Tormalities Ve at tnimum When a inal
oe or Oy, legraph Creel: Whs Niet Sh | § 92

No priorities, no shortages, a handwritten agreement with no carbon copies
was all that was required to get job started and completed on time.

By CONST. J. W. TODD

NO DOUBT our great advances nae we _ home were evidently his own prop-
n science and industry have provided i as seed re Ee erty.
is in the present day and age with Mot thog es Be
many a comfort and luxury which 4 ips tel s
ve no doubt wonder how we ever .
ot along without only a very short

ime ago.

No CARBON COPIES

The settling of a contract was evi-
dently no long drawn out affair.
Mr. James Porter (the government
agent) and Mr. Hyland drew up an
agreement (no carbon copies) speci-
fying the dimensions, etc., of the
building and the date upon which it
was to be finished.

However, with all our advantages
here is also a great many worries
vhich our fathers and grandfathers
ever had to bother their heads about.

As seen by the photographic copy
of the following letter this was not
any date in the distant future. The
date of the agreement was Sept. 9,
1892, and the date for the completion
of the structure was October 10,
1892, and the sum to be paid,
$400.

In 1948 following a fire which
destroyed the police quarters and
lock-up at Telegraph Creek, the
province constructed new quarters the
cost of which I understand reached
the sum of $35,000. The building
of this structure took I have no doubt
a good number of men’s labor, and
time expended was no doubt far

greater in comparison to that spent
on the 1892 lock-up.

The law of supply and demand
yas not so vicious in those days as
tisnow. As they required it our not
o distant ancestors went ahead and
ontrived with the materials at hand
o make what they needed.

No PRIORITIES OR SHORTAGES

There was no such thing as a pri-
rity list in those days, and if when
t was necessary to purchase some-
hing it was a fairly safe bet that
vhen you received that which you
ad ordered it had not doubled itself
nN price in the interim.

i
i he Beanie. Oa

The words also ‘“‘we do not have
t in stock’’ were probably unknown
t that time.

So it was in the year 1892 in Tele-
raph Creek, B.C. The village felt
he need of a police lock-up in which
0 properly house a constable and
he charges that might come under
im. At that time the home of Mr.
obert Hyland was used as a lock-up,
nd the cells which he had in his

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