The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-10
PROGRESS OF sNoHoMIsH.


Financial Conditions Understanding
ZmpRovements-Rai1r Work.
SNoHoAIsH. Oct. s.-Money is becoming
more plentiful. Transient men who have
labored all summer trying to make q
stake are coming to town to spend their
money. Gamblers and crooks who prey
upon them are coming also, making work
for police officers and the magistrate.
Building is lively. New buildings for
residence and for business also are going
up in great Numbers all over town. Atten
d Co. have put up wooden block Of four
store rooms, all rented or occupied. Their
fine double brick block is being rapidly
built. It has an iron front, stone TRIM
mings. It's outside walls are of pressed
brick. When completed it will be the
largest, finest and costliest store building
in town.
Ansel Hubert, an old settler, who came
here from Seattle twenty years ago, owns
valuable tract corner of Union avenue
and Front street. For some time he has
been ready to put up q fine brick and 8 tone
block on this corner, one of the most
slightly locations in Snohomish. but it has
taken some time to settle question of
street grade and other conflicting inter
ests. These things are sll settled now so
that Mr.. Hubert has let the contract for
the immediate erection of a fine double
block and bank building onthis corner, to
be made of brick, stone and iron and to
cost $50.
Railroad work In this vicinity is pretty
well finished for this season. Tracklaying
is we'll along on the Monte Cristo road.
The Three road is practically complet-
ed. The Great Northern has brfdged the
Snohomish river and laid its track from
Lowell up the Snohomish and Skykomish
valley to point some twenty-five miles
above or east of Snohomish. The tempo
rary railroad bridge of the Great Northern
just above the town was so managed as to
be great nuisance. The trouble is this:
The small Puget sound rivers seem at low
water to be trivial streams to
railroad engineers and government United
States engineers. Under their joint aus
pices, when they plan a bridge. they seem
to consider the overflow of water and the
passage of steamers as the only important
things. But at times of freshet, besides
the sudden rises in these rivers and the
immense volumes of water that pour
down from the mountains, some of these
streams, like the Skagit or Snohomish,
carry an amount of drift compara
able to the Mississippi or Columbia
rivers. These bridge builders make no
allowance for these things, or for the pas
sage Of small boats. saw logs, bolts
or billets of wood for shingle mills,
paper mills, etc., etc. Thus. at this
new bridge, through the lack of
skill of the builders. and lack of care in
keeping channel open. for nearly two
months the river was blocked up, above,
below and around this bridge. When
public patience was about exhausted there
came slight rise in the river. This COM
PEELED the railroad company and others. at
great expense, to clear out channel if
they would save the whole business from
going to sea. A crew is now at work
there building the permanent bridge,
which will probably leave sufficient room
for logs. drift, etc., to pass without JAM
ming