foreign capital are completing their negotiations to construct
plants similar to the above.

The salmon pack on the Skeena River, which is one of the
greatest salmon rivers in the world, situated 12 miles south of
Prince Rupert, was for 1910, 221,031 cases, and for 1911, ap-
proximately 230,000 cases.

The pack for the Naas River, situated 60 miles north of Prince
Rupert, was for 1910, 39,720 cases and I19IT, 56,805 cases.

This product exceeds $1,000,000 in value and furnishes em-
ployment to at least 5,000 people during the canning season, and
this will naturally constitute a valuable and important feeder to
Prince Rupert.

In the past, on account of the absence of railway transportation
facilities, this product has, for the most part, gone to Vancouver
and Victoria by water, but upon the completion of the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway it will naturally seek the most rapid means
of reaching the Eastern markets and will consequently be handled
through and from Prince Rupert.

The canned salmon industry ranks among the leading industries
of this country, but in the last few years cold-storage plants have
been installed with excellent results, and by the time the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway is completed refrigerators will hold and
refrigerator cars will carry and deliver this, the king of fish foods,
to the tables of the people of the United States and Canada, in the
East as well as the West, and, in fact, to the markets of the world.

On the Queen Charlotte Islands which are tributary to Prince
Rupert there are two whaling stations in operation ten months in
the year, which is an important industry and feeder to Prince
Rupert, as it has been found that more whales abound and have
been taken in the waters of the coast of British Columbia during
the terms the whaling stations have been in operation than in
any other waters of the world. In fact, during the winter months
whales abound in the waters of Prince Rupert Harbor; these,
with all other fish industries, including cod, herring and oola-
chan, now only in their infancy, are capable of immense growth
and advancement, and will be a great factor, not only in the
building up of this city, but as a source of lucrative employment
to the fishermen, merchants, steamboat owners, laborers and
others who will purchase, rent and have their homes in Prince Rupert.

The value of these fisheries lying at the gateway of this, one of
the finest harbors in the world, cannot be estimated.

The timber industry of this part of the country is also in its in-
fancy, and within a radius of one hundred miles much good
spruce, hemlock and cedar are to be found. It is safe to say that
the forests within this radius will produce timber enough to sup-
ply twenty-five mills with all the timber they can cut and market
for the next twenty years.

At Swanson Bay, about one hundred miles distant, is located
a pulp mill which represents an investment of one million dollars.
This industry employs about one thousand people, and the busi-