Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sealed Tenders
RAILROAD TIES
WILL EE RECEIVED UNTIL
l2 M. Nav Is. 1852.

IL M. May Id. 1852.
EOR FURNISHING TWO Hun
i bred and thirty two Thousand T2s2
0Wl Cross Ties along the line of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, between En-
DRY and Burrard Inlet. viz:
Twenty-Five thousand $4,000 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-fiv thousand [25.ml
thereof shall be delivered at Pitt River,
or between Pitt River and Kanaka
Greek.
Other twenty-five thousand $4,000
thereof at Kanaka Creek. or between
kanaka Greek and Stane River.
Other twenty-five thousand I25.OOl
thereof at Stane River, or between Stane
River and Hattie River.
Other forty thousand 10, 0O0l thereof
at Hattie River. or between Hattie River
and Harrison River.
Other twenty-se thousand l21 600
thereof at Harrison River. or between
Harrison River and the lower end of
Maria Slough.
Other twenty thousand TO- OOl 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 EmOrys
Bar.
Other ten thousand OOOOl 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 H. OOl thereof
at Tunnel ID" aforesaid. or between
said Tunnel I'D" and Tunnel IF" on
said Railway.
Other twenty thousand 100000 there
of at the said Tunnel IF" 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 so 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 SD 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 i'll all
events be above the line of high water,
1t will be necessary to deliver at least
fifteen thousand l15,OOO] 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, fattcned on two oppo-
site sides to uniform thickness of six
inches, the tiattened surface being no:
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 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, and Ten Thousand
Dollars 100000 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 ON Contract No. 92.''
A. ONDERDONK,
ais-td Contractor.