The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-03
rHE CANADIAN NORTHWEST


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Just Began
Montreal 6axesse-
I. n not quite accurate TO say, as num-
hey Of sournsis are doing, that the CanAdian
Pacific ra;i~ay has contracted Tor the
building Of 700 miles Of road north and west
az It's naasn line. The story has arisen out
q. the fact tia. the Regina Long Lake
ra;swsy has recently been put under vieor-
c1s construction. but the Canadian Pacific
bears 10 other relation to this enterprise
than TIA. created By an obligation 70 ope--
ate the railway after completion for stated
tenn Of Years. The report has also csept
into prlut that iron Prince Albert the
~ra.s i 10 be pushed westward something
Ike $50 miles TO Edmonton. thence
through the yellow Head pass to British
Columbia. and on soathwesterly 10 Van
couver. but 10 project OF this compsenen-
sire scope has been formed as yet, ut any
rate. The story, however, has served az
least one good turn, since il has drawn
from The Chicago Railsruy 5gs the statement
tina. .betseen Regina and Prince Albert .
said 20 be the finest hard wheat country on
the globe. while along the saskat-
chewan IS region Astounding IN
splendid timber and also well adapted
70 agriculture. The time can
not be far distant. however. when
these projects will become facts. and
when, in the words OF the Raiiseay age. 10
the far nor thern country the railway VIII
come TO eifec. an astonishing revolution.
and the region whose means OF transporfa-
ton are now the Indians pony and the
dog trains of the Hudson Bay Company,
will be enjoying the advantages of modern
civilization and its few pioneers Will ma
themselves brought as il by magic 70 within
few hours pleasant ride of the great CEN
ters Of life and industry.
A beginning has been made. and that Is
an important step in the op ening up OIL
virgin territory to railway occupation.
There are now at work on the Regina *
Long Lake line nearly one thousand men
and about five hundred teams, and during
this week fifty miles of grading will be
completed, and tracklaying viii begin. One
hundred miles of grading are TO be finished
this year The railway has for its sbjec-
tive Point Prince Albert, 80 miles
distant from Regina, with . brach to
Rastleford, and the main line will be
ready for the operation by the end OF iSc.
As settlement thickens spurs will doubt
less be thrown out east and west. and In
short space OF time large traffic may conf
IDENTITY he expected TO develop. IL was
hoped last spring that another important
road would have begun this year. namely
from Calgary to Edmonton. a COM
pany having been formed TO perform
the work. bat just as the contract
was being entered into q hitch in the nego-
tiations occurred However, next spring
there is some ground for believing that this
important and promising enterprise viii be
taken in hand and actively prosecuted.
The Northwest is the railway ground of
the future. Old Canada has come to be
well equipped in the way of trans
portion facilities. and, except in the
direction of increasing these facilities
Is the growth of traffic necessitates,
and the construction OF short lines
here and there, no very formidable work
is likely TO be soon begun: but in Mani
toba and the territories there is field for
railway enterprise for many a year The
railway has come TO be the pioneer of set
tlement. and the more enterprises of this
ind put under way the more certainly
viii the progress and development of the
country be assured.