Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-15 | Page 16 | Railroad from Boise to Coast

RAILROAD FROM BOISE TO COAST Boise, Idaho. May 14. Recapital-I Recapital-I ized for $125,000,000 and incorporated ' for a period of fifty years, the Butte. Boise & San Kranci?co Railway com panv filed articles of Incorporation todav with the secretary of state and the count v auditor, taking the first Btep in the plans of capitalists of prominence to build a railroad trom Butte to San Francisco via Boise TUe filing was made by I. O Leonard representative of those interested in Ho. io v railroad. Mr. Leonard re-(uses re-(uses at this time to divulge who Is behind the new corporation or to give, out the plans for the building of the road although he states emphatically emphatical-ly that it will be constructed within, ;i comparatively limited time The i articles themselves do not disclose the identity of the backers of the' proposed line. Boise is named as the principal place of business of the Butte. Boise, fi San Krancisco. The capital slock i of the railroad is divided Into 1 -' nun shares of the par value of $100 each. The routing of the road from Butte to San rranelsco hrings it into eautem Idaho via Silver Bow and Anaconda An-aconda to Salmon and tlifn southwest io ( hallis, across Custer and Blaine counties to Morris creek, tho Boise river to Boise, west via Caldwell to .Jordan valley, following (rooked creek to Goose lake down the Pitt river into Sacramento valley to Wood I land and on to Napa Junction to Sausalito. Cal.