The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-01-06
SAYS ROAD IS
BURLINGTON
Salt LAX Authority Claims"O"
Interests are Behind Mys-
terious G. & P. Road.


alleged to be behind the Gilmore &
Pitsburg railroad, with a plan to link
its northern lines with the Burling-
ton and thus tap Salt Lake and
Utah territory eventually terminal
ing at San Francisco, and thorough
ly reviewing the railroad situation In
this state relative to the recent ac-
tivity, Salt Lake dispatch devotes
considerable space to this much-moot-
ed subject, casting some new light
on the present situation so interest
ing to Idahoans. Hill is credited with
backing the construction work be-
tween Armstead and Salmon City
and intending to connect with the
Burlington at Salt Lake there taking
over the Moffat road.
This railroad story reviews the sit
uation as follows:
while great deal of publicity
has been given to the activities of
the Hartman railroads in Utah, Ida
no and neighboring states, little has
been said concerning what the Hill
roads are doing. 1t is true that the
Oregon Short Line is rapidly devel-
oping a network of railroads in Ida
no, Utah and northern Nevada, but
there is also great deal of myster-
ious railroad building in the Gem
state, which, in the opinion of those
familiar with the railroad situation,
is not the work of the Hartman in
terests, but that of the late Edward
H. Harriman's greatest competitor,
James J. Hill. And the rumor is
we'll founded that this mysterious
building probably means the entrance
OF the Hill interests into the metrop-
oils of the Intermountain empire,
Salt Lake City.
"The average reader of the daily
press is familiar with the various
roads and cutoffs which are being
constructed in Idaho and neighbor-
ing states by the Oregon Short Line
and other Hartman interests. A
road is being built by the Oregon
Short Line from Rupert to Bliss in
the fertile Twin Falls country. An
other road Is to be built from Bur-
ley to Oakley and a third from
Moreland to Aberdeen northwest of
Pocatello, on to the Snake Valley
line. And then the Short Line is
making splendid progress on the
line under course OF construction
from Twin Falls, Idaho, to Wells, on
the main line of the Central or South
ern Pacific, in Nevada. 1t is also
said that a line is to be built from
some point on the Ogden-Lucin cut
Now, there i great deal of
railroad building going on in the
Snake River country, and there is
also considerable mystery connected
with it. However, the greater part
OF it is attributed to the Burlington
and other Hill interests. A glance
at the map of the Hill roads in the
inland territory will soon disclose
the fact that there are numerous
short lines, which, If they were
connected up, would form fine sys-
TEN. And it is the connecting of
these lines which is now being done.
And this, in a large measure, is evi-
dent from recent maps being issued
by the Hill lines, which show short
stretches of railroad in course of
CONSTRUCTION. The western termin-
us of the main line of the Burling-
ton is at Billings, Mont, but branch
lines run to both Cody and Kirby,
Wyo.
A road is being built along the
Salmon river to Armstead, Mont, a
little station on the main line of
the Oregon Short Line in southern
Montana. which, it is believed, will
eventually be extended to connect
with the branch of the Burlington,
which runs to Cody, Wyo. The re-
cent maps of the Burlington show
that a line is now being constructed
from Kirby, Wyo., the terminus of
the other branch of the Burlington
TO Shoshone, on the line of the Chi
cage & Northwestern, with which