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"Mining towns are homely. Mining towns are rough. They nurture their own and their own love them. Not like the town laborer do mining town dwellers become dull, nor like the grower of things narrowâ€"minded. Theirs is the nomad life. A tent, a shack, a house or a residence, they have known them all. They can conâ€" tact without uncouthness with the city, and they have the fibre to return to their wilderness of rock and tree withâ€" out repining. Theirs is a true frontier St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journalâ€" The ultimate in houseâ€"hold efficiency will be ed when it is possible to cook breakr "Cligarette lighter. "Individual properties, east and west, have importance, but not the stature of mining towns. All of them have something in common. Communities, as rule isolated from civilization, they develop character and attract, to hold, a type of men and women to whom the frontier is home, and to whom the effete in life is the eccenâ€" Reference is made to "Perky Kirkâ€" land," Swastika, Sudbury (never propâ€" erly mining town, says the article), Creghton," and also to "Rouyn the youth." Moreover, there is a word for the Pas, Manitoba, and for some other ‘"Timmins emerged more slowly, and all but died in a disastrous fire. The mines would not be denied. The railâ€" way followed the tote team and modern construction, after four years of pioneer life, began. Timmins, with its extraâ€" ordinary mineral wealth, was, after its first diificult years, earmarked for the new type of mining camp. Legislation permitted the diversion of a substanâ€" tial percentage of the earned wealth to the municipal coffers. Civic structâ€" ures, schools, roads and sidwalks apâ€" peared in rapid succession. Business housed itself substantially, the citzenry took pride in its dwellings. The town stands today as a model modern comâ€" munity." ‘"‘The Porcupine rush, with Kelso for a takeâ€"off, displayed primitive condiâ€" tions unsurpassed in the North. It was nrainly a winter affair, with long team trails, halfâ€"way houses, freightling trains and sleep camps. At one end there was the confusion of unloading, at the other the difficulties of housing a horde of goldâ€"seeking world ramblers. Bouth Porcupine, Golden Ciity and the environs were the first scenes of hectic life. All the Cobalt features deâ€" veloped, without the palliative of a railway or a Haileybury. The tide of fortune swayed this way and that. The Golden Cities disappeared and South Porcupine emerged as the perâ€" manent town, with one mine as its life blood. Further reference is made by the arâ€" ticle to Cobalt, described as "Homely Cobalt." Then is reference to the upsâ€" andâ€"downs of ‘"unconquerable Elk Lake." The article continuesâ€" "The second stage began when the town was incorporated. Streets were laid out and filled in, the trees and stumps disappeared, waterworks followâ€" ed the disastrous fever epidemic, and the ordinary facilities for a community of 5,000 people made their appearance. The waterworks installation was an extremely difficult undertaking. Noâ€" where was it possible to use ordinary trenching methods to lay the pipes. It was a mining proposition. The conâ€" tractor went bankrupt." "Such were the camps of Cobalt, Elk Liake, Timmins, South Porcupine, Kirkâ€" land Lake and Rouyn in the days of their youth. And the roughest of these was Cobalt. Where the other townâ€" sites had some pretension to a reasonâ€" ably level terrain, Cobalt stood a jumbled mass of hills and rocks, heavily forested with pine, spruce and birch. A succession of mental pictures shows the fastâ€"growing town stacked up on the steep shores of Long Lake, with a tiny railway station clinging precoriousâ€" ly on the grade on the western shore. Coniagas ridge, accentuated by the forâ€" est growth, loomed starkly behind. Shacks of log and lumber began a stragâ€" gling procession from the "Square" along old Lang Street, and eventually started south, over a creek which ran down Silver Street into the lake. Swamp Street was born. "A sight for the gods was the early boom mining camp. Mining men of Ontario‘s North have seen many such. They have watched the egg, the chrysâ€" alis and the final stage of evolution, and none of them were beautiful. "The rough log shacks, poleâ€"roofed and tarpapered, of the discovery days; the hastily erected, scattered agâ€" glomeration of lumberâ€"built structures in the second stage; the final or semiâ€" final collection of â€" roughlyâ€"aligned streets of stores, restaurants, banks and public buildings, dominated by shaft houses and mine structures. very interesting article in the special industrial issue of The Northern Miner. The article deals with the romance of the mining towns of the North, and some extracts from the article will be of interest to readers of The Advance. Accordingly here graphs from the ar ern Minerâ€" "Glamor marked their building, memory holds them dear, though rough and unadorned, the spirit of freedom lived in the early communities of the North Land, and lives toâ€"day!" Such is the introductory heading on A Time Credited with Taming Timmins. MINING TOWNS OF RORTH HOLD CHARM Of ROMANGE This Town Also Descrized xs "Dude" but also as a model , the article concluding as folâ€" Modern here are a few para the article in The North London Humoristâ€"Eating jelly with a knitting needle was one of the comâ€" petitions recently organized by a women‘s institute in the country and already we hear of several other sportâ€" ing events that aspire to live up to the disheartened beginner‘s definition of golf as "getting a ball into a hole with instruments singularly illâ€"adapted for "A Timmins citizen who is largely interested in lumbering and other inâ€" dustries in the North Land was in Sudâ€" ury on business last week and was imâ€" pressed with the absurdity of present railway and other conditions so far as they touch the North Land. "There I was," he said this week, "just fifty miles from Timmins, yet I had to travel 300 miles on the rallway to reach home. In this modern day when a man has to travel 300 miles to go fifty he certainly is "going some" and has a genuine grievance." Just before the war, it was understood that the C.N.R. intended to build a line from Timmins to connect with the C.N.R. at or near Sudbury. Surveys of the line were made and it was expected that work would be startâ€" ed in a comparatively short time. The C.N.R. looked upon the line as a good business proposition, and the peoâ€" ple in general who were interested viewed it as of much advantage from a public viewpoint. Then the war came on and all plans were sideâ€"tracked It was confidently believed, however, that after the war the C.N.R. would take up the question again simply as business proposition. But in the meantime the C.N.R. became part of the Canadian National Railways, inâ€" stead of being the Canadian Northern Railway. But what was good business for the C.N.R. of private capital is even better business for the C.N.R. of national government ownership. The line from Timmins to Sudbury will knock more than a hundred miles off the railway journey from the Porcuâ€" pineâ€"the greatest gold camp in Canâ€" ada,â€"to Toronto and other southern points. It will bring north and south more closely together, and so be profitâ€" able economically, industrially and otherwise. It will open up ab ig stretch of promising country with unusual prospective riches of forest and mine. It will mean cheaper living, because of more economical transportation faciliâ€" ties; it will mean added convenience and advantage to north and south alike. The Canadian National Railways should take up the question as a matâ€" ter of good business; otherwise the T. N. 0. should see that this line is built as soon as possible, If neither governâ€" ment will move in this necessary matâ€" ter, then at least they should step back and leave the field clear for private capital and enterprise. The line should be built as a prosposition for the deâ€" velopment of the country and as a matâ€" ter of good business. There would be traffic enough for such a road. Indeed, there is a reason for believing that the proposed line would develop a business of its own, much to the general advanâ€" tage, practically without interference with the present railroad serving the North Land." In the meantime it may be interestâ€" ing to reâ€"read the plans suggested ten years ago along the belt line chain of thought. The Advance of March 10th, 1920, carried a front page article readâ€" ing in part as follows:â€" In recent years The Advance kas been a persistent and insistent advoâ€" cate w»f a belt line of roads for thc North Land, ‘believing that such a plan would ie invaluable in opening up a vast new stretch of country, supplying transpuratation to many promising mining fields, helping solve the forest fire menace, and multfplying many times the attraction of the North to tourist trade. The Advance believes that the completing of this belt line of roads is second in importance only to the building of roads for settlers. Rcads for settlers should be built and . the belt lTine of roads should be comâ€": pleted. It is interesting to note that: the belt Iline idea is more than ten years old. Looking through the fyles of The Advance last week for material for the column "Ten Years Ago in Timmins," a feature published each week in The Advance, there was an| article advocating the belt line idea. Ten years ago, however, the belt line idea took the form of a request for a] railroad. Had a railway been built | then The Advance believes it would | have proved a paying venture and that I | â€"â€"_._â€"â€"_â€"â€"â€"_â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"_“ -â€" it would have opened up the country in effective way without undue cost. The country toâ€"day would have been in betâ€" ter situation than it is Had that railâ€" way been built ten years ago there would be no regrets toâ€"day. In the inâ€" tervening :ten years, however, condiâ€" tions have changed in some directions. The remarkable development of motor traffic has somewhat altered the situaâ€" tion. For the immediate present it j would appear that a belt line of roads | should be dealt with before a belt line of rails At the same time there still seems to be value to the idea of a railroad belt ling though new developâ€" ments would suggest an extension of the plan proposed in 1920. Instead o‘ simply a connecting railway from Sudâ€" bury to Timmins, the line should run also from Timmins through Kamiskotiza and on to Kapuskasing. The Advance believes that the completion of the belt | line of roads will develop the country to such an extent that the railway plans would appear both feasible and promising. ‘ BELT LNE TDEA FOR NORTH MORE THAN TEN YEARS OLD Idea Ten Years Ago Centred Round Plan of a Railway to Connect Timmins and Sudbury. Extensions of the Pian Suggested. The annual special Industrial edition of The Northern Miner has just been issued and it is a noteworthy effort. It composes a total of 88 pages, with much space being given to interesting and illuminating illustrations. The paper is well printed and full of articles of particular interest to all who pay any attention to mining or the North. Practically all mining camps of the EREMARKABLY FINE SPECIAL EDITTION OF NORTHERN MINEER KRAKFTâ€"PHENIX CHEESE CO.., LIMITED For dinner tonight serve macaroni and cheese, baked golden brown. Kraft Cheese is Lenten meat No need now to spend hours and hours of thought and unnecessary worry over Lenten menus when Kraft Cheese will solve the problem of «meatless meals" for you. $ K._ For Kraft Cheese, in all its varieties, can be used in over a hundred different ways to prepare tempting dishes, It will add variety to your meals right through Leat. Just try some of these suggestions: QOULL never tire of Kraft Cheese. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Young and old can eat just as much Kraft Cheese as they likeâ€"for Kraft Cheese is a healthy food. North are edequately dealt with and the issue is fairly encyclopedic in its information on mines, prospects and possibilities. The Northern Miner is to be congratulated not only on its enterprise in presenting such an issue but also on the talent and thoroughâ€" ness that have carried the work through with such notable success. Kitchener Recordâ€"About all some of us have saved for a rainy day is rheumâ€" Soâ€" wholesome everyone can eat it freely The Pembroke Standardâ€"Observer last week says:â€"‘"In the issue of Feb. 22 The Standardâ€"Observer carried a story dealing with an exceptionally large hardwood log which had been brought to Alex Bartr‘s carriage facâ€" tory by Cecil Butler of Allumette Island It has since been learned that the tree from which the log was made conâ€" tained 12 logs, with a total length of TREE CONTAINED TWELVE LOGS, AND 2248 FT. LUMBER Head up your next grocery list with Kraft Cheese. Your grocer has it. __ And, contrary to general belief, Kraft CTheese is healthy food . . . as digestible as milk itself. . . . Serve VELVEETA with strawherry jam to the children. Of course they‘ll like it! .. Use Kraft Grated to add zest to soups KAY as a filler for delightful sandwiches. «. . For tomorrow‘s luncheon give the children toast with bubbling melted cheese covering it. You can give children all they want. 112 feet and produced 2,248 feet of lumber in log measure and approxiâ€" mately two cords of firewood. The facts and measurements are vouched for by Mr. Butler." Edmonton Journal â€" A French woman, one hundred years old, has slept every night of the century in the same house. What makes her record remarkable is that her home is in St. Omer, which was consistently bombed and often shelled during the war. Pembroke Standardâ€"Observer â€" Tell the next man there is a million stars to be seen with the naked eye, and he‘ll take your word for it without trying to count them. Show him a sign with "Wet Paint" and he‘ll insist on seeing whether it really is wet. Thursday, March 13th, 1930 Toronto Telegramâ€" One or two more conferences and peace will have been spread over the world just about as often as Canada has been made a nation. â€" try