The San Francisco call., 1909-11-06
HILL REACHES
BOUNDARY LINE
OF CALIFORNIA
Incorporation of the Deschutes
Shows Magnate Will Enter
at Klamath Falls
Copper Deposits and Timber At
tract RaiIrOadman, Whose
Goal Is San Francisco


ehsltes valley. route, has at last for
5nally been made public through the
Cling IN Vancouver. Wash. Of the arti-
eles of Ircorpora tion of The line, and
Authentic Verilcation is thereby given
IL the stories Which have appeared in
TIE Cali touching on the intentions of
2 tlie northwestern railroad magnate
.tsat the Deschutes valley lire will run
from .Biggs, on the Columbia river, its
point OF departure from the Spokane,
Portland and Seattle (north bank line)
and The Hartman line on the south
hank Of the Columbia, down the Des-
ehItes valley to klamath Falls. the
temporary terminus, and near the Cal
ifornia line. Heretofore the terminus
ef the line was an Official secret
While the articles of incorporation
do not touch on Hills intention to con-
tinlIe on into California. nor of his
proposed plan to connect at Keddie.
Rlumas county. with the line OF the
Western Pacific, and continue on to
san Francisco by virtue Of a trackage
! agreement. q big transaction recently
made by HilEs friend. Thomas II. Wal
ker, the northeastern California lum-
her king. indicates that California
road is probably soon to be realized by
the builder Of the Great Northern.
Walker has recently transferred 10
the Red River lumber company, his
operating company 10000 acres of
timber land in MOdoc and Shasta coun-
ties Surveys are being made along
the Pitt river through the iron and
copper fields there, and IL is believed
that Hill intends to tap those fields
With the Walker lumber and the iron
and copper products along his right of
way, Hin would have awaiting him a
heavy freight traffic, for which he is
setting his cap. The United States
government reports for 1906, the last
reports made on the subject. declare
that the Pitt river district is richer in
1fndeveloped copper resources than the
Butte district and the fabulous Arizona
country. There is a lower drainage
basin in the Pitt river than in the
Feather river down which the West
err Pacific enters the Sacramento val
ley. and railroadmen who have consid-
cred the situation believe that Hin
may contemplate entering the Sacra-
me1to valley via that district
ENORMOUS COPPER DEPOSITS
When it is stated that even now.
in their uEdeveloped condition, the
copper mines OF Shasta and other near
by counties have payroll of almost
ss0e,0o0 per month. and that Commits
sloneF sGrattan, employed by the United
states, asserted that by 1910 the region
would be producing at normal develop
mentt 1oo.O0OOOO pounds Of copper an
nually, the real reason for Hilrs activ
means now, thousands of tons OF cop
per ore per day.
The new incorporation at Vancouver
q few days ago, which made Klamath
Falls the southern terminal of the
line Hill is surveying down from Biggs
on the Deschutes river, where his road
leaves the company Of the Hartman
9ne- and starts south. points to the
fact that the Goose Lake route, farther
TO the east. is not TO be followed by
the H1a line, as has been supposed.
TIMBER LAND TRANSFERS
The fact that Walker transferred
10000 of the 100000 acres of timber
land he holds IN Modoc, Shasta. I,assen
Plumas and Tehama counties to HIS
operating company shows that this
friend Of J. ]. Hill is preparing to
develop the holdings, and this can be
done only by railroad.
D The fact that the Pitt river basin is
the lowest through the Sierras and
that II naturally opens a low grade
into the Sacramento valley which
points, along an open country toward
San Francisco, has led many to regard
with surprise the agreement Hill has
made with the Western Pacific TO use
the latter road into San Francisco
from Keddie onward. To climb out of
the Pitt valley across the mountains
nj IA
the western Pacific runs. would mean
an. ascent over high mountains that
carry the heaviest fall of snow in an
Calforniasand the construction of many
miles Of snowsheds. Down the pitt
and out into the Sacramento valley
would be the far easier way.
THE NATURAL OUTLET
NJ. Z. Dittmar, editor of Mineral
Wealth, who is familiar with the coun-
'try, and has just returned from a trim
through the Pitt river valley. is i'm
pressed by the articles of INCORPORATION
flied Wednesday at Vancouver hv
which the Oregon trunk, HflPs road
was set going with a capital Of IS. .000
coo, divided into $4,000 shares. The
southern terminal Of the road is WI
interests Dittmar, FOR. with the line
going TO klamath lane, it seems TO him
impossible that il would swing due
east and enter California through the
Goose lake district The logical w.,
for it TO break into California is around
Klamath lake and down into the PITT
valley, and surveys have been made
over that very route while attention
was being called 20 the Goose lake
country. which lies at the junction of
California, oregon and Nevada.
The route Of the Oregon Trunk. as
stated in its papers filed Wednesday
IS TO be from some Washington point
TO Spokane. Portland and Seattle. and
across the Columbia river TO Celilo.
then up the Columbia TO the Deschutes
river and up that river, continuing in
a southerly direction. to klamath Falls.
John i. Stevens. formerly in charge
OF the construction of the Panama
canal, was brought by Hill from the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
road 10 become president of the Des-
chutes line that Incorporated Wednes-
day as the Oregon Trunk Stevens
spent months in the southern Oregon
country and came back to announce
September last that construction
would begin al once. The great oues-
ton IN railroad circles was as to- how
far south Stevens had gone. and now
that is partially answered by the arti-
cles OF Incorporation, which demon
strate clearly that Stevens explored and
surveyed the klamath Falls region. 1t
seems certain now that he familiarized
17fr1Self with the Pitt river basin foo