The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-16

How about the Hudson Bay Com pany, is 1t still strong in CanadaT
 ''Yes. it does an enormous business in the north and northwest. It has it's agenoie all over that country buying furs and dealing in all sorts of things. It has millions of acres of farm lands for sale and altogether its business is enormous"
 What dividends does the company payT'
 T can't say" replied the commits sioner. "The Hudson Bay Company is a close corporation and 1t is safe te venture that it's profits are very large. stock in it are rich. The most of the stockholders live in England"
 American Money in Canada.
 "Is there much American money in- vested in Canada outside the farm lands?"
 "Yes, a great deal" was the reply. Your capitalists have investments in our railroads, our mines, forests and factories. as well as in other things. There are number of American stock raisers who have crossed over the bor- der from Montana into Alper.h to take advantage of the vast grazing ranges there. Some have shipped their cattle from Texas and Nebraska to that part of the country. Cattle. horses and sheep graze out of doors there the year round and just now cattle are bringing good money. Steers were sold at from forty to fifty dollars per head lastN year."
 What kind of stock do you have:
 "All the best breeds" said Mir. Hutch inson. We won't admit poor stock into the country. We have laws that bulls for breeding purposes must be well bred and registered. The result is that we shall eventually have about the best cattle on this continent. We have as good as any on the average now."
 Canada at the Worlds Fair.
 In company with MT. Hutchinson, I took q walk through some of the Canadian departments at the exposition here. That country has one of the best of the foreign exhibits, and best ar- ranged. The grain interests are well displayed, as are also fish, game, fruits and minerals. Canada is now shipping vast quantities of apples to England; it is raising tons upon tons of honey for export; and its woods and wood pulp products are among the greatest of. the ly fine, showing in vast quantities those specialties for which the coun- try Is noted. Said Mir. Hutchinson as we walked through the Canadian dI- vision of the mining building:
 Fortunes in Asbestos and Nickel.
 See those piles of asbestos; that is a great product of my country. We have the best and richest asbestos on earth. and we are furnishing 90 per cent. of the worlds supply. That pile of ore further on Is nickel; we have tons of it here. That is another of Canada's specialties, for we supply 50 per cent. of all used by man. It is employed, you know, largely in the armies and navies of the world, being used to make shells, armor plate. etc. Here is a pile of corundum of which we furnish s5 per cent. of the worlds total product, and that ore further on is a cOmbina- tion of cobalt, nickel, silver and ar- senic; 1t comes from the new mine just discovered by a little French black smith, who Is likely to make millions out of his find We have. in short, al- most all kinds of metals. from coal and iron to gold. Our country has never prospected as has the United States, and some of the chief mineral discoveries Of the future may be looked for from Canada, British colurn- bia and in the regions of the Yukon"
 Frank G. Carpenter