Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sealed Tenders
RAILROAD TIES
WILL RE RECEIVED UNTIL
IL M. May Is. 1882.

WILL kE kBSEkskO CSIkL
l2 M. May rs, 1882.
EOR FURNISHING TWO HUN
L dred and thirty two thousand [2s2,-
00Ol Cross Ties along the line OF the
Canadian Pacific Railway, between Em-
ory and Burrard Inlet. viz:
Twenty-Five thousand (25.000l thereof
shall be delivered at Port Moody Sta
ton, or points on the line of said rail
way between Port Moody and Pitt River.
Other twenty five thousand I25.0OOl
thereof shall be delivered at Pitt River.
or between Pitt River and Kanaka
Greek.
Other twenty-five thousand [25,0O0l
thereof at Kanaka Creek. or between
kanaka Greek and Stane River.
Other twenty-five thousand l25,OOOl
River and Hattie River.
Other forty thousand 10000 thereof
at Hattie River. or between Hattie River
and Harrison River.
Other twenty-seveu thousand "a COO
thereof at Harrison River. or between
Harrison River and the lower end of
Maria Slough.
Other twenty thousand 70, OC0l there
OF at the lower end of Maria Slough. or
between said lower end of Maria Slough
and Tunnel &C. of said Railway. which
Tunnel is about Is miles below Emory's
Bar.
Other ten thousand 10, OoOl thereof at
said Tunnel &C." or between said Tun-
mel &c" and Tunnel 3D." which latter
Bar.
Other fifteen thousand [l5, OO0l thereof
at Tunnel ID" aforesaid, or between
said Tunnel ID" and Tunnel "F'' on
said Railway.
Other twenty thousand [2O.OOOl there
of at the said Tunnel "F," or between
said Tunnel ''F" and Emory'S Bar, or
at Emory's Bar.
All such Sleepers or Cross Ties shall
be delivered alongside the Railway and
within fifty feet of the center line Of
the track, and shall DO piled up SO as
not to interfere with the work of con-
structi0n-the bottom of the pile shall
be as near as practicable on a level with
the grade of the railway track; and the
said pile shall be SO made as to permit
of ready inspection and counting, and
whenever such piles shall be made near
water lines, bodies of water or rivers,
sAO oblu0 Suhll w pAdCcu III SuCu lOCstelOb
that the bottom Of the pile shall in all
events be above the line of high water.e
1t will be necessary to deliver at least
fifteen thousand [15,OOO] acceptable ties
per month from date Of entering into
contract until completion of same.
Ties must be smoothly hewed or
sawed, free from all scOrebacks, and
chopped or sawed square at both ends,
eight feet long, fattened on two oppo-
site sides to uniform thickness of six
inches, the flattened surface being not
less than six inches ON either side at the
small end. and when sawed thoy shall be
eight inches in width ard six inches in
depth.
All ties must be Of sound timber, full
size, and acceptable by tho Chief En-
Rineer of said Railway. or they will not
be paid for.
Ton per cent. will be reserved upon
payment of accepted ties until compile
ton of contract, and Ten Thousand
Dollars ($10,O0Ol approved security re-
Quired before signing contract. The Sc
curity or securities to be given must be
described in tho tender. The lowest of
any tender not necessarily accepted.
Tenders to be addressed to the under
signed, Yale, b. c., and endorsed, Ten
ders for Ties on Contract No. 3d."
A. ONDERDONk,
a6-td Contractor.