Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-05-02 | Page 5 | Officials at Boise

OFFICIALS AT BOISE I LOOKING OVER ROUTES INffO i THE CITY I Make a Wagon Trip Through Boiso I Valley Wreck on Short Line I Railroad Notes I ITRUUNE SIJEClALJ Boise Ida May President Burl of I the I Union Paclllc accompanied by General Gen-eral Manager Hanciofl General Superintendent Super-intendent Calvin and Chief JSnglneor I Ashton of tie Oregon Short Line Ill I Judge lyon of Omaha arrived in the city last evening on a special train Today the party drove down the j Boise vale to CaUhvell the train going down there to meet them They then i went on lo Pa volte where they tied I up I for the night The surveyors ale running run-ning a lln from Boise to Payette Previous Pre-vious surveys show that a feasible line I can be secured from Payclto through Boise to a point on the main InC near Owyhee that would be shorter than the I present line from the same point Hear Owyhee to Payetle The Intention of the company arc not I made public but It is evident the officials of-ficials propose to solve the Bolso railroad rail-road problem If I possible President Burl said he Intended to look over the I country thoroughly and might be here a I week or ten days while the surveying corps Is I understood to have several weeks vomit laid oU t A line fiom here to Payetto would go down the Boise valley about seventeen miles and then pass > over a low divide into the rich Pnyotle valley traversing the lal tel Home thirty milcr