The Exeter Advocate, 1923-10-25, Page 3Canada from Coast to Coast
Halifax,N.S.---The discovery of a
new fishing bank, 200 by 90 miles, off
the coast of Labrador, Is reported at
the Dept. of Marine and I+'isheries.
This fishing ground, which, it is stated,.
abounds in cod' and halibut, is expect-
ed to prove a valuable addition to the
already known fishing banks. The
depth of the water, is 76 fathoms, and.
the same soundings, varying but little,
1rd! were prevalent over a large part of
the bank. The exact location has not
yet been made known,
Newcastle, N.B.--Newcastle has
been selected as the site of a new ine.
dustry which had decided to locate in
the Province of New Brunswick, is the
announcement of Mayor Creagon, The
plants to come to Newcastle are those
of the Canadian Creosote Milts and
the Creosote Products, Ltd., both of
which companies are now located in
Ontario. The two companies will em-
ploy upward of 200 men the year
round.
Montreal, Que.-Thirteen crates of
silver black foxes, each containing two
of these valuable animals, passed.
through the city en route to Nakusp
from Charlottetown, P.E.I. A. new fox
ranch has recently been established at
Nakiisp, which is near Revelstoke hi
British Columbia, and the thirteen
pair form the foundation stock.
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Sault Ste, Marie, Ont. -It is report-
ed that assessment work has been!
completed on the Gibson iron proper-
ties southeast of Wawa Lake, and the
assay taken by outside assayers bear
out the opinion expressed some time'
ago. Returns give iron ore 59.06,,
which is the highest percentage ever,
obtained in that district. This makes'
the third deposit of high-grade hema-'
tite iron in this part lying undevelop-
ed, the other two being the Josephine!
mine and the Mildred Lake range.
Winnipeg, Man:: 'Every British'
,
harvester who is willing to work on a
western Canadian farm this winter,
will have a job at the going wage, in
the opinion of the committee appointed
'at a recent conference called by the
Canada Colonization Association to
deal with the problem of keeping the
harvesters in. Canada..
Regina, .; Sask.-Despite adverse
weather conditions, the dental cars op-
erated by the Provincial Junior Red
Cross, 'visited 112. rural schools in the
province during the past summer, the
dentists in charge lecturing on oral
hygiene to 3,007 pupils, according to a
report prepared by the Chairman of
the Junior Red .Cross Committee. The
number of children receiving dental
treatment was 1,136, involving 669
fillings, 1,410 extractions and 108 cases
of prophylaxis.
Edmonton, Alta. -A system of ed-
ucation by mail for those who live in
remote rural districts out of reach of
rural schools is being prepared by
Hort. Perron Baker, Minister of Ed-
ucation, to go into effect this month.
The working plan has . already been
drawn up to run through the winter
to the end of the school year. It is
expected that from twenty to forty
lessons will be given in the case of
each applicant for the service.
Victoria, B.C1--Some large pieces of
lumber designed to show the extra-
ordinary size of fir timber in British
Columbia, will be shipped to London
to form part of the Dominion Govern-
ment exhibit at the British Empire
Exhibition, to be held at Wembley next
year. One of the most interesting fea-
tures of the exhibit will be two twelve -
foot lengths of cut fir, fifty inches
square, These are said to be almost
a record for fir squares.
BRITISH HARVESTERS
FIND WINTER JOBS
Two-thirds of 12,000 Helpers
From Old Land Remain
in Canada.
A despatch from Ottawa says. -
The announcement by Hon. J. A. Robb
that about 8,000 openings for. winter
employment have already been found
for British harvesters, is.evidence that
the great majority of these men can
get work in Canada throughout the
winter, if they are prepared to take
ordinary chances. As it is believed
that 12,000 harvesters came from she
British Isles, it will thus be seen that
jobs have been secured for two-thirds
of them, to say nothing of others who
have secured employment through
their own efforts.
"All the men I brought out have got
jobs and will stay in Canada," said
Captain Northcotte-North, of. Birm-
ingham, a writer and lecturer, who
brought out 35 harvesters, men of his
old company, and• who passed through
the city on his way home to England.
This party gat work near Carroll,
Manitoba. Speaking of their exper-
iences there, he said:
-'s "I do not think that any man of
ordinary physical stamina has any
complaint to make. I shocked 12
acres of grain a day, and some of my
men did as much as 16 and are none
the worse for it. The treatment, on
the whole, was fine. Of course, -we
had to look after our own interests,
but that was to be expected."
Speaking about reports to the effect,
that several men sometimes have had
to eait off one plate, the captain said.
"Such things are greatly exagger-
ated. Of course, men in a threshing
gang can't expect to find things quite
asnice as they would in their own
domes; but *hen conditions out there
are compared with what men had to
endure in the trenches there is little
to kick about."
The captain added that coming
down on the train there were 12 har-
vesters, each with $100 in his pocket,
who had complained about the diffi-
culty of securing work, and had got
their passage home. Moreover they
• 'were boasting about it.
World's Total Total Wheat Yield
This Year 3,422,072,000 Bus.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
According to a cablegram, received'
from. the International Institute of
Agriculture, Rome, the first official
estimate' of theproductiin of wheat in
Argentina is 248,755,000 , bushels,
against 189,047,000 last year and 180,-1
642,000 in 1921. The .productionof
flax -seed in Argentina is 75,981,000
bushels, against 44,280,000 last year
and 32,272,000 in 1921.
"These figures for. wheat," ;tater
T. K. Doherty, Canadian Institute
Commissioner, "coupled with ',l.e re-
cent Canadian report and the latest
revisions of the European crop raise
the world's total production to a,422,-
072,000
,422;072,000 bushels, compared with 3,108,-
000,000 last year and 3,087,000,000 in
1921. Excepting for a few unimport-
ant countries, the official total produc-
tion of Europe is now, known and in-
dicates an increase of 219e:0,000
bushels over last year's crop and 33,-
000,000 over that of 1921."
Our Complete Debt.
Teacher -"We borrowed our numer-
als from the Arabs, our calendar from
Ole Romans, and our banking from the
Italians. Can any one think of any
other examples?"`
Willie Willis "Our lawn -mower
from the Smiths, our snow -shovel from
the Jonesas, and our baby -carriage'
from' the Bumps,"
Capt. Robert Foote
A pioneer lake captain, whose death
occurred last week. He has sailed
the Great Lakes for sixty-five years,
and was in command of the steamer
Noronie until 1918.
CANADA INVITES
BRITI.SHERS TO STAY
Offers Welcome to Immi-
grants Turned Back by U.S.
Rule Regarding Quotas.
A despatch from Ottawa says :-An
interesting situation has been created
for the Department of Immigration
and Colonization here by -.a provision
just made effective by the correspond-
ing department in Washington. By
this provision any immigrant who
lands in Canada, whose destination is
the United States, and who is outside
the quota allowed by the United States
from the immigrant's country, cannot
enter the United States, and cannot,.
if he. remains in Canada, make appli-
cation for .entry into the United States
for one year. If, however, he returns
to his native country he may then
make a new application within a
month.
The Canadian authorities, however,
have made it known that if these im-
migrants, who were destined for the
United States, and who cannot enter
there because they landed in Canada,
and because they exceed the quota, are
of British origin, they will be allowed
to remain in this country:
The Ontario Haney Producers' Co-
operative Co., which is said to control
at present 60 per cent. of the 'honey
out put in the province, is consolidat-
ing its organization and control, and
arranging to establish divisional cen
tres at Toronto, Hamilton, London,
Belleville, Ottawa, Peterboro and
either Guelph or Mount Forest, where
bonded warehouses will be established,
and honey stored. The honey will be
handled under the brand"Beekist."
Chippawa's sixth power unit will be
opened a month ahead . of schedule, in
December, according to - an announce-
ment made by the Hydro Power Com-.
mission: With the sixth unit the
Chippawa will be equipped to turn out
continuously a 'maximum of about
360,000 horse -power, as compared with
the present maximum of from 250,000
to 300,000. The additional power will.
be needed for Ontario's industries and
homes.
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WHERE CANADA'S BUILDING WILL STAND AT THE BRITISH EMPIRE
EXHIBITION
Canada's beautiful building is now in process of erection at Wembley,
England, in preparation for the Empire Exhibition next year. The picture
shows the site marked by a huge sign "Canada."
CANADA USES LARGE POLICY OF CURRENCY
OUTPUT OF TEXTILES INFLATION REJECTED
Forty -Six Mills in Dominion British Government Will Not
--80 Per Cent. Produced
in Quebec.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Canada uses about $102,000,000 worth
of manufactured cotton textiles during
a year, and of this nearly $54,000,000
are manufactured within the Province
of Quebec, which is credited with 80
per cent, of the entire Canadian pro-
duction in 1921. ,This is one of the
outstanding facts' in a bulletin just
issued by the Dominion Bureau of Si:a-
stistics on the manufacture of cotton
textiles in 1921.
The total Canadian production of
these industries in that year was $71,-
200,000 while the value of these manu-
factured and partly manufactured
products brought In from other coun-
tries was $32,288,060. In addition
there was also imported $13,953,000 of
raw cotton, all but $103,275 of which
came from the United States.
In the industry there are 46 plants
in all Canada, of which 21 are in
Quebec, 20- in Ontario and the other
five in the Maritime Provinces, four
of them being credited to New Bruns-
wick. In 1921 they• employed 15,823
persons, paid $12,142,000 in wages,
used •$38,454,816 in materials and
turned out $71,200,176 of products.
The ascendancy of Quebec in this
industry is found not in the number,
but in the size of its mills. For ex-
ample, those producing cotton yarns
and cloth are by far the most import-
ant in the industry, their production
for all Canada being valued at $65,-
978,596 in 1921, of which $50,095,832
is credited to Quebec and only $10,-
610,662
10;610,662 to Ontario, although that
Province has as many mills as has
Quebec. The capital invested in these
Quebec cotton yarns and cloth mills is
put at $43,827,000 out of a total of a
little less than $66,000,000 for all the
provinces.
That the cotton textiles industry has
to meet keen competition is evident
from the fact that over $28,000,000 of
manufactured goods were imported in
1921, the partly manufactured am-
ounting to nearly $4,000,000. It is
interesting to note that of these two
classes of goods $16,890,359 carne from
the United States, $12,560,000 from
Britain and $2,837,567 from other
countries. Add to this the nearly $13,-
500,000 of raw cotton imported from
the United States and the importance
of that country in this industry is real-
ized. Exports of cotton textile pro-
ducts in 1921 totalled $1,051,905, of
which $389,851 went to the United
States, $154,344 to Britain and $507;
709 to other countries.
A party of thirty Cornish miners
are leaving England on the Canadian
Pacific Steamship "Montclare," ac-
cording to cable advice, bound for the
gold mines of Ontario. About three
hundred miners from the English
south-western county have settled in
the Dominion within the past three
years.
It is predicted that Alberta's wheat
yield this year will not only break all
records in the aggregate but will
break all records in respect of average
per acre yield. The latest estimates
place the total wheat crop at round
148000,000 bushels, but it is believed
in grain circles that it will approxi-
mate 150,000,000 bushels.
Manufacture .Artificial
Money, Says Post-
master -General.
A despatch from London says t -.-
Great interest has been aroused re-
cently by reports that the Government
was considering a policy of currency
inflation as a remedy for the present
serious unemployment which some
economists had attributed to too rapid
deflation, but if the Government ever
contemplated such a change of policy
it would seem that it has thought bet-
ter of the Idea.
Sir Laming Worthington -Evans,
Postmaster -General, hi a speech at
Colchester, emphasized the need of a
sound currency system, and said of
the rumors that the Government in-
tended to manufacture artificial money
that there was not the slightest ground
for such a fear; it had no such inten-
tion.
Frederick Goodenough, Chairman of
Barclay's Bank, in a speech at the
same meeting, made it clear that he is
opposed to any policy of inflation. He
pointed to Germany as an instance of
the danger of an unchecked inflation,
and declared his belief that a policy
of deliberate inflation would not cure
the evils of unemployment, nor secure
commercial prosperity for the Empire.
On the other hand, deflation was a
matter requiring handling with the
greatest care and with due regard to
the conditions existing elsewhere,
It was to Mr. Goodenough that Min-
ister of Labor Barlow in a speech last
week erroneously attributed the plan
for currency inflation.
Most Valuable of Manuscripts
Found in British Museum
A despatch from London says: -A
great Shakespeare find of the first
magnitude is announced by The Daily
Express Thursday morning. For more
than one hundred years a hundred and
forty-seven lines of manuscript have
lain in the British Museum. They
were additions to a play written by
Anthony Munday on the life of Sir
Thomas Moore, which was published
about 1593. The play was eorreeted
by various hands, and it was suggest-
ed +hat one scene was written by
Shakespeare. The Express says it is
now established, according to eminent
scholars, that the handwriting is that
of the poet It is identical to that of
S3 A' proved signatures of his will and
other legal documents which hi , :er'.o
have been the only known exampie, �f
the haunhvriIing of Shakespeare. "The
manuscript is the most valuable in the
world. It can never, and will never, j
be bought by Americans, unless they
buy the British Museum," says The
Express.
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Forty-five persons began work re-
cently in ,the graduate schools of the
various Canadian universities under
Fellowships, studentships and bursar-
ies awarded by the Research Council
of Canada. Twelve Fellowships, hav-
ing a value of $1,200 each, eight stu-
dentships, with a value of $1,000 each,
and 25 bursaries, having a value of
$700 each have been granted by the
Research Council for the present year,
and these awards are being held in
nine depsa tinents of science at nine
LAKES CONFERS E S WANDS BEHIND THE
ST. LAWRENCE WATERWAYS PRDJEC
A despatch from. Milwaukee says; ---i
Canadian delegates are taking a pro'a,?-
inent part in the work of the Great,
Lakes Harbor Conference, which open-
ed here Thursday afternoon, Joseph'
Gibbons and D. M, • Goudy of Toronto, 1
and William H. Duncan of Midland,
Ont., were appointed on the Nor/line-1
tions Committee, and Mayor Alfred!
Maguire and Wm. A. Summerville of L
Toronto on the Resolutions Committee.
Mayor Maguire addressed the banquet
Thursday night, and J. H. Duthie of
Toronto, Secre art' o the National
Waterways Association, spoke Friday
afternoon,
Other Canadian delegates present!
are: Thomas McQueen, Controller W.;
W. Hiltz, Toronto, and D. I. White,!
Jr., Midland, Ont. Twenty- two Wis-!
consin and Great Lakes cities are rep-
resented among the 100 delegates
present.
The conference is called by the
Great Lakes Harbor Association,'
which was permanently organized at
the meeting.
Nine Stories is • Highest
Building in Paris
A despatch from Paris says :-Con-
struction of one of France's tallest
skyserapers-nine stories high -has
started in the Rue Mae.renniers.
Hitherto the highest buildings were
eight stories and a special permit was
needed to construct +.he additional
storey, for fear of malting a jagged
' and ugly skyline, and cutting off the
i light and air of the adjacent buildings.
Plain Post' Card Costs
3,500,000 Marks
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Nearly three and a half million --narks
in postage were necessary in sanding
a plain pot card received by the De-
partment of Trade and Commerce
from Germany, Seventeen stamps
were used, almost obliterating the ad-
dress and the message.
Mean.
Phyllis -"That new teacher's aw-
fully mean."
Mother ---"Hush, lay dear; you must
not say that,"
"Well, she is! What do you think?
She borrowed my knife to sharpen a
pencil to give me a bad nark."
A Long Route,
"And you give the giraffe only one
lump of sugar?" asked the little boy at
the Zoological Gardens.
"Oh, yes," replied the keeper, "One
lump .goes a long way with him."
The purposes of the conference are:'
Preservation of lake levels and pro-
tection of harbors and channels; pro-
motion of harbor development and,
port efficiency.
Co-operation between harbor eitied
for the stimulation of Great Lakes
commerce to the highest stage of
service.
Co-ordination of water and raif
lines to effect quick and efficient trans-
port of freight to and from lake ports,
giving economic and efficient service
to the entire nation.
It is also proposed to unite Amer -
kart and Canadian cities on the Great
Lakes in a movement to back the St.
Lawrence River Deep Waterways pro-
ject. Resolutions endorsing this water-
way and condemning the diversion of
water from Lake Michigan through
the Chicago Drainage Canal will be
adopted. Canada's co-operation in the
encouragement of water transporta-
tion on the Great Lakes was assured
b„y Mayor Maguire of Toronto in his
address on Thursday.
To Honor Canadian Regiment
Lady Patricia Ramsay, known best
to Canadians as Princess "Pat," the
colonel -in -chief of Princess Patricia's•
Canadian Light Infantry, who is to
place e, memorial to Ler regiment in
the Memorial rhapol of the Royal
Military Chapel at Sandhurst. The
Queen and Princess Mary have already
erected memorials there to their regi-
ments.
Really Swift.
Customer -"Do you guarantee these
colors* to be fast?"
Shop Assistant -"No, madam. Black
is never considered a fast color, you
know, but I can show you something
'pretty swift in stripes "
Weekly Market Repot
TORONTO.
Man. wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.07.
Man. oats -No. 2 CW, 51%c; No.
3 CW, 477c; No. 1 feed, 45%e.
Manitoba barley -Nominal.
All the above, track bay ports.
Am, corn -Track, Toronto, No. 2
yellow, $1.26.
Ontario barley -60 to 62c.
Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal.
Ont. rye -No. 2, 70 to 72c.
Peas -No. 2, nominal.
Millfeed-Del., Montreal freights,
bags included: Bran, per ton, $28.25;
shorts, per ton, $31.25; middlings,
$38.25; good feed flour, $210.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, 95c to
$1, outside.
Ontario No. 2 white oats -40 to 44c.
Ontario corn -Nominal.
Ontario flour -Ninety per cent. pat.,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, $470; Toronto basis, $4.60;
bulk, seaboard, $4.50.
Manitoba flour 1st pats., in jute
sacks, $6.50 per bbL; 2nd pats., $6.
Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton,
track, Toronto, $15; No. 2, $14.50; No.
3, $13.50; mixed, $12.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $9,
Cheese --New, large, 26 to 26c;
twins, 26 to 26%c; triplets, 27 to
27%c; Stiltons, 27 to 28c. Old, large,
32c; twins, 33 to 337iac.
Butter -Finest creamery prints, 40
to 42c; ordinary creamery, 37 to 38c;
No. 2, 36 to 37c.
Eggs -Extras in cartons, 44 to 45c;
extras, 42 to 43c; firsts, 38 to 39c;
seconds, 31 to 32c.
Live poultry -Springy chickens, 4
lbs. and over, 25c; chickens, 8 to 4
lbs., 22c; hens, over 5 lbs., 24c; do, 4
to 5 lbs., 22c. do, 3 to 4' lbs., 17c;
universities. • roosters, 15c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,
BRITAIN'S STRIKING POWER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
l3ritain is placing more and :more of her'naval'power in the Mediterranean, and the announcement of, the
transfer of the famous Iron Duke fro m; theS
th o Sea N r ato the Mediterranean is in line with the new naval policy:
Admiral Sir Osmond Brock will have the Iron Duke as his flagship. Some of the greatest and best of British
fighting shit's, will be under his command.
22c; do, 4 to 5 lbs, 20c; turkeys,
young, 10 lbs., and up, 25c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
4 lbs. and over, 83c; chickens, 3 to 4
lbs., 30e; hens, over, 6 lbs., 80c; do, 4
to 5 lbs., 28c; do, 8 to 4 lbs., 20c;
roosters, 18e; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,
28c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c; turkeys,
young, 10 lbs. and up, 80c.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, lb.,
7c- primes, 6%c.
Maple products -Syrup, per Imp.
gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin,' $2.40 per
gal.; maple sugar, Ib., 25e.
Honey -60-1b. tins, 11 to 12c per ib.;
10-1b. tins, 11 to 12c; 5 -Ib. tins, 12 to
13c; 2% -lb. tins, 13 to 14c; comb
honey, per doz., $3.75 to $4; No. 2,
Smoked meats -Hams, med., 27 to
29c; cooked hams, 40 to 42c; smoked
rolls, 22 to 24c; cottage rolls, 28 to
27c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 34c; spe-
cial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 38e;
backs, boneless, 31 to 88c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs., $18; 70 to 90 lbs. $17.50•
90 lbs. and up, $16.50; lighitweight
rroo ls, in bbls., $36; heavyweight rolls,
Lard -Pure tierces, 17% to 18c;
tubs, 18 to 18%c; pails, 18' to 19c;
prints, 20 to 21c; shortening tierces,
15% to 15%c; tubs, 15% to 16c; palls,
16 to 16%c; prints, 187% to 18%c.
Heavy steers, choice, $7.25 to $7.50;
butcher steers, choice, $6.25 to $6.75;
do, good, $6.50 to $6:25; do, med., $4.50
to $5.50; do, com., $3 to $4; butcher
heifers, choice, $6.25 to $6.75; do, med.,
$4.50 to $5.25; d.', com., $3 to $4; but-
cher cows, .choice, $4.25 to $5; do, med.,
$3 to $4; canners and critters, $1.50
to $2.50; butcher bulls, good, $4 to
$5; do, com., $2.50 to' $3.50; feeding
steers, good, $5 to $6; do, fair, $4.50
to $5; stockers, good, $4.50 to $5; do,
fair, $3.50 to $4; milkers and spring
ers, $80 to $120; calves, choice, $10 to
$11; do, med., $8 to $9: do, common,
$4 to $5; do, grassers, $8.50 to $4.50;
lambs, ch'c, $11.25 to $11.50; do,bucks,
$9,75 to $10; do, com., $8 to $8.50;
sheep, light ewes, good, $6.50 to $7.25;
do, fat, heavy, $4 to $5; do, culls, $2 to
$2.50; hogs, • thick, smooth, F.W.,
$8.35; do, f.o.b., $7.75; do, country
points, $7.50; 'do, selects, $9.25.
MONTREAL.
Oats --Can. VWest. No. 2, 58%c to
59c; CV/ No. 3, 57 to 57%c• extra, No.
1 feed, 56 to 567 ac; No. 2 local white,
55 to 55%c. Flour -Man spring wheat
pats., lsts, $6.50; 2nds, $6; strong
bakers, $5.80; winter ,.pats., choice,
$5.75 to $5.85. Rolled oats, bag 90
lbs., $3.05. Bran, $28.25. Shorts,
$31.25. Midlings, $38.25.' Hay, No.
2, per ton, car lots, $15 to $16.
Cheese --Finest eas terns, 21 . to
2114e. Butter --Choicest creamery,
$5% to 36c. Eggs -Selected, 42c. Po-
tatoes -Per bag, car lots, 95c to $1.
Cows, $1.50 to $2.25; bulls, $2.25 to
$2.50; canners, $1; fairly good weals,
$9 to $10; grassers, $2.50 up; hogs,
thick smooths and straight lots of un
e'raded, $9; sows, $6.75.
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