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Show fill" S anadian Railroad 5J of Conditions in rA liilc X01II1. 5j BUSINESS ARB Jfi GHTEST OF TIES" 2$ r fi f His Nation AVill t ingested Tra flic IS 1 Ours. p . Jv Eui-opcan traffic man-ffi man-ffi "id Tnmk railway sys- and for lie Canadian s f, with headquarters in 3' i.'Is with his wife and nj' ptat the Knutsford ho-' ho-' Vk iesday) the party will Jst, as Mr. Salter must oa 3 'few wocks. Speaking Canada and Canadian their relation to the brl and. our own railroad to fent and In the near fu-of" fu-of" -paid. In pari. . kJ inatlon. Jn natural re-a re-a "J in Cannda is the otnml Itm S" I Ins. but today we have 7 000.000 people. Per ida luis more miles of Other nation on earth mori per capita. The L west railroads of the idda. the Canadian Palo. Pa-lo. Northern and the ates has great east, and and the Siberian rail- across South America, are also great east and ic lUinsian road and the road have heavy prudes i four-tenths of 1 per reaches from ocean to nadii over the. Grand ad In the l'nited States ore. id shore under a king as a unit. And railroad in the United north and south, not list Have Cotton, have the southern col-Itcd col-Itcd States must soon mi wheat and lumber. Ik a. high tariff fence and the United States, will never be material-have material-have the cheap wheat, i water banking up bc-tirnc bc-tirnc must come, when uul then the dam must he demand for cotton cs In Canada, as the iscs over our tens of as. we must pay higher p for your cotton, and nklng up on this side of the tariff fence just as wheat is banking bank-ing up on our side. "In a few yearn tho trade between Canada Can-ada and the United States will be the most Important either nation has. The trade with Asia Is only an Idle dream for both nations compared with the possible, pos-sible, and In the near future the necessary neces-sary trade with each other. The Grand Trunk can haul the trade of Asia, at figures that your rooals cannot hope to touch, but your Increasing local traffic will more than make up for tho Asiatic transcontinental trade that the Canadian roads will und even now are taking away from them. 1 Prince Rupert Is Boomiug, "Port Rupert, the western harbor of the Grand Trunk Pacific, is today a. city of 1000 people, two years ago it was u swampy Island. Port Simpson Is on the-main the-main land, but the Island where Port Rupert Is growing so fast Is only 1000 feet from the main land and the bridges are even now under way to the Island. "Railroads are being driven in every direction as fast as we can raise the money. The Canadian government has never yet had to pay a cent on the railroad, rail-road, bonds It Is behind, and the railroads of Canada never lost one cent to the government gov-ernment except when the government tried to run a railroad. Then, of course, both lost money. "One railroad Is projected north from Edmonton for the Klondike region and the great valley of the Vukon, and tho Mackenzie, another is headed for Fort Churchill on the western shores of 71ml-fion 71ml-fion bay. This great sheet of water, by the way, is a closed sea so far as Can-aria Can-aria is concerned. Just as Pnget Sound. New York harbor or Lake Michigan arc closed bodies of water belonging to the t'nltcd Stales. Tho time is near when the largest ships on the sea can Ibid a harbor for at least five months of the year In the heart of Canada, much as If i lie same vessels could lnnd their cargoes car-goes at your Chicago. v "Canadian wheat that now socs to Europe by the way of Now York will soon go 'by way of Vam-ouvcr and Port Rupert on the Pacific and bv way of 1 1 7' and CraiI Tiii'nl "pinSe- , , llwihg the main lines and some of the most important branches and projections of the throo great Blscbntincntal railroads. One Harriman line 1s now reaching for Winnipeg and. tho Hill linos enter wcral points, and arc building for Vancouver. Tho climate of Edmonton and Butte, Mont., arc much ffichuiook winds from the Pacilic blowing over Alberta. Montreal and Fort Churchill on the east. The deepening of your JOrie, canal and the tremendous Influence of the Canadian railroads must In a few years deeply affect the railroads of the Knlted States. "Of Canadian wheat, that now goes to Kurope part 'must go south Into all your states, even to Texas, and the rest must desert the American rails for the nearer harbors, easier grades and shortr dlstunces of the Canadiani roads. Benefit to American Roads. "Today the railroads of the I'nitcd Stales ennnot handle the trafllc they have, and most of this is local, within the nation Itself. This local traflli; Is growing in lhr I'nllod States faster than arc. your railroads, and it will take years and billions of dollars for them to catch up with their own home demand. I understand un-derstand that J. ,r. JII1I estimates that the American railroads today need $f.-000.000.000 $f.-000.000.000 to handle properly the traffic they already have. Freight in the Fnlted States moves only twenty-live miles per day. and even now your whole country Is short of coal because the railroads cannot move It fast enough. "There Is trade enough for all and more. The average American does not know what is north of the Canadian line. II Is not a frozen wilderness, peopled by Indians and half-wild trappers. Millions of your best. Americans, especially tin-farmers tin-farmers of the middle west, the best class of citizens you have, have gone into Canada within the past decade, and more arc coming evcrv day. Jn the other oth-er hand Canadians are tloclclu? to this country, especially into New Kngjand. Fach gives up if is native country and swears to support his new flag. Thus arc the countries being tied close together to-gether by blood and business, the lightest light-est bonds known to man " service In connection would be altogether altogeth-er feasible. Tho Apex mine could be reached In twelve or llftec.n miles, and Calicnte would be about twenty miles to the west. Hnnkorvllle and Mesuultc. would come within twelve miles or so of the now route and the old Key West mining camp within twenty miles. Llt-tle.flcld Llt-tle.flcld and a considerable agricultural section would be brought within a like distance. It would doubtless open a considerable con-siderable mining section east of Mos-iiulte. Mos-iiulte. rich In lead and copper ores. Tho 13lg mesa presents a nearly level stretch of sixty miles, the watersheds falling east ami west from It. Killed by Freight Engine. Conductor James liolden. 10 years old, was accidentally killed while trying to Jump a switch engine, at Pocatello. 5:15 a. m. Monday. No one saw the actual accident, but several saw liolden run to catch the engine, on which he wanted to ride to the other end of the yards. His body was badly mangled. He wns married, and lived In Montpellcr, Ida., and leaves a wife. live daughters and two sons, the oldest 13 years. lie was with the Oregon Short Line since 100". St. Paul in Winnipeg, The Chicago. Milwaukee & SL Paul road is negotiating for property upon which to erect terminals In Winnipeg. Manitoba. It has been known for some time that it was desirous of getting into Winnipeg, but it. was supposed It .would use some other road. The silo reported to be negotiated for is llappyland, a local lo-cal amusement park. llappyland comprises thirty acres and the price asked for the property is SIOO.OOo. An offer of $2f.0.000 lias already been made for it through a trust company. com-pany. What plans Ibe company has for entering en-tering the province have not been mado public. Honor to Hewlett. The new station between Salt Lake and Bountiful on the- Salt Lake and Ogden railroad has been named Hewlett. In honor of -Frank -I. Hewlett, who was acting act-ing mayor of Salt. Lake City at the time when the franchise was passed by the city council. |