Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-11-24
OWINzA--PhYETTE
CUTOFF
General Manager of the Short Line
Visits Payette.-HaVe Promise of
the Division.

OF the .. S. L. X. R., w. II. Ban
croft of Salt Lake City, arrived il
Payette at noon in his private car
Island Park" attached to a specia
train, and was the guest of Hon. H
E. Dunn, General Manager and Vice
President of the Payette Valley
Railroad Co. That afternoon Mr.
Dunn took the special" over the
Payette Valley road to Emmett and
from Emmett over the Idaho North
ern r. R. to the high trestle which
isx<rAndergoing repairs, since the
Ing the early part of the week. Gen
eral Manager E. H. Dewey, Of the
Idaho Northern, accompanied them
on this trip.
On the return trip they made short
stops at the different towns and
everything was thoroughly inspect
ed, the special returning to Pay
cite at 5:45 p. m. and Immediately
leaving for Salt Lake City.
Mr.. Bancroft said he was more
than delighted with the trip over the
Payette Valley road, and expressed
his great surprise at the wonderful
development that has been made in
the valley within the last few years,
and that it has a future, greater
than any in the west.
All in all he is well pleased with
the amount of business his road
receives from the Payette Valley
road and the Payette Valley people
in general. We are lead to blieve
that this trip presages much for us.
We are not at liberty at this time
to tell all that has been given us
or all we could read between the
lines, but what has been said will
suffice at this time.
While our neighbors make consider
<Sable parade, spend their good money
y and knock" on our town on every
occasion, and make maps showing
US away out in the sage brush, ''for-
ty miles from water" but with them,
"All roads lead to Rome" That old
saying, "Still water runs deep" is
the way Payette is going to win
out in the long run. We are here be-
cause we are here. One of the
best irrigation streams in the whole
northwest runs past her doors and
in it courses the life. blood of the
making of the greatest valley of all
valleys, and that in turn, means
for Payette a great future. Payette
has been on more Of the secret maps
of the railroad surveying crews than
any other town in southern Idaho,
unless it be Boise.
If it were not so, why did Mr..
Dunn and his associates decide to
cast their lot with the citizens Of
Payette and the valley and invest
their capital in the Payette Valley
railroad, in preference to any other
town in south Idaho? Mr. Dunn has
been associated with the o. S. L.
for a number of years, before sever
ing his connections with that COM
many, and deciding to cast his lot
among our people. We believe
he has had knowledge of some of
the future plans of great things
tha. are in store, relative to Pay
cite and the railroads.
Now comes in connection with
D.,
owinza cutoff of the o. S. L. R. R.
ordered to be built in 1911. This
win make Payette the junction of the
two principal branches of the Short
Line in I6a6o-- This nCw line will
5,-s-esShders in the way of developing
( the resources of Idaho, as it viii
ibe built through some very rich
and productive country. This cutoff
will be about 200 miles in length,
from Payette via Boise and to OWN
"a. The entire surveys and esti-
mates are in and the work has
been ordered for next year
It stands to reason that the
building Of this cutoff" is the most
practical solution to care for the ever
increasing business of the Oregon
Short Line railroad, as it is already
handling such a volume Of business
that it is with considerable difficult
ty to keep the trains moving any
where on schedule time. We have
from time to time in the past heard
it rumcred that the o. S. L. Co.
we're contemplating the double track
ing the present line. While this
would relieve the present situation,
it would not gain any new business,
or develop any new territory to-
speak Of To one who is not
railroad man this cutoff from
Payette to owinza is the most SEN