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Canada lease of about 235 acres. The lease is renewable for a further 21 years, and the lessee pays $1 an acre per annum and 5 per cent, royalty on the value of amber recovered. The lease also provides that $5,000 must be ex- pended on operations during the twelve months. Ottawa, Ont. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 1920, 991 com- panies were formed under the Domin- ion Act with a total capitalization of $603,210,850, as compared with 512 companies in the preceding fiscal year with capital of $214,326,000. Eighty-eight existing companies in- creased their capita! stock ty $85,- 187,750 in the same fiscal year, while 10 decreased their capital stock by $19, 530,000. Toronto, Ont. A large block of property has recently been acquired in this city by a syndicate of Toronto and United States capitalists, upon which will be erected one hundred and fifty moderately priced homes. Work will be started very shortly on the first batch of twenty houses and when these are disposed of the re- mainder will be built. The houses will cost from $4,000 to $5,000 each and are to be surrounded with suffi- cient land to make them desirable. Hamilton, Ont. The announcement that a carload of cherries shipped from the Niagara Peninsula had ar- rived in Winnipeg in good condition and had met with a ready sale was particularly pleasing to the growers. Local growers have been trying for years to find a market in the West. Quebec, Que. During the months of April and May a total of 29,195 are to be slaughtered. A special j immigrants entered Canada, 15,559 building is being erected for the pur- being from the British Isles, 8,745 pose. The buffalo meat will be sent! from the United States, and 4,891 to all points over the country for sale. [ from other countries. A strict account is being kept of all i Montreal, Que. The Nascopic of heads and skins, which will probably | the Hudson's Bay Co. left here recent- be disposed of by the Dominion Gov-! ly on her annual trip to the Hudson's eminent. The Wainwright reserva- ] Bay. The steamer carries stores for tion contains the last large herd of! traders arsd the company's posts in buffalo in the world, with about 3,000 , that region, and will bring back their animals. Vancouver, B.C. After having been Teduced in numbers from 2,500,000 to IBM than 125,000 through unrestricted slaughter, the great seal herd of the Northern Pacific ha, under adequate protection, again increased until to- day it is estimated there are at least 600,000 of the valuable mammals be- tween the coast of Washington and the icy shores of Alaska. This year Indians expect to capture 2,000 seals. The money value of the skins taken shvce 1917 is about $500,000. Vancouver, B.C. The ftrst consign- ment of lumber to Chili for many years left recently, being shipped by T. S. MeClay, Hai'bor Commissioner for Vancouver. Edmonton, Alta. Prospects are ex- cellent for a record potato crop and it is expected that the yield will be as heavy as any yet harvested. The acreage is twenty per cent, greater than any previous year. Within twenty miles of Edmonton there are three thousand acres of potatoes in bloom. Calgary, Alta. A profitable mar- ket for their product of sodium chlor- ide is being developed by the Senlac Salt Co., which is engaged in develop- ing the salt deposits at Senlac, Sask. A local soap factory is utilizing the product extensively in its manufac- ture, instead of importing from Wis- consin as previously, nd it is prob- able the wants of their Winnipeg branch will be same source. supplied from tha Calgary, Alta. Owing to the in- crease in the buffalo herd at Wain- wright, one thousand of these animals Weekly Market Report Toronto. j hams, med., 40 to 42c; heavy, 29 to Manitoba wheat No. 1 Northern, : Me: cooked hams, 62 to 67c; boneless- $1.81%; No. 2 Northern, $1.79>4; No. i backs, 42 to 48c; breakfast bacon, 33 3 Northern, $1.74%; No. 4 wheat, | to 38c; special, 45 to 48c; cottage $1.61 Vi. | rolls, 30 to 31c. Manitoba oats No. 2 CW, 53V4c; j Green meats Out of pickle, Ic les* No. 3 CW. 50 %c; extra No. 1, 50%c; than smoked. No. 1 feed, 48%c; No. 2 feed, 46%c. | Barreled meataBean pork, $29; Manitoba barley No. 2 CW, 80c; ! short cut or family back, boneless, No. 4 CW, 75 'Ac; rejected', Tie; feed, '$40; pickled rolls, $41 to $46; mesa 1 70e. ipork, $33. All above in store, Fort William. Dry salted meats Long clears, in Ontario wheat F.o.b. shipping tons, 17% to 19V4c; in cases, 18c; points, according to freights outside, clear belHes, 19%c; backs, 14c prints, No. 2 spring, nominal; No. 2 winter, 19fc to 21c; shortening, tierces, 14%' nominal; No. 2 goose wheat, nominal, to 14 '/fee; tubs, 14 '/a to 15c; pails, 15 American corn Prompt shipment, to ISVic; prints, 17% to 18c! No. 2 yellow, c.i.f. bay ports, 79c, | Lard Tierces, 17 to 17%-c; tubs, nominal. 17% to 18c; pails, 17% to 18%c. Ontario oats No. 2 white, nominal, ; Choice heavy steers, $7 to $8; according to freights outside. I butcher steers, choice, $7 to $7.50; do, Barley Malting, 05 to 70c, accord- 1 good, $6 to $7; do, med., $5 to $6; ing to freights outside. ' do, com., $3.75 to $5; butcher heifers-, Ontario flour Winter, prompt choice, $6.50 to $7; do. med., $5.50 to shipment, straight run bulk, seaboard,' $6.50; butcher cows, choice $450 to $7.40. Peas No. 2, nominal. Manitoba flour Track, Toronto: first pats., $1050; second pats., $10. Buckwheat Nominal. Rye No. 2, $1.25. Millfeed Carlots, delivered Toron- TO CANADIAN HEROES Huge crowds watched Premier Meiglien unveil a memorial ou Vimy Ridge, the scene of a striking Canadian victory in the Great War. PREMIERS' MEETING INTO ! Volga District Has 1 1 ,234 Cholera Cases $5.50; do, med., $3 to $4.50; canners and cutters, $1 to S2.50: butcher bulls, good, $4.25 to $5.25; do, com.. $3 to $4; feeders, good. 000 Ibs., $5.50 to $6; do, fair, $5 to $5.50; milkers, $46 to $65; springers, $55 to $76; calves, choice, $9 to $10; do. med., $8.50 to to freights, bags included: Bran, rter $9.50; do. com., $4 to $5; lambs, year- ton, $25; shorts, per ton, $27; white lings, $7 to $8; do, spring, $10 to middlings, $29 to $30; feed flour, $1. 60 $10.75; sheep, choice, $5 to $6; do, to $1.75. ; good, $3.50 "to $4.50; do, heavy and Eggs No. 1, 37 to 38c; selects, 41' 'bucks, $2 to $3.50; hogs, fed and to 42c; new laid, cartons, 43 to 44c. ! watered, $13; do, fed off cars, $13.26; Butter Creamery, fresh made ex-! do, f.o.b., $12.25; do, country points, tras, 41 to 42c; do, fresh made firsts,; $12. 40 to 41c; dairy prints, 33 to 34c; bakers', 25 to 28r. Oats Montreal. Can. West., No. 2, 65 'Ac to Preparations Made for British Representatives at Dis- armament Parley. A despatch from London says: The Imperial Conference of British A despatch from Moscow says: The Soviet Government announces the famine in the Volga Region started last month and grew steadily worse. 1 The official figures of the Commissar' of Health show 13,476 cholera cases Oleomargarine Best grade, 20 toiMc; do, No. 3, (!2Vfc to 63c. Flour 21c. Man.. $10.50. Rolled oats Bag, 90 Cheese New, large, 24Ms to 25%c; Ibs.. $3.3fi. Bran $25 to $27 Shorts twins, 25 to 2(5c; Stilton, 26 Ms to 27c. : $26 to $28. Hay No. 2, per ton, Old, large, 34 to 35c; twins, 34 tolcarlnts. $28 to $30. 35M-C. Cheese, fint'st easterns, 23 %c. But- Honey Extracted, white clover, in ter, choicest creamery, 39 to 39MsC. 60-30-lb. tins, per Ifo., 15 to 16c; do, ' Eggs, selected, 43 to 44c. Potatoes, lOlb. tins, per lb., 17 to 18c; Ontario I per bag, car lots, 46c. No. 1 white clover, in 2V 2 -5-lb. tins, , Hogs, selects. $14 to $14.50. Veal per lb., 18 to 19c. ; calves, picked lots, $8; good calves, Smoked meats Rolls, 27 to 28r; ! $6 to $7; com. pras&ers, $2 to $3. THAMES RIVER ENTIRELY BROKEN BREAKS LOW RECORD Regina, Sask. Active work has al-| ly be followed up by the Bay- ready started on a soil survey of th.e ( chimo, and 'both ships will probably province of Saskatchewan by the Col- be back in September. lege of Agriculture in co-operation Fredericton, N.B. Although wea- with the provincial department of | ther conditions which have prevailed agriculture. All possible data will be during the past month have been a gathered in regard to soil conditions detriment to the apple harvest, it is that are essential to a determination anticipated, judging from present in- of the most profitable type of farm-i dications, that the apple crop in this ingf to be carried out in each district.- district will be the heaviest in years. Saskatoon, Sask. Telegraphic ad- Reports from Kingsclear, Oromocto vices from the north country an- and Douglas all show that the orch- nounce that a heavy strike of gold) ards are locking well and giving haa been made on Cariboo Island, on the north shore of the Great Slave, by promise of a big yield- Halifax, N.S. Dr. J. D. Logan has th Aurous Gold Mining Company, opened office* here as a "clearing Mining machinery is now on the way j house" in Canada for the output of I to the island, and it is exjpected that Canadian writers who prefer to live everything will be in readiness to be- gin operations upon a very extensive icale next spring. Winnipeg, Man. -For the purpose of recovering amber deposits from the sands on the west shore of Lake Cedar, Manitoba, J. Dix Rogers, of Toronto, has been granted a 21-year in Canada and market their wares from the homeland. It is hoped that the new organization will largely ob- viate the necessity of Canadian writ- ers failing to find a domestic market going to England and the United States to market their literary ma- terial. Burial Service at Sea by Wireless A despatch from London says: The burial service at sea by wireless was the unusual story brought to Liverpool by the incoming Cunardier Carmania. When the Carmania was 300 miles west of Fastnet a wireless message was received from the Canadian Gov- ernment freighter Canadian Trapper, London-bound, asking: "Can you oblige us with a copy of the burial service?'' The Canadian Trapper was about 200 miles distant. A fireman aboard the freighter had died and no burial service was available. Th* full ser- vice was sent by wireless, the dicta- tion lasting an hour, and at the end the body was committed to the deep. _* . British Premier Visits Canada in Autumn A despatch from London says: Unless failure to achieve peace in Ireland leads to an autumn election in the United Kingdom, Canada will probably have an opportunity of see- ing Lloyd George soon. LU/yd George is being pressed to visit Canada when he goes to Wash- ington for the conference on the Limi- tation of Armaments, and it is under- stood that he will do so. AIRSHIP SCHEME TOO COSTLY, DECIDES EMPIRE PREMIERS A despatch from London siays: One of the matters dis-cussed by the Empire Premiers Conference in Lon- don has been the possibility of using airshiipa as a method of improving communications between the Mother Country and the far-flung Dominions of the British Empire. A committee was appointed to re- port on the subject, and its unanimous decision is that any scheme of the kind would be too costly. The Do- minion Premiers and British Govern- ment have to decide whether they will go shares in maintaining British air- ships and their personnel as a nucleus of great Imperial trans-oceanic air service. The committee estimated that it would require an expenditure of ten millions sterling to run airship ser- \ : <:es for five cr six years, and it cnme to the conclusion that from a commercial standpoint the experiment would not be worth the expense in view of the present financial position. timate stages, and the situation is happily clarified. There has been a steady exchange of views with Wash- ington, and a basis of reasonable agreement as to the method of pro- cedure is within reach. During the last two days the dele- gates have devoted their whole atten- tion to the discussion of the possibil- ities and implications at the Wash- ington Disarmament Conference, based upon despatches arriving from the Embassies concerned. It is now definitely decided that no full dress preliminary conference will take place in London, but there will occur diplo- matic conversations touching the sub- ject matter of the conference, at which Dominion representatives like Premier Hughes of Australia and Premier Massey of New Zealand, who foresee obstacles to their attendance at Washington, will have opportunity to present their views. On every hand there is an eager disposition to promot* the success of the Washington Conference. There is visible willingness to sub- ordinate personal conveniences and predictions to the larger end. It has been practically decided thut the British Empire will be represent- ed by an undivided unit at the Wash- ington Conference, and, probably, Premier Meighen of Canada and Pre- mier Smuts of South Africa, will be members of the British delegation. Premier Meighen will not remain for the preliminary conversations, but plans to sail for home on the Car- mania on July 30. The United States Government is firmly opposed to any postponement of the Washington Conference until Spring, and the various Governments have immediately set a'bout the pre- paration of their respective cases, with a view of beginning the real work of the Conference before the middle of November. The scene now shifts to Washington and the Confer- ence of the British Premiers may be regarded as at an end. June says cases alone. The Vossische Zeitungi there are five hundred cholera ' in Moscow. Chicago Claims 26,054 Canadians A despatch from Washington says: Figures announced by the Census Bureau give the number of Canadians resident in Chicago as 26,- 054. The total foreign population of the city is 805,482. Ottoman Forces in Asia Minor. A despatch from London says: Aj big victory of the Greeks over the Turks in Asia Minor was announced by the Greek Legation here on Wed- nesday night. The resistance of the Turks, it was j declared, has been completely broken, i The Ottoman losses were estimated by the Legation at 60,000 men. Contrary to the Greek claims, a dis- patch from Constantinople to thej Daily Express says it is claimed there i that the Turkish Nationalists succeed- 1 ed in eluding a double enveloping i movement carried out by the Greeks. The newspaper Patris of Athens de- clared it had learned that Mustapha Kemul Pasha, chief of the Turkish Nationalists, had authorized the Sub- lime Porte, the recognized Turkish Government, to appeal to the Allies to arrange peace. From other sources reports reach London that the Turkish Nationalists are willing for Allied intervention. The Greeks are pressing on to Angora, bhe capital of the Turkish Nationalists, and have reached the Gordan. Alarming Aspect. A despatch from London says: The. seriousness of th situation cre- ated by the long drought in England is shown by the statement of th Thames Conservancy. Only 125,000,- 000 gallons daily are flowing over th Teddington Lock, instead of the nor- mal July flow of 1,210,000.000 gallons The London water supply is drawn largely from the upper reaches of the Thames and its tributaries, and a water famine is threaicned unlns th long^hoped-for rains fall soon. The lowest record flow was in 1899, when it was 154,000,000 gallons. Plans now are ready for rationing London and for cutting oft* the supply during certain hours daily. Duke of Connaught Takes Dairy Exercise To learn, then to do, means success to you. A despatch from London snys: The Duke of Connaught, who is now 71, but looks as if he were the King's brother instead of his uncle, explained how he keeps fit, in a speech when distributing prizes at Dulwich Col- Ir.gc. "I am getting on in ;ige now," he said, "but still do my physical jerks I'very morning. I don't think I should be happy without them." TO BUILD 150 MILES OF HYDRO LINES BEFORE WINTER W. W. Wood President of the United Farmers of Alberta, who is favored by the fanner of that Province as as not a candidate In the recent elections, but the success ! of the 1T.F.A. is largely credited to him. Canada has over 38,000 miles of railway, or one mile for every 224 per- sons. A despatch from Toronto says: Actual construction work on the ex- tension of hydro power into the rural districts is to commence within the next three weeks. Saltfleet township, east of Hamil- ton, will probably be the scene of initial operations under the new legislation, which provides for a Government subsidy of half the cost of the transmission line. Dorchester township, near London, and the coun- try surrounding the town of Prcscott are other districts in which an early commencement of operations is ex- pected. That the farmers of Ontario appre- ciate the benefits of Sir Adam Beck's great project is evidenced in the fact that already th Prwvinqial Hydro Commission has more than 700 signed , contracts upon which to proceed wittl I rural hydro extension. It is a striking feature in the pro- gress of the work that it is those sections of the province most inti- mately acquainted with hydro power and its varied uses which havo been quickest to sign up and which are most clamorous in their demands for early hydro service. The 700 contracts already in the commission's hands involve approxi- mately 150 miles of rural transmit sion line, a stretch which commission engineers believe can easily be com- pleted before the snow flies. Th general principle upon which the commission is working is to givo hydro service to those rural districta which are obviously most in need oi it, and which aro most insistent in their demands for an early connec- tion. REGLAR FELLERS- By Gene Byrnea is TWVT so? 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