THE CANADA PACIFIC RAILWAY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 985, 4 March 1881, Page 3

THE CANADA PACIFIC RAILWAY.

Although the Canadian Ministers have provisional arrangements for a company to take up the entire construction of ilie proposed C ina lian Ricifio Railway,-it appeared that no definite steps could have taken place until the ''ana lian Parliament met in February last 1 1 the meintioieit will benstf i|. more particnlar'y to those who e _ interests are - likely to lie affected oy this new means ot hinimmioation, 'o know lui -fly the route that it is propose I to follow. The line starts-from the western terminus of tin- Canada Can. trd Rai'way now in course of e instruct! m by the Government of the province of f)ntari i, being part of the through mu*e from Ottawa to Lake Nipissing. Fom thence the lew Pacific linn will run to Thunder Ray 6TI miles, th nee to Se kirk 410 miles, thsnee to Jasper House ]OOO mibs. thence t ■ Kim 1 nip ;iSO mites, thence to Ya'e, 127 mi'es, nil I theoc ■to Barrard T„l e i 90 miles —in all 2627 miles The high ate'evaiion above the s- a >» fiSOOft, and oipy 600 mil-s is above 20'H)f By the Union Pacific i I!ai'way thronjh the United States thol maximum elevation is 8240 ft, and there are i throe o - h“r p incipal i oiots of elevations'. Fo - 500 mil s 'he e'evation is abode 6000 ft. The distai'c ■ from Liverpool to .T ipan and the E ist. will he shortened by 1000 miles by the Canadian line in comparison with the American run e. Tho disbursement of the m mey expended in the construction of the da a lian Pacific Railway during the I tie* 10 years will it is honed., mv.eii illy imp m e th - posilioh of all railway, land, an I industrial tin lertakiogs throughout Canada. Australians are interes'ed in carrying out of this great nn lertakiug, as they will lie enabled to reach the mother country and return to th--ip Australian homes, cross ing the North American c mtiuent, wh >ll y on British territniy. instead ot, ns now, travelling over,..thousands of miles of Yankee Land, and which is liable at any lime to bo hostile to_Bri;ish sitbj cts The Canada Pacific Railway, while opening up vaatareas of exceptionally fertile land to Bri ish enterprise, will undoubtedly prove a fo-midahio rival to the Union, Pacific Rail.wav. owing both to its cheaper working. an I also to its fewer risks of obstruction by snow, &c.