Show The Northern PacIfic Extension NEW YORK March 15At the meeting meet-ing of the Northern Pacific directors on Thursday a proposition will be submitted sub-mitted to them to build a line ot railroad rail-road from Amsworth to Portland a distance of 214 miles paralleling the Oregon Railway and Navigation ana thereby giving the Northern Pacific two western termini one at Portland for the Oregon trade and the other at Tacoma for through business The Northern Pacific has the right to build a line through the Columbia River Valley and has a land grant of 26000 acres per mile in Washington Territory and 20000 per mile in Oregon This land grant includes in-cludes over 500000 acres Itis stated that a syndicate of Chicago capitalists have offered to grade the roadbed build the masonry and bridges and lay the ties for the laud grant A morion will be made at the directors meeting that a committee be appointed with authority to confer with the Chicago people If this line is constructed it Will not interfere with the completion of the Cascade division through to Tacoma The directors will probably authorize the construction of four small roads in Idaho and Montana running to the mining districts |