The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 1

Chilltspack PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE FERTILE CHILLIWACK VALLEY SEVENTEENTH YEAR NO. 39 CIHLLIWACK, B. DECEMBER 25, 1907. $1.00 A YEAR. CHILLIWACK FAMED FOR DAIRYING Eastern Press Proclaims the Striking Suiwks of This Enterprise in the Valley.

Testing Ileportts Show Marked Contrast Ilctwcem ResaHs Here anil in Quebec Provinee. The fame of the Chllliwack Valley for its advantages for dairying as well as for fruit growing has extended to the eastern provinces as is evidenced from the following article copied from the Dairyman" published in Toronto: "Dairying is one of the leading industries in the Chllliwack Valley, B. C. The climatic conditions and the high prices received for dairy produce make dairying a profitable branch of farming in that section. "The Valley lies between the Cheam Mountains and the Fraser, about seventy miles from its mouth.

Narrow at Cheam Peak, the Valley widens out to the westward until it merges into Sumas Basin. It is about seven miles wide at its widest part. There are about 55,000 acres of land in the Valley which can be cultivated. The soil is a sedimentary deposit from the Fraser and Chllliwack rivers, and is capable of producing heavy crops. The rainfall is sufficient to make irrigation unnecessary.

The growing season is much longer than in any place in Ontario which permits of the pasturing of cattle for a long period. Many of the farmers are breeding pure bred dairy cattle. A. C. Wells Son, Ayrshires; A.

J. Street, Jerseys; J. C. Henderson, Guernseys; and Joseph Thompson, Ayrshires; are among the largest breeders. "The Canadian Dairyman's representative called at the farm of A.

C. Wells Son, and also that of W. S. Hawkshaw, while travelling through the western provinces recently. Mr.

Hawkshaw, who formerly lived near London, Ontario, intimated to our representative that he can make two dollars in Chllliwack for every one he made in Ontario. He is well sat isfied with his change of home. "Then are two creameries in the Valley, the Eden Bank, and the Chllliwack, (a cut of each is here reproduced). They take most of the cream produced in that section. Last year the Eden Bank made 198,160 pounds of butter, valued at $46,760, while the Chllliwack Creamery made 248,213 pounds valued at $51,164.13.

These amounts were distributed among the patrons last year. Our representative visited these creameries and found them up to date in every respect, and the makers so en thuslastic over the Canadian Dairy man that they have promised to try and secure every patron as a subscriber. The demand for dairy pro. duce is good and high prices prevail There is only a limited amount of land suited for dairying in British Co lumbia and from the opinions of the farmers, the Chllliwack Valley is one of the best in the province." The following article along with same lines will show the comparison between the up to dateness of our dairy farmers and the haphazard way dairying is conducted in parts of the older settled provinces: "In the cow testing reports tabulated from time to time the Eden Bank, B. and St.

Armand, associations afford the greatest contrasts. At Kden Bank seven cows averaged 1,011 pounds of milk and 38.4 pounds of fat, or a total of 7.077 pounds of milk and 268.8" pounds of fat in 30 days. At St. Armand, twenty four cows produced an average of 211 pounds of milk and 10.5 pounds CHRISTMAS, 1907, 1H CHILLIWACK A Templing Display of Yuletide Goods by Our local Merchants. Attractive Shop Windows add to the Season of Good Cheer.

"Christmas comes but once a year," tut this Is the day itself, and in Chil liwack It will be celebrated fittingly as tht culmination of an exceptionally pleasant holiday season. For the past two weeks the shop windows have been tilled with Santa Claus toys and gifts of all description to please the fancy of old and young, rich and poor, and the just and unjust. Irside the shops anywhere and everywhere you turn Christmas decorations of every descriptions abound end Invite the purchaser to happy the friends at home or abroad. According to the business houses of the town the Christmas trade this year will be a record one. Every shop has prepared for a larger trade than usual and very little of this year's novelties will have to be sacrificed or carried over.

The numerous Sabbath school en teiitainments and Christmas trees have been a factor in making the hearts of the children glad and Santa has not been too partial to the little ones but has bought plentifully for the big folks as well. Old Santa, starting from the East end butcher shop of Barrett Banford, sells turkey, geese, duck and Christmas beef hanging in so tasty and neat array that he is tempt ed to buy more even when his supply is already filled. W. B. Hall's grocery is a headquar ters for his Christmas groceries.

Not of fat, or a total of 4,954 pounds of milk and 252 pounds of fat in the same time. In point of milk production, one of the Eden Bank cows would equal nearly five of the St. Armand cows, while for creamery purposes three of the latter cows would not bring in as large a revenue as one of the former. At 35 cents a pound for butter fat an Eden Bank cow would contribute to her owner $13.44 a month, which would mean about $10 over and above her board bill. A St.

Armand cow would make for her owner a clear profit of about 10 cents. What a difference! It would take nearly a hundred of these cows to equal an Eden Bank machine. These are the kind of cows that the dairyman will discard this year if he is wise. An animal such as those at St. Armand would hardly keep a baby alive.

These two records have been picked out merely for contrast. They reveal conditions that are all too common in the dairy world. If the average dairyman would look upon his business as a man in almost any other walk of life regards his as purely a business proposition, a business on which he is dependent for a living he would soon see the fallacy of keeping a cow merely because she is a cow, even though an unprofitable one. Many men do not seem to know what it means for a cow to give six, eight or even ten, thousand pounds of milk in a year. They have never had a cow make such records, and they regard the high official tests with awe and incredulity.

Some of these same men may possess cows which if properly handled and fed, would give a far different account of themselves. It just suggests the point that, as well as having a good machine, you need a capable man to handle it in order to produce the best results. There are many opportunities for dairymen to become efficient in the handling of stock. These should be taken advantage of and, with the right milking machine, good results should attend the dairyman's efforts." an oversight has been made In the selection of choice dainties for the Christmas pudding. He has made this store a headquarters depot for ruts and candy.

Then comes "Thomas the Jeweller," His is the place to buy that dainty little pin or that diamond ring for the best girl; that beautiful piece of cut glass or Haviland China for the mother and sister, the gold watch for Mrs. and the bracelet for the baby. This is one of the prettiest Christmas windows and the old pack Is filled pretty wtll here. Harry Reading, Geo. Morris and Billy Smith, furnish the Christmas vegetables, the sausage and hams, and the Co Op, Ben Malcolm, B.

Irwin and Ashwell's grocery the cranberry sauce to serve with Barrett Ban fcrd's turkey. Further down the street Mrs. Car voeth, T. H. Henderson and Ashwell's dry good department supply the necessaries for fancy drapery, neckwear, hats and fancy bric a brac.

The haberdasheries of Chas. Parker, B. T. Malcolm, Ashwell and "Parson, the Clothier," did a royal business in smoking jackets, fancy hosiery suspenders, neck ties, gloves and handkerchiefs. Their windows were a work of art and a joy forever.

Munro furnished the carving sets to carve the turkey and Gervan the sterling silver spoons for the plum EXASPERATED AT RIVER CONDITIONS Citizens Taking Stops to Make Plain Tlmt Proper Landing Must Be Maintained. Scheme of Dredging to Water Lily Slough Will lie Urged on Government. The waters of the Fraser are falling lower each day as the year advances until there is now at the present landing fully eighteen inches of the sand bar showing above the surface of the Slough in which the landing at present is being made and it will only be a matter of a few days more until the floating wharf will have to be shifted farther down stream. What is known as the Chilliwack Landing is situated about one mile from the town and is recognized by that name through the erection of freight sheds built a couple of years ago. Two years ago considerable money was spent in dredging, the channel and building crib work to prevent the wash of sand into the channel dredged.

At high water considerable sand washes over the crib work, but a little dredging every summer could keep it cleared out. However as the petitions of the people, the board of trade and the municipal council have been ignored the place has been allowed to fill up with sand until it would cost a few thousand to clear it and the people have abandoned all hope in that direction. The money spent by the government in the dredging of the channel, putting in the cribbing and piling and building a wharf is practically lost and the steamers were compelled to land their freight upon the bank of the river wherever easiest to effect a landing. To satisfy the people something had to be done and a scow with a shed upon it was provided that in pudding. Those caring outfits, as ornamental as useful, were purchased at Munro's and the pocket knife to cut boy's fingers at one time stuck Into that block in Gervan's window.

Ferris and Chamberlain framed the pictures purchased at Fred Lee's art studio. Hammer and Fred Glllan der's cigar stores supplied the box of cigars, the smoker's set and pipe dreams for the sterner sex; while Barter's drug store was the outfitting emporium for toilet, pink and five o'clock tea sets, perfumery and poetry for the ladies. M. P. Empy and Mcintosh and Johnson were left with the understanding that boots and shoes were to be their sole commodity and the banks give away twenty dollar gold pieces to every depositor on Christmas day.

Morden furnished the harness and trappings and Moffat and Grant shod the reindeer. W. R. Nelems not to b3 outdone in generosity sold tickets anywhere and everywhere on the railroads and steamboats, good for ten days, for a fare a third, and Bob Rowatt gave free rides in his bus and coupons for your Christmas dinner at Kenny's restaurant. All around, the Christmas trade this year was a bumper one.

Money seem ed plentiful and cash payments bet ter than ever before. part shelters the most perishable part of the freight. This has been do ing se'irvicle with the lexception of very high water when the steamers are able to make the proper wharf. To reach the floating wharf there is an extra charge of twenty five cents on every passenger each way and the addition of fifty cents a ton for teaming of freight. This unjust tax upon the people of the Valley has set them to thinking and a strong move ment is on foot to impress the go ernment with the importance of es tablishing the Landing on Water Lily Slough.

It is argued that if we are. ever to got aid from the government it would be upon the eve of an election, and now is the time to press our wants. This scheme of dredging out the Chilliwack River is not; a new one and has not been considered by the old timers as the most feasible of any advanced. Some would even go so far as to advocate following up the Chilliwack River and making the landing at Murray's Bridge but this would result in too large an expenditures dredging and would most inevitably be turned down by the government. The establishing of the landing on Water Lily Slough would require but very little dredging, a small amount where the Chilliwack empties into the Fraser and a deepening, of a few places in the Chllliwack.

The distance from the town to the landing would be about the same as to the present high water landing and a good road could easily be made that would be superior to the one now used and one that would not require the up hill haul of the present one. A wharf could be established upon both sides of the Slough so that the Sumas people would be as favorably situated as those living on this side. These matters are being fully discussed on the street corners and at the firesides and it only remains for someone to take the necessary steps and a public meeting will be held to give the matter more weight when laid before the proper authorities. It is to be hoped now that the question has been made public something definite may be done to better the present conditions. CHALLENGED ON JAPANESE ISSUE Premier Invited to Acquaint Parlia ment With Course to lie Followed ou Treaty.

i Insurance Bill Submitted Ross Rlfla Payments Objected to by Auditor General. I OTTAWA, Dec. 18. Mr. R.

L. Bor den moved in the House today for all correspondence, documents and papers received or despatched during the present year in regard to the immigration of Japanese into Canada. Mr. Borden said that the attitude of the government in regard to this mat ter was no better known than when the house opened. He drew attention to the silence of the government in reference to this matter, when the British Columbia members were discussing it the other evening.

In his opinion it was a "grand stand play," or an evidence that the government was treating the western members with contempt. He wanted to know why the written assurance which the British Columbia members said the government had received from the Japanese authorities as to restriction of Immigration, had been refused to the House. He strongly resented the attempt of the Prime Minister and other members of the government side to charge him with having endeavored to stir up racial prejujdices In connection with this matter. On the contrary, It was Sir Wilfrid Laurier who had done this in connection with the Japanese, and Hon. Mr.

Brodeur was guilty of like conduct in regard to' the French speaking He' quoted an Interview which Mr. Brodeur gave to the British press to establish this. Ample warning, said Mr. Borden, had been given the government in the past as to what would arise, and with what the country and parliament was now confronted. He' quoted from speeches in support of this view.

There Was on record the suggestion of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain to the Dominion, to put in force the Natal Act. They refused to take that advice, and now its own followers in the House were asking it to do so. In the opinion of the Opposition Leader the question was an economic one. It was not possible tor white men In British Columbia to compote with Orientals.

What was now an economic question might soon be a more serious one, and he hoped that Sir Wilfrid Laurier could be induced to break his silence as to the government's attitude, and as to Hon. Mr. Lemieux's mission and its results. Sir Wilfrid Xow Explains; Sir Wilfrid Laurier said there was? never any doubt as to the position of the government. The question was: of great moment and importance, and should be dealt with calmly.

The attitude he had taken was that the same treatment could not be applied! to Japanese as Chinese. In 1900, the government stated in the House that; Chinese and Japanese immigration' would be inquired into. A commis' sion was appointed and it recom mended that the poll tax on Chinese' be raised to $500. This was done. As: to the Japanese, the Commissioners said that the action taken by the Jap anese government was most successful in restricting immigration and stopping the cause of friction with Canada.

All that was asked was that the Japanese action be not and if so, the Natal Act should be Introduced. In answer to Mr. Bordenr Sir Wilfrid Laurier said that? the Natal Act could not be passed under the treaty with Japan. The treaty was passed as an assurance that the restrictions would be mlntained. "If the understanding that we have had!.