The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-12-29
WORK ON EXTENSION.


The Central Idaho railroad will build
from Taft to Boise next spring. Re-
liable information to this effect has
been received in Boise by local rail-
road men and is known in railroad cir
Giles. Grant & Son, the we'll known
contractors who have charge of the
grading of the line between Richfield
and Taft, have established a perman-
ent winter camp at Prairie City and
will move west along the right-of-way
in the spring. The connecting link
including Taft is from Prairie City
west.
A. C. Osborn, the chief of construc-
Iion on his part of the line, has been
transferred to Oregon to take up the
work Of extensions and a new man is
now in charge of the Richfield-C amas
Prairie end. He made his first visit to
Gamas Prairie last week and went
over the entire right-of-way.
The contracting firm of Grant & Son
has a contract for the first mile and a
half of work out of Prairie City west,
and they are now permanently located
for the winter at Prairie City in order
to continue the work at the earliest
date in the spring. Prairie City will
be made a division point on the extern
sion and the grade for trackage is al
ready six tracks wide at that point.
Advices received from Salmon City
ARE 10 the effect that the Pittsburg &
Gilmore Railroad company has been
engaged in the delivery of steel at that
point for the past six weeks and that
at the present time thousands of tons
of rails are piled in the companys ma
ter1al yards at that point. This is re-
:ga1ded as clearly indicative of the
company plans to extend the line
down the Salmon and Snake rivers to
Lewiston at an early date.
The delivery of the steel prior to
the announcement of the plans for
construction or the awarding of the
contract is explained by railroad men
as a result of an order for steel placed
at the time the company expected to
begin construction early this year and
the necessity for removing the mater
ials from the steel mills has caused
the railroad company to assemble the
rails in the material yards, from
which they are to be distributed
Recent developments in railroad cir
cles confirm the report of a few days
ago that the Pittsburg e Gilmore is
joint road to be used by the Northern
Pacific and the Chicago & Northwest
rern and by this construction these lines
wf1l shorten the route to the coast by
290 miles, secure the lowest pass over
the watershed and acquire the long
est water grade route in the world.
From Lander. Wyo., comes the re-
port that thousands of steel rails are
being unloaded at that place, which is
the present terminus of the Chicago
nvt yYn md IND tod tr,
an early extension of the line.
AS has ben stated in the Courier be-
fore, the early surveys of this road
passed through Camas prairie, but the
road made traffic agreements with the
Oregon Short Line and work was dis
continued at that time. The agree
ment made has since expired, and
from the east comes the word that the
Northwestern will contest the Harri-
man interests for territory to the Paci-
f1c. The only logical route is through
Camas prairie to Boise, talk that it
will follow the Snake to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Our informant ventures the opin-
ion that Camas prairie will have her
second railroad within the next two
years and his reasons for this belief
are all good. He visited Soldier re-
Gently, coming here direct from the
east after visiting Lander.
The early completion of the Panama
canal is the stimulus which is causing
all the railroad systems to push their
lines to the Pacific coast in order to
handle the transfer of freights and
successfully compete with the systems
with through transportation routes
Capital News.