Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-04
pBe LATEST NORvHE9N PACIFIC
fOlOGR.
4 Change Indicated In the Cascade
R0Use.

2O0sS-
he IL test folder of the Northern Pa
cIhc Railroad Company should be seer
by the President Of the United States
before be accepts the Puyallup coal
road a. section Of the Cascade branch
Issued by the authority and At the ex-
pense Of TIE CON peny. this folder may
be regarded A. An official paper, intend
I'd TO represent the property and inter
ests, actual and claimed, of the COM
pans. For til. first time. We believe,
SEATTLE Is in this c-.se placed about right
On the Map. but OF tue sixty miles of
railr"ad III King county ali that i.
shown Is tue little section of the narrow
gage between Newcastle ana Black
River junction, some SIX or eight miles
ia length. The other roads are not
evch shown 10 be III course Of cCnstruc-
tion. Among the company's' projec,
I'd lines. however. Is the much talked
of Cascade branch. which 10 som. man
ner. to u, utterly unaccouutable, is rep,
Resented as projected from Seattle to a
point of Intersection with the piece of
road built last year west Of Ainsworth
Their Cascade branch takes the routs
of the Duwamish and White River val
leys. thence east through soma un-
named pass midway between the Mach
ess and Stampede. aud down the Yak
INA 10 AInswerth. This Cascade branch
Is represented as having no connection
whatever with the Puyallup coal road,
but as entirely separate, paralleling i,
for about twenty miles, and not going
to Tacoma at all. In matters like this,
the latest Is always supposed to be the
most approved. The folder Of 1884 can
only be regarded a. superseding that Of
1888, containing additions. changes. cor
rectious of errors, and improvements.
The folder Of this spring. III depicting
the route of the Cascade branch, IN kes
a radical change of route from that
of 1888 connected with the Puyallup
road. This of 1884 does not. Ihe
new map is a larger, finer. more com
plete and more expensive one than the
old one. More care and work were put
upon 1t, and We are reasonably bound
to regard IT as an expression from the
company OF its intentions, ard Con
gress and the President must so look
pun H. us Dtiuk tuc ChSes Tue CDtn
pauy Is not entitled to grant of land
for the PuyaIlup coal road, which, by
its own declaration, as evidenced by
this latest and most approved map, is
not part OF either the main or branch
lines authorized by Congress-. If we
had faith in the honesty of the com
pany, We could not but believe that a
change i'll the Cascade branch is con
as indicated by the map in
this folder, by the putting in the field
Df several parties of surveyors. by the
recent utterances of Col. Gray. and by
The determination of the company to
avail itself Of the thirty hliles of this
. projected road already built The
company has heretofore had no def
nite location for its Cascade branch,
but its friends claim that they are now
seeking one. The route mark
ed upon this map. from Seattle ts Aims
worth, may perhaps have been quietly
upon, and the publication
Of the map is only modest way Of an
nounoing it. In any event, the com
pany is entitled to no. one acre of King
county lands for the building of its coal
road up the Puyallup v,lley.