CANADIAN AIRPLANES TO MEASURE POWERS
_ ■’ : VANCOUVER. Airplanes will bo used in- exploring te source of what is hoped to be the greatest water power development in Western Canada. Invcstigatiohs carried on'liy the British-Columbia Government in, the,:past -indicate that the -Chilko Rivermay be harnessed - and : made to.'produce horsepower. Surveyors.in airplanes will bpaeatOut to make observations of the fiver’s headquarters so as to determine . the possible extent of the watershed. While engineers, are in the Chilko, others will go. into the Stewart Lake country to measure possible powers on the Stewart River,, the Bulkloy sand the Skecna.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 2
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