Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS I Canadas Canada's forward ci march Is attracting attention on this side Baltimore American Canada seems t to be getting a better neighbor all the thc time S v Boston Transcript The sun of western westen Canada Is surely shining The Canadian Pacific proposes to spend thirty millions million there this year In extension Into settlements settle settle- ments bridges shops and double tracking the main line St. St Louis Republic If If Canada has hai more miles of railroad per capita of population population pop pop- than we have It may also be re remembered remembered re- re that sho she has more acres o ot 01 unoccupied land to the mile mUe of railroad Troy Times Canada Is considering the tin advisability of opening a steamship line line from a Hudson bay port to England With railroad connections In the northwest northwest north north- west It Is believed this route would supply supply supply sup sup- ply an outlet with cheap freight fo tor large quantities of wheat raised In that thai quarter t The Importance attached t tC that sort t of transportation fo is indicated t by the fact tact that the plan Is urged ever even though It Is known that the vessels could coult run only four or five months each year the channel being closed by Ice during th theother the theother other months Canada is alive to the thi value of freight carrying by water am and and does not hesitate to prove Its faith by bj Its works St St. Louis Globe Democrat Canadas premier announces that the canal t to tc Hudson bay may be begun this year anc and that the canal to connect Lake Huron directly with Montreal has the official approval With such a running mate as Canada how can Uncle Sam stick k t ta to tc a do nothing p policy y on waterways y Providence Journal Western Canada Is terra Incognita to most Americans yet yei the Canadian Pacific announces that II it It will spend thirty million dollars there this thu year In extensions into settlements bridges shops and double tracking the main line The development of ot this great cereal region bids fair to be one of the most Interesting chapters In the empire building of the tho twentieth cen ceo tury Boston Globe Canada Is going to tc begin the construction of a railway to tc Hudson bay next spring with a terminus terminus nus nuB either at Churchill or Nelson It Is calculated that the route will be available available available avail avail- able four tour months In the year and that thata a great portion of ot the western Canadian wheat crop can be hauled out each year ear at a saving of ot 5 S cents a bushel In freight Will it i ever be possible to go to to the lh north pole ol by all byl-all rail New Yo kr The progress which Canada is making in canal buildIng building building build build- ing and perhaps In railroad extension and other transportation works may surpass sur- sur surpass surpass sur sur- pass at least proportionately that of the United States but It Is worthy of observation ob ob- ob- ob and must be highly gratifying to Americans to observe that the major part of the tools and engines for the construction and equipment of these works comes from the United States Philadelphia Record Record- For the last season season season sea sea- son the canals of Canada make a very favorable comparison with the railroads but the canals do not constitute a route of themselves but are portions of the lake and river transportation from the Lake Superior region to Montreal and the ocean The canals are comparatively short links little more than to enable commerce to get around the St. St Marys Mary's falls Niagara and the St. St Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence rapids They are features of a natural waterway Toledo Blade At the same time the dominion subsidizes the building of a transcontinental and Hudson bay railroad It is engaged In deepening the Welland Weiland channel so steamers fitted for the deep sea traffic can go direct from the lakes to foreign ports While impracticable plans are waved aside thorough surveys and estimates are obtained for the digging digging digging dig dig- ging of ot a waterway from Georgian bay bayto to Lake Ontario a far seeing consideration tion of the completed settlement of the of northwest Fri the e present ei and of fn lanes the e of possible traffic crowding Cleveland Leader It has long surprised surprised surprised sur sur- Americans that Canada should feel able to spend as much money on canals and railroad subsidies and other public Improvements as the dominion has devoted to such use The resources available available available avail avail- able have appeared to be out of ot proportion proportion proportion pro pro- portion to the wealth and population of the country which furnished the revenues Canada can do this because the Canadian government has only slight military and naval burdens and none of which are the result of ot past wars |