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Show I I S. P. PLANS ANOTHER f OREGON SHORT LINE r - - 1 '. . As tho Keel or line Is to be a short cut to Los Angeles from Sparks, so is the new cut-oil via Alturas going to bo an ; Oregon short line from Reno. The South- E. cm Paciilc will commence construction, as soon ns the deeds for the right of way are filed for record, on a branch from r Klamath FallH, Or., to Alturas. Cal., and the road will be in operation In twenty- two months. Tho road will not ond at I rfAUurns. but will be extended to Reno. L .Surveyors arc now engaged in locating r and correcting the route which has been y recently surveyed down tho Pitt river to f establish a permanent line. The Modoc ? portion of this line will run for a distance ' of over sixty miles through Modoc coun ty and will follow tho Pitt river from : Lookout south to Bicbcr, Lassen county, Just what it means no person will say. Merely look at the map for Reno and Sparks, thou study the Keelor line and again move the eye northward to Alturas. and the short cuts to Los Angeles and Portland are apparent- Possibly the ;t Goulds' flirtation with tho N. C. O. and t the Tonopah fc Tidewater may tell the unwritten chapters of this activity on 1 the part of the Espcc. |