Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-06-27
TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROAD
The New Line Expect to Help
Move 1907 Crop.
The New Grand Trunk Pacific will
Complete an Important Section
This Yenr--WilI Aid Grain
Congestion.

Trunk Pacific railway will complete
it's line from Winnipeg to Saskatoon
In time to help move the 1907 crop of
wheat. What this will do in relieving
congestion of grain, which was so Sc
we're in this region last fall, the Grand
Trunk Pacific will do in all its length
when completed in 1911 as is now ex-
pected, says a writer for the Hartford
Times.
From the Atlantic seaboard 1T will
go-this Grand Trunk Pacific
through Eastern Canada to Whit
peg ana on across the prairies TO
across British Columbia to the Pacific
$500 miles OF 1t. and up and down
from this main line the branches go
into settled and beautiful country and
forests hitherto given up to bird and
beast and trapper-and past lakes and
over streams that are as new to white
men as IL they had just been touched
in, a last effective detail on the earth's
surface
1t is big project, this third trans
continental railroad of Canada. The
congestion of traffic. owing to the
heavy crops and the newness of Can
ada's railroads, will be greatly relieved
by the Grand Trunk There will be
hundreds of box cars under the spouts
Of the rcd elevators morrow where
yesterday there We're ten. The farmer
will not hesitate to SOW all the wheat
he can harvest, no longer fearing lest
1t remain In the elevators without
chance to move out to market. The
Grand Trunk Pacific will take out,
over the shortest route. what the Ca
madam Northern and the Canadian
Pacific have been unable to handle
Tomorrow new artery will carry
Caradas golden life blood across the
praires and the new. free. unfenced
west will be a bit nearer growing
old"
a tremendously bold thing. tho con-
ception of a road like that The mind
that dreams of the possibility Of it
and makes 1t an actually is one that
we, whose plans have lesser limits
marvel at
In this case it was the Yankee mind
Of Mr.. Charles NJ. Hayes. one time
of the Wabash, now president Of the
Grand Trunk Pacific He announced
his idea and his intentions in regard
six years ago The next year. in 1903.
the Grand Trunk Pacific railway COM
pany was Incorporated by act OF par
lament.
The Eastern division from Moncton
in New Brunswick to Winnipeg on the
edge of the Last West Is to be built
wholly by the government and leased
for fifty years by the operating COM
pany, which pays after the first seven
years an annual amount equal to 3
per cent. of the cost Of Investment
Taking into account the time Above
for construction this makes the first
rental due In 1919. The company has
the privilege Of leasing for a second
fifty years unless the government takes
over the operation of this division in
which case the government grants to
/ the company such running rights as
operation of other parts of the sys-
ten.
The division from Winnipeg west to
Prince Rupert on the Pacific coast is to
be built by the company. the govern
ment guaranteeing the first mort gage
bonds, principal and interest. for fifty
years. 10 the extent of $4,000 per mile on
of whatever the cost per mile may be on
the mountain section. This partnership
with the government has enabled the
| company to secure money at a very
moderate rate. the first issue of bonds
in Iondon being applied for ten times
| over the amount sold.
| The most direct route possible has
been chosen for the main line with no
| t,ir 10
Between Winnipeg and Edmonton the
| only considerable places are Portage la
Prairie and Saskatoon. Regina. Cal
| gary and others are ached by the
branches. New towns will OF course
spring up along the route. and they
| will be built on model lines the rail-
way company having secured blocks
of land at the divisional points. Prince
Rupert Is already laid out with wide
streets and boulevards and parks and
whatever man has learned by expert
ence Is needed to make for the beauty
and health and convenience OF a CITY.
The company will also build hotels
and restaurants. Following tho COM
pletion of the railroad, steamship lines
| on the Atlantic and the Pacific will
| of necessity be provided to take care
of the export and import traffic. And
here comes another advantage for the
| Grand Trunk Pacific, The fact that
| Prince Rupert Is situated SO far north
Of any existing port on the Pacific
shortens the distance across that ocea n
by two days rail, making this the
shortest route between Europe and Asia.
1t is going to take some 90 600 men TO
opera to the Grand Trunk Pacific. the
main line only. A road that employs that
number Of men. with all that snea ms.
needs much In the way OF resources ba ok
Of It, And there is wealth and to spare
wealth in the fields and tho forests the
rivers and the seas, It has the lowest
grade an dthe fewest curves In the rail
road OF any trans-con tinental line TIL
Grand Trunk Pacific has no need "a
worry about the wolf at the door.
1t is IN the work of the engineers that
the romance lies. With them It was like
opening the door at the end OF known
things and stepping outside And II l.,
with the contractors and sub-contractors
sort OF interest lies-the interest OF big
schemes, and the handling OF many mel
and the quick SHIFT to an alternative
when plans miscarry. On one sector
alone a half million dollars worth O
supplies last fall We're cashed for thi
| summers work. Thousands of laborers
are needed and the getting them means