New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-02
THE CALL OF THE NORTH
Business Men and Tourists Keeping
Canadian Railroads Busy.
By Cy warmAn-

Toronto July SIN addition 10 the prospector
and mining operator. the annual GOOD OF American
tourists is at full tide. So great is the rush
10 the Highlands that for the time being the brass
buttoned officials who represent Canada on north
bound trains have ceased handing out blank forms
10 be filed IN by the tired traveller. who hates
above all else 20 be bothered when his annual
vacation.
Like the grain elevators on the Great Lakes IN
the shipping season. Toronto hotels are constantly
filling and emptytng. The railways. too. are busy
bringing in the "eapties" and taking out the
loads" The Grand Trunk. which takes trafac at
Buffalo and the bridge delivering II 70 the Tennis
karning & Northern Ontario at North Bay. reports
an increase Of Z per cent already over the best
year the line has ever had.
The rapid increase in the output Of the mines
and the promise OF the biggest crop ever harvested
from her western fields put Canada in an opu-
mstic mood. greatly increasing her chest measure.
Every little while some metal IS added
10 the already long list OF and precious metals
produced by this northern wilderness. the dis
covery Of which was more or less accidental. Only
last year the claim put forward that Cobalt
camp produced one-tventieth OF the worlds output
OF silver. Now comes the Cobalt Nugget, claim
ms. and with facts and figures 10 back up its
argument, that Cobalt Will in 1910 produce one
tenth OF the worlds silver
From Western Ontario the report comes Of
other find. The Northern Pyrites Company have a
rlch mine on the Lake Superior branch Of the
Grand Trunk Pacific. Seventy-hve men en-
poyed IN development work An aerial railway is
being constructed by the company 70 reach the
Trauscondaertal. and when the latter IS open for
trafc and the aerial railway is completed the COM
pauy expect 70 begin ore shipments al the rate OF
ten tons a day. Pyrites is used in many chemical
industries. and there IS a big market for II IN
Detroit. Chicago and other manufacturing centres
Although tho Lake Superior branch has been
open for trafic under the construction department
for only few months. a great deal OF freight Is
being handled. Many sawulillS IN operation.
One Pelican Lake fishing firm Is already shipping
four tons OF vhitefsh daily 10 Fort William for
distribution Also, the Sturgeon Lake gold excite
meut is carrying many prospectors and supplies
up the new line 10 Superior Junction. In fact. the
gold fever is becoming great hindrance 10 the
contractors. who are rushing the work 10 finish the
main line from Superior Junction 70 Winnipeg
OF party of twenty-tEree laborers whose fare
had been paid 10 the front seventeen escaped on
tho first night, and mixed" with their borrowed
picks and shoves. TO the gold fields.
Tho same IS true Of the trek 10 GowEanda and
the Montreal River silver fields. only here they
have Cobalt dividing the excitement.
In order 10 appreciate the development Of these
Northern helds must have some knowledge of
how dead proposition this New Ontario vas even
six years ago. when North BAY a sort Of last
house on the way the unknown"
During these last six years railway has been
pushed by the province into the very heart Of the
lagos have budded and blossomed 20 the forest
Cobalt has been introduced the mining world.
and now the Canadian Transcoutinentll line has
been reached by the provincial government road.
IIailcyhury, 1--WE miles north OF Cobalt. has grown
t. Doe beautiful town. This town site is on the
sopiug shore of Lake TcmskaminS aud is one ~
the prettest sites IN Northern Ontario. Tsuiskaul-
ing looks more like a great vide river than like
a lake: iu fact, this whole wilderness Is on so large
d scale that lake averaging two miles in width
and fifty miles long is not considered worth writ
Ing home about Lake TemagamI. for instance.
has three thousand miles Of shore line. That
sounds absurd, know. but there they ar and any
man who durhts the government statement is prlvi-
legged To- go out and measure II for himself.
Another noted mining engineer has seen Cobalt
and gone away guessing. H. W Harding Of New
York, who In Toronto the other day is credited
with saying; Cobalt will be a big producer Of silver
tor generations have always held that the values
i'm Cobalt would hold at depth. They do. Ny con
tentiou is amply proved"
Usually wien comparatively poor men fan into a
mine they figure in the management only little
while. take their profits and so In peace. The La
Rose Is exception. The big men In La Rose
were the McMartins and the Timminses. The other
day \. y. Timmins retired from the directorate.
tired. The new directors are d. NJ. Coulson, gen
oraI manager of the Bank OF Toronto and d +.
McGibbou. of Montreal
The best Cobalt booklet Yet published has been
issued by \. l.. Oser & Co. Toronto The title
Cobalt Silver Mines. is in silver. and there is a
silver nugget also on the cover. The book carries
a map Of the Cobalt country and has the appear
ance of containing lot of facts and no fiction