Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-05-24
THE CRATER LAKE
RAILROAD EXPANDS
Buys the Jacksonville Road-W.
G. Donnell Secured as
Superintendent.

Medford now has every certainty of
getting railroad up Rogue river and
to Crater Lake and possibly on to
klamath Falls, and also road up
Applegate river to the Blue Ledge
copper mines. The receivers sale of
the Medford & Crater Lake road was
confirmed last Friday in the circuit
court by Judge Hanna. The price
paid was $50, 500 aud the purchasers
are George Estes and DR.. F. S.
Strkyer, of Portland Saturday these
men bought the Medford & Jackson
vile railroad Of Barnum q Sons
paying $50, 900 for the FIVE miles of
road and the equipment that consists
of two small engines, two passenger
cars and three freight cars and a
gasoline motor Car. The jackson
vile road is one of the best paying
pieces of property in Southern Oregon
for the amount of money invested, and
Barnum & Sons had no inclination
to sell until threatened with the
building of line parallel to their
road. On the Medford & Crater Lake
road there are Ia miles OF track laid,
extending from Medford to Eagle
Point, but the Company had no roll
ing stock. A new corporation has
been formed by Messrs. Estes & Stry-
ker. known as the Pacific & Eastern
Railway Company, and the two roads
have been taken over by it and will
be operated as one line. For this year
the Medford road will be extended to
the big timber belt on upper Rogue
river and the Jacksonville road to
the Blue Ledge mines. While no
statement has been given out as to
the extension of the road beyond the
Blue Ledge district. yet the report is
out, to which color is given by the
Pacific part OF the name. that it will
eventually be built on to point on
the Pacific ocean. 1t was by a mere
chance that the Oregon California,
now the Southern Pacific, was not
built through the Applegste pass in
the Siskiyou mountains on the same
route that the Pacific & Eastern will
take.
The work of ballasting the new
track from Medford to Eagle Point is
to be begun at once and it is expected |
to have the road in operation by the
first of July. The extension Of 20 |
miles to Butte Falls will be made |
this year. An operative force is being
gathered up from among the hest
railroad men in Oregon. Among
them is G.. W. Donnell. road master
of this division of the Southern
Pacific, who will be superintendent
and also have charge of the extension
work. Mr.. Donnell has the credit of
being one of the most skillful and
efficient road masters in the employ of
the Southern Pacific. While regret
ting his removal from Grants Pass to !
Medford, his many friends in tn is city
are pleased with MS promotion ana
wish him we'll in his new position.
Mr.. Estes himself is an old railroader
and was at one time train dispatcher
at Ashland. He is an energetic, |
thorough business man, and the
Pacific & Eastern uude- his manage
ment will he likely to become rail F,
road of Importance in the tralspor-
tation system of Oregon.
THIS sale Of the Crater Lake read is
a most foFtuDate ending To MedfOrd's s |
railroad troubles Two years ago the
entsrprl,iug citizens of that town
organ zei the NJ d.. ri & Crater Lake
Rsiload Company aud paid Ia. 50 900
in cash on the stock. With this and