The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-06
much to Be Done in British CO.
lumbia This Year.
TO ENTER BOUNDARY CREEK.


The Canadian Pacific expects TO epani
from t5no,11 to si.1oe,D9 west. az Por,
! Arthur this year The car shops st
/. Winnipeg will be enlarged. and cas-, 81
Winnipeg there will b. important changes
along the line West Of Winnipeg many
v0oden culverss will he replaced with
cspe or masonry. The station building at
vIrden. which was destroyed by fire, will
b. rebuilt, as Will also be done at New
Westminster. For these e. Maxwell. ar
ehitecf. Of Montreal, is finishing the plans,
Including specifications for q handsome
depot at Sacamous
Estimates will he made for double
tracking between Port William and Win
nipee. as TO be ready to go on with the
work as soon as the directors authorize
f. II is also stated that the Stonewau
branch Will he extended to GimIi, on
Lake Winnipeg, twenty miles. with arr
other branch In a westerly direction 10
Lake Manitoba. The mex grade westward
from Reston. on the Pipestone branch.
will be extended TO completion and the
road will be carried this year to Moose
mountain. about fifty miles west. II viii
ultimately be extended as far west as
Regina.
The Canadian Northern Dauphln roadn
Intends TO build az far IA the Saaka tche-
wan river. a distance OF 40 to 40 miles
This VIII take the road come distance be-
yond the boundary OF Manitoba and into
the territory of the Saskatchewan There
& II n prospect that branch viii be built
this year westward from a point near
Dauphin to provide railroad facilities for
the Gilbert Plains agricultural district A
branch of this road extending westward
8 TO Prince Albert in the Carrot river dis
trict. II also projected.
To the boundary District.
t Another enterprise In Southern British
Columbia being heh "a sfst
great vigor Is the railroad from the CO.
himbia river to the boundary creek MIN
ing district The CANADIAN Pacific IS
building THE line. which starts at Robson
on the Columbia river which Is also the
western terminus Of the Columbia & X yn-
tenai. Thus the Columbia 4 kootenal
will form a connecting link between The
Crows Nest road and tho Columbia Il
Western. From Robson the Columbia a
Western is located IN a generally west
ern direction. though. owing 10 the heavy
country. the course IL very irregular
During the last year ios miles, from
Robson To Midway. WA" put under con-
tract, and II is expected the roaa will be
opened for traffic this spring or early In
the summer The work has been gong
on actively all winter. The construction
Of the Columbia a Western means that
there Will be through line Of railroad
by the most direct route piercing the
ntaft OF the FAMOUS Wiiftsfat SECTIONS pF
Southern British Columbia through East
Kootenai by the Crows Mes; road o.,
through the old mining centers OF the
Kootenai country by the Columbia A.
Kootenai and thence still onward In the
Boundary creek country by the Colnrrf-
bia & Western
Smeitrr for Cascade city.
II Is understood that the Canadian Pa.
cife will establish a large smaiter at
line. The Columbia & Western Is pro-
jected through tn Hope Station on ,he
main line OF the Canadian Pacific Moth
Ing IL. however. being dnne toward build
Ing the road west Of Midway
The Canadian Pacific will have some
strong competition in Southern british
Columbia i'm the near future with the
Great Northern. which rs building from
Honner'a ferry. on the boundary line OF
idaho. to make four-naiie connection
with the Bedlingten & Nelson. which Is
already fighting the Canadian Pacific In
the Dominion parliament FOR running
powers over the lattnr's line through the
Crews Nest pass
As this Crows Nest pass country prom
ises Ia be the scene OF considerable ex-
element in railroaaing In the near flu
,ure. the appended details of that road
are added:
The Crows Nest Pass
The Crows Nest pass line starts from
Iethbridge. in the southern part OF Al
herta. distance of twenty-eIghe miles
from Kootenal landing. The cars are
transferred down Koot.nai lake 20 Mel
SON on harges so that connection is made
through 10 Trail wi,hou, breaking bulk
According to the terms of tha charts,
the company has two years to complete
the sixty miles of The i'uo between Koo.-
snai lake and Nelson There - some
heavy work 10 sc done on this portion
OF the road
Resides this work on the Craws' Naxse
pass road the Calgary d Mcleod branch
OF the Canadian Pacific. FL Alberta va.
extended south seven miles - connect
with tho Crows Nest. This included 81
bridge over the old Mar river 1T Nc
Iced The Canadian Pacific last year
purchased the short ratircad between
Robson ana Ros>land This included the
Trail smeiter. The portion ~ this the
between Trail and Rassland. which te a
narrow gauge. viii Ike wi3enea 10
standard gauge "a soon as spring weather
II assured
The must important railroad work car
Red an IN Canada last year was the build
Inc ~ this line in Southwestern Alberta
and Southern British Columbia 4 char
ser was passed ny the parliament Of Can
Ada In 1897 ana construction begaE late
III duiN az the same year taft& last TIC
soher the road waa completed - koofenai
lake. The finishing tn this point at once
brought the great kootenst country tutn
direct communication with that t. the
eastward. From koctenai landing where
TIE railroad reaches the lake. nav
'gahle water fs used 80 reach Nelson,
where connection "a made with the Co
iarnola & kootpras branch - the Cana
aan Pacific, bull, severa; wears ago -
rToetfe communication between tie nav
'satac waters of the Columbia river and
The nsyigahle basin cf the keotenss-
From Nelson there is railroad cemmamt-
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