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MOST OF HIGHWAY GUT BETWEEN COBALT AND BAY Ten Miles Being Cut Out North of Swastika. Another Eightsen Miles to Cut to Connect Up. in the‘ cutting out of the various strips of connecting roadway to link up the existing roads in this North Land in the plan of making a highâ€" way from North Bay to Cochrane, Timmins and TIroquois Falls. From information coming from the south it would appear that this week the work will be finished so far as the portion between North Bay and Coâ€" balt is concerned. In the area north of Cobalt the work this winter has not been carried on as energetically. Only ten miles of cutting has been undertaken â€" north _ of _ Swastika. There will he another eighteen miles to do before the roads can be conâ€" nected up so as to allow travel to Timmins from the far south. _ Last fall Premier Ferguson announced that in‘ years it would be posâ€" .7 .. * Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mahaney of St. John, N.B., are the pround parents of Canada‘s only quadruplets, three girls and one boy. They celebrated their first year on this earth on December 25th. So far as is known they are the only quadruplets ever born in Canada. Statistiecs show how rare this occurence is. In Engâ€" land this occures only once in 400,000 births; in Germany, once in every 100,000, and in France, only once in 2,000,000 The above shows the mother and the babies. From left to right, the children are : Edith May, Edna Louise, Lyda Christine and John Douglas. Very fair progress has been made at not a single serious accident had occurred on the St. Lawrence River between Quebec and Father Point during the 1924 season of naviâ€" gation, though the passing up and down of over 3,000 ships, representâ€" ing a tonnage of fifty millions, had been recorded, was an interesting statement made at the annual meetâ€" ing Oof the Quebec Licensed Pilots Association held in Quebec City reâ€" cently. A review of the activitiese of the last season brought out the fact that there had been 3,012 sailings between Quebec and Father Point, each of these ships carrying a licensed pilot. The number of pilotages recorded was the highest in the history of the St. Lawrence River. The fact that the size of the vessels entering and leaving the St. Lawrenceâ€"has been increasing continually in recent vyears makes the foregoing achieveâ€" ment all the more remarkable; as this has naturally increased the draught of the liners, some of which, as in the case of the Canadian Pacific steamships, reached thirty and at times thirty.three feet. Advance bookings to date, indicate that the St. Lawrence route during 1925 will prove even more popular than heretofore. â€" A large number of Holy Year pilgrims to Rome will enâ€" joy a trip down the Riverson the St. Lawrence Route Claims Pilotage Record HOW CANADA‘S ONLY QUADRUPLETS LOOKED ON THEIR FIR sible to travelâ€"by motor car from the King Edward Hotel in Toronto to Timmins and to Cochrane. From the progress made. below Cobalt this winâ€" ter this forecast seems reasonable but there will have to be something done to connect up with existing roads north of Swastika. Another disapâ€" pointment is the fact that nothing has been done in regard to rock crushing for the roadways cut out. Many had expected that rock gangs would follow right after the roadâ€" cutting gangs, but apparently this is not to be done. / However, taken by and large, there has been fairly good progress made on the North Land Highway, and the prophecy of direct road connection to the South inside of two years may prove more subâ€" stantial than a dream. DOG RACE EARLIER THIS YEAR THAN THE AVERAGE Some comment has been made on the idea that the Dog Race is hbeing held later this year than usual. This ‘dea is not in accord with the facts. The dates of the various dog race events were given in The Advance last week showis that Feb. 22nd was the Above. "The British Queen," one of the first steam vexsels to ply the §t. a huge Canadian Pacific steamship, with pilot aboard, is towed into the stream at Montreal. Inset, the lighthouse at Father Point, where the pilot will leave her. Canadian Pacific S$.S. Melita early in May, and when the more general movement of tourists to Europe beâ€" gins later in the year, large numbers of them, ‘whether from the United States or Canada, will leave from Quebec or Montreal. â€" With but four f""'f;q 37 THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO days on the open sea, this route to Europe affords advantages other than scenic which are responsible mainly for the increase in trafftic and the corresponding increase in tonâ€" nagse and size of vessel operated over it. available in the selection of a date, as the date must be decided upon several weeks in advance and no one can foreâ€" tell North Land weather more than few hours in advance. â€" Averaging the various Dog Race dates it will be seen that this year the date is five days earlier than such anâ€" average. The average date, arrived at by statistical cireunlocution, or words to that effect, is March 11th for the ten yeans. This caar‘ tha held on kitchen â€" was fourâ€"yearâ€"old Mike Koski, As a result of sealds sustained when a kettle of hot water in his mother‘s kitchen was overturned Ranb, the year the Dog Race is being held on Friday of this week, March 6th, five days awhead of the average. weeKkK. son of Mr. and Mrs. Copper Cliff, died last THE BEST ROUTE FOR THE TRANSâ€"CANADA HIGAWAY Highway Should Pass Through the Great Clay Belt. Not Along the Rock Shore of Lake Superior through Land ada. There were submitting re ‘*As to the latter location, the phyâ€" sical conditions are unquestionably more favourable to both construction and maintenance, while from the standpoint ofâ€" the natural and naâ€" tional transportation system, this is the only logical route to serve the country as a whole. ‘*To the producer of farm products along the clayâ€"belt, it will bring the consuming markets of organized inâ€" dustry within reach. With the proâ€" ducing sections disconnected from the industrial centres, the prosperity of the farmer is neutralized, and, even within his own area, he finds he is not on a basis of economic equality with the outside competition. If by any means this way be rectified the settler demands it as an economic right ; if a country is denied its liberty to produce, it is deprived of its true economic freedom. â€" Lack of roads will involve the economic strangulaâ€" tion of the North Country. ‘*Aside from its importance to the basic industry, agriculture, the proâ€" jeect recommended would undoubtedly be justified by reason of its proximity to the Iron Ranges and the new (Gold Fields. It would pass near majestic waterâ€"powers which sites will soon be the seenes of astonishing industrial activity. Considering the waterâ€"shed, several Pulp and Lumber mills will soon flourish at points on this locaâ€" zh the ( Land. zratified iated B The most delicious milk chocolate you everâ€" heard of. What‘s it called ? Here‘s its picture. of farm products it will bring the of organized inâ€" With the proâ€" E. tion. ‘ Canada‘s most beautiful, but heretofore, inacecessible, park may then be reached by motor, and the openâ€"mindedness ~ and _ impressionâ€" ability resultant from the attitude inâ€" cident to motor traffic will lead to an appreciation of the latent resources of this tremendous territory. _ The Capital of the Middle Western States: towards the North, having made a suceess of the same problems which we now face, shows a decided tenâ€" dency to look for opportunity in our Province: why not place our goods conspicuously in the window by means of a highâ€"way through the most promising section ? ‘‘*Of all the measures suggested to ‘‘break the hump‘‘ by increafging the resourcefulness of this country, there is no other of greater importance at this stage than the appropriate selecâ€" tion of a route for the Transâ€"Canada Highway. _ The present route from Sault Ste. Marie will involve the exâ€" penditure of millions, and onece well under way, we shall ery out in vain. Every intelligent bushman,,. every unâ€" biassed engineer, and every airman who ever flew over the area in quesâ€" tion, proclaims the elayâ€"belt route. And please bear in mind that the peoâ€" ple do not realize nor have they the slighest conception of the vast area whose fate hangs in the balance!.‘‘ ‘‘At least once in y life I was glad to be down and out.‘‘ ‘*‘And when was that?2"‘ ‘‘After my first trip in an aeroâ€" Westerner: **‘You say you found a rattleâ€"snake in ‘bed with you this morning? Why didn‘t you kill it?" Easterner: ‘‘I didn‘t pay, much attention to it, I thought I was just seeing it."‘ 9: f 4 â€"MceKendree Review. E. Coultere, an employee of Greer‘s Timber Camp near Port Axthur, lived for some days with a broken neck and other injunies. He was ~piling ties, and one of the piles tumbled, one of the pieces of timber striking him on the neck and shoulders. 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