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Show ANGLO-SAXON ROAD BUILDERS. The Anglo Saxon is in full evidence in the industrial in-dustrial world now-a-days. The building of railroads rail-roads is the modern form of conquest. Well the road Is pushing northward in South Africa and will soon be pushing southward from North Africa toward the meeting in the midst of the Dard Continent only a few years hence. In our own country, aside from the new lines projected, some of which include half a continent, the old idea is taking a second life to build a north and south road which will eventually connect Alaska and Patagonia. It may not be very practical yet, but all well wishers, who would see our country at peace with all the world indefinitely, would H rejoice to see a road started through Colombia H or "Venezuela and pushed southward to a proper JH turning off point to reach Buenos Ayres. The 91 trade of South America will never be secured to H the United States until this is done. A parallel H road should also be run on the Western slope 'H of the Andes through Ecquador, Peru and Bo- H livia, to a connecting road in Chili. Bids are jH advertised for the construction of a railroad from H north of Adelaide in Southern Australia to Port H Darwin on the north coast; or more properly tH speaking from the northern end of the road at jH Oodnodatta, G88 jniles north of Adelaide, to Pine JH Creek, the south end of the road running south ' from Port Darwin 146 miles. The gap to be filled H is 1,0G3 miles and 175,000 acres of land per mile jH will be paid for the construction and equipment jH of the road which it is expected will cost $25,000,- j 000. It is said a nurse maid could wheel a baby H carriage the entire distance. Except for 136 Jl miles on the south end thero aro ample rains and !H it ought to be a good country. The climate i3 de- iH scribed as a natural sanitarium for the sick. But Hl the road of greatest present interest is tho pro- H posed road from the head of navigation on the ll Saguenay rier, also at Quebec and Montreal to H push through the wheat and timber lands in the M James Bay district, tap the whole of the James ' Bay and Hudson Bay trade, open the mineral ih country of Northern Ontario; cross the center ! of its very rich wheat lands of Peace River val- f ley, and then through a pass only 2,000 feet high to Port Simpson on the Pacific. Then Its entire H length will be but 2,830 miles. A charter for it M has been granted and it will be pushed with all energy. It will be on lower grades than any 11 other continental road, it will traverse a great lfl wheat, timber and mineral country, its western terminus will bo nearer Asia than any other, Its easterly terminus will be nearer Europe than any other. : H The Anglo-Saxon is In full evidence. , |