, 1890-10-23
AN IDAHO ENTERPRISE.
A Proposed North and South
Line of Railway.
A LEADING MINER AT WORK
The Union Pacific Said to Be at
the Bottom of tho
Project

EhrulnH Inc DuiluiuS VI u uOTtn u0Q
south line railway through Idaho:
Captain J. II. Del.amar, of Idaho, isin
the city, on his way to Denver and
Omaha. Counting the value of his bic
mino and mill In Owyhee county, he ia
no doubt the richest man In that state.
as he is one of the most public spirited
His mission here and at Denver and
Omaha is largely in the interest of bis
state and its people. At the late elec.
ton Captain Delamar was elected state
senator from the district composed OF
Owyhce and Cassia counties, and al.
though these were both democratic he
carried the republican ticket through
and had the largest majority of anyone
on the ticket. Idaho, unfortunately, has
q natural barrier extending through the
state, separating the southern counties
from the five northern ones, so that to
40 from one section to tho other re-
auires long travel through tho states Of
oregon and Washington. A wagon
road is being constructed to shorten
this distance, but the great travel bein,
by railway, there is n pressing demand
for road from or near Boise City
through to the rich agricultural and
timber regions of Idaho, Nez Perce and
Latah counties, and also to the great
timber and mineral regions of the Cmur
| d Alene, in Shoshone and Kootenai
counties. Captain DE Lamar has beon
looking over this field and Is now
earnestly urging the building of a north
and south railway, which will bring
these different sections of the state into
closer communication. He reasons
| about thus: There ore the rich silver
and gold mines ofOwyhee county, which
ought to have IA connection with tho
Union Pacific, and hence a branch line.
Then this line should be extended north
so far as to skirt the mineral district Of
the seven Devils country in Washing
| ton county, where there are mountains
OF copper, beside rich silver and gold
ores. To work these there must be rail-
way transportation. Then going fun
ther north the road will tap the timber
and gold regions of Warrens, and finally
reach the lead and silver in the Cnur
d Alcne country, and give the Cpur
d. Alenes competitor TO the Northern
| Pacific. Such road will bring ores to
the Boise valley for reduction, and then
in the form of matte ana bullion be
turned over to the railway to carry to
market, while coal and other supplies
will be carried in. The scheme is feasi-
bic, and 1t will be profitable to the pro-
moters and builders, and Captain De
| Lamar nus suCH lilln III ~ tuut ne is
ready to back the enterprise with
| capital.
| His plan is to take all rebsllious ores
carrying gold and silver and fuse theIa
| in a mating furnace with copper ores,
thus giving the railroad tariff on tho
short hauls of ores to the central point
where would be mating works some
thing after the plan OF the Anaconda in
Montana, or Professor Hills works in
| Danyar fha fxvn anaraaafnl IA, tba
! United States. This will also give the
railway transportation of matte to tho
seaboard and all the many kind of sup
| plies which will be required to be brought
in, and will build up around the works
n town equal IL not greater than Ana
condn, which numbers some ten or mofs
thousand inhabitants. the result of the
great mating works there. The road is
to connect the three trunk lines OF
| Northern Pacific, Union Pacific
and Central Pacific, and at tho
same time give the Union Pacific limo
through to San Francisco. This will be
done by pass at the head of Succor
creek, three miles west of the town Of
Do Lamar. The captain and his nsso-
oiates had the surveys made through
that pass and found that the heaviest
grade would only be seventy-five feet
to the mile, and IL can be reduced to
sixty. This road will also enable tho
hauling OF mating ore from Nevada 10
this mating plant, and thus save haul
ing to D,nver, which is the nearest one
and Is far more distant. If the Oregon
Short Line could afford to build its road
through sagebrush, this road will GER
tainly pay, since II taps all the good
districts OF minerals and other great re-
sources all along the line. The writer
does not see how the Union Pacific can
withhold its assistance or run the risk
of this enterprise falling into the hands
of rival roads. The enterprise Is now on
such solid basis as to be sure OF early
construction, and many Of the
solid men OF Idaho are in favor of giving
state aid to such road il IL should be
lequired, similar to Wyoming's patriotic
iDerality to home enterprise.
BOISE CITY STATESMAN.
The article copied from the Salt Lake
Tribune which appears in the Statesman
this morning, shows very clearly the
importance and necessity of a line oi
railway connecting the rich mining dis
tricts in owyhee county with the min
ing districts, fine timber belts. and pro-
ductive agricultural districts Of Ada,
Boise, Washington and Idaho counties.
The enterprise once fairly under way,
the line will doubtless be continued
southwark to junction with the Cen
trail Pacific and northward through
Lewiston to a junction with some of the
systems in the Cmur d. Aleno region.
To make the road all that 1t should DO
for the company handling the enterprise
and for the country through which u
will pass, Boise City should be one ol
the points of the line. The capital OF
the state is here permanently, as the
constitutional limit of twenty years u
really removal OF all obstacles to the
permanency Of its location.
The capital OF the state Ia the pom,
which will give all the importance and
attractiveness and nearly all the value
to the passenger traffic of the line. Ia
leave Boise out would be like leaving
Hamlet out OF the play.
1t may be fairly set down rs very
, probable that whatever the corporate
name Of the building company may be-
the road will be under the auspices
, of Union Pacific management
,, The road will he built, how
ever, and that is tho main point.
Captain DE Lamar has his hoart anf
head firmly set upon the enterprise
which he has thoroughly studied in o.
its bearings aud advantages, and he y
not man who, having once put MI
| shoulder to the wheel, is likely to mov'
, or look backward.
, 1t may be yet too early to discuss tn
| route which may be adopted from Bois'
northward; but the route up More
creek and through the Boise basin ant
thence through Garden valley and Lonj
4 valley Is one which for the value OF IN