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Show A CORRESPONDENT of the Union, published at Walla Walla, Washington Territory, writing from Boston says that the Northern Pacific people are in earnest. He gleans his information from parties in the confidence of the company. The president, Mr. Billings, declares that they mean to put the Pen d' Oreille division through to the lake next year if it is possible to get the material on the ground. The vastness of this undertaking will be realized when it is understood that all the iron and rolling stock for that two hundred miles of road must be shipped up the Columbia. The fact that the company has already commenced grading on that division, and has purchased the material with which to finish it, is one of the surest indications of their confidence in the enterprise as a whole. AS a business enterprise the building of this section would be the height of folly except on the theory that a very few years will make it part of a through line. |