Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-05-04
OFFICERS OF THE OREGON
SHORT LINE SPEND AN
HOUR IN CITY
Meetings in Six Thousand Club Room
to Get Acquainted With the Man
who Pays the Freight. Very Lit
tie encouragement Given This City.

Leading officials of the Oregon I
Short Line stopped off in this city
a few minutes last Tuesday after
noon to meet the citizens and dis
cuss the general conditions in this
city with respect to the railroad. The
visit was the cause of considerable
excitement and a mass meeting was
called for the night before in the
club rooms which was largely attend
ed by the leading business men and
citizens of this community. Mr. +.
c. Helfrich was elected chairman of
this meeting and B. F Griffith, sec
retary The chairman told of the Wis
it of the officials on the morrow and
stated that the object of the meet
ing was to get the people together to
draw up regular resolutions to pre-
sent to the officials containing the
needs and desires Of the people at
this point 1t was also the desire to
discuss those matters to be brought
up at the conference in order to get
a thorough understanding of the
questions to be submitted and also
plan entertainment for our distin-
guished guests
Everyone at the meeting was san
guine and fully hoped that this was
bringing the needs of the city to
our very doors. The long talked of
and badly needed depot would be
started at once a subway would be
built without delay and train No
is would be stopped at this station
hereafter and Mountain Home given
the consideration her large patron
age deserved. An automobile trip to
the reservoir in order to show the
visitors part of the water system
and give them an idea of our unde-
Veloped resources, a visit to various
parts of town including the new ho-
tel were features discussed and de-
cided to be the proper thing. The
train would stop here from two hours
to two and a half hours, this being
an important stop in their itinery,
and the guests should be treated right
royalty in order to know the good
feeling of Zones, who pays the
freight" toward the railroad. The
meeting was a most successful one
and the manner in which those pres
ent took interest in the important
event was indeed gratifying. After
arrangements were made to hive
the rooms all cleaned and renovated
for the coming day. the meeting ad-
journed to await the great event.
Tuesday afternoon the committee
appointed to meet the distinguished
guests appeared at the depot early.
Many citizens were present to assist
in giving a proper welcome to the Of
ficials who were scheduled to appear
at about O'Clock. The train was
late in coming and did not pull nto
the depot until 1890 The officials
were taken at once to the club rooms,
which were soon filled by large and
expectant crowd. AS soon as order
was restored Chairman Helfrich op-
ened the meeting and in well chosen
words told the railroad Officials about
the meeting the night before and at
the request of G. H. Smith, assist
ant general attorney, re-read to the
meeting the resolutions adopted.
The resolutions set forth the need
of a subway across the track at some
point near the depot. new depot, the
stopping of train No. IS, electric
lights at either end Of the depot and
new and enlarged stock yards. He
stated that over $50 school children
crossed the tracks several times a day
and the danger to life was eminent.
In addition traffic was greatly inter-
fered with by passing trains and
freights that often blocked the eros
time The new depot was a necessity.
The old affair serving time had done
good service and the city of Mountain
Home was entitled to better accom-
odations Train No. IS should be
stopped here by all means. The SER
vice to eastern points was most un-
satisfactory and inconvient Only
one train a day carrying passengers
TO Omaha and none to Chicago. Traf-
fic to eastern points was heavy and
our citizens should be given the ad-
vantage Of the better train service.
The train now made regular stops
at either Cleft or this city for water