Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-08-07


of the date of July Is. 1t is entitled
Railroad Construction in Idaho" and
deals with the situation in the Clear
water country. Accompanying the ar
ticle, which we reproduce below, are
! two half tone cuts, one showing the
! big fill just completed at the bridge
and the other showing the piers of the
uncompleted Clearwater bridge. The
article is as follows:
with the Northern Pacific en-
4 trenched in Lewiston, Ida, up the
Clearwater river, building out over the
! Neg Perez prairie toward the Lolo
pass; with the oregon Railroad and
| Navigation company building down the
Snake river from Lewiston to Riparia,
Wash. and up the Snake river to
Huntington; with the Lewiston and
Southeastern Electric Railroad COM
pany graded and ready for steel for
distance southwark from Lewiston of
10 miles; with the Spokane and Inland
seeking an entrance to Lewiston or
Charleston, and with the Walla Walla-
Columbia electric line promised by its
manager, j. H. Morrow, central Idaho,
4 south central Idaho and the north
central part of the state are on the eve
of unusual development.
Lewiston, populous and wealthy in
the days Of the 4s'ers, when she was
the mecca for men mad on the gold
hunt, lay for many years quiescent.
To-day everything is hustle and bus
tie in the region of which she Is the
center.
when the heels of the first North
ern Pacific engineers leaped over the
sky line of Lolo pass year ago and
trod through that famous defile and
down the Clearwater to the sea, the
hopes OF Lewiston rose with the sun
each morning and shone all day long.
1t is about nine years ago that the
Northern Pacific, alarmed at the ag-
gressiye invasion of the o. r. & N,
. built line from Marshall Junction
. to Moscow, Ida, and later to Lewis
ton. Once in this field, the Northern
Pacific proceeded to strengthen it's po-
sition on the Clearwater and In the
vicinity of Lolo pass by building lines
up that stream from Lewiston to
, Sites and from Lewiston to Culdesac
The o. r. & N. about this time invad-
ed the territory with a crew of engi-
neers, who surveyed clear to the
Rockies from Riparia.' Then came the
"gentleman's agreement" between Hill
! and Hartman, whereby neither should
touch the Clearwater territory, both
realizing it's Importance, but both hest
r tating to expend the money necessary
to build through. Last spring this
9 agreement exploded. 1t was not re-
a newed. The o. r. & N. Immediately
= filed the plat of its right of way from
a the mouth of the Lapwai creek, /:
= miles below Lewiston, to the edge Of
!, the Bitter Root forest reserve a dis.
9 lance of rs miles. This places 1t with
\ In easy striking distance of Lolo pas.
r and the road that may come through 1t
O Before this. however, the same roaC
g had commenced and almost finished
. the line up the Snake river from Ri
!, paria to Lewiston. The line from Lew
o iston to Huntington had been com
: menced and partly finished. The onl,
a part of the old agreement retained O
rather fixed in a new agreement tina
seems to have been made, concerne,
Lewiston. The two interests decided L
build common or union passenge
station in Lewiston costing 800, 00C
and to operate in conjunction severa
miles of yards and sidings
"A few weeks ago it was announce,
l that instead of having one surve,
IRON Huntington to Lewiston down tn
snake, In reality the o. r. & N. ha
TWO. To the mouth of the Salmon riv
II er, approximately SIS miles above Lew
Q iston, the new road follows the west o
i oregon bank>of the stream. From tn,
mouth of the Salmon river to Lewis
q ton there have been two SURVEYS made
e one to either bank of the Snake river
IS While 1t has been asserted that tn,
: enormous cost of construction of thi
line has caused the road to conside
:. both banks in order that the one pre
: senting the least difficulties of con
s struction may be chosen, there seem
TO be some other potent reason.
The Chicago and Northwestern,
Is well known, has already surveyed ,
: line from the town of Lander, in wy
e oming. to st. Anthony, in Idaho. From
81. Anthony it is not long jump t
Salmon City on the Salmon river. ant
II Is all down grade. II the North
western makes move for one bank O
the Snake, the o. r. & N. will be Their
TO head 1t of. former president O
weh-known railroad, who was thor
4 oughiy familiar with the railroad sit
5 utalon In the Northwest, has bee,
, known to say that IL the o. r. & N
does not utilize the Salmon river an,
the Snake, the Chicago and Northwest
: ern will.
d The invasion of the o. r. & N. I,