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Gas Buoys for other Localities. 



Gas buoys for Halifax, Nova Scotia, have been ordered, 

 one, a combined gas and bell buoy, will cost $2,700. This will 

 make 4 gas buoys leading into Halifax harbour. One com- 

 bined gas and bell buoy has been ordered for Parry Sound 

 harbour. 



Buoys between Quebec and Gaspe on the St. Lawrence 



River. 



50 Can and Conical Buoys. 

 1 6 Gas Buoys. 



Steel can buoys are now being made in the workshop of 

 the Quebec Agency and a number of steel buoys, are being 

 substituted for wooden can buoys. 



Steel Coast Buoys in Maritime Provinces and British 

 Columbia, Canada. 



The expenditure on account of construction of steel buoys 

 since 1896, made by contract, amounts to about $53,000. These 

 buoys consist of automatic whistling buoys, Trinity pattern 

 bell buoys, United States pattern bell buoys, conical and can 

 buoys. The number made under contract is as follows : 



Automatic Whistling Buoys, i p. Average cost 



without moorings $730 each 



Trinity pattern bell buoys.. 8. $0 do 900 



U. S. pattern bell buoys 16. do do 545 



Can buoys 96. do do 104 



Conical buoys 82. do do 178 



Swift Current buoys 16. do do 230 



Made at Quebec Agency 



Workshop 10. do do 200 " 



Many of these buoys have been required to rep 1 ace buoys 

 that disappeared, but a large number has been added to the 

 list of steel buoys that were in position in 1896. The coast 

 steel buoys numbered 170 in the year 1896 and in 1903 they 

 number 250, showing an increase of 80 steel buoys on the 

 coasts of the Maritime Provinces and British Columbia These 

 buoys are maintained in position by Dominion steamers. 



