The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-12-30
Lemhi Herald Says Road is Be-
ing Built by Combine.
BACKED BY JAMES HILL
Interesting News of Construction
Work Completed to Date.

The identity of the hidden power
behind the G. & P. railroad, which
has so long mystified the sages of
earth, is no longer a mystery, says
the Lemhi Herald, and without be-
traying the source of this informa-
ton, we give it just as we have been
semi-authoratively informed The
new road invading Lemhi county is
being built by a combination of
the Great Northern, Northern Pacific
and Burlington companies, and is to
be used jointly by the three lines as
a freight and passenger route to the
coast It's moderate grade will make
it favorite for long trains of
through freight, and it's prospective
business foreshadows the double
tracking of the main trunk at no
distant day.
The inquisitive reader may accept
the foregoing as the firm belief of
the Herald based upon the informa-
source. The public may go on guess
ing, and still derive what pleasure
they may from this innocent di-
version. AS for the Herald, there is
no longer any guess about it.
Your uncle James j. Hill is be-
hind the road, and the same is to be
used by the so-called northern
roads" as a preferred route to the
coast for heavy business. 1t will
well serve the country through
which it passes, but its main trunk
will be busted hauling great trains
of long-haul stuff both eastward and
westward.
Belief is current here that it will
be completed to all connections and
ready for it's great business within
the next two years.
The railroad survey from Salmon
to Custer county has been completed
as far as Custer town, and the first
81 miles of the line, namely from
Salmon city to Clayton, is so thor
oughly done that specifications for
grading can be prepared without fur
ther field work. 1t is said that the
grade from Salmon city to the north
of Yankee Fork is only about one
half of one per cent, but that turn
ing thence toward Custer mountain,
tie route is much sleeper.
WhaQlnr
locating engineer in charge of this
work, dismissed his field force, send
ing them back to Salmon city, while
he reconnoitered little to the west.
he crossed over to Loon creek, went
down that stream to the middle
fork of the Salmon, thence down that
stream to Mormon ranch at Brush
creek. He then returned via Vel
low Jacket, Forney, Panther creek
and Morgan creek to the Salmon r1v-
er and down to this city.
1t is rumored hereabout that the
Macarthur company already has the
contract to grade about eighty miles
OF the Salmon Challis line, which task
is to be begun Immediately upon the
completion of the road bed from
Junction to Salmon city. Whether
this is true or not cannot now be
stated, but the story Is out, and II
may have some measure of founda'
ton.
Over a month ago, it was reported
on the streets of Salmon that the
MacArthurs had also been employed
to grade 100 miles of road bed down
Salmon river, which would carry the
line about to the mouth of the north
Little Salmon river. The survey oi
the line down Salmon is also very
thorough and complete, and is prac'
tically ready for the graders. Much
color is added to this story by the
maneuvers of Locating Engineer
Martz, since the latter returned from
White Bird and established his camp
few miles below this city, He says