The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-10

A party of Oregon improvement Conn
pany officials went Yesterday to Anacortes
to inspect the property Of the company in
that locality. The party included Presi-
dent Elijah Smith. General Manager John
L. Howard and Resident Manager H. w.
McNeill.
Fl. f. Nichols, superintendent of the Sc
attic & Northern railroad, and O. +. Briggs,
general passenger agent of the Oregon I'M
provement Company 5 roads and steamers,
returned yesterday from TRIP up the Sc
atsle 4 Northern road where they arranged
the passenger service of the road. Trans
leave Anacortes at q. m. and 3 p. m, and
reach the end of the track, seven miles be-
low Hamilton. ut 1918 q m. and p. m.
respectively. Returning these trains leave
the end of the track at 1915 and 5:45 p. M,
arriving at Anacortes al 1915 and 7:20 p
M. respectively. The afternoon train will
connect with the steamer Eastern Oregon
both on leaving and returning to Anacor-
ties. 1t will leave for the el.d of the track
on the arrival of the steamer from Seattle
and will return to Anacortes at the same
time as the steamer returns from
Beiiingham hay. so that persons
going from Seattle to Hamilton can
make the round trip in one day,
Until the road Is finished to Hamilton, q
hack will meet the train at the end Of the
track and carry passengers from the town
to the railroad. A hack will also run from
Sedro to the train, a distance of one and a.
fourth miles. The steamer Indiana is also
running on the Skagit river and will con-
meet with the trains, leaving Hamilton at 5
q. m. and arriving at Eedro at q. M;
leaving Sedro at p. m. and arriving at
Hamilton at Z p. m.
Work on the Nooksack bridge, which is
the heaviest piece of work remaining on
the northern branch of the Seattle, Lake
Shore & Eastern railway. will begin in q
few DAYS. The piles are all on the ground
ready for driving, and the only cause of de-
lay in beginning work was the necessity of
getting the road graded to the river in order
to bring in the pilc-drivers over it. The
road is already graded to the north fork
and the pile-driver is on the ground. The
Nooksack bridge will consist of two 160-foot
spans on the north fork and one 200-foot
span on the south fork. The road is now
completed four miles beyond Arlington and
the track will be laid on another mile to-
day, thus completing 1t to the Pilchuck
river. Tfack-laying on this end of the road
viii then be suspended three weeks during
the building of bridge and trestle at this
point. From the north about twenty-five
miles OF the road has been graded. bringing
it nearly to the south fork of the Nooksack
river, and by the end OF August will have
reached that point. Most of the grading
which remains to be done is between Nc
LII Z Ia IL
south fork of the Nooksack and q point
about four miles north of Sedro. All the
grading will be done by the middle of Sep
TENDER.
The Centralia correspondent of the
Posr-IyTELLIGEScER telegraphs: "Chief
Engineer Rifle and Assistant General
Manager Herman, of the Hunt system,
were in the city yesterday. having returned
from Montesano. They do not seem to be
in the least annoyed by the decision in the
Finch case. whereby the right-of-way
at Finch's bluff was awarded the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company. The Hunt
people will commence work on Mon
day on the bridge across the
Skookumchuck river at this point It is
part of the agreement between the people
are
to furnish him with depot grounds and
rigt-of-way through the CITY. The depot
grounds have not vet been selected, and it
is supposed that one of the first things Mr..
Hunt will do on his arrival will be the Sc
lection of the grounds so that the right-of-
way through the city may be secured. The
delay in securing the depot grounds will
make them cost a great deal more than
would have been the case had they been
secured at the time work on the road was
commenced.
w. I. Small, superintendent of motive
power, machinery and rolling stock; John
C. Barber, n ster car builder, both of st.
Paul, and H. HI. Warner. master mechanic
OF the Pacific division of the Northern Pa
cific railroad, arrived in the city from Port
land yesterday morning. and after spend
ing few hours in examining the rolling
stock of the road in this CITY, under the
escort of General Agent l. A. Nadeau, went
ca on the afternoon train. They are on
a general tour OF inspection of the rolling
stock of the road.
The Kelso correspondent OF the Posr- In.
TELLIGENCER telegraphs: A large mass
meeting was held in Lyle's hail last night
to consider the matter of giving right-of-
way and depot grounds in the city to the
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Several
addresses were made. and it was voted
that on certain conditions the citizens
would grant right-of-way and depot
grounds. II the proposition is accepted
kelso will have railroad facilities equal to
any city between Portland and Puget sound.
Work is going ahad on the grading of the
Seattle 81 Montana railroad in Ballard and
on stretches between that town and Snoho-
mish. The graders are following close on
the heels OF the right-of-wav agents. Some
property owners are causing trouble about
the right-of-way, but very few condemna.
ton suits will be needed-less than on anv
road of the same length through a settled
country--as the settlers are generally
anxious to have the road.
1t is confidently stated that as soon as the
sale Of the Seattle. Lake Shore 4 Eastern
road to the Northern Pacific is settled be.
yond doubt, Judge Burke will resign his
position as counsel for the former road. as its
retention would conf CT with his interests in
the Seattle & Montana. The question is
likely to be settled in the course of this
week.
King & Deacon, contractors for the
Northern Pacific railroad, have driven
about three-qaarters OF q mile of piles on
the roads new right-of-way on Railroad av.
enue South from Railroad avenue Y. and
are driving pies a, the rate of $50 feet .
day. They will begin framing timbers and
putting them in place this week.
Three men belonging TO the Great North.