Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-06

| miles of track, and only a short time
would be necessary to build it. Then they
, would be able to carry supplies and ma
terial for the construction of the road up
| the Clearwater to Canlas prairie and Buff
| falo Hump, and also down the river to
meet the line from Riparia. Thus they
| could work in both directions and finish
the line from Riparia more quickly by
getting over the difficulty of working
from the Riparia end only, where the
progress is slow and the carrying of sup
plies difficult.
BY building a line 10 miles in length
from Moscow to the white pine country
they would tap a timber country from
which they could easily get the timber for
ties and bridges necessary in the con-
struction Of the Riparia and Camas prai-
RE branches.
TWO POSSIBLE ROUTES.
The Clearwater line. starting from Mos
COW, can either pass through a cut in the
mountains southeast of here and direct
to the Little Potlatch, or skirt the noun
tam on the way to Cornwall and from
there down the Little Potlatch valley.
East and west of the Little Potlatch, be-
tween Genesee and the Middle Potlatch,
lies a vast expanse of wheat country with
comparatively level roads for hauling to
tIiS i llotS - III Noulp
give a line along this route a great freight
business. Striking the Clearwater a few
miles above Spalding. 40 miles would take
it into Camas prairie and give a direct
line from there to Moscow, Spokane and
Portland.
If work on the Riparia line is aband-
oned until the road is completed from
here to the Clearwater, it is likely a large
force will be put at work on this branch
and the cons t rJ1p tipn n1JcbpI rani11y This
will probably make Moscow a supply
point for the working gang and put her
on he shortest route from all points of
the ompass and the rich Camas prairie
country and the now famous Buffalo
Hump mining district.
In the lower part of central Idaho, and
in southern Oregon and northern Califor-
mia, rumors are rife of prospective Guild
ing by the Great Northern railway
through that section. They have been
floating about for several weeks, and
have appeared in a number of newspa-
pers in the sections named.
When, a few days ago, 1t was reported
that a sale was on of the San Francisco &
North Pacific railroad, the JUNIORS at once
became more generally circulated. This
railroad, known in California as the
"Donahue broad-gauge" road, to distin-
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runs from Sausalito north, commands a
splendid entrance to the harbor of San
Fran cisco. It's terminus is at Tiburon,
on the north shore of the bay opposite
Francisco. It's terminus is at Tiburon,
ton with the city. Northward the road
runs from Tiburon through San Quentin,
San Rafael, Sonoma and other towns on
up the coast, going on to Ukiah, an inland
point in Mendocino county In San Fran
oican tbn cf0pxy wac MA }to yva-lo,I,l@~
We're prospective purchasers Of the road,
thereby getting a San Francisco terminal,
it being the report that the Vanderbilts
had the Union Pacific and Short Line and
intended to build from a point on that
system on to the California coast. North
Of San Francisco, however, the story was
put IN circulation that the Great North
ern was the real prospective purchaser,
and hat President Hill has an eye on the
San Francisco business.
While on the face of it there appears to
be nc truth in the supposition that Mr..
Hill wants to go to San Francisco, the
story is nevertheless interesting. Here is
the way the Klamath, Or, Republican
tells it:
There may be some good foundation
for he rumor Of the extension of the
Great Northern railroad southwark to
Portland and California. The president
of that company, J.. J. Hill, is an ener-
getic and enterprising business man, as
shown by his perseverance in getting a
road across the continent in competition
with three other roads-the Northern Pa
cific, Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific.
The Great Northern road is a great thor
oughfore now, by entering new fields,
with the intention of still further extern
sion into other territory, so as to com
mand an immense share of the entire Pa
cific coast trade. Should the Great North
ern strike southwark for the Portland
and San Francisco trade, it will no doubt
pass east of the Cascade range in east
ern Oregon, all new territory not supplied
with rail communication, thence into Cal
ifornia from the klamath lake country
crossing Siskiyou county in following the
klamath river to the lowlands of The
coast, thence to Eureka, where a juno
ton can be effected with the Nortf
Pacific road at Ukiah, in Mendocint
county, reaching San Francisco bay a
TiburOn.
with the guarantee of such extension
on the part of the Great Northern, tn
North Pacific line to Ukiah would n
doubt be extended ~northward to Eurek:
for connection. Such a competing lin
would certainly prove a great benefit t
southern Oregon and northern Californi;
toward developing the country, and il
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