The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-20
HEAT FOR EUROPE.
. Grain Warehouse Nearly
Ready for Shipping.
/, LOAD A HUNDRED SHIPS.
/ :, u Hunts Gray's Harbor Road
wsrk 10 wiiiapa Harbor-Man-
srer McNesli Explains.

,r...eer B. r. shaubut. of the Seattle
! s.-s.sna railway, said yesterday that It
- onsy 4 question of few days until
s....s were running 10 the wheat ware
! 80. ~. 4 West s attic. Manager C. 6.
{ 80, al the elevator department, said
1s...-<isv 20 A reporter: 1--WE viii be ready
80, tan DAYS TO receive aud handle
ss..,t and We will have storage room in
Z 4. rsrehoases for at least Loo. 600 bushels
{ . -beaf and other grain. The tirst story
: ~ building is completed now. and when
ss.snplesed il viii be the biggest wheat house
= IL Coast We expect TO receive wheat
- IA over the state, and our agent,
ard TAYLOR, left today TO buy mp ship
4-.rts. We will have no trouble in getting
s. ~ rrain we want. Manager Bailey, of
r.,fo1r. Guthrie & Co.. writes US from
4erpns that he will guarantees 70 oil our
,~.e,house If we can handle IL. Wheat Is
.1.s.4h about 81 cents east of the mountains
- nv cents here. The Pacific Coast and
xorsbern elevator companies are industri-
nav circulating the report in Portland
- ve viii not be ready to handle wheat
m season. This is done to cripple US. but
III NOT avail them. as We are prac-
ScaIlv ready now and can
fs.aje wheat as soon as il
g possibly get here. We will handle al
~ ships chartered by Cesar q Co. think
80 are about fifty ships chartered now
"A ue expect to load at least 100 this sea-
-. They will all be foreign ships and
10 carYy the grain 70 Liverpool. the only
nssket Ne care to ship to. Two of the
irrest European ships now loaded with
roods for Tacoma are already chartered to
farry wheat back to Liverpool Yes, we
- ready to handle wheat as soon as il
eonses ana we don't care how soon. as We
IN b In frss-class shape with railway and
oarehouses completed inside OF ten days.
n IN inerview with o Walla Walia
rhisa reporter. Engineer c. e. Sears. OF
DC Oregon 4 Washing on railroad. said:
~fhe Gray's harbor road commences az
C<nfrsIia, in Lewis county, and running
norsh, crosses the corner of Thurston
county, thence entering Chehalis county.
Learing Centralia, and following the north
yjde al the Chehalis river, the first place of
az Importance Is Grand Mound in the
sfairie OF that name, whioh is undoubtedly
one Of the finest agricultural sections
ii the world. and the topography of which
US evidently intended by nature for easy
construction of q railroad, the grades being
reaches Wards, small but growing place
ID the mouth OF the Black river valley. and
thsnce to 0skvilie, bnt a short distance
essy, one OF the older towns of that sec
Hon. The line from thence runs.
okiyting the northern boundary
q the Chehalis Indian reserve,
about seven miles, and reaches
Cedarville. which Is Just inside the second
lxenty-mile secsion- Five miles beyon d
ibis il Eharp's. new place, and two miles
turther Porier's bluff is reached. where an
cher station is made. Five miles beyond
Porter's Is the town OF EIms, in an old and
thiekIy populated settlement About q
mile and bali further is LakeviIle. which
viii in the future be . great summer re-
sort. Lesving Lakeville and running al.
most due VEST. the Satsop river Is crossed
and q the fortv-second mile from Gen.
trslia. the city OF Monte sano. county seat
0: The county. Il reached Leaving Monte
sano the read crosses the Wynooche river.
astream ss large as the Chehaiis. running
u narrow valley backed by high lands
nvsfsd With hne timber. The ifty-frst
ME pcet il at Cosmopo.is station, the town
q nat name being on the
opposite side of the river from the road.
From here the river is followed even
more closely until Aberdeen is reached, at
the mouth OF the Chehans and Wishkah
nUrs, that being the extreme head of
Orsys harbor. The road thence runs due
vest song the tide fats, at times skirting
TIE high bluffs to the city of Hoquiam. a
ptsce having an immense lumber trade,
where the river of that name is crossed,
ma the road runs four miles further to
oray's Harhor City, the terminus of the
foad. This is just sixty miles from Gen.
rslia. and the sections drained bv the road
BEING all of the finest character. Astounding
N resources of an agricultural and lumber
inc nature.
al present Mr.. Hunt has 500 graders
ana loo teams at work on the road, the
eade being completed for seventeen miles
west OF centralia. There are three con-
suuetion parties in the field, within the
nrst twotwenty-mile sections. The grade
y being completed at the rate of three
qoasieFs of a mile day, though
where the valley narrows, about the
efessing OF the Wynooche, the work will
% slower, as considerable rock work will
g encountered. All the bridging is of the
aensest description, and the road is an
Easy and cheap one TO build-besides bear
ing promise of being one of the most profit
soie roads, for its length, IN the North
ves,
Abiding to the report that the road to
roruand had been located. the reporter
ssked Tor information, and Mr.. Sears
ssaied that three large bodies of engineers
we're IN the field, but as vet were not
yoined. so that it was an impossibility that
me route could have been settled upon. Ii
would DOUBTLESS be at least thirty days
more before the route was established, and
wen work was expected TO commence at
once"
lie Port Townsend Leader of last Friday
ssss; Manager Mcneil. of the Port
townsend Southern. takes exceptions to
!, we interview with himself as published In
,as' sundays Leader He writes to a friend
ne'e TO have the Leader make a correction
= tue article in order 10 have himself and
as people set right before the public The
ssnserview, as published In the Leader on
sunday, was reprin ed in the Posr-isrELLr-
slsesR on Wednesday. and will thus be
even general circulation in Seattle and all
S :, the Sound. but it is only justice 10 Mr..
.sseiii for the Leader to say that portion
y 'ne interview was not had with him, but
: TO this office secondhand. After he
nso lett for Hoods canal on Saturday
!. a'sat gentleman came TO this Office with
,ae story OF talk he had with Manager
,1eNelii, and that part OF the interview re-
s.aig TO Seattle and the Union Pacific was
!, sl'''en NJ, outside OF the Office. from this
Information.