Show REDUCING ITS GRADE i Southern Pa Pacific Changing Lines in Oregon Ore Oct Ore Oregonian Oregonian gonian says corDS ot of the Harriman I lines by the Oreg OregOn n Ei Beat t era ern Railroad eman recently 10 rated Are enga engaged ed tn in surveying a route or the Ule line learn from the terminus ot of the Southern PacifIc SprIngfield branch at Nation Natron to the pass of the I C des just south of scent lake and thence swinging m in a lon long sweep ot of slight curvature to Fort KI math thence to lake II Weed on the So Southern the Northeastern formerly known aIlS as the Teed railroad is in lag Uleys preliminary to completion I of that line to lake a din dis distance lance tance of about seventy e nty miles It is I stated on seemingly quite good au authority that the 4 engineers employed In making latter survey are also j working or the Southern Pacific corn com I pan pany of bieh the Oregon Eastern is ii i also an auxiliary The object to be attained In constructing the two to lInes Hues Is In II a route which will supplant the present pre ent main line for through coast tra lc between Weed and Eugene Eugenee e cUng the he heavy grades of the Siskiyou you Ion mountains and another equally an and expensive piece of track through Co Cow Creek canyon on south of Probably the most influential rOt for construction which seems I to Pe be the Intention Is due to the mi im ulesse tonna tonnage e of truffle that will be I during the next two or three years in the construction or of the recia reclamation I mation works of the Klamath Falls region With an estimated expendi Litre or of by the government that will UJ be more than dupliCated by private a large ar e traffic will wUI willbe I be available Reclamation of acres aeres of land will insure a large freight bu business for tor the future hence hene justify I Ink hu doubly the investment |