Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-05
GREAT TRUNK LINES
That Are Planning a Short Cut
to Europe.
RAILROADS TO HUDSON BAY
Dominion Government Has Issued
Charters to Eight Companies.
FORT CHURCHILL THE PORT
An Outlet for the Wheat Belt and
Our Great MISREPRESENTATION
Strait and It's Ice FIoes.
FORT CHURCHILL THE PORT

Copyright, 1906 by Frank C. Carpepter1
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
WINNIPEG.
I understand that the dominion govern
nent has granted charters to no less than
eight different railroad companies to build
Anes 10 Hudson bay. II is even said that
James j. Hill Of the Great Northern has
6uch concession In his inside pocket and
mat the various Canadian trunk lines are
planning branches in that direction In
going northward over the Ontario govern
ments new railroad to Cobalt 7 u,as +ol5
by the engineers that they would 500,
reach lake Abitibi crossing the ,,raot
clay belt, and that the road would he
pushed on TO James bay. At SAUL ST. Marie
IeA in with the American svn5ica F.
which owns the Algoma Central cbar+er
providing for a railroad from sault 8,
Marie to Hudson bay. and was told that the
line had been graded for ninety miles and
that over seVenty-five miles were In opera
ton
Railroads have been SURVEYED fro,, WI,
Gipeg 70 Port Nelson and also to Fort
Churchiu. and there are some who beIia,,e
that canada Will eventually have a trunk
4lhe running from Port Simpson tho west
err terminus OF the Grand Trunk Pacific
railway 70 Fort Churchill ana that a great
part 81 the grain will go over that route
u Europe. The Canadian Pacific and the
CanaGlan Northern are, II IS said consid-
erins the Hudson bag route and through
out me British northwest 1t IS regarded 40
ono or The mighty probabilities Of the fu-
To Europe by Hudson Bay.
According TO the last surveys Of The
dominion government 1t has been shown
tha' H-dson strait Is navlgable from the
LIST et July until about the middle of DC
fuHtr nd
open sea the year round The Idea Is "a
build great storage elevators ar re-
Cburchul and 90 have Il line Of tffsa i,,s
moving N ana out from there 20 IiyerponI
curing tLe open season. II this can Ice
Done me saving Will De enormous and #
VIII give tho Canadian wheat great "a
TaHtases over ours IN the markets Of
Europe.
Hudson hey Is so FAR north on the globe
that the distance between Il and Liverpool
IS remarkably short. Il Is only abolit two
thousand miles from Fort ChurchuI 10 Port
simpson. and. ~ railroad should be built
The Hudson bay route would Dee by far the
Shortest from Asia 10 Europe and very
much shorter from parts OF the United
STATES %" Europe than the routes now used
IAe distance from Winnipeg via Hudson
bay tI Liverpool Is 1890 miles whereas
by Montreal Il is 4.22S miles. From Du-
luth 20 Liverpool via Hudson bay is 8, T2s
miles auC the same point by way of New
York is 400 miles. When this route Is
opened passengers from St Paul and Min
n5aqolls can go TO Great Britain by travel
Ing forty-one hundred miles and they will
save railroad journey OF at ieast five or
six hundred miles The distance from
Vancouver TO Liverpool by Hudson
hay Will be thirteen hundred miles shorter
than Il Is now by the Canadian Pacific
railroad. and passengers from all parts of
our great west Will be able 70 go quicker
aud with shorter raN Journey by that
way.
AS Grain Route.
The great advantage OF this new COM
morciaI highway VIII be in the transporta-
ton Of grain and other freight II Will
bring the wheat OF the new northwest a
thousand miles nearer salt water We pro-
duced last year something like 700. 600 900
bushels Of wheat 1t Is not extravagant to
believe that the great grain belt of the
British northwest viii produce as much at
some time IN the future Its yield last year
was about hundred million bushels and
not one-ntueth OF the land Is under cuiti-
Walton II the wheat can be Transported
py way OF Hudson bay II is said that the
saving might be as much as 10 cents per
orshel, and this on a hundred llion-bush-
al crop would mean a saving of $1,000 coo
per annum. Is IL any wonder that the
possbluty OF the route Is seriously con-
slUered?
In addition TO grain would be the enor-
nous supplies which will be needed for the
British northwest. This country will
eventually support about twenty million
people, and they will be among the best
customers on the globe The port would
also take away freight from and supply