East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-06

Pendleton and all of eastern Ore
gon are vitality interested in the or
ganization of the Washington Oregon
Traction company, which was for
mally launched at Walla Walla yes
terday with a number of the leading
capitalists of the Garden City as in.
corporators and organizers.
While the definite plans of the
company are not given out yet it Is
stated that it expects to have at least
! 75 miles of electric lines in operation
within eastern Washington and Ore
gon in the next IS months. The
Walla Walla Bulletin gives an out
Inc of the plans of the new company
as follows:
The Washington-Oregon Traction
company, a Walla Walla corporation
with a capital stock Of $500, 900, or
ganized for the purpose Of acquiring,
constructing and operating steam
railways, electric lines. street rail-
ways, steamboats,, ships and other
transportation facilities used as COM
l
gers, to operate in Washington, Ore
gon and Idaho, was incorporated this
afternoon when articles were filed in
County Auditor McCraw's office.
The incorporators are Max Baum
lester, Allen H. Reynolds, Samuel
Drumheller, C. K. Holloway, John
Smith, W. A. Ritz, E. S. Isaacs and
]. L. Sharpstein, all representative
business men of Walla Walla.
The object of the big million and
a half dollar company is to acquire,
construct, operate and control any
or all known facilities for transport
tation, such as steam railroads,
electric lines, street railways, steam
will operate common carriers. The
articles also provide for the acquisi-
tion of water rights and the mainten~
ance of electric and steam plants and
for the selling of any or all power
for private manufacturing or for any
other purpose for which it may be
needed.
means Great Development.
According to one of the trustees
of the company, the Washington-Ore-
gon Traction company means to de-
velop the states of Washington, Ore
gon and Idaho to an extent hardly
conceivable at this time. He stated:
'In the next year or IS months
the company means to commence
of rs miles of railway,
which for the most part will be op-
Grated with electric power. Our
power will be secured from the We
naha river at a point about % miles
from Walla Walla, and we mean to
commence operations in the near fu-
ture. Other than this we intend to
have plenty of cheap power for man.
purposes and the advent
Of this company means the beginning
Of new era for this section of the
The road in prospect will have one
II its terminals in Walla Walla. The
other end it is claimed, is still unde-
,ided.
Corporation Is biggest Yet.
1t is claimed that the Washington
Oregon Traction company Is one of
he largest corporations ever organ
zed in this section of the country.
With local capital at the back of It.
rhe trustees are all Walla Walla men
md the stockholders are all capital
SITS and business men of the north
vest.
The present trustees Max Baum
lister, Allen Reynolds, Samuel
c. X. Holloway, John
smith, W. A. Ritz, E, S. Isaacs and
7. L. Sharpstein, will hold office un-
il March 81, 1908, when a meeting
# the stockholders will be held. The
irst meeting of the trustees has not
'een announced. and until that time
he officers of the company will not
e known,