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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 10

■ . The' Northern. Ontario silver belt-is now a Hundred miles tficte, frith Cobalt as its centre. "he railway. : mileage- of the .Dominion of Canada I '-is'.now estimated at: 23,750,- which ib an; increase of 1298 miles, Nest .year's increase will; it ;is anticipated, liot be any ' g a s 3„.„ point to tin expenditure of 90,000,000- dollars' (£13,483,162), en railway construction fur this year, ii < f, rall( i Ti , iJnli: Pacific bridgo over the cattle lsn-er has . The. Bat--8 i R ll e / ' ;is wast. of .'.Wainwrigbt,; and ,128 miles east'" of ; Edmontons. • The' bridgo is 2800? febt ,long; slid 190 feet high. It is conati uotcd of steel. towers, which rl«o from/,;104 '.cbricreta ■ pedestals.', The' riveritsolf. is not wide' where the bridge, crosses, but the valley is, and in ' consequence a tremendously long . bridge' was necessitated.'At -both the west' and i : east.'.ends of the bridge .there are huge concrete abutments,50 feet .above ground,, and which extend 40. pern>Mjojr.2th6'--lflJr£aoJii- These ate built on '300, piles driven 40 feet into the earth. JJiom the West thfe approach''to tho..bridgo lfl a wooden .trestle, half a-mile in - length. Iho work occupied upwards of two years, ■ A rich vein.of silver, said to be. sis feet vndo, that may make the, eastern part of Halifax County a second -'Cobalt, has been: located,' at Musquodoboit, after 'a search of about .twenty, years, on, the property of Miss Bessie Danbrack. About twenty years ago the; late Peter Dunbrack bonded his propeity, on which the find .'was made,'.to, a company for the purpose of prospecting for a vein ■ of .silver which they-firmly believed was there, iho company spint' a largo sum of mMey,;.and for:years'.kßpt r up''.the search fur tho vein^-i.- but iwlthout result.l'hMr bond expired, and .the property reverted to Mr., Dunbrack,and : on-his 1 fcth he' left' it tO . hiS daughter Bessie. Miss Dunbrack also behoved that there was;' silver' oh - the property, and for tire last three years' has bad meh ,employed searching to: the iead. lier faith in the property has "at ; last been justified; .and .the location of' tho vein has been found.-, Sosie 200 licehse's to 'prospect have been; taken out at the Mines ' Office. Miss ■ Dunbrack • was, for- many years -housekeeper at the - Fifth Avenue Hotel, New iork. \