Show HALLE L L ir ERMINIE ILI wea illustrations sr LAUPEN STOUT y co ay aboa ei wf fel ca evv ri iwa kia ME r V vay kt WASTED WEALTH OF COUNTRY t all kinds of game has been indiscriminately criminate ly slaughtered throughout labrador the fish flesh and fowl of labrador writes dr grenfell in the wide world have been exploited to the last degree and no scientific or practical effort has been made for their protection or rehabilitation our auks curlew ducks and many other birds have become either extinct or dangerously depict depleted our deer owing to forest fires caused by carelessness and unrestricted slaughter by indians as well as I 1 white settlers have so fo far diminished as to bring semi starvation to doors where once there ars always plenty tho the destruction ot of seal real herds has brought families once affluent to miserable poverty for some reason our unrivaled herring and ma mackerel cherel have oft left tais us altogether the salmon catch Is only a shadow of what it once was and even the returns of bur still valuable cod fishery show increasing uncertainty in quantity and distribution thu growing number of trappers the tack lack of protection or the destruction of their food supplies has haa mado made tho the annual winter fur hura hut insufficient to maintain in comfort all who prosecute it and that in spite of tho the immense Inci increase caso in tho the price of velt delta s seals and whales are rapidly approaching a similar fate no mines are yet opened no timber properties yet developed and no use Is made of our unlimited water power only a handful of visitors come to enjoy the wild scenery tho the unique natural conditions and tho the invigorating atmosphere though our fjords fjord rival those of norway and have th tho additional attraction of being virgl virgin and unexplored no charting has been done and at that time as already stated there ras nas not one light on the coast from the straits of Bel leale to hudsons Hudsoll Hud sons 13 lay ay to render navigation safe it Is little to bo be wondered at 11 adequate tourist steamers do not ply in our waters in fact labrador Is in that melancholy stage I 1 of evolution that must inevitably overtake ov every country until attention la is turned tc the development of industries that manages man does not share with the tiger and the shark |