Show THE JAMES BAY COUNTRY A rich rebion mortn of the present het lied eastern Can afla new york nov 5 A dispatch from montreal says henry who has jast returned from quebec from another exploration of the james bay country to make ahe necessary levels and topography ot the rebion with a view to ascertaining the practicability of extending the lake st john railway to the bay and aleo take soundings Boun dings and measurements of the latter to tind where available and eafe harbors can be had along it shore line belonging to tah province many interesting cacti which arow a new and important light on that far north country and confirm of it great wealth in timber and arable land on the latter he there are millions ot acres aloag the lotaway and the lower basin ot the rupert while as regards climate he claims to have been wheat growing at Wa to have lathed in the waters of james bay on oct ad finding it warmer than at in are also very rich and forests from a distance of from fi t en to twenty miles on theother eide of the height of land and all the way to james bay the trebe being 2 t 2 feet in diameter while ane supply of pulp wood is inexhaustible lie also claims t have found a practicable railway roule the height ot land between lake st john and james bay being only 1225 feet sea level as compared withe 1500 feet between quebec and lake st john together with deep water along most of the shore line of the bay in the province while alone the ontario shore the ebal lowy run out for seven or eight miles there la actually acu ally a harbor lie says at the mouth of the rupert and with a litile dredging another could be made at the mouth ot the lotaway Not away north of the height of land the country is undulating ind free from mountains |