The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-02-14
RAILWAY. BINDS ITSELF
EXACT CONDITIONS OF AGREE
MENT ON BUILDING ORC.
VILE TO WENATCHEE.
Sen. JONES SENDS LETTERS
Telegram of President Gray Shows
Great NOrthern's Intention to
Hurry Work.

The letters published herewith,
bearing on the agreement entered into
between the interior department and
the Great Northern Railway company
in respect to the right-of-way on the
Oroville- Wenatchee line, were re-
ceived this week from Senator w. l..
JONES' and they carry the conviction
that the Great Northern not only
means business this time, but that it
has been placed in position by the
conditions imposed in the agreement
that makes it necessary for the COM
pany to do business. A careful reading
of these letters must convince the
most skeptical that the road from Oro
Vile to Wenatchee will be completed
within the year, God willing.
Continuous Construction Insured
The conditions drawn by the inter-
ior department and accepted by the
Great Northern are of such nature
that the company must build within
the time fixed or, else, lose it's right-of-
way. Because of the strategic i'm
boundary to the main line cOnnec-
tions at Wenatchee, there can be no
question about the Great Northern eX-
ercising it's best efforts to keep faith
and complete the long looked for and
much needed line. AS assurance that
it does not propose to forfeit it's right
of-way, the vigorous prosecution OF
construction work from Oroville south
can be taken as convincing evidence.
Steel for track laying is being rushed
to this. place as. fast as it can be
handled over the line, and is forward
ed from here to the front in sufficient
quantities to keep the tracklaying
machine in continuous operation. That
machine is making rapid headway now
that it has the material and the track
will be laid into TonasKet by the time
this paper is off the press. Eight car
loads of steel were received here Tues
dayInight and more is coming in con-
stantly. The contractor now has a
supply on hand sufficient to keep up
the sotithward progress of construc-
tion FOR a week, which means enough
to lay track several miles beyond
TOnasket. 1t is possible that snow
conditions in the Cascades will later
cause some temporary delay but it will
be only because of physical obstacles
over which neither the Great North
ern company nor the contractors have
control that will hinder continuous
construction, and even the possible
delay from any such cause will not
prevent the track from being laid to a
point fifty miles south of here within
the time specified in the agreement
with the interior department.
Letter From Senator Jones
The following letters tell the story
of how the completion of the Oroville-
Wenatchee line in 1913 was made GER
tain:
Washington, D. c., Feb. 8, 1918
Editor, The Gazette,
OTONlllc, WdSuluSIOu
Dear SIR
With further reference to the mat
ter of an extension of time to the
Great Northern Railway for the con
struction of it's road from Wenatchet
to Oroville, beg to hand you here
with copy Of letter which / have writ
ten to Mr.. William c. Brown, of Ok
anOgan, Washington, together will
copy of letter which the Department
has sent to the railroad company set
ting out the terms and conditions up
on which such an extension will b.
given, and copy of the letter from
President Gray to Mr.. Carroll, o
Washington city, the railroad repre-
sentative.
This correspondence will fully ex
plain the situation and | certainl,
trust that such an arrangement will
be satisfactory to you.
Very truly yours,
w. l.. Jones.
Gives Reasons for Attitude
Mr.. William G.. Brown,
Okanogan, Washington.
My dear Mr.. Brown:--
Referring to your telegram, pro
testing against any extension of tim
to the Great Northern Railway Con
pany for the construction of its lin
from Oroville to Wenatchee, | desir
to say in addition to my telegram, an
in confirmation of it, that my actio
in this matter has been in what / b'