| Show I r ri I i lf DJ f o ID o A S IM G ACROSS AG TOE oo TO BE B t l 9 LS 11 I ill SUU ill S l 11 1 L 1 LS l ill 5 II J IO W ill Wl rJ roUM lilY THE r v I Special nc o of the Ill Deseret 1 Newt New h V I J Fran G 0 I j I Nov No have f I Just JUt 1111 iua d i 0 4 long talk with Mr M I I I I Frank W Morse Morae the tho vice Ico I president c ante ami general manager of t the now Hatt trunk line w which thu the KOV gov government 0 of Canaan td II building from ocean to ocean I Islay nay II the government for or although the tha road Is being baing engineer fl ell under the Grand Orand Trunk Pacific rail railway way tray wa management and although It will really raspy belong belon to that company It Il Is U g built on guarantees and the eastern half hal of ot It by govern Anent engineers and on government con can conra contracts tra tracts ra t tIt tH It H is the biggest Job any goy ROV ov has ha ever undertaken with withe e t therian r s th the e exception ex c aP of at o t the Tran s SI berUn herian and the Panama canal Its It building will ill lie be ua as I as aa that 0 Grand Orand Trunk between b Toronto and Mo Montreal I and that li la as all good ns lIS any rOd on the thc continent The Trans Siberian Wa made with rails which Were cre uT Car fa to too light for tor the fame and the whole road ranI must now nol be So Bo Prince the of o railroads told lold me when I talked tallIed with him about that line JUKI Juet Ju t before the tho war W with Japan The Canadian llan wag wae originally I ly laId with rails that Is with rolls mils which weighed M 50 pounds to the yard This has hus ull all been changed ante and the road now nan has the ine heavy rails mils and nil the tho Improve ments o of ot t thus the New 1 eu el t York l ark Central Centra or the Pennsylvania Penns The fhe Grand Trunk Pa Ia emus U is being laid with rails roll which tt weigh e eighty pounds to the thu yard arl and mul its ItH grades grad will v ill be the tho c e Mr 11 r Morse IoTt says of any an transcontinental line Tho rho road roud will wilt lie ho completed In 1911 1311 now HOW II CANADA BUILDS HAIL KAIL ROADS Defore Before I tell you the story of at the theM ther M uL t Y A I Y f 1 r t y s sJ y y y f X I r Ii It Ii I rr r i s y X y r Y r O y r r r J f Y f f i it X y y iu i y y u 1 b 4 Y t t X y t I I y r rr t r y i X ft f y X r XI t I ra raI I I t te y X X 1 e v FRANK FRANJe W MORSE I Manager of o Crusades XI From Tram n a Punished i ifo To fo that llio X XI Ii of ot the th Trans and It will cost co t or ur more moto than half halt as much muth mu h as the tho Panama canal I I Transport y In your Imagination tion back to the tho when the h United foiled States had people We had 1111 about I 1 believe when Jef Jet Jefferson ferson ferron Was president Think of the pc pe clod when most m St of ot our citizens were wrE along the tho Atlantic HOI bo aril and south of ot Erie Brie and Ontario and sup supple lase I o e that wo then had hII determined to build an nn Iron track through the wilder to nes from Boston to Sun SMI 8 11 Francisco and t thence north to 10 Seattle That la is what like tike what tills this little na 1111 nation i tion IB Is now near It Is surveying survey surveyIng Ule Ing a new lino of railroad ml os long which shall conned connect Halifax Nora Kova Scotia with Port fort on tutu thu Pacific ocean crean ac ean not tar far from the lower e nd o of at t Alaska about ab lut COO 0 0 mile m lice north u a of or Puget Sound Soum and perhaps half hilI that distance south of at f In Alaska The Tiro Theline Tholine line everywhere ruin rues several hundred miles lathes north of ot the American boundary In the It Is U about roo fOO miles north It goes froes most mo t of ot the tho way through i I 11 n 1 new and unsettled country ante for or I miles I or so through lands so S suited stilted for farming that Mr r Morse orse tells ma me I they will soon Foon be aa ns thickly thick populated populate 1 us es Iowa Iona or Nebraska i i THOUSANDS ALREADY AT lT WORK i This railroad It is not ti II mere nere po I a scheme mapped out upon pa paper papEr par per It has hns been b authorized by the tha ther I Canadian r parliament worth if ot Grand Trunk PacIta bonds cuaran t teed td d by the government have been H lf hued and they V w ro re subscribed for or 10 0 times over The money mom IP is at the call I of ot the th managers manager mana r nod and It tt Is being put into the tho work as IS rapidly rapid as Already 2 miles of ot road are under construction Two thousand men areat are arent nt lit work laying the rain mils n between Winnipeg Win Winnipeg and Edmonton and nel by this time next year there will 11 be an of o laborers pushing the construction all nil along ulan the line lineTha t The Tha road rood Is la being built buill to stay The government contract provides that thit It chall l he as gOOd as 1111 the tho line hue of ot the thu road let Itt me give you rOil a 1 thumbnail i io sketch of o Its Us manager It will show you ou the Hie kind 1 1 nIl of men who arc aro moving things thing s In Canada today toda The Tho t Ica anti and manager el of this Treat croat enterprise Is I about eight years cars young oung younger er cr than thun President Roosevelt He lIe Is hi about as tall tail ns as our lur president and not so 80 heavy heay He lie looks younger than he really Is and every oer molecule of his anatomy seems to be fed fell with red young oun Wood blood Ilko the greatest of o railroad men he h is American born and American broil bred He came from Lafayette ettl Indiana urns liS educated as IS a l mechanical engineer an gill eCI and hud had his hili training on the blEh and other of our systems before he Ill took charge chune of or i ithe the engineering department of o the I Grand Trunk He Ile cume cum to the Grand Trunk through his hili friendship for tor torI Chance I atlas 8 Jt t Hayes lIa es eR its ire president with hu he has ban been heen closely associated a tor fOl many yours years eTS Mr r Morse has a n big hood heed n o smooth open olen face lice rand and n a bright clear cleat blue eye He lit talks well hell and Is I enthusiastic tle over Oer the Grand Irand Trunk Pa 10 and Its 1111 possibilities I asked akell him to tell lell me of at the railway In Its relations to the Iho gov IOV government Said Soh he ho heThe The Thi rh road lies two divisions an eastern east eastern ea t ern and a western division Tim The eastern east cast castern ern division from tr Jm the tIle Atlante ocean to It 11 Is e 1500 miles for lor antI and It II will Mill be by IJ the Canadian government The western we division runs runa front from Winnipeg f to the Pa Par p ethic ocean It IB la also alio 1600 miles OIlieR long It H is to be b built hullt t I by Y the th e Grand Trunk Pacific company When the th Canadian Cun dlan government hits his completed teli the eastern division of ot the rood road by lt Its 1 contract with Ut us u It Is 13 hound bound to t J lease IrMe It to the tho Grand Orand Trunk Pacific for 50 ae O years For the first seven n years year we ve we pal nothing but hut the tho working expenses and for Cor 43 Years thereafter we pay 3 1 per Iler cent on Oil the actual cost O t of ot As ts a to the west western ern dh bien that will lx he built with our own on money mone but tv the th government guar I M our bonds to tine the th extent of S1 OiO 01 0 o ivr ter mile when the road clO crosses el the i A r WE ii Ga Gae I sel AB AID sift H faa C J ad Work W I m u Win G Caa Cm ac O Iy Nsw f Wih WG i Q F mad 12 m n Aca A t S j i irm jr r rm Lr It t s t atra 9 co fP ad 1 6 aa J I t 9 1 l ka WD I II I Cl D ma cr r as l 21 Irn lF L t c a tall tu lJ w 01 m G t l C i to L WIh IQ Jt to a 11 V Road rn L J WM Cs CC C 1 mA i ol Il 1 err F Gr i iI i I i i i I I prairies and to of at the tho ac acv teal cost of ot construction when It goes go ell over oer the c n nA A GRAIN TO 10 fIm Om Ar Rut But ut Is I there no land grant with the tho railroad Mr Ir Morse Not on the main line We e have hao n a branch going down through New NeV On Ontario tario tarlo to Port lorl Arthur Thin This is known knowlI a athe us the Lake Lak Superior Super or branch It will bu he used merely as the th outlet of at our treat great wheat to tn water venter I transportation and will w Ill rather bo hr a n mighty grain chute chut than a 11 lartie ler line For It we wo get from rom tho the provincial government 2000 In cash and acres of oC land per mile Hut butt Is it not to 10 agree to pay 3 per cent on any road I u built hullt by byan any an government The fhe chances for tor graft and ami will vIII be ho great greal Not Nolin In this case rase cn e The railway must mut be b constructed under our supervision and all nil contracts for Cor work worle and sup mip iKei pLes II will be he competitive We WI can oven ovin bid upon he the work ourselves told and we shall hall be bc vitally Interested In making the tho cost Coat c 1 us as low riH at IE Is I consistent CUll RIM tent with good work tia us we have to pay an Inter Interest interest est upon It for or CO 50 i O yearn year What becomes of the road at nt the end of that time The government agree either to tithe take that branch of ot 11 it giving us op g rights with tho the western divi division sion slon and the Grand Orand Trunk system fI or orto orto to reneW our lease for tor another nother 50 years ears TIIE COST What vIII It cost to In make mako the toad It has been estimated that It can cnn bo be built buill for This Is supposing the eastern division can cun be built for ai n mile and tho the mountain section for tOl from Ml CoO to CO 60 thousand thou dollars amile a j mile Title This Is what our surveys show to tobe tobe be hl the probable cost The prairie sec lIec section than tion of or the line can bo ho built for tOl or 2000 a mile tulle THE CLIMB OVER TIlE TIKE nOCI IES How about aboul the grade Do you U not have havo a big hI lift III In getting get ling across the tho No wo WI will have hae n II better grade than nay other othol continental line Our grade will nowhere be b more morn than of oC one per cent or 2 0 feet oct to the mile mils Tint That means less than thun sIx nix Inches h hell anywhere any anywhere where In tel fret This Is on the section In n the mountain section It will nowhere exceed Ul 11 feet to 10 the mile unite It will ba ho 20 per Il I cent cant lees 11 than that of ot any an other oth r road over ovel the kles What will swill be your OUI highest puss pass pa pates tes than feet cot replied Mr M Morse orlle The fhe Canadian has to lift Its It through U tr Ans ns to foet tha Ih Great Northern to feet and the th Northern Tactile to feet The Union crosses the mountains lit at lita ILta a n higher altitude than any an other road roal roa It goes up 1111 to 10 82 Ii feet and the son lion Topeka and anti Banta Fe ilses to tn 3 feet reel The Th Southern Pacific crosses at P C 1 little over oer hut but It falls fails aliI In one ono place feet feel below tide watT water wat r We shall Hhall havethe have havethe the lowest lift and hence tun un an operate at ata t ta a 1 lower io I coat t tWill Will you OU have he trouble getting setting ov over ir the mountains The chief trouble Is 1 In going down the tho Pacific stile side The grade Is easy from train the s to the top but we shall hive have to 10 wind triad this Ihla way and und that down I the western we elope An As 11 I understand It the thc di dl division II vision will belong entirely entire to the Grand Trunk Yes os It II will be he constructed by thel the Grand Trunk company with wItt l tho government guarantees as liS I have stat stated stated ed eel On the Ihl mountain section the th gov government go government will still pay the Interest on the amount of oC Its II guarantees for tOl the Iho first t seven heven ears and If It there should be A t default nf ot interest during durIn the th next three years e is It will pay par that also III SO but such last payment will be ire capitalized 1 and eventually pall paid back hack by the com cam company compan pang pany pan to the government THE NEtt JW WHEAT EMPIRE An As A to the prairie section continued Mr Morse Morne lol e that thai will pay par the Interest Inter t ton on Its bonds from the start That coun country country try tt Is so 50 rich that thai settlements will spring up UtI all along alon the road rOII and we wo shall be hauling hn out millions of bushel bushels of ut wheat anti Ind other lither products within n It year rear or so O alter after the rails rally are laid I dont donl lure dare cia re to 10 describe the richness of ot that region to tho the full rull Any n man who tells the truth about It II to a n stranger Is III looked upon by 11 the latter ns as a 11 vie viey II or a H liar We e have hae there ther the thc richest wheat l lands nd upon earth POrth better than those Iho p of or the United States s better b than Any others other oth of ottha the thc world This Thill road goes through u II strip of It virgin ln soil which will raise 25 5 bulbuls J and moro more wheat to tho the acre and und that thai strip con contains contal contains tal nil four our tines time an nit much wheat land landas landus as us nil all the lands of ot the United Unite I About bushels bush bushels els of or wheat Were welt harvested In tho the theland lands land Of f that region which are nrc now 1101 rl accessible to lu railroads this year and 1 the thu country has hns hardly been blen touched THI AMERICAN A INVASION Americans and anti other Immigrants are arc coming In III by b the tho thousands Husky Husk young oung oun fellows fellow n w with Ili tw two IWo u three live and ten thousand thou and dollars dollar apiece In their pockets arc are buying lands land and settling Imet I Imet Imet met scores of t them wherever I went out there along tho the line of at our road raid All they thc wanted to 10 know was wall whether the therond road rond would bo be actually built and when wh 11 I told theist there was not nol a u doubt of ot it they said they would go BO ahead and buy bur They The have bought and aud buying Is s going on all everywhere there today I saw Haw a W settlers s who were wore coming canting In with all nil their belongings from Crom ka Kansas 1 Iowa and the Dakotas Dakota I They rhey had sold their farms armil and were ready to take the cheap lands land and make mako new ones Inca The Thc situation In is such lIuch there that a man roan can cun plow and have IHO havea a I wheat crop the year after aCt r he ho settles and one young fellow tellow of IS 29 8 whom I Imul until mat told me he had hd paid pilI for or his land Ms his hi moving and his stock with his liNt crop and had money mOlle In the tho hank bank I 1 dont mean to way nay Ia that that Is la a com corn common common cornman mon man occurrence but lut It Il la is what ono one young oung man did EDMONTON AND ITS FUTURE How low about the towns along the line lino Unno of o the Grand Orand Trunk The road load is I not riot yet t laid out and tho this are uie not 1101 settled It passes pannes CS us 1111 I have hwu said through Winnipeg and also aha through Edmonton I In ht Alberta Ed Ell monton will I believe be the Its lis of that not new wheat region H It will VIII probably surpass Winnipeg The rite region about there will IIII grow wheat wheal and ami also many other oth r crops The Thu country Is un 1111 with coal If It a 1 Citizen of ot Ed I d lion ton dip digs u IL cellar ho he Is 13 s likely t Gs Hate his hla winter fuel before he gets to the bottom The town Is now reached by hy a II branch of ot the Canadian Pacific and anI by h the Canadian Northern The Grand Trunk will nil as I have toll told t you also oJ o go ge 0 through it It will be a railroad center and n a I and nd commercial one a Ui as well RIVAL CITIES What N li the size sire of o Edmonton It Jt has hall about Strathcona Just across the Saskatchewan river hUll hue about The two places are 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