The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-04-18
HILL PLANNING INVASION.
More Superheated Railroad Air from
Capital City.

Boise is to be the center and the key
10 tie greatest railroad activity in
The history of the intermountain coun-
| try, firmly believe railroad men here
| familiar with the inside" work that
lis being conducted both in the promo
ton CT -Winnemucca rail-
road and the Hill program outlined to
connect with the Gilmore 8. Pitts
burg, which it is now claimed is but
| . link in the Boise Butte, which in
| turn is to be connected with the Boise
| Winnemucca, and also have connec-
lion with the Boise 4 Western, ira
versing central Oregon. The entire
! Hill program is said to be one of the
| most extensive that has ever been
promulgated for the West.
Aside from the Boise Butte and the
Boise innemucca line, it Is now
claimed that Hill has other plans to
reach Boise and to tap the rich inte-
rior country His system proposes to
drain the Yellowstone in the Snake
river section, 1t is asserted, by con-
structing road from Bozeman. Mont,
to st. Anthony, and Idaho Falls. The
Pendleton aFst Oregonian says:
At Idaho Falls the line branches
off direct west to Haley From HALEY
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Twin Falls and Rogerson, the present
terminal Of the Oregon Short Line,
and thence to Contact, New, and on to
Wells, New, where it connects with |
the Western Pacific, the Gould line |
from Salt Lake to San Francisco.
From HALEY the other branch goes
directly west to Boise. Now there
are three ways out to Spokane, but
the Hill way is obviously as follows:
The Hill line has already built to
Genesee and Joseph, Idaho, from Spo-
kane. 1t will go down the Snake riv-
er to Payette, thence to Emmett and
on into Boise, meeting the western
HALEY branch in the Idaho capital and
giving a connecting link to the south.
The Western Pacific goes into
Doyle, CAL, just across the Nevada
line, where Hill will connect with the
Nevada-C Oregon line, which
goes into Lakeview. Ore, in Lake
county, the objective point.
The PendletOn-H Huntington line will
go into Odds Ferry, the big Injunction
OF several Hill lines. From Olds Ferry
the Pendleton line will go along the
river to Brogan and thence over the
old road which was travelled 80 years
ago, following up Willow creek until
1t crosses the divide near Ironside,
from where it will penetrate to Beu-
lah, thence directly west 1872 miles to
Van, and with variations south of AZ
degrees will so into Burns, 1913 miles.
The line will cross Snake creek at
the grade "a miles below Burns, then
cross the north end of Harvey lake at
Kennedy, thence to Juniper mountain,
to Lake Albert, down the marsh Che
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the N. G. o. This completes the fab
ric with the building of the line from
Burns to Bend to Mountain Washing
ton to Eugene to Coos Bay, which
gives the outlet on the coast for the
timber traffic
All of the lines described will be
brought out at Doyle, Calf. There is
a natural water grade from Doyle to
San Francisco along the Feather river.
From Doyle in Lassen county, the line
will go through the Springgarden tun-
mel, the longest tunnel in the world.
to Plumas county, where 1t will strike |
the headwaters of the Golden Feather
river, follow that stream through
Yuba, Suffer, Sacramento. Stockton,
Niles, Setanford ranch into Oakland
and to San Francisco by crossing the
bay from the Western Pacific pier
Just north of the Alameda mole.
In this network the Significance of
the Portland, Eugene & Eastern is
now apparent. Hills line will go
across Linn county, through the
at Mount Washington with
4 southern base, down the Cascade
1ivide, follow down branch of Tuil-
Ia creek into Bend, thence across
southeast by south in Burns alnng the
county road This completes the CEN
raj and southern Oregon ring with
which eastern Oregon will be connect
I'd and links the Yellowstone park
With southern Oregon.
Another important link in the Hill
hahn, with which most westerners are
low familiar, is the mysterious Gill
more & Pittsburg, which is being
luilt from Armstead, Montana, over
he northern range in Idaho, down
he Salmon river to the Snake, con-
lecting with the Hill line down the
News.
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