Arizona republican., 1907-06-15

up the revenue of the railway and renders its operation possible. Here.
 in New ontario. where the hand of na- ] ture seems to have hurriedly smooth ] ed out the earth as it rose from the i deep. leaving it gnarled. twisted and
 tangled rock-ribbed. uninviting at
 first glance. and often impenetrable at the second. the road builders have 1 found a .ath for the steed of steel. I and in so doing have traversed pine forests. found wide fertile fields. and
 uncovered millions in mineral wealth, so that what appeared to be a vast waste is providing homes for thou
 sands. employment for hundreds of
 thousands of men and women. and millions of money. Capital. no longer
 timid now that the richness of the
 country has been demonstrated. fol-
 lowing in the wake of the pathfind- CTS. is opening mines. building stamp . mills. saw mills. and flour mills. har-
 messing the rapids and developing en-
 ergy to turn the wheels of comperce.
 Already at Fort Francis. there is in operation one of the most complete
 lumber manufactory plants in Canada.
 and all along the line are new indus
 tries that have been made possible
 by the building of the railway. The
 region is not all rocks and lakes and
 iron mountains. As early as 1S57
 government reports called attention to the richness of the soil and the abund-
 ance of Indian corn grown by the na-
 tives of the northern forests
 In 1875 much of the land along the ! n
 plats to give each settler access to the
 river over his own ground. A few settlers came in about the time of the
 Wolseley expedition. but the hushed. lonely land. remote from older settle
 ment. and utterly without railway communication with the outside world.
 with all it's native wealth. failed to furnish the necessary compe nsation
 for tho sacrifice of civilization to at
 tract and hold settlers to any great extent Now. however. within the past few years. hOmesteaders haze been
 flocking into the new fields in such
 numbers that the land is fairly well taken up. back ten to fifteen miles from the railway. Roads are being
 opened. and every convenience possi-
 ble to pioneering is to be had.
 Here are to be seen the ancient EudsOn's Bay buildings into which the
 tIaprers for d century and half have
 gone with their skins. and from which
 they have emerged with tweeds and
 tobacco. tea and contented minds.
 Here the Jesuit Fathers fought the , good fight according to their faith. and in these wilds the feuds of the fur companies were fought out in the years when the Hudson's Bay and | the Northwest company were contend- ing for the control of an empire that
 was asleep. and which is only now. . after the lapse of a century. stirring | to life. Here. after all these years, stands the old H. E. Post. a monument , to the pluck and perseverance of "The Governor and the Company of Gen
 tiemen Adventures Trading Into Hud- sons Bay" antedated only by the mounds made by the ancient mound l builders. these and the rOcks-and riIls are older than the HudsOn's Bay com
 pany.
 So. as we wind along the banks of the Indian named rivers We are wend- { Ing through the labyrinth of natural l wealth soon to be brought forth for the use of mankind. And so by these river passes We come to the shore of what the Ojibwas called the Big Sea Wa
 ter. And SD by this new but attract
 i've trail. we come to Port Arthur. which is often called "The Gateway to the West"