Book Excerpt: people rise ina wrath which a Helen of Troy aroused in another people somecenturies ago. See here--"He turned the map to Gregson, pointing with his finger."See that red line? That's the new railroad to Hudson's Bay. It iswell above Le Pas now, and its builders plan to complete it bynext spring. It is the most wonderful piece of railroad buildingon the American continent, Greggy--wonderful because it has beenneglected so long. Something like a hundred million people havebeen asleep to its enormous value, and ...
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Book Excerpt: people rise ina wrath which a Helen of Troy aroused in another people somecenturies ago. See here--"He turned the map to Gregson, pointing with his finger."See that red line? That's the new railroad to Hudson's Bay. It iswell above Le Pas now, and its builders plan to complete it bynext spring. It is the most wonderful piece of railroad buildingon the American continent, Greggy--wonderful because it has beenneglected so long. Something like a hundred million people havebeen asleep to its enormous value, and they're just waking up now.That road, cutting across four hundred miles of wilderness, isopening up a country half as big as the United States, in whichmore mineral wealth will be dug during the next fifty years thanwill ever be taken from Yukon or Alaska. It is shortening theroute from Montreal, Duluth, Chicago, and the Middle West toLiverpool and other European ports by a thousand miles. It meansthe making of a navigable sea out of Hudson's Bay, cities on itsshores, and great steelRead More
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