11 JANUARY 1919, Page 13

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

[To mu EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR."'

SIC,—IT is RI range that Mr. Frewen when cataloguing agreeably the assets of "B.C." does not include one asset probably five times more valuable than the Punama Canal. The Iwo new B.C. railways get access to (lie ocean through Yellow Head PREP, whirls Cults [lie mountain barrier clean down to praiiis level. Instead, of gradients of 150 feet 10 the mile or more, which all the American roads encounter when reailiiiig the ocean, this British Columbia gradient is at most 23 feel.—I am.