The New York and Boston Dyewood Company, New York City, has been authorized to do business in Ontario, and has appointed A. W. Leitch, of Hamilton, Ontario, to be its Canadian agent.

The Andrews & Johnson Heating and Ventilation Company, of Chicago, Ill., will establish branch works at Hamilton, Ontario.

From Quebec I learn that the great timber limits and mill properties formerly owned by Gaynor Brothers, consisting of 181 square miles on the Pentecost River, have been purchased by Mr. John McLellan, of Syracuse, N. Y. The timbers and properties are stated to be among the most desirable in this Province.

It is announced from St. John, New Brunswick, that a strong company has been formed there to manufacture aluminum.. James Robinson, M. P., is at the head, but the principal stockholders are American capitalists from New York. The capital is to be $1,000,000, and the plant will comprise a factory at St. John and works at Grand Lake, which is the source of the raw material.

The city of Guelph, Ontario, is to have a new iron and steel industry, a number of manufacturers in Montreal and in New York. State having organized a company to be known as the Page-Hersey Iron and Tube Company, with a capital of $500,000. It will manufacture and deal in iron, steel, and other metals, and the head office will be in Guelph.

A company has been incorporated, consisting of J. W. Langmuir and H. C. Hammond, of Toronto; W. B. Rankine, of Niagara Falls, N. Y.; J. R. Smith, of Buffalo; and C. Crosby, of Pittsburg, under the name of the Clifton Hotel Company, Limited, with a capital of $500,000 and head offices at Niagara Falls, Ontario. The company

is authorized to carry on all the usual lines of business associated with a large hotel.

A syndicate of Canadians and Americans has purchased about 6,000 acres of land near Aylesbury, 25 miles north of Moosejaw. The price paid was $8 an acre. The syndicate proposes to colonize the land. This price is extremely high for land in the west sold in such quantities.

The Canadian Automatic Light Company, Walkerville, Ontario, has been incorporated with a capital of $40,000 to manufacture hydrocarbon and incandescent burners, etc. The provisional directors include J. H. Berry, W. G. Smith, and E. Hobbs, all of Detroit, Mich.

M. K. Rogers, manager of the Nickel Plate mine, in Princeton, British Columbia, owned by the Standard Oil interests, is negotiating for the coal areas of the Nicola Valley Coal and Iron Company. The coal, which comprises nine seams, varying from 5 to 20 feet, No 273-03-10

will be used for coking purposes in connection with the projected. operations of the Nickel Plate Smelter.

Plans have been submitted to the Dominion Department of Railways for a tunnel under the St. Lawrence River, to connect Montreal and Longueuil, Quebec. The plans provide for a double-track tunnel from the south shore into the heart of Montreal, where a central station will be located. The width will be 27 feet and the height 21 feet. Its gradients will be 11⁄2 to 2 per cent, and its greatest depth will be 15 feet below the mean level of the river bed. The structure will be of concrete and stone masonry, with a lining of enamel brick. American capitalists are to furnish the money.

The Union Machine Company, Fitchburg, Mass., will open a branch shop at Sherbrooke, Quebec, for the manufacture of screen plates, etc., used in the paper industry. The company has secured a 4-story brick building, about 200 feet long by 75 wide. The capacity of the new shop will be about 100 screen plates daily. The company has quite a large number of customers in Canada.

The Moose Mountain Company, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, has been incorporated, with a capital of $100,000, to carry on the opera tions of a mining, milling, reduction, and developing company. The leading capitalist and director is C. S. Osborn, of Lansing, Mich.

Interest is again directed to the gold fields of New Ontario, owing to the extensive operations of a company of American capitalists in the Lake of the Woods district. Mr. Henry H. Fryling, Newark, N. J., was in the city last week en route to Clytie Bay, where his company has a force of men at work developing the Indian Jo mine; he stated that they were now down 95 feet and assays had run as high as $67 to the ton. Mr. Fryling was going to the mine to arrange for the installation of new machinery. The capital of the company is placed at $500,000.

The O. & W. Thum Company, a Michigan corporation, has established a manufactory at Windsor, Ontario, with a capital of $35,000, where it will manufacture sticky fly paper, castor oil, etc.

Messrs. J. McNaught, of New York, and W. W. Melville, of Boston, backed by the Central Trust Company of New York, have purchased the Montfort and Gatineau Railway. It will be operated in connection with the Great Northern Railway.

The Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie Railway, which has been purchased by a syndicate of American capitalists for $160,ooo, runs from Brockville to Westport, Ontario. Brockville, the county seat of Leeds County, Ontario, is on the St. Lawrence River, at the end of the Thousand Islands, and is a fine town, having electric lights, gas, sewers, and all modern improvements. It is only

ten hours (365 miles) from New York, and all the villages along the route of this railroad are prosperous, the country being one of the most productive in Ontario. The syndicate which purchased the road is wealthy, including such men as Henry von Minden, president of the United Wine and Trading Company; W. F. Nencken, treasurer of the American Exchange Cigar Company; Gustav Schock, millwright; Val. Schmitt, president of the Federal Brewing Company, Brooklyn; Charles H. Holm, of Holm & Smith, attorneys; and William Volk, director of the United States National Bank, New York.

The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Transportation Company, an American concern, is building ten vessels to be operated between Duluth, Minn., and Quebec. The dimensions of the vessels are: Length over all, 255 feet; keel, 241 feet; breadth, 41 feet; depth, 18 feet; to carry 2,200 tons on a 14-foot draft. Six will be fitted with triple-expansion engines, with cylinders 15, 25, and 42 inches. in diameter and a 30-inch stroke, to which steam will be supplied by two Scotch boilers, 11 by 11 feet, tested to a pressure of 170 pounds to the square inch; the other four will be fitted with triple-expansion engines, with cylinders 14, 25, and 42 inches in diameter and a 30-inch stroke, to which steam will be supplied by water-tube boilers at 225 pounds pressure to the square inch. The value of each steamer is placed at $150,000. Three of the steamers are being built at Chicago, three at Detroit, two at Superior, and two at Buffalo. Delivery is to be made in June, when the steamers will be engaged in carrying grain to Quebec; pulp wood from the company's mills at Metapedia will be taken as return cargoes.

The L. Schepp Cocoa Company, of New York, is erecting a large branch establishment in Toronto.

The Klotz Company, of Montreal, has been incorporated, with a capital of $20,000, to take over the business of Klotz & Co. and to manufacture buttons, etc. The provisional directors include J. S. Klotz and J. D. Kuppenheimer, of New York City, and J. C. MacGowan, of Montreal.

W. E. Hunting, of Minneapolis, Minn., will erect a shingle mill, with a capacity of 200,000, on the coast of British Columbia.

There are doubtless many more investments of American capital in Canada which have escaped my notice. In every great enterprise. projected American capital is solicited and investors are readily obtained. The rapid development of Canada is largely due to enormous investments of American capital and to the energy of Americans.

MONTREAL, April 7, 1903.

JOHN L. BITTINGER,
Consul-General.

COAL AND PETROLEUM IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Consul A. E. Smith, of Victoria, March 17, 1903, reports that a large area of coal and petroleum lands has been recently discovered in Southeast Kootenai, within 25 miles of a branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mr. Smith adds:

Two hundred and twenty applications for claims have been made, and it is stated that 220 miles of territory have been staked off, the stakes being driven in the deep snow. The country is well wooded. The matter has been kept quiet by the applicants, with the object of preventing a stampede. Despite the number of applications filed with the provincial government, the extensive territory has been taken up by a few speculators. For years past it has been known that this territory contained valuable coal lands. These are all on a Government reservation, and can not be opened until a three months' notice by applicants has been published in the Provincial Gazette.

Consul Charles Deal, of St. John's, Quebec, in reporting on the same subject, under date of March 23, notes that according to newspaper advices the locators are chiefly Americans from Spokane, Wash., who have thus acquired what is said to be as extensive a coal area as the Crow's Nest Pass coal field.

GOLD DISCOVERIES IN ALASKA.

Reports have reached here recently concerning a strike of rich. placer diggings in Alaska, in the Circle City mining division, on the tributaries of the Tanana River-a district in which for several years past American miners have made a thorough search for good placermining deposits without success until now. The present strike seems to be one of more than ordinary importance, and has caused quite a stampede of miners from this and other districts to the location of the new fields.

At this writing, when particulars are lacking, it is unsafe to predict too much, but the general opinion seems to confirm the belief that a large and productive placer field in American territory has at last been struck. Circle City is practically deserted as a result of the rush.

It is said that there will be a scarcity of provisions, on account of the influx. The Eagle-Circle route is reported to be the best means of reaching the Tanana from Dawson, as the trails by Fortymile and Goodpasture are unbroken, and no supplies are available. From Fortymile to the new diggings the distance is 160 miles.

DAWSON CITY, February 23, 1903.

HENRY D. SAYLOR,

Consul.