The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-26
CANADIAN PACIFIC ROAD.
To Built a Branch to the Montana
Line.

| Line.
| The residents of northwest orn
Montana are immensely pleased that
the Canadian Pacific railroad has
definitely decided to build branch
from Morrisey to the Montana line,
charter having already been APP
piled for to the Canadian govern
ment. This line will extend along
the Flathead river and will give an
outlet to portion of the country as
yet untouched by a railroad and is
but smaM pratt of the work which
is being planned by the Canadian
| Pacific
That road has hitherto enjoyed all
the traffic that there was in the ex-
| treme northwest, and has also been
| credited with monopoly of all the
future possibilities of that territory.
At the present time it looks as though
| it would be compelled to share the
possibilities of the future, at any rate
| if not the actual present traffic.
| Northern is assuming position with
respect to Canadian Pacific territory
that was never dreamed of two years
ago.
Today there are corps of Great
| Northern surveyors at work between
Vancouver and New Westminster.
Within the next twelve months these
people will be laying tracks across
that section of the territory that was
formerly sacred to the Canadian Pa
cific This work would have been
showed through during the current
year. but the completion of the gov
ernment bridge across the Fraser
river at New Westminster. AS soon
as this government work is complet-
ed the Great Northern will be ready
to run it's trains into Vancouver and
to bid for the rich traffic that flows
between that port and Seattle and
points along the Canadian boundary
line.
Mr.. Hill has also showed his lines
into the KoOtenai territory, and his
surveyors have completed their work
on the spur line that is to follow the
Similkameen river, across the Fraser
at Yale, and follow the Fraser river
to New Westminster to meet the line
now being surveyed from that point
to Vancouver. By his Kootenai ex-
tension Mr.. Hill has divided with the
Canadian Pacific the rapidly develop
ing mineral traffic of that region, and
has also provided himself with an
endless supply of good quality of
soft coal. By this Fraser river ex-
tension he will divide the tonnage or
iginating at the salmon canneries on
that river, and will provide his New
W1estminster-Va Vancouver line with a
second feeder.
Along the Manitoba border nothing
has been done as yet to excite the
enmfty of the Canadian Pacific. The
application for charter rights in Man.
toba, however, has raised the
strongest suspicion that the North
ern Securities lines intend to make
an attempt to re-enter that province.
Mr.. Hills denial of any completely in
THIS attempt 10 luVdue CdldulaA l. a
cific territory is frankly disbelieVed
by the Canadian Pacific people. The
eastern connection of the Canadian
Pacific is the Grand Trunk Pacific
having it's eastern terminus in Port
land, Maine There is every posi-
bility that the bill now before the
Canadian parliament will become a
| law and the Grand Trunk authoriz-
ed to push it's lines through the
| northwest.
The Canadian Northern is going
| after the traffic due north of Winni-
peg, and expects to run it's main line
somewhere between the main lines
of the Canadian Pacific and the
Grand Trunk Pacific. crossing all the
spur lines of the Grand Trunk and
the Edmonton branch of the Cana
dian Pacific. 1t is a peculiar fact
that all three of these roads have
hitherto proclaimed that this sudden
creation of thousands of miles OF
track in the northwest will not inter
fere with present lines.