Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-10-12
this one AT TACOMA
ANOTHER GREAT tide Land deal
IS REPORTED.
Stxty.et0ht Acres Sold for q Quar-.
ter OF tiillion-r1tiwaukee Rail.
road Believed to Be Purchaser.
Tacoma Eastern Also BUYS
Largely.

Tacoma, OF. 1O.-A deed for the sale
OF GO acres and fraction of the tide
lands lying along the east side of the
Puysllup waterway was executed yes.
terday and the sale will be closed to-
day. The price paid is IS, 800 an acre.
making q transaction involving over
$25o.0o0. The property was owned by
a local syndicate. mem ers Of which
say the purchase is for the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad.
The same people who are buying
this tract yesterday also purcnased
lots and 9, the price being private.
The 6S acre tract lies directly be-
tween the Puyallup waterway and a
tract Of 81 acres bought last year by
j. T. Woodward, president Of the Han
over National bank Of New York, and
which sale at the time and since been
supposed by real estate men to have
beeu made for terminals for the Mil.
waukee railroad. The negotiations
for these sales opened ten days ago,
when the syndicate was asked for op-
tions. An agreement was made for
the sale, the consideration being cash
Yesterday the syndicate received no.
tioe that the money would be forth.
coming.
The property begins at deep water.
and with the 81 acres bought a year
ago, forms a tract quarter Of mile
across and more than half q mile long.
Tacoma Eastern Buys.
Rumors that have been cumulatine
for weeks past, to the effect that the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail.
road is coming to Tacoma have in the
past day or 30 been given credenoe,
and are believed by the most conserva-
tive and best informed men Of the city.
Sales Of tide fiat lands at the point of
the water front where an incoming
railroad would most likely attempt to
reach tidewater are being made, but
in almost every case the negotiations
are carried on by some Tacoma agent
for an ont town principal.
The particular rumor given counte-
nance on every hand is that the Taco
ma Eastern road is the Western termi-
nus of the Milwaukee line. 1t is al
ready we'll into the Cascade foothills,
SO miles from Tacoma, and heading
directly towards the Cowlitz pass.
News comes from North Yakima
that railroad company recently or.
gained there is securing right Of way
tor line that is heading for Cowlitz
pass, and that the same people are be-
hind the project that are building the
Tacoma Eastern line. Grading ON this
line has already begun near the Paint.
ed rocks.
Within the past few days the Tacoma
Eastern has bought twenty three acres
of tide lands here, and options have
been secured on adjacent property
This elaborate preparations on the part
of the road appears so out of proportion
to the pretensions of the promoters Of
the line, who contend that the Tacoms
Eastern is merely road branching out
from the city to mining and timber
districts, that real estate and business
men are now prepared to believe thu
line belongs to the Milwaukee system
and will shortly make connections
with the road pushing across the noun
tains from North Yakima. The excite
ment caused by the railroad rumors anG
the bona fide operations actually I'M
der way have ..aused considerable
advance in tide fiat property.