The Saint Paul globe., 1903-05-17

company has constructed five new
docks and warehouses with an aggre-
gate storage capacity of $1,000 tons.
The Great Northern docks at Smiths 8
cove, which were erected six years ago,
are now being greatly improved and
enlarged, and when the work now in
progress is completed the company will
have one continuous dock and ware
house 100 feet wide, 1900 feet long and
two stories high, with railroad tracks
running along either side and a freight
storage capacity of $4,000 tons. Along
side this dock there will be a slip wide
enough to accommodate the big steam
ers and containing a minimum depth
of thirty-five feet of water at the low
est tides. On the side of this slip op-
posite the warehouse is an immense
grain elevator which is being increased
in capacity.
Facilities for coaIine.
The Pacific Coast company, in addi-
ton to operating railroads and steam
ships, owns and operates extensive cotI
mines in this county, and also owns and
operates coal bunkers for loading coal
into ocean vessels by gravity system,
with a capacity for loading 5000 tons
a day, and the Roslyn Coal company,
which is operated in sympathy with the
Northern Pacific Railroad company,
has bunkers with a capacity for load
ing into ocean vessels 5000 tons a day
The Pacific Coast company has recent
ly commenced the construction of new
bunkers, double the capacity of the old
ones, and these will be alongside deep
water slips, and equipped with the most
approved modern appliances.
In the southern portion of the city
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific companies are together filing
250 acres of tide lands for terminal
grounds. When this fill is completed
they will jointly erect on it a $250,000
passenger station of Washington gran
ite, and extensive freight sheds and
warehouses, and lay upwards of 100
miles Of yard and switching tracks.
The dirt for this fill is being taken from
the new tunnel, which is to run from
the depot grounds northward, under
the business section Of the city for
some 5000 feet, affording an outlet
from the yards to the northward, with
out the necessity of traversing the
water front, greatly to the inconveni-
ence of both rail and water traffic.
Two Track Tunnel.
The tunnel will accommodate two
tracks and will cost approximately
million dollars. The excavation will
be 3S feet wide and 80 feet high, and
the interior viii be protected
against caving by four foot wall of
concrete. In digging it it will be nee
essary to remove some 225,000 cubic
yards of earth, and as the formation is
of alternate hard and soft strata and
as the tunnel runs directly under no
less than six brick buildings Of i'm
mense weight it will be necessary to
observe the greatest care to prevent
accident while the excavation is in
progress. All of the property neces-
sary for the right of way for the tun-
mel has been secured, the necessary
franchises granted by the city, and the
work of excavation has been begun
simultaneously at each end. 1t is es-
timated by the local engineers in
charge of the work that it can be COM
pleted Within. q eighteen months.
though the construction franchises
place a limit of two years upon its
final completion.
At convenient places, outside the
city, along the, Duwanlish valley on
. the Northern Pacific and along the
Snohomishes river, on the line of the
Great Northern the respective compa-
nies are engaged in laying from fifty
to seventyrEailes- each of freight stor-
age tracks where freight arriving by
rail and destined for shipment by
steamer can be stored in cars await
ing the arrival of the steamer. ystz
Will Double Track to Everett.
The Northern Pacific has already
been double-tracked between this
city and Black River Junction, dis
tance of twelve miles, and the Great
Northern will double-track it's line
from this city to Everett, for conVen-