Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-06-22
RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT BY THE PEOPLE OF OREGON

At the bottom Of page advertisement of Oregon in the
Saturday Evening Post for June 10 1909 appears the follow
Ing very fIatterng statements
0regon the checker board upon which Hartman and Hill
are playing the game of modern railroad building and 1909
will greater prosperity here than in any other state in the
Union"
1.-THE game of modern railroad building" is to let the other
fellow build and then take him into camp.
The above is important It rue and It is all the more inn
potant because IS true in sense,
Hartman and H are not directly themselves building the
checker board but they indirectly the cause OF the greatest
period of railroad agitation the state has ever Known
Take of the principal towns OF the tate-neay every
one OF theand has one or more railroads poSpeced or
building
From Just one days exchanges we take the following state
men in actual construction in 0egonand some Of them by
Hartman.
The Klamath Falls Express tells Of the great celebration just
held there honor of the completion Of the Hartman line from
the south
The Carver railroad is being extended by force of men
10 the south from Monroe and headed for the Asea country
The people of Eugene are making great exeronS to raise
a stock subscription for railroad to SulSIaW'
With railroad building from that city up the Mckenzie,
already to Springfield on the Hartman line from Klamath Falls
10 Natron,
road center.
At Salem the Oregon Electric has business increasing
faster than It can get passenger cars to handle,
The Salem, Dallas and Falls City line IS being built as fast
as labor can put down and will be running in sixty days.
he line up to Stayton will be an extension OF that line and
will be taken up for construction in a short time
The Oregon Electric will be extended 10 Albany within year,
and that city already has railroads extending in SIX directions
The Hartman line is building from Portland to IiamOok
The Oregon Central railroad has been organized by New
Union Dr., to Waa Waa distance Of eighty eight miles,
That will be short cut between the o. r. q NJ and the
Northern Pacific,
David EcCes has decided to extend the Sumper Valley rail-
road from Austin to Prairie City, distance Of twenty-five miles.
Meay Brothers of Foster propose to build an electric rail-
road from CaScadia to Lebanon,
They are building large Sawm and want the road to get
their timber out to market
Portland papers publish the statement that the Hartman
line up the DeSchuteS will be built and contracts will be let
in thirty days.
big force of men are Scrapng the rust off two million dol
lars worth of steel bridge material at Drain and painting it
ready for use somewhere
large force of men extending the Mt Hood railroad
grade on toward Central Oregon,
Hartman surveyors stalking out line from Eugene to
the north fork Of the Coos river.
Surveyors are busy completing the survey OF the railroad
from MarShed to RoSebug the western section OF the Coos
Bay Central Oregon Boise and Butte railroad
They report finding easy grades to R0Sebug-mCh easier
than they had ever expected.
The people of RoSebug pursuing the right policy to get
a ralroad-to get in and build i themselves
Everybody who can take dollar of stock or certificate of
ownership Is doing it.
Citizens are taking dollar five dollars, fifty dollars one
hundred five hundred thousand five Observation-Disclosures
they are able to do.
They are giving right of way subscribing labor material
lumber timber giving toWnSeS, SdlngS, anything to make
The road go by their own means.
In true Oregon Sye the people of Coos Bay are flying with
their own WINGS
They shut out Seymour Bell and his associates and are going
10 grant franchise on the water front to themselves
That fVeme franchise on the Coos Bay water 'front.' owned