of all kinds. While the value of actual construc- 

 tion work is a little less than for 1921, for the 

 first half of the year, there is a possibility of 

 increased activities in this line before the year 

 closes. There has been no effort to deal with 

 any large projects, though many are under 

 contemplation, giving the impression that the 

 West is due for a distinct revival in building 

 operations during the next few years. 



The Manitoba Power Co.'s new plant is 

 steadily progressing, with prospects of additional 

 electrical energy being available early next year, 

 giving the Winnipeg district an adequate supply 

 of power to take care of incoming industries. 

 The B.C. Electric Railway in the Coast Province 

 has commenced work on two projects involving 

 an expenditure of some $1,300,000, one being 

 the construction of a new dam at Stave Lake, 

 which will permit of the addition of a fourth 

 unit to the power plant at that point. The 

 Pacific Mills Ltd., at Ocean Falls, is spending 

 half a million dollars on a diversion dam and 

 equipment in order to raise present reservoir 

 levels, while at Britannia Beach, the Britannia 

 Mining & Smelting Co. is busily at work on its 

 new plant, and the construction of a concen- 

 trator by the Consolidated Mining & Smelting 

 Co., Ltd., at a cost of $1,250,000 is scheduled. 



Activity Succeeds Optimism 



Practically all lumber mills are operating 

 with a continuance of good orders for export 

 mills and an increasing demand on the Prairies 

 for interior mills. Milling is showing steady 

 activity, conditions being better than for some 

 years past. A large amount of prospecting and 

 investigation work is being done, with good 

 showing. 



In Alberta progress on the new irrigation pro- 

 ject is continuous. Consideration is being given 

 to a new power plant for the Bow River near 

 Calgary, and active work is still being carried 

 on in drilling for oil in the south and other parts 

 of the Province. General business conditions 

 show improvement with still greater volume in 

 sight. 



While development in Saskatchewan is not on 

 any great scale this year, the good-looking crop 

 has created a feeling of stability with improved 

 trading. Fall business is marked as good, and 

 there will be much activity before the year's end. 



At the head of the Lakes at Fort William and 

 Port Arthur, construction work is active, 

 shipping business is fair and pulp mills busy. 

 Considerable improvement is to be noted in all 

 lines. 



It is possible to speak of the West as having 

 recovered from any feeling of depression and as 

 being now on the road to better conditions with 

 an optimistic outlook. With depleted stocks and 

 somewhat restricted credit there should in the 



near future, with the large crop, be a good 

 demand for merchandise of all kinds, agricultural 

 machinery and other products. 



The West is in a fair way to do big business 

 again. 



The Temiskaming District 



An experienced hunter and trapper who had 

 followed his calling all his life in every section 

 of Canada and then settled in the region of 

 Northern Temiskaming, finding there the goal 

 of his dreams, described the country as the best 

 fur and game section of the wide Dominion. 

 Allowing the justifiable claims of other areas of 

 an expansive realm to this distinction, one 

 cannot, after but a rough and cursory inspection 

 of the region, but concede that such assumption 

 has a basis of proven merit, and that the area on 

 either side of Lake Temiskaming is, in fact, a 

 veritable paradise for the hunter, fisherman, or 

 out-o'-door lover. Not only is this section, by 

 reason of the ruggedness of its formation and 

 rough topography, the natural habitat of big 

 game animals and fur-bearing fauna, but for 

 the very same reasons is likely to largely remain 

 so in perpetuity and this haven never be attacked 

 by the inroads of more domestic industries. 



The unique feature of this country is that it is 

 by no means as inaccessible as its primitive, 

 unblemished nature would suggest, and whilst 

 existing in a state but little changed from when 

 nature completed her work, is in daily touch and 

 communication with the modem, civilized world, 

 with such conveniences and advantages as this 

 may bring in its wake. From the main line of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway at Mattawa, a branch 

 line runs for forty miles to the settlement at 

 Temiskaming, on the lake of the same name, 

 whence a lake steamer travels three times a week 

 the seventy miles to the lake's further extremity. 

 From such points as Montreal or Toronto it is 

 little more than a matter of an overnight's travel 

 to leave civilization behind and plunge into the 

 immaculate realm of nature. The wilds here 

 are surprisingly close to the centres of Canadian 

 business activity, with all that this means to the 

 man of affairs with but a limited time for 

 holiday or diversion at his disposal. 



Quaintly Picturesque Scenery 



The steamer trip upon the calm waters of 

 the lake is in itself a leisurely pleasure which is, 

 in some ways, unique stealing calmly between 

 tree-darkened shores, with no visible indications 

 of human life, save an occasional trapper's log 

 shanty. The water is strewn with thousands of 

 logs, borne for many miles on the current, and 

 bound for the mills below. The vessel steers 

 gingerly round many a log jam, or rides valiantly 

 over a boom. It is not at all unusual to see from 

 the rail a moose making his way across the lake 



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