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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-6-28, Page 7Canada's Fifty -Sixth Birthday Canada, on arrival of her fifty- sixth birthday, is yet a land of small and sparse population, and, taking account of this aspect alone, people in other lands frequently ascribe to the Dominion attributes and qualities of insignificance in other phases of her national life. But with her population this atomic element ceases. In all her aspects Canada is to be thought of• in terms of immensity. A land created on a Ti- tan plan, of towering mountains, sweeping forests, horizon -bound plain, fertile valleys, expansive lakes and mighty rivers; all enterprise is con- ceived'on a mammoth scale, and so in bringing these magnificent natural assets under human control, under- takings have in many instances sur- passed in magnitude anything pre- viously undertaken. The occasion of of the world, with a 1922 production of over 380,000,000 bushels of such quality that uninterruptedly for ten years the Dominion has carried off the world's first honors for that crap.. This country, to which are ascribed suoh inappreciable qualities, has :a virtual monopoly of certain valuable mineral deposits. With but one-half of one per cent. trf the world's popula- tion she produces 90 per cent. of its cobalt, 88 per cent. of its asbestos, 85 per cent. of its nickel, 12 per cent. of its silver and 4 per cent. of its gold. She possesses 17 per cent. of the coal resources of the globe and 71 per cent. of those of the British Empire. Canadian enterprise has of necess- ity been planned and carried out on a scale compatible with these exten- sive resources. At Niagara Falls, Canada has great development of electrical energy, while the Queenstou Canada's 1922 wheat crop would make over 12•billion loaves of bread, and to carry it would require trains over 2,000 miles long. Canada raises mare wheat and consumes more bread per capita than any other country. 200 million of the 388 million bushels were moved during the season. Canada won the world's wheat ehampionship in 1898; for ten years successively the world's first wheat honors went to the Canadian West, and in world wheat competition in 1921, Canada secured 22 of the 25 prizes. Seager Wheeler also captured the world's wheat championship five times, and created. a world pro- duction record with 82 bushels to the acre. another birthday to the Dominion is sufficient excuse to make a rough survey of some of. tithe.. Canada's coastline totals in length nearly one-half of the circumference of the globe, with 12,000 miles of sea coast and 220,000 square miles of freshwater fisheries; she possesses' most expansive and potentially Weal- thy fishing grounds, and in Lake Su- perior abares with the United Sates the largest body of freshwater in the world and its most extensive intend fishery. Her forest resources are second to none and she is the world's first fur producer. She is surpassed by only one country in the production of pulp and paper and by one only in her wealth of water powers. Canada has a great reserve of vir- gin agricultural land with more than 200,000,000 acres of arable • land in the Western provinces as yet untouch- ed by the plow and many attractive fertile farms available For immediate settlement in the East. Yet, with what she has under cultivation, she' has already assumed second place amongst the wheat -growing nations power plant features the world's largest water -wheel -driven generators. At ;eBassano, watering the Canadian Pacific's vast eastern irrigation• tract, is the ectitinent's greatest irrigation dain, and at Gouin, at the head of the St. Maurice River, P.Q., is the world's biggest dam with a capacity double that of the Assouan on the Nile.. Among other features in which Canada leads is the possession of a .vast game preserve in the Rocky Mountains, Alberta, This . national park has an extent of 4,400 square miles and gives protection to 10,000 Rocky Mouutain sheep ala ie. These are but some few of , the many big things Canada possesses - natural, agricultural, commei tial and engineering -features of which a country yet in its infant growth may well be proud. Canada ma' yet be emall in the number of her citzens, but time will remedy this; the stage is set and ready for that bigger popula- tion which, when it does come, will transform this country idito one of the leading -if not the first -country of the world. Canada fro E : Coast to Coast Charlottetown, P.E.I.--The lobster year and expenditures will be limited fishing season opened recently for the to linking up short stretches and re; North side of the Island, and big pairing bad spots in the roads. catches are being reported, some fish- ermen landing as much as 1,100 pounds in a single. clay. Halifax, N.S.--•The gold mine for- merly operated near Carleton, Yar- mouth County, is being inspected, and samples of gold and lead have been sent to Perth Amboy, N.J., for analyz- ing and determining their actual value. Frederi: ton, N.B.-The renown whieh New Brunswick seed potatoes are gaining in other countries, has re- sulted in the farmers of this province planting a larger acreage to seed po- tatoes this year than for some time past. To date more than one hun- dred farmers in Piscataguis County, Maine, have signed up for seed pota- toes from New Brunswick. Quebec, Que.-The Quebec Pulp and Paper Co„ a new corporation recently organized, will build this sunnner at Sillery, P.Q., a groundwood pulp mill with a daily capacity of 100 tons. The plans provide for expansion of the plant for the production of sulphite pulp and newsprint when it is de- sired. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. --A syndi- cate, -composed of tssrs, W, J. Medi- gon, D. H. Hooey, and A. Harrison, have started operations near Kauf- man Spur, Shawanaga, opening up a feldspar mine. They report feldspar in very large quantities and of the best quality. Winnipeg, Mane -Expenditures on roads in Manitoba this year will am- ount to $556,500, -according to an- nouncement by Hon. W. R. Clubb, Minister .of Public Works. Of this sum $273,000 will. be contributed by the province,. $60,000 by the Domin- ion, and • $223,500 by the municipal- ities. No extensive provincial high - Regina, Sask.-Prof. W. G. Wor- cester, ceramic engineer for the Sas- katchewan Government, is making a special investigation of whiteware clay deposits in Southern Saskat- chewan for the benefit of a British syndicate which contemplates estab- lishing a pottery in the province.. Edmonton, Alta. -Short courses of helpful instruction for wives of soldier settlers are being arranged on a com- prehensive scale by the Department of Extension at the University of Al- berta in co-operation with various other official organizations. Vancouver, B.C.-The Whalen Pulp and Paper Co. plans to take out 20;e. 000,000 feet of logs in the vicinity of Thurston Harbor. The T. A. Kelley Co. is getting out 14,000,000 feet for the Powell River pulp mill and for export. These operators and other smaller ones are all on the Queen Charlotte Islands, but there are other loggers along the coast and on some of the Islands. Fifty-five Armenian Orphans to Embark for Canada. A despatch from Marseilles, France, says: ---Through the efforts of a Paris committee, fifty-five Armenian orph- ans who arrived from Beirut will be taken to Cherbourg, where they will be embarked for Canada. Speaking before the Canadian Club of New York, Dr. James W. Robert- son declared that in the past four years Canada had made more real progress than any other nation along the lines of child welfare, Six -Can adian universities. are giving courses to women to fit them for work in way undertakings •will be started this saving the lives of babies, he said. The Flag of Old England. Mihail to the day when the Britons name over And planted .their standard with seafoam still wet! ,Around and above us their spirits will hover, Rejoicing to mark how we honor it yet. Beneath it.the emblems they cherished axe .waving, The Rose of Old England the road- side perfumes; The .Shamrock and. Thistle the north winds are braving, Securely the Mayflower blushes and blooms. Hail to the day when the Britons came over And 'planted their standard with. ' sea -foam still wet, Around and above us their spirits will hover, Rejoicing to mark how we lamer it yet. We'll honor it yet, we'll honor it yet, The flag of Old England! We'll honor it yet. In the temples they founded, their faith is maintained, Every foot of the soil they be- queathed is still ours. The graves where they moulder, no foe has profaned, But we wreathe them with verdure, and strew them with flowers! The bleed of no brother, in civil strife poured, In this hour of rejoicing encumbers our souls! The frontier's the field for the pa- triot's sword, And cursed be the weapon that fac- tion controls. -Joseph Howe. Big Things Under Way. The following areamong the big undertakings planned or under way in Canada; Canada's building, 1922, $331,813,- 800; 1921, 240,133,300. Completion of Welland ship canal, at total cost of probably $100,000,000. Completion of Toronto harbor im- provements, at total cost of $25,- 000,000. New $10,000,000 power plant in. Winnipeg, with capacity of 165,000 h./a-- New ./a -New plant and dam of Shawinigan Water & Power Co., which will de- velop 150,000 h.p. $25,000,000 power development scheme planned for harnessing water- power of Lake St. John and Saguenay River. Another power development on St. Francis River, to produce 30,000 h.p. Graving dock at Esquimault, B.C., $4,000,000; drydock 1,150 ft. long at St. John, N.B. Great Lakes Pulp and Paper Co.• plan to spend $2,000,000 on a paper mill at Fort William. Several other new or additional pulp and paper plants are planned in different parts of the Dominion. British Columbia is to spend $1,- 000,000 1;000,000 on new university "building. C.P.R. will build a $2,000,000 ocean pier; Government Ballantyne pier also projected for $5,000,000 at Vancouver. Britannia Mines to spend $2,000,000 on reconstruction and improvements. Wireless transpacific station plan- ned for Vancouver to cost $2,000,000. Toronto University asks for $1,500,- 000 1,500;000 for four new buildings. New Trinity College buildings under way. Several large elevators are planned for, including a 10 million bushel one in Montreal, which will be the larg- est in the world. , Each province is spending many millions on good roads. British Columbia plans $20,000,000 expenditure on new industrial de- velopment. Railway systems planning large additions to rolling stock. Sir Adam Beck states that present capacity development of Chippawa- Queenston plant is in sight, and fur- ther prospective development es- sential. $5,000,000 is to be spent for new terminal facilities at Montreal and $1,500,000 at Quebec. Hollinger and other gold mines in Northern Ontario planning for exten- sive developments. Dr. P. E. Doolittle Re-elected president of the Cana- dian Automobile Association at the Hamilton convention. It is a pretty serious thing to break an old friendship, for, like china, it can never be made quite whole again. A broken friendship may be soldered, but it will- always show the crack. THE LARGEST PASSENGER ENGINE IN CANADA Sixteen new passenger engines ars shortly to be put in operation. over the nationally -owned railway lines in Canada,, of which the engine in the pic- ture above is the first. The engine is ninety feet long and it weighs 290 tons. Tile engines are built in Kingston. and represent the last word in develop- ment of speed and power locomotives. Weekly' Market Report TORONTO. Man, wheat -No, 1 Northern, $1.21 Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW,. 54.%sc; No. 3 .CW, 513c; No, 1 feed, 501/30. Man. barley -Nominal. All the abode, trach, bay ports. Am,- corn -No. 3 yellow, $1.01%; No. 2, $101, . Barley Malting, 60 to 62c, accord'- ing to freights outside. Buckwheat --No. 2, 70 to 71e. .4 Rye -No. 2, 79 to 81e. Peas -No. 2, $1.40 to .$1.45. Millfeed-Del., Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $28; shorts, per ton, $31; middlings, ;35; good feed flour, $2.15 to $2,25. Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, e1.23 to $1.25, Ontario No. 2 white oats -50 to 51c. Ontario core: --Nominal. Ontario flour -Ninety per cent, pat., in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship- ment, $5.10 to $5.20; Toronto bass, $5 05 to $5.15; bulk seaboard, $•1.05 to $5. Manitoba flour -1st pats., in cotton socks,. $6.90 per barrel; 2nd pats., F -i ay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton, track, Toronto,. $15; No. 3 timothy, $18 to $14; mixed, $12,50 to $13.50; lower grades, $8. Straw -Car lots, per ton, track, To- ronto, $9.50. Cheese -New, large, 19c; twins, 20c; triplets, 21e; Stiltons, 22c Old, large, 32c; twins,. 32%c; triplets, .33c; Stiltons, 331/2c. New Zealand old cheese, 28 to 30c. Butter -Finest creamery prints, 36 to 37c; ordinary creamery prints, 34 to 35c; dairy, 24 to 25c; cooking, 22c, Eggs -New laids, loose, 29 to 30c; new laids, in cartons, 38 to 84c. .Live poultry -Chickens, mill: -fed, over 5 lbs., 25c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 22c; do, 2 to 4 lbs., 20e; hens, over e lbs., 26c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 23c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 20c; roosters, 17c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 30e; do, 4 to 5 Ins., 28c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up 25c. Dressed poultry -Chickens, milk - fed, over 5 lbs., 35c; do, 4 to 5 lb5., 30c; do, 2 to 4 lbs., 25c; hens, over 51 lbs., 29c; do, 4 to 5 lbs,, 20c; do, to 4 lbs., 22c; roosters, 24c; ducklings,' over 5 lbs., 30c; do, 4 to 5 lbs,, 29c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 30c., Beans -Can., hand-picked, Ib„ 7c, primes, 61/2c. Maple products -Syrup, per imp. gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per] Ontario comb honey, per doz., No, 1,. $4,50 to $5; No. 2, $3.75 to $4.25. Smoked meats --Hams, fined,, 26 to 28c; cooked hams, 39 to 42e; smoked rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rolls, 25 to 28c; breakfast' bacon, 30 to 34c sp--, cial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 28c; backs;' boneless, 37 to 42c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 Ibs., $18; 70 to 90 lbs, 817.50;. 90 lbs. and up, $16.50; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight rolls, $33. ' Lard -Pure tierces, 151% to 15%e; tubs, 15% to 16e; pails, 16 to 161/2c; ;prints, 180. Shortening, tierces, 14% to 15c; tubs,'15 to 15%c; pails, 151,E to 16c; prints, 17 to 171/c. Choice heavy steers, $8.85 to $8.75; butcher steers, choice, $8 to $8.25; do, good, 47.50 to $7,75; do, med., $7 to $7.50; do, tom., $6 to $6.25; butcher heifers, choice, $7.50 to $8; do, med., $7 to $7.25; do, come, $6 to $6.50; butcher cows, choice, $6.25 to $6.50; do, med., $4 to 35; canners and cut- ters, $1.50 to $2; butcher bulls, good,. $5 to 35.75; do, coin., $3 to $4; feed- ing steers, good, $7 to $8.25; do, fair, 36 to $6.75; stockers, good, $5 to 36; do, fair, $5 to $5,50; milkers, spring- ers,each, $70.50 to $100; calves, choice, 39.50 to $10.50; do, med., $7 to $9; do, con., 35 to $6; lambs, spring $16 to $16.75; sheep, cholera, light, $6 to $6.50; do, choice, heavy, $4 to_$4.50; do, culls and bucks, $2,75 to $3.50;_ hogs, fed and watered, $8.35; do, f.o.b.,: $7.75; do, country points, 37.50. MONTREAL. Corn -Am. No. 2 yellow, 98c, Oats - Can. West, No. 2, 603 to 61e; do, No: 3, 58 to 59c; extra No. 1 feed, 557 to 58e; No. 2 local white, 56e. Flour -Manitoba spring wheat pats., lsts, 36.90; do, 2nds, $6.40; strong bakers', $6.20; winter pats., choice, $6.05 to $6.15.. Rolled oats -Bag of 90 lbs., $3.05 to $3.15. Bran -$26. Shorts $29. Middlings -$84. Hay -No. 2,. per ton, car lots, $13 to $15c. Cheese -Finest eaeterns, 1.6U to 16%c. Butter ---Choicest creamery, 30eac. Eggs ---Selected, 32e. Potatoes --Per bag, car lots, 31.25 to $1.30. Med. rows, 34.75 to $5; do, coin., $3.50; bulls, 43.60 to 35; calves, med. to fairly good, $0 to $6.50; well finish- ed veal, $8; coni, sucker, $5,50; fairly good pail -fed, $4.50; sheep, 33.50 to $6; lambs, 13 to 16c; real choice lambs, 17. per Ib- Good quality meal hogs, $10.25 to $10.50; poorer lots, $10; Wedin hogs,.fairliy food weight, $10; sows, $6.50 to $7; packers offer- ing $11: for select bacon hogs selected under Government grading. gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25c. Honey -60 -lb. tins, 101,E to file per lb.; 8 -21/2 -lb. tins, 11 to 121/20 per lb.; Canada. Canada, Maple land, land of great mountains, Lake land and river land, land 'twixt the seas; God grant us hearts that are large as our heritage, Spirits as free as its breeze. Giant us Thy fear, that we walk in humility, Fear that is reverent -not fear that is base. Grant to us righteousness, wisdom, prosperity; Peace -if unstained by disgrace. Grant us Thy love, and the love of our country, Grant us Thy strength, for our strength is Thy name. Shield us from danger, from every adversity; Shield us, 0 Fkither, from shame! Last -born of nations, the offspring of freedom, Heir to wide prairies, thick forests, red gold: God grant us wisdom to value our birthright, Courage to guard what we hold. Arthur Beverley Cox. The Western Canada Coloni- zation Association. The ;Western Canada Colonization Association has been entirely re- organized, the new board consisting of representatives of the Dominion Gov- ernment, the Canadian National Rail- ways and the -Canadian Pacific RaiI- way. This effects the creation of a national land settlement organization co-ordinating all the available immi- gration forces in: the country. Ade- quate financing is arranged for in contributions of $100,000 per year from each transportation company for the next five years and equal contri- bution from the Dominion Govern- ment. The Imperial Government has signified its readings to implement its plecge, $100,000 per year to assist in sending British colonists, In addi- tion unexpected private subscriptions aggregate approximately . $1,000,000. Sir Augustus Nanton, of Winnipeg, is the new president of the organization. Don't try to save money by saving food, like the pian who traded his Leghorns for Bantams. Lord Ampthill Grand Master of th i Grand Lodge of England, A.F. & A.141., who is coming to Canada for the Grand Lodge of Canada meeting in Toronto, July 17, 18 and 19. This is the first time the, Grand Lodge of England, the mother of Grand Lodges, has been officially represented on this continent- Last year a total of 2,590 birds were entered in the laying conteste conducted by the Dominion Expert. mental Farms and these birds laid 391,805 eggs, giving an average of 151 eggs per bird. In average pro- duction British Columbia led with 181.2 eggs per bird, Ontario second with 178.5 8.5 eggs, and the Canadian Contest conducted at Ottawa, third I with 167,1 eggs.. . . Or , DOCTOR - DID YOU HEAR ABour JUDGE: $VCK'5 ROBBERY ?) IN RABBITBORO No ! WHO'S HE. BEEN ItO131ING NOW -- miss Mass-rLoppY Old ! You ARE A CASE ,'DOCTOR WHITY ! .•.r PON'l' KNOW WHAT TO MAKE of You 1n/F.1.1- kIFHY • Nor MAKE: A HUSBAND OF ME.