Show RAILROAD TO POtT portland lAND vo gaill balliot er from froin the idaho papers eliat it cil chapman of ilia alic froitland rott land bilk aej salt lalo lako Hul roul ii asling asking ut or congress tho the usual grant of linds lands in aid i oi ilia construction construction of said torti loal the idaho statesman krcs everybody living along tile lie route of the ilia pro proposed prop MOil road to exert lim serf personally persona liy in favor of it there tro are as good TP rm ons ash why Y chii I 1 rond and bould receive aid ilk ii tha shape or ol land hind lit at least as there here iero ero why the ilia cun con atal northern Nort Lern or southern Is pacific Iaci acidic fic fillou lt it proposes to open ft a country to settlement athil neither tha ibs central nor cin reaches at nil all it is a better belter on the averna ana would Eu stain A population and lava a greater local iness in ill proportion to its length thin i it A traversed sl by either of ilia main pacific i ak a vt lz k if it at na goo borley eor I 1 policy ley to EUli tl n n with ilia or af or billi to IK build um lm why not to build this ilia it is about twenty years sinco since elie policy granting the ilia public lands in rid of tile the instruction of railroads was practically ap r aed icil to the development of our railroad tam at tho the close of 1870 ilia alio railroads ei at ilovea with lind gernt comple completed led in arse of construction and projected with Paio assurance of completion were wens miles in extent the surn sum of vilo wits was expended during that year in improve improvement munt with I 1 3 po pec p o busly bously invested i in construction and equip iii imant int As it is stated staled on competent luthor it lint railroad i add five times their cost to i the ht of the coir corri taun ily it in may sy be timed that chat we are en enriched hereby to ilia e tent lent of what r ill the former worth of nil all tho the land granted these railroads tear liar to such figures the ainess of joneli during durine tho the first half 1871 is at oner alf morn more than the amount done during the ir responding period of 1870 this traffic ves ives directly to more than 17 uno net cici bes besides sides tho great numbers employ 1 1 I in ia construction tito tho total immigration il to yio eho new districts opened to settlement ic v these thesa roias amounts today to day to not less alark people prope though not a clear tuition of this number to the total von 11 oa of the country this movement should for no aly as much it takes rupla localities where they are arc not malted and places them where industry can reato reate capit tl these railroads rail roade have generally W dAo ibo pt f himml i ratiba in every lib way and nd ame not om am the dictates of any impulse nat might wax today to day and anao to morion I 1 it from ta an enlightened conviction that wr own beat baat interests int orests demand it the monopoly if any to 0 o be feared from nese inese great corporations is not is a monopoly of re resa 1 ette estate tito the ne true poly of the railroads is riot not to hold their binds but to sell them to actual settlers with tic ho utmost possible dispatch the sooner a croal I 1 company can convey its grant into the hands and of p o r broil peti peta ed a alon its line lina the better for it formerly the land WOE was monopolized by alors it ors in advance of immigration nod and the ittle was iris forced far out into the wilderness 0 reach land subject su to entry now kow tile the ail besides holding their own land at ow prices and nd preventing 1 speculation carry lia he tiller to the vry very spot spat where he may so sc cat eighty acres for entry and afford him very facility whether r lie buys an artere crp or tot ot and ami choy will buy flank him anni nril ard cud cod gnarl tt for lim him the moment he bo fells his first tree or harvests his first bushel of corn his firm farm yut pit in a good condition with good improvements improvement co cots costs ts leu less actual cash dutlay if bought from a railroad than the amo class of farm situated beyond reach of the iha doai where land costs nothing not liing that the lial virence in value of two tuch such farms arms won would ie i e five fite to one in fity or of the railroad lands needs no demonstration Is it not clear in view of these theio things that our public lands land given in aid of railroads r ail rot tilt lave L not been fooled awny away on the one land nor stolen on tile the other but parted with for valuable liDle considerations consideration which wo we are tir tow now duly Kcal xing izing t it would seem to be in gets act sk a good bargain giving addan cages to both parties ilia il if the railroads railroad i nc are tw i ched by the lucid franu the ilia G go eminent and people arc it re at ie least ast equally benefit led should not the policy bo be in until every important section of wild country shall havo been opened to settlement if not wiry wily not T the truth is if that these railroad buil builders dors go EO fiEr from being land grabbers public pion borers slid and all that are arc directly the reverse opening this rocky Mc lontain country to settlement they are quintupling quin the ilia value of all property aoa of the ilia missouri iziver by making ilia rich resources of tile the section tie nc ces cessine sibe and available they licy tire are reducing the military establishment necessary to the ibo policing of tile In indians diani and thereby indirectly cutting catling off enormous expense every regiment in the ilia field costing a million dollars dallare per annum and every and indian an war the ilia value of a thousand miles of railroad they are creating a 2 great internal int ernil trade bandin binding east best and wast together with lands bands of iron enlarging tile area of human industry and happiness laying broader ilia alio foundations of the state by extending and multiplying tile the sources of its revenues revenue a there is ig no ronson reason awby it a liberal land sub abardy silly should not be granted in aid of tile the or a road from llio ahn central ra cille tu to and there is u ovary every reason why there should le L 1 b central railroads of tho ilia katl those owned or controlled oled d by tile Penny lianiA central rAl in its construction they have a line from the ilia atlantic to tile suit salt lake catin iu in operation of birdi this br branch itrich to lort portland land would bo be it not a question ol of building miles inglet of road by it itsell sells litt but of building Un tiling 00 miles of road through a pretty good ec country or fr the tha aint tapping ilia crude of tle tile coith NO lit raciel it rowana lani every through frei wight slit coming or going over which they would get the lie carrying of 2500 to miles mies of road already akrc kly built considering ulah ilia local trade arajo is certain to lo ho be quite as great I 1 mile for mile ns As that of elie northern pacific ici fic it would seem to lo be an object for alio llio to scott or vantice 1 ailt combination either cither ont one to build miles of rond road to lo rench reicle tile alic basno trado ilia northern am ac a c build 1 1000 to 2000 miles milci to renell tito route ix is ilia direct d from tile hie central belt of the united tho ilia foilb NO of which tho country striking ill ilia alic S nake in ilia vicinity vici vivi nily of ft hall it would for miles ruu run through it a good and easy casy country already liag three or four eon town and for that hint distance is bo be a pirt of the local railroad hyacin of the great dasin basin thence it would sell a branch up ill tile the to the northern pacific racille at the elie croston of tile the Jef feison and cutting actors the groat great grouth efly bend of river eiver nod and directly at boise city the ilia head center of idall idalio aci lipory it would pursue iiii suc tho the most fea feasibly route to portland land iid through a country for flor ilia most part to none between ft hall aal ft euist a distance of to miles the country is not dot so good but then what it is good for can scarcely sea acly bo be said to be known yet its length world I 1 be ve mile its general con ceu so 0 o liko like ilia flight fight of a bad and it would save a thousand miles travel between pat t land and now new york we t trust col chap ninn mail may succeed |