New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-25
THE SURPRISES OF CANADA.
ERAsTuS wrMAN MroRE THE BRITISH
"a IRON AND STEEL MEN.
ENuMERATINe THE GREAT RESOURCES on
THE DOMINION AND PLEADING yoR
COMMERCIAL RECIPROCITY.


THE DOMINION AND PLEADING ToR
COMMERCIAL RECIPROCITY
Niagara Falls. ont, Oct &.-Tne Steel sud iron
Institute party arrived herc this morning They were
met st the depot by Ersstus wlman and local com.
mittse luncheon rendered to the visitors this
afternoon BY Mr.. Wan. After visiting points Of IN.
terest around tho Falls the party left hero for wash
ington, where they will join the Southern section and
30 presented to the President At tho luncheon this
afternoon Mr. wlman spoke on @Ths Surprises Of Can
ada" Among other things he said:
II al The potentsts Of Europe had takea II their
crowned heads to visit America and with their
ewes tho wonderful things that here had occurred In
eminent In Development. and In tbs advance Of clvza
son that event would posess ~ much siRnncce ss
nav be attached to the Visit this country Of tho Iron
md Steal Institute Of Great Britain accompanied their
German friends The revelation which tho United Ssasss
has to this group OF 600 obserant. practical and
able men 10 likely to bear fruit Of the most momsatous
consequences In the education Europe tho
ness and progress Of union Of commonwealths this
continent The brief and hurried visit through the portion
OF CansdA which includes the greater half Of the continent
can hardly however, be permitted TO terminate without
some ststement Of the enormous importance which thas
region must In the future play In tho mineral Developments
Of the world. Canada 10 land Of sursrisea To even
those who her most and best she II
revealing Of wealth and OF atlsc tvoncss
VINO could. for instance have IMAGINED until within tho
s few months. that Canada possessed within herself tho
po.ent for the defence Of world Yet the visit
lust the Iron and Steel Institute to the Sudbury
coppe bearing regions which only twelve hours from
Naeara disclose the fact that her deposits Of nickel are
the greatest world has Now has recently
been discovered By tsn of the United States Navy that
armor for ships steel aloyed with nickel
II practically impenetrable. alongside which the boascd
British urmored plates cruubled into nohinrness for de-
fensve PURPOSES In the presence OF these startling ex
permens well said they made It possible to make
Behrpg Straits q closed unless indeed. the English
Government drew Canada supplies OF nickel with
sacrty equal to that with which the United States
making gather 1t In from the source Equal
" with the United States and Great Britain the nations
of Europe with anxiety this peaceful land for the
forca for the defence the world Is shown by tho visit
of Of the house Of kruDD tie greatest OIL gun
uakers Who leaving his twenty-five thousand men at
Essen. in Germany seeks incoano' IN me WHO'S
OF Sudbury the secret that will make gums unburses
lie and armored plates inpenetrabe contribution TO
tho peace Of world thus be made by modest
so remote the Of action that may not DO the
least surprise Of her many surprises.
But with nickel in Canada In the region hurrieoly
passed through by the Iron and Steel Institute Will be
found minerals abundance greater than has ever
yet met the eye Of man.
But It Is not alone the great minerals enumerated
TIA. Canada IS surprise equally 10 America as 10 Europe
for abe specially possesses untold deposits Of the
greatest the worlds assets described BY that most
observant Of and cleares Of writer's, Edward An'
son. OF Boston, the imperial metal iron. Stretching
far out sea- in the pieke projection Of Nova Scotia
within six miles of the Atlantic, found sssemblaSe
Of the finest iron side by side with chemically pure lime
stone and with eokng coal In seams thirty feet thick.
These and nearby deposits splenddy located are
testified equal In value to the mineral deposits OF
Pennsylvania and New.York combined. forming Q provi
Dental prefer New.Engand In her hour OF need,
only she will accept their benencence. So with British
Columbia o mineral wealth exists way out toward the
Pacific whose value only equaed by her timber
REGIONS her 5000 miles OF coastne fisheries, her
limited coal deposits, which, BY the way, recall an.
other Of the surprises Of Canada, and 1t that 1t only
within her territory that coal be found the
board equally on Atlantic and Pacific, fact Of pro-
found Significance this continent should wake up
to q realization OF the advantages Of foreign trade
Time fails tell of the other startling
auons which Canada makes TO the observer Of natural
phenomena. But Of all surprises In relation to
Canada that the chief which blinds both Canadians and
Americans only to the value Of the country, but
tho advantage unrestricted intercourse between them
Along the imaginary line the contnn whore nature
has refused place the slightest demarcaton the poll
tcian Of and the sOuth says tho engineer
Halt here you 60 further ct grade You must
climb the barricades Of the Mckinley and the
Macdonald construction which reach from the Atlantic
10 the Pacific, forming DEVILS lane which divides the
continent In two aud shuts each country out from the
free Of all and lakes and rivers which
wash their borders" II toast permitted this
occasion 1t should be: 1.-THE victory OF the metalurgst
and the engineer the politician Is the life and hope
Of . commerce that shall DO continental"