76 CARIBOU SHOOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



cepted. The leading features of the contract were as 

 follows: A line of narrow-gauge road (3 feet, 6 inches) 

 from St. John's to Hall's Bay, with branches to Brigus 

 and Harbour Grace, a distance estimated at 340 

 miles; steel rails; a money, subsidy of $180,000.00 to 

 be paid half-yearly by the Government for thirty-five 

 years, conditional on the efficient maintenance and 

 operation of the line ; and as each five miles are com- 

 pleted and approved, land grants of five thousand 

 acres per mile of good land to be secured to the com- 

 pany in alternate blocks along the line in quantities 

 of one mile in length and eight miles in depth, and if 

 good land could not be obtained along the line it was 

 to be selected elsewhere, 



FIRST SOD CUT. 



The first sod was turned on August 9th, 1881, and 

 by September, 1882, thirty-five miles were completed 

 and in running order, one hundred miles were lo- 

 cated, and the remainder under survey. By Novem- 

 ber, 1884, the line was completed and open for traffic 

 between St. John's and Harbour Grace, a distance of 

 eighty-three and one-half miles. 



IN THE HANDS OF A RECEIVER. 



Soon after the Newfoundland Railway Company 

 failed and all work was stopped. The company 



