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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1921-8-4, Page 3Canada From Coast 'to Coast 'Vancouver, BC.—After having been -reduced in numbers from 2,00,400 to less than 126,000 through unrestricted slaughter, the great seal herd of the Northern Pacific hae, under adequate protection, again increased until to- day it is estimated there are at least a00,000 of the valuable mammals be- tween the eeast of Washington and the icy shores ,of Alaska, This year Indians expect to eapture 2,000 Beals, The money value of the skins takee since 1917 is about $500,000. Vancouver, BC.—The first consign- ment of lumber to Chili for many years left recently, being 'shipped by T. S. MeOlay, Harbor Commissioner for Vancouver. Edmonton, Alta.—Prospects are ex- cellent for a record potato crop and it is expected that the yield will be as heavy as any yet harvested. The acreage is twenty per cent. greater than any previous year, Within twenty miles of Edmonton there are three thousand wires of potatoes he bloom. Calgary, Alta.—A profitable mar- ket for their product of sodium elder- ide is being developed by the Sealac Salt Co., which is engaged in develop- ing the ',Salt ileposits t Sealhe, Sask. A localsoap factory is utilizing the product extensively in its manufac- ture, instead of importing from Wise eonsin as orevieusly, end it is probe able the wants oa their Winnipeg branch will be supplied from the same source, Calgary, Alta.—Owing to the ht - crease in the buffalo herd at Wain- wright, one thousand of these animals are to be slaughtered. A special building is being erected for the pur- pose. The buffalo meat will be sent to all points over the c,ountry for sale. A. strict account is being kept of all heals ami skins, whieh will prohnbly be disposed of by the Dominion GOV. ernment The Wainwright reserva- tion contains the last large herd of buffalo in the world, with about 3,000 animal. Regina, Sark.—Active work has al- ready started on a soil survey of the provinee of Saskatebowan by the Col- lege of Agriculture in so -operation with the provincial department of agriculture. M1 possible data will be gathered in regard to soil conditions that are essential to a determination of the most profitable typo of farm- ing to be carried out in each district. 'Saskatoon, Sask.—Telegraphic ad- vices from the north country an- nounce that a heavy strike of gold has been made on Cariboo Island, on the north shore of the Great Slave, by the Aurous Gold Mining Company. Mining machinery is now on the way to the island, and it is expected that everything will be in readiness to be- gin operations upon a very extensive seals next spring. Winnipeg, Man.—For the purpose of recovering amber deposits from the sands ert the west shore of Lake Cedar, Manitoba, J. Dix Rogers, of Toronto, has been granted a 21 -year lease of about 2S5acres The lease is renewable for a further 21 years, and the lessee pays $1 an acre per annum and 5 per; cent. realty on the value of amber recovered. The lease also provides that $5,000 must be ex - periled of operations during the twelve months, Ottawa, Ont,—During the 'fiscal year ended March 31, 1920, 991 econ- paellas were formed under the Domin- ion Act with a total capitalization of $003,210,850, as compared with 512 companies in the preceding fiscal year with capital of $214.,325,000‘ Eighty-eight existing ezetipanies in- creased their capital stock by $85,- 187,750 in the same fiscal year, while 10 decreased their capital stock by $19, 530,000. Toronto, Ont. --A large block of property has recently been acquired in this eity by a syndicate of Toronto and United States eapitalists, upon, which will be erected ()he hundred and fifty moderately priced homes. Work will be started very shortly on the first batch of twenty houses and when these are disposed of the re- meirider will ,be built The houses will eost from $4,000 to $5,000 each and are to be surrounded with sufae milt land to make them desirable. Hamilton, Ont—The announcement that a carload of cherries shipped from the Niagara Peninsula had ar- rived, iu Winnipeg in good condition and had met with a ready sale was particularly pleasing to the growers. Local growers have been trying for years to find a market in the West, Quebec, Que.—During the months of April and May a total of 29,195 immigrants entered Canada, 15,559 being from the British Isles, 8,745 from the United States, and 4,891 from other countries. Montreal, Que.—The Naenopic of the Hudson's Bay Co. left here recent- ly on her annual trip to the Hudson's Bay. The steamer carries stores for traders awl the company's posts in that region, and will brine, baek their merchandise. The Naseopie will short, ly be followed up by the Bay - chimp, and both ships will prebably be back in September, Fredericton, N.B.--A,1though wea- ther conditions which have prevailed during the past month have been a detriment to the apple harvest, it is anticipated, judging from present in- dications, that the apple crop in this district will be the heaviest in years. Reports from Kingsclear, Oromoeto and Douglas all show that the orch- ards are looking well and giving nronuse of a big yield. Halifax, N.S.—Dr. J. D. Logan has opened offiees here as a "clearing house" in ,Canada for the output of Canadian writers who prefer to live in Canada and market their wares from the homeland. It is hoped that the new organization will largely ob- viate the necessity of Canadian writ- ers failing to find a domestic market going to England and the United States to market their literary ma- terial. Burial Service at Sea by Wireless A despatch from London says:— The burial service at sea by wireless was the unusual story brought to Liverpool by the incoming Cunarder Germania. When the Carmania was 300 miles west of Fastnet a wireless message was received from the Canadian Gov- ernment freighter Canadian Trapper, London -bound, asking: "Can you oblige us with a copy of the burial service ?" The Canadian Trapper was about 200 miles distant. A fireman aboard the freighter had died, and no burial service was available. The full ser- vice was sent by wireless, the dicta- tion lasting an hour, and at the end the body was 'committed to the deep. British Premier Visits Canada in Autumn .A despatch from London says:— Unless failure to achieve peace in Ireland leads to an autumn election in the United Kingdom, Canada will probably have an opportunity of see- ing Lloyd George soon. Lk,yd George is being pressed to visit Canada when he goes to Wash- ington for the conference on the Limi- tation of Armaments, and it is under- stood that he will, do so. AIRSHIP SCHEME TOO COSTLY, DECIDES EMPIRE PREMIERS A despatch from London says:— One of the matters discussed by the Empire Premiers Conference in Lon- don has been the possibility of using airships as a methodof improving communications between the Blether Country and the far-flung Dominions of the British Empire. A committee was appointed to re- port on the subject, and its unanimous decision is that any scheme of the kind would be too ,costly. The Do- minion Premiers and British Govern- ment have to decide whether they will go shares in maintaining British air- ships and their personnel as a nucleus of great Imperial trans -oceanic air service. The committee estimated that it would require an expenditure of ten millions sterling to run airship ser- vices for five or six years, and it came tp the conclusion that from a ,commercial 'standpoint the experiment would not be worth the expense in view of the present financial position. TQ CANADIAN HEROES Huge crowd watched Premier eleiglien unveil a memorial on Vinin Ridge, the scene of a striking Canadian victory in the Great War. — PREMIERS' MEETING Volga District Has PASSES INTO HISTORY Preparations Made for British Representatives at Dis- armament Parley. A deepetch from Loran says:— The Imperial Conferenee of Brit!sh Premiers has now reached its penul- timate stages, and the situation is happily clarified. There has been a steady exchange of views with Wash- ington, and a basis of reasonabl agreement as to the method of pro- cedure is within reach. During the last two days the dele- gates have devoted their whole atten- tion to the discussion of the possibil- ities and implications at the Wash- ington Disarmament Conferenee, based upon despatches arriving from the Embassies toncerned. It is now definitely decided that no tell dress preliminary conference will take place in London, but there will occur diplo- matic conversations touching the sub- ject matter of the •eonference, at which Dominion representatives like Premier Hughes of Australia and Premier Massey of New Zealand, who foresee obstacles to their attendance at Washington, will have opportunity to present their views, On every hand there is an eager disposition to promotie the success of the Washington Conference. There is visible willingness to sub- ordinate personal conveniencee and predictions to the larger end. It has been practically decided that the British Empire will be represent- ed by an undivided unit at the Wash- ington Conference, and, probably, Premier Meighen of Canada and Pre- mier Smuts of South Africa, will be members of the British delegation. Premier Meighen will not remain for the preliminary conversations, but plans to sail for home on the C,ar- mania on July 30. The United States Government is firmly opposed to any postponement of the Washington Conference until Spring, and the various 'Governments have immediately set about the pre- paration of their respective eases, with a view of beginning the real work of the Conference before the middle of November. The scene now shifts to Washington and the Confer-. ence of the British Premiers may be regarded as at an ench Chicago Claims 26,054 Canadians A. despatch from Washington say:—Figures announced by the Census Bureau give the number of Canadians resident in Chicago as 26,- 054. The total foreign population of the city is 805,482. Weekly Market Report 1.81%; No. wheat—No. 1 Northern,' 30e; cooked harns, 62 to 67e; boneless 'hams, med., 40 to 42c; heavy, 29 to , $1.79%; No.1 backs, 42 to 48e; breakfast bacon, 33 3 Northern, $1.74%; No. 4 wheat,! to 3$e; special, 45 to 48c; 'cottage Slaliall4nit'rons, 30 to 31c. oba oats—No. 2 CW, 53%c; Green meats—Out of pickle, le leo I No. 3 CW, 50eac; extra No. 1, 50%e; than smoked. No. 1 feed, 4,c; No. 2 feed, 40%e. Barreled meats—Bean pork, $29; Manitoba barley --No. 2 CW, 80c; " sheet cut or family back, boaelese, No, 4 CW, 752/e; rejeeted, 71e; feed, $40; pi -aided rolls, $41 to $46; mese 70e. pork All above in score, Fort William. iDi:y$343a.lted. meats—Long elears, in Ontario wheat—Faeb. shipping tons, 17% to 19%e; in eases, 18c; points, according to freights outside, clear bellies, 19%e; backs, 14c prints, No. 2 spring, nominal; No. 2 winter, 19ee to 21e; shortening, tierees, 141e nominal; No, 2 goose wheat, nominal. to 14; tubs, 1'1 to 15e; pails, 15 American corn—Prompt shipment, to 153e; prints, 17'. to 18e. No. 2 yellow, gal. bay porte, 79e3:1714aezio--1T8ice;pa,17 reeei417, toto noOmntainarlio oats --No. 2 white, nominal, Choice heavy steers, V to $8; cconainer, to freights 'outside. butcher steer. elioiee, $7 to $7.501 do, Barley—Malting„ 65 to 70e, aecord- good, $6 to $7; do. need., $5 to $6; ing to freights outside. do, cora. $3.75 to $5; butcher beiferei Ontario flour --Winter, prompt choile, 4.50 to V; do, need., $5.50,to shipment, straight run bulk,,e,eabeara. $6,50; butcher cows, ehoice, $4,60 to $7.40. , $5.50; do, ined., $3 to $4.50; eanners Peas --No. 2, nominal, i and euttere, $1 to $2.50; butcher 'has, Manitoba flour—Track, Toronto: good, 34.25 to $5.25; do, come $3 to firet pats., $10.50; second pate., al°. $4; feeders. geed. 900 lire, 35.50 to $6; Buckwheat—Nominal. do, fair, $5 to $5.50; milkers, $45 to Rye—No. 2, $1.25. ;$65; springers, $56 to $76; calves, aliateed—Carlots, delivered Taron,e choice, $9 to $10; do, med„ $8.50 to to freight's bags included; Bran, .per 39.50; do, come $4 to $5; lamba, year - ton, $25; shorte, per ton, $27; weite lings, $7 to $8; do, spring, $10 to middlings, $29 to $30; feed flour, 3l.60, $10.75. sheep, ehoiee, $6 to $6; do, to $1.76. good, '$3.50 to $4.50; do, heavy and Eggs—No. 1, 37 to 38c; selects, 41 eeuelts, $2 to $3.50; hogs, fed and to 42c; new laid, cartous, 43 to 44e. watered, $13; do, fed off ears, $1335; Butter—Creamery, fresh made ex- de, f.o.b., $12.25; do, country points, tras, 41 to 42e1 du, fresh made firs, 42, 40 to 41e; dairy prints, 83 to 34e% Montreal. bakers', 25 to 28e. I Oats --Can, West., No. 2, Gaileac to Oleomargarine—Best grade, 20 to-40ac; de. No. 3, 02% to 63c. Fleur—e 21e. Man. $10,50, Rollei oats—laa' 90 Cheese—New, large, 24% to 251,IeW, lbs.. $3,85. Bran --$25 to $27. Shorts twine, 25 to 2Ge; Stilten, 261_ to 27ee--$26 to a28. Hay—No. 2, per ton, , Old, large, 34 to 35e; twins, 34 toecarlots, $28 to $30, 35lee I Cheese, finest eesteres„ 2335e. But - Honey --Extracted, white clever, ter, choleeet creamery, 39 to 391ac, 00-304b. tins, per lb., 15 to 16e; do, Egga, seleeted, 43 to 44e. Potatoes, 11,234 Cholera Ce.ses 10.b. tins, per lb., 17 to 18e; Ontario, per bag, ear lote. 45a, No. 1 white clover, in 2-5-1h. tins,' Hop, seleets, $14 to $14.50, Veal A despatch frem Moseew saye:— The Soviet Government annauncee the famine in tha Volga Region etartea lest month and grt.w steaaily woree. The eldeial figures of the Ceneuieear, ef Health show 13,476 eltoiera cases sinee the beginning of the yeer, of which 11,2a1 eceurree in the month f June a:one. The Voesisehe Zeitunge says there are floe hundred cholera cases in Moscow. e • W. W. Wood President of the United Farmers of Alberta, who is favored by the farmer members -elect of that Province as Premier. He was not a candidate in the recent elections, but the success of the U.F.A. is largely credited to him. Canada has over 38,000 miles of railway, or one mile for every 224 per- sons. per it). 18 to 19e. calve, picked lote, $a; good ceives, Smol4e1 meats—Rolls, 27 to 2; 30 to $7; eom. grassers, $2 to ,se„. TURK RESISTANCE , ENTIRELY BROKEN Greeks Claim Victory Over Ottoman Forces in Asia. Minor. A despatch from London says:—A big victory of the Greeks over the t Turks in Asia INtinor was announced by the Greek legation here en Wed- nesday night. The resistance of the Turks, it was i declared, bas been completely brolien. The Ottoman losses were estimated by the Legation at 60,000 men, Contrary to the Greek claims, a dis- patch from Constantinople to the Daily Express says it is claimed there that the Turkish Nationalists suereed- ed in eluding a double enveloping movement carried out by the Greeks. The newspaper Petrie of Athens de- clared it had learned that Mustapha Kemal. Pasha, chief of the Turkish Nationalists, ad authorized the Sub- lime Porte, the recognized Turkish Government, to appeal to the Allies to arrange peace. From other sources reports reaeh London that the 'Turkish Nationalists are willing for Allied intervention. The Greeks are pressing on to Angora, the capital of the Turkish Nationaliets, and have reached the Gordan. To learn, then to do, means success to you. THAMES RIVER BREAKS LOW RECORD Drought in England Assumes Alarming Aspect. A despatch from London says:— The seriousness of the situation ere. ated by the Peng drought in England is shown by the statement of the Thames Conservancy. Only 125,000e 000 gallons daily are flowing over the Teddington Lock, instead of the ear- nini .Tuly flow of 1,210,000,000 gallons., The London water supply is drawn largely from the upper reaches of the Thames and its tributaries, and a water fainine is threatened unless tlw long -belled -for rains fall soon. The lowest record flow was in 1899, when it was 154,000,000 gallons. Plans now are ready Mr rationing London and Mr cutting off the supply during certain hours daily. Duke of Connaught Takes Daily Exercise A despatch from London says:—. The Duke of Connaught, who is now 71, but looks .as if be were the King's brother instead of his unele, explainea how he keeps fit, in a speech when distributing prizes at Dulwich Col- l; ge. "I am getting on in age now," he said, "but still do my physical jerks every morning. I don't think I should be happy without them." TO BUILD 150 MILES OF HYDRO LINES BEFORE WINTER A despatch from Toronto says:— Actual construction work on the ex- tension of hydro power into the rural districts is to conunence within the next three weeks. Saltfieet township, east of Hamil- ton, will probably be the scene of initial operations under the new legislation, whieh provides for a Government subsidy of half the eost of the transmission line. Dorchester township, near London, and the coun- try surrounding the town of Prescott are Other districts in which an early conunencement of operations is ex- pected. That the farmers of Ontario appre- ciate the benefits of Sir Adam Beck's great project is evidenced in the Met that already the Presangial Hydro Commission has more than 700 signed contracts upon which rbe proceed with rural hydro extension. It is a striking feature in the pro- grees of the work .that it is those sections of the province most inti- mately acquainted with hydro power and its varied uses which have been quickest to sign up and which are most elamorous in their demands for early hydro service. The 700 contracts already in the commission's hands involve approxi- mately -150 miles of rural transmis- sion line, a stretch which commission engineers believe can easily be com- pleted before the snow flies. The general principle upon which the commission, is working is to give hydro service to those rural districts which are obviously meet in need oi it, and which are most insistent in thei-r demands for en early connec- tion. REGLARFELLERS—By Gene Byrnes I 5P.41 iN —rr(ou NEVE13.. PM IS Se>2. \t,.1 ELL_ si'4 A CI SOK AN' e, rrctio4 SINK c.oka SUP ,,-TuRge.y.TRor N4 A MARCEL- ‘414AVE so "'MERE neene.....aeeee—e Dsir ONES • o. _ e enaeee leeneeeagleeea- • ee, e ena 1 1 1 1 .4 4 1 A 4 4 4 1 d