The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-05-03

DAN fhANGiSGOt may k.~-~W ncH
| tho perfunctory directors and nomi-
nal stockholders Of the Northwestern
Pacific met yesterday In Secretary
willicutt's Office In the Flood building
voted 70 mortgage the property for
sss,0oo.0oo and to sell the bonds In New
York with interest at ~ per cent. II
was merely d formality In obeaisaes
TO the orders OF President Il. II. Har-
riman Of the Southern Pacific and
President Ripley Of the Santa Re, the
real controlling owners OF the property
and It's proposed extensions.
Tho important fact 10 the people TO
be- served BY this road ia that the
owners intend 10 make d comprehei-
siye extension into new territory and
that tho suspiciously large valuation
on which the bonds are 10 be issued
II based on the Joint reports OF the
Southern Pacific and santa Fc cngi-
neers as to the real value OF the corn-
nleted system which is to be constructs
cd with the proceeds Of this bond
issue.
II Ia not often that Chief Engineer
Hood Of the Southern Pacific admits
any plans that are not already public
information. bu, yesterday he declared
that the eompany's engineers had run
surveys from Eureka UP along the
coast to Marshfield on Coos Bay. and
that men were out re-coilecting the
data on those surveys az the records
were destroyed In the big Are. He also
announced that a line was being built
westward from Drain. on the shasta
route, to winchester bay. about 30
miles northward Of Marshaeli, To-
which q southern extension was also
being built. There Is already a road
about 25 miles long from Coos Bay
southward 10 Myrtle Point, which Is
about so miles westward on an air line
from Roseburg on the shasta routes
These proposed roads and the sur
veys indicating a connection between
Eureka and Marshneld are admitted
to be part Of the plan OF extension in
addition TO the building Of the i05-
mile gap between wIlllts and Pepper
wood on the run from Tiburon 10
Eureka.
From Myrtle Point southwark to
Luffenblatz, the end OF the short line
that reaches about 26 miles north
ward from Eureka. ia a distance on an
air line OF about 100 miles. and prob |
ably fully 200 miles the way the line
will have to be built along the cor
rngated ridges that reach down to the
coast. Luffenblatx is just west Of the
Hoopa Indian Reservation.
From Eureka northward to Coos Bay
the proposed railroad extension of the
Northwestern Pacific win have to
cross In sequence klamath river, Smith
river. Illinois river, Skies river and
Coquille river.
The country, according to Chief En-
gineer Hood, Is heavily timberej in
sections. somewhat like the proposed
extension to connect Willis and Pep
perwood. There are many coast ridges
and ravines TO cross, and here and
there little farms The timber, not red
wood, however, is Of good size, and
the country promises to furnish good
deal OF traffic for the future road.
Northward from Coos Bay the chief
engineer is not familiar with the
character Of the country, which may
or may not indicate that the North
western Pacific Is to extend ON up the
coast to Portland Hood says that
surveys have not yet been made up the
coast northward Of Marshfieli.
Those attending the meeting yester-
day, the entire nine members of the
board Of directors, were Captain A. H.
Payson of the Santa Fe, president of
the Northwestern Pacific; E. Il. Call
win, president of the Southern
Pacific; William Hood, chief engineer
Of the Southern Pacific: Peter +,
Dunno OF the Southern PaciAc's law
stan. C. W. Durbrow Of the Southern
Pacific, ]. II. Foulds, Southern Pa
ciflc lawyer; w, A. Blssell of the
traffic department Of the Santa Fe;
Edward Chambers of the Santa he,
and Horace d. Plllsbury, Santa Fe
lawyer. tA Fa
1t was shown that the Northwestern
Pacific Railroad as at present consti-
tuted consists Of q combination Of six
former companies, aggregating 4O275
miles Of roadway now In regular OPP
Grafton.
For stomach troubles, bllliousness