The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-25
MAINTAIN GOOD FAITH.

During the last few weeks several
meetings have been held by the citizens
of Albany, where officers of the Oregon
Pacific Railroad company were present.
The Albany papers in treating of the
purpose and effect of the meetings for
IA time, spoke of them, in which they
claimed that the Willamette Valley d
Coast Railroad company had, through
its officers, submitted proposition to
extend the Oregon Pacific Railroad
from Corvallis toward Albany on the
west side of the Willamette river and
cross the river near Albany, making a
wagon and railroad bridge at such
crossing, and also to place suitable de-
pots, round houses and machine shops
of the company within the corporate
limits of Albany, providing the citizens
of Albany would arouse themselves to
action and subscribe the sum of $780,
900, to assist in paying the extra
expense of this route over others, and
the extra expense of the bridge. Since
The above appeared in the Albany pa
pers, which was extensively copied by
other papers throughout the state,
the Albany papers again come to the
front and announce that another meet
ing of the citizens of Albany was held,
where officers of the railroad company
were present and denied that the COM
pany had ever made such proposition
but claimed that by the conversation
ON that subject was meant by the off
GERS of the company that if the citizens
of Albany would raise the $4,000 for
the purposes indicated that the company
would consider the proposition before
adopting the route for the extension of
the road, Mr. Wallis Nash, Vice-Pres-
ident of the road, comes out ia d long
article which was published in the AL
bany papers and which has also been
kindly furnished this Office for our OBJ
servation in which Mr. Nash claims
that the latter construction is the prop
er one The only material difference
in the two propositions is "a legal one;
by the former the railroad company
would be bound to perform provided
the citizens of Albany performed the
part asked of them in a reasonable time,
and by the latter the railroad company
would not be compelled to perform un-
til the citizens of Albany had raised
the money, and the company had after
wards accepted it. The distinction
may be Of some Importance to the rail
road company, but it is ofiittle interest
TO the people at large, because so far
as the people are concerned. it is riding
the same horse in about the same way
but different words are used for DIES
cribing the situation of the rider.
About ten years ago before the Oregon
Pacific Railroad scheme was thought of,
when the people of Benton county were
straining every nerve to put the Will
annette Valley IL Coast Railroad up
on its feet, SO that railroad could be
completed from Yaquina bay to Cor
wallis, the people of Corvallis and of
Benton county subscribed towards that
work the sum of $35, 900, which money
was afterwards invested in iron, cars,
locomotive. engine ETC.; which has since
been used in the building of the road.
BY parties in the einterests ofthe railroad
company then endeayoring to raise that
money, it was then talked of and pro
posed by them to our citizens, as an in
ducement to get them to subscribe and
pay their money, s'that the benefits
arising from the round houses being
built and the machine shops of the COM
pany also being built and put IN opera
ton at Corvallis, would be of such ben
eft to our citizens subscribing, that the
subscribers would be repaid with IA
profit for their investment, by means
of these improvements being made
within our CITY," Mr.. Nash and the
officers of the road now employed at
Corvallis in the interests of the railroad
were not here at that time, ,and perhaps
for that reason do not know of it,
otherwise we certainly think that they
would not have suggested to citizens
meeting Of Albany that a proposition