Show I RAILROADS RAILROADS HERE AND IN CANADA Premier Laurier of the Dominion Domini ll said recently 9 that the time had come for Canada to reach Hudson ba bay by rail and that if the offer of acres o of land per mile to any company who would build i iwas it was not e enough ough it might mIght be well for or the Dominion Government to finance the Hudson bay route to Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope rope as a national u undertaking g. g A goo good many charters have ave been granted there J J. J. J Hill of the Great Northern has secured one o of them The railroad building era eran erain jn the Dominion is in full force and the determination on to wrest as much trade ra e as possible from this continent and from the shores of the Pacific is a manifest fact in the Dominion Dominio Domin Domin- ion on i today In the meantime our transcontinental lines lines are th their are all do tremendous tremendous tre tre- hardly hardI holding r own They ar are doing ng a busin business ss they cannot k keep p up with t their l ir orders but in the meant meantime me their tracks and rolling stock are wearing out fast and alid they cannot get themon the mon money y to keep th the roads up I In point of fact fa-ct the Great Northern the Northern Pacific and the Union Pacific should be oe double tracked as swiftly as men and material l could accomplish push the work A sample ample of how things are is seen in the fact that people eop e here who want to begin to lay in their winter coal cannot get the coal Out in the middle of Nevada some huge reduction works are standing idle because the road cannot deliver deliver de- de liver iver the coal ne needed ded to o keep them going And this is in June what is to be in A great many other enterprises are h halting because the roads are areso areso areso so overworked that material needed cannot be de- de livered The matter matter is most serious erious It seems seem that the he country h has s grown beyond the present capa capacity of the roads to tome meet t the business It is a matter serious serious serious se se- rious enough for Government inquiry because the work of of overcoming th the present trouble should not be je put off on one day |