Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . AN BOUNTIES ACCORDING to the latest report issuedby the Department of Trade and Com-merce at Ottawa, the following tradebounties were paid out in one year:— Total bounties paid $21,669,965 Metal Amt., Tons Bounty Pig iron 5,431,547 $7,097,041 Puddled iron bars 42,812 113,671 Steel 4,448,780 6,706,990 Manufactures of steel 499,312 2,868,122 Lead (pounds). 1,187,083,350 1,979,164Manila fibre (pounds) ... 108,048,641 367,962 Crude petroleum (gallons) ... 169,134,123 2,537,012 Their Pet Names.—A very tall, thinboy reported to a battalion i
Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . AN BOUNTIES ACCORDING to the latest report issuedby the Department of Trade and Com-merce at Ottawa, the following tradebounties were paid out in one year:— Total bounties paid $21,669,965 Metal Amt., Tons Bounty Pig iron 5,431,547 $7,097,041 Puddled iron bars 42,812 113,671 Steel 4,448,780 6,706,990 Manufactures of steel 499,312 2,868,122 Lead (pounds). 1,187,083,350 1,979,164Manila fibre (pounds) ... 108,048,641 367,962 Crude petroleum (gallons) ... 169,134,123 2,537,012 Their Pet Names.—A very tall, thinboy reported to a battalion in colonel was bald and elderly, butadored by his men. After a few daysexperience of his new command the the officer commanding andasked permission to ventilate a grievance. I wish you would use your influence,sir, to restrain my platoon from referringto me as Legs, he said. Sure! my lad, sure! replied thecolonel, solemnly; if youll use .yours tostop my whole battalion callin me OldBaldy. 68 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume The constitution of industrial enterprise is largely depart-mental—spokes in a wheel. This series of articles has for itsobject the featuring in a racy, interesting and instructive fash-ion, the training, experience and achievement of those whoto-day are transmitting, effectively, energy in their capacity asspokes in the wheels of our metal-working establishments. WILLIAM A. SWEET THE development and transmissionof electrical power has advancedto such a point, and demands suchqualifications in the individual that itmay well be said that wires like gunsneed men behind them. Electrical engi-neering in its operative features, re-quires a degree of practical experienceequalled only by mechanical engineering,and obtainable only by lapse of time andoccurrence of trouble. Just as it is im-possible to cross bridges before you cometo them, so is it impossible to gaugeones ability to overcome trouble untilunwelcome events have present
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