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Beauharnois. The Committee had been investigating charges made last May by Alberta's M. P. Robert Gardiner regarding the relations of the Government to Beauharnois Power Co., of which Senator McDougald is board-chairman. In 1927 this company obtained permission from the Government to dredge a wide, 15 mi. canal, ostensibly as part of the proposed St. Lawrence Waterway, between Lake St. Francis and Lake St. Louis on the St. Lawrence River, the immediate purpose being to utilize the flow between the lakes for hydroelectric power. Projected cost of the power installations alone: $65,000,000. Projected horsepower...
Dairymen on the Didsbury Jersey farms at Didsbury, Alberta, last week argued that it was a meat diet which caused one of their cows, Waikiki Xenia's Fanny, to produce almost pure cream...
Pilot Yoshihara proposed to make 20 stops en route to San Francisco, via Petropavlovsk, Alberta; the Aleutian Islands; Seward, Alaska; Vancouver. He carries no radio, will fly far off the regular track of ocean vessels. His worst hazard: Fogs, while he tries to locate his re-fuelling stations along the 6,268 mi. route to San Francisco. A forced landing in the bergstrewn Bering Sea would allow little hope of survival. Smiling little Seiji expected to complete his flight late this month...
...purchaser with his Southern sales receipts. The War started cotton on its historic climb to 40? per Ib. Mr. Wrigley sold without loss (he has never admitted making a profit). Again last December he announced the same barter plan for wheat in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. His company promised to buy out of its sales receipts 1,000,000 bu. at not more than 65? per bu. By last week 500,000 bu. had been thus purchased at an average price of 55? per bu. Meantime Wrigley gum sales in the region have increased 10%. Delighted...
...Northern Alberta much fine grain is grown, especially in the Peace River district. This is shipped to Edmonton by Northern Alberta Railways, jointly controlled by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National. About half the grain is shipped from Edmonton to the Pacific Coast over the C. N. R. to Prince Rupert, the rest via the C. P. R. south to Calgary, thence to Vancouver. But last week it was rumored that C. P. R. will buy Pacific Great Eastern Railway, now owned by British Columbia. P. G. E. runs from Squamish, 40 miles north of Vancouver, to Quesnel, on the Fraser...