Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-22
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sealed Tenders
RAILROAD TIES
WILL BE EEcErvED UNTIL
IL M, NAV Is. 1882.

- AAss hUy A.bs 1885,
EOR FURNISHING TWO HUN
L dred and thirty two thousand 23o
Ccol Cross Ties along the line of the
Canadian Pacific Railway. between En-
DRY and Burrard Inlet. VIZ:
twenty-five thousand (25,0eol thereof
shall be delivered at Port Moody Sta
ticn. or points on tho line of said rail
way between Pert Moody and Pitt River.
Other twenty-five thousand l25,o0l
thereof shall be delivered at Pitt River,
or between Pitt River AMI kanaka
Creek.
Other twenty-five thousand rs, 000l
thereof at kanaka Creek. or between
kanaka Greek and S.ane River.
Other twenty-five thousand l25.000l
thereof at Stane River, or between Stane
River and Hattie River.
Other forty thousand 40O01l thereof
at Hattie River. or between Hattie River
and Harrison River.
Other twenty-seyen thousand "a 600
thereof at Harrison River, or between
Harrison River and the lower end of
Maria Slough.
Other twenty thousand [20.000l there
of at the lover end of Maria Slough. or
between said lower end of Maria Slough
and Tunnel &C. Of said Railway, which
Tunnel is about L. miles below Emory 5
Bar.
Other ten thousand 10000 thereof at
said Tunnel &c" or between said Tun-
mel Sc and Tunnel d. which latter
Tunnel Is about IL miles below Emory $
Bar.
Other fifteen thousand [15,OO0l thereof
at Tunnel I'D" aforesaid. or between
said Tunnel 3D. and Tunnel IF" on
said Railway.
Other twenty thousand [aO.oOOl there
of at the said Tunnel r." or between
said Tunnel IF" 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 SO as
not to interfere with the work of con-
struction-tke 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 pl iced in such location
that the bottom of the pile shall in all
events be above the line of high water.
1t will be necessary to deliver at least
fifteen thousand 1900 acceptable ties
per month from date Of entering into
contract until completion of same.
Ties mist be smoothly hewed or
sawed, free from all scorebacas, and
chopped or sawed square at both ends.
eight feet long. hattened on two oppo-
site sides to a uniform thickness of six
inches, the tiattened surface being not
less than six inches on either side as the
small end. and when sawed they shall be
eight inches III width ard 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, aud Ten Thousand
Dollars $4,000 approved security re-
quired before signing contract. The Sc
curity or securities to be given must be
described in the tender. The lowest of
any tender not necessarily accepted.
Tenders to be addressed to the under
signed, Yale, b. c., and endorsed, ''ren-
ders for Ties on Contract No. 3D."
A. ONDERDONK.
a6-td Contractor.