The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-07
CLOSING UP THE GAP.
A Section of the Great Northern
Extension Opened.
ANOTHER TRAIN TO PORTLAND.
Dining Cars to Run From Seattle North.
ern Pacific Pays Taxes-Thoss
Injunction Cases.

OF the Oregon improvement Company
would be moved to Portland. Colonel J. C.
Haines. the counsel of the company. said
Yesterday: I'VE here have not heard the
nrst word touching such movement /
should think we wonld be likely to get
some wind OF the proceeding. and so am
Inc ined to doubt the rumor Very lirtie
OF NE company's business is done in Ore
gon-comparativelv speaking-and SO I
should think that the management of the
large Washington interests from Port
land Office Mould be attended with con.
siderable Inconvenience. But since Mr..
simon, the receiver, is to be personally
responsible for all the money expended, /
presume the accounts will pass through
MS hands at Portland, and q certain
amount OF business will be done at Port
land In connection with that work.
The company. as has often been stated.
mas more than enough assets to cover all
its liabilities. / should today estimate the
value OF its property at SIS 00. 900. put
IL at 100000 several days ago when
values had fallen to their lowest. The
company Is not conducting single branch
OF business that is not profitable. The
stock is now qHoted at IL, showing that the
company in the estimate of Wall street
can pay ell its debts and have good deal
left over. The stock was 40 in August, and
regard 1t as one of the best investments
IN the country at the present price"
The necessity for third train between
Seattle and Portland on the Northern
Pacific railroad is created by the abandon
ment OF one OF the transcontinental trains,
which take effect today. As this tram
~ O AL
abandonment reduces the numner of trains
over this route to two. The travel betw cen
Seattle and Portland is already 60 heavy
that it may be necessary to run the day
train IN two sections. 1t is therefore pro-
posed to put third train on the route be
tween Seattle and Portland. new time
card will be made in about three weeks
making this change. though it may be put
on sooner. At the same time new dining
car will probably be put on the morning
train between these two points. The Port
land trains will also stop running through
to the wharf at Tacoma, and will only stop
at the Pacific avenue station in that town.
1t is understood that the decision in the
suit now pending between the city and the
Northern Pacific railroad in regard to the
Columbia street grade, involving the use OF
the old winding right-of-way, will be taken
up as test case and will settle the question
of the right of the city to change the grade
OF Marion, Madison, Spring and Seneca
streets. Columbia street has been graded
down to the disputed crossing, and ]. NJ
CoIman is finishing off the corner of his
building at Columbia street and the alley,
between Railroad avenue and West street,
which would be cut off by the railroad. Ii
the railroad wins, its track will run up this
allev. curve westward, cutting off corner
OF the Commercial Mill Company's build
ing between Marion and Madison. and the
end of bakers warehouse. At University
street it will rejoin the old track. as the fire
only destroyed it up to that point The
right-of-way extends TO Stewart street.
G. S. Fernald, of st. Paul, general tax
commissioner of the Northern Pacific rail-
road, arrived in the city at 4 O'Clock yester.
day afternoon, accompanied by w. A.
Carson, district tax agent, and within the
hour following they paid the taxes of the
road in King county. amounting to $l2.-
79l.2l. into the treasury, and secured
a receipt for the entire amount. The
settlement was made without a moments
delay or the least difference between the
two parties. Mr.. Fernald will visit every
county in the state before January to pay
taxes. As OILY about twenty days remain
in which to visit over thirty counties, he
will be kept on the jump.
The station of the Belt line railroad
at Renton was finished yesterday. Work
on the grade is hampered by wet weather
and right-of-way difficulties. There is
much plated land in the neighborhood of
Kirkland that the right-of-way has to be
bought lot by lot. and many owners cam
not be found. An appeal has been taken
against the award in the condemnation
case on the Colman property, and the rail-
road claims to have discovered that the
land is under water when Lake Washing
ton is high. A truss bridge is under con-
struction across Cedar river, as that stream
| is not navigable.
| The restraining order obtained by the
Seattle & Montana railroad to prevent the
| Northern Pacific from crossing its rlght-of-
way at Railroad avenue and Tower street,
which is the north point of the Y. was to
| have come up before Judge Lichtenberg
! yesterday, but nothing was done about it.
/ The Northern Pacific proposed to make a
| crossing in order to connect with the ter
| minal railway. 1t is understood that the
| order was only obtained to force an agree
| ment in regard to crossings.
The st. Paul correspondent of the Posi-
| INTELLrcEScER telegraphs: 1.-The Great
| Northern railroad has issued a circular an
nouncing the opening on December of lo1
miles of its short line extension from near
! Assfnaboine. Mont, to the Pacific coast"
| This extension carries the road 10 near the
summit OF the Rocky mountains at the
| Marias pass.
| Five carloads of wheat arrived yesterday.