350 REPORT AND ESTIMATE. 
Depots and permanent бхіпгев.......................................... $1,750 000 
Engineering and сопіпрепсівв...........-.............................. 5,000 000 
94,282,880 
Estimate of cost. 
| ; Miles. Per mile. 
Of branch road from Vancouver to Seattle.... ........ 172 at $50,000 $8,600,000 
Depots КИРЕРИ Gre Se S X525 1. 77 11 1: 5 wR A bie were) > ahs eee 150,000 
ТООСОО TOM: DE ре 6 6 UL eexR en hh миен X. beri 8,750,000 
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Recapitulation of cost of road from Breckinridge to Seattle, with a branch. road to Vancouver, and 
a branch road from Vancouver to Seattle. 
Miles. 
From Breckinridge to бегі Іө................................ 1,543.60 $94,915,380 
Бола C RB La COLOURS, 9923.00 16,930, 000 
Branch from Vancouver to Seattle ..... m 112,00 8,750. 000 
120,595,380 
Estimate of cost of road, as per A and B, leaving the route on Sun river, passing up that river to 
Elk Fork, thence along that fork to Lewis and Clark’s Pass, and thence to its junction with the 
Big Blackfoot. 
The cost from Fort Benton to Hell-Gate, (crossing to Fort Owen,) as per preceding estimate, 
is $15,858,390. Distance, 198.25 miles, 
The cost for this portion of the route, by Lewis and Clark’s Pass, will be as follows: 
Miles. 
Fort Benton to Sun пічег.................. 55.5 at $55,000 per mile, $3,052,500 
Thence to ten miles above ЕогЕв............ 48 = 30000 CU 2,160,000 
Thence to entrance to іппе1............... ҚТА 100000 1,912,100 
ЧАЧ CER вана а ге а оиа К i iR а 2.129 °° 120 per foot, 1,348,934 
Thence to entrance into Big Blackfoot........ 11.875 ** 55,000 per mile, 653,125 
Thence to Hell-Gate, (crossing to Fort Owen, )- 86.5 с SUUM " 5,190,000 
223.125 14,316,659 
By taking Lewis and Clark's Pass, as above, the distance is increased 24.875 miles, and the 
cost diminished $1,541,731. ; 
| The route by the Missouri to the mouth of Sun river, will increase the cost over the route by 
the plateau from Fort Benton to Sun river, as follows: 
