Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-01-22
ROAD
A NECESSITY

SSiOhSA AdSC AOSolGu the
new offices OF the Winnemucca North.
ern, at the corner of Third and Baud
streets, and will probably remain in
own until after the storm has settled.
When seen yesterday morning by
Silver State representative and asked
If there was anything new, Col. Place
replied:
There will be nothing new in rail.
road matters, SO far as the Winnie
mucca Northern is concerned, until
after the fifteenth OF next month.
There will be road Eailt fronf tlsfs
to Boise, Idaho. We hope from
and by the Western Pa
cific. In fact, there will be no other
in a position to construct the
line. and an independent road is on!
of the question. While personally |
favor building out of Winnemuccd,
there is no certainty that this will ne
done. and it might be we'll for the
citizens here TO take steps to secure
the southern terminal of the line
when built.
THE bondholders OF the several
roads, commonly known as the Gould
lines, have been given until February
Is by the reorganization committee to
meet their assessment of S32 per share
and in case they do not do so some
other plan OF reorganization will no
doubt be devised. AS an indication OF
the sentiment in the Boise valley re.
garding the Winnemucca Northern,
you may quote the letter l recently re-
ceived from c. Il. Shaw, the promi-
nent Boise business man."
The letter referred to by Col. Place
is as follows:
II came to Idaho thirty years ago
as terminal agent for the Oregon
Short Line railroad, which was being
constructed at that time from Granger
Wyoming. to Huntington, Oregon.
when | came to the road, it was
completed, and in operation, TO within
twenty miles of Caldwell, or rather to
within twenty miles of where Caldwell
is now located.
when l travelled for the first timt
over the line from Granger. Wyoming
to Kuna, Idaho, fifteen miles from
Boist, where l was located, thought
that the road would never be perma
.nently operated; as the road did moi
actually pass through single settle
ment of any kind, with the exception
of Pocatello, where the road crossed
what was then known as the utaf
Northern Narrow Gauge. The roat
did not pass through one acre of cult
waited land from one end of the line Il
the other.
1T was generally understood tina
the road was being built to make s
connection with the old Oregon Rail
road G Navigation company's line t
Portland, Oregon, evidently withou
much thought or hope of local busl
ness.
"The promoters were certainl.
building better than they knew; th'
country along the entire line of tn
Oregon Short Line from Granger L
Huntington has developed beyond IN
widest dream of the most optimistl
railroad builder, and today ii would b
difficult to look out of the car windoS
at any point along the line withou
seeing cultivated fields either unde
irrigation OF dry farming.
There is no doubt but that tn
greatest development In the way Q
irrigation in the entire world has bee
along the Oregon Short Line With
the past twenty years. II is not reel
oned by acres, nor by thousands O
acres, but by hundreds of thousand
of acres, and In fact by millions O
acres, the greatest part of which.
under water and producing enormou
crops Of hay. grain. vegetables an
fruit. Thousands of cattle. sheel
horses and swine, to say nothing
thousands and thousands of acres {
producing orchards, such as apple
prunes, pears, peaches. cherries an
other fruits.
II wish to make the broad stat
ment that the Snake and It's tributar
valleys, being the Boise, Payette, We
ser, Malheur, Owyhee and Brunea
valleys, all OF which are included
the Snake River valley, will, in te
years from today, be the most produ
tive irrigated section on the glob
with the most diversified farming.
I'VE don't have to depend upo
oranges and lemons, but we can rait
the best apples and prunes In II
world, and have proved It. We ca
raise the best wool, sheep, cattle, hog
wheat. oats. hay and potatoes in u
United States and more OF II per acr
I'VE have not only put hundreds
thousands of acres of land under iri
cation, but we have several thousar
more TO put under irrigation. "
have not only built canals from TIVE
ty.five to seventy.flve miles long, laii
enough to float an ordinary ship, b.
we are using our limitless water pow
for pumping water TO height Of thr,
hundred feet for irrigation, and iri
CATION purposes. II might be well