The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-07
NEWS or RAILROADS.
Failure Of Right-of. Way Bill
Delays the Union.
WORK GOES ON, ALL THE SAME.
z1s Lake shore Building sidstrssk -
yssler's wharf-Losasien ~ tAs
Belt line.

The Tacoma correspondent Of the Posr.
IBrsLLIoRBcEa tslegraphs: II. Y. Gates.
division engiaeer Of tho Union Pacific
railroad. says that work on the road b.
tween Tacoma and Seattle hes not been
suspended pending passing Of the reserva-
ton right-of-way bill By the Ssnats. "etil. /"
he says. BY way Of explanation, "were the
bill ont OF the way We should undoubtedly
beg q active construction at onCe on the
line between Tacoma and Seattle" He ad-
mits that the bill u IN measure pros.
pectiye obstruction. and that the final ~
suit will Be suspension II the bill II not
passed. The right-of-way outside Of
the reservation Is being secured -
rapidly as possible. Not until
last week were the locating or
field parties between Tacoma and seattle
disbandrd, they having complstsd their
work. Unless the Senate passes the bill
the Union Pacific cannot get into Tacoma
by direct route, ~ the line Is located
through the south side Of the reservation.
The reservation - causing . slow down.
whereas II the right-of-way was secured
the Union would steam up and rush
through the line with throttle wide open.
Originally the Seattle Tacoma line Was not
to be built till spring. - the grade 10 easy
and much more can b accomplished In
dry than in wet weather.
The esattle, Lake shore 4 Eastern rail.
road began the construction early yester-
day morning OF . sidetrack TO Yesler 3
lumber yard and wharf. The sidetrack
runs from the main track little north Of
the Lake Shore depot and outs across the
Union Pacific and Seattle & Montana
rights-of-way on Railroad avenue to the
Yesler wharf. Work continued al day
and into the night. but during the after
noon the pile-driver was called on 70 repair
some damage done by the storm to the
GOAL bunkers at Smiths cove. President
Durham said to Posr- re-
porter that the company was simply con.
structing sidetrack to Yesler's wharf and
lumber yard. just Is it would to any other
point where sidetrack was desired; that
the ordinance granting the franchise on
Railroad avenue gave the Lake shore the
right TO build sidetracks across the avenue
as any point to reach warehouses or
wharves, just IS the other railroads were
granted the right to cross the Lake Shore
tracks for the same purpose; that there
was no attempt to monopolise the avenue
or occupy any other roads right-oi-way.
He said that the construction OF the track
had no connection with the purchase Of
the Lake shore by the Northern Pacific,
but was Simply an ordinary business mat
ter Of the Lake Shore a. an independent
rood. The option on Yesler's wharf was
I16tained before there Was any probability
Of the sale OF the road to the Northern Pa
cifc. and whom the option expired he took
the property % an individual and had not
yet turned II over to the Lake Shore rail-
road.
The premiums for The year 1880 for the
condition Of track on the Lake shore road
were awarded yesterday % follows: Sam
uel Long, Redmond, for the best section on
the entire system, and on the main line:
7. ]. Howell. Monahan. for the greatest
improvement Of any section on the main
line; Martin Ssvertson, Fremont, for the
BEST section on the northern division; Will
lam p. Dooley, Machias, for the greatest
Improvement Of any section on the north
ern division. The amour, Of the premiums
Is SIS each. The committees OF inspection
were: For improvements. +. w. Dunn,
A. Densmore. T. J. Howell and II. Cleaves
for the best sections. A. Branin. 9. w.
Ruiz, r. w. Dunn and a. Densmore.
Superintendent Dunn says the System ID
working admirably, - it has on every rail-
road where Il il In practice in the East and
South. He finds an improvement Of about
10 per cent in the condition of the road
since the regular annual inspection In
July. and 70 or 50 per cent. in the season.
Is it has been remarkably free from OBJ
structions and consequent wrecks
The location OF the oelt line across Mer-
Ger slough having been revised. work be-
gan on that section yesterday. and 10 now
in progress along the whole line. Trouble
has now arisen in regard to the right-of-
way across T. NJ. Smi,her's property, and
may cause change of location 30 that the
road willrun along Burnett street. Renton.
and follow different route for about .
mile.
The contract for lumber for the North
SeSstle extension Of the Front street cable
railway system has been let TO the Western
Mil Company. Work on the ditching be-
gan yesterday.
Colonel W. H. Efiinger. attorney for the
Union Pacific railway, and H. v. Gates,
division engineer, went to Tacoma yester-
day on the o'clock train.
Death from kidney disease il the unfortunate
and untimely ending Of thousands of the Amer.
can people annually: Oregon Kidney Tea il
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