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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



The following table makes a brief comparison between ourselves 

 and our neighbors sliowing the total number of miners employed in 

 both countries and the production of copper, iron and salt in the 

 last census years respectively : — 



In 1886, according to the Report on Minerals in Canada by the 

 Geological Survey, the total value of mineral production vas $10,- 

 529,361 (or $11,529,361, errors corrected) while the total value of 

 mineral production iu the United States in the same year, according 

 to the Eeport on Mineral Resources by the Geological Survey of that 

 country, was $459,327,888 — being a proportion of about 1 to 40. 



Your Committee are emphatically of opinion that this great dis- 

 proportion does not exist in the mineral resources of the two countries- 

 4. From Table "A," accompanying this report, it will be seen 

 that for the year 1886, the imports into Canada of mining and crude 

 metallurgical products from the United Kingdom were $6,880,103 

 and from the United States $0,448,776, while the exports from Can- 

 ada in the same year to the United Kingdom were $591,632 and to 

 the United States $3,187,163. 



The above figures are from the Trade and Navigation Returns of 

 the Dominion. We give a separate table *' Aa," compiled from the 

 United States Trade Returns in order to show the remarkable differ- 

 ence there is in the returns of the same article given by the two 

 countries. 



In each case there was a balance against us of about six millions 

 of dollars, but it will be borne in mind that the tiiriff of the United 

 States is in many productions practically prohibitory. 



Again, taking Canada's exports ot produce of the mine to Great 

 Britain, the United States and all other countries for the ten fiscal 

 vears 1877-1886, we have the following figures : 



