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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1924-10-30, Page 7She has open and With lace,.'' rat. Her. real lady; of charge' embosee4 ;e at tete I';• you the). send tee, Doll by, s,ntee the not gold,,' the great? shelter& .eding o Lich force n identia laton Eggs ahead. ITED QUEBEC as. ititiea 3t. E , Ont. ri PO 2se CENTRAL CANADA'S FUEL PROBLEM Alberta One of the Possible Sources of Supply--ProductionSupply--Production and Transportation Questions. Ane of the possible, :sources of a Canadian coal supply for Ontario and Quebec is the province of Alberta and • it is with the possibilities and prob slam- of this source that the present article deals, , Alberta has immense resources of coal. The problem is how to get it to far away Ontario and Quebec as a cost low enough to .;enable it to compete with coal from the nearby United States. In fact, the province contains seventeen. per cent. of the coal re- aources of the world, and about eighty per cent. of the coal resources of Can- ada. D, B. Dowling, of the Geological Survey of Canada, in "The Coal Re- sources of the Worild,""has estimated that - Alberta contains! an actual re- serve of aver 386,000 million tons and a probable reserve of . about 674,000 . million tons. This makesa total re - ;serve for the province of considerably over 1,000,000 million tons.. A close geological study of the Drumheller are, oneof the principal producing areas of Alberta, shows thatit alone will be equal to the needs of many future generations. The yield, it is estimated, will amount to ap- proximately 1,200 tons per acre foot with an aggregate of ten feet of work- able coal over at least 6,000 acres. Geolopists estimate the reserve amounts to nearly 100 million tons. With reserves such as, these, it may be confidently predicted that coal min- ing in Alberta is only in its infancy, The industry began in 1881 when coal 'was ` dug from the baks of the river at Lethbridge. A little latera mine was •. opened, at Anthracite on the main line of the C.P.R. from which coal was ob- tained for the use of locomotives and boilers in connection with the .heavy construction work encountered in .building that railway through the Rocky Mountains. Prom this small be- ginning the industry has grown till to- day there are 380 mines in operation, producing in the neighborhood of 6,- 000,000 tons per -annum, and giving em- ployment to over 6,500 persons. The :problem of the industry in. Al- berta has been to find markets for the large tonnage which it is possible to • produce. - Post war, conditions and la- bor troubles in the United States of recent years have' so increased the cast of United States anthracite, the fuel: which . has until lately almost monopolized. elle.. market- In .. Central' Canada, that an opening was created for the Alberta product In this popu- t ions area. Experimental ship-nients s Were made: to- Ontario and the public was convinced that Alberta coal . was a most desirable domestic fuel,'Freight t 'rates were -high, however, and .the n coal from Alberta to Ontario' to $7 •a ton iaan effort to encourage and popu- larize its use east of the. Great .Lakes. - The oontinuation of this low rate, it was intimated, was conditional on the i operators likewise reducing their rates in order to extend the market. Un - 'fortunately, production costs due to the large number of mines operating only a part of the year, and the ease with which new mines can be opened when demand increases, have always been comparatively high,' This season further complications have been in- jected into the problem by serious la- bor troubles. In the Drumheller dis- trict, for instance, the output for Mareli was only 35 per cent. of normal. Of 22 mines only 3 worked continuous- ly and these were forced to clogs for two or three days per week during the first three months of the present year. In District No. 16, one of thelarge pro- ducing, .districts in Alberta, the oper- ators claim that wages amount to 65 per cent, of the total cost of produc- tion. The result has been that, due to these causes and also in part to the short season during which the mines are operated, high production costs have continued. This situation has given United States coal a chance to enter even the market west of the Great Lakes, a market in .which Western Canadian coal gained supremacy during and im- mediately after the close of the war. This area, which now imports around 2,000,000 tons annually, is a natural preserve for Alberta and Western Can- ada coal. United States coal interests, however, are making a strong bid for it, and they have the advantage not only of being highly organized but al- so of favorable transportation to the head of the lakes in boats returning there for cargoes of grain. When the navigation season is closed by winter this coal is hauled west from Port Ar- thur and Fort William as return freight in grain ears that would other- wise have to return empty. While Alberta has all the natural fa- cilities for developing a large and pro- fitable coal inining industry it is ap- parent that some -radical changes will have to be made in organization before the industry comes -into its own. Over- development is probably the chief trouble to -day, and some system is needed for regulating the opening up of new nines. until there is an assured market for their product. The produc- ive capacity is four times the demand, o there is a problem also of getting more markets.. The Central Canada market together with the one west of he Great Lakes are natural; selling e1ds, and there are prosiieotsµ-too for eveloping :a; market in,Vancouver'and Seattle far bunkering" of , grain ' cargo ships. • As, soon•,as Alberta coal can be placed on these markets on a sound economic basis• there is Iittle doubt there will be an effective demand. u ,was efiiid'`It'compete .-With• .el Ignited States anthracite' when condi- tions aceeced• the•border became; nor- mal. - Last year the Canadian National JAailways.cut their rate temporarily on. COMPASS' DOES 'NOT I POINT NORTHJ The . magnetic: _compass has been 'used ler' more than. 6Q0 years and to- day is ..more widely employed than ever before; i.Sy miners underground, "by explorers, .travellers, hunters, trap- pers, prospectors, pioneers, timber • Cruisers and others overland, by navi- '�gators on •the seas;. • and by airmen gh above the earth. With this small, 'delicate, restless instrument they are enabled to tell direction. Yet contrary to . popular belief the magnetic com- pass :does not point 'due' north; 'but rre or less eastward or westward of at ,different places. At Halifax it trutstwenty-two degrees , west of • eth,; at , Vanoouver twenty-five de - east of north, while at Fort Mc- Berson, on the Mackenzie riverL With- in tize'Aretf¢,:,cirdle,-h !mints forty-four .4slgrees east of north. Scientists state that this- is because the magnetic poles of the earth are' not situated at the igeographioal,, pole lis shown on our Ztspee-ef the world. Changes From Year to Year. T}ie eroblen1 of' the compass is still further complicated by -the fact that it ahanges -rte direction from -year to ':year, ; it marches to the westward for many years, then turns backward and rnarches - to the eastward, then re- vers,e.s again and marches to the west- ward, etc. Moreover, its very confus- ing -behaviour is quite different in dif- ferent places Whether this is caused by a shifting of the magnetic poles, by changes within the earth itself, or by some influence of the sun :or planets, scientists have not yet been able to iieternin e. Surveys Necessary. In order that the compass may be lifted with reliance, therefore, the: dif- islrent countries of the world carry out Magnetic , surveys to pleasure its exact direction, and supply the information to thepublic in the forth of magnetic snaps Owing to the oo,atinual shift- ing or "march" of the compass, as it Is called, the Work accomplished by. a magnetic survey would become obso• - lete helms, proper corrections are ap- plied; so this mardii is measured at certain points and the work corrected aoeordingiy from, time to time. 1 Canadian Survey One of Largest, Thio informatlonyis partioularly valu- able. in such a large new country a1 1 Canada, and it is therefore interesting to note that Osie of flip largest snag; petit •surveys lYi Cho '' The Earl of Beauchamp has been elected leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords- to succeed Viscount Grey of Fallowdon, who resigned the post :.recently because of ill -health, made in this country by the Topogra- phical Survey of Canada whose field parties cover such wide areas on their land surveys. The cost" is very slight because these measurements take but a minute or two and are made during spare nonients in the land surveys. The magnitude of the work aoconp- listed since it commenced in 1880 is shown by the fact that nearly 20,000 of those measurements have been made already and . maps published, showing the results, for compass us-ers. Great Minds Think Alike. Pat had been hurt. It ivasn't much lucre than a scratch, but his employer, with visions of being obliged to keep him for the rest of his life, sent hen to a hospital for examination. The doe - tor said: "As subcutaneous .abrasion is not observable, I do tot think there is any, reefer to apprehend teguinental cica-! trizattion of the wound," "Ah,'' said Pat in relief, "ye took the Very words out of me mouth." Baby Seale Fear Water. Baby seals are afraid of ,water, d lave to learn to swirl by repeated of-. Cadet Rumbold, eleven years old, is the youngest sailor cadet in the British Isles. The young lad is shown being initiated into the art of splicing on board H.M.S. Worcester. Old Times. There are no days like the good e. days— •he days when we were youthful! When humankind were pure of mind, And speech and deeds were truthful. efore a love for - sordid gold " Became man's ruling passion, And before each dame and maid be- came Slave to the tyrant fashion! Canadian' Wheat and Flour. 3'+ The,remar'kable development of the demand for flour in the Far Eastern markets and 'Its, satisfaction by th shipment of Canadian wheat and flow through Vancouver, constitutes in the view of the London Times a grave-dan ger to the British food supply. ,In editorial the Times notes that where as in 1922-23 there were exported through Vancouver alone 770;000 bushels' of wheat to China and 2,610,- 000 bushels- to Japan, in the following year exports ea China had increased to' 5,206,000-Imehels and. to Japan to 7,058,000 bushels. During the same period exports; of flour' had increased from 99,00;0 barrels to. 302,000 barrels to Bong Dong, and from -270,000 bar- rels to 504,000 barrels to China. Re- viewing the -.population figures, the Tines continues: "It is clear that there is nothing in- herently .improbable in a further ra- pid increase of the demand for wheat and. flour in .the Chinese market in the near feture, ` and it is equally clear thatsucb a demand tube be met from a surplus' prodeetion for which these islands ccnipete. The development of modern milling in Shanghai and other partsfinChina in recent years has ben amazieg, and' it costs less to bring wheat to;• Shanghai. across, the Pacific than from the' northwestern province of China. This year the late ness ofthe e rr_' p In Western Can- ada will probably result in the exporta- tion of a larger. portion through Van- couver ' than- through Montreal by water. It would not be right to de- clare the situation is alarming, but no one ...who looks to.. the future:rather than at the iin nediate present, can fail to recognize that if this country is compelled to continue to import four- fifths of its wheat requirements, it is, impossible to, view,•without anxiety the development of, ataimportant competi- tion for the : surplus supplies which are now available." There are no girls like the good old girls-- Against the world I'd stake 'em, As buxom and smart and clean of heart As the Lord knew how to make 'em. They were rich in spirit and common- sense, And piety all supportin'; They could bake and brew, and had taught school, too, And they made such likely courtin There are no boys like the good old boys, When we were boys together;. When the grass was sweet to the brown bare feet, That dimpled the laughing heather. When the peewee sung to the summer dawn, Of the bee in tie billowy clover, Or down by the milL,the whip-poor-wil;l Echoed his night song over. There is no love like e the good old lou e— The love that mother gave es, We are old, old men, yet we pine again For that precious grace, God gave. us! So we dream and dream of the good old times, And our hearts grow tenderer, fonder, Aa those dear old dreams bring sooth- ing gleans Of heaven away off yonder. Eugene Field. Foolhardy. "Owing to a severe storm the surf was so dangerous that the authorities forbade bathing from the beach. The young woman, however, a strong and courageous swimmer, insisted on put-, Ling on her bathing suit and entering the Water. She was caught in the un- dertow, swept out to sea and drowned." So reads the newspaper dispatch, "How many fine young men and women, now dead, would be alive to -day if good swimmers were as ready to use their reason and common sense as they are. to display their strength and Courage! A Sharp Answer, "The difference between a woman and a glass," remarked the funny man, "is that theglass reflects without speaking, while a woman speaks with- out reflecting. "And the difference between you and. a glass;" said the sharp girl, "is that the glass is polished.". No serviceable tooth should be pull- ed until' after a consulltetion between dentist and physician, according to the theory of a professor of an Am- erican University, e r long been renowned for the large num- ber of moose that have been secured n- there. So are many other parts of our north country, especially in the - Rivire a Pierre, Riviere Vermilion, Peribonca, Lake St. John, and Sague- nay districts, Chicoutimi is also the centre of a first-class moose and cari- bou country, and so are the head- waters of the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers. Moose are plentiful in the forests along the St. Maurice river and the line of the National Transconti- e. CANADA'S Big:CA B RES—OURCES International Meeting ,indicat es the' Dominion's Fortunate Position—Distribution of Game a in Quebec. That Canada was one of the moat for- tunate countries in regard to her re- sources in big :game and all that this means for the health of the whole people was brought out at the recent meeting in Quebec of the Internation- al Association of Game, Fish and Con- servation Commissioners. At this meeting of the association, of which Mr. J. 13, Harkin, Commissioner of Canadian National Parks, Department of the Interior, was elected president, delegates attended from many parts of the continent, and Canada's pre- eminence in big game was stressed. Much valuable work was done in the exchange of views and in the reach- ing of decisions which will lead to the stx'sngthening and harmonizing of game laws throughout North America. One of the most informative papers was that of Mr. J. A. Bellislle, Super- intendent of Game and Fisheries far the province of Quebec, who in the course of his address on "How Quebec Protects its Game" spoke of the dis- tribution of game in that province. While Mr. Bellisle dealt only with Que- bec Ws paper gave an idea of the great resource Canada has in game in the forested portions of the different pro- vinces. Following are extracts taken from Mr. Beliisle's paper:— "The Lake Edward country has Fortune .From.a Wink. Jackie Coogan, the infant prodigy of the film world, , Was discovered by Charlie Chaplin on the platform of a Pennsylvania railway station. Chaplin was walking up and down waiting for a train when he was struck by th piquant face of the child. As hg looked at him admirably the small boy suddenly and gravely winked at him. His intensegravity and self-passeseion decided' Charlie Chaplin that Jackie must be secured for the films at once. Jackie Coogan's first appearance was to Chaplin's six -part flim, "The Kid.,, • 0 Wasting Energy. Kit's mother is a keen motorist, and as a result Kit,:,though only three, is familiar with all sorts of motoring terms. The other day the cat was lying perring loudly outside the front door. Kit stooped to, pat, him, and turning to his mother said, earnestly: "Pussy ought to shut off the engine, oughtn't be, niuminy, when he's stop- ping ou*side a house?" �1::I%:s�:fin•\'$.i'Y6?.,n4:,h,4�nu.,'�,.:lti'�•��:v"•�Y.:}R.:, Ati �''„' �•` 4” T.l:.£a.. y...:':4..�•, .4 \i.s,., •w ee 'i ronton bre now bean ranted the "Holl wood" ,f Cs i:? On - forts. 'When once they have been y r i iia since the On- tario government has established a motion icture bureau there. Here i . tiro taught to swim, however, ,they soon p e s forget to walk. , i studio, which is fully equipped for film work, nental Rttilwayx west of the Lake, tzt John country, "As to the Ottawa district and its endrmous book country, the Mattawa, Kipawa and Timiskaming regions, it may be said that moose, caribou and deer are all found there. Partridges-, wild ducks and wild geese also abound in their seasons:. All the country watered by the Dumoine and Megan- asibi and neighboring rivers is full of large game, constituting a phenomenal hunting ground, In .the Mattawa des- trict; big game is not as plentiful as it once was; but there is more of It far• ther north, in and about the Kipawa country. • "On the south side of the St, Law. rence red deer are plentiful in almost every part of the Eastern Townships, where any wild forest land remains, and also in the counties- of Nicelot, Latbiniere, Beauce, Dorchester, Belle. cheese, Montmagny, l'Islet, Kamour aska and parts of Temiscouata, as well as in .the wilder portions of Compton and Megantic. "Almost the whole of that part of the southern portion of the province of Quebec, adjacent to the state of Maine, is an unsettled wilderness, and is full of big game. Many moose as well as red deer,, roam the forests of Beaute and around Lake Megantio, Moose are wonderfully plentiful in the Temiscouata country, as well as in Montmagny and Rimouski, and im• mense numbers of them ream undis. Curbed over thousands of square miles , of virgin forest, in the heart of the Gaspe peninsula. Here they find a safe asylum in the Gaspesian Forest, Fish and Game reserve, while thous. ands of caribois find a fairly secure retreat in the forests along the Pate. pedis and about the headwaters of the Matapedia in the interior of Rimouski and Matane, as well as at the head. waters of the rivers flowing into Gaspe Basin." According to Plan. Although it was rather late in the year, it was a warm, fine day on the sands, and the three little boys were very happy with their spades and buckets, each intent on his own par- ticular piece of work. They had organized a kind of com- petition between them. This morning they agreed that each should build a model of a motor car. One of them had piled and patted and cajoled the sand into a resemblance of a racing car, another had constructed, with fair success, a touring ear. But the third little -fellow's construction was without shape or form. "What sort of a, car isas' ours?" y ked a passer-by, who was taking an in- terest in the proceedings. The boy made no reply. "Yours looks like two or three cars all together," he was told. "Yes;" answered the little chap loftily, "That's just what it is. Mine's a collision." Hammer StIUI-In Use. "An old Greek philosopher says the invention of music was brought about through the sounds made by ham - Mem." ! "Undoubtedly true. The girl who i gave him that idea is still hammering i away in the apartment right next to I ours!" Interesting Data on Ottawa Valley Quake. Earthquakes are, fortunately, al most unknown in Canada. One occurs from time to time along the St. Law. rence river below Quebec and o0 casionally, but more rarely, a tremof is felt in British Columbia. In the 01 tawa valley very slight shocks hap pen every three or four years and such an earthquake was felt by many persons in that valley on the evening of July 14 last. The shock was recorded on the leis' mograph at the Dominion Observartory, Ottawa, the first preliminary tremor beginning at ten minutes and nineteen 'aecands after seven p.m., eastern stand. and time and continuing until seven. fifteen. As usual in such cases the seismologic Division of the Dominion Observatory sent out questionnaires to the postmasters in those sections of the country Iikely to be axeeted but the mas of data received in reply to the five hundred forms mailed has not yet been completely worked up. No damage was done at any point. The results to date from the ques- tionnaires indicate that the epicentre of the quake was near the Ottawariver and in that section bordered by the county of Renfrew, Ontario. They show that the "fault line" or line of weakness, lies along the Ottawa river and also along the valley of the Gati- neau. The noise phenomenon was pan titularly marked- and seemed to indi- cate that the quake moved from south- west to northeast in many cases. Snakes as Barometers. According to an old weather super- stition rain is foretold by the appear- ance and activity of snakes. Stories About W ell -Known People The Embarrassed Judge. , chronic singleness has not been Here is a story of Lard Darling In the days when he was Mr, Justice Darling:— The famous judge was in a train which had halted at a wayside station. A man came up to the carriage door and asked if he were addressing Mr. Justioe Darling, On being told that he was, he said: "Oh, we have a kind of connection with you. You sentenced niy father to death not long ago" The judge murmured some words of re- gret. "Not at all," said the man. "Father was a. dreadful man, He mur- dered our mother." "Dear mel" said the judge; "a ter- rible tragedy for you all." "Not at all," said the other again. "itother treated us all shamefully. In fact, wrong as it was, it solved a great many problems for us." A Great Find. Most people know what great in- terest Lord Cowdray took in the search for oil wells in Brltain, The engineer in charge of one of the bor- ing parties sentLord Cowdray a bot- tle of crude oil to be analysed. Lord Cowdray gave the bottle to a maid to take to an analytical chemist. 13y; mistake the girl picked up the wrong bottle. .Soon afterwards the engineer rel ceived this. wire; "Congratulations., Your Your fortune is made, You have struck paregoric!" • Probably "ilio most famous bachelor of today Is 'Lord Baifour, • wino iter per sistently shunned matrimony, in spt+�o et ruinor''s. efforts to couple his name i with that of solne fair lady. The"' Making Balfour Blush. without its amusing side. Once, when he was Mr. A. J. Balfour, he was stay- .tug at a hotel when a postcard was brought to him. It read. "Baby going on nicely. I really think she has grown since you left." He blushed deeply and felt very em- barrassed—until it was discovered that there was. another A. J. B. among the guests. Trials of Portralt-Painters, There are tines when•the most sac- cessful porti-alt-painters feel a loath - i ing for their craft. Millais!, though he I made a point of having four months' holiday out of the twelve, could earn I $200,000 a year, Yet he told a friend that he detested portrait -painting, "It is killing work to an artist who is sensitive. You have only yourself to please in other pictures, In por- traits you have also to please the site ter and the sitter's friends and rela- tions." Mr. Sargent, who has received as map as $50,000 for a single portrait, declared some years ago that he would paint no more portraits and for a period clung to this resolve, "Some sitters get on nay nerves so intensely;" be says, "that I have to retire every now and then behind 'a screen, and put out my tongue to re- lieve my feelings!" Portraits, which the .critics admire may fail to please the original, a 'Why Is uty face so rod I loo!e as if I had been drinking," ootnplaiueci' Can clfval planning, on seeing liispor4,rait by Millais—one of the tines1 portratiits in the world, according to Pord 111adex Proven,