balance must be still further reduced if the value of the Canadian dollar is to be restor- od. The discouraging feature of this year's trade is the falling off in ex- ports since March. Canada must pro- 1 not only enough .o sup- her own people, but t- afford a ger surplus for sale abroad The wfiluensa In Labrador The ravages of the Spanish infiu- enza in Labrador during the past winter and the many deaths in that portion of North America have cre ated a new problem to be met by the friends of the Labrador mission In a letter from Dr. Wilfred Gren- fell an account iz given of the effect inflienza epidemic in the Sandwich Bay district of Labrador Twenty per cent, of the population perished as a result of the illness Dr. Grenfell gives a long list of the dead and adds: "As these Labrador settlements are very small each one generally consisting of a few houses, some idea can be gained of the ca- tastrophe to that part of the country The distancesaregreat between places and families; and the difficulties of the doctor and nurse traveling over that area are almost insurmountable The point that I should like to em- phasibe in this connection is the pressing need for care for the or- phan children who are left as a re- sult of this epidemic; A number' of men left young families, and in sev- eral cases both parents were taken. Odr present orphange, besides being 80 poorly cone' ucted and dificult to run, is full to capacity, and we are at our wiis' end to. meet the problem of caring for so many helpless chil- dren." of the Canada's Credit. Canada's credit stands high A reputation for sound financial meth- ods during the war hs been of in- estimable benefit to the Dominion. Behind this stands also the realiza- tion of her immense natural re- sources and the fact that on the North Ameri¢an continent she is al- most the sole remaining outlet for new settlement on a large scale, Within the new decade or two she will probably receive millions of the best class of immigrants, and these will make her per capita hurdens light. The net public debt of Canada stands to-day at 1,500 million dol- lars. Seventy-five per cent. of it is due to Canadians. Weighed against her natural resources it is not heavy. It. must also be taken into account that among her other assets Canada NOW owns srt svarates 14,000 miles of railway. Maple Products. Reports from various maple dis- tricts in Eastern Canada show that ihe maple products this year will beat all records. The makers of maple sugar and syrup in Canada exceed 45,000. About 550,000 acres of land are being reserved in their natural wooded state, of which two-thirds are situate in the Province of Quebec. The Eastern Townships of Quebec are the centre of the world's supply of maple products. Maple syrup is rapidly becoming known in Great Britain as a table delicacy, while ma- i ple sugar is finding favor as a sweet- | meat. Loans to Soldiers. Soldier Settlement Board show that {up till the 26th of July the board ing $21,311,425. . The figures of the agricultural training branch of the board indicate that 25,722 applications had been re- ceived, of which 19,558 had been approved. | The greatest activity, of course, is {in the four western provinces. Al- | berta reports 6.312 applications; | bia, 4,428; Manitoba, 4,191. : He Blundered. Blank is the greatest blunderer in ' | making excuses we ever knew. Tha | other day a lady he did not parti- icularly care for met him and said: | "We shall be back from the beach | pretty soon, and I'd be glad to have | you come and lunch with us. Sup- | pose we make it Thursday, three | week from to-day. to get silver. The total dividends paid since | let me see--three weeks from to- the first payment In 1806 amount te aluntost $18,000,000. : 5 14th Regt. War Record. Applications for. Guard of Honor | day, you say? Oh, I shall be going | to a funeral on that day. 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"The abolition of the bar has undoubtedly had a wonderful effect in protect- ing the weaklings in the community fm temptation and inevitable degradation. "}tis much too soon to determine how bition have been, but doubtless police and jail statistics will as to the diminution of crime. "The removal of the bar far-reaching the benefits of prohi- bear testimony must be regarded with satisfaction by every right- thinking person in the country, especially by those who know how easily mental weaklings and neurotics fell int eredity. "Alcohol simply intensified the less the lives of the children.' "It was not that these persons suffered alone, but that many of the next jenetation: lost whatever chance they had of living down the curse of a bad defects of the parent and thus made hope- o deplorable habits through its malign influence. DR. C. K. CLARKE Medical Director Nationcl Committee Jor Mental Hygiene. Superintendent Provincial Hospitals for the Insane, Kingston, 1881-1905" and Toronto, 1906-1911. Superintendent Toronte General Hospatal, 1911-1818, : : ; hy. The Menace of Insanit "Insanity is the Mad Son of Alcohol, Idiocy is its Driveling Daughter, " says Vance Thompson. (ONTARIO maintains 6,000 patients in the Insane Asylums at a cost of about $1,000,000 a year and an indire many millions more. Ontario has one insane patient to every cps of 17 peoples= not including the feeble-minded. Kansas, pioneer "dry." ftate of the West, has only one case to every 873° people. The menace of insanity has alarmed government au- thorities and brought about the recent appointment of a «+ National Committee for Mental Hygiene, of which Dr. C. K. Clarke is the Medical Dire@or. Read what he says: "Since passage of the, Ontario Temperance Act, Alcoholic Ty has praétically __ disappeared. "' root ipl Next to "mental strain, overwork and worry," "Alco- holism" is the chief assigned cause of insanity, according to the yearly reports issued by the Ontario Government. Since the Ontario Temperance A@ went into force private hospitals for alcoholics, "Gold Cures," etc., have been closed. Remember what experts on insanity say when you answer the queftions on the Referendum ballot and vote for sane legislation by marking your ballot with an X after each question under the word "No." ~ Mark Four X's 1 (One X under ance Arn Jeu in favour of the repeal! of the Ontario Temper. each "No") ¥ Do not spoil your ballot by Are you in favour of the sale of Nght beer containing not more than two and one-humn weight measure Shrough < pavernment agencies and amend- ments to The Ontario Ww - Simply mark X after every ques- redths permit such sale? marking it with anything but X 3 four times, . Are you in favour of the sale of ii more than two and tion under word No as indicated in sample ballot. containing not Punic Are you | fa the ¢ a n hae as io] Suirttuous and melt Ontario Ffemperance Act to permit such sale? ; | ing blaze, the origin of which is not! for the Prince of Wales and 14th | * x § Regimental registration of war sers | known, destroyed four boat houses | vice in Canada or overseas at Order- | Bear the Sakt Play hefe, Bug the som ly Room in Armouries, 3-12.45 and | age house ¥ 1 2-5 dally. Evenings of Tuesday, ' .... burned. The boat ho.ess were . Thursday and Saturday { owned by Messrs. Ki Payne, Bert: { Clark. Jack Huycke ang Charles Me-! A diplomat is a man who shuts up| Donough. Each has insurance of | 'When be has sald enough. tabout $180. A ~ Ontario Referendum Committee - Trearurer. Fice-Chairman and : (1001 Enceluior Life Bld Tema).