Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
HARTMAN LINES
Will BUILD
Dispatches From the East State
that Company Will Build From
Spokane to Lewist0n---AlsO
Finish Huntington Line.

According to an exclusive dis
patch from the United Press to
The Lewiston Evening Teller,
President R. S. Lovett, chairman
of the executive board of the
Hartman system, has made the
official announcement that among
the extensions proposed in the
Northwest is the building of the
North Coast line from Spokane
to Lewiston. Nothing has been
announced as to the time when
the work will be commenced.
However, all speculation as to
the ultimate building of the
North Coast has been set at rest
by the announcement made by
Judge Lovett.
1t is now believed that the in
vasion of the Lewiston country
by the Hartman system will re-
suit in one of the greatest wars
in railroad construction in the
Northwest and will mean not
alone the building of the North
Coast from Spokane to Lewiston
but likewise the construction of
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. extern
sion down the Snake river, the
entrance of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & Puget Sound into Lewiston
over the North Coast from Spo-
kane, the taking over of the
Camas Prairie line between Lew
iston and Riparia by the Harri-
man interests the building of
the Grand Ronde extension from
Elgin to Lewiston and the inva-
sion of the Clearwater country
by the Hartman system.
Recently there have been ru-
mors that by the building of the
Central Oregon branch by the
Hartman interests to connect
with either the Deschutes branch
now being constructed or the
branch from Biggs to Shaniko
might possibly eliminate the
building of the Huntington-Lew-
iston extension, but the an
nouncement that the Central
Oregon line would be constructed
to connect with the main line of
the Southern Pacific at Klamath
Falls sets at rest all doubt con-
cerning the final extension of the
Huntington line to Lewiston.
1t has been practically conced-
ed that the Hill interests are be-
hind the Gilmore & Pittsburg,
which line has already been built
from Armstead, Montana, to Sal
mon City, Idaho, distance of
12O miles, thus invading the Har-
riman territory, and surveys
have been completed down the
Salmon river and the Snake river
to Lewiston, The next move of
the Gilmore & Pittsburg will be
to close the gap between Arm
stead and Twin Bridges in Mon
tana. connecting with the North
ern Pacific at the latter point.
The result of the invasion of
the Hill interests in the Hartman
territory must give an outlet to
the Gilmore & Pittsburg and it
is practically certain that the
Hill interests will take the south
bank of the Snake river from
Lewiston to Riparia. Thus an
era of railroad construction in
the Lewiston-C Charleston valley,
such as has been anticipated for
the past quarter of a century,
will have come to pass.
The result of such railroad con-
struction cannot be but to bring
an era of prosperity to the Lew
iston-C Charleston valley unprece-
dented in its history. 1t is be-
lieved that announcement when
work will be started on the North
Coast to Lewiston will be forth.
coming within a comparatively
brief time.
The North Coast road has made
surveys from Tekoa to Lewiston,