This week in history: O-W-R &N Company to Extend Spur to Seattle City Limits

After 95 years, you think we could get some crossing arms? This article comes from the Oregonian, April 11th, 1913.

INDUSTRIAL TRACT INVADED

O.W.R. & N. to Extend Spur to Seattle City Limits

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 11, 1913 - Construction will be begun at once by the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company on a spur track extending from Lucile street, near the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company's plant at Georgetown, to Fourteenth avenue South, the city limits, which will serve the industrial tracts recently platted by King County through the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce. A permit has been granted by the Board of Public Works for this track as well as for a spur on Bailey street for a connection with the tracks of the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company, over which the Big Four Iron Works in South Park will be served.

For months, the Chamber of Commerce, various railroad officials and A.L. Valentine, superintendent of public utlities, have been working on the plan connecting the industrial tracts with railroads. So far as Seattle is concerned this is one of the most important railroad extensions that has been undertaken in a long time.