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ring survey for the railway. in making such a survoy it is necesâ€" sary to go overland, and to take side trips up the hrunches of the various rivers, getting the elevations of the. land, and roughly laying out, the route for the surveyors and engineers ulm will follow. While the buildin: nf the railroad will Pru- hahly nu come for some time. as the ('«mlitiuns do not yet warrant it. wh-n the time does. come the general mam- will he ready as laid out by Mr. Muller. and the needs gcnbral "Utlh' will he ready as laid out by Mr. \lahcr. and the needs of the harbor “Ill be known through the report of Mr. McMillan. Mr. McMillan has an assistant. a Mr. Scott. whois retraining at Moose Favtm-y. and who W111 now fllllllf III'I’HI Ill" Ill "005E flflflfl‘l haw to stay there for some timeâ€"- probably until the first Hudson's Bay paclm (-omes south the last of “C(‘Pllllml‘. While Mr. Scott remdns there he will study the Winter conâ€" (litions. and may he able to make a supplementary report. Speaking: of Moose Factory, Mr. McMillan says it eventually must be- come agroat hay raising and graz- ing country. The crops around the Hudson's lizn' post haVe been very successful. and this season, which has been a had one throughout the country. produced some fine potat- oes at. the post. There is no doubt in the minds of these men that the time will come when this country will follow that of the great clay belt of the North in becoming a? agricultural muntry. M0050 Factory which for years has figured alone as a Hudson's Bay post. and which lately has been the headquar- ters for a few venturesome prospec- tors. will eventually become one of the northern pet‘s of Canada, and a trip from Toronto to Moose will be as common as the present day trip from Toronto to Coohrane, which but a few years ago was con- first Sunny Completzd Icmlskamiug Extensim to Jams Bay After many days of hard travel o‘er the canoe routes and portage.»- of the North. down the Home and Frederickhouse rivers, a party 0! three scientific and an engineer, to- gether with their assistants and In- dians. today reached a point with- in 11 miles of Cochrune. and were there frozen in the ice on the river. and were towed to abantlon their canoes and specimens. and walk through the bush to town. The par- ty included W. B. C. Todd, curator oi ornithology of the Carnegie. Mus- mm at l’ittsburg; Prof. Preble. science master at North Airing'ton, Mast; Charles H. M. llarrett. at Tufts Collette. Mass” and .l. ti. Mc- Millan. 31.3., formerly manager 0! the Foster Mine in Cobalt. and now employed by the 'l‘. and X. (l. Rail- way Commission. M comnmwcd and prm-wdcd with the 'l'he defmdunis haw: not up to this‘ date completed the work of construc- tion in accordam'e with the tenns of the (-ontrnct and the plaintiff claims that the machiner’v should remain on the work until it is finished. The defendants, the Grand Trunk I’aeitie Company, are remoning' a portion of the machinery, and the 'l'imiskamim: Northern Ontario littered in the was of the North but today is a thriving young Winnipeg of the Eat. Naturll Specimens. Mr. Todd and his associates went ‘n Moose Factory last May, an) since that time have been gather- ing ornithological specimens, unwell as specimens of mammals. including many species of the mice that Ite- qnent the North. Bad: spedmen has been carefully skirted and preserved with arsenic by Mr. Prebk. Who is an expert taxidermist Many of the birds nthend were sent out on one Eof the Hudson 3 Ba) Company 3 ships, but a large number were Ehrottght down by canoe and will be Epacked into (ochrane from the place Euhere the party was stopped by ice |on the river. to 'I‘imiskammg Northern Untano Railway Company are assisting in the? removal of the machinery, etc. She Pays a A writ. for damages has hen is- sued in the High Court of Justice against the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the 'l‘imiskaming Northern Ontario Railway Company by the Commissioner (if the Na- tiunal 'l‘ranscontmcntal Railway. t‘hc plaintili claiming (lamasrvs for the manual of vortain machim-ry and uthcr material [1501‘ by the Grand South .\'Ul'\\'2llk. ('onn., Nov. U.â€"â€"- To pay an election het made with Lester II. Wyeth, Miss Catherine A. Henry, teacher of the eighth grade in the Over River School, went to sch’ool yesterday in low, white pumps and white silk stockings and will continue to do so every day this winter. Miss Henry. a pretty blonde of twenty-t w.) and who hails from New Canaan. said she wished nothing said about the matter. “but I'm no squealer and I intend to stick to my agreement." she added. WRIT ISSHEI The wager was made at a recep- tion early in the summer. Had Miss Henry wan Wyeth would ham to wear a gnaw hat all winter. 8.1. P. and I. N. n. Railways Must Not Assist in Remov- ing Machinery flGAINST HAIlWMS Freak Bet ‘ A French foreman. who is trad- in; sane streets on a contract. “and himself petitioned by the wiv- ‘es of his workmen not to pay their husbands until after seven o'clock on Saturday night. “It you pay my man before the bars close I dlnn't get much of it. but it there's Sun- day before he can get a drink it giws us a chance." said one of the wives. t The opponents of lo -al option de- elare that “blind pigs” are inevit- able il' licenses are suppressed. and contend that it is more demoraliz- Ong to drinlo wood alcohol by stealth than good whiskey over the open bar. The answer is that fifty per cent. of the men who do not mind standing up to the bar will not endure being smuggled in by a back door and conniving at a felony. That is the lesson at Cobalt. The contrast between Sudbury, with a bar at every eorner. and Cobalt with its soda fountain and soft .drink stands is remarkable. ‘ .-\ western nlnim: man now resid- ent in Cobalt recently paid his first visit to Sudhury. He came back converted.“ Before 1 went to Sud- bury 1 used to think tltat a license, in these eastern minings camps was all right. but after I had seen Sud- bury. 1 don't. There are dozens of railroaders. miners and prospectors In Sndhtn'y who are never sober un- and must go back to the 'aboose, til they haw, spent their last dollar and must go bark to the fill)005(!, the mine or the bush. Contrast that with. Cobalt, where, . though the streets are habitually emwded with the same class of miner as at Sud- linrv, a wntnan‘ean walk unmolest- ed any time of the day or night. .1 hate to feel that the Ontario Gov- ermnenttloes not, trust us. to know ntl!‘ own minds, but I really be.- lieve that. if a vote were taken right in ("ohalt the town would 1;” Will North right in 0 local option The Late Colonel Sanders was canvassing Montana for votes for himself for governor. He came .to the way one merchant epitomized the situation. It the good man of the house has a night with ”the boys” he cannot buy the parlor carpet that his wife has been de- siring so long. and what is true of the house furnishers is applicable‘ to eVery trade. "The Bay" is the caravansary of the knights of the road. east and west. north and south. They haVe to stop in the town. for it. is flourishinu. and there is plenty of business; but they do so with a groaning of the spirit for they do uotlike the aeeuminudation offered. North Bay in but leading the way in the iig’ht for local option; (Tal- lander will eertainly carry it and destroy two lieenses~three, it ought to be. but onehouse is outside the confines of the town. Sudbury has been threatening to enter the local option eolumn all summer. but lin- ally lacked courage to make the attempt. ed We solicit your correspondence. It does not annov us to have letters to answer from persons who do not trade through us, and we. are pleas- ed at. any time to give such In- formation as we may have on hand or are able to obtain to all who The merchants do not pretend to ho disintoroatml in their light [or prohibition. "A dollar spent in whiskey is a dollar loss for us.” is About a month ago the leaders of the temperance party commenced to talk local option. The)” were more than surprised at the support they got. practicail} every business .mm in the town signing the petition for a vote on the question on January 1, and the leaders of the move- ment are now confident that they can get 75 per cent.. of the 1,800 municipal voters to make their mark for local option. North Bay has six hotel licenses and “to shop licenses for a popula- tion of less than tan thousand. It is first 'and foremost a railroad town, with a lame floating popula- tion. THE ('HRIS'I‘ENINF 0F UBEE’I‘ littlc settlement. not yet nam- us. Bay go Dry THE PORCUPIN E ADVANCE and said sf??? "a???“£23???xz”:u:“zuzuzuzu..uzuzxzuzn.?x..u§§¢ O §s§§x£§§§sskzu8uzuzuxuzusva§5¢¢sss§u..u..XEVE .... 9.96. ”w You can operate an; Northern Ontario Light 8: Power Co., Ltd. Porcupine, South Porcupine and Timmins Just About one-half of what its Costing you with coal or wood People have an idea that electric irons are expensive. They are not. One can be run for less than 40 an hour Besides Vou are saved the bother of working around a hot stove. An elec- tric iron should’t cost you any more than 50 Cents a month to operate We have a good display at all offices and will be pleased to demonstrate Electric Iron For 1 cents an hour Do you want to get in touch with men who own good mining claims in all parts of Ontario ADDRESS PROSPECTOR BOX 309 . - sou'rn roxcvrnu: The Mulligan House The Mulligan House Fittml up with all UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Modern C(mvvnioncvs Rates Reasonable. Always at, your Service PORCUPINE, ONT. ‘3 Efiflé