The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-07
IN AlGOMA..
MINERAL PROPERTIES IN THE RE-
GION ARE BEING WORKED.
Many Emigrants Are Attracted TO
the District by Mining Companies
Much American Capital Is Get
ting u strong Hold In CANADA.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
OTTAWA Dec. 6.--The Consolidated
Lake Superior Company, whose president
is E. V. Douglass. of Philadelphia. Pa,
and whose allied undertakings in the
Sault Ste Marie and Algoma districts
of Ottawa represent a capital of $1,000
600. has already expended in completed
works over g. 10000, while the works
now in progress represent an expenditure
of s1s0o0.0o0. This company has started
from three parent enterprises the Algoma
Commercial Company. with capital OF
$4,000. 900: the Ontario * Lake Superior
Company, with a capital of s2o,ooo,ooo and
the Algoma Iron Works.
In this erstwhiIe dreary and inhospita-
BILE region an Industrial revolution has
been effected. The hardy prospector has
shown that the lands are rich in min
erals: the immense wealth of its timber
areas has been demonstrated beyond dis
pute, and 1t has now been ascertained
that the inducements to farmers offered
by IL are very great Five hundred emil
grants month. for the development of
this region. have been arranged for dur
ing the coming winter. The company
Is backed up by American capital, but
II has adopted an all-Canadan policy.
Early in it's career ii confined its opera
tions largely to the raw material OF the
forest which 1t turned to the purpose
of manufacture of pulp. Now the Sault
Ste. Marie pulp mills are unique in two
respects. Besides being the largest in
the world. they are the only pulp mills
on the continent in which dry pulp is
manufactured
The purchase of nickel mines near Sud-
bury. Ont, led to the production of the
Ferro-nickel ore by the Clergue process
and to the opening of large contract
he 2 he 90
other field of activity followed the dis
covery of iron deposits at Michicopoten.
probably the largest deposits of red and
brown hematites in the world, the daily
output now being 1000 tons.
The Algoma Central railway Is another
of the company's enterprises. which will
ultimately be pushed on to Hudson bay.
The system will open up 50.000,O00 acres
of land within twenty miles of its lines,
and the company expects soon to have
$4,000 new settlers on this line. The in
ducements held out are fair return
for labor the surety of home and re-
munerative markets for products.
Invest I'm Industries.
Strange as the statement may appear.
vet IL is nevertheless true that much of
the American capital which is now find
ing It's way into Canada for investment
in the natural industries Of the country
anu III TIE utNeiDpueDt Oh It's HliDeFht
and timber resources has come In
through the agency of American sports
men. Americans are exceedingly fond of
Canadian sports. in which many of the
wealthest business men of the United
States come over every season to par
ticipate. and the number of such sports
men is said to have been largely on the
cidentally, many of them find an absorb.
ing interest in examining the mineral de-
posts of the dominion, and as result
of their Investigations. capital has been
introduced that would never have come
this way had Ii not been for the initial
provocation of the moose or the salmon.
Every Indian guide in the country knows
where to place his hands on the mineral
beds of the region he traverses, and his
knowledge has thus been exploited with
advantage to his employers.
Through the cooperation of the Cana
dian Pacific Railway Company, Canada
will be extensively represented at the in
ternational sporting show. TO be held In
Chicago next February. which, TX is un-
derstood here. win be the biggest thing
Of the kind on record. II Is recognized
that Canada possesses more sporting ter
ritory than any other country in the
the shape of waterways, and abundance
of game all along the route from ocean
70 ocean L is believed that through II
Illustrating the sporting attractions Of this
country much practical result Will be OBJ
tanned Instances can he cited in which
capital has been introduced by wealthy
Pittsburg and other American business
men. simply through the initial acquaint-
ance with Canadian fauna. Leading to
practical Investigation. OF which the out
come has been the extension of Canada's
mining development The great pulp mills
at Mer Blue. Que. arose out Of hunt
ing expedition. and II Is largely through
the advent Of wealthy American sports
men that Canada's great mineral riches
are becoming known.
Smuggling OF Chinese.
That hundreds Of Cinnamon are sys-