The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-31
STRIDING WESTWARD
The Burlington Road Building
Toward the Coast.
NEW TARIFF ON SOUND BOATS.
Contracts for the Cornwall Road Let
Little More Grading to do ON
the Lake Shore

The meeting of the Puget Sound Steam
boat Association az Tacoma, resulted in the
election OF G. G. Chandler. of the Northern
Pacific railroad, as chairman, and A. n.
Moffatt, formerly manager of the Star line
| OF steamers and various ordinations of
passenger and tug boats at Detroit. as sec
rotary. {. II. Pennington, manager of the
steamer J. r. Mcdonald, had been invited
with view 20 adjusting rates on the
Whatcom route" but ne interpreted this
as an invitation to join the association and
failed to respond. Colonel o. +. Briggs. of
the Oregon improvement Company, was
instructed TO prepare @ tariff OF rates, but
this will not make any reduction, as the
present basis-S2.50 per ton, when it
occupies forty cubic feet or less, and 81. so
per forty cubic feet when ton occupies
more than that space. The only difference
VIII be that shippers will know just what
they have TO pay, and will not be left tn
the caprice OF the pursers. The Mcdonald
siiil maintains its 81 rate, but the associa-
ton Is fighting it bitterly, and turns away
Tacoma business from her whenever it can.
MI. remington states that shippers by his
boat really save IS cents a ton, as be
charges only IS cents wharfage. while other
boats charge so cents. he claims that Is
boat has saved considerable trade on b FL
hngham bay to Seattle merchants, for it
went on the route at this reduced rate III a
critical time, when the merchants in the
bay towns were seeking relief from the
combine by buying in San Francisco.
The Nooksack City correspondent of the
IL ali RI
tract for grading that portion of the Bell.
ingham Bay Il British Columbia railway
between the Nooksack river and the inter
national line has been awarded to d. Nc
Calvary, who also has the contract on the
Canadian Pacific road from Mission south.
Contractor Mudd is clearing the right-of-
way, and the heavy blasts daily cause the
windows at Nooksack City TO rattle onin-
ously.
The plans of the depot to be erected here
on the line of the Seattle, Lake Shore Il
Eastern railway are displayed in the wln-
COW OF Heney Bros store, and tenders
have been called for It will be located be-
tween the main line and the siding, and on
the south side of Madison street. Work
on 81. j. Heney's contract south of the
south fork of the Nooksack river viii be
Il
then be concentrated on that portion OF the
grade between the north and south forks.
Some 10000 ties have been distributed ali
along the grade between the British line
and Pilchuck creek. or enough TO supply
the line. The piiing for the one and three
fourths miles bridge across the SIX agit river
has been driven. and on Monday last the
work OF framing the draw was begun.
There remains scarcely ten miles of I'M
completed grade between Seattle and the
boundary, and work is being prosecuted
vigorously throughout.
Charles King, Of King q Dickman, the
Northern Pacific railroad contractors. is at
the Rainier. He says that the road from
Durham to Niblock's mines is completed as
far as Cedar river, a distance OF four miles.
and work is going ahead ali along
the line. All the heaviest grading
is being done first, and is wei
advanced The most serious work to be
done now is the construction of high
bridge across Cedar. The road, though
short, is a very hard one 10 buiid, as there
is great amount of trestling on it. 1t
simply jumps across one deep ravine after
another, and is in many places q continu-
Gus bridge. The force has been increased
to 600 men, but there is still room for 200
more.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road is rapidly reaching towards the Coast.
The contract has just been let for the COM
pletion of the extension from Newcastle,
Wyo.. to Butte, Mont, distance OF about
800 miles. Part of the grading has already
been done and the work IS comparatively
easy until the neighborhood of Butte il
reached, when some heavy rock work will
be encountered. This company has 700
miles of road and will eventually extend
its lines TO the Coast, but to what point is
not yet decided. The line to Butte will be
finished this fail, if possible, and in any
case next spring.
Now that the dispute in regard to the
grade of Banner street is settled. work is to
go ahead, and it is expected to be reduced
to grade in about thirty days. BY that
time the West Street and North End road
will be ready 10 go through. having all the
track laid except that strip and the section
along the southern end OF West street,
which is temporarily stopped by iniunc-
ton.
Yesterday President Leary, of the Cham
Der of Commerce, received the following
telegram from Senator Squire:
have been working on your telegram con-
corning the right-os-wsy OF the Portland &
Puget Sound Railway Company through the
Puygl up Indian reservation. 1 am happy to
state that the Senate committee reports the bill
fagorably today.
An Olympia special dispatch to the Posr-
INrELLIGEScER says: The work of driving
piling for the Port Townsend Southern
railroad depot VIII be commenced on Mon
day. The depot will be located just north
of the Fourth street bridge on the west
side. The structure will probably be one
story high and of frame.
Pile-driving for the bridge OF the Seattle
4 Montana railroad across Salmon bay be-
gan yesterday. and twenty feet of piles
were driven parallel with the electric rail-
road bridge
The quantity of freight carried into Ar
iington over the rev extension OF the Sc
attic. Lake Shore It Eastern railroad be-
tween July 3 and August was 797 tons.
f. W. Parker, travelling passenger agent
of the Burlington route, and wife, returned
yesterday from a business trip TO Victoria
and Vancouver.
The papers in more condemnation suits
for the right-of-way of the Seattle & Mon
tans railroad were served yesterday.
The first iron was laid on the James
street cable road yesterday, just above
Third street