Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-28
PROPOSED ROADS
MANY LINES UNDER CONSIDERA-
TON IN THIS STATE.
Railway Age Gives IL List of Pro.
jected Railway Mileage, but II
Is Agreed That Very Little Ar.
tual Construction Will Be Done
During 1904.

Seattle, March 26.-The statement
of the Railway Age, covering the rail
road building i'll progress throughout
the country, shows a total of 7l5 miles
of new line outlined for the Pacific
coast states during 1904. OF this
amount, declared to he under contract
or construction, the miles of live pro-
jects are set down AS SOB.
The showing of new roads in Wash
ingtOn which the railroad publication
makes is interesting. 1t is appended
"Black Hills & Northwestern, Olym-
pia to Quinault Indian reservation, 100
miles; Bellingham Bay g. British Co
lumbia, Cornell to Spokane, 200 miles
under survey; Lynden to Blaine, Is
miles; Chelan Railway e. Navigation
Company, Pateros to Wenatchee, so
miles; Columbia Valley, Wallula ives.
to Columbia river, about 800 miles;
Eastern Railway & Lumber Company,
Centralia east to timber lands Great
Northern. Wenatchee to Republic:
Methow Railway and Smelling Com
pany. PaterOs to Robinson, 80 miles:
| Northern Pacific cutoff to West Seat
tle miles, belt line, Woodinvile to
Black River junction, 23.S miles: Ho.
GUAM extension, end of track to Quin-
ault reservation. q miles; cutoff. Lind
to Ellensburg, 30 miles: Prosser, via
Sunnyside, to Toppenish, 30 miles:
Olympia, Shelton a. Bremertou, Olym-
pia to Bremeron, 80 miles; o. r. & N.
extension to Pomreoy, = miles: Port
Angeles Eastern, Port Angeles to Olym-
pia, lO5 Miles; Port Angeles Pacific,
Port Angeles to the Pacific, ~ miles:
Portland Coal and Coke Company;
Stella to coal mines i'll Lewis county,
so imles; Portland, Vancouver d. Yak
ina, Yacolt Prairie to Yakima, 1876
miles; Tacoma belt line, incorporated
to build belt line at Tacoma Tacmoa
Eastern, Alder to Elbe. 6 miles, Elbe
to Ashford, 8 miles; Walla Walla &
Southeastern, incorporated to build 500
miles of road, touching farming dis
tricts in Eastern Oregon and Washing
ton, as we'll as large tract of timber
land in the Blue mountains: Washing
ton & Columbia River. Riverside to
Covello, 40 miles: Washington Rail
way 4 Navigation Company, Nor
thern Pacific company incorporated to
build from Portland to Seattle: Van
couver to coast; Vancouver to Yakima
and Vancouver to Prosser.'
Nearly All Surveyed.
A large portion of the road outlined
in this list has been carried for several
years as prospective railroad building.
A large portion of it is listed as pro.
jected" but much of the territory
proposed to be tapped has Leen sur
veyed.
As matter of fact comparatively
little of the work outlined will be un-
dertaken this year. The larger rail
road companies have declared that
1904 will not be good building year
and that as many as possible of their
projects will be carried over. The ne
gotiations for the purchase of the Bel
bingham Bay & British Columbia.
which will take that property out of
the hands of D. o. Mills. if carried
out, would interfere with the extension
of that line to Spokane. Railroad Ell
, a
vestigation of the passes East of Bel
bingham do not believe the extension
to Spokane is feasible and do not be-
lieve the road will be built if it is left
to the control of Mills and his party
The line was expected to eventually
give the o. R. & N. an outlet from
Spokane to the Coast.
The Great Northern line from We
natchee to Republic was expected, last
fall, to he pushed forward this spring.
1t is extremely doubtful, however
whether anything will be done with
the road this year. Railroad mel re-
gardi Is completion at some later date
as certain, but the business in sight at
present is not attractive to the road
and it is not compelled to build at once
in order that the territory may he pro-
tected.
Delay in Forging Chain.
The Ellensburg Lind cutoff and the
other Northern Pacific lines that are
proposed to form the chain form the
Yakima valley to Vancouver and the
Pacific coast. are not apt to he built
Immediately The bridge across the
Columbia river belongs to the general
Northern Pacific plan of Coast line inn
lTovements.
The Northern Pacific c'totf to West
Seattle will he built this summer.
The belt line about Lake Washington