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Prairie, local, and export trade is done. In the Interior Wet Belt there
are some 2,500,009 acres of most valuable timber tapped by the railway,
while in the newer territory being opened up from Alexandria to Prince

PACIFIC GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY TIMBER.

George there are some splendid tracts which when accurately cruised and
tabulated will show wonderful logging and pulp-wood possibilities. The
timber industry along the Pacific Great Eastern right-of-way may be said
to be merely in its infancy.

Unrivalled Water-power.

The average man who has travelled through the Pacific Great Eastern
country is staggered by the immensity of its water-power potentialities.
It is not surprising when it is known that expert engineers have estimated
there is a possible development of about 350,000 horse-power contiguous
to the railway. This is more than ample to supply all demands for lighting,
heating, power, and the various purposes of communities and manufacturing
plants, mining requirements, lumbering, pulp-manufacture, irrigation, or
other economic requirements for many years to come. Several development
propositions are already under way and there is no doubt that many of the
most eligible power-sites will be utilized for various industrial enterprises
in the near future.

A LAND OF PICTURESQUE BEAUTY—A SPORTSMAN’S
PARADISE.
The route traversed by the Pacific Great Eastern from salt water to

the end of the steel has been termed by many tourists and others “ The
Wonder Way,” and not without good reason. Probably there is no single