in 1853. The Gorge Bridge is a splendid piece of engineering, the span of the arch being 550 feet and the width of the railway flooring 32 feet, the lines being 245 feet above water. The Jubilee Bridge across the St. Lawrence River is one of the great bridges of the world. It is 9,144 feet long with twenty-four piers 66 feet in width and 60 feet above the water. Two other famous bridges are the International Bridge across the Niagara between Fort Erie and Buffalo, 2,400 feet in length with ten piers, and the bridge across the St. Lawrence at Coteau Landing, which is 4,025 feet long. The once despised Grand Trunk is now a formidable rival of the C.P.R. Mr. Hays’ ambition to make it a trans-continental railway has been realised, for the “steel” has been carried to the Pacific, opening up a vast stretch of new country for settlement and development. Its terminal on the Pacific coast is Prince Rupert, British Columbia, which is destined to run Vancouver very close as a great western gateway of Canadian trade. The Grand Trunk is developing hundreds of thousands of miles of the most fertile country of the Prairie Provinces, and expects to play a leading part in the development of the British Columbia resources of forestry, fruit farming, mining and manufacturing industries. In Alberta it is looking to take a very large share of the railway profit from the working of the inexhaustible coal supplies and the manufacturing centres that will be consequent on the development of the coal. Central Alberta, from Edmonton to the Rocky Mountains, is likely in the future to be the Canadian “Black Country,” far more extensive and productive than even the original Black Country. It is calculated that the areas known as the Edmonton coal district cover at least 10,000 square miles and contain at least sixty million tons of workable coal. Already branch lines are running to districts where the coal is even now being got, eastward from Winnipeg to Moncton, the capital of New Brunswick. Main lines are being constructed by the Canadian Government for leasing to the Grand Trunk Pacific for a period of fifty years on conditions which ensure alike the Government receiving a fair return for its money and the users of the railway getting the fullest advantage of the lines. Altogether there is every prospect of the Grand Trunk Railway fulfilling the most sanguine dreams of the railway king who perished in the _Titanic_. [Illustration: THE POWER PLOUGH IN SASKATCHEWAN.]