Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-02-10

/ years tine. But this has only begun. TIC
us it is not difficult to forsee the fna
preponderancc of traffic in the North
The Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany has just completed the purchase in
England of fifty thousand tons of steel
rails to he used on the section Of the road
between Calgary and Kamloops. Thi.
division, which includes the Rocky Noun
tain passes. is upwards of 600 miles in
length, and must be completed in two
years from the first of May next. The
contract has been given to Messts. Lang
don, Shepard & Co., who already have a
large amount of work under contract for
the same company. Four hundred miles
of the above section is to be completed
during the first twelve, and the balance
within the second twelve months.-Post-
Intelligencer.
Mr.. A. J. Mcclellan returned or Satur-
day last from Oregon and Washington
Territory, where has he been spending a
few days engaging mechanics for the Ca
madam Plcific. He has secured n good
many out OF the two or three hundred
required for next summers operations.
As soon as the Northern Pacific Railroad
is completed, in summer or early autumn.
srvera! thousand men, laborcrs and me-
chanics, will go north and help out the
Canadian line. There will he work for
all that apply.-Colorist.
1t is reported that negotiations are
pending between the Northern Pacific and
he Utah Northern Railroads by which
the latter company is to deliver the rails
required for the mountain division OF the
former company. The contamination OF
such arrangement will insure the compile
ton of the Northern Pacific two months
earlier than by present facilities.
The engineers of the Oregon Short
Line have given UP the Blue Mountain
route hitherto contemplated and are now
working down in force along the east
side of Snake River from Weiser City to
Lewiston. This route Is natures own
making, and If iounl practicable will
bring them to Fuca Streits.
Capt. MAY of the Treasury Department
at Washington, recently wrote to his
brother, ID. B. May, of this city, to the
effect that the railroad company had
given assurance to the Congressional Cons
mittee that work should he commenced
ION the Cascade Division) by the 18th
of February.-Yakima Signal.
1t is reported by VIM. II. Vanderbilt
that the report of his holding 0,00O, 900
or $40, 900, 900 of stock in the New York
Central Rail road is not correct. ~ have
between sixty and seventy thousand
shares" he said, "and there are about one
hundred thousand shares IN my family.
From Eastern Oregon papers it would
appear that the n. r. & N. Company
want to connect with Jay Gould's Short
Line at Boise City, but he has connected
with the Central Pacific long enough, and
wants to get to Portland as well as to Pu-
get Sound on his own account.
Real estate spectators are just now
very much interested in locating the Ore
gon Short Line terminus ut ST. Johns,
hut the railroad officials remain to be
heard from. No one outside the ring
believes what the spectators claim.-Van
couver Independent.
The first through freight train for New
Orleans over the Southern Pacific Com
pany's new route, lett San Francisco on
the first of this month, The train ems
braced one full car load Of canned salmon
and two car loads OF California wine.
The Utah Northern branch Of the
Union Pacific is new substantially com
pleted to B!ackfoot, Montana, its junction
with the Northern Pacific, distant 470
miles from Ogden.
On the Oregon Short Line work is
nearly completed to Naples, Idaho By
March 1ss stages are to commence run
ming to Haily, carrying passengers, mail
and express.
An old friend and acquaintance OF the
late Gov. Isaac l. Stevens suggests that
the Northern Pacific II. r. should name
some prominent place in his honor.