Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-02-23
THE COAST RAILROAD
AS OTHERS SEE IT--NO DOUBT AS TO
THE GOOD FAITH OF PROnOTERS
OF THE GREAT PROJECT

lne Register Is authorized 10 an
nounce that the Oregon Coast g. East
ern Railroad company that has been
looking over the Willamette valley for
the past year has secured ample finan-
cial backing and will Immediately be-
yin the construction of railroad from
Portland to Tillamook and thence
southwark 10 Coos bay and then to
Humboldt bay in California, touching
the intermediate harbors along the
coast, including Yaquina, Siuslaw,
Umpqua and Alsea.
The part that interests Eugene the
most is the fact that line will also be
run from the coast through Eugene to
Ogden, where connections will be made
with several transcontinental lines.
The company has been financed by a
syndicate composed of Baker & Crab
tree OF st. Louis, j. l.. Greatsinger of
Brooklyn. ex-president OF the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company, Senator w. H.
Lynn Of New York and his associates,
capital, $500, 100000.
F. NJ. Rice, an experienced engineer
from New York, has been secured by
the syndicate to have charge of the
work of construction. Mr.. Rice has
been all over the country through
which the proposed line is to run, and
spent several weeks last summer in
Eugene looking over the surrounding
territory.
Construction work is to be COM
menced as soon as material can be
gotten on the ground and the work
Will be pushed as fast as engineers and
money can do it. The road will tan
section of the state heretofore un-
touched by railroads counties that
have long been bottled up and kept
from the commerce of the world.
The total mileage of the Oregon
Coast * Eastern as at present outlined
is set at 700 miles, but with the feed
ers and extensions which will later
show up as necessities, the mileage will
be greatly increased.
Considering the financia standing of
the enterprise and the men who are in
terested in it, the great race and scram-
BILE for being first in the great North
west, and possibilities for immediate
traffic, we may assure ourselves that
there is no buncombe connected with
the Oregon Coast & Eastern. The
plans include invasion of tidewater
facilities, capture OF rich timber traffic,
traversing the interior irrigated dis
tricts and range, besides joining in the
immense agricultural product traffic of
the Willamette valley and coast coun-
ties.-Eugene Register.
Such comment and criticism as the
Oregonian has contained during some
days past on the statements put forth
10y the trans portatlon committee OF the
Chamber OF Commerce upon coast
railroad project that has thus obtained
some notoriety, have proceeded first
from doubt on the part OF the Oregoniau
as to the good faith aid suficiency of
the project, and on the other that it
was unfair to Mr.. Lytle and might in
jure him, even if the new project should
have no sufficient foundation.
There is difference of opinion, which
will have to wait for solution. We
shall see. The coast road has but to
make good, The committee evidently
believes it will make good, for it pro.
fesses to have examined the credentials
OF the parties and is satisfied. Again.
1t is stated that the proposition came
to the committee, or was referred to it,
some weeks before Mr.. Lytle undertook
his Tillamook road.
So long have we waited for this road
that we should deeply regret to see it
embarrassed-especially by any project
that may be doubtful. But the earnest
ness and sincerity of the committee,
whose report the Chamber of Com
merce has approved, we cannot doubt.
All the Oregonian has to say further at
this time is to repeat that the proposed
coast railroad has only to make good"
which should be an easy matter for
project with vast capital behind it, |
Congratulatory acknowledgements will
then be due from the Oregonian. -
Oregonian, Feb. II.
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