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Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, No.47-49
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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tthere are 2,500,000 ties on this pro))erty and, with ))roper management, which it ispurposed shall be given to this project, we should have a continual supply of ties. We are glad to not^ that the Government are going about it in the right wayto settle returned soldiers in the country served by us. We have faith and believeit will be a success beyond all doubt and. in our juflgment, we cannot have too manyof our heroes in the Great Northland. During the year we have been highly honored l)y a visit to our country— Greater Ontario —by Their Excellencies. The Duke and Duchess of Devonshireand family. Feel that this visit will be something we will all remember and lookback upon as one of the pleasant remembrances in connection witli the develop-ment and progress of the Greatest Country on earth. In conclusion we have the faith in the country and tliis. combined withworks, a glorious future is assured and success will come to all. *< r.K. 72 THE EEPOET OF THE TEMISKAMING AND No. 48
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1918 XOKTHEHX UXTAIUU ILVILWAY COMMISSION. 73 Preliminary Report on the Mining Industry in that part of Northern Ontario served by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, Calendar year 1917 By ARTHUR A. COLE, Mining Engineer Tlie miiiinii iiidu^^tr) in the TeniLskaniiiig District has had a fairly prosperousyear. Wliilc .i^old and silver, the two principal metals produced, will each show areduction in the actual ounces produced, the increased value of silver will moretlian oifset the difterence and the gross value of the output of these metals will he.$25,000,000, an increase of -$2,000,000 over the previous year. In order to meet tlie increased cost of living, wages have been increased inboth the gold and silver camps, in the gold camp by a raise in the basic wage andill the silver camp by a bonus which varies according to the price of silver. Last year many of the mines ran very short of fuel during the coal famine,but this winter, profiting by last years experience, a good su)

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