. Rod and gun . ed Holstein cattleare the admiration of all who see stay here was short, for almost beforewe knew it ^Ir. Irving wheeled up wathhis Pierce Arrow touring car, and in a few-minutes we were spinning along towardsRexton. fourteen miles distant. We madeno stop here, but crossing a nice steelbridge we looked up and down the we saw lumber mills on all along the wharves loading andunloading, and every evidence of a busylittle town. \\e kept spinning along, and almost be-fore we realized it we were at up to the well-known KentHotel.
. Rod and gun . ed Holstein cattleare the admiration of all who see stay here was short, for almost beforewe knew it ^Ir. Irving wheeled up wathhis Pierce Arrow touring car, and in a few-minutes we were spinning along towardsRexton. fourteen miles distant. We madeno stop here, but crossing a nice steelbridge we looked up and down the we saw lumber mills on all along the wharves loading andunloading, and every evidence of a busylittle town. \\e kept spinning along, and almost be-fore we realized it we were at up to the well-known KentHotel. we asked that supper be served asquickly as possible, as we wished to havea look around, and we still had twentymiles of a journey ahead of us. Richi-bucto has always been the shire town ofKent county. In years past it was afamous lumbering and ship-buildingcentre. The ship-building has gone, butthere is considerable lumbering still beingcarried on. Fishing seems to be theprincipal business at the* present Swamping a short cut for the Auto through the woods. Messrs. A. & R. Loggie, R. OLeary andAW E. Forbes have up-to-date cold stor-age and freezing plants. \\e had thepleasure of meeting Mr. OLeary, andwere courteously shown around hispremises. He carries on a large lumberbusiness and his up-to-date general store,filled from cellar to attic with all thingsimaginable, is seldom surpassed in coun-try towns. But to get to the magnitudeof this business one must visit the freez-ers. Here in the middle of summer arepiled tons upon tons of frozen mackerel,salmon, cod and bass, besides all otherkinds of smaller fish. These fish are allcaught in their season, frozen and piledup awaiting favorable markets in theStates and Canada. After saying good-bye to ]Mr. OLeary, with the promise tojoin us with some friends during theweek, we sauntered back to the hotel andwere soon spinning along the road country scenery was nice. Sixmiles out we passed through the nicelittle villag
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