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Title: Hardware merchandising 1895
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Hardware industry Hardware Implements, utensils, etc Building
Publisher: Toronto :
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
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t present experts agree that it ischeaper to produce electricity on the spotby steam power than transmit it so long adistance. The decision of the Customs De-partment has therefore no immediate bear-ing upon the question of utilizing the Fallsof Niagara for Toronto, for even if elec-tricity were admitted free it may be manyyears before science will have overcome thedifficulty of transmitting it long distances.In the meantime the principle is establishedby the present decision that Canadian labormust be employed to supply the Canadianmarket with electricity. This is, of course,subject to revision by Parliament. It meansthat power works will in time be establishedon the Canadian side of the Falls, butNiagara Falls is not the only place inter-ested. At Detroit it was proposed to trans-mit electricity across the river if it could bedone free of Customs duty, and thus use theUnited States machinery, labor, and fuel inCanada. HARDWARE 3 > H w wac o H asoas> gP P* CO co =cmCO o HWW>
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HARDWARE IRON ORES IN 1895. ACCORDING to The Iron Age thekey to the regulation of the ironand steel trades of by far the great-er part of this continent lies in the hands ofthe producers and sellers of Lake Superioriron ores. The low prices of iron and steelwhich have prevailed for the past year havebeen largely due to the low prices at whichthese ores have been marketed. On thethreshold of another season it is asked, willLake Superior ores this year be sold at ahigher or lower price than in 1894? A fewdays since the iron trade was startled bythe publication of an interview with one ofthe most prominent iron ore miners of thecountry, S. S. Curry, president of the Metro-politan Land & Iron Company, owners ofthe Nome mine, to whom were attributedthe most doleful assertions regarding theprospects for the iron ore trade. The In-terview seemed to established (he fact that,in the judgment of one who was fully com-petent to measure the forces and influencesnow at work, bottom prices had

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