only, of course, they do not give assistance to 

 the youth in acquiring farms. In a great many 

 instances these Barnardo boys, after gaining 

 farming experience, take up homesteads in the 

 newer settled parts of the Dominion, where they 

 have been very successful. It has been estimated 

 that Dr. Barnardo's boys and pirls who have 

 already been sent to this country have been 

 worth $5,000 each, or a total of over $125,000,- 

 000. They have developed into splendid citi- 

 zens, and during the Great War some 6,200 

 Barnardo boys enlisted in the Canadian Expedi- 

 tionary Force, of whom 531 made the supreme 

 sacrifice. 



In 1900-01 juveniles to the number of 977 

 entered Canada, although there were applica- 

 tions from children in England who wanted 

 to emigrate to this country totalling- 5,783. 

 This number increased to 3,264 in 1905-06, but 

 steadily declined until 1913-14, when the number 

 who entered the Dominion only totalled 1,799. 

 However, during this fourteen-year period appli- 

 cations received by the various agencies in 

 England steadily rose from 5,783 to 30,854. 

 The war naturally put a stop to further emigra- 

 tion, but since the Armistice migration has 

 resumed, and during 1921 approximately 1,000 

 juveniles entered the country. The care with 

 which these children are selected has prevented 

 wholesale emigration from England, and Canada 

 received only the very best of those offered. 



Many of these children com^ from good 

 families of the working class in England, who, 

 living in depressing and undesirable conditions, 

 have had little or no opportunity to develop. 

 In Canada there is a pressing need for immigra- 

 tion, and many farmers in the Dominion would 

 be glad to take one or more of these children 

 to bring up and train as farmers. If the youth 

 does not wish to take up farming as a vocation, 

 there are other industries he may learn. .In 

 fact, the field is illimitable. Some have found 

 their way to legislative halls, some are in the 

 ministry, some are farmers in fact, these youths 

 are to be found in every walk of life in the 

 Dominion. The progress of Ontario's scheme 

 will be watched with interest. 



Ontario Mining Prospects Good 



Increased mining activity in Northern On- 

 tario during the first six months of 1922 is 

 clearly indicated in the report of the Ontario 

 Department of Mines, which has just been 

 issued covering that period. During the first 

 half of the year the value of mineral production 

 was $14,448,312. Gold, of course, accounted 

 for the major portion of this sum, and, judging 

 from the results produced in the period under 

 review, production for the whole of 1922 should 

 exceed $20,000,000, which compares very favor- 

 ably with a total production value of $14,624,085 

 in 1921. Silver production also shows an in- 

 crease over the corresponding period in 1921. 



The following is a summary of the metalli- 

 ferous production for the first half of 1922: 

 gold, ounces, 476,338; silver, fine, ounces, 4,774,- 

 666; platinum metals, ounces, 151; copper sul- 

 phate, pounds, 22,553; copper metallic, pounds, 

 495,899; copper in matte, exp. tons, 505; nickel 

 in matte, exp. tons, 425; iron ore, tons, 1,004; 

 iron, pig, tons, 10,517; iron arsenate, pounds, 

 75,000; cobalt metallic, pounds, 2,411; cobalt 

 oxide, pounds, 153,510; nickel oxide, pounds, 

 437,258; nickel cobalt oxides, unsept, pounds, 

 647,254; nickel metallic, pounds, 102,200; other 

 nickel compounds, 27,270; lead, pig, pounds, 

 1,993,880. 



Gold and Silver Output 



The value of silver and gold secured from 

 the mining areas of Northern Ontario during 

 the past quarter of a century is enormous. In 

 the Cobalt area alone there has been produced 

 ?ince 1903, 300,000,000 ounces of silver, valued 

 in the neighborhood of $200,000,000. Since 

 1887 approximately 17,000,000 tons of copper 

 nickel have been smelted in the Sudbury dis- 

 trict, delivering 433,831 tons of nickel and 

 254,104 tons of copper. In the past decade the 

 Northern Ontario fields have produced more 

 than 4,000,000 ounces of gold, valued at above 

 $73,500,000. The Hollinger Mine in 1921 pro- 

 duced gold to the value of $10,114,719, as com- 

 pared with a total production for the province 

 of $16,322,629, and in view of the labor troubles 

 in the Rand, South Africa, it bids fair to be- 

 come the premier gold-producing mine of the 

 world in 1922. 



Exploitation of the mining areas has pro- 

 ceeded steadily ever since the discovery of 

 nickel in 1887 and silver in 1903, and during 

 the past couple of years has taken on the 

 appearance of a fair-sized boom. New capital 

 is flowing in from all parts of the world. Gold 

 mining especially has taken a spurt, numerous 

 companies having entered the field in recent 

 years. Drilling operations are now in progress 

 in several new mines, and prospects are favor- 

 able for their entry into the shipping list during 

 the next few months and consequently enhanc- 

 ing the value of gold production in Ontario. 



Ore Testing and Research Laboratories 



A great deal of the mineral development of Canada is 

 promoted and effected by individuals or companies so 

 limited as to personnel and capital as to debar any ela- 

 borate outlay in preliminary investigation work and 

 initial machinary. It is largily with a thought to these 

 that the Mines Branch, Department of Mines,, maintains 

 at Ottawa modern and well-equipped laboratories for 

 experimental test and research work on the dressing and 

 metallurgical treatment of Canadian ores and minerals. 

 The purpose is to render assistance to the mineral industry 

 generally, and to promote its advancement by providing 

 laboratories in which experimental work can be carried 

 on, and in which research on special problems connected 

 with the milling, concentration, separation and metallur- 

 gical treatment of Canadian ores can be conducted. 



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