Year: 1877

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Saturday last by the Weston, Pendleton,


and Columbia River Railroad Company.


Jerry Despair, Lot Liverinore, W. NJ
Beagle, c. L. Jewell, Jacob Frazier, S.
Rothchild. and j. II. Turner, incorpcr-
ators-capital stock 100000. Twenty
( five thousand dollars stock Was taken on
the spot in few minutes. Owing to the
fact that the farmers are all busy with
their crcps there were but few at the meet
ING but all were enthusiastic.


There is nothing to prevent the early
completion OF this road, if all viii take
hold of it and work with hearty good
will. The distance from Weston to the
terminus on the Columbia river is only
about sixty miles, and the road viii pass
over IA country where the grades will be
easy, and owing to the nature of the sol, :,
it can be graded very cheap.


The people of Weston and vicinity are
anxious about the road and We are salts
fed will subscribe literally to the stock


Stock books viii be opened and every
one Will have an opportunity to subscribe.
Another meeting is called for Wednesday,
December 2Gth, at this place, at which
we trust there Will be good attendance
When we take into consideration the eX-
pense Of getting freight from Weston or
Pendleton to the river, we find that it
costs almost all it is worth From the
town of Weston to Whitman Station Ii Is
IA miles, and all freight to or from that
place must be hauled by teams; this costs
not less than S:i per ton, and 1t costs Sj
per ton from Whitman 10 Wallula, max
ing total cost of So per ton from Weston
to Wal!ula- Then it costs about 50 per
ton more to ship freight from Portland To
Wallula than it does to Grand Ronde or
Umatilla landing. Thus We find that
freight could he laid down III Weston by
the way Of this roadat the same price that
it now costs to lay 1t down at Nalluia,
reckoning freight from the river by this
route at - per ton and a saving To the
neople OF Weston and vicinity Of 50 per
ton on up freight down freight beng 50
less OH the river. Besides 1t now takes
four days ut least to ship freight from
Portland to Weston, allowing no time for
delays, while the same could be delivered
in two days by rail. The same time could
and would be saved on down freight, and
two days is often quite an item TO ship
pers from this county, especially IN down
freight


The grading can ali be dcne on sub
sc.iption if the people along the line OF
the road will only take hold of the matter
rs It's Importance demands and by mid
summer TIE road can be graded at least
half the distance Ties can be had at a
cost of not To exceed 125 cents apiece
This is the way the Yafuina Bay read is
beng built, and the people interested IN
this road hayn't half the obstacles III the
way that that road las.


Parties VIII canvass portions of the
county between nov and the next meeting
for subscriptions, and we trust that al viii
give what encouragement they can to the
enterprise The shares are put at fifty
dollars each. Every man can take one or
more shares, and all subscriptions can he
paid either il cash, labor, material or sup
plies. Let each man take one share and
as many more as he can Put team on
the road grading. You need not be afraid
of assessments. Take only what stock you
can pay for in some way and there can be
10 trouble. Assessments VIII not exceed
10 per cent likely at any one time, and
YOU will have until the road is completed
to pay the full amomt.-East Oregoa'an.