Show NORTH NORTHERN RN PACIFIC PAN Extension of the Into California Cal ornia Among the Possibilities of f the th theNe Ne Future ture San Francisco Ax A gr g t The Call prints a story today to the effect that James J Hill the ti e railway magnate te Is planning to extend the Northern Pacific into Califor California nia The article states that a party of twenty surveyors su veY rs which came west from front Chicago the last week in July Jub was in the employ of or Hill HUl The surveyors ors came oame as asfar astar asfar far tar as Winnemucca a Nev where they left the Southern Pacific and started north northward northward northward ward on an overland nd journey journe tp near the southern boundary of Idaho these men met another party that had come south Bo th from Grantsdale the end of a small extension ext nalon of ot the Northern Pacific on the theother theother theother other side of the Rocky mountains Two parties then proceeded across the upper portion of Nevada evada and crossed over Into California along ulong the route of at the Western Vestern Pacific Traveling down the east side sidO of Lassen peak peale the surveyors ors made a Ii number of reconnoiters and finally striking the line of ot the Western Pacific again they proceeded southward to the vicinity of ot Sacramento where they ceased work It Is further stated that a route Is surveyed s d through timber Umber lands being in inthe Inthe I Ithe the northwestern part of ot California I which have haye been acquired by b T B I Valker Walker and othet otho big lumber men I |