The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-14
CANADIAN RAILWAYS.
Dominion Government Has Encour-
aged Many New Boads.

New York. August ia Tribune special
from Montreal says;
The amounts voted at the session of par
lament which has lust closed in aid of rail-
WAY projects aggregated over $4,000 900. Not
for fourteen years has there been so great a
sum voted for such a purpose. The bulk Of
this money goes to roads that are to form
links OF transcontincntal line In onposition
to the Canadian Pacific. These roads are
under separate homogeneous and there are
still large gaps in them but it is still ap-
parent interests are working toward COM
mon end, and the subsidies show that the
goNornment is in the scheme. The plan calls
for a line from Quebec to Port simpson on
the Pacific Starting from the former city,
there la a railway known as the Great North
eru which runs southwestery to Toilette aud
Is now heing extended westward TO join the
Carata Atlantic system at South Indian, the
ottawa river being bridged ut HRNkesourg 10
permit this being done.
The Canaan Atlantic runs westward 10 De
por. harbor ON Georgian bay and the great
taxes Will be utilized for tho present as TAR
as the head OF axe superior. from thdt
point there is now IN process OF cohstFuvtou d
road which will extend To WINNIPEG, running
through the rich Rainy river country ana
sMrting the Minnesota boundary, encroachihs
upon that State for distance of thirty mics
Il lS road is known hb inc OAA'filp hhu A"''tN
River road, and TO aid IL Us conSuucu9u
parliament has Just voted SiVOO,OVu IN auu',
ton, handsome subyentons have been voted
by the Legislators of ontario ana Manitoba
toward the sections falling in their territory.
Attic gether. the subsidies 10 the line VIII
amcrnt to more than $1,000 a mile.
The Dominion subsidies are subject 10
sunSent conditions providing for govern
ment supervision OF freight rates ana gnard-
lux against absorption by other roads ana a
penalty Of forfeiture of the charter
| ftsaH, t9.nss . n
road Will meet the Northern Pacific which
runs westward TO Portage Ia Prairie. dis
tancc Of siNty-siX miles. There begins the
! Canadian Northern. owned by the proprietors
OF tue Ontario and Rainy River road 1t
| runs northwest for distance of some 400
miles. Tuerc Is subsidy for this and ad-
d.tloI,s TO it are being made every year LIS
objective point is Edmopton, IN the far North
wet.
To another company. supposed to be sim
ply an aims for Mann \ Mckenzie, the own
crs Of the Ontario and RAINY River. there
has heel granted a charter with subsidy OF
1920 a mile for tho construction OF road
| from Edmonton westward 10 the Yellow Head
| Pass. through the Rocky mountains. From
tn" yellow Head Pass the old abandoned route
Of the CnnGeian Pacific runs TO the waters Of
the Pacific ut Port Simpsons passing through
( the uppor valley of the Freezer and rich Carl
bon mineral country,
Thus tho new system will extend across
tho continent from tidewater to tdewater and
will be composed of sections OF the Great
Northern. The Canada Atlantic the Ontario
and Rainy River and tho Canadian Northern
with the great lakes ms n connecting link, 1t
VIII be essentially a freight line. and will
donond In the main on local traffic which II
will doseop along the line. II will follow
closely the route laid out for the Canadian
Pacific when II was intended TO build Il as a
public work. II will run through a much
moro fertile country than that trayersed BY
the prtsen' Canadian Pacific but the mileage
| VIII be so much greater that 1t can hardly
hone TO. be an effective competition for pas
seuger traffic.
Quebec will be the eastern terminus in the
summer and in the winter the bridge at
Quebec. across the st. Lawrence will be the
end. This bridge. which is TO be q high one.
has been In contemplation for long time
and now seems about to be developed into an
existant fact