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studies of the forest growth on the areas 

 which it is proposed shall be reserved. 

 New Hampshire, alarmed by the heavy 

 cutting in the White Mountains, has 

 appropriated $5,000 for an examination 

 of that region by the Bureau of For- 

 estry, and an examination of the forest 

 lands on Long Island may form a part 

 of the summer's work of the Bureau. 



THE NEW TRANS-CANADA RAILWAY 



THE projected new trans-continen- 

 tal railway, for which the Do- 

 minion Government recently granted a 

 charter to the Trans-Canada Railway 

 Company, is described by Mr E. T. D. 

 Chambers in the Review of Reviews for 

 April. Of the commercial importance 

 of the new road Mr Chambers writes 

 as follows : 



' ' The proposed line of the Trans- 

 Canada Railway is one of the most 

 direct which can span the continent. 

 Starting from deep-water termini at 

 Chicoutimi — the head of navigation on 

 the Saguenay River — at Quebec, and 

 at Montreal, it is destined to traverse 

 and develop the best part of the newly 

 discovered wheat and timber lands of 

 northern Quebec in the James Bay dis- 

 trict, to tap the whole of the James Bay 

 and Hudson Bay trade, to open up the 



valuable mineral country of northern 

 Ontario, to cross the center of the rich 

 wheat lands of the Peace River valley, 

 and, finally, to reach one of the finest 

 ports on the Pacific coast by a pass in 

 the mountains only 2,000 feet high, as 

 compared with 4,425 at Crow's Nest, 

 and with 5,400 at Kicking Horse. 



' ' The most cursory glance at the line 

 laid down on the map for the new road 

 reveals the directness of the route and 

 and its far-northern location. 



' ' From Quebec to Port Simpson via 

 the Trans-Canada Railway will be only 

 2,830 miles, all of the route south of 

 the northern limit of wheat, while the 

 distance between the same points via 

 the Grand Trunk Railway will be 

 about 3,400 miles, and that from Quebec 

 to Vancouver by the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway is 3,078 miles. The expected 

 saving in both distance and gradients 

 by the proposed road over existing 

 routes from Manitoba to the Canadian 

 seaports on the St Lawrence is so great 

 that the promoters have already under- 

 taken to carry wheat from all points on 

 its line in the Province of Manitoba to 

 the ocean steamer at Chicoutimi, Mon- 

 treal, or Quebec at rates which will 

 save the farmers of Manitoba and the 

 Northwest about seven cents per bushel 

 on present cost of transportation to the 



Courtesy of Review of Reviews 



Map showing Route of new Trans-Canadian Railway 



