Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-01-13
RAILROAD ITEyS.

laborers in town, who have crowded The
boarding aud lodging house, 10 their full
capacity. Town life being expensive, and
the holidays becoming monotonous the
bone and muscle element is rapidly falling
back upon the gradc-a portion in the
employ OF the Company at various duties
on the road, and the main force tending
to the lO-mie, Montgomery extension, as
also the clearing and grubbing work.
Since the bad weather aud short days
have made it almost impossible to perform
full days work, wages have rcceded to
81 20 per day in coin, the same as is paid
Oh the Holiday roads; this leaves about
81 day over grub"
The lO-mle Montgomery extension is
now under Roadway with u force of about
four hundred hands, mainly Chinese, un-
der the superintendent of Capt John Is.
kiddcr, who conducted the 25.milc con-
tract just closed. This extension com.
menccs with three fourths of a mile of
piling, which is now going on" Driver
No. 3" being employed, with AL Hastings
as superintendent, aud Charles Turner,
engineer.
At Humphreys, on the 1O-mie extern
sion, MIR. Montgomery has just finished n
large steam sawmll which is intended to
saw the material required for the Cowlitz
bridge on the extension, and furnish the
lumber and other supplies used in construc.
ton.
There are now about two hundred hands
employed on the clearing and grubbing
line; about three-fourths of the force is in
the employ Of the Company, and the
Wheeler Bros have about fifty hands on a
contract Of ten miles.
The bark Aimatia is now at the wharf
in kaama, unloading railroad iron, being
part of the cargo of the Horaiio Harris,
at San Francisco. The AImatia brings
100 bars.
A dispatch from Philadelphia has been
received here at Headquarters, announcing
that two Alden engines had been started
overland for this division of the road. and
might be expected in San Francisco about
the 18th inst. These are intended for the
passenger trains of the Pacific Division.
Since the completion of the twenty-five
miles, the road northward from Humphreys
to the Sound has been totally impossible
for teams-the mail stage having been
obliged to draw off, and the mail passing
over and through the mud by horse, foot,
and any how to get through. Even if the
roads were passablc, till the rails reach
Humphreys they cannot properly be con-
sidercd as entering the line of travel; and
till the next four or five miles are finished,
and the road to the Sound becomes in
travelling order, there will be only very
limited use for passenger cars on this line
but when spring opens, the iron horses will
have full duty on trade and travel, as we'll
as construction.
We hear that the plans have been drawn
for railroad depot in Kalama, which is to
be the largest and finest structure of the
town. 1t is to be located on the northeast
corner OF Fir and River streets, most prob.
ably occupying the front of block.
The Pacific Division of the N. L. Il. r.
sends greeting: The Columbia section is
an accomplished fact The cars have run
from kalama northward twenty five miles
to the limit of the first Montgomery con-
tract; and the Columbia basin and Puget
Sound will soon join in commerce safe
from the risks and delays of Columbia
bar!
On last Saturday, a locomotive con.
nccted with passenger. car made the in.
tial trip to the front-Gcn. Spraguc and
Div. Eng. Thos. b. Morris, leading off
GERS of the division, being on the train.
The day being cold and unpleasant the
general invitation for free ride was not
| so generally embraced as at first intended
by q large part of the community, but a
sufficient number of those accustomed to
cherries weather were on hand, who filled
the car, where warm stove had prepared
u genial reception for them.
The train reached the front in good or.
der, without any hindrancc or delay; and
after sufficient interval elapsed for BUSH
ness and pleasure, SO far as the locality af-
fords, the whistle announced that the
train was homewarl bound. On the way,
six passengers from Olympia were received
on board, who, not being advised of the
"ncw departure" had started from Pun.
phrey's down the Cowlitz in a canoe.
The road was found completed and in
safe condition along the whole line but of
course it will require good deal of attcn-
ton during the winter by section labor,
till the road-bed is settled, and gravcling,
ETC., is finished.
Over two hundred hands arc now on the
4O.miles extension, engaged in grubbing
and clearing, and it is likely that tho sew
enteen additional miles to Budd's Inlet will
be put under contract simultaneously with
the extension now in course of initiation.
The branch line to connect Olympia
with the 4O-miles extension, is not tech.
nically Of the n p. road, but is to be con.
structed under the general incorporation
law Of the Territory, through the auspices
and direction of the Company.
The Board Of Directors of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company have passed the
following resolution
Rosalrcd Ilat lax,l .la-a.:s.> Il.