n6 ONTARIO 



The mtu! cost of tin- transmission lines of tin S\ stem to 



tlu- end of tin- fiscal \< -ber 3t8t, [912, is Sj.7<>X.jiX.;i. which 



with tin- tran- :Hhutin^ stations makes a total capital 



c\i>enditurc in this district of S \. \ ^.Sj ,.j j. The total capital in- 

 M'MiiK'iit for all other systems at tlu- end of the same fiscal year i> 

 000.70. 



CT before," -aid the Hon. Adam I leek, at thcCiuclph Winter 

 " ha- a line heen built or \\orks heen c< instructed and equipped 

 Mich a- we have e (nipped in the Province of ( Mitario. We h, 



I -olid foundation. Three corporations develop powei 



I-'alK and there- \va> no iu-cr->it\ for further development. 

 After eighteen months' negotiations we are ahle to offer to 

 electricity at $Q.OO per horse-power, \ia-ara Kails, and we have 

 100.000 horse-power available." This j, about one-fifth of the cost 

 that it can he generated for from coal, and is cheaper than power had 

 been Mild in the world, as between a company and a corpora 

 tion. or a company and a < '.o\ eminent. The saving per year in 

 Ottawa ,OOOJ Toronto, over $50- MX..; Hamilton, from 



$2OO.OOO to $300.000: and in London. $150,000. " If yon take the 

 thirty different municipalities that we are supplying. 1 am -at'e in 

 saving that the $4,000.000 invested by the Province-, with $4,000,000 



5.OOO.OOO invested by the municipalities, ha- -a\ed the USCrs of 



T $2.000.000 ]>er anniim--or say $10.000,000 in live years. This 

 |>ower is sold to the people at cost price, and it means power not 

 only to the citie- but to the villages and to many of the farnu 

 the Province of Ontario, and T could not be-in to tell you the -real 

 Unetii it \i .i;oinr to be. \Yhat can yon do with ])owi-r on the farm? 

 \nu may cook; you may heat; operate all the machinery on the 

 farm, whether a plow, a harrow, a reaper, a mower, or the niodc-t 

 cream separator, the washing machine, the iron, the sewing machine; 

 von mav lii;ht u\> your farm, or do the milking." At a convention 

 of the Women's Institutes the lion. Mr. P.eck said: " Farm labor is 

 nsive and scarce, and that makes farm life more burdensome. 

 When labor is scarce and expensive, anything that takes its place is a 

 help to the farmer, and we must encourage the farmer, because 

 agriculture takes the first place in the Provhuv of ( utari >." 



In the recent bill for the benefit of farmers. " respecting 



the public constrtiction and operation k railways." the chief 



feature is the elimination of two important fart-.,, ,,f ro^t. the heavv 

 charges for underwriting and the liij^h CO&i of power. There will be 

 no stock jobbing or dividcnd-pa\in.ir 



