The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-22

should like to see, but we have hopes
of better things soon.
"Seattlc had only 10000 inhabi-
tants in 1890 and all the business part
of the town had been burnt down. -
said Mr.. Henry. 90 Now. according TO
the last census, it has 237 900, and it
has 120 miles of the best paving of
any city. OF this about eighty miles
is asphalt and the rest brick or sand
stone.
Labor on New Railways.
"When we built the extension of
the Great Northern in 1892 and 1893
VIC crossed over new pass that had
been discovered by John i. Stevens,
then chief engineer of the road, who
was later chief engineer OF the Panama
canal. Labor was the serious problem
but we shipped most of it from the east.
though in that day YOU could get Chi
nese. took up the Chicago, Milwau
kee & st, Paul four years ago at Bit
Ter Root mountain, in Idaho. The sum
nit of the mountain is the boundary
between Idaho and Montana. ] have
built about 800 miles of the road, TAX
ing it to Seattle and Tacoma, and at
times have ha das many as 10000 men
at work, This time the laborers were
largely Italians, Austrlans and Hun
garians.
ono. they do not settle in the coun-
try. They leave after the work is fin
ished.
"Swcdes make the best class of la
boreTs for the reason that they are
better workmen and they stand by their
jobs better. They drink less than the
others and they are always willing TO
take a Job. We have a good many
Scandinavian settlers in Washington.
They make good pioneers and will go
to land and take the stumps of.
As for labor troubles, | never had
any. for the reason that the workmen
| employed were too nomadic in their
tastes to combine.
Oregon's Debt to Hill.
"Therc is little railroad building
going OH now out there, and there is
still lot of undevcloped country. We
shall have the railroads as soon as the
money can be got to built them. The
country out there never would have
been settled up if the railroads had not
been built. That is why the west owes
so much to James J. Hill
'Then there is that great work he
Ddo oLdIIcu 10 40 III PHSLpTU oregon.
Hartman had surrounded that region
with railroads, but the country within
his lines was entirely undeveloped ex-
cept for cattle and horse raising. and
the remoteness of railways forced
breeders to drive their product hun
dreds Of miles for shipment This
country Mr. Hill is opening up by build.
ing line from Columbia river south
through the gorge of the Peschutes riv-
er, heading for Lake Klamath. This
gorge is about 100 miles long.
81 had contract for the last 125
miles TO klamath lake, but the close.
ness Of tho money market not only
stopped that work, but eighty miles of
the other was cut off. and the road is
built only to Bend. in Crook county.
~ look for better business in rail.
road building at any time. 1t may
come within thirty DAYS. unexpectedly,
as has frequently been the case. There
IS no reason why it shouldn t come, be-
cause conditions warrant it,"
Independent Vote Decides.
The great independent vote of the
country will decide the next national
election, according TO David f. Day,
owner of the Durango (Colo.) Democrat.
Mr.. Day is veteran of the civil war
and medal Of honor man. He was
given the honor medal for gallant serv-
ice while member of the storming
party before Vicksburg. After the war
he went TO Colorado, and has been a
resident there for forty years When
he entered the volunteer army he was
little more than ID years old. He was
member Of company ID, Fifty seventh
Ohio volunteer infantry.
The great trend throughout the
country today is toward independence
among the voters said Mr.. Day.
Take the recent election in Colorado,
We elected Shafroth, a Democrat, gov
ernor, by more thun II 900. but at the
same tlmc Republican was elected