From Cascade Tunnel Association: to local organizations, circa 1926

The collection includes approximately 110 total items, with 14 pieces of correspondence relating to the Cascade Tunnel Association. The correspondence includes letters from the Cascade Tunnel Association to newspapers and local organizations promoting the new tunnel, and letters of endorsement. The collection has two letters written by Judge Austin E. Griffiths. The Cascade Tunnel Association by-laws and articles of incorporation are included, as well as numerous newspaper clippings, bulletins, pamphlets, speech transcripts, and hand-written notes, likely taken during meetings of the Association. There are promotional materials produced by the Cascade Tunnel Association and by others, as well as a reprint of a 1916 report by Hiram M. Chittenden, A 30-Mile Railway Tunnel under the Cascade Mountains. An interesting item is a script, dated 1928, used as an introduction to a debate on the merits of the tunnel.