CANADA'S NEW RAILWAY.
<ih. ti MON™ EAL, November 24. ftm Uiomas Shauglmessy, the in-esi--2 • tle on being interviewed with reference to the proposed extension of tlie Grand Trunk fouhray to the Pacific Coast, Sisl ■ Yes, our Grand Trunk friends are undertaking a very big contract. There is ™"fi m n he »mo**<xme»b that need cause the Canadian Paoific the slightest concern. In this vast country of ours there is room for a great many miles of railway • « "Twenty^ years ago, when the. Canadian lacinc .enterprise was inaugurated, the entire country from Pembroke to the Pacific coast, a distance of upwards of 2500 miles, was a bleak, barren waste-, practically unmhabited. To-day, the Canadian 1 acinc operates m thai territory over 6000 miles of railway—main line and branches —and this mileage is being increased year by year. The construction of a 3ine north of us will involve years of labor and millions upon millions of-capital."—Beuter.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9639, 14 January 1903, Page 3
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154CANADA'S NEW RAILWAY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9639, 14 January 1903, Page 3
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