The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-02-09
Miscellaneous Railroad Notes.

1t is quite interesting to watch the {
0. R. & N scrapping each other to
reach Camas Prairie. If Weiser does
not get road up the river in the
mean time, it is certain to come when
the northern locomotive whistles in
the heart of Idaho county.
At The Dalles, Oregon, So, 100,-
600 mortgage was filed in favor of
the New York Security & Trust Co.
The loan is for the purpose of
Immediately extending the Columbia
southern railway to Prineville, Ore,
aud from thence it will be built east
to Canyon City and the rich John
Day valley. Canyon City is less than
100 miles due west of Weiser, and it
is by no means impossible such line
would push on this way.
With net work of railways in &C
tive projection all around us, it will be
strange if Weiser and tributary coun-
try, with better proposition and
better geographical location than
them all, don't come out on top.
The Union Pacific and Short Line
have recently purchased 70 more en-
gines' an expenditure of 5000, 600,
which is indicative of the enormous ex
pected increase in railway traffic and
Western development.
The Northern Pacific has complet
ed and rallied its bridge across the
Clearwater and is actively laying
track toward Camas Prairie. If the
Weser river isn't captured soon by
our Seven Devils road, or Jim Hill
get rapid move on, the Northern
Pacific will be whistlng in Weiser's
city limits before we know it The
Weiser river and the Little Salmon
together is the key to all future rail
road politics in the northwest.
That the Oregon Short Line will
soon reunile with the Union Pacific,
under one set of stockholders, is a
foregone conclusion, says the Orego-
nian. Events have been tending in
this direction for some time, as is
we'll known to readers of railroad
news. Circulars have just been issu-
ed bv the Union Pacific announcing
that Short Line Stock could be ex-
changed for Union Pacific shares on
payment of SO difference. Accord
ing to the Omaha Bee this program
is the result of an action taken at g
special meeting of the stockholders
of the Union Pacific held at Sal
Lake, January 10, when it was de-
, cided to increase the common stock
of the road to the amount of $24,
= 600, 600, which was to be used il
absorbing the Oregon Short Line
The arrangement seems to be salts
factory to the Short Line stockhold
ers, and the progress of consolida
: ton will go on without any hitch il
4 the proceedings. Since the Uniol
o Pacific passed from under control o
g the receivers nothing has occurred 0
II so much importance to the paren
line as this move, which will exten
:, its influence from Ogden, Utah, a
IS Hunting, Or, adding nearly 40
l. miles of main line across the state c
10 Idaho, and connecting with the o. R
& N. In its heavy passenger an
70 freight traffic in the northwest.
in The Salt Lake Tribune of a recen
in date refers to some article appearin
in the Deseret News of interest
tlris locality. The Tribune says:
If The Oregon Short Line should folio
the plans laid down by the News la
ty night and build north srom payette,
M would compete with the extension of I'll
w Boise, Nampa e. Owyhee, which the o
x ficals of that line said would be bui
"a when they were here several days ag
'' Vice President Bancroft, however, stat
n that the road from Payetle nor the o.
Of through St Anthony have been arrang
for. No reports or surveys have be
ID made nor has he made any recommend
nd lions in the matter. All that has SO
ho been done include the requests and pc
ice lions of the people Of Idaho 10 have
company build the lines, all OF viii
WAS told last year. There is no chan
-ge ia The situation. aud il the people of