| Show BI American Plants B ond lie Money Guin Into Electricity EI and Car Cw ink Il Monopolies and HI M Us Tim Bl American n Works j 0 S A M I RI CA N M I L L I al 1 the I low t s is s 11 Uko Superior for tOI An Amor ican lea teul Plant Which h is i qin ln Canadas Now uw Tho Clur c re and Us lIs tien A Winch Which Pays Pas Backed by th Tariff Tho Arc Aru Flowing Info In o Canadian n Factories VV I Spena n at the lI Y i i tt W iI el Copyright 1005 1905 by Frank O n Car Carpenter r penter r rS SAINI Canada Cn money lit In Into Into SAULT S to Canada a In III u coition tr um Tho dominion and 1111 provincial ROV ate bounties Cor or tin establishment of certain kinds of fac factories fn tories the town are uro to lands and bonuses tin the the United States 18 Is many fit of our well known companies art building branch factories on this of oC the tho to 0 avoid paying the duty Uy The Electric Jo the Waiting hOIl e companies both hava large works In Canada The International Harvester Trust hall hatt a plant at with about 10 fir ITS of building The American Locomotive Works has shops near and la I now turning out ut s am engines for tho Canadian other the Simplex Car company In II also making good this side of or the he line Canada In I now nOlI moiling American to made here b y the American To 10 Tobacco bacco company It 1111 with matches made by hy tho Eddy company at nt Ottawa iv 1 branch of pur flur Diamond Trust fiust It ImI Its lis bills with t notH printed In Canada by i 1 American Hank Note Nole company ThU last company hn a n building j not far from tho gloat government or ort f t at nl the h Canadian Is II doing an enormous business All Borta ot of other American g branch h lire f st The Fountain Pen I n pen peo o lM 16 do their from Quebec anti candles cf are nrc to hJ i imade 1 J made malic III In n a factory Halters chocolate linn hUll already an nn I establishment hero here Tho Park Pal lIe Da Davis t vis Ia company has hn put up a II plant at ut t which Is II a tI ot otI across om Detroit and tin till tillI I bookcase people of or I Cincinnati and thu Iho Library lureal company nn ot or notion ton have J plant at lit Stratford Olin I MILLIONS S IN n AND MINES t Everywhere I have Konu gono through tho Ih I lumber Jumber regions I 1 have heard of Ameri merl American can money which In III forests pulp nn saw mills Among the biggest lumbermen lire are men from Hut Bur Detroit and New York City They Thc have saw mills and one company In III now arranging to upend In developing Its HI properties s Tho exploitation of or Canadian mint h III on American gold The fhe big coul and Iron deposits ot at Nova Novil Scotia were opened up by Henry N Whitney of or orUo ton All II tha tho nickel or br lid II which w constitutes half hulf the supply of tho th world Is being mined miles where hero I am writing Tho mines milles and works are ure owned by hy tho Interim Nickel Company of the Iho United States It spent of dol dollars dolI I lars In putting up lip tt It II machinery and andIn In out the ore Its 1111 proper property ty Is III worth twin of or millions Tho United Statin company owns big bl Iron north of or Lake Lako Superior and the tho largest In the heart of ot the Cobalt Held belong to un American company headed hendell by E of New York and backed l to PO I am um told by millionaire belonging to the Stand Oil Trust In addition to 10 this there Is h a 0 vast amount of or American money moncy ruing Into the west The amount which lias como In III within the last three of nt four years Is said to bo he Ilka III IIII I furnished In III small turns by an farmer There other othor millions going Into wa Va water ter ami Hour mills CANADAS AMERICAN PLANT PL N The bh II t plant In Inthe the th Canadian dominion belong to Americans It la Is hero at nt 1 Marie It all ull told enough on uh to coyer cliVer ft 1 farm 1 nd itA branches branche extend out nut B 1111 ui u to tn take Inko I In tho th whole surrounding country America practically o the town of nf Sault Salute Marie It has tho beit of or the about It and j ill the Ule water on Hide of ot th tho treat down which thu tho o oUke or lake Uke superior roll to tl level Iel of Lak Huron Till Tho fall lall Is b about 19 10 feet am ho current I such lIuch that It will hundreds of fIr of oC horse It was iu this his horse power lOEr which b the Investment of or many millions of 1 II 1 fated American money here at th tile I 1 Mer reter further lurth on to the building up ot of these fac fae tiles which were Iro established by P I II and financed by the fhe Inke Su jU Superior They are now go goIng 0 Ing through the tho lire of at reorganization and most t of them will eventually pay tho money lost by b the poor people lle pl In III the operations has hils KOlle forever Thirty or forty million llon dollars or more mON has ha actually been spent upon the Ih properties and u a great purl part of or this In 18 In 11 a II tangible shape shallI The rhe In which promise Ir ml e tro t arc rapidly ut Into nto and a 11 Industry Is rising out of or thu failure Ihu I am told paid aid huu jour the first since lt It II icor 1101 Iti actual working and Its managers tell lell me that U will yet C pay dividends ALL AL THIS TO 10 TUB nm STATES STArES The e American works po large that I hardly know when to b my description of or them I have huo nil all of ot today tramping through tho stone buildings on the hank bank of ot the river On OM of oC them U Is the largest pulp mill on the tho North American continent and un under del der H It U hi th the POM or 11 ll which tho a ul t force Corce ot or the St Marys river Another structure covering I should Rny KIJ JO 1 or 30 tho largest lt rail mil plant In Canada ling a third hia haa ohe he of It biggest along the thc great The fhe company hall Iron works car shops for Cor wood woot alcohol and charcoal and u a ve venturing e plant which like many of the theother theother other Institutions I based on tho Cnn Can Canadian adian tariff Thu 1111 company has built up owns the tho chlof franchises of ot Sault Murle Including ng the waterworks lights et cars C It owns ownA the ucro to the States the chief hotel and practically pra every everything e r thing s sIn In addition to these hero here at nl the tho Soo SIO It has nickel 1 mines III upon which It has spent or to and Iron mines mine In the range r hear neill Lake Superior It has ore docks and ore oro steamers Ht barges for tor bringing Its Iron to tho blast furnaces hero here also to tn tho Iron markets on Lake Luko Erie Irle In connection with the establishment of or the pulp mill It received big conces concessions of timber lands and It II has other land fop COL the building of the Algoma Central railway which Is III to tf extend from here hel northward to Hudson bay Ja Seventy Seven miles of thin road has ha already been built and inore Is now noli building The gets KetA acres acre for each mile of track and when the load I tt completed t I will own I 1 am nm told something like UCles LAKE LAlm SUll mOB It Is a n big thing to put Iut a n harness on Superior nut nul that Is what Americans have done hero here nt the Can Canadian adian Soo OO They have ha vo ClI the worlds biggest body bo of fresh Cre h water and are making It work nay away with the force torce of at horses hor es nil all pulling at lit once Divide that force torce Into two horae teams give each ellch team 10 feet on Oil onan an nil ordinary or roadway ro und and you would have one great of or horses hor cl 60 miles long hitched to the tho works of at this power plant I dont know knoll how many mony hundred thousand horo power po I tho falls of St Marys river can furnish but this company has hall already n Il force equal to 1000 and can cn deliver deller that force through Us Its canal clIal and plant here The water rushes hell Into Inlo tho canal nt the rate of or gallons a II second It take a II good food sized barrel to hold hohl 50 gallons It you will Imagine the fall falling ing of ot n It thousand of nf such barrels from tho second story of your our house to the t e 0 6 V Vt t cy y yi i t w t I Int 1 nt t tt tI t I f I I r f ff f I Il l X I oj i i 1 f ff I I fI f t l tl l lf f X t tf t ti i f 1 I 1 I M 10 I J 1 J t 9 X X X w t M X o oo STREET OF or SAINTE MARIE CANADIAN CITY OWNED BY DY AMERICANS H ground every time your watch ticks licks all 1111 day und nil all night every e r lilY day every c night the year through you ou may appreciate something of tho t 0 power which Americans own on on the Canadian side of ot tho falls Of this mighty might force Q horse horsepower power Is consumed In the plants now In operation here horo and ant horsepower hor has been leased to the Union Carbide works so that there thee Is something Ilko horsepower hor left to sell Rell or turn Into new U The force runs the pulp mill and other factories U Il Is carried to 10 the steel works and It II operates s the tho cars and light lI of or the town It Is developed b by turbine wheels which transform It Into elec electricity eo o that It can be sent anywhere by b wire LIKE 1110 MEDIEVAL CAS es CASTLES esTIES TIES The main buildings of ot these works me 1113 right on the fit at Mary s river not till far from where the great steamers pass through the Canadian locks on their way down the lakes lake They The look like castles nuner than factories are equal In beauty to any ot of the ruins of or thu Ih or the thu Danube Indeed they the remind me or ot orthe the mighty forts ot of Delhi Deihl In India They fhe arc 1110 built of or a rich red and white while with walls and notwithstanding their are aro said to have been remarkably cheap A canal had to bo dug dUK for tho power plant Its Ita path wa IIa right through the rock and tho rock taken out was tills white reddish standalone Tile Tie strata was such that tho rocks were just fit lil fitted lilted ted for tor the building Indeed the stones stone could be up like bricks from a 1 pile and laid In the without re redressing redressing dressing ALL DONE BY Y WATER H It Is Interesting to go through these factories see fee how the power Is ap liP applied plied d In the he pulp mill where a l hun hUll hundred dred e wagon loads of pulp board boord arc aro turned turnell out every tiny I paw Fill Lake Superior grinding the he logs t dust mixing the latter It with water and changing It Into miles of paper for tor the printing establishments of the world word Tho output nt lit present 11 Is such uch that If Ir could paper paler a 1 pavement as wide as Us thu ordinary sidewalk clear lent the th world In III less Is than three months In III the saw mill I saw aw Lake Superior cutting millions of feet teel of lumber Into boards for Cor the of nf the United States and II JIll In the tho veneering works birch logs as big around us III n I Hour bar barrel rel being rolled out Into tome as os thin as ns your little HII I and others as liS is 1111 the board cover of an 1111 old family ThIn veneering Is Used for tOI the back backIng Ing In of mahogany and quartered oak I which Is II brought here In thin from and other places Hy 11 means of the birch they are 1110 to o Into furniture that one ho he Is 18 getting solid mahogany or solid oak whereas he has only the Iho knottiest I of pint pine or other rough wood lood on which la Is placed a strip of oC birch ulti u 1 Him ot of on top The thick veneer veneerIng Ing la Is also nl o used fop Cor chair Feat Most of ot the opera seats lire are from It II ml It ItIs ItIs Is largely used In furniture and car making It wonderful to take a log lo funk fOik It In boiling water and then Ihen unroll It II and imie lIre It oft off Just as you would pure pare an nn Into these e wide thin strips of or 1 perhaps a n hundred hu feet reet long That Is ts what I saw here As All I stood by b the boiling tank In III h the logs are ure soaked before go going ing IlIg Into the tho cutting machine of the water plat upon my IllY haid scalded me As I Jumped back my guide said We o have to bo be very care careful ful rul in throwing In the logs It Is III a II dangerous business The Th other day one of ot the thc men mell stumbled and fell rell into that vat It before he could be taken out he was boiled Did It kill him I asked You bet It II did I doubt If he 11 r knew anything 0 tier ho touched the water HOW lIOW CANADA A COMPETES WITH oun THRUST The Tho steel plant of the I 1 Superior corporation while not lIot no large aa 1111 some of ot those of the United States Steel company In Pitt and elsewhere Is by fur the t 10 largest In III Canada It Il has hns tho very Ir best be t of Is It so equipped that It II can nn make muke steel rails as ns cheaply and as at well ns liS uny plant on the continent It Is now turning out about tons of oC steel rails per day It has hns n II capacity of ot from to 1000 tons It makes rail of ot CO 60 SO and pounds to tho Ihu yard Tho Iron goes Into he blast furnaces III H turned Into pig The lire are smelted and Ind go through the tall mill I IlI and they the come cOllie out steel rails loaded on the cars und and ready rend for shipment The company com pan has now an on order for tons of rails for tor Canadian Pacific It Is making the rails ralla for the road built hullt by the Iho Ontario government It have hao nil all It can do for fOI years to come the rack for the transcontinental trunk line lillO which the Dominion Is building from the Atlantic to 10 the ho Pacific The Canadian North Northern ern und and other roads In Canada are nl o demanding such rails HO that thin branch of or work worl has years of order In III sight Indeed Its only competitor i In making mils rath for tor Canada Is III the Dominion Iron Iroll company of Nova Scow Scotia tia which has just begun roll rail making A TARIFF AND DIG HO no USES 0 The Canadian government wants Us 1111 steel rails made at home and by Hi 1111 own on It believes In III a protective tariff as far IIII aa liS certain manufactures ore are concerned and It Is bound to Lull build buildup up If It It can cun un Industrial Canada The duties on steel pored Imported In from tho United States 7 a u ton If It the Lake Superior corporation can cun make them ns fiS cheaply ns 1111 the d States Steel company It con cnn fell rell nt cost In competition tion with us will make 7 on every ton U It la III now working nt ut the rote rato of or tons n year at that rate it Mil has through the tho tariff the tho advantage df more than over Oel any company making rails In the tho United States Tho materials cost cool about tho Slime same In III the two countries The wages are nie the tho same mid the Canadian labor Is the tho more easily enilY controlled J In III addition lI to this the government H I paying a 11 bounty of a 0 ton on all pig Iron made mado here from foreign ores and 22 a 1 ton on If Ir made from native natho ores This gives Ies the blast furnaces a abig I bit big profit As AI I saw In the he molten ore pouring louring from the furnace which con contained I about 40 fO tons the man In said o 0 me as all he pointed pain led to the golden rolden stream of metal meta There comes another clear cler CO 50 In bounties ties Indeed I nm at lit a n loss to understand whore where tho democratic part of the Can Canadian adian ends und the pater pator paternal nal begins begin This province of or Ontario Is now buildings a n railroad out of oC UH 1111 treasury It U Is giving bonuses to fac Cne factories tories It Is guaranteeing the In Interest terest on bonds bont of ot certain No one ran can tell what U la dont do o In Incase case eMe of financial It II may ma Ien pay the labor bill nf a It defunct or dying corporation It did that very cry thing right here nt lit the Boo 1300 when the tho Lake i Superior company failed owing thou thousands sands of dollars to Us Its Tho workmen went wild wll over oer their th lr lows 10 18 They stoned the windows of the factory a riot was nil Imminent lit Thereupon the Ontario government g |
