Arizona republican., 1907-06-10

of absolute independence. They have their own anthems and patriotic airs and 90 per cent of native Canadians can read and write. This year the Dominion government will send a number of exploring' 'expeditlons into the wild to map and measure the Unknbwn, for there are millions oi
 acres of Canada that have scarcel,
 known the touch of real shoe leather
 The soldiers are drilling. the Doukho-
 bOrs are building railways. and the
 Northwest Mounted Police are blazing
 new trails. The construction of an all Canadian military highway from cen-
 tral British Columbia and Alberta to the Yukon territory will go on with renewed energy this spring. Captain Mcdonnell of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. row at Whitehorse. has started north from Hazleton. B. c. with an expedition. He has charge of trail blazers. road builders and bridge builders. A course will be blazer. bridges built and pack route cut from Hazleton. through the Rockies. to Fort Graham. at the head of the Dease river. Not only will this long road connect the heart of the Canadian central provinces. with the Yukon for military precaution. but 1t will form highway needed for trappers. pros pectors and hunters.
 And ever, as these preliminaries go on, We are mixing. commercially and socially. Canadians by hundreds go south in winter. Americans. by thou sands. come north in summer. The American harvester comes up to reap the rye, some of which is presently bottled and bulletined on the windows that look out on -Gotham's Great White Way"
 Now as America is digging its big canal, Canada begins the twentieth century. which according to her optim- istic premier. is to be her century by building a new national highway that will not onl- shorten the run around the world. but lessen. material ly. the time across this continent
 Only seven years ago a poem in the New York sun began:
 six sleeps in q sleeper from Montreal. And moon or so from the end of the
 line"
  which is being built partly by the Do- minion government and partly by the Grand Trunk. is completed it will be but six sleeps in q sleeper from Mon ueal to Prince Rupert. the model city which Is to be the western terminus of the new road. The railway. which builds the western half. but is to oper- ate the whole system, at least for fif- ty years, has employed expert engi- neers and landscape gardeners and this unborn metropolis of the northern coast is to be all measured and mapped out, before a foot of land is of fered to the public. There will be land set aside for shops and wharfs as well as for public buildings so that before a house is erected it will be possible for a man with an imagination to look upon the plan and see the future great city sitting majestically on the shore, to hear the Chinook Limited coming out of the hills and see the great white ships coming and going through the milewide road that leads from the land-locked harbor to the open sea.
 The future republic of Canada. pro- tCCted on the north by the North Pole and on the south by the Stars and Stripes. can, in time of war. rush troops from the Atlantic to the Pacific in little over three days along this almost level line now building No where will the grade reach one per cent or even one half of one per cent. and it will reach the crest of the con tinent at an altitude 5000 feet below the city of Denver and nearly mile below Tennisee Pass, where the Den yer and Rio Grande crosses the Great Divide.
 And if this dream of a republic does not come true-what a boon will this Line of Least Resistance be to Great Britain, When the company puts it's fast liners on the Atlantic it will be onl.- about "siX sleeps" from Queenstown to Prince Rupert, which i.s five hundred and fifty miles nearer Yokohoma than any other Canadian or American port. Assuredly Canada is preparing for the future. whatever that future may be, republic or no re- public.