Show i ROAD TO BE 1 fiNISHED Branch of the Ut Oregon Short Line Will Be Pushed Completion to at Early Date I The construction of the Huntington n Lewiston line by the Oregon Short Line is In to be started In the near future The road has haq ha already built as as far as Homestead Home Homestead stead Ore and plates plans have been made to push to Lewiston According to W WE WE WE E CO Coman man general freight agent of tha th Harriman Hamman system in the northwest that part of the line from Huntington to Homestead will be pe turned over to the operating department in a short time and end then the tha construction work on the rest of at atthe the line down the Snake river will be to completion Difficulties in con are said to have baen been responsible sible for the delays When the Short Line does build down the Snake river from Huntington Huntingdon It will put Clarkston on the main line of the Union Pacific system The Harriman system m acquired entrance to Clarkston long ago The Initial steps were taken when tho the Clearwater Valley line sk k In 1899 1893 got a through clarks clarka clarkston ton and the entire Vineland district The Clearwater Valley was w s merely a subsidiary subsidiary diary to the tM Union n Pacific system That the Hill system will build through Oregon up the Malheur river through Harney county and connect with the Des Chutes branch from the north bank of tho the Columbia near Klamath falls thence thenN dropping south fouth through the Sac Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento valley and along the river through California to San Francisco and Oakland Is now an assured fact That whole country countr will be colonized by the Northwest Colonization company of at Min Minnesota which is s closs clolla to the he Hill Bill Inter Interests Interests interests ests ta Tho The Hill Bail system is ls making plans lans to populate eastern and central Oregon with the view of ot building up a rich freight territory on the groat Oregon plateau tributary to Hill lUll lines That the Hill Interests have purchased the Pittsburg Gilmore railroad the mysterious new line in Idaho Is the post positive tive statement made by E L Marvin of Boise who says he has received d positive assurance assurance from a personal friend in SIh St at StPaul StPaul Paul closely allied with the Hill people that the deal has been consummated |