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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...The line across the Cascades, transposed from the main line to branch, was to be indefinitely postponed, not to say ignored. With $5,000,000 advanced by Jay Cooke & Co., the building of the road commenced in February, 1870, at Duluth, and within that year the work progressed westward one hundred and fourteen miles to Brainard. On the Pacific slope work was also initiated in 1870. The amendatory act required the construction of twenty-five miles between Portland and Puget Sound prior to July 7th, 1871, and so the company built from the town they named Kalama, on the Columbia River, northward that distance. During 1872 forty miles had been built in this direction, and were in operation. On January 1st General John W. Sprague and Governor John N. Goodwin, agents of the company, formally announced the selection of the city of Olympia as the terminus on Puget Sound of the road. A few months later (July, 1873) the company at New York declared its western terminus should be at Tacoma. In the following September came the failure of Jay Cooke & Co., greatly embarrassing operations. The charter, however, was saved, as the road reached its terminus on Puget Sound on the day preceding the limit prescribed in its franchise. The work being temporarily suspended by Jay Cooke & Co. s failure, the company was reorganized on a different financial basis, with Charles B. Vright, of Philadelphia, a most enterprising and liberal gentleman, as its president. In the mean while rich coal fields had been discovered to the east of Tacoma. The Vice-President, General George Stark, made an examination of these mineral deposits, with reference to building a suflicient portion of the branch to connect them with Tacoma. His report stated that ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781234146818
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 222
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1234146819
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 404 gr


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