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Show RAILROAD FROM BOISE TO WINNEMUCCA The San Francisco Call has a boom article on the proposed railroad from Boise, Ida , to Wlnnemucca, Nov. With lprge headlines the following state-ments state-ments are made. Idaho wants to come to San Fran Cisco and Oakland by direct route. Boise, the capital and buB'neps cen ter of the state, can be brovight within with-in 69f miles of San Francisco If a railroad 278 miles long Is built north from Wlnnemu a, Nev . into southwestern south-western Idaho Now San Francisco and Boise are 1.182 miles apart by the shortest route, the Southern Pacific via Ogden. The two cities are 1,220 miles p.pai'l over the Western Pacific via Salt Lake I City, and 1,257 miles apart over the Southern Pacific via Portland. Boise Is connected with Salt Lake City. Ogden and Portland by the Ore son Short Line one of the roada of the Harriman system. The Oregon Short Line holds the prodigiously rich southern Idaho chip. try as Its own holds as its own the state which more than doubled Its population in the census decade end ' ing 1910. No Harriman line will heip free !' It can be rescued only by pushing a railroad north from VViniir-mucca. where both tha Western Pacific and Southern Pacific tracks meet. If that railroad is built San Francisco Francis-co will come into a commercial pos sion as rich, approximately, as thj Sacramento valley, and capnbie of a : development almost as extensive as the Sacramento and San Joaquin valley! val-ley! combined For $6,000,000 or S7,00i 000 ?. rail-road rail-road can be built which v. Ill connect San Francisco to a city which has a wholesale trade alone of 10,000,0 a year, three fourths of which will bo come San Francisco's For $6,000,000 or $7 000.000 a rail road can be built which will brin" the enormous wool clip of souther'1 Idaho and northern Nevada into the San Francisco bay ports, hence to hr shlpped via the Panama canal to Bos ton. For $6.0r'0.000 or $7,000,000 a railroad rail-road can be built which will brina to San Francisco the trade and com merce of an empire, that will hrin the wealthv people of Idaho into Call fornla, that will give San Francisco and Oakland industrial commercial, social kinship with a slate that now Is a stranger to San Francisco In everything ev-erything but aspiration But there are difficulties to be over come, before this Winnemucea to Boise road can be assured success and the Call points them out, as follows There will be violent opposition developed de-veloped to the road both in Oregon and Utah Portland. Salt Lake City and Ogden now share in the Boise bounty. The Oregon Short Line, which has its clutch on Idaho politically and in a transportation way. will fight with all the desperation of a monster bat tllng for Its prey It will receive most powerful aid. The Oregon Short Line was assigned assign-ed to the Union Pacific by the benev olent "unmerger" commission of the Harriman system, and in the final distribution dis-tribution of railroad trophies it will Drobabh stav with the Union Pacific. I The Western Pacific railroad has at present, troubles of its own in Cal-tornia Cal-tornia regarding the distribution of its coast traffic The Western Pacific is the natural ally of such a road as is proposed to tap Idaho, for now the Gould system can get into that rich and growing state only by the sufferance suffer-ance of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific-Oregon Short Line coalition. The San Francisco people will discover dis-cover that Idaho is not Nevada All Nevada looks to San Francisco as a marketing place, but Idaho is linked to Utah and the east in business and the traffic cannot be shifted simply by the constructing of a railroad from Wlnnemucca which though it may shorten the distance, could not offer, 1 w:th its limited business, much more favorable freight or passenger r-.tcs 1 than are today granted by the roads that tra verso Idaho. |