Show RAILROAD MIGHT SOLVE PROBLEM I Oregon Man Suggests an Expensive Expensive Expensive Ex Ex- pensive Remedy for Rate Troubles A railroad from fromn Salt Lake Lako to Coos Da Bay Ore Oregon on Is suggested In a letter hatter received yesterday by hy tho ho Salt lt Lake ulee Commercial club and referred to S. S II 11 Babcock commissioner of or the traffic bureau Tho ho railroad pl plan n Is offer b by X N. F F. Thorne Thome of Cooston Ore Oregon on as asa asa a n proper solution of ot the position In which Salt Lake has hns beon been kept b by tho time unjust discriminations of ot all of or tIm tho western railroads Enclosing Unclosing a n. clipping cUpping from the mornIng mornIng morn- morn Ing- Ing Oregonian regarding the tho Utah complaint now with the time Interstate Commerce commission Mr Ir Thorne Theme sa says s that Salt Lake should build a railroad 11 to the Pacific coa coast l. l selecting Coos Ba Bay Bayas as ns Its harbor This line he lie says would pass through a a. rich irrigated land hand district In southern Idaho the I great wheat belt bolt of southeastern Ore Oie- I Ion gon gomi on and the valuable pine forests east of the lie Cascade range Passing a 0 sum bum mil mit at an nn elevation o of feet teft tIme the he I road would then enter tin the fir forests of valley and the time fruit anti ami and anda a agricultural lands adjoining This Thin road tho time Ore OregonIan onlan says would pass through territory of or Inestimable value which Is more remote from railroad l service e than any other territory of or the time United States In return he lie says It would woud result In opening up vast coal fluids s near noar Coos Bay Sir Mr Thorne Theme calls attention to the fart fact that hint when time the Western Pacific wa was promising to 0 make mateo use uso of ot tho time Coos COOl Ba Day Bay tt terminal Harriman made a a. bluff at connecting Coos Bay with his system t. t to th the south anti and actually constructed two miles of or road The Tho building of or this road would have been the moans means of or creating a largo large coal coat and lumber traffic but bul it Is not desirable to create te any ny new traffic or lop develop an any new territory as lon lonus long longas as us there therl are other railroads outside the system to corner says Mr Mr r. Babcock says ho lie read time the letter lotter with Interest but the time traffic bureau ha has not yet et entered the thc r railroad buildIng buildIng building build- build Ing business bUE s |