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r NORTH YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER Mm to know to to according to conscience above all other liberty kg paper sent of North York units paid In advance XLIX No Single Copies Cento Each n Newmarket Friday J uly per annum 5100 if paid in advance- ia c 31 j to buy the best If you that feet to the other want Binder runs pound twine more than you must Plymouth Plymouth Special Pure Manilla No other I JI twine is PLYMOUTH Just Good as HARDWARE a A B Try Our Bread It Jb both wholesome and sweet- We please thirds of people of Newmarket our Why not you Choice Fruits of the Season Our Aim is not How Cheap How Good JACK A M Tale of OO Mr a KVolatloi is place t Marie fiive Mine ago we promised to mix readers tlic remarkable by Mr IcrgiLR the Toronto Hoard of Trade It reads more like fiction than fact and gives a idea of flic possi hi li lies of our own Province of Ontario Mr ripiteli Mr who was greeted with said Mr President and fciitkiiHrn of l he Hoard of- Trade am a from the wilds of have of the sens of civilization about me to very fully the compliment you have paid me inviting me to address you on this subject suppose thai the gentlemen litre like those Ihc of southern Ontario I have come in contact view and this I shall to you as a River We were hound to look to very and and I think walershcd of Lake Superior to interesting instance of evolution ill in starling from the falling tiierc and following all thru until you reach the climax has not yet ken accomplished but which we are still aiming at Possibilities We began the development of that waterpower and gotten ihc water- wheels position we ben began to study the resources of the region to deter mine to what uses that power could 1 profitably put and that is a study which I ad- Therefore vise any gentleman to make he woods up makes any investment in you consider hydraulic as a means of profitable I assure you you should firs of course includes the j study the country in which Ihc water- most of northern Ontario as an a- known country or rather if known power is located and be sure it exists sufficient of the raw that in mated- known principally and almost requiring the use of waieijiowcr its barren and deserted for maiLufacturt into a per- and deserted is that appearance that even the Canadian Pacific Rail- way times its tables so as to pass feel form for the use of mankind to justify Die invest yon jo lo you can take up almost any that territory or- you find without that not to the gaze of its pas- ASSURANCE CO study because so resourceful is that region that in my opinion there is not a water falling down over the hills of which within a rea sonable radius enough to occupy ail the power now running to waste and lo employ profitably hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people the country It fell to my fortune ismy rlfij to associated with some i of over five years in who were possessed of some meat expenditure of already more more than they find dollars and for and it was available more than fifteen million between us that we should liein a dollars more for in the the aspect That was the way looked to me that was the way that that Ontario which you know is touch the larger part presented itself to me when I first came to Ibis Coun try I came from the eastern section The Company has now enter ed upon its 74th year The following figures testify to its Stability Liber ality Popularity McLaughlin MERCHANT TAILOR Accumulated about Annual over Bonuses Already Declared Claims Paid During year Polices wore j for STANDARD has investments in Canada amounting to over Four teen Millions of Dollars- English Irish and Scotch JPancy Vesting and Trouserings in Large Variety Try us and you will be pleased- Prices Reasonable All work guaranteed Mclaughlin whole wa- lo Forests Rat mm Assure now and secure of profile HUNT District Inspector J A Agent Eyes Are S Best Gold Tin 1 Best We perfect GLOBE m tit Sight the only special sense which we use constantly except sec without effort the ones are constantly under muscular strain it any wonder eye strain Is to hurtful are your eyes Consultation free Satisfaction guaranteed JWiiy ftti tour of the Si Lawrence which viriirj extcndK from the yulf lo in order to ascertain what titer along this frontier for hydraulic development- The Discovery In the course of that- journey start ing from Cape JSreton and ending at Port Arthur various important wa terpowers were found and investigate- at and various of them had their merits and nearly all of them had their demerits As went along the shore of the Georgian Bay we found here arid there waterpowers on the Spanish and other rivers all of some consequence and actual volume hut none of prime importance Until reached Marie and there as those of you will remember who have seen the situation with Lake Su perior for a millpond and a fall of about twenty feet there was a plain opportunity for economical and ad vantageous hydraulic development There we were interested enough to stop and investigate Well the de velopment of a waterpower on a large scale involves the expenditure of a great deal of money and after the waterpower is developed and the hy draulic energy of the falling water is turned through a wheel and begins to revolve the shaft it is necessary that machinery should be applied to that shaft in order to turn it to some use ful and then the hydraulic en gineer gives place to the manufactur ing engineer We had in mind no es pecial sort of undertaking in the way of manufacturing We were aware that at for instance in Mas sachusetts waterpower was worth from to per annum per horse power and the construction of a dam at the river at had resulted in a population of people de pendent for their dally bread on the energy produced from that falling wa ter In our simplicity at that time it seemed to us that we simply to go on construct the dam establish the waterwheels place and that all the manufacturers in the world would come there to seek for power We made the first investment and began the work but we disappointed in our applications for power and be fore our construction entirely completed we had decided that we should have to go still further than the original and initial development of the waterpower into its actual utili zation We proceeded to the step and as the President has- said the title to this address is called Art in Industry in Algoma dollars more for investment same undertakings it is my opinion and it must be a pretty good one or it could not lye so well backed up- thai there is an opportunity for a population in northern Ontario equal to thai of southern Ontario in number equal in prosperity and how it can be done I shall proceed to eluci date to you You have only lo go and follow the example we have set Marie I do not mean to say it need be on the same scale That is not In fact it would be impracticable because there have the advantage of a very large waterpower but in its proper proper- mills the similar industries can exist all the States was the Men re our supplies and in the study of that region we found that there were the birch the maple the hard elm the lamarac the spruce the and the poplarall of those limber growths in their present condition and most Of them inaccessible Except the spruce and cedar none of the other woods I have mentioned float lo our mill for the purpose of manufacture nor could bey be util ized at our works for lack of means of transport at ion from the forests- we found thai of all the there the only one suitable for our purpose was the spruce That we began to gather for use in pulp- making and proceeded lo construct a pulp mil beginning of the Industry We began it on rather a small scaffl first We agreed with the Govern ment to the extent of their promising us the right to cut a sufficient supply if we would undertake it for a fixed period at a certain rate We proceeded on a moderate scale to fulfil our promises to Government and expend two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the construction of tin- works Well we had hot got along as far as thai before wc found i cost just as to run a works of that size practically la bor charges and the additional cost for the raw materials as a works twice as large and thai our compete lors lit foreign lands running on a more extensile scale could produce- pulp for the paper makers a price beyond our competi tion So 1 he first step of the evolu tion was to enlarge the pulp mill from a ground wood pulp mill of twenty tons a day until have an output of tons of pulp a day requiring the use daily of about cords of wood Applause Having gotten along so far as to build the new pulp mill we found that even then influx of this product of ours on a large scale on the markets of the world was taken advantage of by our American friends the paper manufacturers who needed Canadian pulp and they began to mark town the values of Canadi an pulp When we originated the price in the United high and profitable and paper- in market way from the City of Ottawa to the wo had a handsome dividend wejCity of Port Arthur ed on the output of the mill When a Small Item I the wheels began to turn over and the Having developed 1 lire staid- began to come out the paper the waterpower we I hen found it manufacturers in the States resolved necessary to study the I5urees of the that here was a new source of supply reion for the purpose of iu waterpower Natural the forests first appealed o us ob serve the forests I found of what they consisted how they wera the Perhaps one percent of pulp in the a new on a grand scale and they could supplied forever at their own price The Old Method Up to the time we constructed this ordinary method for the use of paper paper raw material wc could tend it lu distant markets by this grinding process a great deal of the rttjinou matter remains in the fibre and just as soon as you expose this moist pulp to the varying tem perature of a moist and dry climate and hoi and cold climate the mailer in the fibre commences to de compose and cause the green stain which is seen in pine boards where they have not been properly seasoned and we were getting into difficulties This great undertaking where we had already spent one million dollars or more out of which we expected to do very well Was simply a source of an noyance distress and loss World Market Wanted Then we came along to the next evo lution in the process It was decided we must make the pulp marketable ill over the world Pulp for making uses is worth more tries where have no forests than in countries they have and it was decided to attempt a process for turning out this pulp as a dry pro- dml An investigation was made among all the paper machine manufac turers ami the United States with the iKjje of securing apparatus by which this ground wood pulp just as it came from the grindstone could be taken and turned into a sheet of paper where the process was declared impracticable- paper ma chine manufacturer in the world would attempt it the meantime we were turning out pulp and losing money We were so far away we were in we were not on the Gulf of St Law rence within hailing distance of all the ships that passed We had to take next step we decided to design a a machine ourselves and we did We designed a machine which we thought on paper would answer the purpose Having had a long training in me chanics myself gave the matter my own attention and after a while suc ceeded in designing an apparatus which seemed practical and this sign was sent around lo the paper ma chine makers and machine man would build that machine It involved a large drying cylinder and of a different form than had ever been attempted and it became necessary to build our machine shop Laughter Having decided to build our machine shop we found necessary to build a foundry We built a fine foundry of stone of general architectural design adopted in our mills Then we went on to build the machine shop wo were ready to turn out a single machine we had spent one hun dred and twentyfive thousand dollars all for the object of obtaining dry pulp and then after all our trouble we got out one of those machines Early Discouragements Well I took most skilled fore man we had in the mill and told him to nurse the machine and told him how it should run and how the paper would come out He started to run that machine and in less than a week the man was ready to commit suicide Wo gave to alt Ike foremen in the mill and it was six mouths before that machine ever made a sheet of pulp and now there is not any other machine in mill except of that class After a while correcting this and remedying that we evolved out of that conception a machine which 10- day earns net at the mill a profit of from the City of facturers Portage may consist of stone to pine trees perhaps one per cent My personal judgment is based upon my own observation I have been explor ing the country there personally sum- and winters My personal judg ment is that not one per cent of all the forest growth in Ontario is pine and yet the of Ontario think Iheir only asset is pine forest The remainder of the timber the remain der of the growth can step by step and by proper degrees be reduced to the uses of mankind almost as profit ably as the pine trees themselves To do this the region must be made ac cessible That means railways whicli of course can be provided We found there that the pine territory skirts the shore of Georgian Bay that when we got up into the higher latitudes and towards tbe water shed of Lake Su perior and Hudson Bay the pine gives out and that there wore no pine re sources there which we could depend upon to any great extent On Georgian Hay as you know the pine forests still exist in very consid erable quantities and it will be long the youngest of us are gone that the pine trees of that part of will be lost and destroyed and used But for our purposes we could not as you dan profitably trans port logs against current We not bring the trees of the forest up to Marie for manufacture against the current of St Marys was by attaching the water wheel Then against the grindstone is placed a block of spruce wood and lhat block of spruce wood is pressed against the grindstone by an hydraulic piston and this con tinuous pressure against the grindstone results in pulverizing this wood into liquid form That pulp in liquid form goes oil to another machine where it is gathered around wood en roller which expresses from the pulp about onehalf of the water ana the consequence is you obtain a sheet of pulp something like a thick sheet of blotting paper containing about per cent to per cent of wood fibre and to per cent of water When product is shipped to pa per mill the paper maker does not pay for the Ions of pulp you shipped him but he pays you for amount of pulp fibre which is about to SO per cent of shippient consequent ly my friends of the Trunk Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway are gathering from my pock et the freight on water which I never got paid for That circumstance con- fined our works to Hie nearby paper manufacturers We could not ship to On gland or any of the for eign countries for these reasons In the first place we would be paying a freight on per cent- of we never get for ourselves and that made it another thing If the- foreign markets justified this traordinaryaBd expensive means of one thousand dollars a more in that one mill than the profit was by the same output by the for merly in Applause- Thai is the only mill in world making pulp in that form and since I have been in Toronto I only arrived this morning I received and I have now with me telegrams from Paris from Eng land and telegrams- from the United States for orders at our own price which would more than take the pro duct of that mill for six months if we would accept them Ho that the evolution so far was ail right My associates were well pleased They thought at last their expectations had begun to be realiz ed and they were content to go on our development Having pro duced this dry machine and dry pulp and having gotten the product into a form where could now reach the foreign markets we ship every week to Japan Australia France to Eng land besides all over the United Stales and no important contract- is made today without fust inquiring from Sault Marie Ont what Die price of pulp will be Cheers Well gentlemen having carried the process along so far we concluded it was a shame to allow that raw ma terial to go out In a manufactured form which sold at so low a price as mechanical pulp when the same raw- material could be further enhanced in value by making it into chemical pulp Now as probably most of you know this paper is made very largely of ground wood pulp having a longer fibre to it sufficiently strong loj pass over rollers a printing press This requires that all the re sinous matter in the wood fibre be taken out That involves a chemical process Sulphate of lime is the name of the liquor as it is called used In removing from the wood the re sinous matter necessary to produce this refined pulp So that advised my associates it would be wise to increase our gross earnings our net earnings and increase our labor force and the general opportunities of our works there by proceeding to produce a more refined and perfect quality of pulp and therefore it was decided that we should appropriate money enough to build a sulphite pulp mill That was the next step in the evolu tion Sulphur Found in Ontario While investigating question wo found that besides the raw material we had which was the wood itself and the clean cold water we found we required to have sulphur and we found in carrying he in vesication still further that lie only source of sulphur and the source fur sulphite pulp mills was irt sulphur mines of Sicily owned by a syndicate imposing its own value on its output so that the cost for sulphur for a sul phite paper in Canada is practic ally a on and as the time of ihe Cuban war the price went up at one time as high as a ton We were very far distant from the coast and bringing sulphur from Sicily secmod unreasonable in fact it seemed the confidence have in un necessary So I began to look around for some sulphur I went up to the works at Sudbury and found they were racing sulphurous acid gas ofi in to the air at a value of a day at an expense and loss I proposed they take the ore to Marie where we could utilize the sul phurous acid The company said they had investigated it and had found it impracticable My recollection of what the paper machine manufacturers bad said about dry pulp machines earns back to me I was not going to Si cily to find Sulphur with all the sul phurous acid gas going out into the air at Sudbury So I went to Sud bury and looking around there found any of mines We found nickel enough there to last the world one hundred thousand years Cheers found the the pro spectors valued their mines there rather highly but Mill took sn option on one property for a sufficient length of time to us to carry on those experiments and determine whether or not that sulphur could be used for a sulphite mill Mind you 1 was not looking after nickel steel I was just after sulphur I got a car load of ore to Sic- Marie and found that the scientific men with whom I had advised on subject because it is half an hours dis cussion now it has taken years to evolve all these things up to the time we are now discussing after getting the ore up to Sault Sie Marie I found that the prediction of these scientific men who had said that the sulphur could not be successfully taken out of the ore practically true by any method in vogue up to the present time But I have had the good sense lo assemble about myself practical and men from all parts- of the world who are- supposed to re present the latest knowledge and ex- experience in every class of scientific and practical undertakings which we have to engage in and own stall at my call day and night numbering river one hundred men so that you can see that among the technical and scientific men in djflefent departments engineering the resources available to us for information are broader more ample than are usual in places so far distant from civilization as Marie Laughter So with all these gentlemen to assist we a study of of extracting sulphurous acid gas from ore We were entirely suc cessfully just as In pulp-making- Ap plause Invested in Nickel- Then wo went down to Sudbury and paid them for a nickel mine and we proceeded to carry on our re duction until we found lhat the gas which we got from this Sudbury ore was exactly what we wauled for a pulp mill Then we proceed ed to establish our sulphite It is now construction and will bo in oration about June It will I utilize as much wood as the ground wood mill It will employ as and will make our total of wood about day this summer- Hut this sulphite pulp- business under way then up whether the residue which was to be left from ore could be put to some use We investigated it put it thru our laboratory and found had left in this residue Continued on f m r 1 VSJV 4 Ji