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Show GRAND TRUltK PACIFIC TO SPEND $10,000,000 WINNIPKO. April 21. General Manager Man-ager Chamberlain of the Grand Trunk Pacific, railway arrived here today after a trip over the system from the Pacific. coast. lie slated' that the company will spend .flO,OOU,000 this year on construe- i Lion. The Hist hundred miles east or Prince Rupert the Pacific terminus, is now under un-der contract and will be finished by September 1. On that date a contract, i will be let for 1 ID miles further east which will take the ro:rd into the nioiin- I tains. Petween Winnipeg and Princo Rupert there are only 2ti0 miles not yet under contract. Trains will be running from port William to the Koeky inouu- I tains this fall, a distance of 1700 miles. Mr. chamberlain null go to Montreal I Saturda, but will return here May Io I lo make his headquarters for the summer. sum-mer. X"xt year brauehes will be built to the international boundary liue. |