Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-12-02
owns NORTH COAST
HARTMAN Line TAKES over
THIS NOTED RAILROAD.
New Company Formed in Oregon Takes
Over Strahorn IS Railroads-New Cor
poration Known AS Oregon Washing
ton Railroad & Navigation GOWN
Give Union Pacific Great Advantage.


Filing has been made at Salem, Ore,
of the articles of incorporation of the
newly formed Oregon Washington Rail-
road & Navigation company which has
finally revealed in most unexpected
manner the long drawn out mystery of
the real hackers of Robert E. Strahorn
and the North Coast railroad. The
articles plainly indicate Hartman meth
DDS and Hartman ownership from the
start.
They provide for a large new cor
poration, with capitalization of $780,,
100000, controlled by the Union Pa
| cific system, which shall absorb all
the present and prospective lines and
other property of the Oregon Railway
Navigation company, the Oregon &
Washington Railroad company and the
lines of the North Coast Railroad com
pany enumerated below; also many
smaller lines in the Pacific northwest
which have been built or acquired in
Independently of these three main com
panies.
Besides the numerous new lines pro-
vided for in Oregon and western Wash
ington the following, specifically desig
mated as North Coast railroad extensions
are of particular moment to the Inland
Empire.
Lines of North Coast.
The constructed, partially construct
ed and projected railroad and telegraph
lines of the North Coast Railroad COM
pany, hereinafter mentioned, to-wit:
(a) A line from Alfalfa, point on
the line of the Snake River Valley Rail
road company in Walla Walla county in
Washington to North Yakima.
(b) A line from Sunnyside junction,
point on the last-named line in
Yakima county, Wash, to Sunnyside,
Wash.
(c) A line from North Prosser,~ in
Washington, to Prosser, Wash.
(d) A line from Granger, Wash,
through Toppenish to point near Fort
Simcoe, Wash.
(e) A line from some point here
after to be selected on the line from
Granger Fort Simcoe in Washington,
thence northerly to Parker siding in
said state, a point on the Alfalfa
Yakima line, south of Yakima City.
(f) A line from Benton through
Hanford, White Bluffs, Beverly and
Wenatchee to the mouth of the Okan-
Ogan river, all in Washington.
(g) A line from point on the
Attalia-North Yakima line, south of
Richards, thence through Richards to
Hanford, all in Washington.
(h) A line from Spokane through
Cheney, Cow Creek junction and
Hooper to connection with the line
of the Snake River Valley Railroad
company, near Aver, all in Washing
ton.
| G) A line from point on the last
named line near the crossing of the
Snake river southerly to Walla Walla,
all in Washington.
| I'D A line from Cow Creek junction,
a point on the line from Spokane to
Aver, through Council and Ringold Bar
to Priest Rapids junction, between
Benton and Hanford, all in Washington.
| (k) A line from point on the Spo-
kane-Ayer line, south of Sprague,
thence in a northwesterly direction to
Davenport, all in Washington.
Mileage Is 1000.
1t is estimated that the total mileage
of the consolidation when the lines are
completed will reach not less than 1000
miles, not including electric lines
Among the latter are the lines of the
Yakima Valley Transportation com
pany, radiating from the City of North
Yakima to other points in Yakima and
tributary valleys. These will continue
under separate ownership, but will be
extended and operated under the su.
pervision of Mr.. Strahorn, as hereto.
fore.
Some of the important things accom-.
plished by the Union Pacific through
its ownership of the North Coast sys
tenn is the shortening of it's line from
Spokane to Portland more than &C
miles.
This advantage will become far more
apparent when the Union Pacific line
is completed down Snake river from
Huntington to Lewiston and a connec
tion made with the North Coast at the
last-named place. This will shorter
the Union Pacific route between Spo
kane and the east several hundred
miles and give practically a water
grade route from Spokane to the UnioI
Pacific main line at Ogden and Salt
Lake and far eastward on the Oregon
Short line toward Green River, Wyo.
The Union Pacific will by this great
coup also almost Immediately get into
the richest part of the Big Bend coun
try and through the whole length OF
the Yakima valley. Through Other
North Coast lines planned by Mr.. Stra
horn, and yet to be constructed, the
Union Pacific is also to traverse the
richest sections of the Columbia rive
valley for several hundred miles, ant
as shown by the map the various othel
lines are so located as to tap prac
tically every good traffic producing sec
ton in the Inland Empire. By the
cOmnletion of the North Coast lin,