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Show TO BUILD RAILWAY IN NORTHERN IDAHO ' SPOKANE. Wash.. Nov. 21. The B. R. Lewis Lumber company of Coeur d'Alene, Ida., which has extensive timber Interest In that vicinity, announces its Intention to build at once a steam railway from Coeur d'Alene. to Rock ford. Wash., than southeast to the vicinity of Santa. Ida., a distance of about seventy-five miles. The road will connect with the Northern North-ern Pacific at Coeur d'Alene and may connect con-nect with the Oregon Railway A Navigation Naviga-tion at Rockford. but the ownership Is stated to be independent of both. While designed largely to haul timber, the new railway is to be a common carrier. It is to be known as the Idaho Northern. |