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WHAT THE NEW HUDSON'S BAY RAL WAY MEA NS TO CANADA Old Hudgon Bay and Now MftnitobR; | the pux«ibilitie3 of their development vrheat for Europe via the former and j in conhection with furnishing local j (fold and silver for the world out of . 'tonnage for the railway, samples of i the latter. 1 quarti containing flecks of free gold This is the new* which, when the ' were found at Beaver Lake. 140 m'lrs [ cold weather breaks wilJi the coming of spring, will start a now rush into the great Canadian Northwci^t. This is the promise which has turned the thoughts of prospectore, wheat k'ow- er», investors â€" men of pioneer in- stinctsâ€"toward the new 178,100 square miles of territory tacked on to the northern boundary of the province i l>een proved up to a depth of 900 fe?t. northwest, in l'Jl.1. A small rush fol- lowed. Then, in August, I'JU, betltr indications of the prceiou.T metal were! found at Ilcrli Lake, and only tiic out-! break of the war killed what would have been a genuine hoc m. In the summer of 1'.>1.'> Flin-FIon was dis- covered v.'i(h an ore iiody whi.'h has of Manitoba by the Dominion Govern- ment in 1912. Throuprh this new district civiliza tion is reaching out to historic Iludson 1 Bay, for the Hudson Bay division of i the Canadian Government railways' showing a tonnage of between sixteen and twenty tons of suljihite of copper, | the values beinir; Gold, .077 ounce per ^ ton; silver, 1.00 ounces per ton; cop-i per, 1.6i) per cent., and zinc, 3.63 petj cent. Followed the discovery of the | of importance have been among the little Likes that dot the dis- from The Pas, on the Saskatchewan! . "","'",;'.' "â- â- ; „"",'.',. ',"•', ' v- 1. 1 River, to Port Nelson, on the western , ^^f""''y ^l"''. "', S*-''"*' I'»^«; ^''"^^l Bhore of the l>ay, is now approaching; has already produced 20 000 tons of | completion. This new division will bo h>gh gra.le copper ore. Other cla.msj 424 miles long. Its main object will ! °' importance have been opened j be to provide an alternative or optional route for the products of the prairies ^ â-  , ^x â-  , to Great Britain. At tho present time! "'^""^ •'^•^I' ^f "' f" ^'^ '"'"flf' P"^" the bulk of the shipments go y-J^^MiUey^J Sey, Utx^oim Th. gov- JMontreal. Winnipeg is 000 mile., near-' "ITJ'r ^^s announced . s irlention sr to Port Nelson than to Montreal,! °^ bu.ldmg the necessary branch ra>l- N^hereas for all points to the north """^f "'n^s 'nto he mine d.stnct just end we.,t of Winnipeg-and this in- «« it reached out to join Porcupine to clud«, almost the entire fertile belt- t^'^. T.''""^^'"",'"« ^"'' I^"-thern On- tho distance in favor of Port Nelson' '«^^ '"/^^ other case. 1.. greater. It .is estimated that the' ^he Hudson Bay Company has long maintaineti posts at the mouths of all CANADIAN GOVERNMENT MERCHANT M ARINE FL EET OF 23 SHIPS Completed Before End of 1919 Unics* Severe Weather Hinders Construction of Many Large Steel Vessels Now Under Way in Dominion Ship Ycads. 'i lie only ki.-.d of striking needed just non\ Weekly Market Report in favor of Port Nelson greater. It .is estimated that the Hudson Bay route will mean an aver- age shortening of a thou.sand miles be- tween the wheat fields and Liverpool. In other words, wheat can be landed at Nelson as cheaply as at Fort Wil- liam. But the present significance to Can- •da of the Hudson Bay raih-oad lies rot .in its attractions as a Brcad'.tuffs. Toronto, Dec. 2.- â€" Manitoba wheat â€" No. 1 .Mortliern, $2.30; No. 2 Northern, $2.27; No. ;i Nortiiern, $iJ.'io. in sl-'re Fort V.'illiam. Manitoba oats- -No. 2 C\V. SBVic; I the chief rivers, but Churcliill and ! Nelson, being available for l->.rjj;a Ocean steamships, are the tvo ports I best suited to become tho termini oflii*'"- ; railways leading to the settled parts Man. barleyâ€"No. .S ! of Canada. T''^^' ' i'wmT.in/"'''' n . X' 1 t ,\. lu p .1 istore, rort William. t Port Nelson, a? the mouth of th?| American cornâ€" No. 2 yellow, $1.70; Nelson River, wi.l be the terminus of j>fo .â- ; yel'ow $1 CO tracK, Toronto, y.;.r ,»,.., ., n '"'."%'' *^'"'" 'â- 'â- 'â- â- " i the Hudson Bay. -lilway.AUhoi^tjh the! prompt shipiiKiH.s. ricr through Canada s far northern, harbor is naturai.y inferior to Church-! Ontario o.at« -No. .I v.Mte, SS tj KOc. pntewny. but in the fact that with .ts j^^ improver.ents are l.rin- made to' ac.-ordinu' t<, freights outside. anchorage and dockage. No. .1 CW, 8(.;'ic: No. 1 U.-d, 83Hc; No. 2 feed, Srv.c, in store Fort VVi!- CW, $153 Sl.-sni'::, hams, nied., 37 to 38c; heavy, 33 to 34e; cooked h.-\m3, 49 to 51c; back, p!a.'i), 47 to iSc; backs, lioneljss, 49 to r.2c; breakfast bacon. 42 to 10c;. cottage roU.s. 33 to .S4c. \ Barrelled .Meatsâ€" Pickled pork, ?4C; : mess pork, ?if). j Green Meat.-- â€" Out of pi-kk-, Ic less; ,ilian smoked. j ,, ; Dry Salted .Meatsâ€" Long clears, in: in tonu, ;!2'/.c; in cases, 2f to 20c; c!car bellies, 27 to :'.Sc; fat bai-ks. 32 to 3.3c. : Lardâ€" Tierce«, 29 to 2{)^c; tubs, 29 V^ to ;iOc; pails, 2d% to 30'4c;j prints, SOU to -Ic. t'o.-ncound lard,! tiercps. 28'i to 2Pc; tilis, 20 tff 29%c; j !nrir.» : .''0 to A desiMitch from Ottawa says: â€" Unless severe weather upsets the present expectations, the Canadian Govfrnment Mcrchr.r.t Marine Fleet will number twenty-three vessel: be- fore the tr.d of the present year, ac- cording to Mr. Alex. Johnson, Deputy Mi-lister of Marine. It is hoped that sufficient vessels to bi-:n;r the toUl to! the above number will have been de- livered before the end of ne.xt month. ; The Canadian Nav.igator, a steel vessel of 4,3.50 tons, built by the Cana- ' dian Vickers yards at Montreal, has' been completed, misde hec trial trip and hande<i over to the Government. . The Canadian Spinner, an 8,350-ton' steel ship, will have her trial trip and be delivered before the end of next week, it is e.xpected. She will, after, being handed over, leave Montreal '. either for Halifax or St. John, to load; for South American poi'ts. | -An instance of rapid shipbuilding; work has been accomplished by the^ Vickers works in the case^f the Cana- . dian Planter. This shin, which is of 8,350 Ixms displacement, w;«3 launched on the afternoon of November 22, the boilers were installed on November 23, the engines installed on November 24, and, it is cxpe:.'ted, unless severe weather up.sets plans, to turn the ves- sel over to the Government before navigation closes. Ihe Canidia'- Settler, which is be- ing built at the Tidewater Yards, at Three Rivers, Que., will, it is expected, be handed over on Saturday morning next, while the Canadian Rancher, also from the same yards, \vill be delivered before the close of navigation. An- other vessel on which delivery is ex- pected before the close of navigation is the Canadian Traveller, being built at tho Levis ^rds. The Canadian Railer, under construction at the Wal- lace Shipyards, Vancouver, is e.^cpected to be complete and handed over before the end of the year, making the twenty-th,ird veesel of the Canadian Government Merchant Fleet in com- mission. SOMAULAND BACK TO BRITISH RULE L. H. CLARKE NEW LIEUT-GOVERNOR Reverted to Barbai ism During Chairman of Toronto Harbor development ha« come tho apening up| ^ecuer safe of a hitherto unknowa mineral pro- ! ac'orilinu' ti- ivcignts ou;3iae. , prints, 30 to "O'ic. Ontario v.hoatâ€" No. 1 Winter, per; lot, .1!2 to .?2.0<>; No. 2 do. Si.Oi to M.mtreal M.n.ke's. Ontario- from North Bay, on Lake natural resource. Seal and porpoise, Nipissing. up into the country around, ^j. ^^ite whale, and co<l lisheries are Lake Temiskaming- resulted in the^ productive, and will probably furnish discovery ami development of the big^ tj,e bagig of a very valuable industry, silver mines at Cobalt and the gold pu, bearing animals, for which ni-ines at Porcupine. While the atlen- jjudson Bay for centuries has been tion of all North America has been noie,,_ exist in the territories sur- turned to the battlefields of Europe, rounding the whole bay. Polar bears the building of the 'ludson Bay rail- ^nd Arctic foxes may be encountered road to carry gram to Europe, viaLnywhere north of ChurcbilL Black Hudson Bay, has resulted in the dis- covering and parti,Tl opening up of a new mineral district of first import- ance in Northern Manitoba. . bears, wolves and moose are common in the country around the .southern part of James Bay, and smaller ani- , mals, such as the otter, beaver, mar- While a searching investigation of tin, fisher, mink, ermine, lynx and the resources of New iManitoha was j wolverine exist in great numbers being made with a view to estimating throughout the Hudson Bay country. Peasâ€" No. 2, $2. CO. Barleyâ€" Malting, $1.5(1 to $1.63, ac- cording to freights outside. Buck-wheatâ€" $1.30 to $1.32, accord- ing to freight outside. Rye â€" No. 3, $1.37 to $1.40, accord- ing to freights outside. Manitoba flourâ€" Government stand- ard, $11, Toronto. Ontario flour â€" Government stand- ard, $0.50 to $9.00, Montceal and To- ronto, in jute bags. Prompt shipment. Millfeedâ€" Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, per erns, 27c. Butter, choicest creamery, 68 to 68%e. Eggs, fresh, 90c; select- ed, 65c; No. 1 stock, 58c; No. 2 stock,] 55c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $2.05 I to $2.35. Dre8se<i hogs, abattoir killed, $25. Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 31c. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, December 2.â€" Choice heavy steer.i, $13.25 to $13..')0; goo<l heavy' steers, $12.50 to $13; butcher.s' cattle, i choice, $11.50 to $12; do, good, $10.50' to $11; do, med., $8.75 to $9.25; do, ton, $457 shorts, per ton, $52; good torn , $6 to $6.50- bulls, choice, $10 to feed flour, $3.15 to $3.50. $10.50; do, med., $8.75 to $9; do, rough.j U. S. SOFT COAL STRIKE CONTINUES All Proposals Are Rejected by Both Sides. A despatch from Ottawri says: â€" Canadians can now look fo,-v,ard to a flbortage of soft coat supplit.* fur some lime, in the opinion of Mr. ''. A. Ma- prath. Dominion Fuel Controller, who lias just riturncd from W!!sirHif;ti)n. Ill view of the breaking olT of luifjtia- tions between the miner.i vnd otwr- ators, there can be little lioju of amelioration of the situation for Mjrne t.'me. Proviou.s to receiving the aiuio r.cc Have New Home For Next Session Hay â€" No. 1, per ton, $2(>; mixed, per ton, $21 to $2.3, track, Toronto. Straw â€" Car lots, per ton, $11.50 to $12.50, track, Toronto. Country Produce â€" Wholesale $7 to $7.25; butcher cows, choice, $10 to $10.50; do, good, $9 to $9.25; do,' med., $8 to $8.25; do, com.. $6.25 to $6.75; stockers, $7.50 to $10; feeders, $10 to $11.50; canners and cutters, $5.10 to $6.25; milkers, good to choice. Rgg.s- -New laid cases returnable, |j|o ^^ $,75. (j^,^ ^^j^. and med., $65 80 to S5c; held, .55 to .5(>o. Butterâ€" ^j^ 5:75. springers, ?90 to $175; light Creamery solids, hi to ().k'; 'O. prints, Lwes, $8 to $9; yearlings, $9 to $10.50; ,^, ^,, 62 to fi4c. Honeyâ€" White, per lb. 20 to i , i„„,l„_ per ewt., $13.75 to A despatch from Ottawa say.s:â€" |21c. Live poultryâ€" hens 4 to 5 lbs., $14.25; calves, good to choice, $17 to Work will be rushed on the new Par-' 18 to 25c; hens, under 4 lbs., 15 to 20c;|ji8 5,). |,oj,s, fed and watered, $15.75; liamcnt buildings ho as to have them ; hens, over 5 lbs., 23 to 26c; spring jo^ weighed off car.s, $l(i; do, f.o.b., ready for occupation by February 1 chickens. 19 to 28c: roosters, 15 to 20c; jj^^y.-^. ,ip jo t„ fa,.r„e,...;_ fl.l.r.o, .havetbe':|'''-kHnK«. 22 to 2Sc; turk^^^^^ Montreal, Doc. 2 T. 38e. Eggs â€" No. 1, dO to blc; selects,! Temporary '''' - -- -- - ' in case it should be deciderl next seH.^ion besin then. to have the ' --":••*='- , -j,- -'- ^^'^^r.^^^l \ Montreal ^D.^:. I^-Butcher steers, ,.0 i ,-1 .., i«;j u- t„ on.. o,,(f-J' common, $6.75 to $8.50; butdier hcif- fitting., and desks will be placed in the !L^t;'^ltcirrprinls: 05\?.-7c; choi" li\- "-<'• ^^'^^ ^ ««-'«^ â€"•. ^' to building to accommodate the momlK>rs ; (ijii,.y prints, 57 to 59c; ordinary dairy ' " and Senators and the <"()mmons st.aflT. prints, 50 to 53c; bakers', 45 to 50c. The building, which is being con- , Oleoinargnrinc (best gr.), 33 to 37c. structcd on the cost plu>< svstem, will Cheese- New, large, 3Ui to 32c. cost eight million dollars, instead of, Maple synipâ€" Per 5-gal tin, $3 per $5,100;000 originally estimated, main- 1 P^"'- ''*>• "^<^-«^'- *'"• ♦â- '•l"- ly on account of the great increase in Provisions â€" Wholesale, men! of the br.vuh at Washington, Mr.( wages and the cost of materials u.->e<I. | S moke<l meats-^Rolls, .30 to 31c Maurath, who ha^l life:: in confcrrncci While Parliament sits workmen will | ;:rr $7.50; butcher cows, $n to $8; canners, $4.75; cutters, $5.25 to $6; butcher bulls, com., $5.50 to $6.25. Good veals, $14 to $17; med., $9 to $13; grass, $<'>.50 to $7. Ewes, $7 to $8; lambs, good, $13.75 to $14; com., $12..50 to $13.25. Hogs, selects, $10. 75 to $17; light,s, $15 to $16; heavies, $16; sow-.s, $12.75 to $13. with the Fuel .^clnlillisLrators of On- tario and Quebec, iisucd a statement < iiiling altentiun to tliP gravity of the fcoft coal situation, and urgiig the most rigid con.iervation polity. On t"rc li'iiig informed of tho new develop- •iieiit aerohK the bcirdcr, he called at- ((ritioii to the fact that he had anlici- I'uted that tho award' might not be •â- acceptable to cither miners or oper- ators, utid sa'd timt now tlie utmost earn with our present supply would be i.^-ccsstiry. proceed with the construction of tho east wing. It will be years before tlio ornamentation is completed. Half a million dollars will be silent for fiirni- Princess Mary Makes Debut In Speech at Public Function Five-Shilling Note For Great Britain A despatch from London says :â€" Great Britain is going to have five- shilling notes, which at the present i-ale of exdiange aro equivalent to one- ilolUir l>ill«. T1;l' present high price of silver .is Bodies Picked Up From Ill-Fated Myron. A despatch tvom Sault Ste. Mario,, Ont., says: â€" After nearly a week's patrol of the north and south shores of Lake Superior and Whiteflsh Bay, searching parties were suco.'ssful on 70 Per Cent, of German War Fleet for Britain .\ despatch ftoiii Pkris ;iays:-'riie ."supreme Council has adopted the Bri- 1.'>'h jiUggehtion for partition of the' German war fleet. Under the â- irrmige-; ment Great Britain will receive 70 per < i»iil. of the tol:il tonnage, France ten r cr cent, Italy ten per cent., .lapaii right per lent., and Ihe United Stnten two p(T cent . ' Largest of Shells Driven Through Thickest of Plate A despatch from London says: - Princc;-s Mary made her debut ns a .speaker at a puiilic function on Thurs- day night, lbs iir'casion beini; a fare- well rall.v of til" Women's Land .Army, whiih '':> being (lisbntided. The cere- mony \uis a pictureinnie one in the oldj \ .lespateh from London says:â€" Sir Ur;iper's Hall. After making an ef- Koi,urt Hadfield anncunces that the rect've speech. Princess Mary pre- 1 largest calil^re of armor-piercing shell sented "distinguished service bars" toj hus been driven in recent Rritish tests vome lifty women for their wav wr.rk.| tl^nuigh the thicket of modern armor wore responsible for their introduction, and I ''''•'''^y '" PJ^'kinfi "P five bodies above ' Salt Point, in Whiteflsh Bay, from substitute will have to be found i'^e ill-fated -steamer Myron. The re- if the co.->t keeps at ils present height some for lesser valueil coins A iteamer Myron. mains arrived here Friday night. Great War. A despatch from London sjjys: â€" The loos and recon.iut.it of that thankless tract of scrub deacrt called Briti&h Somaliiand. on the southern shore of the Gulf of Aden is one of ihe un- written pages of t!ie great w.ir. When the Camel Corps was withdrawn from Somaliiand and sent down to take a share in the (Jernian Kast -African campaign, the outlying regions of the protectorate reverted to barbarism. This was the only part of the Bri- tish Emp're lost in the war. Sixty- eight thousand square miles just slip- ped out of the Empire and nobody noticed it. Among the gallant band now re- covering it, yard by yard, is a young officer named Ransome, who was one of the army of four Britishers which invaded German East Africa two days after the war was declared and fired the bush along a hundred miles of border. The Germans saw pillars of smoke and .imagined a gicat army and feared to attack. Meanwhile British rein- forcements arrived and the country was saved from butciliery by one of Ransome's companions, armed with a sporting gun, made for shooting hum- ming birds without distiirbing the plumage. Plymouth Elects Lady Astor. A despatch from London says: â€" Lady Astor has been elected to Par- j liament to succeed her husband, the new Viscount Astor, by 5,000 majority, i "Everybody is capable of being con- ' vinceil by common sense," said Lady | .A.stor. "Mine was a campaign of | common sense." j Her husband's majority in the elec- tion last year was nearly 12,000, which I .S'hows a loss to her sex of nearly 7,000. | The vote stood: Lady Astor (LTnion- ist), 14,495; W. T. Gay (Labor), 9,292; Isaac Foot (Liberal), 4,139. The post -card is 49 Britain. y«ars old in Commission Succeeds Sir J. Hendrie. A despatch from Ottawa says: â€" Mr. Lionel H- Clarke, Chairman of the To- ronto Harbor Comm-ssion, has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of On- tario in place of Sir John Hendrie^ who.so term of office has expired. Ht will take over the duties as soon as h« is sworn in by the Governor-General Lionel H. Clarke, Ontario's Lieuten- ant-Go vemor-to-be, is well known in the business world, but to the public generally he has not heretofore been in the limelight. He was bom in Guelph and educated at Trinity Col- lege at Port Hope, beinfe- an -Anglican in r ••ig.ion. About thirty years ago Mr. Clarka came to Toronto, and he has been active in tho grain bu.siness. He is President of the Canadian Malting Co., Ltd., and Mp until the Dominion Gov» emraent appointed the Wheat Board. Mr. Clarke was a member of the Board of Grain Supervisors. Mr. Clarke in recent years has giv-' en considerable of his time to muni- cipal alfairs, although he never sought the suffrage of the people in any civic office. For one year he was Presi- dent of the Toronto Board of Trade. He was also for a time the city's rep- resentative on the York County Good Roads' Oommission. He was also a member of the Canadian Niagara Falls Park Commission. When the Toronto Harbor Commis- sion was organized seven years ago, Mr. Clarke was appointed Oir.irman, which position he has oceupie<l up to this present time. Under his adminis- tration millions of dollars have been spent in carrying out the harbor im- provements, which will give a wiiter- front unexcelled on the Great I.;ike* Wild Beasts in India. Tigers killed no fewer than 1.000 persons in India last year; wolves and boars accounted for 3SS; leuQ- ards for 325; and crocodiles aud al- ligators for 194. Snake.'i headed the list with 2X600 victims. PRINCE OF WALES' FAREWELL MESSAGE TO HIS FELLOW-CANADIANS No word has been received as to their identity. _« War area in Northein Frame and Belgium is estimated, to contain li,- 000,000 ton.* of copper, of which ono- third may be ivclaimed. Sectors where hard battles raged are s.iid to have 250 tons of iron to every 2 '-3 m-res. | •The wx)nderful improvements in This feat in gunnery, he says, I farming nwdo in the last 2.50 years , . , . , , , *'" 'â- f'"'''!' 'he Ilritish big guns, 1 have been due maiinlv to two things: emerlaincd at a supper and c.,ncer.Uvei,;hing something like IHO tons, un- Tho iirti-oduction of grasses ntui Tlvey gave the 1 nnces.« n hearty wel- ,u,.pa,.„,a in naval cng;,pement« in thol dover, and the invertion of hbor- come. fiifiirn I - t ' luture. I saving machinery. The women and gUN present their war unifi.rni.s and later thriuiR plate. A despatch from Ottawa says: â€" "I can never forget it, nor can I express the whole of my deep gratitude for the open-hearted welcome which my Cana- dian comrades in arms and all my Canadian fellow-eoiintrymrn and wo- n>en have given me." Thv.« foregoing i.i from a farewell nie--sage from his Royal llighneFs the Prince of Wales, wbjch has l>een received by his V'xcel- lency the Ciovernor-Generr.l. The message follows: H.M.S. Ronown, Barrjngton Passage. "The Renown is weighing anchor, and I feel that my lir.H visit to Canada is really at an end. 1 can never forget it, nor can I expre.'is tha whole of my deep gratitude for the open hearted welcome which my Canadian comrades in arms and all my C-auadian fellow- countrymon nr.il wonieu have giver me. "Will you please convey tKis mes- sage of thanks, most inadequate though it be, to Sir Robert BonlcTi and the whole Dominion Governmeut, whose care and ho&pitality through- cut my visit h;ive l>een so generous a."d so kind. The last four months will induence ibe whole of my life and I shall never be happy if many months ' elapse w.ithout a visit to ray home oa this side of the Atlixntic. "My best wishes to all the people oi Canada til! we meet ajjain. (Siijned) ••Kdw:!rd F." 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