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Excerpt from Speech of Sir Alex. Campbell on the Second Reading of a Bill to Incorporate the Pacific Railway Company, in the Senate, Ottawa, Thursday, Feb. 3, 1881
Branch is 85 miles long. Running from the boundary, of the United States to Selkirk. This enormous work, hon. Gen tlemen, has formed the subject of a sur vey, the minuteness of which one may justly characterize as being unequalled in any work of the kind a survey which has occupied a number' of years, and has cost the country something 'like three and a half millions of money so that. The topography of the country is well known 3 and upon the information at different stages which the engineers engaged on it have sent in to the Gov ernment, various estimates have been made of the probable cost of the construe tion of this road. The first estimate which I have met with is the estimate of Mr. Fleming, who was for a long time the engineer in charge of the railway a gentleman of high professional and pri vate character. His estimate was that the road would cost, ibetween Lake Supe rior and the Pacific Ocean, to which we must add the cost of the road between Lake Superior and Callen dar Station this can be added according to the different estimates. Adding it according to the estimate of 1873 that is, the plan which was formed by the Government of Sir John Maodou aid - and under the contract which was entered into with the Allans and others, this additional piece, ao cording to the prices and terms laid down in the contract, the further cost would be some Addingthat to Mr. Fleming's estimate, the total cost of the road, according to Mr. Fleming's esti mate, with this addition, would be $120, Adding the cost of the same 650 miles, according to the next subse quent plan, that of 1874, the whole rail way would have cost Adding it to the estimate upon the prices and the terms arranged under the present contract, it would cost These three estimates are all based upon, and all include, Mr. Fleming's estimate of what it would cost from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean. That estimate of Mr. Fleming's was made at a time when the information which he had, though tolerably complete, was not perfectly so. Afterwards, when the information which he had was more complete and more ample, he estimated that the total'cost of the whole road, instead of being $122.
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