Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-18

Wells, Fargo d Co., viii, il 10 aid. e.
tend their exbrese - far east - heIena,
and run an opposition line 70 the NORTH
ern Pacific Express Company.
A travelling representative 10 tue au-
thority for the statement that the Mu-
waukee and Sc. Paul owns ample ter
rninal facilities 10 Bismarck, and has a
line surveyed to that point from Aber-
deer.
A number of Milwaukee and st. Paul
officials are at Mitchell estimating the
cost and considering the feasibility Of
extending the road 10 Scot land. OAK,
and also TO Grand View, Douglas
county.
Superintendent Eean, of the Cana
dian Pacific, has returned 10 winnipeg
from the end Of the track. Construc-
tion Of the road past the summit Of the
Rockies this season. be says, 10 improb-
able. Regarding Kicking Horse pass.
Mr. Eean said all further dispute as to
the route 10 be taken would be settled
by the adoption Of Major Rogers re-
port. advising the adoption OF the pass
Circular No. 81, issued from the Office
If the Northwestern TRAFFIC ASeag1tl91
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Cspeinnati, Toiedo, 1ndianpP-..a and
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ness "a 80 n0m To R1u1Ge 3pnst, hAs
hem s.~ficsied, and Tie foll0Wtne mod
4 ! divisions took eAo8 Ooeombsr 10 ::
ECEef1 - ~ cent. 70 the lines east
a66W Der cent. TO the lines west Of Chi
cago, Milwaukee, Racine, Engiewood,
South Chicago, Washington Rights,
Auburn, Blue Island, Joliet, Seneca,
Peoria, Beardstown, Wann. Att and
East st. Louis. These divisions apply
on all business originating at or dss-
tined to points named on Cincinnati.
indianapolis and Toledo division sheet
Of the Northern Pacific Railroad when
coming from or destined to Portland
and Astoria, Ore; New Tacoma and
Seattle, w. r.; and all points east of
Portland and west of Lake Pend
d'Oreile also all points on the Pacific
coast north Of the California State line.
For Louisville business add cents per
100 pounds to Cincinnati rates for Ohio
River transfer, and this arbitrary rate
should be deducted before dividing the
proportion according to lines east OF
st. Paul. Freight for Olympia and
Pert townsend, w. T., and Victoria,
B. c., should BIZ consigned via New Ia
coma, and will be charged cents per
100 pounds flor Puget Sound lighter
age) more than the Portland rates. The
Northern Pacific Railroad will issue re-
vised billing instructions and division
sheet in accordance with above in the
course Of few days.
The Wood River Times says that a
gentI. man who has studied the railroad
situation thoroughly during the past
summer, expresses il as his conviction
that the Denver and Rio Grante will
surely extend its line to Wood river next
spring and summer. This gentleman,
who has intimate business relations
With the president aud other high Off
Gals of the Rio Grande road, says that
for months past the directors of that
company have discussed the feasibility
Of following their great rival--the Union
Pacific-along the route of the Oregon
Short Line, and recently they decided
to begin building operations az early az
practicable next spring. In the mean
time an agreement already outlined, by
which the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany agrees, under certain conditions,
to permit the Denver and Rio Grande to
lay a third rail between Ogden and Cor
inne, will be signed. This will, in effect,
bring the temporary terminus of the
Denver and Rio Grande to COrinue, in
stead of Ogden, Utah, where it now is.
From COrinne the road can be built to
Wood river in time for next falls trade.
The coming of the Denver and Rio
Grande road, this gentleman says. will
cheaper freights considerably, as such
is the chsapness of operating its narrow
gage road, the Denver and Rio Grande
can make mone5 on rates at which the
Union Pacific would lose.