Columbia and Western

            The NEWS is able to announce officially that bids for the construction of the Columbia & Western Railroad from Robson to Midway in the Boundary country, a distance of 100 miles, will be opened June 15^th.  The road will cost about $3,000,000 and Trail is to be the point of disbursement for all money connected therewith.  The C.P.R. offices in this city are crowded with draughtsmen and engineers rushing work with all possible speed.  McKenzie & Mann, Winters, Parsons & Boomer, Messrs. Lynch, Larson and others, will be among the bidders.  This road will connect at Robson with the Trail road, thence to Dog creek, and across the pass.  Then down McCrea creek to Christina Lake, down the lake and across to Midway.  Approximately the cost will be $3,000,000 which will be disbursed from the C.P.R. offices in Trail.