The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-28
THE LUMBERMEN'S EXCURSION.
Itinerary of the Party Coming TO See
the Coasts Timber.


The full itinerary of the excursion of Eastern
iumbermen to the Pacific, which is being organ
lied by the Mississippi Valley Lumberman, Ia
puollshed In the issue of that paper of Novem
Der TO- The excursionlsts will come in special
train OF Pullman cars, and from 100 to $50 per-
sons are expected to compose the party.
The train will leave ST. Paul by the Northern
Paclhc railroad on the morning Of February s,
lS92, and run straight through to Tacoma, ar
irving there at Hos o'clock in the morning of
February IL. That and the next day will be
spent in visiting the mills OF the st. Paul and
Tacoma Lumber Company, the Tacoma Lumber
Company and other corporations. The party
VIII arrive in Seattle at S:45 on the morning of
February Is and put up at the Rainier, and
will spend that and the next day in
this city in visiting various places
OF interest. The next two days will be spent in
making excursions from Seattle as headquarters,
to the great mills and belts OF timber in the vi
cinlty. On February Is the train will take the
visitors over the Lake Shore road 10 Snoqualmie,
arriving at Seattle again at $50 p m. On Feb
ruary 10 the mills at Port Blakeley and Port
Gamble will be visited by steamer. At 1890 a.
H. on February IL the party will go down
sound on the steamer City of Kingston calling
at Port Townsend, and arriving at Victoria at
4:3O p. m. After spending four hours in that
city the party will return on the City of Kings
ton to Tacoma, arriving there at 5:15 a. M, on
u. IL.
Olympia and the Grays harbor towns. A
request has been made by the Aberdeen Board
OF Trade that entire day be given to
Grays harbor, and the time in that district may
be extended. On February 10 the party will 90
to Portland, and next day will drive around that
city In carriages On the evening of February
q the special train will leave Portland over the
southern Pacltc's Shasta route and arrive in
San Francisco on the morning of February 2S
That and the next day will be devoted to that
city, and on the Goth visit will be paid to the
redwood forests of Sonoma county and on the
9th to the Big Trees That night will be spent
at santa Cruz, and the uext two days will be
devoted to Monterey. On March the train will
take the party back to Oakland, and leave there
for Southern California in the afternoon The
next evening the visitors will reach Santa Bar
bara, where they will visit the old mission and
other points of interest, and leave next after
noon, passing through Los Angeles to Riverside,
arriving there at night. The next day,
March 4, Riverside and San Diego will
be visited, and in the evening the party
will go on to Coronado beach, where a day and
half will be whiled away. Thence, on the
evening OF March 6, they will go on to Los
Angeles, where they will remain through March
z and till noon on March 8. They then go on to
Pasadena, where a carriage ride will be taken to
Santa Anita, San Gabriel Alhambra and other
sights. That evening they leave by the South
ern Pacific eastward, and on March 9 spend an
hour in Yuma and two hours in Tucson. Con-
tinulng this journey, on March 10 four hours
will be spent at FL Paso, Tex, and on March IL
eight hours at San Antonio, where many points
OF interest will be visited in carriages March
II and 10 will be spent in Houston and on March
Ia the train will carry the party to Dallas, where
the morning of the 10th will be spent That
afternoon the party will leave over the St.
Louis d san Francisco railroad for st. Louis,
arriving there on March IL and in Minneapolis
on March 10, the forty first day from the day of
starting