Zurich Herald, 1923-03-15, Page 3•i
BIG DEVELOPMENT tle and twine have been brought front
awl
the West the e Fall aa d f . tton d at
the elevator•a all winter, big finished
OFTHE T�qIN C'R'IES in prune shape in the spring and close
to the Dominion Livoetock markets,
Teeugh only recently initiated this in-
dtistry Is finding rapid favor and may
ONE RESULT OF TIDE dorelop into proportions extensive and
valuable.
` The Lake ports experienced a year
at unprecedented activity in 1922
whicl& resulted in a record being made
for the movement of grain. This. re-
cord will be surpassed, however, for
tee continuous settlement of the West
with increased cultivation and produe-
FORDNEY TARIFF.
Lake Ports Experienced Year
of Unprecedented Activity
in 1922.
The effects, of the I'ordney Tariff'
'bora will result in a demand . upon
'which has thrown Canadian grain back these parts to accommodate a still.
'from the international border to find greater volume. In the past twenty
is outlet Gtn'ougir Canadian channels, years shipments from Fort William
and. Port Arthur have'inoreased at.
and resulted in the enormous increase the rate of.'100 per cent. per year on
of " trade passing through the Port of the average. Wbat will the next
Montreal, etre likewise reflected in the twenty years bring to the ports?
Brother and Lover.
John Dill had gone from bad to
worse until he was a slave to drink.
!bough hips family .entreated him, he
refused with, all a Scotchman's pride
to return to his old home in Ayr. He
would not disgrace them.
One day the minister received a let-
ter from his brother. "Drink: is John's
weakness," he wrote; a want to help
any -
than 200,000,000 bushels •of grain had him, but he is too proud to take_ thing from the elder brother who re-
passed through the ports, a volume i mauled at home. I with you would
Torte •of the Great Lakes, the tran-
shipping points for the crop of the gi-
gantic Western granary on its way to
the ocean, These combined with the
bumper crop of 1922 have contributed
to the.bristest season Port Arthur and
Fort William have ever• known, and
the achievement of a record in the
volume of grain shipped.
Grain traffic in .the 1922 season ex-
ceeded any previous year by a wide
margin. Before the winder's ice had
put an end to lake activities' more
asubstantially in excess of' -any year in
the port's •history. More grain was
handled at the Twin Poets in the sea-
son than at Chicago, Duluth and Su-
pertor combined. To what an almost
Unbelievable extent the Twin Ports
have developed may be realized when
a;compari'so•n is made with 1902, twein
ty years ago, when the porta received
•8,819,004" bushels and shipped 10,821,-
write
0,821;
write and tell me how I can help him.
I never have 'ceased to pray for his
conversion. Christ can save' him, I
know."
That night the minfster had to make
a call. It was pitch dark, and in the
part of the town wLore his errand. was
there were no street lights; he had
literally to feel his way. Hearing foot-
steps; he stopped. ."Good evening;' he
307 bushels. In the 1922 season, when said so that the person might not
work progressed at fever heat, -as bump into him.
much as three and a quarter million For •a moment there was no reply,
bushels were handled in one day. then, "Is that yoit,. Mr. 'Fox?"
Progress in. Twenty Years." • The minister recognized Dila'* voice.
Twenty years ago the grain -weigh "Mere are you going, John?" he in.
Mg stafein Port Arthur and Fart Wil quired.
Hem was composed of 3 men. To -day Again there was a pause. Then
this staff consists of ..110 employees. came the sharp reply: "I am going to
Twenty years ago the chief inspector end it ail! The quicker I'm out of the
covered leas than two mi1•ds daily. To- world the better it will be!"
clay, to 'visit all the .grain -handling "Why, John' Dill!" exolafined the
Plants, .be must travel nearly fifteen minister, aghast*
reties: It used to take from twelve to "I'nt the black sheep of the family,"
fourteen hours to load a ship carrying, the- man continued. "All of the rest
100,000 bushels of grain.: • This past are good respectable people. I have
summer two steamers were loaded caused them so many cares and an
with 776,000 bushels in fourteen hours. xieties •that it will be a relief for them
` Twenty years age, 200,000 bushels was to know I'll disgrace them no more."
a good volume of grain to no handled The minister frowned thoughtfully
in a uay by the weighing staff. The there in the darknees. "Come back to
average in 1922 vas 3,000,000 bushels the house with me," Ile said at last.' "It
a day. Iii the remote period a record want to show you a letter I received to -
was created when 600,000 was reached day., '
Diu reluctantly followed the minis.
of
„shipments by steamer. on :one dal'
ter home. Iit'the little- front-room,a
of tits 1922 season a fleet of twenty- t ., i
lam had -been left burning for:his; re-
eight :bsteatuers loaded at the -Twin 2t �
Ports 1,000,000 bushels in exeees of the 'ern 'He gave Dill a seat by the' table
entire shipment out of the Port of
Vaneoanvea in 1921. The combined' •ele-.
vator capacity of the ports 11_1_1902
was in the neighborhood of :6,00;000
bushette To -day it is in excess of 56,-
000,000 bushels, and by the fall of 1923
will be 61,000,000 bushels, through the
addition 'of two new elevators.
Remarkable Industrial. Expansion.
Development at the Twin Porte Is
by no means confined to the grain traf
fit. The ports have been experiencing
a remarkable. industrial expansion,
which, is particularly noteworthy in
the pulp and paper industry._ Mach
timber activity has in the past year
evidenced ; itself, and mining develop -
menta of recent date will probably
have some bearing on -the future pros-
perity of the district. The two cities
are surrounded by .some excellent time
ter limits, whilst casual prospecting
bas disclosed the presence of many
valuable minerals in the vicinity.
The pulp and paper industry is el -
ready an important factor in the Indus
trial progress: of the Twin Ports and
will be a greater one in the future.
The Fort William Paper Company,
which has for some time been turning
otit large quantities of wood' pulp., in-
etalied two newsprint meditates, and
and banded him his' brother's letter. .
An be read It his discouraged, half -
scornful look gave place to pane of ten-
derness. Hie hands trembled, and tear
after tear stole down his cheeks. When
he had finished reading he foldedethe
letter and returned it to the envelope.
"My brother," he said at last, "is a
wonderful man. You cannot under-
stand what this means to me, to know
he loves me in spite of my past!"
"John," said tbe minister, "your
brothel' is a wonderful man, but there
is a Lover that sticketh closer than a
brother." And then as Dill looked up
at hint inquiringly, he added, "Your
brother has never' ceased to love you.
Jesus Christ is the Lover of your soul.
He never bas given you up; He can
make a new creature of you."
"What about the wasted years?"
"Never mind the wasted years; the
good, fruitful years are before you."
That night John Dill gave himself to
God. Theminister received him into
the church, and he could imagine the;
joy in that Scotch home across• the sea I
when the good news reached thein
that the lost was found,
To Bunn Five Thousand
'Years.
dommenced thenew year with an out Probably the largest candle in the
• put of 100 tons leer day. The Provin- world has• just been placed in the
clal Paper Mills, Ltd., has also install-
ed a paper-inakfug machine which will
have a capacity let 35 gimes of book -
meet per day, The plautt af the Thun-
der 13ay Paper Company is turning out
growl dive oil pulp, and the (.treat Lakes
:t'ap'er Company is expected to locate
at one of the two cities,
Record Movement of Grain,
A new baluster which is developing
at the two :great -grain ports; aad
wliieh possesses the possibilities of
growing into one of some moment, in
the 'utilization of grain screenings as
mettle food. Hundreds of tons of
grain screenings at the giant eleva-
tors have annually been wasted until`
t,ertain Western ranchers realized
their' valuable food properties;, since
when thousands of head of sheep, cat -
Het Would you nierry a .men
With. a petite
Elie: 0oodne00 yes. leaf looking
it one with a past of 'theta 80
yestrh viae :bre Meetly,
Churchof the. Madonna of Pompeii at
Naples. It stands eighteen test high,
and in believed to Weigh a ton.
It has been presented to the church
by a Hone for Orphans, as a memorial
to Caruso. The great singer was very
generous to the orphan home during
his lifetime, for many years bestowing
grafts upon it amounting to' $10,000 a
year. As a return they have evolved
this., kind: idea to' porpetuete hie 'meni-
oi•j...
It is only intended that the candle
should be lit for twenty-four hours
once a year -on ;,11 Souls' Day -and
at this rate it Is estimated that it will
last, °according tri one calculation, fox'
1,800 years and according to another,
es long as 5,000 ears. .
Revd,
Rockies
Svc
.,k ..r. •air
N
tnieraatteat
Along the Banff -
Canada has some of the best scenery,
but up to _last autumn motor touring
in the Canadian Rockies was handl.:
capped' by a roadless area in the heart
of the mountains '-which stopped all
traffic. The building of the Banff
Windermere ;highway has supplied the
missing link, placed the - Canadian
Rockies on one of America's greatest
tourist hikhways, and opened the way;
for a -great and immediate increase in
international motor travel.
This road affords- a direct and first-
class. motor highway front the town of
Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta,
southwesterly over the continental
?ldermere Road
divide to tbe Windermere district in
the upper valley of the Columbia Rivet'.
Front the latter locality there is
direct access by motor roads to south-
eastern British Columbia, to the na-
tional parks of the United States, and
to the large tourist centres of the Pa-
cific Coast. The rapidly increasing
xnetor traffic to Banff and the Canadian
National Parks has thus been provided
with a through route, east and west,
of . an interprovincial character, and
one that has more potentialities from
a tourist traffic viewpoint than any
other western road completed in recent
years. The total length of the high-
way is ninety-three miles,
•
Creatg.:Your Own Job.
Wide interest wets aroused recently
by the actions, of a gentleman,' whn�;,
soon' came to be referred to as t-'
Man in Black." He has beet out,s
work, and, instead 'of desl ;"tiyfng, had
decided to create a job. Thai job was
the supplying of ,onameiletl letters
to take the place of ;lose missing from.
Shop windows,'
Walk along any Street, andyou'll
see scores of shop windows which are
nothing but adventisenients of the un
businesslike character of the people
within. "Chocolates"., may have be:
conte 'chocolates" "Sweets" may have
turned into "wents"; and "Grater";in-
to "rover." Indeed, the writer temente
bers wondering what on earth were
the duties of a "Photo rapher."
The Man in Black saw possibilities
in these neglected shop windows,
bought a stock of enamelled letters,
and began calling on shops, where his
attentions seemed to be needed.' He
was smartly dressed in a wellfitting
black suit (hence his name), and was,
frequently mistaken fen' a •customer.
More often than not he was commis
sioned to effect the neoessary repairs.
Then, there was the case of a young
girl who fell out of a job. She tried
for a week or two to obtain another
situation, and when failure dogged her
footsteps, she decided to make work.
She remefnbered how, one morning,
she hail wanted her only frock cleaned
very quickly, in order that she could
wear it at a dance the same night. She
,had been unable to get it done.
Profiting by this experience, Rho de-
cided to start a rapid .drew renovating
service. She asked, her friends to ad-
vertise her, and was soon earning
more than she had done at her work.
On this basis-a.iight will be li.t rid
burnt to the nisinory of Caiueb on All
Souls' Day, AD. 6922.
If the ;candle was, burnt continuous-
by, it is. estimated it woubd last for
nearly fourteen years,
To light it a girl has to mount a
pair at steps•,when her :head is then
twpo1 tree -tee( below the topof the
cantle.eta-
Good For Pains.
Motor•ia't-- "Yes, it took me about six
weeks' ,hard work to learn to drive my
machine."
Peclestrrian--".k'nd• ''ixat did' you get
for your pales?"
Met cies t---•"Liniulna"
=.b
"Treasure Island," Steven:son's fa -
Moat story, ie ;recommended for tboya
tri to the age at bhirteett iu preference
tee ' Sla riteepearo'0.1tla3'g �!
She filled a long -felt want, you see.
Very ingenious was the man who
conceived the idea of re -decorating
auall paper. In most houses there is
room where the wall -paper hag been
a li'ttle scratched—perhaps by a form-
er' tenant.
Stories of Well.K,mown People
With the Help of Dbde. •
Lloyd George ie nothing if not J
thorough, Mr. Herter itiortgen'.laau in
his autobiography cites an tnoident to
sOoiv the pales .that the Mau would
take to gain his .end*even when :the
, thing be wanted wee merely it Stepp ng
'atone to sornethin•g greater.
Well, the wall -paper artist calls with
his paints, patceies up the bare scratch-
es with plain paper, and then paints
on the bare space a pattern to match
the rest of the wall -paper..
Dna' could mention scores of
.atete ut
these trietances ..,s
show that work can be -Created.
During the peace =femme, says
Mr Morgentha'u, the premier was keen
to gain favor with those (,lose to Preat-
dent Wilson, and one night he invited
to dine with him Adm. Cary T. Gray -
'son, wit•om he knew to be not only Mr,
Wilson's physician but one of his per-
sonal oonfldants as well. Now admiral
Grayson is a Southerner of the South-
erners; he was born in Culpepper
County, Virginia, and had studied at
William and Mary College,
Consequently he "pricked upi his
ears' when Lloyd Georges entire table
conversation was of that. America
which lies south of Mason and Dixon's
line. The premier was specially famil-
lar with the careor of Stonewall Jack -
Son, for whom he'profees'ed warns aa-
ntiratlon. Finally after dinner Lloyd
George's nieces went to the piano and
sang—American Southern melodies -
That was too much for Admiral
Grayson. "How is it," he said, "that
you all have such an intimate know
ledge of my part of America?"
Peitha.ps the direct query took the
premier by surprise At any rate he
replied: "Well, you see, I have just
finished reading Henderson's Life of
Stonewall Taaison."
Admiral Grayson's response was in
the good old American fashion: "My
such.
TEMPORARY RELIEF
Mr. Fish: Now that the lakes
and raters• are frozen over, arty
dear, those pesky. fishermen wilt
let us alone for a while!
Where Haughtiness Counts.
The wealthy uncle was talking over
the' prospeets of Itis nephew with the
lad's mother.
"How, Is he doing with his studies?"
"Oh, very well. Ha' shows a great
talent for Music, and his manner is
very kaughty. His teacher thinks he
will become a conductor."
eAh! Indeed!" responded uncle.
Orciieetra or street car?"
—AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME
DF.rIAND Folz
mom ftiCfoy
dear sir, net matter what,nflkoo ;,lieu re
fair, you'll ita're ma eater
The Future faucheeu elf VW*.
One of the mom Charming ebtereen t')
genes at the future Ducl'a'eea of Yoii
X4dy lulizabeth Bow,054.47on, is .hear
tenter of Tumor, ora the followbng tattier
sluswe.
A nurnnbor .sf ;rnerican, tourists fad
come to look over Glamis Ctastie.,, the
anceetrel hoene of the Strathtnore
family, and in a burst of high apirlte
Lady Elizabeth attired herself se a.
houserttaid and offered to show the
vieltatu round. The tourists accepted
and epenta delightful afternoon in the
old tattle.
,Ale they were leaving they insisted
on "tipping" their guide! I imagine
they would have been ooneiderably
snuprised had they known who shR
was.
A Great Prime Minister.
How many men who have emigrated
In search of fame and fortune have
scceeeded to such an extent that they
ltavo b•eoome Primo Ministers of the
country of their adoption? This is the
record of 111r. W. M. Hughes, who has
resigned after being' Australlei's Pre-
mier for eight years,
Nearly forty "yearn ago Mr. tit:ghee
left England and landed in Australia,
Penniless and without work. For a
time leo wandered about doing any odd
jobs that came his way. Policeman,
bookseller, actor, and railwayman—all
these
these roles were filled by the future
Prime Minister. Only ten years after
be had landed Mr. Hughes was elected
to Parliament, where he quickly made
his name.
T FIS} EXPORTS
that has been growing steadily for a
number of years and is still exhibiting
OF THE consistent progress. In 1868, one year
Derain:
dINIIN fontafter the Confederation of the Do, the exports of fish from Canada
totalled in value $3,357,510. By 1901;
grown$ , ,
that time the annual increments have
been more or less regular. In 1905'
total exports accounted for aavalue of
$11,114,318. By 1910 they were $15,-
663,162; by 1915, $19,687,068; by 1917,
$24,889,253; and in 1922, $29,380,957.
The small growth in imports more or
less refleots the growth of Canada's
population and the increase in the 'de-
nand for prepared products of the
fisheries. In 1901 total imports were
of a value of $972,929; in 1905, $1,593,
960; in 1910, $8,782,317; in 1917 $2,476,-
279; and in 1922, $3,071,034.
With such expansive finehing
grounds teeming with so elaborate a
variety of fishes it is difficult to ac-
count at first for this necessity of im-
porting fish products. It is explained,
however, in the lack of adequate fecal
-
Use in the Dominion for proeeasiug
�-'�.�.`.,int.,"'�"'g-+,:.^�L....tnnlc:'�"" ,�j: �n`
v�ee
is buying back i Hnished state. Prom
other countries fish c she could wholly
supply from lief own waters, and fre-
quently the finished product which she
exported in a raw state. This points
to obvious existing opportunities in
tlto country for the greater establish -
meat of processing and flnising plants,
In the export trade Canada is mak-
ing
ak
ing a gratifying progress. She is con-
tinually extending her markets and
augmenting the volume of her shipped
products, Room for much expansion,
of trade in foreign markets, however,
yet eansts, and more or less organized
efforts are being made within the Da
minion to serve these and make the
industrial side of Canada's fisheries
more commensurate with the source of
taw supply.
SIX HUNDRED 'VARIETIES
OF EDIBLE FISH.
Canada Has Opportunities for
Estabishment of More Pro-
cessing and Finishing
Plants.
Canada :has 'tlhe most extensive fish-
ing grounds in the world, and in the
Dominion's inland waters and those off
both coasts are to be found some six
hundred varieties of edible fish. • To
date not more than about one hundred
and fifty are comnion'y known; wliiist
not nibs e than twenty grave becomo
really important factors on. the mar-
ket. The extent of the`prodvct of
waer etas
Canadian fishing industry. In quan-
tity they could easily, furnish the en-
tire world'with its needs without suf-
fering any.depletion and come very
near lilting all the demands for
variety. As matter of fact it is difla
cult to name a country•of the globe
where Canadian fish of some kind is
not being regularly imported,
In the fiscal. year 1922, Canada ex-
ported fish, to tbe extent of $29,578,392
from a catch valued at $4,931,935, or
roughly about 80 per sent. of the an-
nual catch.left Canada. Every variety
oe fish caught in Canadian waters was
exported, the sum total•of exports be-
ing made up entirely of comparatively
small items.. Exports of poliock, hake,
and tusk•took the first place, account-
ing for a value of $6,433,252; cod -fish
was second with $5,509,323; canned
lobsters third 'with $3,756,443; and
then in order, fresh lobsters, $1,403,-
257; whitefish, ;1,150,511; swordfish,
$1,064,388; dry salted herrings, $1,000,-
427; aucl salmon, fresh, $993,373. Other
interesting items of exports were 6,671
cwt. of canned and preserved whale -
meat worth $10,969; 4,256 sealskins
worth $56,498; and 398,593 gallons of
cord liver oil, seal oil, . whale oil and
other fish oil worth $1.40,937.
Fish Exports in 1922,
these had to 10 720 352. Since
Helps for Women.
A power plant is a wonderful gift,
The housewife's heavy work to lift.
Fier washing dishes, too, I think,
A fine thing would be a nice large sink.
Canada's fish exports in 1022 were
divided as follows :—to the United
Kingdom, $5,540,998; to the United
States, $12,606,194; :and to other coun-
tries, $11,233,765. Against this were
imports amounting to $3,071,034, in
'which the principal itens• were the fol-
lowing : •—anchov fee, sardines, sprats
and other fish packed in oil, $471,450;
cod„ haddock, polio•ck, dried, fresh,
smoked and salted, $509,478; herrings,
fresh, canned, frozen and pickled,
$838,793; oysters, $369,952; saloon,
canned, fresh, pickled, and smoked, ,
$501,467; cod liver oil, seal oil, whale
oil and other fish oil, $72,84.4. Of the
total imports, fish products to the
value of $156,689 were brought in from
tate United IC.tugdont; $1,21.0,477 from
the United States a?id $1,703,866 from
other countxiee
As previously observed, Canada's
fish exports g7t to apparently every
country of the globe. ' Japan is a
limey buyer of fresh and 'frozen sal-
mon; herrings go in greatest bulk to
Australia, Brazil, British Guiana, I3ar-
baacloes, `Jainaiea, Trinidad, Cuba., Fiji.
and New Zealand; lobsters go in large
quantities to the United t3tates, ,Ar-
gentine, Belgium, Danmark, Itcaned,
, Greece, Newfoundland, Norway, Swo-
cleta anti St. Pierre and Miquelon;
canned salmon finds an extoittivc mar-
ket In the. United 'States, Australia,
Belgium, Bolivia,Strait Settlements,
South Africa, West Indies, 'C'hile, Cuba,
Dutch East Indies, Ecuador, Fiji,
Prence, Greece, Italy, Mexlco, etc.
Export Trade Growing Steadily.
C'i:axtada's• expert fish trade is one
Running water and painted floors,
An old rag carpet at kitchen doors.
A table ou wheels, food and dishes to
carry,
And a washing macltire makes my
housewife' merry.
- -Alford N. Ward.
Mrs. Major.
The liner was passing out cf South-
ampton harbor when a. lame -going
rancher from Arizona rushed into the
pursers' office.
"See here, cap," he protested,
"What kind of a joke.are you putting
over ou ire? I can't travel in: the same
stateroom as that Major Thomas, and
I won't. '.Cite major don't like the idea,
neither'."
"What's the trouble, sir Surely you
don't cbject to an Arany officer as a
companion?"
"No, but tha irta ior'g, truly happens
to be the i alvatioa :i`y-•iiiia,
the -major's name is )Frances. rot
Francis!"
il•
"They say she flirts eutregenusiy."
"butrageou*iy? '1 should say sl7lr
Ptlrte divinely."
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