The Exeter Advocate, 1922-11-16, Page 7OUTLAY ON ONTARIO HIGHWAYS IN 1922
TOTALS TEN MILLION DOLLARS
A despatch from Toronto says: -i erected, 1,800; laridgee 'built, 23; rail -
With, the construction poled fer this mvay crossing subways constructed, 2,
This work, the highways' Depart -
year now over the. Provincial High -
merit states, has been accomplished as
Ways' Department made available en( the result of a season which has been
Thursday at the Parliament Buildings i most propitious for furthering the'
a statistical abstract of its sex son's: province's good roads scheme, The
accomplishmrents, It revealed the con -1 weather, it is pointed out, has been
struetion of some 300 .miles of vagi-; most favorable, supplies of materials
ously composed highways, the nceo.n-° have been more regular, and labor has
piishment cf much preliniinazy grading', been most efficient.
and other node, and the expendmtere; The locations of the Departrne it's
of approximately $10,000,000. As the; principal *ori, has been in the Niag-
Department's books for the year are; ma peninsula and up through We tern
not yet closed, this latter figure can,!, °u`erio. Ae• a consequence of its
net be specified mox�.definitely, activities in these regiens,:the Handl
-
Of this $10,000,0W, of course, the ton to. Brantford and Hamilton to
province's share, by virtue of the Lo Queenston roads have been completed,
minion and Provincial legislation; with the result that a paved surface
under which it operates is only ', nuw exists -from Hamilton to Niagara
000,000, or 40 per cent., the Domieion Falls. London and St. Thomas ,and
Government also being obligated te, Welland and Niagara Falls have been
pay 40 per cent, and the municipal,' linked up, while work has also radiat-
ities benefitting from the construction ed fre m the cities of Chatham, Wind
'Bing obligated tar pay the remeiniimg srn Ottawa, Peterboro and Toronto.
20 per cent. i The Department in its report ex-
The Highways' Department sem-J presses its recognition of the advis-
:narices its year's work as follows% ability of abolishing level crossings
tb t.nninous eolnerete pavement even- and states that it is pursuing this
struc
ted, 44.9 miles; cs:
concrete a pave-
ment
ve
-
ment
constructed, 43.25 miles; bitum-
inous macadam constructed, 11.25
miles; waterbound macadam con-
strueted, 107,4 miles; macadam base.
policy as rapidly as practical consul -
orations will peinit. The cost, it is
pointed out, is so great that reason-
able regard must Ire bad for the rail-
way companies in the tnatter of the
course constructed, 138 miles; grading oxtent to which they are forced into
finished, 487 miles; eoncrete culverts this expenditure,
ALLOW GERMANY TWO
YEAR MORATORIUM
Experts Advise Granting Re-
spite from Reparations Pay-
ments of Cash or in Kind.
.A. despatch from Berlin says: -The
report of the experts who have been
investigating economic conditions in
Germany, Professors Keynes, Brand,
Jenks and Cassel, advocates a two -
years' moratorium from reparations
payments of drill or in kind and
stabilization of the mark on the. basis
of 3,000 to 3,500 marks to the dollar
by utilizing the Reichsbank's gold re-
serve. The report contends that the
financial problem cannot bo solved
unless the mark b stabilized, and that
stabilization would be impossible
witleaut 8 moratorium, The experts
suggest that hell the Reichsbank's
gold would suffice, and should be de,
Noted to repurchase of paper marks,
the repurchases to be restricted to
German bank notes, especially those
in foreign possession, but excluding
exchequer bills,
The .moratorium might need to he
extended, and payments should net
be resumed until Germany is able to
discharge them from a real budget
surplus, which the experts think may
be attainable in two years. Thus
stabilization wouldr depend for success
not on a foreign loan, but on develop-
ment of the eonddtions of production
and final settlement of the reparations
problem.
They consider that their plans
would Are facilitated if in the mean-
time negotiations were started with
a consortium of hankers to support
stabilization by modest credits, and
also that a foreign loan cannot be ex-
pected until the reparations problem
is finally settled.
Regarding an unfavorable trade
balance, the, experts state that statis-
tics at present available cannot form
ground for adequate judgment and
that Geoanany should have equal
rights with •other nations to impose
customs duties on luxuries and the
•
Sir Auckland Geddes
"Stay where Canadayou aro," is his advice with the Laurentide Air Company for
ents have already been made
to young Canadians, on his visit to the employment mat ' aha ns p oyment of a small fleet of air -
THE COMING STORllri,
-From. London Opinion,
VAST AREAS TO B11
BYPLANE
SURVEYED
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Further Extension of Traffic
Boundaries Planned. by
T. and N. O
A despatch from Cochrane, Ont„
says: -The almost limitless expanse
of the territory stretching as far as
the: Province of Manitoba on the
northwest and Hudson Bay on the
east and the Albany River on the
south, will be made the subeect of ex-
tensive investigations by airplane
next summer, according to the present
intentions of the; T. and N. O. Comn-
mnissione. In an interview here on.
Thursday, in which he touched on the
future policy of the T. and N. 0. in its
plans for further extension of its
traffic boundaries, Chairman George
Lee. stated that completion of the ex-
tension of the railhead. to James Bay,
will only mark the opening of further
exploitation. of unknown lands for the°
Ontario Government. During the past
summer several. Airplane parties had'
flown over considerable territory inthe
vicinity of the Albany River and ar-1
planes he that region next summer.
1.
miles of railway a is
Atpresent70 1
y
under actual •coonstz ction north of
Cochrane, the steel stretching north
from here for 25 miles in the direction Ing plan. ( railway. The location of the claims,
of James Bay whale the route of the Quebec, Que.-As s� result of itis neoecsitating the expenditure of a
emetemmsian has been located for 100 special settlement efforts through the,considerable amount of capital to
rnilea. Trail lines have been run to clearing of colonization lots the Prov- bring them. to a profitable ;producing
Moose Factory and the location of ince of Quebec disposed of 220,000 ; stage, a the only obstacle to their.
the actual .tare for the remainder of acres to newcomers during the year = rapid development.
the way will be located° this winter. ending June 30th, 1922. In the twelve Dawson, Y.T.-The Yukon's gold
"We hope to get construction far months 626 families of French -I; output this year .may total a million
Canadian origin, consist-ing of 2,471 II end three-quarter ounees, Dredging'
persons, returned to the hozuo of their continues along the creeks. beyond the,
fathers from the New England states.! usual period because of the unusunike
Several thousand additional acres are, mild autumn and the gold .production,
already cleared for the same purpose. will be increased. accordingly. Eye
and a system. of inspection organized l draulic mining operations were ahs
According to a statement of the Pro-'
vinelal Minister of Colonization, Hon.
J. S. Perrault, Quebec could easily ac-
commodate odate 15,000,000 more people at
brief notice.
Canada from Coast to Coast
Charlottetown, F E.I, A d�aspatch Ottawa, Ont,, -Canada has as comp
front London, Eng., states that the mereisI 'exchange with Asia (include,
rearing of silver and }flack foxes J a ing Japan, but excluding Russian. and
new indnstmy in Bossshire, Scotland.. 'tnurkixh- Asia), 'voith' $43,000,000 a
Foundation stools; was secured from year, aceordieg to =revised figures
I'zince EdYv,trd Island two years ago of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
as an experiment, and. reselts have With Oceania, the Dominion does 'a
been so good that operations In con. business to the extent of $20,000,000
vection ..therewith have; been greatly a year, while wlth Mexico and the
extended. It Las been found. that the countries of South Atneriea bordering
climate is favorable -to the fox raising on the E•aelfie her trade is valued at
industry in'seetione of Scotland, $14,000,000 a year. In the aggregate
Halifax, Neo. A total of 71,4321 dila trade is about evenly divided bs
twee. imports :and exports,
Winnipeg, Man. --The crop move;
anent continues with unabate d energy
at the .average rate of °about 1,700 carts'
per day through the inspection staff at
Winnilpeg'. This represents appz'odi-
Mutely two millions bushels of grain;
daily passing through this city'.
E linarmton, Alta. --After a most sure
pounds of wool were marketed during
the past season by the Canadian Co -
Operative Wool} Growers' Assoeiation
for the Nova Scotia farmers. While
this is but a small fraction of the
total clip for the province, it Is a coir-
sidera°ole ledvance en last year's co-
operative sales. Nearly eight -ninths
of the wool was graded as medium
combing. -easeful Ceason fishing on the northern
Fredericton, N.B.--A total of 22,096 lake has beep. brought to a close, As
pounds of wool was handled for grad- compared with previoue years, exports
ing and shipping by the Canada. Co- have increased. Seventy-seven cars
operative Wood Growers' Association were shipped this year as against 69
for the Department of Agriculture last year. Chicago was the heaviest
eeting for New Brunswick sheep: buyer.
breeders. Returns, from the sate of Revelstoke, B.C. - Development
wool amounted to $4,711, the average; work is now under way on asbestos
price being over 22 cents per pound, as claims in British Columbia located o I
against 1234 cents last year, About' Mount Sproat, 24 miles south of here.
+m.
claimsi ped ata e. m,a•
200 farmmmeis..of' the province. dis=aosed�. These 1 m are oda.n e
of their wool output this year through tion of 4,200 feet above sea level and
this co-operative grading' andr market-' about 2,800 feet above the nearest
Dominion. He says that It G die
stood by their country in peace as
they did in war, its progress would be
ten times as great.
Closer Trade Relations
Desired by Italy
A despatch from London says: -
Hon. W. S. Fielding and Hon. Ernest
Lapointe are expected to return to
Tendon from Paris next week. It is
understood that the Italian Govern -
no
tified the. Canadian auth-
ment has
orities hero ef its willingness to nego-
tiate in London for acommercial
agreement between Italy and Canada,
in view of the fact that it is unlikely
that Hon. Mr. Fielding will be unable
to find time to go to Rome for that
=purpose. The new Faseisti adminis-
tration has already signified that its
attitude towards Canada and ',loser
trade relations with the Dominion is
friendly, despite the anti-British
sentiments expressed by spokesmen of
the party before its advent to political
power.
Marsh Cas Caused
right to demand the most-favored-na- U.S. Mine Explosion
tion treatment as regards exports.
'Phe signatories believe that it is neith- A despatch from Spangler, Pa.,
er necessary or Practicable to pro-
hibit absolutely an increase in the
floating debt, but that with the meek
stabilized it would be possible to allow
just enough further increase to tide.
over immediate difficulties.
National Debt of Britain
Over $34,000,000,000
A despatch from London says: -
enough advanced to allow the con-
tract for the remainder of the road
tit Iliocse Factory being let next year,"
is Mr. Lee's statement, "The present
construction is aimed to develop all
Ontario east to the Quebee boundary
and certain portions of Northern Que-
bec, -.A1 will naturally drain its
traffic into James Bee' The Western
portion of Ontario, of course, will be
exploited to the utmost and the possi-
bilities of further traffic from this
will be continually invest.-
gasted."
Canada raises mole wheat per
capita than any other country, accord-
ing to the "American Miller," and sets
the world a good example, for she also'.
consumes mora bread per capita than,
any other country.
y market et Report
Toronto.
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northe
Manitoba oats--Numina'L
Manitoba barley -Nominal.
All the above track, Bay ports.
American corn -No. 2 yellow,
884,c; No. 3 yellow, 874.e, all rail.
Barley -Malting, 59 to 62e, accord-
ing to freight outside.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 71 to 73c.
Ryes --No. 2, 76 to 79c,
Millfeed-Del. Montreal freight,
bags included: Bran, per ton, $22;
shorts, per ton, $24; middlings, $28.50;
good feed flour, $2.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, $1.07
to $1.12, ac riling to freights outside;
No. 2, $1.02 to $1,07,
Ontario• No. 2 white oats -41 to 43c.
Ontario corn -Nominal.
Ontario flpale
our -Ninety per cent. p,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, $4.80 to $4,90. Toronto basis,
$4.70 to $4,80; bulk, seaboard, $4.60
to $4.65.
Manitoba flour -1st pats., in cotton
sacks, $6.90 per bbl.; 2nd pate., $6.10.
Hay -Extra, No. 2, per ton, track,
Toronto, $15; mixed, $13,50 to $14;
clover, $13.50 to $14.
Straw --Gar lots, per ton, track, To-
says:-Methane-conmmonly called ionto, $9.50
marsh gas -was responsible for the Cheese -New, large, 25c; twins,
explosion in the Reilly mine Monday, 26%e; triplets, 26%e; Stilton, 27c.
which claimed a toll of more than Old, large, 27c; twins, 28c; Stiltens,
three score of lives. This conclusion
was reached en Thursday night by
Steward Button, chief of the State
Bureau of Mines, who completed the
first phase of an investigation to fix
responsibility for the disaster,
"Methane is generated by vegetable
matter in the coal," he said. "The ex-
,
The British Treasury returns made plosion was comparatively slight.
pulblic on Thursday give Great Bri- Most of the lives were claimed by the
tain's total debt on April 1 of this
year at 07,742,526,147 (roughly $34,-
067,115,058). The lowest figure since
1875, when ilbe debt was £767,268,569
0$,366,081,648), was in 1899, when it
was 0635,393,11640635,393,1164 ($2,795e732,429). -The
debt in 1914 was $8,118,678,184.
The highest figure was in 1920,
When it was £7,878,607,166 ($34,55.5, -
*71,619),
after damp."
A ..
The biggest carload of apples ever
shipped out of British Columbia went
eastward last week to Magrath, Alta.,
the buyers being Messrs. Wurz iz and
Whiffle, purchasing agents for the
Mernonite colony near that town. Fif-
teen hundred boxes of Jonathan.and
Wagners made up the shipment.
29c.
Butter -Finest creamery pr" 40 Oats, CW, No. 2, 64 to &5c; CW, No.
Potatoes New, Ontario, No. 1, 90e
to $1; No. 2, 75 to 85c,
Smoked .meats Hams, med., 26 to
28e; cooked. ham, 40 to 43e; smoked
rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rolls, 86 to
88e; breakfast bacon, 32 to 35e; spe-
cial brand breakfast bacon, 88 to 40e;
backs, boneless, 39 to 48e.
Cured moats --Long clear bacon,
$19; lightweight rolls, in trots., $47;
heavyweight reels, $38.
Lard --Pure tierces, 17e; tubs,
17eet; pane, 17ele; prints, 191,4c,
Shortening, tierces, 18 to 13 of c; tubs,%,
13 to 13%c; pail, 14 to 14ef:e;
prints, 163! to 17c.,
Choiee heavy steers, $T to $8; eher steers, choice, $5 to $6.25; do,
good, $5 to $5.50; do, med., $4 to $5;
do, come$3 to $4; butcher heifers
choice, $5.75 to $6.25; do, med., $4.50
to $5.25; do, corn., $3 to $4; butcher,
cows, choice, $3.50 to $4.25; do,'
medium, $2.50 to $3.00; canners'
and cutters, $1.50 to $2.25;
butcher balls, good, $3.50 to $4.25; do,
corn., $2 to $3; feeding steers, good,'
$5 to $5.50; do, fair, $4 to $5; stockers,
good, $4 to $4.50; do, fair, $3 to $3.50; .
carves, choice, $10 to $11; do, med.,'
$8 to $9.50; do, tom., $3 to $T; welch
cows, choice, $&0 to $80; ;springers,
choice, $70 to p0; lambs, $11.75 to
$12; sheep, choice, $6 to $7; do, bulls,
$2 to $5; hogs, fed and watered,
$10.50; do, f.o.b., $9.75; do, country
points, $9.50.
down a few days ago, but there is
activity still throughout the gold
creeks. The silver output from Mayo
shippedi to date is about 150,000
ounces.
Admiral Halsey
Canadians will remember Admiral
Sir Lionel Halsey as cne of the officers
who attended the Prince of Wales on
his tour of the Dominion. He has been
retired at his own request to make
om
rofor younger officers,
Montreal
to 42e; ordinary creamery prints, 38
. 3, 60 to 61e. Flour, Man. spring wheat
to 40e. Dairy, 29 to 31e. Cooking, 21c. pats., firsts, $6.80. Rolled cats, bag
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 4 lb, 90 lbs,, $3.05 to $3.15. Bran, $22.
and 'up, 28e; do, 3 to 4 ib., 25e; fowl, Shoats, $24. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car
5 lb. and up, 2Se; do, 4 to 5 lib., 25e; lots, $16 to $17.
do, under 4 lb., 17e; geese, 24c; duck- Cheese, finest Easterns, 23 to 23%e.
.legs, 33c; turkeys, 40x. Butter, choicest creamery, 37e. Eggs;
Margarine -20 to 22c. fresh, 45 to 46e; selected, 39 to 40c;
Eggs -Na. 1 Dandled, 37 to 38e; No. 1 stock, 36e. Potatoes, per bag,
selects, 39 to 41c; cartons; new laids, oar lots, 90 to 95c.
65 to 70c. Good steers, $5 to $•5.50; North-west
Beans -Canadian band -picked, lb., cattle, $4.50 to $5; red. steers and
Sc; primes', 53�1c.• heifers, $3.50 to $4.25; com.,. $2.25 to
Maple products --Syrup, per imp. $3; med. cowe, $3 to $3.25; cam. cows,
gal., $2.50; per 5 imp. gals., $2.40; $1.50 to $2.75; bu11e, $2.25 to $3;
maple eugar, lb., 23 to 25e. calves, $9 to $9.50; med. calves, $6 to
Honey -60- Ab. tins, 121 to 13c per $8; graassers,�: $2.75 ,to $3.50; beat
ib.; 2 and 2% -lb. tins, 14 to 14xzc per lambs, $10.50 to $11; med., $10 to
Iib.; Ontario comb honey, per dozen, . $10.50; corn. lambs, $9.50 to $10;
$3.25 to $4. ;sheep, $4 to $f. Ings, $11.25.
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A pair of buffalo recently donated
by the Canadian Government to the
Zoological Gardens at London, Eng-
land, recently left the park at Wain-
wright, Alta. They were shipped in
crates to Montreal and will be berth-
ed on board ship in specialty con-
structed pens, 10'^feet by 12 feet.
e
Two hundred and sixty-three silver -
black foxes, this year's pups, have
been shipped from the Colpitts ranch,
Little River, New Brunswick, to Cal-
gary, where they are to form the
nucleus of an expansive fox ranching
enterprise operated by the Calgary
Fox Ranch Company.
Natural Resources
Bulletin
The Fort William Paper Col
are installing two newsprint
machines to .make a ebeet of
paper over sixteen feet in width.
Each machine will produce 80
tons per day. It takes eight
trees eight inches in diameter t a
make a ton of paper. This merles
that 1,280 trees will be required
daily, or nearly halt' a million
trees per year. As under nor-
mal forest conditions it requires
70 years for a balsam tree to
Teach eight inches in diameter
and 120 years for a spruce, it
would be interesting to figure
out the number of years' growth
consumed daily by the two new
machines at Fort William.
At Iroquois Fails tpe Spanish
River Paper Co. have, among
others, two machines each of
which makes a. sheet of paper
19 feet wide.
Troops Raid De Valera
Headquarters in Dublin'
A despatch from Dublioe, says;H
Troops raided the De Valera party's.
headquarters in Suffolk Street on
Thursday evening and made a prof
longed search of the premises.
No men were found in the building,'
but five women were arrested and a'
,large quantity of documents were
° seized, including Republican election,
l literature.
DEMANDS OF KEMAL POINT TO
CONTROL OF DARD ANEEEES BY TURKEY
A despatch from London says: --1
With the Allies agreed to 'hold on in!
Constantinople and to refuse to recog-s
nize the abolition of the capitulations!
by the Turks, the British Government!
has new proposed to France and Italy
the postponement of the Near. Eastern;
parley at Lausanne, to ensure corn -1
plete unity among the Allied powers
in the face of the demands which
Turkey ie expected to make . at the
conference.
The French, however, insist that it
is dangerous to delay the conference,
and they are backed up by the Allied
High Commissioners and Allied gen-
erals inConstantinople.
With the moral support of the Mosel
crow Government, Mustapha Kemal'e{
Government is not only asking foil
the return of Mosul, the rich oil region
in Mesopotamia, but also a portion afj
Syria and an indemnity of $1,200, t
000,000 from Greece, the autonomy of
the Greek Islands off the coast of
Asia Minor, the abolition of capitula-'
tions and the complete independence
of Turkey. The latter demand un.�
diowbtediy has a direct application:
controlef the Straits, which the
United States and the Allies insis
should not be subject to Turkishs
control.
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