Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-01-09
Observation-Disclosures
Pacific Division News.

tFrom the Kalama Beacon, Dec. 1871
ssIt ID finishedw The iron is lai
between the Columbia and Puge
Sound "a result due to the executiv
energy of the Managing Directo,
Capt. j. C. AinswOrth, and Gen. j. w
Sprague, General Superintendent
both of whom had to assume extrao1
binary responsibilities to "keep tn
ball in motion" since the financia
panic opened at the East.
On 18th ult., track-laying recon
.menced at sixteen miles south of TIN
Terminus, on Nisqually Plains, wher
the lack Of iron had previously causet
cessation of several weeks in tina
department of construction, which ha!
reached successful termination OF
the Terminus wharf at Tacoma. Mr.
II. G. Hale, Road and Train-mastcr
has constantly remained on the Lint
during the last three weeks as engi
neer and superintendent of construc
ton; ably seconded by Mr.. II. G. Nix
Oh as foreman of track layers.
The wharf at the Terminus is 800
by 800 feet, on which is structure &C
feet by 200, the lower part designed
for Offices and warehouse and the up
per part for hotel.
Mr.. j. b. Blackwell-la of the
"Clarendonn at Portland, as also OF
the Kazano" at Kalama-is to con-
duct the hotel, which is guarantee
that it will be kept in first-class style.
During the last couple of days, Mr.. b.
has been engaged at loading his filrni-
tire from the KazanO on the cars, and
expects to enter Tacoma with "bag
and baggage" on the forenoon of next
Tuesday. The hotel will be formally
opened as the ebay View Hoteln on
January LIST, 1874.
There is no official time card yet an
nounced for trains between Kalama
and Tacoma but as only two or three
weeks intervene between now and the
first of the new year, by that time it
is likely that daily train will leave
each end of the rOllte-frOm Kalama
probably some time in the forenoon,
upon arrival of the Portland mail
boat and start from Tacoma early in
the morning, so as to make through
to Portland by the return
ing afternoon steamer
Our valued contemporary at the "Old |
town. Of Ia coma, the Pacific Tribune
Of the I'd inst, reports the track and
it's condition as follows in the vicinity
Of the Terminus and south on Ms
qualify Plains, which is interesting in
both a railroad and typographical
point of view:
"In leaving town by the usually
raveled route, the railroad is first en-
'ountered at the Outskirt of the heavy
timber, where timber and prairie
meet. It gradually ascends for mile
md extends south through Nisqually
'lains. At first, the road bed is COM
'osed chiefly Of earth mixed with fine
.ravel; but as it gets farther, the
arth gets scarcer and miles from
own there is hardly enough of the
ormer to he percepti5lc, and the lat
er is as large as cObble-stOnes. There
I'LL be no. trouble in ballasting that
Dad, and one year from this time there
I'LL not be a smoother running track
nywhere in the United States. II
1.-The work overthe prairie was quite {
ght, but little grading being neces- {
ary. In places, however, knobs of t
round had to he cut, and in other !
pots, AOllOws of one or two hundred !
ards long filed from fifteen to twenty I
'et deep. 1t will be an actual pleas Q
re to ride along there III railroad t
ar. t
" From edge of the prairie to waters u
the Sound, the grade is one cOntin- I
Ell descent. For q mile or SO the q
ack is as straight as an arrow II
nd is a cut all the way. On one mile t.
the road through the woods the cut G
i'll average twenty feet deep, and in G
me places we believe it as high as p
Ity. Running parallel with the Gal. :
her Mill Greek, the almost pcrpendic- h
ar bank looks down a hundred fee,
more into the logs and brush and T
alter ct the great ravine below. b
rALsEnooDs NAILED. II
The real estate Spectators at Olym- $;
a and Seattle are resOrting to des- q
rate shifts and expedients to "bullr !,
cir Investments, which are fizzliny =
very low figures since the "iron = y
rise" is heard to snort at Tacoma =
heir last and desperate dodge is to ~
cate a spasm of value to their diving !:
operty by simulated dispatches u
out extending" the terminus to ~
aftle, and crying an alarm that the 70
+. Co.'s land and property are all y.
with mortgage, and warn
8 purchasers to "bcware.n This 6;
erie attempt to galvanize value into re
attic property originates with a
uali OF village land spectators there
rose acres Of gravel around Elliot
y are worth less for any other pur-
Sc than city lots, and the ring being ht
'!nly composed Of village attorneys an
q small town capitalists whose com la
led worldly goods could not be con. fio
rted into the value Of couple of of
les OF railroad, they are doing their st1
evel best" to avoid the bankruptcy ou
It Is imminent upon them BY having Is
cary" 50 much speculative prop, fet
y that is now worthless on their on
nds. TO be sure, the aggregate is til
comparatively much, but theh TIN
lage capitalists and spectators at un
little are as much exercised in their di1
Ia sn0.0pn with kko,,o~y