, 1908-08-15

railway, (part of the division of the Canadian
Northern, which has g, 800 miles of track
through the great wheat belt Of western Can
ada) which for a year has been running from
Toronto to Parry Sound, alongside the won
derful Muskoda lakes and which has been
extended to Sudbury, through a wild and rug
ged country that abounds with rivers and
lakes full of fish, and is roamed over by thou
sands of red deer, and which, as it is lmme-
diately south Of the nickle, copper, iron and
silver mines that are proved to be the rich
est in the world is also likely to contain large
deposits of minerals. For instance, Mr.. j.
T. Kerr, of Detroit, who, getting INTO the
French river districts on construction trains,
did a little prospecting, has already arranged
to take o party of prospectors to work Tor
the rest of the summer. He writes, line
assay of the quartz discovered has proved
quite satisfactory, SO [ decided to go back
and commence operating"
OLE FOR FREIGHT.
The new railroad will bring the ore from
the Moose Mountain mines, about 30 miles
north of Sudbury, to Key Harbour, the port
which has been established on Georgia bay,
with on initial capacity for handling 5000
tons per day, and which will bring Cleveland
and other iron manufacturing cities 500
miles nearer to mines than they we're when
they had to depend upon supplies via D0-
lutl. The town at the Moose h o lntain mines
has been called "Sellwood" after the vce
president of the Moose Mountain lion
Company (the president is John W. Gates,
of New York; and shipment will begin as
soon as the docks are completed, which it is
expected will be some time in August.
Key Harbour is at the mouth Of Key Inlet
about six miles south of the outlet of French
river, which will some day be the channel of
the Georgian Bay canal, taking western
grain via Lake Nippissing and the Ottawa
river to Montreal, saving about 400 mics
haulage to Underwater.
A DELIGHTFUL REGION.
It is remarkable that the French river
should receive railway service in the year
that the precautionary of the f~ounding Of
Quebec by Champlain is being celebrated.
The French river was navigated by the
French explorer, nearly three hundred years
ago, Oh his way to stay with the Huron In
dams, prior to a raid with them upon the
Iroquois, south of the st. Lawrence. Indeed
Chaplain camped on the site of modern Key
Harbour, where some interesting relics were
discovered when work on the port began a
year ago. The whole French river region IS
o delight for fisherman, canQelst and camper,
and already many Americans, who know
something of sport in Canada, haye arranged
to spend their vacations among the woods
and rocks and waters of this hintetland of
Georgian bay.
The Canadian Northern Ontario railway
makes access to the French river remarkably
easy, for instead of q long roundabout and
tedious journey there is q hrst-class daily
passenger service with p%arlour and dining
car accommodation. With the develop
mont Of mineral traffic from "Sellwood' to
Key Harbour, and also to Toronto, whore a
smelter, capable of employing $1,000 men is
planned, the wilderness through which
Chaplain passed will become one cf the most
profitable localities on the continent.-Ibid.