Railway from Lake Superior to Red River Settlement Considered: In a Letter to the Hon. Wm. McDougall |
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10th March admitting advantages Alps American tariff Ancona Appenines applied to Channels byrailway bywater cent centimes Chemin de Fer climate coal colonisation Commencing construction contend conveyance cost of transport Dawson Dominion emigrants empties engine equal Erie Enlargement expense Fer du Nord Fort Garry Fort William full loads Garry to Lake grade heavy articles immense iron Jarvis JOHN FOSTER JOHN LOVELL kilometre Lake Sturgeon Lake Superior line of railway lines in France Marne materials means of communication measure supersede canals metre miles millions of acres MINISTER OF PUBLIC Mulhouse NICHOLAS STREET North West opinion Orleans Paris and Strasbourg Paris to Strasbourg prairie PRINTED BY JOHN rail and water railway transport reached without consideration Red River Rhine River Settlement roads of communication Russia says shew stations system I propose tions tonnage by canal tons trade traffic Transhipment transport of merchandise true that Canada whole distance Wooden Railway Woods
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Page 3 - Coal, salt, iron, gold and bitumen, are among the minerals to be found. Over the untilled fields which nature has spread out, the wild cattle of the plains roam in countless herds, and for hundreds of miles together may be seen grazing like domestic cattle in a field of pasture. A region which thus, in a state of nature, supports animal life in profusion, must be naturally rich, as regards its soil and climate. It is, in fact, fitted to sustain as dense an agricultural population as any area of equal...
Page 4 - ... while admitting the great advantages which would result from a " work of this kind, it must be borne in mind that the means for " its construction cannot at present be obtained. There is no " amount of argument, as to prospective advantages, which could " procure the investment of twenty millions of dollars, which " would be about its cost, in an undeveloped region, such as that " through which it would pass...
Page 3 - NW to Peace River the climate is adapted to the growth of wheat. Coal, salt, iron, gold and bitumen are among the products to be found.
Page 4 - under consideration, it may be remarked that the great mass is " composed of bulky and heavy articles, of such general value as " materially feels the weight of transport charges, especially if " the distance moved be great, and cannot under the general con" dition of the market afford to pay much additional, to save a few
Page 3 - ... the upper portion of the South Branch of the Saskatchewan. So vast is the region, and the soil throughout the greater part of its extent so good, that it is no exaggeration to say the cultivable areas may le reckoned by hundreds of millions of acres.
Page 4 - such a work was undertaken, the country would have to be " rendered accessible, as I have already said, by some such means " of communication as I have suggested.
Page 3 - Coal, salt, iron, gold and bitu" men, are among the minerals to be found. Over the untilled " fields which nature has spread out, the wild cattle of the plains " roam in countless herds, and for hundreds of miles together may...
Page 4 - great measure supersede Canals, but that it is evident that " this conclusion has been reached without consideration, espe" cially when applied to Channels of great trade.
Page 3 - Saskat" che wan drains an area greater than does the St. Lawrence, and is " navigable for seven hundred miles of its course. From the South " Branch of this great river, north west to Peace River the climate " is adapted to the growth of wheat. Coal, salt, iron, gold and bitu...