Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-06-30
RAILWAY Il NAVIGATION NEWS.

Inc 0lu steamer OSemlte is Oelng Mt
ted up at San Francisco tor the Fraser
River trade between New Westminster
and Victoria.
The proposed railroad over the Cascade
Mountains through the Whitman Pass,
cas- of Seattle, will require tunnel three
miles in length.
1t is reported that Capt. Charley Thorn
of San Francisco will take the steamer
Yosemite to Victoria as soon as she is
fitted for the voyage.
Work on the dry dock at Victoria has
been suspended and most Of the hands
discharged, preparatory to handing ever
the dock TO the Dominion government.
The Pinta has been pronounced sea-
worthy, and will sail from Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, on July 1st, on her voyage
around Cape Horn to San Francisco. She
will receive her battery at the latter place,
and will then proceed to Alaska.
The Petaluma Transportion Company
of San Francisco has contracted for the
construction of new steamboat to take
the place Of the Pilot, recently exploded.
She will be 140 feet in length; width OF
beam, 80 feet; depth of held, 7 feet.
The Northern Pacific will put on sale
by the first OF next month, and possibly
few days sooner, through tickets from
Portland to st. Paul, the gap between
Missoula and Helena to be made by stage.
Fare from Anacortes to Chicago, $143,5o.
first. class.
The completion OF the Saint Gothard
Railroad, 113 miles long, from Immense,
in Switzerland, to ChaiGso, in Italy, re-
minds one of Its great and small tunnels
Over one-tifth of the whole line, or 90
miles, is in SO tunnels. The longest Of
these tunnels is 81 miles, 20 feet wide
and 10 feet high.
The British tramp steamer Canton,
which arrived at San Francisco some time
ago, brought large consignment OF
opium valued at $6S0,O00, upon which
the duty amounted to $4,000. The Can.
ton touched at Macao, where the opium
was obtained, and thereby prevented the
British officers from collecting an export
| duty.
The grading on the Northern extension
of the Northern & California Railroad
has been found to be very expensive. 1t
is estimated that the cost for considera>
BILE distance of the road will oe as high as
$780, per mile. Over a year will he
required to complete the distance of $50
miles. Between 1900 and 5000 men are
at work on section of 90 miles in the
vicinity OF Redding.
A large part of the stock of the Koote-
nay Railway and Navigation Company,
the new enterprise of Capt Ainsworth,
has been subscribed. The last Legislature
of British Columbia granted franchise
for the road and donated 100000 acres OF
land The route will he from Shuswap
Lake, as direct rs possible through Eagle
Pass to the Columbia River. The road
will also act as feeder for the Canadian
Pacific.
st. Paul, Helena and Portland are the
three points at which the Northern Pa
ciic Company have made large money
outlays for terminal and depot grounds.
The plant of railroad buildings 10 the
mid-continent city, Helena, will probably
cost not less than $500. 900, which will
include this year passenger, freight and
express buildings, roundhouse, machine
shop and the commencement of a magnif-
icent hotel.
II Mr.. Willard, or any other man csn1d
assure the inhabitants of Eastern WASH
ington, that grain could be carried to
Portland, even for nothing, the necessity
for a road through the mountains, con-
Meeting the two divisions, would still bt
apparent Without read through the
mountains our Territory is q diyided
| pIoFiuCc. WIN tuis TO9u uStfuCteu
the future state of Tahoma will become
at once united whole.-Yakima Signal.
Why not call the future name of oul
State Tacoma, which to us seems to be
the better name. Then the State, the
Mountain and the town will be appropri.
ately named.
President Dillon of the Union Pacific
Railroad says that q satisfactory contract
has been made with the Nor, hern Pacific
and Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany, for term of fifteen years, arrang'
ing for an interchange of business, which
is quite fair to all three companies. Tn,
Oregon Short Line, now being built BY
the Uniou Pacific, will connect with 9
line now being built by the Oregon Rail,
way s. Navigation Company, about forty
miles east of Baker City, at the Snake
River. The distance from Granger, where
the Oregon Short Line leaves the Unior
Pacific main line, is about 600 miles
This road will be completed this season
and being by far the shortest line from
the east to Oregon. would get the bulk o
Oregon tusness.-TaComa News.