The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-13
TEWS OF RAILROADS.
rorthern Pacific Locations at
Centralia.
,,h,on PACIFIC RleHTs-oF-wAy,
.-ars Moore Employed to Secure Then
waiting Railroad Men-shipments
Of Material-Notes.

Manager B. T. sheubut, of the Seattle
annual Railway. who returned Friday
trcn, ! Two weeks trip to st. Paul, Mime
esoais and Chicago, gave the following
GERS TO q Posr-ISTELLIeEScER reporter
-sstsrday: las had not been away for
- Years took trip East. more to see
4. Chicago races than anything else
rh;le here met an old friend. Traffic
Manager C. H. Knapp, of the Chicago g.
Yorthvestern railroad. He informed me
shst be had visited seattle short time be-
iorr on quiet business trip with o few
abroad men. He grew quite enthusiastic
cver the Puget sound country and said we
hed the most wonderful country on Puget
souna that was in The United states Its
resources. be said, were grand and almost
unlimited and the time would soon be
rben the principal cities on the Sound
roud have more railway business than
nv other city in the United States. He
starred 10 the Northern Pacific.
a. Union Pacific and the Great
Vorthern, and remarked that they
rsre only starters, as other important
,sads would soon be here. think he re-
itrred TO the Chicago e. Northwestern as
epe that would pass up through the wheat
Lii and strike about the center of Puget
sound. He was extremely enthusiastic
ov,r the enormous traffic that could be de-
veIoped for railroads and said Seattle need
not be afraid about getting all the rail-
roads they wanted at an eariv date. I be-
Hare the Chicago e. Northwestern is work
inr in connections between Omaha and
Chicago but do not know wha. other ar
nneements they may have that uld
hing the former line to Seattle. Promi-
pens officials of the Minneapolis Elevator
Company talked with me about wishing to
extend their elevators out here TO handle
he wheat trade. President G. G.. Austin,
Il she Seattle Terminal Railway
and Wheat Elevator Company, ar
rived this morning and reports that
The crop of wheat viii be very large east of
Ne mountains. The wheat warehouses at
West Seattle are progressing finely. and
viil be ready TO handle wheat when it is
yeady for the market. The eighteen car
losds Of steel for the Terminal railway
passed Chicago July 3. and isexpecied here
tomorrow or Monday. As soon as 1t
arrives the track will be laid across to West
Seattle The bridge Is all ready TO put
iogether and the men will begin putting it
h tomorrow. We expect to have the
beidge 90 that the laying of the track will
DOT be in the least delayed. General Con-
tactne Agent c. L. Hamilton, of the
American Construction Company. has
lesssd from the Seattle Transfer Company
he warehouse known as the Palouse mill.
near the Northern Pacific track. for sup
py depot, and will be here Monday TO COM
pete the contract"
The Centralia correspondent of the Posr-
lgrELLIGEScER teIegraphs: The Union
Pacific engineers have been engaged for
ZONE days in locating their line into the
city. As soon as this is done work is to
begin at number of points along the iine..
From a reliable authority the PosT- INTEL
LeEscEs correspondent learns that the
work is to be done in the most substantial
manner. Nothing bat stone and cast iron
culyerts will be used. Heavy steel rails
will be laid and the work will be so we'll
done that as soon as completed the time
between Portland and seattle will be re-
duced to i've hours. Colonel E.lsbury still
has . large fo.ce at work on his coal road :.
and is surveying from the Northern Pacific
to the Chehalis river. He expects 10 have
his entire line completed within three
months.
The construction north and northwest
through the Black Hills country by the
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy railroad is
thought by many railroad men to mean a
connection with the Great Northern, as it
seems TO be the object of the Chicago, Bur-
hneion d Quincy 10 cross the Northern
Pacific, the only other line that would
coast Chicago. Burlington & Quincy off,
Gals have recently stated that that line
would be into Seattle next year without
making much noise about 1t. It is fair to
presume that it will carry out such inten-
Non by connection with the Great North
trn IN Montana, and come into Seattle by
Erecting trackage arrangement with the
Great Northern.
The ST. Helens MIST says: Judge r.
A. Moore has been offered by the Union
Pacific Railroad Company the position of
nan -ol-way agent on their new line from
roruand to Seattle, To have charge of that
part OF the line from Portland to Centraiia.
MS acceptance. with charge of $500 per
month rs salary, has been forwarded to
me head office al Omaha for the company's
approval Judge Moore secured the right
oiway for the Northern Pacific when that
me was built through this country and
81 - l. A.
and settlers that the Union Pacific Conn
pany IS anxious to secure his services on
Their line."
The Slaughter Sun says: 1--WE are in
Mfmed that the Northern Pacific Railway
company has been negotiating for the pur-
eaase OF John Randali's farm near Stuck.
nc mas been offered $4,000 for it, but re-
FUSES TO sell at that price. Just what the
sos'hern Pacific Company wants this land
W. is difficult to understand.
PRESIDENT Elijah Smith, Resident Man
Etr Mcneil and Superintendent r. A.
AN, OF the Oregon Improvement Conn.,
pany, chartered the steamer Mountaineer
Sound
me oregon Improvement Company mill
sesaefday took contract 10 saw 1900 ties
"r contractors Hale & Smith, TO be used
Va sne Port Townsend Southern line.
resident Charles l.. Colby, of the Wis
ssasn central. and party of railrosa
sa 'eit Helena, Mont, yesterday and yre
~pee'ed TO arrive here tomorrow.
.aa ns western Union Telegraph Company
oegin work tomorrow stretching a line
s'a ehoquAimie to South Bend, on the
sss'ae, Lake shore & Eastern.
n a.ei Clerk G. W. Hyler. of Portland.
W, was in the citv ves,arsav ~ =,