The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-25
R. R. COMMITTEE
CHOSEN AT MEETING
Thorough Investigation of Pro-
posed Line
QUESTION OF ULTIMATE OWNER,
SHIP PROVES MOOTED ISSUE.
Large Gathering at Club Rooms
and Expressions All in Favor
of Road.

An enthusiastic joint meeting OF
Twin Falls and Castleford at the
rooms of the Twin Falls Commercial
club Tuesday night resulted in the
appointment of ]. A. Crom from this
city and ]. H. Seaver from Castleford
to fill two committees of three, for the
purpose of cooperating in the draft
ing of tentative plans for the proposed
Castleford railroad, and if necessary
for the sending of delegation repre-
senting the communities Interested 10
Salt Lake City to take the question OF
construction and ownership up with
the officials of the Oregon Short Line.
The committee will have power to
make recommendations with reference
to the raising of funds necessary to
carry out temporary plans and to do
local preliminary investigating.
Yesterday morning Messrs. Seaver
and Crom met and selected the rest
of the committee. Mr.. Seaver select
ed Carl Miller and H. j. Failing and
MIR. Crom appointed j. M. Maxwell
and Thomas Warner. The committee
organized by the election of Mr. Sea-
yer as chairman 1t was decided to
invite the Short Line officials to
come here and talk over the situation
and look over the country. Mr.. Crom
leaves for Chicago in few days TO
be gone about a month
The meeting was called to order by
c. L. DeLong, vice president of the
club. ]. A. Crom was called upon to
explain the purpose of the gathering
and told of the obstacles which he
had met in attempting to secure $lOO,-
900 in subscriptions. He said that IN
a general way folks were divided into
two camps, one of which wanted mon
ey raised as a donation to the Oregon
Short Line to induce that road to
build, own and operate the proposed
line. The other wanted the organiza-
ton of an Independent company Per-
sonally he favored the Independent
company plan. He replied to num-
Der of objections which he had heard
raised, such as "The road could be
built if we would all pull together
but the other fellow will not subscribe,
so 1 will not; oh, its easy tor you
TO take stock but l cannot; "a SINH
lar attempt made before failed, there
fore this one will fail" Mr.. Crom ap-
pealed to all to let their emotions car
ry them forward to success in this un-
dertaking. All wanted the road and
with proper cooperation all could
build it.
]. H. Seaver, representing Castle
ford. made a brief pointed talk eX-
planning the position of his commun-
ity. In substance he said: eve all
want the road, but before we sub
scribe we want to know definitely
what we are subscribing to. Up to
the present no definite plan has been
worked out We do not want to be IN
the position of the farmers of the
Hagerman valley who subscribed for
the building of road, paid In theiI
money and at the end had only part OF
a grade to show for it. We would pre-
fer to have the Short Line build, own
and operate the road, because we
know nothing about railroad con-
struction. We do not know what OBJ
stacles might be thrown in our way
by the Short Line should we build the
road as an independent company. we
do not even have direct, positive as
surance that the Short Line is willing
to have us build this road tho sucf
evidence as we have points that way
If the Short Line should build this
road, it might stick us on freight anc
passenger rates to certain extent
but even at that the road so built anc
operated would be great boom 10 tn'
community and we would subscribe
literally toward it's construction H'
suggested the appointment of a com
mittee representing the communities
interested to take the matter up WIFI
the Short line and find out what tina
company would do. This suggestion
was later acted upon as noted above
Mr.. Miller of Castleford, briefly en-
dorsed the views expressed by Mr.
Seaver. President DeLong, nj. j
Sweeley and others spoke along thu
same general line, especially favor
ing the appointment of the COMMITTEES
to draft a definite proposition. Mr.
Crom suggested that the COMMITTEES
would have to spend some money ant
should not be compelled to do so a
its own expense in the interest of th
whole community Willett Hanc
made a strong talk along this line
urging the taking up of collection
The committee, to draft its tentative
plan. determined the probable cos
of investigation and report back t
the meeting as whole, with an es
innate of the probable cost of tn
initial work of investigation.