Show BIG beates r first railway col pai donan formerly of utah tells a portland paper what the i road means for the west m u 1 oplin ane adorning tribune ot oregon col pat donan on the new whereby the Vander bilta are bald to have obtained a transcontinental line the tribune bays portland wll be in a few days lie western terminus ot the greatest transcontinental railway system that the country has ever known it will be the vanderbilt system from portland to new york making for the first time u real transcontinental railroad it is now know positively that Vander bilts or a syndicate which they through J P morgan company control has secured the oregon short line and the 0 R N they had already bought the union pacific at the government foreclosure sale last fall their recent purchases ees of eatock of the oregon short line have given them control ot it and through it of the 0 R N these were the two lines needed to complete the wonderful system making portland alif stern terminus of the greatest railway on earth it is not known when the official announcement of the change of ownership will ie made possibly as in the cabe of the union pacific there will be no announcement no but the change has been made and the 0 R N i now in new hands more vigorous and energetic than those of any of the many interests that from time to time controlled it this of great interests involves of railway prop fry there has never been anything 01 the kinjuro equal it before in the railroad wort no combination lias ever been so powerful and portland is the most direct of it col pat donan the citizen ff the world and one of the greatest travelers on earth today understand the tiou and yesterday afternoon he discussed it in his cyclonic style it daei not seem to strike the pub lie said be that the news in regard to the Vandor bilta securing control of the oregon short line and the oregon railroad and navigation companies is the piece of news you bave pub leabel in many a day it not in many a year it is worth incalculably than all the hundreds of thousands f columns of congressional rot and legislative riot cuban slaughter lies hawaiian leper annexation rubbish that the have dump il on their long eual rini crini c readers in the past ten years it is the announcement of the greatest railroad alel in some respects in t e history of te vior ll by it the 1 ft real railway on earth becomes an fact with all our spread eagling aarl braggadocio our lorikeet lines aud sye terns heretofore have only reached from the alantic or pacific to the but the consummation of this gigantic gie antic vanderbilt birdlee our grand hemisphere from the atlantic to the pacific from the mouth odthe hudson to the month of the columbia froni greater new york to soon to be greater portland will one vast unbroken stretch of tracks and rains under one mighty and Vanderbil tg own or condol Bo like miles of railway atlantic and pacific gudeon and new york and combination ie the master achievement of their career they hay the power to make be highway 0 travel around the elabd from now to buffalo 10 mile they have the foai truck new york cen aral from buffalo to chicago ii illee the double truck lake shore and michi ran southern and the michigan central from chicago to omaha calles the chicago and northwestern from omaha to denver miles and from denver to salt lake milea the union pacina from salt like to huntington mile the oregon short line and from to portland miles the oregon railroad and navigation line that is a grand total 0 emilei without a change of car or control the great maritime metropolis tf the atlantic coast to the coming treat maritime metropolis tro polis of the pacific here the voyager around the world will be n eaby swift and powerful steamships for cladi vo whore connection will with the trans siberian railway for st petersburg berlin parie and london portland will be the pacific coast terminus of the greatest railway system save one in the world all its power will be used to turn the trade and travel of both through her portals th gorgeous dream of old john jacob astor will ai last find realization in the risa ot a vast and cent emporium of oriental and occidental commerce where river and rail and ocean meet in the favored and where rolls the oregon thia deal meana infinite benefit to portland and the pacific northwest in general the vanderbilt management ie always far liberal and pro in the hands of such men as depew webb ledyard and manin man in hughitt it aims to build up instead or tear down it ever pushes ite own business interest by promoting promo the crowth and of its tributary regions all its various lines and are operated as separate corporations but all in harmony under one general supervision will be no consolidation of the lines now absorbed or annexed and little if any change in their efficient and popular officials the vast system ill b run for the best interest of all the roads composing it and of alio mighty and glorious two empire ey traverse Por farni has everything to gain and nothing to loo lo o by the chang congratulations arre in order all u |