Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-02-26 | Page 5 | Milwaukee Plans Line to Everett

I MILWAUKEE PLANS LINE UNE LNE TO JO O EVERETT To Build Two Branches From Snoqualmie Pass WILL TAP RICH REGION Timber r for fur U U-c U c of or tIme the Road Will WI He lie Made Available V I. I hie I by Extensions Unofficial announcements have been mUll made of the Intention of tIme the Chicago Milwaukee St SL Paul to build a a. line from froni Snoqualmie pass direct lo to Everett Ev By- erett Washington that will open a avast avast vast tract of timber land sufficient lo to supply time the road moad with ties lies for use on iii other parts of the line as well as asto asto to construct the lie new branch of the road The new hue lino will ivill consist of two branches from time the pass htam's one omme of which will enter Everett direct through Cherry valley and tc other will follow time the Cedar river to and amid enter cutter Seattle from the south The branch lo to Seattle will according to present surveys have a difficult grade but time the Everett branch will be 10 easier and amid will for this reason carry a larger proportion of freight than time the south south- ern ein branch It Is said that time the Everett Ev By- erett branch of time the road will traverse time richest paiL parl of Washington west of time the Cascades opening up an extensive exten sive farming and fruit growing coun try as well as a aast vast ast timber area It Is the acquisition of the tImberland timber timberland land by tIme the railroad that is of greatest great est cat Interest In railway circles as It gives time the Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul the largest amount of those these supplies sup sup- plies that lint has been bought by any railroad in iii years At present the road has either bought outright or taken options on more than three and one one- half billion feet For handling timEs this time the road has already made plans to erect and operate its own sawmills along time the proposed lines liumes which will willbe willbe be about 1000 miles long