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THFE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO $125 FOR BEST REPORT . 0N MINING PROPEAT Ontario Mining Association Seeks to Encourage Prospectors. The Ontario Mining Association | has offered a prize of $125.00 to prosâ€" pectors for the best report on minâ€" ing property. All entries must be in the hands of the Secretary of the Asâ€" sociation, 302 Bay street, Toronto, not later than April 30th, 1925. ' Only bona fide prospectors san com pete. _ A prospector must hold an. Ontario Miner‘s license and â€" have staked claims in the Province. The competition is not open to engineers. The report must refer to some parâ€" ticular location, (the conditions say), in order that the judges may properâ€" ly estimate the value of the informaâ€" tion given respecting location, transâ€" portation facilities, ete., but the inâ€" formation regarding veins, assays and work done need not be aceurate for any particular claim. The report may be agccompanied by maps. The judges will be Dr. J. MacIntosh Bell, Mr. R. A. Brvee and Mr. M. W. Sumâ€" merhaves ANOTHER PLAN TO PROVIDE HOTEL FOR HAILEYBURY. Other plans for a hotel in Haileyâ€" bury having fallen through, there is now â€" anotherâ€"proposition to provide hotel â€" accommodation of _ eomplete and upâ€"toâ€"date type for Haileybury, A eompany known as the Hockenâ€" bury Systems, Incorporated, of Harâ€" risburg, Penn., are making a survey of the town and are hopeful of forâ€" mulating a plan that will provide Haileybury with the muchâ€"needed firstâ€"class hotel. The company no doubt operate on a plan similar to that outlined by the company that submitted the new hotel proposition here last year, With the need eviâ€" dent in Haileybury, and with the active eoâ€"operation of the people of Haileybury, the plans for a new modern hotel there should go along in a satisfactory way. MEETING LAST FRIDAY OF POULTRY ASSOCIATION, Friday evening last there was wellâ€"attended meeting in the Council Chamber of the Porcupine Poultry and Pet Stock Association. _ The President, Mn. A. Tomkinson, occuâ€" pied the chalr and carried the busiâ€" ness along Lflecm\ely and waell. A. number of questions of interest were dealt with by the meeting, and there were helpfu!l diseussions on vanious features relating to the poulâ€" try show and to poultry raising in general. _ Progress was made in reâ€" gard to the winding up of matters noâ€" ‘ .xtne to the reeent annual show, but the final closing of the event had to be deferred as a number of returns of tickets, eto., must yet be made by members. Any member hbhaving reâ€" turns of any kind still to make should see the Secretary at once, so that the final adjustments may be made and the affairs of the last anâ€" nual show closed. From the returns now in, howeven, it is apparent that the 1925 event proved a good sueâ€" cess in every way. _ Another meetâ€" ing of the Association will be held at an early date. BIG INCREASE IN BULLION EXPORTED FROM NORTH. Statisties of exports from northern: Ontario to the United States during 1924 show an increase over the preâ€" vious year of $15,851,661, or mately 50 per cent. The figures were prepared in the office of the United States Viceâ€"consul at North Bay. The figures also show that as Canada only exported goods to the value of $1,058,057,898 in the year just closed northern Ontario exported ©4.6 per cent. of the total exports of Canada in that period. s > y Gold bullion exported to the United States jumped from just under $10, 000,000 in 1923 to $24,690,847 in 1924, white silver bullion increased from $2,349, 000 to $3,041,574. Silver ore and concentrates jumped from $505, 278 to $534,286, â€" Nickel matte inâ€" creased from $1,064,726 to $1,121,450, and as announcement has recently been made at Sudbury of 1925 conâ€" tracts at an increase of five cents a pound for nickel over the 1924 figures, a still further increase can be anticiâ€" pated in 1925, 4 The value of erude asbestos exports increased from $2,226 to $11,290, and newsprint exports of $10 543,203 in 1023 were increased to $ 12,468,474 in 1924. | Fish and fur exports showed a deâ€" crease, while the export of pulpwood dropped from $2,967,734 in 1923 to $1,793,455 in 1924. Lumber showed a decrease of $150,000, but lath exâ€" ports‘ equalized this, showing an inâ€" crease of 30 per cent. One of the odd tiems in the export statement is ‘‘one shepherd dog,‘ $30(0), the United In past years the Classes for Prosâ€" |peetors, eonducted at Timmins, unâ€" der the authority of the Ontario Deâ€" partment of Mines, have proved very popular and helpful. In the conduct |\of these classes Dr. W. L. Goodwin has shown especial skill and talent. The attendance each year has shown ‘an increase, and this year the preâ€" | vious interest will in all likelihood be | eelipsed. PROGRAMME OF CLASStS FOR PROSPECTORS HERt This year Dr. Goodwin will conâ€" duct the Classes for Prospectors in the Gymnasium of the High School, Timmins, for eight days as follows 1. ‘‘Practical Study of \Imerals, on Tuesday, Feb. 17th, : beginnin 3 p.m. Rock W. L. Goodwin, Will Conduct Classes at Timmins Again, for Eight Days. 4 p.m "‘Practice of Spotting Mineral Ulustrated Lecture At the Fiftyâ€"fourth Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of The Dominion Bank, held at the Head Office, in Toronto, on 8th January, 1925, the following statement of the affairs of the Bank as on 3lat December, 1924, was submitted : ‘ Capital Stock paid in .......... Reserve EFunitl sns Balance of Profit and Loss Acâ€" count carried forward ......... Dividend No. 169, payable 2nd 1025 Booaus, one per cent., payable 2nd Ianusary;© 10925‘ ............. Former Dividends unclaimed .................... Bulanors due to Banks mnd Haskâ€" mg â€" Correspondents th«kn in Canada ......... s )ecinning on the same d Rills Reyable +. i Letéserso of Ountan-dh( Lirbilities not included in the ficroâ€" Dominion Goverament NKotes ... Deposit in the Central â€" CGoéd REeserven ) Moates of othe Banks + United States and other Posergnr Vnited States and o market value .........0..0.0}}>}>: Call and Short (not exceedimg thirty days) Loans in Canada on Stocks, Debentures and Bonds and other Securities of a sufficient marketable value to cover ...... Call and Short (not exceeding thirty days) Loans elsewhere than in Canada on Stocks, Debentures and Bonds and other Securities of a sufficient marketable value 1O CLOVEL Fotal Linbilities to the Sharehokder« ........... es of the Bank in Circulatron 596 50 Deposts not beawâ€" mg interest ...... Deposits _ bearing interest, \including macrest acerued to date :.:. M Other Current Loans and Discounts in â€"Canada (less rebate Of interest) after making full proâ€" vwrmion for all bad anrd doubtful .. :X s eals slats‘s i ie k6 5 Other Current Loans and â€"D:sâ€" counts elsewhere than in Canada (less rebate of interest) after makâ€" mme full provision for all bad and doubtful debts Limbikties of Customers under Letters of Credit, as per contra.. M-Current Loans, estimated loes proÂ¥ for ,...... *‘ r it Premmes, at not more tbfi- Premdent. CrETICTUAL â€" IÂ¥Z C(AIMM t 3 . AUDITORS‘ REPORT TO SMAREHOLDERS W: ons or Tus Dowx«rNIGOX® Bixx®:â€" That we have audited the above Balance Sheet as at December 31st, 1924, anicoupu'editw'nhthebooksnndmnheflat Head Office ami with the certihed returns from the Branches, We hbhave obtained all the information and exrplanations that we have required, and in our opinion the transactions o; tbke Bank which have come under our notice have been within the powers o In our opinion the Balance Sheet discloses the true condition of the Bank is as ehown by the books of the Bank. A. B. SHEPHERD, C.A. of Peat, Marwick, Mitehell Co. PERCY C. BAXTER, CA. | value Teeoxto, January 1%h ofal Public Léiabilitilee ....... M,. NANTON, dee io other Banks GENERAL STATEMENT on Geo $10,515,760 58 w # $ o# ® $ * * *4 %%4 * * 71 MR Ptr 0@ THE LIABILITIES logy and Mineral Deposits,‘‘ at 8 p.m. in the Central Publie Sehool. Wednesday, Feb. 18 and Sedimentary Rocks." Thursday, â€" Feb. 18 Rocks."‘ \ Friday, _ Feb, _ 20â€"‘ Mountaim Building; Metamorphie Roeks.‘ Monday, Feb. 23â€"*‘Mineral Deâ€" posits."‘ wl a Tuesday, Feb. 24â€"‘* Geology and Mmeml Deposits of Poreupine Disâ€" triet.‘ Classes and lectures are open free of charge to all interested. The special at the Goldfields Pheaâ€" tre for Friday and Saturday of this week, Feb. 6th and 7th, is the Wim. Rox feature. ** The Cvelone Rider," weekK, OLVL aAllQ Fox feature, ** The An exchange in refe ture, says it has hairâ€"breath escapes hairâ€"breath escapes and fun." It is senerally agreed that it is a lively and â€" interesting~ picture, _ wellâ€"preâ€" sented and capably acted by a comâ€" petent cast. The story is an inâ€" teresting one that holds the audience from start to ‘ffinish. Among thost 111 M $ 7,000,000 00 900,124 87 the cast are Reed Howes nnett and Williany Barley. of Mar ©10,.983, 81M 75 300,000 00 £59,840 00 4 196, 104 9 $.382,788 83 91,278, %Â¥%) 58 4,300,000 00 26 aA63 206 86 2%, 100 .388 77 24.937 50 2,145,816 55 15,227,000 17 45 6‘% 62 66 2,207,910.09 §45 459 06 2712091 07 2,145 86 56 20. 263 01 1,157,721 29 ‘ 906 02 C, A. BOGERT General M anager. e Robertson $ 6,000,000 00 $ 14,141,010 87 $122,530,333 43 108,388.02%686 Tring to this pi ‘*speed,, thrill: and fun.‘*> It : $ 66,560,102 15 8,141, 04087 DTO'iOl Iyneouns Alma