Railway development.

Projected lines, surveys, construction, betterments, etc.

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Canadian Northern Ry.—The allocation of reserve A at Port Arthur has not yet been decided on, but W. Mackenzie and D. D. Mann were in Port Arthur recently conferring with the local authorities in respect to the various proposals that have been made in regard to it. The Thunder Bay, Nepigon and St. Joe Ry. promoters are also negotiating with the local authorities so that it may be assured of an entrance to the reserve.

The foundations for the 1,000,000 bush. elevator at Port Arthur are nearly completed, and it is expected that work on the superstructure will be commenced on an early date. The elevator dock is about half-a-mile in length, and has been built by the Co., and the erection of an additional dock is contemplated. A contract has been given for 3,270 steel buckets for the elevator, to be delivered in Sept. (June, pg. 170.)

Rails have been laid a short distance beyond the Atikokan iron range, and 75% of the grading has been completed between that point and Rainy River. The bridge construction over Rainy Lake at Fort Frances is also in a forward state. Every effort is being made by the contractors to hurry the work forward, so that the line may be opened through from Port Arthur to Winnipeg by Oct. 1. (June, pg. 170.)

W. Mackenzie and D. D. Mann have completed an inspection of the Ontario division from Port Arthur as far as the track has been laid, and of the Manitoba section from Winnipeg to Beaudette, and thence over the Rainy River section to Fort Frances. Mr. Mackenzie says that the line between Port Arthur and Winnipeg will be completed by Oct. 1.

A dock costing $15,000 is being built by the Co. at Beaudette, Minn., where the line crosses Rainy River.

The bridge across the Red River between St. Boniface and Winnipeg is expected to be completed by Sept. 15. (June, pg. 170.)

Nothing in the way of car or repair shops will be built this year at Winnipeg, but some improvements and additional machinery will be put up so as to complete 100 box cars by Oct., in time for the handling of the season's crop.

It is rumoured that the C.N.R. Co. intends to rebuild the section of the Winnipeg and Hudson's Bay Ry., which was constructed from Winnipeg northwesterly to the vicinity of Shoal Lake, some 45 miles, but which has never been operated, and that it will be further extended northwesterly.

The contract for the construction of a branch line from St. Charles, 11 miles from Winnipeg, on the Portage la Prairie branch recently over from the Northern Pacific, to Carman, and thence westerly 68 miles, or 100 miles as necessity may arise, has been let to G. H. Strevel. J. W. Buchanan and A. Labelle & Co. are sub-contractors, and grading is being pushed forward rapidly. Mr. Strevel says the work is light. (June, pg. 182.)

Grading has been commenced on the extension of about 18 miles from Beaver, the terminus of the Portage la Prairie-Beaver branch taken over from the Northern Pacific Ry., 19 miles northwest of Portage la Prairie, to Gladstone Jct. on the Minnedosa section of the C.P.R., formerly the Manitoba & Northwestern Ry. Gladstone Jct. is the original starting point of the Lake Manitoba Ry. & Canal Co.'s railway, now merged in the C.N.R. It is expected that the work, which is in charge of R. J. Mackenzie, will be completed by Oct. 1, and the C.N.R. will then have a through line from Winnipeg to Saskatchewan. (June, pg. 182.)

Railways: C.No.Ry.

Stations: Port Arthur, Rainy River

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