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PAGE EIGHT THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1928 TIMNINS NOW HAS 15,000 POPULATION Motor City of the North Visited by Resident of Oshawa : following article was written hier Neilson, and is herewith re- from the Quinte Sun, Trent- \ a of Timmins is situated heart of and is the principal of the Porcupine gold fields, is the centre of attraction and of the surrounding country in all directions; Timmins tely 250 miles from : f hn 500 miles from Toronto, miles from Ottawa and 800 en busi represented, housed in permanent fire-proof buildings. There are three thea large skating arena, curling rink an club house; large athletic field, dance halls, goli course and up to the min- ute club house; football, baseball, aguatic sports, fishing, and the Por- cupine dog race and carmival; com- munity play grounds, civic parks, and yes, they have a brass and reed band, of which the community is justly proud. For fire protection Timmins is pro- vided with the most modern electrical alarm system in Northern Ontario, with motor truck and other up-to- date equipment, and an efficient fire- fighting brigade. There is a new general hospital of ermanent fire-proof construction, ully equipped in the most modern way, and which cost $300,000, also three private hospitals, The assessment of the town is $6,- 000,000; there are five banks in per- ing levels extend to a depth of about 4000 feet, The Children's Aid Society for the district of Cochrane has a building in Timmins, built at a cost of $1200 by the Society, and is all paid for but $1,500. The furnishing of the home was undertaken by she lady Kiwanis of Timmins, and has been fully paid for, something over $6,000 be- ing spent on this good work. the development and progress of Timmins and the north, a leading part has been yed by the news- paper of the district, "The Poreu- pine Advance" of Timmins, published by Mr. George Lake, The Advance has been in the Porcupine Camp since 1912 and in Timmins since 1915, and is always to the front in efforts for the weliare and progress of the com- munity. The Advance has a remark- ably fine mechanical equipment, in- cluding two linotypes, two automatic presses, two mewspaper presses, pa- per folder, two matrix casters, and ency toward three words, ous." is prosper NO MORAL SANCTION (Cleveland Bulletin) . Prohibition has failed because it has never secured the moral sanc- tion of a majority of the people. Hence the present radical move to pay from $5 to $200 for information given to prohibition officers will have the effect of making the dry law more odious still, Enemies of prohibition could not wish for anything better. ally enforcement with the kind of people who are popularly held in con- tempt. LET THEM SNICKER Not only are knee length skirts barred to the women in Italy but men are not allowed on a street car with- out their coats on. One must wear a coat or walk. Perhaps Mr. Mussolini wishes to give them a chance to laugh It wil | §; RICH STRIKE OF GOLD IS CLAINED Nova Scotia "Discovery" is Guasded Closely as to Location Halifax, N.S., Aug. 27.--The Hali- ax Herald Saturday morning carried a news item saying that "A rich strike of gold on one of the proper- ties at present under investigation by engineers and prospectors of the Scotia Mining Exploration Company, Ltd, was reported Friday." The newspaper continues: : "According to information received by the Herald this strike compares favorably with any of the mines which developed into big producers Do You Own Your Own $4,200 room brick with $300 cash splendid § veneer home with 3 piece bath, furnace, hardwood floors, French doors, verandah, ete, This is a real buy. Lycett [mm 25 King E. Phone 205 WJ. SULLY, Auctioneer fl { i all the sundry necessary in a live printing office. On this day of writing, some of the stock on the shelves of The Advance office consisted of 53,000 commercial envelopes and 179 reams of bond and book paper, The editor, Mr. G. A, Macdonald, is the district president of the Chil dren's Aid Society, president of Tims mins Citizens' Band, one of the ex- ecutive of the Board of Trade, in | Why Pay Rent? though he is never too busy to be We Finance your home. You pay us cash, $400, then | oh ma friendly and- courteous to clients or be : e secs public and separate, high and| One visit to Timmins by any per- | callers to or at The Advance office. $40 per month on a new § or 6 room Bungalow, You CONGRATULATIONS TQ PRICE technical schools. son surely ensures another visit, as' Among those in Timmins who are Attorney-General Price is to be save $18 per month, Ask for particulars, The industries are various; gold, of | there is a fascination in the wide op-| prospering with the north are Glenn congratulaed for stopping the dane- Jones' Real Estate ge, is the principal one, the Hol- | en spaces of the northland that must White and Frank Dafoe, both old ing marathoners. These girl danc- nger being he largest individual be appeased. Trenton boys, who are enjoying the ers who could, with short intermis- Cor. Bond and Simcoe Streets Phone 2667 OPEN EVENINGS 3 and 4 roomed apartments, heated, hot water, electric refrigeration, stoves, wash- ers and dryers. Use of laundry. Immediate posses son, Rents from $45 to 75. Heated office in Disney Block--opposite Post Office. Immediate possession, DISNEY PHONE 1650 AAA ll A a ee in their sleeves. in Northern Ontario." innipeg. manent fire-proof buildings, with A of Simming and su- | clearings equal to a city of 60,000 burbs B18, ; there are 1425 resi- population, a dences, 2550 separate premises, and| The mines of the Porcupine district is one of the three northern | are producing at-the rate of $30,000, ni of the Ferguson Highway|000 in gold annually. The Hollinger e other two being Iroquois Falls| alone has produced over $106,000,000 d Cochrane) it is easily accessible| up till April 1st this year, motor irom Montreal, Ottawa or| In the year 1927 there were 520 aronto; there are 400 places of busi- | births, 148 marriages and 140 deaths, ness in Timmins, including four mod- | so Timmins is increasing at the rate ern, pulbbu sig Badin public library | of ten per week via the birth rate ind reading room; five churches;| route, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Cutler & Preston 64 King St, West Telephones £72, 223 Night Calls 510, 1560, 2468F i i i i 16 Sad sions, keep shuffling around a floor oducing gold mine in the world, high altitude of 1029 feet above sea for over 150 hours, would grow lan- immi guid in 15 minutes at housework The peaple of Timmins are healthy; and, as far as the men are concern- they are happy in their health, they ed, we doubt if any of them ever are contented with the very pleasant got up early enough to light the relationship existing between employ= morning fire. When the gray mat- ers and employees and between ter gets from the head to the feet business men and their clients, all of the bughouse is just over the hill the foregoing having a decided tend- for some hare-brained folk, The Gold Belt Brewery Company are building a large new brewery, modern to the last detail, Timmins might truly be called a triple-decked city of transportation, as, in addition to over ten miles of surface railways operated by the Ontario Railway Commission (T.N.O, Railway) within town limits, Holling- er and Mclntrye mines operate be- tween 80 and 100 miles of under- ving over 6,000 shareholders, prin- ipally living in Canada; is situated rectly in front of the T.N.O. Rail. REAL ESTATE Homes built to suit purchasers. _ RM. KELLY way depot, and employs in the neigh- bourhood of 3,000 :aen the year sound; then the McIntyre, Vipond and Dome mines are within a three ile radius of the town, The Hol nger own and operate their own ter system, and, exclusive of the ollinger consumption there were 144000 imperial gallons of water used by the town in 1927, the source of supply being the Mattagimi River, which runs through the west end of the town and supplies power for five lls, capable of producing 165,000 get of lumber daily. The civic government can boast of 1414 miles of water mains, 137 fire hydrants, 1,950 water services, eleven miles of sanitary sewers, 1% miles of torm sewers, 13 miles of sidewalks, an activated miles of pavements, sludge disposal plant installed at a cost of over $50,000 with an assur- ance of $25,000 additional expenditure for improvements, takes care of sew- age disposal plants, while an inciner- ator valued at $35,000, attends to gar- bage disposal. A visitor to Timmins will see sev- eral of the well B TIME TABLES E TABLE, lid sind Ho effect 1200 sm, West 5.48 a.m, Dai 8m, Daily, am, Daily except Sundsy, ,' pm. Daily, wird pm, Dail Sunday, wid i a.m, Daily, d Reb m, Daily except Sunday, y i aly except Sunday, 4 sey phim ve are times traing Bepast aws Station. } CNR, TIME TABLE olin gr Bd Daylight Shou Beopee 56 FERRREREED FRFRREE £44 EB. ESE known wholesale ground electric railways, as well as 3 miles or more from one shaft or 5 miles or more of aerial tracks to transport ore from one shaft or mill to another building or stock pile, Anyone who has the idea that Tims. mins is isolated and out of touch with the world is much mistaken, as there is nothing in Montreal or To» ronto that cannot be had in Tim. mins, as one visit to the residential districts will show the most pleasing results imaginable from labours per- formed by those horticulturally = in- clined, roses of all varieties in profu- sion, beautiful large red, white and pink peonies, and in fact, all the flowers, both annuals and perennials, that one would see in Southern On- tario, are plentifully represented in Timmins, as well as beds of ripe strawberries and all kinds of table greens, There are two stock brokers' of- fices complete in every detail, with private telegraph wires and the usual blackboard, giving stock quotations right off the wires; so the metropolis of the north gets all stock and bond quotations and news simultaneously with Toronto and all the larger cit» ies, There is a fifteen minute bus ser- vice between Timmins and Schu- macher, and an hourly service be- tween Timmins and South Porcupine and Dome mines as well as 'an elec- tric coach operating between Tim- mins and Cochrane, The Hollinger mine shafts run down to different working levels, the lowest of which is about 3,000 feet while the McIntyre shafts and work. 1 (1927) Essex Coupe Chadburn Motor Co. 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