Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sealed Tenders
RAILROAD TIES
WILL Ex RECEIVED UNTIL
IL III. Nay Is. 1852.


IL III. Nay Is. 1852.
NOR FURNISHING TWO HUN
L dred and thirty two thousand IF.
COO Cross Ties along the lima of tho
Canadian Pacific Railway. between Emu
ory and Burrard Inlet. viz:
Twenty five thousand l25,0o0l thereof
shall be delivered al Port Moody Sta
ton. or points on the line of said rail-
way between Port Moody and Pitt River.
Other twenty five thousand 5000
thereof shall be delivered at Pit. River.
or between Pitt River and hanaka
Creek
Other twenty-five thousand T25,eo0l
thereof at kanaka Greek. or between
kanaka Creek and S:ane River.
Other twenty-five thousand l25.0l0l
thereof at Stane River. or between S.ane
River and Hattie River.
Other forty Thousand Ii0.eal thereof
at Hattie River. or between Hattie River
and Harrison River.
Other twenty-seven thousand I21.00l
thereof at Harrison River, or between
Harrison River and the lower end OF
Maria Slough.
Other twenty thousand ( 0,c00l there
VA a. tlC AOsCt cii4 VI IN tt4puSIi. w
between said lower end Of Maria Slough
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 Tun-
mel "C'' and Tunnel % which latter
Tunnel Is about ii miles below Emcry's
Bar.
ntJar Ef,aav, @I,o,,.or3 ~ naN7 .bo~o-s
at Tunnel ID" aforesaid. or between
said Tunnel ID and Tunnel ''F' on
said Railway.
Other twenty thousand [20oo0l there
of at the said Tunnel IF" or between
said Tunnel F. and Emory's Bar, or
d: 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 50 as
not to interfere with the work of con-
struction-the bottom OF the pile shall
be as near as practicable on a 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 DO placed in such location
that the bottom of the pile shall i'll all
events be above the line of high water
1t will be necessary to deliver at least
fifteen thousand 10000 acceptable ties
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, flattened on two oppo-
site sides to a uniform thickness of six
inches, the fsttened 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 I'm
gineer of said Railway. or they will no.
be paid for.
Ten per cent. Will be reserved upon
payment of accepted ties until compile
ton of contract. and 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, Ten
ders for Ties OH Contrac. No. 92.''
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