Canadian Northern Ry. construction, etc.

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Canadian Northern Ry.The contract for the erection of the train shed at the C.N.R.-G.T. Pacific-National Transcontinental Ry station in Winnipeg, has been let, and work will be gone on with at once. The shed will be 800 ft. long. covering six tracks, but arranged so that it may he extended to cover an additional six tracks. It is expected that the building will be completed by the fall.

Press reports state that 176 miles of the branch line from Vegreville towards Calgary. Alta., has been completed, and that it has been decided not to operate a train service on the section recently completed until the spring. It is proposed to complete the erection of some steel bridges on the line during the winter.

In connection with the branch from this line starting from Stettler and proceeding by way of Red Deer to Rocky Mountain House and the Brazeau River district, the company's representatives. Dec 7. withdrew the plans from the consideration of the Board of Railway Commissioners. A considerable amount of grading has been done on this line, but it was laid down by the Board that location plans will not be approved for any portion of a railway where grading has been done before approval has been obtained. The Alberta Central Ry. also opposed the company's application to the Alberta Legislature for authority to build this and other lines, having a total estimated length of about 700 miles, but the bill was approved by the Railway Committee and read a second time. The title of the company proposed to be formed in Alberta is the Canadian Northern Western Ry. The lines authorized to be built are: from Edmonton or Strathcona to the boundary between Alberta and British Columbia, near the Pine or Peace River Pass: from some point on the line between Edmonton and Calgary to Rocky Mountain House, thence to the Brazeau and Macleod Rivers, and on to a junction with the C.N.R. west of Edmonton, with power to build branch lines. We are advised that the Alberta Legislature has passed an act providing a subsidy by way of guarantee of bonds for the building of the first 50 miles of a line into the Peace River and Grand Prairie districts. The company has its engineers in the field but the work has not progressed sufficiently to enable any definite decision to be made as to the route which will be followed. A press report states that the Northern Construction Co. is preparing to begin grading on the line to Peace River in the spring.

In a recent interview at Edmonton, D. D. Mann. Vice-President, is reported to have said he was able to give the Premier of the Province a definite assurance that the line to Athabasca Landing will be completed in 1911 and that 300 miles of steel will be laid on the lines guaranteed by the province; that the line into Calgary will be finished and about 75 miles of grading done south of Calgary; that 200 miles of grading would be done on the line west towards the Pacific coast: and that progress would be made on the line to connect up Edmonton with Pas Mission via Lac la Biche. Battleford and Prince Albert.

Railways: C.No.Ry.

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