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The diamond, fields of South Africa; were also discovered by accidentl UneIDaniel Jacobs lived with his? Boer family on the banks of the Or-i ange ri\'er near iiopetown. Beauti-' fully-colored agates were picked byi the children along the river banks. One Very bright pebble found in 1867; attracted the attention of Mrs. Jae-i obs. A neighbor ofiered to purchase‘ the pretty specimen. but the Dutch housewife laughed at accepting any-i thing for a pebble. and gave the stone away. . It proved to be a diamond weighing 21} carats and worth. $23,500. The diamond industry ofj South Africa dates from this begin-‘ ning. ! ; Once on a time a prospector and his wife were plodding orer the dee- ert. Angered by the heat and by a particularly ”ornery" mule. the man raised a rock to heave at the critter. Something in the rock, occurring in the midst of the barren wastes, at- tracted the prospector's attention. That is how 'l‘onopah. NeVada, was discot‘ered. .-\ couple of centuries ago some of the Brazilian pioneers were in the habit of using little pieces of quartz and quartz-like pebbles as counters in games of checkers. One day a visitor who had seen crude diamonds in Amsterdam. Holland. recognized the true nature of some of the peb- bles. Thus did the diamond mining industry originate in Brazil. Recently mercury ores were dis- covered by a peculiar aecident near Field. British Columbia. The man- ager of the Canadian Pacific railroad hotel at Field found mercury in the hotel ‘sink. At first it was supposed some one had broken a thermometer. but the event recurred, and finally an examination showed native mer- cury in the gravels of the stream supplying the hotel with water. Mining disvtricts are orvasionnlly discovered by the weirdest freaks of fortune, says the Mining and Engi- heering World. BISCIWEBV [If MINES BY flffllfllflfllf. [BEANS Peculiar mum of fortune Which Have led to Won- derful Results ‘ The great silver fields of Cobalt A nwoting of thg Winnipeg Board of Trade will be bold in the near fu- turo. when the matter will he taken up by that. body. also. owe their discovery to accident. As everyone knows, the ores were en- countered in the profound northern forests in a cut made by surveyors for the T. 6: N. O. railroad. Gold fields accidentally discovered by opening: the crops of chickens and poultry are common. Their number is legion. and they date from prehis- toric times. The latest discovery of this class was at Manitonas. Mani- The Federal Government has al- ready been nppmaehed on the. mat- ter. but has intimated that same was entirely in the hands of the PrOVin- einl Alberta Imgislature. toha. Here hundreds of miles from the Nearest minim: region. gold placâ€" ers were discovered in this manner only a few months ago. but unfor- tunately the field has not proven very attractive to date. Still the fact re- mains that by this means rich de- posits were located on former occa- sions. The Canadian Credit Men's Asso- ciation. Limited. have likewise re- tained thetservivcs of Emery. News" 8; Ford. of Edmontnn. to represent them when the. deputation arrives in Edmonton. and the ofiicers oi the Association in Calgary are likewise lendingdheir assistance. Owing to the absence of Premier Sifton in Winnipeg. this deputation got no further than Calgary. but was instrumental at that point in interâ€" esting the Board of Trade. who pass- ed a resolution calculated to add weight to the application for help from the Government. In View of the action taken by the Government calling {or the abandon- ment of the village of Frank, Alber- ta, and the hardship that will be en- tailed upon all classes in that com. munity, the chairman of the village council, W. J. McGowan, headed a deputation to wait upon the Premier of the Province ol Alberta with the nhject. of obtaining some relief from the Government by way of compeno sation. Abandonment of Alberta Town Qun the cow-r of the prospectus that git had been filed in the oilice of the jl’rovincial Secretary. whereas this gwas not the ease. and also that. :"there were seVeral large companies ioperating in the district where the; Ecompany's claims were situated,‘ l among them heing the famous I-lud-: son Bay Mining Company. who have, probably had the greatest success of? any company in the camp. and who; in 1900 paid in dividends 4.500 peri cent. and in 1007, 5.000 per cent”? ,and whose stock advanced from $1 par to $200 per share." . Count Guy de Forez stated that; he paid $2.25 per share for the stock l ni the company in Paris. and on the? strength of the prospectus expected3 it. to go up to $30 or $40 per share.’ s“Pete" farah oopeors Before Magistrate Atkinson at Co- boit---Caoe Postponed Edward Donnelly, of the I’rovilr-I eiul Secretary's Department. stated: that he had made search .for the? prospectus of the Big Pete Canadiani Mines. and could not discover it on. tile. and Geo. Taylor. President of} the 'l‘emiskaming and Hudson Bay} minmtestified that. the company were: not operating claims in Boston town- . ship at the time the prospectus wnsé issued. I An interesting exhibit. was the prospectus in French, which declared that Mr. Kalil Farah had been given the titte of Peter the Great by the British Government for services ren- dered in the Province of Ontario. Tho claims of the company are in the Lardcr Lake district and the mmplainnm alleges that it is stated The case was taken under advise- ment by Magistrate Atkinson and Farah is under bonds of $10,000. The information .was laid by Count Guy dc Forez. Paris. France, who stated that. he owned 13.100 shares of the company. and represented 332 shareholders. Kalil Farah. of New Liskeard, bet.- ter known as “Big Pete" Farah,was arraigned before Mazistrate Atkinn- son at Cobalt Friday last on a charge oi making false and mislead- ing statements in a prospectus of the Big Pete Canadian Mines. STAIIJS llf PflflSPEBTlIS BISBUSSEH IN Cllllfll l‘Hb PURCUPINE ADVANCE i tic-ntlemcn.â€"â€"ln your issue of April? illlth, bottom of third column, we; gnote that you say that one '1‘. .l., Scanlon designed the 100 ton mill for : the Vipond. With due respect to the source iofé your, information we beg to state. that 1’. 11. Moore, the consulting: mining engineer for the Canadai Foundry (,‘o., furnished the original! drawings for this mill. which has a number of unique features. includ- ing the use of llardinge conical ball; mills. in place of stamps. and Mar- «lingo conical pebble mills. in place of tube mills. Also eacg of the ma-: chines is driven by its own individ-i ual Canadian (leneral electric motor, E and the whole design is an entirely unique one in Canada, giving muchi 'greater crushing capacity and lessi power consumption than any other; design of a mill that has yet been brought out. _.~. ---â€"-_ ._ -.--..â€"â€".â€"â€".. v-7 Engineer Moore Designed Mill The following communication .is self-explanatory: 'l‘ho Porcupine Advance. South Porcupine. Ont. year ending March 31, 191], which The Predi‘anibrian formation in were 189,633 at ocean ports, and Canada occupies a "V" or shield 121.451 from the United Statemmak‘ shaped area, the sides running down. ing a total for the whole fiscal year through the provinces of Ontario and of 311,084. . éQuehee and the centre being occupied During the month of March thisiby Hudson and James Bays. M» "10 year there were 42,341 arrivals, 26,- f present time there is no other coun- 139 of them having been at, occgn ! try in the world that oflers prospect- ports, and 16,252 from the Unitediors such good t‘hnnces of locating States. Immigration for the monthivaluable mineral deposits as this of March this year shows a gain of 7 ‘ Canadian prcuCamhrian. 80 883’8 Mr. per cent. over that of March lastiA- A- CO‘P- mining with?" 0' the year. 'Temisknming and Northern Untario During the fiscal year ending March 31. 1912, 354.207 immigrants arrived in Canada. Of this number 220,527 arrived at ocean ports. and 133,710 from the United States. These fig- ures show an increase of 14 per cent. as compared with those for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1911, which were 189,633 at. ocean ports, and 121.451 from the United Statesmah ing a total for the whole fiscal year of 311,084. . More Immigrants ‘ Came Last Year Yours very respectfully, CAN ADA 1‘30! NDRX (30., Ltd. Toronto. April 1912 Occupying at strategic positionmm ning north and south through thc point of this ”"'\ lies the Temiska' mini: and Northern Ontario Rnilw.iy Ontario's Government. mad. it was during, and directly due, to the construction of this railway that the wonderful ('olialt Camp was dis- rowrod; just as a few years prcVi- 011st the Canadian Pacific Railway upcnml up near Sudlmry the greatest deposits of nickel one the world has eVer known. Projected originally as Precambrian formation Extends Various ironies ihroughout lio- lluer ilast and ialuahle Area minion face Busy Year With oi illneral Deposits harmony Throughout n Colonization road, for the opening up of the great Northern Ontario Agricultural Clny Belt. it has re- vealed a mineral ditftrict of world- wide notoriety. so that from the first the reVenues of the road have been nttrihutnhle in large measure. either direvtly or indirectly, to the mining industry. l0 (”HEB BUIJNIBV 50 Gflflll fflfl PflflSPECTflflS on; such good chances of locating valuable mineral deposits as this Canadian prc‘Cambrian. so says Mr. A. A. Cole. mining engineer of the Tcmiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. While agriculture must take a sec- ondary place to minim: an a revenue producer for many years to comc,thc industries are not at all antagonis- tic. hut the presence of mining in the district has given a stimulus to ag- riculture that it would have been hard to obtain in any other way. Minini: operations during the past year have been goniincd to the pre- vious metals, silver'and gold, with the accompanying cobalt. nickel and zirsnnic as by-pmducts of the former. Although deposits are known to ex- ist of pyritcs, gold-bearing arscnop- vrite, nickel-bearing pyrrhotitc, iron and copper, almost all of these are still lying idle. llllllflfll fflfl [A808 ~ IS M081 I’flflMlSIIG New Manager For Hughes Mine The Labor Department reports a most satisfactory outlook as regards lahor conditions throughout. Canada this spring. Indications are that May Day mill pass without a single strike om'urring among the employees of any company operating a public util- ity. The railway employees on all the roads haVe now satisfactorily adjusted pending disputes with the companies. except in the case of the Toronto railway. and there is not a single lioard oi Conciliation and In- \°estigntion either applied for or sit. ting anywhere in Canada. Workmen are everywhere steadily engaged and the only diflleulty is with regard to a general searcity of supply. The greatest scarcity ts rw purted in farm labor. particularly in western Canada. The Immigration Department is advertising widely in (treat Britain for immigrants who will go on farms in Canada. but prospects are not very encouraging for any Very large increase in the number of agricultural laborers im- migrating to the Dominion this year. There is a scarcity of farm labor in Great Britain itself. and wages for larm help are going up there. Ernest H. York has heen appointed manager of the Hughes mine, POI'NI‘ pine. He succeeds Muwry Bates,who has resigned from the management of the. prc‘iperty. and will again“: charge at the end of the month. Mr. and Mrs. York are now at the. property. Mr. York is well known in thi~' section. having been engaged for sev- eral years in the Cobalt camp. He was formerly at the McKinley-Dar- rag-h and also had charge ,of the Calcite Lake mine in Gowgnnda. but this property has been closed down temporarily and Mr. York accepted the position of manager of the Hughes.