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Show ONE MORE RAILROAD. Rumor has it that the Southern Pacific is to build a cut-off from Winnemucca, Nevada, to Klamath Falls, Oregon. There is an intense rivalry between the Harriman and the Hill interests over the Oregon territory, which may explain the object of the Harriman people in making haste to claim as their own that great stretch of country north of the old Central Pacific extending to northern Oregon, known as the most extensive area of rich, yet un- developed, country in the United States without a railroad. The Hill people have their railroads pointed south from the Northwest, which they hold in their grasp, and their surveying parties have been reconnoitering in territory which has been looked upon as the exclusive field of their rivals until of late. The $50,000,000 bond issue of the Southern Pacific, which has been authorized, is in part for the purpose of building railroads in Oregon and one of the first of the new lines in contemplation, after the Vale-to-Coos Bay road, is that from Winnemucca in to one of the most attractive sections of Nevada and Oregon. The cut-off from Winnemucca would give to the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, on its westbound traffic, the shortest line to two-thirds of the state of Oregon and, in quick service, would hold to the Harriman people the monopoly of traffic they now enjoy. Incidentally, a railroad northwest from Winnemucca would add to the importance of the Ogden Gateway. |