Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-12-02
BUILD FROM THE DALLES TO
KLAMATH FALLS.
TO USE THE BARNUM ROAD
Medford People Have the Route All
Mapped Out for j. j. Hill,
the Empire Builder.

MEDFORD, Nov. S0.-There is no
further use of any of the interested
ones in Medford, or elsewhere max
ing denial, the fact is that James ].
Hill intends to build railroad from
The Dalles, on the south bank of the
Columbia river, south to klamath
Falls, through Butte Falls to Med
ford, to Jacksonville over what is
now the Barnum railroad (Rogue
River Valley Railroad company +.
up Jackson creek over into Applegate
valley, to Illinois valley, down the H.
linois valley to Crescent City, a port
in California on the Pacific.
The first link in this great chain
of Hill railroads by which the
empire builder" expects to wrest
Oregon from the control of the
Southern Pacific railroad is the
Oregon Trunk Building of the
Oregon Trunk was begun about a
year and half ago by Porter
Brothers, who have been for years
the main contractors for the Hill sys-
tens.
At that time everyone supposed
and the newspapers printed that this
was the beginning of the long-sought
Hill invasion of Oregon.
The new line will start from the
south bank of the Columbia river at
The Dalles on the Oregon Trunk.
The new line by means of ferries will
connect with the Portland and Seattle
railroad, known as the North Bank
road, which in turn connects with
the Northern Pacific.
Seven miles above The Dalles the
road goes NJ the Deschutes river to
Madras. thence to Prineville and to
Bend. This ends actual construction.
From Bend the line is surveyed to
Klamath Falls. Here 1t connects
with the Pacific and Eastern prellm-
mary survey, which was run by Lo-
eating Engineer 8. S. Cranshaw, who
at present Is on the extension of the
Barnum road.
The Pacific and Eastern survey
runs from klamath Falls to a pass
twenty-five miles south OF Crater
lake, a little south Of Mt. Pitt. From
this pass 1t goes to Butte Falls, con-
Meeting with the Pacific and Eastern,
and into Medford
From Medford to Jacksonville the
road will use what is now the Bar
mum right-of-way, retracklng and re-
ballastIng It.
At a point about one-quarter OF a
mile this side Of Jacksonville the
new road will swing to the right and
over the low gap through sixty
foot cut on one per cent grade In.
to Little Applegate valley then
through the Big Applegate valley tc
the upper Illinois valley; then down
the lower Illinois to Monkey creek In
California; thence to Smith river and
down the middle fork of the Smith
river TO Crescent City Cal
Entering the Illinois valley The
railroad crosses a summit 1900 feel
In elevation, and from the summit o.
Illinois to Monkey creek the railroad
crosses divide 1900 feet in eleva
tlon with a 600-foot tunnel Th'
new road will get TO Crescent CIT,
on a grade Of between one and tw'
per cent. The Pacific and Eastern
has a grade not exceeding 25 pc
cent
The harbor at Crescent City will b.
made ora of The finest on the coast
A iettv from the lighthouse to Steam
boat root viii no built. The iett
will be $50 feet long and will b
eight TO ten feet above high tide
This work will cost about 1855 ,00C
and will break the swells from th
provailirg west winds. which Wi
give Crescent CITY harbor a hal
wile square End fortv-one feet deel
|, This will e"rommodate the larges
vessels on the Pacific