NOTES AND COMMENTS Home grown ties and timber is the watchword of a big railroad company which has planted 625,- 00CG young trees this year, making a total of 2,425,000 trees which have been set out since the road under- took scientific tree planting on a comprehensive scale, the largest forestry plan undertaken as yet by eny corporation. To prosecute the planting operations economically on a large scale necessitates at pre- sent the importation of part of the plant material, because European foresters, on account of the degree of perfection to which they have brought their work and the cheap- ness of labor, are able to supply certain forest trees for less than they can be purchased in America. This applies not only to native Eu- ropean species, such as Scotch pine and European larch, but also to our own trees, particularly white pine and Douglas fir. This year the company has begun the propaga- tion of ornamental trees and plants for beautifying its shrubbery and hedges for the protection and orna- mentation of the station grounds and rights of way. This. work will be continued until all station grounds and unoccupied spaces on the right of way are park- ed that they may afford as much pleasure as possible to the public. Resides reforestering old farm land and other open areas, as in the past, the field planting this year has restocked certain areas which were logged during 1907, and has underplanted certain old locust plantations which needed inter- spersed trees to stimulate their growth in height and to regulate their form development. It is be- lieved that the conservative lumber- ing and forest planting which the company is conducting on its wood | lots and farm lands which are not; now needed for other purposes will serve as an object lesson for farm- ery and provide an incentive and intelligent forest development on the part of the public generally. It is expected that in case no substi- tute for,the wooden tie is develop- ed during the next thirty-five or forty years the company will have; ready a part of the enormous sup- ply of timber needed for cross ties, which at the present time are be- coming exceedingly costly. --_- A mosquito trap looks big in im- portanee and small in size. It is the invention of Maxwell Lefroy of the Indian entomological depart- ment, which has found it distinctly efiective in a tropical residence. The trap is a small box some twelve inches square and nine inches wide fitted with a hinged lid provided with a small oritice, over which! moves a sliding cover. The box is lined with dark green baize, and | has a tin floor. The trap is placed | in a shady corner of the room, and | the mosquitoes upon entering the heuse in the morning seclude them- | sclyes therein to escape the sun- | light. When the insects have duly | settled, the lid is shut, and about} a teaspoonful of benzine is inject- | ed into the box. Within a short | time the mosquitoes succumb. Mr. Lifroy continued this process daily until the mosquitoes ceased to be troublesome, and within thirty-one days he caught and killed over 2,- 300 of these insects whose ravages | arc familiar to many outside the turrid zune. ! waa es eS yer 'i VvvYT Tw? r ie _ in hand, and then becomes bank- BAD FOR MOTORISTS. New Law Enacted in Austria Spells Ruin for Them. Consternation bas been caused among motorists in Austria by the new law regulating motor traffic, the full import of the measure hav- ing been expounded by Emil Frischauer, a well known Vienna sclicitor. Dr. Frischauer says that.there is absolutely no limit to the amount of compensation that may be ex- acted from a motorist for damage caused by or due to his car. e is responsible for the damage done Ly frightened horses, and the| amount he has to pay may be fixed by any small local tribunal. There | is no "damage limit."' and in view | of the notorious hostitlity of certain | districts to muetorists a fortine} might easily be lost on a single! journey. In Germany the '"'damage | limit" is fixed at 312,500. The see- retary of the Vienna Automubile Club asserts that the position wil he most serious if the law is rigor- ously administered. r. Frischauer says that but one avenue of escape appears to be open to the motorists, and that is to evade the law by the formation of limited companies. Several motor- ists will join to form a company, ench subscribing a certain sum, pexhape $5,000. A company with ve members will thus have $25,000 gat its command, and will purchase the cars of the five members, giv- ing 85,000 each. The company now becomes liable for all damage done. eing a limited liability concern, 'it is only able to pay fines or com- pensation to the limit of the funds rupt. . Frischauer considers that such a company would '- ina chronic state of bankruptcy, wut it would be the only' way of evading 'inence in the the new law. THE ORTHODOX ATHIEST; The Man Wno Makes This Life an Empty Thing Despoils It of the Divine. God is not in all his thoughts.-- Psalms x. 4 There are at least three kinds of atheism--that which denies the ex- istence of any infinite and eternal spirit; that which, while affirming, with much emphasis and elabora- tion of detail, the existence of such @ spirit, yet lives as if there were none; and that which, whether af- firming or denying the fact, puts nothing of the divine into actual living. One's intellectual conclusions as to the existence of such a God as men of the past may have been able to p*cture may have' little import- ance. The fact is that, as to the specifications of the Deity as con- ccived by others, and particularly us pictured by the past, we must all be, if we are living thinkers, atheists. The important thing is not whe- ther we can all agree as to the pre- cise details of the Deity; the im- portant thing is whether we will and somehow come to express that in our living. Many a man in all honesty that ke cannot believe in a God simply because he has faile to cramp his intellect into concep- tions long since outgrown, which have been offered to him as essen- tial to FAITH IN THE DIVINE. Yet the man who cannot believe in a God in that way may still have the sense of a higher life that some- how wraps us all in itself; of reach- ey of being far beyond our discov- ering and charting; of a life from which all our life springs, and of a goal and ideal of life to which all cur best life turns. The divine is not a matter of de- tails. God is not a matter of gram- mar. Faith in the divine is always tne consciousness and hope of that which defies description. You no right to call yourself an atheist or so to label another. simply be- cause old descriptions are rejected. He is the true atheist who secks to bury his life in' the dust and away from the divine. He may be well informed on theories of the di- vine; he may be that dangerous per- son the piously orthoglox atheist. The man who makes. this life of ours an empty thing, who robs this world of its beauty and glory, who steals from life's song the note that 4 2 the morning stars sang together, the heavenly chord, is simply he who despoils life of the divine, of its ideals, its*hopes, its sublime sac- rifices, who casts the cynics sneer over youth's dreams, over love's devotion. It may make little difference whe- ther you can agree with your neigh- bor in your descriptions of the di- vine. It would be an unfortunate thing if your idea of that infinite life and love could be so localized and stationary as te permit of sat- isfactory description. The thing that matters is whether a neighbor you yourself are reveal- ing soniething of the divine and the eternally good and true. WE NEED TO PRAY to be delivered not from intellectual atheism ; that will hurt no one. We need to ptay to be delivered from practical atheism, the life that de- ies the divine; the heart that emp- n se ities i igh and holy b fee somehow the divine in our lives, ties itself of the high an Ps its avarice, its passion for the things that are low and debasing. We need to seek to escape the dia- 'bolic delusion of the life that ac- knowledges the fact of a God and yet denies his likeness in the living. You and your neighbor might quarrel forever as to your concep- tions of God. but let each one seek to express that ideal of the divine in the daily doing, and you shall find yourselves walking in the same way, bound on the same errands, and your feet shall carry you to- gether to heaven's door as you seek the ways of the needy and the sad and suffering. This world needs God. It never will be satisfied with pictures of that great spirit of love and life. {1 will know God only as we show that love and life. We: might well spend less time preaching about God if only we would practice that for which our ideals of God stand. If that word means to you, as more and more it must mean to men, in- finite goodness, tenderness, helpful- ness, affection, then the measure of your faith in such a being and such qualities is your own projection of them into the world, It is time that we ceased to quarrel over de- finitions and descriptions of the di- vine and began to do the deeds di- vine. QENRY F. COPE. t| M. Severo, in his navigable balloon, BALLOONS OFTEN Ss OF BURST WHEN BIGH IN THE AIR. Inexperienced Acronse 8 do Not "Understand Valves--Terrible Mishaps. Well-made navigable balloons are always Proyided 'wi r saf- ety-valves, which are so arranged to allow the gas to escape only when the pressure becomes too great for the safety of the envelop- ing fabric. It is unfortunately the case, however, that inexperienced aeronauts do not always make pro- ex use of these, and so the balloon ursts. : The most remarkable instance of this kind was in the ascent made "Pax." t balloon was provid- ed with two safety-valves for the escape of gas when the tension be- came too grest, but M. Severo stopped up one of these with wax ¢fore the ascent, thinking that he raight be able to accomplish more on the voyage. SMASHED TO PULP. With the assistant he got into the car, and made the great mistake of the novice of rising too rapidly, His assistant was so frightened that in his panic re ut . a whole sackful of ballast, which caused the balloon to shoot up into the air like a stone from a catapult. There was @ tremendous explosion, and the two unlucky aeronauts were dashed to the earth within eight scconds, being smashed to pulp. The navigable balloon, when driv- en through the air at a high velo- city, also runs a great risk of bursting in another way unkown to the spherical kind. There is a great tendency for the end of the balloon to be blown out. This is not the front part of the bag, as might be imagined, but the rear b=] art. The gas in the front part of the concern is pressed upon heavily by the atmosphere as the balloon rushes along, and this forces the gas against the hinder portion. Not only is there additional pressure of the gas at the back part, but there is no pressure of air--in fact, a vacuum is formed. CLOUDS BRING DANGER. The result is a dangerous pres- sure, which is often sufficient to burst out the end of the envelope, and so cause a terrible disaster. In order to cope with this, the best dir- rigible balloons have extra_thick- nesses of material in order to f then the rear end, and so to), THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 6. Lesson X. Saul and Jonathan Slain ia Battle. Golden Text, Amos 4, 12. Verse 1. Now the Philistines fuught against Israel--This was no order skirmish but the open clash of the massed strength of two na- tions. The mastery of Palestine was at stake. Mount Gilboa---A mountain peak, and also the range of adjoining hills. It formed the eastern boun- dary of the large plain of Esdra- elon, and though mentioned in the Old Testament only in connection with this particular battle, it fig- ured in much of the military his- tory of Palestine. Along its ridge the Philistines fought and pursued Saul's forces. 2. Sons of Saul--One son _ Ish- bosheth (or Esh-baal) was either not on the field, or escaped notice, for he lived to claim Saul's throne for a time. Three sons are said to have paid the price of their prom- line of battle. 3. The battle went sore against Saul--The Latin version translates this, 'The whole weight of the bat- tle was directed against Saul,"' The archers--The Israelites do not seem to have been pre-eminent in the use of the bow. The Philis- tine archers advancing rapidly in their war chariots and singling out the leaders for their aim caused a pan'c of fear. He was'greatly distressed -- "In great straits." Whether this term means a condition of inward agita- to tell There is some weight in favor - of "the Septuagint which reads, "he was sore wounded." According to the story of 2 Sam. 1. 6 he "was leaning upon his spear."' 4. Armor-bearer -- An office of henor, and involving the duties of protection to the king's person. Uncircumeised --As cireumcision had both a national and religious significance, this term would hold all the meaning of our words "alien and "infidel."" Abuse me--"Make sport of me."' Saul was thinking, not of the muti- lation of his body after death, but of the indignities sure to be heapec upon him as a prisoner. Recall the case of Samson. He was sore afraid--A mingling of loyaliy to his general and rever- ence for the person of "G.d's anointed."' Thereforé Saul took his sword and fell upon it--Nothing but the extremity of despair would lead a Hebrew to take his own life; his ideas of the next life as a shadowy, unattractive existence far away from God, made him cling to this life. There are but four examples of suicide in all the Scriptures (2 Sam. 17. 23; 1 Kings 16. 18; Matt. 27. 6). 5. His armor-bearer . . .died with him--It was the part of an Eastern servant to share the 'fate of his lord whatever it might be. ' . Bo Saul died--In 2 Sam. 1. 1-16-there-is-another-account-of-his death, told by a messenger who comes to David expecting a reward for the news. The story may be understood as a fabrication by the messenger, or as another case of a sccond independent record of the historic event. n any case the most trustworthy record is the one Lefore us. All his men--This does not mean every man in the army is a -rief summary of the awful fatali- ties of the day. 7. On the other side of the valley --This could mean across Esdrae- lon to Carmel on the west, or Ta- bor on the northwest, or across the valley of Jezreel northward among the hills of Issachar, Zebulun, an Naphtali. From any of these points the inhabitants might have been watching with eager interest the outcome of the battle, Gilboa jut- ted out into the plain in such a way that the happenings on its ridge could be seen for miles in almost every direction. All the neighbor- ing cities, as far as the Jordan, were left unprotected by the fali of this stronghold. When the Philistines came to strip the slain--The unconcern wit which this custom is mentioned throws light upon the inhumanity of ancient warfare. Compare David's treatment of the Philistine giant. 9. They cut off his head and strip- ped off his armor--"The anointed of Jehovah fares no better than the uncircumcised Goliath now that God has forsaken him." The head of a foe and his armor were proud- ly displayed as trophies. 10. The house of the Ashtaroth-- Or. the "temple of Astarte,"' which there was one at Askelon. Beth-shan--A_ fortified town on the eastern point of the plain of Esdraelon, near Gilboa. It looked cut over the deep Jordan valley and guarded western Palestine against an invasion from the east. J1. Jabesh-gilead--A strong town centrally located east of the Jor- dan, When it was in danger by an attack the Ammonites under Nahash, Saul had gone to its help (1 sam. 11), and now its inhabitants ia grateful remembrance rescue the Lody of their king and his sons, When David became king one of his first acts was to send a message of blessing to the men of this city for their brave deed (2 Sam, 2. 5) 12, Valhant men--Another term for "men of arms."' Went all night--The distance by the road it was necessary to travel, Leing somewhat over ten miles, most of it through territory now held by .the Philistines. From the wall+-This fact of tak- meg down the bodies and escaping unobserved could be accomphished if --as was probably ithe case -- they were hung from the gate of an ont- er wall which enclosed the market- place just outside the city wall it- self Burnt them there--By a slight change these words would read, "made lamentation for them there." This is thought necessary by some because of the Hebrew's abhorreriss of - cremation, and especially since they later took their bones and buried them, and still later David reinterred them in Saul's own territory of, Benjamin (2 Sam. 21. 12-14). 4 --_----_s----_----_- Men who like the same things and-women-who- hate the same peo- ple are congenial, prevent the tail point of the balloon 'oeing forced out. & Another source of danger to the cigar-shaped baloon is the presence of clouds passing in front of the sun, The passage of a cloud in front of thesun will cast a shadow which chills the gas to such an ex- tent that oon may wrinkle aind dea considerable ve- lecity. 'other hand, should the clouds break and the sun shine through, the gas may expand with sudden force sufficient to burst the envelope. --_-- --_-- THE WONDERS OF WATER. Almost Every Body Contains a Large percentage of Water. The extent to which water min- gles with bodies apparently solid *s wonderful. The glittering opal, which beauty wears as an orna- ment, is only flint and water. The air we breathe contains five grains ot water to each cubic foot of its bulk. The potatoes and turnips which are boiled for our dinner have, in their raw state, the one "5 per cent. and the other 90 per cent. of wate If a man r. , weighing 140 pounds were squeezed fiat in a hydraulic press, 105 a of water would run out and only 35 of resid remain. A man is, i ing, 45 pounds of gen, used through kalf pailfuls of water. In plants we find watet thus mingling in no less wonderful # manner. A sunflower evaporates one and a quarter pints of water a day, and a cabbage about the same quantity. A wheat plant exhales in 172 days about 100,000 grains of water. An acre of growing wheat, on this cal- culation, draws and passes out about ten tons of water per day. The sap of plants is the medium through which this mass of fluid 's conveyed. It forms a delicate pump ty which the watery particles run with_the rapidity of a swift stream. By the. action o e sap, various properties may be communicated to the growing plant. Timber in France is, for instance, dyed by various colors being mixed with water and poured over the root of the tree. Dahlias are also colored y & similar process. entrained cetiiannciens Viost Important Baby s se in Russia HILE ft is unlikely any Russtan mother would admit any baby. more important than her own, the baby who has the highest position in Russia is the son and heir of the czar, who, if ever he gains the throne, wiil bear the title of Alexis II. Alexis was born on August 12, 194. He has four sisters to play with, and so many toys that he probably doesn't know how many he does own. His first toys were a set of brightly painted, funny lttle figures, that fitted one tnto another, Among his favorite playthings are a jointed serpent, that wriggles along in a fearsome manner; a little cart drawn by horses, and a miniature train and rallway station. Besides these, he e lly speak- carbon and nitro- has electrical toys, steam toys, all sorts of mechanical toys and toys that talk from hidden phonographs. Then, too, the royal baby possesses magnificent clothes and jeweled canes. The gems that sparkle on these would more than fill the cradle in which Alexis formerly lay. Many little boys long to be soldiers. The Uttle czarevitch is already colonel of a Finland regiment, of a Lithuantan regiment, of a Siberian regiment, of the Artillery of Guard regiment, of two military honor for any boy, n especially when the boy is not much 4. a Was Inverited. Bobby--"Everything that King Midas. touched turned to gold." What do you think of that? Billy--I've often heard It, but I have always thought that the story was in- vented by his advertisers. . Homesick. Tommie--Mamma, when a boy ts away from home and wants to get back aw- ful bad--that is belng homesick, ain't it? Mamma---Yes, dear : Tommie--Well, when he's sick of stay-. ing at home and wants to go skating, what do you call it? five and a : Crows' Nest Pass Region Forty-five billion tons of coal, in- cluded in the greatest coal-fields in western North America, will be available as soon as railroad ex- tensions now in progress tapping the Crows' Nest Pass region are completed going far toward avert- | the predicted fuel famine. his vast storehouse is located in a rectangle 150 by 200 miles in ex- tent, comprising 30,000 square miles or 19,200,000 acres. To put this tract in direct com- munication with the outside world two opposing engineering partie tre strenuously at work. D. C Corbin, president of the Spokane International railroad, has secured a charter from the provincial gov- ernment of British Columbia for a railroad connecting with the Cana- dian Pacific, east of Michel, B. C., and extending in a southerly direc- tion fourteen miles. Construction gangs are now in the field, rushing |work. The line will open coal lands in seventeen sections, a tota of 10,800 acres, for which the com- pany holds crown grants from the provincial government of British Columbia. A branch of the Great Northern railroad, known as the Crows' Nest Southern, was extended from Rex-} ford onthe mr° "ine 'n Montana! to Fernie, a sixty-two, miles, a few year n order to! render accessible tie output of the) cecal mines at Morrissey and Fer- nie. This line of road has now been extended twenty-three miles further up the pass to Michel. En- gincers at'present are engaged in making a permanent location of the line of this branch road up the Elk river, with the apparent intention «f the ultimate extension to the head-of the river, thence across the Civide to the Alberta side and-from that point on to Calgary, which is _ Vast New Treasure-House of Coal FFF4+t44++44+444t+tt t+ ttt ttt tteet testes st eey 400,000 tons and still ha within actualities. ve: Hee The confines of this x cross the boundary line which separates the province cf British Columbia from Alberta at the summit of the Rocky moun- tains, and intersect the main line of the Canadian Pacific railroad a few miles northwest of Banff, in the 'anadian National Park. 4 If a line were run from this point' cf intersection with the 'Canadian, Pacific directly tast for a distance of'200 miles to the 111th meridian of longitude and thence south 150 miles the international boundary line would again be crossed at a Foint one longitude degree west of the midway point in the northern boundary of the state of Montana, and if continued south through the state would pass east of Great Falls ut a distance of only twelve miles. In Alberta thix same meridian passes but a few miles west of Me- dicine Hat, a town situated on the scuth branch of the Saskatchewan river, where the Canadian Pacific main line crosses the stream. A ew miles east of Medicine Hat the Crows' Nest branch of the Cana- dian Pacific joins the main line at Dunmore Junction. These four lines bound a rect- argle 150 by 260 miles in extent, 30,000 square miles or 19,200,000 acres. Fully: three-fourths of this rect- angular territory lies east of the foothills of the Rucky Mountains. Coal has been found in almost ev- ery part of this district; at Medi- cine Hat, just over the eastern boundary, where natural gas has Crows' Nest is nearly in the which the great \s is ay i SASHATC = lore WHERE THE NEW COAL DEPOSITS WERE FOUND. centre of the map and of the region coal deposits oceupy- the railway centre of the southern part of Alberta. The amount of coal lying hidden away waiting the coming of min- ers and transportation facilities al- most surpasses comprehension, From the reports of Canadian geo- logists and of mining engineers 't is apparent that there is approxi- mately 100 feet of workable coal underlying a territory which ex- tends from the Elk river on the west and beyon the Livingstone range, east of the summit of the Rockies, and from the headwaters of the Elk on the north to the in- t ti oundary on the south. a ES, the "Pirates" surely did de- y serve ft. Fact Is,«they déserve "bout everything they get--and we see they get plenty--'cause they're the meanest set of fellows I ever saw. You see, tt wasn't more 'n a week be- fore this happened that they poured a lot of grease 'n things on ao clrous tent we'd put up. hey sneaked into Joe Btanton's back yard at night, when all of us were in bed. That's the kind of chaps the 'Pirates' are! But we got even, all-righty, all-righty. Skinny began things by telling Bill Jones what a dandy canoes the "Bloody Robbers'--that's us--had hidden on Brewster's jstand. None of us would let BI join the " * 'cause he can't keep a secret worth shucks, and Bkinny knew first thing he'd do would be to let those "Pirates" know all about the boat. So that very afternoon Mike Flannigan over to the island. 'Course, they didn't find any canoe, as there wasn't any to find, But a fine swimming-hole is jus} off the island, so to forget the disap pointment all of them plunged into thq water, just Ilke Skinny thought they would Then Billy Mumford, who's our cap. tain, sent Bill Kane and Jack Warner swimming cautlous-like across to the 'sland. They reached the bank, sneaks ed up to where the clothes lay scat- tered about, and, before the "Pirates" knew what had happened, Bill and Jack had chucked all the clothes in the punt brought along a whole lot of old dresses that the fellows got from thelr sisters These we left on the bank, an' tha "Pirates" had to put them on, 'cause i} 3 : ler's bend. Right at this place the creek widens out, and Brewster's island SS On Saal bal te « "MAYBE THE FARMERS DIDN'T GUY THEM!" there wasn't anything e/se for them to wear, Maybe we didn't roar when they walked along the road, shamefaced as you please, the farmers didn't guy them! 'Course, it got all "hound we. . I can ¢ e you right rates' w saceer = fam . hag wasn' no! Li! 4 . all. Don't you they, _ way ELLIE ETE On the basis of the report of Dr. Selwyn, of the dominion geological department at Ottawa, of the out- cropping of those seams as they are t. be found three cr four miles north of Morrissey, James McEvoy, geologist for the Crows' Nest Pass Coal Company, estimates that there are over 22,000,000,000 tons of coal available when transportation fa- cilities have been secured. According to Mr. McEvoy's fig- ures, the outcropping of coal just north of Morrissey measures a to- in' of 216 feet, in layers running in thickness from a few inches to over forty feet, and these layers of roc are interspersed through strata of reck which form, together with the coal seams, a depth of 4,736 feet from the upper to the lowest seam of coal in the seres. Mr. McEvoy estimates that at least one hundred feet of this total of 216 feet of coal *s workable and marketable. "Although the extent of the coal lunds in the entire area can only be somewhat roughly estimated, the estimate of 230 square miles should be near enough to the truth to be used as a basis for the calculation s¥ the total available coal supply,"' A little figuring 200 acres. thickness of one hundred feet would yield 153,480 tons, and the total yield of the 147,200 acres would be $2,505,200,000 tons. Great as such a total appears, however, there is, in view of more recent exploration and developings, little doubt that-it falls far short of the actuality. Instead of an area of 230 square miles, used as a basis by Mr. McEvoy, a study of the map and the facts as to the out- croppings of from twelve to sixteen veins of coal on the eastern slopes of the Rookies at Cat mountain an upon the property of the Leitch Collieries Company at the castern gateway of the Crows' Nest Pass, discloses that this great coal field is not confined within t ed area of 230 square miles, and the calculator might have doubled his the restrict-|. also been discovered and is being used by the railway company and by the citizens of the town for do- mestic purposes; at Banff, in the northwestern corner; all along the eastern slope of the Rockies; at the Knee Hills, northeast of Calgary; on Sheep Creek, where it has beea mined for domestic purposes for many years; and on the headwaters of High River, where it has also Leen taken out for use by the ranch- ers for the last twenty years. Hundreds of tons of it are mined daily at Tabor, thirty miles east «¥ Lethbridge. At the latter place are situated the mines of the Galt Company, the oldest coal company in the territory, and other mines of other companies of more recent de- velopment. South and west of Pincher Creek, along the foothills of the Rockies, it is found in large beds, while on the Crows' Nest railway from Lundbreck, "forty miles west of Macleod, to Morrissey, nine miles elow Fernie, numerous mines are in constant operation. North of the railway through the pass, on the upper Elk, from the int where Michel Creek empties into the Elk River, large tracts of coal lands have been taken up and are being surveyed and prepara- tions are.in progress to develop sime of these holdings on a large scale. On the eastern slope of the Rock- ies these great coal measures re- veal themselves at various points where they have been exposed by the upheaval of the. Livingstone range and at Cat Mountain. Thus while it is known that coal exists in paying quantities in almost all parts of this vast territory, what 1a commonly known as the Crows' Nest coal field occupies but a por- tion of the southwestern quarter of °/ it, extending from the Elk River on the west. to the foothills of the Rockies on the east. A single seam cf coal ranging in thickness from thirty to forty feet has been cub through at Morrissey, 'Coal Crook, Hosmer and Michel, and is of the same thickness as exposed at Cat Mountain, on the eastern slope of the Rockies and at other places up the Elk River. With the opening up. of the _rect- angular territory to the railroad the problem of marketing. the coa will be solved. With the speed be- ing made by the construction gangs the day is not far distant when the Crows' Nest Pass region will fig- ure materially in the fuel supp roblem of North America.--F. G. ioorbead in the Technical World Magazine. _begg: figures and called his totsl 45,010, -| __The ar is a tale if it makes a hit '"s story is ™ touching __ a