The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-04-18
NEW RAILROAD
IN TWO YEARS
NORTH COAST 70 BUILD SOON
Robert T.. Strahorn il Quoted in Re-
view as Authoriiy--Road In
cludcs Telegraph Line.

According TO the Spokesman-Re
view, the North Coast road will have
its line completed between Spokane
and Seattle within two years. In the
course Of an interview with a report
en- for hat paper, Mr. Strahorn said:
The North Coast Railroad Com
pany incorporated at Olympia today
TO take over the North Coast Rail
way company's project and viii have
"a steam road ANA telegraph system
between Spokane and Seattle in read
mess for operation inside of two
years. The sub and superstructural
work Will be of substantial character
and the equipment Will he modern in
every respect"
According to tho articles Of incor-
poration, tho line from Spokane %
the Sound will be through Spokane,
Whitman, Adams. Franklin Benton.
Yakima, Lewis, Pierce and King
counties. and indicates choice of
the Cowlitz pass and part of the ter
Yitory of the Tacoma Eastern rail-
road but nothing definite is decided
Il is announced Officially that the
new company IS a Spokane corpora
tion, organized for The purpose If
superceding the North Ceast Railway
company and acquiring any property
deemed desirable on this side of the
Columbia river 1t has a preliminary
capital Of $4,000 which. It was
given out Yesterday. is 20 be in
creased in proportion to the necessity
for carrying out the project of build
ing and operating the $50 miles Of
line.
While Mr. Strahorn declined to
discuss the question of route for the
new enterprise Yesterday afternoon,
he made this significant statement:
"The North Coast Railroad com
panv is getting in a position to do
business. .
The foregoing, coupled with the
fact that the construction work is
now going on in the Yakima valley,
and that engineers of the North Coast
company are IN the field and are go
ing over the line of the Spokane,
Columbia river & Navigation com
pany's grading to ascertain how much
of it can be utilized BY the company
taking over the property, IS taken
to mean that work will be rushed
to completion when once begun. This
will probably be inside of co days
Advces from Council, Wash, we're
received yesterday that two deeds
conveying the Spokane-Columbi
River Railroad & Navigation compa-
ny's property and right of way TO
Mr.. Strahorn have been filed for rec
ord in the office of the clerk and aud
itor of Franklin county Surveyors
are in the field in this county look
ing for a better grade from Council
east for ten miles The line now has
a grade of little over per cent,
which is considered excessive, and it
is proposed to reduce it to l per cent.
The North Coast is to cross the
Northern Pacific road at Cornell,
from which point the surveys take
the line to a point near Fletcher,
midway between the Oregon Short
line and the Northern Pacific road
The company's engineers are talk
ing the soundings of the Columbia
river in the vicinity of Kennewick,
said an official of the company yes
terday, but the location of a bridge
has not yet been fixed.
Eve are also planning to build i
branch line from point in Benton
or Franklin county to Walla Walla,
thus making the entire system little
more than 425 miles.
Surveys are being made from Ring
gold bar to Kiona, with a view to
tapping the Big Bend country, as an
nounced a few days ago by Mr.. Stra-
horn in an interview at North Yaki-
ma, but just what kind of connec-
tons can be made is not yet known
However, when the line is in opera
ton, we will be in a position to ham
die much of the 100000 bushel
wheat crop in the Big Bend