The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-17
STOP WILL BE SHORT.
Union Pacific Must Build Its
Seattle Extension.
THE COLUMBIA BRIDGE NEEDED.
President OF the Alton Road Thinks the
Farmers Alliance VIII Get After
Jay GouId's Octopus.

| PORTLAND, Dec 16-Chief Engineer Bogue, OF
the Union Pacific, said today that he had re-
| ceiyed no further adyices concerning the supen-
sion OF work on the Puget sound extension, and
that he was ignorant OF the reason for the move.
lido not doubt" said Mr.. Bogue, ''that work
win be resumed sooner or later / cannot say
when. With me 1t is merely matter OF speeu-
lation. great deal OF money has been ex-
pended, but cannot name the sum. The COM
pany viii, no doubt, finally take some steps to
protect itself from loss on that expenditure by
utilizing the work already done"
TACOMA, Dec. ls.-[speeial. l-Order to suspend
work on the Union Paeiic's sound extensions, is
not viewed with apprehension by the rank ana
file OF local railroad men. Various facts tend to
the belief that work viii be resumed III the
spring with forces sufficient to complete the
same according to the original plans
Percy Dickinson, OF the firm of King & Dicktn-
son, contractors who are cutting the passage
way through the rock at Carrolls, thinks 1t
would cost more for the Northern Pacific to
doube-track its line from the Sound to Portland
than for the Union Pacific to go on and complete
its line Something over year ago there was
talk of doubletracking the Northern Pacific
from Seattle and Tacoma to Portland II was
held that business warranted the move, but 1t
turned ont no amicable arrangement could be
made with the Union Pacific for trackage AS a
result the Union Pacific work went forward.
man with an unusually broad range of observa-
ton, "Charles Francis Adams has been called in
and Mr.. Gould and his party propose to make
every foot of road operated pay handsomely"
Still 1t is held, that it is now too late for the
Union Pacific to drop its Washington extension,
from the fact that drawbridge is needed at the
Columbia, because over one-third of the grade
is already completed, and because the Northern
Pacific cannot handle the business with a single
trade between the Sound and Portland during
the next two years.
Right-of-way men in the employ of the Great
Northern are still busy in this vicinity. They
come and go quietly, though. Today Mr.. En-
NETT, OF Fairhayen, one OF the Great Northern
right-of-way men, declared that possibly within
two or three weeks the contract for building the
branch OF that road from Hamilton TO the
mouth OF the Sank river would be let.
Continuing this route here, Emmett
says the Great Northern will reach
the Sound as quickly ms possible via the Skagit
valley. With but few minor eases, he says,
the Great Northerns right-of-way has been Sc
cured through the valley, and over the Cas-.
eades.
With the Union and Northern Pacific occupy
ing the field between the Sound and Portland it
is given ont by railroad men as IA significant
fact that the Great Northern will not find an en-
tirely smooth path in that direction. And this
fact is given us another reason why the Union
Pacific win be built.
This evening Chairman w. J. Thompson, of
the Union Pacific terminal subsidy committee,
telegraphed Chief Engineer Bogue at Portland:
"About $4,000 subscribed. ] will personally
guarantee that the balance viii be raised"