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THE SITUATION.

ABLY REVIEWED BY SENATOR FERGU- SON.

Overwhelming Arraigment of the Govern-

ment,

(Continued from Hansard.)

Now, however, we have only the govern- ment plan before us,and we have only that to deal with as set forth in this con- tract, and that is for building a railway from the head ot Stikine River ito Teslin Lake, and to depend upon water communi cation forthe restofthe journey. And now for the building of that road what is the consideration that we are asked to give ? I have already said that iftnat road were of a broad gauge and of a substantial character, and if a policy were announced of reaching Fort Simpson or the bead of the Portland Canal, get an open oceao port there, the building ot that road would be a matter well worthy of the consideration of the House and the country. But even then we would have to look carefully into consideration we were giving for the building of that road. What = is that consideration. Weare asked first in this contract to give the company 25,000 acres of mineral lands inthe Norh west Territories for every mile of railwey. It is true that that railway is ‘spokeu of in the contract as 150 miles long, and there is also “ provision that the Governor in Council or the Minister of Railways can object to the granting of lands for a greater length than is considered necessary to connect the two points Glenora or Telegraph Creek and the head of Teslin Lake. But after going carefully over Mr. Jennings’ report I think most of us will come to the conclusion that the railway is going to be more than 150 miles long. It will certainly be very much longer if it starts at Little Canyon as Mr. Jevvings thinks it ought to start. In that case it will be 208 miles. Even if it starts at Telegraph Creek or Glenora and reaches ‘eslin Lake, after reading Mr. Jennings report we come to the conclusion that the railway is going to be more than 150 miles long, aud if that is so there wili be more than 3,750,000 acres to give to the contractors as a covsideration. I look upon this grant of four or five millions of acres to these contractors as in itselfa most extraordinary consideration. My hon. friend the s2nior member from Hali- fax pointed out what he thought was s wodification of this extraordinary grant, He pointed out the fact that the Company would only be able to claim 92,000 acres ata time, that for every ten miles of railway they would build they would get this proportionate amouat, they were no’; he said, able to go in end gobble up all the country at once. He thought thaf ought to be takea into account as something that would guard the public interest. To my mind it makes the matter more dangerous than it would otherwise be, for then these gentlemen will be able to hold their hand and operate in detail. They will be ableto make every miner and prospector that goes into that country ap agent of theira,and when any valuable gold is found before any consider- able body of miners can go in there and fiz locations the company can strike a base line and gobble uo the locality. The mineralized territory is very large, and prospector? will wander up and down that cuuntry, and the ‘xperience of the past has been that huadreds MAY pass Over ground and find nothing, and ths neat man may come along and find gold, and gold will be found from time to time in places that were not thought to be riéniy auriferous at all in the Airet stnges of ex- pleration. But this company having enormous intereste there with their surveyors and miningengineers and ex- erts of every kind, that mosey can com- mand, will be able to watch the movements

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of these miners, and ss soon a3 ever a strike is made in a particular locality which is found to be valuable, they can run a base line, and at once secure the ground. The miner who is in there may be able to remain although there ie no provision in the comtract that he hasthe right to use avy fuel. There is a reservation of water courses but po reservation of timber for fuel, and any solitary miner who gets isto a valuable belt cf country would be driven out as soon as the company strike their base line, because he could not use a stick of timber for fuel and we kuow that in placer mining fuel is absolately necessary, and it is not very plentiful in that country. The hoo Secretary of State in reply to the hon. gentleman from Victoria pointed across the Mouse and told him “why is the bon. gentleman eo alarmed about this grant of land? The British Columbia government have been making enormous grants of land for railwayr,and why is he eo alarmed because such a grant as this is made iu the Yukon country far away in the north.” Let metell my hon. friend that I have gone over the Acts of British Columbia very carefully and I find no such grant of Jand as thie has ever been made by the government of British Columbia.

Hon Mr. Scott—I beg the hon. geatle- man’s pardon. There weretwoor three companies that received land grants, 20,- 000 acres per mile.

Hon. Mr. Ferguson—As far as the bare statement of so many acres & mile gues the hun. gentlemaa may be right, but he is just right that far and no further. How far have mineral rights been given to them.

Hon. Mr. Macdonald—(B. C.) —That is the point.

Hon. Mr. point,

Hon. Mr. Boulton—I should like to ask the hon. gentleman whether be approves of giving lands which would probably de- velop the resources of the North-west Territories to develope the resources of Britieh Colambia.

Hon. Mr. Ferguson—I will reach that later. My point is that there is not in the legislature of Briti+h Columbia or any province of Canada,or Idoubt very much whether there is ia the legislation of any country under the sun, such a proposal as to hand over an immease block of mineral lande in the way theese hon. gentlemen are proposing to hand over these lands. There are only two cases in the legislation of British Columbia where I have been able to find precions metals have passed at all to railway companies, In granting aid to arailway on the very same route as this from Glenora to Teslin Lake, there ise a grant of aid in the British Columbia statute book of 5,000 acres per mile on each side of the railway in alternate blocks, and precious metals are entirely reserved. There is no right or privilege given with regard to precious metals at all. There is avother Act, and this stands out alone of its character in the stature book of British Columbia, as far as my investigation has gone—audI have gone over the statutes with a good deal of care—there is what is known ae the Cassiar Central Railway aid to extend from the head of the Stickine River to the Dease River in the northern

Ferguson—Yes that is the

part of British Columbia, and there it is proposed to give a lease of land to this company for

35 years, and there isa process by which the lands are to be selected, and preeious meiale do pase in that contract, but that is theonly one in which they paes, But what are the restrictions in coanection with

notwithstanding the grant ot these lands to the compszny, can go in and lo a3 and work and secure a mine upon any of these

lands, with @ further provisien by which the cam pany may ge in as a partner with him, and

they can buy him ont or sellto him, but it is provided that the free miuer shal] have every 1ight and privilege there sub- ject to the selling outor buying out, He shall have fuel and he shell have w.ter and every other privilege and right to carry on bis business un er the mining and land laws of British Columbia. In every other Act of grants of land that I can find on the statute-book of British Columbia there is this general provision :

“Nothing in this Act covtained sia'l prejudice the rights of the free miners to gearch for, get aud win precious metals andtouse timber for mining purpores, subject tothe mineral and land laws of the province.”

There is not to be found in the legisla- tion of British Columbia or any other legislation in Canada aay parallel to this extraordinary proposition made to this House onthe present occasion to grant away abso utely this 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 acres of Jand to this company as a consideration for building a tramway. Some of the government organs said it took their breath away when they heard it in the firet place and I am not surprised because that is the impression it bas upon me when I consider it at the present moment The governmentsay there are 80,040,000 acres of mineral Jand there and what signifies 4,000,000? If it were 4,600,000 taken in one slice at the side or any one part of that 80,000,0€6 there might be some thing in§ hat excuse, but even then it would be extraordinary. It is a most extraordinary contract in every way you look at it. Then there ie another provision or lack of provision in it that is remark- able. In the acts of the province of British Columbia, I find reservations with regard to town sites. There is here a reservation with regard to arable Jand.

They might safely put that in. I fear there is not much arable land up there and the amount of

advantage to the public from reserving the arable lands Ido not think is great. But why has there been no reservation regarding town sites? In many of the Acts of British Colambia—I think in most of them—there is a provision of this kind that wherever town sites are laid out the company has to pay the Government $5 an acre for the Jand eo laid out, and tie

it? They are these: that any free miner /

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Government benefits by the development of the country and the layingout of towns, but there is no such provision here. The company are going to have the town tites the minerale, everything in sight, going to have it all and there is no reatricuion of any kind placed upon them, My hon. friend the Secretary of State said; “ ob, but 100,000 acres, if they were tree to select it just wherever they liked, might pay for the wh: le thing.” When my hon. fnend made that statement he guye away the whole cae, because he kaows very well that while they will haveto take some land which may or may not Contain quartz along with river beds which contain placer mines, they would take very good are thev wiil run no base jines except where they find there are good tracks. ‘They veed not be in any great burry. They can wait and watche They will spread all the country over with their agents and offivers, and they can watch their time. As I said before when miners strike rich mines they can go in before many of them get to work or even after they are in, and by the peculiar method of settling the blocks they can freeze them out. I thimk that alwgether the consideration is so enormous that it should be condemned, and I feel almost certain that hon. geotiemen in the govern~- ment will modify this extraordinary bar- gan,and bring it into some shape yet; that they will use their influence with the contractors and have this extraordinary contract sborn of its worst features. ibedesire which we all have to give relief to the hardy adventurers who may go into that country and get the trade of the Yukon country is very great, but the government have brought before ua such an extraordinary agreement that it will be impossible. to get the people of this country toaccept it. Whatdo we fiad in Mr. Jenoing’a report? He _ estimates that 12,600 people zoing in there and pay - ing five cents # mile and each takiog in three fourths ofa ton freight will give in a pervod of four mouths earnings amounting to $540,000. The cost of operating is eatimated at about $55,000 a year. ‘Luere will be a clear profil of $2@9,- 000 a year Onthesworkirg of that tram- way, after allowing ten per cent for de- precation sadinterest on the first cost. Capitalize that aum of $209,000 at four per cent. aod yeu have tne sum of $5,225, 000. Then there are the various mono- polies thatthis company has. There is to be no other company chartered; from the head of Lynn Canal except thie.

Hon. Mr. Macdonald—And no taxes.

Hon. Mr. Ferguson—That al-o should

be estimated, and the preference over ordinary miners of 9 per cent. in royalty. There isa prefercoce which they bave with regard to constructing a railway fiom the head of Telegraph Creek to a harbor in British Columbia, and they have that for ten years. If at any time within ten years the Government of Canada is pre- pared to vote money or land or other con- sideration for build ng that railway, and this compeny is willirgto do i, hy have to give them the fire. chance. this is a valuable consideration. They haves monopoly of building railways from any point from the international boundary or or at the head of Lyna Canal iato this country. These monopolies must be extremely valuable. We know the monopoly the Canadian Pacific Rail- way bad of buitding branches and they did not givethat monopoly up until ibey received a valuable consideration for it, and now we are proposing to give enormous monopolies exemptions and preferences, fown sites and mineral lunds in addition to the earnings of a railway that the gov- ernment engineer says will be over and above the cost of working and interest on ihe cost of construction, and depreciation, nay $200,000 a year which represents over $5,006,000 ia money. There is the uureserved timber in that country. Al- though there is not much of what we call valuable lumber, itis the best they have and will be very valuable there. They have‘enorm.oas fiaichises g ven tLe n and all that for building 150 miles of tramway. I am astoniehed that hon. gentlemen would come before the country with such @ proposition as this,and I hope in the interests of the country that even now they will pause and come toparliament with @ proposition to which honest meu can give their support. My hon. friend the leader of the Houre looks at me. I am very far from saying no honest man can be found who will vote for it. If If have said anything of the kind I do not exactly mean it. Honest men may be very misguided sometimes; and in this case, if hon. gentlemen will peraist in this measure and force iton Parliament they and there supportersare very much mis~ guided, in my opinion. I think the con~ sideration for the building of this rail- way is enurmous, and it iorms no part in the trunk line which we wish to see built from the North-west Territories or British Columbia toibe Yukon, The considera~ tions is so larre that I am surprised and amazed hon. gentleman should come be- fore the House with such a_ proposition. [ have many other notes before me, but having spoken eo long, I must only thaak the House for their attention and take my seat.

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