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Show Engineer Who Know Their Business. Busi-ness. Montreal, September 22. The Canadian Pacific authorities have for some time entertained en-tertained suspicions they were being victimized victim-ized by their civil engineers and contractors in a section of North Lake Superior. About a month ago nil payments to contractors were stopped and a re-measurement of the different sections ordered. This has just been completed, and it shows that by blunder blun-der or fraud the company has paid to its contractors hundreds of thousands of dollars dol-lars in excess of. the amount .of work done. ; One contractor alone has been paid more ' than $100,000 too much, and another $50,003. the full amount aggregating half a mil; ion dollars. Detectives have discovered that th engineers who were receiving salaries of $100 a month. were wealthy landed pro- Erietors, and were engaged in extensive-uilding extensive-uilding pursuits, some of them being worth from $30,000 to $40,UOJ, which had been accumulated ac-cumulated in a wonderfully short time. It is stated that criminal and civil proceedings will be instituted. Many contractors implicated im-plicated have already retained leading counsel coun-sel to defend them, who will plead that the measurements are incorrect. |