Ontario Community Newspapers

Porcupine Advance, 13 Aug 1924, 1, p. 5

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V2 . \ WWMMVWWWW‘S‘XSX‘ 0 1' It Pays to Advertisein The Porcupine Advance TIMIMINSâ€"Hofljnger Sun-es Limited Prank Feldman Shankman Bros. Frank Byck CONNAUGH'Tâ€"M. O’Connor SGHUMAOHBRâ€"Mclntyre Mercantile Co. Limited scum PORGUPINE-Dome Mines Co. Limited, Reamsbottom Edwards, United Provisions Company“ The George Taylor Hardware Limited Four Stores in the Norux The Geo. Taylor Hardware “Always at your Service ” “A CHAIN OF SERVICE” The use of Gyproc, the new improved wallboard, is the best assurance of econo- mical and substantial walls. It can be handled cleanly and easily. It will not warp, shrink or crack, and is a real protection against fire. Specify Gyproc in new construction and repair work for walls and ceilings. SIZE OF SHEET â€"â€"does it mar an otherwise well-furnished interior? 4 to 10 feet long, Limited 3-8-‘inch thick. 32 inches Wide1 Toronto, recently established Has been used already to give advertising to the possibilities of the gold and sil- tt’l' fields of Northern (")ntmio and Que‘lier. tMr. ('Vi‘il '1‘. Young of the Lands and Development Department of the Canadian National Railways recently delivered an address of much interest. and value that was broad- casted from Toronto. The text of the address «was as follwszâ€" Our Development Department of the National Railways will interest you from time to time by ten minute radio addresses 011 Canada’s natural resourves of field and mine and for- est. This e1en1n0' it will he 111i11i11g, and as this add1ess 15 being delixered The Ontario Broadcasting Statinn of the Canadian National Railways at Radio Used to Tell About North Land’s Possibilities .. CYRIL T. YOUNG GIVES TEN MINUTE ADDRESS ON NORTH LAND MINING FROM THE NEW BROADCASTING STATION OF THE NATIONAL RAILWAYS AT TORONTO. Cobalé Cochrane New Liskeard Timmin-s DO [I IN Governments Should Show More Interest Some of our Governments might well be more svmmrhetic and ener- gem in dexeloping mining: and par- tieulaih gold nriining Whl(ll \ielils .‘l prmlmtwshith nu commercial haw]- 31' vheap labor more profit-d even tariff I doors. there is always a standard world market for gold bullion, and prac- tically the same may be said for sil- ver bullion, in fact hard time; and (heal) lazlmr ma‘ke gold mining still . .1'1e1a's to the farmer and market gardener, on the (7"lav Belt area _ scattered throughout the mining: dis- tricts almost e1er1 product of the l temperate zone, thereby lowering mining costs. l1‘ortu11at1ly farm and mine are mingled ttgetlier, and you will find in. the sanne field the clover catching.r the quick aroma of the rains and the gold and silver hmsted to the surface by day or by night beneath the stars. Supporting further this northern agriculture in these gold" and s'lver fields and lowering: the cost (Ming to the miners is the further fact that on the same home- stead, 11"'he1e 1n the summer the wheat- loeks the sunshine in its bearded sheaf, there in winter the removal of the forest products from the land at remunerative piices is made pos- sible 131' the laroe pulp and paper mills of the north. 11l11ch at night, like the Ho‘llinge1 and other mining? mills, are a sight worth seeing with their thousands. of; eliughts ablaze e. .From these assured and per- manent advantages of field and mine jand forest, and the fact that railiwav and road idCilitliES are almost a111pl1 provided for is growing an amazing system and net work of industries in the north land which are not sup- ported l1y human contrivance of tariff mus’toms or preference. Proof that the north is prosperous is the fact that commercial tra1e'llers todav throughout Ontario 11ill tell vou that business is better 11p \ortli than anv- 11 he 'e else. and we find that laborers and eitim-ns generally, returning from across the Border are going North in constantly increasing numbers. This is accounted for by the fact that in Baeked by a record on every page of which is progress the production and fame of these mining fields is as Well known in London as Wall Street, New York, and as familiar on “'all Street as in our own Canadian cities for not, only is it the richest precious metals 'helt on the whole Aunex‘iean continent hut eliallenges the, world. ()t' ()‘lltSl:-.lll(llllf_z' imzportanee to the mining world is the fact that these (‘anadian fields are peopled, pros- perted and unined by the White raee. 'lf‘hey are the homes of a have and hospitable people who. after the scourge of northern fires, say: Are {we idownhearted? No. They are the blazers of the trails who seem never to wear douhts bandage on their eyes, and who Jin the deepest of't‘heir diseouragem’ent never seem to he struck with more fear or appre- hension of the future than is needed to complete their eonseeration J0 Northern Ontario progress. It’s a Good Climate, Too A pert'eet, although at times rigor- ous, climate interferes not at all with underground mining development in the -winter months, and in summer yields ’t'o' the farmer and market B mauon 1s that mining and particulat- 11' gold 111i11i111:,11'ill carry values at- deeper depths than tound in other 1rohl vountries throughout the World in 1oc-k tormations which we not Pre~ (.‘ambbrian. Across this vast area of more than a thousand miles between East and West, 11e find here and there hill sides stored with metal treasures inexhaustible for mama and wars-~â€" forests still 111st and 111'i111e'111'l,11n(l rilve1s a1ailal1le for power require- ments which here t1111111l1li111r and there loitering run 11anton to our northern Wf-ed'iterranea11â€"â€"Jame-s and Hudson 11'? Mining men and geologists call this great section of (‘anada the Pre-Cam- brian Shield due to its shieldlike shaped area and the fact that Hm is steadily decreasing? 1 Continued on Page Eight ays ,da 'lE Deep Mining in North ted ll )roduction WOI‘ .l(

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