Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-20

reached the waters edge-were loaded
into boats and rowed out into the middle
refuge in the mines, but the heat was 30
intense that even the timbers In the
shafts caught fire. Where the timbers
did not burn the air was sucked up by
the flames, the refugees perishfng from
Sunocation.
Solid Wall Of Fire.
Around the lake rose a solid wall Of
fire 100 feet high. Fifteen minutes later
the shore was q blackened waste. Out Of
the lake q woman waded bearing her
dead babe In her arms. Her husband
had persisted in the flames.
Big Nell Mcdonald Of Glengary was
subsided. Six feet from the surface he
found a young girl, dead Below her. on
a little landing. q dead man sat, hugging
his dead wife. Eleven people persisted In
this one shaft. When the Glengary man
blind He led his friend stumbling
from the ruins and sent him to hos
Pital In New York. whence only few
gary:
Out Of the hospital: can see: come
over and souce with me-" Get drunk.)
In week they buried seventy-two
bodies. which the flames had not con-
sumed, and were busy building a bigger
and better Porcupine About all that
was saved was the gold, but as that is
everything at Porcupine. the camp will
rise from its ashes and its population
Will go on grumbling and drilling for the
precious metal. Already Porcupine has
drawn professional miners from nearly
every camp in the civilized world.
To be sure. all this wealth was hidden
from the promoters Of the transcontinen-
tai railway. but what they did expect and
what they counted on, was vast clay
belt where men might carve out homes
for themselves. This expectation has also
come true. Careful surveys by the gov
eminent have revealed q strip Of almost
level clay land $50 miles wide by SOC
miles long-eaSt and west-along the pro-
posed line.
Connects With Grand Trunk Line.
The Ontario government road connects
with the Grand Trunk Pacific at a place
called Cochrane, also destroyed by the
fire. Over 5000 farmers have already
settled IN this far-north country, where
the soil IL exceedingly fertile The sum-
mers are short. to be sure. but the days
are so long that the total number OF
hours Of sunshine" Is equal to that OF
old Ontario, where are to be found some
of the finest farms and the best farmers
on the continent
In addition to the silver and gold and
the agricultural wealth Of Ontario. there
is to be found here and in the adjoining
province OF Quebec the greatest pulp
wood supply in the world. Through q
thousand miles Of almost unbroken fores.
this new national highway will rural
the way from the st. Lawrence at Quebec
to the eastern edge OF the pratries Of
Manitoba, and 1t Is to this vast source
that newspapers must look for theiI
paper supply.
The famous nickel mines at Sudbury
probably the greatest in the world, were
discovered by a party of tie contractors
in the employ Of the Canadian Pacific
The silver at Cobalt, as we have seen
was found by the blacksmith La Rose
and vast coal fields were uncovered BY
the engineers who were seeking a trat
for the Grand Trunk Pacific in western
Alberta.
Shorter Route Contemplated.
The Ontario government railway. thu
Temiskaming and Northern Ontario. Il
to be extended, due north. some 200 miles
to James bay. a part Of Hudson bay
When this is completed one will be able
to reach Hudson bay in less than two
days from New York.
This railway, the property Of the peo
pie, has assets and sources OF revenue
not common to other railways. For in
stance, If mineral is found on the righ
Of way, the government exacts a royalty
from the miner. which is added to 1t.
earnings. All miners pay a royalty ant
they are making Ontario a rich and pros
porous province. The railway Is man
aged by a commission Of shreWd. con
scientious business men. and is said t
be almost entirely free from politica
oia