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Show II RAILROAD IS CKOSHOGKIES (Special t. Th Exim'.ner.) CHICAGO, Dee. 2.". Cortr.-.ctorn o." tho Grand Trunk Pi'dllc raih vy will have the line cvin.pktc J nexl ittram'-r i to Yellow iiej-1 i'.s ,yyonv,h tV- Rorkiij."-, r.nd ulicaly h.v. e i.as.-c-l lit-.- : A i habaka jiv;- at t'v entr.mco ( Ire pr;s-a. Suprdk-s for t!:e difficult Ion bUwoon Ycllov. N.-ud ppa aivl Hazletou will thcre.i! tcr be w.Oed Iown the !i;ser river, putting an end to the lm:'.:irds uf eon.'?trit vtl'i work In fastnesses between the R'.ckie.; a rid j the Paeiiie con-t, which ilij m-v.- i ti-anscont inei.tal line will open up for ; settlenKiit ' 1 Stcii for the in-w line rcreliej th- I Atbabjska rlvr during th" a.:unnii. j 2.300 men and j''U teams rn-li'-d tin- I work lioni tin- Mi Lei d liver and I L . Athrtbuska, inaklng 1 1 c-'i I ! I pro;.'re.-i:. The entire mire li i nr ':n bi". n recon-noltcred recon-noltcred by lack Stewart m th- firm of Foley. Welsh ic Stewart, which has thr irlnelp;l contract-j fur the construction. con-struction. Ills staiemenls of t!ie progress prog-ress to the interior siio.v tint Fort George and its surroun ling country will be in close touch with outelde markets next s:inur.cr, and the days of packing giug through t;ie mountains moun-tains on snowshoes or coaches will In' :;i an end. The cxten:'len of the national na-tional transcontinental li transfortn-Ir.g transfortn-Ir.g the region traversed, for sritler.-Itave sritler.-Itave gone In ahead of construction to such 3n extent that quite a poy. ilation is found In the dlstric'.s which were primeval wilderness and unpeopled prairies five years ngr it is sai l that 150 new postofllces out of 220 which v. Ill be established by the Dominion government dtrlng the n?xt eighteen months will be locnfed In that region, mo.-t of the balance being i.i northern On'arlo and western Quebec. Every effort Is being ma'ie to ensure tho building of an elevator an 1 ?. station at each new town in the prairie district dis-trict and to secure the promise ot n schoolhouse from the government lm-iiie'iiately lm-iiie'iiately thereafter. Comparatively llt'.le has born known of the tenltoiy between the Rockies an1 the coast, although the replon wai thoroughly reronn'dtere before the j present route of the Grand Trunk Pa-c'Jic Pa-c'Jic was chosen. Seventy-five miles from Prince Rupert the line penetrate a gigantic terrace of mountains having hav-ing an elevation uf fi.oOO feet, with corrugated walks and numerous ravines. ra-vines. Kltselus canyen, through which Hie road will run, Is abo:it a mile long and seldom more than 100 loot wide, with thee r walls ri.sing to six and i-cven thousand f?et. Along the Lower Skeena river the scenery, in color.ng, numbers of cataracts cat-aracts and mountain lakes. Is said to resemble the most picturesque districts 'I the Alps or of Norway. |