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Becretary Mrs. J. W. Faithful Drawer ‘‘A‘" Timmins, Ont. Entries for the examinations should be sent in before April 1. on or about “"M.y ha.lpha s "during 1 Practical _-n.-l June at McGill University _â€"_â€"_HMHaugh _ Workers know "Big 88‘s"â€"the overâ€" alls with the new patented safety pocket. Ask for them by name. Look for the printed guarantee when you buy. J. A. HAUGH MFG. CO., LIMITED . TORONTO A HAUGH‘S "Big 88‘s" they‘ll not rip. This famous tugâ€"o‘â€"war test proves the rugged strength of overalls that are made from our own speciallyâ€"selected drill (tested for strength), tripleâ€"stitched and threadâ€" riveted at points of greatest wear. TRY this on your overalls! If they‘re HATVIGH‘© "Pin 282‘¢c"" +har‘ll na+ in in Music Pas Work @3 Clothes FLOURâ€" Discard These Save Time to do the Things you Like to do. pen to the Free yourself from washday and drudgery. Have more time for the things you like to ‘do. â€" Now is your chance to own an Electric Washer on wonderfully easy terms. Put one in your home today. °Free demonstration. Sale Ends March 31st Porcupine Power Telephone Company Limited L YOUR BAKING_â€" Pics, Cakes, Buns and Bread â€" DOES ALL YOUR BAKING BEST . The value of mineral in Ontario or the year 1927 has been placed at a round sum of $90,000,000 in a preliâ€" minary report issued by the Departâ€" ment of Mines last week. It is exâ€" pected however, that when the finai returns are available a substantial inâ€" crease will be made in this figure. With the exception of 1918 when the metal prices soared above normAl, the year 1927, the report states, is the greatest year of mineral production in the history of the Province. Ontario‘s Mineral Output _ Reaches $90,000,000 Yearly Output of Gold for 1927 was $33,700,658. Of this Porcuâ€" pine Produced $30,000,000. Valuable New Finds in Minerals in Sudbury Area Record in Number of Minâ€" ing Claims Staked. for only *5 Down and *2 a W eek The gold output for the year is ‘‘The silver output.‘‘ the report states, shown a slight deline and although~theâ€"loweringâ€"selling _prices may in part account for the decrease the chief cause has been one of marâ€" kets due mainly to the unsettled polâ€" tical conditions in China and the fact . The nickel and copper industries at Sudbury, the report shows has taken added importance as the result of finding large bodies of high grade ore at depth in the Frood and Frood Ex tension mines. Copper runs from 6 to 20 per cent. in addition to the usuâ€" al nickel and precious metal contents. ‘*Ontario‘s position as a copper proâ€" ducer,‘‘ it is predicted, ‘‘will be greatly improved in two or three years when this new ore body is developed. ‘*Never before in the history of the Province,‘‘ it is stated, ‘"‘were so many mining claims recorded in a single year as in 1927.‘‘ The total claims as shown in the appended table reached 15,554 as compared with 13,â€" 496 the previous year. These figures may be compared with the last boom year of 1907 when the claims recorded totalled 13,996. Canada now holds third place among the goldâ€"producing countries of the world and for this position Ontaâ€" rio is chiefly responsible. In 1915, a compaxrative table shows that Ontario produced 8.5 mullions of dollars in gold, Canada 19.0 while the world outâ€" put was 468.7. In 1927 with a world output of 403.6 Ontario has provided 33.7 and the Dominion of Canada 38.1 Another table, a comparison between the varions districts in the Dominion, shows that in 1925 Ontario passed the Yukon for the first time in gold outâ€" put and has been gaining ever since. In 1927 Ontanio led British Columbhia by over $30,000,000 while the output for the Yukon has now dropped to $636,637. s The report shows that the totai mineral production in Ontario since the establishment of the Bureau of Mines in 1891 has increased from $4,â€" 705,673 in that year to $89,839,569 in 1927. The gross output of metals in the Province has now reached the huge value of $945,037,343, and the total dividends paid to date, $263,287,174. Among the metals represented 70 per cent. of the total output has been in gold, nickel and cobalt while arâ€" senic, gypsum and salt were the leadâ€" ers among the nonâ€"metallic minerals. valued at $33,700,658 or an increase of $2,750,000 over last year. ~To this figure the Kirkland Lake Mines alone has contributed $9,674,701. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO To every purchaser of an Electric Washer we give a year‘s supply of Soap Flakes FREE â€"40 packages. Fred Sullivan, prominent Cobalt merchant, was elected last week by aceclamation to the town council of the Silver Town to fill the vacancy eaused by the unseating of Alonzo Fortin. Six other Cobalt citizens were nominated, but Mr. Sullivan was the only one to qualify within the time limit. (Mr. Sullivan has had previous municipal experience in Cobalt. Mrs. J. W Ray, of Toronto, is the guest of Mr. and Mrxs. O‘Connor. Last Friday evening the W.M.S. held a most successful social evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Farmer. After an interesting musiâ€" cal programme given by members of the community, the hostess served lunch, assisted by members of the soâ€" ciety. A despatch/Tast week from Sault Ste. Marie says:â€"â€"With winter pulpâ€" wood ~and logging> operations fast drawing to a close more than 5,000 lumberjacks employed in the forest area east and north of the Sault shortly will ‘begin their annual trek toward the cities and towns. The season‘s cut has practically been comâ€" pleted, and in fact, some of the camps have already broken up. A most successful Saint Valentine supper and social was held in the comâ€" mittee rooms, Connaught, under the auspices of the United Church Ladies‘ Aid. â€" The rooms were tastefully deâ€" corated for the occasion with a novelâ€" ty booth where a beautiful selection of useful articles was offered for sale.. A splendid supper was served from six to eight o‘clock, after which a good programme was rendered to a large and appreciative audience. Every one had a good time and the Ladies‘ Aid netted the sum of one hundred dollaxys.. _ Mrs. Ross Rebman visited Mrs. Vernon McKee at the Junction last week. Capt. and Mrs. Coleman were visiâ€" tors in town from the Night Hawk Mine Saturday last. Mr. Hebert Briden spent the weekâ€" end with his parents in Haileybury. Mrs. F. Chapman was the guest of her son, Mr. Fred Chapman, in Timâ€" mins, Saturday. Mrs. S. Larouche is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Lameroux, in W indsor. Mr. Roy Swayne spent the . weekâ€" end in New Liskeard. ITEMG DF NEWS FROM THE BUSY TOWN OF CONNAUGHT Prettily decorated with coloured festoons, the public school Golden City, presented a gala appearance last Wednesday evening, when the friends of Miss Neva May Davis gave her a tiscellaneous shower. _ Little Miss Dorothy Kitchen presented the gifts« in a ‘basket, decorated with white ribbon. Dancing was enjoyed, and later in the evening a dainty lunch was served. Miss Davis left Friday noon for Winnipeg, where her marriage to Mr. Robert Robertson takes place. ; Rev. Father Rouleau, of Iroquois Falls, held ‘the usual Mlsswn here Sunday. Mrs. Day entertained to a luncheon and bridge last week. Connaught, March 12th, 1928. Speâ€" cial to The Advance. Due to the favourable building conâ€" ditions the clay product industry had one of the most sueccessful years in its history, the value of total production being $5,948,603. This figure has been exceeded only in 1921 and 1922, when the production value ran over the six million mark. The production of crude oil petroâ€" leum in 1927 was 139,606 barrels at 35 Imperial gallons valued at $289,391 which shows an increase over 1926 of 2,634 Ibarrels. ‘*A preliminary estimate of naturai gas produced in 1927 is 6,969,000 M. cubic feet valued at $4,028,025, repreâ€" senting a decrease from 1926 of 807,â€" 496 M. cubic feet and $387,893 in value. This decrease is due to the exceptionally mild season. The deâ€" mand for heating purposes is only a fraction of what it was the previous winter.‘‘ St. Valentine Supper and Social. Shower to Miss Neva May Davis. Other Items of Interest that the Government of India has ceased to be a buyer of importance. Governments nave debased their coinage and as a result have reâ€" duced their purchase of silver.‘‘ The total number of ounces shipped from Ontario in 1927, is 10,543,473, as compared with $10,707,235 the previâ€" ous year. The production of pig iron for the year is shown as 515,365 tons, as comâ€" pared with 545,737 in 1926. The natural gas commissioner for Ontario, K. B. Harkness, has contriâ€" buted to the report the following inâ€" teresting statement : Sudbury town council could not, of course, inaugurate any general scheme of compulsory automobile insurance. The town council, however, has taken a step along the right road. â€" With the requirement that all lmsensed taxi drivers should carry indemnity inâ€" surance to the extent of $10,000 for personal injury and $1,000 for proâ€" perty damage, the public in Sudbury are ‘being protected so far as the taxi drivers are concerned. During the past year or two The Advance has notâ€" ed where men have been injured or property damaged by jitney drivers in different towns in the province. The inference to be drawn from the paraâ€" graphs recounting the incidents would suggest that the victims would have to stand any loss incurred, regardless of whether or not the jitney driver was to blame, because in these cases the taxi man had no money or proâ€" perty to:â€"repay any loss oy costs. 1t would be useless in such cases to bother about criminal or civil suits for even the courts can not collect money. _ Sometimes this was suggestâ€" ed by the way the newspaper telling the story would stress the idea of the sympathy extended to the injured perâ€" son. Other times the newspapers would state the fact more clearly. The apparent puzxpose of the byâ€"law . passed iby Sudbury council is to remeâ€" _dy an undesirable situation. * The byâ€"law, nowever, will have other effects than that of simply proâ€" viding for cases of injyury or damage _caused by jitney drivers. One of the _results expected from the new byâ€"law is a material weduction in the number of jitney llc(xxses issued. The presâ€" ent byâ€"law calls for a fee of $35.00 per year for a license. Before the license is effective the taxi driver must have the $11,000 indemnity inâ€" surance. This latter means an outiay of $130 for each car to pay for the inâ€" surance. _ Accordingly, the jitney driver in Sudbury has to pay $35 for the town license and $130 for the inâ€" surance, or a total of $165 before he can run a taxi for gain or hire. Many at present will find this $165 too high for their tastes. Thus it is thought that the insurance requirement clause Last week the Sudbury town counâ€" cil passed a byâ€"law which appears to be a step along the line of compulsory automobile insurance. Of course, it deals only with taxi drivers and their cars, but that is as far as the Sudbury council can go in such a matter. Acâ€" cording to the byâ€"law, which was sponsored by Councillor‘ Fenton, chairman of the Property Committee of the Sudbury council, all operators of jitneys in the town of Sudbury are required to carry .a policy, of insurâ€" ance on each vehicle they employ, covering public liability for $10,000, and $1,000 for This looks like a good move, and one that might well be copied in prineiple by the Proâ€" vince. Every once in a while when a pedestrian or an automobile owner gets mixed up in an auto accident, the victim is liable to find that the auto driver responsible is not worth anyâ€" thingâ€"perhaps, indeed, has only made a small payment on the car,â€" and consequently no claims for any damâ€" age done can be collected. This is a distinect hardship and one that thoughtful people have been striving for years to have remedied by some form of compulsory automobile acciâ€" dent insurance of indemnity. Some states in the U.S.A. have one form or another of compulsory automobile inâ€" demnity insurance. Several newsâ€" papers in the North Land have been advocating the adoption of compulsory indemnity insurance. ‘The idea chietâ€" ly advocated is that every car should be compelled to earry such insurance. Then in case of accident the other fellow, whether pedestrian or autoist, would have a fair chance for the reâ€" covery of damages in case of injury to car or ‘person. iScores of cases could be quoted (and some of them in this North Land) where serious inâ€" justice has resulted from the lack of such insurance. If every car had to carry indemnity insurance it would be on hardship on anybody concerned. aUDBURY TAX! DAIVERS MUST INSURE THEIR CGARS Sudburpy Council} Requires $11,000 Protection on Each Car Before License is Effective. Brown Label Quality, 38c !¢â€"lb. ‘Orange Pekoe Biend, 43¢ \<â€"lb. Blue Label Quality, 43c !<â€"lb. Red Label Quallty, 48¢ Gold Label Quality (Finest Procurable), 53¢ !4â€"Ib. Four grades sold in Black, Green and Mixed Blends. Lowest Prites in Canada For Fine Teas will cut down the number of Sudbury taxi drivers from 50 or 60 to a dozen or so. Men paying the $165 are likeâ€" ly to be bonaâ€"fide jitney drivers enâ€" gaged only in the one business. There are too many taxiâ€"drivers in Sudbury at present, thus creating a competition that left too many unable to make a living from the taxi busiâ€" ness alone. Such a situation tends to induce men to take up sidelines, (blindpigging, or worse, perhaps). From such a situation, the jitneys, the public and the town alike would suffer. There are times when too much competition is worse than none at all. The Sudbury town council did not seem to be far astray in suggestâ€" ing that the new byâ€"law afforded proâ€" tecton not only to the public but also to the jitney man himself. The byâ€"law was passed unanimousâ€" ly. 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