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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG | THURSDAY, APRIL '38, 1085, "Smo kes - Newspapers - Furs and Coal Some Canadian Products and Manufactures Outstri Those of the United Britain Demands H Canada Tobacco from For the first time on record the production of newsprint in Canad- lan mills has exceeded the output of United Etates milla. Canadian grown high-grade to- bacco is in keen demand in Britain. Canad raw the 1923424 season $16,643,817. Plans are under way to extend markets for Eastern and Western coal to points in central Canada. Building. permits in Canada in- ereased to $5,781,842 in February, & gain of $348,438 over January, and an increase of over $1,750,000 compared with February of last year. Lumber operators are hopeful of A better year than 1924. These are some of the high spots of industrial' promise that have forced themselves upon public at- tention. There are many others full of encouragement for Canada. The newsprint record is signifi- cant. 'A few weeks ago the heaa of a great United States pulp ana paper concern, announced the pur- chase by his company of 9,400 square miles of Canadian pulpwood and timber limits, with mills and power sites. This was in addition to big properties already held in the Dominion. His company, he stated, would move some of its American plants to the Canadian side. The Intention was to increase the output of its Canadian mills from 100 tons of newsprint a day to 300 tons a day. The reason for all of this in- vestment and expansion was 'the conviction that the control of the aewspriat industry of North Amer- foa was definitely passing to Can- ada. . February figures of Canadian fewsprint production emphasize his statements, Canada's being 115,624 tons as against 112,831 for the Uni- ted States. More significant is the fact that while Canada's production for January and February combined was 287,044, exceeding by 14,197 tons, or six per cent., the output of d a value of r production for Our fur industry is advancing * pPping States. |" igh-Grade the corresponding period of 1924, that «of the United States for the two months which was 242,615 tons, 6,621 tons or three per cent. le€s than in the same period of last year. In other words the decline of American production, long predicted and foreseen, has set . It 1s' well to remember also that a considerable amount of news- print is made in the United States from infported Canadian pulpwood. These figures and facts explain, In some degree, the agitation of many leading American newspapers, and more especially those of the northern states, against a suggested Ci embargo on pulpwood. Stripped of all rhetoric the fact is that their 'protests are based on fear. They are afraid that such an embargo would force them into a position of absolute dependence up- on Canada for newsprint on which their newspapers are printed. Knowing what they know about these things, they see in this situ- ation a weapon which Canada might use with some effect in tariff ar- rangements, There are no signs of definite ac- tion of that kind on the part of the Dominion. In any event the situ- ation is likely to adjust itself to the steadily increasing advantage of this country. Development of the pulp and paper industry in Canada means that a proportionately larger amount of pulpwood is being manu- factured in this country every month into pulp and paper. The time will come when owing to the limitation of timber holdings and their exhaustion, the exportation of pulpwood, in its raw state, will not be profitable. Anyway the question at the moment is one for provincial and Dominion parliaments to deal with. But the fact that United States newspapers of standing and influence, are looking anxiously to this side of the border for the es- sential material for their bushess, is not without its compensations. Britain Wants Our Tobacco Turn now to tobacco. There was a day when unnumbered Canadian smokers turned up their noses at the Canadian grown and manufac- tured product. Especially did they scorn it for cigarettes, and regarded it as unthinkable for cigars, To- bacco grown in this country has made long strides since then. The growers, the various agricultural departments, federal and provincial, and the improvement in the meth- ods of curing and disposing of the crop, have brought about a mar- vellous change. The tobacco divis- ions of the agricultural departments cover a wide range in their work of keeping Canada on the tobacco map. Ontario and Quebec are the leading tobacco provinces, but others are beginning to show that these two cannot have a monopoly. The analysis of the soils of the to- bacco-producing regions of the country made some time ago, and the tests in breeding and cultural methods, persistently maintained, are spreading the tobacco area. The co-operation of the interests econ- cerned is doing something more; it is solving problems of warehousing and marketing that were once diffi- culties of a grave nature to those concerned. Results of intensive attention are Seen in the growing popularity of Canadian tobacco in its own coun- try and in Britain. Not only has it been demonstrated that high- grade tobaccos can be raised in Canada, but they can be cured and marketed to compete on their own merits with the best that the United States or any other country can pro- duce. It will tike a long time, per- TTI ERE a] A Reading his Canadian-made news. paper as he smokes high-grade Canadian tobacco haps, for Canadians who live out- side of the tobacco sections to realize that.| But it is one of the Canadian achievements that go to make our trade position and inde- pendence of other countries more assured. A few years ago Canada did not export any tobacco to Britain. Of the 200,000,000 pounds imported annually by the Old Country, only 9,000,000 is supplied by the Over- seas part of the Empire. Canada's contribution towards Britain's "smokes" {is still comparatively small, but it is growing fast and is all high-grade quality, for which the demand is almost unlimited. Some types of tobacco are grown in a few sections of Canada exclusively for the British market, which would take forty times as much of this one brand as the Dominion produces at present. The British preferential tariff is a distinct advantage to Em- pire tobacco growers, and Canada being the nearest of them to the home land is in a fine strategic posi- tion, Fur Industry Growing As a fur country Canada is as- suming a new importance. It was once thought that the depletion of wild life would, in a very short time, spell "finish" to the fur trade. But In spite of occasional fluctu- ations it grows, and will keep on expanding. The development of fur farming is a principal reason. The total value of pelts of fur-bearing animals, wild and ranch-bred in 1924 was over fifteen million dol- lars, of which the percentage of ranch-bred was five and a half. A greatly reduced catch of muskrat and white fox brought the value more than a million dollars below that of the previous year. Smug- gling and pelts not ofMcially report- ed, would no doubt considerably .| tation, all over augment the totals every year. J is a matter that will always present difficulties. As an organized and systematie industry, however, fur farming i» Canada grows rapidly, and is at- tended with a reasonable measure of success, The number of fur farms or ranches is added to every year, There are probably fourteen to fifteen hundred in the country now, with from forty to fifty thou sand animals worth an aggregate of millions of dollars. Fox farming continues the most important branch, and Canadian black and silver fox skins are gaining a repu< the civilized world, that is a wonderful advertisement for this country, It dates back to & farm near Tignish, Prince Edward Island, over forty years ago. Buf foxes are not alone in the produc tion of fur in Canada. A late offi cial publication shows that mink, racoon, skunk, marten, fisher, beaver, muskrat, Karakul sheep, which provide Persian lamb & astrachan furs, and chinchilla A bit, are ranch-bred in Canada nowy Some have claimed that the chin« chilla rabbit, which is sald to hail from the Andes, could never be raised here commercially. Well Canada is going to show them, | Solving the Coal Problem What about coal? This need never buy a pound of from any other if only its own ped sources In that respect can be tributed to points distant them at reasonable rates, Large scale experiments in the shipmen of Western and Eastern coal to cen tral Canada are now being under-| taken by mining, raflway and gov ernment co-operation. They involve problems not apparent on the sur face; but they cam and should.be solved. The manufacture of coke in some of the hydro-electric plants of cen~ tral Canada as a by-preduct of the coal carrying arrangement, is also to be encouraged. This, it is hoped can be done on a large enough scale to displace a considerable percent- age of American anthracite coal, which is now more easily shipped in, but steadily increases in price, and in regard to the supply of which there is always the danger of stoppage by embargo or through strikes. $ilaie Building is another industry in which Canada is showing signs of activity for the present and belief in the future. Every provines in Canada showed increases in value of permits for February over Janu-{ ary with the exception of Ontario, There are signs in that province that this is a condition which will not last long, and that a bullding boom is in ¢he making. | CROSS-WORD PUZZLE d & After a successful day's tiger hunt in Nepal, THE DAY'S BAG India, the OUT OUR WAY, TIN WHOAL HALT! WAITA MINUTE HERE! - BE IN FRUNT OF "TH CALVERY. SPOSED 1S SPOSED ALLRGHT "TOD, FORWARD MARCH . Tse BEHIND TH PRWATES WEN "TH ARMY S FF By Walling. ' above photo shows how the game is brought home. 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