New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-29
DOMINION NOTES.
Some Transportation Commission
Suggestions To Be FOlIOTed.

Ottawa. Jan. GA couple Of years ago the
Canadian government appointed a commission on
transportation to make a thorough inquiry into the
shipping and railway facilities the country This
commission has recently made report. II all the
recommendations made by it we're to be accepted
the work involved would mean the expenditure Of
about 100000 600. Many Of the suggestions made
will be acted upon without delay and the others
will be considered a guide for future works. Par
ucuar attention is given In the report OF the con-
ditiOns which prevail the Great Lakes whereby
Buffalo possesses an advantage in connection with
the shipment OF grain. To meet this advantage
the government IS advised and it is announced
will take immediate steps 10 improve the haroors
at Fort William and Port Arthur and to increase
by many million bushels the storage capacity for
grain at Depot Harbor. Midland, and the other
ports on Georgian Bay from which grain from
the Great Lakes is carried TO the seaboard by the
railways. Increased storage Will go a long way
toward solving the problem OF congested traffic
which has become an annual occurrence in the
autumn months Another important recommended
ton which will be acted upon IS that the ports OF
Montreal, st. John, Halifax Quebec Fort william
Port Arthur. Depot HarbOT, Midland. Port Col
borne, Kingston. Vancouver and Victoria. and the
mort to be founded at the terminus Of the Grand
lI9nk racine EaIiWay, pc maze natlonal p qIIs
The commissioners do not make any direct recon-
mendations in reference to the proposal to cut a
canal from Georgian Bay to the ottawa River, to
be known as the Georgian Bay Canal but It is ap-
ject that they consider the project well worth the
consideration of the government IhlS StupenQOuS
work if definitely decided upon, will, II is believed
do more to deprive Buffalo OF its present advan-
tages in shipping grain than anything that be
done on the Great Lakes or TO the existing canal
system. Such canal would have an advantage
existing routes to the seabOard Of several hun
dred miles, and, If operated by the government
could about cut the present rates grain I'm two
and still pay expenses. Even under private con-
troll # is estimated that this canal could be made
TO pay dividends and at the same time cut the
grain rates which prevail to-day by about one
third Ihat the canadian government Is beginning
to be alive to the advantages of such under
taking is evidenced by the fact that at the last
session OF Parliament there a vote Of Sj0,VO
for surveys. These were carried on last summer
and the engineers who did the work pre-
pairing plans and prohles. 1t would not be sur
prisiug If, at the next session of Parliament, the
government should make the announcement that
this great canal project would be undertaken a
national enterprise in the belief that when Il Is
completed it would to the Atlantic ports
only the grain Of the Canadian Northwest, but q
considerable portion Of that which is grown in the
Western States. not 10 speak OF other products OF
those regions which find their way to tho markets
of Great Britain and Continental Europe.