, 1889-02-14
1T is A GO.
The Spokane & Northern Rail-
road Will Be Built.
An Enthusiastic Meeting OF
Representative Citizens.
ID. q. Corbin VIII Build, the Limo ~ the
Citizsns OF Spokane Fslis Will
Subscribe $1,000

The action taken at meeting held at
the rooms Of the board OF trade yesterday
will have an important bearing on the
ject of the meeting was stated In the fol.
lowing circular, headed "Uraent and I'm
portant," which was sent out:
DEAR Sin: A very important meeting
OF the board Of trade will be held at the
board rooms, Tull's block, this Friday
afternoon at 4 O'Clock, to consider the
proposition for the immediate construc-
Your attendance is earnestly invited.
When President Taylor called the meet
ing to order, there was large number Of
representative citizens present, among
them: F. r. Moore, CYRUS b. Burns, j.
W. Chapman, ID. Il. Ham, W.'Pettet, j.
NJ. P. Richards, q. N. Patterson, A. H.
Clarke, Fred. Furth, James Monaghan,
James Morris, l. s. Kaufman, s. Haas, T..
Dempsie, ]. L. McCarther. A. A. New
berry, 8, Heath, j. 2. Moore, l.. G. Read,
l.. K. Merriam. s. s. Bailey, J. H. Boyd.
j. G. Bell and many others.
President Taylor brought up the subject
of the meeting, which he said was to con-
slider q proposition made for the building
of the Spokane & Northern railroad. As
most of the gentlemen would know, cor
poration-the Spokane Falls & Northern
was formed here, consisting of local men
who had large property interests In this
community, for the purpose of building q
road to the Columbia river, and thus open.
ng up communication with the Canadian
Pacific railroad. That corporation in EN-.
barking upon the undertaking had had the
one object In view, namely, of having
road which should be absolutely independ.
= ent OF any transcontinental road, and
which should place this community in di.
rect communication with the great Cana.
y dian transcontinental road and give Spo.
Kane competitive rates. -,,rst. e,...
Last spring they proceeded to make
doe time, and later on Mr.. Burns and
himself went East for the purpose of so.
letting the support of capital 10 the enter
prise. They saw the Canadian Pacific
people, who showed every signs Of friend
illness to the enterprise, and obtained from
them a certain arrangement as to freight,
but the Canadian Pacific would not ipply
the necessary capital. They had since
been offered the support of capital, but
the acceptance Of those offers appeared to
the directors of the Spokane & Northern
the REIMBURSEMENT of their great object.
viz: the absolute Independence of the
road, and the directors declined to con.
slider them. MIR. d. G. Corbin, whose
name as q successful railroad man was ia.
mttlar 10 uil, II III Oeen mere IoT Tue patt
few weeks, and had gone carefully over
the ground, and he now came with a prop
osition to build the road as an absolutely
independent organization. II the citizens
would step in and help him in the manner
he would presently state.
The directors Of the company believed
that Mr.. Corbin was the man for their
work. He was independent of other rail-
roads; had capital TO swing the undertake
a l. 10
cessful issue on the lines upon which only
the interest of Spokane Falls could be pre-
served. Mr. Corbin asked them to do this
He asked the directors of the Spokane x
Northern to surrender to him the surveys
which they had made at great expense; to
turn ovei to him the concerns OF their or.
ganization. This the directors, with the
approval of the citizens of Spokane Falls.
would willingly do. He asked further that
scribe the sum OF 800, 900 to the capital
stock of the road, half of which should be
paid when the road had reached and trains
were running into Chewalah one.fourth
when the trains were running into Colville,
and the balance when the road
was completed to the navigable
waters of the Columbia river. Mr..
Corpin would bind himself to complete
the road to Colville by the end OF this
YcHIs Uu6 uIbthuCc Otluk sOhC CA&hty
miles. The country which this road would
open up WAS altogether tributary to this
town. 1t embraced wide area of min
eral wealth; rich agricultural district,
and the connection it would give them
with the Canadian Pacific was of i'm mmense
Importance to the town, (cheers.) He
then called upon Mr. Newbery, who was
president of the Spokane x Northern, for
a further statement of the matter.
aasl L.k tl,n raktn IN
known as the Spokane x Northern was an
independent organization formed solely
for the purpose of building this line to
the Columbia river, and giving this city
connection with the Canadian Pacific. The
men In it were all of them largely interest
ed in Spokane Falls, and they were of one
mind that the road should not be operated
or allied with any one of the transconti-
mental lines which were either here or
had been offered substantial inducements
to sell their franchise to one of these cor
porations, but they had gone into it with
the one purpose In view, and they
were not going to forego that pur-
pose. MIR. Uorbin had carefully examined
the route selected. He was prepared to
push the road through TO an early com
pletion, prepared TO run it independently
OF all other roads, making traffic arrange,
ments equally favorable to them all, and
he had the means to carry out everything
he undertook. Mr.. Corbin asked the Spo'
kane & Northern to turn over to him their
surveys and the entire organization. He
asked the citizens to subscribe the amount
stated as an earnest of their good faith,
In reply to j. 7. McCarther, Mr.. Taylor
said that he had satisfied himself thai
Mr.. Corbin would run the road az an alb
solutely independent organization. Under
no circu umetances wonid he or the rest O