The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-11-22
JUST TO KEEP UP HOPE.

Anything PERTAINING to the Oroville-
Wenathchee branch road that happens
to get into print is read with much
interest by those living within touch
of that proposed line, and the fol-
lowing article on the subject that ap-
peared in recent issue of the Spo-
kane Spokesman Review is given
space. There is nothing especially
important in the item, but it goes to
show that the railroad authorities
have not entirely forgotten the fact
that such a branch is in contemp.a
ton, and hope is held out that trains
will be running some time in the
future. The one statement made that
steel is arriving rapidly for laying
the track from Oroville to Pateros" is
somewhat hazy. 1t is not stated as to
where the steel Is arriving, and so Par
it has not been visible at this end OF
the proposed line. 1t may be arriving
somewhere and in the course of time
will reach this place:
I'm spite of the fact that work is
we'll under way and part of the line
in use for hauling crops to market
on the Wenatchee north line of the
Great Northern, complaints have been
sent to Senator Miles Poindexter by
persons living along the line that the
company has asked for an extension of
the time of the grant through the Col
vile Indian reservation.
Senator POindeXter brought the
matter to the attention of the depart
ment of the interior at Washington and
was advised yesterday by Samuel Ad-
ans, first assistant secretary of the
interior, that Carl r. Gray, president
of the Great Northern Railway COM
pany, had been notified that unless
construction of the Wenatchee north
line was undertaken at once and COM
pleted the department of the interior
would initiate appropriate action look
ing to the forfeiture of the grant, Sen
ator Poindexter in reply to a request
from him that the matter be investi-
gated.
Senator Poindexter has advised his
constituents that the Great Northern
has made no application to the Sec
rotary of the interior for the extern
sion of time as to it's right-of-way
through the COlville Indian reserva-
ton or upon other public lands in
volved in this branch line. He also
told them he would look more closely
into the matter when congress con-
venes in December, and that if it ap-
peared that the railroad company,
under the terms of the grant which it
has acquired, is in default. he would
be glad to introduce a bill in con-
gress to cause the grant to be for
feited.
According to the letter sent to Mr..
Gray the time for the construction of
the line elapsed as to some portions,
for which maps were filed, July 10.
March %, 1913. However, the letter
sets forth that appraisements made by
the Indian service were not approved
nor construction authorized by the
department until February "a, 1910,
and that in view of these dates the
department is not inclined to take ac-
ton in the matter until February "a,
1913.
Charles S. Albert, local cousel for
the Great Northern, in discussing the
matter yesterday said: owing to OBJ
tanning rights-of-way over state roads
part of the way some amended maps
OF location were filed a few months
ago. In addition to this the company
has all the contractors at work on the
line that can well work to advantage.
and IL miles of the line, from Wenat-
chez north along the Columbia river,
have been in operation so that fruit
growers and farmers could have their
crops marketed this fall.
THE steel is arriving rapidly for
laying the track from Oroville to Pa
teros, for which the line has been
graded, and all work on the line is
being pushed as rapidly as possible.
We have big force of men at work
all along the line, distributed under
the several Contractors