Show NORTHERN NEWS from 11 I J conr special correspondent at the V S II 11 11 croitor JUNCTION mattara have been so monotonous for gome time past alist I have been silent not knowing anything which I supposed oed would bo of much interest to your readers of whom are presumed to bo posted in relation to public evenal in this part of idaho after considerable delay alic new land anco provided for hy act ot congress in february lam has been opened for the transaction of business and it is hoped will prove to be of great benefit to persons who may desire to obtain patents for lands upon which they may havo set tied heretofore or may locate hereafter at the game time two more persons will be provided with tolerably fat offices cef an opportunity occur for a few lawyers and land to accumulate duc ats and last though not least for oxford the where the now office is located owners of town lots in that pleasant little burg may speculate in the same business in this place continues dull notwithstanding an ardent desire on the part of our citizens to seo tre vival we alio papers that a general improvement is felt in bux circles everywhere every whee cast as well as south but alie business dependent upon freighting and as we have either a scarcity of goods or an over cupply of wagons lor transportation por tation alie is low prices and consequent inactivity lor when freighters have plenty of business at good rates they usually ey freely but when the reverse is true in regard tu business ii is also true in regard to expenditures hendricks and kicks the contractors for laying track on the utah and northern railway are engaged as usual at this neason of alie year at that business and have already put down alie rails to a point about sixteen beyond this place col wolcott engineer in chief of the road has his force engaged constantly at work and I have no doubt will locate the line in a short time to a terminus in montana and will be followed rapidly by mr merrill his force ot graders and I confidently expect that if properly backed oy tho managers at headquarters my friend mr ington dunn under whose general supervision this work lias been so and so well executed during alie past year and more will pinh alio road into montana before enow flies in november it may perhaps be fortunate for the company that freight ii coming up slowly because for this reason mr geo W thatcher superintend antof tho road is enabled to transport as fast ai required thas expediting the work observed in your issue of the JUNCTION 10 some news in regard to a proposed railroad branching U AN and running westward to the pacific from which it seems the boise city people are just beginning to realize tho probability of railroad communication alie atlantic and pacific when I first visited boise which WM sixteen years ago and just after alie town was located I having traveled over alie same route calely trav ebbed by mr thielson and part I brogno what is now likely oon to occur and have for a year ast frequently referred to tho fact hirough tho columns of or years anso men who were building the union pacific that time thought to reach promontory caused a survey to bo with a view of reaching alio mouth of the columbia by anil but did not curry out lie idea and it seems to have been lell to dillon gould ind other present managers to build abroad to th game point by a dit lerent route and think it wiil be done I think col will ahtty start with a corps af edginee a to locate tho line which will leave alie U and N at a point somo fifty miles south of this place probo rubly nt alio portneuf Port neuf und crossing river extend to prairie Pr nirie the Ste wn is not well informed I think as to an indefinite terminus ter at market lake as it may seem although every one supposes that we will aoun move from eigle rock to creek buildings buil dingi lire still in of erection in our town we havea place con Hi dering and very on account oywind and duat there ha been but little and ilieva lt two auses ruses fatally the latter heine a child of W M who died boine weeks since ani one of L I itutti whose death occurred some four or five days ago A sermon wan delivered on the occasion by bev mr luff which waw think the first and only sermon ever preached in lie place S writing the foregoing I have had the of meeting my old nebraska sir win cle bume iraha a of re mr arklie klIe worth and an accomplish cd engineer mr Cl eburno la been employed by tho union railroad fop years and vaits idaho I believe for tho pur pw oft akins chargo of alio work on the U ami N line heretofore done by col wolcott Wolo ott relieving the latter while engaged in vey I lieve arl arence I may aswell remark there ire persons here who abree barll T with the theory of the StaUf nuin in reference tu a terminus near lake and it liay be ilius are correct in conclusion but at I am of a different opinion I presume however that purveys will be made on more than one route and the moat practicable and economical one adopted IJ D J U N R R june |