Show r NEW EW ROAD IS DECiDED UPON o a L Lets Contract for Con str of Oregon Branch WILL BIG SECTION UT UTAH H CONSTRUCTION LAND JOB OF BUiLDING UIL ING SIXTY MItS MItSI S nw I he much question Of a rail from Oregon along the tho river to has hns at last been bOen In th tha affirmative Announcement mont ws made luring the ru ro ent elit visit of General Manager Bancroft or of the Oregon Short Line to Boise Ida I that hat the road rond had Jad been boen upon and that tbs t ts for tor com grading fOt tc would be lot let within n a tow Cow days s Yet Yog ter HY howVer wa the first official ai that the motter had been LC ac I rill rh n w road rond be about L J mIles in inand ml h and wilt follow the bed ot of 1 hp snake nak fo mIlY the entire dIs dIstance tance taice between the two towns Tile Utah t company lm was yesterday a awarded the contract for tor the grading and of mn s of the line Commencing at the tho general direction ot of the new hints will be almost Itie north through Baker Balter Union find and Wallowa in Oregon und and Nez Ne Perces COunty in Idaho J It t will open up upa a large and rich section of valuable agri land and will mean monn the settle mont maut or of large lurge tracts which at this time are practically uninhabIted Under the conditions to reach Leiston from the south It Is necessary to go to then take the branch line Une to and go east eust to Lewis Ion It a long and tiresome journey by a route The work of Bure surveying ing the route took a along long ong time to accomplIsh und and the tho con construction of oC the road rond will bo be attended with difficult work r thE an was engaged for fOl fOlI several I weeks in the construction ot of flat bottomed boats bonts In its SnIt Salt Lake Lalta which were us used l In making the survey and which will later be employed in the thet t transportation ru or of material and supplies At the tho present time it if Ib said mid to be b un Im to make the trip along the pro i d with a wagon The rhe construction will Include man many cuts I IRod Rod tunnels and the road when I will be one of oC the mo most t ox ex for Its Iti length In the count country |