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Newspaper excerpt Kaslo Kootenaian - Rossland board of trade approached C.P.R. officials about proposed plan to extend railway from Kuskanook...

FROM VANCOUVER TO BOUNDARY

            Colonel Baker, provincial secretary, made a statement in the legislature recently that arrangements had been made by the government for the building of 400 miles of railway from Vancouver to Boundary creek.  He claims to have a guarantee from a railway company to build it, and infers that a bonus of $4000 a mile will be granted.

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Internal ID: 0050.0228
Medium: Newspaper
Date: April 19th 1898
Collection: 0050
People: Baker, James
Publisher: Cranbrook Herald
Pages: 2

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