Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-11-24 | Page 2 | Many Harriman Lines in Northwest Merged into a Fifty-Million-Dollar Corporation

MANY HARRIMAN tiNts LINES IN NOR Li MER INTO A MilLION fifTY 11 CORPORATION I PORTLAND Or Or-f Nov 24 The The Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon Railroad Navigation company has made official announcement that all aU the Harriman lines In Ii the Pacific northwest including the Uie North Coast Railroad company com corn pany but excepting the Southern Pacific company's lines and the railroad water waterlIne waterline waterline line sub subsidiary to it it have been merged Into one company to be known as the Oreg Oregon n k Washington Railroad Navigation Navigation Navi Navi- gation gatlon company The articles of ot incorporation of the new company name Portland as the principal place of business s. s The capital stock stock-is is and the incorporators are M. M J. J Buckley general superintendent ent of the Oregon Railroad Navigation company R. R B. B Miller general traffic manager manag r of V the same company and R. R Ko Koehler- Koehler Many Lines Included The announcement states that the I roads which will be taken over are the Oregon Washington Railroad company the Oregon Railroad Navigation company com corn pany the Columbia River Oregon Central Central Cen Cen- Railway company compan the tho Columbia Southern Railway company Deschutes Railroad company Ilwaco Railroad Navigation company Lake Creek Coeur dAlene company Oregon Eastern Eastern East East- em ern Railroad company Oregon Washington Washing Washing- ton Idaho Railroad company Spokane Union Depot company Snake River Valley Valley Val Vat ley company Southern Extensions Railway Railway Rail Rail- way company Umatilla Central Railway company North Coast Railway company Idaho Northern company Northwestern Railroad company Valley Railroad Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- road company and the interest of the Oregon Railroad company compan in the Camas Prairie Railway company which is jointly owned with the Northern Pacific company The total mileage coming under the control of the Oregon Washington Railroad Railroad Railroad Rail- Rail road Navigation company will be mlles 4 The purpose of the merger according to the statement is that further bond issues are required to carry carno on new roads and and extensions now under way a an and those projected It was found necessary to form lorm a corporation with ent enlarged powers one especially having the right V to make a larger bond issue