Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16
M Correspondence tho DESIRES NO, By Frank G. Carea,.r9

| dred miles north Of the Canadian Paci-
| nc railroad. This region Is OF a differ
! ent formation than that farther south.
| The land is clay loan which viii
| raise wheat, and II IL now known as the
! great clay belt. The belt Is several
! hundred miles wide, and altogether IS
| estimated 20 contain In the neighbour
| hood OF l6,O0o00O acres or about as much
as our state OF West Virginia. II is COW
| cred with timber, which will have TO
| be cut off, but this may be done by the
! lumbermen when the country Is opened.
| Otherwise the settlers viii have TO un-
| dergo the Same hardships and difficult
| ties which were common 10 the clear
| Ing Of our eastern states.
Railroads Through New Ontario.
Both the Ontario and the Dominion
| governments are anxious to make this
| country accessible The government OF
| Canada has undertaken to build its
transcontnental railroad through II, and
| by this time next year an army of track
builders VIII be grading the route and
laying the rails. The eastern end OF
| the Grand Trunk Pacific, which Is to
| be built entirely by the government
VIII begin at Winnipeg and traverse the
| clay belt passing through Nlplssing at
about the latitude OF Lake Abitibi, and
going thence on TO the Atlantic, giving
Il short haul for the wheat TO the sea-
board and England.
The Ontario provincial government is
building a railroad northward from
Lake Nipsslng,a few miles east OF sud
bury which viii cross the Grand Trunk
Pacific In the neighborhood OF Lake
Abltibi. II has already laid it's tracks
for about a hundred and twenty miles,
and II Is now within few miles OF the
, clay belt. Its surveyors are working
further northWard, ana they viii con-
tlnue their survey OF the line to James
Bay.
Another project is the James Bay
railroad to run from here, at sudbury,
To about the same point and third Is
the Algoma Central railway. from the
Canadian 500 to Hudson bay The AL
gonna Central was begun by +. IA. Cler-
que, and Is now the property Of the
Lake Superior corporation, an Amerl-
can company. which owns vast proper
ties about SAUL Sainte Marie. Canada.
The road has already been built 70 miles
from the 500 and ii has been graded
for about 30 miles. 1t will eventually
cross the clay belt aud, Ike the other
roads to the northward, will give that
region an outlet 10 the great lakes and
10 Hudson bay.
II we cay Delt turns out TO be as
rich a wheat country as Is predicted II
may be that the wheat will go to Eu-
rope via Hudson bay. The distance Is
much shorter than by the lakes or fur
Their south along the Atlantic the chief
difficulty being that the straits which
lead into Hudson bay are open for yes
sells only about four months In the
year. This might perhaps be remedIed
by larger steamers or ice breakers
which could penetrate the ice foes.
Climate.
The Canadians claim that they have
as good a climate as the United states
They say their winters are not so bad
as ours and that the long, steady cold
makes better wheat and better men.
am told that the country grows warm
er a hundred miles or so north Of the
Great Lakes. The cold increases un-
til you reach the height Of land which
divides the waters which flow into the
great lakes from those which flow into
Hudson's bay When you get over that
ridge the weather moderates all the
way down to Hudsons bay.