The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-07-31


whether or not it is absolutely neces-
sary to get unanimous consent of all
tne subscribers to the stock of the
Traction company TO the transfer OF
us assets to the Transportation COM
pany in the manner l nave describ-
ed, it is CERTAINLY DESIRABLE
to do SO and we are trying to do it,
with every prospect or speedy sue
cess. When this is accomplished
and the who're two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars OF the Transports
ton company is subscribed we will
be in this condition, to-wit:
We will have legal bonding ca
pacity of five hundred thousand dol
lars; we will be able to realize twelve
thousand five hundred dollars per
month from Ave per cent per month
assessments upon the unpaid stock
of the transportation company; we
will have two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars worth of paid up
stock to sell at not less than par for
the benefit of our construction fund.
On the twenty-sixth instant we re-
ceived an invoice of one hundred and
ninety-seven tons of rails, which were
shipped from East St. Louis on the
twenty-second inst, and we imme-
diately deposited in the First Nation
al Bank the money to meet the draft
in payment for same as soon as our
| inspection certificate is received. We
have on hand in North Yakima eight
thousand ties and as soon as the
steel rails arrive, which Us now a
question of only few days, we shall
at once begin building road.
We feel that very marked pro-
gress has been made and is being
made, but we have had lot of ex-
perience, and some of it has been
| anything but pleasant, and the great
er part of the unpleasantness has
been produced by just such spii it
as is exhibited by your contributor
Mere Ciuzen," and the editorial
matter which appeared in the DEM
oirat OF last Saturday. People with
out any knowledge of the matter at
all are free with their guesses and
criticisms, and the effect has been to
greatly pain and hurt some OF our
most faithful workers. No man ever
worked harder or more cOnsci-
entiously in forwarding any enter
prise than Mr. H. B. Scudder has in
this, and his work has been effec-
tive. Like every one else he has
his limitations, but il some OF the
people who have numerically criti-
cised him had taken hold and assist
ed this work with one quarter part
til
shown the enterprise would be in
much better shape than it is today.
Their criticisms, some of them posi-
bly, just, came so thick and unkind
as to lead some of the other work
ers in the enterprise to feel that
Mr.. Scudder was so handicapped by
them as to make him unavailable as
the head of the new company, and
one of his lifelong friends, A. j.
Splawn, was selected for chat posi-
ton.
The busybody and spirit Of envy
have caused others to make it APP
pear to Mr.. Scudder that he was I'M
appreciated by his associates, and
from what | have been told | gath
err that he is experiencing feeling
of bitterness which is wholly unwar-
ianted by the facts. No man stands
higher in the respect and esteem of
every member of the board of trus-
tees of the Traction company than
does Mr. Scudder, and it is their de-
sire that he should know it, and
think that he would never have been
left off the new board of trustees
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prevailed that he would not accept
a place on the board with some one
else at it's head-and this impression
may have been caused by the ill-ad
vised talk of some who did not real
lv know the facts.
-''he writer was among the most
-anguine advocates of building the
system of roads with home capital
and operating and controlling them
by Yakima people. | believed that
such scheme was feasible, and
still that it is PHYSICALLY posi-
BILE, but the difficulty lies in getting
any one to do the work necessary to
perfect the organization and to get
the work started and keep it going.
Every business man here capable of
accomplishing anything is overload
ed with his own affairs and while
he is interested and willing to give
SOME TINE to the consideration of
this matter he can not spare enough
time to do the amount of work that
is required, consequently the thing
drags to such an extent that pretty
much everyone has concluded that,
II some one from the outside who
is lin this line of business, and has
the capital TO work with, shows up
and makes TO this company the right
sort of proposition to take UP the
enterprise and Immediately construct
the entire system of roads, we would
probably serve the community better
by dealing with them than we would
working ourselves to death at a job
that we do not understand and keep
the work dragging along unfinished,
indefinitely. / say IF THE RIGHT
PARTY MAKES THE RIGHT SORT
OF PROPOSITION we feel now that
we should be inclined to deal with
him. This does not imply by any
manner of means that this company
would enter into any contract with
hof