HUDSON'S BAY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IX, Issue 2839, 28 February 1885, Page 2

HUDSON'S BAY.

The existence of tho great lake recently ■ disoorored in Labrador, it oott tarns out, was one of the socrets of the Hud«on'< Bay Company, and next summer thetf will bo an organised effort mado to determine tho limitß and tho probable value of tho now inland sea. Meanwhile, tb®. Canadian Govommont is maintaining tbji \ winter seven stations, with four mon in each Btation, on tho shores of Hudaou Strait and Hudson Bay. These partiosM* making careful scientitio |observations M to tho state of tho ico, &c,, so as to deter* mine how long during tho suramor son Hudson Bay may bo omployod ai W , I outlet to Europe for tho produce of ' Western Canada. The stations have in volved, so far, a cost of about L20,000i j but tho survey of tho Bay and Strait* j and the useful information acq ired will be choap at any price, ana rati load to very groat results. It

in that at least 12 or 14 weeks „ nirication can be depended upon, of is oD ly 500 miles from Like Winin Manitoba, to Churchill Hartuptf' tfae wc3 t coast of Hudson Bay, thraosb a country which forma an easy inexpensive route for a railroad. nri-hiil Harbor can be entered by R hrtrest ships at aU stages of the g a daon's Bay itself is half as large tha Mediterranean, and is singularly J 5 from shoals and rocks. Opened ne3 r and cheap route to Europe ? t h« wheat cf wonderfully Jnctive region of Manitoba, HudP lO itself may in the future be j Cloned On the south shore there is nA firm land, and on various parts of STcoaat there are known deposits of iron nS copper, with traces of gold and stiver. Sach a region evidently has great possi-