The Republican journal., 1900-11-22
MADAME YALE,
LETTER FROM SEATTLE.


ident Hill of the Great Northern
Railway, and President Mellen of the
Northern Pacific, have recently been in
consultation i'll Seattle and the indica-
tons now are that the terminal diff
iiculties may soon terminate in a mu
tUdl adjustment. resulting il a union
pas senger Station--of which Seattle has
long stood III serious need. In the mean
time both roads are expanding large
sums in local terminal improvements
President Melen. OF the y p which
road built up Tacoma.-says: There
are better facilities in Seattle for the
business of the northern Pacific than at
any other point on Puget Sound. This
city has out-styipped all others and as
soon as ecan get accommodations for
our business, more Of it will come
here"
Eastern people, who contemplate a
trip TO the far West on cheap rates, or
otherwise, will find the two transconti-
mental roads-the Great Northern and
the Northern Pacitic-among the best
roads in the land. The North Western
from Chicago to st. Paul.-is another
iirst-class line. \ recent trip to and
from Chicago - east oRer the G. Nj
and home over \. p, leads to the above
conclusions. n F. North Coast Lin
inted' is one of the finest trains that
ever crossed the continent.
The wealth Of gold which has already
come out of Alaska and the Northwest
Territory klondike) is something
starting. Many eastern people are in
creduious, and yet the Government
reports ought to be reassuring The
total amount of gold dust and bullion
received at the Seattle assay Office dur
Ing the present calendar year amounts
to so, 1865, js1. 54-twenty millions. This
was divided up among 602S deposits, and
il ounces, |, 243, 1853. OF this, 50, 40, 427
came from tie Cape Nome district;
e462, SOB from other Alaska points:
St93, 1l6 from the Atlin district B. C.);
S16374, 4Ss from the Yukon of Klondike
district, and s125, ,62 from other points
more local These figures were com
piled Oct oath. Since that date $500, 600
more dust has arrived, all but $4,000
from Nome. SO Cape Nome was not al
together bad 1t is believed at the
Seattle assay office that Nome's output
for this entire season will reach fully
So 1000, 900. The correctness OF the local
assay office figures on general assays
is attested to by other mlnts, to which
this gold is all shipped and re-assayed.
While the Great Northern Railway
is practically rebuilding much OF It's
road through Washington, Idaho and
Montana-in Strengthening curves, fill
ing ravines, and general shortening of
its Iine-incuding the near completion
of the-ereat tunnel through the Cascade
Mountains-the y orthern Pacific is COLI
structing cut-otfs which will practically
shorten that road nearly 100 miles in
Washington state alone. The transcon-
tlnental trains now run ulIecl W Sedtele
whereas they formally came via Tacoma
This is because of the so-called Palmer
cut-otf-bringing Seattle as the road S
nearest seaport terminus. Now the
n. p. is about to undertake big cut
off in the central portion of the State,
making the line nearly direct from Spo-
kane to Seattle, the cutoff commencing
at Lind, in Adams county, and ending
at Ellensburg, in Kittitas county The
Mp. on entering the State now runs
southwark from Spokane to Pasco
within fifteen miles of the southern
border of the State, and thence north
west to Ellensburg and Seattle. The
cutoff will be 50 miles north of Pasco
Historic and magnificent Snoqualml'
Falls-25 miles east from Seattle, ant
27O feet high, have suffered Dissertation
at the hands of the local electric poWe
company. A great rock has been blast
ed away which formerly parted tn
cataract in the very center of the brink
1t materially alters the splendid appear
ance of the waterfall. o. M. MOORE.