The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-11-03
The owyhee Railroad.

the snartest people in Idaho, outside Of
Caldwell, resided in Namps. Forthis rea-
son We assertthat whenthe Owyhee rail-
road is built its northern terminus will
not be in Boise City. The Nampa hust-
ers have already pursuaded their slow
er going neighbour in the capital city
that this must be. The argument which
they nse is that ifthey parallel the line
which belongs to the q. P. from Nampa
to Boise the road will get the ill-wil of
the q. P. people and it will cost an
enormous sum TO get the rails and other
material for its construction shipped in.
The survey from Nampa to the New
York mill, with difficult grades, is fifty
six and seven tenth miles. A road from
Boise City TO the same point, via Owy-
hee station, the old Monahan ferry and
up Sinker, crossing tho New York sum-
nit to the New York mill will not be
one mile longer and will have easier
grade. This road built on this line
would secure the road into the timber
belt north of Boise, being built from
that city. When these two Boise roads
are built the contemplated road from
Salt Lake to Puget Sound could run it
as part of the great north and south
line which sooner or later will be con-
strncted.
If the road be built here from Nampa,
the Nampa people will be able TO carry
out their plans to construct road to
Emmett and from there on up the Pay
cite and the great lumber industry
would find its center somewhere on
that line more remote from Boise than
Nampa is. The Oregon Pacific beading
eastward to meet the Northwestern,
coming down the Owyhee, as it is sur
veyed. will find it easier to make its
connection with Idaho roads at Emmett
than at ony other point and will wait
there for the Chicago and Northw estern.
San Francisco to regain the trade of
Idaho and Montana, is making move
to build a road from Red Bluff to Butte.
The promoters consider Boise an object
i've point on their line, and the Burling-
ton seeking route to the Pacific, from
its western terminus in Wyoming, will
come to meet the Frisco road in Idaho.
Boise has an opportunity to almost in
will not be switched off from her pur-
pose to make then such by bugaboo
scare from the smart men of Nampa
that our little road will cost them few
thousand dollars more because t parall-
els nineteen miles of road leased by the
bankrupt Union Pacific. We call this
bngaboo scare because this is all it is.
The Union Pacific will be friendly to
any route selected for the Owyhee road
All it would lose in the way of traffic |
would be the passengers from Owyhee
who ride over it and the very small |
amount of freight coming from Boise TO
Owyhee. That loss wonld be made up a
thousand times BY the increase of busi-
ness the Short Line wonld secure by
reason of the Owyhee road being
built.
Will Boise business men permit
to be frightened or bull
iozed into building line which may
IN he future cut off their chances of
the great city which is bound
70 grow up SONS " here in the great
Snake river valley, and actually con
.ribuIe to its chances of being built
elsewhere for such trivial reasonso We
rope not, but we have such profound
aspect for the great men Of Nampa
hat we fear they will.