Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-06-05
GETS NORTHERN PACIFIC SHOPS
Standpoint is to Be Made Great Rail-
way Center.

way Center.
Absolute information was given
out during the past week that Sand
point was to be made the eastern
terminal of the Spokane, Portland
& Seattle railroad now under con-
struction along the north bank Of
the Columbia river in Washington
and that the big shops of that COM
pany were also to be located here.
In connection with the same it is
also given out that Standpoint will
be made division point by the
Northern Pacific and that the shops
Of that company will also be located
here,
This information was first given
out by Superintendent Beamer of the
Northern Pacific, who was in the
city last Friday in his special car,
and 1t was later verified by the News
editor in an interview with T. ].
Humbird, who has sold the land to
the railroad companies for their sid
ings and shops.
The terminals, shops and yards
will be located between Ponderay
and Kootenai, taking up all of the
country between these two points,
and It was announced by Mr.. Beamer
that inside OF three weeks there
would be from 200 to 500 men put
to work there clearing the ground,
putting in sldings and commencing
on the construction of shops, round
houses and other buildings necessary.
The location here of the terminals
of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle,
together with its mammoth shops
and the moving here OF the crews
of that road, together with the crews
OF the Northern Pacific, who will
move here with the changing of the
division of that road, taken together
with the employees Of the Northern
Pacific shops, and then taking in the
many men who will be employed in
the transfer sheds and yards, means
that Standpoint will have over 1000
more men added to her payroll.
For the first few months 1t is
announced that the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle will use the Northern
Pacific tracks through Spokane and
to this city, until they can get the
grade question settled in Spokane,
after which time their line will be
built through Spokane and on out
to Standpoint.
There were three important factors
that brought about the location OF
the terminals and shops of the s.
p. a s. road to Standpoint and also
brought the division point and shops
Of the Northern Pacific here. The
s. P. & s. people started from Port
land, making a division point every
hundred miles or as near that dis
lance apart as they could do SO.
The last division brings them to
Standpoint at ia miles from their
other division point. The next factor
was the fact that the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle, being a road built
Jointly by the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern for the purpose of
handling through freight from the
coast over the mountains and this
far east and then to transfer It to
the two roads, It was necessary that
they should make their terminals
either at Spokane or Standpoint In
order to transfer to the other two
roads and on account of there be-
Ing no ground at Spokane on a level
where they could transfer from one
road to the other, 1t became neces-
sary for the terminals and transfer
yards and sheds to be located in
Standpoint. The third factor was the
fact that all railroad companies are
now endeavorlng to locate outside
of the larger cities to the end that
they not be troubled so much with
labor agitators and other city
troubles.
When It was decided that the
terminals and shops of the s. p. &
s. were to be located here it then
became necessary that the Northern
Pacific locate its division point hers
for the reason that trains will be
made up here from the goods and
cars transferred from the new road.
so the division of the Northern Pa