Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-03-01
WE DON'T GEE THINGS IN THAT
LIGHT,

Pacific including the Oregon Short Line
and Ut.h Nor.her companies on the
other, as elegraphed and published in
the Oregonian on the 10Th, aud says
as follows:
In the FIRST place the Union Pacific
agrees to build no farther than juno
ton at Snake river with the road being
built by the ORA MO-.
Now We do not see anything in the
dispatch which even intimates that the
building Of the OSL will be carried
no farther than junction at S axe
river with the O.R.& Mos line, and
the dispatch says the chief points il
the arrangement are substantially as
follows, and numbers them LIST, Cd, Sd,
4th, 9Th and 9th. The first relates to
arrangements regarding the Nor hern
Pacific and Utah Northern. The Cd
is as follows:
Secqnd-The Oregon Short Line
will be extended to Snake river where
it will be met by the o. RG N.Co.wher
the business for the Pacific coast will
DO interchanged.
And the third is as follows:
Third Upon the junction Of the
O.S.L. with the ORC N.Co. at Snake
river, freight between the Pacific coast
and Salt Lake will be intcrchanged BY
the new route.
The 9th aud 9th relates to freight
aud passenger rates to be charged and
nothing mere. Now will Bro. john
son point out in this dispatch any iii
timation that the terms of this agree
ment include the stopping of the con-
struction Of the o. s. L. beyond the
junction at Snake river. Well might
Bro. johnson exclain shat the Union
Pacific has got the worst Of the bar
GAIN" and that "by SO agreeing it
gives up all Of its bright chances Of d.
viding the rapidly growing and highly
lucrative way traffic between Baker
City and Puget Sound, to say nothing
Of through business, and remains con
tent with the little way business which
can be picked up in Southern Idaho, a
country which will probably never
afford much local traffic, and such
through business as the managers Of
the 0. Re- MOO. cannot send over the
Northern Pacific route" if he were
right.
We think Bro. johnson has certainly
mistaken The purport Of the dispatch.
A similar Interpretation was at first
placed upon the matter here by those
whose fears overbalanced their Judge,
ment. But upon more careful per-
usal of the terms of the dispatch diff
ferent and moro favorable construction
was placed upon its terms. What pre-
cedes the numbered terms Of the agree
ment must be taken as no part of the
terms of the agreement, but only the
speculations Of him who sent the dis
patch. If SO important q term of the
agreement, as that of stopping the
building Of the OS.L. at the junction
Of the two companies at.Snake river,
had been intended, it would have boon
among the terms of the agreement and
been made prominent. But the sender
Of this dispatch dared not place this
among the terms, because be knew it
was not true. Again if there had been
such term in the agreement, the Ore.
gonian would have given expression to
its jubilant rejoicings over the event.
Brother johnson, SO far as we have
learned, is the chief editor who has
taken this gloomy view Of the purport
Of this dispatch. 1t is apparent that
it an agreement such as Bro johnson
would make his readers believe, had
taken place, there would be no further
necessity for the 0. s. L. to continue
their surveys in the field at an expense
of from $500 to $500 per day in max
ing surveys up and down Snake river,
and that too in the dead of win r., but
they would have been quickly ordered
off these surveys But these surveys
are still progressing, and wo are firmly
Of tho opinion they will progress to
completion Notwithstanding any and al
agreements set forth in the telegram
published in the Oreyonian Of the 10th
inst. What may hereafter be agreed
upon between these high contracting
parties we know not. But We epine
that the Union Pacific will not ALLOW,
itself to be placed at such disadvantage
as intimated in the Onion, they have
already suffered themselves to be placed
in. The Union Pacific are not so IL
moran: Of the situation AS some suppose