The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-07-20
JIM HILL WILL
ENTER OREGON
Hand Behind Rail-
road Movements
Great Southern Nav
Be His Road
INTO HEART HARTMAN DISTRICT
Confirmation Of His Plans of Opera
alton Comes from Several Di.
rect SOurces-Will Reach
NOrth-Bank Road.

After sparring for some time, the
Columbia Railway Il Nav iAation com
pany has tipped it off and on all sides
from men in authority, aud otherslwho
are high up in railway circles have
discovered that jim Hill, who has
gained control of the Northern Pacific
by decision of the courts in the great
merger controversy, is invading the
territory of the enemy, one Mr., Har-
riman, and is slipping down the north
bank with transcontinental line and
will give the o. II. Il N. direct som
petition from sea to sea.
1t 10 no wild guess to say that jim
Hill is even entering the very heart
Of Oregon with the Great Southern
now building from The Dalles to Du-
fur When the bridge at Vancouver
is constructed to give the Northern
Pacific a direct entrance to Portland
there will be no further use for the
big ferry at Kalama. This may be
moved up the river to The Dalles to
transfer cars from the Great Southern
to the north bank road, thus giving
direct communication from the inter
ior of Oregon by Jim Hills read into
Portland.
President Heinrich of the Great
Southern was In Bend last week.
While there he Informed the Bulletin
man that his company eontemplates
extending their road from Dufur to
the metropolis Of Northern Crook,
with tile probability II Il continuance
southwark.
The Bulletin man put the question
to the President of a bridge at The
Dalles, and was given the following
reply;
ave are not worrying at all about
that We shall have an eastern outlet
when we are reday for it. -
A locomotive engineer who exam
ined the new rolling stock of the Great
Southern remarked;
III that equipment didn't come
from the Great Northern shops, |
don't know anything about such mat
ters. 1t is certainly Great Northern,
and think the Great Southern is a
Jim Hill enterprise. Those dry goods
men who are nominally building the
new road are not in the enterprise on
their own account. Mark my words,
it's Jim Hill.
Somebody is right now buying
right of way down the north bank of
the Columbia. | have ranch there
myself and have been approached for
right of way across it. One of my
neigbors this week sold right of way
across his farm for 81, 600 and got the
money, too. A number of Others have
made similar arrangements lately. |
tell you Jim Hill means to come down
the Columbia river with the Northern
Pacific and he means to get into Cen
tral Oregon"
The revealing Of who Is back OF the
project along the north bank and who
Is the prucahser of the g. II. Il N. has
great significance, for it supplies the
the link and shows who is back of the
greatest railway project in the history
of the railroad world. 1t mems great
deal to the people of Washington and
Oregon. 1t will, too, mean great
deal to the Interests of James Hill,
for it will open up way from the
East TO the Orient.
Men In railroad circles are now
aware of the shrewd manipulation of
Hill and his CO. o.workers. The ranch
ers and the merchants see through it
and that is why all are so positive
that the road is foregone conclusion.
OF course during times like this, when
such a gigantic move is on foot every
town wants depot, and every outly-
ing village, swelled over its own i'm
port, starts hot air story that the
road is coming this way or that way.
The whole thing in a nut shell is that
the road is coming down the north
bank, and that it is for trans cen
tinental line connecting st. Eaul with
Portland, thus offering chance for
the Northern Pacific to market its
stuff to the Orient. h. l.. G.