Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-04-18
HILL IS PLANNING
FOR INVASION OF
IDAHO THIS YEAR.

Boise is to be the center and the
key TO the greatest railroad activ-
ity in the history of the inter-
mountain country, firmly believe
railroad men here familiar with
the inside work that is being
conducted both in the promotion
of the Boise Winnemueca railroad
and the Hill program outlined to
connect with the Gilmore & Pitts
burg, which it is now claimed is
but link in the Boise-Butte, which
in turn is TO be connected with
the Boise Wmnemucca, and also
have connection with the Boise &
Western, traversing central Ore
gon. The entire Hill program is
said to be one OF the most extern
Sve tslat has even been promul-
gated for the West.
Would Drain Yellowstone.
Aside from the Boise-Butte and
the Boise Winnemucca line, it is
now claimed that Hill has other
plans to reach Boise and to tap
the rich interior country His sys-
TEN proposes to drain the Yellow
stone in the Snake river section
it is asserted, by constructing
road from Bozeman, Mont, to st.
Anthony and Idaho Falls. The Pen
dleton East Oregonian says:
At Idaho Falls the line branches
off direct west to Haley. From
Haley one branch goes directly
south to 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 Pa
cific. 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 Slo-
kane, but the Hill way is obvious
ly as follows: the Hill line has
already built to Genesee and JOS
eph, Idaho, from Spokane. 1t will
go down the Snake river TO Pay
cite. thence to Emmett and on in
to Boise, meeting the western Hail
ey branch in the Idaho capital and
giving a connecting link to the
south.
The Western Pacific goes into
Doyle Cal. just across the Neva-
da line where Hill will connect with
the a-CalifOrnia-Oreg line.
which goes into DakeView, Ore, in
Lake county, the objective point.
On-HuntingtOn.
The Huntington line
will go into Olds Ferry, the big
junction of several Hill lines. From
Olds Ferry the PendletOn line Will
go along the river to BrOgan and
thence over the CID road Which
was travelled 30 years ago. follow
ing UP Willow creek until II eros
ses the Divide near irOhsi4e. from
where it will penetrate to Deu-
lah thence directly west Io2 miles
to Van, and with variations south
of ~ degrees will go into Burns.
12S miles. The line will cross the
Snake river at the grade n miles
below Burns, then cross the north
end of Harvey lake at Kennedy,
thence to Juniper mountain, and to
Lake Albert, down the marsh Che
waucan to Lakeview and connect
with the n. c.. o. This completes
the fabric with the building of the
line from Burns to Bend to Mount
Washington to Eugene to Coos Bay, |
which gives the outlet ON the coast
for the timber traffic.
Bring All Out at Doyle.
All of the lines described will be
brought out at Doyle, Cal. There
is a natural water grade from
Doyle to San Francisco along the
l. nj n | a g.
sen county, the line will go through
the Apringgarden tunnel, the long
est tunnel in the world. to Plum
as county, where it will strike the
headwaters of the Golden Featn-
er river, follow that stream through
Yuba Suffer, Sacramento, Stockton,
Niles. Stanford branch into Oak
land and to San Francisco by eros
sing the bay from the Western Pa
cific pier just north OF the Ala
media mole.
In this network the significance
of the Portland, Eugene q Eastern
is now apparent. Hills line VIII go
across Linn county, through the
at Mount Washington
with a southern base. down the
Cascade divide, follow down a
branch of Tuilla creek into Benz,
thence across southeast by south in
Burns along the county road. This
completes the central and south
ern Oregon ring with which east,
ern Oregon will be connected and
links the Yellowstone park with
southern Oregon.
Another important link in the
Hill chain. with which most west
erners are now familiar, is the
Gilmore & Pittsburg,
which is being built from Armstead
Montana. over the SawtoOth range
in Idaho. down the Salmon river
10 he Snake. connecting with the
Hill line down the Snake.