Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-03
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sealed Tenders
RAILROAD TIES
WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL
l2 M Mnv TX 1900

12 M. May Is. 1882.
EOR FURNISHING TWO HUN
i dred and thirty two thousand [2,a,
OOOl Cross Ties along the line of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, between EN-
DRY and Burrard Inlet. viz:
twenty-five thousand q, cool 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 f25,0O0]
thereof shall be delivered at Pitt River,
or between Pitt River and kanaka
Creek.
Other twenty-five thousand [25,OOO]
thereof at Kanaka CreeE. or between
kanaka Creek and Stane River.
Other twenty-five thousand $4,000
thereof at Stane River, or between Stane
River and Hattie River.
Other forty thousand 100000 thereof
at HatZic River, or between Hattie River
and Harrison River.
Other twenty-seyen thousand RI ,000]
thereof at Harrison River, or between
Harrison River and the lower end of
Maria Slough.
Other twenty thousand 20, OCOl 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 t10, OoOl thereof at
said Tunnel &C." or between said Iun-
mel Co and Tunnel 3D." which latter
Tunnel ID about II miles below Emory's
Bar.
Other fifteen thousand lis, OOO] thereof
at Tunnel ID" aforesaid, or between
said Tunnel I'D" and Tunnel "F' ON
said Railway.
Other twenty thousand 100000 there
of at the said Tunnel "F," or between
said Tunnel ''F'' and Emory's Bar, or
at Emory's Bar.
All such Sieepcrs or Cross Ties shalt
be delivered alongside the Railway and
within fifty feet of the center line 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 level with
the grade Of tho 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,
the same shall be placed in such location
biAttt ZIG UOttOIE OI tu0 Pic bunlA III All
events be above the line of high water.
1t will be necessary to deliver at least
fifteen thousand cool acceptable tics
per month from date Of entering Into
contract until completion of same.
Ties mist be smoothly hewed or
sawed, free from all scorebacks, and
chopped or sawed square at both ends,
eight feet long, fattcned on two oppo-
site sides to a uniform thickness of six
inches, the fattened surface being not
less than six inches ON either side at the
small end. and when sawed they shall be
eight inches in width and 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 100000 approved security re-
quirsd before signing contract. Tho Be-
curity or securities TO be given must be
described in the tender. Tho lowest of
any tender not necessarily accepted.
Tenders to b addressed to the under.
signed, Yale, B. c., and endorsed, Ten
ders for Ties ON Contract No. 92."
A. ONDERDONK,
aG-td Contractor.