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‘muvmnkml i 3'5"‘ i9“! °i 57-509 portatioh difficulty, that of congestion. Nearly all our exports and our im- ports have now to be ferried at Bor- ctlgn and‘ their quantity has rendered While rapid advances have been made Jhfififli “finfihffi” not on y m“ y bu t I Kiaityiiis hi“ not considered at the time of the intro- a len behind as many would suppose. ducmm of the om- gan-y‘ oouequenuy A study of the report of the Siiper- my; new “.8336 problem h" Jhtcrzdcnt of Dairying as submitted at

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Therefore be it Resolved by pieti-ililf o‘ muanee of the present railway sched-

"adoring thventirc year will meet our ulrements and ~that the incoming

,1 1h future.

Resolution re Btandardire Gauge Murray Harbor Branch, C. N, 3,,

Resolution re Railway.

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That the C. N. R. be requested m replace mixed trains .on the Island m, y a faster and a more llp-tO-dfltg

f amrcsiusuch arroil, electric or

gasoline. Resolution re Hotels.

whereas greatly increased attention has been directed-in the past two 5r ghi-ee years to Prince Edward Island as "a summer tourist resort. and its i-

que and outstanding advantageg gm

sandal/purposes are beinz more fully fond more wldciY Tecognized.

_ And Whereas technical difficulties and the seasonal nature of the busi-

ness tend to prevent the operation by

‘local companies of hotels sufficiently

‘ elaborate and adequately staffed to es-

tabllsh the province as a great tourist

centre. ‘

And Whereas the Canadian National aailways hotel system now extend; from coast to coast and has involved . s K188i; ciillital expenditure largely en- ' tel-ed into with the idea of developing ~ railway Passenger ,trafflc, hr which Prince Edward Island "has ‘had- no snare. i i. ‘

i And Whereas no other of the great

‘transportation or hotel systems have

~ connections with tho Province of Prince

Edward Island.

‘lllcrefore be it Rasolvcd that this conference of thentlssociatcd Bogrdg of Trade and other business interests would impress u the manageme ‘ of the Canadian tional Railwaysfthh ‘Minister of Railways and our Federal Teliipscntltives, the suitabllty of Prince Edwar island as- the site for a Canadian N tloflal Summer Tourist Hotel, and dis desirability of mph"; the necessary appropriation for the

‘wihirucilo Ahereof at the earliest possible as .

After considerable effort and agltg. a?" i)" m!’ PETE 0i your committees mil I911 Eta contained in three o1 beast r) utlons were secured for the

nefit- of the entire province,

FiPSUYrA sum of $1,000.000 has been Jiaiied/in the federal estimates for a “f: ilP-E 79")’. This is a matter of out- s “M8 importance to all the busi-

_ uesi interests of this province and m

_ "-5 ilturc prosperity.

5‘ °I1dly——The, Local Government YWWIIE the importance of a traffic spedallst to the farmers and to the fishermen of this province have con- flemd W .1011’! With Nova Scotia and

aw Brunswick in carrying on this im-

- variant wopk.

. i°1i5f55f8‘R.;.E: witch and Wilfred mute‘ have been iilpointed to act as ehrcprcsentatives from this province. T lFdly-dlesotiations are taking

place with the l agemen. of the

0. N. R. whereby thelnail and pggggn.

ger service to thig “ma” gs w be

still further iliipmverrthlg h huh-m A

Public nnnounceln t will be made

mzerning this nutter ‘in u short

The Depart h of secured for sfitxsrrgl. 01%??? lihgephrgh?

, erty adJOiIIiIIG o present Experi-

_. ‘us many more valu-

mcnl 1 iflo iovaflsble for experi- t '1 and. cs rch work in the 1h- "esis 0i .-. mers.

. athsnew 9°“ Wflrehousc was built p ummerside and considerable 1m- yiézycngents are beingmade there this

Gm Y enlarged shipping facilities. warchrsetown has had a new potato Tw oust‘ built there last season.

w be“ dnrlportant matters still remain mum, at With- nv-mely: a summer

i the M 0 e1 and the standardizing of

Thou"? Harbour Railroad. to “a: W0 questions must. continue gamzmve the attention of this or- ...,::*:. lr:.:':i":::."sis* to than. w regar

It will be seen that the agenda of migkugfi igld down at the last annual canmlfuutfts been very successfully 0'13; ‘Iss1. fcw years have been ones km Emilie Prosperity in this prov- on év videnccs of this may be seen m defy hand as one travels over the

"ll - But. at the some time one can-

Arrived a Several- earloads containing- tho following Feeds-

COINMEAL calicxuo comv on. CAKE MEAL SCHUMACHER snap DAIRY narrow cow cnow num- PULP rsao wnsar luau-sac rs

~ finality M ’ LING! Fill-Lao o ‘rs sun on EAL

All of which we are soiling at lowest m“; ' ‘

Wholesale am} Retail

h.- llovneill 6r;

B m“ nothing mo" °t 5 9°11‘ certain sections or districts which re-

sult in their low average production. The soil in most of these districts with i proper treatment could double and re- I

tions to n higher state of production. iSomething should be done to stimulate these people to greater efforts for their czvn good. for the good oi‘ their! districts, and for the good of the prov-l incc as a whole. |

Our Potato Industry.

i i Much credit is due the potato grow- ers of the province, for the intelligent

, and progressive methods they have

employed. both in the growing and in

-the marketing. of their product. No

other country has received such prom- inence or success in this industry as has our own little million-acre farm. l Too much attention cannot be giv- en to a rigid inspection of grading, as it is due to this system that public confidence has been won and will be

main had.

An or market is now available for our, otatocs; that of table use. If the same business methods are adopted in_,sccuring it ns have been carried into effect in the marketing and in the growing of the certified seed potatoes, there is no doubt that this new field will bo captured. Proof of this is seen in the steadily growing demand for Prince Edward Island table potatoes. As one travels in the large cities he can see displayed in all the loading store windows, cards advertising for sale, "Prince Edward Island Certified Pota- toes.’ Great attention must be given to the packing and preparing of pota- toes for this market so that they will meet both the requirements of the dealers and tlic demands of the con- sumers, Advertising matter should be placed in every bng or package setting fnrth the excellence of our product, with instructions how to get the best results from cooking, ctc., and as u consequence we can demand a higher price for our potatoes. If proper atten- tion is given this matter a high price can be demanded, not an exorbitant price but one which will repay both, the consumer, bccausc ho will obtain a better product and the producer due to greater and hence cheaper produc- tion and due to an assured market.

The Roads.

Good roads are one of tho preut problems facing every country today. In considering them lt lnust be borne in mind that only within the last ten years the prime importance of public highways has impressed itself on cov- crnments and on the public generally. A greater demand for the auto and the motor truck have brought this about until today the need for good roads has become on absolute neces- sity, and is of importance to every country. The time may not be far dis- taut. when our own province may be faced with the problem of building a central permanent highway of some sort linking up at Borden with similar highways leading over the entire con- tinent. ‘

We need our share of the auto tour- ist traffic, which the Bureau of Statis- tics estimates spent $190,000,000 in Canada in 1928. If there were proper provincial highways they would double the values of all lands facing them, as well as all adjoining properties. It would mean that motor traffic could be ‘carried on for’ about ten months of the year instead of only six months as at present. We would then have good roads ‘in the seasons when they are modtheeded by our farmers, that is in the lateautumn and in the early spring when our clay roads are almost impassable as they at present exist.

A portion of the cost of bililding such a highway could be financed as in other countries by changing a portion of the costs to the lands adjoining and spreading the payments over a term of years. ’

Tourist Hotel.

‘This is n matter that should be pressed with vigor, as its importance is of inestilnablc value to the province. Otllehparts of the Maritimcs and of Canada generally have been well pro- vided for with regard to tourist ac- commodation, If a transportation com- pany of the magnitude of the CNB, were to boost the province as a sum- mer resort the increased business would add very materially to the wealth of the province.

There is no doubt that our prcscht facilities are entirely inadequate to cope with the increasing numbers of summer visitors who come to this province. If this traffic is to increase and develop something must be done at oncc either in the way of a large hotel or in the form of small cottages in different places. It must ever be re- membered that the needs of yesterday are not those of today.

Potato Warehouse.

Thc apparent activity displayed by the Department of Public Works in re-buildlng the potato-warehouse on the railway wharf after the recent fire was commendable. but great fears are nowbeing entertained that the work is being delay . A failure to have those two buildings ready to handle this season's crop will result in a most serious loss to our principal industry.

As Mr. Grady stated at a recent meeting with our Federal represents-

handle this SQBOIYI toes without there being greater wars- house accommodation on the railway wharf than there is at present. Now is the proper time to consider the mat- gq, when constructing work is actual- 1y 1h process, rather than when the active movement of the crofi h“ 81R"- qq, The equipment necessary to handle this crop can best be realized through a study of last years‘ figures. Whillli show that from October the 18th to June 1 last, 4,840,000 bushels of nota- toes were moved by our railways. The difficulty to be faced is intensified this season because there is an addi- tional 7.000 acres under certified seed bringing up the total avar- age to $2.000 acres, an increase of so per cent over last year. The cstiliiatlii

in the above industry.

Dairyiiil

I tmsnot he") "Dung the t t 1 n n ithelr last annual meeting shows the a most serious handicap w ghe devqop. m‘ Associated Boards or or luck o! enterpnggllgneftihenggrtv 0i; iitéoxtgl gglailzigtypailnfglssese manufactuxlglesd ment of our tourist traffic.

less than

year, but there was an increase of 486.- 413 pounds in the amount of butter produced. The gross value of butter

produced in 1027 was $742,655: of

at!" be inst-mid“! i» Press upon double its pr hi. t t s ~- r parties that this service be provid- “my, he empfied or‘; 11,,,g°{{‘,§_.,§‘§1§f ggfgif; mam“: “ mm °i u"

072,130 for 1320, an increase of $70,610.

Our dairymen are to be congratulat-

ed on the fact that this cheese graded second highest in Canada: being only 3-4 of one per cent lower than that of the big sister province of Ontario; while our butter was graded 08.. per centfbeing the highest of any province in the Dominion . It is difficult to ascertain the exact value of the principal crops, such as wheat, oats. barley, buckwheat, mixed grain, potatoes, turnips and hay, a near estimate places it at 514000.000, equal to about $1,000 for every occu- pied farm in the province.

Fox Industry.

It is estimated that 4,500 foxes warn sent out of the province in i927 and that the total income was about s4,- 000,000 and it is gratifying to note that at the Royal Winter Fair held Toronto last winter, Prince Edward Island again carried off tho majority of tho prizes.

Flahcrios

Catch of fish in the Province of Prince Edward Island up tn and in- eluding the 31st day of July, 1920.

The values quoted above cover prices paid at bontsldc. This compares with the total valuation cf $1,191,694.00, bo- ing a decrease in the year's receipts of $357,008.

Autn Owners.

The very large increase in the num- ber of cars registered here this season is very pleasing. The total number to clatc is 5,097, being 1,000 in excess of inst season. The approximate revenue to the province from this source is $100,000.

In further summing up the resources of the province the following facts will be of interest:

Live stock represents a total value of $8,500,000; with an annual revenue of $7,200,000. This value is made up of: Horses 32,850; cattle 118,578; sheep, 89,608; swine 53,685; poultry 809,000,

The revenue from each in 1927 was as follows: Horses $200,000; cattle 475,000; sheep $400,000; swine $625,000. The agricultural per capita wealth compared with that of the Marltimes ls as follows: Prince Edward Island $350: New Brunswick $150, Nova Scotin $135; Prince Edward Island's per capita being greater than the province of Ontario.

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

0n April 20 last the president and secretary paid our province a visit and were entertained at a suitable ban- qurt at the Victoria Hotel.

The third annual meeting of the Chamber was held in June last 1n the city of Quebec; it being largest yet held. There-were in attendance 350 delegates, representing every section of the Dominion. One could not fail to gain inspiration from the spirit of op- timism expressed by all the leaders of industry.

Tn attempt to give an outline of all that transpired there time will not hermit. Suffice is to say that the Que- bec Boards of Trade did tlemselves great. credit in the manner in which all the details of that great convention were so successfully carried out.

It was my privilege to accompany there the President of the Charlotte- town Board of Trade. He took a close interest in the proceedings and act- ed on some of the important commit- tees. We were honoured in having the convention addressed among others by such outstanding Canadians as Mr. Beatty; the President of the C. PR3

Trade and Commerce; The Hon. Prem- lcr of Quebec: C. H. Cohan, Esq. KC M.P., of Montreal; E. A, Mott, Esq.. General Manager of the

Economist, Royal Bank of Canada.

vinclal Secretary, Province

Nova Scotla.

place in conditions hero. While population bers,

province because the day w

awn thing of the past there has arisen i

one of great difficulty and is b

value smelts . 0 39,629 Herring .. 57.243 l Mackerel 12.632 Cod . 27,172 flake 8.109 Haddock 700 Clams . g5 Quahnllgs 2,435 Tom Cod 3,702 Salmon 560 C..plln 210 Crabs n5 Scallops . .. 405 Lcbsters sold in shell 03,120 Lobsters canned .. 012.811 Lobsters (Tomnllcy) 0,732 Total value . $833,786

The Hon. Mr. Malcolm, Minister of

Cockshutt Flow Co., Ltd., and Dr. D. M. Marvin.

Among those who dealt with special subjects were Col. F. M. Cosgroov on Canada's trade with the Orient and C. R. Barr, K0,, on the diversified ex- ports of the Prairies and C. ff. Car- lisic, President of Goodyear Rubber 00., the Hon. Charles McCrae, Minis- ter of Mines of the Government of Ontario. the Hon. Antoine Leger, Pro- of New Brunswick; I-Ion. P. C. Black, Minister of Highways of the Government of

In surveying conditions in the prov- ince past and present, few of us fully realize the change that has taken the has not increased in num- 'our trade has doubled and re- doubled. How many among us are aware of the fact that in the lost ten years the export and import trade of the province has increased 300 per cent, and that within the last. five years there was a further increase of 100 per cent. To give an instance of the increased provincial activity there is the little village of Albany, where five yearslago the average car loadings were two a year, whereas last year it loaded five hundred cars. Because of this tremendously increased produc- tion which is general throughout the file small schoonsrs and other small craft call- ing at the various ports, and carrying y our p. ‘ucts is now almost a

r traffic was not

me mini;

Let us not overlook the constitu- tional grounds made available by the tcrml. of union, and that Prince Ed- ward Island did not enter the Con- federation until six years after the other provinces, and then only on special conditions. one of these special conditions provided for the mainten- ance of an efficient steam service for the conveyance of mails and passen- gers between the Island and the main- iflhd. winter and summer.

Is this province forevbr to be satis- fied with o ferry service as its only means of trade communication with the outside world, or would we look forward to the day when an endless stccl rnll will bind us in a direct line with all parts of the continent. Transportation will forever be our great drawback as long as we have at the Straits this winter problem of navigation with its handicaps and shortcomings.

There were many, no dfillbbplh our own province who, when last season I advocated as the only solution to our problem, a tunnel to the mainland, had not fully considered this question from the point of view of the new conditions, and who supposed that discussing such an undertaking might seriously inter-

ferry. But no so; a second ferry is for the time being an absolute necessity. and is hilt another evidence of the in- creased demands made on this service. The Borden-Torlnentlne service today is costing Canada an annual amount in excess of what the interest on the capital costs of a tunnel would be: while the economic loss to the province is almost beyond calculation. ,

A few more $1,000,000 grants will only help to convince the government of this, and in the endthcre would only be an inadequate ferry Sorvice futile- ly battling with the ice as in the past ns‘ the only means of transportation. Glvo Prince Edward Island a chance to still further develop her resources and her toilrist traffic as she should, and then n new area will be_ ushered in. and our transportation difficulties will be at an end. This question has ‘lately been given public mention in all the lending journals in Canada and in some of the lnrgc papers in the United States as well. The Halifax Herald on July 24. 1927, speaking editorially, says: “The proposed tunnel is an ob- jective of the Island people. Perhaps it may be called their great objective in matters of this kind, and it is their right to seek the advancement of their proposals. The paper goes on to com- pare a car-ferry with a direct rail communication and to say that the car ferry will do for all time this is not progressive. It would be as well to say that the Dartmouth-Halifax ferry is adequate to the needs of this grow- ing community. It goes on to say: If

ago, it is more feasible now and more" necessary today." The Halifax Herald 1n its issue of June 9th lust again referred to a tun- nel to Prince Edward Island by saying: “There is nothing visionary about this project. "We are living in a world of new things; and the Islandvtunnel ques- tion is now new, at. all, It is a ques- tion of engineering and money. And s0 important has the Island traffic bo- come, and so difficult its problems, that this tunnel iaroposnl will have to be taken up at some time seriously and effectively. "Prince Edward Island is not asking the impossible, and th" demand for these facilities should have the best support of the Maritime people." Thc St. John Times-Telegraph in a recent editorial on a tunnel to Prince Edward Island states: “That eventual- ly the authorities will come to the point. where, as a more matter of business economy they must act and the quick- er they make up their minds the bet- tel‘, for as the years go by with in- creasing trndc the annual ferry costs will continue to pile up. Before many years putting the costs of financing a tunnel very much in eclipse." It further states: “One or two winter seasons such us wc have had in the past, when more than the one crossing of the ferry a day was frequently im- possible would soon demonstrate to the most sceptical, the great economic necessity of this work. Conditions have changed in the matter of freight traf- fic, and it is now essential to be able to place the valuable potato crop of Prince Edward Island in the right market at the right time in order to procure the real profits to the produc- crs. this was almost impossible during last winter when we had the most fa- vourable conditlohs which this province has experienced in many years, and with two boats running, cach making a trip per day, tho potato producers of this province would be under tro- mcndous loss which would be entirely eliminated by a tunnel through which whole train loads could pass at short intervals during any day in the year." In conclusion this journal sums up the situation by saying: "Why 110i spend some money on a proposition that will prove a grout boon to a Drov- ince which has already struggled un- ier a handicap and ls prospcrlng nevertheless, not only would it prove a boon to Prince Edward Island, but it would prove of immense benefit to the ivfaritimes generally and indeed to the whole Dominion.“