Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1885-10-29
MOVEMENTS IN RAILROADS
AND STEAMBOATS,

Wnat was Oe'ng accomplished. Ihe eX
tension of the road from Colfax to Mos
COW has been greatly in favor Of the PEG
pie residing on part of the great wheat
belt, and now the officers of the com
pany call upon the producers to ware
house their grain that the company can
not carry it off; and it is an evident to
all who visit Lewiston that the grain
that is being stored here is accommodating
four times as fast as facilities furnished
BY the 0. H. 4 N. Co. are provided, and
sthat enough is already in the ware houses
to require all their present means of
fully six weeks to remove. Showing
Wizards representation that the com.
pany's boats on this route could remove
all our grain as fast as furnished and
therefore we needed no railroad, was un
true, and was offered as a delusiye hope
to our pcoplc--to prevent us from look
ing towards the Oregon Short Line to
come Gown Snake river to our relief, or
to any line Of steamers Of the Northern
Pacific or any other company in opposi
tion to the .. r. & N. Company But
although they never had ample facilities
10 remove our grain in the fall, two year,
time has demonstrated the fact, that one
'ruilroad from Moscow and the steamboats,
they furnish, come far short of removing
the grain now raised this year, and the
officers Of the company have to cry out
70 US 10 warehouse our grain, as they can
mot remove all this fall, when the pri is
advancing too. II this be so now, when
ten times tho amount is raised (Which
surely will be in less than two years if
the price keeps up) what then win be
their cry for wrehousing? The facts
are beginning to como to the light of 9th
Or companies, and that the O. II. 4 N.
company have attempted to conceal the
real capacity Of this section for grain rails
ing-to the great detriment of the pro.
sducers- from other companies till they
could have means and time to enlarge
their means and powers and still keep US
bottled.up for their own asurandisement
But light is beginning to break through
- Y
the mists and toys which their selfish
policysha thrown over us to blind the
world outside in regard to our p,oduc
ing capacity. Since the glare produced
BY the proposed joint lease to-
the Oregon Short Line and the Northern
Pacific, and its dazzle has ,con, exceed
ingly din. enquiry is being made about
the producing capacity oil this section,
and the North Pacific have sent agents
to Lewiston, and the country north, and
west and east Of us, and they find that
the extent and productiyeness of this
section, to them, almost ut.daxzles any
country they have seen east or west, and
they have determined MT only to build
branch road from Spokane Falls to
Lewiston or some point near, but they
Aaye determined to forthwith construct
steamers to ply between Ainsworth and
A.ewiaton, to connect with their railroad
1t Ainsworth, or when the Cascade d.
vision il completed to connect ut the east
ern terminus Of that division on the Co.
lunbis river--so that shippers can send
their grain east or west by their line Il,
their option. We learn that the frs,
Aoat will be 10 readiness on or about the
6rat Of January next, aud that the sec.
end boat will be in readiness for the
early spring trade. That the engine and
machineryof the steamer Willard, now
on the Pen d'Oreille Lake, viii be put
into che FIRST boat, aud that the chief Of.
6cer Of the boat will be man who
knows BY long experience the difficulties
and obstrucions to successful navigation |
Of Snake river. The tonnage of the see
ond boat viii be large, and built express.
y fQr carrying freight, aud the first will
be adapted to the capacity of the Willard. |
Had the Northern Pacific taken the
counsels Of those who know the country