The Seaforth News, 1924-09-04, Page 3WORST STORM N YEARS PLAY.. S HAVOC
win SHIPPING ON NOVA: SCOTIA COAST
Many Boats Missing in. Gale Which Sweeps Maritimes
Passengers of Aspy Endure Hardships After Perilous
Rescue.
A despatch from Halifax, N.S.,
says: -With sections of the Nova Bee-
tle, coast strewn with wreckage; with,
4"
asels failing bo reach their destina-
tions; with no. hope that the crew, six'
all told, of the three -masted schooner;
Anna MacDonald, portions of which
have come ashore on the lonely Pros :
pest Ledges, near here, were alive;
with the American cruising yacht;.
Shanghai wrecked off White Point
Bluff, Canso, but her company heroic-
ally and miraculously saved; with the'
coastal steamer Aspy wrecked at
Neil's Harbor, Gape Breton, but with'
her crew and passengers, numbering
about 70, rescued, and with a man
drowned at Yarmouth when •the
schooner Lizzie E. was driven ashore
on the Yarmouth bar, it became appar-
ent on Thursday that the storm which
swept over thie Province Tuesday
night took a heavy tall of life and
shipping.
Not for years has such surf piled
up along the ledge.; and shoals and
headlands of the Province, dashing its
victims to destruction.
The schooner Julia If. C., Captain
Devons, which was reported abandon-
ed and about to become a total wreck
near the Bird Rocks, sailed into port
just as several craft were about to
be despatched in search of her. The
Captain stated his crew were dead
tired with fighting the storm and were
sound asleep in their bunks when hail-
ed by the vessel that brought the news
of their peril to Sydney and did not
hear either hails or whistles.
The coastal schooner Lady Thor -
burn, Captain M. Pearson, broke her
anchor chain and became a complete
wreck on the rocks at South L',rdoise.
A doapateb from Sydney, N.S.,
says :-The rescue of the passengers
of the coastal steamer Aspy when she
struck on Long Point, Neil's Harbor,
Cape Breton, Tuesday evening,,. was
touch and go, according to details
drifting in slowly from the North.
The firet boat lowered was smashed
by seas against the ship's side and a
reef. The"
met with more suc-
cess. The 23 passengers, incdluding
15 women and children, had a perilous
paseage over the boiling surf to a
ledge at the foot of the cliffs. With
the aid of the Aspy's searchlight, a
cove was discovered, and entering this
'the party clambered to the top of the
cliff, where they spent the night far
from human habitation. With day-
, light the seamen in the party found a
road, by which all made their way to
Neil's Harbor.
Captain Yorke and .the mato are
still aboard the Aspy awaiting the ar-.
rival of other boats of the same fleet,
which will attempt to salvage the bag-
gage and some of the cargo, The ves-
' sel is split open, her stern is gone, and
;although there are 15 fathoms of
water at her bows the middle of the
I ship is stuck fast among the rocks.
' . A despatch from Gloucester, Mass.,
says :-The fishing schooner Dorcas
' was reported swept aground on the
coast near here on Thursday night.
Her captain was reported to be dead
as a result of the accident. Details
of the reported wreck were not avail-
able.
FOUR MONTHS' RECORD.
18,870 CANADIANS
Return to Dominion After
Spell Across Border Along
With 7,005 U.S. Citizens.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
During the four months of April, May,
Juno and July of this year a total of
64,023 immigrants were admitted to
Canada, and du:iig the same period a
total of 18,870 Canadians returned to
this country from the United States,
of which total 16,166 were Canadian -
born citizens, 1,046 were British sub-
jects who had acquired Canadian
domicile, and 1,058 were Canadian
citizens (naturalized).
This makes an average per month
of Canadians returning from the Un-
ited States in the first four months of
the present fiscal year of 4,717. In
April the total of returning Canadians
was 4,078; in May, 4,936; in June,
4,720, and in July, 5,127.
July's total of immigration into
Canada, which was 10,778, was a de-
crease of 28 per cent, from the same
month last year, while the total of
64.023 for the four months ending
July 31 was an increase of 17 per
cent. over the corresponding period
last year. Of the total for the four
months, 33,248 were British, 7,005
were from the United States, and 23,-
770 were from other countries. For
July this year 4,789 were British, 1,-
578 were from the United States, and
4,416 from other countries, There has
been the usual seasonal falling off of
immigration' into Canada during the
summer months, entries for April be-
ing the high mark, with 19,330, which
was an increase of 103 per cent. over
the same month in 1923.
The first shipment of Manitoba-
salted butter was made to England'
recently, comprising 99,000 pounds.'
After deducting freight charges, two
cents per pound, the butter• netted one
cent per pound over the local quota-
tion for salted butter.
Among the, British scientists who
are now touring Canada is Prof. 8. S.
Muir of Edinburg, Scotland, a famous
alpine climber, who is convinced that
the British really conquered the peak
of Mt. Everest.
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Women Detectives to be Em-
ployed by Scotland Yard
Woman's wiles, wit and charms ver-
sus criminal craftiness is a possibility
of the future, and the outcome .is ex-
pected by Scotland Yard to rope in
more crime perpetrators than has been
the case recently, says a London de-
spatch.
Recruiting for the new women's po-
lice force is opening shortly, and, from
the many applicants, the Criminal In-
vestigation Department hopes to get
some bobbed• -haired, daintilygowned
detectives who will prove more than
the equals of the wily jewel thieves
and dope traffickers who have hither-
to eluded attempts of mere men de-
tectives to track them down.
The authorities are satisfied that
many of the present crimes and rob-
beries are engineered by a new set
of smart criminals who can only be
countered by detectives of the same
outward smartness and equal wit.
Canada from Coast to Coast
Summsrside, P.E.I.-Fox farming
Inc continues to be the chief branch
of fur farming in Canada, according
to a report issued by the Bureau of
Statistics. According to the report
there were 1,179 fox ranches in opera-
tion in 1923, of which number 448
were situated in Princo Edward Is-
land, 123 in Nova Scotia, 89 in New
Brunswick, 198 in Quebec, 201 in On-
tario, 22 in Manitoba, 4 in Saskat-
chewan, 44 in Alberta, 29 in British
Columbian, and 21 in the Yukon, The
revenue derived from the sale of live
foxes and pelta totalled $2,159,898 in
1923, compared with $1,526,822 in the
Halifax, N.S.-Owing to the contin-
ued dry weather the apple crop has
been quite heavy, and as a result of
the total yield for the Annapolis Val-
ley is now estimated at 1,274,744 bar-
rels, :which is approximately 70 per
cent. of last year's yield. There is
practically no injury from ineeot
pests, but there le some scab develop-
ing, even in some of tho well, sprayed
orcharde,
St. John, N.B.-New Brunswick and
Prince. Edward Island report light
hay yields, while Nova Scotia harvests
an average crop. Potatoes continuo to
make satisfactory progress.
Quebee, Que-Price Bros. Co, will
start work shortly on the erection of,
a new pulp and paper mill at St. Jo.
*mph d'Ahna. The work- will not be
completed until January of 1920, by
which time it is expected that the mill
will bo ready to produce 200 tons of
paper a day, . and this amount will
gradually be' increased until in 1929,
the daily -production will amount to
600 tons.
Tinunlne, Ont. -production of gold
from the mines of Northern Ontario
during Julywas maintained tie a rate
of over $25,000,000 annually, Nine
mines figured in the output of approxi-
mately, $2,12'5,000, Hollinger was the
chief producer, being responsible for
over $1,000,000 of the total.
Winnipeg, Man. -Approximately 60
per cent., or 1,262,604 of the popula-
tion of western Canada lived on oc-
cupied farms. Of the balance, 474,516
live in its twenty cities and towns of
over 2,500 and 228,962 live in 8,809
email towns and villages of 2,500 or
under.
Edmonton, Alta, -More than 400
miles of new roads are now under con -1
struction to the province under the,
direction of tho Provincial Publics
Yorks Dept. Several contracts have
recently been awarded for roadwork
in various parts of the province. I,
Trail, B.C:--About 10,000 tons of
Mei concentrates` and bar metals,'
roughly valued at more than $220,000,
have been shipped to Antwerp, Bel-
gium, by the Trail smelter of the Cone'
solddated Mining and Smelting Co.'
since the beginning of the present Guy'Weadiek and Flores La Due taught the Prince of Wales
year i, neighbors in Alberta, and welcomed his return.,
Thrao leading Germans who helped to consummate the Dawes agree-
ment were (left to right): Chancellor Marx, Finance Minister Luther and
Ministerial Director Herr von Schubert,
kYTa.I11O CONTINUES kNUE TO HO PREMIER
P0��
POSMON l Yd AM�L"AdX� THEPROVINCES
Fanners ;-Pere Receive Greater Returns Than the Earnings of
Western A griculturists.
A despatch from Toronto says: -
Tho golden flood of wheat from the.
West for a few weeks each year is
apt to blind Easterners to the riches
at their own door. The very fact that
estimates of the major Western crop
vary by millions of bushels with every
change in the weather makes the sit-
uation spectacular -but at the same
time very uncertain. In Ontario, on
the, other hand, 200,000 farms are pro-
ducing revenue every week in the year.
There is no feverish climax, but this
steady return over which the weather
has relatively little control runs up a
tremendous total at the end of the
year, exceeding by a third the gross;
agricultural revenue from the leading
Prairie Province, Saskatchewan. It is
almost double the output of Manitoba
and Alberta combined -
A year ago the total revenue re-
ceived by Ontario farmers was esti-
mated by the Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics at $400,611,000, compared with
$576,470,000 received by their fellow -
workers in the three Prairie Provinces.
It is impossible to take an accurate in-
ventory of agriculture in Ontario at
any given time, as the revenue in a
mixed farming province depends upon
prices of dairy, poultry, and other ani-
mal and field crop products on the
world markets during 865 days in the
year. One is safe in concluding, how-
ever, that an increase of from 20 to
30 per cent. in total income should be
received by Ontario farmers this year.
Grain prices- have risen over 20 per
cent. and the crops on the whole prom-
ise bigger yields than in 1923. Fall
wheat has averaged 27 bushels per
acre, oats should run about 85, hay
yielded a ton and one-half, potatoes
and roots promise the best crop in
years, and corn, while late, in the ma-
jority of fields should mature safely.
Pastures, upon which Ontario's great
live stock industry depends during the
summer months, have been particular-
ly good. Fruit growers expect at
least fair returns
Markets areeven more encouraging,
In every important line, save beef cat-
tle, prices are firmer by 5 to 50 per
cent. above the low point reached last
spring. The demand for farms, al-
most non-existent a few months ago,
is picking up,with many inquiries
from the United States. The labor
problem, formerly urgent, has now
been largely solved.
Field crops should be worth 5250,-
000,000, dairy products at least $100,-
000,000, the sale of farm animals
should bring over $40,000,000, the poul
try industry will add $26,000,000 to
the farmer's income, which should to-
tal more than 5450,000,000 for 1924.
Ontario is still the banner agricultural
province of the Dominion.
Church Property in Palestine
Claimed by the Soviets
As mandatory power for Palestine,
Great Britain probably will be called
upon soon to decide whether title to
the vast properties of the Russian
church in this country shall go to the
Soviet Government, or to Russian
Church interests outside of Russia.
The controversy involves hundreds
of thousands of dollars of property in
Jerusalem and vicinity, as well as in
Bethlehem, Nazareth and Haifa, con-
sisting of churches, monasteries, hos-
pices, parks and other .valuable plots
of land, One of the churches is in the
Garden, of Getheemane and another on
the Mount of Olives.
General Ferguson to Succeed
Viscount Jellico in N. Zealand
A despatch from London 'says:-
General Sir Charles Fergusson, who
was in command of the British 5th Di-
vision`and subsequently of the 2nd and
17th army corps during the Great
War, will.. succeed Viscount Jellicoe as
Governor-General of New Zealand.
Admiral Jellicoe's term expires
shortly.
Eskimo Chief Dies on
Delta of the Mackenzie
A despatch from Edmonton says:-
Ilavinik, head man of the Eskimos at
the mouth of the Mackenzie River, and
staunch friend of the governing white
race, died on the delta of the Mac-
keneie this summer, word of his death
having reached Edmonton by travel-
lers who arrived from the Arctic circle.
Ilavinik, besides hunting and trap
ping and trading with a schooner on'
the Arctic, was official interpreter for
the Mounted Police. He assisted in`
the capture of the two Eskimos who
were hanged for themurderof Roman'
Catholic priests and served as inter-
preter in their trial.
Coast of Britain to be Guarded
by Powerful Seaplanes
A despatch from L- ondon says; -
Great Britain's coast lino will in tho
future bepatrolled and guarded
near
by powerful seaplanes, now under con-
struction for the navy. Each will
carry a pilot, navigator, two machine
gunners, and a torpedo for launching)
at hostile surface craft.
Still more powerful planes are being
built to make longer flights seaward,)
and these will carry five men each.
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j` a�� What hat 1 900 Has Done for 11
The � I Northern Ontario.
Glancing back to the'commencemdnbi
TORONTO.
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 North,,
21.411/2; No. 2 North., 51.861/2No. 3
North., 51.34.
Mari. oats -No. 2 CW, 60c; No. 3
CW, 57/c; extra No. 1 feed, 58e;
No. 1 feed, 561/2c; No. 2 feed, 531e.
All the above, c.i.f., bay ports.
Am. corn, track, Toronto -No. 8
yellow, 51 3,
Millfeed Del: Montreal freights,
bags included: Bran, per ton, 29;
shorts, per ton, $31; middlings, 587;
good feed flour, per bag, $2.10.
Ont. oats -No. 3 white, 50 to 52c.
Ont. wheat -No. 2 winter, $1.10 to
51.16; No, 3 winter, $1.08 to 51.18;
No: 1. commercial, 51.05 to $1.10, f.o.b.
nominal shipping points, according to
freights.
Barley -Malting, 75 to 78c.
Buckwheat -87 to 89c.
Ont. flour -New, 90 per cent, pats.,
fn jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, $6.70; Toronto basis, $6.70, built
seaboard, nominal.
Man. flour-lst pats., in jute sacks,
$7.90 per bbl; 2nd pats:, $7.40.
Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, penton,
track, Toronto, 517.50; No. 2, 517; hlo.
3, $15; mixed, $13; lower grades, 210
to 512.
Rye -No. 2, 87 to 89c.
Straw-Carlots, per ton, 29,50 to
510.
Screenings -Standard recleaned, f.
o.b. bay ports, per ton, 22.50.
Cheese -New, large 20c; twins,
20/c; triplets,. 21c; utiltons, 22 to
28c. Old, large, 23 to 24c.; twins, 24
to 25c; triplets, 25 to 26c.
Butter -Finest creamery prints, 88
to 39c; No. 1 creamery'
86 to 87e; No.
2,84 to 35c; dairy, 28 to 29c.
Eggs -Extras, fresh, in cartons,
45e; extra, loose, 43c; firsts, 87c;
seconds, 80c.
Live poultry -Hens, over 5 lbs., 20c;
do, 4 to 5 lbe., 17e; 1o, 8 to 4 lbs., 15c;
spring chickens, 2 lbs. and over, 25c;
Roosters, 12c; ducklings, 4 to Ess lba,
18c.
Dressed poultry -Hens, over 6 lbs.,
26c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 22c• do, 3 to 4 lbs.,
18c; spring chickens, 2 lbs. and over,
30c; roosters, 15c; ducklings, 4 to G
lbs. 26c.
Beans- handpicked, lb., 61,501
primes Gc.
Maple products -Syrup, per imp.
gal., 22.60; per 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per
gal.; maple sugar, lb., 26 to 26c,
Honey -60 -lb. tins, 12/c pe'r lb,; 10
lb. tins, 121,2c; 5-1b. tins, 132c; 21/2 -
lb. tins, 14c.
Smoked 'meats -Hams, fined., 27 to of the present cautery and Surveying
29e; cooked hams, 42 to 43c; smnked `Northern Ontario aft it, was then, in,
rolls, 18 to 20c; .eottage rolls, 21 to dustrially, agrioulturallly and In don.
24c; breakfast b€eon, 28 to 27e; ops- city of population, one can hardly al).
tial brand breakfast bacon, 29 to Sic;
h 1 homeless 3¢ to 40g preeiate the advaneemeet that hag
Cured urea l.on Clea bacon, sp taken pisco. Only those who oonstanf,.
ac cies
ne ase, :
t5-- g .
to 70 lbs„ 5171 70 to 90 lbs, $1650 Ily have their hand 'on what mi be
90 lbs. and un $16,50; lightweight termed the provinoial pulse can realize
rolls, in barrels, 532; heavyweight the great growth of Northern O o'a
rolls, 527, m¢ny cutetaufllnp natural resources,
Lard -Furs, tierces, 171/& to i 8e i says the Natural Resource& lli.
tubs, 17311 to 18%o; pails, 18 to 18eic;
prints 201/1 to 2 1/sc' shortening, gence Service of the Departmentof
tierces, 6 to 16/c• cubs 161 to the Zuterior,
17c; pais, 17 to 171,2c; prints, 18 to In 1900 Northern Ontario was a
i3i2e, portion of the map. .The province's
Export steers, choice, 57.50 to 57,75; boundary reached only to the Albany'
do, good, 56.60 to 57• export heifers, river, which latter, so far as the er-
56 to $6.50; baby �ieaves, 57.50 to age eitizeh of the province wasn-
510; butcher steers, choice, 56 to awned, was in the wilderness In
56.50; do good, 55.50 to $6 do, med., 1912 the ,boundary was exteo to
445 to 8$5.f0 do, com., $$4 to 4.50• but. Fort Nelson on the Hudson Ba and
cher 'heffezis, choice, $6 to $6.6(i• da many thousands of square mi of
med$6 to 55,75; do, con,, $8.610 to
54,25'; butcher sows choice, $4 to 54.50' territory were added tc the pr
do, med., 53 to 54; Butcher bulls, good North Bay in 1900 lay .on the in
$4 to $4.26. do fair, $8,50 to - $4; of settlement, while to -day eettl re
raising crops along the Canadiana-
tional railway, 250 miles further north
and the T. & N. 0. railway has ed
its line 58 miles beyond to op up
the country..
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In Northern Ontario are some of
do, med., $6 to $8.60; do, corn. $3.50 to our largest pulp and paper mills, using
bolognas, 52 to 5 I Banners and,cut-
ters, 51'to 52.50; feeding steers,
choice, $6 to 55,26; do, fair, 58 to
55.50' stocIsers, choice, 54,50 to 56;
do, flair, $3.50 to 54.25; milkers,
springers choice, 575 to 590; do, fair,
540 to 55'o calves, ehpiee, 59 to 510;
$4.50; lambs, choice ewes, 512.50 to water powers which had for ages re
518; do, bucks, 510.50 to 511; do, nulls, mained unharnessed awaiting the con-
58 to $11; sheep light ewes, 56.60 to ing of the eugineer for .their develop•
$7.26;• do, culls $2 to $4,60' hope, fed moot. What was in 1400' considered,
and watered, $10,60 do f.o.b.910.
an almost impenetrable forest is now
fed and watered $1.1.60; do, off ears pp , g pulp hich keeps
do, country points,, 0.7�; do, ,select,
su 1 in the wood w
long haul, $11. ' ' the large mills of that portion of On -
MONTREAL.
tarso busy, as well as providing enor-
mous quantities of freight traffic to
Oats, Can. west, No. 2, 62 to 68c; the railways that have followed indus-
do, No. 8,_604 to 61e i extra No. 1 try,
feed, 60e; l 7o. 2 local white50c. Flour,'
Man 8Pring wheat ate,, lata 57.90;
silIvterwacsamnopt was ldi1s9c0o4vtehraetdhfoe lCoowibanlgt
2nds, 57.40; strong bakers, $7.20;w•
., choice, $$.80 to 57. Rolled the construction of the TSntiskaming
ter pats
oats, bag, 90 lbs., 58.55 to 58.75, Bran, and Northern Ontario railway from
529.25. Shorts, 581.25. Middlings, North Bay to Lake Temiskaming- This
537.25. Hay No, 2 per ton, car Iota, discovery brought in prospectors and
518.50 to $i7. mining men with a rush, and soon a
Cheese, finest Weets., 171/2 to 171e; number of towns andvillageswere
finest Easts., 171/2c. Butter, No. 1 pas- established. Since its discovery in
teurized, 86 to 361/c. No. 1 creamery, Northern Ontario 843,895,780 ounces,
85 to 852c; seconds, 84 to 84/c. of silver have been produced, valued
Eggs, fresh extras, 42c; fresh firsts,
86c. at 8212,868,434. Prospecting in the
Fairly good to good milk -fed calves, district did not stop with the discovery
$8 to $9 per cwt.; light hogs, $9.50 to of silver, however. Soon the wider
$10; better weights, $10.50,
Natural Resources Bulletin.
Heid towards Cochrane, on the Trans-
continental railway. was being inten-
sively prospected, leading to the dde-
covery of the Porcupine and Kirkland
Lakes gold -bearing areas. From 1909
The Natural Resources Intelligence
Service of the Dept. of the Interior to last December gold to the value of
at Ottawa says: $128,388,395 has bee taken out, or a
One of Canada's most important total for these two metals of $341,-
economic mineral resources, from the 051,829 from what was unknown terra -
standpoint of utility, is that of sand tory at the commencement of the cen-
and gravel. While not of large mone- tury.
Lary value, compared with other min-� This widespread development in
eral production, it is one of the classes' Northern Ontario is but an indication
of non-metalile minerals that it would of that to come. But a small portion
bo exceedingly difficult to get along; has yet been surveyed, while much
without (less has been closely prospected. The
t is net necessary here to detalli enormous amount of water -pow l &1-
the great number of purposes fors re 'dewill peventually developed
and wait;ng induce its
ap-
• which sand and gravel are used. The;movement for the provision of better' tyles requiring cheap power to enter
roads is based entirely upon supplies 'eta district, and these industries will
of sand and ,gravel, while the use of attract labor, whioh in turn will pro-
eement would be very materially re- vide markets for a large farming in-
stricted were it not that when mixed terest. Northern Ontario, with its
with sand and gravel concrete can be great and varied natural resources, is;
made at reasonable cost.
The railways are largely dependent
upon sand and gravel for ballasting
their tracks, while no railway loco-
motive would be allowed to have a
station without a supply of sand for
friction purposes.
In sone portions of Canada gravel
is not readily procurable, and conse-
quently is more greatly appreciated Africa, says: -Wholesale naturaliza-
ly supplied. This is particularly true
than in those portions more generous- tion of Germans under British citizen -
in some sections of the Prairie Pro- ship is being effected under a bill
winces, where both sand and gravel which is passing the final stages in
Premier Oliver
of British Columbia, who was elected
in a by-election at Nelson. He was
defeated in the recent general elec-
tions in which his party was returned
to power:
Three Horse Stung to Death
by Bees at St. Hyacinthe
A. despatch from St. Hyacinthe,
Que., says :-Three horses employed in
moving loads of gravel were killed
on the high road near here when
thousands of bees settled on the ani.
mals and literally stung them to death.
The Horses were completely covered
by the bees, and maddened by the
stings, tried to kick themselves loose
from the heavy wagons. The har-
ness was eventually severed by knives
and the animals, took weakened to
belt, were sprinkled with poison to get
rid of the bees. They died shortly
afterwards.
the at
of roping. They are his next door
making such rapid advances as will
in a compartively short time demand
the attention -of older Ontario and of
Canada as a whole.
Germans Become British Sub-
jects by Act of Parliament
A despatch from Cape Town, South
for constructionpurposes have to be the Union House of Assembly. The
brought considerable distances- bill relates to the mandated area form -
There are several varieties of sand erly known as German Southwest
in Canada, varying in fineness and in Africa and stipulates that every male
composition. In certain portions of adult who is a European and a subject
Canada a sand suitable for glass- of a former enemy power, domiciled
making is found, while in others a in the territory, automatically becomes
sand useful for moulding purposes is British unless he signs a declaration
found. The larger portion of the out -within six months, disavowing British
put of sand and gravel, however, is naturalization. Only in the event of
his return to Germany will his origin-
al citizenship be revived.
Grateful for Past Help.
A girl, now grown to womanhood,
writes, an encouraging letter to the
Children's Aid Society concerning her
experience as a ward. "For over
twelve years I remained in the one
A despatch from Ottawa says1-At foster -home," she says, "and can truly
a slight premium in New York the thank the Children's Aid Society for
'used for construction work, and it is
lin this form that the public is most
familiar with this necessary material.
Canadian Dollar Quoted
at Highest in the World
Canadian dollar eteocl for a time to-
day the higheet in the world. The
quotation of 1-32 of one per cent.
premium was the highest since the
Dominion .Government floated a hun-
dred million dollar loan in New York
in 1922.
The present situation is regarded
as temporary and due to heavy bore
rowings on the New York market and
flood of money in the ,United ' States.
1924 Asireage of Wheat
Reaches Total of 21,8 78,200
A despatch from Ottawa says: --
Canada sowed 21,676,200 acres p#
wheat in 1924, as compared with 22,-
671,864 acres the previous year, see
cording to the latest bulletin of the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics. .The
decvrease is four per gent,, Fall Wheat
occupied 733,700 acres; spring wheat,
20,942,500 acres; oats, 14,168,000
acres; barley, 2,879,000 acres; rye, 1,-
277,450 acres; flaxseed, 764,500 acres,
a 21 per cent• increase;. potatoes,
566,400 acres, an increase of one per
cernt
what they have done for me. My'foe-
ter-mother has. always been my ideal
of a good woman. Everything s'he dkl
seemed to be right.. She was kind t4
me when I was very undeserving and
with -all my foolishness she was pa-
tient and forgiving."
Canadians are travelling abroad
this summer to an unprecedented de-
gree. In the last four months a total
18,372 passports have been ibetted.
h0 number oftravellers is really
much in excess of this, as one pass-
port suffices for a man and his wife
or fancily. The majority of the mi-
grants 'are visiting the British Empire
Exhibition, as well as touring the
continent.
Crude ppetrolerum production in Can-
ad9 in 192$ was 170,169 barrels, val.
wed at 5522,018, compared with 179,.
088 barrels sat 5611,176 in the prevlguis
year, a decline of 9,000 barrels. The
average value per barrel received by
operators in the producing piosinee8
in 1923 were as follows: New Brneae
wick, 54.04; Ontario, 50.00; ant? Ale
berta, 54.28.