The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-23
WATERV|LLE.
WILL HAVE A
RAILROAD
ALONZO RAY OF SEATTLE GIVEN
CONTRACT FOR BUILDING OF
WATERVILLE-DOU LINE
COMPLETED WITHIN 90 DAYS.

City Engineer c. c. Ward received
letter this morning from AlOnzo
Ray, a contractor of Seattle. The
detter was written from Waterville
lby Mr.. Ray and stated that he had
been awarded the contract for the
building of the Waterville-DOugla
<xai}road. The letter was written to
Mr.. Ward in the hopes that he could
put him in touch with sub-cOntract-
ors for this work. This is the hne
which is being promoted by Frank
MacKean. 1t is " miles long and
! is to be completed within 80 days.
The citizens of Waterville raised $780,
600 for the building of this road and
Mr.. MacKean has contracted with
the holding company of the railroad
to build the road and equip 1t with
electric power for the amount sub
scribed. Mr.. MacKean is to also
operate the road for five years. This
road is to be electric and will be
lOperated from power generated at
Chelan Falls. Mr.. MacKean was in
Waterville the first of last week and
made the people of that place a pro-
position to take hold of the building
of the spur line which is to give Wa
terville connection with the Great
Northern at Douglas. The terms
were agreed upon and Mr.. MacKean
has surveyors and contractors in that
place this week. Mr.. Ray, the sue
cessful contractor, has Offices in the
Pacific block in Seattle and is now
trying to get sub-contract0rs on the
work.
Frank MacKean came down on the
boat this morning from Waterville
and was shown the above article by
the Daily World. Mr.. MacKean con-
firmed the fact that he and asso-
ciates were going to build railroad
but stated that instead of Mr.. Ray
being awarded the contract that Mr..
Ray was associated in the company
and that the company itself was go
ing ahead with the building of the
road and was looking for contractors.
Mr.. MacKean further stated when
asked by the Daily World as to his
plans for future developments in the
upper country, that he had very COM
prehensive plans for electric develop
ment and that he is going to start
in within the course of a couple of
weeks on the survey for another line
but just where it was he did not care
to say.
Mr.. MacKean stated that under
his terms of contract with the Wa
terville people the Chelan power
must be ready for transmission to
/ Waterville to operate the road within
! 90 days and that he is hurrying the
development of this power just as
RAPIDLY as possible. He made ar
rangements in this city today for
/ lumber, for wood stave pipe for the.
Chelan power plant and other ma
terial and equipment will be shipped
in so that the work will progress
rapidly.
Mr.. MacKean has had considerable
railroad experience and naturally is
well posted on railroad conditions
and reports in central Washington.
He stated 1t to be his belief that the
North Coast was going to build to
/ Wenatchee and possibly further up
the river. He states that Mr.. Stra-
/ horn is the only railroad man in the
state who Is in position to build.
He does not credit the Union Pacific,
/ the Milwaukee or any other system
with being in position to build up the
/ river. Mr.. MacKean was on the
North Coast survey a couple of weeks
ago and states that this is certainly
final railroad location. The work
has been done very thoroughly and
he believes that from present indica-
tions and from present reports that
1t will be only a short time before
the North Coast will be building into
Wenatchee.