The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1903-07-21
LOOKOUT TRAMWAY ASSURED
Special From Lookout States the Conditions OF
the Tramway and Telephone Work-Summit
Tramway Will Be Extended to Lookout.

We iIdHWdy anu leIepnone WOrk-SuHlInit
Tramway Will Be Extended to Lookout
LOOKOUT, July 20, (SpeciaD-A can
vass of the stock holders and directors of
the Summit Tramway company has been
made and there seems to be no doubt
that the stock of the company will be
inlarged in a few weeks and money Sc
cured from the sale of this new stock for
the purpose of extending the Lenore
tramway from Summit to Lookout.
Two thirds of the stock of this corpora
tion is owned by farmers of the Clifford
country and they are unanimous in their
approval of this scheme. Men living
along the proposed line have even gone
so far as to offer the right of way free of
charge provided stations are established
for the purpose of taking on and putting
off goods for those people living in the
adjacent country. The cost of this ex-
tention would not be more than $50 900
for the FIVE miles of tram and equip
ments. The line would add between 500
and So1 feet to its elevation making the
altitude from the base between 23oo and
2Soo feet. This elevation would pro-
vide power for shipments of freight when
the ascending cars were loaded and the
company already has steam power
enough at the top of the big hill to haul
freight along the entire line.
Fletcher, Ilo, Dublin. Pine City, Win
chester and Chesley are hauling their
freight up the steep mountain road over
almost an impossible rocky grade from
Culdesac. All this business will be given
to the tramway as soon as it reaches
Lookout. The conditions on Cold Spring
prairie and the 10 country are not under
stood by the people in the lower coun-
tries. The timothy crop will be cut next
week and the wheat hay harvest will
begin two weeks later and the grain
harvest comes some time in September.
By that time the fall rains will have set
IN and fall hauling will be impossible as
the roads become impossible. some teams
sticking in the deep mud going down
hill. The last two weeks from forty to
sixty teams have been hauling last year s
crop from the mountains daily and this
will continue six weeks longer. With
the tramWay extended to Lookout this
grain can be hauled TO market on sleighs
in the winter when two and three tons
can be moved by one team. There is
also another expenditure to be counted
in by these farmers. Under the present
conditions new wagon is to be bought
after hauling two crops this will Go away
with al that. Parties from the the
mountain sections state that they can
place enough stock in their country to
insure the improvement. A conversation
with W. E. Schnebly of this place pre-
sideut of the Lookout telephone com
pany, it is learned that its inactivity in
pushing the Kendrick Lookout line was
caused by the impossibility Of securing
men to cut the poles The country is IN
so prosperous condition that labor can
not be had at any price and the farmers
are above such work They are very
independent. AS soon as the Kendrick
line can be built the connections will be
made with the Interstate company, a
farmers institution at Moscow. Con-
nection is already made at Culdesac with
the Nezperce co operative system that
covers the Nezperce prairie These
systems expect 10 consolidate as soon as
arrangements can be made. Messrs
Schnedley and Puntenney were in Lewis.
ton yesterday looking alter the telephone
quarters there.