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is the 100,000th car loaded on
Shipment of asbestos,
loaded at Fort Nelson, was destined for

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P.G.E. LINK TO YUKON NEAR OKA

The B.C. and federal gov-:
ernments are close to form-
al aqreement on a plan to
extend the PGE railway to
Whitehorse in the Yukon and
share running rights on CHR
and PGE trackage in northern
9

In Ottawa, the federal
cabinet has reportedly ag-
reed to the plan, and is
ready to approve a grant to
beqin work on the project.

Vorks Minister Art Laing,
the acting minister of en-
ergy, mines and resources
for the federal government,
has asked B.C.'s cooperation
in a study of resource dev-~

elopment along the route of
the railway, which would
extend 250 miles from Dease
Lake in north-central B.C.
to Whitehorse. Such a

study group would also ex-
amine timber and recreation-

al resources as well as min-—

erals.

The federal government
has also indicated a future
interest in sendino a spur
line from the PGE into
Alaska.

The provincial government
has been interested for sev-
eral years in obtainina
running rights on the CN
track as well as pushina

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ed at 120 ,000, will represent a Peni

high for the PGE, up from the previous

high of 106,404 in 1970. (Prince George
Citizen, Nov/71)

the PGE into the Yukon.

The granting of running
rights on the CNR will give
the PGE direct access to
Prince Rupert as an outlet
for the timber and mineral
resources of the north-
western corner of the prov-
ince.

The PGE's 350-mile exten-
sion from Fort St. James to
Dease Lake is scheduled for
comletion in 1974,

In the northeast corner of
the province an extension to
Fort Nelson was comleted
this summer, and that route
is now being pushed north
again to Nelson Forks, just
hO miles below B.C.'s north
ern border.