[keeferJ presidential ADDRESS 31 



Report Geol. Survey^ 1895, pp. 38 E and 83 S, et seq., for assays and 

 description.) 



Ore has been discovered at numerous other localities throughout 

 the district, notably in the Gunfiint Lake district just north of the 

 International boundarj^, at the head of the Big Turtle Eiver and on 

 the north shore of Thunder Bay near Loon Lake. In none of these 

 places, however, are the deposits as extensive as those noted above. 



The Matawin area is about thirty miles from Port Arthur and five 

 miles from the nearest point on the C. P. Eailway. It is on the line 

 of the Port Arthur and Eainy Eiver Eailway, now under construction. 



The most extensive ore deposits on the Atikokan are about 100 

 miles from Port Arthur and forty miles from the C. P. E. This area 

 is also on the line of the Port Arthur and Eainy Eiver Eailway. 



Other iron ore deposits, chiefly hematite, have been discovered 

 upon the north shore of Lake Superior and east of ISTepigon, at Batche- 

 waning Bay, Gros Cap and Little Pic, and are referred to in many 

 reports of the Geological Survey from 186G to 1876, but their extent 

 and value is yet unknown. 



PULP WOOD — AND THE WOOD PULP INDUSTRY. 



According to " Lockwood's Directory " there are over one thousand 

 pulp mills in the Lnited States, and less than one hundred in Canada, 

 but of the thousand, one hundred are idle ; while of the ninety-three 

 Canadian mills only four are idle, one in each of the provinces of 

 Ontario. Quebec, ]Srew Brunswick and ISTova Scotia. Of the greater pro- 

 portion of idle American mills some, are no doubt, closed for want of 

 raw material, because the home product is being rapidly exhausted and 

 importation is necessary. Canada has supplied some of these with both 

 pulp wood and pulp. There is nearly as much difference, commercially, 

 to an exporting country, between its wood pulp and pulp wood, as 

 between the traditional horse chestnut and chestnut horse, — they are 

 not convertible terms ; and there would be a still greater difference if 

 we turned our wood into pulp and the pulp into paper at our own 

 water power?. The same reason which exists for cutting pine logs into 

 sawn lumber in Ontario holds good for turning our spruce logs into 

 pulp and paper, throughout the Dominion. 



Ontario, Quebec, Xova Scotia and Xew Brunswick possess an almost 

 unlimited quantity of spruce of the strongest and finest quality for 

 papermaking. It is claimed for this spruce (not only as against that of 

 the Pacific Coast, but as against that of Europe), that its flocculent fibres 



