FORTY-TWO

PRINCE GEORGE— (Continued)

the city. Several miles of sidewalks and graded streets.
Three churches and excellent educational advantages.
Branches of the Bank of Montreal and the Royal Bank
of Canada occupy their own fine premises. Every line
of mercantile business is represented.

Prince George is particularly proud of its leading
hotel, the Prince George, one of the best equipped hostel-
ries in the interior. With the completion of the Pacific
Great Eastern Railway, which will connect the north
country with the cities of the Pacific Coast, Prince George
will become the distributing centre for the whole of
Central British Columbia.

“The last great west’? may be accurately applied to
the Fort George District, for within its boundaries is con-
fined the largest and most fertile area of virgin agricul-
tural land and timbered stretches remaining in Western
Canada. The amount of merchantable timber contiguous
to the Fraser River east of Prince George, is estimated
at about 25,000,000,000 feet, and consists of Douglas
Fir, Spruce, Balsam, Cedar, Hemlock and Cottonwood.
There are eighteen sawmills located between Prince
George and McBride, a distance of 146 miles. The
capacity of these mills ranges from 15,000 to 150,000
feet per day.

The Fort George district has within its confines more
pulp material than any other area in the northwest, and
is adjacent to some of the finest waterpower sites to be
found in British Columbia, all within convenient dis-
tance of the Fraser River and the G. T. P. Railway.

Big game hunters of international repute say that in
no other part of the North American continent is game
so plentiful and hunting conditions more ideal than in the
section of British Columbia, north, east and south of
Prince George. Here are to be found Grizzly Bear,
Moose, Cariboo, Mountain Sheep and Goat.

Population of Prince George and suburbs is 3,000.
Local resources: Farming, stock-raising, lumbering,
mining, hunting and fur trapping.