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Show HARRIMAN PEOPLE TO GET BUSY IN NORTHWEST CHICAGO. Feb, 20. Tho Tribune tomorrow to-morrow will say that a large part of tho proceeds of the issue of $S2,000.-000 $S2,000.-000 of twentv-vear convertible bonds, which tho dirccfors of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific company on last Friday announced had been authorized, is to be devoted lo a resumption of Harriman activity in railroad construction in tho far northwest, north-west, particularly in Oregon. Several important lines in Oregon had been surveyed and were well under construction construc-tion in 1007. before tho financial paaic of that, year nut a slop to them. .lames J. Hill has recently pushed several lines, notably the Spokane, Portland Port-land &. Seattle, into what has formerly been regarded ns Harriman territory, aud Harriman evidently proposes to spike down mils over the routes already laid out before any other developments may hinder. Harriman evidently proposes pro-poses to forestall all such competition j as might result from tho action of tho Oregon legislature ou Friday in passing a constitutional amendment providing for state construction of railroads, lie-cent lie-cent strides made by Oregon iu irrigation irri-gation and reclamation projects have stimulated railroad activity there. |