The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-31
A Great Commercial Enterprise.

1t has been asserted by eminent author-
ties that in minerals Nova Scotia is sur
passed by no other section of equal area
on the globe. IL is also a country adapted
to agriculture, so far as cereals and the
harder vegetables are concerned, and has
advantages for grazing which, if properly
utilized, should place it among the principal
cattle and sheep-raising countries in the
world. These advantages have, to a certain
extent, been known for many years, but the
wonderful development Of the United States
has naturally dwarfed the possibilities of
other sections of the continent. The time
has apparently come, however, when this
rich section of the country is likely to re-
ceive the attention that is warranted by its
many natural advantages. A look at the
map of North America shows at a glance
that no spot on the Atlantic seaboard sur
passes in natural advantages for commerce,
so far as location is concerned, that point
near the eastern terminus of the Strait of
Canso that has become known as Terminal
City Nature has made it the chief port of
Nova Scotia, giving it a harbor that could
afford safe anchorage to the navies of the
world Terminal City has become the east
ern terminus and outlet of the Canadian
Pacific railroad system. The Terminal City
Company, whose advertisement appears on
the eighth page of this paper, has been
formed and presents to investors the COM
mercial advantages of this locality. The
the following, among many other points
OF advantage possessed by Terminal City;
The line of the Intercolonial railroad,
having been extended to the city, hun
dreds of miles of ocean travel, and at least
one to two days time in the transmission of
either freight or passengers between Liver
pool and New York, will be saved. The
distance from Chicago to Liverpool via
Terminal City is over six hundred miles
shorter than via Boston or New York. 1t
will take four days from Terminal City to
Liverpool by the new steamers of the In
man Line This company is organized to
build up commercial city at the eastern
point of Nova Scotia. 1t is the natural
shipping-place for the products of the Do
minion of Canada and the great West to
Europe, and is destined to become an inn
portant city in the near future, There is
no place where coal can be mined and
shipped better and cheaper than at Terminal
City, for labor is cheap, the coal is at the
waters edge, and can be taken directly
from the mine to the vessel by a chute.
Caribou Cove is perfect harbor, easy of
access the water is deep and never freezes
over, so that coal can be shipped every day
in the year Nova Scotia and Cape Breton
contain vast deposits of gold-bearing quartz,
copper and iron ores, antimony, man
ganese, gypsum and other minerals, all of
which have been sufficiently developed TO
demonstrate their enormous value If prop
erly worked. Cape Breton is one vast bed
OF minerals, waiting only the touch of capi-
tai to make 1t a swarming hive OF industry.
Terminal City is the centralizing point OF
all these industries, and has every natural
facility for smelling and refining center.
Q. W, Locklin, Montpelier, VT, is agent for
Vermont and New Hampshire,