1855.] 



RAILWAYS IN CANADA. 



147 



Blincral VVealtti of tUe Otta-tva Region* 



During the past week were shipped from Bytown a number of large 

 specimens of ores, marbles, building stones, and other natural produc- 

 tions, destined to take a part in the great Exhibition of Industry of all 

 Nations at Paris in May next. There was a hugeraassof the magnetic 

 iron ore contributed by J. Forsyth, Esq., from the mine in the town- 

 ship of Hull, weighing OYCr two thousand pounds : another six feet 

 long, and of about the same weight of specular iron, from the township 

 of MacXab, from A. Dickson, Esq. ; and a piece of silicate of iron, 

 weighing about two hundred and sixty pounds. This latter is a rare 

 mineral, and the specimen in question is perhaps the largest yet seen. 

 Besides these, there were two strongly hooped casks, weighing over 

 eighteen hundred pounds of other specimens of ore, and a number of 

 boxes and uncovered blocks of limestone and marble. The object in 

 procuring such large masses is to enable the Parisians to form some 

 conception of the extent of the supply by the magnitude of the speci- 

 mens. The extra expense is but trifling, compared with the impor- 

 tance of creating an impression. A country whose mineral wealth is 

 only represented by a few insignificant fragments will not be much 

 known, unless the visitors receive verbal or written information that 

 the collection only partially represents its riches. — Large specimens, 

 however, are the heralds of their own and their country's greatness. 

 They make an impression of natural wealth on the mind which cannot 

 be eifaeed. The name of Canada will be associated with the idea of 

 one of the richest spots on the earth. And what is still better, the 

 idea in this instance, will be in no way an exaggeration. The bed of 

 ore from which the first of the above mentioned specimens was pro- 

 cured is situated about six miles from Bytown, in the township of 

 Hull. It is about 400 feet thick, and of such an excellent quality that 

 it will yield about 7.5 per cent, of pure iron. It rises into a dome- 

 shaped mound about 70 or 80 feet above the level of the surrounding 

 land, and it is computed that there are three millions of tons of it above 

 the surface. The only mining operations, therefore, that will be 

 required for a long time will be to break it up, and several thousand 

 tons of it have been already quarried and are now being transported. 

 It was lately purchased by J. Forsyth, Esq., of Pittsburgh, in the State 

 of Pennsylvania, who intends to convey it to that place and smelt it along 

 with other ores. It requires an amount of scientific knowledge, and a 

 thorough acquaintance with the resources of other countries, such as 

 is possessed by but one man in Canada, to take charge of a matter of 

 this kind ; and no person can witness Mr. Logan's operations without 

 being at once convinced that this Province will be creditably repre- 

 sented at Paris in 18.5.5, as it was in London in 1851. — Bytown Citizen. 



Name of Company Incorporated. 



R.ailtvay8 in Canada. 



Schedule of the several Companies incorporated for the eonstruction 

 of Railways In Canada, from the date of the first Charter (26th of 

 February, 18.32J to the close of the session of 1852. 



Name of Company Incorporated. 



1. Champlain & St. Lawrence - - 

 Branch Lines of do. - _ - - 



2. Cobourg .-----.- 



3. Great Western and Branches - 



4. Hamilton and Port Dover - - 



5. Erie and tinturio ----- 

 0. Toronto and Lake Huron - - 



7. Niagara and Detroit - - - - 



8. Huron and t)ntario - - - . 

 '■). Quebec and I'rovinces Line - - 



10. London and Davenport - - - 



11. Canada Union ------ 



12. Upper and Lower Ottawa - - 



13. Eastern townships ----- 



14. St. Lawrence and .Atlantic - - 

 Branch Lines uf ditto. - - - 



15. Montreal ifcd New York- - - 

 Branch of 120 Miles - - - - 



10. Montreal and Kingston - - . 



17. Wolfe Island, Kingston and Toronto 



18. Peterboro' and Port Hope - - 



Amount of 

 Capital. 



No. of Miles under 



contract, and 



.Vo. of Miles completed. 



200,000 — 16 



200,000 — 52 



1,000,000 Charter expired. 

 10,000,000 55 240 



2,000,000 40 — 



t;oo,ooo — 17J 



2,000,000 Not commenced. 

 2,000,000 Cliarter expired. 

 1,400,000 Charter expired. 

 Cliarter expired. 



200,000 Charter expired. 



400,000 Not commenced. 



120,000 rimrter expired. 



liOO.OOli Charter expired. 

 2,000,0011 — 1.30 



115 — 



3,400,000 



Not commenced. 

 4,000,000|Not commenced. 

 4,000,000lCharter expired. 

 1,000,000 100 



19. Hamilton and Toronto - - - 

 Branch -------- 



20. St. Lawrence and Industry - - 



21. Woodstock and Lake Erie - - 



22. Bytown and Britannia - - - 



23. Carrillon and Grenville - - - 



24. Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova 



Scotia --------- 



25. Montreal and Province Line June 



tion --------- 



26. Toronto and Goderich - - - - 



27. Montreal and Vermont Junction - 



28. Ontario, Simcoe, and Huron - - 

 Branch --------- 



29. St. Lawrence and Ottawa - - ■ 



30. Industry and Rawdon - - - - 



31. Quebec and Richmond - - - - 



32. Quebec and St. Andrews - - - 



33. Bytown and Prescott . - - - - 



34. Kingston and Toronto - - - . 



35. Toronto and Guelph - - - - "| 

 Extension of do. -----/ 



36. Wolf Island -------- 



37. Grand Trunk of Canada - - - - 

 Icreased by amalgamation of Com 



panics to ------- 



38. Grand Trunk of Canada East, (in 



eluded in Grand Trunk) - - 



39. Cobourg and Peterboro' - - - 



40. Gait and Guelph 



41. Grand Junction, (included in Grand 



Trunk) 



42. Buffalo, Brantford, and Goderich 



43. North Shore Railway - - - - 



44. London and Port Sarnia - - - 



45. Montreal and Bytown - - - 



46. Megantic Junction - - - - 



47. Port Whitby and Lake Huron - 



48. BrockvUle and Ottawa - - - 



49. Stanstead, Shefford, and Chambly 

 60. London and Port Stanley - - 



51. Vandreuil ------- 



52. Cataraqui and Peterboro - - - 



53. Port Dalhousie and Thorold 



54. Bytown and Pembroke - - - 



55. Perth and Kemptvillo - - - 



56. Prince Edward ------ 



Amount 

 of Capital. 



1,800,000 



No. cf Miles under 



contract, and 



No. of Miles completed. 



45 

 85 



13 



48,000 

 2,000,000 



40. OOOCharter expired. 

 240,0001 — 12 



•8,000,000 



Not commenced. 



300,000 Not commenced. 

 3,000,000 Charter repealed. 



400,000 G8 — 



2,000,000 4i 9rj 



1,000,000 60' — 



Not commenced. 



— 10 

 See Grand Trunk. 

 Not commenced. 



— 63 

 Not commenced. 



f Included in Gr'd 



\ Trunk. 

 200,000iNot commenctd. 

 16,000,000 — _ 



36,000 



3,000,000 

 6,000,000 

 3,000,000 



38,000,000 



660,000 



720 



16 



4,000,000 

 2,400,000 

 2,000,000 

 2,000,000 



400,000 Not 



Not 



2,000,000j 

 3,000,000 



609,000] 

 1,000,000! 

 l,500,000!Not 



300,0001 

 1,600,000 Not 



600,000 Not 

 1,400,000 Not 



3£2 



25 

 25 



80 



145 

 CO 

 120 

 commenced, 

 commenced. 

 130 

 95 

 25 

 34 

 commenced. 



5 

 commenced, 

 commenced, 

 commenced. 



From these statistics the following summary appears : — Total num- 

 ber of Charters granted to Railroad Companies, 56 ; number of Com- 

 panies whose charters have expired from non user, 10 ; number of 

 Companies which have not as yet commenced laying down their roads, 

 14 ; number of roads now in the course of construction in the Province 

 32. Belonging to the latter class, 1,193 miles have been completed, 

 and 2,022 are more or less advanced, besides a vast number of miles of 

 road which liavc not yet been commenced. 



Railway iM-i.rENCE. — The forests at the head of the .\ndroseopgin 

 and Connecticut rivers, have been qiiadruplcd in value in the last four 

 years, and a similar result is found along the streams of Canada, in 

 the neighbourliond of the line. It will be seen by reference to the 

 rcturns^of tlie Grand Trunk Railway for the week ending June 3, that 

 over a half million feet of lumber was moved on that road, and from 

 the new operations going forward nUing the line, we may predict 

 that another year it will average oncmilli'"" fee* a week. — 5(<j(* of Maine 



Etching LiQirn roR Lithograpiiers. — Chcvallier and Lnnglume 

 propose for the purjiose six parts of fused cliluride of calcium, dis- 

 solved in nineteen parts of rain-water and filtered. In this solution, 

 four parts of gum-arabic are to be dissolved, and one part of pure 

 muriatic acid added to it. This solution serves at the same time to 

 etch, to gum, and, by its penetrating the stone, to keep it moist 

 dviring the printing — a matter of great consequence. 



