San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-01
Bumper Crops, Greater Out
put Of Lumber and Min
erals and Increased Exports
Help Dominion Toward
Business Recovery.

Toronto, Jan. with notable in
creases TO record both in production
and in export trade, Canada is able
to report substantial progress in the
year just closing. Prosperity, It is true,
has been far from uniform during the
last twelYemonth, but il has been much
more evenly distributed than during
any corresponding period of the last
six years.
If the profits on individual items Of
farm production have been small, this
advantage has to some extent been off.
set by the larger crops. For instance.
the wheat yield of the whole Domini,I
is variously estimated at from 391 49,
600 to 100000 bushels: hay and
clover show a harvest nearly 80 pcr
cent greater than that of last year !;
while the yield of oats. aggresating over
513,000,o00 bushels, is almost a rec
ord breaker. Even more valuable TO the
prairie provinces than their produc-
ton of 900,000,000 bushels cf all kinds
of grain is the evidence of a beginning
of mixed farming, as shown, for ex.
ample, by the shipment Of several thoJ.
sand Christmas turkeys from Saskatoon
to the Toronto market and by the e1-
port business recently developed for the
poultry and dairy produce of Alberta
and Saskatchewan.
Increased Lumber Exports.
Rather more profitable, however, have
been the products of the forest. In On
tario and Quebec the year-e1d sees log.
ging operations increasing in activity
owing to the home demand for building
materials. In British Columbia, on the
other hand, the very marked recovery
of the lumber trade has been due TO
transpacific requirements, IS, 000,00
feet, it is estimated, being sent to Ats
tralia. Owing to the regular sallings
and TO the reduced rates of the freight
ers of the Canadian merchant marine,
British Columbia has been able to say
ply so per cent Of India's total I'm
portations of lumber, go per cent OF
South Africa's requirements, and prae-
tically all of Egypt's needs. Earlier in
the year this province depended upon
good lumber trade that had been built
up with China and Japan, out lattertJ
the Island Empire, owing to financial
difficulties at home. has been curtailins
impOrtations.
But the forests have furnished great
or wealth than that represented by lurl-
Der alone. Owing to greater demand
from your markets, the export of news
print for the first seven months Of tho
year had increased by about 43 per ceit
over that of last year. while the expOT-
tatiOn Of pulp for the same period
showed IS per cent advance. One
group Of Quebec paper mills has just
sold its output for the next ten years
to buyers in Great Britain, France
and the United States. As a result OF
these more encouraging demands tie
stocks of the well-established Canadian
paper companies have been steadily r!s-
ing even in the bear markets of the
last month.
Mining Industry Improves.
Many noteworthy additions TO the
wealth Of the country have been con-
tributed by the mines of the Dominion.
At Sudbury, Ontario, the nickel mines
and smelte1 have again been operating,
From the province of Quebec the ex
port of asbestos has been double that
of last year. In Yukon the discovery
of silver has helped to revive the oace-
famous mining industry of that north
ern territory. Most important, how
ever, has been the production of gold.
S25.O00.GO0 worth of the precious metal
having been recovered from the ores
of the whole dominion, of which amount
Ontario furnished four-fiftns.
One of the outstanding features OF
the year has been the record-breakins
haulage of freight since the crop move
ment began in August. Never befo-e
in an equal length Of time have Canad-
ian railways. lake vessels, upper lake
terminals and ocean ports handled so
great a volume Of business as between