The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-23
ON THE MONTE CRIsro ROAD.


Finished by Docem berthe Telegraph
Lino-Monte Cristo Depot.
MONTE CgIsTo. Aug. 22--tSpecial. l.
Superintendent A. A. Allen and chief en-
gineer =. b. Fisher, of the Everett Il
Monte Cristo railroad, arrived here today
on tour of inspection over the line. They
were accompanied by Leo Daft, contractor
for the telegraph line of the road, and
J. g. Blake, manager of the Postal Telc-
graph Company, of Seattle. Messrs. Alien
and Fisher were in consultation with Gen
eral Superintendent Butler concerning
the terminals at this point. TO corre-
spondent of the PosT-INrELLIGgScEK Sup
erintendent Allen said:
The work along the line of the road is progress
ing finely, and we shall be In Monte Cristo by tho
FIRST of December. In any event With good
weather We shall be in here two weeks or ruors
sooner. Everything along the line looks favors-
bic, and nothing but heavy rains can delay us.
The right-or-wey work is completed clear
through, and the greater part OF the grading
done The tunnel work, too, Ia looking much
better than month ago. On tunnel No. l. the
longest and hardest. We now have air drills at
work and are making ten feet per day-seven
feet on the side where VIC have the air drills
and three feet on the other. We are now in EGO
feet from the east portal and 30 from the west,
500 feet In all, leaving only SIG OF the sic feet
OF the tunnel to be completed. The contractors
expect to SEQ daylight through the bore by Sep
tember g. All the other tunnels will be
through by that time, think, including No. D,
which is the next heaviest.
We are now laying steel and ballasting east
ward from Hartford on the line of the Seattle,
Lake Shore & Eastern, and the track will DO
completed to tunnel No. i, twelve miles out OF
Hartford, inside of a week. I his viii enable MS
to freight supplies by rail much nearer to the
camps and push the work faster.
The expectation is now that we will put on a
daily passenger service from Everett to Monte
Cristo this year. Trains will be run to make
immediate connections with the Lake Shore at
Hartford junction, thus making quick through
trip from Seattle without any delay.
The site selected for the passenger
station is in the triangle formed by the
junction of '78 and Glacier creeks. at
the foot of the long hill on which the
townsite lies. The site is especially favor
able, as it will land passengers within
two minutes walk of the center of town.
Some doubts had been entertained as to
the possibility of extending the road to
the point chosen on account of the heavy
grade Of the last mile, but Chief Engineer
Fisher decides that it is entirely feasible.
For the present the freight depot and
yards will also be located at the FORKS"
contiguous to the ore bunkers and the con-
contractor.
Leo Daft, the electrical contractor. who
accompanied the Allen party, stated that
the telegraph line would be completed and
open for business by the time the last rail
is laid into Monte Cristo. 1.-The poles are
cut for the entire line," he said today.
land digging for post holes has begun. l
shall probably not string the line much
faster than the track Is laid" Mr. Daft is
an excellent amateur photographer and
carries his camera with him on his trips.
He expects to visit Monte Crsto again
shortly and take number of views of
the country round about. Speaking of the
country which the Everett & Monte Cristo
will traverse, he said: ait will certainly
equal, if it does not surpass, for the beauty
and grandeur of its scenery many of the
famed tourist roads of this country. I
think it will come to rank as one of the
scenic lines of the Northwest"