The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-07-13
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The following is from yesterdays
OTegOntdn:
Mr.. William Reid, president of the
Astoria and South Coast Railroad COM
pany, informs an Oregonian reporter
that the Pullman Car company of Hi
nois, Yesterday completed the first five
| freight cars, standard gauge, twenty
tons capacity, for the Astoria and South
Coast road, which were shipped to st.
Louis, there to be loaded with rails for
| Astoria. Other twenty freight cars,
twenty five tons capacity, are now un-
der construction by the Pullman COM
pany, to be finished on the 28th of July
and then sent to st. Louis for the rails
there, and the remaining five Hat cars
will reach st. Louis from Pullman on
the 9Th of August. These cars are marked
astoria d South Coast Railway" and
will bring with them all the rails neces-
sary to lay the track from Young's bay
to the Ocean house. The locomotive No.
l was inspected yesterday at Danville,
ILL.,, and will reach Astoria IN fourteen
or sixteen days.
The company has now under consider
alton an offer of 1000 tons of 6fty-pound
steel rails from Chicago, to complete the
road from Young's bay into the heart of
the city of Astoria and extend the line
southwark from the ocean shores to a
fine timber region. Two surveyinHparties
have been formed by F. L. Habersham,
the engineer. One leaves this morning
to locate the line from the Ocean house,
and the Jther leaves on Monday
to locate that portion from the
Willamette valley across the
coast range to Astoria. The first ex
cursion coach is to arrive at Asto ria
about the end of August, and whenever
the first ten miles beyond the Ocean
house have been surveyed by the en-
gineers, the construction company will
commence work-eXpected about the end
of this month-on the grading. As the
rails have to wait for the Astoria railway
company's fiat cars to be constructed at
Pullman, in order to bring these rails
overland in that company's own cars, it
is not expected that tracklaying will be
completed and the road in running opera
ton to the Ocean house until the end of
August. All of the ties, Al, 900, for the
fourteen miles are now lying delivered on
the grade at Skipanon, ready to be laid
down whenever the locomotive arrives.
This weighs tWenty-eight tons and is a
Rogers make, cylinders 15x22 standard
gauge.
The contractors will commence work
not later than the 9Th of August, and
will continue grading during the fall and
winter season, and hope to reach fine
timber region tributary to Astoria, with
track laid thereto, by the last week of
January, unless work is stopped by
severe rains or some unforeseen occur
renee. MIR. Reid states that the con-
tract has been let for and work COM
menced OH one mile of the trestle work
between the west shore of Young's bay
and to the channel of that river, and
when completed in six weeks another
contract will be let for the east portion
of that bridge from the channel, 1850
feet, to Smiths Point on the Astoria
side and continued into the city, leaving
the draw span uncompleted and open un-
til the iron work arrives from the east in
October next.
The site of the passenger depot in AS
tofia has not yet been determined, bpt a
contract has been let for the construction
of the Astoria terminus and passenger
depot wherever located by the board of
directors. Various liberal offers have
been made for sites for passenger depot
at the south end of Astoria, below FL
more's cannery. but the general opinion
seems to be that the line should be eX-
tended into the city as far as Lafayette
street where passenger depot will be
built if the owners of property IN that
vicinity, to be improved by he depot,
will yacate fifteen or twenty feet adiOin-
ing that street: