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estuaries, if properly guarded, can afford a supply of salmon 

 and trout far superior in quality to the warm water fibrous 

 fish of the North Pacific. 



Mr. Hesketh Pritchard and other writers have claimed 

 that for travellers Labrador will one day be the Norway of 

 North America, when once the means for comfortable 

 transport along its magnificent seaboard is obtainable. But 

 if its wild life is all destroyed, and as it has no historical 

 monuments to boast of, it must lose a great deal of its 

 attractive possibilities, just for want of scientific attention 

 and capital. One other lamentable feature which cannot 

 help striking the intelligent observer is the immense waste 

 of Labrador. There is as yet no cold storage to improve 

 the value of exports. All offal of cod and all coarse fish 

 are wasted. Capelin and herring are put to no commercial 

 value. Norway last year showed a record of : 



Waste herring ground to flour $709,412 



Extracted herring oil 258,376 



Gauno made from cods' heads 336,211 



Cod roes . 312,543 



$1,616,542 



Our innumerable berries rot where they grow. There 

 has been no attempt whatever at the adaptation of plants 

 or animals. Immense water powers and vast pulp lands 

 are yet entirely undeveloped. Our coast is poorly lighted 

 and charted ; yachts are practically unable to visit us. 

 Nothing is done with fresh-water pearls, mussels, kelp, and 

 other possible sources of revenue. Some advance, however, 

 has been made. In summer there are wireless telegraph 

 Stations nearly halfway down our coast, and a small 



