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facture should be carried further and paper manufactured- 

 The further the ]n'oeess of manufacture is carried ftn-ward the 

 hirgci' the iiumher (if iiicu cnijtloved, and tlie more iiuHicy left 

 in the country for circulation. 1 should not ])resume to dictate 

 to our lumber merchants, who 1 know full well are amono; our 

 best busraess men, and vet it may Ive in certain of our indus- 

 tries we, as Xoya Scotians, have got into a " nit."" Our neigh- 

 bors to the south are particularly ouick to set' a good l)usiness 

 opening, and if the ]^ova Scotian.s are to keep u]) in the race 

 they too must kee]> aliA'e and take advantage of every possible 

 o])p()rtunit_v. This, too, is aM age of big things, to get the most 

 out of them, our imlustries must be on a larger scale, and in 

 the case of these water-powers the ideal state of things would 

 be that one factory should either use the ])roduct of another on 

 the river, or some ])ai't of the raw niatt'rial not used by otliers. 

 and every small particle of our raw material should be manu- 

 factured before it is ship]ie(L If we consider the immense 

 ti'acts of woodland around the Mersey, it can be satis- 

 factorily (lemoustrated that the tV)rest growth is ])ractically 

 inexhaustible if properly looked after and protected from tires, 

 so that any industry located (Ui the riyer for the nnmufacture 

 of anvthiug in the line of wood wtmld bo an established tixture. 

 The, furtlu'r the process of manufacture i?"^ carried on the less 

 the. cut of logs is likely to be, for nothing could be so destructive 

 to our f(n-ests as the way tliey have been depleted for the cutting 

 of deal. 



I haye said nothing so far abont industrii^ connected with 

 anything but lumber, as that seems the most natural n-^e to i)nt 

 the power to, as well as the most profitable. Thcr;- arc, liow- 

 cyer. other uses for power if transmitted to the mines i'n the 

 country, for (Queens connty is rich in minerals, and its gold 

 mines are ])articularly valu-able. In fact, electricity can be 

 so ('h(^a])ly d(>yelo])ed on this rivci- that it can be delivered by 

 Iniig transmission lines at comj)aratiy(dy small cost. 



