The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-01-30


Parrsboro exported 27,523,0O0 feet OF
lumber, and Bridgewater 4O, 900, 900 feet.
The coal shipments from the mines of
the province during 1907 was 100000
tons. The output of the iron mines
was large and few gold mines gave
profitable returns. | obtained the fig
ures here given from official data. Men
engaged in numbering have told me that
the wild animals, more especially the
fur bearing animals, are rapidly de-
creasing The beaver, once plentiful, is
nearly extinct. Not long ago trapper
near this place found beaver family
of nine He captured them all in
few days, thus extermlnatlng the col
ouy. The caribou have also been ruth
lessly slaughtered, and now only few
herds remain. The moose are still quite
plentiful in some localities, but bar
barous and unchecked slaughter of the
COWS is permitted by law, some three
months in the year.
| recently net man from NeWfound-
land. H. spoke of the railroad recently
built across the province from ST. Johns,
distance of 40S miles, mostly through
spruce forest that the woodlands axe
had never touched. No sooner was the
road built than the fires laid millions of
acres of this valuable timber in ashes,
as far as the eye can see each side or
the road. The forests abound with
herds of caribou, and attract large
numbers of hunters from the United
States and Great Britain. One English
army officer ruthlessly shot IS of these
fine animals and took their heads to
England to mount, that part being the
only value. This kind of slaughter
went on for several years, when the
government made law that each
hunter shall pay $50 for a license, ana
be permitted 80 kill but three caribou.
The droves have now become very few,
and the government has enclosed
large herd in a park near St Johns to
prevent tota! extinction.
Nova Scotia is becoming more and
more a summer resort for American
tourists. They travel both by sea and
land. stopping off days or weeks as the
case may be, at points which seem TO
be of greatest interest to them. Wolf
vile and vicinity present many attrac-
tons, being located near the Grand Pre-
made famous by the expulsion of the
Acadians in l755-an event that Long
fellows Eyangeline portrays III highly
poetic cclors. Last season about 1000
tourists registered here in the different
hotels. This does not include the whole
number. Some remained only a few
DAYS and others several weeks.
Mareoni, of wireless telegraph fame,
has been in the province most of the
summer experimenting the completion
of his great transatlantic station at
Glace Bay. Having brought it to such
a state of perfection as to be able to
send messages with The speed OF light
distance of over 5000 miles, regardless
of storms or any atmospheric disturb
ance whatever, he recently left for
Europe to bring the corresponding sta
tons there to an equal state of etfic-
iency. The overland telegraph wires,
owing to their congeSted condition,
have not been able to furnish the wire
less station with all il was able to do.
This. however. will soon be remedied;
and then the income from the wireless
company at ten cents word, even at
the slow speed of ten thousand words
day, must be enormous.
In a recent issue Of The journal l
noticed few references to the Belfast
Water Co. Perhaps few lines con
corning the Wolfyille plant may be of
interest. The town OWNS the plant, and
to equip it issued nearly $4,000 worth
of four per cent. bonds. Five miles
distant, on the top of the South Noun
tain-so- caled-is an unfailing water
supply, small stream fed by springs.
This is in a forest, some parts OF which
had been partially cleared. The town
bought 500 acres and enclosed it and
have keeper living near to protect it.
This area of 800 acres will remain per-
petnallv a forest. The large timber,
as it comes to maturity, will be cut and
sold. On the side of the mountain, near
the top, a large reservoir has been
made. from which the main pipe runs
to the town, five miles away. Nearly
a mile back of the town, on the top OF
hill, another reservoir has been made
"a small one-holding, say, five times
the volume of water of the Belfast
standpipe. This is used exclusively for
fire purposes, no water coming from 1T
into the houses. The force of gravity
is sufficient to throw water over the
highest buildings. The water is pure
and soft. No drainage from cultivated
fields Can ever enter the source. Now,
word as to yearly cost to consumers
In the house where | stop the sum OF
| IS is paid for the three cold water fau-
Gets in the bath room. For the faucets
in the kitchen, together with the faucets
in the wash room where there are sta