The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-03-29
ELECTRIC ROAD
MAY BE BUILT
MOUNT HOODITS OBJECTIVE POINT
Sentiment There In Favor Of Ii and
Committee VIII Confer
With Promoters.

A meeting was held at Mount Hood
last Saturday to determine the senti-
ment of the residents there in regard
to the proposed electric road which il
Is proposed to build from this city ia
that point.
The meeting was held in the Mount
Hood hall, about 40 persons were in
attendance. A number OF gentlemen
from this city representing the pro-
moters of the road we're in attend
ance. u. M. Wishart, president of
the Mount Hood Development League
was chairman of the meeting.
The proposition as first made was to
have the residents of that section do
nate land to the company, but after
discussing the matter it was decided
that the better plan would be to issue
bonds. Another meeting will be held
at Mount Hood next Saturday when a
committee will be appointed to confer
with the promoters of the road.
Ii is understood that Portland capi-
tai is behind this enterprise and that
it has been under consideration for a
long time. One of the prime movers
in the building Of the road is said to
be the Stanley Smith Lumber Com
pany. In short time the big mill of
this company will be put in full oper
alton and will be able to cut, II worked
to its fullest capacity, in "a hour
day from from $50, 600 to 300,00 feet
of lumber. The facilities for getting
this immense amount of lumber to the
railroad at present are Inadequate and
the electric road II built would have
a spur running from the main line to
the mill. A local enigneer who has
been over the ground several times,
over which the new road would ran,
says that the distance to be traversed
by railroad from here to Mount
Hood would be about sitxeen miles.
The most practicable and shortest
route for the lnmber company to the
o. r. Il N. would be point some-
where near Viento and it is said that
II the road Is built a spur will leave
the line and strike for the railroad
before it reaches this city. On this
part of the road it will be necessary
to build switchback to get over the
mountains but will give the lumber
road a more direct route. Better
yards, 1t is said, can be secured at
this point for storing lumber aud more
convenient facilities for loading It
than can be had at Hood River.
The part of the road from Hood
River would swing out through the
western part of town and on ont
through the valley, over route that
has not been decided on. Efforts are
being made to have the lumber roaC
brought here and yards for it estab
lished in the western part Of town
whore it is said there is ample room.
The cost of the new enterprise has
not yet been definately determined
and on it hangs the possibility of its
being built. There are number Of
serious engineering problems in con.
nection with the proposed road and
the amount of capital required will be
considerable. The efforts Of the com.
pany are expected to be met with as
sistance in its undertaking and the
citizens OF Mount Hood have ex.
pressed themselves as willing to hell
the project.
IL the road is built the erection of {
hotel near Lost Lake is said to be one
of the features in view for the attrac
tion of tourists and visitors on sigh
seeing expeditions,