Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1929, Page 22

CANADA'SENPRRE MOVES WESTVARD Half Continent Will Be Open- ed by New Hudson Bay Railroad. Special Dispatch to The Star. OTTAWA, Ontario, June 22 (N.A. N.A.) —Canada’s march of empire is toward the north and west. Within the | next two years, with the completion of the Hudson Bay Railroad, there will be opened up half a continent, mostly | of virgin lands, sweeping west from the bay toward the Pacific, a huge area of untold mineral wealth and with farm- ing and grazing possibilities. The construction of this railway, running from The Pas in Manitoba to Churchill on, Hudson Bay, a distance of 510 miles, nfeans not only the opening of a vast new section, known hereto- fore only to the fur trader and the trapper, but it means the industrial development of the western provinces, and a big m to the farmers and ranchers. For 1t will shorten the haul and lessen the cost of laying down their products—their wheat and cattle and dairy produce—in the Liverpool mar- kets, and give them an immense advan- tage over the farmers of the United States. Manufacturing to Develop. Manufacturing interests will be de- veloped because it will be possible to deliver iron cheaply from Nova Scotia and Cape Breton to the prairie provinces which have huge deposits of coal, par- | ticularly Alberta, and coal and iron are ¢ the necessary eiements in the produc- tion of steel. A glance at the map of Canada re- | veals the inland isolation of the great | agricultural western plains. Between | them and the Pacific Ocean lies the Rocky Mountain barrier. The Atlantic seaboard and Eastern Canada are cut off by the intervention of hundreds of miles of non-productive pre-Cambrian areas, Even the great St. Lawrence system of waterways is at best an in- adequate substitute for an ocean lane. But that great arm of the sea, Hudson Bay, cuts deeply into the northern interior of the country and toward its shores Western Canada has long cast hopeful eyes. It has dreamed and dreamed of a short route to Europe by a rail line to | a point on the bay, with trans-shipment | by steamer, but the fact that a railway would have to be built across this great stretch of apparently unproductive country and the widespread belief that the navigation of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait on a commercial basis was not feasible kept the hopes of the westerners in leash and made it doubt- tul if they' would ever profit by their sroximity to salt water. But now their dreams are coming true. The railway is an accomplished iact, and soon much of the commerce of the great West will reach the mar- zets of the world by boats loading their :argoes at Churchill on the Hudson 3ay. There is still much to be done sefore the railroad is ready for ra- ion, but the work is being speeded. A Dream of Many Years. A Hudson Bay outlet and the open- nu( hundreds of thousands of square .al of the north country, while <herished and talked of more in the ast few years, are not new ideas. Old aaps in the department of railways in Ottawa show the existence of paper .nd only part of it was kept in repair. And m;'.mnlm'm:ugm Charles « ilities meant to the | nd rancher., He had more than once | sen compelled to sell his own oats as | »w as 8 cents & bushel. | Dunning had promised the West that » would complete the Hudson Bay | alway. He started right in to make ' 0d. He succeeded in getting Parlia- sent to vote a big sum for continuing e work. The Canadian Nationsl Railways, | hich will operate the lines as part of | s system when completed, got the job | [ rehabilitating the road. * New Terminal Chosen. Port Nelson had been selected as the t>rminal on the Hudson Bay. Mr. Dun- ying had a fresh investigation made, ith the result that Churchill was se- ctad. The work will be finished next all. Work on the terminal and the arbor at Churchill is now under way THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 23, 1929—PART 1. to the markets of It means a shorter rail haul and a cool ocean trip, which is expected to be an advantage to the dairying and stock-raising industries. Also it means that from Europe, form the return cargoes, can be laid down in the Western provinces more are obvious. | which will | cheaply than now. The distance from | ly Churchill to Live 1 is very little more than from Montreal to the same ‘Take the situation with reference | to Calgary, for instance. The dis- tance from that city to Montreal by rail is 2,260 miles, while the distance from Calgary to Churchill is but 1,246, a saving of more than 1,000 miles in rail haul. That the Hudson Bay Railway will not have to depend altogether on through business for its revenues is apparent from the fact that already the presence of minerals in stupendous | quantities in territory tributary to the main line of the road has been proved. ‘Towns are expected to spring ‘up and industries to develop with the com- | | | pletion of the rallway and the opening of the country. Canada is building a new empire in the North. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- Paper Alliance.) CAVE-IN KILLS 3 BOYS. Sewer Trench Accident Buries In- diana Youths Alive. ANDERSON, Ind., ‘Three boys ranging from 8 to 11 years old were killed here yesterday after- noon when & cave-in of one side of an open sewer trench buried them alive. The dead are: Eugene Snyder, 11: Frederick Walker Haney, 7, and Charles William Jones, 8. Harold Roselle, acting coroner, said | ["In New York they grossed closed to to death while the other two were | he believed young Haney was crushed smothered. deep. 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