Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-25
MnE REMeFE TmE wall

Attention ID called 20 the following
article from the Victoria Times, the re-
uatsd organ of the Canadian Pacific
Railway. Our British cousins dc not
mean that any Chinese wall shall exist
between British Columbia and this Ter
Fitory. Seattle has Q vast interest IN
the connection proposed n the Tfssss
The railway from Seattle TO a connec-
ton with the Canadian system means
an absolute commercial supremacy 70
this city. The assured connection With
the Canadian system means that every
other proposed enterprise Ia tn city
must come, because its interests will
compel it 10 do 80.
II was asserted on the streets yester-
day that the BellinRhsm Bay Railway
eompany's line rorth from this city
would be subservisnt to The Seattle,
Lake Shore and Eastern company. One
Il the ofisers Of that company vas in
teryisved by representative Of this pa
Der with reference % tie matter. The
Substance of the interview can be con-
densed and briefly put. The 1rst named
company have mot only valuable fran
chises, and heavy local backing, but
actual surveys nov nearly completed.
While they know of no reason Why the
most emicable relations could not exist
bet seen them and the Seattle. Lake
Shore and Eastern company, and ad-
NIT the possibility of the temporary
| friendly joint use Of line of road for q
short distance north of Seattle, yet any
permanent Arrangement which would
give the control Of this HOrthern route
to the latter company, they say is an
| impossibility.
The latest railway scheme is that OF
| the people of New Westminster, who,
through their Board of Trade. havs
| given notice that an application will be
made to the D5miniou Parliament at
its next session for a charter for the
construction Of railway from peiHt
ct or near that city, on the line OF the
Canadian Pacific railway, to connect
| with the American system In Washing
ton Territory. By those who have
given the matter consideration is ID
claimed that the disalloWing OF the
| charter granted by the Local Leoisla-
tuge few years ago, was ultra rerasi
the Federal Government does not pos
sess the right to interfere With public
| works and Improvements Of q purely To-
| cal character within the bounds of this
Province. The same constitutional sn-
therities who, in every instance, have
| vaBquished Sir John Macdonald and
his legal advisers, are decided in theiE
opinions as to the rights OF this Pro
| vince in these matters The cost OF
roaming q line across the country from
the Frazer river to the boundary line
will be light "a compared with much OF
the work done on the other lines IN this
i Province. Ga the other side the iron
horse runs as far north as seattle. Al
present several coTps of engineers are
surveying a route from that city 70
Whatcom and No0ksack, few miles
south Of the boundary line. When the
railway is completed TO that point there
will theA DO continuous line of railway
from Sydney. in far of Cape Breton, IN
Nova Scotia through American territory
by way Of Portland, Boston. New York.
st. Louis, Kansas City, tnence by the
SostheFn Pacific to San Francisco;
thence by the Oregon and Cslifornia
Railway by way of sacramento, South
ern Or gen, Portland aud Seattle to the
international boundary line, in the most
northwesterly poiEt within the Union
AZ the boundary line the train can br
| taken and the journey pursued east
wards TO the point Of starting, also on
a continuous line OF railway and entire
| ~ within our own Dotninion. That
Shich has b en- accomplished on the
| Atlantic seAboard in railway connec
tions Hsll find its counterpart on the
| Pacific Coast. The dsy is not far re-
mote when steel rails will make COM
plete aud unbroken circuit on Canadian
and ADeriean territory, and sncisole
thess vast ooantries from the Atlantic
TO the Pacific. We hope our New
Westminster friends Will push their
scheme to q successful issue.