The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 19 Mar 1921, p. 3

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yatiways se bedly netded up thert;| . I hope something can be done, '"gh: know something must be done 'D {_" near future to meet your transPO®A* tion requirements in the North cou uy.u Would Serve Wide Area. The proposed line, spokesmen of the delegation said, might leave _thO T. & N. O. at Swastika, north : of Englchart, and run in & gouthwester-- ly direction as far as Westree, On the C. N. Railway. This line would be 90 miles in length, and would serve the areas of Matatchewan, Gow-- ganda and West Shining Tree. Strong representstions were made by several prominent Northerners, and especially by the noted mining engineer, Frank C. Loring, who stated that the proper conditions for |. gold mining seemed to exist over thousands of square miles of the area concerned. The territory of CGowganda, after waiting 13 years, scarcely had a road today over which a team of mules might be driven, declared J. . MDixon of North Bay, adding that enough timbershad been destroyed by fire to have paid for 50 years the bonds on any road that might have tbeen built. There's Optimism Here. Weldie Young, prospector and & miner, said that, apart altogether from the enormous mineral wealth of the region, "from pulpwood, poplar and balsam alone you can pay working expenses and dividends from the day you lay the rails." Hon. Howard Ferguson assured the Minister of Mines that the Drury Government might rely for support upon himself and the Conservative group in the House in anything the Government might plan toward rail-- road development in the mining arca. The delecation, which was intro-- dAuced by Malcolm Lang, TIiberal member for Cochrane, numbered well over one hundred, and was sup-- ported by several Torontonians, in-- cluding Controller Hiltz; W,. H. Al-- derson, President Board of Trade; Hugh Blain, and J. B. Clark, K.C., all of whom spoke in favor of the project. Other speakers included A. J. Young, North Bay; FH. Christ-- pherson, Gowanda; J. L. O'Grady,. -- Budbury: L. A. Lillico, Swastika, and W. A. Crockett, Iabor member for Eouth Wentworth. ceeeitiedergaven en e ieacine t inieectirrmmiaciomn UFO'S ® e o "% «4A .VY. 'n Clty hfe ~_Eschew Early Rising § Irolon.ged night sessions on t:))nsecuu've days do not «conduce ' matutinal aprightlinosé on the " ;,'::tk of ljh: statesmen in Queen's [| thingr No one group "has any-- | oy $ on ?thers in this regard; | en the Farmer members, as-- || customed at home to early ri ? ing' flnd i'. very di ) ris-- [ [ ready for y difficult to be P s# duty in committe || rooms by 10 o'clock in th h + ing fOllowing x I e morn-- ting. ate night sit-- | | Thus it 'was that y the Pu C yesterday bieom tusihennunts. Commuitee || cure a Oot se-- the appointed hour." GhaipPast [ .J- "a!ter Curry was in hi rtl'na:n before 10 o'clock s place "Order!" at th and _ called hn at hour--but with 0 results. About 10.30 :élrouxh members sal;ntérgg ]i?atetr; m & || mm o fuohin, only to adjourn | derstan misun-- tobe examinga!® "1° witnesses | "]--o * for th:scn}:tset n;";lt(e dlony e Chairman," saidgn sessions, Mr. U.F.O. meniber for M. Warren, || frew. _ or North. Roen-- "Perh +3 { joinder. M')'? wa: N , hk 1X Fe-- 7 o'clock _ my up shortly after ing.n 3!elf this morn_ ) o t

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