(g.) A careful study of the industrial and jistiess opportunities at points on the line
and the completing of reliable data relative thereto, including water or other
power development, so that any and all inquiries regarding industrial and business |
openings can be promptly replied to.

‘ (2.) From Clinton to Quesnel the Pacific Great Eastern Railway practically parallels the
Cariboo Road. This road, which is a main trunk highway, and which is being kept in first-class —
condition is, and always will be, a serious competitor with the railway-line in the moyement of |
local traffic.

It would seem evident that the Province cannot undertake to maintain both this trunk |
highway and the parallel railway-line, particularly in yiew of the fact that the portion of the
district served by the railway-line north of Clinton has the present more urgent need of a better
_ system of marketing highways from east and west.of the railway-line. It is respectfully sug-
- gested that if small sections of the Cariboo Road necessary for use by existing settlers to reach
their marketing centres were maintained as public highways, the other large sections of this
road now operated in competition with the railway-line might properly be put upon a toll basis
and the receipts resulting therefrom devoted to the improvement of the east and west marketing
roads so urgently needed to aid in further deyelopment of agricultural, ranching, timber, and
mineral areas. :

: CONCLUSION.

From a careful and detailed inspection of the natural resources tributary to the Pacifie
Great Eastern Railway, an@ a careful study of all the available reports relative thereto, I am
forced to the conclusion that, while there is the possibility of materially extending the present
development of the agricultural, timber, and mineral resources, through the medium of Goyern-
ment assistance, as outlined above, there is no prospect that traffic can be created as a result
of such development, at least for many years to come, sufficient to provide for the heayy fixed
charges resulting from the construction, maintenance, and operation of this railway-line.

I am, Sir, :
Your obedient servant,
J. S. DENNIS.

VICTORIA, B.C.:
Printed by WiLLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.
1922,