Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-11-30 | Page 1 | Wise Road That Knows Its Papa

WISE ROAD THAT HNOWS ITS PflPff family Ties of the Wal-lula Wal-lula - Pacific a Natter for Much Conjecture PORTLAND. Or.. Nov, 80. A hue of mysierj according to the Morning Or genttn. hedge the family t!fa of the WaJIula. Pacific, railroad, which -was recently re-cently Incorporated in" the State of Wah-lrgton. Wah-lrgton. At" the time or its incorporation the road was ' surmised to belong to the Haniman system, later developments made this theory Improbable and it was then thought to be the off-shoot of the Chicago. Milwaukee Sc St. Paul, which Intended In-tended to use it as a club to force an entrance en-trance Into Portland. tVlth the announcement which the paper pa-per pronounoes authentic, that J. J. Hill and the Milwaukee have come to an, understanding un-derstanding on the subject of the trackage track-age rights, this theory is also exploded. l. Gerling. president of the .Wallula Pacific, Pa-cific, professes to be in the dark as to who is fathering th project, adding that he has the power of attorney of a New-York New-York capitalist to buy right of way and lay plans for construction of the road. That active work on the road is proceeding pro-ceeding is evidenced by the fact that an late as two days ago. the Oregonian's Vancouver. Wash., correspondent chronicled chroni-cled the "Scrlpping" that day of a piece of Government land over which the Hill lines had already constructed a grade over 2000 feet in length.