Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-26
0F GREAT CITY |S PRODUCT
 0F MAYS SKILL


 .ccordance with an arrangement be- Wcen the government of British Co lrulbia and the Grand Trunk Pacific 'ailway the first joint sale of town site lots of the city of Prince Rupert, he future western terminal of the irand Trunk Pacific's transcoutinen- tai line, will begin here next Tuesday and will be continued from day to Cay until next Saturday, May g. Each party will offer from 1000 to l2000 lots selected from all points of the townsite, so that practically ev- ! cry block in the future city will be represented at the sale. Hundreds of prospective purchasers of Prince Ru- pert town lots have arrived here al ready and others are coming from all parts of the Dominion A brisk de- mand for lots is expected and it is believed that nearly all of the town lots offered will be taken.
 Prince Rupert, which is destined to be one of the most important cities of British Columbia. Is not a product of chance or accident, but the result of careful planning. In fact. the ele- ment of chance was completely elim- mated not only in the selection of the
 site of the city but also in the lay | AhE s'ub anu Nht tiss i'S'i1 With certain. clearly defined object in view. the site of the city was chos- en and the best expert assistance ob ltainable was employed in mapping the city and preparing it to receive its future population
 The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company. which is building a new
 transcontinental line across Canada, chiefly through virgin territory, is re
 sponsible for this city that is to be. The company needed suitable ter
 minal of it's line on the Pacific coast
 and it was essential that 1t should ' fulfill certain requirements. It was desirable to have it located nearly in
 a direct line to Yokohama: it was ab.
 solutely necessary that it should have
 a sufficiently large and safe deep wa.
 ter harbor for the ships which are to
 connect the railroad with the far east
 and another matter that had to be
 considered was that the city be To
 cated in a place that could be reach
 ed by the railroad without too great
 difficulty in crossing the mountains.
 Before the site of the city was chos
 en, the entire north coast was care fully searched and every harbol
 sounded. The choice was made foul
 years ago and since then prepara
 tions were made for the establish
 ment Of the new city. for which tho 7 name Prince Rupert was selected ; The actual work was begun in May , 1906. The surveying and clearing , was done simultaneously and now the cleared and prepared townsite <em ' braces about 2000 acres, enough tc 2 accommodate population of about 10000. Nothing was left to chance
 or to the arbitrary notions Of the set : tiers. Expert engineers and the ia [ nous landscape artists Brett and ' Hall of Boston. who laid out Mt. Roy al park, Montreal, were entrusted with the planning and laying out O f the city as it is to be
 } Prince Rupert has already a popu
 lation of more than six hundred mostly engineers. worlmen in th' l employ of the contractors who do thu r clearing, grading, etc. and tradesmer
 who established shops to supply tn, 7 temporary population with the ueces s sities of life. There are many houses :. particularly near the water front r but they are on ground leased for 1; + few months only and will be remove, s when the permanent settlement an, ? building up of the city begins A s present the temporary city has twt r hotels, two banks, board of trade
 a newspaper and a number of hard r. ware. dry goods, general merchan n disc, grocery and cigar stores.
 d Prince Rupert is $50 miles nortl I of Vancouver and only 40 mile
 south of the Alaskan boundary. I h is in the same latitude as London an, c it's mean temperature is about tn B same as that of London. The steam k ship route to the new port from tn
 rar west lies through the Dixon CT
 trance into Hocato strait. thence ii
 70 Chatham sound and Prince Ruper
 harbor. The latter is really a strai
 between Digby island and Prince Rr
 pert island and extends fourtee , miles beyond the site of the ne, l city. The provincial governmen ! made a grant of 10000 acres to th
 railway company and the latter. i
 addition. bought 14.0G0 acres of IT
 dian reserve land. making in al q 24.000. amply sufficient for a city 0 i 100000 inhabitants
 The city has been laid out artist n cally upon rising ground and extend 5 from the water line to the crest 0 s the hills overlooking the harboI e Even boulevards, parks and reserve tions for public buildings have beel !. laid out and the work of laying sew s CTS and sidewalks is well in hand + The hsrbor. which has an entranc t 2000 feet wide and is 36 feet deep a l. lowtide, is already provided with
 Ipermanent wharf 1900 feet long 1T which will be extended as necessit t demands. It is expected that the raj :, road connection with Prince Ruper r. will be completed in the fall of 1911