The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-15
Railway to North.

Dawson NewsT
 The project laid before the Yukon Development League for a railway connect Yukon with trans continental line of Canada, is large order It means enterprise scale of magnitude It would require the expenditure of many millions People in remote localities prone lose the keen and intu ive spirit of the empire builder of the day, and to the true perspective of those who are un making and making nations and remoulding the world on new lines Time when the nations thought in tens and hundreds of thousands. They learned to calculate in millions. Now they figure calmly in problems involving billions Territories, States and Empires thrown into the melting pot in day, and in a day remoulded Huge projects are carried out with no great emotion or olsturoance. seeking opportunities to exploit every possession to it's outer rim
 Thus Yukon may with venture to now come forward with her railway project. If she does not succeed today she will the scheme embraced be- fore many years Local development on other lines will in the meantime be impaired because of the request for this big enterprise. Rather will the Gov ernment impressed that the people of this Terri tory are so confident of their position that they must have ample consideration for current local inn provements, and do better by the country right now
 The line would feed Atlin, Whitehorse, Dawson, and in connection with the Yukon river and the several connecting Alaskan railways, would form a northern that would deliver foods and at the same time carry end of military supplies and troops to every northern point. The same line, as often suggested in the past could be extended across Boring straits and connected with the Siberian line, thus forming the last link between every railway sys- of the two hemispheres It is the one great miss ing link in possible railway connections of the world, and thus give the northern the impetus of de- velopment which will speed it forward generations compared with what will be the slow development without such link. Even partial disarmament will release enough money for this great constructive work which will give employment to an untold num- Der of men.
 The railway project should appeal to Canada if pre- the right light, the the Capeto- o-Cal- TO- the nsAustraian, the transSiberian, the line built recently to the White Sea- as other great deve- opment lines have appealed to nations with con- sciousness of the necessity of great pioneering in terior highways of steel
 Yukon should be viewed comprehensively Daw- son and the ffty-mile radius encrcling it, and the old nes-egg placer fields but the lure. They are exhausted, and the productive placer areas will trebled if costs of operation reduced here what they are in areas in the midlands of the con tnent, which served by rail lines farther from by far than would be an all-Canadan rail way from the Grand Trunk line to Dawson.
 Upper Yukon valley has not only the local min industry but the vast fields of White river Whitehorse and the belt between; the newly de- veopd hardrock properties of the Atn district the Mayo silver; and coal and other properties
 The resources of the country in other lines could be dated upon, but space forbids. It is admitted tbe zone between Dawson and the Grand Trunk line is eof the most highly mineralized on the conti- Mines of the adjacent provinces also would be served.
 of her Dominion is rich if not richer in minerals and other resources than her southern. Why, then, develop only half her area? The heart of empire the United Kingdom-revels in the wealth that pours in tribute the by innumerabe
 lines that have their auxiliaries and feeders in the great land lines that fahom the interiors of every continent. That is the secret of the of Brit ain great and immeasurably wealthy nation. By those great land and arteries of trade she is abled bring all tithes into the house and to build up the unshakable construction of the might fest of worlds dominons. Yukon wants to help add to that wealth.