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Canada from Coast to Coast Halifax, N.S. A license to prospect tor salt in Hants County has been taken out by Messrs. Chamber and Mc- Kay, of New Glasgow. The Hoenae covets an area of 35 square miles. Prospecting in this district will be watched with considerable interest, as salt has been discovered near Fal- mouth, across Cheverie. Fredericton, N.B Minaa Basin from in the neighborhood of $4,500,000. American capitalists are understood to be prominent In this deal. Winnipeg, Man. Agricultural con-i ditions justify the expectations of the' biggest wheat crop Canada has everj produced, estimates made Prairie Provinces' yield around 400,000,000 bushels. Slight of the ranging losses from hail and wind have had no _^ general effect, and the crop is uni-j poundrofTo^rh^be^'gradsdthls!^""^ Pising over the entire season by J. D. Thompson, of the Fed-! We8t - Corn nd other fodder cr P 8 '! Thirty thousand \ erl Department of Agriculture, under more ^tensive acreage than pre- vious years, promise remarkable Pastures are in fine condition livestock doing well. Sask. Contract the co-operative grading and market- ing plan carried out by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and the N*w Brunswick Sheep Breeders' Aaso- ' . * . . , , ciation. This is 8,000 Ibs. in excess ' , " let to f 1 * 1 , T. " IBIU . U j at the 1922 clip. On. hundred addi- for **" construction f a Gilding to| w, ^ USe f J* 6 * he to be. , will ttonal shippers contributed their duct for grading this year. Montreal, Que -Two hundred Uk- rainians passed through here recently , u TIT . 1, , ' cost in the neighborhood of $60,000. en route to Western Canada, where &, ,. n they will locate among the kussian' Edmonton Alta.-Durjng the past! colonists. The party left Ukrainia " Inter H^ Operatl nS f have | several months ago, intending to set- ! bee | 1 cond c ** d on p a more extensive r . TV. . i scale ln the Peace River district than tie in Cuba. That country wa a , too .hot. heretofore . The winter>s eut is esti j r r they decided to locate in Canada. n All m ted at feet. Victoria, B.C. Work on the Gov-| elec-. In a will! .re farmers of splendid physique d| ^--^Veciamat ion p^jec at S "-' areragmg 30 years of age. } mag fa nntinuin unabated. The first ' *i, T n w .v" r S nn UnC , e n of the four bi <? W60 horse- that the Bellinger Gold Mines will; trical has baen proceed with the development of 25,-| short time the other three 000 horse-power at the Ix>ng Sault be ln operati<>n . r^y Iif Rapids in^ Northern Onario. This will from the Sumas River ln the , ow lan( ,J LONDON SCOTTISH TO VISIT CANADA A detachment of the London Scottish will make a tour of Canada to . -._. ..,. illo tmiima' further cement the friendship existing between the sister battalions in !i^j-j t n j e v gotla 1 tion * ^ av bfren c^n-j project entails the reclamation of Canada - The detachment will arrive at Montreal on August 25. and will re- ; embark at Quebec on September 6. Its members will be entertained by the Canadian National Exhibition Dlreotors, while ill Toronto. Photo shows the London Scottish parsing Buckingham Palace on their way to Hyde Park for an Inspection. be one of the outstanding workg , in j protected V th^Wg "ee"in7nT"dyte^! Northern Ontario. It is also under- into the Fraser River The - ' )tiations have been con- ] project entails the reclamat^.. ui If ttl H r n !.m? Properties i some 30,000 acres of low-lying land. I Bf the Hull and I Ottawa Power and in one of the most fertile district in Manufacturing Co.. the price being the province. Weekly Market Report TORONTO. I gal., $2.60; per 5-gal. tin, $2.40 per Manitoba wheat No. 1 Northern, ! gal. Mr.ple sugar, Ib., 25c. $1.15%. Honey 60-lb. tins, 10% to lie per Manitoba oats No. 3 CW, 48&c;|lb.; 3 and 2% Ib. '.ins, 11 to 12%c per Ib. ; Ontario comb honey, per doz.. No. 1, $4.50 to y>; No. 2, $3.75 to $4.25. Smoked meats Hams, med., 27 to No. 1 feed, 47c. Manitoba barley Nominal All the above track, bay ports. American corn No. 3 yellow, $1.08. 29c; cooked hams, 43 to 45c; smoked Barley Nominal. ro " a . 22 to 24c ' cottage rolls, 23 to Buckwheat No. 2, nominal i 26c : breakfast bacon. 30 to 34c; spe- Rye N O _ 2, nomir.aL 'cial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 38c; Peas No. 2, nominal. ! backs, boneless, 32 to 38c. Millfeed Del., Montreal freights, I Cured meats Long clear bacon, 50 bags included: Bran, per ton, $25 to^to 70 Ibs., $18; 70 to 90 Ibs $17.50j $26; shorts, per ton, $27 to $29; mid-i 90 lbs - and U P- *1-SO; lightweight dlings, $33 to $35; good feed flour, rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight $2 15 to $2.25. I rolls . * 33 - Ontario whent-No. 2 white, nom-l Lard Pure tierces 15H to 15%c; al itubs, 16 to 16^c; palls, 16^i to 17c; Ontario No. 2 white oats 45 to 46c. prints, 18c Shortening, tierces, 14J4 Ontario corn Nominal. ,to 15c; tubs, 15 to 15^c; pails, Ontario flour Ninety per cent, pat, in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship- to 16c: prints, 17 to 17%c. Choice heavy steers, $7 to $7.50 J ment, $5.10 'to $5.20; Toronto basis, ' Butcher Bteers choice $7 to $T50; $6.05 to $5.15; bulk seaboard, $4.95 to fr.* 00 * $ 6 - 50 to *' : d ?- "> *** $6.50 ; do, com., $4.25 to $5.50 ; butche* CANADA'S REPRESENTATIVES AT THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE Canada !a to be represented at the October meeting of the Imperial Con- ference in London by threw Cabinet Ministers, from left to right. Hon. O. P. Graham, Minister of Railways; Sir Lomer Qouln, Mlnteter of Justice, atid Hon. Chas. Stewart, Minister of the Interior and Immigration. Price of German Dinner Russia's Christmas Now Decreases in Bulk. Fixed for December 25. A despatch from Berlin says: ; "Can you change a half million?" is now a common question among people in Berlin. The new half million mark notes havo made their appearance u>id relieve the possessor of enough to buy dinner from carrying a bulging, vis- ible bankroll. Heretofore large packets of thou- sand mark bills had to be used in transactions which often ran into the millions. The highest denomination of currency previous was the 100,000 mark bill. A despatch from Moscow says: The Council of Commissars have fixed upon ten church holidays, to be ob- served according to the new style calendar. Thus thid year will be the first that Russia will celebrate Christ- mas simultaneously with the rest of the world. Why Your Lumber BUI Doesn't Come Down. In the phrase of a famous Forest En- track, Toronto,' $io"; "NO."!' 'timothy! ' do - d- $3 to $4; canners and but- $13; mixed, $12.50 to $13.50. : ters - 81 - 50 to ?2: feeding steers, good, Straw Car lota, per ton, track, To- ; S5 to $6; do, fair, 84.50 to 5; stoek- ronto, $9.50. I r - (food, $4.50 to $5.50; do, fair. $3.2 Cheese New, large, 22c; twins, to *4.50; milkers, springers, each, $60 22% to 23c; triplets, 23c. Stiltons, 24c. to *80: calves, choice, $10 to $11; do, Old, large, 32c; twins, 32Vsc; triplets, m p d- ?8 to $9: do. com., $4 to $5; 33c; Stiltons, 33Msc. New Zealand old lambs, sonner, $13.25 to $13.50; sheep, cheese, 30c. choice, light, 5 to $6; do, choice, Butter Finest creamery prints, ' heavy, $4 to $5 ; do, culls and bucks, 86 to 37c: ordinary creamery, 34 to 2.75 to S3.50: hogs, fed and watered, 85c; No. 2, 32 to 33c. .$8.85: do, f.o.b., $8.25; do, country Eggs Extras in cartons, 36 to 37c; !P lnta ' $8 ' extras, 34 to 35c; firsts, 29 to 30c; MONTREAL. seconds, 20 to 22e. Oats, No. 2 CW, 57c; No. 3 CW, Live poultry Spring chickens, 30c;55c; extra No. 1 feed, 53',*c; No. 2 hens, over 5 Ihs., 22c: do, 4 to 5 Ibs., | local white, 52 tec. Flour, Manitoba 20c; do, 3 to 4 Ibs., 17c; roosters, 12c: spring wheat pats., Ists, $6.90; do, ducklings, over 5 Iba.. 25c; do, 4 to 5 2nds, S6.40; do, strong bakers', $(1.20; Ibs 20c- turkeys, young, 10 Ibs. and do, winter pats., choice, $5.75 to $5.85; u ,,"25c ' ; Rolled oats, bag, 90 Ibs., $3.05 to $3.15. 'Dressed poultry Spring chirkena. Bran. $25 to $26. Shorts, $28 to $29. 40c; hens, over 5 Ibs., 28c; do, 4 to 5 Middlings. $33 to $34. Hay, No. 2, Ibs., 24c; do, 3 to 4 Ibs.. 20c: roosters, per ton, car lots, $15. gineer: "Every forest fire must bejiso'; ducklings, over 5 Ibs., 25c; do, 4 Cheese, finest easterns, 19 to 19"4c. i paid for by the lumber or paper con- ! to 5 Ibs., 25c; turkeys, young. 10 Ibs. ' Butter, choicest creamery, 33%c. ' 9U mer." and up. 30o. I Eggs, selected 33c Potatoes, per Beans Can. hand-picked, Ib., 7c; baff, car lots, *1.20 to $1.25. Com. cattle, $3.50 to $5; mixed qual- Most Canadiana beljeve that the; Anot her factor in the dear lumber storehouse of timber trees is the one a i tua tion is that twenty-five years ago primes 6M:c national possession that Nature keeps and more> tirnb er was better lituated overstocked. We see trees along t han to-day. It lay along rivers and every highway, we visit shady parks, , i akeSf eafii i y acces sible, easily and / we hear of vast timber limits and che aply marketed. To-day, the timber walk away with the impression that : that rea ches market often must be no matter what else gives out, Canada fl oat ed down the rivers for more than will always have an abundance of two years before it arrives at the mill forest* and the consumer will never an d tne losses on the way as well ad want for his timber requirements. tne burden of extra interest charges This is the falsest and most dangerous ma k e every \ og cost more . Lumber of all public notions. j camp labor has also deteriorated in Seventy years ago the finest of . skm an d industry in many areas and white pine could be bought on the , this is reflected in higher costs of Canadian market for $12 a thousand t production. feet. To-day it cannot be bought for; The great foe to the user of lumber, sixty dollars a thousand feet and however, is the forest fire and nearly there are plenty of authorities who a n forest-ffres are started by ordinary predict that in ten years pine will be j citizens on a camping or fishing hike, bringing well over a hundred dollars . i t ; s an interesting fact that the farm- a thousand feet, if indeed it can be ers o f America use more forest pro- had at all. The pine forests of East- duct* than any other class of citi- ern Canada have been so depreciated j zens . The farm demand" for timber by human-set firea and to some extent ' represents three-fifths of the annual by cutting tfiat many of the largest j cu t mills will be forced to quit the pine' . 9 business in the near future. One ! Thousands of tourists are now pass- company manufacturing pine timber ing through Alberta, visiting the in north-eastern Ontario lost 56 years' various national parks and other Maple products Syrup, per imp. ity steors, $6: hogs, $9.75 to $10. Chopped It. "Nuwe. did you kill all tb forma In baby's inflk?" "Ye*, ma'am. I run It through the mat chopper twice." CHANGING CONDITIONS OF FOX FUR MARKETING Fur Farming Represents Large Investment Number of Animals Shows Heavy Increase. The growth of the fur-farming In- [their fox pelts to the I-ondon market, dustry is clearly shown in a prelimln-! Reports to the Natural Resources In- ry report 011 the fur farma of Can- telligence Service of the Department da by the Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics. This Is especially so with the raising of that valuable animal the of the Interior from the fur sales there are to the effect that all skins offered were sold and at an advance of silver fox. From the possibly ten ; fifteen per cent, over former prices. fox-breeding farms of 1910 the Indus- i To quote one of the prominent breed- try has reached a total of 960, and j ers of the Island province, the handl- supply for their mill by a single for- places of interest The ante camps at et fire started by a band of campers., Calgary, Edmonton and elsewhere re- Another of the large Ottawa compan- j port many visitors. During the Cal- ies lost more spruce by a few pros- | gary Stampede nineteen auto parties pectors' fires than would keep their j from California alone were registered pulp and paper plant running for j at the Calgary camp, twenty years. This is the history of, ^ scores of companies and in itself ac- 1 During the season of 1922 and since counts for the penalties now being! September of that year, the Irrigated visited upon the Canadian wood con- district centring on Vauxhall, shipped sumer in the form of very high prices, i 153 cars of wheat, 44 cars of potatoes, Canada has lost, chiefly through j 17 cars of hay, 37 cars of sheep, 8 forest conflagrations, almost two- j cars of cattle, 5 cars of hogs, and 6 thirds of her original forest inheri- cars of mixed feed. The above ship- tance and with five million acres de- ments came from 10,000 acres, which stroyed in New Brunswick during were in crop in the district last year, June and 500,000 acres in Quebec, it is j and is an indication of what is being difficult to see where the raw material accomplished on irrigated lands of for "cheaper lumber" is to come from. Southern Alberta. from Prince Edward Island, where fox-rearing was first intensively car- ried on, it has spread to every pro- vince in Canada, and even in the Yu- kon Territory there are twelve fox farms. Prince Edward Island, with 427 farms, has concentrated almost entirely upon silver foxes, having on December 31 last 12,894 of these anl- cap of the United States tariff and the] proportionately few residents of that country who appreciate the merits of the silver fox pelt did not warrant the Canadian fox breeders In continuing their endeavors to sell their output in that market. The United States fur- riers took the ground that the com- paratively small number of skins mals; Nova Scotia has 106 farms and 1 available, when spread over such a 1,601 foxes; New Brunswick, 85 farms large field, and the financial returns and 2,929 foxes; Quebec, 148 farms therefrom were not worth the effort and 1,234 foxes; Ontario, 120 farms required to educate their public in the and 1,570 foxes, and the western pro- value of the silver fox. vinces smaller numbers, making a to-j As a result of going to the Ixindon tal number of silver foxes for all market, as stated above, better prices Canada of 21,433. i are being secured fnr the silver fox The importance of thia industry is pelts. The large fur buyers of the seen in the value of $5,372,262 placed world compete for the offerings, in- upon the silver foxes, or an average of eluding several from the United over $260 each. In 1922 there were States who represent a trade of suffi- 8,679 foxes sold from the ranches, cient importance to make the attend- valued at $897,387, and 4,512 pelts, ! ance at the London fur sales worth j valued at $525.408. To offset this re-] while. duction there were 15,888 fox pups i Fur farming in Canada bids fair toj born on fur farms during the year. ' de% elop into a leading industry; there During the past spring considerable will always be a growing market for losses of pups were occasioned on | the output, and, while fashions mayj Prince Edward Island, owing to the temporarily change the proportion of j vreather conditions, the spring being demand for individual furs, the ex- exceptionally late. The industry, ; perlence gained in the raising of fur- however, is on a very substantial bearers will enable the breeders to basis, and with the accrued experience | readily adapt themselves to anyi of many years, the breeders are opti- , change. The growing scarcity of wildi mistlc of results. j Hfp, and the already depleted condi-] The Fordney tariff In the United ; tion of some of the species will en- States greatly increased the duty on hauce the prices of pelts to the point silver foxes and their pelts entering ! where It will be profitable to raise in that country, consequently the greater I captivity some of the specie* which portion of the Prince Edward Island ! the present low prices render inad- and other ranches are now shipping visable. Natural Resources Bulletin The Natural Resources Intel- ligence Branch of the Depart ment of the Interior at Ottawa, says: Ontario, in 1920, had 748 sawmills cutting lumber, etc. These mills produced 932.901.- 000 board feet, valued at $43,- 142,377, White pine, the old stand-by of Ontario's forests, and the highest in value per thousand of any of the Can- adian softwoods, yielded 520.- 206,000 board feet, 81 per cent, of the entire Canadian cut of this species, and valued at $24.- 444,777. Spruce was cut to the extent of 108,766,000 board feet, valued at $4,372,501, or $40.20 per thousand board feet. Other important species eut into lumber were: hemlock, S9,- 539.000 feet; red pine, 80.511.- 000 feet; jackpine, 44,236,000 feet; maple, 37,012,000 'feet; birch 24,776.000 feet There were also 222.734,000 lath and 43.739.000 shingles cut in the province in 1920. The total value of the year's cut was $33.- 671,384, there were 9,849 em- ployees, and an invested capital of $57,496,795. J. A. MAHARQ Appointed chairman of the Sas- katchewan Voluntary Wheat Pool Board to handle the 1923 crop. Prince to Visit His Alberta Ranch in September. A despatch from London says:. The Prince of Wales is completing plans for a trip to Canada in Septem? ber, when, as the Duke of Cornwall, he will spend a month on his ranch in 1 Alberta. It is to be a strictly private visit. If he traveled as the Prince of Wales every municipal official the Honey Bees Show Posses- .ion of Mysterious Sense. ! ] city and he would have to fight his A despatch from Pans says:-- wav ^ h ft month of ba uets . Scientific interest has been aroused degire over an incident in the Swiss canton of V'aud which tends to demonstrate his ranch again, as well as to have a real vacation in the open. These are the chief reasons . that bew possess a sense unknown toj why the hejr to ^ lhrone ,, about huma " s - , ! taJte this long jaunt But it is also A farmer was taking a hundred , due to ^ wand , rlust which pounds of honey to market, when hls :the p rince hag been guffering ftwn wagon overturned. In a few minutes: gince hjs recent ^ to t)w far Eftst a number of bees were noticed in i the ; plang m n<)W maturillR for an early vicmity. and In quarter of an hour; vfs , t ^ gonth Afr , faut when ^ i the sky was darkened by them. t under t a ken it will be official. There has since been learned that simul- ar(J MtM Q{ hi , fathw , g subjects who taneously every luve in the canton b(?Ueve Qne of ^ p r , nce>B av<)rsion9 was emptied. v ^ marrving iust vet is due to the A great number of people were t ,. ave j f e ' ver stung, and three children who were . - ridiiTR on the wagon at the time of the' Immigration returns of the Can- accident were rescued with difficulty adiun Government for the first five from the angry insects. ' months of the present your show a one hundred per cent, increase in immiyta- I tion from the British Isles over tha A homing pigeon released in Ed- j figure O f the same period last year, monton recently has broken all records ( aml 71 per oent . j ncr eu se i,, the inove- for homing flight by making its way mt . nt o f Continental countries in Kur- to its home in San Antonio, Texa.s, a ope x(, ere j s a decrease of 33 per distance of 1,832 miles, in something L . ent in immigration from Ihc United over six weeks. ' States. BRITISH EMPIRE FOREST FACTS The British Kmpire has 700.000 area square miles of "effective forests," the remainiiyj area being unprofitable or inaccessible. Canada has about 50 per cent, of (.he total, India 14 pr cent., Nigeria of ihe Empir still belongs to die Stats ^nd only 25 por cent, to Corporate bodies and private iiuli- 'idunls On I./ 2' per cent, of the forest area of the United Kingdom is Sut owned. ' THE CAT The Cat: "Gcocl lu':iv,-:is ;et down." - From London THAT CAN'T COME DOWN , here's ...noTTSer dog, just, as Opinion. 1 was ho^lug to and the Gold Coast U per cent Ai.s trahH and New Zealand about 8 per c<?nt I exports by 160 million cubic feet pei The United Kingdom, the great . U1 ,,um. wood-consuming centre of the Empire, | The United Kingdom duew (\:>0~ has less than one-third of on* per cent. liH3) gg per eenU bv vo i umei and ' ^ under forests. per cent, by value, of her Imports Seventy-rive per cant of tha tomt| from without the R.npire.