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.
"Up to the present," said Premier Ferguson, "the seams have been located by drill to a length of one mile, and a width of one-half mile, and...
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