The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-02-27
TO FINISH WORK
IN SHORT ORDER
s1RAHORM ON NORTH COAST
Predicts Completion Of Road in Two
and Half Years-MethOd
of Construction.


within three years at the latest esti-
mate" states President Strahorn of
the North Coast. Gin building to
Tacoma we will pass through the
Tieton pas short distance north of
the Natchez pass We may connect
with the Tacoma Eastern in reach
ing Tacoma, but it will be in the same
way in which we shall connect with
the Canadian Pacific, Northern Pa
cific, Milwaukee, and the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation company lines
at Spokane. Our line is free lance,
shaped to give and take traffic with
all connections in an independent,
business-like manner. Trains will
be running to Tacoma from Spokane
over the North Coast railway in two
and half years. Tacoma will be
the first large city reached by our
line after passing through the Tieton
pass"
Announcing officially that a third
transcontinental railroad, in addition
to the Union Pacific and the Chicago,
Milwaukee e st. Paul, is building to
Tacoma, and intimating that Tacoma
is to be the big terminal point of the
North Coast railroad, is this state
ment from Robert e. Strahorn, pres
ident of the North Coast railroad
who was in Tacoma Saturday ana
Sunday, in company with r. j. Dan
son, of Spokane, vice. president and
chief counsel of the line, and F. L.
Pittman, of North Yakima, chief en-
gineer in charge of the location of
the route and supervision of con-
struction work now in progress.
The visit of this party to Tacoma
is alone of significance. Equipped
with bundles of blueprint maps,
upon which were diagramed Tacoma
tidelands and Typographical outlines
of the country adjacent to the city,
the party arrived here early Satur-
day morning, and spent the day in a
tour Of the city and consultation with
Tacoma men.
Talks Freely of General Plans.
Mr.. Strahorn spoke freely about
the general plans of the North Coast
road, but when questioned in detail
regarding Tacoma terminals, car
shops, coal lands. ETC., he replied:
eff we permit information Of tina.
character to become public property
it tends to increase realty values and
interfere with our plans. The Union
Pacific and Milwaukee lines have
spent millions of dollars more than
was necessary for property in Ia
coma merely because their plans be.
came public before they had COM
pleted the purchase of the terminal
property and right-of-way which
they desired"
"Will you prepare for large ship
ping and ocean business out of Ia
conan"
such questions as that, if answer
ed in detail, will have the very result
we are trying to avoid"
Eve have not decided upon the
location of our shops"
1.-THE completion of the North
Coast railroad will greatly benefit
the entire Northwest. Our line will
pass through the richest agricultural
section in the state of Washington.
Words cannot adequately express my
opinion of the future of this entire
after commercial development of the
next few years have been completed.
II have been over the entire west
ern and central sections of Washing
ton on horseback before Tacoma was
heard Of, even, and since that time !
have believed implicitly in the coun-
try. ! have watched every detail of
it's growth, and believe that Judge
correctly concerning its future. How
ever. as the development of the coun-
try depends largely upon the secuf-
ing of in vestments of eastern capital,
it is safe to say that the exact meas
ure of the progress made by Puget
sound cities will depend greatly up
on the financial prosperity Of the en-
tire country.
"A little danger has been sighted
ahead in the form of the present
prosecution of the so-called railroad
trusts. The northwest is largely de-
pendent upon the railroads. Should
present-day prosecution be carried
| far into the realms Of persecution,
then I should say that the man. Of a.
nance who are expending millions Il