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Show EAGLE ROCK. Editor Leader: - This place, lately so lone and quiet, now presents a very lively appearance. Work is being actively pushed by the railway company, in preparing for the erection of the new shops here. There is a large quantity of lumber on the ground, shipped from Omaha, for the buildings - probably over 100,000 feet and more constantly coming, also shingles, lime, &c. (etc.). A large space of ground has been staked out for railway tracks, buildings, &c. (etc.), and seven long lines of rails have already been laid, running from the main line eastward, to where the various buildings will stand. M. D. Hammond's teams are doing the grading. Roadsmasters Paine and Toomies are here with their men, putting in switches, side tracks, &c. (etc.). Also T. Morrell, with the construction train and hands. Everything shows that the railway company means business. The weather is very pleasant and agreeable. A light rain, yesterday, serves to lay the dust. The Snake River Canal company have almost finished their undertaking. Snake River water now being in the canal only a mile away. Mr. Geo. (George) Heath has the contract for the last two and a half miles. The presidential contest creates no excitement here - why should it? We are all disfranchised and denied a vote in the election of our President for the crime of living in a territory. Is it not a little strange that a natural born citizen of the United States loses the right of helping to elect the President, simply because he removes from a state to a territory? One would think his rights should be increased not diminished. N. Eagle Rock, Oneida Co. (County), Idaho, Oct. (October) 27, 1880. |