The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-12-19
Will EXTEND
SHORT LINE
Means Bruneau Project is Fl
nanCed.
ON GOOD AUTHOR
ITY RECEIVED AT BOISE.
Permanent Right of Way Filed mt the
United States Land Offices at Boise
and HALEY.

The construction of the Buhl-Nyssa
extension of the Minidoka & South
western railroad from Bull to Nyssa,
Ore, along the south side of the Snake
river over the Bruneau project, by the
Hartman system of which the extern
sion will be part, is now but a few
months off and may be taken up next
spring. This is the authoritative infor-
nation that has been received in Boise
railroad circles and it is believed to be
final.
At the present time the Minidoka G.
southwestern, a subsidiary line of the
oregon Short Line, leaving that road
at Minidoka and branching off through
the Twin Falls country, terminates at
Bull. The survey for the extension
starts at this point and carries the
right-of-way west over the big Bru-
neau project, consisting of 100000 acres
connecting with Grandview and con-
tinues on to the western Idaho border,
crossing the Snake river and again
joining the main line of the Oregon
Short Line at Nyssa, in Eastern Ore
gon. The permanent right-of-way was
filed with the United States land Of
flee in this city and at HALEY, Ida., it
having been accepted by the engineer
ing department of the Oregon Short
Line at Salt Lake.
The Oregon Short Line has been
awaiting for the final settlement of the
matter and having been assured some
time ago that the project was destined
to be reality Immediately made plans
for the building of its important extern
sion, intending to cross the southern
portion of this state before the actual
work of construction of the project is
taken up so that there will be no inter-
ference in the plans of either the rail-
road or the project promoters
The extension will place the Oregon
Short Line in almost complete control
OF the southern portion of this state
and give it a system of feeding lines
that is not duplicated on any part of
the system in the west At the present
time it's main artery or road crosses
Idaho from Pocatello to Ontario, fol-
lowing the Snake river valley. 1t also
has line operating between Salt Lake
and Butte together with many feeders
from both. 1t is now constructing the
first link in the Owinza-Payette cutoff
known as the Central Idaho, or that
portion of the road connecting Rich
field with Taft and has an approved
| survey and right-of-way through the
Camas Prairie country west to Boise
and on to Ontario and Vale, where
| connection will be made with the Ore
gon e Eastern. This line will serve
| as double track for the Oregon Short
! line across the southern part of this
state, although it will traverse terri
tory to the north of the present main
line. The vast territory south of the
Snake river, which is destined to be
reclaimed by irrigation, giving that
section the largest compact irrigated
area in Idaho and probably the United
States, through the financing of the
| big Bruneau project, is to be tapped by
the Minidoka & Southwestern extern
sion from Bull to Nyssa, giving the
Hartman system it's third east and
| west line across the southern portion
of this state and placing it in complete
| possession of the TERRITORY The an
| nourcement that the Short Line pro-
posed to go ahead with construction
work, probably during the spring OF
1912, means the DEVELOPMENT of vast
| section of land, heretofore unoccupied
except as sheep range, almost an
empire in elf.-Statesman.