, 1889-09-12
IMPORTANT RAILROAD ANNOUNCE:
mEnT
SHo"iSG THAT THE sTATEhENrE
OF THE ARGUS oS.RAnwAY
MATTERS ARE CORRECT.


A PIonesr-Presa. sPscinl from Duluth
says: Some new and important inforu..
ton has been obtained bere in regard
10 the moyeElepia Of tho CsnLdiap Pa
| cifc railroad In the northwest Il takes
| q new step in its contest with the Eor-
thern Pacific. The Northern Pacific !.
beading through Manitoba and ihs
northwest territUry. OF which line IOOo or
] 200 miles a'e 10 be buiIt f-on Winnipso
| to Saskatchewan river, and il is e1pect.
s1 to reach there by next year.
The Canadian Paeifc will tahe i'm.
mediate steps to head it of, aud will
hasten the contract. which is not vet
| made public, to build about 100 miles OF
new road. 1t will build this fall from,
Regina to Prince Albert on the Saskat.
chewan river to which place the Moth
ern Pacific is sIso headed under ths
charter granted to the Regina &.Losg
Lake Railway Company. Next spriDR
the line will be extend i from Prince
Albert westward through Eds,shton
and the YeIIowhead pass of the Rocky
mountains tn Vancouver. The. YaIlov.
head pass Is said to be the basf'spd
easiest OF all the Rocky mountain Masses,
Thirty thousand tons OF steel rails are
now on their way from England fer the
new lines.
Tbs route ihroagh the YeIlowhead, or
Tete Jauue pass, is the same which the
great engineer Of the &. T. R., Msrcus
Smith. recommended that road 10 take
so that it coulI come BY the Wsddiuk.
ton route via Butte Inlet, across VaId,z
Island to Seymour narrows which can
be CT ssed by suspension bridge ID
Vancouver island and thepcs dnsn .b.
east side Of that island to- Victoria,
Marcus Smiths wise plan was over
ruled and the present expensive route
through the Kicking Horse pass and
down the Fisz,r river a Vancouver was
adopted. But wben the Canadian West.
ern railroad coMpaDS vas chartered by
the Legislature Of British Columbia last
April aDd announced their issention of
coming through the YelloWhe pass
and over this same rnn!e. the g. P. r.
went before the ssme legislatures to oh
tain grant OF lands through this sgms
fertile aud valuable region in exchange
for the worthless lands on the Frazer
aHf through the Selkirk mouniHins, but
their polite reqnest was not granted "a
it looked on its face to be movement to
head off the Canadian Western which
was not desired. Now 1t appears that
the Northern Pacific is reaching out its
octopus arms and attempting TO interfere
with the Canadian Pacific on its own
soil and this new movement, of the C.
P. r. R., is TO squelch the Northern Pa
cifiic's agsressivness and to anticipate
the Canadian Western by building
through the Yellowhead first, and thus
getting to Victoria, where that road mus.
eventually ga.
Marcus Smith said years ago that the
Yellowhead pass and the road through
the Chilcotin valley was the best and
that eventually Victoria would be the ter
minus for the Canadian transcontinentai
railways, and that the great fight for the
ocean commerce, from Japan, China and
the Indies, would be between Victoria and
Port Townsend. This movement Of tha
Canadian Pacific proves that Marcus
Smith was correct as TO the best pass. and
very short time will prove that he was
also correct as regards Victoria and Port
Townsend and that the Argus is correct.
iy informed on all that we said about the
railroads which will terminate on these
two sides Of Fuca strait. through which
the Commerce eff the Indies and the east
must euter, making it eventually the
great highway for the commerce Of the
northern world. There are children
now living here whs can read these
words, who will live to witness the truth
OF our predictions. that this will be the
metropolis of the northwest.