The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . c —miiMjpjMt. - ? ^-»«i<!jgg^»;ijj»ji t^ LOADING A SCOW AT TETE JAUNE CACHE. A TRESTLE BRIDGE ON THE JUST FINISHED Head of Steel, and Beyond acetylene lamps. Railroad construction, througha vast untrodden country like this, is a giganticundertaking— kinks of nature made straightwhile you wait, as an engineer once said to of the army of men engaged on the work—thousands of labourers grading, tunnelling, andblasting ; large gangs of skilled workmen trestlingand bridge-building ; hundreds of f
The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . c —miiMjpjMt. - ? ^-»«i<!jgg^»;ijj»ji t^ LOADING A SCOW AT TETE JAUNE CACHE. A TRESTLE BRIDGE ON THE JUST FINISHED Head of Steel, and Beyond acetylene lamps. Railroad construction, througha vast untrodden country like this, is a giganticundertaking— kinks of nature made straightwhile you wait, as an engineer once said to of the army of men engaged on the work—thousands of labourers grading, tunnelling, andblasting ; large gangs of skilled workmen trestlingand bridge-building ; hundreds of freighters en-gaged in carrying provisions and other neces-saries from the head of steel into the camps;and as for the horses, I dont know how manyare used for this work and on the grade itself. It is amazing to think of the capital sunk inthe necessary plant, such as steam shovels, graders,dumpcarts, scrapers, pile-drivers, track-laying ma-chines. The initial expense of sending surveyparties through miles of uninhabited countrymust be immense. And even when the steelhas been laid there are hosts of men engagedin ballasting the track, building stations, si
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