New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-24
PROGREss IN OREGON 40 WAsHNGTON.

PROGRESS IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON
The railway mileage of Oregon, already
large for a community Of only about 100000 persons
Will be considerably increased by the operations Of the
present year The oregon Railway ard Navigation Com
pany has W nnbroken line Of road from the Cas-
cades Of the Columbia point fory-ve miles east u
Portland 10 Grange City. on Snake River. in Washing
ton Territory distance Of 263 miles with branches d
vergnC from this main line from Cmatila southeast
towards PcudletOn. sixteen miles from Whitman June
ton south Blue Mountain fourteen miles; and from
Bolles Junction 10 Dayton. thirteen miles; making u
total OF 800 miles in operation The company has
under construction road from Portland to connect
with It's main line above the Cascades, about half OF
which Is already graded An extension Of the Umstla
branch to Pcndeon, nineteen miles, Is also graded, aud
the track will be put down before May l. further
tension Of this branch the Blue Mountains through
Meacham Pass to Grande Ronde Valley
distance sevenyye miles, IL under contract and
rapidly advancing IL is proposed 10 push the road on to
Baker City where It will connect with the Oregon Short
Line Extension OF the Union Pacific Railroad now build
ing BY the end Of the present year the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company will have increased its length
Of completed road to 445 miles Next year II will extend
its Grange City Line sixty miles eastward to point OPP
posie Lewiston, in Idaho Territory. This will pract
caly complete the system OF roads projected by this
company ana give 1t bO5 miles Of road With the excep
extension Of the trunk line down the Coum
ba River from the Cascades to Portland the lines
Oregon and Washington Territory, region only sparsey
settled as yet and destined TO support large pOpula
ton.
From Portland west TO Kalama, the Northern Pacific.
Company has surveyed and viii build this for
tyve miles of road to connect its Puget Sound Divsion
with line from Portland up the Columbia. The Ore
gon and California Railroad Company, which operates
two standard gauge and two gauge lines in the
willamette Valley, has 10 amicable understand
ing with the California and Oregon. corporation
roed the Central Pacific, by which the two rivals
will meet the boundary limo between the two states,
and thus opGn through route from San Francisco to
Portland In pursuance Of this arrangement the Oregon
and California Company has large force now in the
field and will build section of fifty miles this be-
You'd is present terminus RosebuTg 200 miles sonCh
OF Portland This will leave Eeventyhve miles tOr the
next years construction work TO reach the Califor
MIA line. The road traverses rough, mountain
with much rapdIty The main road OF the Oregon aud
California which IL to form the through lire 10 California,
NJ the side of the Willamette Valley The
west side road terminates at Corvallis, 81 miles
from Portland and will not Dc further extended. The
two narrow gauge lines built by the OregOnan Limited
Company have recently become localized in connection
with the Oregon and California and the Oregon Railway
aud Navigation Company. and will not be further eX-
tended unless TO Portland their present starring point
being at Dundee the willamette River. All the roads
ia Oregon under the presidency oil Henry Willard