A great deal of valuable information respecting 

 the carbonization and briquetting of lignite has been 

 collected. In fact the position that the Board occu- 

 pies in regard to the lignite industry is so well recog- 

 nized that it is in receipt of requests for technical 

 information from all parts of the world. 



A special type of retort for carbonizing lignite 

 has been developed by the Board. Its operating 

 principle is entirely novel, and though no specific 

 prophecy can be made at this juncture the Board has 

 every expectation of success. Patents have been 

 applied for on this process and apparatus in all the 

 leading countries of the world. 



Binders suitable for carbonized lignite have been 

 thoroughly investigated. The performance of all the 

 well-known binders has been investigated and their 

 action both when used alone and in combination with 

 others has been determined. 



The Board is devoting the first period to adjust- 

 ment, that is to say, it will be necessary to determine 

 temperatures, operating speed, etc., and many similar 

 details for all the apparatus that has been installed. It is 

 inevitable that certain weaknesses will be discovered and 

 these must be remedied. As soon as possible, however, 

 a commercial briquette will be produced and marketed 

 through the ordinary channels of trade. The total 

 capacity of the plant will be 30,000 tons of briquettes 

 per annum. 



It is expected that a successful outcome of the devel- 

 opment undertaken by the Board will result in the estab- 

 lishment of an industry of national importance. 



The Dominion's Marble Resources 



Canada has large resources of ornamental 

 building stone or marble which so far have been 

 largely neglected, and the announcement that 

 the country is on the verge of a tremendous 

 building boom, when building materials of all 

 kinds will be called into requisition on a large 

 scale, draws attention once more to these hidden 

 stores and the opportunities awaiting their de- 

 velopment. As pointed out by W. H. Matthews, 

 Manager of the Canadian Marble Company at 

 Toronto, the prime necessity is capital, which, 

 with proper co-operation and management on 

 the part of those concerned already in the field, 

 will result in the development of the industry so 

 far as to eliminate the necessity of importation. 



As Mr. Matthews points out, in the past 

 most of the stone entering into the construction 

 of many of the larger and more important build- 

 ings throughout the Dominion was imported, 

 with its equal in every way, and in many cases 

 its superior, resting at home not quarried. It is 

 not generally known that Canada has, in Hast- 

 ings County, Ontario, vast deposits of ornamental 

 stone or marble, which have been pronounced as 

 second to none of the best offerings of the 

 world's ornamental stone markets by experts 

 who have seen and examined them. From these 

 deposits replicas of most of the foreign marbles 

 can be obtained, duplicating, in every way, the 

 quality, texture and strength. 



Many Varieties and Colors 



The strata from which the Hastings marbles 

 are taken are compactly grouped in a wonderful 



assortment of varieties, white, colored, bread 

 and butter, monotone, and variegated. Another 

 location of fine marble is in Peel County, which 

 supplied the stone entering into the construction 

 of the facade of the Ontario Parliament buildings, 

 and which is acknowledged to be at the very top 

 of its own classification. Other locations of 

 marble deposits in Ontario are in the counties of 

 Lanark, Frontenac, Leeds, Haliburton, Renfrew, 

 Peterborough and yictoria. There are in all, four 

 quarries operating in the Hastings area and two 

 in other parts of Ontario, namely, Lanark and 

 Stormont. In Quebec, marble is known to exist 

 in quantities in the districts of Phillipsburg, 

 South Stukeley, St. Thecle, and Portage du Fort, 

 whilst quarries exist and are operated at Beauce, 

 Champlain, Missisquoi, Pontiac and Shefford. 

 On the other side of the continent, marble has 

 been found at Kootenay Lake, Texada Island 

 and in the Nootka Sound region of British 

 Columbia, with operations under way at Van- 

 couver Island, Texada Island and two quarries 

 in the Lardo district. 



Not only is Canada able to supply her own 

 needs in this respect from her tremendous stores 

 of such high quality, but in the opinion of 

 authorities on the question, her wealth of posses- 

 sion justifies the building up of the industry in 

 architectural and ornamental stone to develop 

 it under good management to engage in a con- 

 siderable export trade. 



British Columbia's Shark Industry 



By E. B. Buchan Reesor 



Catching sharks in the mud between two 

 islands in the Gulf of Georgia about twenty miles 

 distant from the City of Vancouver, British 

 Columbia, is the employment of the A. B.C. 

 Company, and a week's catch recently totalled 

 80 sharks, with an average weight of one and one 

 quarter tons each. 



Mr. J. J. Kerr, of Victoria, the capital 

 British Columbia, talks interestingly about the 

 industry, pointing out that the possibilities ir 

 the shark catching and shark products Industrie 

 are tremendous on the North Pacific coast. Mr. 

 Nelson Macdonald, of Vancouver Island, is of 

 the opinion that if the shark industry were well 

 organized and financed there would be enough 

 money in it, within a short time, to pay the 

 whole debt of the Province of British Columbia. 



"There are millions of sharks in these North 

 Pacific waters," says Mr. Macdonald, "and there 

 will never be a shortage of them. The further 

 North you may go the more sharks you find, and 

 from Vancouver to Alaska are their feeding 

 grounds. Taking them from the bottom of the 

 sea is automatic. Norway has a hundred of such 

 industries; in fact, the only real hook for catching 

 them works on a swivel and comes from Norway, 

 as does also the so-called ' Cod Liver Oil ' which 



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