The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-08
MoNEYTHRoWNAWAY
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There Is No Feasible Pass North
of Mount Baker. !.
TWENTY MILES orusrlEss ROAD
a ysessm Of wslIs wans Hossi Fire
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wHAroox, Aus. .d-fspscial State
Road COMMISSIONERS Crydssmsn aud
Donovan returned today from making q
psrsonal examination Of the so-eslled Han
nsgAn and Austin, p,ssses. nerth Of Mount
Baker. on the PROPOSED route OF
the trans-Casc&des road. 1helg writ
ten repors, 20 the secretary OF fne
commission fnily confirms the statements
made by the Whatcorns correspondent OF
the Posr-In1kILEsEscEx on July p that
the county aud state commissioners mad
been srssyously nIsled by the reporteo s
the Anstln-Lyls party. which vas sent OUT
By the county commissioners previous 20
their appropriation Of 5000 in the spring
Of 1893. Assuming this report 20
bs reliable without taking any steps
70 verify 10, the state commission had
twenty miles of road and trail built on
this aide OF the mountains last year up
the North FORK Of the Aooksack, at . cost
Of 5000, which Is now Of absolutely no
value, except as acoanty road In an En-
settled country. The report OF the com
nIissionsrs says:
"Bosh posses lead 10 Baker river. and
there 10 no pass from the Baker 70 the
skegit, except BY. following the Baker
dosn TO its mouth. The examinations
carried on since June IS have made Il
certain that there Is no feasible
route snorth Of Mount Baker, as the
Law requires. and We can do no more
work IA extending the road eastward
without further action Of the legislature.
Therefore We have discharged the Few
men We had at work clearing Out the
road 10 the twentieth nile-post. The
very best shat can be done On
the line indicated. By the law Is TO
cross Hannegan pass az an elevation OF
5SD0sfeet, with four miles through contin-
uoas snow AZ the present time. then dJop
900 feet 10 fheSChilliwhsck. ia one mile;
then 10 ten miles from Hannegan pass TO
Beaver pass a. an elevation of $3.50 feet
with two miles more 81 snow, much OF IL
twenty feet deep: them drop 900 IN going
1900 feet horizontaily, and then drop
bO0 feet more; then climb nnother
divide between the Little and Big
Beavers, where there IL still 4 mile
Of snow, and finally follow the Beaver
TO the Skagit. Several glaciers are close
% the line and mountains 5000 10 1900
feet high are all around. Ii Is doubtful II
the snow ever leaves these so-caiied passes
and any further expenditure would
be waste of money. IL Is
greatly TO he regretted that
The cruisers last year assumed that they
we're on tributaries OF the Skagit flowing
In the above canyon, without proving
their work. The road agreed upon from
the east 20 tho mouth of Ruby creek
IL all right. but there IL must
connect with the present trail
down Sksgit canyoua 9M Whatcom
county is TO have connection fE must be
via the south fork of the Nooksack to
Lyman, on the SkagIt We have photo
graphs OF flanagan and Austin passes,
also the lowest pass from Baker to the
skagit, taken during the past week. which
will show clearly the useIessnsss Of any
further work in this section unless the
legislature acts In the matter and directs
the work 70 DO done as suggested"
The WeIlmsn party, which has been ex-
ploring up the south fork, also returned
today. Their report has not yet been
filed, but 10 IL understood that ID will be
favorable 10 the route via Lyman aud
sksgit canyon, assuggested by tho CON-
missioner.