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J. A. MACDONALD FUNERAL DIRECTOR 78 THIRD AVENUL Telephones 608â€"J and 608â€"W. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Impressed With The Rapid « Development of Timmins Representative of The Belfast Telegraph Recently Here With Party on Tour of Canada, Writes in Interesting Way of Rapid Growth of Towns in This New Country. Among the British Press men visitâ€" ing Canada some weeks ago, and inâ€" specting Timmins on Sept. 29th, was Mr. John Sayers of the Belfast Teleâ€" graph. Since his return to Ireland, Mr. Sayers has been contributing very interesting and illuminating articles to his newspaper relative to his impresâ€" sions from the tour. _ Here is a part of one of these articles :â€" One of the most remarkable feaâ€" tures of Canadian life to the visitor from the old world is the rapidity with which towns and cities come into being. Belfast folk are proud of the growth of their city, and boast of the fact that one hundred years ago it had a population of only 30;000, which toâ€"day has advanced almost to hal? a million, a record of progress that, for the British Isles is wonderâ€" ful. But the Canadian would laugh at it. He would tell you of cases by the score where yesterday there was nobody and toâ€"day there are thouâ€" sands. â€" We found this to be literally true. The story of the growth of the big citiesâ€"Winnipeg, for instanceâ€" is full of romance; but it is not of them that I am thinking just now. town of Timmins, in Northâ€" ern Ontario, is one of the most strikâ€" ing instances of rapid development that could be cited toâ€"day. It is the ceptre of the greatest gold camp in We had never heard of Timmins, and for that matter neither have many Canadians in the older parts of the province. Ontario covers only a trifle of 437,262 square miles, and a three and half times the size of the British Isles. It is over 1,000 miles long by 885 wide and is divided into two sectionsâ€"Old Ontario, well setâ€" tled and with numerous industries, lying to the southwest of the St. Lawâ€" rence; and Northern Ontario, comâ€" prising the huge upper section of the province, as yet in the pioneer stages; abounding in forests and mineral wealth and undeveloped agricultural lands, 20,000 square miles larger than Great Britain and Ireland, but with tMe dominion. Twelve years ago it was bush; toâ€"day it is a thriving place of 15,000 inhabitants. Not a city of dingy wooden street but of substantially built structures that would put many an Irish town in the shade. Our party arrived there on a grolrious fall afternoon in Septemâ€" ber, and amongst those who received a population as sparse as its possibiâ€" lities are great. In the heart of this vast land is Timmings, 500‘ miles from the nearest city. "It is named after two brothers named Timmins who foresaw the posâ€" sibilities of the district as a gold reâ€" gion. There are various stories as to how they came to find that there was gold, and they are so contradicâ€" tory that the truth is so deep down in the well, or rather the mine that it was more difficult to discover than gold. One story is that a lumberâ€" man kicked a piece of rock and found traces of the metal. The story is doubtless moonshine, but at all events the courage and daring of the two brothers who staked their all on the venture was the real beginning of the gold camp. Timmins explodes all our youthful ideas of rough miners in rude shacks, hardâ€"bitten, hardâ€"drinkâ€" ing, revolverâ€"shooting desperadoes, who would dig up nuggets of gold. It is a busy little town with an assessâ€" ed value of over one million pounds, duplicate high presure waterworks system, complete sewerage and disâ€" posal plant, incinerator, modern shops, wholesale establishments, good hotels, three theatres, four banks, paved and NA arecindell hy o mattrent on usc 6 us and treated us with right royal hospitality was Mr. Pearce, who is proud of the fact that he built the first wooden hut in the place. posal plant, incinerator, modern shops, wholesale establishments, good hotels, three theatres, four banks, paved and asphalted streets, miles of concrete walks, fire brigade, five churches, and eight schools. _ And what sehools! None of our poky little buildings, but splendidly designed structures someâ€" what of the type which the Belfast education committee is now erecting in Euston street and _ Templemore avenue. On the outskirts is the gold in AustOn avenue. On t minre of the Company, Lim which were Brothers. It twenty mines which is kn« district, and per cent. of <] which is Enown as the Pord district, and which supplies o1 per cent. of the dominion ‘s tota put of gold. In the last sixteen Paremnnine has enriched the w On the 0 the Hol . Limited nes in known laid is t reet and / he outskirts Hollinger C the the ‘le buildings, but structures someâ€" hich the Belfast is now erecting id Templemore kirts is the gold zer Consolidated ie foundations of y the Timmins largest of some forty mile area, the Poreupine supplies over 75 inion‘s total outâ€" truly a 3 for it . barite, third largest goldâ€"producing country in the world, and the vast bulk of it comes from this Northern Ontario region. Until 1900 very little was known of the hinterland lying beyond Lake Temiskaming, owing chiefly to its inaccessibility. It was inhabitated byâ€"a few Indians, and contained here! and there trading posts of the Hudâ€" son‘s Bay Company. Travel was confined to eanoe routes by lake, stream and portage, and the trackless spruce and jackpine forest areas back from the water routes were seldom visited by anyone who might appreâ€" ciate the mineral possibilities of the country. Here again is was the railâ€" wayâ€"the greatest pioneer Canada ever had that laid bare the potential resources of the region. "It was the building of the C.P.R. main line across the continent in 1883 that exposed the vast nickelâ€" copper deposits of the Sudbury area. History repeated itself, for it was the construction of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Line that led to the discovery of the worldâ€"famous silver deposits of Cobalt in 1903, and indirectly to the great gold field of Poreupine six years later. _ It was the intense prospecting following the Cobalt discoveries that found Poreuâ€" pine. These hardy men spread out from the line of railw ay as it extendâ€" ed northward to Cochrane, now a town of 3,200 inhabitants, and made successive discoveries of goldâ€"bearâ€" ing ore, of which Poreupine was the greatest, followed by Kirkland Lake, seventy miles S.E., in 1912 The location of these areas changed the status of gold mining in Ontario from one of insignificant proportion to one that excited the attention of the minâ€" ing world Last year the Poreupine field produced £4,427,106 worth of gold, which was 86.2 2 per cent. of the total output of the province, Kirkâ€" land Lake supplying the balance. "*In the first six months of the preâ€" sent year gold production in Canada reached a new record . of 824,043 ounces, as compared with 700,264 ounces in the same period last year. Ontario continued to hold a big lead with 701,714 fine ounces, as compared with 571,418 ounces in the first half of 1924. From the Porecupine field the production amounted to 574,806 ounces, or nearly 82 per cent. of the total for Ontario, while Kirkland Lake produced 126,477 ounces of 18 per cent. w ET $ ‘‘Naturally this success has led to renewed activity in older areas and to much prosgpecting, with the result that several other mines are nearing the stage of production. In these discoveries we find the cause of the rapid opening of this portion of N.E. Ontario with the result that various towns and villages have been set up, of which Timmins is the chisf. They are, of course, dependent on the gold, but owing to the youthfulness of the operating mines, the increaged tonnage being treated, the opening up of new properties and the extensive areas awaiting development the gold proâ€" duction of Ontario seems destined for a long lease of life. "*It is one of the astonishing things of Northern Ontario that within 150 miles of the gold field is to be fo ind the richest silver mines in the world, at Cobalt, while at the apex of the triangle as it were is situate the greatâ€" est nickel fields of the world at Sudâ€" bury . . . . An average of 2.1 tors of pure silver have been won from the mines at Cobalt for every.twenty four hours since they began to yield ‘Phe output of 1924, according to offiâ€" cial statistiecs was. 9,961,315 ozs. valued £1,343,595. The producâ€" tion is not confiened to the immediate district of Cobalt but extends for some 20 miles to the S.E. and at inâ€" tervals for about 60 miles to the N. some 20 miles to the tervals for about 60 : W. As the yield a! greatest concentration diminution the outlyn beginning to offer pro amount of silver. Th fore far from being though metals worth £ been produced until year, of which £18, dividends and bonuse that 39 per cent. of th have gone to the sha sive of payments i capital.‘‘ There will be general interest here in the following despatch last week from Galt, Ont., referring as is does to a hockey players well known in Timmins, and popular ‘here, at least off the ice. The Galt despatch says :â€" ‘*‘Clarence Boucher, the husky deâ€" fence man, formerly star of the Iroâ€" quois Falls team, now in business at Galt, will not turn professional. For, weeks past scouts of Pittsburg, New York. Boston and Toronto proâ€" CLARENCE NOT ‘ ‘*Clarence Boucher, the fence man, formerly star « quois Falls team, now in } Galt, will not turn pr For, weeks past scouts of Vew York, Boston and To fessional teams have been } his services, but despite offers he has refused to t When he located at Galt h his ambition to have a busi own and he has had gres Boucher will be a big help boys this season.‘‘ er cent. of e to the s payments £1,343,595 confiened to Cobalt but £1,343,595. The producâ€" confiened to the immediate Cobalt but extends for les to the S.E. and at inâ€" about 60 miles to the N. e yield at the point of ncentration shows signs of the outlying districts are o offer promise of a large silver. The field is thereâ€" rom being worked out alâ€" als worth £43,877,959 have ced until the end of last hich £18,257,616 went in and bonuses. 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