The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1889-02-07

n sens,or ., the road through The noun
% tsins 10 Puget SounA wss imprsciicahle
y Tha, little speech cost us sa5 COO. o'he
u senators came 10 me aud said that that df'
4 lsra,ion on the part OF iellow senator "a
A thing they oonid not get over; tha,
/. uonld have 10 prove i, false or they caul,
not vote a9siusi IL ! hssteped 10 Neu
J. York and arranged with Gen Anderson :,
4 come ut aud maku survey u the 500
% qusimie psss. After day or 50 be said
!. he canlJ net 20 and ve were IN dilrmns
]. We began ielegrsphing all over the coun
. try for James Tiltou. the mau ahe. undt'
q Pfesiisbt Piercea orler.ran the line u The
Wilianetie mc-idian and snfyeYea tbt
/ iisrs OF townships on each side We tiri
4 found bis wife aud she told us he was IN
Wilmiogton. Del. We asked ber TO Tell
him to meet us in New York, He cams
! sud We asked him II be conll get around
here, mske the survey aud get back again
tho following December. He said he could
: be went around BY Panama. picked M
two mea In San Franciaco aud two in Port
land who had been With him, aud with
, these accomplished bis task aud returned
in time.
/ RAISING MONEY
Then began the work OF raising money
for construction Samud Wilkeson, ST..
was jay Cookies secretary. and bad 10
terestsd him in the enterprise aud though
him Jay Cooke a year before Now We
brought onr il haeuce directly TO bear and
in sn interview at Nj Cookies private res-
ideace Al Osonlz he consented to under
take tbs work OF nego isting slO0. 900 O0O
Of thc bonds. Eserythiug had been agreed
to when Mr.. Cooke aided proyisor to the
effect that all must be shown to bs as rep
resented. This was stuoner and | be.
came nettlsd. The idea seemed to me i'm
practicable. Mr., Ogden called me out
side aud said: Do not throw anything in
the way. The provision is reasonable
Tuis is the greatest financial undertaking
the world has ever seen Here have been
trying to raise 81, 900 900 or $4,000, 600 on
road already built, aud this mao under.
takes TO raise 500 o00, 900 on liue not
yet surveyed.
| We went back and asked Mr.. Cooke to |
explain what he meant; il ho understood |
it msaut six months or years OF WORK
| He said be dad, but that he must know
what he was talking aboit when he under
took to s.l bonds. and not merely what
some OF tue Interested parties told him al
though be did not hinseif question their
statements
TRIP ON THE SOUND.
As = result party composed OF Sam
Wiikeson, Miner Roberts, au eminent en-
gineer, Wm Morehead, Rev. Dr. Clsxton,
Wm, Johnson aud myself, came around to
Portland aud thence to Puget soued, char
tered small steamer aud travelled ali
over ths sound. We went from Olympl,
to Wha.com aud ours was the first b1al
that went through Deception pass hal
never been here bsfore. but | had studied
the country 80 thoroughly that | was per
fectly familiar with it, We returned to
Portland aud went thence to Wslla Walla,
then the end of all things. We there
equipped ourselves with l3 horses, Irovis.
ious, etc for the trip 10 II sleoa, and start.
ed east ward on the 20sli Of July We ar.
rived at Lake Pend d 'Oseille, TO fiud thai
the Mary Moody the only bat upon. IL
dismsptled We put the nsiue together,
aud we're carried to the other eud Of H.
W. went through three diff rent passes,
Mr.. Rob rts was writing continually, and
had to keep euthusing the party all th,
way aud pointing out how diiiitnlIi"
which they saw might be overcome. eLr
company aiterward fixed upon the mosl
difficult Of three passes tbs Mullan. How
ever, that was necessary in order to keep q
ahead OF the Uaion Poetic at Helena.
know, however that before l0years through
freight will be carried over line through
Deer lodge or Pipe Stove pass, going fran
Garrison to 9llletin valley and B zsman {
THINK or II.
Just ihiok OF i'll In Dakota where this d
sesson AZ, 900, 600 bushels Of wbeai were
reised, this year there was not SOLITARY |
white man, not one vest OF the Rel riv-r,
There were three meu llying where Spsh- '
ane Falls nov staBds when We went thtoup p
and crossed at ScLrebleJ's bridge. Bu 4
TO return. The reports made by the par. I
ty we're oil right aud had the desired effect q
and construction begao aud continued un y
until Cookies failure. IL b
1871 again visited Puget sound and 90 u
this occasion purchased for the company u
$500 scres OF the present town site OF tue q
terminus ~ we'll a. other lsnds At the =
limo II years ago. located X 'lama as the Q
point furthest up the Columbia where deep =
Tater vessels could come loaded with rail, i
.osd iron. q
DIRECTORS os THE s5rXD.
Again in 1872 piIoted a msioriiy OF the
BOARD II directors to the Sound and over 4
u length and breadth. Ol thst trip ]
Urged the board to again feiterAte b,
ssoluiion that tue road must come 80
Puget Souod across the mountaia. ar
,ued thst there sould be no doubt about
he road coming here some time, sooner or 81
a,or, that the great traffic Of the orient b
yould not be content to brave the CoIum. d
,is river bar forever 10 order to reach the 4.
iorber,n PAcihe,t would have - come TO Il