. Examen des évaluations et de travail du monde. re maintenant s'il dailyto fournir les pistes pour des milliers de kilomètres que ofrailway sont des capacités dans l'ouest. Mais c'est l'ouest du Canada que nous devons nous tourner si nous wouldknow la pleine mesure des progrès récents du Canada. La GUAM) Tronc Pacifique. Cette année a été l'engagement officiel des gouvernements pour le grand chemin de fer TrunkPacific, ce qui signifie beaucoup plus towestern Canada, qu'à l'Est. Ce chemin de fer,un enfant de la Grand Trunk, est d'étendre les fromMpncton, au Nouveau-Brunswick, à un moment donné, probablement de la mer à Port Simpson. Le eighteenhu

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. Review of reviews and world's work. re now being turned out there dailyto provide the tracks for thousands of miles ofrailway that are building in the west. But it isto western Canada that we must turn if we wouldknow the full extent of Canadas recent progress. THE GUAM) TRUNK PACIFIC. This year has brought the Dominion govern-ments official commitment to the Grand TrunkPacific Railway, which means vastly more towestern Canada, than to the east. This railway, a child of the Grand Trunk, is to extend fromMpncton, New Brunswick, to some point on thePacific, probably Port Simpson. The eighteenhundred and seventy-five miles between Monc-tOD and Winnipeg are to be built by the gov-ernment and leased to the Grand Trunk Pacificfor fifty years at a rental of 3 per cent, of thecost after the first seven years. At the end ofthat period the Grand Trunk is to have the priv-ilege of renewing the lease for another fiftyyears, providing the government does not wishto operate the railway itself. From Winnipeg WESTERN CANADA IN 1^04. 570. A PART OF THE WINNIPEG YARDS OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. to the Rocky Mountains, the government-guar-antees three-quarters of the bond issue, the limitof the guarantee to be thirteen thousand dollarsa mile. Through the mountains, the governmentguarantees the interest on three-fourths of thebonds, the Grand Trunk Railway Company guar-anteeing the other fourth ; in addition, the government is to pay the interest on the bonds ofthis part of the line for seven years. A thou-sand miles of this new transcontinental railwaywill be in the prairie country^the great wheatcountry. It will give access to millions of acresof land now too far from the railway to beprofitably cultivated on a large scale. Lyingfrom one hundred to two hundred miles northof the Canadian Pacific, the new transcontinentalwill entirely avoid the arid area that every othertranscontinental in North America encountersto a greater or less extent. From Winnipeg toEdmonton, nine hundre

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