78 CARIBOU SHOOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



The government decided that the line should be 

 built, and, in 1889, the Legislature passed a Railway 

 Extension Act of a liberal character with scarcely a 

 dissenting voice, which pledged the Government to 

 make a survey of the line to Hall's Bay that same 

 year, and to at once begin the construction of the 

 road at a rate of not less than twenty-five miles a 

 year. Before winter set in some fifteen miles of 

 this railroad from Placentia Junction northward 

 were built. 



SIR WILLIAM AGAIN AT THE HELM. 



At the November election in 1889, the White way- 

 ites again became victorious. Sir William again be- 

 came Premier, and soon showed that he had lost none 

 of his former confidence in railway extension as a 

 means of developing the varied resources of the col- 

 ony. In 1890 the Legislature passed an act provid- 

 ing for the extension of the line towards Hall's Bay, 

 with a branch to Brigus at Clarke's Beach, authoriz- 

 ing a loan of $4,500,000.00 and giving the govern- 

 ment authority to accept bids and enter into a con- 

 tract for the construction of the road. Mr. R. C. 

 Reid, of Montreal, Canada, was awarded the contract, 

 and in October, 1890, work was begun, which was 

 to be completed in five years. 



