The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-16
WORK TO BESTOPPED.
Order Received From Union
Pacific Headquarters.
SEATTLE EXTENSION CAN WAIT.
Probably the Stop II Only for the Win
ter--The Tacoma Bonus Commit
tee Requested to Hurry.

PORTLAND, Dec. 15.-fSpecial. There is
well-founded belief among railroad men
that work is about to be abandoned on the
Union Pacific extension to Puget sound.
There was a good deal more truth in the
report current a few days ago than was
thought. Last night n dispatch was re-
ceived from New York intimating that the
project would in all probability be aban-
doned. Tonight another dispatch was re-
ceiyed, saying that the executive commit
tee of the company had ordered all work
abandoned. The company has been de-
creasing its force right along to pave the
way for abandonment. Chief Engineer
Bogue, in an interview tonight, said that
when he denied few days since that work
had been stopped he gave out what was
the true situation. "Since them" said he,
81 have received further advices of differ
ent nature, but cannot make them pub
lie. Work will not be abandoned inn
mediately. Official notification of cessation
of work viii be accompanied by sufficient
money to pay the men. There are $500 men
at work. and if they should be thrown out
of employment it is feared that they would
flock to Portland and cause trouble. The
officers of the company here think all obi
cations viii be met, so that work can be
formally abandoned by the first of jan
uary. The action of the executive board
will be ratified by the Oregon board of di-
rectors of the Union Pacific Extension
Company. The Seattle extension has SO
far cost nearly 81, 500 900, and is a dead
loss, as there Is no prospect of early re-
sumption.
The cessation of work is no surprise in
Portland, for it has been expected some
time, particularly since Jay Gould obtained
control of the company. Another thing
that has strengthened this belief is the fl
nancial stringency. A Portland man who
returned yesterday from New York, says
that PACING coast people have no idea of
the tightness of the money market in the
East. He says it is almost impossible to
get money at banks, even on gilt-edge Sc
curity.
ID. 2. Thompson, ofthe Union Pacific, be-
ing asked tonight why work had been sus-
pended, said: II know nothing about it
but have expected this move for some time.
The project was one of the most foolish
ever planned. There was no need of a
line to the Sound''
do you think work will ever be re-
sumed?"
81 think not.n
''Will the Union Pacific have trackage
over the Northern to the Sound?''
Il think there is nothing in that story
but do not know enough about the matter
to express an opinion"
1t is possible that the suspension of
work will interfere with the Great North
ern's plans of a road from Portland to
Seattle. When Manager Holcomb, of the
Union Pacific, was here some time ago, he
rather gave it out that it would be better
for the Great Northern and Union Pacific
TO come into Portland over the same line,
and 1t was expected that the two systems
had enteredinto trackage agreement. j.
II. Smith, who had the contract to build
the line, says he has expected suspension
for some time.
PORTLAND, Dec. 15.-V. :G. Bogue, chief
engineer of the Union Pacific Railway
Company, today received dispatch from
New York stating that the executive CON-
mittee of the Union Pacific bave directed
that the work shall be suspended on the
road from Portland to Seattle Work will
not be suspended along the entire line at
once, but will be abandoned as fast as con-
tracts can be closed up. 1t is said the
work may be resumed in the spring.