News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-01-07
The Busy East of Canada
MoNCToN, n. B., Dec. Is, 10

Editor Ne,Cs and Citizen:-
Thinking some of the readers of the
local paper would like to read of acts
pertaining to the busy east of Canada
will send few for publication and more
later, as | am spending the winter, in the
beautiful city of Moncton, New Bruins
wick situated on the Petitcodiac Rive ,
an estuary of the Bay of .Fundy, and
which courses through one of the most
fertile valleys in Eastern Canada. The
river is navigable for nine months of the
year for vessels drawing twenty-five feet
of water, opposite to the mouth of the
mines of Nova Scotia; while an easy port
age in early days, now a brief railway
trip, gave access to the Shediac River
aud the straits of Northumberland, with
hours sail placed the agricultural abuud-
ance OF Prince Edward Island under lrl-
butte.
The railways have made Moncton the
u duspoltdIlon CeHlcl VI tuo pIoNtuC6 W
an even greater degree than when the
rivers and sea carried the burden of com
merce. Any railway seeking the Allan
TIC seaboard of Nova Scotia or en- loute to
the Ancient Colony OF Newfoundland
must pass through Moncton.
MonutOn is the railway hub of the
maritime provinces = New Brunswick,
Nova Scotia and trnce Edward Island.
Here are the general Offices and the head
quarters of the Intercolonial and the
Prince &c ward Island railways. This
city is the eastern terminus of the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway and also of the
MOucton IL Buctouche. From this city
radiate the great trunk lines of railway
to Halifax, Sydney and Newfoundla land
IN the east, to ST. John, Boston and New
YUtk on the south, and to Quebec and
Montreal on the west.
The Petltcodidc River is famous the
world over for its wonderful phenomenon
OF "rhe Bore" solid wall of water
rushing up the liver twice each twenty
TOUR hours with irresistible force, fol-
lowed, by rapid filing of the river. The
rise aud fall OF the tide is between thirty |
one and thirty five feet-lhe largest
Bore" 10 the world.
Fur farming is IA beW industry in Can
ada ouy its development has been rapid. |
An investigation conducted in the latter |
half al 1919
where animals OF various species were
being bred 10 captivity for their fur. Up .
to the present time the domestication of |
wild tur-bearing animals has been prac-
ticed most extensively, and also most
successfully, in the Maritime Provinces.
Fac black and dark silver skins from
foxes produced ON Prince Edward island
ranches have rarely brought less than
five-hundred dollars each, and frequently
bring over two-thousand dollars at Lon
don auction sales. The pioneer fox
breeders have acquired wealth IN the
business and their success has inspired
their neighbors to engage in a similar
line of work.
Corporations and partnerships with
total capitalization of several millions
have been established for farming the
silver fox. A large proportion of the
inhabitants of Prince Edward Island and
A smaller proportion of those of New
and Nova Scotia have invest
I'd their money to buy stock in these
enterprises. 1t is said that one of the
pioneers found the first black fox in a
hollow log, which had floated down from
Labrador. Be that as it may, the black
iox has come to remain.
The high prices for furs prevailing
Turing recent years explains why fur /.
arming has made such rapid progress in I
,uch a short time. This is particularly
rue OF the black fox industry. The fur |
,aIue of high grade black fox ranges ,
rom $500 to g, 500, but the demand Tor !
breeders has been 20 great that the price
las risen 10 SIS 600 a pair Tor the best I
,ualitv of breeding stock