Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-07-30
operations of the company are truly wonder
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.

The aid granted by the Dominion Parlia
ment towards the construction of rail
road through its territory has given ar
impetus to immigration to this Province
and this place, which a few years ago had
only a few hundred inhabitants, has now
four thousand. Work is now going on
south between this city and st. Vincent, on
the boundary line sixty miles, to connect with
the railroads in Minnesota; and east of here,
the work Is about commencing on the main
line to Fort William, on the north side Of
Lake Superior, where also work has begun
to connect the two points four hundred and
fifty miles, on what is known as the Dawson
route. Steel rails for the track have arrived
at Duluth and are on their way here. Prepa-
rations are being made to build the road from
Ottawa to Sault St. Marie, where it will con-
meet with the Northern Pacific. the year
around. and by water to Fort William. above
mentioned, in the summer, until such time as
business will warrant its construction on the
north shore Of Lake Superior. West from
this city its line runs on the ridge Of land
south and west Of Lake Winnipeg. between
the head waters Of the branches Of the Sas-
katehewan and Assiniboine on about the
SD parallel to Fort Pelly, thence south OF
Fort Edmonton to the head waters Of the
Athabaska, crossing the Rocky Mountains
at the Yellow Head Pass, at about the SD
parallel of latitude. and the ll9th degree of
longitude, thence TO the great head OF Fraser
River in latitude %. thence up the Chicotine
to the head of the HomathcO. down that
river to Butte Inlet, crossing the straits Of
Georgia at SeymOur's NarrOws, at an island
near the entrance Of the inlet with suspen-
sion bridge to Vancouver Island aud thence
down the Island 70 Nictoril, the capital Of
British Columbia.
The original terminus on the Pacific was
at New Westminster, the mouth Of Fraser
River, which was bat a few miles north Of
the national boundary line but fearing
branch line might be run from some town
ON Puget Sound in the States. where
there was better halb0r, the line has
been changed as above, touching the Straits
of Georgia some one hundred and fifty miles
further north than New Westminster
The crossing Of the Rocky Mountains at
Yellow Head Pass is only about four thou
sand feet above the sea, one Thousand feet
lower than the Northern Pacific, and four
thousand three hundred feet lower than the
Union Pacific crosses the Rocky Mountains.
With the policy established in Canada of
aiding public works by the government, as
shown in the construction Of the numerous
shin canals on the s.. Lawrence. Ottawa
and Chambly Rivers with line Of rail
ways now in operation from Pictou, in Nova
Scotia, through all the Eastern Provinces to
Ottawa, the capitol Of the Dominion, which
has received more or less aid from ;ae gov
erumeut with q subsidy Of several millions
already granted 20 tie Canadian Pacific, in
accordance with the same policy. and the
promise to British Columbia, upon her en-
tering the Dominion, thar a railroad should
hebJi.; to connect har win the Eastern
Provinces, at an eaiig DAY, j. IL not proba-
h.e that tie road viii soon he built, how
ever imprac,icable ir may st first glance
seem to be and IL view Of tbs. low i'm
portant to Your city and Northern New
England that the CauchnawaEa Cana. should
be commenced AMI completed without fur
ther delay. T. Il. c.