The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-08-16
BIG PROJECT GOES
HAKLRDAD BETWEEN COOS BAY
AND SALT LAKE CITY.
Chief Engineer Kinney Also Says
It Has Been Decided to Build
Coast Line Between San
Francisco and Portland.

oe the Great Central Railroad, last night
gave out the statement that the transcon-
tinental feature Of the Coos Bay Railroad
had been accepted and he had teen di
rected to make location of the line through
10 Salt Leke City. This acceptance, he
said, provides for bonding the road at
rsI6000'a mile, involving in round num-
bers SIS, 100000, though the exact dis
tance between Coos Bay and Salt Lake
City over the new route has not yet been
determined.
More than this, Mr.. Kinney announced
that railroad would be built to reach
between San Francisco and Port1aud a.
zong the coast. This will not be part
of his enterprise, but he says it will
he built by capital friendly to the Coos
Bay-Salt Lake line. 1t is understood
2hat it will be an extension of the Cali
for2ia Northwestern, which now reaches
nocthward from San Francisco Bay to u
kriahs in Mendoclno county, a distance
of liz miles, and has line surveyed
through to Eureka, on Humboldt Bay
Maj Kinney says he has no knowledge
Of the details Of that enterprise, but he is
assured IL will be built. Ti1lamook Bay
Elas been mentioned in connection with
1t, and it may be that Portl n3's railroad
20 Tillamcok will form section Of the
San Francisco.
NfWho is it that will DO all this Whose
money or what railroad is supporting
your project?
<'lYell, to tell you the candid truth,
don,t know" he responded. "And what
zs naere, don't know as 1 care much. I
do kaaow that am employed by respons-
abie people, who are advancing all the
sno1ey necessary in the preliminary op-
eratioHs; that We are paying promptly
for what we buy, and will continue to do
Sc I know that I have been instructed
&c proceed with all possible speed to
make che definite location OF the line
&hfough between Coos Bay aud Salt Lake
City, and that shall do my best to obey
instructions. The preliminary work will
take three months at least, so 1 do not
look 6or active construction to begin on
The line before next spring. That is, OH
the main line. Work on the Belt Line
Railway at Coos Bay will OF be delayed
for thst, however
S'.9s to the people who are really be-
hind Gazis project, don't think that's any
OF tie public's business. I notice that
most Of the important railroads are built
witl2oaEt disclosing to the public just
whose money goes into them. Many
railroads are bull. and operated for years
before the hand that really was behind
them takes public possession. For that
matter, think it would puzzle most peo-
ple,&e tell just whose money is running
sosne Of our big railroads that have been
doing business for years. Can you tell
today whether Vanderbilts or Goulds
hold the larger part Of the stock of the
Union Pacific? can't, and don't know
that it matters whether I can or not.
Who owns the stock of the Northern Pa
cifc?
"I may say this regarding the con-
struction of the road: We will probably
begin first on the Salt Lake end ,and will
drive the piles during the coming winter
for the road across the southern end of
Great Salt Lake. The Salt Lake end of
the line will be under separate incorpo-
ration, which will be fled iu a few days.
"H D Jerrett, first assistant engineer,
and Mr.. Peltz, of Philadelphia, left to-
might to join George Lyman Moody, who
has been accommodating thePortland line
for considerable distance from Coos
Bay, and they will go to work on the
main line at once. I regard it as quite
significant that my instructions are to get
the straightest line possible, that any
reasonable advance construction cost will
be borne for the sake of getting a first
class road. That looks to me like seri-
Gus business"
Major Kinney also gave out the fact
shat it had been determined to make the
Belt Line Railway around Coos Bay al
trolley line, ard that Loon Lake Falls, on
q branch OF the Umpqua River, had been
for. power purposes.