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Show The Kootenai Railway Company. The Kootenai Railway Co. has been organized to build a road from a point on the main line of the Union Pacifio Railway Co. at or near Hope, Idaho, north to the Kootenai river, near Bonner's Bon-ner's ferry, thence north along the river to the boundary line between the state of Idaho and tho province of British Columbia, together with a branch line from a point near Bonner's ferry, up the Kootenai rivor to the Idaho boundary, thence up the Kootenai Koote-nai In a northeasterly direction through the slate of Montana, to the international interna-tional boundary line. The company will also operate boats, tugs, rafts, etc., on the Kootenai river and its tributaries. tribu-taries. The capital stock is $il,000,000. The officers for the first year are C. II. Prescott of Portland. Ore., president; F. W. Gilbert of Cow d'Aleno, Idaho, vice-president; F. G. Pettibono of Cumr d'Alene, secretary; Geo. S. Baxter of New York City, treasurer. The company com-pany estimates' tho length of its railway at 1.10 miles. |