The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-11-05
issued: 1913-04-07
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0385416/source.json
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note: EIGHT PAGES 50 CENTS A MONTH 1 W& W&ih VOL 11 NELSON. B. C. MONDAY MORNING. APRIL 7, 1913 NO. 305 PROWS NEST ROUTE FOR THROUGH TRAFFIC Canadian Pacific's Three Great Routes $00 LINE TO PASS THROUGH NELSON '■•gest Tunnel in World at Kicking Horse .1 (By Dally News Li-aBed Wire.) WINNIPEG, Aprn 6.—The Canadian pacific raLtwuy has decided on u boo- |ond tunnel In the western mountains. This will be l« njilea in length, the Jongcst In the world, being nearly four nllcs longer than the famous SImplon (in the Alps and nearly twice as Jong Tas the Lotschberg tunnel opened last Jyeur. The tunnel will be through the Klck- Ilng Horse pass uf thu Rocky moun- Itains. The eastern portal will he 1" I Alberta and the western portal in Brlt- llsh Columbia. Careful computations ■indicate that the work will cost $14,- ■000,000 and will occupy seven years to ■complete. This Is based on the data ■ secured from construction records of ■ five largo Alpine tunnels. The tunnel, I in the Selkirk ntnce through Jtogcra I pass, will reduco the trackage by five I miles and will do away with many I miles of dangerous simwsheds. Grades I will be reduced from two and n half I per cent to less than one per cent. The Canadian pacific railway has an I even groater plan afoot than Ibis, and l.that is to eliminate the Rocky moun- Itains so far as rail commerce Is con- Icerned. The company proposes to havo 1 three, and possibly four, distinct lines I from Winnipeg to the coast. The first tfflti be tho present main line. The leecond will be the new cutoff via lSourls and through the Crows Nest I pass and Including the links from I Weyburn to Lethbridge and from I Grand Forks to Vancouver, now I under construction; and another I will bo through Saskatoon and I Edmonton and through one .flf I tho northern passes into the I competitive territories of the north, [continuing on to a northern Pacific I coast port. Tho S"o line will likely be Irun on to Nelson over regular Canadian I Pacific railway tracks and …
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0385416
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text