. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. out it was with no more starchy dictionthan one might expect from a bronzedpathfinder discussing the points of hispet canoe. Mr. Wicksteeds last greatundertaking was the surveying of theimportant link in the Canadian North-ern Railways ocean-to-oceansystem, a 500 mile .stretch be-tween Port Arthur and Sud-bury. Back of that under-taking stands a professionallifetime of arguing scientifi-cally with mountain rangesi n British Columbia, o fstretching steel over the prai-ries, and spanning riverswith a single arm. Mr. Wick-steed needs no other title
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. out it was with no more starchy dictionthan one might expect from a bronzedpathfinder discussing the points of hispet canoe. Mr. Wicksteeds last greatundertaking was the surveying of theimportant link in the Canadian North-ern Railways ocean-to-oceansystem, a 500 mile .stretch be-tween Port Arthur and Sud-bury. Back of that under-taking stands a professionallifetime of arguing scientifi-cally with mountain rangesi n British Columbia, o fstretching steel over the prai-ries, and spanning riverswith a single arm. Mr. Wick-steed needs no other title todistinction than the fact thathe first conceived the ideaof breaking through the im-penetrable lines of rivalrailways into the heart of Supplies are Distributed by DoeTeams to Various Camps ^hrr. 1438 Popular Electricity and the Worlds Advance 1439 Montreal by digging a tunnel throughthe huge Mount Royal and paying forthe whole scheme by creating high landvalues at the mouth of the tube. Manynames have been credited with doingthat trick, but Mr. Wicksteed is the manwho did it. It is a rather common impression,he observed, taking up my question leis-urely, that the job of driving a rail-way line through a range of mountainsis the one thing that tests the patienceand ingenuity of the engineer. In thecountry to the north of Lake Superior,difficulties are to be met, quite as per-plexing—indeed, I think, more so—thananything the mountains can a survey party enters the Rock-ies, the river courses must be acceptedas their guide from point to really establishes railwayroutes, for water takes the lowest level,and tracks must run where grade isslightest. Elevations are so tremendousthat no option is allowed as a generalrule in working a way through. In ther
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