Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-09-03
GRAND TRUNK COMING
Washington to Have Another IT,.
continental Railroad In The
Near Future

A new railway is looming up .,
the horizon-and a big one. IN.
Grand Trunk Pacific, stretchine a.,
across the great land of the north
is reaching toward the markets :,
Washington; and Spokane NAV nror.
to be the gateway chosen for u.
entr4A to the Evergreen state.
Gu, the Cascades comes new.
that SO '.rveyors employed bv tba
mysteri ,, s forth Coast railroad ara
working lad in an apparen,
effort to Di.te before winter
line acre - the 1atoosh range ana
Bear pra RE down the south bank o,
the Nisqually river to the point whera
the Nisqually is continent with HORSE
creek
Soon afterward new North
Coast 'rumor' was going the rounds
of railway Offices" says Tacoma
report. This time the wise ones
connect the North Coast with no
less an institution than the Grand
Trunk Pacific railroad, the northern.
most of all the transcontinental lines
Small North Coast surveying
crews have been at work in the Cas-.
cades, in the vicinity of the pass OF
the Cowlitz, all sumer, but within
the last ten days the crews have been
increased to so men and tourists
to and near Mount Tacoma say that
the engineers are running lines and
taking levels with every bit Of haste
the mountainous country will per-
nit.
Go to Cowlitz Pass
THE Coast engineers have already
admitted that their line would pass
the Cascades through the Cowlitz
but whether through a tunnel or
over a switchback they have refused
to say. Surveys for a hydro-electric
plant to furnish motive power over
the Cowlitz are known to have been
made and it is now believed that the
pass will be made at first on a switch
back and later through a tunnel, aft
er much the same plan as the Mil
waukee is carrying out in the Sno-
Qualmie pass. Surveys run within
the last ten days, however take the
North Coast over the Tatoosh range
and west to Bear prairie, just out
side the southern border of the Mt.
Tacoma forest reserve, thence along
the south bank of the Nisqually to
where it is Joined by Horse creek,
Here the surveys for the present end.
"No move has yet been made by
the North Coast toward obtaining
it's Tacoma terminals, although a
tideland addition recently plated in
the vicinity of Marshall provides a
100-foot right of way for the rail-
road. Those who watch the railroad
situation anticipate interesting de-
yelopments early the coming autumn,
but as to exact nature of these de-
velopments none seem able to make
even a good guess.
Is it the Grand Trunk?
THE main line of the Grand Trunk
Pacific is at least 900 miles north of
the projected path of the North
Coast and thus far no Grand Trunk
feeders have been thrown off to the
south. The only explanation advanc-
ed is that the Grand Trunk will make
an entry to the state of Washington
similarly as the Canadian Pacific did
when it acquired the Spokane Inter-
national Such a move would in
yolve building almost another rail-
road system, but may explain more
intelligently what Sir Charles Hays,
president of the Grand Trunk Paci-
fic, meant last week when he said
that the Grand Trunk Pacific would
eventually extend to Tacoma and
Seattle"