The Seaforth News, 1932-08-25, Page 3L7,
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• A'Ramble 'wa'th (Der. Ailiines of Toron-,
to —'The 'Laird o' Coieldpen —
IB'orthiwiek (Oas'tle—Gala 'Water
'Me'1'rase 'Tdw.n.and A'b'bey --'Sir
(Waiter 'Slcoltt-l'The Dowg1'asses
(Michael ,Scott—lHeart of • Robert
the 'Bruce, :etc. .etc. k
t('jif thou woulldst view fair Mel-
- ro'se'.aright,
'Go visit it 'by the pale moon-
light.;
For the _ gay beams of . li;ghtsorne
day, .
Gild, but to ifls.tst,'the runes grey,
' •{Wlhen the 'broken arches are 'black
in night, ,
And each shafted oriel' glimmers
white;
When the cold light's , uncertain
shower .
410
Streams on the
ruin'd central
I
tower;
When buttress and 'buttress, el-
ternatelry,' _•• '
Seem framed- oif bon and :ivory;
When silver eedges t'he incageey,
And the scrolls that teach thee
to 'live 'and dile;
When distant Tweed is heard to
Mite, a
And the owlet to hoot o'er the
dead man's grave, •
'Then go—but go alone the while—
.hen view St. David's xuin'el
pile, .
(And, home returning, soo'thly
Was never scene .so .sad' aiui
fain
—Sir 'Walter 'Scott.
Well, not feeling very certain that
there would be any moonlight to
,spare, for one is sure of nothing but
rain in this country; and having been
told, moreover, that Sir Walter never
visited Melrose Abbey by moonlight
himself, we resolved to visit the ven-
erable ruin on a bright sunshiny day,
one ,of the few (bright days we met
with in this moist climate at this .seas-'
on of the year, so along with Dns.
Aikins and Wylie, and a young S'cots-
man from "Auld Reekie," we started
on. our excursion to the land which
.,kC'—has been rendered immortal 'by the
magic ,pea of Sir Walter Scott. Ac-
cordingly we repaired to the Waverly
Station .and took tickets for Melrose—
return tickets—resolving to spend one
day With Scott. The young Scotsman
was 'intelligent and well acquainted
with fire country, and pointed •ou't
everything that he thought would in-
terest "Yankee tourists," as he was
pleased to call us,though the only
real live Yankee amongst us was Dr.
Wylie. Dr. Aikins and your humble
servant had to swallow the hard name
as best we could, seeing that our
young friend did not know- the dis-
tinction between the citizens of emir
D.ontinion and those who .had the for-
tune 40 be born farther south. There
as nn use in making geegrapnical
l' explanations, I simply said, "thatAilc-
' ins and I intended to annex the coun-
try •Wylde hailed frotn, shortly, and
then we would all' be (Canadians." Wy-,
lie hoped that he nroulcl be present
When, the thing -was done, The course
of the railway. was through a beau-
tiful country 'with the "'Gala water",
flowing through it, which stream we
crossed quite a number of times. 'We
passed the house of the "Laird of
Cockpen," which our ,Scotch friend,
finding •tha't I was fond . of poetry,
pointed out to me. I recited a verse
or two of the ,song, beginning thus:—
"The Laird o' 'Co'ekpen he's protid
and he's great;
His mind is ta'en up w'i' the
• things o' the state;
ITie wanted a wife )his brave house
to keep;
(But favor eve .wooin' was 'fashions
' to seek."
As vee passed on, Borthwick Castle
was pointed out. It is about thirteen
miles from Edinburgh. : It was 'built, in
1430, and is 'a double tower on, the
model of the old .border keep, the
largest stcuicture of the kind in the
kingdeen. It contains a room called
Qucen.Mary'es, on account of that un-
fortunate (Queen taking refuge in it
,shortly after .her marriage to Beth -
well., It .was then, nteneeed by her
enemies and she fled from it in mate
attire, It is 714 feet in length, 08 feet
in 'breadth and ,90 feet in height.' Its.
walls( are of -hewn- s't'one, 1'3 feet thi:dk
near the ground. it was so strong that
it re,sisted.quite a neige by Cram'welil,
and still 'retains -thee marks of his. can -
nen. Rdbertyo.n, the historian, was
'born inthe ntarIse near this eastlee,
'From- this place, :; onward to Gala -
Aids there. was nothing important
pointed out to u5 ,with the exception
of the beautiful "Gala water," and our
Sleotoh 'incept smiling, asked ,;me if. I
couldnt quote something in reference
'to, that stream I said I eou'ld, and
gtttoted the old song of which the fol-
lowigg;is •the first verse:—
"There'e ibraw, 'bra'v lads on Yar-
• row (braes,
That wander through the
bin doll rig hdather,
But, Yarrow braes, nor Ettriicic e
s'ha'ty s
Can :match the lads o' Gala
're (Water,"
• swear,
1 mayentention that the "Gala" is a
,small, stream that rises in',;1v'id-4Lotle-
ion, rues •.south, aril (alis ,into ./the
Tlwe'ed above 'Melrose. . We s'wep't
through "Galas'hie1's-, which we intend-
ed visiting later ear the day, arid:Steen
found ourselves in the pretty toiwn of
Melrose. `]:"histown lies between .the.
'fiver- Tweed and the Elildlot •Hill. It
has a fine railefray sst'ation, a ehydroe
pathic; estalblishmefut, a lunatic asylum
which co'slt £'4'5;000 slte'rliing, three hd-
tells 'and• three churches. With the -ex-
ception o'f the cross, the Abbey is the
only' o',bije'ct Of archaeologi'ca'l •interes't.
The crass stands in the: market plate,
tie sdh'aft riseing,tce the 'height of twen-
ty feet, with'a unicorn on the torp, star
twining - the Royal Arms df Slcoltlaud.
After, examining this ancient relic and
taking a good. drink , of" the water
wiheich flowed from its blase, we fol-
lotwed the crowd down • a narrow
s'tree't, and. soon hound ourselves at
the. Ablbey .gate, and, strange to say.
were allowed to enter without a fee be-
ing deniandeed. "This is different from
the rules of Arttemu,s Ward's shrove,"
I remarked,: to', our American friend,
which was, "You may spay . without
going in, but ye can't go in without
paying." However, They made us pay
here before they let us out. The Ab-
bey, like all 'the churches of the old-
en time, lies east and west. We 'en-
tered on the west and examined it
carefully, first the nave, then the
aisle, then in. order (the south tran-
sept, the tower baee, the choir, -'the
chaucel, the. Borth transept, the .sacris-
ty, and -the "cloisters, ''alter which we
examined. the interior of the fine `old
edifice and the cemetery. We will not
attempt, to dees'crfbe what has been de-
scribed •so -well by Grose and by Bill-
ings, and 'by Sir Walter Scott in his
Monastery, and also in his Lay of
the La;t Minstrel. T will merely men-
tion some things which impressed' Inc
forcibly and put me into a serious
moocl. One thing was that we were
treading an t'he ashes of the mighty
dead of centuries long gone by, for
under these flagstones we are t told
their bones have ntinigle'd with the
earth. Indeed, in the choir and 'the
chancel the graves of many, illustrious
dead were pointed out to us, a print-
ed label showing us the exact Spot.
Amongst these were Alexander I'I,
Kiirg of Scotland, whose ashes lie
under the lisgh altar, James, Earl
Douglass, 'who was slain by Earl Per-
cy at the battle. of Otterburn in 1386,'
Wm. Douglass, the dark Knight of
Liddcsdale, who was slain by a-kens=
man nvhile hunting in Ettrick Sorest,
Michael 'Scott, the Wizard, and the
heart of - Robert the Bruce. As we
stood on the Etat mossy stone; broken
across the middle, which is reported
to be the grave of the famous wizard
or natural philosopher, we thought of
the superstitious times in which lie
lived, when his knowledge was so mis-,
understood that ignorance had trans-
formed him into a wizard. If he had
had the misfortune to be an old WO -
man he would undoubtedly have been
burned for a witch: It is said that the
wizard's magic - books' were 'buried
with hint: The 'following is the de-
seription in "'The lay of the Last Min-
strel":—
"I buried him on St. Michael's
night,
When the bell tolled one and the
moon was bright,
And IT dug his chamber among
the 'dead,
When 'the flow .of 'the Chancel.
was stained red
That his patron's cross might
over lain wave
And scare the (fiends from the
w'izard's grave."
Michael Scott, the wizard of Bal-
wearie,flourished during the thir-
teenth century, and was -one of the.
Ambassadors sent to bring the fair
maid of Norway to Scotland 11Q011 the
death of Alexander PDI, 1290. •He
wrote several works upon the ab-
struse sciences, and passed among his
contemlporiaries for a skillful magic-
ian. His memory survives in many 'e
legend, and in the souibh of Scd'tland
any work Of great labor and antiquity
is ascribed either to the agency of
°(Lull Mi'ch'ael;" "Sir'' William Wal-
lace," ar the( '"devil" these being the
three cleverest men of whom they had
any knowledge.: Boit we now' -passed
on eatd'.stood- .oil the heart of Scot-
land's greatest King. We had stood
'•on the spot in Dunfermline, where
the Brucets 'Wady wets interred and
-had given expression to the solemn
thoughts, wh'ioh crowded our brain eh-
that altspucious oc=casion, \but now we
stand an the very spot wheere the Li-
berator s heart, which beat for Scot-
land, and':Scotland alone, mingled with
the kindred dust of the land he loved
so well.'.Tlhns grand old ruin, wilbb jits
cxlqutilsti'te carving, may well be can-'
sidered a fitting and appr'o'priate mon-
ument for a' heart such as,hvs, lin the
Bruce's lash better to his son, written
about a month belfore his death, he
comlm5111Cied 'that his .theart should be
buried in Melrose Alb'bey:; But strb$e-
quent to that he wished rather that
it inigiilt be sent to Palestine and bur-
ied-
ur-
ied in 'the holy sepulchre. Sir James
Douglas,' entrusted With the - Sacred
deposit, set sail wile a numerous, and
splendid' retin,iie. In 'Slpai h he encoune
tered 'the Searaceu's, and being sorely
pressed., he threw the silver caslquet
contaieing Bruce's heart, amongst: the
thickest of the enemy, saying, "Now
pass t'h'oti onward befere us,, as thou
were wont, and I wilt fo'l'low thee or
die.' Ilia this battle, which ,was
fought in 13311, ''?the good Sir Jantmes"
as he was called, met his' death, !tieing
too brave to retreat, hence he did fol-
low the heart o'f' the Bruce=
followed
it to the shadowy regions Of the dead.
The 'body o'f Douglass was.recovered,
and brought back for burial,' and the.
heart of the master he lo;ved and senv-
ed• so well was interred, agreeably
,with -the former wish of the King, ;un-
der the high altar of Melrose A'b.bey.
After all Scotland, and in particular
the: A'blbey which he had rebuilt; was
a more sulitable resting 'place for the
heart df "King Robert the Bruce,"
than the land of the (Saracen, where'
few, of his grateful countrymen could
elver •visit the Silent heart wh'ic'h had
so long beat for them and thein alone.
His Ibctdy' lies under the pulpit o'f the
Memorial Church in Dunfermline, his
heart vender the high altar of Mel-
rose Ablbey, and his liberty lovin}g
spirit has gone, we hope, to a bright-
er and bel er world than this; where
oppression is unknown and where tyr-
ants can .never enter.
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VEHICLE'S FIGURE LARGELY
PN 'AUTO ACCIeDENT'S
It is difficult to understand how
drivers, expert euou'gh to be in charge
of conn'nercial motor 've'hicles, could.
be 8unvol'ved in over •1,900 accidents, in
one province in one year—yet that is
Ontario's record' for 1931.
(Last year, 110 commercial vehicles
were involved in fatal accidents.
1,088 were involved in accidents in
which 'personal inijnry was sustained.'
These are official ,figures, furnislte,d
by tlae Motor Vehicles (Branch of the
Ontario Department of eHighways.
3t is to be expected that the use of
commercial vehicles in the province
will continue to increase. It is there -
„fore: of the utmost importance that
drivers take warning from lank year's
appaTliig experience,
(And it is' equally inip'erative that
drivers of pleasure cars and pedestri-
ans co-operate in an,, effort to put a
stop to.the senseless, ne'e'dless killing
and (mai:Ling.of humans on Ontario's
streets and high -way's.
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lovely and youthful complexions.
Tones and stimulates the skin. ,Frag-
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dew. 'Swiftly absorbed by the tissues,
making the skin, wonderfully soft -
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DWEN'TY•FIVE YEARS Ol+;,'ON
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TkRIOrS 'MINNINiG'IdISTORX.
A Review of(' Ou'tsandtng Develop-
ments in the. Least Quarter 'af a
'(Century
•
The history of Ontario'smining
le-
dustry for the past twenty -fire years
striking as it'.is .wi'bh reference to nonL
meballres; hs' dominated almost: to the
exclusion olf other considerations by
the dramatic' metai,tninin'g` 'devellep
mel't'of Northern Ontario. Sudbury
1 b. Y
produces 85 to, 90( per cenit. of the
world's nickel, (Cobalt,' in ad'd'ition to
produc'in'g 80 per cent. `•o(f the world's
supply of that metal has been. exceed-
ed: in tetall'sneer 'preelection by only
throe other caenlpls, (Porcupine and
Ki•rkl-and Lake heave raised Canaidia'ato
second place in annualProduction a-
mongst gool'd-1producin'g countries.
!The story- of, this development' is
the sltory of bhe- vast pre-Cantbria-n
shield -that . stretches in a LT -Shaped
!belt around Hiudso'n Bay froth Labra-
dor to the Arctic Ocean. That sihield,
Scarcely 20 per ce-nt. of which has
been geologically explored, has al-
ready given the province its distinct-
ive position in metal -mining. Inc'lu'd-
ing the nickel and -copper of 'Sudbury,
the silver of Cobalt, Gowgand'e and
South Lorrain, the gold of Porcupine
and .Kirkland Lake, the:' region has
pnovided wealth amounting to over a
billion dollars. (Much has been 'writ-
ten albout.this immense area in recent
years. More and more it has attracted
the attention, of the mining world, not
only for its proved' but for its poten-
tial riches. 'It; is the firm opinion' of.
most mining anew that the wealth it,
has produced to datte is ,but an indica-
tion and a suggestio-n of the niches
that future exploration and discovery
may reveal.
(Prior to 1.900, little was knohn of
this nontehern country. (Occasional
survey and exploration parties traver-
sed the region, but travel was confin-
ed to' the canoe roates -by way - of
streams, takes and portages, while the
wide, trackless spruce and jackpine
forest areas back from the water
routes were seldom visited by any one
able to appreciate their mineral possi-
bilities. As the building of the Canadi-
an Pacific railway led to thhhe 'discovery
of the world's greatest nickel deposits
in the (Sudbury area in 1833, so did the
construction of the Teneiskaming and
Northern Ontario rail'weay lead to the
discovery of the fatuous silver depos-
its at Cobalt in 1903 and, indirectly, to
the great gold deposits ,at Porcupine
iu 1909, as well as those at Kirkland
Lake in 1912
The only estelblis'hed centre of min-
ing•. in Northern Ontario 25 years ago
was at Sudbury, which at that time
was a small town; Co'balt in the year
1905 was hardly more than a name:
The rich gold campsat,1orcup•ine and
Kirlcl'and Lake were undreamed of. As
a direct result of prospecting and min-
ing development, industrial comn10111
tics - have been, established, railways
have been extended, water powers
parts additional charm to the daintiest have been harnessed arid large areas
of women. Persian Balm is the one have been opened up for settlement,
toilet -requisite for the exacting woln- Now Sudbury is an incorporated city;
an...Peerless as abeautifier,- Cobalt is a considerable community:
Thhe town 01 Timnaina st Porcnpins
bas a population of 1(4,000 and can be.
reached by • ptlllnran car in 20 hours
froth. Toronto. eKlirkland Lake is a
thriving centre, and smaller towns and
il1lageS throughout the area octane the
progressive adlvaics o'f the prospector
the pioneer of the mining ;industry.
Not only has he :been the •forera'nner
of development in Northern 'Ontario,
but the .Provin'ce's experienced pros-
pectors have gone farther afield and
have pioateere,d in Northern Manitoba,
findinfg the Flin Pion' copper deposits
and also in Northwestern Quebec,
where they located'. ' rich auriferous.
coplper occurrences, of which Noranda
is the most famous. •
It is the'nosh ec'tor who is the true.
P P
pioneer as lie is the backbone of the
mining industry: To Beim, Ontario
owes: its place in the metal -,mining
world and the Provincial De.p(arkmeint
of Miners has been .keenly conscious of
his value. At best his life is an ard-
uous one, but the past 25 'years have
seen a great intlprolvement .in his gen-
eral circumstances. (The, day when
prospectors travelled in ,pa'i'rs by can-
oes to dista'nit, places has almost pas-
sed. lThe paddle has been d'tlslplaced
largely by the "kicker” or outbound
motor. Remote and alm'ost,in'accesiblle
areas are now readily reached by aer-
oplane in a fraction of the time form-
erly required. All these aids have
speeded rip exiplorat'i'on work, and the
Go'vernmen't has been cons'tan'tly act-
ive on the prospector's behalf, as on
behalf of the industry.
Follotwing the report and recant-
menciafion .of the Royal Commision
instigating the mineral resources of
Ontario, a Bureau of Mites was es-
taehlishee,d in '1691 "to aid in promoting
the mining interests of t'he Province"
At first the Bureau wasunder the.
Crown Lands Department, and later
it became a (branch of the Department
of Landes, Forests, and times. In the
year 11920, realizing the industry's
growth and importance, the Provin-
cial Government established, a, separ-
ate Department o'f Mines witch a Min-
ister of eines in charge, and the title
of Bureau was changed to that of De-
partment. It assists the industry in
many ways. A Provincial Assay Of-
fice is located in 'Toronto, at which
prospectors are entitled to have a cer-
tain number of free assays made, and
there is a testing laboratory and samp-
ling works at Cobalt.' At the latter,
ore is sampled and provision is made
for the purchase of shipments of gold
ore from .prospectors and small oper-
ators. (Where required, tests are
made and advice given as to the best
method of - treatment of particular
ores. !Blue prints showing the claims
in good standing are supplied at nom -
heal cost. 'Prospectors' classes are
held in the mining centres during the
winter months. At these instruction
is given in "mineral spotting," ele-
mentary chemistry, and geology; and
popular 'lectures are delivered, illus-
trated with slid -es, on mining and geo-
logical to -pies. Assistance is given by
the Government in trail -cutting and
road -building in /new mining areas
and where possible, branches of the
Government railway (T, and N.O.)
are built to provide important and per-
tlanent eamps'wltla transportation fa=
cilfties.
Devclopmeti'ts Ill• he 'Geolo'gicai
Brandt ha=ve lceipit-paset w^fth the other
pi-oigressivve activitie's of the Depnart-
inert. 1Previous to 1.902, all geological
work for wi-ia't w'as' then) tile Bierman
of Mines was performed by Univers-
ity Profes,sor..s who were engagedfor
the summer season, Geological, maps.
covering Ontario areas were publish-
ed
by the oui ton Geological Sur-
vey.
u -vey.
Itwas not untie Dr, W. G, Mil:'
ler was attached to the Bureau in 1902
as provin'cial geologist Cleat the per-'
manent character of the branch was
established. No'w it has a permanent
staff of four geologis'ts and employs
each year a number of teenporary men
for fiend work. IVVhen new discover-
ies of importance are reported, the
Department, where possible, sends' a '
geologist into the field at once to
make a preliminary report, Where
aeroplanes are available they are used
to reach : remote areas, and this ser-
vice has ,greatly extea'ifed the length'
of the field season. The geologist no
longer prepares his own ,neap for the
printers as he did in the early days of
the survey. ;The Department to -day
has a regular ,neap -making Ibranch, and
mapping is done by a staff of expert
cartographers for ,ph'o'to -lithe repro-
duction,
The discovery of Cobalt and the
mapping Of the silver areas was the
beginning of a year-to-year campaign(
of exploration of mineralizatian areas
of Northern On'tario. This work has
steadily inlcreased until in 19311 eleven
geologi'ca'l parties were sent out, and
reports, with maps of most of the
areas, will be pu'blis'hed. Practicelly
the -whole of the pre -Cambrian geol--
ogy of northeastern Ontario has now
been mapped as well as many sections
of northwestern Ontario. This works
has been invaluable to the prospector
and the m'in'ing industry generally. •iia
addition to the 'mapping of metallifer-
ous areas, the Department has one
geologist who has specialized in rock
formations later than the preaC'ambri-
an, so that the geological possibilities
of Paleozoic and more recent depos-
its, as those near James Bay, can be
properly studied.
Among mining risen Ontario's min-
ing law is considered one of the best
in the world. '(ands and minerals be-
long to the Province and are granted
in fee simple, or leased for a term of
years in the case of Provincial For-
ests; consequently title is unassailable.
D'isputes acisiug between individu-
als, or between an individual and the
Crown, are adjudicated first, by the
local \lining Recorder, or on appeal,
by the Judge of the Mining Court of
Ontario. The 'procedure leading to
trial is simple and expeditious. This
arrangement avoids the cumbersome
delays and heavy expenses of the or-
dinary law courts. Another provision
of The Mining Act clothes the Judge
of the 'Mining Court, with power to
grant rights and easements over other
lands required 111 mining operatlons,
such as the right to construct ditches
and flumes, to discharge, drain or di-
vert water and to store and take water
to establish rights of way for roads,
(Continued on page 2)
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