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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47
Plumbago
Plumbago.
"We have to congratulate the Dominion of Canada Plumbago Company on its wonderful success at Paris, it having taken the highest prizes in every department, namely:—Gold medal, pencils, highest award; silver medal, crucibles, highest award; silver medal, plumbago, highest award; honorable mention, stove polish; and the Commission advise that a diploma of honor is expected for the collective exhibit. This is one of the most promising of the mining industries of the Ottawa Valley, and the success it has already achieved is most creditable to its promoters. The enterprise was commenced and carried through over a period of unexampled depression, and has achieved a signal success in the face of the strongest monopolies in the world."
The Company is fairly under way, with a capital of half a million of dollars, agencies in London, Paris and New York, exhaustless mines, and the world before
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it. Before winning the above mentioned honors in Paris, it had already carried off the highest gold medal of the Arts Association at Ottawa in 1876, and the highest medal and diploma at the Centennial in 1876.