The Seaforth News, 1934-01-04, Page 3THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934
THE SEAF`ORTH NEWS.
PAGE THREE
A 'MA'N OF VISION
Ontario has advanced along many
lines in the past decade, but no ad-
vancement has been more striking
and mere substantial than that of the
mining industry, says the magazine
Gold, a Northern Ontario publication,
in a special Christmas edition, ,When
Hon. Iloward Ferguson appointed
Hon. Charles McCrea as minister of
nines for the province in 1923, he
chose a man who was not only well
fitted for the position, because of his
intimate association with the mining
industry of the north country, brut one
who has proved himself to be a man
of outstanding executive ability and
vigorous leadership.
Hon. Charles McCrea is a man of
vision, but he is no visionary. He fore-
saw the immense possibilities of that
great northland and he immediately
set to work to translate his visions in-
to actuality. 'When he assumed office
eleven years ago the attitude of the
people of Ontario generally was half-
hearted toward the subject of mining,
and they little appreciated the fact
that untold wealth lay within their
grasp. The average than regarded .min -
Mg as a very risky speculation, and
sufficient capital could not be secured
for development purposes. The nickel
industry was in the backwash of the
Great War, while the Cobalt mining
intp was on the wane,
�GBaked solidly by the Government,
Mr, McCrea assumed the task of
breaking down prejudice and awak-
ening the people of Ontario to the
fact that they possessed in Northern
Ontario a • first class investment and
their greatest asset. As a result of his
efforts the people were stirred to a
new interest and confidence in the
mining industry, They began to real-
ize the tremendous possibilities for
the creation of new wealth that lay
within their own boundaries. Lt season
and out of season, Mr. McCrea pro-
claimed the gospel of mining, He saw
in mining a secure basis for the future
pro verity of Ontario. Ile carried his
rtes ire further afield, and was the
"list tMinister of mines to cross the oc-
;rWtrll' to declare Ontario's mineral
wealth to the mining and financial
men of the British Empire. Since his
visit to the Wembley Exhibition in
1924 the interest in Ontario's mineral
resources has spread throughout the
world. Steady advance has been made
in mining methods and metallurgical
processes, and these are today models
for millers and metallurgists every-
where.
The Government has also hacked
the department .of mines in an inten-
sive campaign of geological explore -
tint' and mapping, of numerous miner-
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alized areas of the north country, Int
the past ifh years the geographical
staff of the department has been in-
creased and a greater number of field
parties than ever before has bees sent
out to survey areas in which new dis-
coveries ltd been made; while many
of the old mining areas have been re-
explored and former Wraps revised.
More geological reports and trap's and
general information on mining have
been prepared and issued by the de-
partment ,of mines in the past ten
years than in any previous 20 -year
period.
This increased interest and activity
in Northern Ontario has -undoubtedly
been due to a very large degree to
the aggressive policy, not only of pub-
licity, but of practical encouragement
and assistance that .have been given
by the Ontario department of mines
to both prospectors and miners, 'Much
has been done to prepare the prospec-
tor and direct him in his search for
the hidden 'treasure, The number of
prospectors classes has been increas-
ed and the attendance at these classes
has grown enormously.
As a part of the McCrea program
of support for mining, the Government
has made available large quantities of
hydro -electric power in the mining
districts of the north. New highways
have been built connecting up the
northern and southern parts of the
province, and numerous roads have
been laid into new areas to facilitate
transportation for the special benefit
of the mining industry. its addition
the T. & N.O, Government railway
has linked up Ontario with the min-
ing areas of Quebec and laid branch
lines into new: mining field centres in
the province.
Ontario stands today in the fore-
front among the .metal mining emus -
tries of the world. The province poss-
esses a range of metallic minerals that
is perhaps unequaled in any other part
of the globe. At Sodbury there are
the greatest known nickel .deposits on
the face of the earth. The limits of
these deposits are as yet unknown, to
say nothing of the rich copper ore
with which the nickel is associated in
the great Frood mine,
The following figures show how the
money earned by the metal trines of
Ontario in the past 11 years was dis-
tributed in dividends attd wage;:
Total metal production (1923-
1933) :t736,000,000
Dividends 1.90,000,00.0
Wages (not including salar-
ies) . , ,t.. , , . .300000,000
The balance of the. $736,000,0041 pro-
duced was distributed among both la-
bor and capital in salaries, equipment
and supplies, power costs, taxation,
workmen's compensation insurance,
transportation, etc,
it must be remembered that the
above $7,36,000;000 represents newly -
created wealth, Every million dollars
created and released to labor and'capi-
tal means a million dollars increase in
the purchasing power oi the people of
the province. A Canadian banker re-
cently told us that every dollar put in-
to circulation turns over on an averages
of 25 times in the course of u year..
In view of these facts every citizen
can readily realize the vast importance
of our mines, which have not merely
made two blades of grass grow where
one grew before, but have actually
created industries in the north coun-
try where there were none before. If
that banker's estimate be correct, that
every dollar turns over 25 •time's in a
year, then the release of millions of
dollars by speculation and investment,
in dividends, wages and all the other
expenditures of our mining industry,
might be multiplied 3d times to show
what our mines have meant in terns
of the :spending power of the people.
of Ontario in the last decade.
Ontario's gold mining industry has
already eclipsed the combined output
of P,ri•tish Cohunbia, including the
Cariboo, and also the Yukon with uta
far-famed ,Kdondike. At the end of
1933 Ontario had produced. gold to
the value 'of half a billion dollars, in
Canadian money, which is more than
half of the total production by the
Dominion of Canada as a whole.
No other industry could have pro-
dueed a more marketable commodity
than gold during these years of de-
pression. Certainly no commodity
could have been oi greater service in
such a time of ,inafeial 'strain, Our
gold ntittes have made available -Mil-
lion tr, back. our 'credit and meet for-
eig:a exchange balances• -•London Free
Press,
LEND HELPING HAND TO
FISH IN CANADIAN STREAMS
No doubt they didn't know it but a
;good many fish were able to make
their way in Canadian streams dur-
ing recent months only because they
had been helped along by Man as re-
presented by engineers of the Do-
minion Department of Fisheries.
And a lot of little fishes now swim-
ming about wouldn't have been born
at all if the engineers - had not built
fishways and .cleared obstructions
from streams and so made it possible
for parent fish to reach spawning
grounds in bygone months.
;Opening ftp channels in some river
beds, building fishways, and remov-
ing stream obstructions ,in theMari-
time Provinces and British Colombia,
where the fisheries are administered
by the federal authorities, make up a
very important part of the engineer's
work, though art the whole of it by
a long shot. If it weren't done, then,
in some streams, different kinds of
fish which spawn in fresh water
would be unable to make their ascent
if they chanced along when the water
was low, in other cases falls would
bar the way to spawning grounds,
and in still other streams obstacles
of various kinds w•onld prevent the
fish from travelling along, The result
would be that reproduction would be
checked and fish stocks would not be
maintained, and, in clue course, this
would moan smaller catches and less-
ened earnings for the commercial fish-
erman and poorer sport for the angler.
Quite often, of course, the work of
making the way clear for fish on a
spawning stream is not a big job for
an obstruction which effectively
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blocks passage may, at the same time,
be comparatively easy of removal.
Sometimes, however, the engineer's
undertaking is anything but a small
task, as, for instance, in the case of a
fishway on the Mersey River, Nova
Scotia, which was built to overcome
a heigfh-of about 60 feet— the great-
est height overcome by any fishway
itt the world, so far as is 'known—or
in the case of the Samp Falls fishway
in British Colombia, which had to be
cut out of solid rack. But, big or n-
th. the jibs all have the one nurpose
---to assist in maintaining the runs of
fish so that future supplies for the
fishing industry may be assured.
One or two references to work done
last year will perhaps indicate more
clearly the different kinds of jobs that
are done. On both the Roseway and
Lequille rivers in Nova Scotia chan-
nels several hundred feet long were
openedupto facilitate the ascent of
fish during low water periods,
alewives and salmon get up the Med-
way River in Nova Scotia an existing
fishway was enlarged and channels
were improved. A channel was open-
ed through a gravel bar at the en-
trance of trout for spawning. Inspec-
tions and surveys of several streams
in each of the three Maritime Prov-
inces were made in order to determine
necssary action to aid the passage of
fish.
In British Columbia a fishway was
completed on the hwalatie and Wok-
silah rivers and work was done on
some existing fishways. Obstructions
of different sizes were removed from
fifty streams or more in the provin; e.
A number of surreys and inspections
were made, some for the purpose of
checking up on the effectiveness of
fishways previously built and others
for the purpose of ascertaining what
course would he best to follow in
overeoming difficulties in different
streams. It is interesting to note, too.
that examination of fishways con-
structeel in previous years, both in
the 'Maritime Provinces and on the
'Pacific coast, showed that they were
operating efficiently and that many
fish which would otherwise have
found it practically impossible to get
to the spawning beds in the upper
reaches of the rivers were successful-
ly making the ascent,
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Health of Poultry Flock
Normal health is essential in a
poultry flock because illness lowers
egg production and reduces weight
gains.
'Disease, particularly when of a
communicable nature, is preventable.
Medial treatment .of a sick flock
costs money with little assurance of
profitable results.
Constant vigilance is necessary to
prevent the spread of contagious dis-
ease in the flock.
Soybean Varieties Differ
Growers of soybeans should give
some thought towards She selection
of a suitable variety to :grow in their
locality. Soybeans, like other crops,
show- wide diffcren.ces between var-
ieties and undoubtedly a. number of
growers are realizing that this is an
important consideration. At least it
would be wise to investigate the
characteristics of the several varie-
ties avaiiihle at present, The Har-
row Experimental Station will be
glad 'to assist in this matter With the
results of tests carried outso far,
Soya. Bean Meal as Fertilizer
IA regulation tinder the Dominion
Fertilizers 'Act has been established
which requires a Minimum of 05 per,
cent of available nitrogen and not
more than 6 per cent of oil in the
meal sold 'for fertilizer purposes. This
guarantees to buyer; tiro the ureal
has been properly pr,,ce.sscd, and in-
dicates that it should ,gi.c efficient
resultswhen used as a nitrogen fer-
tilizer.
Soya bean meal has for many years
been used as a nitrogen fertilizer in
caste n countries, particularly Japan •
and t_ na, \lbile it has been official-
ly recognized only recently as a
fertilizer in Canada, Chinese garden -
Orr in British Columbia have, during
the last few years, used as fertilizer
ituitdreds of tons of soya bean meal
imported from eastern sources, prin-
cipally Manchuria..
•In recent years soya beau produc-
tion in Ontario has made consider-
able progress and sive factories have
been established, one - at Milton and
one at Chatham, fcrr the manufacture
of tite meal. As a result there is now
a supply of domestic soya hean meal
in Ontario which in even higher in
gnality than Asiatic meal felt feeding
and fertilizer purposes.
Crop Facts
Although the volume of field crop
production in Ontario this year was.
less than in 1932 owing to drought
and intense heat daring the growing
season, the value of production shows
an increase of nine million dollars our
el per cent. over last year.
Ontario's export of apples to the
+United Kingdom for this season up
to November 15th was '240,000 bar-
rels. This figure exceeds the total
shipments for the entire season dur-
ing each of the three previous years,
which were as follows: 1`9i30—t133,001i
barrels; ,193-1,--s1,36,000- barrels; 1932—
'3b00 barrels. Apple exports this
ycxr promise to set a record as on
November 1,5tlt 220;000 barrels of
apples were still on hand in cold sto-
rage.
Greatly increased cold storage fac-
ilities, erected in the last few years,
ttcnw permit our growers to hold their
apples and market then in the Ohl
Country when prices are at their
best,
Ontario tobacco continues to se-
cure an increasing share of the Brit-
ish market, with exports for 1936 to-
talling - over 115,000,000 lbs., or 50 per
cent more than in 1932.
Loans to farmers on farm property
:luring the past year by the Ontario
Agricultural Development Board to-
talled $0,700,000 as compared with
;$S,500,000 last year,
The Canada —United Kingdom
Trade Agreement that went into ef-
fect on Nov 1150, 1932, has resulted
in numerous gaits in Canadian ex-
ports in a wide range of farm com-
modities.
Bill of Lading Required
All truckers handling livestock are
required by Government regulations,
under which their licenses are issued,
to furnish farmers with bilis cif lading
on livestock shipments. Many farm-
ers are not aware of this regulation
or the protection it affords them and
many cases conte to light where live-
stock shippers have suffered loss
through not insisting on a bill of
lading from the trucker who hauls
his stock to market.
Under the Highways Act, every
trucker transporting livestock for
hire is required under his P.C1V, li-
cense to furnish a bill of lading to the
shipper. The Regulation affords the
producer an opportunity of determin-
ing to wham his livestock is sold In
any case it assures the shipper that
he will get his money and a full and
correct statement from the purchas-
er to whom the trucker delivers his
load.
These regulations do not apply to
farmers transporting their own live-
stock nor to drovers who purchase
outright from the farmer and trans-
port their purchases to market. But
if the farmer fails to insist on a bill
of lading from the truckers who
hauls his cattle he can have no. as-
surance of where his livestock is sold
or to whom, or at what prices and
moreover,he has to accept the
trucker's responsibility for returning
his motley. .
With a bill of lading from the
trucker the farmer' can make euro
that Itis cattle are not sold direct to'
a Packer by whops thetrucker may
he employed, if he desires the open
competition of the Stock Irards.
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