Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-09-02
LOOKING FOR
DEVELOP MENTS
Order for Six thousand Tons
Of Rails May Mean
P. & |. N. Move

SALT LAKE, Sept. "A special to
the Boise Statesman says:
1.-The statement that the Idaho and
Northern railroad (taken to mean the
Dewey line now running from Nampa
| to Emmet) has ordered 5000 tons of
steel rails from the United States
/ Steel corporation to be delivered dur
ing 1908 has caused more or less gos-
sip among railroad men here. These
do not claim to know anything def
mite about the plans of Mr.. Dewey,
but they do know that the Idaho and
! Northern does not require retracking.
| They very easily conclude that the
new rails are to be used for an ex-
tension. One of them got busy with
pencil and figured it out this way.
Probably these rails are not heavier
than 60-pound, that is rails that
weigh so pounds to the yard. Each
rail Is 10 yards long and weighs 500
pounds. For mile OF road 1t would
require 176 rails on each side of the
ties, or 352 in all. These 352 rails
will weigh 211,220 pounds, or los tons
to the mile If the Dewey road is to
use 5000 tons in extensions, 1t could
lay about So miles of track. Where
to? That Is the next question. The
railroad authority referred to said:
Into the timber. just what route will
be selected is not known, but it is felt
the line will be pushed into Long val
} ley country, up the Payette and pos
, sibly over to Garden valley. It is
{ possible, of course, that the Murphy
line is to be extended, but the possi-
bkity Of such an improvement is not
! so strong as the suggestion herein
contained Mr.. Dewey was in Salt
Lake the other day, but he made no
statement as to the plans of his COM
pany.
, There has also been some interest
ing gossip here relative to the pros
pective purchase of the Dewey roads
. both north and south from Nampa. A
! railroad man of this city who has
, watched the trend Of railroad events
in Idaho closely stated that he had
: been informed Mr.. Dewey had giver
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a Idaho and Northern and the Boise
Nampa and Owyhee, or Murphy line
but that the price was too high ant
Hartman has declined to consider II
This gentlemen also stated tina
there was . possibility that the orde
of e.e00 pounds OF steel rails state,
to bo for the idaho and Northern
might be for the Pacific and Idah
Northssm, running north from weiser
My own idea Is that there Is no in.
tentioa OF extending the Dewey roat
north 1rogn Emmett next year, but
. do thimk the pin road will be pushe,
= northwest ne said. There is a BIZ
/ nght On between rival railroad inter
ests, aaM has been for some time, owe
= possesaAom Of the strategic positio
! held ~ the pin railroad, and 1t
i my bsaace that some very strong in
!, terene behind the Pin has decided t
n build the road northward to con
: nectiOa with a transcontinental line
\ This evidently is not to be done b
a Hartman, for he Is interested Il
pushing the line north from Hunting
ton down the Snake river While
have No positive information on tn
= subject. think the reported purchas
by the Idaho and Northern refers I
. the pin road II my guess Is correc
you oaa look for some mighty big de
velopments In Idaho next year. fc
one big railroad movement alway
acts like a magnet and draws Others
while stimulating the Industrial Iii
p of the entire state"