Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

AAy NO. 40
E>OR FURNISHING TWO HUN
4 dred and thirty two Thousand [282, :
OOO1 Cross Ties along the line of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, between EN-
DRY and Burrard Inlet, viz:
Twenty-Five thousand RS, OOOl 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 [25.OOOl
thereof shall be delivered at Pitt River.
or between Pitt River and Kanaka
Greek.
Other twenty-five thousand rs, O00l
thereof at Kanaka Greek, or betwoen
Kanaka Creek and Stane River.
Other twenty-five thousand 25,OOOl
thereof at Stane River, or between Stane
River and Hattie River.
Other forty thousand 10000 thereof
at Hattie River, or between Hattie River
and Harrison River.
Other twenty seven thousand (27, O00]
thereof at Harrison River, or between
Harrison River and the lower end of
Maria Slough.
Other twenty thousand O,000l 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 10000 thereof at
said Tunnel &c" or between said Tun-
mel ''C' and Tunnel 3D." which latter
Tunnel is about II miles below Emory's
Bar.
Other fifteen thousand lis ,O0O1 thereof
at Tunnel I'd" 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 Sleepers or Cross Ties shall
be delivered alongside the Railway and
within fifty feet of the center line of
the track, and shall be piled up 90 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 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,
the same shall be. placed in such location
that the bottom OF the pile shall in all
events be above the line of high water. !.
It will be necessary to deliver ut least
fifteen thousand $4,000 acceptable ties
Per month from date Of entering into
contract until completion Of Same.
Ties must be smoothly hewed or
sawed, free from all scorebaoks, and
chopped or sawed square at both ends,
eight feet long, dattened on two oppo-
site sides to q uniform thickness Of six
inches, tho fattened surface being not
less than nix inches on either oide at the
small end. and whom sawed they shall Be
eight inches in width and six inches in
depth.
All ties must b Of sound timber, full
sise, and acceptable By the Chief En-
eineer Of said Railway. or they viii not
be paid for.
Ten per cent. will Be reserved upon
payment Of accepted ties until compile
ton of contract, and Ten Thousand
Dollars ($lO,000] approved security re-
Quired before SIGNING contract. Tho -
curity or securities TO b given must b
described in tho tender. The lowest Of
any tender not necessarily accepted.
Tenders 10 Be addressed to the under
signed, Yale, b. c., and endorsed, TEN
ders for Tee on Contract No. 81"
A. ONDERDONK,
std Contractor.