Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-02-18
HARTMAN TERMINAL DIRECT LEGISLATION
said To HAVE been LOCATED ON
CLALLAM BAY.
Rain Line Through the Olympic Pc
ninSuia to be Used by Union pa
CifiC and Milwaukee Roads Jointly.
Timber Products to be Shipped
Via aberdeen.

SEATTLE, Feb. 16.-Seeking an
outlet on the Strait of Fuca for the
main line Of the Olympic Peninsula
extension of the Oregon & Washing
ton Railroad, Hartman agents are
reliably reported to have completed
investigations at Clallam Bay, thirty
miles west of Port Angeles, where it
is said there will be located an inn
portant shipping and mill manufact-
uring center The main purpose to
be subserved in the establishment Of
big deep water terminals for the
Hartman lines at Clailam bay, 1t is
understood, will be in the enormous
saving of money required for the in
itial investment in terminal proper
ties.
For years advertised as one of the
future great marine cities of the
North Pacific coast, Port Angeles
has long been looking for the time
when real, bona fide transconti-
mental railroad would be built
through the peninsula to the Strait
of Fuca. Harrirhan agents, however,
are said to have discovered that with
the expenditure Of approximately ST.
900 900, a hreakwater can be con-
structed at Claliam Bay which would
provide ample shelter for ships TAX
ing cargo ant ais, food anchorage for
vessels, while several times that
amount of money would be necessary
should sufficient terminals be pur-
chased in Port Angeles.
Joint operation Of main line road
through the Olympic Peninsula. with
spur tracks built into different heavy
timber districts, is said to be the pro-
gram agreed on by the Hartman road
aud the Chicago, Milwaukee & Pu-
get Sound. The Milwaukee road is
said to have already determined posi-
lively to build terminals and a spur
track into Ozette Lake, in Western
Clallam county, which is in .ne CEN
ter of an immense body of standing
timber and which lies ideally to be-
come ir the future a sawmill and \
shingle mill center of considerable
proportlt MS.
More than year ago circum-
stantial story was circulated through
out the Pacific Northwest to the ef-
feet that officers of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway Company
had purchased immense bodies of
standing timber on Vancouver Is
land and would manufacture the logs
into lumber and ship the product by
ferry across the Strait Of Fuca to
some point on the Washington side,
to which the main line of the Olym-
pic Peninsula division of the Milwau-
kee would be constructed. Specific
denial was later made of the story
that any considerable amount of
standing timber had been bought by
interests allied to the Chicago. Mil
waukee & st. Paul.
On the other hand 1t became
known that Milwaukee interests had
obtained ownership Of an immense
body of fir and cedar timber in Clal-
lam county, to which place the pro-
jected Hartman Milwaukee line will
be built from Aberdeen, on Grays
Harbor, during the coming summer.
Railroad men assert that the opening
of the big Olympic Peninsula timber
belt, which will be carried on at the
same time the road is completed, will
develop an immense traffic, and that
it will be routed via Aberdeen and
the Grays Harbor extension to the
East and Central West.
The haste manifested by the Har-
riman Company to get terminals and
a line constructed to Aberdeen dur
ing the summer of 1909, is taken as
evidence that the Southern Pacific
magnate has programmed the early
completion of his whole scheme for
the development of the Olympic Pen
insula and the opening of its vast
forests of cedar and fir.