The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-11
NEW TACOMA.
The Way There, the Cost and
Other Interesting Facts.
NEW TACOMA, W. T,
T.,~o ~ 10

Editors Herald:
If my memory is not at fault, nay
last letter, though written at this
place, described nothing west of
the Spokane Falls region, and in
order that your readers, who Gf
any, may desire 10 follow me in my
Journey, may obtain a glimpse of
this famous country, | will briefly
dercribe it.
After leaving Spokane Falls, we
pass through some very good land,
where people are making settle
ments, building up homes and pre-
pairing to live. Much of the country
is prairie, indeed | might say most
Iof it. Some of the land is rich,
producing wheat and small grain,
and a portion of it is adapted 10 the
cultivation of certain kinds of
fruit.
After leaving Spokane Falls
(Which L believe to be the most
promising part on the N. 2. R. R.
between Helepa and Portland we
pass through the stations
and towns of Hangman's,
Marshal, Cheney, Stephens, Sprague.
Harrison, RltZville, Patapa, Well
No. 7, Twin Wells, Bluff Wells and
Ethiopia, to AinsWorth where our
train was ferried across the Column
bia River on steamer in waiting
and carried thence to Wallula juno
ton by rail. This is the end of the
boosted Northern Pacific Railroad,
because fiom this point the road
westward to Portland was built
and is owned by the Oregon Rail
way and Navigation Company, and
is managed by that rich and power
full corporation.
From Wallula Junction the road
follows on the south side Of the
Columbia River to Portland, most
OF the way through a very poor and
apparently worthless country,
which was not new to me, seeing
that l passed along that route in
1864 and 1865, not by rail however,
but on horseback.
To illustrate the absence of system
observed by the managers of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, | will remark that although
1 first took passage on its train
at Finley station, l did not find
a ticket Office on the whole line IN
til 1 reached Wallula Junction,
being obliged to pay such sums as
we're demanded by each successive
conductor, amounting to $3.50. AT
Wallula | succeeded in finding an
Office where | purchased ticket to
Portland for 81 IS, and at Portland
procured q ticket to this place for
81, making the cost FOR fare alone
from Deer Lodge to New Tacoma
$59.15. Now if to this sum be
added the cost of ticket from Og-
den to Deer Lodge, say 1913, you
have the sum of 1925 for fare
alone from Og len to New Tacoma,
to which may be added further
sum for meals, lodging, etc, OF $40,
making i'll all $102.15.
The cost of q first class limited
ticket from Ogden to San Francisco
is $4S, and the fare by steamer from
that city to this place is $20,making
a total, including meals, of about
$40.
The latter route is therefore much
the cheaper, and at this time, while
Gilmer & Salisbury, and their
drunken stage drivers, have passen-
gers at their mercy, l would
not advise any friend to come here
by the former ioute, but it would
be otherwise if stagei" G was obso-
Ilete and the NJ railroad, as well
managed and libt raj as is the Utah
and Northern.
Although l have been here some
thine, l have not as yet arrived at
positive conclusions as to my own,
or the future of New Tacoma,
Some how l have arrived at a point
in life when it behOoves. a person to
make haste to 20 SLOW" though
possibly younger men would change
the expression to read that "old peo-
pie are slow and fogyish." How
ever that may be, 1 shall try and
make up my mind fully before TAX
ing many steps in advance. David
CrOckett's motto was a safe one: BE
sure you are right, then go ahead,
Having heard so much of this ceun-
TRY, and having visited last winter, /
was anxious to see it during the sum-
mer when / expected, and still eX-
lpect, to be able to decide whet her
it is best to become a resident as well
81 citizen of Washington Territory.
lOur mutual friend, Edward n.
Fuller, is as busy as mailer, work
ing as hard as ever at his life y ork
on the Tacoma NeaCS, which, be-
Ilieve, you receive. He seems
Ipleased with the country, and takes
much delight in looking out of the
window of the sanctum upon the
grand old glacier, old Mount Ia
coma, or Ranin, which, to use the
elegant expression made use OF by
Senator Edmunds on first beholding
lit, stakes the rag"
We went down to the depot TO see
the Edmunds party on their arrival
from Portland, and were much ex-
Ihilarated by view or the various
and sundrycases of liquids and solids
shipped to the 4" n. Z. r. Il. Cakes
Iparty." We also went down again