Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-05
Copyright, 1906 by Frank G. Carpen-
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w yIINNIPEG.-I understand that
wv the dominion government has
w granted charters 20 no less
than eight different railroad
companies to build lines to Hudson bay.
il is even said that James j. I'm Of
the Great Northern has such a conces-
sion IN his inside pocket and that The
various Canadian trunk lines are plan
ming branches IN that direction. In
going northward over the ontario gov
ernments new railroad To Cobalt
was told by the engineers that they
would soon reach lake Abiubi. crossing
the great clay belt. and that the road
would be pushed on to James bay. At
Sault st. Marie fell in with the Amer
fcan syndicate which owns the Algomd
Central charter, providing for q rail-
road from Sault st, Merle 20 Hudson
bay, and was told that the line had
been graded for 80 miles and that over
Is miles We're IN operation.
Railroads have been surveyed from
Winnipeg TO Port Nelson aud also TO
Fort Churchill and there arc some
who believe that Canada will eventual
ly have a trunk line running from Port
Simpson. the western terminus OF The
Grand Trunk Pacific railway TO Fort
Churchill and thnt a great part Of the
grain-.Nill go over that route to Flu
rope, The Canadian Pacific and H.
Canadian Northern are, Il Is said, ron
sldering the Hudson bay route. aid
throughout the British northwest u -
regarded as one Of the mighty prob
abilities Of the future
TO EUROPE BY HUDSON BAY.
According TO the last surveys Of the
dominion government lt has been shown
that Hudson strait Us ndvigable from
the LIST OF July until about the middle
of october. and the bay Itself IL said
10 he an open sea the year round The
idea Is to build great storage elevators
nj Fort Churchill. and to have a line OF
steamships moving in and out from
there to Liverpool during the open sel-
con. II this can be done the saving
will be enormous, and II viii give Cha"
Canadian wheat great advantages over
ours IN the markets Of Europe.
Hudson bay Is SO far north on the
globe that the distance between It and
Liverpool Is remarkably short II Is
only about two thousand miles from
Fort Churchill To Port Simpson aud,
n n railroad should be built. the Hud-
son bay route would be by far the
shortest from Asia TO Europe and very
much shorter from parts OF the United
States to Europe than the routes now
used. The distance from Winnipeg Via
Hudson bay to Liverpool Is 5000 milrs.
whereas by Montreal II Is 422S miles.
From Duluth to Liverpool via Hudson
bay Is 3 1928 miles, ana the same point
by way Of New York is 1920 miles.
When this route Is opened passengers
from st. Paul and Minneapolis can go
TO Great Britain by travelling 400 miles
and they VIII save a railroad journey of
at least 800 or 600 miles The distance
from Vancouver to Liverpool by Hud-
son bay will be 1900 miles shorter than
Il Is now by the Canadian Pacific rail-
road, and passengers from all parts ~
our great west viii he able To go quick
er and with shorter rail journey by
that way,
AS A GRAIN ROUTE
The great advantage of this new
commercial highway VIII be in the
transportation Of grain and other
freight. II will bring the wheat OF the
new northwest "A thousand miles nearer
salt water We produced last year