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IHE DURHAM CHRONICLE Excursion by 6.1‘. R. to North Bay, by T. N. 0. to Coch- rane and by Transcon- tinental to Mafia- gami River. A Great Revelaflon to Mon 11ml One Hundred and Thirty Journalists. The Canadian Press Association held their annual meeting on Tueq- day and Wednesday, the 17th and 18th inst. in the banqueting hall The two days of the convenuon proper were taken up fully with the discussion of topics pertaining to the craft. Colonel Henry Wat- teroon, of the Courier-Journal Louisville. Kentucky. an active member of the Fourth Estate s'mee 1856 was present at the meeting, and made a couple of very spir- ited addresses that were very muzh appreciated by all who had the good fortune to hear him. Being a long tixne in the work, he felt like a patriarch till he met Sir Mackenzie Bowen who entered his apprenticeship in 1835. An excursion to Cochrane, and over a portion of the new trans- continental railway had been ar- ranged for, and on Wednesday night about ten o’clock, a party of more than one hundred and thirty ioumalists entrained a; the Union Station as guests of the Grand Trunk Railway, and the Temiscaming and Northern Ontar- io Commission. 'Bhe train coexist- ed of nine cars. four Pullmui' 310 two diners, and two ps-lsfif.) (",‘f It 'was night, and the fine; ‘,r.:: oi“ the trip was uneventui. an In comfortable train with it: nun-i ted and thirty sleeping ionizalet-t; alided peacefully o\'-‘r a g .01? roadhcd. through such thriving tow. .8 Newmarhet. B::~.<hford. Barrie, Orfllia Bricebridge, Gravo onhmt “Huntsville. and Burks rub. and pulled into North Bay, ”In.“ a! Tomntmbotveen CANADIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION fl. IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. DURHAM, JUNE 2, 1910. of the convention trainmen and Mficials o! the T. N. 0. Railway and continued northward journey. everyone view- ing with interest the many scenes 0! beauty constantly opening to the view of the admiring spectat- Cors. At mileage 79, that is, '19‘ ' miles north of North Bay, we. Ereached Temagami Lake, and while all viev. ed with pleasure the : natural beauties of scenery, the a struc- better days. We’re off again, and again scene after scene of natural beauty is passed in rapid succession. All :hav- 1 heard 05 Cobalt, the greatest silver mining country in the world. ‘ l .â€"- .â€"â€"â€".â€"_â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"- aplace of rapid mushroom growth frantic 111th speculation, and pos- d 0." DD p. :1 H- :1 N 9+ 3‘ "D Q. 1-” p0, pa. Q ‘1 "D :3 (I? 0 ‘d Kb '1 93 53. O :3 ED Di D E E D E'- K 3“ E 5: pp The 11riter 11ent to the Coniazas . Camp, onl1 a {(111 rods from the O centre of the to11n, The name, . “Coniagas” had a peculiar sounl. ! and we became inquisitive enough 0 to enquire its origin, which was : soon explained. The metals ob- : tained from the mine are Cobalt, o Nickle ,"Sil1e and Arsenic. “C3." : is the chemical symbol for Cobalt. : “Ni,” for Nickle, “Ag.” for Argen- : tum. the Latin for Sil1 er. and “As.” O for Arsenic. It 11i11 thnu s be seen that the name of the mine is ob- tained b1 combining the chemical s1mbols of the different metals produced by the mine. This, of 2 course applies only to the “Conâ€" 1a gas Mine.” 1 The mine extends over an area ’ of about forty acres, and the shaft is sunk to a depth of three or four hundred feet. The mineral chutes, passed through stone crushers, washed, and passed on t to other crushers and. over screens till every particle of ore is taken vfrom the rock. which is then sent to the smelters and refineries. We can’t describe the process with suf- ficient fullness to enable our read~ _ ers to become expert silver min- ers, nor can We say that the opera- tions of a mining camp has any peculiar fascination around the working end of the business, and as regards the speculative end, we are a littl“ shy of money, and must refrain from indulgence. While in Cobalt we had the pleasure of an interview with Dr. E. A. Armstrong. one of our old Flesherton pupils, and felt no small pleasure in learning that he was one of the successful deal- ers in mining stocks. It’s a game of chance, however‘ and a man is liable to become suddenly rich, or suddenly poor when ‘he enters ;speculation as a miner. The town site is extremely rocky and can not be cleared as a pretty place. No vegetable life is to be seen on the streets, there are no lawns or flower gardens. Every- thing is 'wild and rugged, but there are some gocd buildings, and ali kinds of business seems to be car- ried on. The population was given us it!) varying numbers, from six to ten thousand, but We would not iudge even the smallest estimate ltrom the appearance of the place. and seven o’clock on Thursday Haileyburv, about six miles tar-' ther north, is beautifully situated on an eastern slope running down to Lake Temiscaming, and right across the lake may be seen} the province (f Quebec. The land! here is suitable rfor agricultural purposes, and the man who isn't mxious to get rich quick will be able for ages to make a living from the surface of the soil, per- haps when the silver mines of Co- ‘batlt are exhausted and .forgotten. Mr. Otto Knapp. formerly of this town, has a large hotel there, and has so much faith in the certainty of the business and the prosperity. of the place that he is mow mak- ing improvements amounting to thirty-five thousand dollars. He tells us that the present population is about Live thoueaand. which is almost sure to reach fifteen thous- and inside of the next five years. It has a very progressive appear-4 ance ,and much building is going on at present. Connected with Co- balt by an electric railway, it is becoming a residential town [or that populous mining centre. About six miles to the north is New Liskeard, a slightly older town than Hai-leybury, but perhaps not quite so populous. The party reached here about five o’clock and it seemed that nearly all the rt stay at this thriv- were taken over by officials of the T. and. continued our conveyances in town and. counhy had volunteered their services to give the excursioniizts a right royal welcome, :md a good time. A banquet was to be tendered by Temiscammg Press Association in the [handsome and commodio‘us Canada Hotel, but in the meantime the visitors were driven out into the country through an extensiv and fertile area of good agricul- tural lamds, where signs of pros- perity were everywhere in evi- dence. The town is a pretty sive. finnandicitis 0W3! “F!!!“cffI‘YEP" The banquet was highly enjoyed, and many stirring and spirited ad- dresses were’ delivered, till nearly mfidmight, when the party broke up and made their way to the train to continue their journey to Cochâ€" NEWBURGH, 0x12, Feb. 12th. 1910. ‘ Just about a year ago, our daughter Ella (fourteen years: , was taken with terrible pains in the right side The pain was so severe that we had to carry her to bed We at once put her under the care of a first-class doctor; who pronounced it a case of Appendicitis and advised an operation. We took her to a hospital in Kingston where she was again examined by an eminent spemalist He said she had Appendicitis and must be operated on at 0mg 2/ we awarded to save Izer lzja. As we had taken her to Kingston to have this done we were ready but our daughter was afraid and cried and begged so pitifully, that we postponed it for that day. Luckily for us and for her an uncle came in with some ‘Fruit-a-tives’ and insisted on Ella taking them Good results were apparent almost from the first dose, and the continuous treatment cured her. luv annvon-wv tame. Mr. Angus McKelvey. son of Mr. John McKelvie. of this place. was present on the occasion. He. has been north for the past eight or nine years., and is regarded as a rich man to-day, having been a h-uccessful stock dealer. Shortly after six O’Cll day morning. the train C'ochrane. This is t] point of the T. N. ( Shortly after six o’cLock on Fri- t day morning, the train pulled into .q Cochrane. This is the junction Z point of the T. 8: N. 0 Railway s with the .new Grand Trunk Pacific. It is lfnaur hundred and eighty miles north of Toronto, and though a t solid bush in its primeval state, ‘ only a couple of years ago, L“: now a palace of considerable im- ‘ ‘ portarnce. The Roman Catholics. ] little thumb. and two teachers are '1 already at work in the school. The 1‘ 'population is said to be about -fif-' teen hundred, the majority being 1who was evidently pleased to meet ‘Mr. Ramage and. the editor of this lpaper, and show us around the l but lflOlllndi a tenant for it as soon as completed. when he set to, work to build another, which is now under construction. Addresses of welcome were given the visitors, and the school child- ren, led by their teachers, assem- bled before our departure, to add their q-uota to the program. They were addressed by Mr. McKay, of {the Toronto Globe, and by Mr. , Tarte, of La Patrie, Montreal, in 1 both French and English. A snap shot was then taken of the child- ,»‘ren, and the visitors again board- ed the train to make the first trip in Pullman coaches over the new transcontinental. going west thir- . ty-five miles to the Mattagami ; River, where all enioyed a hearty 1 dinner in the construction camp of r the contractors on that section of “the road. At three o’clock, just - I before leaving on the return trip, a brief memorial service was held in honor of King Edward the Seventh, Whose remains on that day were laid to rest in old Lon- On the Fhomeward trip, we reach- ed Cochrane about 6.30, and left for Monteith, an Experimental Station, abOut thirty miles south. The farm contains 640 acres, of which perhaps twenty-live or thirty acres are under cultivation. The soil is apparently excellent, but the crop is not sufficiently far advanced to say much about it. A considerable area has the trees re- moved, and the land is dotted with blackened stumps. where fertile fields will' seen in the years. We arrived at Matheson just a- bout dark, and here we learned of a railway Wreck about thirty miles l l ahead, and we had to remain over till next morning. This was both a pleasure and a sorrow. A pleasure because we would go through from there to New Lis- keard in daylight, and see the country, which we were unable to see on the north-bound trip made in the night and 'a source of re- gret. as We would have to abandon a sail on Temagami Lake, which was part of the program. A short stay [at Englchardt leaves a good impression of the excellence of the soil in that grow- ing town and vicinity. Near here is where Mr. J. W Irwin has his New Ontario farm, and we must confess that we liked the appear- ance of the place. On We go again, passing Uno Park‘ Where Mr. and Mrs. Richard Parker‘ formerly of this town, have resided for the past twelve years in a fine looking agricul- tural .section. By the way, Mr. Stevenson, of the New Liskeard “Speaker,” pointed out Mr. Park- er’s house to us from the train. At Temigami, the party got on‘ the boat and had their pictures taken *and returned to the train to‘ hasten on to North Bay, Where a banquet was awaiting them, and Where they arrived about 7.30, and had luncheon in the roller rink, visited the churches, and new Nor- mal school, and repaired to the Opera House to receive an address and welcome and listen to a few short addresses. At ten o’clock, We left on the home stretch, alndl at seven o’clock Sunday morning ar- rived at the Union Station, Toroen- to, all satisfied that the Grand ,Trunk Railway officials, and the T. N. 0 Commission were de- serving of much credit, and many thanks for the Well planned Qro- gram. that gave so much pleasure. delight and knowledge to the pub- lishers and press in general. That great country to the north is a vast heritage of agricultural, forest and mineral wealth, of which we, as Canadians, have a inst reason to be proud. Few of the 130 who took the trip had the faintest conception of the extent and value of our great North Land and this trip has been a revela- tion to most of them. There are many things more that might be said, many omissions we have made, and many interesting points we would like to bring to the minds of our readers, but let it be remembered that the inter- esting sights crowded into a trip of three days and four nights, of constant activity‘ is not easy to re- cord in full in one short newspap- er article. We have given a brief run over the ground, and every other local paper may have done the .same thing, but touched on different points. We must refer to the extreme loyalty all citizens of these North- ern places have for their own towns. This is a line character- istic of the citizens. and we found perfect loyalty to home in every town we visited from North Bay to Cochrane. It’s right that it should be so. and we commend them high- ly for their overflowing loyalty. That helps to build.- up a place‘ while fault finding will always “v“-u-vv-v . ‘Fruit-a-tives’ saved our daughter from the surgeon’s knife and to-day she is enjoying the best of health.” J. W. FOX. (Father). LILLIAN FOX, (Mother). gratitude of Mr. and Mrs. Fox. And Miss Ella will always remember “Fruit-a- tives”â€"â€"the discovery of an eminent Fliysician, and the only 1116( icine in the world made of fruit. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, or trial box. 25c. At dealers, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price byFruit-a- tivcs Limited, Ottawa. in all probability be course of two or three OWMWOOMMON ”00“ OW”WN«OQO C A MODEL FOR EVERY FIGURE V y/ze/r/zsrzr amid/4y and”; L IS KING 5? EAST 5 ’ waist line. 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