Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-02

secure railroad transportation TO the
water. Their delegate 10 Congress, Mr..
jacobs brought forward plan 20 take
exav the land grant of the Northern
Pacific Company. along ITS Projected
Cascade branch. AMI give II TO another
corp ration having only an existence on
paper. This paper corporation did.
hOvsv-r. con-truct ,us towards the $40
quAlmle p.s',the pass designated By the
lamented General I-aac l. Stevens, the
! engineer sent out BY the GOverume mt, as
sEe pr ,ctlcal Route for the transconii-
Rental road, about - miles OF railroad.
over which, IN 1888, 215oo ious of CO Al
alone. were transporte and this with
oa, auv aid from tn G1v-rum=-t.l
Senator Mitchell. of Oregon, fur
ther saws the historian. was also push
Irg bill IN Congress, hostile To the inter
est of the company, IN relation to the
road down the Columbia river. Matters
looked critical. President Wrigh, met
the emergency bv ordering work to ne
begun ~ once on the road 81 the
Puvaliup coal mines. which MAS
Case AIDE branch. The directors. q;
first decided ~ attempt to place loan.
bu. afterwards reconsIdered their ction
out \ mortgage oy using tue net earn
inCs of the Minnesota and Dakota d.
visions.
H. order 80 show that the company
was going tn DOM neuce construction AZ
once, Mr.. Wright bought a cargo of
railroad iron on his own CT dit and
shipped II to Tacoma. 1t took the ship
tn,ee months TO ge. around Cape Horn,
and lii the meantime the threatening
opposition TO the road In Congress and
on the Pacific coast Was 0lsarmed.
The town AT the coal mines on the
Puyallup branch WAS. by the vote of the
Board ~ Directors, Named WIikesou,
In compliment t. the cpRpany' S.cre-
tary
On page AS this .me historian says
The portion Of the Cascade division
generally known as the Puyallup branch
was built IN le,6 from Tacoma to the
Wilkeson coat fietd, near the sources of
the Pu allup River, On the eastern base
of the Cas- ,ade Mountains. distance of
81 miles, and short spur was after
wards butt to Carbonado. two miles |
further. fo reach Il min said By the North |
ern Pacific 10 ne Central Pdcifc Rail |
road Company." This is the same mine |
that the Tacoma Lsiyer tells "a Was |
sold for $5JO,OOO.
We sec from this that the Pay allup |
branch Was built originally for the pur |
pose of developing 4 profitable bust |
ness In coal" and secondly. to disarm |
the threatening OPPOSITE n in Congress !
and on the Pacific coast" Already by |
the construction of II railroad by the |
Oregon X lilwty i Mitigation from
Portland, on the south bank of the Co
lumhit River. to Wallula junction. the
p ,ople of Eastern Washington have an
outlet to tne faciio ports, and this will
answer all the demands of trade at
present, and until individual enterprise.
which it assuredly will do, builds rail
road across the Cascade Mountains
through the rich valleys of the kittitas
and Yakim, t. Walla Walla, and from
there by way of tue Oregon Railway d
Navigation Compapy's lines through
Baker city, and bv the Oregon Short |
Line to the Nnion Pacific. thereby Civ
ing the people o. Washington Territory |
two comp ting lines to Puget Sound,
aud two to the Atlantic States.
But. Mr.. Chairman, there are other |
facts which bear me ont in saying that |
this Puyallup coal road is no part of the /
Northern Pacific TranscOutinental road. |
1t was built. Mr.. Smalley says, on page |
Az of his history: Many fruitless |
Al temp.s were made bv the Northern |
Pacific Company to find a pass through |
the Cascade mountains of sufficiently /
low attitude aud easy approach to favor |
the construction of n dir,ct railroad |
line from Eastern Washington to Puget !
Sound. Almost evaiy pass In the whole |
range between the Columbia river and |
The British boundary that offered any |
apparent encouragement to the eye of An |
engineer WAS explored. but 1t Was not |
until ab mt year ago" that Is, in 1882.
six years after the Puyailup coal road |
WAS built THAT one WAS discovered,
where the estimated costs of construct
ing a road. and of operating II when |
once bnilt, was not too great for the I'm
d-rtaklug to meet with any favor from
practical railroad men. At last the long |
sought & ateway in the lofty mountain
" II WAS found at Stampede pass. A
long tunnel will be r. qnred at the sum
init of this pass. aud the approaces i'll
voiye much difficult work, but the line
ID practicable aud will he built"
Concinied tomorrow