Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-06-27
OPERATION By
NOVEMBER /
LewistOn-Grangeville Line
Opened to VOllmer on
That Date

The Northern Pacific line from
Lewiston to the new town of Vollmer
near Lawyers canyon, will be in opera
tion by November L." said President.
Howard Elliott. of the Northern Pa
cific, who reached Lewiston this morn
ing with a party of ofieials, who are
making an inspection Of the entire
Northern Pacific system.
I'VE are rushing the work ON this
line as rapidly as possible, but will exc
perience considerable delay at Law
yers cannon on which account the ROAD.
this side of that point will be Da@ced.
in operation as soon as completed Il
is our purpose to move as much OF
this years crop as possible from the
prairie country and at the same time
give the prairie people relief in the
way of passenger travel. In order tQe
do this the road from Culdesac to Voll-
mer will be turned over to the operat-
ing department as soon as completed
which will insure transportation to the
prairie country by November /.
1T is our policy to hasten all con-
struction work as such as possible"
continued Mr.. Elliott, when asked reIa-
tive to the Improvement of the outside
yards and the building of the new de-
pot but at this time we have more
than 60e miles of new road under con-
struction and 1t is sometimes necessary
to delay small matters of this charac-
ter to facilitate more important af-
fairs 1t is our purpose, however, to
have these improvements completed
and ready for occupancy by the time
the road is placed in operation"
Mr.. Elliott states the plans for the.
Improvement of the outside yards have
b~en completed and that the plans for
the new depot are now being finished
The construction work is expected to
require but short airna after the ma
teral is delivered en- ts~ ground and
/ this feature of the WORK will be taken
up as soon as matters now occupying
the attention of the construction de-
partment have been disposed of.
THE citizens should provide them
! selves with fuel,' said Mr.. Elliott, when
the reported shortage of fuel was
brought to his attention. If the Lew
| iston dealers have not already pro-
vided for the years fuel 1t would be
hard for me to suggest where they villa
be able to get 1t. The mine owners i'm
all localities tributary to the north
west are reporting orders far in excess
of their capacity and output and we
regard the situation as very serious.
THE heavy increase in railroad busi-
ness has made necessary the diverting
of all of the output from the companyss
mines to it's own use and according to-
i the terms of the new interstate COM
merce law all of the railroad coal viii
be Withdrawn from the market March
/, 1905"
4 Mr.. Elliott is accompanied to Lewis
ton by Vice President ]. NJ. Hanna
ford, In charge of the traffic depart
tment; Vice President C. M. Leyey, in
! charge of the operating department; III.
} c. Mutt general manager with head
t quarters in Tacoma; T. Fl. CroswelL
engineer of construction. and A. Beam
err division superintendent.
r The special train bearing the party
4 to Lewiston from Potlatch reached the
city at O'Clock this morning and
: members of the party visited in the
n business section of the city and drove
u to the irrigation tract of the lewiston
Sweetwater company, south of the city
The special train left for Culdesas
shor ly after II o'clock and will thif
afternoon visit the new construction
above CuId. sac the train being talxer
4 to the end of the new line, eight mile.
. above Culaesac where a large forc'
of men is now engaged in the con
struction of one of the largest woodel
trestels on the Culdesac-G -Grangevill
:, extension.
,r Tho trip to Paiouse win be made lat
st this afternoon. the party reaching spO
NJ kane during the night. TIE return t
st. Paul win he made the latter part G
or this woek in time to insure the arrive
m of tho members in their offices p
es July ..
D.
%. Jasper Mounce returned lasr nigh