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It is a peculiar circumstance that in view of the very apparent difficulty which Canadians are experiencing in securing coal that so little effort appears to be made by the Government to meet the situation. It is even more peculiar "that when a man of repute makes the state- ment that there is coal available in commercial quantities in Ontario, that the idea should still be encouraged to report that coal is not to be found in Ontario in sufficient quantities to make it worth while to mine it. Prof. A. F. A, Coyne, a consulting geologist, of Toronto, is sponsor for 'the statement of the situation which follows. At: first we thought that we would publish his own history of the matter, but we find that it is abit longer than our space allows this week, and so we shall make a summary of Prof. Coyne's story. ! For many years the world was dependent for its supply of oil from Pennsylvania. In like manner, Ontario has been dependent upon the same state for its supply of coal. And so far as present official efforts to change this matter are concerned, that condition might continue to ex- MEBE| jst indefinitely. Before enterprising Pennsylvanians commenced to dig beneath the surface de- posits of their state, it is a certainty that those early settlers never dreamt that their lands held A wealth upon which the foundations of modern civilization would be built. This civilization, with 3 TR ; 8] its motors, and its conquest of the air, would not have been possible. Yet Pennsylvanians were : will 'draw roaches and ants out'of a hole, credulous regarding their oil finds, and of the same mind regarding their "stone coal" as they k or crevice before killing them, and not called anthracite. Now the same thing is likely to take place in our own Province. In so far as \OC coal is concerned, the Province of Ontario is where Pennsylvania was half a century ago. poison food? : I ] ¢ H : : i and our akperts are doing and saying the very same things done and said by the Pennsylvania Bhat will kill bed-bugs instantly and: not leave experts of that date. They likewise have failed to explore and produce, but have spent their a ) WERE y wa Ever Hea of a Fluid An odor] She: 8 | time in criticism, which has been based on very insufficient grounds. at will killflies by the roomful and not harm ~ ®| Our position in Ontario is an economic absurdity. Here is a land which God has endowed with 'or. pa pes all minerals, and endowed it so richly that on development, these mines surpass even the wildest t will Dr aosulultos and not harm baby? dreams of the most optomistic prospector, and upset the pet theories of the expert--YET NO That will bring mots out of clothes and closets 2] Here is an area of great mineral wealth, yet they teach in the schools and the university that and not harm your cloths? i §| NO COAL CAN EXIST IN THAT AREA. Through the testimony of one man who happened to That will take fleas off a dog and not harm the i] be in an official position a barrier of unbelief has been reared that ean only be broken by the pick- . dog? : m| axe, and because of that unbelief, we transfer to Pennsylvania $40,000,000 in gold annually which That will take lice off a hen and not harm the .| we Eeatly need for circulation in our own country. Canada's economic structure is full of hen? 2 | such leaks. . : . . 1% 5 The important fact, however, is this--THERE IS COAL IN ONTARIO, and of good quality, That fluid is FLYOSAN i readily accessible, and in sufficient quantity to make it of Kommeteis] value, : : ' i How, then, has there come to a misunderstanding in the matter? e answer is simple. Morrison $ Drug Store In the pioneer days, our Governments did not have much money to spend in prospecting and at | fine selection of fresh gro- ceries at our store. Prompt and courteous service assur- ed. Bell Phone 36, ¢>J. F. McCLINTOCK Lets w:Port Perry Fm : Mae ENEE snnanssmmmnnanEs: | exploration. Consequently the mater of the development of natural resources was left to the Se EE. a. individual. The individual work was often of a very fine character; but no man living has cov- --_---- = ered every foot of Ontario; and no person is so accurate as never to be capable of making one SFE + mistake. The mistake that has been made in this connection"is that in classifying all the Sudbury D NOW V AC ATION | District' as of pre-Cambrian formation it has been taken for granted that there can be no | coal there. Scientists have declared that coal could not form in the pre-Cambrian period. In ; Fries is I] spite of this teaching, a farmer of Balfour Township, in the Sudbury District found coal on his ny are either away now or planning to soon premises. He submitted a sample to the Mines Department, and the verdict of one of the mem- enjoy the glorious idleness of summer holi- [If bers of the staff was --'"The material looked like coal, burned like coal, BUT could not possibly ays. You are sure to write your friends, to tell [ff] be coal, because the rock formations were previously noted as pre-Cambrian (a non-coal-bearing th : f th derful lazing fime you are haying I] system)" He accepted the original mistake in the classification of the rock, and explained the em 0 e wongeriul ;azing u y > Hl} presence of this combustible material by saying that it was an oil bitumen, which in some man- while he or she toils in a stifling office. ' ner had saturated 'into a fissure of the rock, had become hardened, but was of no commercial Take with you a Waterman Ideal Fountain [li| yalue.The material was named by the Department--Anthraxolite. ~ Of course the verdict of the Pen, and your writing difficulties are at an end, * [fll Department: was taken as final. The Government went so far as to drill a test hole near to this also see our Vacation Stationery, put up in Folio [ff outcrop, and found nine feet of the material in their core, while they used the material to fire tvl d and lopes NY ? : iH] the boiler of their mechanical apparatus. The result of this test was a statement that only a style, pad ¢ envelop : few thousand tons of the mineral were available, and, therefore, of no commercial value. Not =a JAS Mi KEE == . suspecting that the product was in reality Anthracite Coal, no further investigation--was made, . C oh : and Jou the next twenty-seven Jeary up to 1923, Ontario Secepted lhe Yerdict 5s final. ond : ere have been various spasmodic attempts to develop this coal, notably by a farmer named : JEWELLER s ATIONER lt} McVitttic, a farmer who came from Pennsylvania, sank a shaft some fifteen years ago, but quit : = me | at sixty feet for lack of funds. . In 1921, Edgar B. James, a Nova Scotian came through by way of West by Sudbury, finally locating in a boarding house in the Village of Chelmsford. In the quiet of the evening the only disturbance was a row being carried on in French over a bag of potatoes. Having paid for the spuds, the irate landlady, in her French Canadian accent endeavored to explain to James, that every time she bought a bag of potatoes, there was a few pounds of rock in the bag? James being interested in rock, and also the elusive hunt for gold thought gold might be in the bag, so he examined the rock, and lo and behold his experienced coal mining eye, at once recognized the rock as "Coal formation" with little particles of coal attached. Finding out who the farmer wes, James set foot in that direction in the morning early, here he was astounded to find a rock series similar to coal fields. El We could here repeat the old story of a bonanza being kicked out of business offices and begging from doer to door, that is life anyway; James however seemed to survive and obtained a few leases which he obtained for the proverbal song, and there he stood until he met me in 1922, by 2| chance. 8| I entered the prospectdse field in May 1922, in company with Mr. James, and I was not an hour in the field when he put it up to me as a geologist if 1 would call such a rock Pre Cambrian or Huronian, on the general layout. of the district I was of the opinion that the rock were not Pre Cambrian. Arriving at lot 10 in the Balfour Concession, I was surprised to find a huge out crop of 8| coal-like material, nine feet in thickness, James told me he had mined in this thus exposing this enormous body of coal material. Would you call this oil bitumen or coal? queried James, with bitterness, supressed? I told him that pyrobitumens might be mistaken for coal, but this off 8| hand looked to me, as crushed anthricite. The coal having been trapped in the fault plane, thus powdering it, when the rock slipped when fracturing, and reconsolidating it briquette fashion by there enormous pressure. ~ ~ These answers, at once, gave Mr. James a spark of hope, and he jokingly said I was the first geologist he had met in Ontario who knew a piece of coal when he saw it. A closer and more minute examination of the outcrop together with its rock contacts disclosed presence of mother of coal, and this settled the question, the product was coal. On my return the following day to Toronto I made an analysis of the coal, which proved to be anthracite. Certain Toronto business men had agreed to put up $50,000 if James could find a geologist who 'would endorse his prospect, they actually paid me my fee of $1000 to make the examination, but to my surprise when they got my report, they wouldn't act. I was told later that they were so sure I was wrong, because of independent adwice, that I must be in fraudulent league with James | whereby we got the $560,000. This is a striking examplg of what the education of Ontario child- | ren, that no coal can exist, brings about in manhood. I have not seen them since. They have 'missed their guess both ways, and today are just that much poorer. They accepted the dogma, | "There cannot be coal in Ontario", I suppose. My Candid opinion is "That there can be any- | thing found in Ontario if you look for it." > » found with Mr. James, that the psychological barrier was so strong that one could carry a oke as far as he liked, so I went into a coal yard in Toronto, picked gut a poor piece of Pennsyl- vania coal, went down to the owner of the yard, showed him his own doal, told him it came from 'Sudbury? Ah then, you ought to have seen the "psychology commence to work. Taking the sample in his hand, he cautiously felt it, eyed it with suspicion, and almost immediately remarked that "It was too heavy to be coal, it looked like tar." Let us repeat it again, "There is no coal in Ontario" because it warps even common sense. 20 years in business and he didn't know his own , becaus E y dbury was attached as a qualification. of Instruction in Geology, Petroleum Extension birth, and at present is living in Toronto. His by a number of leading Professors in American mpaign regarding Ontario coal its. He is a | {Port Perry ............. SV Wr SV 3 of oe Commercial Banking T= year 1923 marks the entry of the Standard Bank upon its fiftieth year of service to the Dominion. Since its inception the policy of this Bank has been to give the maximum of banking service while constantly exercising the utmost vigilance for the safety of its patrons' interests. This policy has been adhered to through periods of prosperity and - depression. As a consequence the Bank has enjoyed steady, sound and substantial growth, today having 161 branches throughout the whole Dom- inion. These are supplemented by affiliations with strong financial ingti- tutions in foreign countries, enabling it to render comprehensive banking service for the promotion of Canadian enterprise both at home and abroad. ; Che STANDARD BANK | Banking for A WILLIAM _SANGUINE Cottonwood paper: before at about 8 o'clock not seriously. The party was driving got out of control, through faulty brakes, throwing Mr. Sanguine t causing minor injuries. and is susvived by a wife Hope, on Scugog Island. Interment took place Montana." DESTROYED Co., situated on the east PORT PERRY open Port Perry Fair, F 14th, 1923. Millbrook .................0ct. 45 KILLED The following is a clipping from a At 2.45 Thursday morning, W. H. Sanguine died at the St. Peter's Hos- pital after he had received injuries in an: automobile accident the evening when driv- ing to Helena. A son, Leonard San- guine and a man by the name of John S. Hastings were also injured but from Idaho to Cottonwood and as they started down this side of the drive the car supposedly and upset, 0 the road. His son was pinned beneath the car, The home of Mr. Sanguine was in Cottonwood. He was 62 years old and family. The wife, sons Russell and Leonard, and Mrs. D. A. Couch, are at Cotton- wood; Mrs. C. J. Hardy and Mrs. D. at. Harve, 000 LINDSAY PLANING MILL On August the 11th, Lindsay was the scene of a destructive fire when the planing mill of the Digby Lumber side of the river and directly opposite thé Horn Woolen Mills was totally destroyed. 000 WILL OPEN THE FAIR AT The Hon. Geo. S. Henry, Minister of Public Works and Highways, will riday Sept. FALL FAIR DATES Toronto, .,.... +. Aug. 25 to Sept 8 Lindsay ~...c.0vi.veiiay Sept. 19-22 PeterbOro ivi. virainns Sept. 12-15 Fenelon Falls coe. Sept. 14-16 Castleton ......... ...Sept. 18-19 Lakefield "......... ...Sept. 25-26 Colborne ... . Belleville ... 'Bobcaygeon ... | Campbellford ... Port «Hope ... IMPORTANT REAL ESTATE TRANSFER Another important "transfer of real estate which will probably develop into a big factor of Oshawa's growth was reported this morning, although not confirmed officially. It is under- stood that a syndicate of Port Perry business men headed by Messrs. J. Hortop and Arthur Carnegie, have purchased twenty-five acres of the old Ross property on the west side of Simcoe Street North just inside the corporation limits tion is to build residences. The north séetion of the town has probably expanded more rapidly than other parts oof the town in the last few years and indications are that the town will continue to expand in that direction, Oshawa Reformer ee QQ "You're lookin' bad, Wullie." "Aye, I've been in the hospital an' the doctors have tooken awa me ap- pendix." 2 "These doctors "Il ta' ongthing. It's a peety ye didna have it in yer wife's name." eee 0 Oe : STARTS ON FRIDAY Mr. Harry Wagner will start his Hawaiin Guitar class on Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Allan Goode, Bell phone 154 Oshawa raised about True Blue and g a tag day.