The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-30
Building Of the Port Angeles
Eastern TO Begin at Once.
80 MEN TO BE EMPLOYED.
Yaee President ana GeneRai Nan.
AgeP Atkinson Ii Here Fro1
Port Angeles 10 Hire Men 10
Eemnenee work IN the Road
TssaspSsts and . steamer Bsi1t.

Construction 81 the Port Angeles East
ern railroad viii BIZ commenced next week.
Operations from that time on viii be very
active, and there Will, according 20 me
builders, be no cessation Of work until the
road viii have been finished. Isaac =
Atkinson. vice president and general man
sger OF the road is az tie Hotel Seattle
to make arrangements for the immediate
commencement OF work. He will employ
$50 Japanese laborers. who will begin on
Thursday. He will also See the Moran
Bios. about the construction OF two
steamers 10 ply between Port Angeles and
vicforsa--oae q ferry for freight and pas
senger cars and another fast passenger
steamer.
The southern terminal OF the road out
Of Pert Angeles IL no; yet definitely get
tied and may not be for some time.
whether the road will run 20 Olympia,
ninety miles, or TO Junction City, twenty
Ave miles. is yet UNKNOWN The pro-
slo;ers OF the company. w. e. Gushing,
OF Boeson. who ~ president, and Mr.. At
kinson have simply guaranteed to the
people Of Port Angeles and Victoria trans
continental connections. That is all that
was asked of them II they can give tails
connection By building twenty-five miles
10 Junction City they would naturally do
Il in preference 10 building ninety miles
20 Olympia. The decision depends upon
the action OF the Port Tow nxend Southern
company. That road has been projected
10 Olympia for months and even for years.
Should II run there, as has been animated
strongly during the past few months. the
Port Angeles Eastern would find II neees-
sary TO build merely to Junction City.
The route east would then be over tne two
smaller roads ard the Northern Pacific.
On the other hand, should the Port
Townsend Southern not build to a connec-
ton with the Northern Pacific at Olympia.
the. Port Angeles Eastern. to mest its
AGREEMENT with the people OF Victoria.
Port Townsend and OF the several other
smaller towns who have also offered sub
sidiss. nrust build there. Such h The stu
alton az this time.
hut this uncertainty does not hinder the
work on the line. There Is "A distance Of
some twenty miles In the direction of
Junction City which will be constructed
whether the line ultimately ends there or
at Olympia. And II IL on this length that
work II now progressing. a party of en-
gtneeTs has been In the field for some
weeks and has run preliminary surveys for
this twenty miles. II has also located six
miles to Moss canyon. or at least II viii
dnve done so by Friday night The 80
jkhorers whom Mr.. Atkinson will put TO
work VIII be employed on the land that
has already been located.
There are about three miles of trestie
work cart II Port Angeles" said Mr. At
kfnsoa last night. .and then come three
or four miles of grading along the shore Of
thu straits. Here these men will be EN-.
ployed building entertainments and making
. side cut. There win be much crib work
1nsthe grade along the shore but We have
IN abundance Of rock within easy reach.
% that We can make a crib which will
Withstand any storm of the straits For
she present no bridge work win be COM
lnencod These Japanese Will do grading
have never before had experience with
japanese laborers. and do not know how
they Will get alouG. But II is the only
Kind of labor that I can find have cor
responded with many labor bureaus and
agents to get Americans. bu; they canno,
he secured"
From the shore the road will go up Moss
canyon 10 reach tho height OF the ground
above the water. There will be a horse
shoe loop. bat an easy grade In faes. Mr..
Atkinson said tina, the heaviest grade ~
only III per cent. and tbs greatest curve ia
less than daxrees The agreement now
being negotiated with the people of Vic
foria requires a transport steamer and a
fast passenger steamer
have rot seen any steamers for sale
on the Coast that answer cur purpose
continued Mr.. Atkinson $50 I shall RON
sun Moran Bros, tomorrow 10 see abou, the
construction Of the steamers We wan, =
ss"h@fSss taSt VIA carry ten freight
or eight passenger coaches and a very fast
propeller passenger steamer. one that will
trave, twenty-one miles per hour and he
able 70 make the trip 10 Victoria In Ia.
opuGhesf Weather
III. Gushing will arrive here a., Friday
From Boston. Arthur Shute. OF F1lswert,
he, treasurer CT the company. nasSa.s
shrcagh seme days ago on hts way 20 Port
Angeles.
Mr.. Atkinson said last night tina; tire ,o,s,-
pany. which lie Incorporated in Ma~xsnhu
sets with capital OF ts1no", ia backed by
bosion parties. friends 81 che officers, ana
they have furnished all the money neees.
sary 10 buff the road
MISS WILziNski. ostsciaa. lie Cherry
Consultation free. -
BAarEfL Drug Co op~r sl nigh.