Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-07-26
THE PRESS ON THE TERMINUS.

| AoCutlOA az AdCOuHu. VIII Oue OF TWO
interested exceptions, the newspapers
OF the Territory, express unqualified
condemnation of the action of the soul
less ring of spectators who, bent
upon enriching themselves, ignore the
interests of those who have made the
country what it is. The Oregon and
California papers, which it must be
admitted have no interest whatever in
the matter, SO far as heard from take q
plain common-sense view of the situa-
ton, and advise their readers to be-
ware of the little game of the terminus
Jeremy Diddlers:
DIsINTEREsTED COMMISSIONERS. We
are credibly informed that Capt. J. c.
Ainsworth owns large tract. of land
near Tacoma and is connected by mar
riage with the chief land owner and
land vender there Gen. McCarven We
are also informed that at the verv time
when Capt. Ainsworth and Judge Rice
were negotiating with our Citizens Com
mittee for offers of land and money to
locate the terminus here, they had
agents employed buying up land at Ia
coma for themselves-only taking the
precaution to have the deeds made out
in the names of other parties. 1t is
we'll known that all this has been done
for some time by prominent agents of
the N. P. r. r. Company; but it was
hoped that such disgraceful transactions
would not be initiated by the two chief
Commissioners, whose special business
it was to locate the terminus in the sole
interest of the Company, and not for
their own special benefit. -AteUigencer.
The TERMINUs.-T people of Seat
tie have offered to donate to the North
Pacific Company all their land and near
about all they are worth, and yet they
are not certain about getting the " ter
minus The management of the North
Pacific fully illustrates the truth of the
saying that corporations have no
souls. "-Statesmam.
TERMINUS LocATED.-The agony is
over and the question as to where the
terminus of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road shall be, has been settled for the
present at least. A point near Tacoma
has been selected, and will probably be
the terminus until the Company sell
out what land they own in that neigh
borhood at high price; and then there
is q possibility, if not probability,
that the terminus may be moved still
further down the Sound. For some
days it was believed that Seattle would
be the place, and property went up.
We presume it has now come down.
Some who supposed they knew all about
the Company, and were on the inside
of the ring invested all their spare cash
in Seattle just before that place was
left out in the cold. But now Tacoma
property seems to be in demand at un-
reasonably high figures. Let that place
ultimately become ever so prosperous a
place, we prophesy that at the end of
the next two years property will not
sell as high there as it does at present.
All those who want any terminus in
theirs can get it cheap after the first
rush is Over.-UniOn.
Their whole operations thus far in
this Territory is and has been in the in
terest of the land ring, set of unscru-
pulous land spectators, whose sole
interest is to ignore the public and use
the money of bondholders to enrich
private individuals. The magnificent
gift of the public lands, the property
of the whole people, is made to serve
the private interests of lot of land
sharks, whose highest ambition is to
rob the public, that they may fill their
own pockets. Is it not time that the
public should understand that railroad
ing in Washington Territory is prose-
cuted in the interest of the land ring,
who desire to humbug the people, and
fill their Golfers by the pretense of
magnificent commercial emporium to be
built on the shore of Commencement
Bay? A road from Kalama to Tacoma
will build but a small village, and can
command but little trade, as there are
little or no resources to make it at any
time great emporium. But magnif-
icant city will be laid out on paper, and
the unsuspecting public will be induced
to invest at fabulous prices. Let all be
aware of the cheat and swindle that will
be attempted on the public. No one
can be assured that after selling out the
property belonging to the land ring at
Tacoma, that they will not go further
north to secure the most valuable por-
ton of the land grant not covered by
this location. We advise those who
have money to invest that no confidence
can be placed in the interruptions land
ring who control the Northern Pacific
Railroad corporation. They made a
similar announcement of their intention
to come to Olympia, based on the au-
thority of the company, but ignored
their solemn obligations to secure q
speculation at Tacoma, where the land
ring control, and they are in better
position to deceive the public. Let
eastern capitalists beware of the land
ring and the corporation thew control