PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN'
Thursday. Decembr
CARIBOO LODGE No. 65,I.O.O.F.
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Hall, Third Avenue, Prince
George, B. C.
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Prince George Hotel Grill
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Open Ptyy and Night
Private Dining Room For Parties
A. DEMAS and G. KOL1AS Proprietors.
K. J. GARVET, Proprietor Phone 14B.
ANDY'S CAFE
George Street.
If you are looking for the best meals in the city, try this Cafe, which is now �pe�.
ANDY SIDDALL, Proprietor.
Wide-Awake Shoe Shop
P.O. Box 154.
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Opp. Pitman's.
VANCOUVER DEFEATS P. G. E. EXTENSION.
The action of the delegates of the Vancouver board of trade, in the convention of the associated boards at Chilliwack, in defeating the resolution calling for the immediate completion of the P. G. E. to Prince George, will cause great disappointment throughout the central interior of the province.
During the pact year an effort was
The, issue, whether the government shall spendan additional four million dollars for the completion of the P> ,G. E. railway to Vancouver and to Prince George makes one of the largest questions the government will be called upon to deal with during the life of the" present legislature.
If the government, to secure an expression of opinion upon so large a question, is willing to put the issue up to the electors of the largest city in the province, and abide ,by the result, such a course would seem to call for commendation rather than complaint. If there is justification for fault-finding in the matter it must rest upon any further public reference to the electors of Vansou-ver, or elsewhere, of the matter of policy in connection with the P.G.E. Fortunately, or otherwise, the province has $50,000,000 locked up in the P. G. E. enterprise. The situation has been most carefully canvassed for months. All reports agree
made to create a sentiment in favor jthat the raiiway should be completed of the completion of the govern- jto prjnce George. Others assert the
ment railway to this city, which would bring it in connection with the transcontinental line of the Dominion government. On two previous occasions the associated boards bf trade in convention had gone on record as in favor of the completion of the railway to this point, and, in
extension should be carried also to the city of Vancouver. The estimated cost of both extensions is placed at $4,100,000. If the proposal were to drain a lake, or to shut out flood-waters along the lower Fraser, or to carry water to some of the dry lands in the southern interior of the prov-
yiew of the improved outlook for the ince) the policy would be determined
P. G. E. in the matter of securing necessary traffic from the Peace River district, it was not considered as likely that the associated boards would entirely reverse its previous findin.es upon the question. This, however, is what^happened at Chilliwack on Monday.
The associated boards of trade are now on record as opposed to any ex-
tensions of the Questions have
P G. E. until two been determined.
One is the route to be chosen for the line from the Peace River district to the Pacific coast, and the other is the ultimate disposition of the entire government railway enterprise. At this distance it 13 impossible to arrive at the influences which have resulted in the reversal of the associated boards of trade upon this
very important question, but uhle?^ way. there exists reasons which have yet to be made public the members of the Vancouver board of trade who framed the railway resolution will have a lot of explaining to do with
without more ado. But by reason of the criticism which has been directed against the P. G. E. it is suggested the government will not authorize the expenditure of four millions to secure its existing investment of fifty millions.
The people of the interior of the province who have been waiting for years for the completion of the P. G. E. might even have reason for complaint with a line of action which enables the electors of Vancouver to dispose of their railway expectations ex parte, but just how Vancouver is threatened with injustice in the matter is hard to see. Perhaps the Province fears the electors of Vancouver will call upon Premier Oliver to make good on his promises for the completion of the government rail-
the merchants of Prince George and the various towns throughout the central interior who will be adversely affected by their action.
There does not appear to be very jmuch merit in the first condition j called for by the associated boards of trade. The route to be followed b'y the line which will connect the Peace River with the Pacific coast is as definitely known now as it will be when the isteel is laid through the Peace or the Pine pass to Prince, George by the Canadian Pacific rail Th
CITY CARTAGE AND TRANSFER CO.
Forwarding and Distributing Agents
PRINCE GEORGB, B.C.
Phone Us for
REVIVING THE OLD SYSTEM OF TOLLS
Motorist and tourist associations are very much worked up over the
proposed tolls to be imposed for the use of the new highway through the
Fraser river canyon, erland, minister of
Hon. Dr. Suth-public works.
holds out the hope the highway will be available for use during the latter part of next summer, and the only fly in the ointment is the suggestion the government may charge non-residents along the road a toll of $5.00. It is worthy of note that with the disappearance of the last toll road in the province of Ontario h f
,. . ,.. , , ,, ; should come the announcement of
pSoCOoTPnneywmhfixbUthemfEutSretho? *? 1!?*?. "'"^l! r�ad '" Bri"Sh t)io P r v a{fiiat. +1/ ll"ure �i ,ish Columbia, but there are reasons
�ale or lea;P Tf ,hn lf>,m teI �f ^r it. While the great highway edie or jease. it should have hppn l^i t_- \i � n 1
the policy of the associated"boards I throu*h th+e Fraser canyon became
'necessary to connect up the road
of trade to have advised a line of action which would have preserved for the province a line of railway for its $50,000,000 investment when this time arrivejs. Instead it has
policy
recommended a do-nothing which, if it were followed, would give British Columbia two lines of ru',=t and a pile of junk for its great investment.
The finding of the associated boards of trade may weaken the efforts of H. G. Perry to secure action this year upon the completion of the railway to Prince George this year, but it does not follow it will defeat him. The present is not the first pronouncement of the associated boards of trade upon the railway question. They are on record twice as of the opinion the railway should be completed, and there is probably as much reason for believing they were right the first and second times as there is for believing they are right this time. Aside from this, the P. G. E. railway is the government's problem, and Premier Oliver and his colleagues must work out a satisfactory solution. Laying down on the job1, as suggested by the associated boards of trade, will not help them. It will be the members of the government who will have to face the music if the P. G. E. enterprise ends in a total collapse, and not the members of the associated boards of trade, and this consideration will probably weigh with the government when it comes to deal with the question.
VANCOUVER PROVINCE HAS NEW P. G. E. RAILWAY RUMOR.
The Vancouver Province intimates I the provincial government is consid-| ering the opening of one of the Van-| couver seats with a view to giving Ithe largest city in the province re-J presentation in the cabinet. The ! Province says the government in-1 tends to inject the P. G. E. railway issue into the byelection, in that it will seek at the same time to secure lendorsation of a policy to complete the government railway into Van-
systems of the province east and west of the Coast range of mountains, the road is nevertheless a tourist highway and there is reason in the requirement that the tourist travel should return some part of its great cost. Furthermore it is a new road, and while it has been well laid out and constructed, engineers freely state that for some years to come maintenance costs will be so heavy that they will approach the cost of first construction. Most people were of the opinion that Canada had got away from the old toll road system which used to anger the farmers of Ontario in the old days, but so long as British Columbia forces the construction of highways in advance of the ability of the province to pay we must be prepared for the introduction of the tolls system or something of the kind. Whether the toll upon the Fraser canyon road will be five dollars or something less remains to be seen. It may be shown that a lesser toll will provide a greater revenue than the larger one. It may even result that the toll will be taken off the road altogether and made to aPPly to the bridge crossing the Fraser. Motorfcts do not resent a bridge toll so much as a road toll, and the tax which will yield the greatest amount with the least friction will doubtless be decided upon in the end.
ABSENTEE VOTING WILL BE RETAINED.
The report that Premier Oliver had consented to the repeal of those sections of the Election Act which provide for absentee voting has proven to be misleading. Later advices are to the effect that the premier will not consent to the repeal of these sections, but will introduce amendments with a view to correct-in"- abuses which the present act admittedly lends itself to. Introducing necessary safeguards may cure some of the objections to absentee voting as it stands, hnt in the opinion of most electors Premier Oliver makes a mistake when he overlooks a chance to abolish absentee voting altogether. Whil it mny be desirable to have
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Prince George Hotel
J. H. JOHNSON, Proprietor.
THE GRILL, operated in connection with the Hotel, is und< the personal management of Messrs. A. Denas and (!. Kolia who have established reputations as Restauranteurs.
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Phone 26R. Prince George, .B-u
couver in the south and into Prince George in the north.
There may be no warrant for the | the freest kind of a~ ballot this*aim suggestion of the Province, but as should not be pushed so far as to suming there were, upon what !threaten the sanctity of the ballot ground can any such procedure be 1 box. aid thiq is iust what the absen-comlemned? Vancouver has been | tee voting has done throughout the clamoring for several years for cabi- j province. It is better that a few net representation. The city consti- electors, moving about the province tutes the largest section of the prov-I on election- day, should lose their mce in point of population and com-.votes than that the results in con-mercial and industrial development. I (Continued on page 3.)
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