Arizona republican., 1909-06-19
HUDSON BAY RAILWAY IS NOW ASSURED FACT A NEW OUTLET FOR AMERICAN
 GRAIN. Projected Railroad Will Bring West ern Canada 500 Miles Nearer Liverpool and European
 Markets.

Ottawa. Ont, June 15.-(Suecial Correspondence of The -epu0lican.p- The lonS projected railway to Hud- son Bay, which will add nev- com mercial highway to the great trade routes of the world and furnish an other outlet for western American export grain, is at last an assured fact. The Canadian government, which for years hs been investlgat- ing the possibilities of thls route through her unknown northern empire has issued an exhaustive report pro- nouncing the route feasible for q railway and recommending t as q solution of the traffic congestion now threatening western Canada as a re- suit of the phenomenal growth of the prairie provinces. This removes the last obstacle in the way of the pro- ject, and as the report coincides with the finding of the engineers of the Canadian Northern railway, the early completion of the line is certain.
 The plan, as presented by the gov ernment, contemplates the extension of railway communication from Win nipeg and Regina to Fort Churchill. on Hudson Bay, and from there by water to Liverpool and London. Track has already been laid by the Canadian Northern and is in operation from their Prince Albert line to the Sas- katchewan river at the Pas leaving a stretch of on.y zS0 miles from the Pas to Fort Churchill. This can be constructed without serious difficulty, according to the report and bring Canada E0n f,aflaS fn Europe than it is at present by the Montreal route.
 Navigation is possible in Hudson Bay, it is shown, during four months of the year, or more than enough time to warrant the creation of the route. The investigations of the in- terior department have brought to light the existence of several great stretches of land suitable for agri- culture, together with a wealth of unguessed resources in other sections in the way of timber and minerals.
 From all the information disclosed in the records of the period that eX- tends from the days which James Robson spent at Churchill superin- tending the construction of Fort Prince of Wales, over a century and a half ago, to those which Mir Mosh- CT spent there recently while superin- tending the construction of the pO- lice barracks" says the report in conclusion, it would appear that Canada has at that point on Hudson Bay d safe port. open for several months in each year, and site for city, with immense fisheries at it's fa the development of the mineral wealth deposited in its neighborhOod. It would seem that, after the Sas- katchewan is spanned at the Pas, the construction of line of railway to Churchill would not be unusually difficult or expensive. And from the reports it would appear that there are in the intervening country stretches of fair timber, and waters replete with fish; that in a part of it wheat has been grown, and that vegetables commonly thrive
 "The Hudson Bay is commonly as- sOciated with the polar regions; yet no part of it comes within the Arc tic circle. Its northern part is in about the same latitude as the High lands of Scotland, and Moose Fac tory. on the southern shore, is farther south than London. The tempera- ture of the water of the bay is sev- eral degrees higher than that of Lake Superior. In the opinion of Com mander Gordon the bay may be re- garded as a vast basin of compara- lively warm water, which doubtless has mitigating influence on the winter of the surrounding country.
 "A glance at the map shows that the shortest route from the center of Canadas grain fields to the worlds markets is via the Hudson Bay and Strait. Churchill harbor is as near the central point of the wheat area as the center of that area is to the head of lake navigation; and it is about the same distance from Liverpool as is Montreal
 There can be no question that. if the route via the bay and strait be- feasible, it should be availed of; for it's utilization wuOld affect an aver age shortening of a thousand miles in the distance between the wheat fields of the west and the Atlantic sea- board, without increasing the ocean distance to the worlds market"