The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-18
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and followed by two and a half months
of almost summer weather.
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and followed by two and a half months
of almost summer weather.
DOMINION.
The trade figures for the four months
of the current fiscal year ending Oct. 81
show imports of $64 49, 6S and exports of
the value of ISL $50 999-a total trade of
| S145, IFS, 167. The increase in the value of
exports of Canadian produce is So, 1884.
The october export of wheat is 100000
greater than in October of last year.
The increase in the import of dutiable
goods in the past four months over the
corresponding months of last year is over
81, 900, 600 the figures being $685. 9S6,O72
against $751; 067, go. The duty collected in
creased over half million. 1t was $10,-
543 224, against $9,976,650 in 1900 The free
goods in value in the four months which
have just ended were $25, 451, 600, against
$24, 1863, 126 in the same period of last year.
Returns from Sault Ste, Marie show
that the canal carried between April and
October, 1901, both months, 2,514, 145 tons
in 1901, and 1874, 1926 tons in 1900 The in
crease in the Canadian canal is 36 per
cent.
| -Canadas forests are found to be equal
! to supplying the world with pulp wood
alone for $40 years, on the basis of 100000
tons of manufactured pulp year.
| 1t is reported that the cost of improv-
/ ing French River navigation from Lake
/ "a, 900, 900.
The consumption of cotton in the
Maritime Provinces is about $1,250000 per
year, of which about a million a year
comes from upper Canadian mills. The
Halifax mill is at present shipping its
product to Montreal for preparation of
the finer grades. The Moncton mill sup
plies the Maritime Provinces with grey
cotton. The Windsor mill is principally
occupied with heavy goods. The Gibson
afFh fTsaVNa Fra1
ored Company, is producing flannelettes
and print goods. The Canadian Company
produces about $3,O000OO per year and sells
about one-third in Quebec and the lower
provinces.
Greatly increased development of On
tario metalliferous mines is shown by re-
turns of production for the past nine
months. The report shows an aggregate
| of 81, S22,O03, compared with $2,54l l9l for
the whole year of 1900. The heaviest in
creases are in iron ore, which increased
( from 1924, 546 for the first nine months of
the present year; pig iron, from $685. 06d
to I,296344, and nickle from $l56,626 to
1881, PA.
The semi-annual report of the Bank
of Montreal indicates that business is still
| f1ourishing. The receipts for the half
year were S71l,000, compared with $6S20QO
at the same period last year. The note
circulation increased half million.
I Returns to the fisheries department
give the total sealing catch for the sea-
son. Including that of the British Colum.
bia coast, in the North Pacific, off the
Copper Islands, Japan coast, and in the
Behring Sea, at about 2933 skins.
| The will of the late Amelia Forbes Of
| Cambridge, Mass, which has been filed
for probate. contains a beouest of sSOC
/ which is to be used for the purpose of
buying the old homestead AT Sherbrooke.
Guysborough County N S where she
was born which is to he given IN fine vii
tlage children as a pIavsround on the
boulder near the entrance to the estate
she desires This inscrintion to he an
graved: This estate has been given as a
playground to the town of Sherbrooke by
J Amelia Forbes, in loving memory of her
father and mother, ]. w. and Margaret
Mc&een."