Show I IDAHO MIDLAND PROJECT Mr Greene Who Hns Been Invcsti i I gating Finds Promising Field i I ITR1BUN13 SP1SCIAU I Boise Ida April 2A K Greene I who came to Idaho some time ago to I investigate the Idaho Midland project will leave tomorrow for New York Her He-r Monday evening from the Lemhl country where he went to secure se-cure data as to probable freight traffic traf-fic He said today his trip to the Lem hi country had been a disappointment In that he had been able to visit only a few of the ml net It was too early he went on to make anything like a I thorough Investigation I was satisfied I satis-fied with what 1 saw however and I do not mind saying that If there Is one i half the ore In the mines there that people claim there Is there will be ample tralllc to sustain a railroad We 1 cannot take secondhand statements however We must see und know I Ill will probably return to Idaho In I June and I will then make a thorough examination of the Lemhl and Custer sections Until a report of the character char-acter I Intend to make can be secured It Is my opinion practically nothing can be done While nothing definite can be stated at this time I am of the opinion It would not be far out of the 1 way to make a long guess that It will be known by fall whether or not mv people wjll take hold of the Midland project 0 They arc In a position to build the road barring some unforeseen obstacle obsta-cle being presented but of course they will do nothing until they thoroughly understand the resources of the country coun-try through which the road if J built I will pass 0 0 I do not mind saying Mr Greene 0 proceeded that I found the section T visited much more promising from a traffic point of view than I had been led to bell eye In the East It was Railroad Notes 0 The Santa Fe will build Its branch I direct to the Grand canyon The second big orango special over r the Great Northern leaves Seattle April I OthThe The Panama railroad has adopted an open gateway policy They are all com log to It I Robert M Hall has been appointed chief engineer of the NcvadaCall fornlaOrcgon with headquarters at I Reno Nov The Railway Journal of St Louis has n frontispiece portrait of W H I Bancroft and a highly complimentary article on his career E C Thomas has been appoplnted I general freight and passenger agent of the Butte Anaconda Pacific with headquarters at Anaconda Mont I Oil having been struck near Nampa Ida the Oregon Short Line people arc naturally Interested and will Investigate Investi-gate the matter ns well as encourage the development of the oil A fellow had himself hypnotized and then his form was done up In a package pack-age which was shlppc from Denver to Kansas City via Wells Fargo Co The scheme was to cheat the passenger department He awoke Kansas City broke out of the package and as he I vas billed to himself ho made a claim I on the express company for 25 In lieu of the contents He wits caught In his I rick however The Now York Journal printed In I the shadowof Wall stree suggests with black type headlines that George Gould has been Invited Into the Harriman Harri-man syndicate and that he may become dcntlfled with the community of In terosts Idea l As Mr Gould Is a member mem-ber of the Union Pacific directory and executive committee and has been since ho reorganization the Journals discovery dis-covery Is wonderful It Is easy to see that tS shares of I Denver and Rio Grande comes back toW to-W T Palmer George Foster Peabody Spencer Trask D C Dodge W ilnchman C J Conda J C Parrish Edwin Packard and G B Moffat that W J Palmer George Foster Peabody ct al will own a little In Denver Rio Grande and have quite a say and Mr Goulds Denver Rio Grande holdings voted wIth the Palmer block mean but one thing that the Rio Grande Western Is brought back tots to-ts present owners 0 |