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Columbia, and endeavours to show that the chances for money-

making in that promising province are better to-day than they have ever been. The country is not one for profes. sional men but for " workers "-an invidious distinction. "Although big money has been made in land speculation, there is far more money (and certain money at that) in industrial development, and especially in mining, lumbering, and farming." But farming cannot be adequately developed until the Government, which has already done much to provide facilities of communication, organizes a sound scheme of land-clearing.