The point originally wasn't so much KWG thwarting CLF's road, as objecting to CLF building their road precisely along the line surveyed at KWG expense for a rail line. IF CLF had built this proposed road where they stated they intended to, there would have been no space on the high ground for a railway.

Had CLF simply intended to build along another line through those same claims, leaving the rail route unimpeded, there would have been no cause for strong objections. Such a road wouldn't have negatively affected KWG's use of the claims if it weren't run along the exact same line as the railway. That is the critical point. Does NOT now propose to build along this same line, rather than use the east-west route, which will cost far less, and will service Webeque?