Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-03-13
THEY HAVE FAITH.
A Novel Idea in the Way OF
Building Railroads.

The following is the outponrIngs of
the fertile brain of some Lincoln county
genlus-the article appeared in tile
Toledo Reporter:
Reading in an exchange that Wallis
Ma a and a praa. her by the name 81
Wallace, had secured an opt,on on tn.
G. & E railroad an t they were gcins
to extend the line east through Oregon,
and were also going to build cities on
favorable sites along the lines, of from
$4,000 to 10000 Inhabitants, and that
they had already started east to secure
the money to carry out their plans; We
resolved to get in on the ground floor and
| give our readers the inside information.
/ We hired acayuse that had long
distance record from our livery iman. N.
/ anderson, and hit the trail.
| We ov-rhaule Nash and the Elder
just as they had camped for the night in
the foothills of he Cascades. Nash was
cooking the supper and the elder was
makinga big v.lise out of rawhids to
bring the money in. When Nash learned
we were from Lincoln county, he was
very much interested and wanted to
know how Sheriff Ross was getting
along with the delinquent tax sale.
They told us that we were in luck i,
| findi 'g them that night, as that was tn
last time they were going to camp, after
tnat night Nash was going to drive tht
mules i'll the day time aud the elder i,
the night, and the, were DING right
| through to New York without stopp .ng.
After supper we told themiour. mission,
and the elder proceeded to unfold tn
different items in the scheme.
First. as to the money, there was n,
| doubt about that. The spirit of ex
P -esident Mccall had appeared to the
McCurdy had not taken all the life in
surance money to Europe, but that there
was an immense amount of it left, and
showed lin diagram of the exact
There was not particle of doubt about
this for he had told Nash about the
vision the next morning. Nash corrob-
GRATED the statement
up the railroad building proposition. We
have scheme that will startle the world.
You are familiar with the Bible sup
pose" We admitted that we considered
ourself so.
"Well. listen to this found in Matthew;
4 say unto ye if ye have faith as grain
of mustard seed. ye shall say to this
mountain, remove hence to yonder place
and it hall be removed"
+ ."Now we propose to put an old prin-
|cipte to sw and practical use-to grade
our road with it. have got the faith,
In TACT I am long on faith and I could
bull the market and come out. winner.
Bet yonr life, there. will be no heavy
grades on our road, no tunnels. no loops
but just gradual incline from the Will
annette river to the plains of Eastern
o: egon.
All the men that we will need in con-
structing the road, will be small num-
Der to level the dirt to the grade stakes.
Hill and Hartman cau't buck agar st
this proposition. s-e.
Il am going to put this. matter to
practical test right now. You see tIat
small mountain just beyond US. dou't
you? WellI am going to move it."
(which way will it go?',e We asked.
8 can't say," replied the Elder. "Nash
is lawyer and he tells me that as have
not yet got the right of way, it would n OF
be prudent to tell it to go to any partl
GUAR place-we might be liable for
trespass." ~.
We told the elder that if he would de-
fer his experiment until morning and
allow US to get our cayuse headed for
home, with about five minutes in our
favor he might loosen the whole Cascade
range. He finally consented.
"Now" said the elder "we will take up
the third proposition, the building and
peopIing of cities. We have got GEN.
sus scheme that is right IN line with our
grading scheme. We don't depend upon
Chinese or Dagoes, we manufacture as
the demand requires. You don't catch |
ON, Ell? Well listen. DR.. Loeb has dis
covered the principle OF creating life |
germs. He has been handicapped by
not being able to determine the specie,
sex, size and color. Well, Burbank, the
,ntatO wizard in yporimentiup with
plants and fruit has supplie.r
hese missing links. They have com
,ined their patents and will build an
Incubator for Matching out men and wo
men.
The N machine they are constructing for
Is will have a capacity of from 10000
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