The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-05
PRESIDENT HILLS MOVEMENTS.
Soon to Construct acknowledgement
OF Construction on His Road.


OF Construction on His Road.
President Hill, of the Great Northern
road, returned last evening from down
Sound, accompanied by p. =. Shelby. gen.
eral manager of the Coast lines, and S.
S. Netf, the superintendent. While at
Everett he examined the line with view
to determining the best way of crossing
the peninsula on which the town stands.
To Posi- lNTELLIG ENCER reporter he said
on his return:
We are anxious to get 70 work on the road TO
Portland soon We can. bu. / can't tell
when that will be. We shall begin the estab-
hshment of terminals of our own here very
soon, for we shall need them, whether We sue
coed ia making an arrangement with the other
roads or not As TO the matter of terminal
rates. it viii be time enough TO discuss that
when we have terminal road.
Mr.. Hill will remain in the city for
day or two more, occupying his new pri-
vate car.
The following dispatch was received
from Fairhaven last evening:
FAIEHAvEN. June 4.-lspecial. lin converse
ton with Herald reporter about the progress OF
construction work on the main line Chief Engi-
neer Becker said: "The work is progressing
very satisfactorily. Tracklayiny is now COM
ple:ed to Spokane, and regular freight and
passenger service to and from that point Will be
established in about ten days.. Nc, do not in
tend TO locate my headquarters there. Tho
fact is the road is being built so rapidly that
Spokane will very soon be way station. The
most important part of the work remaining will
be nearer the Sound than Spokane. and can be
better directed from Seattle. In few days We
will be laying track west of Spokane at the rate
OF three four miles day to the Column
bia river. which the road will cross ten
miles south OF Wenatchce From there to the
summit of the mountains the distance is fifty
FIVE miles. and the total distance from Spokane
TO where the main line will iatersect the coast
line near Marysv;lle is 500 miles. That is the
number OF miles of track yet to be laid. on
this side tracklaying will begin about the mid
die OF July, and while it may be possible 10 have
rail connection completed across the switch
back in November, IL is get too early TO say that
it will be done. Ii early and heavy SHOWS in
the mountains do not interfere with the work
aud DELAY the building of snow sheds, think
We can have through trains running by Janu-
AIRY /.
According to the Spokane papers. Mr..
Hill was somewhat irritatcd at the recep-
ton they gave his statements about rates,
and Robert Easson, a member of the ship
pers' committee, spoke so plainly that Mr..
Hill sent him o check for $3.50, the amount
of his subscription to the right-of-way
| fund with note expressing the desire
that Mr.. Eass0n would always give his
| business 10 any road but the Great North
| ern. although the latter, rs a common car
! rier. would OF course handle il If rendered.
! The San Francisco Examiner SAYS: Jim
| Hils road, the Great Northern, has a,
| last reached Spokane, and will now be
| rapidly pushed forward across the Pine
| Tree state to tjdewater. in all probability
| TO Seattle This will give the entire
| Sound contry four distinct and through
routes TO the EaSt-the Northern Pacific
| Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific and Great
| Northern. And yet san Francisco mer
| chants, under the handicap of single
overland route only, expect 70 compete
with Eastern firms for the business OF that
section