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Show NEW ROAD IN IDAHO. One to Be Built Shortening Line to San Francisco. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 2. William Peyton Pey-ton Mason, president of the San Francisco, Francis-co, Idaho A- Montana Railway company, announce today the financing In New-York New-York of the first division of 21' mllea 01 the road. The work will be done by the San Francisco, Idaho ,v Montana Railroad Rail-road Construction company, formed for the purpose Construction will begin at once and will be finished by January 1, 1907. Estimate of the eost Is r?.5,'.ftV Ti e first section of the new line to be built will extend from the Snake river valley, In Idaho, southwest to wlnne- mucca New, where connection Will bo made with the Southern Pacific, thus hrlngliiK the alhy ' miles nearer San Pram 1 The route Is laid out through a district In which about flS.00O.0no Is being spent bv the Government and corporations on Irrigation |