Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sealed Tenders
RAILROAD TIES
WILL EE RECEIVED UNTIL
IL m. May Is, 1882.


EOR FURNISHING TWO HUN
L dred and thirty two thousand Tsp a32.-
600 Cross lies along the line of tie
Canadian Pacific Railway. between En-
DRY and Burrard Inlet. VIZ:
Twenty i've Thousand 5000 thereof
shall be delivered a: Port Moody Sta
ton. or points on the lire Of said rail-
way between Port Moody and Pitt River
Other twenty five Thousand 1000
thereof shall he delivered At Pitt River.
or between Pitt River and kan4ka
Creek.
Other twenty-five thousand [25,onol
thereof At kanaka Creek, or between
hanaka Greek and Stane River.
Other twenty-five thousand l25.oool
thereof at Stane River, or between S.ane
River and Hattie River.
Other forty thousand io.Uo thereof
az Hattie River. or between Hattie River
and Harrison River.
O:her twenty-seyen thousand T2..01l
thereof at Harrison River, o- between
Harrison River and the lower end of
Maria Slough.
Other twenty thousand \. oo0l there
of at the lower end of Maria S.ouLh. or
between said lower end of Maria Slough
and Tunnel C. of said Railway. which
Tunnel is about l. miles below Emorys
Bar.
Other ten thousand l0.0iGl thereof at
SAID Tunnel &c. or between sid fun
nol C. and Tunnel D. which latter
Tunnel Is about ii miles below Emory's
Bar
Otter fifteen thousand l5O0l thereof
AZ Tunnel d. aforesaid. or between
said Iuanel d. aud Tunnel r. en-
sad Railway.
O:aer twenty thousand 200O0l there
of at the said Tunnel - or between
said Tunnel F. and ENJOYS Bar, or
- Emory's Bar.
All sucn Sieepers 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
hot to interfere with the work of con-
struc,ion-the bottom of the pile shall
be as near as practicable on level with
the grade OF the railway track; and tile
SAID pile shall be SO made as to permit
OF ready inspection and counting. and
Whenever sn5n piles shall be made lie II
water ilueS. bodies OF water ~ rivers,
the sane shall be p iced III such location
that tie bottom. of tue pile shall IL all
events bs above tie line of high water.
IL viii be nos.eSsary u deliver Al least
fifteen thousand l5,JU0I acceptable ties
per month from oate of entering into
contract until completion of same.
lies mist be smoothly hewed or
sawed, free from all scorebacks. and
chopped or sawed square at both ends.
eight feet long, L ,t.cned ON two oppo-
site sides IA 4 uniform thickness of six
inches, the Il ,ttened surface being not
less than six inches Oh either side At :lle.
small end. and wnen saved Ihoy stall be
eight inches IL width ard SIX inches IL
depth.
All ties mus: be of SQUAD timber. full
size, and acceptable 10y tie Chief k,n-
2ineer of said hallway. Or they viii Lo;
be paid for.
len per cent. viii be reserved upon
payment of accepted ties until co.up.e-
ton of contract, and Fen Thous md
Dollars lSl0.0Vl approved security re-
qulred before signing contract. The Sc
clrlty or securities tn be given mus. he
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 lies Oh Contrac, No. -
A. ONDERDONh.
a6-td Contractor.