Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sealed Tenders
RAILROAD TIES
WILL gE RECEIVED UNTIL
IL M. MAY Is. 1852.

AS HI, May -, 1885,
LOR FURNISHING TWO HUN
4 dfed and thirty two thousand -,
O0l Cross Ties along the line of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, between I'm
ory and Bnrrard Inlet. viz:
twenty-five thousand 2,0Gl thereof
shall be delivered At porI Moody Sta
ton, or points on the line of sad rail-
way between Port Moody ana PITT River.
Other twenty five Thousand l25.0o0l
thereof shall be delivered at Pitt River.
or between Pitt River and kanaka
Creek
Other twenty-five thousand L25.0COl
thereof at ka1aka Greek, or between
hanaka Creek and Stane River.
Other twenty-five thousand l2J,0Gol
thereof at Stane River. or between Staue
River and Hattie River.
Other forty Thousand 10000 thereof
at Hattie River. or between Hattie River
and Harrison River
Other twenty thousand I27. 0o0l
thereof at Harrison River. Or between
Harrison River and the lower end of
Maria Slough.
Other twenty thousand 2o,000l there
of at the lower end of Maria Slough. or
oNtNVFAl S'stG koNcI VI -t2t-AAft
and Tunnel &c" of said Railway. which
Tunnel is about L. miles below Emory S
Bar.
Other ten thousand 10000 thereof at
said Tunnel &c" or between said fun
mel &c" and Tunnel 3D." which latter
Tunnel IL about ii miles below Emory's
Bar.
Other fifteen thousand $1,000 thereof
at Tunnel % aforesaid. or between
said Tunnel D. and Tunnel IF" on
said Railway.
Other twenty thousand [20.o00l there
of at the said Tunnel Fl" or between
said Tunnel F. and Emory's Bar, OF
at EmOry's Bar.
All such Sieepers or Cross Ties shall
be delivered alongside the Railway and
within fifty feet of the center lime of
the track, and shall be piled up SO as
not to interfere with the work of con-
struction-the bottom OF the pile SHALL
be as near as practicable on Il level with
the grade of tho railway track: and the
said pile shall be SO made as 10 permit
OF ready inspection and counting, and
whenever such piles shall be made near
water lines. bodies of water or rivers.
the same shall be placed in such location
that the bottom. of the pile shall il all
events be above the line of high water. !.
1t will be necessary To deliver at least
fifteen thousand l5,0O0l acceptable ties
per month from date of entering into
contract until completion of same.
Ties must be smoothly heweo or
sawed. free from all scorebacks. and
chopped or sawed square at both ends.
eight feet long. hattened on two oppo
site sides to 4 uniform thickness of six
inches, the fiattened surface being not
less than six inches on either side at the
small end, and when sawed they shall be-
eight inches in width al d six inches in
depth.
All ties must be of sound timber, full
size, and acceptable by the Chief En-
gineer of said Railway. or they will not
be paid for.
Ten per cent. will be reserved upon
payment of accepted ties until compile
ton of contract, and Ten Thousand
Dollars Sl0,0O0l approved security re-
quired before signing contract. The Sc
curity or securities to be given must be
described i'll the tender. The lowest Of
any tender not necessarily accepted.
Tenders to be addressed to the under
signed, Yale, B. c., and endorsed, Ten
dsrs for Ties on Contract No. 81"
A. ONDERDONk.
a6-td Contractor.