Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-05-12
RAILWAY d NAVIGATION NEWS.

tom scraped ana IS otnerwise uuuerseihS
improvement.
The Seattle Chronicle publishes q cur
rent report that the headquarters of the
o. r. s. n. company's steamers will be
removed to that city.
The $1O,0OO,0OO left of the $40.O0o,000
per cent. Northern Pacific bonds were
taken in Wall street in three days. not
withstanding the road is not finished.
The new steamer, w. X. Merwin, ar
rived at New Tacoma last week. She was
making her trial trip, and large number
Of guests were on DO ard. She will he put
on tho Skagit river route.
The steamer Welcome is undergoing
some slight repairs at the railroad wharf
in New Tacoma: She will not probably
be in constant use of the O. R. & n. Co.,
but will be ready for any emergency.
The enormous sum Of $40. 900 900, 900 is
said to DO invested in railways in Great
Britain. Some of the engines weigh As
tons, and take load of 90 tons at speed
Of from 40 to so miles an hour.
The northern division of the Southern
Pacific railroad began the construction of
branch line from Aptos tn Iona Prieta,
to reach valuable redwood forest. The
road will be about ave miles long.
It is reported that line Of steamers 10
to connect the Northern Pacific and the
New York, West Shore and Buffalo rail.
roads between Buffalo and the terminus
of the Northern Pacific on Lake Superior.
Says the Seattle Herald: We are in
formed that the right of way and survey
of the Gray's Harbor and Seattle railroad
has been secured and completed, and ten
ders for construction will be advertised
for soon.
The Denver and Rio Grande extension
to Utah, though only few weeks old, has
reduced considerably the receipts of the
Union Pacific. and the latter is said to be
greatly injured by the completion of the
Southern railroad system.
Gen. Tennatt reports that the Northern
Pacific have decided to build the road
across the Cascade mountains as soon 40
possible. The PaIsuse branch will he ex-
ted through the Snoqualmie pass, joining
the road which Willard has just promised
to build east from Seattle.
Friday night 90 draft horses came in on
the Northern Pacific from the Willamette
valley, and the next day some IS more ar
rived also. having been shipped from
Portland. The entire 1874 were consigned
to ]. F. Mitchell, at Puyallup, for use. it
is said. on the Cascade division of Nouu-
nan & Myers, contractors.
The jury empsneled to inquire into TIE
loss of the steamers Gem and Josephine.
rendered an opinion that in the case of
the latter the inspector of boilers had
been guilty of great carelessness, and that
the former was destroyed because of great
carelessness, and that the former was de-
stroyed because of great carelessness. also
in the wood being stored too near the
boiler.
Efforts are being made to secure the
building on this coast of new coast sur.
vey Alaska steamer, for which Congress
appropriated 100000. Senator Miller
has had plans and specifications forwarded
to the navy yard at Mare Island. 1t is
believed that the vessel could be built on
this coast cheaper than in the East, even
when the cost of bringing her here is con-
sidered.
The Thunder Bay branch of the Cana
dian Pacific railway. extending from the
Lake of the Woods to Lake Superior, a
distance Of 800 miles. has been transferred
from the Dominion government to the
Canadian Pacific syndicate. General Su-
perintendent Egan, on lehalf Of the latter.
formally accepted the road from the con
II factors, and on the 4th inst. issued the
necessary order for it's operation. The
line from Winnipeg to Prince Arthur's
Landing, on Lake Superior, is 485 miles.
which distance will be made by express
train in "a hours.
Capt. H. L. Tibbals received, at Port
Townsend, the following special telegram
from Goodall, Perkins & Co.: Tie Elder
sails hence Saturday at 2 pm. Steamers
hereafter will leave here every Friday at
the same hoN. The steamer Dakota will
leave Victoria April 18th on time.
Steamers thereafter will leave Victoria
every Saturday at noon. This will give
Puget Sound four steamers per month,
instead of three, a. heretofore, or SO 10 the
year, instead Of 80, an increase of trans
portation facilities which the rapidly in
creasing passenger and freight traffic de-
mands, and which is Of importance, aud
will be OF great advantage 20 our people.
WHEN you visit Seattle. call at the Pu
get Sound Hat and Cap Store and dealer