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Province during a term of years, and the Dominion Government should 

 encourage the manufacture of steel rails in Canada. 



This question is one of immense, nay, of vital importance to us who 

 are citizens of the Province of Ontario. There ought to be no point 

 more favourably situated. Iron ore can be brought from the north-east, 

 nickel from the north-west, and coke from across the lake. The magni- 

 tude of the operations can be realized when I say that, from my personal 

 knowledge, one private works in England paid in wages alone $40,000 

 a week. 



And not only Ontario, but the whole Dominion would be benefitted if 

 we smelted our own iron and steel. Iron ore occurs in so many places 

 that it is difficult to say what part of the Province might not be directly 

 benefitted by mining, besides the general renewed prosperity it would 

 give to the whole country. 



