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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-10-7, Page 7Canada Fray Coast to Coast Victoria, 13.C, -H. R. MacMillan, Export Company, Vancouver, has re- ceived an order for 4,000,000 creosoted British Columbia ties from the Gov- ernment of India. The lumber will be cut by the Associated Timber Export- ers and creosoted by the Vancouver Creosoting Co., Ltd., North Vancouver. The order is to go forward by the first Canadian Government cargo vessel consigned to the Indian run and will be ,hipped towards the end of the year. It is reported that the Seed Depart- ment of the Dominion'Government are carrying out arrangements for a Bri- tish seed house to cultivate 10 acres on Vancouver Island for producing sweet pea seed, Edmonton, Alta. ---Goad samples of salt have been found at Fort Mc- Murray by the provincial engineer. Boring has been under way for some time and temple was found in a core ata depth of five hundred and twenty- three feet. If the expectation of 'Gov- ernment is realized salt from this dis- trict will supply the Western market. The Revillon Wholesale Ltd., one of the largest fur concerns in Canada, is now building what is claimed to be the largest commercial warehouse in Can- ada, It will cover 11 aeree of floor spaee, will have a frontage of 850 by 135 feet and be nine storiea high. Two stories will be built this year. Saskatoon, Sask.-There is a big cc.onization scheme, backed by influ- ential men here, to bring settlers to the province from Minnesota, North and. South Dakota and Nebraska. Stonewall, Man, -A Belgian flex ex- pert who is travelling in Canada in tate interests of the flax industry, re- ports that he has seen here flax iibre equal to that grown in Ontario. Ottawa, Ont. -More than half the immigrants who entered Canada dur- ing the six months ended June 3'i!th eame from the Br.tirh Isles. Dining the period 6S,8r7 pereens arrived in the Dominion to make their homes here. The total is 17,667 more than' that reached during the first half of 1919. From the British Isles in the six months of 1920, carte 37,201, com- pared 'with 16,801 di the same period in 1919; from the United States 25,183 as compared with 28,623 between January 1 and June 30; from other countries. 6,413 as compared with 3,766 in the 1919 Period. Mgntreal, Que.-The most important Purchase made by English interests of Canadian pulp holdings has now been closed as a result of the No:th- e:14We interests of London, England, having purchased a two-thirds intere t in the Gulf Pulp anti Paper Co. at Clark City, below Quebec City. Fol- lowing their purchase, the Northcliffe interests have formed the Imperial Paper Mills Limited. The rentaining one-third of the interest in the com- pany is being purchased by other Lon -1 don people rho are interested in the! purchase of paper. St. John, N.B.-The Dominion Iron; and Steel Company are now turning e out ecment at their new plant, and .it, is the intention of the management to augment the present output until it' reaches a capacity of 75 barrels per" day, Halifax, N.S.---Thousands of settlers will cone to the Dominion from the: New England States, New York and; adjacent territories during the next, few years, aceord.ng to L. S. Bellefon-, trine of Taunton, Mass,, who is look MpB7 RECENT PHOTOGRAPH fQi THE DUKE, O- GOtriNEltiGii t look- ing ever Nova Scotia with a view to The former Governor•Cenera1 of Canada rbutting with a wounded soldier locating parties here next spring. A 9 large portion of those whom he pre -let all Ascot lawn fete, diets will come to Canada are either! farmer Catetlians who left here for Something Will Come Up, ` that the : ' 9I alto tee termer noth- New lani;Iand or descendants of Can- 4. t a ,,. , . ,. - lags tees.. sit • ,. nee it : 4in eih€t:#," arrt. adieus attracted in the last quarter of .•Ii.ifons ta. younb }1coli.e are waiting if yeti are delude- • iivilestif with the nineteenth century by the ire-, vo;,tetlt.ng to turn up which will bet mendous irclu trial boom in that sec-. i i �s:31 t;i:1i gip to f alit e your t a:'inion > t t ter their ccndltio? in like. , anew. ,.n as, tor. lir. B l.efontaine predicted as; They have an idea that, somehow, ; yin Bort cit your part, you great an einigratie:t from the eesterfh ; are nh:al .i., a. Bret t nh tl.t, mill les - sr 11tet11i1;, will occur to elhnnt a teens c lnN, is:> o ettic t, >.e. "' 1....: * t -ill to their advantage, if klhey have . e'Otthe t" 1 -qt u e..t cI?t lige w;;:r trP;;S^S patience and wait long enough, even if they do not make a supreme. effort. rend nnof the sec l e;a1 use end how- - my 1ae;i > tare 1y not ng _ that will turd up ulhlees etlnlebodv �d Poured Into England and turn, it up. The farmer might as well ;. , , , , , Gold, � ; say, looker cut over his field, and i;,.>d+ ''.t €I, tee Leiter 1.::sve t yr>u t will ru2p. Wales by Bolshevists , without mating any attempt to plugw, d A dee ateh front Copenhagen i or cultivate, or plant, or sow, "l be-' ""- tiays:---Beleheelet gold was poured;lieve that this ::ail will give me sonic- Busiee inert who ding to the an - into the coal mining districts of Eng- thing this fall; I can depend upon eient ; .cthcz1 are apt to be left at land and W alee to bring about the sonic kind of a harvest." We know the post. threatened coal strike. Th,•s fact was - disclosed in doeulnents left behind--•�-:'r- • ...,_.-�_ ,_.r;..,..._ w....... _ when Litvineff was forced to leave W!r!- tReport Denmark for Norway. The authorities vi.; 'i t are investigating the eireutustanees. His records also show that a nuns- _ ber of extrcn', st p ht.ers in various Wholesale Grain. per 15 ee+ien ease. Ontario honey, countries, and trade unious, are re- Taxohtto, Oct. ii,---*irnnitolla wltectt 5-1b. voile, , 2' lb., 41;: -Ib. pails, 30c per eeiring gold subsidies monthly. Two No. 1 Northern, $2,58; No. 2 Northern,. lb. Copenhagen unions are receiving 50,- eo ew • No 3 1\artherih $2 43i` :30. I'rovi sian., -4'hale.=:ale. 00 The documents reveal that in order Barn. right naw. ahaa older ones tete for - vilest :if the b;:,.ef i. frit, „1:11413,a, c4t11E'rbIn�", as from the western states. FREIGHT RATES INJURE LUMBER TRADE British Columbia Lumbermen Plead for Protection. A despatch frim Nelson, Mee says:-- Sint e the increase in freight rates granted by the Dominion Board of Railway Comnliskioners this month there has been almost a total eesation of orders for lumber from the Western Prairie Provinces. This was the evi- dence given unanimously by the vari- ous representatives of the Mountain Lumber Manufaeturcr.a' Assorlation, alto appeared before the Tariff Com- mission here Thursday morning, and, though the matter was not pressed, It was made evident that tl', s is the chief reason why there exists now a de- pression in the business done by the mountain mills, causing many of them. to be shut down. What business they do they are doing at a good profit from stock al- ready manufactured, but they claim that up to the last year or two business v -as either carred on at a very narrow margin or at a loss. All of them felt keenly the charges given great currency, that they have been profiteering out of the necessaries of the farmer and the prairie dweller, claiming that there was a great dis- crepancy between the prices charged by them and the prices alleged by the farmers to have been paid to the re- tailer. In making their request that the tariff of 25 per cent. now applied to lumber products mentioned in Can- adian customs tariff item Non. 505 and 506 should be placed on all importa- tions of soft wood lumber, such as the mountain malls produce and now enter- ing Canada duty free, every witness contended that the million and a half inhabitants d the Prairie Provinces should be made by means of duties to buy their lumber from the mountain mills, Of their product 85 per cent. is rough lumber cif the low-grade var- iety most in demand on the prairies. Prince to Establish Menagerie on Western Ranch A despatch from London says: The Prince of Wales is collecting Afziean big game, as well as many smaller jungle animals, including some from A,ustra�1ia, for experimental purposes. These will be placed in a small men- agenle on Itis ranch tin Alberta. Some Australian animals collected en his Australian. tour • eznpanied him on his cruise on thRenown. He plans to• ship his collection to Alberta next °Wing- re Go .ovtR AND, TELL. J i 1tiE :' ICE. Ntf1N 11P4N4 .. Me. Te r4 c.RNTs W©.TH P .ICS "REDS" S" AIDBRITISH MINERS' TI cRS' S T RIS d ti • friend, d #1 h • you euniv::te the Seal:. The sheerer seed este plant, the better you e11M- front new cern sotvl mot .t 0 kroners annually. 4ywhea't, $2.37%, in store Fort 4Wil- to provide funds for bringing in Western European newspapers, Lenin ordered every Russian citizen to re- linquish all his or her jewels. During September a systematic search was made of all bourgeois houses and all jewels found were confiscated. Leads New Brunswick Opposition. Hon. John B. M. Baxter, who has been appointed to succeed Hon. J. A. Mur - dates for the County of St. John. ray, recently resigned. He has-been chosen as one of the Opposition candi- A Child's Garden. A pitcher of migonette, In a tenement's highest casement; A queer sort of flower pot, yet That pitcher of mignonette, Is a gardenin heaven feet To the little sick child in the base went, Just a pitcher of mignonette In the tenement's highest casement. • Man. barley -No. 3 CW, $1..., ; No. 4 CW, $1.07%; rejected, 971.e; feed, 951/2c, in store Fort William. Manitoba oats -No, 2 CW, 75c; No. 3 CW, 71c; extra No. 1 feed, 71e; No. 1 feed, 69c; No. 2 feed, 61; in store Fort William. American corn -No. 3 yellow, $1.65; nominal, track, Toronto, prompt ship- ment. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 68 to 72e. Ontanio wheat -No. 2 winter, per car lot, $2.30 to $2.40; No. 2 Spring, $2.25 to $2.35, shipping points, accord- ing to freights. Peas -No. 2, nominal. Barley -$1,15 to $1,20, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal. Rye -No. 3, $1.75, nominal, accord- ing to freights outside. Manitoba flour -$13.40, new erop. Ontario flour -$10.30 to $10.40, bulk sea board. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered, Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $54; shorts, per ton, $59; good feed flour, $3.60 to $3.75. Country Produce -Wholesale. Cheese, new, large, 29 to 30c; twins, 30 to 31c; triplets, 311,E to 32e; old, large, 33 to 34e; do, twins, 331E to 34%e; Stilton, old, 35 to 36c; new, 33 to 34c. Butter, fresh dairy, choice, 49 to 50c;, creamery 'mints, 60 to 63c. Margarine, 35 to 39c. Eggs, No. 1, 61 to 62e; cartons, 71 to 73c; selects, 68 to 69c. Beans, Canadian, hand-picked, bushel, $4.75; primes, $3.25 to $3.50; Japans, $4.75 to $5; Limas, Madagas- car, 11 to 12c. Maple products -Syrup, per imp. gal., $3.40 to $3.50; per 5 imp. gals., $3.25 to $3.40. Maple sugar, lb., 27 to 30e. Honey -Wholesalers are naw offering the following prices to farmers: 23 to 25c per lb. for 30 and 60 lb. pails; 23% to 25% for 10 -Ib. pails, and. 24 to 25e per ib. for fi and 2% 1b. pails. Wholesalers• are now selling to the trade New Zealand honey, 60 Ib. tins, at from 26 to 27e per lb.; e Ontario comb honey at $7.50 Smoked maats-Hams, inc;le 47 to 50c; heavy, 40 to 42e; cooked, 04 to (die; rolls, 34 to 80.'; cottage rolls, 41 to 43c; breakfast bacon, 50 to 62c; 4iaeks, plain, 52 to 54e; boneless, 53 to 64e. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 27 to 28e; clear bellies, 26 to 27e. Lard -Pure tierces, 28? to 20½e; tubs, 29 to 29%e; pails, 29 to 30c; prints, 30 to 30 .ec. Compound tierces, 211 to 22c; tubs, 22 to 23e; pails, 23% to 24c; prints, 20.i to 27c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Oct. 5. -Oats, Canadian western, No. 2, 97e; do, No. 3, 94e. Flour, new standard grade, $14.25. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., $4.30 to $4.45. Bran, $49.25. Shorts, $54.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, ear lots, $33, Cheese, finest easterns, 25c. Butter, choice creamery, 60e. Eggs, fresh, 68c. Po- tatoes, per bag, car lots, $1.65 to $1.'75. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Oct. 5. -Choice heavy steers, $14 to $14.50; good heavy steers, $12.75 to. $13; butchers' cattle, choice, $12 to $12.50; do, good, $11.25 to $11.75; do, med., $9.75 to $10; do, come, $7 to $8; bulls, •choice, $10 to $10.50; do, good, $9 to $9.25; do, rough, $6 to $8; butchers' cows, choice, $10 to $10.50; do, good, $9 to $9.25; do, coin.,.. $6 25 to $7; stockers, $7.50 to $9.50;, feeders, $10.25 to $11; canners and' cutters, $4 to $5.75; milkers, good to choice, $100 to $165; do, coin. and med., $65 to $75; lambs, yearling, $8.75 to $10; do, spiting, $13.50 to $14.50; calves, good to choice, $17 to $19.50; sheep, $3.50 to $8.25; hogs, fed and watered, $21.50 to $21.75; do, weighed off cars, $21.75 to $22; do, f.o.b., $20.50 to $20.75; do, .do, country points, $20,25 to $20.50. Montreal; Oct. 5. -Butchers' heifers, $5.50 to $7; butchers' cows, choice, $5 to $7.50; med. canners, $3 to $4; cut- ters, $4 to $4.50; butchers' bulls, com- mon, $5.25 to $6.75. Good veal, $13 to $15; fined., $10 to $13; grass, $6 to 7. Ewes, $5.50 to $7; lambs, good, $18; do, com., $8 to $12. Hogs, selects, $20.50 to $20.75; sows, $15.50 to $16.75. LOWER PRICES TO U.S. CONSUMER. Greater Efficiency on Part of Labor With Increased .. Prgdu*ztion. A de.apateh from Washington says:--Price-cutting has taken hold of CANADA BUYS .LARGELY - FROM UNITED STATES Exports O n l y $46,500,000 and imports $86,000,000. A deapatelefrom Ottawa says. -No reason for expecting substantial im- provement in exchange between Can - the wholesale trade in the United ada and the United 'States in the near ,States to an extent that soon must be future is held out by, preliminary. felt substantially in lower prices to figures of the Dominion's trade in consumers, according to the Federal August, just made public. Canadians Reserve Board's monthly' business re-, during that Month bought in the view. R ;vival of the wave of price re- i United States to the extent of nearly duet,ien end its spread to many retail. eighty-six million dollars, 'as -compared lines was, attributed to "a more exact- with...sixty-two and a half millions :in ince demand"by the buying public as to August, 1919: They -exported to the • priee end quality."" Retail purchasers United States goods to the value of are showing continued determination forty-six. and a half Wilton; as eons - to await a move by dealers to meet' pared with $40,250;000 in • August, !these demands; w a°le foregoing 'lux- 1919. -The balance �:j:.;.Innt Canada Ill I unite and semi -luxuries, reports to the trade 3n th the Unite States was thus I heard declared. thirty-nine million dollars in August, l Although the board •believed the 1920, as compared z:itst twenty-two Ibuying public was largely dominating millions in August, 1919. In spite of the market now, it said that -labor and adverse exchange rates thus Cane production v:ere having a marked of adieus have tuatorial'y ine eezed the..jr feet on prises. There was much eal-: purchases in the. United S: .tcs and dente, it said, of increased efficiency tended to 'aggravate the c veli 'on, on the part of labor, and as a result causing depreciation elf the Can o:diiem production was on the increase ands dollar south of the Internaticne i ',in- factory* operation beginning to ap dary line. In trade with Great Britain; • proach normal. i Canada still enjoys a favorable bag- Summed up, the heard's findings! anee. That balance, however,. in Aug were that '`aueinesa coadity_ons are ust was inly about eleven and a gar now definitely en the road toward' ter million -dollars, as compare t with, stability of as great and confirmed a forty-four. and .three-quarter niill sws nature as the disturbed position'of in the same month last year. Clot- . the world at large permits:' War Denies. Marriage admit imparts from Great Britain in August were valued at twenty-one and a batt Knilliail dollars, as compa' ed Women with seven and a half millions in Aug - to 15,000,000 ust, 1919, but Canadian exports to Britain were only $36.7481,89 last month, as compared wi"th $,2,238,888 in August, 1919, Exchange rates greatly in favor of Canaia c]^itl,tleee operated both to increase imports from Britain and to decrease exports. A despatch from Leipzig; says:-'- Beoau.=e 35,000,0001nen Ion their lives in Europe anti Asia curing the word war, 15:000,000 European wemen will' die old maids. These figures are given' by Dr. Sehv.ccsheireer in the Zeitung, mid are een.idered offieial. For overee 1,000 nen between the ages of 18 ands 4u years there are, in Wont e Frame 11;d: ,23(1 realer -1 Italy .......... ........ 1 , d Gern;.:ny 1,18it Austria-Hungary: 1,230 Dust is Dangerous. Dust explosion:: have eautl "' the destruction of minions of dollars' worth oaf property in grain anti cereal plants, flour nulls, sugar relil:eri.'.; and elevators, besides great loss of life. A dust explosion is very similar to. a gas expicsion except that the par- ticle of dust are a I€ttle bit larger than the gas particles. The finer the dust the more easily it is ignited and the more disastrous the, explosion. A pile adust in a room ora sack or barrel of flour, of any finely pul- verized carbonaceous twat* ri :I, will net explode so long as it stays in the pile or sack. It must be in suspension, as a cloud in the air; and like gas, there must be a proper mixture of dust and air and a spark or flame pre- sent which has sufficient heat to ignite the dust before au explosion can oc- cur. Cleanliness is the first precaution. Mechanical dust collectors are essen- tial where processes generate fine dust, such as starch, flour, coal, cork, sawdust, grain dust •and powdered sugar. Cleanliness means -nothing to explode. Protects workmen's lives. Saves property. Saves food Inadequate Fire -Fighting Equipment. There is still much to be done in the way of organizing Fire Companies throughout the province. The lack of a properly trained fire- fighting organization with the neces- sary apparatus and equipment is a serious menace to any community. The Fire Marshal's Office recently received a cotnmunication from a iliunleipal Official stating: "We have no Chief at present. The Engineer of the engine is paid $50 a year to have it in order, and the Constable has charge of the rest of the fire apparat- us. The fire company'has always been voluntary and more or less difficult to keep together.The Council have the matter under consideration." Mayors, Reeves and Councils fre- quently do not realize the responsibili- ty that rests an them as representa- tives of the people. To safeguard and protect from fire the lives and pro- perty of the citizens, is paramount. To protect large industrial institutions. on.which the growth and prosperity of a community depends is simply. Ordinary common sense. 1.175 Timber to Burn, Yet Prices Go Sky High. 'i, a ••Trip 1� ofel}rallta'.s futrestF liaise betel eats tee ..1 l;y eve hi the 1'-t e.g. inti tie' sears. t.Y'iw 'J.t,.'• totli,'ihti� et • the pere try laiperitee a•, The tee eine of tinnier brewed we,aitl have supplied the world for 450 years at the pre t rate of consumption and reptes: e a lows of a billion doliors . Canada stili has 1.900,000 square milt's elf forests, the forests of fritisn C'cbtut,bia constituting one of the two greate-t tracts of commercial ii+*.tier In the world, tite other being it, Rus- sia. Forest fires in this eogintry are -de- i ignated by Col. li'. B. Gre€aey, ker- s ester, as "the Chief cause of tome; de. vastatiosh." and he urges most. e111e idiotically the immediate need nation-wide drive against the forest lire. Not only have great forest tires vis- ( ited this country since the landing of Columbus, but large tracts were swept clean of timber before a white man: ever used an axe here. An eminent scientist and historian, according to the American Lumberman, states that if the discovery of America had beert postponed five centuries the discover- ers would have landed on a treeless+ continent. Indians and lightning set, these fires. The Indians were burn. ing the woods to make pasture for: deer and buffalo. Most of the forests had been destroyed in the region be- tween the Rocky Mountains and the; Mississippi River before the advent of the white man. Force Landowners in New South Wales to Sell' A. despatch from London says:- The New South Wales Assembly a proposing legislation to compel the Iarge landowners to sell land on rea4 sonabie terms in connection with the( Government's settlement scheme( Twenty thousand soldiers are waiting' for land, and only four thousand cases, have been dealt with. Why Glass Is So Brittle. The brittleness of glass is due to the quick cooling of the hot substance. I9( is known that constant motion tend* to rearrange the molecules in an substance, and similar effect is ob served when glass is boiled in a weak solution of salt in water and permitted to cool gradually. The toughness o the glass is increased very much and the effect of quick heating is less dis estrous to it. This is easily applied• to articles such as glass tubes fo lighting purposes, and prevents much breakage. RlGd AR FF:i.i.ERS-By Gene Byrnes Hg WhsH'r. Tmt=iL . MGM SCS w ti zrf r e. Ir powt-1 ON THE SLA'Me'e Fop_ et tee 'TWA ceirrs WoRYti li' ICE" • din '(ou ,PtiT "THE- ADO ass b6wN ? .40 too.. • d