, 1889-08-29
Tht at'eetIp Ar9ns.
WORK HEGUS.
-h. Surveyors at work on the T. T. s.
k.IIway.---Ths Fost-InteliiGencer
Lying Again.

Following close upon the arrival of the
material to be used 10y the graders, the
fourteen survey ors belonging TO Elijah
Smiths construction party have pitched
,b.ir tents nj Peckham's : slip and begun
active work. The anxiety which oul
citizens have had for months past has
faded away, and smiles have taken the
plsce of expressions OF doubt which have
been noticeable on their countenances
The Seattle Post-Intellisencer. knowing
that work would begin at once, and as
,he onIv doubt as to Port TOwnsend's fu.
ture was now thing Of the past, and
that success was sure, tried in theiI
weak, contemplate wy to throw cold
water on the ambition of our citizens,
and with view to keeping people away
from here, published the following IN
Sundays paper:
"The Union Pacific Coming-Work
Begun Oh its Port Townsend Branch
The Main Line Is From Portland to Sc
attle-The Routes to be Followed"
Articles of incorporation were filed in
Portland August 10Th, by Chester w
Collins, John ID. Fitzpatrick, w. II, Kill
patrick, John II. Smith, f. J. johnson,
Lee Hoffman and Emil Adler, for the
Portland & Puget Sound Railroad Com
pany. The capital stock is fixed at $5,-
100000 divided into 50,O 900 shares.
The object of the corporation is to con-
struct and equip a railroad and telegraph
line from Portland to Seattle, with several
branch lines. The duration of the cor
poration Is unlimited. One of the
branches is to extend to Gray's Harbor,
and the other to Port Townsend,
The company is alse empowered to
purphase, lease and operate and maintain
railroad branches and telegraph lines
also to purchase real estate, to build
docks. piers, hotel and warehouses, etc,
and to borrow money and issue bonds,
This is the Union Pacific railroad which
Is about to extend it's main line from Port
land to Seattle, and to build branches to
Port Townsend and Gray's Harhor.
It is Seattle's hope, and the wish OF
tho P,-I., 10 make the public believe that
Port Townsend, the key City," is a
place of such little importance that 1t
should be given Z station on side track.
Mr., RrawAs, tloeal P.-I- correspondent
informed reporter for the ARGUS that
he had sent telegram to the manager
Of the P.-I. containing the facts connect
ed with the arrival of the construction
material and surveyors of the 0, I, Co.,,
and that they declined to publish it be-
cause " they did not consider them facts"
The editors OF the Seattle papers then,
are to be the judges of what are and
are not facts in matters pertaining to
this city. We think not, and the sooner
the people of Port Townsend show their
contempt for such methods by withdraw
ing their patronage from that paper, the
better. 1t is taken, We believe, for the
tslegraph reports it contains, but there
are other papers having just as good ser
yico ss # has:
The railroad upon which work was
commenced yesterday is the Port Town
send Southern, and will be built direct
IA Portland, not even making Seattle
side station. This city is to be the ter
minns Of the pnian Pacific, and frnm
this point will begin that great trans
continental line.
The reported attempt of one or two
hsld timers" to stop the surveyors from
working and running line across their
lRnds is all halderdash. Where any such
individual is met, a jury will be appoint
Cd, the land assessed and paid for. The
Nad will be built, Notwithstanding one
or two men do not want the city to
grow.
Mr.. E, H. Morrison, acting as Elijah
Smiths representative, came here yes
terday to receive transfer of all papers
relating to the subsidy, and Judge Kuhn
made the announcement yesterday after
noon that "Elijah Smith is my successor
to-day as president of the Port Townsend
Southern Railway"