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 Letter from the Hon. Dr. Tupper, C. B., to the 
 Hon. James McDonald, M. P. P, 
 
 Ouawoy February 5, 1872. 
 Mt Deab McDona.ld, — 
 
 Although I have on principle refused to make anj defence against the yile 
 slanders upon my public character invented and published by the Anti-Union Press 
 of Nova Scotia, — because I thought it would establish a veij improper practice if a 
 public man were called upon to defend himself in the press against unfounded 
 calumny unsupported by any ahow of evidence, — I would like you to be prepared to 
 meet any charges that may be made against me in the Legislature of Nova Scotia, as 
 I will be prepared to meet them in Parliament. Well knowing tliat the enemies of 
 Union, finding our cause rapidly commending itself to the approval of all intelligent 
 men, are anxious to assail it through me, I feel that I owe it to the country to orush 
 their lying inventions by an array of evidence which must silence them forever. 
 
 You will remember that many persons interested in mining, urged upon the Govern- 
 ment of which we were members, the policy of allowing additional rights of search 
 to be taken out for the same area — that it was; well known that this question was 
 engaging the attention of the Government for some time previous to the 25th of 
 May 1865, when an Order in Council making the proposed change was approved 
 by the Lieutenant-Grovemor in Council. That order was published on the 28th o£ 
 June, and on the 29th C. H. M. Black, Esq., and at least two or three other persons, 
 made application for rights of search under its provisions. 
 
 On the day after the Order in Council was approved by the Lieutenaut-GrovemOT 
 I went on a mission to Fredericton, to arrange with the Government of New Bruns- 
 wick a joint delegation of the two Provinces to England, with the object of securing 
 the construction of the railway from Moncton to Truro. I was absent a week, and on 
 my return was engrossed with business preparatory to my leaving for England, which 
 I did in company with my colleague, the Hon. W. A. Henry, and the New Brunswick 
 delegates, on the 22nd or 23rd of June. It will thus be seen that I was not in the 
 Province on the day when the first Gazette issued after the Order was approved 
 in Council, nor when it was subsequently published. As the publication of Orders in 
 Council was the duty of the Clerk of the Executive Council, and for toe reason* 
 mentioned, from the time that Order was approved the subject passed from my mind, 
 until I read the attack upon myself contained in the Moming Ohronisle of August 
 7th, 1871. 
 
 Mr. Annand, the proprietor of that paper, sat m the Assembly of Nova Scotia 
 with us for two sesakms after taat Order was published ; yet, while leading a violent 
 oppoflitioo, he, with all the facts known to the public, never ventared to question 
 either the f^oUoj of tb« Ordwr or our aetioa under it, Daring the last four yean, 
 whh rll the ardiives of the Mines D^partcMnt in the poesessim of the Gk>T^rnment, 
 not an insinuation was ever basarded queatiuuing the integrity with which our Gor- 
 emment had Mbninistwed ih» Mines. We gave tp the worid Um b«st evidmo* 
 possible that we had nothing to fme from the exposure of oar acts, when we in 1867 
 Md Mr. P. & HMultott from th« oftoe of Chief Coniiiiisfio«er qf th«t D^ifri- 
 whi#i h» iud pmaM over 4«n>iS 9^ wMlt> \^}n ^ <<<^ Tet ||Ir. QjMl^ 
 
ton, while declaring himself my " implacable enemy," when dragged to the stand, was 
 compelled to admit in his letter to the Acadian Becorder, dated August 17th, 1871, 
 ^ I cannot state of my own knowledge that any member of the Governmetit of that 
 *'d''.j made a business hit in th<; speculation which that Order in Council provided 
 ♦♦ for." Mr. Hamilton, it is true, opposed the passage of that Oider, when he, in 
 common with several others, was examined before the Council upon the subject ; but 
 as the Legislature unanimously approved of the policy contained in nhat Order, and 
 Mr Annand's Gkivoroment have embodied it in the law, and placed it on the Statute 
 Book, I am not called upon to defend it. I need not notice further the many misstate- 
 ments contained in Mr. Hamilton's letters, as you and all my colleagues of that day 
 are well aware of vlieir falsity ; but, I may here remark that the numerous com- 
 plaints made to our Government of his close intimacy with a gentleman who was 
 constantly speculating ia mines, was a sufficient reason for informing him of this Order 
 in Council through the same channel as all others — the Rojfol Gazette. 
 
 When Mr. Black obtained his license to search, I was on the other side of the 
 Atlantic, and had never exchanged a word with him upon the subject. While I was 
 • member of the Government 1 steadily refused to have anything to do with either 
 gold or coal mines, and when I resigned my seat in the Government on the 30th of 
 June 1867, 1 did not own one cent's worth of mining property. 
 
 Haviug said thus much in general terms, I will now furnish you with tUe evidence 
 bearing on every point on which f have been assailed. It is admitted that the Order 
 in Council made a valuable change in the law, but it is asserted that J gave Mr. 
 Black private information which enabled him to anticipate all other parties in making 
 application under it. The only evidence that, in the absence of any to sustain this 
 charge, could be required to disprove it, is furnished by the admission of the Chronicle 
 itself, that when Mr. Black made his application, after 10 o'clock, A. M., on the 29th 
 of June, he had *he RoycU Gazette of tie 28th in his hands, containing the Order 
 under which he applied. 
 
 The Chronicle asserts that the Gazette was withheld from tbe public. Suppose 
 that were true, I did not issje the Gazette ; but it is shown to be false bj the answer 
 of Alpin Grant, Esq.. the then Queen's Printer, contained in the British Cohnitt of 
 September 12th, 1871, of which he is the proprietor: 
 
 " Psrhapa the gravest part of tb« accasation against Dr. Tupper is that of having caused 
 a delay in the issue of the Royal Oazetle in order to gire his friends on opportunity to 
 operate in the Mines Office. Our answer to this charge shall be very bnef and explicit. The 
 •tory is a lie without a shadow of ground to justify it. The proprietor of this paper held tbe 
 o9«e of Qae«a'8 Printer at that time, and no »«ich delay in the issue of the Gazeltt ever took 
 piftc* while it waa published by him. Wc subjoin an aifidavit from the foreman of the 
 Q<uttt$ Office, which will be conclusive on that point : 
 
 " ' I, John McDonald, of the Oity of Halifax, make oath and aay that I was foreman of tbe 
 Royal Chuetf oAoe daring the whole year 1865 — that I had sole charge of the printing and 
 )mwm% of the Royal Oazette newspaper — and I solemalv declare that I never on auy occa- 
 •ioB received ixistructions, — either from the Queen's Printer, or from any other quarter, — to 
 withhold the publication of the Gazettt beyond its regular day of issue, which was Wednes- 
 day in each week ; and I f^irtber declare tbat the publication of the RoytA Oatettt was never 
 delayed beyond its regular day of issue. 
 
 JOHN MoDOKALO. 
 
 «< « Swot* to b«lbr« a»« this Uth day of Se]^i«mb«r, 1871. 
 
 " ' W. Mt«m Gray, Aid. and J. P.' " 
 
 It ia notoriotis that the Soy<d OaxtHe h alistoet invariably printed late in the even- 
 iii|; <^ Wednesday, and sent to the puUic ofllces sometinoe in the forenoon of th« 
 aest day. It la not pretended that tstr one was relbsed a oopy at the Qaeeu'i 
 FHn^i, where it dwAjs could be h«a on Tltariday morning as early as tbe offioe 
 opened^ 
 
 TW Ckronitif of August 22nd and : '^ It n<m appears ilbtH iioeBoes to sewali three 
 <*iairelM of five sqone oulei' eadi cff die Spi^ ifill ooal formatiott Held hj two tvih 
 
" dentg of Cumberland, expired on the 29th of Jane. These parties would then have 
 " been in a position to select a square mile from each area, and would undoubtedly have 
 " done ro if not taken by surprise by the Order in Council. The ring, with Tupper at it« 
 " head, was perfectly (»gnizant of these facts. The Order was therefore suppressed 
 " for four weeks, and only printed in the Gazette on Wednesday, the 28th of June, th« 
 " day before these licences expired. Not a copy, however, was publicly distributed on 
 " that day. On the following morning, at the very hour they expired, Tupper's oon- 
 " federate appeared at the Mines Office, with the Gazette in his pocket, and holding in 
 " his hands applications for eight areas, including these three we have referred to. The 
 •' other parties were of (course taken by surprise. If the Order had even been published 
 " ill the Gazette of the previous week, they would have had sufllcient notice to enable 
 " thetn to select their square mile of each area." No man knows better ,aan Mr. 
 Annand the disingenuousnesa of this statement. He knows that on that miming of 
 the 29th of June the three areas referred to were entirely free for any one to apply 
 for them — that it did not require the Order !.. Va. 'ncil to secure them, and that the 
 previous occupants had forfeited all claim to them. Had they desired to locate a 
 square mile, they well knew that it must be done before the year expired, as it did 
 on the 28th of June, and that after that date they had no more claim there than any 
 other person. That Mr. Black should have had his applications ready, would surprise 
 no one who knows that the books of the Mines Office, containing all the metes and 
 bounds, were open for inspection to every one who chose to visit that office. Of the 
 reason why these parties did not locate a square mile and apply for a license to work, I 
 know nothing ; but the statement that they were " taken by surprise by the Order in 
 Council," and thus lost their opportunity, carries falsehood upon the face of it. They 
 allowf.d their rights to expire, as was not infrequently the case, and the areas were 
 then open to any one who chose to app'y. 
 
 Having thus disposed of the question of the suppression of the Gazette, I now 
 come to the charge that the " Order in Council was suppressed for four weeks before 
 publication." - ik 
 
 As I have already said, from the day on which the Order was settled in Council in 
 1865, until these attacks were made in 1871, the matter had not croased jr.j mind, 
 and until I, last autumn, met James H. Thome, Esq., who was the then Clerk of the 
 Council, and whose duty it was to attend to the publication of the Order, I did not 
 rayeelf know why this delay had occurred. He at once said that he had recently met 
 the Hon. S. L. Shannon, who told him that he (Mr. S.) had been the innocent cause 
 of the delay, when they both remembered the facts as narrated in the following 
 affidavit of Mr. Thorne, and note from Mr. Shannon. You will no doubt recollect, 
 as I do, that Mr. Shannon differed in opinion with the majority of the Council npon 
 this question, and it appears that, as I had gone to New Brunswick before the next 
 Gazette was published, he asked Mr. Thorne to withhold the publication of the Order, 
 as he thought it might be reconsidered by the Council. In the nre«)sure of batineto 
 preparatory to the Attorney General and myself going to England, the matter Waa 
 not brought up before we went, and Mr. Shannon, thinUng that it could not properly 
 be diMie in our absence, Mr. Thorne was directed to publish it in the Gazette, all of 
 which is fully shown by the following affidavit of Mr. Thome, and note flram 
 Mr. Shannon : — 
 
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 " I, James H. Thorne, of the City of Balif&x and Frovlace of KoVft Scotia, mak« <titi^ and 
 say, that I held the offices of Deputy Secretary and Clerk of the Execative Council of the 
 Province of Nova Scotia, during the year one thousand e'ght hundred and sixy-five, — that 
 the duty of furnishing the Orders in Council to the Queen's Printer for pablication in the 
 KayeU Gaaatte devolv^ exclasively upon me, — that the order relating to Licenses to Search 
 for Coal, approved in Council on the twenty-fifth of May, one thousand eight hufldred and 
 sixty-five, was fumiebed by me to the Queen's Printer in the usual way, — (hat I never re- 
 . ceived any intimation, directly or indirectly, from the Honorable Charles Tupper in reference 
 to that Order ; and that the said Charles Tupper was absent on a mission to the government 
 of New Druasviok, when the first Oaztttt issued after tho approval of the said Order 
 
tn Oouncil, and that h« wa« abicnt on a tnisiion toBngUnd when th« taid Order wat placed 
 bj me in the hands of the Quien's Printer for publication ; and further, that the publicatioa 
 uf the Mid Order in Council was deferred bj ue in consequence of an intimation from th« 
 Hoaorable S. L. Sbaimon that the said Order in Ooancil might be reconsidei^d. 
 
 (Siffued) JAMES H. THORNI. 
 
 "Sworn to at Halilkx thii 30th of October, A. D. 1873, before me, 
 
 "OlO P. HiTOBILL, J. P." 
 0»pied from the original by Oharles McGalla Almon, ) , , . 
 
 at Ottawa on the 9tb January, 1872. f 
 
 " Halifax, January 2,\S12 
 
 "Mt DiAB TU7P1E,— 
 
 "I hare mnch pleasure in reducing to writing the statement I made to jou on the 
 oecaiion of your recent visit to Halifax, when I explained to you my recollection of the 
 eanse of the delay in the publication of the Order in Council of May, ^865, in reference to 
 licenses to prospect for coal. 
 
 " Ton may probably remember that I differed with a majority of my colleagues as to the 
 policy of making the change provided for in that Order, and while I felt the weight of the 
 arguments used for the adoption of the policy, I was afraid that the inconreniences result* 
 ing flrpm it would more than outweigh any supposed benefits. This conviction was so strong 
 with me that my impression is that in your absence the publication of the Order was delayed 
 for a lime at my instance, for the purpose of having a reconsideration of the subject by 
 the whole Council. Subsequently I withdrew my objections, and the Order was published. 
 " I mentioned (he above to Mr. Thome, the then Clerk of the Council, when 1 saw the at^ 
 tack made upon yon, and he confirmed my recollection. 
 
 '* I need only add that you are quite at liberty to make any use you may wish of this 
 statement of facts in reference to which so much unfounded abuse has been heaped upon 
 yon. 
 
 *' I remain, believe me, 
 
 " Faithfully yoars, 
 (Signed) "8. L. SHANNON. 
 
 '< Tri Hoh. Cbarlm Tuppib, C.B., Ottawc, Ontario. " 
 Copied from the original by Charles McCoUa Almon, 
 at Ottawa, on the 9th Jauuary, 1872. 
 
 I may here state that the articles which have appeared in the Halifax papers, de- 
 fending me from the slanders of the Anti-Union press, were written and published 
 without my having seen any of them. 
 
 When it was shown that there was not the slightest foundation for any aspersi(» 
 o( my public character — that I was on the other side of the Atlantic when the Order 
 in Council was published, and rights acquired under it, and my assailants were chal- 
 lenged to adduce the slightest evidence that I had any property in mines while a 
 member of the Government, the Chronicle was obliged to confess that all the evidence 
 they could adduce in support of their charges was that I had offered te sell the Spring 
 Hill Mines. It is quite true that I did offer to sell the mine, but it was not until I 
 had received a Power of Attorney, executed by Mr. Black, in the office of Hon. J. 
 W. Ritchie, on the 4th day of June, 1868, eleven months after I had ceased to be a 
 member of the Gktvernment, and which was forwarded to me when I was in England. 
 lii 1869 Mr. Black conveyed to me an interest in the property of which he held leases 
 from Mr- Annaod's Government, as will appear by the following authenticated copies 
 of Power of Attorney and Letter from Mjt. Black :— 
 
 " Know all Men, that I, Charles H. M. Black, of the City of Halifax, in the Province of 
 
 Nova Scotia, merchant, have nomirated and appointed, and do nominate and appoint the 
 
 Jionorable Charles Tapper, of Halifax, aforesaid, now in London, Bnglaad, a Companion of 
 
 the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, to be m" 'rae and lawfhl Attorney for me, and in my 
 
 name and stead, absolutely, to bargain, sell, and dispose of six ■everal Ueenses of oconpa- 
 
 tion, isaafld to me on the thirteenth day of Jnne last, A. D. 1867, under the hand and seal of 
 
 .John Batherford, Bsquire, Chief Oomnissioaer of Mines for tke Province of Nova Scotia, 
 
 .and now in force, granting to me the exclusive right of openicf nines, and getting minerals, 
 
 ■ether than gold, tn the period of two years flroa the i%'p, last aeatieaed, at firing Hill, 
 
 AOoaaty of CniBDerland, Nova Scotia, within the limits in tue said lieensoi marked Nos. 1, i, 
 
 ), 4, B, <, ncpoctively doseribed, being six hundred and forty acres ia oaeh Uooase, er sis 
 
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•quaramilei in all, and anj or either of toch liceutea, with all rights, powers, pririlegei, *nd 
 ippurtenivncn!) hereto belonging, including the right to take out before the expiration of the 
 ■aid two years, a lease or leases of tbe said areas respectivelj from the Commissioner of 
 Mines aforesaid, or from the Gtown, for the purpose of getting the said minerals, and to 
 niKke etich S!il« bj prirate contract ; and also for me, and in my name, and as my act and 
 deed, to make, sign, eiecute, and delirar to tbe purchaser or purchaaert thereof, their heirs, 
 executors, ami administrators, and assigns, from time to time, good and sufficient deeds or 
 instr jments o. conveyance, and transfer or asaignmsnt of the said premises, and every part 
 thereof respectively as aforesaid, and to receive the purchase money, and give acquittances 
 and discharges therefor to the purchaser and purchasers aforesaid ; and gsnerally for mc, and 
 as my Attorney to do and execute all snch acts and deeds as may be needful for conveying 
 and assigning the said property in whole or in part to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, 
 I hereby agreeing to ratify and confirm all acts that my said Attorney may lawfully do in th« 
 premises by virtue of these presents. 
 " Witness my hand and seal at Halifax, this fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one 
 
 thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. 
 
 (Signed) "CHARLES H. If. BLACK. (Seal.) 
 
 "Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of 
 
 "S. B McEaAY." 
 Copied from the original by Charles McOoU'. Alnron, V 
 
 at Ottawa, on the 9th January, 1872. / 
 
 " Provinok of Nova Scotia, 1 »,^ _.. 
 Halifax. '[To wit: 
 
 "I, T .omas Ritchie, Notary Public, duly admitted and sworn, dweDing in tbe City of 
 Ha'-fax iiid Province rforesaid, do certify that Steplien B. Hurray, the subscribing witness 
 to Ibe foregoing Povf er, this day appeared before me, and being duly sworn, made oath that 
 he was prenent, and saw Charles H. M. Black, thi-rein named, sign, seal, and deliver the said 
 Power of Attorney as his act and deed, and that the signature ' Charles H. M. Black ' to the 
 said Power subscribed is of the proper hand-writing of the said Charles H. M. Black. 
 
 '* In testimony whereof i, the said Notary, have hereto my hand subscribed and Notarial 
 Seal affixed, at Halifax, this foarth day of June, Anno Domini, 1868. 
 
 /Notarial^ (Signed) "THOMAS RITCHIH, 
 
 t Seal. / Notary Public." 
 
 Copied from the original by Charles McColla Almon, > 
 
 at Ottava, on the 0th January, 1372. 
 
 "Halifax, 19lh December, 1871. 
 
 " Ho.tofiABLi ChablRS Tcppia, C. B., Ottawa, — 
 
 " Mr Dka« Sir, — A fier the repeated attacks upon you by a portion of the city press, touch- 
 ing tbe Spring Hill Mine, I have thought it but right that I should state tbe fact that I had no 
 communication with yoa respecting licenses to senrcli for coal at Spring Hill or elsewhere, 
 previous to the application made by ne in June 1865, and that I received no intimation fiom 
 you that an Order id Council had passed authorizing the granting of second rights to 
 search. 
 
 '^ In Junr ]8B8, when yon were in England, it was thought by the friends interested with 
 me that yon could be of essential service m us in bringing tbe mine to the notice of English 
 capitalists, and I accordingly executed a Power of Attorneyr authorizing you to sell the min- 
 ing rights I had acquired, which was duly transmitted to you ; and in 1869 it was determined 
 to convey to yoa one undivided fifth of three sq^re miles, of which I held leases from Mr. 
 Annand's Government. 
 
 " Tou are aware this explanation was at your service last sammer, and you ean now make 
 what use of It you please. 
 
 " Begrett'ng you should have been tbe subject of so mucb momorited abuse, 
 
 " I remain, yours very truly, 
 
 aj£^ ed) " C. H. H. BLACK." 
 
 Copied from original by Charles McColla Almon, I 
 at Ottawa, od the 9th January, 1872. j 
 
 But one charge remains to be noticed, and that is— that I used vaj influence to 
 divert the route of the Intercolonial Railway so as to make it subserve the interests 
 and increase the value of the Spring Hill Coal Mines. The Chronicle of August 
 7th said : " The route of the Intercolonial Railway had been diverted from the shorea 
 ** of the Bay, where it would have touched the seaports of Five Islands and Parrsboro 
 ** Village, thus building up two Ports, and shortening the distance between Truro and 
 
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 "Amherst about nine mUei, and was canirl over the Cobeqiiid Range, where the 
 " diflicullif*-!! of running and rnaintaining the line in working oriier are in the opinion 
 " of aimpetent pentons almost unsuruioufitable." Afjain, the Morning Chromicle of 
 September 16th, 1871, said: "The building of the Intercolonial pt-omised to make 
 " the Spring Hill Mines a highly remunerative Hpeculation. Pr. Tnpper now appeared 
 ** on the scene. The shore route was rejected, and by his influence with the Commis- 
 " aioners and Chief Engineer he was enabled to run the road within four miles o^ Spring 
 " HilL" Incredible as it must seem to those who do not know Mr. Annand, ah tliis is 
 not only untrue, but the very reverse of the truth. The shortCht line that could be 
 obtained by the shore would have been more than nine miles longer than the present 
 line, and the published correspondence, which has been laid before Parliament, sho-^s 
 that while I took no part in the discussion, and Mr. Fleming insisted upon locating 
 th« road four miles away from the mines, Mr. Annaud and the Executive Oiuncil of 
 Nova Scotia, fought a most determined battle to carry the road " over the Cobequid 
 Mountains," and through the centre of this Spring Hill Mine, as will fully appear 
 by a perusal of the following public documents ; — 
 
 RETURN 
 
 To Au Address of the Houie cf Commons, of the 10th ultimo, calling for copies of all ci/cres- 
 pondence relative to the surveys of the several proposed routes ot the Intercolonial 
 Railway, with copies of all documents rettiting to the same ; also copies of all Orders 
 in Council relative to the same since the last Returns. 
 
 HKCTOR LANQEVrX, Hecrttary of State. 
 Department of the Secretary of State, 
 Ottawa, nth May, 18t;9. 
 
 (Copy 497 — No. 30) Gommmtnt floute, 
 
 Halifax, Nova Scotia, llth August, 1868. 
 Sib — I have the honor to transmit herewith for the information of His Excellency the 
 Governor General, a copy of a Minute of Council approved by myself, respecting the location 
 of the line of proposed Railway between Truro in this Province and Moncton in New Brans- 
 wick. I have the honor to, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 (Signed) Hastikqs Ooyli. 
 
 The Honorable The Secretary of State for the Provinces, kc. Ac , Ac. 
 
 Ifalifax, N. S. 
 Copy of a minute of Council passed on the 3rd day of August, 1868, and approved by His 
 Excellency the Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 In view of t*<e immediate commencement of the Railway between Truro and Moncton, it is 
 incumbent on th« Gove: nment to see that the engageincntit and interests of the Province are 
 dnly protected in its location and construction. 
 
 As regards the Route, the line when commenc;d in 1806 as a Provincial work, was designed 
 by those who undertook it, to eflfect the shortest possible communication between Nov* 
 Scotia and New Brunswick, and to tecurr the largest amount of intermediate traffic by giving a new 
 and important development of the mineral resources of the Province by connecting the Iron and Coal 
 Districts of Colchester and Cumberland, and thtse objects should be still insisted upon to the fullest «x- 
 tent possible. It appears that without any engines -ing difficulties and at probably less cost and 
 with easier grades than on the Railways at present in the Province, a hue can be made, and 
 is already located, passing through the Acadia Mines to Springhill and Amherst, which would 
 give the requisite facilities for extensive mining and manufacturing operations, involving a 
 considerable consumption of coal paying Royalty, and thus contributing largely to the Revenue 
 and prosperity of tha Province ; and this route the Government is therefore bound, in the 
 interests of the Province, to recommend in preference to an alternative location which would 
 omit such a source of traffic. 
 
 (Signed) H. Ckosskili , Dep.Prov. Sse. 
 
 Provincial Secretary's Office, Halifax, 8th August, 1868. 
 
 (Copy of No. 604) Government Souse, 
 
 Halifax, Nova Scotia, 17th August, 186 
 Sir — Referring to my despatch (No. .10) of the llth Instant, enclosing a copy of a minute 
 of my Executive Council concerning the rou1;e of the proposed Ir -olonial Railway through 
 the Counties of Oumberland and Colchester, Nova Scotia, I have the honor to eneloie a copy 
 
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of » letter addreated by Captain Tjrler, Ottveroment Inepector of lUilwftyi, to John Lei'tMj 
 (together with an illustrated map) hearing on thr name iiubject ; and I roqaest that, when 
 the previous despatch is submitted to His Excellency the Oovernor General, this also, with 
 its enclosures, toAj be submitted at the same time. 
 
 I have tbp hoior to be, Sir, 
 
 Tour obedient serrant, 
 
 (Signed) HisTiiTas Dotlb. 
 
 /Tigk Elm*. 
 Hampton Court, 17th Juljr, lfl6n. 
 
 OiAR Hia, — W'lb reference to our various converi^ationH and our interview with Mr. Flem- 
 ing, and having had tin opportunity of seeing the plans and sectioas, and the careful 
 calculatioDS worked out (purtly on the basis suggested by m/belf) bv Mr. Atkinson, 1 have 
 no lunger any doubt as to the relative value of the routes " A " and " f " for the Intercolonial 
 Railway through Nova Scotia. 
 
 Au regards the engineering part of the question it would appear that line A has an extra 
 elevation of 101 feet over line K, and thatcerliiiu curvesj aud couuter gradi.iits must be al- 
 lowed for in excess of lino F. But it appears also that taking account of the coat wf con- 
 struction on each line, aud capitalizing at t) per cent, the extra cost of working over the 
 supcr-elevatinns, tlu- rouutcr gradients cud the curves ou the 8tee))er gradieuts on line A, 
 there Btill resuItH an economy of £:i8,o00 in favor of line A, and against line F. 
 
 As regards the general rircumstancea of tiie case, line A would place the Spring Hill Coal 
 Held and the Acadui fron Mini' [which I hnvf vi*itrd) in direct rommunieation with each other in the 
 be»t manner. If on the other hand, line P were constructed, a branch nrould be necessary at a 
 cost of £30,000 to contiect it with tho Acadia Iron Mine, befoie the valuable mineral of that 
 mine could be extensr ely brought into uhc, and a traf.lc of perhaps £10,000 a year thus be 
 placed aiion the Railway. The extra length of haulage by such a branch and by line P would 
 be considerably more coHtly than the super-elevation, gradients and curves of line a. 
 
 In fine, the conntruction of line F in place of line A would appear to me to be from every 
 point of view, a great nrstakc. Settinqf aside the interest.s of the proprietorii, the connection 
 in the best mauner of S/ninff Hill Coal Field with the Acadia Iron Mine, Ih probably the object of 
 the greatest industrial importance (with a view to the developcment of the resources of the 
 country) upon the whi "e of the Intercolonial Railway. The quality of the iron is first rate. 
 Ita manufacture in a cheap foiai by the use of the Springfield coal, would be a great advan- 
 tage to the Intercolonial liailway, and to all the Railways (besides other interests) in Canada. 
 Such an obstruction to the developeuicut of such resources as the construction of line F, 
 whon line A is available aud lus.'i cost'.y, would be nothing less than a general misfortune to 
 the industrial interests of the Dominion. 
 
 I remain, dear Sir, yours truly, 
 
 H. W. Ttlm. 
 
 By Telegraph from Halifax to John Leviaey : 
 
 . Government has not revoked Minute of Council 
 
 fuUy. 
 
 Otimtea, 30/A September, 1888. 
 nor will they. Thomson telegraphs 
 W. AimAND. 
 
 Telegram* through the Montreal Telegraph Company. 
 
 Ottawa, noth Stptemiftr, I8G8. 
 Resolution unopposed because 
 
 By Telegraph from Halifax to John Leviiey ; 
 
 Government retain viows expressed in Council Minute 
 not contradictory, and passed undiscussed in their House. 
 
 Ja8. Tbomsoi. 
 
 (Copy of No. 836) Ottawa, October 20, 1868. 
 
 SiE, — I have the honor to enclose in a conveniently printed form, a letter on the general 
 features of the Nova Scotia Intercolonial Railway Location, as regards population, traffic, kc, 
 these points having recently been brought under official notice, accomp&aied by copy of a 
 despatch from ^he Local Government of the Province in confirmation of its minute of the 
 3rd Augast last, and respectfully soliciting the attention of the Council thereto. 
 
 I remain, Sir, ^ 
 
 Your obedient servant. 
 To the Hon. H. L. Langevin, G. B., John Litmit. 
 
 Secretary of State, kc, kt. 
 
IKTBROOLONIAL RAILWAY. 
 
 Dtepmieh /rtm tke Loeml Gavemmtni of If ova Seotia. 
 
 Portieulart of Population , Mining and MaaufaeturMfi Operation$, and TraffU. 
 
 To th« F<>borable S«creUr7 of State fo? Oanada, — 
 
 Sin, — Ontha 30t^. ult. I ha4 the honor to enclase a tele^Tam ftom tho Hun. W. Anuand, 
 Provincial Treasarcr of Nora Scotia, affirming in the moat positive temu adherence of the Local 
 Government to 0$ minutt of the 3rd of Auguet latt, on the loec :n of the Intercolonial Railway 
 through that Prov^t, vhieh recommended thi Centre Line {A) thrcugh the Iron and Coal DittritU, 
 as most ronJueive to the intertrle oj the Province. A renewed attempt having been made to in- 
 terpk-et an informal approval of certain recominendations in Mr. F'oming's Report bj three 
 members of the Qovernment aa an official reTocation of the minnte in question, I have now 
 the pleasure of submitting copy of a resolation unanimousljr adopted at a meeting of the 
 Gouacil in Halifax, on Tuesday last, the 13th instant. 
 
 (Copy.) Halifax, \2th October, 1868. 
 
 The Government have seen no reason to abandon their Minute of Council of the 3rd 
 August, and will appiove of to location which does not effect the object/* therein con- 
 templated. 
 
 The alleged approval of another location was by only three members of Oouncil, on repre- 
 sentPtion of Mr. Fleming, in his Report, that, by branch construction or compromise line, 
 these objects would be as effectuuUy and economically secured. 
 
 (Sigued) W. B. Yaii., Clerk of Council. 
 
 The foregomg extracts from the sesaional papers of 1869 establish beyond con- 
 troversy the fact that Mr. Annand brought the whole influence of his Government 
 and himself to bear upon the Dominion Grovemment in order to compel the latter to 
 carry the Intercolonial Railway "over the Cobequid range" of mountains, and 
 through the centre of the coal mining property in question, in opposition to the line 
 recommended by the Chief Enpineer, Mr. Fleming ; declaring that the interests of 
 Nova Scotia demanded that it should run there ; and then, in the Morning Chronicle 
 of August 7th and 15th, 1871, denounced me (although I was not a member of the 
 GU)vemment, and had taken no part in the discussion) for having sacrificed the in- 
 terests of the Province by diverting the route of the ISailway to promote the interests 
 of this coal mine. Had Mr. Annand succeeded in \xxs efforts it would have saved the 
 i:rcpriAU>rs of the icdne in which I am interested the oonstruction of nome four miles 
 of railway now required to conne* ^ the property with the Intercolonial. 
 
 The annals of poUJcal dishonesty will, I believe, be searched in vain to find so im- 
 pudent an attempt to denounce a political opponent for an act which the party making 
 the charge had himself struggled to the utmost to accomplis^, as the perusal of 
 these public documents and Mr. Aiiuand'b paper have established against him, and 
 will, I tMnk, go far in the future to absolve any one fnnu taking notice of charges 
 emanating from suc'> a source. 
 
 I am sorry that I have Veen obligHi to trouble you at such length, and will con- 
 elude by saying that yuu are at liberty to make any use of this letter which you may 
 oonsider desirable. 
 
 I remain y ran fiuthfolly, 
 
 CHARLES TUPPER. 
 How. Jamm MoDohald, M. P. P.