Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-03

fev more citations from Mr.. Sinai
, ley as TO town site speculations. On
. PAGE 90 of his work he tells Is that IN
October. l,12, a counItt-e. Consist ne
of Messrs- Ogden. Billings. c ,ntield
Wright and Window. were sent out 70
look fox a good location for the dig city
which II vas eXpe ted would spring up
wherever the company eiecte q to tx It's
tide water termIaus.
The road from kalama, on the Col
umbls," SAYS Mr. Smallev. was then
under construction nortnwari up the
valley of tue CowlItz. and the question
10 be settled was, where il should strike
the Sound. Combinations Of economy
hal Giready begun to press apoH the Board.
A final decision on the ter
minus question Sas reserved until
the Committee returned 10 New
York Iheu the board narrowed down
the choice of a terminus TO MQckllteo.
Seattle and Tacoma. and sent a com
mission out TO carefully examine and
| report on the three points.
q" They reported IN July (l,.3l. by tele-
graph. III favor of Tacoma, trh>,s they
hGi acquired by purchase and Donation q
large briy OF lind. aud had b,IrguiJ,ei for
he pHrchIs, of the sa'oB.W. Their de
cision WAS confirmed by the executive
| committee. and they ,cere directed 10 :,
| cure the property selected. On the 10Th
of September tlo13), eight days before
the bankruptcy of Jay Cooke Il Co.. the
Board of Directors finally adopted Ia
| coma as the western terminus of the
\ Irthern Pacific K abroad. 4 company
lcIs formed With nominal capital of
5000. oeO. III which the Northern Pacific
! Company was gwen on share more than
oDe-half the stock To lay out the new
city and Sell its lots and wharf priv
ieges. Subsequently, the capital of the
Tacoma Land Company was reduced TO
| fl,UD,UU. and the stock not owned BY
the railroad company WAS sold at about
| fifty cents on the dollar"
Ii was financial emb irrassments. and
in order to save their land grant on the
| kalama division, that compelled the
company to strike Puget Sound at Ia
coma. and they were powerlcs, 10 go
elsewhere. 1t was not because that was
the proper place for the tsrmin alton of
this great transcOntlnental highway.
| When they reached Puget Sonnd the
| terminus was fixed by operation of law.
| They undoubtedly had intended to 60
to Bellingham Bay, one of the finest
| harbors and most accessible to the ocean
| on Puget Sound, but the bankruptcy Of
the COMPANY prevented it.
| Says Mr.. Smalley in his history, on
page APT: "Oniy twenty-five miles of
the division" (Kalama- Tacoma d.
vision. "were built in 1871. Next
year fifty miles more were con-
structed. Work WAS begun anew in
the spring of 1873. but tie collapse Of
| that year found the road some twenty
two miles from its terminus at Tacoma
on the Sound. For a short time work
was continued without interruption, but
| there was no money to pay the laborers.
and after ten miles more of track had
been laid. the men took armed posses
sion of bridge across Clover creek
| and declared that the road should 60
| no further until they got $4,000 then
due them. Ia this emergency Captain
J. G.. Ainsworth. then managing ji-
rector for the Pacific Coast, came to the
rescue with his individual means and
| credit. 4 compromise was made, the
men received part of their wages IN
cash and part in due bills endorsed by
| Captain Ainsworth and went to work
again. BY great effort the track was
completed to the Sound just twenty
four hours before the time prescribed
by Congress- expired
Financial pressure DETECTED the road
from its line of withdrawal on the route
| to BelliRghf m Bay, and at last, through
| much triDulatlou, 1t reaches Puget
Sound on bluff from $50 to 500 feet
| above the fathomless waters of Com
mencement Bay, where the average an
chOrage is nearly 600 feet, and to reach
| which grade Of ll6 feet to the mile,
for several miles, was necessary.
Mr.. Chairman, it Is the ring Of specu-
iators within the railroad company who
own the stock i'll tho town site and ter
minal site companies, and who now
control this continental road.
The construction of the Puyallup
branch WAS for the development of
the coal mines and to stimulate the |
growth Of Tacoma" These same coal
merchants" and" town site spectators"
are now asking with trembling voice the |
Congress of the United States to perpet-
sate the grant on the line of the Cas-
cade branch, to further stimulate"
their ill begotten weakling. in order to
more speedily enrich themselves.
Mr.. Chairman, the city which | di- |
reetly represent fears no legitimate
competition in the race for pre-emi-
hence. She leads now. and will be able
to successfully maintain the race If you
| these spectators. Our demand is that
you will lot, without favor to the one or
1.-The other, both of these cities work out
their own destiRy.
But, Mr.. Chairman. this is no local
question. The demand comes up from
| all over the Territory. This Is mani
tested by resolutions of public meet
Ings, by editorials IN the newspapers.
| 1t is my intention to publish with these
| remarks a compendium of these express
sions of public sentiment, aud you will
see that am borne out Ill my assertion.
Our own Delegate. for whom | have
| the highest respect and kindsst feelings,
offers an independent bill. 1t is as OBJ
| jeci,onable to our people as that pro-
posed by the minority. In proof there
| Of, let me read to You an open letter
| from the publishers Of the leading Re-
publican paper of WASHINGTON Terri
tory not only the leading Republican,
| but may truthfnlly say, without dis
paragement to Jthsrs, the leading paper
of the Territory.
(Here Mr.. White cited the Open
Letter" of the Posi- lNrELLIGENCEB to
Delegate Brents, in its Issue of April III.
| 1884, and announced his intention to
publish it with his remarks.)
grafton by ssa and by land at the rate
of 500 people day are coming To our
shores for settlement. They find almost
every available and valuable section of
land in the Territory held by this com
pany. For it they must pay exorbltant
prices. and purchase it on the following
conditions.
| Here he read the contract required
to be signed by the purchaser, and con-
| tinued y
FROM this We see that the purchaser
has but shadow of title of little com
mersial value he reservation rs to
tue right to build fumes is 80 they may
control the water IN Eastern Washing
ton necessary in many parts tor rriga-
ton and domestic use.
BY reserving all minerals, the COM
pany controls absolutely the entire coal
deposit along its line. and prevents
wholesome npetition IN An article OF
absolute necessity to the whole people.
By this last reservation. together with
the control OF the odd section, the
| whole coal mining industry Is at their
disposal There Is at least one State In
| ,ta I'p;np vitality infarast4i IN having