Arizona republican., 1907-06-23
GRAIN CONGESTION
 IN IHE NORTHWEST
Canadian Governments New Grand Trunk Pacific Will Complete an Inn portant Section This Year.
(By Jeannette Cooper.)

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 Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 14.-(Spe- cial Correspondence of The Repub- lican.)-Now it is certain that the new Canadian governments road, the Grand Trunk Pacific railway-''a Yan- kee's dream coming true"-will com plete it's line from Winnipeg to Saska- loon in time to help move the l3O1 crop of wheat. What this will do in reliev- ing congestion of grain which. was so severe in this region last fall, the Grand Trunk Pacific will do in all it's
 length when completed in 1911 as is now expected.
 From the Atlantic seaboard it will go through-this Grand Trunk Pacific through eastern Canada and Winni- peg and on across the prairies to Ed monton-on, over the mountains across British Columbia to the Pacific-3600 miles of it. And up and down from this main line the branches go-into settled and beautiful country and into wild waste stretches-through forests hitherto given up to bird and beast and trapper-and past lakes and over streams that are as new to white men as if they had just been touched in, a last effective detail on the earth's sur- face.
 IL is a big project, this trans-con- tinental railroad of Canada The con- gestion of traffic, owing to the heavy crops and the newness of Canada's s railroads, will be greatly relieved by the Grand Trunk. There will be hun dreds of box cars under the spouts of the red elevators tomorrow where yes terday there were ten. The farmer will not hesitate to SOW all the wheat he can harvest. no longer fearing lest it 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 radian Northern and the Canadian Pacific have been unable to handle. Tomorrow a new artery will carry Canada's golden life-blood across the prairies, and the new, free, unfenced west will be a bit nearer growing old"
 A tremendously bold thing, the con- ception of road like that. The mind that dreams of the possibility of it. and makes it an actuality is one that we, whose plans have lesser limits, marvel at.
 In this case it was the Yankee mind of MT. Charles NJ. Hays, one time of the Wabash, now president of the Grand Trung Pacific. He announced his ideas and his intentions in regard to new trans-continental line some six years ago. The next year, in 1903. the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company was incorporated by act of parliament.
 The eastern division from Moncton 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 yeads an annual amount equal to 3 per cent of the cost of investment. Taking into account the time allowed 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 divi- sion in which case the government grants to the company such running rights as may be necessary for a sue cessful operation of the other parts of the system.
 The division from Winnipeg west to Prince Rupert on the Pacific coast is to he built by the company. the gov- guaranteeing the first mort gage bonds. principal and interest, for fifty years to the extent of s13,OOO00 per mile on the prairie section and three quarters of whatever the cost per mile may be on the mountain sec tion. This partnership with the gov has enabled the company to secure money at q very moderate rate; the first issue os bonds in London be- ing applied for ten times over the amount sold.
 The most direct route possible has been chosen for the main line with no turning aside for any beckoning city. Between Winnipeg and Edmonton the only considerable places are Portage la Prairie and Saskatoon. Regina, Calgary and others are reached by the 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 1f land at the divisional points. Prince Rupert is already laid out with wide streets and boulevards and parks and whatever man has learned by expe- 'ience is needed to make for the beau " and health and convenience of ,ity. The company will also build ho- els and restaurants. Following the of the railroad, steamship ines on the Atlantic and Pacific will 'f necessity be provided to take care ,f the export and import traffic And lere comes another advantage for the irand Trunk Pacific. The fact that Prince Rupert is situated so far north 'f any existing port on the Pacific hortens the distance across that ocean 'y two days mail. making this the hortest route between Europe and Asia.
 It is going to take some 20.000 men O operate the Grand Trunk Pacific. he main line only. A road that em- 'loys that number of men with all hat means needs much in the way of esources back of it. And there is wealth. and to spare-wealth in the fields and the forests. the rivers and he seas. It has the lowest grade and he fewest curves in the railroad of my trans continental line. The G. T. ,. has no need to worry about the wolf