The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-05
WILL PLACE BOISE
ON THE MAIN LINE
Incorporation of Central Idaho
Railroad Company Means
Better Grades.
OREGON SHORT LINE WILL
CUT OUT TWO BAD CLIMBS
Line Runs From 0winza to
Boise and Down Payette Val
ley TO Snake River.

The Central Idaho Railroad company
OF Idaho filed articles OF Incorporation
with the county clerk Friday. The COM
pany is organized by oregon Short Line
officials, and II is the intention to build
railroad from OwlnZa station. Lincoln
county, Ida. through the Big Wood river
valley. Bos and Middleton TO Pay
cite. Canyo county a distance OF 22O
miles.
The capital stock of the company is
S220.000 divided into shares OF the par
value OF Sl0O each. w. II, Bancroft is
c. II. Jenkinson. treasurer; G. X: Smith,
secretary The directors are w, III. Ban
croft. J; a. Reeves, William Aslen,, L.
J.. Williams and +. H. Knickerbocker.
Each OF IN incorporators mentioned above
own one share OF the stock, and the re-
malnder IS held by w. H. Bancroft as
trustee. All OF these are officials or en-
ployees In the local offices OF the Ore
gon Short Line.
The Hartman interests plan to run a
line In Idaho from OwInza through Boise
to Payette and down the Payette VAL
ley line 10 the present main line of the
Oregon Short Bine at Payette. The Pay
cite Valley Is a small but good line from
Payette to New Plymouth, running prac-
ticaly the entire length Of Payette val
ley, one OF the finest fruit and farming
sections of Idaho.
II this new eut-off is built. as was fully
described In The Tribune three or four
main line. something that city has been
praying for ever since rails were laid by
1t To the south through Nampa.
The eal Reason.
The real reason why the new line may
be built is TO avoid the bad grades in
and out OF Glenns Ferry. These Glenns
Ferry grades are the only ones over 2
per cent on the Oregon Short Line be-
tween Pocatello and Huntington the end
of the line. on the oregon Railroad g.
Navigation company's line from Hunting
ton TO Portland there are some very
heavy grades up the Blue mountains
from Huntington to La Grande, Ore, and
on the other side.
To avoid these grades the Hartman
interests are building n line from Hunt
ington down the Snake river TO Lewis
ton. Ida. half of which is now done. The
rest OF the road, however. must be forced
through one of the worst canyons In the
west. When the new lines from Owinza
via Boise to Payette, and from Hunting
ton to Lewiston are completed the Har-
rimar lines will have less than per
cent grade from Portland and Seattle 10
pocatelo.
These lines are not yet built, and Just
when actual construction will begin de-
pends largely on the character OF The
ground and the financial situation HIS
a maximum grade either way of only lS
feet to the mile from Spokane to Port
land down the north bank OF the Colum-
bIa set the pace and has forced all other
roads entering the northwest TO get the
lowest possible grades at almost any
practical cost.
Unique Situation.
1t is understood that all the big roads
entering Portland Seattle and Tacoma
will in the near future end In Vancouver,
3. c.. and that at least one, the Canadian
Pacific. and in time probably three OF the
great Canadian roads, VIII push south
from Vancouver, y. c., into Seattle and
Tacoma, possibly even to Portland,
Although there is rivalry between all
the American roads touching Puget
Sound and rivalry between all the Ca
madam roads ending on this greatest nat
ural harbor In the world. the roads OF
each country arc unit against the roads
OF the other country.
Nowhere else on the continent is such
a condition in railroading Is rapidly
developing along the shores OF Puget
Sound from Vancouver, 3. c., to Tacoma
It's influence extends inland over both
countries, In the United States TO New
York and Galveston. and In Canada TO
Labrador and Hudson's Bay,
The lowering OF the grades around
Glenns Ferry, as indicated by the incor
pora ton yesterday OF the Central Idaho,
although locally an important event. Is
comparatively only a pawn move in the
great game for the traffic OF Puget
Sound. the trade center between Alaska.
Asia Western Mexico and South Amer
lea Canada and the United States.