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Show PORTLAND DALLES AVU SALT LAKE RAILROAD. We i'.tiacl iho following from tho 1'uit-h.hd i..'j-Hian of tho 'Jth ult., which shows what interest in taken by the people of Oregon in tho contrue,-tiuii contrue,-tiuii of tho Portland, Dalles mid S;i!t Lnk railroad. They are littd ol the tyranny practiced by the v enirai Pacitio company. Tho coiHtruelion uf a railaiad from Wintipmuciu to nouthern Oregon would bo of no pmc tieal utility or adYanlanu to tbe pwpie ol eivslern Oregon, Wasliington ten i lory and Idaho. Tbe route ol tlie proposed road Irom Winnenuicca lius either through a barren, sandy desert, ; or in a mountain gorgo. Tho only, sensible and practical route is vin the Columbia aud Snako river valleys.! The Oregon legislature could not do better than to act upon the angles tions in tho tollowing letter: Considering that it is of almost universal uni-versal belief among us that Oregon can do something, that what Oregon can do may amount to something in the way of securing railway couneo-lion couneo-lion eastward, and ttiat just now thu moat all absorbing question among tho people of tho Northern Paeilie coast on the subject ot railroads e.ist-waid e.ist-waid is: "What should we do?" I have concluded to oiler the f.. Mowing suggestions: Thai it is futile to undertake what wo are wholly unublo to perform, per-form, and among ourselves we huve not the means U build a railroad with. It must come from abroad, and capital capi-tal from abroad does not seem swift iu seeking investment with us. California, Cali-fornia, tl.e first known of tbe Pne-fic states, overtops lis. It we can of ourselves our-selves induce foreign capital to come Here wo cau rely on its coming; ut tier-wise tier-wise we cannot. California, and for i that matter no other state, will lend its fcttorta to induce capital to come here. California is our rival and e!i-couslituied e!i-couslituied master. Foreign tMpiui can only be iuduced to come here by inducements preseuttd to it by us in its abjde or wnere owned. So tar as railwiy connection with the east is concerned, tho two mutes of the Dalles and Salt Lake uud W'ni-nemucca, W'ni-nemucca, have their respeciivo ad vantages, disadvantages, merit, tie merits and inducements for consideration; consider-ation; ft:id each eutcrpriso some friends among us. Whoever considers the subiect of railway connection with the east and the various claims that present them-soives, them-soives, is forced into hesitancy as to what is best to be done. Tne S.it Lake railroad, it is conceded, if it could be built, would be the most advantageous ad-vantageous to Oregon of any. It would traverse the greatest eitenl of country of any, tho wealth of all of wnich would always be tributary to ua; and it would never dhert mule away from us, but attract increasing ' trade to us, and would not be liuble to destructive discriminations to both itself aud our interests. These advantages ad-vantages must be conceded by those even who urge only its shortness in favor of the Winuemucca route. Balanced Bal-anced against the leugth ol the Salt Lake route, if it is longer than the iVinnemucca, is the fact that southeastern south-eastern Oregon is proving to be generally gen-erally of great altitude, too great to be very valuable as an agricultural region, aud the fact that if completed it would and must be subject to the discriminations of the Central Pacific railroad. Would not a railroad direct to Sacramento Sac-ramento be better for Oregon than the Winnemucca road ? The "Covington, "Cov-ington, Columbus and Black Hills railroad company" is a corporation formed under the laws of the state of Nebraska to build a railroad from tne Missouri river at Covington, opposite "ioui fity in the state of Iowa to the Black Hills. Eastward of ths Missouri Mis-souri river is the great net work of -railroads in the United States, extending extend-ing throughout Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Indi-ana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Several ot these great roads culminate at Sioux city, aud more of them are tending there. Railroad Rail-road interests, like all others, are most influenced by interests of its own cind. This great net-work of railroads rail-roads in the states named, is desirous of having other routes ot communication communi-cation with the Pacific than the Onion Pacific and Central Pacific. Someone may ask, why, then, has the Texas Pacific bill, pending in congress, con-gress, hung fiie so long? Simply because be-cause it is no'bsnefit, and will not be of any benefit to the stales named containing the great mass of tho rail roads ot tbe United Slates. It would he a great benefit to a large area of the United Slates, but it would not, it :ould not, be a competing line to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific road. Why? Because it (the Texas Pacific) will be about twelve of fifteen hundred miles longer than tbe U. P. and C. P. road; and besides, will not pass through or benefit the great railroad rail-road states named. During the past winter Senator Wright of Iowa introduced intro-duced a bill in the United States senate to incorporate a rwilroad company com-pany ol the state ol Nebraska, and authorize it to build a railroad from the Missouri river to Portland, Oregon. Ore-gon. This is the agitation that is taking place at the other end of tbe route ol a new and independent line of railroad from the Missouri river to the Pacific. By the way of the . Platte river and South Pass, via the valley of the Columbia river, to Portland, Port-land, Oregon, with the Puget Sound branch from Portland, is the most valuable and practicable of all transcontinental trans-continental routes.' And it is behoved be-hoved that if the practicability and utility of a railroad upon this route can be shown more widely than it is known, and as it is, that the railroads of the btates named would unite their eflorts, and they with ua would cer lainly secure a railroad to bo built upon this route. Any railroad transcontinental trans-continental which does not have its western terminus north of San Francisco Fran-cisco must, from geographical considerations, consid-erations, be a failure. It our legislature legis-lature soon to convene can shape ils legislation so as to assist the Salt Lake company oven iu the small way of enabling it to survey ils road in the vicinity of Raft river, it is thought ii would be money well expended, as tho results to follow therefrom, iudepond ent of advancing the company, would I more than repay tbe State for trie out lay. Twenty-five or tiiirty thousand dollars would be sufficient to make the survey and for incidental expenses toward placing the advantages aud practicability of the route where il would ensure success. Some strong eflorts have lo bo used to place tbe advantages of the route fairly before railroad men and capitalists ol the East and Europe. Prior eflor.s have proved that in this way alone tbe problem ol railway couoectiou with the East can be" solved, and that the utility of Biich a ro. d and the practicability practi-cability of tho route is always conceded con-ceded by the rich and poor when the subject is examined. The Central Pacific railroad has the great influ-! ence which the immense subsidies that congress bestowed upon il wherewith where-with to cloud our locality and advantage advan-tage lor a railway connection with the Eaa, and make it necessary to prove the superiority of the route for which I contend over every other, to fnrc'in capitalists. In order to loiwen , tho iiitluonco ot the Central Pm ilie j company, and obtain a l.ur hearing ol j our tiwu locality and i ur favorite .route upon ita meiila, wc must niaLti 'preparations thorel'or an euiniiu'iinu-rate euiniiu'iinu-rate n& uro tho inlluences at work agaitiwt t:a. As evidence ol whit I say in reference lo the Central Pari lie company I extract a slai- numt from a long editorial of tho N'nw i oik Time of June 0, 1N7H, on the subject ot Pacific railroads, as follows : "Tne roads com posing the Central mute are at preHent a monopoly, whose in-lliience in-lliience IrH been extirled licit) and in Kuropo to prevent the construction of ei mprtini; routes." Twenty live or thirty thousand dul-Unt dul-Unt eon d be availed til by suitable legislation in such slmpo us nol lo be frit by luxpayern, while, it wuiiM reimburse re-imburse the sUto in a lew year!" mure even than expeiuled. Last year favorable negulialiuim with British capitalists by the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake company were broLcu oil from tho tact that this company was unable to lurniidi detailed eilun.Heu ol the cost of ito road. Now, il Ore-gouittiis Ore-gouittiis wioh to do what is in tiieir power toward securing a railroad to tho east, il is within tiieir moaim to survey ibis route aud furnish tho means for incidental expenses in phcing its advantage thoroughly tie fore capitalists, mid if we cannot Uo more wo can at leaht show tho world that Iho whole Pacific coast is not an isolated region, iuaceu.-siblu unless through the tortuous windiugn of the Central Pacific railroad aerosB iho Sierras; or uninhabitable except at Sau Francisco. Morover, by a urvey of this route we speak lo capitalists capi-talists and railroad men everywhere m language of an unmistakable tone. Besides il is believed that with this survey negotiations can again be renewed re-newed directly with Knghsb capitalists capital-ists to build ihe road. And should this survey bo made anil tne Central Pacific company then offer us more lavorable terms than it has yet done, we may accept them when oflered. That ctiui any has always been more a."livo toward agreeing to build into Oregon wheu something neemed to bo doing for tho Portland, Dalles and i Sail Lake railroad. It will be recollected recol-lected that Mr. C P. Hunlingtou'i railroad propositions were- dated just three dayti alter our railroad meeting, held in this city on tho l'2th of March last, at which resolutions, favorable to the Salt Lake railroad, were pasted. Eastern Oregon, Idaho and eastern east-ern Washington territory, in times gone by, have sent no very small amount ol trade to Portland, and may not appeal to us altogether wittiout some claim to consideration in iho securing of railway connection with the east. |