The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-22
GOOD YEAR FOR
CANADIAN ROADS
q. p. RS REVENUE EXCEEDS
THAT OF LAST YEAR.
Expenditures Have Been Large, Too
1905 Promises to Be Biggest Year
in Railroad Building in the Dominion,
with Two New Transcontinental
Lines Under Construction.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 22:-The past year
Pacific shareholders. The revenue
largely exceeds last years aggregate,
and the sale of the railways lands in
lion acres. The road has been double
tracked between Fort William and Win
nipeg; grading has been done on the
prairie sections; the track north of
Lake Superior and in the mountains
shortened and strengthened, and i'm
portant branches built. The same pro-
gram will be continued next year.
A significant fact is the announce
ment that President Thomas Shaugh-
messy has signed contract with the
Canadian steel works for $4,000 tons !
of eighty-pound steel rails. This is the
first order for rails from the Sault |
works, and the works is about to close
contract with the Pere Marquette and
another American road for two large
| orders.
The Grand Trunk Pacific.
Both the Grand Trunk and the gov
eminent transcontinental railway COM
! mission are energetically pushing sur
veys for the new road the former from
Winnipeg west and the latter east.
| In connection with the British Co.
lumbia section Of the road, A. Mcleod,
railway contractor, is interviewing the
government about a novel scheme to
establish a British colony along the
western end Of the line. He has the
support of the British Columbia gov
eminent and Of G. NJ. Hays, president
of the Grand Trunk Pacific, and it is
expected the Dominion authorities will
prove equally favorable. If given the
contract to build 100 or $50 miles Of
the road in British Columbia, Mr.. Nc
Leod will import several thousand men
from Great Britain, guaranteeing them
two years. steady work at stipulated
wages, and at the expiration of the
nominal cost.
The Third Transcontinental.
Even before the Grand Trunk Pacific
was first thought Of, plans had been an
nounced for another Canadian transcon-
tinental the nucleus Of which was to be
the Canadian Northern. 1t had been
thought, however, that when the Grand
Trunk Pacific scheme became an accom-
plished fact, the Canadian Northern
would abandon the transcontinental
project. The Canadian Northern is now
not many miles from Battleford, and
next year rails will be laid to Edmonton
to complete the middle or prairie Sec
ton Of the road.
Mackenzie and Mann's Plans.
The Canada Gazette contains two i'm.
portant applications, throwing light
upon the eastern plans of Mackenzie
and Mann. The original intention had
been to acquire the Canada Atlantic
from Georgian bay to the Ottawa river
near Montreal, where the Great North
ern, controlled by Mackenzie and Mann
would have connected with the ocear
port Of Quebec. But the Gran Trunk
acquired the Canada Atlantic. Nov
Mackenzie and Mann are applying fo1
J authority to build from Hawkesbury
the Great Northern terminus, to thu
mouth of the French river, on Georgian
bay, where connection will be mad
with the James Bay road, now building
4 A further application covers line from
\ Sudbury, on the James Bay road, t.
Port Arthur, to connect with the pres
ent eastern end of the Canadian North
= ern.
b" When these links have been CON
pleted, Mackenzie and Mann will hav
O. thru road from Quebec to Edmonton
and probably in the meantime they wi
have carried forward the western SEE
tion to the mountains or the Pacif
coast, thus completing their line frol
ocean to ocean.