, 1889-03-14
proud Of their past. sanguine Of their fu-
ture, and to believe that their city's watch.
word shall be Coward and Upward"
HOW HE FOUND 1T.

cry OF stampede fess'
Clarence X. Clarke, q native of this
county. whose mother lives on q valuable
farm adjoining the town Of Puyallup. was
Globe. Mr.. Clarke has been In the employ
of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Compsny
for number Of years. He has filed the
position of division engineer for the past
two years, and 10 home on visit and
looking after his property interests here.
of which he is we'll supplied for man so
young.
ciRc in 1880 as an axman 10 one Of the
River pass. In less than one year he was
leveler In the same party, and has devel-
oped into one of the best and most trust
worthy engineers on the coast.
He was employed by the Northern Pa
cifie in the 6rst surveys made by that
company in the Stampede pass. Mr..
Clarke in recalling his early experience
yesterday, stated that the Green river
system OF passes was discovered or rather
men with packs on their backs, who forced
their way through that hitherto unknown
region during the winter of 80 and 81.
After Mr.. Sheets report was received.
several parties were at once organized
and sent into that portion of the Cascade
range, Mr.. Clarke being with one of these
parties. 1t was rough work In snow and
ice, and none but the bravest and stoutest
stood the test. He said however that the
ing the problem of getting practical line
through the Stampede pass had never yet
been mentioned in connection herewith.
A young man, then nothing but a
''PooR TRANSIT MAN."
But now citizen Of Tacoma. Thomas l..
Nixon, he said, was the man, who, by his
stubboinn and against the permission
of his supeIiors, discovered the way to
get the turn" which permitted the road
to be built through that pass. The south
side Of the pass had been thoroughly ex.
amined and found impracticable; and the
north side was considered impracticable;
but had not been examined except down
short distance from the summit. One
more line had been ordered run down the
north side, and then the pass was to have
been abandoned as from the general appear
ance it seemed impossible to get suf.
cient distance for q line in order to re-
duce the grade to the maximum allowed.
MIR. Nixon and had talked number OF
tunes about the probability of getting
through the divide which walled in the
pass to the north, and he had urged tine
engineer who was in charge Of the party.
who was good engineer, but who had
Just been sent up into the mountains and
did not know them nearly as well Us we
did, but he would not allow Mr. Nixon the
privilege TO go and examine the region
mentioned. We were ordered to the sum-
init one Saturday in July to get the notes
of the party who, from the other side, who
extended line over the summit, and we
were to take it up and extend it down on
this side to the point of the mountain
where the fiast tunnel above Weston now
IL, and there
TIE 1T IN ASD QUIT.
As luck would have it, the transit man
who had the book with the notes in it,
which we should have to begin our line
with, had gone down to the supply camp,
and after climbing to the summit, met the
chief of the party coming back without
the notes, and he said we would have
nothing to do that afternoon. As soon as
we were told that Mr.. Nixon said TO me.
Now is our chance to go and see that
country" He and then hid our transit
aud level behind big tree. letting the
balance Of the party 20 on down the noun
tain, and we, unnoticed, slipped of on
our momentous journey, through brush.
over rocks and streams. The trip was
fearful rou ,h one. As Mr.. Nixon had on
piir of new boots for the fret time, he
mad to make the last two miles into camp
WithNut Nio pOOtc. over TUChs
until his feet we're bruised and bleeding:
but he solved the great problem, and the
Northern Pacific is running over the very
line to-day. Even after that trip it was
with difficulty that Mr.. Nixon pursuaded
the chief to make an instrumental survey
of the line. These facts are we'll known TO
Hon. J. G. Taylor of Orting, who was
then chairman. My brother Will was
also there and number Of others, who are
still living.'
Mr.. Clarke expects to return to his work
on construction on the Oregon Pacific
(Malhure division) in a few days. He
says he is greatly tempted to give up
work and ceme back to Tacoma to
live and engage in some other kind of
business. s.-Tacoma Exchange.
Playing tho "Gold Brick" Game Again.
The bogus "gold brick" industry has
been revived lately in New York, and the
victims, so far az il known, are jewellers.
At the assay Office of Dedrick Il Co., It was
said that u ''brick," which was in reality
q fiat bar, was offered to them on Wednes.
day; 1t contained no gold at all. An up
town leweler who had bought two bricks,
one for % and the other for %, sent them
70 the assay Office Of r. Longman's Sons.
1t was learned they were q composition of
platinum, silver and copper. with
trace Of GOLD. Mr.. I.onguian said that
two years age be had one Of the gold BRICK
swindlers arrested and locked up tor .
week. At the examination before the
magistrate IL was developed that the pris.
oDr. in trying 10 dispose OF the brick, had
simply said to Mr.. LonQman. "Whst will
you give for it?' The magistrate
decided that the transaction was fair
one and discharged the prisoner.
h. Wundochl received brick 2l.2
inche: square fortnight ago from an up.
town jeweller, who, after buying. became