The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-09
RAILWAYS 70 RAINY RIVER
ONTARIO LINE BEING RAPIDLY
PUSHED FORWARD BY
PROMOTERS
TO CONNECT AT KoocHICHING
BrRinerd ~ Northern Expected to
Finish the Link by Next Spring
-Mh=t the Miners Are
Doing.

WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Sept s.
! (Special)-A report from Mine Center,
Ontario, states that Messrs. Mckenzie &
Mann, promoters and owners of the On
tario & Rainy River road, now being built
through the new gold fields of Western
Ontario, have visited that section, and
have announced that the work of build
ing the lire and completing will be push
ed forward as rapidly as possible. There
is also another report from Bemidji that
the Brainerd & Northern, known as the
Minnesota & International, will be built
from Bemidji north twenty-seven miles
this fall. and will be completed the early
part of next year. This will connect with
the Ontario & Rainy River road at
Koochching.
This information, in connection with
some recent developments that have
taken place in the new gold fields, has
created no inconsiderable activity and a
livel:er interest is already felt in that
section of the country. The Manhattan
ana Decca are erecting ten stamps. The
Foley, it is said, by the first of the year
will have at least 200 men under ground
carrying out gigantic plan of mining.
The Golden Star will have in their extra
ten stamps. The Gold estates and the
English syndicate are both working north
of Sturgeon Falls. The Gold estate is the
English syndicate which is managed by
Allan Sullivan, and which recently made
the wonderful discovery west of Steep
Rock lake.
WORK OF CANADIAN CHAMBER.
If is felt here that the Cen
trail Canadian Chamber of Mines, with
headquarters at Winnipeg, is doing scme
good work. The plan of the chamber IS
to compel all owners who wish to have
any attention paid to their properties to
furn sh informa ton backed by affldavits.
This. many of them are doing, and the
whole is published in a circular which is
being sent broadcast to the newspapers
of the old world; as we'll as the leading
financial papers OF this country. Inc
stock exchanges have been specially IN
vited TO send over committees, at the eX-
pense of the chamber, to make a thor
ough examina ton of the Western Ontario
goid fields In this report is an affidavit
from Charles Brant in which he makes
the declaration that out of every 1000
assays of gold-bearlng quartz taken from
Central Canada, after eliminating all that
went over $1G0 per ton, the average was
over 81 per ton, and that all such assays
were made within the years 1898 and 1899.
The report furnishes the affidavits of the
bankers who received the god, and, be
sides contains much reliable statistical
matter.
This is felt to be move in the right
direction, and one that will bring great
results.
In sizing up the situation one of the
leading men at the head Of the lakes
stated:
81 believe Western Ontario is on the
eve Of the greatest activity it has yet
experienced The amount Of money that
has gone into that country from England
and the United States during the past
year, taken in connection with the fact
that the South African situation is some
what cleared. and that there will be
general loosening up of financial matters
in England, there is bound to be a great
rush to that country within the next
few months. Fortunately more enter
prises into which English money has been
put the past two years is turning out
much better than anticipated. Notably
might be mentioned the Sultana, Mikado,
Foley, Gold Estates and the Rainy River
Development company"