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--."-""e'-t---"-e"""" Tridvm Marci/t 2,ts tin M UREA lS HOPEFUL, James My Lignite Finds Termed "Sp0tty"-Smr. down on Transport Likely 0FFltyhUS POST UPHELD The old. yet ever green, question of the Alberta-to-Ontario eon} qt.es~ tion was revived in thr Ontario Legislature last night, when l'rtinier Ferguson, in defending n mum esti- mate vote of $5.000 for the IilPll- tion of the Fuel Controller's oftri, referred to the work of that Mike in educating the public to use Cann- dian coal in preference to Ametimn brands, and intimated it was reason- able to expect that. within two months "there would b» a show- down" before the Dumminn Railway Board in the matter of tvansportin,u: both Alberta and Ontario Ctritl to this Province. Coal was also discuss" d from a different angle. Memhew' inquiries regarding Department of Hiram esti- mates elit-ited {rum Hon. Charla- McCrea, Minister of the Jeparttnrmt, the information that as yrt the Gor- ernment was unable to say that coal had been discovered in ftritnrio. Members referred to the "lighter?" finds in the James Bay liasin. north of Cochrane. Mr. Metl'ren termed these finds as "spotty." lie said. however. it would likely he deter- mined this summer. with more exten~ sive shaft-sinking. whether or not "a type oi' 00111" that (with! he used for fuel was to he produced front this district. Mr. MeCrHt tour-lied upon the rrw ported coal "finds" north of Suil'iuory. He hoped the optimism prevailing in certain quarters regarding these discoveries was not misplaced, but he was skeptical. The Iron Ore Bounty Act of 1934. he said, would be kept on the stat- utes. notwithstanding the fart that tsince the act eame into force no 'bounty has been paid by the Hay- ment.