. Hardware merchandising January-June 1900. *The briskness in the trade has not beenconfined, as sometimes in the past, toparticular districts. All the counties havebeen beneficially affected. * * * Forthe first time, probably, in the history ofthe trade, 1899 witnessed employment atall of the collieries the year around. the last named, was 1,166 251 tons, ,915 tons in 1898. Just what theCrows Nest Pass mined during the calendaryear 1898 we do not know, they only havingbegun operations that year. But in thereport of the Vancouver Board of Trade ofJune 30 last, the output for the pr

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. Hardware merchandising January-June 1900. *The briskness in the trade has not beenconfined, as sometimes in the past, toparticular districts. All the counties havebeen beneficially affected. * * * Forthe first time, probably, in the history ofthe trade, 1899 witnessed employment atall of the collieries the year around. the last named, was 1,166 251 tons, ,915 tons in 1898. Just what theCrows Nest Pass mined during the calendaryear 1898 we do not know, they only havingbegun operations that year. But in thereport of the Vancouver Board of Trade ofJune 30 last, the output for the preceding 12months was given at 9,334 tons. And thereport of the directors, submitted at therecent annual meeting of the company heldin Toronto, showed that the monthly outputat the mine* had increased from tons inJinuary, 1899. to tons in Decemberof the same year. If this latter rate ismaintained during the year the output for1900 will be over 182,000 total foreign shipments of Vancouver CANADIAN HARDWARE AND METAL 43. MANY BUYERS.

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