Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-12-27
ENTHUSIASM PREVAILS.
McMinnville Wants q Railroad 10 the
Sea, and She Will Have II. Wake
Up and Work Your Jaws.

in the opera house Monday night
was very enthusiastic and was well
attended. A delegation of Salem
people was in attendance and helped
the ball along. They were some of
Salem's substantial business men
and are pushing the scheme. Every
body knows them; they were: E.
M. Waite, b. 8. Cook. E. B. Nc
Elroy, Squire Farrar, and H. w.
Cottle.
A. J. Apperson was elected chair
man of the meeting, and J. L. Rog-
ers secretary. If the meeting is a
criterion the railroad will be built,
for the people assembled, were in
favor of the road, and all expressed
themselves as willing to do every
thing in their power in order to
get it.
Speeches were made by the entire
Salem delegation, VIM. Galloway,
J. E. Magers, George Burnett, t. b.
Merry, and others.
The three passes through the
mountains west of the city were
discussed, and the Salem delegation
expressed themselves that McMinn-
vile was the desirable point; pro-
vided however, that McMinnville
will hold out q helping hard to Sa-
lem. The passes west OF us have a
higher altitude than the Grand
Ronde pass, and if McMinnville can
put up sufficient coin to overcome
the weight Of an easy pass the road
will be built; but on the other hand
If she does not, the road will not be
built, and McNfinnville will lose
one of the greatest benefits ever
brought to her rattention, and rightly
lose it.
When this road is completed TO
the sea there will be no other road
built. Capitalists will not invest
money in road parallel with an
other, and If McMinnville stirs her
self she will be on the only railroad
to the sea for years and years to
come.
Long-headed Tom Merry, the old
time newspaper man of this state,
stated in his speech that he did not
know of a farer county than Yam
hill nor fairer town than McMinn-
vile, and prophesied that within
five years, with the railroad to the
sea, and the Willamina water ditch
brought in, McMinnville would be a
manufacturing city of ten thousand
inhabitants. Nature has surround
ed us with the garden spot of the
world; we are already the envy of
towns twice our size. Let us now
make this city the envy of cities teu
times our size. Let us stand to-
gether and push this railroad scheme.
Let us make this a city to be
proud of. Let us do everything in
our pewer to demonstrate to the
outside world that there is a beauti-
full city in Yamhilll county by the
name of McMinnville, filled with
progressive, energetic citizens, who
through their own exertions made
the town. Let us not ask outside
capital to help us, but do it our
selves and have the satisfaction Of
knowing that we depend upon our
own labor for success.
Let us build the railroad.
Let us progress.
The farmers of this vicinity should
know the benefit to be derived from
a railroad to the sea. The farmers
Of Linn county are now receiving
six cents more per bushel for their
wheat than you are. Why? Sim
ply because the 0. p. road takes
their wheat to deep water for that
much less per bushel. Do you
know that the present freight rate
from this city to Portland is 81 per
ton, while the S. p. Co. is freighting
Benton county wheat through this
city to Portland for 81 per ton? Do
you know the reasen of this? 1t Is
this. Another railroad completes at
Corvallis for the carrying of the
wheat. So you can easily see how
you will be benefited by COM
peting road to the sea.
Not only the farmer will be bene-
fitted, but every one, manufacturers
and business men as well as real es-
tate holders.
On motion, the chair appointed
the following committee to ascertain
the best pass through the noun
tains and to open up stock books Of
the Salem, McMinnville, Astoria 4
Eastern railroad. s. A. Manning,
VIM. Galloway, Judge Loughary,
Judge Cowls and Geo. w. Jones.
The following resolutions We're
presented by J. C. Cooper and
unanimously adopted;
Resolved, That we favor the build
inc of railroad from Salem 10 Til.