The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-09
RAILROAD MEETING
AT CASTLEFORD
Continued from Page IL

would be constructed at Castleford,
should the road be built and other con-
ditions prove favorable.
The meeting elected j. II. Seaver, of
Castleford, for chairman. Harley
Hooker of the Glover project, explain
ed the object of the visit, by showing
the value of transportation to the
farmer He pointed out that 40 days
haul could be saved on so acres of
wheat land located at CastlefOrd, and
that not only would the difference be
greater with some crops, but what was
more important, the coming of road
would permit the people to diversity
crops and to indulge in intensive farm
ing. He showed that in a few years
the land affected by the road might
be normally expected to increase in
value to the amount of at least $4,000
600 as a direct or an indirect result OF
its construction. He said that the
people of the Glover district wanted
the road, Twin Falls wanted it and it
would be Of the greatest benefit to the
people Of Castleford. While neither
agreeing to construct nor to buy the
road, Snort Line officials had assured
him of their sympathy with the pro-
iect.
Arthur l.. Swim followed by ex-
planning the tentative proposition more
fully. The people of Twin Falls had
practical assurance that with the rails
ing of 100000 the road could be Sc
cured. He cited the fact that two rep
resentatives of eastern bond houses
who were in Twin Falls bidding on
the waterworks bonds had told him
that if the Oregon Short Line were
friendly, even though not inclined to
finance the building of the4 road, it
could be bonded for from $4,000 to
$4,000 a mile. The total cost of all
construction work, as figured out by
the Short Line engineers, including
switches. stations and the like, was
S14 800 a mile. So that it would mean
that the amount that the promoters
would have to spend on construction
would not be great
When conditions financially were in
general far less favorable a few
years ago, and before the Glover pro-
ject was opened, the people had sub
scribed or donated $4,000. There
would be approximately so sections of
land along the line, not counting the
Salmon tract farms adjacent to it.
G. l.. belong told of a conversation
that he had had with Vice President
E. e. Calvin and other officials of the
Short Line, of similar import to the
talk described by Mr. Hooker, and
added that he felt safe in saying that
more cooperation could be expected
from that road than was promised to
him or others by the officials, if the
people would get busy. J. A. Crom said
that he had land which would rent for
SIS an acre if the road were built, for
which he could get only SO or SO an
acre now, and similar raise in values
would be apparent everywhere along
the line if built. He said if land
values increased only $40 an acre it
would more than pay for the road and
people would be the gamer, even if
the road itself failed TO pay dividends
and the stock proved worthless.
c. A. Robinson, j. NJ Maxwell, H. ].
Failing and Thomas DOvery all spoke
briefly and favorably, after which the
chairman read letter from Mayor E.
M. Sweeley of Twin Falls expressing
regret that he was unable to be pres
( ent and calling attention to CORES
pondence which the firm of Sweeley &
! Sweeley had had with the Amalga-
mated Sugar company headquarters in
Ogden, in which that company, through
Secretary Taylor, practically promised
the construction of a factory at Cas-
tleford, should sugar beets thrive in
the neighborhood and the required
5000 acres be secured. Secretary Tay-
Tor recommended the securing of beet
seed from the Burley factory and the
planting of a small amount for expert
mental purposes.
Talks were made in behalf of the
Castleford people by Chairman Sea-
yer, who was favorable to the project
and by Carl Miller, F. T. Atkins, G. II
Clement and William Ringert, who
while expressing themselves as il
favor of a road, said that they wanted
time to consider it and thought tha
the Castleford people should NEE
themselves and go over the matter
One of the questions asked was wheth
er the subscribers would be liable fol
more than the stock purchased in the
event that the road should fail, OF
which point assurance that they would
not was given by Attorney belong
Relative to whether the Short Linz
might freeze out the stockholderi
through failure to furnish cars, it wal
suggested that the Idaho public utili
ties law would protect them through
the utilities commission, but this di'
not satisfy since Ed s. Couse, man
ager of the absorbed Independent tele
phone line said that when they ha,
constructed their own line on the re
fusal of the Bell to build a line there
the monopoly waited until it was dom
a good business and then took steps t
force them to sell, in which steps tn
trust was virtually assisted by the al
titude and ruling of the state publ
! utilities commission. Attorney DeLon
said that interstate shipments wer