THE WEST SHORE.
to Imilil a feeder to thu O. R. & N. Co.'s
line
The highest altitude reached by the
Canadian I'ncifW- Hailroad are 5,50.' feet in
tlx Rocky mountains and 4,500 in tin1
Hclklrks.
Tlio (Iimm liny and CouiIlc railroail In
Mug located from Sumner to Coiiuillc
Clly, through tin1 finest body of timln-r in
('NM county.
A new steamer culled Lunn Mwm Iimm
JiimI been completed on Lewis river, V.
T to handle the expanding trade of that
fertile region.
Work on the road from New 'I'aeonia to
Seattle 1 progressing llnely. Four bridges
will he required, spanning thu Puyallup,
Stuck, White and Ithu-k rivers.
The ollleers of the projected Seattle &
('ray's Harbor It. It. Co., are considering
thu miestlon ofahranch line to Maker's
liay at the mouth of the t'oluinliia.
The steam collier, ,S'ni 'rdrti, a sister
nlilp of the Ttiromn, arrived at San Fran
cisco March "th, with a cargo of railroad
Iron. She Is owned hy the I'ueMc Im
provement Co.
The Kast Portland and Multnomah
Hallway Co. has heen incorporated, to
Imild a road from Fast Portland, via
Powell's valley to Foster's prairie in
Clackamas county.
Six new stages are helng hiiilt at Yrcku
for the line from Redding to Itiddlehurg.
They are to he of superior strength, ami
are needed toaeeommodate Uie Increasing
business on that line.
The Cohmihia Itlvcr Navigation Co.
has la-en IncoriK.ratcd with Its olllce at
Dalles City, to navigate the river and its
IrlhutaricH, hiiild railroads, and construct
iKirtagc around the (Wades.
Stag.w across the Itlue mountains now
run to Shoshone, the western terminus of
the Oregon Short Line. This gives eastern
railroad connection twenty-four hours
earlier than the Kclton route did.
An arrangement has heen made by
which Pullman ears will he run from
New York to Portland, pacing over the
Pennsylvania, . c,nlgo, Milwaukee
and St. Paul, Mu the Northern PacihY.
Through travel over the N,.rthern IV
cine will be Inaugurated in April l,v a
dally line of Hlx-hnre colics, whirl, will
Tompllsh the two hundred uml ninetv
iud. Mwcn the two ends h, fortv-eiuht
Ten yean. Hg,, one r.iiiu r could hardlv
Ijay expense I,, running down the east
Nhorv of Puget sound. TenlsltsHrtM.ow
!U,U"1
TheerHho,Wof,1r,ulH,HlNorthern
"tKglRock, Monuna,gvo ,
.loJnu.t U,lVlllu,,,.nd tum ou wo
ing and lilting up of couches, sleepers,
freight cars and locomotives.
During the year there were 11,343
miles of railway constructed in the United
States on U24 lines, lieing 2,(K)0 more than
in 18sl, which was2,0ili) more than in any
previous year. Ahout 7,001 miles were
luiilt west of the Mississippi river.
('lading and track-laying have heen en
ergetically pushed the past month hetween
Naples or Shoshone, and Hailey, on the
Wood river hranch of the Oregon Short
Line. It is expected that Hailey and
Helleviie will lie reached in a few weeks.
A contract lias heen let hy the Northern
1'acillc for the construction of a hranch
line from Livingston to Hot Springs, on
Gardiner river, in the National Park of
the Yellowstone. The road will be sixty
miles long and will be completed in July.
Thu " half moon road " from Paiouse
Junction, north of Snake river, to unite
tin; fertile Paiouse region with tile N. P.
It. It., is partly graded and ready for the
ties and iron. Six hundred thousand ties
and thirty-five miles or rails are lying at
Paiouse Junction ready for use.
The Central Pad fie has reported to the
railroad commissioners at Washington
that the total cost of the road, including
rigid of way, depots, etc., WUs f 13s,553,
IV,.2li;eMuipni,.i(s,Mi1(1)Salum(.hinery( 'illl,li(i',205.N!l lassenlrerell,lllln!mfm.1fil,
l,!iS0,:i7H.r,; freight, $1(1,302,082.72.
lie Central Pacific R. R. Co has issued
new maps upon which its projected lines
arelaiddown. Oneof these is aline from
tt mnemuccu to the Columbia river, with
h branch from Cmp C. F. Smith, near
NHii mountains, to tlu Wwk1 ri
,,,,r'- N" i expressed for its
construction.
, ''bruary the contract for gra.l
.u.d building the road from Portland
to Kalama was let to J. . Montgomery
-r. ".id work has already been com
""m""1' .e line is thirty-nine miles
"Mg exclusive of m, luilw ()f
lrck, and will cost $1,ihki,ooi).
Merchants of Yreka are perfecting ar
rangements for receiving their New Yo k
-'":;::w;tsS::ry'rid
I ,,,ri'.Sngy
'"r ' "r,,'"1 "ill llk) eiOoy muc
rade now l-ed by San Freis""
-.rz:,v,tr YTi,m
Siting trans1Z"!,?,'.Fri'o
work will I... i ' 1 umt active
Ti ,H"un 0,1 the line in An-ii
coming fa. "'t""m ay the
Urty in March -,,:, , . .
Umimc level, tli".1 '''l above
--Mauporary track
arcri, 1883.
to allow trains to run to Bozeman while
the tunnel Is being constructed. The tun
nel Is 150 feet below, but Is still seventeen"
feet higher than any other point on the
Hue. About 1,000 feet of the tunnel are
completed.
Statistics of the world's carrying trade
give totals almost beyond the grasp of the
human mind. A few facts will show
There are 200,000 miles of track, 66,000
locomotives, 120,000 Dassensrer ears' 1 snn
m. a - - j a
000 freight cars, $20,000,000,000 capital in
vested; 12,000 steamers, 100,000 sailing
vessels, and a total marine ton num. nf
20,800,000 tons.
Clarke's Fork Division of the Northern
Pacific was completed late in Fehrnnmr
and Horse Plains has been the terminus'
tne past few weeks. Stages run daily from
that point to Missoula, a distance of ninety
mi 1 . 1 .
nines, rne Driage work has been con
tinued in spite of cold, snow and lee. unit
the three crossings of Missoula river will
soon be ready for the track.
The Northwestern Railroad and Im
provement Co., has been incorporated In
Vancouver with a capital stock of $250,000.
The object of the company Is to build a
narrow gauge road from that city to Lewis
river, to give an outlet to that region and
open up vast tracts of valuable timber
lands ; also to build a saw mill In the city
with a daily capacity of 60,000 feet.
Two fine steel, side-wheel steamers are
being built in the east for the 0. R. & N.
Co., to be used in their Puget sound and
Victoria trade. They are to be 250 feet
long, 38 feet beam. 12 feet draught and to
cost $300,000 each. They will bo by far
uie linest vessels in Pacific waters, and
will have accommodations for 300 regular
passengers and 1,500 day passengers.
The amount of freight offered steamers
in San Francisco for this port is largely in
excess of the carrying capacity, and the
schedule will be chanired Anril 1st. to a
steamer every three days instead of two
a weeK as at present. The great Increase
ot travel has also made this step necessary.
It Is not Improbable that a still greater In
crease of facilities will soon be required.
The land grant of the O. & C. R. R. Co
extends to the California line and em
braces much good land in the foot hills of
the Coast and Cascade ranges. The com
pany sells these lands at a reasonable
price, and their terms can be had upon
application at the land office in Portland.
The Itogue River country is not excelled
anywhere for beauty of scenery, fertility
of soil and salubrity of climate.
The O. R. & N. Co., has conveyed to
the Northern Pacific Terminal Company
all its property in Portland, East Portland
and Albina, including depot sites, build
ings, tracks, coul bunkers, dry docks, etc.
Six per cent, bonds to the amount of
$5,000,000 have been issued by the X. F
T. Co., to the Farmers' Loan and Trust
Co-i of New York, and the money thus