Zurich Herald, 1922-11-16, Page 7" ? i�j��aa''1���!A®ap�T1 ► ibut a remarkable revolution has utile-
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�.et f.;', , ; OD.�JC I �, en place,' and ttuturo prosspeats are
aright indeed. New • scoveries over
se ori" a wi d w di
4v' I O INI N I a 'wide area imave prayed the continued
li existence of ;flue mineral in Canada,
RECEIVED. NEW IMPETUS
DURING 1922.
New Discoveries Have Been
Made Over a Wide Area and
Prices Are Increasing.
Canada has in 1922 been experienc-
ing a uve•t; setive mining year, and
there is no longer any doubt but that
producttou lagures at the end of the
twelve months will, show eubstantially
increased production in: •practically all i
minerals': Particularly gratifying, in
view of the decline of recent years, is
e,ilver, which, indications are, will re-
cord a considerable increment over
the Canadian output for some time.
Improved conditions'In silver mining, C
higher prices for silver and the lower
costs of labor and supplies have pre-
•sent+ed an opportunity for the profit-
able mining ofthis• mineral which has
not existed for some time.
This activity in silver mining is "fair
ty general in the Dominion in those
.areas wheels silver is found. The ell-
, ver
l -
ver production of the Ontario mines
has to date been very substantially in
excess' of 1921 and years baek for.
some time. British Columbia's silver
.output in 1922 will be the highest on
record, 'according to accomplishment
thus far: Recent developments augur.
the status of a big industry, for the
Yukon in ether mining, and the area
has inthis respect, received,. a new
lease, of life. Notable discoveries
were made .in 1921 and several hun-
dred claim* istakedi. This summer
there is much silver mining activity
in the Keno Hill district.
Since the &minion commenced
keeping production records in 1862,
Canada has produced $265,292,685
worth of silver, fa—Which, total the Co-
, bait camp in :Ontario has' contributed
more than $200,000,000. Canadian sil-
.. ver production in .1921 amounted to
18,330,357 fine 'ounces, worth $15,100,-
685, of whieih, 9,877,465 ounces are at-
tributed, to the Cobalt area. Other
producers. in 1921~were—Quebec with
57,737 ounces,; British Columbia with
2,806,079 ounces the Yukon with 303,-
1317
.03;617 ounces; and Manitoba with 28
of ices, The pinnar{ml£i of Canadian
Oliver production .was. reached in 1910,
... „when 32,869,264 ounces valued at $17,-
355,272 were prodeced, and the output
of 1921 was' a minimum since the time
when the. Cobalt area. became a factor
in production. • •
British Columbia a Strong Factor
Previous to',the dis,coveiy - f silver
n the Crtbalt area• in 1903..tThe Pro-
;
vince of `13titis'h Colunible was, the first
factor in ;the Dominion's, annual pro-
duction of this mine:'nl, the output of,
`this province reaching an aggregate of
5,151,333 ounces., valued at $3,036,711,.
in 1901". ''The Yukon at the beginning
of the century was an important pro-
ducer with 195,000 ounces -worth $114,.
853, in the same year. Ontario at that
timet was producing 151,400 ounces
and Quebec 41,459 ouneesi- ~
• The building of the Temiskaning
and. Northern Ontario Railway into
Northern: Ontario uncovered rich sil-
ver deposits in „1903, and straight-
away the new area began to develop
into Canada's first silver area and the
richest producing silver camp in -tire
world. Production from the region
about Cobalt commenced in 1904,
bringing the province's production" of
silver for that year -up to 206,875
ounces from 17,7.77. ounces the pre-
vious year. Production in the follow-
ing year amounted ,to 2,451,356, and
thereafter practically doubled each
succeeding year, reaching its aggre-
gate in 1911 with 30,540,754 ounces.
Since- that time there has been a
gradual dwindling down to the mini-
mum of 9,877,456 ounces in 1921.
Nevertheless' the Cobalt area con-
tinues. to produce one ten of silver
bullion every 24 h'ours'. For more
than. fifteen yearsnot a twenty -four-
hour period has gone bybut the
minesehave produced at least a ton of
salver, and three tons per day was
common in the banner days of the
Camp.
Production Outlook Excellent
Thle -Province of British Columbia
has, been a fairly steady slaver pro -
deicer since the beginning of the cen-
tory, flu•ctuatione being very slight
over the two decades. which have
elapsed sine that time. In 1901 this.
province accounted for . 5,151,333
ounces.; in 1905 for 3,439,417 ounces';
in 1910 for 2,407,887 *tuxes; in 1915
for 3,565,852 ounces'; and in 1.920 for
3,158,707 ounces, The decline in 1921.
ie expected to be well nade:.:up by
the great aetiv+vty prevailing in
British . Columbia• .silve.r camps this
year;
At time same time Quebec has been
making a fairly consistent elect in pro•.
duction, taming from. 41,459 ounces tn'
ate beginning of the century to 60r
874 ounces' in 1920, and exhibiting but
slight decline :l ' the ;depression of
1921, The Yukon Territory, on the
contrary, up to the time of they nee,
esealiscoveries' and •oonsiequesut develop
' ., aen't, has steadily declined, and, train
195,000 ounces In 1901 drooped to an
output of 16,164 'ounces, civ 1921. Ship,
nnenn is 'emanating from new diac0V.
cries in 1921 'gave it a record peedtio.
too. 0f the surprising total of 39$,617
ouncea surpassing its previous beet
year, when 3640,101 emcee were smelt -
Conditions in Canedien silver; inlnr
ing have been dull over recent yearn, an' I'll not stand -11."
.and better prices and working condi-
tions have initiated much development
with . profitable 'expeotationa There
is every reason to believe that the en-
hanced production figures in sight at
the end..,of 1922 farm only a single'
step in many gradients aseendtng to
a new record,
Where Are the Amateurs?
There was a time, especially in the
eighteenth century, when every gentle -
Man .was able to carry his part in a
glee, a madalgal, or a pant song, Many
of them played some solo instrument
well enough to be able to do their
parts in a chamber quartette. And
what has become of these amateurs?
Doubtless not all of these :gentlemen
played or eang in, a manner to satisfy
profese,iontal criticism. But right there
is the rub. We have allowed profess
sfonalisnn sio to pervade our thought
that we want to measure everything
by its standards, We must be pro-
fesslonala or remain forever . mum so
far as the musical expression of . our
souae go. In those olden days the
amateur, the real lover of music, join-
ed his voice or instrument in the ren-
dering of well written compositions,
and in so doing imbibed a wonderful
amount of soul culture. He possessed
an accomplishment that was a source
of real. heart development.
Where are^'tlie amateurs? Shall we
remain in a state far surpassed by our
great great grandfathers?
Be a real amateur. Sing, play, lend
your voice or effort to some musical
enterprise, 1f .it be but stinging in: a
local chorus or dburch chair. Stick
at it and grow with pactice into larger
things: Do your best in a small way
and the larger will develop. If you do
nothing, more than develogp a love and
appreciation for the good and beauti-
ful in
eautiful.in art, you will have added a large
fund of real joy to your life.
A Quick Irish Tongue.
The Irish. are said to be lucky. Per-
haps their luck is owing, in part at
least, to their quick wits and :quick'
tongues•. At any rate a guick Irlsh
tongues has many a time :saved its own-
er much embarrassment. Sometimes
indeed a quick_•tongue will save other
things., mord substantial than ember
rassmeift. For example, Mrs. Flaherty
—who certainly is: Irish—was s leaning
against her gatepost when a borrow-
ing neighbor approached her and
suavely inquired, "Will ye be using
your, wash bailer this. morning,. Mrs.
Flaherty?"
In a ton's and manner entirely polite,
butno less derisive, Mrs. Flaherty re-
plied, "I' will not;. nor you ayt'hier!"
Years ago ;two boys; one;. of whom
was quite as Irish as 'Mrs.. Flaherty,
accompanied a neighbor on a wagon
trip to a - town -that' neither boy had
ever visited. Upon arriving, the two
walked about the= -streets shyly until
tihey.finally found courage to enter a
store. Only two persons'; both sales-
men., were inside.
Seeing few objects that were famil-
iar, one of the boys inquired awkward-
ly, "What do you sell here?"
"Poole," replied one of the .salesmen.
"Well," remarked the Irish boy
cheerfully, "ye must have been having.
a big sale lately, for I see ye have only
two left."
A Dam of Living Yaks.
The way in which Dr. Albert. L. Shel-
ton, a missionary, and a party of Ti-
betans crossed one of the swollen
rivers near Drays was surely pictur-
esque and ingenious: In Pioneering in:
Tibet Dr: Shelton gives an interesting
description of the crossing:
The Tibetan had brought down
from the mountains perhaps, a hundred
yaks, which they drove into the river.
By throwing stones' at the beasts the
mean forced them into a line across the
river with their heads upstream. The
animals ,held their own as best they
could against the force of the flood;
when, as occasionally happened, a yak
was forced back by the current, the
people on the bank would drive it for-
ward to its place with stonest
The yak h'e'lped to break the force of;
the rushing stream, and we swans
across immediately at •their'taile while!
they held their position, with Weld
hind feet and their noses sticking out
of the water. Although it was August,
the frost had already conte, and the
water was exceedingly cold; we were
chilled to the bone before we got
across. However, no ane was drowned,
and after we had changed our clothes
on the opposite bank we continued to-
ward Draya.
He Was Safe.
A man who was once talking with
the late Sir Moses Montefiore at a re-
ception, found the conversation s'o, en-
tertaining •that he completely forgot
the race of his, companion and made
same uncomplimentary remark about
the Jewish !feature '.;of a lady who was
passing by. The mhistake was no :soon -
et made than, it was perceived. The
unhappy mean began to apologize pro -
hasty. tis•ely. "I ask a'bhousand pardons. It
Was so stupid of me to forget. I beg
yeti not to devour mer" "Sir," replied
Sir Mose%. "it is impossible, My re,
ligi'on forbids."
Our Touchy Help.
M'istres's--•"ltou needn't get angry,
Bridget, 1 merely ,as'ked you th try and
not snore so loud te,"
ilridgot-=-"It's intei•ferin.' ye are veld
what I do outside ne workita hours
,� x ••ate
h'AshOU:y kfrci i jyiY VvomEN h•UU i BALL PLAY mete)
The Dick -Kerr football teaan, of Preston, England, now touring the United States, who feel offended at the
Dominion Football Aseoeiation for having withdrawn permiesion for a Canadian tour. Out of eight games in the
United States with male -teams they have won four, lost two and drawn two, .In a series of sixty games with Bri-
tish ladies' clubs they have registered ;fifty-nine victories and one draw. Besides many trophies they poss'ess the
medal for the organization baying performed the greatest service for ex -service men in the British Isles. On the
'left is Mlle.. Carmen Bowies, ohanipion javelin -thrower at the Women's Olympiad.
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CAVA A S TOURIST
TRAFFIC INCREASES
PLAYGROUND OF AMERI-
CAN CONTINENT.
Construction and Upkeep of
Good Roads Necessary to :In-
crease of Revenue.
Among tile resources of Canada,
productive of revenue, should be listed
the country's scenic beauty, its his-
toric charm, the wonders of its virgin
freshness ' and such other intangible
assets as combine in attracting a
+purely tourist- and holiday traffic to
its confines. Canada possesses the lave
of many countries rolled into one, with
every kind 'of beauty from the sim 'e
rural charm of the Maritimes to,
rugged., majestic grandeur
Rookies, and epportunities;f
manner of holidaying,
exploitation of her atar
rendering easily a:•cce:
of special beauty,`'
bringing to the''
number of +h'olida
each year. And Ca
this respect . have
developed. •1n her
ests, her lakes, be
ing, her ''pietas;.
French-Onnadian is
fertile prairies, she
traitions capable oif
limited development.
As a result of the greater .ad
ing done by Canadians, and no
that done by returning tourists,
well as conditions arising out of th...
past year showed an increase of 523,-
985
23;985 for the twelve months, an almost
unbelievable increase cf more than
five •hundred per cent. The registra-
tions according to provinces were:
Nova Scotia 223, Prince Edward is-
land 22, New Brunswick 1,826, Que-
bec 43,264, Ontario 537,283, Manitoba
8,020 Saskatchewan 427, Alberta 363,
and British Columbia 25,957.
A Revenue of Over $100,000,000.
Of this total number of visiting
automobiles it is estimated that I'S15,-
074 remained in the country far Iess
than one month and 2,211 for a period
of more than one month and lees than
six months. Allowing for an average
expenditure of $25 a day, including
gasoline and garage charges for the
first class of car and an average
length of stay of seven days, this traf-
fic represents an erpenditure of over
$107,000,000, while the se: and class of
ears on the basis of an expenditure
estimate at $20t per day" for thirty
days. was worth• approximately $1,-
a6,600.
1,-' 6,600. This means that the motor
xaysaof Canada brought in a for-
denue last year of something
0,000. Estimated! on a five
• it means that imp"roved
trm'over twe billion ;dol=
ntry Withouc takire
service r._cy i•crder
elves.
dian tourist, traffic
tantial increases' over
son. It is ,estimated
tourist _;traffic will.
an $12,000,000 to the
ebec alone during the
fail. The estimate is •bas-
ume of 60,000 visiting par-
epresenting approximately 250, -
persons. Quebec confidently antid-
otes .a tourist traffic of one million
people -within a few years, meaning
annual revenue of $50 000 0
war, the past few years have seen a an00 to
practical doubling annually of Can`-'� the province, considering that so far
adieu tourist traffic. "See America the merest possibilities of the traffic
First" has been the popular slogan of
have been scratched. So great is Que-
United �.,r'tatesers, and Canada is being bees attraction that last year traffic
discovere'd.'by increasing numbers as ,to the province accounted for fifty per
the continent's playground. Tourists cent. of the'toal tourist traffic of the
having made the discovery, have re- Doion.
turned to bring their friends with The increase in the tide of holiday -
them next year, and the greatest tit- ars to Canada in the past few years
bute to the multifold attractions of the "cannon be more aptly illustrated than
Dominion as a holiday centre is con- in the swelling volume of'visiting ears
tained in the steadily rising figures of Quebec welcomes annually. In 1915
visiting tourists from the United 3,430 oars camee holidaying in the
States. • province. In 1916 there were 7,581
According to the Department of cars; in 1917, 9,429 cars; in 1918, 9,177
Customs, 617,825 oars entered Canada
for touring purposes during the cal-
endar year 1921. The total : number
for 1920 was only 93,300, so that the
cars; 1919 18,105 cars* 1920 31,918
cars; and in 1921, 41,957 ears, The
average party per car is estimated at
four. Of these parties only 25 per
cent. spent one day in the province,
the remaining 75 per cent. staying two
days and upwards.
150,000 Visitors to National Park.
The same tendency is noted in the
case of the Canadian National Parks,
where tourist traffic is increasing sub-
stantially each year. In 1921 it was
estimated by officers in charge of the
parks that visitors during the season sence of ,discontent is a too k
Home -beeping Youth,
The. Freneh have ne ward iu their
1angua'ge for home. Yet they are a
home -loving people and their pretty
adjective `moaner" indicates ems.
thing for which "borne -keeping" is but
a poor equivalent.•Also a beautiful
line of one' of their poets',
Nai'tre, vivre et mourir slats la mere
x�mais•on,
"to be born, to live and:to die in the
same house," suggests a simple bio-
graphy that; would be l
e rarely applica e
in the United State to -day,
Shakespeare tells ue that
Home -keeping youth have ever homes
ly wits,
But Shakespeare grew up in an Ei g
list. country town, where the yo1'ng
peasant seldom strayed twenty miles
from his own doorstep,•where no rail,
way or automobile ever shrieked, and
no newspaper sowed the seeds of in-
tolerable restlessness, says a writer in
Youth's Companion, Are there . any
home -keeping youth In America to -day?
There are turbid wits, cynical wits,
futile wits, vicious wits enoagh. If.
there are homely. wits, it is lbecause
heaven made them so, and not the
habit of staying at home, Even five
years ago there was roving in abund-
ance. But the vast and tempestuous
movement of the war has unsettled
the whole community. Youth has for-
gotten not only home but even any
continuous abiding place, and has
grafted upon itself the spirit of the
strange old lines of the strange old
poet Donne:
Be then thine own' home and in thyself
dwell;
Inn anywhere, continuance maketb
hell.
The truth is that our young people
need to learn something of stability,
'need to learn that mere ehange is no
remedy for the ills of life. The es-
een sense
totalled 150,700. An analysis of this of the evils of the present. To the
traffic reveals that from 50 to 60 per constitutionally discontented any -
cent. of the travel to the resorts .of where seems better than here. Eager,
the Rockies is from foreign countries, impatient, restless, they mistake what
the total number of foreign visitors to is different for what is better and do
the parks of the Rockies in that year not realize that trial and suffering are
being approximately 50,000. Allowing not confined' to one career of the world
but are distributed all over it with a•
large and impartial liberality.
Try to remember that the charm et
old associations, friendships, habits
may be sorely missed and cannot be
replaced. Happiness and success, in
any sense that counts, He within and
not without. Your life really depends
upon yourself and not upon, your sur-
roundings. You can live it usefully
and profitably among old friends and
neighbors. Why not try?
an average expenditure of $300 for
each foreign visitor, this travel rep-
resents an indirect revenue to the
country of $15,000,000. Capitalized
on a basis of a five per cent. dividend
it means that the mountain peeks
alone are worth $300,000,000 to the
people of Canada, not taking into ac-
count the money - the parks keep at
home by providing Canadians with
unequalled recreation and pleas
grounds or the direct revenue derived
from park licenses, etc., which in the
same year amounted to over $81,000.
The total appropriations for all parks
last year was $720,000, .or the entire
cost of maintenance and development
was less • them one-quarter of one per
cepa•.,the capitalized valasaeforeign
tourist traffic. '`
The total's• en
xp d' store
for .national parks singe' 1896 has been
a little over $5,000.000, or in the 25
years a little more than one-third of
the foreign revenue winch the moun-
tain parks brought into the country
last year.
To maintain and increase this traf-
fic the construction and constant up-
keep of good roads is necessary, and
the Dominion, is endeavoring to make
her expansive domain the equal of
Personal Influence.
There; is a law of spiritual graviatlon'
just as there is a law of physical gra-
vitation. Every person. .influences
other persons for good or for harm,
Otte/vitae influence 'is ° strongest when
the individual is least aware of it:
unconscious actions and carelessly
spoken words often reveal much. An
upright and successful man of affairs
once said:
"When I was a young man facing.
for the first time the temptations of a
great city I used often during the first
months when money and friends were
scarce to walk the streets ofan even=
ing so as, to get away from myself—
to forget my loneliness and my long -
older countries in this regard. To this ing for companionship. I was Looking,
end, in the five-year period ending as everyone is looking,—though often
1924, Federal and provincial govern- he does not know it, for some one
ments are expending the sum of $50; who understood, some one who had
000,000 for this purpose, and et the fought my battle and had woo.
"One evening amid the hurrying.
restless crowd' I heard a voice in front
of me; it was soft and low, and it
thrilled me like a chance strainof
sweet music. The speaker was a
small, elderly woman who was talking
with a tall, gray-haired man, Of what
ehe was saying I caught a few word*
—words' did not matter; it was the
voice that held nie. It spoke to me,
dimly and confusedly perhaps, yet
truly en'ougile of such pain, grief ana
conflict as a boy could have but little
comprehension of; and yet it spoke of
victory proportionate to its cost. ,IA
any eager hope and boyish curiosity 2
passed the couple to get a glimpse of
the woman's face. It was lined and
sad and . at ineffable sweetness; it
quite matched the voice,
"Though I never saw her again, I
have never forgotten. In the weeks
that followed, her voice was with me.
It held me like an unseen hand; it led
nie, and even now after forty years the
influence of it remains."
My Books.
When falls the winter snow I little
care nor yet what cold winds
blow,
For here beside the fire
Are many friends of whom I never
tire;
Jane Austin sits with me
And, oh, what company!.
Or else Brontes make the fireside glow
With their strange spirit, Wordsworth
comes and then
Most lovable of men,
Dear lamming, ah, I've named not
even ten
Of those wits come and go.
When the December of any life shall
come and those that now I love
The best, perhaps --are gone,
I shall not he quite friendless and
alone,
These Baine dear ones eba+li be
Spring, youth and love to nte,
I shala be young' withthein and happy
tno,
expiration of this period doubtless the
grants will be extended to keep pace
with the growing traffic. Each year
additional roads are being opened up,
giving access to fresh points of beauty
and interest, while tourists returning
to their own countries do Canada's
advertising and came back on the fol-
lowing year in the company of others
whom they have fired with a desire to
see Canada's wonders.
Columbus With a Spy -Glass.
The mediaeval painter who in a pic-
ture of the Orucifixion of Christ repre-
a n' d the worst Is yet to C•o n a •rented a Roman saidiem armed with a
blunderbuss must have a descendent
in the British Postoffice Department:
According to an indignant writer in
the "Bulletin de la Societe Astono-
' niique de France," tale English govern-
ment for its possession of Saint Kitts
or Saint Christopher, one of the West
India Islands, has provided a stamp
showing Christcpber Columbus sur
veying the horizon through) a spygiase.
But Christopher Columbus discover-
od America in 1492, while the spy -glass
was not invented until 118 years after-
, ward. But what a joy that stamp must
be to collectors:!
) `p
IKnows His Capacity,
. : A Scotsman had been invited to a
dinner party and late in the everting
t� i was discovered by the hostess in a
i y.,,
", moron ail ay 'lift sel.r, and looking the
1 I . picture of misery
s,
(, � i On being Caked what troubled him,
s l he turned to the hos4ess and remark-
ed solemnly; ''Do `yd realize, warn-
pian, that I've lost 80 shillings at,
cairds wi' some o' yer veesitors?'
"Indeed, I . min sorry to Deni• that,
?Mr, 74eGregor, but the loss is riot dead-
.
1 ly. Carie into the beget and have a
I drink, Aga we have some fine cold
Drain there!
'NaI. iia;" said McGregor despairing-
ly, "1 canna eat 80 shillin's worth o'
i "
vNC:✓'� . ;,:. .. �. �..-,._ .., -, ...: l
,mild Imam,
A Toucliing Tribute,
Chairmen (addressing a meeting)
"I am sure we will be very sorry oyer
secretary is not, here to -night. I o1,u:•
not say, WO mins, 'is vacant chair, hitt
C do ;gay "Grin miss 'is vacant face."
And who can tell? In that great at.
terplacce
I,, by diviner grace,
May touch their bands and took upon
each face
With heap -Mess •anew.
---7ulia IOArd, ssi Oaale,