The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-09-16
Will Meet With Good Roads
Committee and Govern
ing Board Tonight.
PROPOSED RAILROAD
Representatives Of State Utili
ties Commission, Rate Ex-
pert and Attorney.

Leonard Way, rate expert, Raymond
Givens attorney, and r. H.. Ewing
engineer, representatives of the Idaho
state public utilities commission. ar
rived in the city Wednesday evening
and departed this morning for the Sal
mon river country for the purpose of
obtaining information pertaining to the
proposed north and south Idaho rail
road
A conference with the Commercial
club was held at Lewiston
Tuesday evening, and a meeting with
the good roads committee and the gov
erning board of the Grangeville Com
mercial club will be held at the X. p.
club rooms this evening.
The investigation now being made
is the out come of action taken some
time ago by the utilities commission
before the interstate commerce COM
mission, asking that commission to or.
der the Northern Pacific Railway
Company, Camas Prairie Railroad
company and Oregon Washington
Railway and Navigation company to
extend the Camas Prairie railroad
from Fem, Idaho. to connect with the
Pacific & Idaho Northern railroad at
New Meadows, Idaho.
Information is being sought as to
the tonnage that would be moved, in
either direction, on the proposed road
Including the prospective tonnage that
might be developed and the probable
new industries. looking both to the
future of this road and the proposed
canalization Of the Snake river i'm its
bearing upon the cutting down of
rates. 1t was argued at the meeting
last night that not only would the
river Improvement hut that with the
proposed road all of south Idaho
would receive similar benefit. Ben
eft would come. it was shown. not
only by lower rate but by quicker
service. Products from this region
would find market in southern Ida
no. and the south Idaho products
would have a shorter route into this
region. Another advantage present
ed was the development of the lumber
manufacturing industry Of this re-
gi0n, the products of which would
find great market in southern Idaho.
Utah. Colorado and all points south
and osuthwest.
1t has been shown that the pro-
state of Idaho and connect north and
south Idaho; also that the proposed
line of the Pittsburg & Gilmore rail-
road extends from Salmon City. its
present terminus. down the Salmon
river, and the construction of the pro-
posed line would encourage the exten-
sion OF the Pittsburg & Gilmore line
and thus give an east and west line
N Idaho in that part Of the state,
which has immense mineral resources
and no transportation facilities. The
entire line would pass through or tar
sections of the state containing vast
natural resources. most of which have
very poor transportation facilities
The large. rich section about Grange
vile. Cottonwood and Fem. known
as Camas prairie. would be given q
great stimulus by the construction OF
the proposed line.
The action taken nv the state util
lilies commission in asking for the
building of the north and south rail
road Is in accordance with an amend
ment TO the interstate commerce act
known as the transportation act o.
ib20. effective March I. 1920. which
provides that the commission ma,
after hearing. in proceeding upor
complaint, or upon its own initiative
without complaint, authorize or re
quire by order any carrier or rail
road snbject to this act. party to sucl
proceeding. to provide itself with saf'
ana adequate facilities for the per
forming as common carrier its ca
service as that term is used in this act
and TO extend its line or lines: pro
vided that no such authorization o
order shall be made unless the com
mission finds, as to such extension
that 1t is reasonably required in tn
interest of public convenience ant
necessity, or as to such extension o
Iacliities that the expense involves
VIII not impair the ability of the car
rler TO perform its duty to the public
!. While the citizens Of the entire sec
lion that would be traversed bv thi
proposed link. naturally favor rail cor
nection with the southern part IF tn
STATE. they are much more deeply IN
srested In the early completion of tn
North and South state highway.
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Robert Griffth .ex-county commits