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,.\.» M +Mining Machinery }‘ PREâ€"WAR PRICES ONEâ€"Five Stamp Mill weight of stamps 1050 lbs arâ€" ranged for inside amalgamation, complete in every detail ONEâ€"4‘‘* x 6‘‘ Dodge Crusher. ONEâ€"F C Sample Grinder. Miscellaneous other machipery. All in Storage at Wabi Iron Works, New Liskeard Fraser Chalmers of Canada LIMITER 59 Beaver Hall Hill, THE GREAT STRIKE RECENTLY MADE AT MANHKHATTAN, NEVADA caused a tremendous revival of interest in this Nevada Gold Camp, which has been lying dormant for ten years. The reâ€" cent strike made in the White Caps Mine caused a big stir on the San Francisco Stock Exchange where White Caps stock went up 30e to $2.07 a share in five weeks. Manhattan promises to duplicate our surpass the great camps of Tenopah and Goldfield. Opportunitiee aure again offered whore a small investment may possibly develop into a large fortuue. T. J. Fitzsimmons, E.M., Editor of Western Mining Finanâ€" cial Review recently visited this camp and made ‘the most complete report on this camp to date. It is published in the April issue of the Review. Western Mining Financial Review is anâ€" independent monthly magazine giving reliable news of the mining industry of the States of California, Nevada and Arizona. Subscription $1.00 per year. Athree months trial subscriptâ€" fon will be sent for 10 cents. WESTERN MINING FINANCIAL REVIEW 525 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. 15" x0‘‘ Blake Crusher, manganese MONT REAL, P.Q. Flrst Submarine Boat AInvented by Dutch Physician 1 VAN DREVEL‘S UNDERSEAS VESSEL WAS LAUNCHED IN 1620. | A coalition recruiting committee ALEXANDER THE GREAT TRIED THE GAME IN 320 B.C. |nas been formed in Australia. OTHER INTERESTING HISTORICAL SIDELIGHTS. use Several of the belligerent nations claim the honor of inventing the subâ€" marine, but apparently they all mifst forego the distinction. According to the historical investigation of a Lonâ€" don, Eng., newspaper, which has gone deeply into the matter, the first subâ€" marine was really the invention of a Dutch physician. The submarine is much older than the German Empire, and the credit af being the first sovereign to make a trip in‘ one is given to James I. of England, a monarch who has generâ€" ally been represented as a man of more than ordinary timidity. Doubt has been cast on the story, but whether it is true or not that James actually made a trip in a submarine, it is interesting to recall that one of James‘ friends did. undoubtedly conâ€" struct the first practical submersible boat recorded in history. Alexanderthe Great is said to have employed diving bells at the siege of Tyre, 332 B.C. An Arabian historian named Bohaddin, who lived about 11 50 A.D., relates that a dixer entered Ptolemais during a siege by means of a submarine apparatus. An inventâ€" ion for descending into ‘the sea was hear«l of :at Toledo in 1538, and Charâ€" les V. is said to have interested himâ€" self in it. Fortyâ€"two years later an Enâ€" glishman, William Boone, was creditâ€" ed with inventing ‘‘a plunging apâ€" paratus‘‘ similar to a device produâ€" ced nearly 200 years later by one Symonus, which was galley â€" shaped, with a domelike roof, but differing in the manner of submersion. Boone‘s plunger was submerged by the conâ€" traction of the hull through the inâ€" strumentality of hand vises, which vreduced its volume, while Symons maldle use of leather bottles, which he Blled with water. Magnus Pegelius in 1605 made a similar device, which was recarded as a marvel of its tume. According to Allan H. Burgoyne, ER.G.S., "the honor of having conâ€" structed the first submarine boat unâ€" doubtedly belongs to Cornelius Van Drevel, a Dutch physician.: His firstl Lsfibma-rine was midle in 1620, when he j built and launched a navigable sub-l mersible boat, and so successful did it prove that he had two others cun-' structed on the same plans, in the larger of which Jamss I., of whom Van ‘Drebel was an intimate friend,, made a lengthy trip. ‘These early craft awere built of wood and renderâ€" ;‘ ad watertight by stretching greased leather all over the hull. The folâ€" Jlowing is from a description of the largest: earried twelve rowers, besides passengers, and made a jourâ€" Iney of several hours at a depth of [from twolve .to fifteen feet. _ The | holes for the oars were made to hold water by leather joints. . Van Drebel laccowunted his chief seceret to be the eomposition of a liquid that would \speedily rostore to the troubled air surh a proportion of vital as wonld make it again for a good while fit for respiration. The composition of this lHiquid for enabling air to be used" again was never made public. V an Drebel died in 1634 without havâ€" ing eompleted his experiments, leavâ€" ing no document Télative to his work on the subjaet."" Commander Murray F. Sueter of the Royal Navy, who has writtem of work on submarines, while giving full credit to Van Drebei for his submerâ€" sible, is inclined to doubt that it was practically navigable under water. As to James‘ trip, after referring to the King‘s reputation for timidity, he says: ‘"This is extremely doubtful, as even with submarines of the presâ€" ent time people who are timid would scearcely be keen for facing this somewhat unusual experience. There can be little doubt, however, that James inspected and watched with According to the Abbe de Hautefâ€" euelle, who some years later publishâ€" ed a pamphlet on the art of breathing under water, there was no liquid emâ€" ployed. **The seeret of Drebel,""‘ he says, ‘‘was in an apparatus which consisted of bellows, with two valves, and two pipes eoming on to the surâ€" face of the water, one bringing pure air down and the other conveying the foul air away.‘‘ Van Drebel conâ€" structed his boats with two bottoms and submerged them by filling the space between the two with water. He conducted his experiments on the. Thames and is said to have made a trip under water from Westminster to Greenwich, a distance of about ter miles. great interest a eraft rowed with the top of the hull on the water, or just under, occasionally, as with the crude devices then available an even depth line would not bave been maintainâ€" In a work entitled ‘"‘Mathematic Magick,*"‘ published by John Wilkins, a brotherâ€"inâ€"law of Cromwell, in 1648, there is a reference to Van Drebel‘s submarine, which he ealls the * Ark,"‘ with the following ecurious exposition of its possibilities: "It is not easy to recite the many advantage of the Ark, to the nation. First and foremost, it is private. A man may go to any part of the world invisible, without being discovered or prevented in his journey. _ Motion will be safe from the violence of temâ€" pests, which never moves the sea more than five or six paces deep. They are safe from pirates and robbers, from ice and great frosts, which are such deadly foes to us in our passages toâ€" ward the Poles. One is also free from the uncertainty of the tides. It may be of great advantage against a navy, enemies who by this means may ‘be undermined in the water and blown up. ,So too it may be of great use for the relief of places besieged by water, to convey into them supâ€" plies, and also for the capture of a place that is accessible by water "It may be of unspeakable benefit for submarine experiments and disâ€" coveries. We can compare the swiftâ€" ness of ascent of bladders and corks with the rapidity of descent of stones or lead. We mssy explore subterâ€" ranean cpassages and eaverns. We may study the mature of fish, and we may catch them bv luring them with lishts or by shooting them with guns put out of ‘the ship by bags. _ And fish are important, for they give the occeupants of the Ark the oil they reâ€" quire for dressing meat by lamps. Fresh water for the occupants may be got from ‘the pure springs at the bottom of the ocear. But above all, the discovery of submarine treasures is more desirable not only in regard of what hath been by wrecks hbut the several precious things that 'lgm\v there, as peari and coral mines. Several cglonies of people may â€" inâ€" habit these voessels, having â€" their «children borme and brought up withâ€" out knowledge of land, who could not choose but ‘be amazed with _ strange contrasts upon the diseovery of the nupper_ world.""‘ NEW MIRING FELG N NBTRR MARTYS: Gopld Minces East cf Lake Winnipe?d Handicapped by Lack of Labor and Transportation. INDIAN TREATY PARTYV GATHERS AT COCHRANE ©For some years past explorers and ftrappers have been hringing back from northern Manrtoba reports of the existzoncee of d@eposits of metallic ores. Go!ld mines are also being deâ€" veloped in the region cast of â€" Lake Winnigeg, and near the northwestorn boundary of the Provinee, in the Athapapnskow region. immense doâ€" positits of eopper sulphide ore have been diseovered, in whieh veins of gold quartz are found, and from which good returns are being obâ€" tained. Several properties are now being developed by a syndicate but they are bkhandiecapped in their operaâ€" tions by lack of labor, by the Siffiâ€" culty of, ohtaining the neeess.®‘y machinery and by the lack of transâ€" portation facilities. . @ne â€"company hauled 3,000 tons of ore a distance of 90 miles to Sturgeon Landing, from which point it can be conveyed by water to Mile 82 of the Hudson Bay Railway."‘ | The Claybelt last week says: The station on Friday afternoon last week presented a picturesque apâ€" pearance, a number of Indian famâ€" ilies with papooses and all, from the Mattagami reserve, being in evidence to meet the treaty party arriving from Chapleau, consisting of Mr. Godfrey, agent,;, Dr. Jacobs, to look after their physical welfare; Rev. Mr. Prewer, missionary, to look after their spiritual welfare, and Mr. Adams, clerk. The Indians, who had been in town for a few days previously to take in the sights and excitement of city life, left smilingly for their homes on Saturday‘s local. *‘The whoke north of Canada is rich in minoral wea‘th,"" says an old prospector, noev in the Poreupine, as with an _ expression he points out the following paragraph in Fhe eurrent monthly letter issued by the Canadian Bank of Commerce Spain has reâ€"announced its intanâ€" tion to remain neutral in the w ar, unâ€" less attacked. Returned Canadian soldiers. were mobbed last week by antiâ€"conscriptâ€" ionists at Mantreal. The Russians continue their big drive with pleasing. results and proâ€" gress made. Out of 62,000 members of the A.F. A.M. in Canada, 12,000 are now in khalu. Owen Sound has raised its dog tax rate to $6 for geontiemen dogs and $9.00 for lady dogs. Mr. Nicholas Romanoff, formerly Czar of All the Russians, has been permitted to subscribe for the latest Russian War Loan. The King has ordcred the changing of the name of the Royal Family to the House of Windsor. People from the Poreupine hereafter calling on the Queen will kindly remember the change and address her majesty as Mrs. Wirdsor. A national committee has been forâ€" med to deal with the Canadian fish problem, and formulate plans whereâ€" by there will be an ample supply of fish provided at reasonable rates. This will relieve other food products for export. ' While bottling fruit Mrs. Lonisa Trembly of Toronto _ recently met death in a very peculiar way. Apâ€" parently she fell forward on one of the ‘bottles and the glass penetrated her throat. She bled to death before medical assistance could be sumimonâ€" ced. For the six mouths ending June 30th, 1917, Canada‘s enlistments totâ€" alled 39,489. ‘Of these, the Toronto distriect contributed 8,249, Kingston district 7,457, Montreal district 4,2432, Halifax district 4,497. The other disâ€" tricts were below 4,000, Quebec disâ€" trict contributing only 568 men. Official announcement is made that the â€" British battleship, â€" Vanguard, blew up and sank on July 9th. ° An internal explosion eaused the disasâ€" ter, and an enquiry will be held as to the cause. "Only two of those on board survive, over 700 of the crew perishing. Mr. W. F. O‘Connor, the Labor Department‘s Cost of Living Comâ€" missioner, after months‘ investigaâ€" tion of coldâ€"storage companies, states that the bacon industry will stand some explaining, being in a class by itself. He says the company headed by Sir Joseph Flavelle, Bart., last year made $5,000,000 profit on bacon alone, and the Matthewsâ€"Blackwell, Limited, about $1,500,000,. The heads of the cold storage planis indignantly deny the case against them. Sir Josâ€" eph Flavelle claims t hat his firm did business in open competition and that the profits were less than one cent per lb, not five cents as suggested. A «coalition government ‘has been formed in Newfoundland for the betâ€" ter earrying on of that colony‘s part in the war. Like many other counâ€" trios Newfoundland hkas found that there are really only two parties posâ€" sible during the war,â€"those who wish to win the war, and those to the conâ€" trary. zes that 200,000 eligible men in Canâ€" ada of other than Canadian birth should be ‘conscripted before any more native sons are called upon. These 200.000, he says includes Engâ€" ‘ishmen, Irishmen, Scotchmen, Italâ€" ians, Beiguims, Rumanians, Greeks, Serbians, Portugese, United States citizens, and others. His suggestion is not being taken very â€" seriously. According to the figures of the offiâ€" cial returns and the census there are not many eligible Englishmen, Irishâ€" men or Scotchmen left to thus conâ€" script, while the taking of the others would be a problem, without native sons to leaven the ranks. Mr. D‘Arey Hinds, of Toronto, in a letter to the daily newspapers, urâ€" There have been â€" some _ recent changos in the British Cabinet. Edâ€" win Samuel Montagu becomes Seeâ€" retary for India; Winston â€" Spencer Churehill will be Muinister of Muniâ€" tions; Sir Edward Carson leaves the Admiralty to join the War Cabinet without portfolio; Sir Erice Campbell Geddes succeeds Carson as Flirst Lord of theAdmiralty. Baron Rhondda, the British food controller, has taken over the control of the 1917 crops of wheat, barley, oats, rye and potatoes. Through the efforts of an\, aunt from the U.S. the body of Florence Cook, a seventeenâ€"yearâ€"old girl, of Toronto, has been exhumed and an inquest is being held. According to the evidence so far, her uncle and aunt, with whom she lived in Toronto, did not use her well. .Also it has been shown that her death followed an illegal operation, Two young men, Bruce Leach and \Wm. Bennett, enlisting at Toronto, fell\in love with the one girlâ€"before going to the front. . Both men_ weht to France and both were woundet. Leach returned to Canada and was married by Rev. Mr. Quartemaine, of Renfrew, to the young lady in question. Then Bennett came home, heard of the wedding, hunted up the couple on their honeymoon neatr Sand Pomt and shot and killed Leach, shot the girl and then shot himself. The girl may recover but Bennett will likely die. Pte. Wm. Morris, of Haileybury, is visiting his mother there." He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme and the injuries received necessitated the amputation of one of his legs, while the kneeâ€"cap of theâ€" other leg was also injured by the shyapnel. As a souvenir of his experiences, he has also brought home with him a piece of shraprnel which was taken from a wound in one of his hands. He enâ€" listed in Brantford in July, 1915 and reached WFrance in May, 1916, the Battle. of the Somimme being the first big engazement in which he was a participant. ° His mother, _ Mrs. A. Johnson, Fourth Street ,Haileybury, has three other boysat the front, Edâ€" ward and Fred Morris and Tom Johnâ€" son. No doubt Haileybury awill give fitting honor to Pte. Morris, but honâ€" or also should be given to the brave mother who has given so much to the cause of the Empire and the Right. U.S. Bank President Pays Glowing Tribute to ‘‘Basic Industry.‘‘ FEWER FAMLCRES WIXIRG THAR CCHMERCE ‘‘Mines will be producing millions in gold, silver and copper in that fuâ€" ture day when national banks are unknown. ‘‘Mining has made the United States the richest country in the world. "Show me a country without mines and I will show you a people sunk in degradation, and poverty makes cowâ€" ards of nations as well as individuals. There is a general public tendency to confuse ‘‘stock speculation in mining prospects‘‘ with the mining industry itself. There is a vast difâ€" ference between the two.â€" Mining is a basic industry. _ Without mines practically all industry would revert to the standards of the Stone Age. When the president of a large bank in Chicago was recently criticized by other bank presidents for investing in a gold and copper mine in _the Rocky Mountains, he made this reâ€" ply : ‘‘A mine contains a crop already raised, harvested and on deposit for you to check against at your pleasure. ‘‘Mining has transformed more poor men into millionaires and raised them to positions of honor and trust, than any other business. ‘"The wealth gathered from the mines immortalized King Solomon. ‘‘Mining made Great Britain the world‘s commercial dictator. "Throughout the Rocky Mountains ages ago (iod Almighty built strongâ€" er vaults in His granite banks than we have in ours. He filled His vaults with gold, silver and copper. _ He gave the prospector knowledge and insight, and guided him on is way to the door of ‘the vaults He had built. The Federal Government hanâ€" ded him a title to all therein. It is not a crime but a virtue to enter. With drill, blast, pick and spade the prospectors have broken the combinaâ€" tion locks and entered. But for Him our notes of issue would be as the stumptail currencey of 1857. But for Him, this Government of ours would be bankrupt. ‘‘Mining has scored less than 35 per cent. of failures against 95 per cent. of failures shown in the general merchandising busmess of the United States. ‘*Without the products of the mines you would have neither a fryingâ€"pan, a spoon, ‘a hatpin, nor a monetary civreulatinz medium.‘‘