The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-07-06
ADMITS IT WILL
BE N. P. ROAD
ELLIOTTS STORY ONLY A BLIND
Right Of Way Agent Dispels Fears
That Other Company Seeks
North Bank Route.
Rv a StnH Corresnnndent

BY Staff Correspondent.
White Salmon, July 4.--The people
of White Salmon do net believe for
one moment that the Northern Pacific
is not back of the railIcCd project
along the north bank. Wien A. R.
Upright, who is securing the right of
way for the Columbia River Naviga-
tion company, was shown the state
ment in the press dispatcl es that
President Elliott of the Northern Pa
eitio had stated that the company
would positively not build 6lCng s-the-
north bank, he smiled blaI Cly and
remarked, "why We are the CClU mba
River Navigation company. ~
Mr.. Upright has glcVn Il trihe con
tidential with numter Cf new made
friends and has ConVirtCd many that
he is working indirectly fer the Nor
thern Pacific, and that e statement
given out by President Illicit was all
bluff, so as not in the least to inter
fere with or retard the HClk of those
who are now out securing light Of
ways. The scheme is, it is laid, to
connect with the Northern Pacific at
PasCo.
There has been great deal of
trouble so far in gaining q tions.
Those who live along the valley are
not in the least hasty about signing
contracts. S G. Ziegler Offered to
sell outright to the conn any, asking
81, 500. lie states that the survey
that the company is working on will
have tendency to ruin his ranch.
If the survey would be changed so as
to run near his residence it wonld
destroy that part, and II it would
be the original survey it would ruin
all his early land, aud his ranch
would be of little value.
r. Adams il one that holds his land
at s., 600 and j. A. Henderson wants
81, 600 for the damage that will be
done him. Mr.. Upright, after con
ferring with the ranchers and offer
ing them double the assessed valua-
tion of the land required, departed
for The Dalles for conference with
the directorate of the road. He will
return Monday accompanied by the
chief engineer. 1t is thought now
that the engineer will endeavor to
change the survey 80 as to avoid cases
involving heavy damages.
Judge BTykett is away, but it is
understood that he will hold out for
heavy damages, as the right of way
will badly injure his beautiful SlCO,
600 farm. The statement made last
week in the Glacier that L. Wyers,
sr., bad made contract was in error.
1t seems that the land near the point
the other side of Bingen was school
land and under lease only by Mr..
Wyers. The progress in the work ia
slow and it will take some time for
the company to get the options.
The proposed new road is the chief
topic of conversation on this side Of
the river. The main fear expressed
is that the Q. II. & n might have
something to do with it. When the
statement was made by President
Elliot that the Northern Pacific had
nothing to do with the movement.
disappointment was'in evidence on all
sides. But those who bad won the
confidence of Mr.. Upright knew bet
ter and smiled at the statement
1t took long time for the cat to
get out of the bag, but when it did it
was as the Glacier announced, the
Northern Pacific. Mr.. Upright, when
asked confldentially as to who was
back of the Columbia River Naviga-
tion company and what road would
be benefited admitted that it was the
Northern Pacich and that connection
would be made at PaeCo.
White Salmon is stirred up over the
railroad movement and the merchants
are going to make the fight of their
lives to hold the city and to have the
depot here If it should Re arranged
that Lyle, Bingen and Underwood
would be the stations along the. north
shore it wol Id iniure White Salmon.
1t il not difficult to figure out that
there can tC no depot at White Sal
mon if C-c il located ut Bingen, and
vice veIsa,
The White Salmon Land company
has confidence that it will be White
Salmon, and have purchased the lot
on the corner of Main and Jewett ave-
nue. and will commence Immediately
the construction Of twO-stOry build
ing 24x30 feet. 1t will be devoted to
office use on the second floor and
store buildings below. The company
will have one of the tiue offices when
the building is completed.
Those who have heretofore been
backward in the movement are now
some Of the most enthusiastic over the
project. You get the railroad on all
hands aud there Is no other topic Of
! conversation. The ladies talk al cut it
over the tea cups and the men On the
road, at the lodge, and on Tic com
ers.
| Captain Lauterbach of the Washing
/ ton Hotel is contemplating many i'm
provements. He says that he had
confldeuce enough in tie city TO
spend nearly $40, eco in hotel, and
now that the railroad is an assured
fact, he is willing TO spend more. He
! will 90 up in the mountain and | ipe
water to his popular hOsterly. Inc
guests will have cold mountain spring
water to drink, and it will add greatly
/ to the fame of the hotel.
/ A. II. Jewett, one of the largest
/ holders of real estate in the city, is
up and doing. He sees rrleEdid
future for the unloading Of Is land
at handsome figure. Fer Years he
has struggled and labored to Il axe the
city boomer, but for some reason he
would not accomplish what he de-
sired. The time was not ripe, but
now he sees it breaking and he is
wearing broader smile than usual,
and is leaving nothing undone to
boost White Salmon. He has made Il
careful study of the situation aud has
gone out on tour of investigation to
find out who is back Of the railrCpd
movement He is confident that he
has the right fellow.
MI. Machines of the White Saline II
Land company can figure it out, and
with the assurance from the statement
made by Mr.. Upright that it is the
work of the Northern Pacific, he is
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