Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-09
A GREAT ENTERPRISE.

The Canadian Pacific Railway is now
completed. The completion OF this rail
way will mark new era in the commerce
OF America; an era as new and wonder
full in its effects as the completion OF the
Union Pacific Railway in 1869 opened.
Upon the completion OF the Union Pacific
Railway there died a state of things
which will nevermore be seen in this
world. The stage coach and the pony
express became things of the past when
the iron horse came across the plains.
The long wagon trains Of emigrants be-
came things OF the past in 1869, while
the frontier was abolished. Following
the completion of the Union Pacific Rail-
way, there came civilization throughout
the West, and many towns and thriving
villages sprang up where no dwelling had
been before save the wigwam
of the retreating red man.
The red man can no longer retreat; he
can only die. All this was brought about
by the completion OF the Union Pacific
Railway, and the change in the Dominion
OF Canada consequent upon the COM
pletion of the Canadian Pacific
Railway will be almost as great.
The change in the Dominion may not be
30 radical because there has never been
any transcontinental overland traffic be-
tween on the Atlantic and the Pacific in
Canada, because there was no Pacific
Coast in British America in the same
sense that the Pacific Coast in the
United States is used. The Pacific Coast
in the United States has always meant
California and Oregon, and nothing like
California and Oregon have existed in
British Columbia. But with Canadian
Pacific Railway over which to carry the
Colonial trade bound for England, there
is no knowing what States may be de-
veloped upon the Pacific Coast in British
Columbia.
England's China and Japan trade will
go via the Canadian Pacific in preference
to any American railroad for many rea-
SONS. The Canadian Pacific Railway is
an English railway and will naturally at
tract English traffic. The rates of freight
will be fully as low rs on American rail-
ways, and there will be no American Gus
tom houses to be passed. 1t is almost
certain that Il line OF steamers between
China and Japan and the western terminus
OF the Canadian Pacific will be put on, and
this will save nearly thousand miles of
ocean carrying, which with such fast
steamers rs the "Arizona" or the Gore
gon" would mean three days less time,
and to vessels of less speed would mean
week or ten days. Then the English
public will desire to see English enter
prise OF national character successful.
especially against so great n rival
in all things rs the United
States are. Much of England's
surplus population will naturally seek a
home in English colonies, and the Do.
minion OF Canada offers the English emf
grant almost every advantage that the
United States do. The Canadian Pacific
Railway gives England Il direct line Of
communication with her Australian colo
MES, and this line is not hampered like
her line OF communication through the
Suez Canal.
The completion of the Canadian Pacific
Railway changes the face OF American
commerce, and no longer are the United
States sole carriers of trans-American
freight. What the United States had as a
monopoly they must now get by compe-
tition. Canada from wilderness will
become a mighty empire.