Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-11-28
THEY MEAN BUSINESS.
We Mean The Railroad Business.

On our outside we publish to-day a
scrap Of history Of the Northern Pa
ci6c Railroad Company and its pres
ent foreshadowed programme of action. |
We take it from the Washington
Standard, whether written for that
paper we know not; bat the article
itself gives as fair an exposition Of the
company as any we have seen, and we
think may be relied upon as correct.
The progress Of the construction both
east Of the Rocky mountains and
west Of them certainly give an ear
nest Of the work being done without
further delay; but as we intimated
last Spring that it would do, the final
selection of the route via the Pen
d'Orei'le lake, direct from the mouth
Of Quake river, has left open to an
other competing company the entire
Palousc, Snake river and Clearwater
country, both north and south of each
OF these streams, which embraces
much the largest and best of the wheat
lands and much the heaviest settle
ments Of all eastern Washington and
northern Idaho. 1t is these portions
Of the country that have given the
Northern Pacific their prestige of sue
cess as paying railroad from local
traffic between the Bitter Root and
Cascade ranges Of mountains so soon
~ built. The route they have finally
adopted has lost them this prestige
and excluded them from traffic of
nearly all the country south Of the
line of their road, an will confne
them to that far inferior country be-
tween their road and the British boun-
dairy. Never did a company commit
= greater blunder than did the N. 2.
company when they finally determined
10 run from the mouth Of the Snake
to the Pen dOreille with their main
line. II it had become necessary,
they had better tunneled twenty-five
miles through the crest Of the Bitter
Root mountains and taken the Clear
water route than to have allowed any
other company to have secured any
portion Of the country north Of Snake
river for competing line. We stated
last Spring that another company OF
abundant means had an avaricious eye
to this section, and that they were
only awaiting to see whether the n
r. Company would finally adopt the
Pen d'Oreille route for their main linz
and so soon as the decision was fully
made, this other company commenced
their observations Of passes and grade,
on the north side Of the Snake with {
view to tap the entire Palouse countr,
with road parallel to the N. P. road
from Alkali lat on Snake river to thu
CGpr d'Alene lakes. Their observa
tions have fully satisfied them to g
ahead and construct their road. The,
also are to extend road from TIL
Snake south. up the Tucsnnon an,
Pataha. They also are to extend
road from Lewiston to Camas prairi
in due time.
II is now in contemplation to cor
Atruct main trunk line from the q tai
Northern in Montana through tn
Big Hole Pass Of the Rockies acres
the head Of the Bitter Root velley
and through the Clearwater pass q
Bitter Root mountains and down th
: Clearwater 70 the Snake and down Il.
Snake to the Columbia and down tn
Columbia to Portland. This proiec
better suits them to thus get access t
this country than to build either dow
the Snake from Boise or over tn
Blue mountains with their main trunk
To them the Clearwater pass will no
present such terrors as it did to ROB
erts and johnson Of the Northern Pa
cifc, and so terrify the controllin,
board IN the East; but in any even
our people are soon to have railroa,
means OF transportation, and from tn
mouth Of Suake river the lines bot
cast aud west viii he competing ones
and our pent up condition cannot a
farthcst long remain.
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aapss q the excitement about wheat Is tn
sxpectsd demand Of 200. 000, 900 bushels 10
Europe. while this country can only suppl,