Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-04-07

r.s.s h.s now eooo miles Of railva,
- {. aiready iron enough as iav-
- Law the Northern Pacific fraeh
e IN ~ 70 nslsna and ear leads arrive
AajlJ.
Ino soy ? 600, 900 brick for building
enad hoasss At Liyin eston this year.
-. u.s.suesr fare from Helena 10
.. p..j has been fixed at t6s, and to
- - Yoek il viii b about q hundred.
rs.,. sssms 70 be considerable trouble
- nsrt OF the Denver and Rio
@Ss g IN securing snch ground az they
04 .4 Sor entrance TO Ogden for depot
sud yard purposes-
~. n.rver and Bio Grands between
- md Ogden, has about twenty
-. S oradipR completed, and work il
.s.:sInc 6nsly on tie balance. The
-;Ii be one or two miles shorter
sSsn ths Utah Central.
n. Oesoun Short Line Company ara
,r.osrine for large bushes. both "
tcht and passengers, with tbs Wood
IT, eouutTy, while II VIII b the most
s:s"st 49, snd best route 70 Poise and the
o..s,v bsyond. Stages are nov run
siae from 6hoshons 70 boass.
r. Unioa Pacific has issoed new
-. sdyertising their Oregon Short
IN. roufe 70 the Wood RiveF country,
49, 49, ana other points In Idaho, Or
- Warrington Territory. These
.oi9s are gotten mp IN mose excellent
sssie. and embrace deeoriptio0s OF min
sspsspsrsiss in the wood Ai'sf o'on-
ur,,>n tunnel is in 1865 fest, full size,
1,,sn ths east end, and heading from
- - end ID cut out for distance Of
soout ZOO fest, leaving 500 feet to bo
- before daylight will be lot throu 2h
-. ,ause. Suporintendsnt Muir con-
s;jsm n safe TO predict that the tunnel
IN bs completed and ready for the
trsok BY the first Of August.
The Helena Herald says: Winston
Bsos.. bsyina got the steel railroad tack
;nso Bossman, have their men st work
uo1airQ down sidings TO accommodate
obstruction trains bringing rails and
a1her material from the east side Of Belt
diyids. Commencing next week some
eYtrs swift track laying will bo wit
nessed for thirty miles down the Gala
tin valley.
Tia Boise Republiean Of the 10th says:
.Ths Oregon snort Line surveyors have
mads . survey through Boise City this
vesk. The chief engineer reports that
there ID no natural impedinent III the
vsy Of tho road. 10 IL reported that tho
company have ordered the work stopped
on tns main line, opposite this place,
ana il 10 now believed that the route
viii be changed SO as TO run through this
ety."
We learn from Mr.. Hendsicks, q con-
tfactos on the Oregon Short Line, that
y has over 800 men engaged in grading
On ths west side of Snake river. along
the valley OF Burnt River. IL has been
announced that this road and tho Orc
sou Navigation and Railway Company
were 10 connect al Snake river, but the
fAct that the former company Is grading
vsst Of thero indicates sofne doubt about
any such agreement having been made
between the two corporations. Salt
Lake Tvibsne.
Tho Mac yorfh,ssst says: Thofs Gro
10 b twelve bridgea on the Howe truas
pattern between Little Blaokfoot and
Nissoula. All are composed OF sixty
two feet spans; tho shortest being sin
Gle span at Gold Greek, and the longest
= four-span Mt Lonnan's, near Bea.
mouth. Piles for these bridges, also tot
oil smaller structures, are now delivered
where needed; tie bridges themselves
are framed; the iron distributed at con-
venisnt points. and everything IL ready
far the pilo driver and carpenters 70
commence the work of construction.
With tito exception of Que at Gold creek
and one nj Big Blackfoot all are cross
ines Of the He'll Gate river.