Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-12-06
RAILROAD.
Gillian County People Getting
Restless. About to Take Bull
by Horns and Build Road
Themselves

After years Of waiting for foreign capi-
tai 70 come III and solve the problem Of
uii communication between the big
wheat fields Of Central and Southern
ltiilliam county aud the Columbia river,
| Gillian county people are beginning TO
get weary and are about TO take the bnll
! by the horns and solve this most Inn
portant question In their own way and
by their own efforts. For years they
have been watching aud waiting for
branch Of the D. II. x NJ, for a spur Of
the Columbia Southern, for line built
by the Portage people and for sundry
and divers other proposed" railroad
projects, all oi which have promptly
and In turn failed % connect and also
TO relieve the tension under which the
farmer struggles in trying TO market
| big wheat crop before another harvest
catches him.
| The old fable oi the qnails and the
farmer will be found apropos In this
connection. Tho quail family lived In
the farmers wheat field and the wheat
was ripe. The young quails heard the
farmer and bis son plan to have their
relatives, their neighbors or their friends
COME and cut the grain, and the young
sters we're frightened and wanted TO
move. The wise old mother quail quiet
ed their fears, however, and said there
was no hurry about going. But one
morning, when the farmer was heard
saving TO his son, "Those follows are
not going to harvest our wheat for Us,
so we nnst do II ourselves, and at once, !"
the old bird said to the little ones, ''Now,
children, VIC had better hustle. These
fellows mean business" So with Gil
liam. county railroad projects. As long
as the people depend ON outside capital
there Is no need in anyone being scared
about having 10 move bis house off the
right-ol-way, but when big community
Of wealth producers get so tired hauling
10 cent wheat from 40 to 60 miles thro'
mud and rain and cold that they begin
to believe they can build a railroad Of
| their own 10 connect their wheat fields
with the markets OF the world, II begIns
to look as though something IL going to
be done, For the last few days there
has been considerable agitation Of this
plan Of the people building their own
railroad and many OF our most coneerya-
tive and responsible citizens have ex-
| pressed themselves as believing the
project TO be n perfectly practicable and
rational one. II is believed that suili-
cient stock can readily be sold in this
county TO complete 10 or 20 miles Of the
road, and, that much accomplished, II
would be an easy matter TO float bonds
and complete the line. So far as the
GLoBE can learn, every man who has
heen approached fayors thu proposition,
and il seems that all that Is now needed
10 cause the project to assume a tangible
form Is for our people to agitate it--talk
IL up. Everybody can do something to
help such project along, II you cam
not buy 1900 worth Of stock, yon can
say the project is good one, and that
we can't afford to be without the road ;
or TO quote tile "nub" Of one otLiucoln's
stories III you can'tsk you can hold
q Leg Let everybody pull together on
this project and the first thing we know
we viii have railroad company incor-
poraled that will mean business, with a
big D.