MINERAL WEALTH

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 May 1927, Page 4

MINERAL WEALTH

CANADA’S POSSIBILITIES. Speaking in Toronto recently, Dr. Mackintosh Bell, formerly Canadian Government Mining Engineer, made a fresh eloquent appeal to the British public, and to the City of London in particular, to pay much more attention than it has hitherto done to the great progress and possibilities of mining in the Dominion of Canada. His further suggestion to the British Press that it should deal with Canada’s Hollingers and Lake Shores rather than continue to dwell on a few fiascos leaves our withers unwrung, says the leader writer of the “Financial Times.’ As belits an enthusiast, burning-with local patriotism, Dr. Bell puts Canada’s claims so high as to be likely to arouse the ire of South African and other fields. After all, although Northern .Ontario has produced a billion dollars (say £200,000,000) worth of metals to date, it has still a. long way to go to catch up the £900,000,000 which the Transvaal has turned out in gold alone. However, waiving odious comparisons, Dr. Bell is preaching to the converted when he emphasises the literally enormous potentialities of the vast mineralised region lying between the Great. Lakes and Hudson’s Bay. The more northern region is as yet too remote from transport and other facilities for early development, but. Dr. Bell is not. alone, in looking forward to the day “when great, ships will ply the Mackenzie River and Hudson’s Bay laden with mineral wealth.” Meantime, there is more than enough for years of prospecting and development work in districts near the railway lines, and we hope that British interest and capital will be increasingly attracted to one of the most promisingmetalliferous regions in the Empire, and. indeed, in the whole world.