Arizona republican., 1909-02-10
CANADA'S NEW RAILWAY
 WILL DODGE THE CLIMBS
PACIFIC COAST EXTENSION OF SEVENTH TRANS -CONTI
 MENTAL ROUTE
Only One Mountain Range Instead of Three and Elevation of Only

H oioo reets .ga ssf Winnipeg, Feb. 4.-The announce
 ment that the Canadian Northern
 Railway will extend it's line to Van
 couver, giving the United States as well as Canada a new route to the
 Pacific, has been officially confirmed.
 Negotiations to secure the assistance
 of the provincial government of Brit
 ish Columbia, it may be assumed,
 have been successful and work will Il probably be begun by summer. The importance to the United States of this latest move of the Ca-
 nadian road builders lies in the fact
 that one of the terminals of the Ca-
 nadian Northern is now in this coun-
 try as a result of the purchase of II the Duluth, Rainy Lake and Win
 nipeg Railway which was announced
 less than two months ago. This line put Duluth for the first time on a Il direct short line between Chicago and Winnipeg and insured to the United
 States a larger share in the ship
 ments to and from the prairie prov
 inces of Western Canada. The Du- luth, Missabe and Northern Railroad
 was also affected by the change in | control.
 The new line will be the seventh | trans continental railroad to be built
 across western America, and will be
 unique in it's engineering features. | The route as planned runs from Ed
 monton which is the, present western terminus of the railroad through the 1 Rocky Mountains at the Yellow Head | Pass down the North Thompson riv-
 CT in British Columbia to the inter-
 section of the Fraser river and from
 there through to New Westminster and Vancouver. By this route the
 road will cross but one range of l nlOlfnfQfna a m at m pIa Iof only 3,700 feet. All the systems in this country have three ranges of
 mountains, the Rockies, the Sierras,
 the Coast Range. The Union Pacific
 crossed the highest point at an ele- vation of 5000 feet This means that
 the Canadian Northern Railway will l have very favorable grades both from Port Arthur and from Duluth to the
 sea. The present lines of the Cana dian Northern form a network of
 rails covering, the richest sections of
 Manitoba and Saskatchewan and con-
 meeting the ports of Port Arthur and Fort Williams on Lake Superior with
 Edmonton in Alberta. Further ex- tensions are planned to Calgary in southern Alberta and to Toronto and Ottawa to the East.
 The Canadian Northern has the unique record of having extended its lines at the rate of a mile a day for eleven years Obstacles which have checked railroad building in the United States have not had effect tinorth of the boundary line and Can ada now has more railroad mileage per capita than any other country on the globe. This is partly due to the enterprise of men in charge of the Canadian railways and partly to the trernendousA growth of the western Canadian provinces, particularly the wheat groR5hg provinces, which have been cominES up by leaps and by bounds. Much of this wheat traffic 1 is now hs66ied by the Canadian Northern whichs has enormous docks and terminal facilities at Port Ar thur. .ineits,ffnS-the largest grain ehe- Vator in the world.
 | The projeob of continuing the com pany's lines to the coast had been under consideration for several years, but the first, hint that it was an i'm mediate possibility was contained in a speech made by D. D.. Mann, vice president of the road, in Victoria | only a few days prior to the official announcement In this speech he said: Tt is our particular ambition | to constructdour own line of railway | from the shores of the Atlantic to the Pacific coast I have called up- on the premier of this province with the view of, seeking such assistance | VIII enable us and at no distant date to build our trans continental road right down through your province,
 until 1t reaches tide-water.
 He added then: T may say that the Canadian Northern railway com
 pany has at the present time 400 miles of its road completed and in
 full operation, of which over 5000
 miles lie between the Great Lakes | and the foothills of the Rockies:
 while we intend to complete 2OOO additional miles in the near future Of all the bond guarantees which we
 have received from the Dominion and
 the provinces during the last 12 or | 10 years no contributing government
 has ever yet been called upon to pay
 single dollar
 These lines of railway, which we
 are building over the prairies in the
 northwestern provinces, will more
 over not only reach every competitive point but will also minister to the
 needs of at least 70 per cent of the | entire population of those prairie
 provinces. During the last seven years 142,00O settlers have annually
 come into those rich and inviting
 tracts between the shores of the | Great Lakes and of the Rocky
 Mountains, and become permanent
 and useful settlers, a great move I hitht Ot pOPuidilOH WHICH mas been
 largely and directly connected with
 the opening up of the Saskatchewan Valley and the steady construction Of the Canadian Northern Railway" Few careers are so picturesque as | those of William Mackenzie and D.
 D. Mann, the men who first con- celVed a second western railroad for
 Canada and whose energy and deter
 imitation built it up into a great sys- | tenn. Mackenzie is a Scotchman, who | began his life work by teaching school. His first railroad experience
 was obtained building bridges for the
 Canadian Pacific railroad Mann,
 the vice-president, is Canadian
 product. He is the operating man of the pair. Like Mackenzie he rose
 by his own efforts-in this case from farm. Now he controls the work ings of nearly 5000 miles of railroads. and is planning the details of exten-