The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-08
rELEPHoNE LINE TO sPOKANl

x8LEPHONE LINE TO SPOAANBs
Construction Begun--Coming Down the
Columbia ON . Flstboat.
The Sunset Telephone and Telegraph
Company has begun the construction OF
the long-distance telephone line from
Spokane to Portland, and will have 1t
ready for operation this summer. The
line will run along the banks of the 20.
lumbia river nearly the whole distance,
and the construction. gang is coming
down on fiatboat, which carries all the
material and on which is house for the
men to live in.
This line will make it possible to talk
clear across the state by way Of Portland.
distance of $40 miles, nearly double the
distance by the Great Northern road.
Eve-ett's Sid for Farmers Elevator.
TACOMA. March Especial. ]-Lillis E.
Smith, of Endicott, in charge of securing
site for the farmers elevator, returned
from Portland and SAYS there is q prospect
of Everett agreeing to furnish site and
warehouse also. This proposition has not
yet been made in writing. Smith believes
the Farmers Terminal company will con-
troll 3, 900, 600 bushels of wheat next season.
Contract for Coulter's Logging Road.
The contract for three miles of the log.
ging road to be built by Samuel Coulter
into the great body of timber owned by
Judge H. G. Bond. in Cherry valley, was
let yesterday. Work is to begin at once.
and the road is to be completed in sixty
days. 1t will open up one of the finest
bodies of timber in the Sound country.
Railroad and a,ornor.rton Noeaa
A. D. scroggy, contracting freight agent of the
Canadian Pacific road, went to San Francisco
yesterday to join his wife, who 10 spending the
winter there.
A. F. Burieigh. general counsel OF the Oregon
Improvement Company, was at Olympia yester-
day arguing three cases before the supreme
court
Amended articles OF Incorporation were fled
yesterday by F. ". Clayton and R. NJ. Crawford,
changing the name of the corporation known
Is Crawford, Harmon 4. Clayton to Crawford &
Clayton. The stock is $4,000. to be issued only
at par. paid up and worcestershire.
Articles of the Quick Drug Company were
filed in the county auditors office yesterday by
J. B. Quick and Eben Smith. The company 10
capitalized at $4,000
The Seattle Bond and Security Company held
it's annual meeting yesterday. After hearing
the annual report Of the president, which
showed the COMPANY to be in good condition,
the following committees were appointed: On
by-laws-H. H. A. Hastings, C. A. r ddle and /.
3. Stedman. On investments-Pre, ident Will
II. Parry. C. G. Heifner and John E. Aver. And
iting-F. D. Ogden, F. B. Ingersoll and Thomas
Navin These committees will report to an sd-
journsd meeting OF the company next Tuesday
afternoon. at which time the annual election
will be held.
The January number OF the Great Northern
Bulletin, paper which 10 published by the pas
senger department of the Great Northern rail-
road, is devoted TO a description of the parts of
Washington traversed by the extension to Puget
sound. 1t tells all about the state and its re-
sources and is nicely illustrated with photo
gravures of scenes along the line, among which
Seattle figures prominently and in which Mount
Rainier il called BY its true name. not by the
alias adopted in some other railroad pub!ica-