Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-04-25

argument of some, this coal can bear
the expense OF shipment to Tacoma,
forty miles, it will pay large profit by
the way of Olympia Mt only fifteen
miles. If the Northern Pacific Rail-
road can afford to take the coal at cost
to Tacoma. ours can afford to do the
same to Olympia and discount the
Northern Pacific Railroad at their own
game fifty per cent. If this view is
correct, then your idea of freight cars
not being liable to be heavily loaded,
on this road, is wrong, as also your idea
of treating it as a branch.
The building Of the Tenino road is n
practical protest OF the people against
the action of the directors of the North
ern Pacific Railroad who, for the pnr-
pose of gaining greater land subsidy
and speculation in town lots, passed the
practical terminal point. In building
the road from Tenino, the people short
en- tho distance between Kalama and
the waters of Puget Sound twenty-five
miles, taking practically the manage
ment Of one end of the future trans
continental railroad out of the hands Of
the managers of it. While this may
not be apparent at the present, time the
leveler of all things will prove it. In
building the road to Tenino, our people
are mastering tho elementary lesson in
railroad construction, and when finished
will know how to continue it.
Until Seattle has formed its connec-
ton with the East by its Walla Walla
Railroad, the entire lower Sound will
be unit in favor of the Olympia road.
That influence, combined with the OPP
position to monopoly, as organized in
the order of the Patrons of Husbandry,
and the will and determination of the
people of Thurston, Lewis and Cowlitz
counties, will carry the road from Te-
nino south to point to intersect the
contemplated Salt Lake and Portland
Railroad
In speaking of connecting with
contemplated road, it is proper that we
should examine the probability of its
construction. Those familiar with Pa
cific railroad matters, know the conflict
which has existed between the Central
and Union Pacific Railways ever since
ground was broken for the latter at
Omaha, and there can hardly be
doubt, but that the construction of the
narrow gauge railroad now in progress
from Ogden, the meeting point of the
two roads, by Salt Lake city, Provo and
Fillmore to Denver, there striking the
center OF the narrow gauge railroad
system of the United States, and con-
Meeting with the Missouri River, is I'M
der the patronage of the Central Pacific
Railroad, creating in this road paral-
lei to the Union Pacific and making the
Central Independent of it.
Vanderbilt, who is largely interested
in the Union Pacific, and whose expe-
rience and practical movements are Sec
ond to those of no man on this continent,
can read the objects of the Central Pa
cific as well as Gov. Stanford himself.
The success of the Central scheme
would be decline in stocks OF the
Union. To prevent this, narrow
gauge is planned from the Western
terminus of the Union Pacific at Ogden,
by the Dalles to Portland, to intercept
the trade of the Columbia river which
heretofore went by San Francisco and
the Central Pacific East. At the same
time it gives the Northern Pacific Rail-
road a staggering blow in q quarter
where they least expect it. It is the
Salt Lake and Portland road which is
at present in Congress, asking for aid
in its construction; but whether sue
cessful or not the road has to be built
as the only condition under which the
Union Pacific Railroad can continue to
exist. Can there be any doubt that
the projectors of tho Salt Lake and
Portland Railroad will hesitate to con-
tinue their line from the Columbia river
to the waters of Puget Sound, when
they find hearty cooperation with every
resident of the country through which
they have to pass; when they in fact
find already part of that very road con-
structed?
You will perceive then, Mr.. Editor,
that this bantling, the Olympia Tenino
Railroad, is, in all probability, destined
to greater usefulness than you would
assign to it. Olympia, through its pio-
neer road, will become one of the COM
mercial centres of the Pacific Coast.
Between the eastern connection of Seat
tie by Walla Walla, and that of Olym-
pia by the Dalles, the Northern Pacific
Railroad will find that he who sows the
storm will reap the whir!wind.
F. A. HOFFMAN,
Sec. o. r. Il. Union.
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