Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-14
To Compete With the Can
adam Pacific.
THE MANY SMALL LINES
Will be Linked, Decentralization
Government is Aiding Each of
These Short Roads With Subsidies
bridge Will be Constructed

New York. Aug. IA special to the
Tribune from Montreal says: The
mounts voted at the session of parlia-
ment which has just closed, in aid of rail-
way projects aggregated over 5000, 900.
Not for Is years has there been so great
a sum voted for such purposes. The bulk
Of this money goes to roads that are to
form links of a new tra~nscortinental line
in opposition to the Canadian Pacific.
These roads are under separate manage
mcnts and there are still largs gaps be-
tween them. The plan calls for a line
from Quebec to Por; Simpson, OF the Pa
citic. Starting from the former city, there
is a railway known as the Great North
erl. which runs southwesterly to Toilette
and is now being extended westward to
join the Canada Atlantic system at South
Indian, the Ottawa river being bridged at
Hawkesbury to permit this being done.
The Canada Atlantic road runs westward
to Depot harbor, or Georgian bay. and the
! great lakes will be utilized for the pres
ent as far as Fort William, lear the head
of lake Superior.
From that point there is now in process
of construction a road which will end at
W hipNe u1HAh6 ShiooSh ~
Rainy river country and skirting the Min
nesota boundary, encroaching upon that
state for a distance of 80 miles. This road
is known as the Ontario & Rainy River
road, ard to aid in it's construction par
lament has just voted S $1,000. 900. In ad-
dition handsome subsidies have been
voted by the legislatures of Ontario and
Manitoba toward the sections falling
within their territory. Altogether the
! rDrnhlnld CnhCj6ioS tn fhiC limo will
amount to more than S14. 900 a mile. At
Winnipeg the Ontario & Rainy River will
/ meet the Northern Pacific. There begins
the Canadian Northwestern, owned by
the %proprietors of the Ontario & Rainy
River road. 1t runs n%orthward and west
ward for a distance of some 400 miles.
There is a subsidy for this and additions
being made every year. It's objective
point is Edmonton, in the far northwest.
To another company, supposed to be
simply an alias for Mann and Mackenzie,
the owners of the Ontario & Rainy River,
there has been granted a charter with a
subsidy of 5000 a mile for the construc-
ton Of a road from Edmonton westward
to the Yellow Head pass, through the
Rocky mountains. From the Yellow
Head pass the old abandoned route of the
Canadian Pacific runs to the waters Of
the Pacific at Port Simpson, passing
through the upper valley of the Fraser
and the rich Caribou mineral country.
Thus the new system will extend across
the continent from tideWater to tideWater
and will be composed of sections of the
Great Northern, Canada Atlantic, the On
tario & Rainy River road and the Cana
dian Northwestern, with the great lakes
as q connecting link. 1t will follow close
ly the route laid out for the Canadian
Pacific when it was intended to build it as
a public work. 1t will run through a
much more fertile country h that ira
versed by the present line of the Cana
dian Pacific. but the mileage will be SC
much greater that it Will hardly hope to
be an eeffctive competitor or passenger
traffic. Quebec will be the eastern ter
minus in summer and in winter the new
bridge across the ST. Lawrence at Que
bee will afford access to the government
railway, which runs to Halifax and st
= John. The bridge is to cross the st. Law
renee eight miles above Quebec. 1t viii
cost 81, 900. 600, and one-fourth of this
amount has just been contributed by the
Canadian parliament. The company hold
ing the charter announces that it will be
gin work within the next two months, ant
it hopes to have it completed within two
vaarS