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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1924-01-03, Page 5Crolcer et.la, earl r ecti,eesi` 00, .a"t&teti." esokrcos Intel- ! ,th,e Dep{art- ete'gr,att Ottawa ugitst l orthe Am - Mixte of -Mining and IotallurgYlvlaited Northam-, On- tario an inspection was.madc of the silver end gold mining areas.. The rich gold mines of the Kirk - Lake district proved to oe a revelation to a great many of the visitooe, vrhile one important feature; which the engineers. Were quick to observe vias that these vastly rich deposits aro merely a small spot on the edge:' of a vast countrp in which tho. discovery of mines in ljxuiti:plied numbers is an, ultimate cer- tainty. J These men are schooled .to measure at, a glance the ettent of mineral' wealth possibilities, and from remarks made it Is clear that the unanimous opixi ion has been reached that. the mineral ,fields or Northern On- tario are earinarl.cd as lik.My to develop into possibly Lie richest on -earth. Not alone are the proved mines the guide in reach- ing this conclusion, but rather is it the enormous area of mil -- Eons of acres of similar bouetry as yet untouched on which those in search of opportunity are fie- ing their gaze.' E. P. Mathewson, President "of the Institute, expressed the opinion that, 'although the miles of Cobalt have -produced close t„ 840,000,000 ottnece of silver, .yet, m i>ls :minion the field will con tinue'to produce the 'metal :in important quantities long after the, present miners are ` dead. This view is supported by the outstanding ' success "`being .achieved in South: Lorrain. the Bruce Petit -il- ea -tit when in- ved by (l gent plc c d ell pthe3Doniiuion Gov- er>,irtie'nte ferbiddip ut_ther cutting of eL, ,all d ,requiring the r'ilj lea ort o ,p,e cents on each _ ht ndli', rein all that had already been cut.:The Indians were.vcry indignant at the 'Gen rnnient's action, as large sums had -aeon mad, by them previ- onsly.in. this business, but tho Agent was frrni in upholding his orders, and no further depletion took place 001 the reserve. The forbidding of this destruction by the Indians did not,: of yes osr the i course, apply to private lands, and the THE POR a UNCS OF THE HEENDERSON! FAMILY activities of tho American dealers Arthur ilendorsm tLSe famous Brrtish'Luber• leidor, photographed since were transferred to these, and many the British election, with his two ons. Mr. Henderson wee-dcfeated'ln h e farmers and ,their help had several race fcr pa rliainontctry honors, but both his 01,..B were elected.' 130. '[lender busy weeks in trying to cat lh up with son, Enfield,' Middlesex,- is seenat: the left, and at "the right of the picture, the demand. Arthur IIendoreon, Jr. Almost the entire. output `of the Bruce ,Peninsula bras for the Pits - burg market -alone. and it is seated I .�Srieetel Iii, -! that twsnty-ti ve rai,way ears, , with I an average of six hundred trees to each car, left wiarton last month for' One of the inost interesting as well in he ri .l'es after haying excellent the city of Pittsburg, these costing the as ono of the b:etoric sights of the forage for their e do. Np fertilizers dealer a total of,aboutten thousand Maritime Provinces—one that is also or' any kind ate used upon the; marsh dollars: Many of the trees shipped a source of large revenue -et -is the dyke land, and the only cultivation consists stood as high as fifteen feet, 'and lands, or what are known locally as m an occasional plowing, on an aver - would be retailed for as much as the hay marshes. These marsh lands ageonce in ten or fifteen years; when • twenty dollars in the city mentioned. extend around the head of the Bay of a single crop' of oats is sown, followed Tho eastern side of the Bruce Pen- Eland,, in Cumberland Colchester, at once by ;mass. insula has scarcely any' coniferous Harts, .Kings and Annapolis counties An extensive market -exists -for the hay grown on the Bay of 'Fundy' marshes, and at good prices. Large quantities are shipped to the West. Indies; Newfoundland, Boston and: other New England cities. During the war enormous quantities were supplied ace in the future, and to insist' on the to Great Britain and France. protection of the young ,timber and great flat stretches of prairie lands or , To the inland' Canadian, -mused to the reforestation of the areas not fit meadows, covered with rich grass, the hcean''tides,' these dyked lands or for cultivation.' It is understood that while almost as far as the eye can hay marshes present a fascinating ap- invitations are being sent to the Be- reach innumerable hay -bares and hay- pearanee. Accustomed as they are to forestation Department asking for a stacks dot the landscape. ' but slight- variations in the. shore -line representative to be sent to .the. Jan- The .marshes have been brought into of lakes and rivers, it 0 hard to realize nary of the County Council toexistence by the extraordinary power that but' for the dykes these large. explain what stops the Government of the tide of the Bay of Fundy, areas would at high tidebe covered ore prepared to take inthis natter. where there is sometimes a difference with water: The value of the land, ------ of of sixty feet between the level of the however,' was readily appreciated by. SILVER JUBILT £ OF - water at high and low tide, Large the original settlers, many of when) in RADIUM DISCOVERY were therefore subjected to in- their native lands hadeeeen compelled undatlon at periods of high tide. The to battle against the encroachments of early; French settlers built dykes t+1 the sea. ^ How well.these early settlers Voices the keep out the tide frorn these lands, did' their work may be judged from French President 3110 Ill s 0 trees, and those on the wooded west- ern side are required for windbeealcs. A movement is at present on foot by members of the County Council to ask the Government to formulate a policy to regulate .thistree-destroying men of Nova Scotia, and in Westmorland and Albert, counties of New Bruns-, wick. While the term marsh lands is applied to' these low lying areas, theiy are fits from:'beingrwhat the name implies, Looking at them from an eminence they bear the; appearance of and the areas thus .reclaimed': fermi a the fact that at variousoints the World °s Gratitude to vast natural' meadow of approximate- original dykes are' still in existence;; hne. Curie, ly 50,000 acres in extent. This marsh- after a period of close to two hundred A despatch from 'Paris says; `—In land retains its, fertility in- a marvel- yearse lous way, producing hay crops averag- These famous dyked lands are to= a cold, draughty barn on a back street of Paris twenty five years ago Pierre When the soil appears to be doterior- the provinces of Nova Scotia and New ing from two to three tons per acre, day, as in the past, a great asset' to' and: Marie Curie, poor and euiknown, discovered radium. To -day that event was commemorated in a grandiose celebration at the Sorbonne, with the President of -the Republic and a' dozen other public' dignitaries participating, and paying homage to the modest vo- nlan..scientist.' ating it isonlynecessary td open the Brunewick,'and as they continue, de - dykes, allow the tide to flood the ]and cage after decade, to produce their hay again, close the dykes and ;resume crops for home and export consunp- cropping the land. The periods when tion, they hear testimony to the energy it is necessary to open the dykes :for of the people who in the early part of renewal purposes aro widely separat- the eighteenth century fought and ed, some of those familiar with condi- won the battle with the sea for their dons giving fifty years•as the interval possession. between floodings. The Natural Resources Intelligence But Mine,: Curie did not let those Tha grasses, which grow upon the Service of the Department of the In- who had gathered to honor her forget better parts of the dyked lands 'aro i;erlor has issued very interesting how they had once neglected her. - She the English hay grasses, of a superior handbdoks on Nova' Scotia and New told of tion barn that served as labor-, q>ia]ity, Bat one crop of hay per year Brunswick, copies of which may be story f,'r her and her husband, of the is taken off the land, but farriers find ;obtained on request. • looseplanksthat let in wind and rain, of the; small catt iron stove that failed In the. Words of the Woods. to warm the place even when they A lumberjack with a broken leg was had fuel enotgh_to feed it. taken to a hospital for treatment. Af- Mme. Curie in an austere black ter the leg had been set, the nurse robe, 'spoke 'without : any resentment, asked him how the accident occurred. However "ending thus: Ile replied: "The discovery of radium was made "you 50e, ma'am, 0 wse this way; 1 under precarious conditions, and the was skyhooting for the Potlatch Lum- barn where it took 'place is now felled bee, Company : and I had only one romantic. But to us these romantic ground mole, Ile cent up a big ,blue elements were not advantages. Theybutt and she was a:heavy one. 151105 used up_our strength and delayed, our .her yaw and yelled to him to give her results. Under better conditions we a St. Croix, Instead of which he threw might have reduced our first five a sag into he- and gonad her, and that years' work to two. This lesson should, broke my leg." not belost for the future.". "Yes," the nurse replied, "but I.don't Pierre Curie died in 1905 at the exactly understand." age of sixty-four, after `his head had' "Neither do i," said the lumberjack. begin crushed under the wheel of a The fool must have been crazy.,. truck -in a'street accident.' ' Jerusalem Surrendered to a British Sergeant A despatch from London says How Serusalem was captured by a ergeant in the Sedond Battalion of the Nineteenth London Regiment= Fredericic.Iiurcomb,of. Camden Town —will be revealed for the first time in the new war film' "Armageddon," hich deals • exclusively with the fight- ing in' the East. In; telling of his adventure Hurcomb said -that tjic Deconrhet 3,1919, he was sent out on petrel with ,twelve', men and a: corporal with orders to go for, ward until fired upon,' They -crawled ever ".Turkish trenches- in the dark without encountering'anythong, but at dawn they spotted a house 'whiclh the sergeant approached- with a rifle in hand:. To a womanat the window he shouted "Hands upl"- But she, apparently an American, replied with "Good morning," and told him' the Turks had all gone, Presently a party of about twenty, led by "the chief man of the towg bear- ing 'a white flag, approached,'" and in broken 'English surrendered the- city to the sergeant. 6 • A Statesman oh bete. Duty Is a power w;rioh rises with us In the morning, and goes to rest wire. us at night:. It is co -extensive . with the action of our Intelligence. It le the shade which. cleaves to us, .go where wo will, `and which ""only leaves, us when we Ieave the light sof life," No man'le a tenure until he has lost his cheerfulness, his optimistio out- look. The man who does his best and carries a smiling faceand keeps cheer ful In the midst of discouragements, when things go wrong and the way 0 dark and doubtful, Is sure to -Lyle. DCTERMINING WHAT'THE =FFUL', MR5 MARR11E.D ro -PtBi3`I r; D05'CRY ! l Major H. C. Pinata A British officer, who was ieurde n Northern India recently and wh death has brought to a climax tate of British resentment: against Antic of Afghanistan, who had': un taken 10 suppress' the :name tribesmen. Britain may be force use military meapures to induce Amir tb fulfill bee treaty duties. New Device for Checking Poultry Product A .,despatch from London say Even barnyard hens will soon has punch time clocks if an invention being exhibited at a London po show finds -favor with the fare An ingenious Dutchman is sus some of his hens' of loafing on the Re has accordingly evolved' a a by which,' fitted on the back of ea MP chickens, a 1@ather strap is at ed with a piece of colored chalk a end. Above the door of each trap ere places a, paper and a memoran The door is so constructed that hen cannot enter, the nest wit making a mark on the paper, uses different colored chalk for chicken, he is now jubilant at ha been able to rout the unprodu hens from his flock. 'The inventor alleges ho has no discovered a way to register fraudulent entering of 'nests--th, the hen chancing up a marls wi laying any eggs: Destructive Avalanches Continue in Swigs,,. A despatch from Berne says:— series of devastating avalanche the. Alpine region is continuing, numberof liouseswere swept aw' Le Sepey, in the canton, of Vaud, bodies of a man and' his wife whi cupied one' of 'these dwellings found, enveloped in their bedclo 500 feet, away. An avalanche carried away a tage between B.ossland and Beau thirty miles northeast of Chant killing nine of the eleven occup of the dwelling. The deep snow has blocked sev miles of the railroad running GERMANS SHALL PAY Chamonix and troops have been ea —T roto the. Birmingham News. '` out to help in clearing the tracl- Thi RABBITBORO el'tSUR I.1U58/bNi7 MU1T 13FF A GREAT INSP1RPIT1ON i IUN 6 YDU l SiiPf`OSE. I -1E CONFID9.S ALL BUSlNE-Sc ARL --5 J `(o1) Se Rt_. FIE DOGS E.ve Re-(' YI A LITTLE GO IFiO3 P terve