This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: … 25 miles land road, Thunder Bay to Dog Lake 25 cents. 35 miles water carriage Dog River and Lake 6
10 miles land carriage, Height of Land 10
184-miles, Fort Frances, 6 being by land 30
120 miles, Fort Frances to northwest angle in Batteaux, of 100 tons. 6
90 miles land carriage, Northwest Angle to Fort Garry 75
464 miles. 1.52 per 100 lbs. That is, 30, lg0 per ton of 2,000 lbs., from Thunder Bay to Fort Garry. But, as I said before, making every allowance, and taking the cost at $2 per 100 lbs., equal to forty dollars per ton, at the outset. From York Factory to Red River, the contract price used to be twenty pounds sterling, or one hundred dollars per ton, while the present rate, by the Prairies and Red River, is ninety dollars per ton of 2,000 lbs. Beyond this, it surely requires no argument to shew that, if the communication were opened, the whole trade of the Red River Settlement, both that of the Hudson Bay Company and the settlers, would pass by Lake Superior, A saving of fifty dollars per ton on freight, would certainly decide the matter. But this is not all, the price of such articles as the people of Red River require, being chiefly dry goods and groceries, is much lower in Canada than in any of the remote western towns of Minnesota. If Fort William were again made a free port, as it recently was, and, always supposing the communication to be opened, the people of the Red River Settlement would be in position to supply the northern settlements of Minnesota with merchandize, inBtead of being dependent on them, as at present. RESOURCES–TIMBER, &c. When the communication is opened, and settlement begins to advance in the prairies of the West, there will be a demand for wood for building and other pur…