The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-06-27
BROAD GAUGE RAILROAD
To Be Built By Broad Gauge Men.
From Astoria to Connect With the 0.& @.
That is the Assured and Definite Program


laid over from a previous meeting,
was, on motion, accepted. The resig-
nation of NJ. c. Crosby, as director,
was also accepted. Action upon the
resignation of d. Morgan as director,
was deferred.
Wm. Reid and E. P. Thompson were
then elected directors.
Wm. Reid was then elected president
of the road.
The gentlemen who resigned did so
with design to admit two or three
directors vino will act jointly with the
local directors. When the entire ar
rangement is made there will be five
directors from Astoria and four from
elsewhere, leaving the control of af-
fairs in the hands of residents of this
city. This will probably be brought
about at the next election in October.
The whole matter now stands this
way, and to make TO clear it will
be necessary TO repeat some of what
has previously been published in The
AsTORIAN as the developments tran
spired from day to day:
The Astoria and South Coast Rail
way Co., builds the road. The road
is to be extended about a mile farther
than originally contemplated. 1t runs
clear through what is known as "the
Gearhart Woods" and extends to the
Ocean house, or Mrs. Byrd's place.
The S175,0O0 paid or pledged by As
torians is to be paid in. The Pacific
Construction company pays in $780,
600 additional, and takes that amount
of stock in the Astoria and South
Coast Railway Co. That 100000 in
stock is to be placed in the hands of
d. X. Warren as trustee. Work is to
be pushed with all possible diligence
and the road is to be completed as
rapidly as possible. The road is to
run from the proposed present ter
minus in the most direct route to the
Nehalem and is to connect with the
Oregon and California:standard guage
railway or the Portland and Will
annette Valley railway in Washington
or Yamhill, or iu Washington and
Yamhill counties. The road (which is
the Astoria and South Coast railroad
right thought is to be completed to
such connection by September 18th,
1891. This is guaranteed by the Pa
citic Construction company, an
organization with one hun
dred million dollars. The
road will be about 100 miles in length.
The Astoria and South Coast road is to
issue to the Pacific Construction $20,-
900 in stock and $4,000 in bonds per
mile as fast as the road is completed
and accepted. The Pacific COnstruc-
ton company is to furnish the Astoria
and South Coast Railway Co., all the
money necessary to build, equip and
place in operation the entire road.
The above is definite and accurate,
and is the whole business in nut
shell.
The iron was ordered yesterday:
also six cars, three construction and
three passenger, to be built III this
city under competent tsuperintendence
The intent is to have cars running to
the seashore by the 10th of August.
Work on the bridge begins at once:
the one company will begin from the
middle of the channel in Young's bay
and build eastward: the other begins
in the same place and builds west
ward. Contracts were let yesterday
for the bridges required from Skipa-
non westward.
And having written thus far and
outlined the scheme, the writer
feels as though he would like to per-
sonally congratulate and shake hands
with every man, woman and child in
the county over the successful starting
of this great scheme, which gives us
not only road to the seashore, but a
broad gauge outlet to everywhere in
the Union that a locomotive turns a
wheel. 1t has taken lots of talk, lots
of writing, vast amount of effort, and
that for which 50 many have worked
toward for years is now an assured
fact. 1t is SO easy to write this now,
but it means so much.
1t means that our isolation ceases:
that deep sea ships will line our
wharves: that our coal and lumber
will be worked up into a great trade:
that we will handle the outgoing and
incoming commerce of the northwest:
that stately warehouses and solid
structures will rise on every hand:
that Astoria will awake from its sleep
and assume the dignity that God and
Nature designed she should: that our
wonderful resources shall be devel-
oped: that factories and workshops
and mills shall rise on every outlying
slope: that in five years Astoria will
have $4,000 people-an underestimate
1t means all this and much more,
and HE Historian takes most cor
dial pleasure in sincerely congratulate
ing the entire community on the re-
suit of all this railroad talk and eff.
fort.
"Tall oaks from little acorns grow
and Astoria's modest efforts to have g
railroad to the Seaside now results
in assurance of transcontinental con
nection.
ut is almost too good to be true
said a prominent resident yesterday
in talking over the matter. But thi!
here written in this column is thu
exact and sober truth. Nothing is toC
good for Astoria.
The road, broad gauge and stan
dard, first class in all it appointment
and thoroughly equipped will be bull
in time for the Oregon delegation Il
the 53rd congress to take through
cars at the AstoriaIdepot to the nation
al capital at Washington, d. G.