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Council Discusses The â€" _ New T. N.0. Train Service IMPORTANT MEETIKLG Of BOARY Of TRAUE One of the chief items of interest before the regular imeeting of the Town Council on Monday afternoon in tlseir fine new quarters in the Courtemanche building, next to The Advance office, was the question ‘of the new train service on the T. N.0. Dr. Mejnnis submitted a resolution on the matter, Councillqr Globe thought it might be construed as a eriticism of the Railway and might only thus be adding to the difficultics and worries of the whom he believed were doing their best unâ€" der‘, extreme conditions. _ Councillor Globe referred to the condition of the ?flling stock of the T. N.0., due to ir‘s effect on labor and traffic. No ubt the Railway management had the greatest consideration to theematter and were doing their best to make the best of things. He pointâ€" ‘ed out that by the new service 100 per cent. efficieney was secured from the trains running. He also explained that in these times of war it was only right that all should give their symâ€" pathy and support to those who were laboring earnestly to overcome diffiâ€" eulties and unusual conditioas that might arise. BEvery Citizen Specially Urged to Attend Session in Old Empire Theatre Thursday Evening. The regular meeting of the Board of Trade will be held in the old Emâ€" pire Theatre toâ€"morrow (Thursday) evening, and ALL citizens, whether business men or others, are urgently requested to attend. President King hass a proposition of particular imâ€" portancee to the whole community to bring before the meeting, and in adâ€" dition there will be other matters of public interest up for discussion. Jt isz ‘the intention, hereafter, to hold the meetings of the Board of Trade in the old Empire Theatre, and not only will there thus be room for all, but all interested in the towir will be weleomed. In view of the importâ€" ance of the question before the meetâ€" ing this week a specially large atâ€" tendance is desired, and ALL citizens are urged to attend. "JU5T WHAT THE . DOGCTOR OROFERED" Tiltére was a good crowd at the hockey matech between Timmins and Troquois Falls last night, but the was a little too much oneâ€"sided, ins winning by a seore of 11 to ‘The â€" Timmins **Hasâ€"beens"‘ oÂ¥ed that they ean still play hoeâ€" â€"THE_ PORCUPINE ADVANCE â€",ING TO BE PATIENT IF DIFFICULTIES ARE IN THE WAY, BUT WANT IMPROVEMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. DRAY LICENSES, AUDITOR, ASSESSOR AND TAX COLLECTOR, AND FINANCIAL MATTERS DISCUSSED AT REGULAR MEETING. at least with Iroquois Falls, on Monday afternoon new quarters in the building, next to The was the questioin of Other members of, Council agreed with Councillor Hobe. Mayor Meâ€" Laughlin explained that it was opinion that the shortage of coal was one of the most serious difliculties of the railroad. They recently had only three days‘ supply ahead and had to send their own engines down to get through the freight blockade at the border to seenre more eoal. _ ‘The Mayor thought that a resolution might be sent to the effect that the people reeretted the change in train service, Mayor thought that a resolution might be sent to the effect that the people recretted the change in train service, but would loyally bear with it, of course, while at the same ¢time they hoped the better service would be put on soon. Any other kind of resoluâ€" tion ecould do little good. Dr. Meilnâ€" nis said that practieally this was what he intended.. ‘The F. N.O. had loaned engines to another company and no official explanation had been viven the people. The disadvantage was great not only for business reasâ€" ons, but might be very serious in case of illness at any of the smaller places where a doctor might have to be sumâ€" moned from one of the larger centres. Dr. MeInnis thought the people would be satisfied if a proper explanation (Continued on page 5.) The Way to Overcome the Poor Conâ€" nections to Toronto. The last announcement of the change in railway service for tlhis branch and for the main line about discouraged everybody. The prospect of the long wait, at the Junetion or at Englehart was a particular heartâ€" breaker in prospect for those desiring to go to Toronto by the old route. It has been pointed out to The Adâ€" vance, however, by an enterprising and publicâ€"spirited citizen that there is a way out of the diflicultyâ€"a way that in the end will likely foree the Grand Trunk to put back the old service. The method is to buy a C.P.KR. roundâ€"trip ticket at the station here and travel thus C.P.R. By this plan you leave here on the 6.15 morning train and go through to North Bay, reaching there at 5.40 in the afterâ€" noon. Then the C.P.R. local leaves North Bay at 5.50 p.m., and as it will wait for connections as usual with the train from the north, you take that 5.50 afternoon train to the Queen City and so land in Toronto at 7.30 next morning. This service means no waits, and the trains and accommoâ€" dation are of the best. If the genâ€" eral public will note this method of travel to and see that they use it, it will not be long before the Grand ‘Trunk will be moved to a change for the better in the accommoâ€" dation now offered to the North Land. And even if the Grand Trunk should never move, the public will at least have the benefit of a good serâ€" vice in anyvy case. A contract for 20 more heavy Mikado locomotives for the Canadian Government Railways has been awardâ€" ed by the Minister of Railways to the â€" Canadian â€" Locomotive â€" Works, Kingston. Six of this type of heavy engine, suitable for either freight or pussvnuer trains were recently put on the T. N.O. The work for the new order is already in such shape that the first engine is on its way to the Intercolonial Railway to help cope with the present heavy movement of freight to the seaboard. Deliveries have been completed by the Canadian Locomotive Works under an earlier order for 30 locomotives. These enâ€" gines cost about $39,000 apiece, or ,almost 100 per cent. more than preâ€" war prices. GOVERNMENT OROER OF RAILWAY ENGINES In addition the department purâ€" chased 10 Sante Fe Moguls at £36,468, in bond in Montreal, and 28 secondâ€" hand locomotives from Transeontiâ€" nental contractors. A total of SS enâ€" gines bave thus been bought or orâ€" dered for the Government railways during the present Aseal year. TIMMINS, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7th, 1917. RECOROING OFFICE â€" MOVINE T0 SOUTH EXD convenience to general imining public. An agitation to secure a transf‘er of the office from Poreupine to some more suuitable place has been going on for some time. Of course, people here may think it would have been better to have brought the office to Timmins long ago, as Poreupine has long since failed to be the busy centre it once promised to be, and is now only a village without the requiâ€" site accommodations and convemences enjoyed by other towns in the disâ€" trict. At the same time the majority will agree that to move the Recording Oitice to Soutlr Poreupine is a decided benefit to prospectors and others, even if Timmins does seem to those living here as the natural centre. And to be satisfiecd with small merecies is part of the seeret of contentment in this weary life, especially when dealing with Governments. South Porcupine Chosen as New Loâ€" cation for Mining Record Office. It is now announced that the Minâ€" inz Record Office for the Porcupine Mining Division will be moved from Porcupine to South Poreupine, which will be a considerable advantage and Quurters for the Receording Office are being secured in South Poreupine, and soon it is hoped the Mining Record Oflice will be located in more central and convenient quarters, and prospectors and those interested in mining generally will no longer be subjected to the unsatisfactory trips to the old (Golden City, or the equally unsatisfactory plan of trying to *‘ do it by writing.‘‘ Corrigan‘s Livery at Schumacher has been purchased by Messrs. Hagan and O‘Hara, who will continue the business as usual. Mr. Hagan, who has been with the Dalton livery for some time, is well known in Timmins, and all who know him will expect that the Schumaecher business will be carâ€" ried on for the service and accommoâ€" dation of the puble. ‘pies st 3t *Aqpiadoad o3 dn uado pur sdute> ut qnd o3 Afpoys â€"ut Lpradoad sepyy pute{yatM @uJ, vhe on se ie a*s e ts a*s a*a 242 a*, vBe vBe ie ohe sTe o 2t 2%, ie yPe s$s * ie o ats a%4 a*s a*. :Y a*, *o aÂ¥2 * », e oTa ho Te she vie vhe ote ote ole she ohe ohe ofe afte afe ofe oBe ole ut 34 54t 148 *4 * vie Kerr Lake interes negotiating for the Bostonâ€"Hollinger _ x Creek. *a * We vhe oi aTe a%e rBe ahe ohe ate ofe ohe ofe ole oo oo she ole vBhe vin oBe she rhe ohe ote ofe obe oo ole ohe o3 ofe ofe ofe ohe the ohe ohe The Kirkland Midas property inâ€"}ly and the more development done tends shortly to put in camps and |the more delighted the diretors apâ€" open up the property, it is said. fpear with the results. Two thousand pounds of erude asâ€" bestos wore shipped recently from South Poreupine by the Slade and Forbes people interested in the Delâ€" oro properties. The West Dome directors are said to be about to decide whether to instal a mill or make arrangements with some of the otheor mines to mill the West Dome ore in the spring. Negotiations are said to be under way for the reâ€"opening of the Moneâ€" ta. There is about $15,000 in the treaâ€" sury, and also a large block of treasury stock is available for sale for development purposes. Discoveries of gold have bheen made about 15 miles east of Bourke‘s Sidâ€" ing, and about twentyâ€"five claiums have been staked in the district, while quite a number of prospectors are on the hunt for more. The formation is said to be the kind that suggests gold. The Baldwin property near. Kenoâ€" gami Station is to be energetically developed, it is said. New camp huildings are being ereeted and work is progressing on the sinking of a 300â€"foot shaftt on a large vein that has shown free gold on the surface. Mark Harris and Co. are extendâ€" inz the number of their branches in Canada and the United States, offices being opened recently in Detroit and Pittsburg in the U.S., and at Hamâ€" ilton, Ontario. A‘branch will also be opened in London, Ont., at an early date. Returning froma visit to the proâ€" perty the directors of the Davidson Mine took to Toronto recently a numâ€" ber of excellent samples of ore from the twentyâ€"foot level. Three assays of these samples showed values of $8, $20, and, $88 per ton respectively. The Davidson is proving up splendidâ€" Notes, Comments and Opinions Of Interest To Mining World ests are said to he ie purchase of the mine at Boston Fortyâ€"Five Men at Work. Plans for Mill at Property. BElectricity as Power. West Dome Mimne, with promising reâ€" sults. Drifting on the main vein at the 300â€"foot level has been earried five hundred feet west of the shaft and the width of the vein stall perâ€" sists around the fiveâ€"foot figure, with ore assaying from $8 to $33 per ton, the average being about $12 to the ton. _ About two hundred feet from the shaft in the‘drift a erossceut as being run to the porphyry contact to pick up any veins which may oceur in this formation. ‘The erosseut has been run about 150 feet and will be {arried another fifty. Among other thingws encountered so far is a threeâ€" foot vein that shows good promise, as well as several ‘‘stringers.‘‘. The management are said to be planning m West Dome Mi sults. Drifting the 300â€"foot 1 carrieca anothuer fhiIty. Among â€"obtner thingws encountered so far is a threeâ€" foot vein that shows good promise, as well as several ‘"‘stringers.‘‘. The management are said to be planning to continue the drift for another three hundred feet, when a winze will likely be sunk to the 400â€"foot level at about 150 feet from the shaft. After doing about thirty thousand feet of diamond drilling, which indiâ€" cated a large tounage of highâ€"grade and good milling ore on the property, the diamondâ€"drilling has been diseonâ€" tinued for the present. ‘The amount of ore shown by the work so far is esâ€" timated at ten million dollars. The use of electricity in place of steam has been found much more economiecal and has added to the progress of work at the mine. In the meantime it is said that a large dump of valuâ€" able ore is accumulating, and that a mill is planned for the property. Alâ€" readly, it is said, there is enough ore ready to more than pay for the develâ€" opment work done to date, and ‘"‘things keep looking better." WEST DOME MINt ACCUMULATING OAE Mr. and Mrs. E. 8. Noble have reâ€" turned from Toronto and Hamilton, where they had been \mtm'r for ‘a week. Last week the power was turned on from Cobalt to Kirkland Lake and the Teckâ€"Hughes and Toughâ€"Oakes mines are expected to use 400 and 250 horseâ€"power respectively. An exâ€" tension to the Elliotâ€"Kirkland is unâ€" construction, and the Wrightâ€" Hargreaves, Sybanite and Lake Shore plants are also expected to connect up their plants at onee. The arrival of the "‘"juice‘‘ at Kirkland Lake means a big boom for that camp. The Black claims at Kirkland Lake. involving a purchase price running into six figures, have recently been taken under option by Mr. Frank L. Cohen and associates, of Buffalo There is a shaft down fifty feet on the property, and on the threeâ€"foot vein free gold is quite in evidence, it is said. The shaft will now be sunk to the 10N)â€"foot level, where stations will be eut and lateral work comâ€" menced. Camps are already on the sround and tlie work is proceeding. Good showing‘s are being made in the development work at the Anchorâ€" ite in Deloro. At the 100â€"foot level two large parallel veins have been opened up in a crosseut. The ore averages from $11.00 to $15.00 in gold to the ton. The twenty feet of rock between these two veins is also reported as highly mineralized and the fifty feet of ore including the veins and between is said to be of a reasongable milling grade and may be mined after the manner of the Big Dome **GHlory Hole.‘ The annual report of the Poreuâ€" pine Crown gives ore reserves as 97,000 tons of a value of $1,050,000, or an equivalent of two full years ahead of the milling at the present rate of production. A number of important ‘‘finds‘‘ were made in the year‘s development work, a good grade of ore being encountered beâ€" tween the 700 and 800â€"foot levels. The average value of this latter ore for a depth of 100 feet over a width of four feet was over $40 per ton. In drifting at the 800â€"foot level 100 feet, four feet wide, will aversge $100 per ton. ts, O 6P _ 300â€"foot level h: > hundred feet we l the width of the s around the assaving from $8 averace hbeing alh 1t are at work at the c with promising reâ€" n the main vein at The Big Dog Team Race On Saturday This Week The tonnage for February at the Dome Mines is given as 36,270, as against 39,600 for January. Part of the difference is no doubt due to the shorter month, and part, perhaps, to. the labor and material situation. The production for: February was . also consequently reduced. from that of the previous month, being $172,500, as against $181,000 in January. Opâ€" crating eosts were a little higher, the labor material situation agaim being ~responsible. _ Operating costs were estimated as $2.81 for January. February‘s grade was $4.70 per fon, as against $4.57 for January and 4.70 for December last. The estimated costs are as follows: UMining, including hoisting .....$ .91 Developmetih; :s :2 ces is se Crushing and conveying ..... .. .12 Milling h ssm ic se inss h o General m expense®.. .. ...,. k.4 Tonnage 36,270. Production $172,500. Operating Costs $2.88. t 1s nard to sAY tAhIs 18 DCâ€" ‘they fear it would frighten iway other posstbleâ€" competitors, or ecause they themselves fear other pposition entering. In addition to the A. R. Globe shield for. competition, there is the silver eup donated by Dr. H. H. Moores Into this silver eup, Mr. A. H. Saneton, chief engineery at the Holâ€" lingzer, has dropped a ten dollar bill, ‘"‘just to make it more interesting.‘" Also, there are other prizes, imcludâ€" ing a fine setC of dog team harness. $130,000 FRE Al Five Cars Destroyed and Car Barns Badly Damaged Sunday Morning. Phone messages recerved here on Qun(ldv told of a serious fire in the ‘ar barns of the Nipissing Central Rzul\'ay at‘ North .Cobalt. It‘ 18 thought that the fire originated in an verheated coal stove, but nothing definite is known as to the ecause of the blaze. The fire was discovered ibout four o‘clock Sunday morning ind at that time had good headway. In a short space of tithe five ears in the main part of the building were rey to the flames, the roof took fire, the steel girders twisted with the reat, and the solid brick walls of the building began to erumble. To make matters worse, there being no water supply, the fireâ€"fighting had to be done with chemical fire extinguishers. strenuous efforts, the transâ€" formers were saved, and thus a greatâ€" ENTRIES TAKEN AT THE ADVANCE OFFICE. COURSE WILL BE ABOUT 14 MILES. GLOBE TROPHY FQR COMPETITION AND OTHER PRIZES. SEE ABOUT YOUXR ENTRY AT ONCHE. strenuous efforts, the transâ€" formers were saved, and thus a greatâ€" er loss and serious delay to the reâ€" sumption of the street railway serâ€" vice are avoided. Indeed, a limited service was resumed on the street railway this week again, and in the meantime the service between Kerr Lake, New Liskeard and intermediate points was given by means of the usâ€" ing of the steam railway service,. The loss is estimated at about $30,000 to the electrical equipment, $60,000 for the ears destroyed, and $40,000 damâ€" age to the building. Total estimated loss, $130,000. cuduAR) FIGURES FOR THE DOME Another big carnival is planned by ‘bfi Timmins Rink for Tuesday, March 13th. Total operating eosts o competeâ€"but ther this is beâ€" would â€" trighten competitors, or ves fear other c, March 10th, his entry, toâ€" five dollars, to once. â€" The fee $2.88 The . fourâ€"weekly report of the Holâ€" ager Consolidated Gold Mines, Limâ€" ted for the period ending January 28th shows a gross profit of $217,â€" 100.54. This is $7,057.13 less than for the preceding four weeks, and also nearly $30,000 less than the amount requred to meet the Cividend planned. The Hollinger treated 48,119 tons of an average value of $8.71 per ton. The operating costs for the period were a little higher than for the Deâ€" cember four weeks. The operating costs for the four weeks just ‘ssued are given as $3.88, while in December they were $3.77. For improvements, additions, ete., to plant the outlay in ‘the January fourâ€"week period was $71,279.15. f The following comparison of figures for Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Limited will be of interest, the last column of figures giving the ratio of profit to production :â€" 4 weeks Indicated ~Gross P.C. | ended. output _ profits ered by the tollowing:â€" Entries to be madse by evening, March Sth, at The o‘ftice, seccompanied by fee to be returned in case the ishes the course. Drivers the same start wit pomts where jud; Half the road passing teams. No whips are to be used when teams are passing each other. Not more than four dogs are to bo in a teaim entered. iimmins, TCO ie Forcupine GCrown Mine; Poreupine Crown to Imperial; linpernial to Standard; Standard to Dome Lake;, Dome Lake to Dome: Dome to South Poreupine; South Porâ€" cupmne to Schumacher; Schumacher to ‘Timmins. ‘Teams may take any road they wish between these points, but they must check at these named points where judges will be stationed. ended. Jan, 28 Dece. 31 l N OV. Oct. Sept. 8 July Mail Out Too Early. Mail In Too Late. Local Service. NEW TIME TAGLE DN "PFOPLP§ RAILWAYV‘ Aug The ; Hollinger Fourâ€"Weekly Dividend Statement Shows 48 119 Tons Treated. Phose in ‘the [‘} 1e c our Single Copies 5 Cents ollow witi tion to connect with the Nationa). course as outlined now will bo w :â€"From the {mperial Bank, is, ‘to the Poreupine Crown Poreupimne Crown to Imperial; must finish the covirse wit‘h team and outht that they ow, pra ‘ftollowin $419,110 . 421,239 s 441,6690 . 430,620 . ABl,A14 o 4}]()'0 416,849 Al+4,078 or thi WERE $217,000 ‘ace must chee zes are statione, pjt 1 mileos te are not difiiâ€" illy bheing covâ€" 240,075 241,591 241,203 221,543 220,357 215,165 Advanceo of $5.00, team finâ€" Phursdavy iven to 51.8 53.4 54.3 56.] 53.4 51.4 52.9