Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-02-12 | Page 4 | U. P. Acquires Valuable Land for Its Terminals

U P ACQUIRES VALUABLE LAND FOR ITS TERMINALS tacoma wash feb 11 eions between tho the union pacific rail way and the st paul and tacoma lumber company have been closed whereby the harriman Harrl man interests have acquired seventy acres of tide lands forming an ideal site for railroad terminals and having a frontage of 1 1500 feet on the bay and about 1500 feet on the puyallup waterway the property Is the highest priced land on the tide flats and cost approximately of which the union pa cefic has paid a larger large amount in cash in purchasing the property one of the conditions of the sale is that the union pacific improve it and locate its arll aril road terminals and shipping warehouses upon it within a certain time officials of the st paul company refuse to state the exact time limit by which the union pacific Is bound but it Is understood to be about twenty months as they say that the union pacific will be here sooner than any other transcontinental trans continental line could build to tacoma were it to commence construction work at once