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Show To Rush G. T. Pacific Work. Thai the Grand Trunk Pacific will be completed to Yellowstone pass This year Is the announcr-mcni of Ms vice-president and general manager. K. J. Chamberlain. The entire line from McLeod river lo Tote .Inline Cache is now under contract, and during the coining summer It Is ex-peeted ex-peeted that work will be iu progress over the entire distance. IT'.t miles. Active operations are to begin I lie Instant In-stant ibai "slimmer breaks." for ibere Is no spring to speak of In central Hrltlsh Columbia. It Is winter today and tomorrow to-morrow the warm ehinonk sweeps up from the Pacific coast, ihe sun smites the snow, and a thousand rivers, rivulets rivu-lets and rills pour their flood Into the Peace. Die Athabaska and other great water courses. And the next day li Is summer. Tenders for the remaining J33 miles of the branch line from Tofleld to Calgary are In and it is expected that contracts for ibis work will soon be awarded, the line lo Calgary to lie completed by tint end of this year. It will open considerable consider-able new lerrItor. and has already been Instrumental In creating :it least one very thriving town where -the line crosses the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern. P.eports indicate that very rapid progress prog-ress is being made on the two big bridges that are to span the McLeod and Wolf Creek. They are only a few miles apart. With these strut-lures completed the way will bo easy so far as bridge work Is concerned con-cerned until the builders reach the Frasor river, crossing at Port George on the western slope of the Rockies. The crossing of the Athabaska near the pass, It Is stated, will be comparatively easy, mid it Is the intention to put a temporary trestle over ibis stream so that steel may be carried across to the other sloe |