Speeches On The Canadian Pacific Railway And The Canadian North West Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Speeches on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and on the Financial Industrial: Delivered in the House of Commons on the Evenings of the *Th February and the 4th March, 1884, Respectively Then we were told by the hon. Gentleman, contrary I think to what everybody has thought heretofore, that the railway is not such a railway as we ought fairly to expect, and we have had a reference made to the gradients in the Rocky Mountains which, he says, are somewhere about 116 feet to the mile. That seems a very heavy gradient I admit. I be lieve it extends from the summit to the Columbia river, somew'ierc about ten miles in length but it is not as high a gradient as is to be found on the American Pacific Rail ways, nor ashigh as that which you will find onarailway which is to-day almost a con trolling line in eastern and western transport - the Baltimore and Ohio road. On that rail way there is a gradient much higher that this 116 feet. But I think that everyone will admit, who has been through this country that is at least the testimony of eve1yone I have heard speak of it - that the railway has been substantially built, that the company have built it in a manner indicating their in tion to work it, and indicating their interest in its economical working after it is built. (cheers) In that respect, at any rate, the people of this country have no reason what ever to complain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.