Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-29
WHY WAIT,
| kit:i,as Standard.

kitiitas Standard.
Tie Seattle Posr -IsrrrIroyscya edt
! torially says: III the Northern Pa
cihc Company will positively decIar,
mat u viii not huild the Cascade di
VISION without TIA. land grant, no tim.
VIII Us lost IN the organization # .
company to build such railroad fror.
Seattle
Spokane Falls, Talla Walia ane
other interior Pacific Coast people are
highly indiRnan. st tn. course pursue.
fy the Northern Pacific Company II
discriminating Al their -1psn.- III f.vo
o' Portland, Oregon, Wholesale fuer
chants. and against tho=. located II
bfHtrrn cities where intarior merchant.
h'id fou.ly hoped, BpDn Completion .!
the Northern Pacific, 10 b., able to buy
Immigrants to the Pariiic Cost Ar.
already arriving At Portland sud n,h.I
points at the rate of ssversl hundred
pr day. Loud conpl ,ints are heard
that they are carried ch.nplv uuds,
Through rates beyond "A point where d.
sir .llc bands are availabl. for settle
iD.ni. and that heavy local rates ar.
charged for their return to the section
~h"rc such agricultural lands are now
alone to be had.
The railroad experience Of the people
of the United States has certtinIv do
nnonstrated that a single railway line
whether sub idized or not, has neve,
h"nsii.ted any class of people other
han its operators aud the few persons
whose lands were increased IN valne by
its construction. The po"ple whs dad
not 1iI At this suddenly inflated prices
and all ,Ihn L.
Tor the railroad company.
The Oregon Pacific Company, with
ont subsidy and without 'fuss or
feather" ia rapidly constructing a rail
road across tn Cascade r. ny from the
nlrsady--in every other direction -
drained Willamette valley
kittitas, Yakima. kiickit,t and Doug
las counties lie between Spnk ,ne Falls,
Walla Walla and the Guy of seattle
Within their boundaries the most vain
able aud extensive agricultural lands
now yacant are situated With dir~et
travel made possible between the towns
and ooustie. named January |, 1915,
would record within their midst "A tra'
flo creating population that would aui-
ply Justify the building Of ut least a
narrow gage railway for their prnduc-
t'pHS tHu binpoFtttlDfis HlDHt.
Ioa company undorta aking the con
structlon of such "A railway the rcoplc
"f counties traverscd or tapped would
undoubtedly grant material and valu
able privileges per mile, provided snch
company could be bound in bonds of
undoubt.d strength Ia forever carry
freight and passengers at not to exceed
u stipulated rate per mile.
Every effort looking to the operation
of independent river or const ructiOn Of
local railway lines (evon though totally
nnoccupied) III Eastern Washington
and Oregon has besu met with. What
Ia the nseI The Oregon Railway and
Navigation or tho Northcrn Pacific
Railroad Com ianv won't make rates
with you. To be sure. you can carry
our freighis clieaply to this point of
connection with their lines, bat they
will not pro r,to with you to and from
such point
A transportation limo reaching out
from Puget Sound. and tapping the
great inland e,ppir" 10 largely contained
within boundaries of the counties named
could snap its tiguraiivcb fingers" ri
the present monoprli.s.as .as 1t would com
Innnd a trade Ia which the Ofegon Pa
ciiic's most confident expectation would
prove u "niere bagateile."
The Central and Southern Pacific rail
way lines must have nn iudci'eud.ut in
land route for their northern destined
passengers. They must also have re
turn trip traffic for their steamships. II
We make It possible for poopl. to he
ticketcd through to T. ,st"ru Washing
ton and Oregon by the Central and
Southern Pacific railroads, and indie
pendent interior routes, Central Pacific
steamships will discharge railway mate
rial At Seattle, for the Seattle and In,
terror Railroad before TIN, day twelve
months.