Word: canadians
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Since U. S. lignite sells at from $2 to $3 a ton, exclusive of freight, the chief value of the new beds lies in the fact that they are in the immediate vicinity of the coal burning Canadian paper mills, the largest of which, the Kapuskasing, burns 500 tons of coal daily. With coal mines within sound of their buzz saws, Abitibi pulpmakers saw a chance to make newsprint still more cheaply for U. S. newspapers. Lignite, or "wood-coal," is geologically half way between turflike peat and smudgy bituminous coal. It is hard, looks like dirty brown slate, burns...
Good news for Canadian lumbermen and pulpmakers, bad news for British and U. S. coal shippers, was announced by Ontario's gruff, industrious Premier Howard Ferguson last week. Drilling profound holes in the rocky banks of North Ontario's Abitibi River, geologists of the Ontario Department of Mines had struck a coal formation estimated to contain 20 million tons of lignite...
...were apparently on the short side to the extent of 30,000,000 ounces. No El Dorado but an El Argento is China. It is the only important country on a silver basis currency. For many a year it has been one of the chief markets for U. S., Canadian, South American silver. But lately silver prices have decreased, the Chinese market slowed. Reasons: overproduction of silver in the U. S., Mexico. Then, too, India, once a great Chinese silver buyer, has been selling instead of buying. France and Belgium in the last two years have sold...
...golfer over the age of 55. This he proved last week by scoring 156 for two rounds at Apawamis (Rye, N. Y.), in the tournament of the U. S. Senior Golf Association. Then he proceeded with oldster colleagues to Ottawa; Canada, and won a tournament of the Canadian Seniors' Golf Association, a one-round medal event for a cup presented by the U. S. seniors.* His card was 77, two strokes better than Charles D. Cooke of Arcola, N. Y. Veteran tennis players appeared last week on the courts at Forest Hills, L. I., for the national veterans championship...
...Canadian-U. S. Route. To form a segment in a proposed transport system across southern Canada and northern U. S., R. C. Lilly and other St. Paul-Minneapolis businessmen last week bought control of Northwest Airways (Chicago to St. Paul-Minneapolis line). Canadian planes will cross into the U. S. at Detroit, fly by way of Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis to Winnipeg, thence westward to Vancouver...