The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-12

ether doctors would cpme 10 town and
sisvide - praefic<. He dindt - where
the benel5f uAs 70 Gems from and Ne uas
opposed 10 the iaea
Not = few dssronr1gemenfs were met
with, yet some lSsile work was done Mr.
Stevens ease up the ghost. hguratively.
RULED up stakes and vent TO Boston. where
he Is nov . prominent lawyer and NJ
<prcsed cisixen. The good seed sown by
him, however. finally bore fruit The peo-
pie aroused from their i<thary and held
several public meetings. q which Is was
determined that . narrow gauge road
should b built from Olympia 70 Tenino.
EVERY Thursday was declared . public
field day, when every patriotic citisen VS.
supposed TO close his store. Office or place
of bu siness and take up . shovel. pick or AZ
and 70 on the railroad and work hard all
day. The coed women Of Olympia. IN or
der TO do their part, furnished baskets of
provisions to the Isborers. In this manner
the greater portion Of the roadbed was pre-
pared for the ties and rats
.,On the first day of the roads compile
ton, when the old engine came In without
. headlight and We held - public meeting
TO procure one. remember that Charley
Graneerss mule. q common nuisance, was
secured and on its hack was lashed q
mountain howifzer. The animal Was then
marched to the top OF Capital hill. when
the cannon was touched OF The rebound
was too much for the mule and il was
thrown over the high embankment Did
the mule live Well. you never heard oil q.
mule dying, did YOU 1t wasn't hurt.
About that Tim Judge Obadiah b. Me-
Fadden was elected delegate to congress
to succeed the famous Selucius Garfield.
One OF the irst acts OF Mr.. McFadden was
to get through congress . Law authorizing
the county o: Thurston 10 issue bonds to
the amount OF $4,000 TO aid in the con-
struction and equipment OF the railroad,
pledging the credit of the county for the
security Of the bonds. After that the road
had smooth sailing. The bonds were sold
and the road was built. but there was little
traffic for il and il proved a financial fail
ure.
When the road had had several years of
Indifferent operation it was bought by GEN
eral SpTague and Robert Wingate, Of Ia
coma !. r. Brown. OF Tenino. and others.
branches were built out into the timber
sections and quite traffic was built up in
The transportation of logs. Better terms
were made for train connections with the
Northern Pacific at Tenino. and the road
was placed on a reasonably paying basis.
FOR some time there have been rumors
in the air to thu effect that the Northern
Pacific contemplated buying the Olympia
& Tenino road Under the agreement with
the people of Port Townsend, the Oregon
Improvement Company. in order to earn
the 81 900 90 subsidy offered by that COM
munity, agreed TO build and equip stand
ard gauge road from Port Townsend on
the west side Of Puget Sound to a connec-
ton with some transcontinental line of
railway within given tine-
Manager Mcneil. who is sly old fox,
at once perceived the advisabiiity and de-
STABILITY OF acquiring the Olympia 4 Te-
nino road and making the promised trans
continental connection with the Northern
Pacific at the nearest possible point
Tenino. Acting on this, Manager Mcneil
and Colonel John C.. Haines. attorney Tor
the Port Townsend & Southern railroad,
entered into negotiations with the owners
of the Olympia & Tcnino road. and closed
the purchase of that property before the
Northern Pacific realized what was GO
ing on.
The Oregon improvement Company,
underline terms of the purchase, agrees 10
pay $4,000 per mile for the Olympia & Te-
nino road. the present company to turn
the road over after first having converted
it into firstclass standard gauge road
and the band Is still playing"