THE CANADIAN RAILWAY.

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 January 1903, Page 4

THE CANADIAN RAILWAY.

The Canadians have a quite but very onerge'.ic way of going about matters, says a San Francisco paper. But little !was heard about the Canadian Pacific Railway until it was nearly completed, the cable between Canada and Australia has been laid with very little flourish, and now the Canadaians are to have a new transcontinental railway. Work has been going on quietly for nearly eighteen months, and it is to be finished 1907. The road is to run from Quebec to Port Simpson, paralleling the Canadian Pacific and 280 miles north of that line. It will run throngh a country that annually produces 52 million bushels of wheat, and to the west of the whoa 1 ; fields in the territories of Alberta, Athabasca, and Saskachewan are immense deposits of petroleum and coal of both kinds awaiting development. Port Simpson, the western terminus, is the most northerly Pacific port of the Dominion, being just south of the southerly termination of the Alaska strip. It is just about half fway between Victoria and Skagway, thus offering the shortest sea trip to Alaska and it is also on the shortest and most direct line to China. It ha°, therefore, both stragetic and trade advantages ovsr any existing route. Moreover, the harbor is said to be second only (o that of San Francisco on the Pacific Coast.