In establishing a manufacturing business on the Canadian side of the line, we feel perfectly independent of tariff laws that may be made in either country. We can do business irrespective of how the lawmakers of one country treat the products of the other.

The Westinghouse Company, of Philadelphia; the Ingersoll Sargent Drill Company, of New York; the Port Huron Thrashing Machine Company, of Port Huron, Mich.; and the Deering Harvester Company, of Chicago, are engaged in the location of great plants in the Province of Ontario.

The Oil Exploration Company, of Canada, a new concern, has been incorporated with an authorized capital of $200,000, with the head office at Walkerville, Ontario.

The Canadian Coral Marble Company has been incorporated, with the head office at Toronto, with an authorized capital of $500,000, of which, it is said, the largest amount is American. The company is empowered to manufacture a composition known as coral marble, which is used for flooring, etc.

It is stated that as a result of the investigation made by American capitalists in St. John's, Quebec, an extensive plant for the manufacture of porcelain - enameled baths will be established in this Province within a short time. The plant, when erected, will be large enough to supply the entire demand in the Dominion in this line of goods, which, up to the present, have been almost exclusively imported. The increasing importance of the trade in this country, and the demand for sanitary ware, which has rapidly grown, are given as reasons for the establishment of the plant.

The Locomotive and Machine Company, of Montreal, has just been incorporated by letters patent to carry on the business of a foundry, machine shop, factory, engine, structural metal, and boat and bridge building establishment. The capital stock is $1,000,000, largely American.

Letters patent have been issued incorporating Robert Stuart, of Chicago; Walter Donald Douglas, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and several Canadians as "The Northern Cereal Company." The capital. stock is $2,000,000, the majority of which is American.

The meat-packing firm of Swift & Co., of Chicago, recently purchased the property of the Fowler Canadian Company, at Hamilton.

A new pork-packing plant is to be erected, which will be larger than any like establishment in the Dominion.

The Haines Piano Company, of Rochester, N. Y., has purchased the old Hess factory, at Toronto Junction. It is enlarging the plant and will employ 200 hands in the manufacture of pianos.

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A charter has been granted the Clover Leaf Mining Company, with a capital of $1,000,000. The head offices are at Toronto. majority of the capital is American.

The Buffalo Forge Company, a $1,000,000 corporation, which manufactures engines, ventilating wheels, and heating and drying apparatus, has declared its purpose of establishing a branch factory in Canada.

A New York company has in operation in Montreal a large plant which makes lumber fireproof. Its output is readily disposed of.

The American Bridge Company, of New York, has been licensed to carry on business in Ontario at a capital not to exceed $100,000. The Globe-Wernicke Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, manufacturers of school supplies and special lines of furniture, is to establish a plant at Stratford, Ontario. As a bonus, the managers receive exemption from taxation for ten years.

A party of Americans is now in Ottawa preparing to erect a factory for the manufacture of spades, shovels, and garden tools. The capital stock is $100,000. The promoters take one-half of the The company will employ 100

stock and Canadians the other half. men.

John Critchley, representing the American Actinolite and Asbestites Company, of New York, who is visiting Montreal, says that his company has commenced operations in Hastings, Ontario, by working some actinolite properties, and has already shipped several carloads. Mr. Critchley intends to establish works in Canada to refine the actinolite, which is used in the manufacture of heavy paints.

The Stohl Wagon and Farm Implement Company, of Harrisburg, Pa., will be removed to Toronto within the next month. The company will employ at first 40 skilled mechanics and as many more laborers of minor importance. The president says that they have been induced to remove to Canada by the growing demand for their products-particularly the 4-inch-tire wagon-in the Canadian.

Northwest.

Letters patent have been issued for the Northern Aluminum Company, with a capital of $500,000, organized for the manufacture of aluminum and other ores. The company has erected a building at Shawinigan Falls, and is already at work. The capital is largely American.

The Montreal Novelty Company has been established here by New York parties.

Letters patent of the Province have been issued incorporating Frederick William Parsons, of Tarrytown, N. Y., mechanical engineer; Henry Daniel Lawrence, of Sherbrooke, advocate; Ernest Webber Gilman, of Sherbrooke, mechanical engineer; William Rupert Elliott, of Sherbrooke, clerk; Hon. Francis Edward Gilman, of Montreal; Jasper Raymond Rand, of New York, manufacturer; and Fred Alfred Brainerd, of New York, manufacturer, to purchase, manufacture, and sell tools, appliances, and machinery,

pneumatic and otherwise, and other articles of similar and cognate character, and motive devices driven by any kind of power for actuating the same; to represent Canadian or foreign manufacturers of and dealers in such articles; to acquire patents, real estate, and water power necessary for the purposes of the said company, under the name of "The Imperial Pneumatic Tool Company," with a capital stock of $25,000. The capital is nearly all American.

The immense industries of the Clergue Syndicate, at Sault Ste. Marie-iron and steel plants, pulp mills, coke ovens, and nickel mines have all been established by American capital.

Premier Peters, of Prince Edward Island, has announced an important agreement with a firm of Canadian and American capitalists, which insures for the island the most complete and modern outfit of cold-storage appliances that can be obtained. The capital of the company is $1,000,000. It pledges itself to establish three coldstorage warehouses, one in each county, with a capacity sufficient to handle all the animal and agricultural products of the island, and to do a certain amount of additional business for Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. It will further establish at Charlottetown a canning factory, capable of handling all the fruit and vegetables of Prince Edward Island; and at the same place, an immense porkpacking and meat-canning establishment, for the whole of the maritime Provinces and Newfoundland. It is bound to maintain and operate all the above for thirty years, to expend $250,000 in the first year, and to pay annually $40,000 in wages in Prince Edward Island alone. In return, the local government guarantees an issue of mortgage bonds, for which the company is to provide a sinking fund, and grants exemption from taxation, to have effect at once. Monopoly is to be permitted.

An important tobacco firm in Pittsburg, Pa., has written the Dominion statistician for details respecting the cultivation of tobacco in Canada, with a view, if circumstances are favorable, of establishing a large factory for the manufacture of cheroots and "stogies. The firm wishes particularly to ascertain the quantity of tobacco grown here, and whether the quality of the native product will permit of its being used for the desired purposes, as the high duties would doubtless prevent the importation of foreign leaf. A reply has been sent, stating that the consumption per head of the population was in 1899 a little over 24 pounds; in 1900, 2 pounds; and in 1901, 4 pounds. There is little limit to the quantity which can be grown. In 1871, the production of tobacco amounted to 1,500,000 pounds; in 1881, it reached 2,500,000 pounds; and in 1891, it had grown to 4,300,000 pounds. Tobacco is grown in Ontario and Quebec, and it is reported that the climate of British Columbia is

also suited to its production. The opinions of experts as to the character of the native tobacco are also submitted.

The International Harvester Company is erecting a plant at Hamilton, and will employ 1,500 hands.

The Altman-Taylor Implement Company, of Peoria, Ill., will soon establish a branch in Canada.

The Canadian Woolen Mills Company, at St. Hyacinthe, has passed into the hands of American capitalists, who will hereafter operate the industry.

The Laurentide Pulp and Paper Company has an immense plant, and has built up around it the thriving town of Grand Mere. The company was organized five years ago and has been prosperous from the beginning.

The latest announcement in connection with the incoming of foreign industries is the news that the International Paper Company, a gigantic concern, is about to utilize the areas it has secured in the Three Rivers district and establish pulp mills in that portion of the country. It has not yet been decided how soon the company will begin actual operations, but it will be within a year or two at the outside. The company already has a sawmill and cutting-up boat at Three Rivers, with a capacity of 3,000 logs daily, and a cutting-up plant which can handle 2,500 logs per day. At Bastican, it also has a big preparing plant.

The manager was in Canada a short time ago and secured 197 square miles of timber on the St. Maurice River, near Three Rivers. This brings the company's holdings in Canada up to the immense area of 1,900,000 acres of spruce lands. In the United States, the company owns in fee simple 900,000 acres and has contracts for 225,000 more, so that all told it is said to control about 3,025,000 acres of spruce.

According to the manager, the lands owned by the company on the Bastican and St. Maurice rivers, in the Three Rivers district, are easily accessible, and the facilities for boat and train service are unexcelled.

Many American syndicates have been looking over the ground in Canada during the last few months. A significant fact to those connected with the paper industry is that the largest of these syndicates, the Gres Falls Company, is controlled by men prominent in. the International Paper Company. The Gres Falls Company was organized in April last and owns water power and extensive spruce limits at Three Rivers. The company is capitalized at $500,000, and it is said to be the intention to develop the industry at once.

The investments made by Americans in agricultural, grazing, and timber lands amount to many millions of dollars. Only recently, a Columbus, Ohio, syndicate purchased 600,000 acres in the North

west Territory. A Minneapolis and St. Paul syndicate has purchased a much larger area, and is promoting emigration from the Western States to the Canadian Northwest, to which over 50,000 settlers have gone during the present year.

Canada is also showing wonderful enterprise in self-development. People are throwing off their conservatism. When industrial openings are presented to them they no longer take a year for consideration, but investigate promptly, and, when satisfied, invest liberally. JOHN L. BITTINGER, Consul-General.

MONTREAL, October 22, 1902.

STATIONERY GOODS IN CANADA.

A Canadian dealer draws his supplies from many sources. Proximity to the United States is greatly in favor of the stationery manufacturers of our country, many of whom have taken advantage of this market to the fullest extent and push their goods ahead of those of all other countries; but the stationery imports from Great Britain and other Old World countries are considerable and are growing rapidly. Imported goods are generally chosen in Canada in preference to those of home manufacture.

Writing paper.-Much of the paper for manufacturing fine writing stationery is of United States origin. Our market commends itself to the Canadian buyer, for the reason that the goods can be shipped in any desired quantity and in quick time; and in novelties, the United States is far ahead of any other country. Travelers from our mills visit this market nearly every month and thus keep in close touch with the jobbers, while a yearly call is all that British representatives pay. Of course, much paper of ordinary class in bond, parchment, and vellum is made in Canada. Fancy tints also are made to some extent, but most of these come from the United States. Papeteries. In papeteries, the English houses stick mainly to staple sizes. The quality of the British papeteries is said to be finer than the American, but they are not put up so tastefully. The British goods are cheaper than the American. A few novelties in papeteries come from France. These are in flaring colors, and are not in great demand. Nearly all black-bordered note paper comes from Great Britain.

Blotting paper.-In blotting and typewriting papers the United States is in the lead. The thick blotting paper, which formerly came. from England and Scotland, now comes from Virginia. In thin blotting paper, the trade is still in favor of the old country. Blotting paper, with one side glazed for advertising purposes, comes wholly from the United States.