Activity in Alberta in preparation for the spring rush to the oil-fields at Fort Norman, is gathering headway, and the entire Province is in a state of feverish excitement. Scores of applications for charters to do business in Alberta and places to the north show that capital is taking uno little interest in the new field. New companies are being organized daily here and in other Canadian cities. Seventeen are reported to have been incorporated in Toronto alone, and advices from Montreal and Vancouver show equal eagerness in those places. Great piles of freight are already accumulating ay Fort McMurray, on the Athabasca river, north of Edmonton, awaiting transport into the oil country.—Reuter. zo "Confidence in the materials we use is only a little less important in the building up of industries than confidence in the men we
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.