Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-18

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by a branch of the Canadian Pacific and
by the Canadian Northern. The Grand
Trunk Pacific will, as | have told you. also
go through It. Ii will be railroad center.
and a manufacturing and commercial one
WELL
Rival Cities.
What is the size of Edmonton"
1T has about 1900. Strathcona, Just
across the Saskatchewan river has about
1000. The two places are bitter rivals. II
one can't get a certain thing it wants It is
bound the other shall not have 1t, and
fights to prevent It. The two places are
much as St. Paul and Minneapolis were
years ago. They should unite and work
together. 1t is somewhat the same with
the four-milling and exporting towns of
Port Arthur and Fort Williams, on Lake
Superior They close together. and
their rivalry is as bitter as the feuds or
the mountains of Kentucky and Tennes-
see"
Port Simpson on the Pacific.
what is to be the future of your ter
minal on the Paeifc?"
There will be a great city there" said
the vice president of the Grand Trunk Pa
cif2 system. 1--WE have not yet picked out
the exact spot but we shall soon do so ana
our plans will be such that the town Will
be a beautiful one II VIII be so arranged
as to admit of expansion along rational ana
artistic lines. The best of landscape gar
deners will aid us. and the port VIII DO
beautiful, as well as most conveniently ana
commercially arranged The whole city
will be planned out upon paper before Il
street is surveyed II will be done some
what as Dalny was planned by tho Rus
slams before 1t had either railroad or cit
What kind of surroundings has Port
Simpson, l asked
Finer replied Mr.. Morse. II was there
last year. The trip north from Vancouver
is as full of grand scenery as any part OF
the Norwegian coast. That Is what travel
ers say who have visited both places. The
climate of that part of British Columbia
is affected by the Japan current and the
vegetation is green all the year round. The
islands are mountainous. and you wind IN
and out among them under great walls OF
green. 1t is indescribable."
The Short Cut to Japan.
DO you expect to command a fair share
OF the oriental trader"
Most assuredly we do. We shall have
the shortest route to the orient and the
she rtest cut from western Europe across
North America to Japan, China and ST.
IBERIA. All the great transpacllc steamers
sailing by the northern route from san
Francisco, Portland Tacoma, Seattle ana
Vancouver have to go about 800 miles
northward along the line of the geat circle
their way to Japan. lney nave W Coilo
TO our latitude to cross over by the short
est way We save all that distance. We
can make the trip from Port simpson 70
Yokohama in at least one day less tAan
It can be made from any of the other "a
cific coast ports. Our trip across the At
lantic IS also shorter. The distance from
Liverpool to Halifax is a little more than
Q 400 miles, while the distance from Liver
poo, to New York is $3.50.
when the road is completed ana our
steamers are running we snail have from
500 to 000 and more miles of an advantage
over any other route between England anu
Asia and the trip can be made in ono or
two days less time Passengers from New
York can go to Montreal and thence over
our line to japan and save more than ooe
miles over San Francisco via Ch,cago ana
500 miles over the route from that port
via Galveston. Buffalo can save more than
GOO miles via San Francisco and moro than
700 via the Canadian Pacific and vancouver.
We shall have fast steamers across both
oceans, and ! doubt net we shall nave what
the other lines win consider more than our
share OF the trade. 81,
Alaska ?" ~ It.,
Mr. Morse eve shall have plenty TO 90
for the next few years in constructing the
main line and its branches. Inc AlaSkd
line NAV go from Hazleton. in BRUSH Co
luubia, northward to Dawson ana the hlon-
dixie In the meantime that part OF the
Rocky mountains through which our Inc
pected. and old miners who have vis:tod
narts of il tell me the indications are That
il Is wonderfully rich In all SORTS OF NaIu-
ahIe- minerals. We may open up new
KIondike in that region. Indeed. great
,ns,t ~ that country is almost entirely I'M
known.
oyvbat can you tell me about the eastern
division?'
1T is also largely unexplored. We know
tb.t there is a block of good land stretch
ine, from the boundary of the province OF
ouehec westward comprising an area as
large as that OF West Virginia, or over
* CtoCC0 acres, which is nearly all good FOR
ia rnfirg 1t is a clay loan. well watered
and rich We know that the line goes for
hundreds of miles through some of the best
forests of Canada. There Is enough pulp
wood there to make your newspapers for
generations to come and billions OF feet of
pine and hardwoods."
FRANK G. CARPENTER.