Show e ay dd to A K M or M 00 A S yoe 4 1 00 W W ap r ik age all gitil the hollas alon mono 11 the winding antoli ta tu that 41 51 and the arst he ital inn a al As to thi till IL lipelt 4 and cw tb th 0 it hay am not t aa abl argue the th CH of that sort oten fill 18 aid 1414 lips thile again 11 tint tw anif I 1 tries railway s g i to IR HOD oil road 12 A I 1 f in o 0 j bin hit peet t deyto TD 1 tf ft i the tb or left out B gart gether bet but I 1 lot every bembe aa ftp tent agree with a irk A O 0 u i ne tl a 1 c instituted h k tta lop tred its 6 d dd ra I 1 7 or 1 1 Q rj any Is tb ti pit t tit 4 1 0 my t A W bomeal I 1 4 sel opt I 1 pit th f nd ne A of I 1 at 14 to at a the mat by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN 9 II 11 ki L canada materialize alj ite its artam of a generation and comi lete the hudson ilay a railway a road N planned to connect ita its great western grain fields with ith salt water unter at I 1 ort r nelson ind open it ne grain 1 p rt route to uv liv that la Is a ill quim a that Is stirring all canada setting the blest est against lip ti p I 1 arct and anti pr moLln kin all alit delutes debates la in there Is no boult at this writing that the will be corn com plated ln in time but whether it will till be completed as a grain export route or as a colonization and general car rier her road Is apparently an fill open question the a idy calhany rail ft ay starts at the pas pus manitoba on the saskatchewan aher it the end of a branch line of the former can canadyan Inna dinn adlan northern rail way and runs mot to tit hudson bay north east almost us the crow flies along the th delfin enon titer to port nelson elson near the mouth of tt at stream the length of the line Is 4 mites have been constructed to kettle at a cost of the emi estimated matel cost of the remaining miles Is tale a look at the map of north america lint tit at fort port kelson nelson on the west shore of hudson bay Is al at moat most due berth north of chicago and that the pa pas Is almi st die dle north of omaha now note the distance dl stalle from the pas or winnipeg to montreal Mul treal either by 11 all II rail or yin 1 lake superior and georgian ta in round figures the saving in elhage trige by the hudson bay roid in reject to certain points Is as follone ilenin 1 IW 11 miles calgary 1150 saskatoon LITI prince albert and melfort 1300 then tit figure that port nelso n and nt etreal are p rac the earne same distance by ea faoro f rom mailei and finally lar bear in mind hat that the hudson ilay road ie Is a go gemni ement nt project it Is a part of I 1 the he nl ra rail 11 ekys baysa a 6 stem of 2000 ft miles which the lorld war left in n lie he hands of th the e canadian people it A as rushed dur ing the early years of the war but work was wits discontinued in 1017 chy hy then should there be any question about he the completion cor of the new export route projects i that there Is a question ie Is shown by two fails facts the engineering Eno insel tuie tute of canada Is investigating whether or not the project can be made tande worth orth while as its a measure of na flit tonal economy mort over the bouse house ef of commons bus refused to make appropriation for its completion the terminal tem for transshipment to vesi sels will hae to he built bunt 20 0 miles up lip the nelson riter say the engineer that 1 Is because be caultO of ice tee troubles and shoil sho il water the most optimistic tl if mate dates of terminal cats of construction are about for harbor and channel dredging nearly for storage facilities about for and other marine t along the channel and la in hudson strait connecting the bay with nith the ocean total In duding the miles of road mad 2200 the longest open season that can be expected pecked Is etoen weeks begin ning about the tile mid lit of august in olne it has been no more than ten weeks tills short season suggest tie tle enri ill so place limitations on a incapacity t c ty of the railway that large elevator levator le will have to be provided pro Tided at the port they also that it will so affect the avail ability of tramp assels es e sels that freight rates roles roust must remain largely conjectural W V nelson smith in a discussion before the winnipeg branch of the in lit statute sti tute said raid that a literal estimate of the grain that would move by this outlet Is from to bushels lie ile put the most favorable conjectural transportation saving at but ten cents a bushel disregarding insurance incidentally it may be stated that in 1922 19 canada canadas 8 exports of wheat including flour were mere bushel els and the total exports of wheat oats barley and old rye were 23 bushels according to the hallway age a hitherto unpublished report rep 0 rt on the feasibility of completing the hudson bay road project by david dav id W maclachlan engineer in charge eb arge of dreda ing in operations at port PO rt nelson was tabled in led in 1 lh the house of common commons at ottawa in june this report was submitted to the department of railways and canals in september 1917 maclachlan estimated the average season of navigation at two months the rate on grain from saskatoon to liverpool la tort lort william lilliarn li and montreal at cents a bushel and the rote rate from sas katoon to lort nelson including handling charge charges at 19 9 cent cents thus leaving a of ga 6 5 cents for the ocean rate extra insurance and the inter est on the cost of the works he ile aid said the average rate paid ramp tramp steamer steamers from montreal to ty liverpool was as 7 cents and ind that they would inevitably the montreal choose cho 08 e route unless there was a higher margin at port nelson elson W D euler liberal member men fiber tor for horth north waterloo asked if there reports subsequent to that of mac were lachlan mr graham minister nil nister of railway railways and canal canals re replied plied that t ha t there were er 0 and that t h a I 1 th they ey would be submitted when asked for loud from the progressives applause statement greeted this in ill july according to the hallway 4 re prepared to vote v 0 te money for fl th is wb of the hudson bay bromn nl the tile vote vi as 78 to 20 again agalia 1 du government treated it virtu allyn ill want of confidence vote so it r probably not a test vote tote as lm 0 ley the progressives voted with thol t aili brals and ConserT conservatives I 1 ea adt this Is hovi however ever far from M tb J the end of the m matter atter veste dicolo kresske e members are strong fort of early completion of the probed broj has been the dream of esta ada ever since it found it cowdy cool 1 I d grain ed it should he be noted that adoth to hudon hudson bay Is being built a T I 1 1 an extension from Coet cochrane urane 10 james bay of the I 1 m northern ontario rall railway Aay X lit the province of ontario iti its p out have to do with colonization t i ai and coal from the northwest wilt i e th hudson bay ne to the student of american W rm this hudson bay ilay grain export fc 00 project Is of intense interest N aey nelson and the nelson river awl dry headquarters and trade bighail dt q U hudson a bay day company chart S 1670 by king charles 11 II of I 1 artt and the biggest and most elleda e i monopoly the world has bag ever ya with power of life and deliale del mie monopoly of trade 0 over er all ot of larl ft north america to the it 0 uty cess tully fully barred the way to ciri for years II 11 B G tn ook by its ene enemies rales here before 0 u wason as on its flag and the mIS mission 1 arse teacher were anathema autem seln for skin 0 was the th 1114 on its great seal and it took III out from the indian and skinned the trade reducing him to ater i 1 4 not even a hobt factor was J to mate make a garden lest be girt tu rb the I 1 wilderness to inhospitable or free trader in furs was all it ignored the exploring 15 its charter tet set up trading posu poi IL 1 t made the indian come to till tb la in W e piled plied up enormous rile end successfully withstood in tion forced to let go 90 its fri gell 2 year years by the british gow lay ing it Is to now selling its fertile 14 and running a chain of delbarto del larto ktores in thriving cilles and lall more money than ever eier elet had the IL D Q explored 1 I land and opened it ta or and sett settlement leme lit the history of north american continent would woal 0 been far d different for one W m alaska would not be ours abel tl 11 lish instead of the nus russian 09 vt have found it and kept it IL for or other the settlement of the 10 A sippi valley 11 would have been q instead of frenca French with po r ll 11 e 1 I and conjectural consequence consequences our imagining 1 |