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~~ We are very pleased to tell Lloyd J. Moore, mining and financial expert of note, will contribute a weekly letter to this page. Mr. Moore had a long and successful connection in the news- paper field of the Standard Stock and Mining Exchange of Toronto and has visited all the chief mining centres of Canada; he brings to you a wealth of personal knowledge which should be of keen interest and extreme value. \ Mr. Moore has agreed to answer in these tolumns any legitimate enquiries on mines and mining investment problems, and we trust the readers will financial editor of the "Toronto Globe". He is now a member! ~~ Canada's vital growing industry. THE SITUATION TO-DAY High-priced stocks have been the principal money-makers in the Can- adian mining market for the last year or more. The experience of purchas- ers of low-priced shares hig been un satisfactory 'on the whole. The same "sy Situation seems likely to continue in 'greater or less degree during the coming months. Nickel International Nickel has been the most spectacular performer during January. Its present price has dis- counted the future several years in advance. Its chief sponsors, notably "in Montreal, are predicting confident- ly that much higher prices will be reached. Recent performances of the stock lend: color to their views. The strong Montreal group is easily cap- able of obtaining its object. In the meantime the Frood Mine is develop- «dng wonderfully -at-depth. Noranda Noranda Mines is second in market interest. The news of a proposed offering of Rights has had a detri-, mental rather than a beneficial effect 4 on the market, but this is probably to this is merely temporary. Noranda has been enquiries. 3 earning at the ate of close to $3.00 conservative - annually on returns from a single reverberatory unit. Sinking of the -------- new No. 4 shaft is proceeding, It will market attention be completed and equipped for hoist- ing ore in the latter part of this year. At the present time No. 3 shaft pro- vides insufficient hoisting capacity; No. 1 furnace has been shut down for a repairs, and No. 2 furnace has been blown in. As a result the current pro- A duction figures Have decreased. Im- ized break. Sherri has plenty of cash MR. LLOYD J. MOORE Member of the Standard Stock and Mining Exchange, who will contribute. page and answer mining 'Mr. Moore fs prominent in mining circles, velopment and exploratory work has vielded some surprisingly good re- "sults, especially on recently acquired claims, situated along the mineral-| be productive of big tonnage. eventually rival the Flin Flon. It avail themselves of this attractive opportunity to acquaint themselves with| The world will soon have another symphony! Rudolf Friml, the noted composer of Rose Marie, The Vagabond King and other musical successes, is circling the globe in search of Inspiration for a new work. With his folding baby-upright, he joined the Empress of Australia at Monaco and will make the world cruise on her, searching India, the Orient and other points in the mystic east, for new and haunting melodies which will later be sung and hummed and whistled the width and length of the globe. To Fish or Not To Fish? This Question Must Be Answered "Passing the Buck" Action On the Part of the Provincial Government A VITAL QUESTION For years the quiet fisherman, the, to the realization that we ardent angler and the incoming tourist has asked the question, "Where are! 3 they biting?" The recent meetings at Eeugation Without a Syllabus the Parilament Buildings in Toronto This is like saying 'let us educate brought forward little real depart.' the heathen, but we can't bother about mental interest in so far as authorita- Missionaries and schools and school tive utterance was concerned. j masters: For four years the organ- Now is the time for the members ized anglers have been doing nothing are no longer wealthy in forest and game.' investment from Ontario County, Grey, Bruce else than survey the condition of af- Simcoe, Muskoka, Parry Sound, the {airs. Thirty-five bodies have merged Victorias, Renfrew and all our north- | Nt the Ontario Federation of ferly ridings to awake to the oppor- , Anglers. Now what is the govern- | tunity they have of making a real stir! Ment Boing to do to create the basis on the floor of the House. (of education? It isn't schoolmasters It doesn't matter how much the Government does, or plans to do, on behalf of restocking our lakes and irst we have got to send in doctors and engineers to save the remnant. recently, The de- tt will undoubtedly It may on hand for some Police to keep order. After that mis- sionaries and schoolmasters can do something. A Hundred Million Asset. | big, broad, open-handed stand on this "Last. season the tourist trafic, | vital question., : which did not come to Ontario to see | Writing for his column, "Rod and its tall buildings and marvellous fac- | Line," in the Toronto Daily Star, puts tories but to see its woods and wat- | the matter fairly and squarely as it ers, left here $100,000,000 cash. More streams, they will not do half enough (unless they are forced by public | opinion in the fofm of members' ex- | pressions, publicity made, to take a! Se -------------------------- Ontario People Will No Longer Be Put Off With Disinterested | required of the best men possible for the task of enforcing the laws. "A hatchery and rearing-pond or- ganization on'a par with those the Special committee saw operating in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jer- sey. And big enough to look after not just our Ontario sportsmen, but the $100,000,000 worth of tourists. In the fishing season, Ontario has a much greater population than appears in the census tables. Ontarlo may have an even greater fishing~population than New York State. It needs sdme in- telligent figuring. Let's Be Ready for a Row "Let all us anglers in the province start eating cheese and lobster and ples and other rich foods that will make us testy and irritable eo as to be ready and willing to stage a real demonstration If the goverament comes out this session with the same old dither about 'rousing public opinion' and 'educating the back: woods to the great value of our wild resources,' It is too bad there is not a Hanna in the Legislature in these times who would be the leader in this matter and be ten years ahead of his time. There is no economic question before Ontario to-day as important as the saving of those things which at- tract $100,000,000 every year into the province. There is no bigger question that a man cah make a monument to himself with, as great as Hydro or anything else, than the preservation for future generations of our wilder- | ness against the terrific encroachment | of an absolutely unguided and uncon- trolled tourist trafic." Members--Wake Up! Such then is the matter as it stands. It's time the men from the sections affected forget politics and join forces for real effective legislation-- for a real substantial appropriation for a worth-while department to look j after our birthright. | They can forget politics, for, if the | appropriation is set aside, good Con- 'gervatives will benefit by good jobs-- | good Grits will benefit by increased t business, and our province wil bene: | ait by being made more attractive to | ourselves and our guests from over the border. The only way to make (the one hundred million dollars two | hundred million dollars is to restock | our streams, license our anglers-- i local {if need be and foreign---and we need first for a situation like this. properly patrol our holiday lands with sufficient, tflicient, properly trained wardens, garbed in a dignified and ! suitable livery of office, whose duties can be made to cover enough diversi- fled endeavor to be practical, and in- teresting enough to attract the right men; By this~{s~meant* care of our fish and game, fire prevention, water polution inspection and, generally, po- lice duties that require brains and ability to handle as they should be Photographs of Notables of Last Thirty Years Years Entertained Sick Monarch THIRTY YEARS WORK London--In the early days of King George's illness a folding srceen was used between his bed and the door to avold any chance reaching him when the door was open. Recently a screen that was one of the prized possessions of King Edward was substituted for the screen first up in the room. This screen is a four-fold one made. of rosewood and is completely cov- Famous Screen Covered With of a draught, ¢ 7 i. i B - Railroading in Fiji Dawn was breaking. From 'the low, dark masses of ap- parent jungle along the bank, roosters (crowed faintly to proelaim our prox- imity to a village, and boys with very flats, gathering blacker shellfish. But with the full coming of daylight, the Supposed jungle proved to be a ecivil- ~ | were now at Ba, one of the strong- holds of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, the largest planters in the islands. When 1 broached the subject of g~'fing ashore and seeing something of the country, however, the captain was not encouraging. "You can take your chance on catching the boat again, but we never know how long we stay. It all do pends on the cargo." "But look here," suggested the en- i bineer. "Why don't you travel over- black legs were wading in the mud ized sugar-cane plantation, for we =. ce works in. nia will show itself capable of managemeni has a far-sighted pro- ~~ fastly around $21.00 recent] provement is expected as No. 2 fur-|time ahead and there is understood to 3 It is expected that the total authorized capital of 6,000,- 000 shares remaining in the treasury. This should be approximately suffi- cient to brinz the mine into produc- tion in a big way. : Mandy has not received much mar- ket attention recently, but it is due to reach its 1025 foot objective in shaft sinking and commence lateral work on | earning well over $5.00 a share annu- ally with two furnaces in operation. At the rate the Horne Mine is de- veloping the doubling of present smelter capacity seems justified. The forthcoming annual report will be most conservative. For those who have the patience to hold this stock 'we have no doubt they will realize up- wards of $100.00 a share. The retire- ment of the $2,600,000 bonds held by Hollinger is a constructive piece of financing. The Manitoba Field Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting is in very strong shape. It looms up as one of the most attractive, Can- adian mining ventures from the in- vestors standpoint. The shrewd and powerful group holding control of this conpany have said unofficially that the Flin-Flon earnings in the first six years operations will be suf- ficient to meet the entire capital ex- penditures. Its ore reserves are esti- mated to be in excess of 20 million tons. The company is in an unassail- able financing position with over $16,000,000 in cash to meet the de- velopment and equipment require- ment before starting production. Even aitcr an expenditure of close to $6,- 000,000 for power developmen: at Island Falls, Saskatchewan, thera will be left more than ample funds for Viver construction, mine develop- tent, townsite and other neais. The { { & small amount of crosscutting will be! necessary to reach the favorable zone. Sufficient encouragement was en- countered on upper levels to make ex- ploration-at depth decidedly interest- ing. Reflection of this program on the market is not unlixely. The stock has been dragging recently at around $1.25. The operation is well financed and very capably handled from a mining standpoint. The Smaller Issue Wright-Hargreaves is now looking better after an unusually tempestu- ous market career' during the past twelve months. Mill heads were not much above $6.00 during the final quarter of 1928, Bullion returns were also low. Profits were approximately $18,000 in October and about $14,000 in both November and December. The mine is looking definitely better, how- ever. The downwerd:¢ontinuation of the vein encountered in the north workings in the direction of the Syl- vanite boundary looks like extremely good bre. This vein has been en- countered at both the 1500 and 1750 foot levels. At the former horizon it gram. It has been most reticent was 4% feet wida and assayed $48.00. about mine development, which is No returns are available yet about known however to be most favorakle.| values and average widths at the 1750 It is estimated that there is enough foot, but it is understood that the ore ore to be obtained by glory-holing 10 looks 'comparable both in quality and provide smelter feed for the projected quantity with tie level above. The 3,000-ton mill for at least ten years. management seems to be sanguine Hudson Bay will undoubtedly earn|that it has the makings of & new mine market recognition of its assured below the faulted zone. Lake Shore earning power in due course, The has secured wonderful ore recently stock should be held for substantial very close to the Wright-Hargreaves appreciation in the writer's opinion. |boundary. All these things combine conclusion 1s reached after se- to make the Wright-Hargreayes sit- curing the best information obtain-|uation look more cheerful, especially ble, and after making a personal for those who are willing visit to the property in Northern |their stock for some time. Manitoba. It has been holding stead-| The situations at Teck Hughes and 3 © {Lake Shore are exceptionally good and these will be outlined in eed- ing articles if the lati mine ly. Sherritt-Gordon has earned much to hold the situation. He says as follows: "Perhaps the most intevesting as- pect of fish was the amount of space given to it by all Toronto newspapers. "Two years ago the question of was almost impossible to get a line about our work into any but one of the Toronto dailies. "Now it makes the front them all. ' A Hint of Bad Tidings "Those of us who attended this meet- page of ing who have had past dealings with things besides hatcheries and game governments somehow got an impres- iso nof ill omen /at this gathering. The - committee itself said nothing. ede, Prof. B. A. Bensley and Prof. W. J. K. Harkness sat at the head of the : to al | thi ines le be approximately 1,333,000 shares of | BRpears 0 all those conversant with an mines produced, more than agri | culture! Our greatest asset! "If a business house had an asset the gathering of anglers, that produced $$00,000,000 per annum, | guidesand tourist-trafio -interests at how much of that income would be | the Parliament Buildings last week to set aside for depreciation? { meet the 'special committee on game cent:, five, two? depreciation. But | able things oh earth. [Ala proves it. "How much do we spend in Ontario fish? And that | Includes the salaries of deputy minis- per annum on our game and { Less than half a million! i ters, stenographers, and no end | wardens, What Is Expected | | "What anglers expect our are: | { Ten per "Two per cent, is dangerously low, | even in a business that has no visible our forests and vas of wild life ar St t S rish- | three levels by about March 1st. Only | 52™® fish was of so little interest It d life are amongst DS Tou Pariah: handled. wl roan ime New Method of Fighting Weeds Sodium Chlorate Utilized to Combat Quack Grass and Other Farm Weeds Washington. Quack grass, with the possible exception of Canadian thistle, the most notorious of all weeds, is be- | lieved to have a new -and powerful | enemy in sodlum chlorate, a chemical { which tests have shown will kill both roots and tops of the plant. | The idea of killing weeds with chemicals Is old, agriculturists explain, of } V of this but heretofore none has been found | centre of the empire, has retained its Hon. Findley Macdiarmid, ¢. N. Can-| special survey made by the committee that does not injure fertility of the soll | plac i for approximately two years after ap- "A_ realization on the part of the plication, and often indefinitely. room facing 200 selected and highly Bovernment of the desperate nature of | Although the roots frequently fill interested members of the angling the situation as regards depletion of | the soil to a depth of four feet, bind- brotherhood, guides, hotel ens commercial fishermen and sundry others, and never said a word. "But Hon, William Finlayson, speak- ing in the absence of Hon. Charles McCrea, made those few remarks | Ontario's waters. | weed, literally taking whole fields in | "A corresponding willingness of the Kansas, has been entirely killed in government to "Spend much larger patches treated with sodium chlbrate, f sums than half a million a year on | Applied in the late fall, the chemical {game and fisheries. | has destroyed Canadian thistle in New { "A man-sized bureau or biological | york without impairing productivit -which make us feel that the buck js! board to study from the sclentific 'side | of the soll. In Indiana a solld at about to be passed as it has been! the question of saving what is left of | of months later the ground was bare passed for the last hundred years. sald: He 'We cannot count on govern- ment action. Education is our salva-| them ineffective old men or local Jests, We must educate the country | but a corps, of 200 or as many as are tion. fishing in Ontario. « "Not 76 game wardens, many Sno -- : Far {the writer meet a responsive audience. | In the meantime requests for infor-| mation on Canadign mining {wil be cheerfully answered n order of receipt as far as spac developments and market opinions of! Moore, letter ; 3 Address your enquiries to Mr. L. J.| sore, 10 Jordan St. : 8 of Atholl into th | y . mm", TT Tre ny thine own so /8 law, learn to live; iiny tugs 'panting in their efforts to nose the twenty-thousand-ton| And if men i Hg se Xs 350 Bon iat nl he, and ready for seeding. of Because sodium chlorate is explo- give if thoroughly dry and mixed with fine material the Kansas experimental station has made tests which indfcate | that magnesium or calcium chlorate, neither of which has an explosive ten- (dency, may be expected to give as | good results as sodium chlorate. Quack grass, which first attracted of Europe. «itary loss than any other single species of plant. On small areas it sometimes is de- (¢iroyed by hand digging or smothered with tar paper. It may be allowed to form a sod which is plowed under dur- I hg dry, hot weather and the subse | quent crop followed by a smother crop + of some heavy, dense growth. ----------e so Self Patience 2 Duch v York recently on a "Cruise of Contrasts" :hat will take them to|twenty | And if men hate thee, have no care-- the West Indies, South America, Africa, Egypt, Italy, Monaco and | serious attention about 1837 when it | was noticed in gardens in the vicinity (of Philadelphia, probably is a native ' It 1s "known by various | names--witchgrass, wiregrass, couch- ! grass and others--and is a vigorous | perennial related to common wheat (and widely distributed in cool, molst | climates, probably causing more mone- wart thee, take no ered with autographed photographs of land. There's a narrow-gauge rail- by-gone celebrities collected by King' way belonging to the sugar company Edward. The screen was put in King | that runs to Lautoka, the next port, George's bedroom as it was thought and you can pick us up tonight. Take it would Interest him to look at it. | Sakobi with you; he lives in Lautoka, The King at that time was unable and he'll show you a bit of native life. to read or even to listen or talk to You'll be there until sundown, won't any one. How to give the King some you, skipper?" distraction was one of the diculties| "Until midnight. I'll sound the fog- of his case. {horn for vou." The screen has an interesting his: | Sakobi was delighted when I secur- tory. It took King Edward over ed permission for him to leave with thirty years to completely cover the me. We rowed ashore and he led the screen with photographs. He con- | way through a hodge-podge of creeks ceived the idea of making his collec- and tracks and sugar mills ta the edge tion of photographs when he visited of town, just as the weakly passenger America and was the guest of Pres!- | train came around the bend. dent James Buchanan. The President: It was a quaint sort of thing, a gave the then Prince of Wales his series of wooden boxes set on wheels, autographed photograph and it was and drawn by a toy locomotive which one of the first to be put on the screen seemed trying furiously, by much In close proximity to the photograph shrilling of its whistle, to prove itself of Buchanan are photographs of Em- the Twentieth Century Limited. In erson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, one respect, it probably had a right whom the Prince met in America. {to be proud, for it claims to be the It was the hope of the then Prince only free railway service in the world. of Wales to continue putting the pho- Run by the sugar concern for the tographs of succeeding American benefit of its employdes, without Presidents on the screen, but the hope charge for passage, it is also probably was not realized. tthe world's most popular institution, When the Civil War broke out it and about half the natives hereabouts was unquestionable that the sym: apparently spend their spare moments pathies of England, or at ali events of, riding on it. At least, one never sees the ruling classes, were with the it vacant, and usually it is loaded to South, and there seems little doubt capacity, with Fijians and Hindus that the then Princs of Wales shared festooned to its sides, top, and bottom. their sympathies, Today was no exception. Aad the At the conclusion of the war It was locomotive did not pause long enough the Prince's intention to write to for one to choose his compartment. President Lincoln for his photograph, Sakobi plunged into the nearest box but the Prince was advised tbat It like an All-Fijian fullback, and I fol. | would not be diplomatic to do 80, as owed. . . . It was a jerky, leisurely { there was a possibility of his request trip, a forty-mile journey along the | being refused. coast and across stretches of planta- The next autographed photograph tion where the brilliant green of the of a President of the United States cane blazed out against the dull back- to reach Buckingham Palace was that ground of mist-smoked mountains. {ot President Wilson, who gave his But the engineer, if inclined to loaf | photograph to King George when he hetween stations, always speeded up | was tbe sovereign's guest after the when he saw a group of would-be pas- | war, sengers, forcing them to catch us on | This screen with the extensive gal the fly, which rather added to the gen- lery of photographs affixed to it con-|apal merriment.--From "A Vagabond stitutes an Interesting pictorial story jn Fiji," by Harry L. Foster, of over thirty years of King Edward's a life and is likely to recall to King . . George many incldents of his younger Jugoslavian King | days. . A Elta Atenas | There {is a photograph of threa| Explains His Aims young boys taken at Windsor Castle. The eldest boy was then William, | Alexander Declines to Say Crown Prince of Germany, now ex- A A Kaiser. The other two boys were When Dictatorship Will | King George and his brother, the End--Must Clean Duke of Clarence, | Scouse Osaka ds Lasgent Onlantal City, | or er tren . . 4 or, in 4 peli » ny p With 2,333,800 Population the Associated Press, sald he would Osaka, Japan---Osaka, the industrial not attempt to prophesy, but that te , wished Jugoslavia to return to normal e as Japan's largest cily. { political conditions as soon as re- | The latest government estimates organization of the Government can show the western metropolis holding be accomplished. The statement was the lead which it took from Tokio in reply to a query as to how long the when the capital was wrecked by the dictatorship was likely to last, 1923 earthquake. The figures are: "I must first get fid of the useless Osaka, 2,333,800, and Toklo, 2,218,400. cogs which are clogging and upsetting The two cities thus rank far ahead the efliciency of the machinery," sald of any in the Orient, and the Jap- | the King. "I must get my house in anese press claims for them sixth and order and wipe out the political or- seventh plages,; respectively mong ganizations whose chief tdep hag be the etlod of the world, bebnd Lon! bo eliphaslze differences among Fiat don, New York, Berlin, Paris and peoples and thus sow dissensions." ~ Chicago, Recent figures, however,! King Alexander explained that the show that Buenos Afres, Philadelphia! new governmental police force had and Moscow all would contest this! heen established because he always claim, bad insisted that the ugg of the ie A feature of the 1928 figures i3 the for political purposes was "an av rapid advance of Nagoya, a booming | thing." He sald (hat some of his industrial centre, which has 870,000 pardest filghts with political leaders inhabitants and is growing at the rate had been ove rthis very question and of more than 50,000 a year. Next In! over proposals that civillans should order come Kyoto, Kobe and Yoko-| be named as heads of the War Depart hama, all above the half-million mark. | ment. -- Cheating re Desocrats Farming's Desperate Plight men who fought for us in the war and London Dally Mail (Ind. Cons.)t But it is as impossible for a man to | (Ploughland farmers 'fu Britala are be cheated by anyone but himself, as produing at a loss. They are putting for a thing to be and not to be, at shill 1 b 1 1 the same time.-- Emerson. five {lings into the so Dn. . the shape of labor, manure and seed, and are taking only four shillings out.) The blow to national interests from Benefit by | the collapse of ploughland farming 5 | will be so catastrophic that the Gow our Knowledge- ernment ought, even in this seventh vie SE a feat ae ns Our close dssocla wit oa aster, "set to work in mining industry and stock mar-| earnest, it could make time in the kt operations places us In algpring sesslon to do justice to the position to be of real help to armer, and to save large numbers of you. _ {most deserving and hard-pressed Why not benefit by our knowl- | agricultural laborers from unemploy- ed ana communicate wity ) his ment and cruel suffering, These ate ce when you need assistance foucoming mining market prob- Yuvss, weltere it 's our plows, to mal peace. Will A Wright, Wilson & Austin] ernment not move ,even now, in 0 . i