The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-17
CONNECT ANOTHER
SYSTEM JANUARY |
Completing Second Railway
From Atlantic to Pa
cific Ocean.
MANY MEN EMPLOYED
Pacific Coast Terminals Will
Require Several
Millions.

CHICAGO, March IA second
railway system from the Atlantic to
the Pacific ocean across this continent
will be connected up by January l
next, according to the statement OF
Sir Donald Mann, vice-president OF the
transcontinental Canadian Northern
railway phenomenal record in rail
road building would be made II this
gigantic system was finished from
Montreal to oPrt Mann by October
1, when contracts call for its COM
pletion. If the link from the empire
of grain in the western provinces be
in readiness this fall to haul the crop
of 1913 and the mountain section to
the Pacific be complete by January 1
as Sir Donald has said it will be, then
new record will be made and new
chapter in railroad transportation in
North American will be begun.
Stupendous tasks in the bridging OF
chasms and mountain torrents in driv-
ing tunnels through the solid rock OF
the mountains and blasting a roadbed
from the rocks at dizzy heights re-
main for completion this year in Brit
pressed the belief that the II bridges
will be in place, that the 2,000-foot tun-
mel at Yale and the other tunnels will
be finished and the rails laid to the
Pacific by the first of next year. But
never was a railroad driven forward
with such resistless energy as this
one has been driven across the CONT
nent by two men, Sir William Macken-
Zie, president and Sir Donald Mann,
who began life as poor sons of sturdy
Ontario parents. The two are credited
with owning most of the stock of the
road Mackenzie has financed it and
Mann has driven the construction
work.
Relieve Congestion.
The completion of the link from the
network of lines which already are in
existence and in profitable operation
in the fertile western provinces to the
Ontario lines and their outlets to both
Halifax and St. John will relieve the
congestion of grain at the western ter
minals caused this winter by the bum
per crop and astounding increase of
acreage during recent years. Thous-
ands of men and teams have been kept
upon the construction of that link.
The completion of the Pacific coast
terminals is a task which will require
five years. for their cost will run into
many millions and include in Van
couver a million dollar station and
hotel which will cost even more.
Population Increase.
.t1,,
which will be the second on the CONT
nent will represent the investment of
over $250,0000,0O0 in the project of
the two builders, by the success of
which they won their knighthood. The
net earnings have met interest
charges and left surplus fro myear
to year; the gross earnings have
mounted from $2.500,0O0 in 1923 to
ten times that sum. The net earnings
for the 1911-12 were nearly 5000, 600
and yet the road was only in process
system. This has been due to the
rapid increase of population of the
western provinces and their cities
with the grain of crop totals.
When the Panama canal is opened
grain will be moved both east and
west to saboard; to- the fleets of ships
on the Atlantic and Great Lakes will
be added another fleet on the Pacific
The region which the link from the
head of the lakes to Ontario lines will
open up, it Is said, contain vast de-
posits of iron and other minerals and
extensive pufpwood and timber areas.
Exploration made by traffic officials
of the company have been the basis
for the prediction that the industrial
and agricultural development of the
sparcely settled clay belt" will sup
port two million people