02 HALIBUETOX — ON COAL TRADE OF THE KEW DOMINION. 



that were worth having. Since then new carboniferous district* 

 have been discovered in Cape Breton and in Nova Scotia, while 

 in Pictou a far more vaiimble coal field than that reserved by the 

 Association, has been found near Middle River, These new 

 mines have been explored and are being opened up by 

 foreigners, for though there is abundance of capital here, there 

 is a slight want of enterprise among us. If, however, mining 

 rights are only carefully preserved from l)eing endangered by 

 changes of Government, andby the claims of political partizans, 

 we may rely upon strangers for the speedy development of our 

 mines. In a material point of view it may matter little from 

 whence capital comes, so long as our mines are opened up. 

 But as the Americans are daily l^ecoming the owners of our 

 gold and coal mines, the political effect must in time be apparent. 

 If we are to form part of the British Empire, it is desirable 

 that we should be connected with it l)y something more than 

 hereditary ties, and the grateful reminiscences of history. If 

 the most important somx-es of provincial wealth are owned and 

 developed by foreigners, the people must in time learn to look 

 up with a filial feeling to those, whoever they may be, to whom 

 they are indebted for the welfare and prosperity of the pro- 

 vince. Fortunatel}', however, the capitalists of Ontario and 

 Quebec are slowly turning their attention to our mines, and we 

 may look fonvard to the day when, within the Dominion, we shall 

 find the enterprise and the capital which alone are required. A 

 future of manufacturing and mineral wealth is simply a question 

 of time, and must necessarily result from the position and 

 resources of Nova Scotia. 



Of all the numerous Colonies of Britain, Nova Scotia, the 

 oldest, the nearest, and the most neglected, presents the 

 strongest family likeness to its mother country, in the singular 

 variety and excellence of its resources, combined with its being 

 near the markets of the world. A province, which ranks as one 

 of the first fruit growing countries in the world, which has such 

 a genial climate* that its grapes grown in the open air can rival 



* No country can hope to be a centre of m-.intifactiuiiig or commercial activity, 

 which possesses a rigorous or unhealthy ch'mate. Tlic following extracts may serve to 

 remove some wido-spread prqjuriires as to the <:limate of Nova Sroiia. The ('inrdrner's 

 Chronicle says, " Our readers and t))e visitors to tlic Fruit bhou-s of the Hoyal Uorticul- 



