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This : ugh way would only be a matter of local benefit, but it would 

 be of ii. »mense benefit to the building up of this locality. At present 

 Hopewell can only be reached from Coles Head by a little ferry that 

 can onl, operate for a few hours near high tide; the Petitcodiac is 

 only bridged at Moncton, 19 miles above Hopewell ; the Memramcook 

 was bridged at Upper Dorchester, 5 miles above Hopewell, but this 

 bridge is now gone, and the Government is at present making bor- 

 ings for a bridge to take its place that will cost about $1,000,000. 



At present Hopewell, Hillsborough, and the big peninsula are hard 

 places to get into, and still harder places to get out of, and yet they 



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are regions of great mineral resources that only require, but still 

 await, development. The figure shows a lock in the western dam, 

 through which vessels could be passed at any suitable time of the 

 tide, on their way up and down the Petitcodiac, and Hillborough and 

 Moncton would be provided with deep-water harbors instead of the 

 mud flats which they at present enjoy at every low tide. The gates 

 of the lock would naturally be swung by electric power furnished 

 from the near-by power house. 



The proposal provides for making the Petitcodiac a high-level 

 basin in which the water would always be high, and be replenished 

 at every high tide, while the Memramcook River would be a low-level 



