Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-27

ton 1daho) Teller editorially says:
At first We were at loss how this in
corporation expected to build the said
road on capital of $3,5D,O0O. Again
We were at loss how these incorpor-
atOrs could raise the $3,jOO,UU. But
| since more light has been thrown upon
| their plans, We have come to the con-
clusion that their plans are feasible and
that they mean business, at any rate
they have commenced IS though they
were in earnest, and some of the men
connected with the enterprise We know
to be men of mental ability and mental
energy to engineer the success Of the
enterprise, if that success is attainable
6v the use of brains to raise money for
the enterprise. One fact is indisputable
by such al know the situation and that
Is that the completion of that road from
Seattle across the Cascades to the navi-
gable waters of the Columbia river will
be an era In the prosperity of Eastern
Washington and the Sound country that
cannot low be measured, but promises
the best Of any projected line of road to
relieve the people east and west of the
Cascades, and must become ono OF tie
best paying roads in the whole north
west from the large amount OF traffic
II will be sure to have so soon as 1t Is
completed. If the ircorporators can
properly present the facts to men Of
capital, that is Offering to invest where
money il to be made, We have no hesi
tation in predicting that sufficient
means will be offered to build this Cas-
cade division at An early day. Aside
from outside offers, it seems to rs that
every available means will bo forth
coming from the paople of the Sound
and Eastern Washington that they can
spare to build a road that promises 90
large advantages to them. 1t is already
rumored that Eastern capital has been
pledged to aid in this enterprise, but
how much and from whom we are not
advised. We are further informed that
early in the coming season representa-
tiyes of this enterprise will visit East
ern Washington to interview the people
upon the question, and set forth such
plans for their approval and support as
will aid greatly in the construction of
said road at an early day. It has been
claimed that said road will be COM
pleted and put in operation during the
two years next ensuing. This may be a
prediction not we'll founded, and yet it
may approximate near the true time.
IL the means we're available now it
would require all that time to grade the
road. and furnish it with rails and ties
and place them in position. The Cas-
cade section could be completed and
then the busy traffic would commence.
Steamboats, on the Snake and Columbia
rivers could reach the terminus of this
section on the Columbia, and do a large
amount of inland carrying fox the road
and large business would then 10 done
both east and west over that part Of the
road. In this connection We say that
the projected road from Ls TistOn east
through the Bitter Root Mountains, if
soon built, would become an important
factor in furnishing business for this
Cascade division, and might in due time
become section of . new through line
across frome the Sound to the Atlantic,
and should that take place it would be
the shortest and best through line of all
the transcontinental lines yet projected,
and in our humble opinion would be the
most remunerative to the builders and
owners, besides opening up the richest
country bordering any of the lines on
the northwest coast. The people of
Lewiston and all North Idaho are deeply
Interested in the success of the Cascade
division of the Seattle, Walla Walla and
Baker City road. The people of Walla
Walla. Whitman and Garfield counties,
w. r., are also deeply interested in tho
construction of this part of the said road,
and we shall expect the press Of these
sections to give all reasonable encourage
ment to this enterprise. The voice of
the press is great among the people in
giving countcnance to large enterprises
like this, that must depend upon the
people for their traffic. When the
Northern Pacific completes her road to
the Sound via Columbia river, and when
the Seattle and Baker City road is built
from Seattle to the navigable waters OF
the Columbia river, then the cork will
no out of the bottle that now holds
Eastern Washington and North Idaho.
30 far AZ advantages of travel Or traffic
west to the Pacific, at living rates, are
involved, and when the Eastern connec
tons are made. then our bondage will
DO comparatively annihilated, and no
section of country will make more rapid
strides in permanent growth, prosperity
and consequent hardness