Bank of continue in 1964. Critical to the North Ame- rican economies is the assum- The Jacobsen KOOTRAC Kootenay Tractor & Supply Ltd. Is pleased to announce that Mr. Ron Mc- Donald has been appointed outside sales representative for supply line products sales. Ron will be providing weekly service to: Trail - Rossland — Salmo — Creston — Nokusp — Slocan — Kaslo — Lardeau. FOR ALL YOUR LOGGING — MINING & INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY REQUIREMENTS, CALL; Kootenay Tractor & Supply Ltd. Nelson, B.C. We take Pride in the Jacobsen heritage of 60 years of achievement in the outdoor power equipment field. And we share that proud feeling with our customers... line equipment presents a wide choice of models and features. 323 Vernon St., Nelson 1 yyad Send to friends, relatives and business contact ed, paced overy while fighting inflation. Canada is expected to post a 4.8 percent increase in 1984 inrGross National Product. At the same time, growth . In ada, However, that mean unem| ate. In fact, dict only a marginal anemployment rates — to 10.6 percent in Canada. * . The good news is in ‘the fight against inflation. Wi high unemployment and e ha His) MM “ ¢ to for 1984. Consumer spending will: ing a two percent rise in the number of employed in Can 352-5301 of power 352-5301 Order souvenir copies of the large, annual... of strong product demand, ied by competition both domest- ically and internationally, ex- perts are predicting the rate ore are predicting that interest rates will re- main about what they are now. However, they are hedging their bets. They say if the economy begins to take off, then the U.S. Federal Reserve will increase interest rates to head off inflation. By the same token, if the economic recovery begins to lapse, interest rates may drop to give industry a boost. Economists predict some up-and-down movement in interest rates for part of 1984, with upward pressure in the last half of the year. Of course, in Canada, inter- est rates are heavily influe- need by the Canadian dollar. So any move in that direction will affect interest rates. Snow Trails in Genelle Jim and Cathy Meneer are the owners of Snow Trails Sales and Service located at 502-12th Avenue in Genelle — approximately 12 km from South Castlegar. Their business offers retail sales of recreational and out- door work equipment and all accessories including snow mobile and bike clothing. Open six days a week, from 8:30 a.m. to9 p.m. Monday to Friday and to 6 p.m. Sat- urday, Snow Trails and Sales and Services also sells gas from its self-service gas AIRPORT EXPANSION . . + Castlegar air terminal building, built in 1972, is undergoing a $6 million ex- pansion. The building will be tripled in size to ap- proximately 2,000 square metres. Expansions include Soap menor aie ~ ee ae moving the claim oreo i . incor. porating a restaurant into the terminal: building, satargement of flight service station and doubling in size of all passenger and ticketing areas. Castlegar has By THE HONORABLE DON PHILLIPS Minister of Industry and Small Business Development The emergence of Castle- gar as a regional distribution centre demonstrates how loc- al initiative and planning can yield long-term economic benefits. We in the provincial gov- ernment are most interested in how wholesale and office activities, for example, are beginning to centralize at Castlegar, thus bringing im- portant services closer to everyone in the Kootenay Boundary region. Once such trends start, it usually is next-to-impossible to derail them. I expect your area's tourism, agriculture and forest harvesting potent- ial will be realized much sooner than it would under other circunistances now that business is finding Castlegar such an ideal location. The Castlegar Industrial Park, made possible by the federal-provincial Industrial Development Subsidiary Agreement is being mar- keted by local people. I sincerely hope it will soon reach its potential. Another initiative that in- volved your provinical gover- nment was a study of the Kootenay Boundary region's tourist potential that was financed under the Travel Industry Subsidiary Agree- ment, The options open to Cas- tlegar were discussed in some detail. Again, Castlegar has a.regional role — its excellent highway system and the presence of a rela- tively large airport provide unique opportunities to wel- come visitors. The initiatives that have been taken by the citizens of Ci DON PHILLIPS In addition, they are evid- ence that when peoplé work together they often produce truly amazing results. An example of such cooper- ative activity is our northeast coal development, the largest undertaking in the province's history. Because of its impact on the people and economy of British Columbia, 1 would like to inform as many British Columbians as possible of the importance of the northeast coal development to our future. Without having visited the regional role The northeast coal devel- opment has shown the world that Canadians are respon- sible, reliable and dependable — and that we meet our commitments. In an increasingly com- petitive international mar- ketplace, where sometimes even the survival of nations is at stake, those qualities are highly prized. The first tangible devel- opment in northeast coal occurred Feb. 10, 1981, when the federal government, the government -of British Col- umbia, rep of the there were almost 6,500 workers on the job — 12 per cent of the province's con- struction labor™force. All participants — Teck, Quintette, British Columbia Railway, Canadian National Railways, British Columbia Hydro, National Harbours Board and Ridley Terminals Ine. — achieved what some said was impossible. Two mines, including Quin- tette which is the largest surface coal mine in Canada, have been built on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Japanese steel industry and the two Canadian coal pro- ducers, Teck Corporation and Quintette Coal Ltd., signed the joint cooperation agree- ment for the development of the northeast coal fields. The mining companies un- dertook to supply — and the Japanese promised to buy — 115 million tonnes of metal- lurgical and thermal coal from British Columbia's nor- theastern mines over 15 years. Soon after that contract was signed, the British Col- umbia government appointed a northeast coal coordinator, the Hon. Ron Basford. His first priority was to negotiate area, it is ly difficult for people to appreciate the physical obstacles that the construction crews over- came, the scope of the project and the effect it has had on the northeastern part of our province. The largest undertaking in the province's history, the $2.5 billion northeast coal development involved nine major government and cor- porate participants. All parties worked closely together from the beginning, demon- strate that they are respon- sible, reliable and concerned. sulting in the project being completed on schedule and within budget. a comp ag between the mining com- panies and the province. It provided for the opening of the mines by the com- panies while the province or its agencies were responsible for the infrastructure. The result is a major resource and transportation complex at the lowest capital cost possible for the next two decades. British Columbia was extremely lucky in its timing. The project was built when the province needed the stimulus and when it could be done at favorable prices. At the peak of construction, Once again, the Castlegar News is publishing its Progress Edition. To be published in mid: March, our news depos " people and le putting this keepsake special edition together. To meet th ted demand for extra copies, the Castlegar News will publish a limited rorber of copies tor readers to send out to friends, relatives and businéss contacts. Of Course, the special edition will be included os part of the regular paper to all subscribers As o service to readers wishing to send extra copies to others, an order blank is printed below. The Castlegar News will wrap, address and mail gift copies for you if you mail this coupon to us. Send your order now! aff = NEWS, fl “PROGRESS EDITION”, mm 8OX 3007, PRICES WS CASTLEGAR, 8.C. 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One of Hydro’s customers is British Columbia Railway, which has built a branchline to carry coal from the mines to the BCR main line. This branchline, with two major tunnels of six and nine kilometres, is the first in Canada to use electric loco- motives running along a 50 kilovolt electrified rail line. From Prince George west, Canadian National has em- barked ona major upgrading program to move not only northeast coal, but also grain and other products to tide- water at Prince Rupert. CN nt approximately $400 million last year and $500 million worth of im- provements are budgeted for 1984. At Prince Rupert, Ridley Terminals Inc. has completed a coal terminal, from which the first shipload of northeast coal was dispatched to Japan in January of this year, less than three years after the massive project was laun- ched, and right on schedule. We now have in place a totally modern and efficient coal transportation and load- ing facility. In addition, as yet undeveloped mines in B.C.'s northeast sector will be ideally situated for tne next coal buying cycle. Obviously, all of this devel- opment did not occur because the mines had one or two years’ production. B.C.'s nor- theast coal development is a long-term undertaking that will meet existing contracts for 15 to 20 years. In fact, there is a 300-year supply of coal in the area, which means many genera- tions of British Columibans will benefit from this mass- ive, innovative undertaking. While we do not expect the world to beat a path to our door because of this one project, we know that foreign investment capital, expertise and technology will look very favorably on a place like British Columbia that has proved it can get the job done. MEN AT WORK. . . In 1983, BC Timber's Celgar pulp mill was honored -by the Pulp, Paper and Wood- workers of Canada with its annual safety trophy. It finished 1983 as the safest pulp mill in the PPWC ranks. Celgar — a safe mill BC Timber's Celgar pulp mill has played an important part in the community of Castlegar since it began operations nearly 24 years ago. It was in the fall of 1960 that the mill began operating here. Today, the pulp mill and sawmill supply jobs for more than 600 people, pumping $60,000 a day in wages into the local economy. During the last few years, Celgar has gained a repu- tation for being one of the safest mills of its kind anywhere in the province. In 1983, the mill was honored by the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada with its safety trophy for the year. It finished 1983 as the safest pulp mill in the PPWC ranks. Last year also saw a slight improvement in markets and BC Timber Sawmill took advantage of this improved climate to expand its markets into the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Holland, Japan and Italy. Thus far, Celgar has exported 12'/ million board feet to overseas markets. Mill manager Al Thornton said the change was “quite significant, considering Celgar never shipped any lumber offshore before. Celgar has also become the first sawmill company in Canada to grade its lumber under the British Lumber Grad- ing rules, when shipping to the U.K. This means that. when the lumber reaches foreign shores it saves much time because it doesn't have to be regraded from Canadian standards to foreign standards. Thornton says the mill is presently in the process of conforming to Scandinavian grading rules to sell lumber in European markets where Scandinavian rules are more acceptable. In other developments in 1983, BC Timber has signed a long-term chip contract and logging rights to Mica Dam Sawmills of Revelstoke. Under the agreement, Mica Dam will harvest over-mature timber from areas of BC Timber’s TFL No. 23, recover whatever lumber it can and sell the chips to BC Timber for use at Celgar Pulp Division in Castlegar. The benefits of the arrangements are wide ranging. For BC Timber, it means better utilization of its timber resource. It also means a more economical supply of chips to its Castlegar pulp mill. BC Timber will buy residual chips from Mica Dam at a much lower cost than if it were to log the area itself and ship the roundwood to Castlegar. Another plus for Celgar Pulp Division is that it is among the first pulp mills in Canada to adopt new technology to reduce the amount of chlorine dioxide used in the pulping process. The technology, which involves injecting pure oxygen after the first chlorination stage, was developed several years ago but has only been promoted commercially for the past year for medium consistency applications such as the one at Celgar Pulp. However, it is already having a considerable impact on pulp manufacturing because of the savings it ptomises. For Celgar Pulp, the anticipated savings are in the range of $450,000 annually. Peter Johnstone, project engineer who designed and supervised the installation of the system, explains how the technology works. “Oxygen, like chlorine dioxide, helps extract lignin (the substance that colors the pulp) from the pulp during the bleaching process, he says. “The use of oxygen reduces the subsequent use of chlorine dioxide in the bleaching sequence. As chlorine dioxide is considerably more expensive than oxygen, the net result is quite a cost saving.” Not only will the mill be saving money on the chlorine dioxide, but there will also be small savings in caustic consumption and steam usage. The project, which was under construction since August, was completed just before Christmas. The visible signs of the project are a large white oxygen storage tank and a vaporizer located just outside the machine room and an oxygen/stock mixer located in the pulping group. The importance of this project, which costs $300,000, is obvious when considered in relation to the highly compe- titive nature of the industry today. The aim is to reduce the cost of producing pulp so that BC Timber can maintain its competitive position in the market. The cost of the project will be repaid in the first year through the savings. For BC Timber, there is good news in store for the pulp industry, a sign that the economy is improving. Pulp prices are on the rise and BC Timber, along with all other Canadian pulp exporters, hiked the price of a tonne of pulp by U.S. $40 effective Jan. 1, 1984. This is good news for an industry that has been languishing in the doldrums for the past two years. In 1983 BC Timber lost $11 million, compared with $54.5 in 1982. A price increase momentum. But, like a patient recovering from a major illness, the pulp industry won't be back on its feet for quite some time. indicates markets have strengthened enough to support higher prices. 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