The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-12-20
Are
ACTIVE IN WEST
More Than 1000 Miles 81
New Track for the Develop
ment Of Oregon.
HILL AND HARTMAN BUSY
Enormous Sums Spent on irrigation IL
Wyoming, Securing for That State
Tardy Recognition by Leading
Transcontinental Systems.

The romance OF h west today Is the
story OF the battle Of the railways.
There is little of the adventurous in the
present railroad doings Of the east. It
is a cold business enterprise.
But once over the big river, says the
Review ef Reviews the spirit of adj.
venture runs through every age. In
the great struggle for the command of
the gulf, in the battle Of the giants for
the traffic Of the coast, men are men,N
not m-echanisms.
In the east they IA THE Pennsyl-
vania has one this" or THE New
York Central has done that" and SO
on to the end of h story. Out west
men speak of Hill, of Hartman, OF
Gould, of Yoakum. The difference is
the difference between the first class
machinery exposition and a first class.
fight.
The Pacific northwest is the real CEN
ter of the building activity. The states
of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon
tana and Nevada claim more than 81
500 miles of new railway in immediate
prospect. What .his may be
inferred from the fact that it is more
railway than now exists in the state of
Washington and is twice as much as
there is in oregon. These states have
all outgrown their railway systems.
A Spectacular Contest.
Here also lies the amphitheater of
the most spectacular railway contest
Of the day., for here James j. Fill
meets E. II. Hartman in h field. Or
egon for forty years has lain fallow.
bound around by the great circle of the
Shasta route and the Oregon Short
Line. This past summer Mr.. Harri-
49, l~1 <l,~ ~~N H{hog
]. 1000 miles of railway will be built for
the opening of ~Oregon-the great, deep
mysterious desert of central Oregon.
Across the Columbia river, in Wash.
ington, Mr.. Fill is building the Port.
land and Seattle railway from neaf
Pasco into Portland, abou 230 miles
1t is the most singular railway ever
built in the west.
1t is to cost between 100000 and
$4,000 q mile, to be built of the heav-
lest steel rail, and to be practically a
water level line across the Rocky
mountains are leveled and cast into
the river, huge cliffs of solid granite
pierced with a series o. tremendous
tunnels, great filled with
broken rock.
The roadbed, in fact. is being cut
along the p%recipitous cliffs that are the
north shore of the Columbia river. The
one sole purpose of this made road is to
provide a new highway for the North.
ern Pacific n the Great Northern
which shall make those roads the
cheapest, n therefore the most power
full Of the railways that carry freight
from the lakes to the Pacific.
There is no local traffic on the line.
On the south flows the broad Columbia,
with the Oregon Short Line but a few
miles back from it's shore. On the north
lie the cliffs and the mountains.
Hartman Gets Busy.
In direct reprisal for this daring in
yasion of Portland, Mr.: Hartman is
showing the Union Pacific north into
Seattle, the headquarters of the Puget
Sound traffic. He has spent more thar
SIC, 000, 900 to get his terminals and ap-
proaches, and intends to carry his fight
into the heart of the enemy's country.
This line, like the last, is a strategic
railway rather than a pioneer.
Into this battle of the mighty in
trudes a new co1nbatant, the Chicago,
Milwaukee n st. Paul. The country
traversed by it's surveys is semi-arid
in places. Coming into the mountains
the road cuts through the copper center
OF the world, skirting the marvellous
mountain of Butte.
Beyond, it pierces the great forests.
Here and there, throughout the thou
sand mile stretch of main line, it ira
verses rich valleys, heavy with grain
dlid rCdlllc. ACIoSS lUe SOlu1lDla III
runs through the home of the big red
apple, perhaps the most distinctive of
the varied products Of the garden state
of Washington.
This is a giant %rroject. In time it
will probably make the ST. Paul the
second of the third largest railways of
the union in point of revenues. 1t
means the creation of a new highway
to rival the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific.
Wyoming is coming in for a tardy
recognition as a railway field. The
many millions OF dollars on two great
irrigation projects in that state.
In consequence, the Chicago and
northwestern is pushing through a
branch from Casper westward. The
Colorado and Southern has surveyors
in the field running a line north from
Denver to the Yellowstone river. The
chicago, Burlington and Quincy is
mapping out a new line.
In the Gould Territory.
Southwark the Hill lines disappear.
That mighty pioneer is replaced in the
central region by George j. Gould, who
rivals the activities of E. Fl. Hartman.
Inc new Gould line is one of the most
spectacular and Impressive episodes OF
the day.
1t is designed TO be the western diyi-
sion of the Gould transcontinental rail
way, from Baltimore to San Francisco
1t is a task of huge proportions. 1t
must cross the Sierras will d line that
shall be cheap to operate.
The only railway that crosses this
range In central territory today is the
Central Pacific, built more than forty
years g by the California pioneers,
1t climbs almost into the eternal nows
then slides swiftly down into the region
of eternal summer.
AS yet the difficult parts of the new
Western Pacific are little more thar
surveys, but the reports that come out
OF the west indicate success. If the
engineers finally secure a line through
the Sietras with Il maximum grade OF
only fftY-tMn feet 70 the milo Tho nau