Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1882-05-25
aEATTLD RAILROAD.

The people OF Seattle, knowing tina
they have one ofthe test harbors on Puge
Sound and with this have con.iderabl
wealth in coal lands, few miles east
and that they occupy the hes: point fo
. railroad terminus coming over thu
Cascades, and furthermore seeing iha
no one Of the great railroad companies
has heretofore chosen to consider theil
advantages, but ignored them for othel
places not as we'll situated, have de
termined to PIN and work for them
selves, by projecting a railroad across
the mountains eastward and resolving
TO build the came either with or with
out help from abroad. If they can
obtain help from abroad they will &c
compish the work sooner, but if they
do not they are confident they can
build it within few years, and when
it is built they will command the trade
Of the east side Of the Cascades in pref
erence to any other point and become
a city of no mean magni ude. Al eady
since they have determined upon this
road a San Francisco capitalist has
pledged them the iron and rolling stock
for th'rty.one miles Of the road and
other capitalists from the East have
givin them assurances that they will
aid them to extend the road to the Co.
lumbia river, and Mr.. Willard seeing
that they are 10 earnest has found it
e1pedient for him to place surveyors
in the field to extend the Kalama road
beyond Tacoma to Seattle. Such is
the practical result of people showing
. zeal and confidence in their own
place to such an extent as to be willing
to help themselves by projecting on
terprises and expanding their own
money to push them forward, instead
of waiting, Micawber like, for some
thing 10 turn up, or for lightning to
strike them and set them on fire.
Walla Walla has suffered by the expec
tation that the railroad companies
would DO al for them without their
own help, and they now begin to see
their mistake. Lewiston has always
stood in its own light, having so msny
natural advantages, her people have,
oil alcng, thought that outsiders would
and must come here and build it up
whether her own people showed any
public spirit or not in regard to ELI.
terprises OF a public nature, which are
calculated to build up and progress
people. Tho old proverb ''There is that
that giveth and yet increaseth and
there is that that withholdeth and it
tendeth to poverty" is as true now as
1t was when Solomon FIRST published it
and it is aptly illustrated in the history
OF towns as well as of individuals,
Lewiston has one Of the best natural
positions for town in the whole upper
country, and today she should be far
in advance Of all surrounding towns,
considering her age and the advantages
she has enjoyed. But her spirit for
public enterprises calculated to build
her up have not kept pace with the
spirit for individual private gain.
Every man who comes here from abroad
remarks that this town has one Of the
best locations for town and wonders
Why it has not grown greater during
the twenty one years Of its existence.
We are now so situated that we must
exert ourselves or become circumveuts I'd
BY other towns who do exert them.
selves. We want a railroad to tap the |
country east Of us and bring its pro-
ducts to this place for further shipmon'.
We can have this if We will put our
efforts together and work for it with
united good will. We need not wait
the action Of the O. r. L. N. Co., or
Of the Northern Pacific. 1t is now
claimed that the management of com.
panies have proposed to tap the coun.
ny east OF Us by railroad extended
from Moscow through the Potlatch and
down onto the Clearwater, thence up
that stream and avoiding Lewiston en-
'irely. Although no ,ntract has vet
1eeo let for the grading of said 70 I'd as
announced by our contemporary, nor
.as any survey yet been made, but
nat such . movement is contemplated
here II but little doubt. They now
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