Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-06-14

territory in the extreme northwest, which
will result in the building Of several i'm
portant branches next year"
Now this is much after the character
of the dispatch sent from New York in
February last, when it was announced
that an agreement had been entered into
whereby the o. II. 4 N. Co. and the
Union Pacific should divide territory and |
that the o. s. l.. should stop building |
when they reached the mouth of Burn,
river. That theory has been explained
by the fact that the .. s. L. is still con-
tinuing to make its surveys down Snake
river at cost Of many thousand dollars,
and the public know the fact. Now for
sooth they must explain this away, by
saying that these surveys arc ouly being
made as bluff to alarm the 0. II. & N.
Co. into better agreement with the o.
S. j., when in fact the 0. s. L. don't
want any better agreement with tho 0.
r. 4 N Go, than they now have, and
why? because they have the possession
of the Snake river pass down to Lewiston
and when there they can push their en-
terprisc to the Sound without hindrance
from the other companies, aud command
L.
both the Northern Pacific aud the o. r.
T. N. Co. Another dispatch published
reads as follows:
OMAHA, May 2sth.-Sidncy Dillon,
President of the U. p. railroad, declares
most emphatically that there is no foun-
dation whatever for the rumor that the
Short Line are surveying the location Of a
line beyond where it was understood to
have agreed to stop, or to connect with
the .. X. d N. Co.
If this last dispatch be true, he could
safely say this much, and why, because
there was never any agreement made to
stop the o. S. L. at any point short Of
Puget Sound. But that agreement simp-
ly contemplated that the o. S. l.. would
pool lreights with the o. r. l. N. Co. at
Snake river and that was all there was
of it. But our friend Of the Independent
would make us think that ncw company
had been organized at Denver to build
through the Bcall Pass and reach Lewis
ton. A similar expectation Of the Butte
Union Freeman is set forth in which
that paper says; In speaking Of the high
freight rates of the Northern Pacific and
its building Of the Cascade branch soon.
''The Washngtonians are becoming almost
as independent as the Montanians were
in putting on line Of prairie schooners
from Butte to Corrine $50 miles by the
side Of the narrow gauge railway and this
reduced the rates. Now Washington
should build wagon road to Seattle from
the upper country. Wagons can haul in
enough merchandise to make the railway
company sick and after little the road
can be sold to the Chicago, Milwaukee
and ST. Paul or to the Chicago and North
western, or to the Ogden branch of tn.
Denver and Rio Grande. One of which
will probably go down the Clearwater ant
another down the Palousc and third
down the Snake TO Ainsworth and all of
them up the Yakima to Puget Sound.
Now if any man supposcs that the o. S
l. with the advantages it has over all thu
others, having her road almost completed
to Snake river, and the surveys nearly
completed down the canyon g
Snake to Lewiston, and the Utal
Northern built to point near the Boal
Pass of the Bitter Root, and equal advant
ayes in the route from Lewiston west t,
the Sound, she will not improve them t.
her own advantage and keep head, will
her road, of all the other companies, tha
man has very poor idea Of the judge
ment and efficient management Of tn
Union Pacific and its allies, tn, o. S. l.
and Utah Northern. Mr. Willard an'
his adheronts are very prolific in sccurin,
dispatches, and newspapers and newspa
per correspondents to predict all sorts o
disasters to the o. S. L. and say in hi
public speeches, as he did in Walla Walla
that there is no danger of any competitio
in this section for many years, if ever, t
lull the people into feeling of despai
Of ever getting relief in the proper reduc
ton Of rates, by reason Of competin
lines, yet the o. S. l.. is quietly and uu
ostentatiously moving forward with it
work of pushing its enterprise to Puge
Sound and that by way of Lewiston am
the Snake river We know this fact
and the people of this section are begin
ming to perceive the same fact, and ar
greatly rejoiccd at such promise of d,
liverance from their present bondage, an
when tie @. 81. shall have comnleted the