Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-09-03

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pass reached here we found several
surveyors and other attaches of the
coaipany, men Of much apparent in
telligence all consulting and delibera-
ting upon the prospect before them.
Gen. Sprague Informed me with full
confidence that the recent examination
of the Matches pass has developed the
complete practicability of that pass
for railroad with comparatively easy
grades on both the east and west sides
Of the summit. They will require a
tunnel of one mile in length, which
viii avoid an elevation of up
wards 1000 feet. That the line of the
road will be from danger of snow
slides and nowhere subject to very
deep SHOWS have been called in from
other routes and ordered to make the
survey through this pass for the road
and have it completed as soon as pos
sible. It would seem that the impor-
lance and ! may say the building of
this branch has recently been made ap
parent to the managers of the COM
pany Their road from Ainsworth to
the Spokan can never be a profitable
road to them SO long as the Oregon
Railway Co., has the handling of their
freight below Ainsworth. The North
Pacific Company themselves under the
present arrangements, are a. much
bottled up between the Cascades and
the Bitter Root mountains as are the
the people who dwell there and they
will remain so till the North Pacific
has it's own through line to the sea-
Their Kalama ard Tacoma road has
done much to help Portland, but does
the Northern Pacific Company but
little good. Itscarrying trade amounts
to comparatively nothing. Had the
road from the mouth of Snake river
to Tacoma, been constructed at the
| time the Kalama road was built, the
trade and traffic over it would have
more than paid for the road by this
time, and Tacoma to-day would have a
population of 1900 or 1000 instead
of few hundred. 1t would seem
that the SIMPSONS of the Northern
Pacific Company on this coast have
rested their heads upon the lap Of
Portland as their Delilah and beer
shorn Of their locks and the hair must
grow again before they can regain the
strength Of advantage they once had
and in our opinion the surest way Of
regaining their advantage will be b,
forth with constructing road across
: the Cascades direct to Tacoma.
Aug. 22d.
: The approach towards Seattle VI
, the oay from the Sound gives one al
5 comprehensive view of the town as on,
I could desire. 1t is situated upon tn
northeast side Of the hay and rise
gradually from tide water to the sum
init Of the hill between the bay AM
Q lake Union. The more dense and bus
. mess portion is upon a small fat mex
e to the bay, and contains many substal
/ tial buildings, some Of trick, but most
8 ly Of wooden structure and built i
Q modern style Of architecture. Th
8 two principal hotels are in this part {
the town. The New England, keF
/ by Mrs. Hartman is a well furnishe
Il and well kept house, whose landlad
d moves about among her guests wit
! csse and grace and has a kind symp
o thetic word for all and makes h
o guests feel at home. She and her hu
% band were among the first in the pla'
Is and grew up with it and made mone
e About one year ago her husband die
t. suddenly, and the widow, with one I
d two chilren, who are with Rer, carr
It on the business and seem to have
d large share of the patronage of an a
o preciative public. Upon one or tv
II streets, running parallel with the b
. and elevated above the fiat are fe
n stores and shops, but with the stree
n back of these to the summit, they q
1t bordered mostly with privste residenc
sr with gardens, orchards and shrubber
ID The hill is now nearly bereft of I
l. original forest timber that once &C