Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-28

DO during The neXt year by putin,
III the link hCtWeCn PORTLAND an,
hnI:'na, "AG You go Il.at rain ca,
To carried FROM the Willamette val.
10y al! flolA thu whole re-..oi. Co..
% ID" Hpr'i'ain5 10 Pu-c. Sound
VIII ont breaking bulh, You viii avail
Yourselves 81 the new facilities; tliu.
aiIor}od. do not 80 the Difference,
t'i%ccn leading ships At ro,llano
:. ~ Puget Sound - lar - The
".il"r advantages t. tie sim
-: houses .Hc concerned. ! e,
81 LAY" Warehouses there: cv ca
/ then wharfage dues A. wei
thee" as helc. Oar great eli, c,
must be. as | stated, to opcn 4.
many cha'.hels Of TRANSPORTATION =,
We can create, AMI to let co,a1ucrc,
flow through item as freely as DOS
s,h'e.
lon may be interested 10 know
what our Programme of operation.
j. Tor The immediate future fan.
rlauSe-l | me..n with reference f.
the construction CT railroad lines
and creating terminal facilities. here
amongst you, and in relation TO fine
other enterprises Of which / spoke
III ny interview with ynur committee
the other day. A. ALREADY men.
toned, We shall pa: in the connect
ing link between here and PUGET
Sound by having the line from Port.
land to kalalna constructed, if DOS.
slb!o, within the next twelve months
Surveys, rs far as made, show that
the line on the south bank of the
river is far preferable to that on the
north bank, and the former line will
therefore, be adopted. 1t is not
settled whether it will enter the civ
directly or he carried across the
the river to East Portland, and then
to a connection with the system of
the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company, the necessary surveys rot
having yet been fully completed.
Bnt you may take it for granted that
You will haze, within twelve months
from to-day, all unbroken railroad
limo form Portland to Tacoma and
to Seattle. W. expect to put in an
extension of the Washington Terri
tory branch from some point south
OF Tacoma to Seattle. The Column
bla river will not be bridged a. pre-
sent at kalama, but transfer boats
will bo used there; and if we do not
bridge the Willamette river here i'm
mcdlately, the whole business can
be transacted without breaking bulk
by means of transfer boats CARVING
entire passenger and freight trains.
The proposed Oregon Railway e.
Navigation Company's system of
roads in eastern Oregon and Wash
inSton Territory we expect also to
complete next year. Your news
papers have kept you we'll posted
as to the extent and character of that
system. Suffice it to say, therefore.
that 1t will reach altogether q mile.
ago OF over 700 miles, of which
about go miles are to-day III opera
ton, and of which $50 miles more
Will be III operation within three or
tour months-the last including the
lire from The Dalles to your citv
and the remainder will be taken in
hand and carried through to com.
pietion next year. All the neces-
sary purchases of rails, locomotives
and rollins-stock generally have
Deen made. will state in this con-
nectlon that we expect to load next
year between fifty and sixty ships in
New lork and Philadelphia, with
railroad material for the Oregon
hallway and Navigation Company
and the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company. These ships may come
here but they may also 60 to Ia.
coma. The Northern Pacific Rail
road Company shipped o cargo on
the ship Dakota to Tacoma, at the
rate OF 81 so less per ton than the
rate the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
hon Company had to pay in sending
railroad material to Portland. When
IT 1t comes Sd to shipping $4,000, 60, 600,
'O,oO0 or sc, 900 tons, of course such
a difference is very essential item
And you would consider us very
poor business managers if we did
not avail ourselves of the difference
by sending our ships to Tacoma in
preference to sending them here.