OFFER TO BRITISH COLUMBIA.
—• — | THROUGH ROAD TO ALASKA. (UKXTEP PRBBS ASSOCIATION—S>* ELECTnTO TBLEOBAfK—OOPVItIOHT.) (Received November 13th, 9.50 p.m.) VICTORIA (8.C.), Novombcr 13. The Premier of British Columbia, Mr 8. S\ Tolmie, .has announced that American financial interests, headed byMr Samuel Hill, the pioneer north-west road builder, has offered to construct a highway from the United States boundary through British Columbia to Alaska, at a cost o£ 20,000,000 dollars, 1 in return for hotel concessions along i the route and a percentage of tho petrol i tax piaid on the highway. 1 After the cost of construction has 1 been returned to the buildets, the road ) will be given to the province without j any cost. The distance will be several ( hundred miles. j - 1
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 14 November 1930, Page 13
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124OFFER TO BRITISH COLUMBIA. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 14 November 1930, Page 13
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