CTION
III
SECTION
III
Page
17
juneVl,
1951
Monday
June
11,
1951
SPECIAL
PULP
MILL
EDITION
Sh
Loiumoia
Aluminum
Brings
New
Industrial
ye
to
Prince
Rupert
Area
(By
LARRY
STAN
WOOD)
rhc
next
few
years
what
may
vie
with
Prince
,
as
British
Columbia's
third
largest
city
is
(I
to
mushroom
out
of
a
dense
wilderness,
.
south
of
Prince
Rupert,
and
already
ranii-of
the
greatest
industrial
move
in
this
e
are
Ka'n'ng
increasing
momentum.
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mountain
cavern,
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plain
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miles
Irom
the
head
of
Kern-,
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village
at
me
neaa
ano
Bayi
Qardner
Canal.
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sui
fjord,
11
came
as
In
this
plant,
Alcan
states
a!
,i
news
lo
nio.ii-
incic
nt
of
problems
to
iron
firm
output
of
1.600,000
horsepower
can
be
developed.
The
smelter
will
be
built
at
Alcan
President
K.
..
,1
but
eventually
the
louid
lead
to
an
estab-
witii
hair
a
Diuion
Kitimat,
fifty
miles
north
of
the,
power
plant,
at
the
head
of
an-1
other
long
fjord
In
Douglas'
Channel,
and
here
eventually
Is
to
Rrow
a
city
of
50,000.
The
in
spritiS.
"n-
smelter,
In
Its
Initial
stage,
will
r;
minister
in
lands
U
smir.'d
an
agrri-nii-iii,
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over
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rwlits
It
required,
,
Uv
green
light
to
go
i
At
Kitimat
will
be
a
deep-sea
i
to
the
desk
clerk
of
a
hotel
there
hand
from
refineries
in
Alberta
both
government
and
commercial'
far
as
B.C.
was
con-
.myway.
26
Alcan
announced
It
iv
to
so
ahead
with
its
wharf,
location
of
the
proposed
and
said:
produce
330,000,000
pounds
of
aluminum
annually,
and
when
finally
completed,
l.lOfl.OOO.OOO
pounds.
To
Kitimat
will
be
shipped
the
raw
product,
alumina,
from
the
company's
developments
in
the
Caribbean,
of
which
2.6
pounds
will
be
required
to
produce
one
pound
of
aluminum.
Power
for
the
smelter
will
be
transferred
from
the
Kemano
plant
over
50
miles
of
transmission
lines,
running
over
high
smelter
and
townsite
,d
that
aluminum
Ingots
From
the
.
opposite
end,
at
Burns
Lake
and
Vanderhoof,
t
poured
at
Kitimat
by
crews
are
swathing
roads
through
"I
want
to
reserve
a
dozen
rooms."
"For
how
long
"
asked
the
clerk.
"Four
years!"
Similar
Impact
Is
felt
by
Vanderhoof,
another
community
on
the
Canadian
National
rail
line,
70
miles
west
of
Prince
George,
or
B.C.
fisheries
officials
and
a
system
'
biologically
feasible
and
econ-
But
what
effect
will
this
power
omically
practical
was
adopted,
development
have
on
fisheries?!
Briefly,
the
solution
is
this:
Would
the
project
hurt
the
Alcan
will
lnstal
necessary
en-salmon
runs?
What,
if
anything,'
gineering
methods
by
which
it
was
Alcan
prepared
to
do
to
pro-
can
make
regulated
releases
of
tect
the
fisheries?
These
ques-
water
to
the
salmon
streams,
thus
tions
formed
the
dynamite-
j
saving
an
annual
value
to
fish-charged
subject
presented
to
the!
eries
of
$1,870,000.
fourth
B.C.
natural
resources1
conference
a
month
after
Alcan'sj
To
the
end
of
AprIK
the
half-
pfdsmuir
National
Park
forest
wilderness
to
the
damsite
and
to
the
tunnelling
project
from
Tahtsa
to
Kemano.
The
tunnel
Job
itself
Is
expected
to
employ
1,000
men
this
summer
and
will
use
a
carload
of
powder
a
day
to
blast
Its
way
10
miles
through
solid
rqock.
Oper
mountains
and
through
deep
ravines.
Alcan
estimates
that
a
total
of
IVi
million
horsepower
delivered
at
the
smelter
will
cost
one
mill
per
kilowatt-hour.
.
"This
Is
the
most
economical
from
which
point
machinery
and
equipment
will
be
shipped
to
the
Nechako
damsite
on
a
road
now
network
nf
rivers
and
II
bo
impounded
to
form
lake
100
miles
across,
t
above
sea
level.
This
nf
simply
by
building
a
the
main
outlet,
the
river,
and
by
smaller
several
streams.
THE
"KITIMAT
PACT"
For
the
right
to
establish
its
$550,000,000
aluminum
plant
at
Kitimat,
British
Columbia,
Aluminum
Company
of
Canada
will
pay
the
B.C.
government
as
follows:
1.
An
apnual
fee
of
$225,000
a
year
for
hydroelectric
power.
2.
The
company
will
pay
10
cents
an
acre
for
land
flooded
by
power
storage
reservoirs.
3.
The
company
may
establish
townsites
and
will
pay
land
and
school
taxes
on
its
land.
4.
Company
will
pay
municipal
taxes
on
company
property,
and
franchise,
income
and
corporation
taxes.
plans
were
announced.
billion
dollar
venture
had
cost
It
was
proven
that
the
Tweeds-
$10,000,000
in
Initial
surveys
and
muir
Park
area,
nartial
head-
preliminary
construction.
The
ations
are
directed
from
Burns
Lake
by
Morrlson-Knudson
Company
of
Canada
Ltd.
This
sud
under
construction.
But
what
effect
has
Alcan
activity
had
on
the
nearest
centres
to
the
future
metropolis
of
Kiti
large
power
site
to
be
found
anywhere
in
the
world,''
said
the
company
Is
spending
$500,000
waters
of
the
eraser
river,
was
the
spawning
ground
of
sockeye
salmon.
The
debate
on
this
est
end
of
this
inland
aluminum
company's
president
den
activity
in
an
otherwise
quiet,
small
community,
has
lit
weekly,
according
to
the
Provincial
government,
and
this
figure
is
expected
to
-be
stepped
up
e
it
must
back
against
when
he
first
announced
the
mat?
Terrace,
35
miles
north
and
topic
ran
heavy,
but
the
final
is
mountains,
a
tunnel
inland,
lies
In
the
fertile
Skeena
river
valley
and
on
the
transcontinental
CNR
line.
It
seems
a
erally
turned
the
village
upside-down.
All
available
housing
and
hotel
rooms
have
been
taken
up
by
the
construction
company
for
several
years
to
come.
For
Instance,
one
day
a
com
project.
Supplies
of
petroleum
coke
used
for
aluminum
smelting
should
present
no
problem,
either,
he
said.
Due
to
recent
important
petroleum
discoveries
In
Alberta,
coke
could
be
obtained
close
at
wed
through
10
miles
of
t
under
the
mountains,
tatcr
dropped
through
2.600
vertical
fet.
'
'it
tunnel
discharges
its
result
ended
in
agreement
that
sharply,
power
development
and
fisheries
From
the
head
of
Kemano
Bay,
could
survive
side
by
side
through
a
10-mlle
road
to
the
power
site
careful
planning.
has
been
completed.
The
grade
The
Company
was
forced
to
is
such
that
it
will
be
adaptable
listen
to
the
strong
demands
of
to
railway
construction.
"natural"
that
from
this
point
a
railway
to
Kitimat
will
be
built,
pany
representative
walked
up
(Continued
on
Page
18)
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of
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SINCE
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UNION
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OPERATES:
Regular
sailings
to
Prince
Rupert,
Stewart,
Portland
Canal,
Queen
Charlotte
Islands
and
Northern
B.C.
Coast.
Coastal
B
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Cruises
from
one
to
six
days,
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ten-day
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exclusive
cruise
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to
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via
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past
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thousands
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people
have
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on
Union
Steamships
and
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in
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and
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and
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in
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and
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&
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take
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to
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tribute
to
these
people
of
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Columbia's
Northland.
This
progress
continues,
now
in
even
greater
measure.
The
large
industries
now
in
operation
and
those
planning
development
with
the
assistance
of
our
Provincial
Government,
means
employment
for
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