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001C97BA liave been already run by the (;ouncil on business principles. Their annual income has increas- ed from $2250.00 in 1916 to i figure which this year will be approximately $20,000.00. They deliver water over practically all the settled area. In the future this will require further large expenditures to keep up with the development. The public, or at least that part of it represented by the man in the street, has not yet expressed a definite opin- ion on one side of policy, which involves the adjacent mountain area including Hollyburn Ridge, Strahan, and Black Mountains. A large section are striving to popularize this area as a field for hiking and natural study, even advocating the creation of a large iVational or Provincial E'ark; while occasionally one hears a suggestion that large capital sums should be expended in storing and piping supplies of water from such places as Eagle Lake, Cypress Creek and the Brother's Creek Lakes to serve the whole District. But these two proposals for using the northern lands in West Van- couver are in complete conflict. If it is to become an area for gathering and storing water, it cannot serve as a Park on ac- count of the contamination of the water. If it is to give good service as a park, we shall not be able to use its run off as our Water supply without practical- ly impossible measures of pre- caution. It .is fortunate for EVest Vancouver that while she is gathering financial strength and acquiring experience as to the wisest use of her own natur- al resources, she has the option oi another abundant water sup- ply of unquestionable purity, and can purchase water at the cost of conveyance. I refer to the Great- er Vancouver EVater Board, an organization which supplied its users last year at a rate whicn was less than $44.00 per million gallons. Parks and Recreation Grounds In the early stages of a forest- ed District the need for Public Parks is not sa prominent as it becomes at a later stage. In this respect EVest Vancouver has made all the progress that could be expected. A number of Parks have been dedicated many by public spirited citizens such as lV. J. Irwin, John F. Mahon and F. 4U. Caulfeild. Owing to the limited amount of money available, park devel- opment has proceeded but slow- ly. The proper improvement of the large park at "First Nar- rows" with driveways, promen- ade and decorative features will entail considerable expenditure. Memorial Park, and Itin Park have already given evidence of their value in the healthy, active boys and girls which are grow- ing up in the neighborhood. Many of the Parks further west In the District are dedicated to prevent destruction of natural beauty. 'These will never per- mit or require costly improve- ment as the making of a few paths to give access is all that should be done. The school playgrounds have all been levelled off for recrea- tional games, but the decorative features have not been added owing to the rapid demand for increased school accommodation having used up all the available funds. THE DEVELOPibIENT OF iVEST VANCOUVER (Continued from Page 3) with the result that one contract tolloa ed another until August 1915, when. bridges had been built and asphalt concrete pave- ment extended the first four miles to EVest Bay. At the same time another two miles had been graded and gravelled for traffic through heavy rock cuttings to Caulfeild. Meantime the open- ing of local roads and streets had made considerable progress, and a beginning had been made with hard surfacing. But the lack of utilities, both water and light, combined with financial limita- tions to check any rapid road construction for nearly ten years until 1925. Since 1925 an average of a- bout six miles per year of hard surfacing has been maintained. West Vancouver has now a larg- er percentage of its total mileage paved than any other Rural Dis- trict which has forwarded re- turns to the Public Works De- partment at Victoria. The pre- vailing condition of heavy for- est, and in the aestern half of the Municipality solid granite rock, in which every foot of road has to be made with great labor, mal'es )Vest Vancouver's total of 60 miles of open roads, of which 30 miles is paved or hard surfaced, and unusual record a- mong rural Municipalities. As an illustration of the task that a young Municipality has in pro- viding roads for modern traffic an examination of AUest Vancou- ver's arterv (4Iarine Drive) is specially interesting. When the work at present under way, in- cluding the Capilano Bridge, is completed, this arterial road, with a course of eleven miles anti seven hundred feet in the Muni- cipality, «ill have called for an expenditure of one million dol- lars or $ 17.00 per foot over its entire length. waterworks Town Planning and Transport Facilit ies. It is only by good planning and putting each division of its lands to their proper and harmonious purpcse that 4Uest Vancouver can become what this fine town- site should be. A large portion of the lands were blocked out into small parcels of acreage by the Provincial Government with Road alloa'ances provided at in- tervals one fourth mile apart. This skeleton of a road system was laid out on the rectangular The residents who built homes in )Vest Vancouver prior to 1915 had to find aater for themselves; and a costly business with many embarrassments it generally was. If they dug a mell they seldom got through the hard-pan to artesian water, and the wells went dry during two or three months in the summer. If they had a gravity pipe supply from a small stream, either the stream went dry in summer or the pipe owing to its length, could not be trenched into the ground, in which case it froze in cold weath- er. Such pipe supplies were apt in time to become almost a total loss or to require costly repairs. EVater supply has made steady progress in the District since th year 1916, when the Brother' Creek plant was installed. Th Caulfeild works mere acquired by purchase in 1923, and nem 4Vatermorks were installed in West Bay section in 1924. A new water supply about sever. miles in extent, through the Eagle Harbour and AUhytecliff section, mas completed in 1928. Our scattered development is not the only obstacle to watei'upplyin this DIunicipality. The factors which make water mains costly are first, the solid rock in the western half of the District. second, the mains now being in- stalled are all of cast iron, whicli is the most permanent material, but also the most costly. and thirdly the bold relief of thi. topography and the inconveni- ent elevation of many homes inakes it difficult to deliver wat- er at a reasonable pressure. 'The effect in many areas is to pre- vent the running of pipe up or down hill sides without using several sources of supply, or, what is often as troublesome, the use of a single high pressur~. source with pressure reducers. The Municipal Waterworks THE WEST VAN NEWS svstem without any regard to grades or topography. The fore- going circumstances established the rectangular system of Block planning on portions of West Vancouver where it was unsuit- e:l to the topography; and that alone makes the work of the newly established Town Plan- ning Commission very difficult and costly. It is the opinion of the writer that relocation of a single road or street which has been wi.onglv located may add a great deal to the value of the ad- jacent lands but in places where an occasional house is built here and there it is difficult for the Commission or Council to get funds to meet the cost of re-con- touring and the longer re-con- touriiig is put off the more cost- ly it becomes as more houses get buil t and the officials sometimes liave to yield to a demand for road service and spend money on a road which has a grade of near- ly 20';c . All the recently planned liortions of the municipality are laid out with more care in the road locations. As the majority of )Uest Van- couver's residents go to work or business in the City of Van- couver the most direct way to speed up development is to im- prove the transport facilities be- tween the City and AVest Van- couver by either bridging theFirst Narrows or shortening the Ferry trip as boats cannot now compete with land vehicles for speed. RAPID INCREASE IN POPULATION The population of )Vest Van- couver is growing rapidly. Sev- enteen years ago, at the time of incorporation, its residents num- bered 700. Today the population is 7000, the most rapid develop- ment taking place within the past few years. It has been estimated that the population of the District will reach 35,000 within the next ten years. PEARCE'S DRY GOODS 1460 Marine Drive Between 14th and 15th Street Phone West 144 At your service with Qua].ity Groceries NORMAND'S GROCERY Marine Drive at 14th Am blesi de QVALITY, as in nothing else is necessary in the foods you eat. We insist on the best brands for your protection and for our continued success. Phone West 65 AS OTHERS SEE US (Continued from Page 3) poition such a shifting of the centie of population of the City as occurred on this continent when the vacant lands of the west filled up. The shopping dis- tricts of Hastings and Granville Streets would no longer look Southwards exclusively for their business. Our Sechelt neighbors «ill then, if they do not sooner, realize their wish for a car ferry from Gibson's to Horse Shoe Bay and scores of miles of scenic driveways will by that means be added to the present outlets from Vancouver. In sketching thus briefly what the future, the near future let us hope, has in store for greater Vancouver we must not forget that one of its most important businesses is pleasure, the pleas- ure it has to offer to the tourist. EVhen, therefore, the unification of our district with the south shore of the inlet is achieved two pleasure grounds in particular will beyond doubt appeal strong- ly to the public imagination so strongly indeed that the demand for their acessibility will over- come all obstacles, and will bring about the actual construction ofthe so far only visionary high- ways to Hollyburn Ridge and Garibaldi Park. July 26 1929. ~I I p I p ~ ~ g I I.~ u ~l ~ ~ Pl + I I VERNON FEED STOl('. (A. (', Searle) Marine Drive Hollyburn (Next door to Theatre) Phone West 9 Building Supplies BUY COODSMADE IN CANADA GIVE NORE PEQPI.E WORK BRING BE/TER TIM WM. SAGAR l 522 Marine Drive, Ambleside The West Van Watchmaker and Jeweller Mr. Sagar begs to take this opportunity of submitting the following brief history of his firm. The Sagar family have been in the Avatch and ClockMaking business in Blackburn, Lancashire, England,continuously since 1607 (322 years).It has always been the pride of this family to upholdtheir enviable reputation of being absolutely accurate,reliable and trustworthy in their manner of turning outany work entrusted to them. Since coming to Canada in 1910 the present Mr.Sagar has always endeavored to maintain the reputa-ion and pr&de of h&s forefathers. A trial will convince you Durable Gihs +gpss Souvenirs &f West Vancouver NOTARY PUBLIC REAL ESTATE anc'. INSURANCE Houses for Rent Several Good Buys in Waterfront Property ci ~ ~o'r ALL CLASSES OF INSIIRANCE GORDON GRA Y 1002 Credit Foncier Building Vancouver, B,C. Seymour 4991 West 92R2 25th and Marine Drive, Dundarave Office Phone West 4 Residence Phone West 482