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e > $ q4 ] 66 No Trouble About Capital. A | ' | Hon. G. Howard Ferguson,: Min-- ' | | ister® of Lands, Forests and Mines, | I assured the deputation that the | * | j Government, and particularly him-- | seif, as head of the department, had s | in mind and under constant consid -- l eration the development of the j | North country and its unlimited re-- & Mieititeciaepeeretconte dn & sources. Hon. T. W. McGarry said % * that as soon as the work was in ' Northern Ontario Deputation shape to go nhead the money would gemforthcoming. There would be no i i k ificulty in securing necessary cap-- i | wa|ts on ontano GOV :tal. as the res?urces of the ?rov-fit nce were ample to permit of the S ernment money being borrowed for the de-- | ud' velopment work. l The deputation was introduced by PROM'SES FROM HEARST the two legislative representatives of 1 ~ the district, Mr. Thomas Magladery & , Sisterrioeswstegionersmmemeensncemint and Mr. Malcolm Lang. 'The speak-- | +5 i¥ ay ers included W. A. Gordon, Arch-- | | On to the, Bay" was fhe slogan' deacon . Woodall, E. _J. Dempsey, | of a large deputation which waited | Mayor Ferguson of North Bay, ~C. | on the Government yesterday Uurg-- | McCarthy; K. J. Dunstan, Presi-- I, 'ing comprehensive development of dAenéo,%;;'beOI';gg:;'dfn"tagg {'}feTéfigfi'_ | | ;I\orthern Ontario, and particularly \rane Board of Trade; George Smith, | 'the extension of the Timiskaming President of the Timmins G.w .V . | i& Northern Ontario Railway from find B'%"- ;{);g uIi{reenisx?gpr(;fsegtal'gglzut&?é * Cochrane to Moose Factory on Labor organizations of the North. !James Bay., .'The delegation wAas Other R Mad | composed of more than 100, and in-- ther Requesis Made. 'lcluded representatives of all public dem}:gaoglivg;iqg?tmtg:q}llesé; 013; t}(x)e bodies of Timiskaming and Coch-- should be extended to James Bay, rane districts, of the Toronto Board they also urged that branch lines $ of Trade, of the Canadian Manufac-- be constructed into different mining * turers' Association, of Labor organ-- camos, mentioning particularly izations, and of the Great War Vet-- Gowganda, Kirkland Lake and Elk , eransg' Association. Lake districts. The great possibil-- Sir William Hearst assured the ities in the North country when « ideputation that for some years he transportation -- facilities make de-- | had had in mind the building of a velopment possible . were forcibly / railway through to tidewater on the laid before the members of the Cab-- * north. He pointed out the impossi-- inet by Mr. Gordon. When the T. | bility of developing the whole of & N. O. was first built it required§ that portion of Ontario, however, faith on the part of the Govern-\ + with one railroad. While he did ment. While twenty--one or twenty-- not promise that the road would be two millions of dollars had been ex-\ built, he did give encouragement to pended in the construction of. the ; e the deputation when he said: "As line, millions -- of dollars' worth of be . rap!l4dly as the expedition can be or-- © minerals had been taken out of the | . , 6. ganized and equipped it will be sent Porcupine and Cobalt mines alone. o T over this territory with the object But while the value of minerals of making a full investigation as to taken out of that country was enor-- k its richness and possibilities, and as mous, there were still many mining 4 to the advisability of constructing & belts awaiting development. $ railroad through that territory." While the railway extension was e The Prime Minister promised that urgently needed, it was pressed upon | > the hinterland | of the Province the Government that there should' € would be developed as fast as the | also be 'constructed at no distant *) Government felt it was justified in | date two trunk roads, needed from doing so. | the clay belt to the north of the 8 mining districts. The great value of the fisheries was also dwelt upon. « While it was known that there were | t great quantities of fish in James , | Bay, it remained for Government 4 | officials to ascertain the value of f lthis industry. f commmun umm enmmnnmentiyammemememememnmemmmmmncen El | M > . * I