Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-11-14
DOES 1T MEAN C. & Z?
Mention in the Oregonian of Pos
sibilities for Local Railroad.


ed with the situation is that the
appropriation o. 81, 100000 set
aside by the Hartman lines for
construction of new track, the
location of which is still an Off
cial secret, is that the capital has
been set aside for building the
projected Oregon Eastern. Pro-
vision having been made and al
ready announced for the other
important projects, it is recalled
that E H. Hartman on the oc-
casion of his last visit to Portland
made the public statement that
the time had now arrived when
a line should be extended into
Central Oregon. The amount is
sufficient to construct about 200
miles of track if not through a
region of difficult and expensive
work.
Tremendous interest has been
aroused in Central Oregon by
the publication of the fact that
such an amount is available and
that the region seems most pro-
bable for its expenditnre-Maps
of Klamath, Lake, Harvey and
Malheur counties are being stud
led in the Northwest with avidity
and persons who have traversed
portions of that vast region-the
largest in the United States with
out railroad-are sought as
mediums of information.
While the route of the Oregon
Eastern is problematicai, the
Crescent Lake Pass. it is gener-
ally believed, will be selected as
the most feasible route from the
Willamette Valley, following up
the main headwaters branch of
that stream from Natron. But
judged by the map there seems no
great difficulty presented in span
ming the state from east to west,
and also in skirting the eastern
foothills of the Cascades to the
promising traffic districts of K.la-
math and Lake counties. As
previously pointed out in these
columns the route is one that
would enable the klamath Lake
line to maintain the altitude of
the great district soon to be under
irrigation works built by the Re-
clamation Service, without any
wide divergence from a direct
route, making it the road of
shortest mileage to the region
from Portland, and placing this
trade center in communication by
less mileagethan any other Pacific
Coast common point.
AS many theories were adj
vanced in Third street as there
were men having familiarity with
different sections of the state.
While Central Oregon was &C.
cepted as the goal, the route to
be selected was regarded as dubi-
Gus and there are those who be-
lieve it means extension of the
Corvallis & Eastern, of the West
Side lines to the coast, or of the
Arlington-Condon branch of the
Columbia Southern.
E. E. Lytle, ex-president of
the Columbia Southern, empha-
sized the denial made by General
Manager O'Brien that the Tilla-
nook road was in any way in
volved. An expression of in
jured establishment sufused his
face at the suggestion of any
connection of his plans with
those OF the Hartman system,
Mr.. Lytle said:
The money for the Pacific
coast Railway to- I1llamoOk,
Nehalem and the other points we
aim to connect with Portland, by
direct lines, is in the First Ma
tiona1 Bank. It has been there
for two years and the officials of
the bank can tell who deposited
it there. Hartman has no con-
nectior whatever with the enter
prise, either directly or through
his companies and there is no
ground for the supposition that
he does. I do not care to see
Mr.. Hartman getting credit for
building a road that I am going
to invest nay money in"
Thus, denial is had in unmis-
taxable language from both Gen
eral Manager O'Brien, of the