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Premier
Mine
In
Production
At
Month's
End
The
famous
Premier
mine,
near
Accomodation
New
Hotel,
Apartment
Frank
Kaftel,
Toronto
Financier,
Steps
Into
Picture
in
Prince
Rupert
Trade
.
,
Tnclr
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lornn.
shakes
wm
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H1GmvAyt
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The
huge
horseshoe
dock
and
newly
built
warehouse
Photos
by
Wrathall
Steel
and
concrete
takes
shape
on
mill
buildings
-
R-asi
anolh(,c
s
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completion
lu'y
construction
HUGE
NEW
INDUSTRIAL
PROJECT
Hub
of
Interior
:
-
mileage
tta
by
hiirh
i
complicated
Stewart,
for
almost
a
generation
northern
British
Columbia's
leading
gold
producer,
will
he
in
full
production
again
by
the
end
of
November
after
more
than
a
year's
shutdown,
It
is
anticipated
Closed
.as
a
result
of
a
labor
Mill
and
Smelter
Workers
In
oU
but
the
determu.ii
Frank
Kaftel,
dynamic
finan-rlcr
of
Toronto,
has
seen
the
opportunity
and
necessity
in
connection
with
the
providing
of
Prince
Rupert
with
new
hotel
end
living
accommodation
and,
as
a
result,
this
city
should
soon
be
provided
with
a
fine
modern
Prince
.
Rupert's-
Pulp
Mill
Moves
Toward
Completion
w
comply
It.
Prince
George
Meanwhile,
me
Prince
George'.
5,000
still
maintaining
,
,
level,
although
It
U
co
under
lu
lumber-ted
p.
ect
marks
the
Installation
of
the
Crossroads
Is
Focal
Point
for
Interest
of
Industry
Due
For
Completion
in
1951
'
million
dollar
hotel
with
upwards
of
one
hundred
rooms
and
pn
apartment
of
fifty
or
more
living
units.'
June.
1948,
the
mine
is
now
in
iU
filial
stages
of
rehabilitation
and
is
expected
to
achieve
full
scale
years
ago.
Many
Q(
lumber
operator,MUg!4
Timher.r.j
Still
Economic
Mainstay
P.G.E.
Extension
Aiid
Hart
Highway
production
before
the
end
of
the
'..
-
.(By
Wallace)
.
t
rrincc
Rupert
is
today
a
focal
point
of
interest-to
the
pulp
and
timber
industry
of
the
North
American
continent.
Areas
contiguous
to
it
that
comprise
the
Naas
and
Skeena
River
water
sheds
are
the
scenes
of
one
of
the
first
large
scale,
perpetual
yield
forestry
operations
in
the
west.
vast
"tree
farm"
and,
In
instltut-taken
an
Initial
step
In
the
Important
matter
of
forest
preservation
and
sustained
yield
forestry
practice.
It
was
as
a
direct
result
of
the
recommendations
of
the
1944
Royal
Commission
on
Forestry
that
the
provincial
legislature
made
it
possible
for
operations
of
this
type
to
establish
on
a
sound
basis
with
the
assurance
oi
permanency.
One
of
the
first
applications
year.
Damage
to
outside
buildings
resulting
from
a
year's
neglect
PRINCE
GEORGE
The
triumphant
scream
of
Prince
Oeorge
most
northerly
pulp
mill
on
the
Pacific
Coast,
Working
to
a
schedule
calling
lor
completion
in
1951
little
time
was
lost
in
disposing
of
the
usual
pre-construc-tlon
problems
of
labor
and
material
supply
and
organization.
With
construction
now
in
full
stride
one
thousand
employers
warm
over
the
area
and
concrete
walls
.and
footings
clearly
define
the
first
half-dozen
build
ings.
Steel
columns
with
ihnr
interlacing
framework
already
district
sawmills
still
heralds
lum
has
lamely
been
repaired.
This
Mr.
Kaftel
during
recent
months
purchased
a
commanding
site
on
Second
Avenue,
already
excavated
years
ago
by
the
1
ail
way
for
the
location
of
u
hotel,
and
his
latest
announcement
was
that
architects
could
be
expected
here
soon
to
survey
the
ground
with
a
view
to
drawing
up
the
plans.
Since
visiting
here
in
late
summer,
Mr.
Kattcl
bering
as
the
economic
mainstay
of
the
area
but
this
hub
of
the
central
B.
C.
interior
will,
soon
come
Into
It
own
as
a
provincial
crossroads.
'
.
'
.
uicsuraoiy
rising
cos:
stabilizing
market,
'
hi
under.
I
Population
turnover!
considerable
because
i,
In
the
lumber
market
pleasing
feature
of
U-J
trend
Is
the
movememf
stantlal
Immigrant
bo
up
farms
In
the
dlstr
recognized
as
a
real
i
wealth.
I
With
these
varied
f
Prince
George
U
lookup
to
a
real
growth,
1
included
reconstruction
of
several
buildings
which
had
partially
collapsed
as
a
result
of
the
heavy
snowfall
in
the
Stewart
district.
Being
removednow
are
several
rock
cave-ins
in
the
mine
itself
under
the
new
arrangement
was
made
by
American
interests
who
The
Columbia
Cellulose
Company's
plant,
now
under
construction
on
Wat.son
Island,
Is
the
first
major
step
in
implementing
the
terms,
of
that
com
pany's
agreement
with
the
provincial
government
under
their
Forest
Management
License.
An
has
been
negotiating
with
the
rise
above
the
administration
and
ing
it,
the
province
of
B.
C.
has
J
Projection
of
the
Pacific
Oreat
Eastern
Railway,
83
miles
northward
from
Quesnel.
the
.delayed
railway
company
for
ground
pulp-storage
buildings.
DomiI'm
dream
of
a
generation
al
time
Bridge
company,
Vancouver,
arc
contractors
for
the
fabrication
and
erection
of
steel.
Sewer
r.nd
will
give
this
rich
lumbering
and
farming
community,
a
rail'
lnk
examination
'of
the
agreement
entered
into
under
authority
of
nuvaiicement
which
i;ij
tlnent-wide
meaning
ready-ringing
claim
ik
City
of
B.
C."
i
It
is
anticipated
that
production
operations
will
begin
In
1951.
Hon.
E.
J.
Kenney,
minister
of
lafids
and
forests,
has
explained
that
some
of
the
conditions
under
which
a
forest
area
is
reserved
for
the
exclusive
use
of
a
licensee
require
such
good
forestry
practise
as
reforestation
while
cutting
and
logging
progresses,
thinning
and
other
silvlcultural
measures.
"Lands
must
be
kept
always
productive
and
under
crop'
said
Mr.
Kenney
who
points
out
that
should
the
annual
cut,
averaged
out
over
a
ten
year
period,
be
less
than
the
annual
productive
capacity,
the
licensee
must
pay
for
it
anyway.
If
the
cut
Is
more
the
licensee
pays
a
penalty
and
additional
to
that
which
he
has
already
acquired.
While
in
Prince
Rupert,
Mr.
Kaftel
was
Intrigued
with
the
possibilities
of
the
former
United
States
Army
administration
building
on
First
Avenue
for
conversion
into
an
apartment
block
and
recently
it
was
announced
that
he
had
acquired
Ihe
property
from
War
Assets
Corporation.
which
resulted
from
shiting
rock.
Involved
in
rehabilitating
the
mine
is
the
re-timbering
of
tunnels
and
removal
of
the
rock
which
has
fallen,
plugging
the
tunnels
themselves.
Superintendent
of
the
mine
is
Jack
McCutcheon,
a
veteran
hard
rock
mine
manager.
About
70
men
are
currently
employed
and
most
of
these
will
continue
when
the
mine
resumes
production.
More
will
be
added
as
production
increases.
subsequently
Incorporated
the
Columbia
Cellulose
Company
Ltd.
and
entered
the
area
on
a
comparatively
large
scale.
During
1947(
and
1948
they
completed
their
first
timber
cruises
and
water
tests
and
assembled
other
pertinent
technical
Information.
They
acquired
the
large
United
States
Army
installation
and
deep-sea
dpek
at
Watson
Island
and
conditioned
the
area
adjacent
to
the
dock
for
a
plant
site.
Plant
construction
started,
in
earnest
in
the
spring
of
this
year.
C.
H.
Klotz,
New
York,
Is
resident
water
lines
are
well
on
their
way
to
completion.
A
major
portion
of
the
installation
Is
the
six-mile
walr
line
with
its
three
tunnels,
totaling
almost
a
mile,
designed
to
deliver
up
to
35
million
gallons
of
writer
dally
to
the
plant
from
Trud-homme
Lake.
The
four-foot
pipe
is
of
treated
wood-slave
construction.
Tunnels
are
ronrret:
lind.
The
Vancouver
contracting
firm,
Campbell
&
Bennett,
have
this
phase
of
the
work
In
legislation
passed
by
the
British
Columbia
government
in
1947,
shows
that
Columbia
Cellulose
agrees
to
manage
the
area
for
sustained
annual
yield
and
to
cut
and
market,
or
use
commercially,
the
annual
yield
from
the
reserve
area.
The
WaUson
Island
plant
will
prgduce
upwards
of
fifty
thousand
tons
of
pulp
.nd
use
from
!75
to
100
million
board
feet
of
with
the
lower
mainland
but
fhls
Is
only
part
of
the
prospect-.
In
store.
,
There
also
la
the
completion
of
the
Pine
Pass
Highway
to
,,
the
Peace
River
and,
more
distant,
but.
equally
inevitable,
frJnce
George
residents
feel,
the
ultimate
extension
of
the
P.O.E-tnto
the
-
Peace
River
country
and
who
knoWs?
possibIyi
Alaska."
Prlnrf
Oeorge
'pioneers,'
who
saw
the
Pacific
Great
Eastern
limp
as
far
north
as
Quesnel
then
wither,
listened
proudly
a
.lew
days
ago
as
the
first
spike
of
'the
That
section
of
the
p
extending
from
th-j
1
boundary
to
Prince
F
better
known
as
Cen'rH
Columbia
contains
an
ts
900,000
acres
of
arable
ii
could
be
divided
Into
f
omlc
farm
units.
,
a
;
there
are
estimated
ifl
farmers
in
the
area.
A$
opportunities
are
In
r
duction.
hogs,
dairyli
I
Whaling
is
an
important
off
the
Quecji
Charlotte
Is
Resumption
of
operations
at
Premier
will
fill
an
Industrial
gap
in
the
Stewart
community
which
has
been
open
since
the
mine
lands.
.
The
Industry
fell
off
engineer
In
charge
of
the
work.
Located
about
ten
miles
southeast
of
Prince
Rupert
on
the
i
hemlock,
spruce,
balsam
and
!
Cottonwood
logs
per
annum.
ceased
operation
and
will
add
his
license
is
liable
to
cancellation.
By
this
arrangement
the
alot-
sharply
In
1943
owing
to
a
scar-Iclry
of
the
mammals
but
of
late
1
there
has
been
a
tendency
to
I
come
back.
considerably
to
the
payroll
in
the
hand
and
are
making
good
progress
despite
unusual
problems
in
muskeg
and
rock.
northern
mainline
of
the
Canadian
National
Railways,
the
proj
Large
scale
logging
operations
i
r.re
planned
for
next
season
and
northern
mining
community
extension
beyond
Quesnel.
wast
farming.
I
ted
area
becomes,
In
effect,
a
We
Buy,
Process
and
Ship
All
Varieties
of
Alka
'Rsh
ted
.Rupert
Fislli
Company,
Incorpora
(Inc;
in
State
of
Washington)
"...
INDEPENDENT
BUYERS
AT
THE
PRINCIPAL
PORTS
OF
SOUTHEASTERN
AL-
ASKA
AND
ASSOCIATED
WITH
INDEPENDENT
GROUNDS
BUYERS
ON
THE
SALMON
GROUNDS
OF
WEST
COAST
AND
PORT
ALEXANDER,
ALASKA
"
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and
Distributors
ot
Products
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by
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Columbia
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Ltd.
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Fish
Products
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B.
C.
and
Subsidiary:
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Fish
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&
Cold
Storage
Co.
Ltd.
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