The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-03-25
CANADA CAN TURN
OUT A LARGE ARMY
Government Is in Position to
Mobilize Strong Force
in Short Time.
ALL ELEGEBLES ARE LISTED
Equipments CT Every Kind Are Kept
Within Convenient Access and
Minions Are Always Avail
able.

Ottawa Canada, special: Precaution-
AIRY measures for placing Canada IN a
posture of defense in view Of the situa-
ton in theSfar east are not SO backward
as might be supposed from the absence OF
visible preparations. The government
must be given credit for having accom-
plishcd a great deal towards preparing for
the worst without making an unnecessary
stir and alarming the country.
1t is safe to say now that little has been
left undone that could be done to facili-
tate the prompt mobilization and equip
ment Of troops TO take the field for the de-
Tense Of Canada should such a step be-
come necessary. The department for
which Sir Frederick Borden is RESPONSE
BILE as minister Of militia and defense is
today in a position to issue at a few
hours notice a call for as many men as
might be required at once for the coast
stations, to arm, equip, and provision
them for a campaign, and send detach-
ments to any point desired within the
limits of Canada.
Reserves All on List.
There is not a military district In the
dominion in which the names and adj
dresses of people who are able to provide
horses, transport, and supplies for troops
are not available. Reserves of clothing
ammunition, requirements and arms
have been accumulated sufficient for any
force that could by any stretch Of the
imagination be supposed to be required
for immediate purposes. What might come
afterwards Is another thing.
Canada has never thought it necessary
10 maintain a large military establish.
mcnt, and has rarely provided for more
than 80, 900 to 50, 600 men Of all arms in ONT
year, Of whom an average of barely 25,N
nen usually respond to the roll call a
the annual camps and drills. Blu the au
thorities have power to raise practically
the entire able bodied population in CASE
Df necessity, and there Is a large percent
age OF trained, disciplined men who hay,
passed through the ranks in former year?
and would rally to the flag by Thousand
in case Of danger.
The air Is full Of warlike rumors. Lort
Dundonald, says one report, desires t
be in a position to place 100, 900 men in tn
field. Another report is to the effect tina
British regiments are to be stationed a
the leading cities along the 1ntercolonia
and the Canadian Pacific railway, Halifax
st. John, Quebec, Montreal and Toronto
and at Esquimalt in readiness to be EN-
barkcd for the east should events sudden
ly arise demanding the immediat
Strengthening of the British forces /
Asia.
Still another has 1t that fourteen Brit
Ash infantry regiments and sixty batter
les of artillery, 5000 men In all. are con
Ing to st. John, N. B., to proceed theme
by the Canadian Pacific railway to Esqu
malt. Yet another is that all the FORTH
cations at Halifax are being fully name
and the garrison brought up to we
strength. Altogether, Canada is gettin
quite a lot to think about in reference
the part she may herself be called upo
to play in the drama Of the far east.
Paper Pulp a Vast Problem.
Il. s.. Eddy, the pulp and paper MAJ,
.facturer of Hull, wants an export duty c
pulpwood. In a recent interview he sa.
about $1,000, 600 worth Of pulpwood Is tai
EN- over annually to the United States ar
there manufactured into paper, and Il
Taper sent back here, where it is sold
tonpetition with Canadian manufacture
paper. In his opinion, The only way fl
any government looking to the develo.
melt of the country and increasing Il
demand for labor in this branch of indu
try is 10 impose a duty of 81 a cord
%pulpwood exported to the United State
Ii all TIE provinces followed the eXamp
of Ontario, and prohibited the export
this wood 10 the United States, it wou
remedy the evil; but this not being Il
case. lie claims the federal governme
should 1T once pass an effective measu
in this respect.
This pulp wood question he conside
the most important one that the COVER
ment has to deal with, affecting, as
does, the interests Of the whole dominic
Some Facts as to Supply.
Arropos Of the fight the American Kew
paper Publishers association has start
with the paper combines and the call
President Roosevelt to begin suit to te
the legality of the existence of the col
bines, some official figures received he
of the pulpwood areas of Canada will
noted with interest. Mr.. SeitZ of N
York. in the discussion on the resolut1
to be forwarded to the president by t
newspaper association. called attentit
st will be remembered, to the fact tt
80 per cent Of the %pulpwood used In t
manufacture eff paper in the United Sta
was drawn from Canada. With the pr
ent tariff out of the way he said capt
could safely be invested in Canada a
give the newspapers of the United Sta
the paper they required at living pric
The quantity of pulpwood in Onta
alone belonging to the province alone a
not yet disposed of is given in the offc
estimate above referred to as equal
300, 600, 600 cords, the total forest resel
held by the province alone. including