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Show ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE A new method of utilizing coal In competition with oil fuel is being tried at Vancouver. It Is said that crushed coal can be supplied to steam-producing furnaces by the same method that oil Is utilized. The new process is of special interest to British Columbia, as It is proposed to apply it for smelting smelt-ing purposes in the big mining plants of the province. It is asserted that seven tons of copper ore can be smelted smelt-ed with one ton of coal by this process, wuereas formerly the ratio was a ton of coal to a ton of ore. Russia and Serbia, also Austria, may allow young women to fight in their armies, but Canada will not, although according to a recruiting officer In Winnipeg, Win-nipeg, several have applied, and two could hardly be kept from joining join-ing by force In response to a call for "stenographers for the second service unit of the Nineteenth battalion." Refining nickel by a new process is reported as having been discovered In Canada. The claim Is that 100 pounds of matte can be converted into 50 pounds of metal in 48 hours, and that the low-grade iron ores of the Iauren-tlan Iauren-tlan hills near Ottawa can be used. In British Columbia half of the Industrial In-dustrial capital is Invested in the lumbering lum-bering and woodworking business, half the pay roll of the provinces is derived de-rived from the forests and 37 per cent of the annual wealth production is attributed at-tributed to the same source. |