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-