[Transcriber's note: This book has varying page headers. Those headershave been collected at the start of each chapter as an introductoryparagraph.]

'The surveyor, often an explorer as well, striking out into the wilderness in search of mountain pass or lower grade.'
From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys

THE

RAILWAY BUILDERS

A Chronicle of Overland Highways

BY

OSCAR D. SKELTON

TORONTO
GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY
1916

Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention

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