The Detroit times., 1910-03-01
UNTAPPEO SECTION
IS At LAST OPENED
Millions of Acres Await Tillers-
Great Northern Penetrates Larg-
est Timber Tract ~

Before the present year Is over the
tremendous wealth of the hitherto
unUpped central Oregon is TO be-
opened o. the world News that 100
mites ai The Great Norghern's newly
constructed Ongon Trunk line be-
tween Cva.o and and Madras. Oregon.
aANe otya complvted reached this city
tc5aN- -Nith the additional informa'
tiVu gAat the last spike will De driven
h tais memorable enterprise before
tas end oi 1870 The heart of millions
* acgVs ~ yellow pine a tract bigger
.ean an ordinary stAte-is the goat
81 toe rallrO8d construction on which
,he Great Northern officials are today
working tS00 men
The beard ~ directors Of the Grea,
Northern railroad. through the fore
sight 90 Chairman James J. Hill. has
SaShoriked tl,r initial appropriation TO
carry on The hvst steps OF the pro
Test
The statement made by James J.
AiN in san Francisco recently that
The Great Northern railroads exten,
sion may Dc aimed Al Mexico City has
caused tremendous hirore on tn
Pacidc coast
~ The initiative ~ the Great North
EN- railroad. American homcseekers
VIII De given access 10 one million
I've hundred thousand acres OF free
government land IN Central oregon
which the United States has ofiere
90 settlers In the territory that the
new Hi lines viii penetrate.
Today Central Oregon is the heart
OF the largest territory OF the United
states without railroad
Present and prospective \owuers of
the pennct-up wealth OF Central or,
son are receiving the news OF the
progress OF the Hil expansion With
tremendous enthusiasm
\ line Is actually demanded TO thu
east because OF the tremendous lum.
Der tonnage from interior Oregon. Tn
limited quantities or yellow and sugar
pine exists on the east slope OF the
cascades and these varieties are par
ticularly adapted for competition with
the Southern and Northern pine and
the markets Of the middle west II Is
about - per cent lighter than ar and
in hauling II 10 the east waterway
competition will not SO seriously affect
rate-making
Timber holders OF Central Oregon
demand that their market is in the
east and not in the west, which is "a.
ready supplied with is own fir for.
ests
When the traveller journeying 20
Central Oregon over the Oregon
Trunk line leaves the Columbia rive
and enters the mouth OF the Des
Chutes be will be in bare and unpro
ductiye canyons while the train speed
over 100 miles or track re viii gaiu
no mixing Of the extent OF the roliin
fields Of grain that lie on the plains
OF sherman and Wasco counties 2.01J
feet above him. The train will emerge
from Willow Greek Canyon with start
ling suddenness through zap in D
wall OF rlmrock that forms the we,
ern edge OF the saucer-like basin IT,
which Madras IS situated The traii
will come from wild and ROCKY
canyon as II from tunnel. onto IA
cultivated fields OF Central Oregon.
From there southwark the Oregoa
Trunk line travels through grain
fields irrigated lands or timber. a.
OF which Will contribute TO rs tor
mage.
II has been big undertaking aloa
10 get the construction work OF tho
Oregon Trunk line under way
Construction equipment must De-
taken into the canyon either Owe
roads that wind down the sides II
the canyon or via the mouth AM
thence up wagon road constructed
by the railroad for 40 miles along the
shore OF tner iyer Distributing depOts
have been. established az Dufur. on
the Great Southern railway. az The
Dalles and a Shaniko The construc.
ton camps are reached from The
Dalles via the Free bridge wagon road.
with haul OF about % miles from
Dutur the distance By wagon road 10
Hlll's ranch where the railroad has
constructed new road into the can.
yon. the distance is l. miles Sheg-
ars bridge. 40 miles up stream from
the mouth is reached from Dufur after
wagon haul OF about 20 miles From
Shanlko the haul 10 the camps varies
from 20 10 - miles
Much OF the energy OF the contract
ors during the first few months after
work started was in the construction
of wagon roads Railway construc.
. lIpl HoiI plbSifSNFus iDNtFtis iH ll'
meantime. and the entire work "a
/ Madras is nov under contract
sub-contract or let 70 station men
Miles OF grade have been completed
/ interspersed with uncompleted links
where the construction work will be
slow and tedious or by tunnels where
the men are now doing drilling ami
blasting. II is promised that 1rsecl
/ Trunk line trains will be running into
( Central Oregon before the close OF
1910
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