TABLE IV.-Showing by values the articles of manufactures of iron and steel imported, etc.-Continued.

IMPORTS OF IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURES.

TABLE IV.-Showing by values the articles of manufactures of iron and steel imported, etc.—Continued.

IMPORTS OF IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURES.

TABLE IV.-Showing by values the articles of manufactures of iron and steel imported, etc.-Continued.

Articles.

TABLE IV.-Showing by values the articles of manufactures of iron and steel imported, etc.-Concluded.

771,706 399,852

448,701 807,196 645,518 732,812 744,820 767,836

4,016,189 6,050,301 6,698,185 5,149,530 3,957,372 3,992,711 5,303,201 4,055,953 3,818,933 3,947,819 2,983,024 2,350,942 1,990,186 2,384,281 8,072,142 9,869,234 10,646,004 8,132,554 6,308,314 5,982,897 7,687,482 3,620,041 5,561,851 6,759,223 4,850,658 3,409,947 3,674,450 4,006,915 280,334 837,994 1,566,118| 827,222 583,048 260,929 247,614 3,900,375 6,399,845 8,325,341 5,677,880 3,992,995 3,935,379 4,254,529

190,314 289,970 257,228 303,774 278,715 333,239 436,551 27,700 26,915 12,114 9,405 14,768 93,091 317,670 284,143 315,888 288,120 348,007 529,642

21,318 211,632

7,826,544 11,902,122 13,714,636 10,303,962 7,646,034 8,000,400 9,746,667 4,357,605 4,684,627 5,540,852 3,822,360 2,943,395 2,265,883 2,724,986 12,184,149 16,586,749 19,255,488 14,126,322 10,589,429 10,266,283 12,471,653

*Not included in total imports.

SECTION IV.

MINING LAWS AND REGULATIONS.

mining industry in Ontario.

The mining industry of Ontario may be said to date its origin from the year 1822, when the late Joseph VanNorman started a blast furnace in the Origin of the county of Norfolk for the smelting of bog iron ore. Another furnace was erected a little later by Mr. Hayes at Marmora, in the county of Hastings, who obtained from the government for mining and charcoal-making purposes a tract of 14,000 acres in the townships of Marmora and Belmont. But neither of those ventures seems to have awakened interest in mining affairs in the province. The poor fortune of the second one may be said to have deterred enterprise in this field; and for the next twenty years the official records do not give evidence of any activity in the sale of mineral lands, or in search for the discovery of minerals or ores of any kind.

Mineral resources of the

Mr. upper lake

was

To the possible existence of a mineral region of some value on the north shore of lake Superior some allusion was made by Mr. Logan in his report on the progress of the Geological Survey of the province in 1843. Logan himself did not visit the lake Superior country until 1846, but influenced by the unprejudiced account regarding the mineral riches of the southern shore furnished to the legislature of Michigan by the late Mr. Douglas Houghton in 1841, in his report on the geological structure of the upper peninsula of the state."* Mr. Houghton had been officially employed for eight years investigating the mineral resources of Michigan, and it was in the prosecution of his duties that he lost his life in 1845. "It is under. stood," Mr. Logan wrote, "that he had visited the British shores of lake Superior, and considered their mineral character much the same as that of his own side of the water, though I believe he has made no published state. ment to that effect."

Attention having been called to the possible mineral resources of our

region.

upper lake region in this way, applications began to be made to the govern- Licenses to exment for license to explore the lands on the north and east shores of lake plore the region. Superior and on the north shore of lake Huron, the pioneer in this enterprise being Hon. John Prince, who applied for the Spar island tract on 1st July, 1845. Thirty-one applications were made in that year, thirty of which were for locations on lake Superior. In 1846 the number increased to one hundred on lake Superior and thirty-three on lake Huron; but as the terms of possession were not settled until late in this year, when the management of mineral lands was transferred from the provincial secretary's office to the department of crown lands, a large number of the claims were suffered to lapse through failure to comply with the terms.

Upper Canada Sessional Papers, 1847, Appendix A A A. See also Mr. Logan's Report of Progress for 1843, S. P. 1844-5, Appendix W.