Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-03-17
RAILWAY IL NAVIGATION NEWS.

RAILWAY ~ NAVIGATION NEWS.
Work has been resumed on the Walla
Walla and Pendleton Division of the o.
II. & n. Road.
1t is expected that decision will be
reached in few days with reference to
the loss of the steamship Tacoma.
There Is considerable bearing of Cen
trail Pacific stocks on the New York mar
ket. 1t is stated that the last dividend
paid was not fully earned.
The Official statement shows that Boston
capitalists hold more than $20,000,000 OF
Union Picfic stock, or about one-third OF
the entire capital outstanding.
I'M. Snow and Ed. L. Terry have been
employed by the Godstorough Creek
Railroad Company to survey and locate
the first section of their road in Mason
county.
The people of Custer county, Montana,
assessed the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company $2,4G0,0O0 on its track in their
county, on which the tax amounted To
SG5,7S0 The company refuses to pay.
and the county has instituted suit to
compel payment
On the New York Stock Exchange on
the 9th inst $500, 900 in bonds and
$4,000 900 in stock were listed, of which
100000 were first mortgage bonds OF the
Oregon Improvement Company, and
100000 of its capital stock. FIVE
million dollars of the latter are now paid
in.
The little propeller Jessie, belonging to
| the Puget Sound Transportation Com
pany, was sold last week to W. E
Mitchell and Benjamin Laughlin OF South
Bay, for $4,000. The steamer will be de-
voted to general jobbing, and frequent
trips from Olympia to Oyster Bay, Area
dia and South Bay.
A bill has passed the British Columbia
Parliament chartering raj way from
some point near the 49th parallel Of
latitude 10 some point on Burrard Inlet.
The railway shall be commenced within
two years from the passage of the bill,
and completed within four years from
date. The capital stock is 100000.
The track of the new transcontinental
line, the Atlantic e. Pacific, is how laid
217 miles east of Mojave station on tho
Southern Pacific. Only thirty miles re
main between the end OF the track and
the proposed junction. In Arizona it is
expected that connection will be made a,
1.-THE Needless" on the Colorado River
next month.
1t is rumored that the Canadian Pacific
Railway will soon be extended to Belllng.
ham Bay from some point near New
Westminster, and that Whatcom has
been selected as the terminus 1t has
been known for some time that the Cana
dian Pacific desired terminal point
more accessible to the Straits than any in
British Columbia.
The new steam collier San p, dro, be-
longing to the Pacific Improvement Com
pany, arrived at San Francisco on the
7ih inst, 81 days from Phila dclphia, aud
about 10 days over the time of her COM
psnion steamship, the Tacoma. She is
heavily loaded with railroad iron. She i.
in command of Clptain L. B. Watts and
her officers and crew number so.
J. +. T. Mitchell Of Seattle re :eived t
contract on the 9th inst from SALISBURY
& Son OF Sacramento, California, tor til,
construction OF a propeller of so fee
keel, Z feet depth OF hold and IA fee
beam. Work has already commenced
and the craft is 10 be launched by the Is
of May. She will be about the size o
the Rip Van Wrinkle.