, 1889-09-12
OUR. RAILROAD.
Port Townsend to be the
Center Of a Great Rail
way System.
THE UNION PACIFIC AND ITS IN
TENTIONS REGARDING PORT
TOWNSEND.

Sidney Dillon, the famous New York
tiuancicr and ex-presideIt of the Union
Pacific railroad company, was 10 Port
land, Oregon, last Tuesday with party
of New York la lies ans. gentlemen.
In reply TO reporter of the Oregon
ian, wan asked The reason Of the adyaDce
of the stock OF the O. Il. & n. Go. in
Wall street to $102 50, the great financier
said: 80. L & n. stock Is good proper
ty. Ii yGq bHve ever been over the O.
X. & n. and Oregon Short Ii roads
you know that under the prese Mt man.
agemeut both are fue properties, both
are controlled by the Union Pacific. l
think ii the best thing that ever happen
ed TO Ibis a0antiy, aud to Western
Washington, particularly that great 4n-
developed regioL lying west OF Puget
Sound, that the supremacy OF the Union
Pacific was maintained at the railroad
election last june"
When asked about the future inten-
tons of the company. Mr.. Dillon re-
piled: - have not seen Preside 1T
Adams for some time and raRily eannut
tell What are their intention. The COM
pauy 10 nat expected to herald to the
world and inform rival corporations as
to its movements"
The charter OF tie Union Pacific COM
pany DOES aQt permit Of their coming
west farther than ogden, end there
they connect with the Central Pacific
aud for years were obliged 20 make San
Francisco their terminal point. But
the constant determination OF the Union
Pacific has been to have Ru ocean ter
of San Francisco. Quietly and secretly
they Qbtainei the Oregon Short line from
Ogden west. then tde Oregon railroad
and Navigation Co.'S. line to Portland,
and that gave them through connections
from Boston to Portland. The election
OF last June has given the control and
management, not only of the Oregon
Short line Rpd .he 2. r. & N. 90. roads
and steamers, but the oregon Improve
ment company, including the great
ocean steamers Umatilla, Waila Walla,
Corona, Elder, etc, and all the !. big
steamers on tho aoEnd All are con-
trolIed by the Union PacIfc Il. b. Co.
Mr.. HoIcomb, vice president of the
y. P. sta ted emphatically to tho senate
committee CE relations with Canada of
which Senator Hoar Is ehajr1au, that
The Union Pacific will make Port
Tuwnserd its western terminus: that
they will sHt on refrig orator cars to
take fresh fish in ice difcSt to New York
and Boston on the long haul from Port
Tow seud; that they will run their own
steamers to. freight and Tourists, direct
from PUrt Townsend TO Alaska and
freight, and they will also secure the
transit OF all tho oil and whaleDone Of
the Arctic whaling feet, as seven bun-
dred miles of distance can be saved by
shipping their products on the cars at
Port Townsend instead ut transporting
them first to SaB Francisco to be placed
Oh the cars of the Central or Southern
roads Mr.. Holcomb also SAID that they
had ascertaiEei through their engineers
that from the JUNCTION OF the SDake
river and the Columbia, it is virtually a
down grade all the way to Port Town.
send, which is eight hupdred feet lower
than the Sunke junction. and they can
haul twenty-five loaded cars the whole
distance with one engine. while it takes
three decapod engines OF the largest
class to haul eleven loaded cars through
the tunnel to Tacoma, and it is the de-
termination OF the Union Pacific tn sc.
cure ibe 2 eap commerce from China,
Japan and the Asiatic coasts. Ehfrles
Francis Adams, president CT The UDioD
Pacific Co Oh his return from Alaska
few weeks ago said to a gentleman of
this city: Il am not given to the use of
adiectives or to express myself in an ex-
aggeratcd style, but | predict that on
this Port TOwnseni peninsula will be
the largest city OF the whole Pacific
coast, and when We have all our plans
completed we will rut on force bat
will produce so quick change that
your people here will think ,t is a work
of magic"
The business which the near future
will develop is beyond the calculations
OF the most sanguinc among us. Besides
the Union Pacific we are 10 have the
Southern Pacific The Canadian Pacific
by ferry from WILDLY Island, and the
Canadian Western, an extension of the
grand trunk system OF Canada, which
will cross at TGymourc Narrows TO Van
cOuver Island, and thence to Victoria
and by great ferry boats from Victoria
re Port Townsend. These are no CHI
nerical statements, bat solid facts which |
are being developed and proved us fast |
as works OF such magnitude can be de- |
The ARGUS has known for |
a long time what the intentions OF these |
great corporations have been. but it is |
only since the railroad election that |
movement has scOmmenced, which proves
that we were correctly and accurately
informed. We have other information
Ot great importance To the future welfare
Df our city, connected with the fortifica-
ions. the naval station and the dry