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THURSDAY, MAY i8TH New mining fields are generally quite a distance from esâ€" tablished communities; problems of this nature are of freâ€" quent occurrence. Each has to be decided individually, for there is no definite answer as to whether the business to be derived will be sufficient to reimburse the cost of the necesâ€" sary extension of power services. There is no certainty in the development of a mining venâ€" ture. . The question of justification of outlay of capital mvolved must be faced, not only by the owner but by the power company. No one can charge that Canada Northern Power has been slow to foliow up developments in new fields. Perhaps we have absorbed some of that optimism so essential to mining and it has led us at times into unprofitable ventures: perhaps we have not hesitated when we should have done so. In the case of a mining district, the prospector must search out the mineral deposits, and where he finds them the power company, if it is to be of service to the mining industry, must follow. In the first place, the geography of a manufacturing area remains stable. Plans can be prepared for the siting of tranmission lines and substations which will serve all the preâ€" sent market for power without any anxicty or doubt as to the permanent place of the community. Comparisons between power enterprises supplying mining areas and those marketing their energy in industrial districts are meaningless. Just as railways must handle business in a densely populated country in a different way from that folâ€" lowed in the long stretches which produce little business, power companies must meet local conditions. There are to be found in Northern Ontario stretches of Experience Means a Lot In supplying Mining Fields Canada Northern Power Corporation Northern Ontarico Power Company, Limited Northern Quebec Power Company, Limited THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS,. ONTARIO And this contribution is an efficient one. _ Mining power loads are utterly different from other kinds. Knowledge of them can only be learned by the countless lessons of long exâ€" perience. There is 25 years mining experience behind this organization. â€" It means a lot. The building up of a system of efficient power distribution serving Northern Canada‘s most productive mining areas has been a life‘s work for a group of men who are proud of their opportunity to contribute in their own way to the upbuilding of the country. Long years of experience have developed in the responsible heads of this Company a capacity for sizing up the potentialiâ€" ties of a new mining field. If one were asked how this is done, it would probably be impossible to give a definite answer. _ Naturally the problem involves a knowledge of sound business and mining practice. _ This knowledge has been gradually acquired through actual experience, probably in a manner similar to that by which an expert surgeon or an able lawyer becomes master of his line of endeavour. The detailing in a mining prospectus of the fact that a Canada Northern transmission line is within ten, twenty or thirty miles of a new find means something. _ Prospectors and mining men know they can carry on with the knowledge that when power is required it will be supplied; if good forâ€" tune smiles, competent service can be expected, and if not the loss will be cheerfully borne. transmission line that end at dilapidated buildings where mining ventures failed to live up to first promise. Fortunâ€" ately for our sharenolders and our customers, such outcomes have not been frequent. Controlling and Operating Limited Interior view of the Quinze plant, largest unit in the Canada Norâ€" thern power sysâ€" tem. BA.. WAaSs quietliy solemmized at the home of the bride‘s parents with only the immediate families of the contractâ€" ing parties being present. Rev. Seott Milly, of North Cobalt, officiated. ‘The bride‘s dress was brown georgette, sand trimmed, with matchmg accessories, she travelled in sand coat and hat. After a dainty lunch the happy couple left on the 130 train for Timmins, where they will reside. Their many friends wish them happiness and prosperity." Miss Cameror Mrs. H. Came Grant Elmer |] son of Mr. El BC.., was qul a vital interest in the we mining industry as a whol be no less interested than mining communities thems ing that proper services are The mines are not averst their proper share of pub bility when measures of ¢ needed. They do object, the tendency to sifigle th sacrifice so that other less tutions may be retained. bankrupting policy continues to be folâ€" lowed? In instituting an economy proâ€" gramme, therefore, there are grave fears that the politicallyâ€"trained «eye may dwell on the services affecting the mines. As a rule the country around mines is sparsely settled. Fewer votes, the politician argues, will be influenced by economies in Northern Ontario than in some part of the country where popâ€" ulation is dense. The natural temptaâ€" tion in making readjustments is to pare down where it will hurt the least numâ€" Rer of political friends. The answer to this, if it should beâ€" come true, is to remind governments by and large that a gardener, in trimming his orchard, does not chop the branches of his best trees first. Critics of expenâ€" ditures in the mining areas forget that these areas are standing toâ€"day beâ€" tween the country and almost comâ€" plete disintegration of its financial structure. They forget, in criticising failure of the T. N. O. Railway to meet bond interest, that this railway provides a necessary service to a terriâ€" tory that has produced $700,000,000 in gold and silver in less than 30 years, and twoâ€"thirds of this was spent in the form of wages, cost of supplies, maâ€" terials and various services, all of which contributed directly or indirectly to the revenue of the government. They forâ€" get that, although designed as a colonâ€" ization road, the T. N. O. Railway has proven as profitable an investment as any "gamble‘ ° in state ownership that has ever been made. A healthy sign has made its appearâ€" ance in the growing interest which minâ€" ing companies are taking in public afâ€" fairs, While the direct influence of mining communities may not be strong, the voting strength of shareholders‘ lists is a factor to be reckoned with Shareholders in mining companies have a vital interest in the welfare of the mining industry as a whole and should be no less interested than residents of mining communities themselves in secâ€" ing that proper services are maintained. The mines are not averse to bearing their proper share of public responsiâ€" bility when measures of economy are needed. They do object, however, to the tendency to sifigle them out for sacrificeo so that other less useful instiâ€" WEDDED AT HOME OF BRIDE‘S PARENTS® AT LATCHFORD che of soaking the producer to keep the nonâ€"producer alive; if these aims are attempted, then mining people have reason to be alarmed. More than once in previous issues of these Reports, attention has been drawn to the need of greater economy. The miner‘s attitude was properly inâ€" terpreted last week by J. Y. Murdoch, who drew attention of his shareholders to the mounting burden of taxation and asked: "Are boards of directors, handâ€" ling the funds of their shareholders as trustees justified in buying Canadian governmental securities if the present maintenan ing that t North Should Not be _ Made the Seapegoat L Loney, of sudbDt for the North in article in the matte: production in full. Mines Need Roads,.," ing that the Nort its rights and fig the country will and tnisplaced e article in his wed Although at Not Hon. Mr. Finlayson say that there wow! of road maintenancec conditions would nc come as bad as h that they might in Mining Country Ready to Pay Its Share and do its Part, bu. Should Not be Unduly Burdened in Taxes nor Discriminated Against by False Economy. The Mines Need ng rumours have gained cirâ€" 1 Ontario mining camps that ts are to be made this year tures on the upkeep of roads public services in the North ron, still Sudbury Edad th hi 9T It says‘:~â€"â€" n ‘ marriage of r of Mr. and chford, to Mr. immins, eldest Mining Reports" ‘, puts the case ective way. His s well worth reâ€" is headed, "The emailns a 1Te6e1â€" ave to look to what is due or from neglect In a recent Roads 16e measure ir and that wed to beâ€" ‘ suggested ter of road TY llow as to