Year: 1873

ORGANIZATION OF THE CoMPANY-plFtlCuLI liz ,ls


OF TIE PROPOSED ROUTE-ESrIMArED COST


OF TRANSFORMATION.


IyRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT PTHR TRIBUYBl


TORONTO, Feb. 13.-The parliament OF the
Domnos as you are aware passed act last session to
provide for the construction of railway from point
near Lake Npissing sheet of water about 200 miles
north of this city, TO British Columbia. This measure


aa passed consequent on of that Province
into the Confederation in July, 1911, ana though the
British Coumbans did not ask quite so mueh itproVoe
that the railway shall be begun at both ends witmh
two years OF tho date OF union and be completed


within ten wears of that time The act empowered the
Government to charter company to Duid the ROAD ahu
TO subsidize it with s3OOOOOo and 5OOOo0O acres OF
the nublic lands along the line The route not hen
nor has t vet been surveyed but it Is known that II the
road be constructed in accordance with the act some
very great engineering difficulties VIII nave 10 De en-
countered-difloues more Formidable than were met
with in building the Northern Pacific Raroah Ihe eSe
mated length of the road from Lake Nipssns TO the
Pacific Ocean is 400 miles, aud then there arc 10 DC
two branches one TO the United States frontier and the
other to some point Lake Superior not yet hxed vey


likely Thunder Bay. The total length of the railway
will probably 5000 miles, which Is much greater than
that of Northern Pacific The provision Tor the con-
struction the road made on the supposi0n tha
IL would cost only 100000 900, sum less han onethrd
of that which the Northern Pacific cost. though the



much more difficult road to build.


Not long ago Sir Hugh Allen, the head Of the firm that
owns the Allen line OF steamships running between
Montreal and Liverpool made speech, In the course OF
which he said that the engineering difficulties along the
northern and eastern shores of Lake Superior would be
so great that he would recommend that that portion OF
the road be the last and that for the present the
western termn of the section be at Saut Ste
Marie and the eastern terminus OF the western portion
at Pembna, arrangements being made with the pro-
prieors OF the Northern Pacific to extend their Inc east
to the saut and allow the trains Of the Canadian Pacc
TO pass over it between that point and Pembna' SINCE
this speech was delivered however company has been
formed IN bud the Canadian Pacific under the terms OF
the act OF last session, and Sir Hugh Alien s l fres
dent The charter has just been signed aud made pub
proprated for the construction OF the ROAD sa DE auo
at the end of every six months IN gaades PI0poT on
the portion built during that period now as seVeral Oh
the Company are also o tbey ran great init"
epce with the Government with respect to the SUBSIDY
10 itrS %i the be hTgdS Toad is finished every dollar Of
the S30OOOOO and every acre OF the 5OOVO mas Deeh
leading organ OF the Opposition in the DOmnion pre-
diets that the Governments Canadian Paeinc halfway
scheme will prove a failure and 1t asserts that IL is vir
tnaIIv American land grabbers" whom the Govern
ment has chartered to build the road VI course II tHo
road could be built h would be great thing were 1t to
become, as our stump speakers, in glowing language
prophesy it will, the great highway between the lar
East and Europe; the chief object TO be attained in
it, construction opening to settlement of our great
fertile Northwest Territories which, IL Is our boast


Yield wheat at the rate OF from so to 60 bushels acre.
However il we desire TO induce emgrants to 80 upon
these lands and cultivate them must provide them
with means OF sending their produce to the seaboard at
such rates as will leave them enough to pay for their
labor. -, ~. M.
At q recent meeting Of the Dominion Board OF Trade,
the Hon John Young of Montreal one OF our leading
commercial men, read paper IN which he estlmated
by the projected Canadian Pacific Railway at IS cents
per bushe and from point on the Saskatchewa River
GOO miles from Montreal, at 70 cents per bushel the
freight being put at low rate IN each instance H.
however the eastern terminus were 10 be at Dulutn
wheat might be conveyed thither om Fort Garry by rail-
sr6ia Duluth to the eastern end OF Georgian Bay


Inv wafer and tance by rail to Montreal at cost OF Is
cspts ner bnshe from Fort Garry TO the last place. Mr.
Young like Sir Hugh Aleu- was In favor OF the traffic Of


the Canadian Pacific being done In part through Ameri-
can territory IL Is doubt in order that the water
route may taken advantage OF that the branch OF the
railway is to built Lake Superior That the road Is
o be built ar all IN accordance with the act authorizing
its construction, Is doubted by very many