. The making of a great Canadian railway ; the story of the search for and discovery of the route, and the construction of the nearly completed Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with some account of the hardships and stirring adventures of its constructors in unexplored country . Side Hill Excavation along the Skeena River Owing 10 ihe steep character of the river bank heavy earthwork was re<iuisite to provide a pathfor ihe line, ihe soil as removed was shot into ihe The Forest as the Railway Builder found it Owing to the denseness of the forest, and the
. The making of a great Canadian railway ; the story of the search for and discovery of the route, and the construction of the nearly completed Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with some account of the hardships and stirring adventures of its constructors in unexplored country . Side Hill Excavation along the Skeena River Owing 10 ihe steep character of the river bank heavy earthwork was re<iuisite to provide a pathfor ihe line, ihe soil as removed was shot into ihe The Forest as the Railway Builder found it Owing to the denseness of the forest, and the size of the trees, clearing was a tremendous this illustration the axemen are shown stripping the land of timber on the site of the rjilway line,5 aids, and port of Prince Rupert. A NARROW ESCAPE 219 reply, as if proceeding from a cave beneath my feet. I lookedround, and, following his footprints, came to a deep hole inthe snow. Peering down, I saw the luckless surveyor. Wewere travelling over snow that had drifted and piled up overthe windfall, and he had trodden upon a place where thecrust was thin, and which had collapsed under his feet. Itwas a serious fall, too, for the hole was about 16 feet inquired anxiously if he were hurt, and gave a sigh ofrelief when I learned he had not been more than bruisedand shaken in his unexpected tumble. But he could notget out. His snow-shoes and pack hampered movements,while the snags bristling on the fallen tree trunks renderedhis extrication
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