CANADA'S DEVELOPMENT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 527, 7 June 1909, Page 5

CANADA'S DEVELOPMENT.

TRANSPORT AND STORAGE. (nTTiUGtt»rn—nuss '/issooiATioN-coMitionT.) Ottawa, June 4. The Montreal "Herald" states that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company is spending six million dollars (£1,200,000) on the enlargement of tho company's terminals' at Fort William (on Lake Superior), including new docks, steel freight sheds, and extensivo cold storage , » THE C.P.R. AND THE GRAIN TRAFFIC. It is at Fort William, on Lake Superior, that the western grain is shipped for eastern lake ports. The great centre, Winnipeg, is some 500 or 600 miles west of Fort' William,and tho line between has recently been duplicated at a..big cost. From Fort William, whoro navigation remains open till about December 6, the grain is sent eastward to Montreal, whence the ocean steamers carry it across .the Atlantic. The possibilities of improved transit by rail and waterways, including tho new canal schemes, form oift of the most interesting features of Canadian development.

It is an (interesting arid striking fact that on the Canadian-Pacific Railway there are 5835 bridges, whose combined length is 430,C02ft., or 81.55 miles. It was the first line to cross the Dominion, and though the. State-aided Grand Trunk Pacific, now under construction stands most in the public eye, it is tho boast of the C.P.R. that its system never stands still. *.■■■.