THE OMAFTA ILLUSTRATED BEE.
Octobe? 10, 190i.
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LX, IS smooth sailing now. In my
knightly nights we bad mighty
rocky tlmei afloat," said a former
member of Ak-Sar-Ben's parad
ing hosts, in -a remlnlsoent
"Four times I strutted on the
decks, touching elbows with ve-
mood,
heaving
nee red
royalty, flirting with the angels.
pirouetting with painted downs and doing
divers stunts for the edification of the
gaping multitude. On smooth pavements,
such as Douglas street, a character pose
could be maintained with dignity, but when
we struck the rocky Farnom road dignity
went overboard and every poser had to
grip the stayrods. Mounted on small
wheels, the float wobbled among the rocks,
producing a sensation perilously close to
mal-de-mer and preventing us giving to our
respective stunts the deft, artlstlo touches
for which the knights of other days were
Justly esteemed. Now the floats float over
smooth rails and the Jars and Jolts are a
memory,
"The first time I consented to address the
legions of Qulvera In disguise fancy sug
gested that the garb of a comlo opera fairy
was Just my size. Graceful curve of limb,
a round front, then strictly In fashion, and
the vibrant lltheness of youth prompted
the belief that in the shimmering costume
of a fairy I would attract attention and
win a magnum of applause. But I was
running for a fall. Gently my wants were
made known to Grand Mogul Meti. 'Huh,'
he remarked, as he slsed me up, "you'd
start a riot With that rig. What you want
is a saddled barrel and the wand of Gam
brinus.' Variety the Spice of 1,1 fe.
"Later on, with the aid of a nerve torlo,
I landed close to the front. I was told off
as herald of the king, armed with a
hunter's horn, with which to announce the
royal presence. I became aware early In
the gamo lhat the hunter's horn was empty
and would not match my complexion or
Impale the atmosphere with melody suited
to the occasslon. It was supplemented with
a tin horn, vintage of '84. By diligent
practice 1 was able to toot a few thrill
ing bars of 'Hail to the King,' 'There'll 'Be
a Hot Time,' and a few wlerd shrieks of
the Bemls siren variety. Bo fetching were
these melodies that the tin horn maestro
lives to tell the tale.
"It was a glorious night and the knights
were equal to it. The king mounted his
throne with all the trappings of his sta
tion. Dundreary whiskers of a corn tassel
tint artistically smothered his Jawbones.
A Jeweled crown was pinned to a wig of
goldenrod tone, and a husky voice com
pleted the headwear of as true a monarch
as ever hit the corn belt. On each side
of the throne were two blooming fairies--Juliet
and Genevieve. In front the herald
stood securely braced, gowned In tights, a
Relation of the Recent Canadian Progress to
(Copyright, 1904, by Frank G. Carpenter)
T. LOUIS. Oct 11 rSDeclal Corre.
SI spondence of The Bee.) "Both
I Uncle Sam and John Bull are
bringing money Into Canada,"
said Mr. William Hutchinson, the
Canadian commissioner to the St. Louis ex
position, as we sat together today in the
Canadian pavilion. "Fifty thousand Amer
ican farmers crossed the border last year,
and wanow have about 300,000 American set
tlers. Many of these are well to do. On the
average 1 should say they bring about $1,000
ach into the country, so that we are at
least taEO.000,000 richer from our recent
American immigrants."
"What Is the cause of the exodus?" I
asked.
"The high prices of land in the United
States and the free government lands of
Canada," said Mr. Ilutchlneon. "Our west
ern country is what Kansas and Nebraska
were forty or fifty years ago. The land
la chiefly owned by the government und
the railroads. The Canadian Pacific, which
built its . line from Quebco to Vancouver,
had the right to take a certain number of
alternate sections. It picked them out in
the richest parts of Its territory, and these
lands are now for sale. The Hudson Bay
company also had large grants of land
which are now 'n the market ,
"The balance of the unoccupied soil be.
longs to the government, and we are al
lotting it to actual settlers In HO-acre
tracts. All that the settler needs to do is to
take out his papers, t d cost of $10, and
live on and cultlvato the land for three
years, when tho government will give hiin a
title. If he has sons of eighteen years or
over they can tka up the adjoining quar
ters, and If such sons are unmarried they
can live at home with their parents while
proving up their land. The son of Mr.
Duncsn, oue of my assistants here, Is an
Indian boy of twenty. He was eighteen
when he took up a quarter section, and
next year he will get the title to It He has
never had moro than J100 ahead; but when
that title is proved ho will be worth 2,000.
Thcro aro hundreds of such Instances. A
family coming In takes up as much as It
can, and Its members often buy the ad
joining railroad lands, so that they have
good-sized farms."
"What aro lands worth?" I asked.
"In the territory where they are being
taken up from 7 to $12 per acre, accord
ing to the character of the soil and Its
nearness to the railroad. Speculators have
picked up here and there some large
tracta One company In St. Paul recently
bought 1,000,000 seres at $3 per acre. They
raided the price at once to $s per acre, and
the people who would not touch It a few
years ago, when It was a drug on the
market at $1, fairly fell over each other In
their eagerness to take It at $4."
HenJred Mlllloa Arrs ot Wheat.
"Just where to the new wheat region,
Mr. Hutchinson?" ,
VThere Is some esst of Manitoba, but the
great wheat country of today Is In Mani
toba, and in Assiaibola and BaskatchevaDi
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CHARLES KARBACH,
WILLIAM BUTT.
cute little sawed-oft coat buttoned In the
back and braided In front. A Tyrolean hat
and plume completed a spectacle fit for
gods and kids.
Veraaealar of the Float.
"For a time the king maintained a frigid
dignity, which promised to develop Into a
frost. Juliet and Genevieve shivered till
their teeth rattled. 'Girls,' I whispered.
sweetly, 'Oet together and I'll lend you my
arms.' 'Go to, you ancient freak,' mur
mured the gentle Juliet, 'go chase yourself!?
Meanwhile the king preserved a straight
face. 'Who's his nibs?' yelled a disrespect
ful urchin. 'Is It alive?' cried another.
'Truly it is,' replied Genevieve, having in
serted her hat pin in the royal calf.
" 'Your majesty, the enemy has laid wires
about the throne!' cried the herald,- as a
low wire caught the royal canopy and
halted the procession. 'So I observe,' re
plied his majesty. 'Now I am up against
It. Get an ax, Jule, and shin up the pole!'
'Tour wish is a command,' responded the
nimble Juliet, as she shinned.
"Turning Into Farnam street at Tenth,
an Inspiring scene opened to view. A root
of many colored lights In an ascending
line, festoons of light on either side, the
added brilliance of fireworks, and the Jam
of admiring spectators formed a beautiful
and thrilling spectacle. For several blocks
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which lie west and northwest of It, and
also in Alberta beyond. These states have
vast prairies with wheat lands of about
280,000,000 acrea That is equal to ten states
the olze of Ohio and It Is estimated that
100,000,000 acres of this are now offered to '
homesteader"
"Just north of that region," continued
Mr. Hutchinson, "lies Athabasca, a vast
territory which will raise wheat, but
which has not yet been opened up to set
tlement Athabasca contains more than
1(0,000.000 acres. It Is more than three
times as large as your state of New York.
Altogether we have now 173,000,000 acres in
the northwest which have been surveyed,
but not yet taken up, and three-fourths
of this is wheat land. The wheat belt Is
a tract about 1.000 miles long and 400 miles
wide. In the eastern part of Canada there
are vast pulp wood farms, the trees of
which are worth about $40 per acre. This
is also wheat land when cleared."
"What is the wheat output of the west
ern country now?"
"Last year It was 66,000,000 bushels.
Twelve years ago It was practically noth
ing." Hiss Canada to Feed John Ball.
"What are Its possibilities?"
"W shall feed the world." said the Ca
nadian commissioner. "Uncle Sam has
boasted of feeding John Bull with a spoon,
but the day will come when his daughter.
Miss Canada, will do that for him. Indeed,
bis fat stomach is already filled with our
wheat, flour and cheese. I believe that we
shall feed Uncle Sam as well. Your wheat
lands play out after a time. Good hard
wheat cannot be raised by fertilizers and
Intensive cultivation, so that the hard
wheat country tends to go to the new
lands. Moj cover, you will grow in popula
tion through your Immense mineral and
manufacturing resources to such an ex
' tent that you will not be able to raise'
your own food. You have (0,000,000 people.
By and by you will have 800,000,000. Then
we will feed you."
"We are a nation of farmers," continued
the Canadian commissioner. "That Is our
business which we expert to develop Just
as you are doing your manufacturing. At
present there are many large farms, but.
also many small onra. About 87 per ctnt
of the farmers of Canada own their own
farms. This Is rrpeclnlly so with the
French of tho northeast. In the west farm
ing is done on a large scale. The land Is
broken up with gang plows. The thretli
Ins is done by threshing gangs who go
with their Immense machines from farm
to farm. Ten thousand Americans, came
Into Canada lust year to help us harvest
our wheat crop.
"The harvext are too big to be put Into
barns, and great elevators have been bull'
at the rallwa stations, so that the when
goes direct from the thresher to the ele
vator without a long haul. We have now
more than 1,000 elevators west of Lake Su
perior, which will hold over 40.COO.000 bukh
els ct wheat at one time. We bave one
sievaior ki, Foil WUU pji LJtt Eujjcrlux
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the royal entourage viewed the scene In
mute admiration. Presently the- Increas
ing rudeness of the highway caused the
chariot to sway menacingly, and the king
grasped a bunch of his beard to steady the
throne. 'Wouldn't that Jar you?' he whis
pered to Juliet; 'how fares the fair?' 'I feel
a trifle rocky myself,' responded Jule, with
the smile of an officeholder on pay day.
Up the granite heights we moved with be
coming majesty, accepting unmoved the
plaudits of enthustastlo subjects. The
castle of Cibola was reached and a halt
was called to permit the customary wel
come and presentation of the keys. Govern
ing knights, mounted, ranged about the
royal person, the president of the board on
his left Now on the right arose the vail
of Cibola, armed with a ream of ponderous
speech which he proceeded to unwind. The
king looked on amazed, and, turning to
the sympathetio Juliet, he sobbed: 'A
roast on our right, a Fry on our left; by
the beard of the king, 'I see my finish.'
A diplomatic hint induced the vail to cut it
short, the keys of the city were presented,
the gates swung open, and to the inspiring
trains, 'We Won't Go Home "Till Morning,'
from the herald's horn, the chariot entered
the fabled city.
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which has a capacity of 8,200,000 bushels.
We are building more elevators right along
and more railroads. I tell you, you people
do not realize what Is going on In the Ca
nadlan northwest We have an empire there
which Is growing faster in population and
wealth than any other part of the world.
We have some millions of square miles of
(he best land on earth. It is a black loam,
very deep and very rich."
IIoOTJWfceat Is Raised In Canada.
"But Mr. Hutchinson," said I, "If these
lands are so good why bave they not been
taken up before7"
"For several reasons. There were no
railroads until lately. We did not know
what we had. We thought these lands too
far north for wheat Some of the best of
them are OCQ mUes seam the norU) pole
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HON. WII.T-IAM H UTCHIN SON CANAD
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enough. Too much dignity chills youthful
ardor, and checked the desire to cut the
capers that make the shallows holler with
Joy. A change for the better was not long
In coming. Next time I was detailed to as
sist at a hanging bee. There were three
In the bunch, chosen for their experience
in hanging around the corners. The float
represented a Texas epic, scenically per
fect. In the foreground a majestio tree
limbed for business. The story Illustrated
was a type of Lone Star product. The vil
lain In the case had attaoted a frontier
settler, tickled his nose with a sawed-oft
gun, kissed his crying daughter and robbed
the premises. Had the villain been satis
fied .with these Incidental proceedings all
might have been forgiven. But he wasn't
Roping the Uvllest horse In the pasture
he mounted and rode away. Pursuit was
prompt and persistent, and at the end of
three days the desperado was captured.
Keeping- I'p the Good Work.
"All this was down In detail In the books
and onlookers were presumed to know them
In order to appreciate the significance of
the finishing touches we were ordered to
put on. From start to finish we never
wearied of the good work. We had the
villain all right and gave It to him good and
plenty. To Insure an effective Job, we put
a stout brace around and under his arms,
ED PALMER,
than this city of St. Louis. We also thought
the 'seasons would be too sort to plant and
harvest We have now learned how to
work. We break up the ground In the
summer or fall, and seed the wheat crop
in the following spring. Perhaps we may
raise a crop of flax first The next spring,
as soon as the snow has gone and while
the ground is still frozen. It may be for
several Inches, we run the seeder over the
fields and cover the grain with the dirt on
the surface. There may be only one inch
of soil frozen, but the first hot days bring
the wheat up by magic. It comes with cy
clonto swiftness, and lol the whole country
Is a sheet of green. I have known of three
wheat crops being .planted in three succes
sive years without plowing, although we do
sot advise that The frost keeps thawing
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a snaffle on the end Just outside his collar.
The rope fitted this to a t so that every
time ita kicked the atmosphere his mhW
was. not impaired. We yanked him up a
score of times. The crowd enjoyed It as
though it were the real thing, and seemed
to feel they were getting the worth of their
money.
Special Show for Court House.
'The most artlstlo swing of all was
pulled off for the edification of the court
house and city hall throngs. 'Scene in
Texas' on sign board thirteen, gave the
crowd a hint that there would be some
thing doing. There was. We threw a little
ginger Into the game by rushing the vil
lain around the tree, discharged short arm
artilery, cornered and disarmed him. The
trusty rope swung Over the limb with a
swish that betokened business, and the vil
lain was swinging in the air before sheriff
or policeman could Interfere. The crowd
preserved a solemn silence, awed by the
spectacle and the swift work of the execu
tioners. We were congratulating ourselves
on the success of our finishing touches,
when the rope slipped and the villain
dropped on the deck. There was a sus
picious crash followed by a moan. Ex
animation showed that the .villain's hip
pocket fla k was smashed by the fall, and
the broke glass cut a large red rash where
GEORGE S. CACKLET.
out for weeks and gives moisture to the
fresh young wheat"
The Floor Mills of the Northwest.
"Tell me something about the yield per
acre."
"It Is better than yours by a great deal
Our average for ten years haa been twenty
one bushels per acre. The United States
rarely 'shows an average of more than
fourteen."
"What do our American exporters think
of the prospect V
"They don't like It. The Minneapolis
millers have been establishing mills to
grind Canadian wheat for export. The
wheat Is shipped there In bond to the sea
coast. They do this on the ground that the
Canadian hard wheat sent to Europe is
used there to mix with the European wheat
In making flour similar to the American,
and Is thus hurting your export flour
trade."
"But why do you not ship flour to
Europe?" ,
"We do. We have large mills at Winni
peg and at Montreal."
Winnipeg In 1004.
"What kind of a place Is Winnipeg?"
"It is the Chicago of Canada, and the
metropolis of the new wheat country. It Is
the gateway-to the northwest, and It grows
as fast as our grain fields. It has now 70.
000 people, and It built more than $5,000,000
worth of new buildings last year. It has
electric lights and railways, boulevards and
all modern Improvements. It will always
be the great city of that part of our coun
try." '
"What other big towns have you?"
"The most of our towns out there are
small, but they grow rapidly. Calgary has
now 10,000, end Edmonuton, which Is way
up at the terminus o( the railroad in Al
berta, has 15,000. Only a year or so ago It
had 1,600. Our big cities are now In the
east. Montreal Is the largest, with $25,000.
and Toronto is next, with porhnps 100.000
less. We are, however. Just on the edge of
a development."
The Canada of the Fntnre.
Tes, Mr. Hutchinson, but have you not
been on the edge a long time? What are
your population and area?"
"Our area is bigger than the whole United
States, and our population la now about
,000,000. We have grown slowly, but the
elements of our national make-up are bct-
. ter .than yours. We are largely Anglo
Saxons, with a mixture of French, who are
thrifty asd essily governed. You have a
large element from southern Europe and
eastern Europe which Is not so good. Many
. of your big cities are full of It. Take Buf
falo, for Instance, Just across the border.
Half of Its city officials snd policemen are
Skis, and they have a large population -Cf
Skis."
"What do you mean by Skis?"
"I mean roles and Russians and people
from southeastern Europe. They are not
the kind of an Immigration we are curo-t
Ing, nor do they make up any large ele
ment of our people. We want Anglo-8axons,
Germans and Scandinavians, and we are
getting them very rapidly. James J. Kill,
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no gash ought to be. It was the cruelest
cut of all, a drop too much that sent our
spirit down several pegs.
"For ptcturesqueness and naturalness of
pose the role undertaken McKlnley year
deserved the bun. We were a pair to draw
to. In our ordinary habiliments, standing
side by side, we would readily pass for the
two Johns. So there seemed to be a pecul
iar fitness in our selection to pose as monks.
Now there are lean monks as well as fat
monks, and if the truth were known the
lean far outnumber the fat But public
Ideas of monks are founded on reprints of
the famous wine cellar picture, and to that
extent our physique fulfilled the popular
notion. Just what the architecture of the
float represented was known only to Gus
Renze and he can keep a secret We were
clad In the habiliments of woe, cowled on
top and roped at the forty-fourth parallol
of robustltude. Needlessly It seemed to
us, we were supplied with baldheaded wigs
and zuchettos to match. Throughout the
long wearying march we maintained an
outward Bhow of pious repose, Caring little
for the applause of the worldly-minded,
bowing now and then to the salutations of
pit and gallery. Occasslonally our thoughts
and eyes centered on the painted flagons
on the float, the pictorial barrels and spig
ots that turned not. The hollowness of our
situation oo a thirst night smote us with
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one of your great railroad men, says he
believes that within fifty years Canada will
have a population of 60,000,000. It can easily
support several times that number."
"How about Canada becoming a part of
the United States?"
"That will never come," said the Cana
dian commissioner. "Our people don't
want It We are satisfied with our own
government and think in many respects it
is superior to yours. We did have a' party
of annexationists some years ago, but that
feeling died with the McKlnley bill."
"How so. Mr. Hutchinson?" I asked.
"That bill operated against Canada, and
It made our people angry. It Injured many
of our Industries, but in the end it proved
the best thing that could have happened to
us. Before that we were shipping hay and
grain In large quantities to the United
States. They were sent across from eastern
Canada and taken in steamers as far down
as Boston. Many of our French farmers
' depended upon the American market When
the bill was passed the hay had to be used
at home, and the priests, who rule tho
French population, ordered their, farmers
to add CO per cent to the number of their
stock and to raise cheese and butter. They
did so, and now we have a great dairying
Interest as the result. The farms of that
region are doubly and trebly as fertile
through feeding the grain and hay at
home. We are now annually shipping about
$4,000,000 pounds of butter and 230,000.000
pounds of cheese to England, and this is
largely the result of your McKlnley tariff."
Canada's Trade with t'nlted States.
"Give me some idea of your trade with
the United States, Mr. Hutchinson," said I.
"We are doing more business with the
United States tnan with Great Brltuln,"
said the commissioner from-Canada. "Our
trade with you last year amounted to more
than $216,000,000. It was more than two
fifths of our foreign trade. Of this our
American sales footed up about $73,000,000,
and yours to us over twice that. On a per
capita basis you annually sell us an aver
age of more than $20, or more than $120 per
family. Of course, the goods do not aba'i.
lutely amount to anything like that per
family, as a great purl ui them is com-'
posed of raw materials which we ut.e In
manufactures." '
- The conversation here turned to Canada's
new tariff laws, which are now about to be
put Into force. Mr. Hutchlneon said:
' "Canada Is now enacting, or rather Is
about to enforce, some new laws as to Its
foreign trade. It does not propose to be
the dumping ground of the factories of the
foreign nations, the place where they 'can
ship their surplus snd sell it at lower
prices than they are asking at home. We
do not consider this fair to our own fac
tories. We propose that such goods shall
be kept out of the country or admitted on
such conditions that they will not have an
advantage over our home products. As It
Is now your factories here will sell goods to
Americans at high prices through the trusts
or tariffs, and then dump their surplus Into
Canada and sell It at a little above cost
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Irritating force, but wo kept straight facea,
We' agreed, however, to give the grand
stand the best we had In stock. Before
that vast sea of eager faces we lowered
the cowls, doffed the zuchettos an sa
laamed to the multitude. Unfortunately
the zuchettos were pinned to the wigs and
both came off, exposing two hairless domes
as smooth as fly ever skated on. The crowd
observed and tittered audibly. We sank
Into our cells and wept. It was a sad ex
posure, a melancholy finish." Reported by
request from 1903 Ak-Sar-Ben number of
The Bee.
Prettle of the Youngsters
"Mamma," said little Edith at dinner,
"do people have wishbones like chickens r
"No, dear," was the reply. t
"Well, mamma," continued the small In
quisitor, "do you s'pose chickens have
everything they wish for7"
Tommy's mamma found him rummaging
the pantry.
"Oh, it's you, you naughty boyt" she ex
claimed. "I thought it was burglars."
"So did I," answered Tommy, "and I waa
lookln' for them."
Teacher If your mother bought four bas
kets of grapes, the dealer's price being 23
cents per bosket bow much money would
the purchase cost her?
Tommy Tou never kin tell. Ma's great
at beatln' them hucksters down.
"Come here, Bessie,1' said a visitor to the
daughter of the hostess, "and tell me how
old you are."
"Do you mean when I'm at home or
when I'm riding on a street car?" asked
Bessie.
Fourteen-year-old Emma, who had come
home from her first day's schooling In ele
mentary physiology, was questioned by her,
parents as to what she had learned.
"Papa," she complained, "I don't think
I like physiology."
"Why not, my dear?"
"Well, teacher was explaining digestion
to us today, and she said we had to mix
salvation with every mouthful of food."
A Russian emigrant of tender age was
being registered In a down town Phlls
delphla school. The teacher questioned.
"What is your name?"
"Katinka," replied the child.
"And your father's name?"
"I newer hat one," came the quick re
sponse. "Then tell me your mother's name,"
again said the teacher, kindly.
"I newer hat no mudder neither," an
swered the little child, seriously. "I was
born off my gran'mudder."
Interests
No country can build up a manufacturing
Industry under such conditions.
American Money In Canada.
"Is there more American money invested
In Canada outside the farm lands?"
"Yes, , a great deal," was the reply,"
"Your capitalists have investments in our
railroads, our mines, forests and factories,
as well as in other things. There are a
number of American stock raisers who
have crossed over the border from Mon
tana Into Alberta to take advantage of the
vast grazing ranges there. Some have
shipped their cattle from Texas and Ne
braska to that part of the country. Cattle,
horses and sheep graze out of doors there
the year round and Just now cattle are
bringing good money. Steers were sold at
from $40 to $50 per head last year."
"What kind of stock do you have?"
"All the best breeds." said Mr. Hutchin
son. "We won't admit poor stock into the
country. We have laws that bulls for
breeding purposes must be well bred and
registered. The result Is that we shall
eventually have about the best cattle on
this continent. We have as good as any
on the average now."
In company with Mr. Ifutohlnson, I took
a walk through some of the Canadian de
partments at the exposition here. That
country has one of the best of the for
eign exhibits, and best arranged. The
grain Interests are well displayed, as are
also fish, game, fruits and minerals. Can
ada is now shipping vsst quantities of ap
ples to England; It Is raising tons upon
tons of honey for export; and Its woods
and wood pulp products are among the
greatest of the world. Its mineral display
Is especially fine, showing In vast quan
tities those specialties for which the coun
try Is noted. Said Mr. Hutchinson as ae
walked through tho Canadian division of
the mining building:
Fortunes In Asbestos and Nickel.
"See those piles of asbestos; that Is a
great product of my country. We hava
the best and richest asbestos on earth,
and we are furnishing 90 per cent of the
world's supply. That pile of ore further
on Is r.lckel; we have tons of It here. That
Is another of Canada's specialties, for we
supply 50 per cent of all used by man. It
Is employed, you know, largely In the
armies and navies of the world, being used
ia make she. Is, armor plate, etc. IRto Is
a pile of corundum of which we furi.lh
85 per rent of the world's total product,
and that ore further on is a combination
of cobalt, nickel, tllver and arsenic; It
comes from the new mine Jiut dlMcovered
by a little French blucksmlth, who Is l.kcly
te make millions out of his And. Wo have,
In short, almost all kinds of metals, from
coal and Iron to gold. Our country has
never been prorpected as has the United
Ststes, and some of the chief mineral dis
coveries of the future may be looked for
from Canada, British Columbia and In the
regions of the Yukon."
FRANK O. CAR FEN TEX
