The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-19
TRACK AND WHEELS.
Work on Drawbridge Across
the Duwamish.
EXPRESS COMPANIES MOVING.
The Donchue Eoad-Grest No-thern Con-
tracts-Frznehise Conference-Move<
menfs of Railroad Men.

The laying of rails on the Seattle Ter
minaI railway to West Seattle will be de-
layed until Monday because of the spikes
and rail couplings being delayed at Ia
coma The San Francisco Bridge Com
pany has twenty-five men at work putting
in the drawbridge. al the material for
which was scowed TO the trestie yesterday.
The bridge iron was sent out from Moran
Brofhers' foundry yesterday. A large
force OF men viii be set@to work Monday
and the line completed to the wheat ware
house at West Seattle in very short time.
A correspondent of the PosT-IsrELLI-
GEscER writes: visited the northern part
OF Whstcom county yesterday and was
surprised at the improvements made on the
north side of the Nooksack river Nook
sack City and several other towns OF less
note line the Seattle, Lake Shore
Eastern railroad, all expecting
rail connection with Whatcom
and Seattle before January 1. The town
site company at Nooksack City have
erected several fine buildings. including
one OF the neatest hotels in Whascom
county, finished inside with native woods,
beautifully grained cedar and curly maple.
Considerable money was spent on this
hotel TO illustrate the value of our native
woods when properly worked. The rail-
road company expect to run trains through
Nooksack City as soon as the Mission
bridge across Fraser river is ready. About
200 men are now at work on the bridge.
The railroad grade of the Seattle, Lake
shore IL Eastern is ready for the ties and
iron. The ties are being cut by local saw
mills. and the iron for the north end of the
railroad will be shipped from British
Columbia as far south as Sedro. All the
grading done along the line indicates
thoroughness and stability. At the NOOK
sack river the Cornwall railroad line win
run about one and one-haf miles west
of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern, and
viii connect with the same at the British
boundary line. Grading on the Cornwall
road ends at the Nooksack river, but the
intention of the Cornwall company is to
push it TO completion north OF the river as
soon as necessity requires. To one who
has lived here for years, dependent upon
horses or steamboat for connection with
the outside world, the progress of railroad
work in this country is truly wonderful
and acceptable. The country is developing
rapidly, the axman. sawyer and railroad
builder preparing the way for the farmer
and the city lot Spectator.
Superintendent III. H. Browning, of the
Northern Pacific Express Company; Sup
erintendent NJ. G. Hall, of the Western
division; H. Ewart and Arson Gorton, of
the Wells Fargo Express Company, from
Chicago, arrived here yesterday in a spe-
cial car from Portland. They went to
Tacoma yesterday afternoon and will re-
turn today. The party will leave here to-
morrow for Portland. The Northern Pa
cific Express Company's Office will be
moved tomorrow from the Northern Pa
cific depot to elegant quarters in the Col
man-Starr building.
vice-President W. P. Clough and Chief
Engineer E. H. Becker, of the Great
Northern. returned last night from their
trip north, where they went to inspect a
niece of the line which will be included in
the contracts to be let today for the Seat-
tie Montana line from this city. On
July %. the Great Northern viii let con-
tract for 185 miles on the eastern end of
the line, running west from Assiniboine.
The Whatcom correspondent of the Posi-
INTELLIGENcER teiegraphs: H. G. Thomp-
Railroad Company, today stated that
trains would be running from Bellingham
bay to Seattle within sixty days, and from
Westminster to Seattle within ninety days.
Work on the Seattle, Lake Shore & East
ern depot at Arlington is going on rapidly,
and it is expected the building will be COM
pleted in ten days. Chief Engineer Talcott
and Acting Superintendent Dunn W mt to
Arlington yesterday to inspect the line. A
large hotel is being built there
The New York Herald Of July IS, says of
the Donohue road: There has been per-
fected in the Office of Selegiman, &s Co., an
arrangement which give California finely
equipped, standard-geuge railway, which
in Its present consolidated form, runs from
San Francisco 160 miles north through
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