The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-18
surveying N[W RAILROADS.
PARTIES HuSxTxG A LINE TOWARD
VANCOUVER, WASH
Straight Course From Aossy H"~k
20 Etna, Clarke CoaHty-Pr~bm-
fnary work ON the @otdendate
Road-u hateem Anxious for IL

Txa vyssxa ayr, The p~onaess Advocate
~ lsaeaxls gave 70 rs readers aa ac-
count Of come surveyors woE&anS ~ t3a@
rselgnnorhs0a Of Noisy fsa<k- aaIs week
q representative " ss&; paper sa@ Sesa'aS
james saanSF, who had Jssst returned fssss'
Portland. Al Aee&v Rock sssaEsT ~as
euspsoysa by The surveyors 70 d. tHS-F
rsazins Tsewls Shelton and a. j tsfsias
were the nsnzas % ss4s asesl doing t5a work
saaner and another Sn@H accompanies
fa@ns They wers very Fefte&fst aSs4 n&*SF
gave out anything That wesila Lad % ne
discovery 81 their purpose or sES SaaasssGf
they wsre representing. Sa@nsR sad taAs
all their talking and ag9T!fsx wsre s@ne
shen ne ard TIE other msa were e.
distance.
l.r.sy were very careful TO SAP rotA5fzg
!n ssssanefs presence fruEa ysaaca pc s"saaS
gather anything uefiBits. lie wss @A4* -
learn. however. that they came sF~ss re
direction OF Tacoma. thai thsaf s2ffsy was
by way of Mineral Merton and ire 11&9on
river 10 Na~y Rock Prem TIE later
place they took a straight course ss,slh .,
ten degrees east They crossed " ssassoa
creek Green river. the To- tie stF*f. taesssa
up eass 81 Silver AXE Crossed me naa1t-
tain through TOE gAaas a. The fo9t o. patteF-
horn peak ard struck the LSws river AT
F5sna IN Clarke county ToAs point ~ l'ot
or nve miles asyove Woodland. or about
ten miles from where The ie~ts river emu
sfs~s frsa thss Columbia river. Here @naDef
LEFT the. party and went down the rEeF
ana took "a boat fer Portland. returning %
snshalis the next day. The alSee<ioi3 N
which the surveyors were ge4ug ~nsh
shaner left them woslid lead them dlrect-
H. To Vancouver. and There II no COURT
that tnls and Portland were their oojcet'Fe
points. =,
a feasible one for Il railroad. No very
heavy grades we're encountered. fhey
found a very satisfactory pass through ths
saa-xf a sE A.fF
toward To. Columbia river from the cas-
eades south u the Toutle river The men
paid ii,fle attention 10 timber along the
line For lnllem they passed through burns
ard w;ndealis They were six days la the
woos{z without seeing living soul save
Their own party. The route taken by the
surveyors - some iif;~sn miles east u
Tulesso and six or eight miles east of
Castle Rock II passes near enough 10 the
81 Heiaus mining district to admit Of the
extension Of spur Into N. mines The
surveyors gSsed the Northern RACINE maps
I'M their work
Surveying the eoidendnle Line.
Tho railroad surveyors are busiiy engag-
cd In locating the lire # the road between
fsoldendale ard csnteTyilge. The lire ~
surveyed r'ins westerly near the spnta
boundary ~ the Incorporated town then
turns IN nrookx' addition and goes toward
tbs gap In the hill between here and
GeaterViiis on n grade OF about sixty feet
10 the mile. Coming up The swaie canyon.
the grade does nat exceed loss feet 10 the
mile sad 30 curve exceeds ten degrees 80
the hundred feet The curve through
Brooks addition ls FIVE degrees 10 the
hundred feet or what II termed Ave
degree curve" II iz 10 ~ remembered
though that railroad curves are reekoned
fFusn both directions. 50 really the curve
In Brooks addition - onl- "a degrees
turn te every hundred feet.
Whafcom Wants Another Railroad.
Many sruundiess r9mors. Gays the New
Nhateom Revt!le have been started Of
proposed extension of the Eeilingham
Eas 4 Eastern RAILWAY - WIekersham
and ifs becoming branch spur of the
Northern Pacific. but the nsxt year will
demonstrate most forcihly 10 the Northern
Pacific the need ~ ar inlet 20 Nhateom
This city already has terminal rates over
that road bat the freight arrives in a
roundabout way. the need NJ closer cor
nactipns viii be most apparent when the
cann.ry 81 ,he Professionalism Fish
COMPANY II completed An extension "
the HeilRgham BAY g. British Columbia
read - already promised 10 the new can
nert and Northern Pacific ears Viii 20 via
saulas ever that road ind the Seattle 4
International Tn successfully compete
With the Great Northern whose eonnec-
tinns are direct shorter route will ts
found necessary Whse no active prepa-
faiicns are now on foot for The ruvn0red
extension. vet In the language OF Super
intsndenf Donovan. ''it may be built''