Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-09-04 | Page 2 | Big Fight for the Big Bend Wheat Belt

Hfr ttMfW-rt i :1SH i BIG -FIGHT FOR THE i,! trH lli l ' BIG BSND WHEAT BELT Bff;i 1 i ' '''' ftl i SPOKANE. Wash.. Sept. .1 Thrco K- H - ) -i . J 4J, -lUt 5108m roads and an electric line are mak- mmWt-U i : ' i' M ,nfr a throe-cornered race to gain posscs- .r It ' ' J mfi s0,, for trainp Purposes, of tho Bl Bnd mWr tt.- ! I 1 wheat belt, west of Spokane, and ccn- K ': ff' ' b Ji 1 ,rft' Washington district. . The Northern m9zj- ft i j i c I Pacific company has surveyors at work HEK Wi !lS 1' I'Jtt ; north and south on both sides of the mmwt",. ' IJ. f r'Al I Columbia river, from points on the Ppo- Hu" H l(- V f ' :- ' Jcane, Portlnnd Seattle road, to con- L' L ,' ' M 2 ' nefct wl1" the Oreat Northern and north- Hr- f! ' l' lill 1 .ward, while the Chicago, Milwaukee & HE?: W ' iT ' W lr r fct- Paul 19 Projectlnfir branches into the mmtk. Vi " ' I? t 1 tiistrlct. and the Spokane, Columbia & mmifi WT, I - Ii Lj Western Railway company, Just Incor- IJ , W C porated- In Spokane countv for $2,000.- Hf'' II ,1- K 1 ,,00 "vV11 bul,d an electric lino from Spo- . fl . S kane to the confluence of the Spokane V I' -' M; f : anJ Columbia rivers, seventy-five miles fi n i WE I ' west. The incorporators arc officials of Hft ' f f 8- i the Spokane : Inland Empire Electric mmwr ' r! ' LB S ' ' railway system, of which Jay P, Graves is V l-M 1 fR president, and power will be furnished I I ":( M B ny the Nino Mile plant, now In operation mm'c I; ' ' 0 near Spokane. Surveyors aro in the field rnmi 1 f h ' j A and u ,s Purposed to begin work before J r 3" id l; t!ie Snfl (,.lh? ye.ar- u ,s understood 11 'I 'M the line will also be run northward 100 mm'- I I ) 'iYi ! miles from Miles, Wash., early next : Ml:' IM: y'