New Ontario railways.

Premier Ross, in speaking at Underwood, recently said: It might be worth while, in dealing with railway matters, to summarize the results of the last two or three years of railway legislation. First, we shall have running from Port Arthur to the mouth of the Rainy River, in Ontario, a distance of 285, and thence to Winnipeg, 130 miles, a line of railway which will open up extensive iron mines in the north shore of Lake Superior, and lead to the fertile valley of the Rainy River. Second, the road from Sault Ste. Marie to the C.P.R., known as the Algoma Central, a distance of 140 miles, will in all probability be completed in another year. Then a short railway from Bruce Mines to the Copper Mines at Rock Lake, a distance of 13 miles. Then east of that come the Manitoulin & North Shore Railway, 330 miles, to be completed in five years. Then east of that, from Parry Sound to Sudbury, 90 miles, an important road on which operations will begin this summer, if they have not already begun. Then we have the railway into the Temiscamingue, a distance of 100 miles, of which the surveys are now being made. That gives 953 miles of railway, on half of which is being built without charge to the treasury of a single dollar—the land grant being accepted in lieu of cash subsidy. You can estimate for yourself the effect which this railway development must have upon New Ontario, upon its gold and silver and copper mines. In old Ontario we have given small subsidies to perfect our railway connection in the east, and which, when fully carried out, will give a continuous connection through Lindsay eastward to Ottawa. The capital required will probably be $20,000,000, all of which will go to build up our Canadian industries and to give employment chiefly to our own people.

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