East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-16
COMING TO IDAHO
NEW RAILROAD BUILDING
WEST FROM COLORADO
Denver Post Says Seattle is the OBJ
iective Point of the Colorado, Wyo-
ming 4 Idaho Railway-Wm Touch
at Boise and Maybe an Extension
Of an Immense System.

News about the Colorado, Wyoming
4 Idaho railroad, the company which
filed its articles OF Incorporation here
last spring, is always OF interest 1T
has been reported that actual work on
the Colorado end of the line would be-
gin soon. The Denver Post of Sunday
adds new interest by printing a story
of the Incorporation of another road
to run from the gulf to Denver, where
it would connect with the Colorado
wyoming & Idaho and that Seattle is
to be the final northwest terminus.
The Post article follows:
From New Orleans TO Seattle,
Wash. by way of Denver.
"A new route, running diagonally
across the country, between the Gulf
of Mexico and the Pacific ocean in
the northwest.
"That is what the filing of articles
of incorporation of the Shreveport.
Pauls Valley & Denver railway in Tex
as, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Indian
territory during the past week is said
to mean.
"a dispatch from Guthrie, o. T., re-
ceiVed last night, says: This line is
believed to be a connecting link be-
tween New Orleans and the extreme
northwest. connecting at Denver with
the Colorado. Wyoming & Idaho rail-
road. The Shreveport. Pauls Valley
& Denver railroad has a capital stock
of $4,000, ,OOO.'
VIII Open New Territory.
with that announcement came the
news that two corps of surveyors,
said to be employed by the Colorado,
Wyoming & Idaho railroad, are work.
ing north of Fort Collins. This means
either of two things, the Colorado,
Wyoming & Idaho is Colorado
Southern proposition OF else it will use
the tracks of the Colorado Southern
from Fort Collins to Denver. In either
event it will open up new territory to
the Colorado & Southern and will also
open up a new country TO the mer-
chants of Denver.
1.-The Shreveport, Pauls Valley &
Denver railroad will be built from
Shreveport, La, TO Denver. 1t is re-
ported that close traffic agreements
have been made with the Texas & Pa
cific to use it's tracks from Shreveport
TO New Orleans. This gives it gulf
outlet.
THE completion of this line will
mean a decided shift in the channels
of trade and freight centers of the
territory traversed. Denver would be
a central point in the system and
freight for San Francisco and lower
California from the gulf would be
switched here. Denver will also be
the diversion point for freight and
passenger business from Shreveport.
Engineers are already in the field
between Mill Creek, /. T., and Red
River, in the Choctaw Nation. An
other corps is at work near Anadarko
Okla, where II is reported that the
Anadarko, Bridgeport or Devil Can
yon right of way, heretofore owned by
the Frisco, has been purchased by tht
Shreveport-Denver people.
THE fact that the Texas & Pacific
10 mentioned gives 1t the appearance
Of being encouraged by George j
Gould, as he owns the Texas & Pa
cific. If the new line is friendly to
Gould. or is a Gould proposition, II
will make connections with the Ric
Grande Southern or Southern Colora-
do.
The Colorado, Wyoming & Idaho
railroad was incorporated two years
ago and proposed building from Den
yer to Boise. Idaho. and ultimately to
the Pacific coast in the northwest
That definite steps to construct the
road are being taken is evident from
the report concerning the parties OF
surveyors now employed near Fort
Collins"