Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-19
Total


Huron with Lake Ontario. .......... 2,311, 6e6
9. Interest railway debentures, etc.. 9,642,O25
Total ...................... SIS, 254 1852
l assume that parties will be in attendance
at st. Paul fully competent to explain the
Canadian schemes of canal enlargement and
their practical results; and it will be sufficient
to give the leading objects of the Welland en-
largement contracts now in course of execution.
The plan of the new work is navigation
with locks 270 feet long, as feet wide and Is
feet on the stills, the width of the canal being
100 feet with a depth of Is feet. The
present line of the canal is 2714 miles, and
the new line will be 26 2-7 miles in length. The
work has been divided into thirty-six sections,
OF which twenty-seven are under contract. The
Great Western railway will pass under the
canal by a tunnel $50 feet in length. Great
Improvements of the harbors OF Port Colborne,
on Lake Erie and Port Dalhousie on Lake
Ontario are in progress. The basin of the
latter, when completed, will extend over six
teen acrcs, VITA depth of sixteen to seventeen
feet.
The enlargement of the Lachine and other
st. Lawrence canals is undertaken on similar
scale.
am able to give the Canadian appropriations
for lS76-77-7S for objects which bear directly
the value OF every farm in the Mississippi val
Icy. Their aggregate is $l5, 2l0,00O, Of which
So, 200, 600 was for the Welland canal and
$7,0l0,0O0 for the Lachine and St. Lawrence
canals. ! have seen no statement of the total
expenditure requisite for the improvement of
the St. Lawrence route from Lake Erie to Mon
treaI, by the works above referred to, which is
less than $3O0O0,00
The surrender by British Columbia of her in
dependent position as crOkn colony accept
ing the organization of a province of Canada,
was only secured by liberal stipulations in be-
half of Canada Pacific railway. These have
been greatly modified, and are now adjusted by
the arbitration of the colonial office, on the
basis of a road to be completed from Thunder
Bay on Lake Superior to the Pacific coast by
$780, The preliminary survey Of
the route, the erection of telegraph over
two-thirds of the line selected and the con-
structiOn OF 22O miles between Red river and
Lake Superior, including a branch of eighty
four miles southwark from the main line to the
international frontier, is the result of an ex-
penditure OF six millions of dollars within
period Of five years-a public disbursement
quite certain to be increased in the future.
Excluding the Pacific province of British CO.
lunbia from the consideration, ] would invite
your attention to the immense territory be-
tween the meridian of Thunder Bay and the
Rocky mountains, and extending from the in
ternational frontier on latitude 40 degrees five
degrees OF latitude by twenty-five CT longitude)
which has been coded by the terms of seven
treaties with Indian tribes-one annually since
1871. Altogether these treaties embrace
400 square miles, or 1914, 1876 600
acres-excluding the regions be-
You'd latitude 81 degrees, of which a block of
territory near the Rocky Mountains, known as
the Peace river country, and as large as the
State Of Ohio, is as well adapted to settlement
as Minnesota. This whole region, equal in arek
to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota
Wyoming and Montana, has been demonstrated
by the minute reconnaissance of the Canada
Pacific railway, to be capable of settlement
as the States and Territories l have named
From present Indications [ infer that it will
hereafter appear on the map of the Dominion
OF Canada, under the following Provincial Or
ganizations:
First-The Red river settlement now known
as Manitoba: enlarged on the north and east by
the absorption Of Keewatin.
Second-AssinibOia or the district adjoining
Manitoba on the west, extending from longi-
tude SO degrees to 105 degrees, aud from lati-
tude 40 degrees to 81 degrees, and enclosing the
numerous fertile valleys tributary to the ASSN
iboine river.
ADMINISTRATIONS, or most of the interior
plain Watered by the north and south branches
of the river so called, and the Piedmont of the
Rocky mountains, whence their springs issue,
the whole corresponding in most res lects to
Montana, which it Joins.
Fourth-Athah asca, or block of country be-
tween latitudes 81 degrees and SO degrees, and
longitudes ITO degrees aud 100 degrees, cor
responding in situation to the southern dis
tricts Of Sweden, or the Baltic provinces of
Russia southwest from ST. Petersburg and
which all acoona,ts represent to be even more
available for the production Of grain and cat
tie.
ask your further indulgence for an exhibit
| of the commerce of h1anitoba--the gateway OF
this vast interior. The following table shows
the aggregate of imports and exports for the
wear ending jnna 20 1873.