The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-04-15
CONNECT NORTH AND SOUTH
WITH AN IDAHO RAILROAD
GOVERNOR ALEXANDER NAMES STATE SENA-
TOR JEROME j. DAY ON COMMISSION
ALSO HOSEIDAHOC COUNTY MAN
A. F. Parker of Grangeville and an Unnamed South
Idaho Engineer will Make Up Personnel of Conn
Observation-Disclosures Gave Out Interview

Governor Alexander in Spokane
last evening announced that he would
appoint State Senator Jerome j. Day
CT Moscow and Aaron F. Parker OF
Grangeville to be two of the three
members Of the North and South rail-
road commission and that he would
nane a prominent souri; Idaho engi
Ieer for the third rlace. The thir-
teeth Idaho legislature adopted res
oilt. ons calling for the naming, Of
si'th a comls,ission, Representative +.
G. MCGOWAN of Latah county, having
fathered the resolution. Subsequently
tive MCGOWAN providing for an appro-
priation of $500 for the expenses of
the commission and the measure passed
the house. 1t was buried in the state
affairs committee of the senate and
never reached vote, so the appro
pr;ation was LOST. When in Moscow
expressed a desire to name a com
mission but because of there being no
appropriation felt it would be of nc
value unless the appointees were men
of wealth who had the inclination to
carry the investigation forward and
in this it is understood he determined
to name the Latah and Idaho county
men.
Governor AleXande- announced that
his plans for the railroad and highway
were so far advanced in his own mind
that his northern trip at this time
will eliminate in mis- organizing com
mission to investigate route thor
oughly.
The commission will be callel upon
to report the feasibility of various
routes leading from the end of the o.
w. R. e N. line at Payette lake or from
the terminal of P. /. e N. road at New
Meadows to Lewiston or to Grange
vile. After hearing the report of the
commission Governor Alexander an
nounced if private interests can not be |
induced to take up the proposition, he
legislature to pass the railroad legis-
1ation.
Before winter I am determined 10
have work started on the construction
of a railroad connecting the northern
and southern parts of the state, either
by private interests or under state
CONTROL" said the governor. "The ad-
of a new state like Idaho
is business and should not be in any
way mixed up with politics. The open
ing of the vast stock and fruit re-
sources of great part of the state is
a business that will do more to pro-
mote the welfare of Idaho than any
one other thing I can do.
There is enough water power going
to waste in this section to furnish all .
of the power needed in Idaho, east
ern Washington and Montana My
commission will work first on the
feasibility of constructing the railroad
10 be operated by electricity, but il
his is not feasible, then a steam road E
will be constructed. 1t is almost as D.,
to construct a great high .
way from the north to the south, and ;,
his will be done at the time the rail- 4
'oad is built. -
II have no doubt but that if I call a
pecial session of the state legislature s
my measures for the building of the v
ailroad and highway will be passed
" it. Il
"I will predict that before my term il
n office is concluded it will be pos 81
ible to leave Boise after breakfast tt
4 the morning and eat supper at h
feat never yet accom- CT
lisbed" lo
INCREASE PAY OF MINERS