The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-07-09
Oregon Railroads.
OFFICE @. & C. r. r. Co.,



aud west sides, extend railroad further than the /
head of the Willamette Valley? 1t looks if I
this might be doubtful It is oven whispered +
here, and with some appearance OF plaushity, I
that having now secured undi-puted control of I
the railroad system of the most populous and i'm
portant part Of Oregon he will not /
build a railroad further south than Eugene City, /
or the head Of the valley.
The Oregon and California Railroad
Company will this year build and equip I
their road for distance of one hundred !
miles south of Portland, and will there |
after complete as rapidly as possible to
the head of the Willamette valley. After
reaching that point they will continue to
build south without any interruption !;
that is, in case the bill now before Cor
gress to grant aid for the Humboldt
branch road is passed in such shape as
to cause that road to come into the valley
Of Rogue river. But if the grant for
that branch should be 50 made AS to avoid
the southern counties and bring the road
into Willamette valley, 'sat or nca- Eu-
gene City" by the middle fork of the
Willamette river, then we should build
our road no further south than the head
OF this valley, where we would ultimately
connect with the Humboldt road In
case affairs should take this shape it
would not be practicable to build a road
further south than tho point indicated.
For we should be cut off from southern
and eastern connections, inasmuch as the
Central Pacific Company would almost
certainly cause their California and Ore
son road TO diverge from the route orig
iu;siIy laid down, and build it by the
easier route by way Of Pitt river, SO as to
make a connection by the Humboldt
Eugene branch. They would thus have
continuous line Of railroad, running into
Oregon, under their own control Nheth-
/ er we build our road south of tic head
Of tt e Willamette valley or not, depends
therefore on the action to be taken by
Congress relative to the route of the
/ branch road from the Humboldt
1t is the desire, as it has been the in
tention, OF the Oregon and California
Railroad Company to build their road to
the southern boundary of the State: and
they Will do so without delay, unless
their purposes are checked by such leg
islation in Congress as viii render 1t i'm
practicable to carry them out, In other
words, if the giant for the Humboldt
branch shall be 50 made as to connect
with our road in Rogue river valley, and
the California and Oregon road at the
south OF the Willamette valley Otncr-
wise We shall not do 50.
In this connection it may be as well
fol me TO state that | shall 20 forward
and build the west side road, completing
the first section WI hin the time allotted
ay the act of Cyngrcss, and ultimately
continuing 1t south to a junction with the
Oregon and California road at some point
near the head Of the Willamette valley
REN. HOLLADAY.
GREss1oNAL.-A new Comnitte.
of Conference has been ordered on th'
Postoffice Appropriation Bill.
In the House, on the 2nd inst til,
following bills were passed Folbiddin.
the conveyance Of Indian reservations b.
treaty to any other guarantee than tll'
: United States protecting settlers of til
, / United States lands uader benefits Of th
/, pre-emption or homestead laws; prevent
ing further sale of public lands i'll Dako
+, ia, Nevada, Nebraska, California, kar
c sas, Arkansas aud Utah, excepting undo
/ pre- cmption or homestead laws, and fol
. feiting 70 the United States the lands {
the Opelousa Railroad,
Mr. Julian reported bin to conirr
4 james HutchingS and james c. Lemo
@ their pre- cmption claim in 1osemi.e VA
: ley; passed The bill created much di
cussIon.
The Louisiana contested case of Darra
i against Bailey was decided in favor {
Darrall, but motion to reconsider W;
= entered, to be considered next Wedne
; day.
n Ferris reported from Conference Con
b mittee the bill granting right of way
a ditch and canal owners.
Fl Mark Twaiu having been elected a
It hanorary member of poultry Socet,
recommends himself in the followin
style Gwen as a school boy, poultl
II raising was study with me, and ma
). say, without egotism, that as early as Il
) age of seventeen | was acquainted wit
all the best and specdlest method
@ Of raising them off roost by burnin
n Iucifer matches under their noses, dow
II to lifting them on a fence on fros
night by insinuating the end of war
Z boaid under their heels. BY the tin
| was twenty years old, l really suppo
| had raised more poultry than any OF
y individual in all the section round abo
IL there The very chickens came to kne
i'd my talent by and by. The youth
both sexes ceased to paw the earth f
worms, and old roosters that came to ere
z remained to pray, when passed by"
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