The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-26
NO TUNNEL NEEDED.
An Easy Pass Through the Cas-
cades is Discovered.
i pRospEcToR's LUCKY FIND.
1aIlord,s View OF the Righf-of-Way
Centsst-Laks Shore Omcials
visit the Front.

4 rerev 81 psospectos who have Just returned
see1s ~ Coscode mountains, claim to have
Sr~n6 : s,enp which can be crossed By railroad
rriehcut : tunuel, and they are trying TO sell
fhear information TO the Great Northern rail-
sneA Of coBrss they refuse TO say in what To-
sIlfv Il Il "a Be found but Il is somewhere north
a he Cascade psss. One OF the party said
Vnrferdny that the pass was fully Loo feet lower
SSen ne Cascade pass, which Is 800 feet above
Is. = & IL summit, and that the route to-
v6rdo Il Il through one Of the most beautiful
eauyous he ever saw.
4ifs Information will probably be valuable 70
Nc (feas Northern railroad, - the passes 20 far
q 1xamluod are very steep and crossing from
fhe veot % the east side Of the mountains can
AMY s. efcected BY means Of long tunnelA The
eontIousAn mentioned says that the Great North
- eneinccrs have found the eauk to be the
80 pess surveyed 10 far, and that crossing
z - only b made on It by means OF . tunnel
90 and fhree-quarters miles long 1t the sum
NJ me surveying party has gone into that
eocfion lately and has cut trail for forty miles
Is pock IT. OUTFIT TO the summit The Cascades
- Described - the most precipitous ever en-
oountered, and the prospect0r mentioned says
{fat there ase several peaks higher than Mount
1e1es, Glscier peak being among them. He en-
countered numerous glaciers, one Of which took
Mn three days TO climb and he only reached
4 Ing up precipice.
me question Of right-of.way for the Seattle
L = Montana and the Seattle, Lake Shore East
en- railroads through Ballard comes before the
s ovn council again next Tuesday. Captain 7.
". Lake, one Of the councilmen. said to Posr-
fnrIzLI6rNcER reporter yesterday that the Be-
attle & Montana would probably be granted .
fSfxfy-foot franchise on 6hilshole avenue, but
intssnated that the provision - 70 the grading
g NE street. BY the railroad company would DC
adhered to- He said: 1.-THE Seattle & Montana
wants the grade Of the street reduced lot us
oonvcnience, the cut being i've OK six feet IN
oGne places. It was for this reason that We
as,ed the road to grade the street and the cross
ufxeets which would be affected BY the change.
Ne shall probably grant the Lake Shore
1fteen feet That road has no rights
a. The street. 80 far - we can discover.
\ The ties for the track were laid OH Shil-
ahole avenue by John Leary and Captain
VI II Ballard, 90 that the only part Of the track
1eloneing to the railroad 10 the iron. The
tround was not given to the road by Messrs.
Ioafy and Ballard, nor was any agreement
mede, either written or verbally, allowing the
~ 81 the ground for any length OF time This
around was Afterwards donated as street to
the town Of Ballard, 90 that the Lake Shore is
only occupying It a. long a. the council allows
81 don't think that any court would rule
that the road has any rights there. Gnd we can
teas up the tracks at any time we choose.
don't expect that any trouble viii arise, and
think the whole question viii be settled ami
eahly."
Tho Portland Oregonian says: Mr.. N. J. Bla-
een. 70 whom was awarded the contract for all
ne bridges and timber work on the branch be-
jne built by the Union Pacific from here to Sc
effle has been released from that contract at his
own reuuest, 20 he finds that his interests here
f1nAn ubo1o
hsidge work between Portland and Centralia
has been let to A. Mckenzie 4 Co., well-kn0wn
oontracsors. who have been doing work for the
oompany 1t Spokane Falls, bat who will here
after be located 1t Kalama MessrA Mckenzie
4 Co. have also been awarded the contract for
supplying the ties for the entire line from here
to Kalama
President Durham, Superintendent Dunn and
Chief Engineer TAlcott OF the Seattle, Lake
Ghore Eastern railroad, left at q m. yester-
day on special train for the end Of the track
beyond Lake McMurray MessrA Dnnham and
Dunn returned last evening, Mr.. Talcott going
on 70 eodro. Mr.. Durham says the track is laid
SWo miles north OF 6edro, and some distance
oouth from the ekaeit. but gap Of ten or twelve
miles remaina The track still has to be lined
mp and ballasted.
The September number Of Koch d Oakley's
Railway and Navigation Guide 10 out and il
even more complete than the excellent num-
hers which have preceded. Timetables are
given Of every railroad, steamer and stage line
IN Warrington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana,
both in detail and condensed form. Travellers
will find 1t indispensable.
+. Young of San Francisco. travelling passen-
ger agent Of the Santa Fe system, J. w. Phalon,
Of Portland. travelling passenger agent OF the
Chicago 4 Northwestern railroad, and C. J..
NIT k>Rs A.
chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad, were In
the city yesterday after spending few days in
the hop fields OF Puyallup.
Judge stratton and the jury. Judge Burke,
eounsel for the Seattle q Montana, J. G..
Humphries. Orange Jacobs and J. w. Spriggs,
counsel for the defendants. and T. ]. Miner,
Sishtof.way agent, went yesterday to Ballard to
view the ground in order to assess damages in
the right-of-way suit against John Schweitzer
and others
Fred Rice Rowell, attorney and rightcf- way
agent for the Lake Shore road, left last evening
for Mt Vernon to secure right-ofway and sta
ten grounds at that town. He says that the
right-of-way on the northern extension is all Sc
cured except in . few isolated spots
Erastus Young, Of Omaha, general auditor OF
the Union Pacific system, and J. H. Mcconnell
also Of Omaha. were being piloted about the
city yesterday by Travelling Auditor Mackenzie.
B. T. Canny. superintendent OF the Oregon
Improvement Company's railroad, returned yes-
terday from an inspecting trip over the Colum.
bia & Puget Sound road.
The turntabe for the Front street cable line
ut King street il about ready for use but will re.
main idle until the new combination cars ar
rive.
survey IL now being made for an extra
Northern Pacific track between Tacoma and
Meeker junction. The cost viii be about 500.
O0Q
J. A. McFec, paymaster for Henry & Balch,
made trip along the line of the Belt Line road
yesterday and paid the men employed in grad
ing.
Five cars OF wheat came in yesterday, two
/ from Ellensburg. two from Dixie and one from
wallula junction.
Captain F. A. Hill. chief engineer of the Ore.
gon Improvement Company, returned yesterday
from Anacortea
STATE FAIR COMMISSIONERS.
BOARD Favors Separate Exhibits of
Washington-Thc Next Meeting.
TACOMA, Sept e5-lspecisl THE state board
ofcommissioners to the Worlds fair in Chicago.
continued their session at the Fife hotel this
morning. The following gentlemen were in at.
tendance: DR.. n. G. Bialock of Walla Walla,