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Show - SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO OPEN 450,000 ACRES IN OREGON ' PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 19. Final lo-' lo-' Ration for the Oregon Eastern, the Southern Paeifle' branch across central 'Oregon from Natron to Ontario, has jiist been completed. The route selected is ithoroujrbly practical, with easy gradients. gradi-ents. Aa surveyed the route across cen-jrl cen-jrl Oregon ia 240 miles Ions. It ii ex- f pected that the construction will be begun within the next ninety days. The line, as finally located, runs up the middle fork of the Willamette to Salt creek and up that stream, through the Cascade by Odell Pass, past Odell, through Christmas lake valley, where there are 250,000 acres of agricultural land waiting to be opened, south of Wagon Tire mountain, through the center cen-ter of Harney valley, where there are 200,000 acres more of good land awaiting await-ing the settlers.' plow, thence down the Malheur river to Ontario, . i l r |