The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-06-12
WORK ON THE
RAILROAD LINE
Steady Progress Is Being Made by
the Various Contractors Along
the City Front.
THE PROGRESS or EVENTS
No roWtr Can Stop the GfoWth and rros-
perity Of the rort Of the COlHmbia
Construction Of the SCok
Bay Depot 10 Begin.

Work on the railroad along the wa.
ter front IL rapidly assuming tangible
proportions Quietly. from day 10 day,
the contractors have been getting their
machinery In shape their material on
the ground. aud increasing the force
Of men, The engineers estimate that
II viii take 1900 piles 20 finish the
work from the briuge TO the depot
grounds And while the piling is not
arriving just now as rapidly as the
contractors might wish. yet under the
circumstances Il Is hardly possible that
the timber men could do any better.
A sudden call has been made for piles.
not only FOR the railroad work. but for
the dock at Flavel, and various private
docks making in all demand for he
tween $500 and 5000 piles.
When seen yesterday Contractors
Wakefield and Jacobsen stated that
they had commenced work on the tres
tie near Kinncys cannery. and that
they had two pile drivers In position
ready for work. one OF them being ca
pable Of handling piles one hundred
feet In length This Is probably the
largest pile driver on the Pacific coast.
II is thought that they can finish the
work up 10 FlnVcls dock by the Goth
of June BY that date in all probable
lty. one or both Of the English ships
now on the way this side OF Cape
Horn. with the steel rails. will have
arrived In port Corey Brothers are
making every possible effort to COM
plete the big dock az FlRvel In time 10
receive this steel Il is now only a
question OF how fast material can be
furnished. as two shifts OF men viii
be kept al work each twenty-four
hours on both contracts Contractor
Goerig is still up the river making an
effort TO hasten the supplies OF ma
terial for his portion Of the work.
Work will commence. II is thought.
In few days, ON the depot site, as
the general plans for the railroad
yards, as we'll as the buildings. are
about completed Advertisements for
bids for this work will no doubt be
made in the immediate future, Work
men have nearly completed the tearing
down OF the Brown & Corbett dock be-
tween 9th and 10th streets TO make
way for the contractors, and the dock
on the west side OF 9TH street. belong
ing TO the same parties, has been re-
so as to leave a clear right of
way for the road,
Mr.. W. W. Corey, Of Corey Brothers,
left for Portland on the Telephone last
evening. TO secure another donkey en-
gne for an additional pile driver to
be used on his part OF the work at
Flavel He said before leaving that he
expected that today or tomorrow he
would have another raft of piles down
for the big dock,
II was rumored last night that GER
tain parties who are Interested in the
Wolfe bid ON the big contract, are
still In the city. but have not yet de-
clded TO furnish bonds, II was under
stood in other quarters that II was
only q question of a few days when
these bonds would be forthcoming, as
all of the Interested parties have be-
come satisfied with the deal. one gen
tleman, who declined to allow his name
to be used, said that after careful In
vestigation he had become firmly con-
WINGED that c. p. Huntington and other
New York capitalists Of national fame
in railroad work, were interested with
Mr.. Hammond in the Astoria and Col
umbia River Railroad, although the
latter gentlemans position is such
that he needs no financial aid. II
think, however that Mr., Hammond is
a man OF too sound business Judgment
and experience to undertake an enter
prise of this nature slngle-handed, sim
ply for the reason that 1t Is much more
to his advantage to have others asso-
ciated with him for the sake Of outside
than II would be to own
such road individually. Mr., Ham
mond knows his business"
From all Of the above. It is plainly
evident that whatever other affairs are
in Astoria, the railroad is
pushing steadily forward and the ef-
fects OF the employment Of large num-
bers of men and the accomplishment
OF great work within the city lin
its will soon be felt. These facts should
be source Of qualification to every ci-
tizen Of Astoria, particularly when II
is absolutely certain that other great
enterprises contingent upon the rail-
road, will be undertaken before many
days. one or two large transactions
have been closed this week and viii
be made public in due time Others
will follow, and those who doubt that
there will ever be any material growth
here as one gentleman remarked yes
terday, had better move to other
climes Newspaper slurs and unfavor-