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XG CASH GRANT T0 AID SETTLERS IN ThE NORTH Federal Government Informs Deleg: tion That Settlers Must Look to Province for Any Help. Lz * * xhere will be no cash grant from the eral Government for settlers‘ relief in North Ontario, was the answer Hon. J. C. Elliott, Minister of Publici wWorks, to a deputation of Northern ; o rtave ARaarded ht I A. Bradctte, M.P., settlers headed by J North Temiskaming. Owing to very wet weather in New‘. Ontario the crops of many settlers were a total loss and relief is necessary. The Ontario Government is giving employ-‘ ment to the settlers in road construcâ€"| tion and other work. The deputationl asked the Dominion Government to supplement this with a cash grant. Mr. Elliott pointed out that the matâ€" ter was one of purely provincial conâ€" cern; that there were no Federal works in the districts needing relief he could undertake; and that a cash grant would create a precedent which would bring relief demands from any part of the Dominion whenever there was crop failure. He expressed his sympathy with the settlers in their plight, but told them no cash grant would be given, and there were no public works in that district that could be instituted to afâ€" ford reliei. The settlers must look to the Ontario Government which was reâ€" sponsible for their welfare. FAR NORTH NOW BOUND TCGETHER BV ThE RADI Airships Also Playing a Noteworthy Part in Reducing Distances in Canada‘s North Land. A despatch from Ottawa says that| the mineral resources of Canada‘s| Great North are incalculable, and that| the gradual unrolling of this country especially to the west, as evidenced by| the infiltration of varils exploiting in-‘ terests into the region beyond the 60th! parallel, indicates that in the not far distant future the nation‘s attention | will be more: closely focussed on the development of the northland. | Geological surveys have established!I that the mineralized belt which extends across northern Quebec and Ontario, continues in a northâ€"westerly swing inl a line roughly parallel to the valley of the Mackenzie River. North of the Great Rear Lake, which lies inside the Arctic Circle, is a vast region excepâ€" tionally rich in copper. The Dominion Government has not opened this up to prospecting; but when the time comes and all the rigid requirements of the government are fulfilled this area, in spite of its extreme northern situation, will fall due for development. North of the Alberta prOoViIiliCial boundary are deposits of lead, while at Fort Norman on the Mackenzie River are the oil fields. m ~ t %â€" *# Sn Nt ME CC PAE Interest in the mineral wealth of the Northwest Territories has recently been aroused by the decision of the judicial ‘committee of the Imperial Privy Counâ€"| cil who ruled that in the case of the Hudson Bay Company VS. the Dominion the company had no right or title to these resources, having surrendered them in the sale of their lands to Cianâ€" ada following Confederation. | Those who have studied the wl‘})le! question point to the unique position| in which the company at one time foind itself; for in 1791 practically all ine land outside of Upper and Lower (aâ€" nada was in their possession. ‘The northern boundary line of the Canatas then was roughly a line drawn from the head of the lakes,. This vas : pushed further north at Confederatipn | to a line east and west of the southe jly b tip of James Bay. Until the compahy| sold the remainder of the land m}w [ comprising the Northwest Territores| to the Dominion of Canada they had in ' their possession practically all of the now famous mining fields. [ It is pointed out that many misapâ€" prehensions now entertained by tie| public at large with regard to the whiâ€"| ter season and the productivity of the| soil in the Northwest Territories reâ€"| quire to be dispelled before any large | scale development can be entered upon. ‘The northern boundary of the prairie provinces is in the same latitude as the capital of Sweden, Stockholm, and also Petrograd. It is admitted that the| winters are severe, but it is not generâ€" ally known that the summers are CXxâ€" tremely warm. At Good Hope on the Mackenzie River, within the Arctic Circle. the mission stations subsist to| a large extent on vegetables grown in their own gardens; while enterpris'mgi growers in this district do quite a trade | with the settlements down towards Akâ€" lavik in the sale of potatoes. | ‘The development of aerial communi-’ cations, coupled with radio, has brought | those settlements in close touch with civilization. Some weeks ago A party fiew from Winnipeg to Fort Churchill, thence to Chesterfield Inlet and Baker Lake, westward to Great Slave Lake, and south to Edamonton. ‘This was @A distance of more than 3000 miles. ‘Travelling by the former methods of transportation such a journey would have taken the better part of three years; but this party did it in 12 days. The whole north is "hooked up" with a regular chain of wireless stations. One can now send a message from Ottawa to the vicinity of Coronation Gulf, near which Sir John Franklin‘s illâ€"fated narished. and nave reply 4 L * 8 « despatch this to the vicinity of Cor which Sir John F expedition perished, bact in one day. week from Ottawa THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Thursday, Dec. 20th, 1928