The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-20
splP HARBOR RAIL WAY.
.,t;eles Filed Incorporating the
Seattle and Northern.
$500 separate Lines Proposed
some inside Facts in Regard
to the Enterprise

.,.se,es we're fled yesterday with the
..,ss.a- of king county. Incorporating the
1900 4 Northern Railway, hy W. II. Ho;-
1919 Il Porslaad. EIijsh Smith. J. II. Ben
go Charles F. TseK. J. II. Benedict. J.
: Tsrner. Prosper y. smith, 7. l. Frank
.-fy Hoosey. Of sew York: r j. Nil
.raJ. Haines. Of seattle; and Il. l.
rs.,'sIls r.. Ct Port Townsend The cap
1890. ..',, i s. aoo.sos, The expressed OBJ
-, a he eosnpazy are 70 buil9
Vrs-.,A railroad from Seattle uarfhwersl
z wbstroFn 10 . point near Blaine aud
- prssiss Columbia nue, distance Of
sscsrf 100 miles.
ssnr.rd-A railroad branching from the
~sin tine near the sSsgis riFsr. up the
1910 riyer 10 the mouth Of Sank river,
.s1.'rs n eauk river. east aud north over
GsS.T..esae mountains. and thence south
...s.rrsr 70 spokane Falls, distance % 80
n rss,s4 railroad branching westward
s-sss re skaeis river, and running west
80 IA Ffdatgo Island 10 ship Harisor,
ssesee southwark VA deception pass %
ltrlssify heal on "hinoey isiara. . dis
800 AZ s miles.
TTtss third clause Is the railroad, referred
/. II ssore length below
sf'in~r RI. d. T1bhslis, q. ~. Baker. J. +.
ua-f. Elijah smith. JOHN T. Tiiney and J.
n benedict, and he head ONCE IL Seattle.
r.e Articles we're prepared some four
r.opth ago. bat for certain reasons were not
died until yesterday. Mr.. Miner, who
wax lnferyievea-hy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
rr,orter. vas disinclined TO talk much
abou, the enterprise. except TO say that
shere was no doubt the objects OF the In
corporstton would be carried out to The
le,ter. He admitted that this enterprise
was the chief object Of hisrecent visit Fart,
and limited that ample provision had been
made for all necessary funds Work would
- mashed, he said, On the Fidalgo island
branch early in the spring. II was an In
dependent enterprise, and had no connee-
don, direct or otherwise, with any exist
Ing railway company. Certain gentlemen
among the ineorpoTatofs had bought
large tract Of Land In Ship Harb0s ineiud-
ing wxter front, and that hnrbor was des-
tined 10 become q port.
From gentleman who appears to be
gery familiar with the inside history OF
the Seattle & Northern. reporter learned
last night that originally IL wag intended
as q part Of the Oregon Railway 4 ssviga-
ton system, aud ineisded line from
seattle to Portland. the whole to be known
as the Portland, Seattle 4 Northern. The
present incorporation, however, looks
no further south than Seattle. The
promoters OF the enterprise are
chiefly interested in the east and west
lines Of the company, namely. The
branch up the skagis river, tapping the
rich timber. mineral and agricultural
country along its banks, and the branch
west 10 Ship HaFhor. and thence south
seross Deception pass TO Admiralty Head.
This point Is Intended 70 give Port Town
send railway connection. the scheme be
Ing to put on a ferry between Port Town.
send and the terminus. distance OF about
II milT They expect 20 build up large
seaport at ship Harhor.
Concerning the main line, from seattle
north To the skAgit riyeg, according To the
Posi- nj EIIlUESCER's Informant, thsre il
some doubt This WAS contemplated be-
fore the Seattle. Lake Shore K Eastern had
decided to build ncrthward. The new
company hope To make favorable traffic
arrangement with the Lake Shore road, and
be a feeder 10 II st Skasit river, from TIE
east and the west, should negotiations In
that direction no. be concluded, the new
company viii be forced to build from the
skagit south to seattle In either case the
east aud west lines Of the Seattle & North
crn will be tributary 10 this city.
There are other facts III eDaaection with
this enterprise concluded oar Informant.
(which are not proper 10 be made public
at this time, but you can set II down for q
fac; that these reads are going 10 be built,
arc ~ work Gseelors fully. u VIII do
saoge. for Seattle than most people
imagine"