Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sealed Tenders
RAILROAD TIES
WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL
IL M. May Is. 1882.


12 M. May Is, 1881.
EOR FURNISHING TWO HUN.
Il bred and thirty two thousand 1882.
OOO] Cross Ties along the line of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, between EN-
ory and Burrard Inlet. viz:
Twenty five thousand 5,OOO] 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 ,OO]
thereof shall be delivered at Pitt River
or between Pitt River and Kanaka
Creek.
Other twenty thousand 25,0O0]
thereof at Kanaka Greek, or between
Kanaka Creek and Stane River.
Other twenty-f five thousand l25.0 0O]
thereof at Stane River, or between Stane
River and Hatzio River.
Other forty thousand 100000 thereof
at Hatzic River, or between Hatzic River
and Harrison River.
Other twenty-seven thousand q, OOO]
thereof at Harrison River, or between
Harrison River and the lower end OF
Maria Slough.
Other twenty thousand [2O, 0O0] there
of at the lower end of Maria Slough, Oh
between said lower end of Maria Slough
and Tunnel &c" of said Railway, which
Qunnel ia about Is miles below Emory's
Bar.
Other ten thousand 10, OOO] thereof at
said Tunnel &C." or between said Tun-
mel "C'' and Tunnel 3D." which latter
Tunnel is about IL miles below Emory's
Bar.
Other fifteen thousand us ,OOO] thereof
at Tunnel I'D" aforesaid, or between
said Tunnel sd" and Tunnel IF" on
said Railway.
Other twenty thousand 100000 there
of at the said Tunnel "F," or between
said Tunnel "F'' and Emory's Bar, Oh
at Em0ry'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 tho work of con-
struCti0n-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 80 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 tho pile shall in III!
events be above tho 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 scorebacks, and
chopped or sawed square at both ends,
eight feet long, fattened on two oppo-
site sides to a uniform thickness of nix
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.
Ali ties must be of sound timber, full
size, and acceptable by tho Chief En-
gineer Of said Railway. orthey 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-
quired before signing contract. The %
curity or securities TO be given must be
described in tho 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 on Contract No. 81"
A. ONDERDONK,
a6-td Contractor.