Railway development.

Projected lines, surveys, construction, betterments, etc.

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Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie Ry.—Notice has been given of three applications to be made next session of the Dominion Parliament respecting this Co. In one case the application is said to be in the interests of the judgement creditors, who have taken steps to have the recent sale set aside, and who desire incorporation under the title of Brockville and Western Ry. (See Feb., pg. 37.) The other two applications are in the interests of the purchasers at the recent sale. In the first of these C. F. Hohn, K. Gerken, V. Schmitt, of New York, and C. P. King, of Philadelphia, Pa., ask to be incorporated under the title of the Brockville and Sault Ste. Marie Ry. Co., and empowered to exercise all the powers conferred in the act relating to the B.W. and S.S.M. Ry., and also for an extension of time to complete the line authorized. In their second application the incorporation of a company to be called the Brockville and North-Western Rd. is asked for, with power to take over the B.W. and S.S.M. Ry. from J. Gerken and his associates, and to construct a line to the shores of Georgian Bay and Sault St. Marie, with branches to Barry's Bay, Mattawa, North Bay, Parry Sound or other points.

Members of the syndicate recently made an inspection of the line, and arrangements are being made for carrying out an extensive scheme of improvement. The work proposed to be done will consist of reducing some of the heavy grades, ballasting the greater part of the line, placing an additional 24,000 ties under the rails, renewing about a mile of track originally laid by the G.T.R. to connect that Co.'s line at Lyn Jct. with Lyn station; lengthening sidings at Athens, Delta, Elgin, and Westport stations, from 4 to 8 car lengths; putting in a turntable at Brockville, repairing and completing the fences with woven wire fence instead of the barbed wire, building snow fences, placing surface cattle guards at all crossings instead of the old pits, rebuilding two small bridges in Brockville yard, reducing the curve and putting an iron bridge over the creek at Lyn, repairing every station on the line, and probably taking down the Brockville station and rebuilding it in a more suitable position, erecting semaphores, switch lamps, and sign boards at all stations. Some preliminary surveys have been made for extension on behalf of the syndicate, but nothing in the way of construction will be done until after the additional powers are obtained. The first section of the additional lines to be constructed, W. S. Buell, solicitor to the syndicate, says, will be from Westport to a junction with the Canadian Atlantic Ry. at Barry's Bay. The syndicate also proposes to establish traffic relations with U.S. lines at Morristown, N.Y., either by a bridge over the St. Lawrence or a ferry. (Nov., 1902, pg. 380.)

Railways: B.W. & S.S.M.Ry., C.A.Ry., G.T.Ry.

Stations: Athens, Barrys Bay, Brockville, Delta, Elgin, Lyn, Lyn Jct., Westport

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