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coal. Otherwise, it might freeze THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, December 24, 1959 7 : . { Alber ta Coal Reserves in Winter: mining officials say the ITALIAN WORKERS |meet in Rome next month to dis- program Is significant in that it] BONN (Reuters) -- West Ger.|cuss the procedure for hiring G t Th h G - 0 {involves slack which some mines| many will employ more Htalian Rolian workers, particularly in e oroug oing- Ver {sell at distress prices. Last year,|workers, it was decided at a meet-| AFRICAN PEAK nearly 650,000 tons of Alberta's|ing of West German and Italian| The highest of the two peaks of EDMONTON (CP) -- In the here, scientists are studying new total production of 8,000,000 tons!officials here. A German-talian Mount Kilimanjaro in Tangan- good old days when Alberta was methods of cleaning slack, par-|was slack. government commission wil 1|yika, Africa, reaches 19,321 feet. producing more than 9,000,000 ticularly coals less than one----- tons of coal annually, nobody quarter inch in size. worried too much about slack Cleaning these particles has coal. {been one of the difficulties that I} Ey el A It was considered practically | has frustrated marketing of K . 0 Il unmarketable -- and there were slack. { | Man Friends lenty of markets for other types! i i d . . | y P typ One method being experimented | Will Remain of coal. with involves a machine called] 5 and i ih Today, with production at only the water cyclone-washer, which abou 3,000,000 Jone, i erta's cleans mine slack to coals with| Customers coal reserves are ng thor- approximately eight per cent ash. | } . The ash content of raw coal var- | A VERY MERRY .|ies. from 10 to 20 per cent, but | " Slacu coals,the residuals left| when cleaned it is reduced to six UN i IL a | | after the final screening process, gh ane : | CHRISTMAS have been considered too small | { ; AAAAAS for general commercial purposes. | PILOT MODEL BUILT For Your Shopping Convenience ih. GOOD FOR COKING A pilot model of the cyclone Fx H slack with a light ash | Washer has been developed with] ' / G Ee ics priggntind a four-ton-an-hour capacity. The ® FREE PARKING eo ~ uscott wer generation purposes, coal is passed through a "cy- Fr. Plumbing ond and With thermal power -- in which clone" in a suspension of water. 7 Fi coal plays 2 major part--looming Impurities gravitate fo the Dot: G L A Z I E R S J Heating Ltd. big on the industrial horizon in|tom. | | Alberta, interest in slack So The commercial use of the . | FR LSON been stepped up. |washer will depend greatly onlp 498 SIMCOE ST. S. Opp. South Simcoe School 5 SECRET OF LONGEVITY In the gleaming laboratories of the availability of water and of qe e . the Research Council of Albertalsuitable machinery for drying the! If the secret of longevity is | Pocock of 100 Hurley road, ham, Ontario and Mr. and Mrs. | nal great grandparents are Mr. having long lived forebears, | Ajax. From the left, Stanley, 4; | Victor Moore of Toronto. One | and Mrs. Elmer Johnson of To- -- these four children will live | Janet, 6; Marion, 8 and Steven, | great grandfather, James Moore| ronto. They are in their 80's a long time. They are the chil- | 9. They are the grandchildren of | of Toronto, 'is still working at | and have retired. 7 dren of Mr. and Mrs. Norman '| Mr. and Mrs. Pocock, of Wing- | the registry office. The mater- | --Photo by hn Mills R nlet ines on Hudson | : pe 3 bo & Bay and in other places, Indians | i ur 25 are taking a variety of year-| Ms i. {round and seasonal s ranging) | from fishing to surveying. Slowly | ake S hape { But many remain at the mercy| {of the northern elements. Malnu-| ' trition, even starvation, strikes] some native communities whe: By GERRY MCNEIL The old Canol road from White- ers, nurses and governme ribou I. the eS Canadian Press Staff Writer (horse, Y.T \ : are pouring into the nc he seal fails to appear. i EDMONTON (CP)--The search|N.W.T., y be r ied. Alan new type of Canadian--the for oil and base metals is spur- ring development of Northern 1 the southern | 959| 1 re a stable popula. [00g winter is a trial. Yellow Canada. and high- e tungsten deposits . ) wi POPUR fire flash along the Mackenzi Already a shadowy network of| were discovered : 1 which can support and de. *S |S SUE Che VEOLCHE ad y : and Alaska High s in sub-| roads is being laid, breaking the| Another route northerners hope! ' Yukon and the Northwest Terri- ve uld stretch fr Pine demand more comforts. Several zero January weather as truck-| tories into great jigsaw pieces- ) p the Territories northern communities have tele-| T'S thaw frozen gas lines. In the a puzzle beginning to take shape. :skimo Point on Hudson B e services, sewer'and water Short summer, clouds of mos-| A thousand rivers and creeks,| joni of the ba and small rad tn. |quitoes plague the outdoor| a dozen mountain ranges, great|ren lands lying north of it ms, and. small radio sta-i. ine omyoor| forests and vast stretches of ; muskeg fight each step. The Yukon's first oil well gushed this year at remote Eagle Plains. Oil companies are drill ing or exploring more than 93,-| 000,000 acres in the Plains and Peel Plateau districts, and 95,- 000,000 acres in the Arctic is-| lands. ARCTIC ROAD The Eagle gusher blew in Aug- ust as a 450-mile road was being slashed from Dawson City, Y.T., to Tuktoyatuk, N.W.T., an Arc- tic port. The Plains field is about 150 miles northeast of Dawson City. Another route to the Arctic is being shaped from Yellowknife to Coppermine, N.W.T. Though] truckers hope to reach the port em Coronation Gulf this winter, the route is still more of a hope than a reality. It consists mainly of a winter truck trail winding on jee from lake to lake. | Its future Hes in a nickel strike made north of Great Bear Lake and compared by mining men| with strikes in Northern Ontario| and Northern Manitoba. Southeast of Great Bear Lake, a base metals find made in 1959 has drawn 2,000 claims in thel Wop May Lake area, a Jeep's bounce from the route to Copper-| mine. | Yellowknife now is reached by| a_nearly-complete 276-mile high-| way circling the west end of] Great Slave Lake and linked with | the Mackenzie Highway, which is being widened and improved Pine Point, site of promising lead, zinc and copper deposits on| Great Slave Lake may get its railway after a dispute over the| location of the Northern Alberta] Railway terminus is settled. A| royal commission was established | in 1959 to weigh the merits of eastern and western Alberta rail- | heads at Waterways and Grim- shaw. | In Saskatchewan, a 500 - mile road from La Ronge to Uranium City was started in 1959. Uran-| jum's immediate future is shaky| since a federal government an-| nouncement that contracts with the United Kingdom and United | States that expire in 1963 won't] be renewed. | Manitoba is opening its north with a $15,000,000 program which | will result in 675 miles of roads. The biggest mining project in the province 4s the International] Nickel Company's development | at Thompson, expected to reach | the extraction stage in 1960. | Even for the white man, the op a diversified economy and I worker, the muskeg catches his| Eskimos are working in the machine in a quicksand grip. Miners, technicians, geologists, 0, HOLY NIGHT... 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