ESTIMATE OF COST OF ROAD. 
Depot in the viemiry of Great Walls of Missouri: 7.222... 2-csS2s-cee eee nee 
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Werotmes crassa, of, the Columbia os 26 aI.) Awe.) Shae cee eee cee 
Depot at Puget sound, with permanent works for a large travel .......-..--.--- 
Intermediate stations, with equipments for wood and water conduits and connex- 
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145 
$200,000 
50,000 
50,000 
1,000,000 
1,000,000 
—_ 
3,000,000 
A detour by Cadotte’s Pass would increase the distance some two or three miles, and the 
tunnel about two miles ; the increased cost would be one and a half millions. 
The line of the Bitter Root would add to the expense as follows : 
Increased length of line, all in difficult country, seven miles, at $100,000 per mile. 
The line from the forking of the two routes to Vancouver would cost as follows : 
From the forking of the routes to the Dalles, 133 miles, at $50,000 per mile. -_ ~~~. 
From the Dalles to the plain near Vancouver, 90 miles, at $120,000 per mile... . 
Add for depot buildings at head of navigation of the Columbia, depots looking 
to a connexion with the Willamette and intermediate depots.......-.-..---.- 
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From the plain, near Vancouver, to Seattle, on Puget sound, 172 miles, at $40,000 
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GENERAL RECAPITULATION. 
$700,000 
$6,650,000 
10,800,000 
250,000 
17,700,000 
6,880,000 
150,000 
24,730,000 
Cost of road to Seattle by the Snoqualme Pass, using the long tunnel, 1,890 miles . $105,076,000 
Cost of road to Seattle by the Columbia valley and the Cowlitz river, 2,045 
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Entire system, St. Paul to the Columbia, with branches down the Columbia and 
across the Cascades, and a connexion from Seattle direct to the Columbia river, 
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To above add for engineering and contingencies..........0+022---0e soneesed 
19f 
112,121,000 
105,091,000 
129,806,000 
