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Show SUGGESTION IS FOOLISH New Road Not a Part (f of the Transcontinental System, Says Hill. NEW YORK. July 18. That the Vancouver, Van-couver, Victoria, & Eastern, the new road which It is said Great Northern Interests intend to build in British Columbia,' Co-lumbia,' is to be made part of a new transcontinental line through Canada, as was recently reported, has been emphatically em-phatically denied by James J. Hill In an interview published by the Times. I "Such a suggestion is nonsense,- said the capitalist. "There is no such plan. A large part of the territory in British Columbia and in northern Washington is practically Identical In character and distinguished in no way, one part from the other, except by the drawing of an imaginary line. The new road will cross and recroes the frontier, following fol-lowing the streams that run through that territory. It will furnish means of transportation to a rich, low grade ore country." I |