Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-03-16
RAILROAD ITEMS.
From the kalama Bcacop.1


From the Kalama Bcacon1
1lalleu has sent some of his teams to Month
cello, intending to get them over to the Sound
overland. lie is about to send the balance oil
his working material to the Sound end Of his
contract by steamer, which is bat seventeen
miles from tho landing.
The locating engineer corps, now SURVEYING
the terminus site in, and adjoining Olympia.
under the superintendent of II. G. Ward
G. f., has concluded surveys on both the east
and west sides of Budd's Inlet, ami about Nav
LIST, rs rumored, the terminus site at Olympia
will Le decided upon in the proper quarter,
and very probably II further letting of tide wa
ter from the northern end of lialett's con-
Aract
II is said to be computed that there is to be
six miles aud quarter of piins to be done by
Hallett-and ., 900 piles being required for each
mile, an idea cna be formed of the capital and
head necessary to /" rum railroad contract
The locating-surveyng party now going up
southwnrd ON the right bank of the Columbia,
IN charge OF Il. Y. Buchanan, G. E., has
reached Lewis river, and is engaged in some
keady" engineering to solve how to master a
number of railroad Instructions in that vieu-
ity.
o. Montgomcry's 10-milc extension the
work has been continued all winter by about
tire hundred Cinnamon on the grade, and
about fifty whites at getting out bridge timber,
etc. There are six bridges to be put up on
the ten miles, and that on the Cowlitz is to be
two spans of go feet each. The timber work
for the bridges is principally under the con-
structing direction of Mr.. Chas. G. Murphy,
who is rcputed at the head Of both the me-
ohanical and scientific lines o: his profession.
The Vancouver paper contains this il" The
surveying party under Captain Maxwell, who
are charged with the work of surveying the
road from kalama southwark, have reached
Quiglcy'S farm on Lake river, l9 miles north
OF Vancouver. They crossed Lewis river about
halfa mile below Judge Lancaster's residence,
and are establishing an air line through the
Lewis and Lake river bottoms from Martin
Bluf to Vancouver. They are expected to
reach here next week.
RTHERN PACIFIC OFFICERS. In the Rail-
rodd GnscHe correspondent writes
&C. L. llobert, ESD, is Superintendent of
the Minnesota Division which includes all that
portion of main line from junction of the Lake
Superior and Mississippi Railroad to the Red
River of the North, distance of 227 miles.
Mr.. Hobart has proved a very excellent officer
:" The Northern Pacific system now embraces
the ST. Paul and Pacific main line and branch,
which are under the superintendent of +. L.
Delnno, Esq, st. Paul, who for many years
has held the position. &. y. Parker, is Mas
ter Mechanic of these lines c. d. Wiley. of
t.
Gushing is Superintendent of machinery of all
lines owned or operated by the y. p, r. H."
We have received froma very reliable source
of information that 1t is the intention of the n.
u. K. Il. Company to employ 5000 men upon
their road in the spring, and that steamers will
he employed running from this point to the
poiht where the y. L. will cross the Missouri
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a SINGULAR OCCuRnENCE. In the
4.
Coal Company met with a most unexpected
mshap to the coal shutc at their wharf,
the foundation of that structure having in
part given away, thus Frustrating one
hundred feet OF the upper portion of it and
causing the balance to slide bodily along
five feet towards the water. The giving
away of the foundation was at first attrib .
n:ed to land slide; but subsequent cx.
aminations proved that the immediate
cause of the mishap was the sinking to a
depth OF several feet Of strip of ground
about four rods in width and eight or ten
in length on which the timbers of the
shutc in part rested. This vast bulk drop
ping into the hillside Ike wedge, Just at
the summit, Jared and crumblei and
moved the surface of the earth below still
further on the beach. On this portion of
the hillside the shutc was left standing in.
tact, there having been about one hundred
feet destroyed upon and near the ground
which sunk; yet having been forced
downward short distance upon the end of
the wharf, such shock and weight coming
against the latter also caused "a consider,
able section of it, near shore, to fall With
that exception, but a triling amount of
damage was done below where the upper
part Of the shutc fell. Where the subsi-
dencc took place, or rather where the up
per part of the hillside was nearly en-
gulphed in some subtcrrancous cavity, the
injury was more serious, and the difficulty
and expense to be incurred in rebuilding
are no trifling matters in view of the iuse-
curity of such foundation for such a
structure, The company wero at work,
however, last week in removing the ruins,
and will undoubtedly soon rebuild the
broken portions of their shute and wharf,
Notwithstanding a slight subsistence of that
sunken tract was still slowly going on
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