WORKERS NOT TALKERS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7631, 24 January 1903, Page 3

WORKERS NOT TALKERS.

The Canadians have a quiet but tery energetic way of going about matters (says a San Francisco paper). But little was heard about the Canadian Pacific Kailway until it was nearly completed, the cable between Canada and Australia has been laid with very little flourish, and now the Canadians are to hare a new transcontinental railway. Work has been going on quietly for nearly eighteen months, and it is to be finished in 1907. The road is to run from Quebec to Port Simpson, paralleling the Canadian Pacific, and 280 miles north of that line. It will run through a country that annually produces 52 million bushels of wheat, and to the west of the wheat fields in the territories of Alberta, Athabasca, and Saskachewan are immense deposits of petroleum and coal of both kinds awaiting development. Port Simpson, the western terminus, is the most northerly Pacific port of the Dominion, being just south.of the southerly termination of the Alaska strip. It is just about halfway between Victoria and Skagway, thus offering the shortest sea trip to Alaska, and it is also on the shortest and most direct line to China. It has, therefore, both stragetic and trade' advantages over any existing route. Moreover, the harbour is eaid to be second only to that of San Francisco on the Pacific Coast.