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Prince
Rupert
Daily
News
Monday,
June
11,
1951
Potential
Hydro-Power
Production
Speeds
up
Prince
Rupert's
manufacturing
industries
in
1945
numbered
25,
employing
1.294
men
with
a
payroll
of
$2,651,675
and
a
Rros.s
value
of
production
of
$9,788,217.
Two
years
later
the
same
num
CONGRATULATIONS
AND
BEST
WISHES
TO
Columbia
Cellulose
Co.
O
Mitchell
&
Currie
Ltd.
BUILDERS
and
CONTRACTORS
A
source
of
potential
walvr
power
t.f
1.803,000
horse-power
lies
within
the
Prince
Rupert
area,
greatest
of
these
being
the
Kut.suk-Kimsquit
system
and
the
Tulitsa-Keniano
river,
a
potential
respectively
of
910.000
and
845,000
horse-power..
Other
sour-res
are
smaller
rivers
with
an
average
potential
of
10,000
horsepower.
Present
development
of
power
'
t
serving
Prince
Rupert
is
13.800
'
horsepower,
of
w
hich
7.500
is
'
hydro.
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Electricity
Everyone's
Handyman
Electrical
"Hands"
make
work
light.
They
serve
vour
home
and
business.
They
turn
the
wheels
of
industry.
Wherever
they
are
used
they
make
ber
of
industries
operated
with
only
half
the
employment,
half
the
payroll
and
two-thirds
of
the
production.
Today
it
is
estimated
there
are
iu
new
inaustries,
tnree
times
the
number
employed,
five
times
the
payroll,
and
at
the
end
of
the
year,
10
times
the
production
value.
licensing
of
fishing
effort
fishermen,
fishing
vessels,
fishing
gjar
comes
under
this
department,
as
do
also
all
regulations
and
enforcement
and
inspection
of
canned
salmon.
t
The
Federal
Department
of
Fisheries
is
responsible
for
the
(conservation
and
management
of
Bll
fisheries
except
shellfish
t
oysters,
clams,
abalonc,
etc.i
and
marine
plants,
all
of
which
come
tkith'n
provincial
jurisdiction.
All
BOOST
INSURANCE
REGINA
itK)
The
collegiate
board
has
decided
to
increase
to
$1,200,000
the
amount
of
fire
insurance
carried
on
the
city's
high
school
buildings
The
amount
previously
carried
was
$1,070,000.
possible
new
methods,
new
processes.
,
Less
toil,
and
greater
efficiency.
to
the
Columbia
Cellulose
Company
we
wish
every
success
on
the
openinq
of
their
vast
modern
development
at
Watson
Island.
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As
this
enterprise
enters
producfion
and
progresses,
so'
may
the
citizens
of
Prince
Rupert
realize
the
opening
of
the
long
awaited
era
of
greater
opportunity
and
prosperity.
Prince
Rupert
Stewart,
B.C
LARGEST
ICE-FREE
all-year
port
on
the
continent
is
Prince
Rupert.
Combined
with
the
CNR
transcontinental
terminus
and
a
trans-
provincial
highway
it
has
most
of
the
advantages
of
an
all-strategic
centre.
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For
You,
Too
on
their
new
plant
their
management
their
staff
in
the
mill
and
woods
See
Our
Home
Designs
Especially
suited
for
Building
in
Prince
Rupert
We
have
many
modern
plans
from
which
to
choose.
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Limited
Albert
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SAND
GRAVEL
BRICK
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LUMBER
PLYWOODS
MOULDINGS
DOORS
WINDOWS
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