Sketch no 3 Skykomish line Johnsons report April 1869

Sketch no 3 Skykomish line Johnsons report April 1869

Pacific railroads -- Explorations and surveys -- Maps<br>Railroads -- West (U.S.)

1 map; 23 x 26 cm. <br>This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was Garfield Pass, renamed to Stampede Pass, which is not one of the four initially surveyed. <br>A route similar to the one surveyed here was eventually finished in 1892 by the Great Northern Railway. Instead of following the South Fork of the Skykomish, as was proposed here, it followed the North Fork and tunneled under the pass.

Johnson, Edwin Ferry, 1803-1872<br>

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1869

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Is part of Report of Edwin F. Johnson, engineer-in-chief, to the Board of Directors, April, 1869, and reports of surveys, executed in 1867, by Gen. Ira Spaulding, chief engineer of the Minnesota Division, and Gen. James Tilton, chief engineer of the Washington Division.

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WSU 173<br>HE2791.N855 J64 1869

United States--Washington (State)--Skykomish