4) =â€"â€" G y< L2A EL Y L 4 Y W encb 3 A EOE Still the Most for the Money * Anorew Wirson 0 "‘The National Smoke" The reasons for the potency of a gold camp in inducing settlement are not far to seek. First of all, the very name of gold attracts men irresistibly, and among those that approach the spot where it is found, many are fated The Canadian public is being inâ€" formed not only of the country‘s need but of the various ways and means of meeting this end. On one point, howâ€" ever, public speakers and the public press have, in general, failed to make clear the facts. The importance of an active mining industry in aiding a rapid and permanent settlement is selâ€" dom gauged at its true value. Contemâ€" porary events, as well as the history of a century back, demonstrate that the establishment of a mining indusâ€" try, and particularly of a gooqd miming industry, is one of the surest means of attracting settlers to the vicinity. It is doubtful if there is general apâ€" preciation of the importance of the mining industry to a new country and its development. In the past Governâ€" ments have thought too much in terms of agriculture. The attitude too much has been to tolerate mining simply beâ€" cause it brought ready money in the way of royalties and other forms of taxation. As a matter of fact this North Land would never have reached its present state of development with, out the noteworthy assistance of the mining industry. ‘Mining is well termâ€" ed a basic industry. A writer recently in the Sudbury Wtar goes even farther than suggesting that the settlement of the North Land depends very largely upon mining. He emphasizes ‘*Gold"‘ as Canada‘s best foree for immigraâ€" tion. He points out that it is by no means a recent discovery that Canâ€" ada needs a vastly increased populaâ€" tion, and that it is settlers on the land that are princeipally required. There are periodical fluctuations in the interest of the public in this allâ€" important question, and the action (or rather reaction) of our public admiâ€" nistrators fluctuates accordingly. At present we are on the top of a wave of interest, and our public officials, after years of inattention, are preparing to conduct an active campaign designed to help in populating the open spaces of our land. The effort put forth by a handful of publicâ€"spirited Canadiâ€" ans in high position on behalf of this problem, backed as it has been ‘by the public press, gives promise of bearing fruit in the near future. Many weeks after the big fire the people slept on boards and in a few cases mattresses were available. The picture shows the first beds to be given out at one of the Relief Committee‘s stations. <Hundreds of families in Northâ€" ern Ontario needs beds, clothing and food. More Important in the Development Of a Country Than Agriculture. [AE BEST IMMIGRATION AGENGY FORGE 1§ GOLD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary. New Empire Theatre Block TIMMINS, ONT. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE Pays highest prices for secondâ€"hand furniture. Sells new and secondâ€"hand Furniture at cheap prices. Ten days to Christmas! Oh, shop early‘ this settlement will, in the long run, far exceed the value of what the mines will produce; but to the mines must be given the credit for a part of this value. ‘the Ureat Clay ‘beit. This conjunction of arable land and gold deposits is a fortunate one for Ontario and Quebec, though it is a nuisance to the miner. Throughout the whole of the goldâ€"bearing area the prospector is hard put to make a ‘‘find.‘‘ That so much has been found in spite of this disability speaks well for what intensive development will disclose. Meantime the clearing and settling of the clay belt will proceed at a pace commensurate with the growth of the mines. The. value of this settlement will, in the lon« tun. the prairie part of Manitoba. At nuâ€" merous points throughout gold has been discovered, and at two points on its southern edge, astride the Onâ€" tario Government Railway, productive camps have been establishedâ€"Poreuâ€" pine and Kirkland. There promises to be another gold camp sixty miles to the east, in Quebec, which will draw the railway northward from Temiskaâ€" ming to the Transcontinental Railway thus intersecting Quebec‘s portion of the Great Clay Belt. one oT the Dest possibdle markets ftor the products of nearâ€"by farms. This intiml.s relationship of minâ€" ing and land settlement, presupposes the occeurrence, side by side, of workâ€" able mineral deposits and arable land. The two are not associated invariably ; but in Canada there are few mining districts where at least small numbers of settlers cannot gain a good liveliâ€" hood. Many of the fertile valleys of British ( olumbm. now adding largely to the wealth of ‘the province and of the Dominion, would still be uncultiâ€" vated were it not for the mines on the hillsides above. It is doubtful whether It is in Northern Ontario and Queâ€" bee that we have the clearest demonsâ€" tration of the efficacy of mining activâ€" ity in promoting settlement, as weii as the greatest opportunity for its profitâ€" able application. For four hundred milesâ€"the width of the provinee of saskatchewanâ€"the National Transâ€" continental Railway runs through the Great Clay Belt. This belt of land is arable throughout the larger part of its extentâ€"an area twice the size of to clear and till the arable land round about rather than to work in the mines. Then the operation of a group of productive mines ordinarily inâ€" duces the building of a railway, the prime essential for settlement in these days. The mines usually provide work for settlers at certain seasons of the year, particularly during the years of their first development, and, if they are longâ€"lived find a recruiting ground for young miners in the farming comâ€" munity. The mining eamps provide one of the best possible markets for there would be now any se whatever in Northern Manito it not for the promise there of production. It is in Northern Ontario a bee that we have the clearest BUYS AND SELLS FU RNITURE Correspondence, Copying, Ete., promptly done at reasonable rates. Miss Kathleen MacNabb PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Box Block, Ups Timmins 0 4606604668466 OR SALEâ€"New Auto Knitter; barâ€" gain; free instruction to operate. Also Quebece heater for sale. V. Mondoux, 59 Hollinger Lane. Corner Third Ave. and Birch St. 49â€"51p WANTEDâ€"In Timmins, Furnished or Unfurnished Small Apartments or Rooms, suitable for light houseâ€" keeping. Colin R. Ferguson, Kirkâ€" land Lake, Ont. â€"40