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Show Shorter Route To Northwest Biebtr, Calif., Nov. 10 The driving cf a golden spike here today to-day marked the completion ot the California connection of the Western Pacli'lc and Great Northern Nor-thern Railways, accomplished by the extension of the WeaUrn Pacific lrom its main line at Keddio, California, a distance of the Great Northern from Klarn ath Falls, Oregon, a distance of 91 miles. The spike-driving celebration was attended by a large aggregation aggrega-tion of persons including prominent promin-ent railroad executives from several sev-eral states, who had, traveled from distant points to witness an event which marks the completion com-pletion of a new and competitive all rail route between California and its sister states of the Rockies. Rock-ies. Immediately after the ceremony a solid train of 100. cars loaded with Shevlin pine lumber from the forests of northern California, and southern Oregon rolled ovei tne rails of the new iine, being the first movement of freight over the new route from the north The train comprised fifty cars loaded by the McCloud Lumber Company at McCloud and hauled ever the line of the McCloud River Riv-er Railroad Lookout, a junction point on the new rail extension, and the same number of cars from the mills of the Shevlin-Hixon Shevlin-Hixon Company at Bend, Oregon. At Keddie the train will divide into two sections, a portion being diverted for distribution throughout through-out California, and the majority of the shipment proceeding east tfver the Western Pacific to Salt Lake City, and thence by the Denver and Rio Grande Western and its eastern Colorado connections connec-tions to nearly every state in the Union north of the Ohio River. Construction of this line opens up a new outlet for California lumber, it was stated by D. M. Swobe, president of the McCloud River Railroad. Among the railroad officials participatrig in the celebration were: alhur Curtis James, chairman of the board of direct tors, Western Pacific; Thomas M. Schumacher, chairman of the executive ex-ecutive committee and Harry M. Adams, president" Western Pacific; Paci-fic; Ral )h Budd, president, Great Northerr.; J. S. Pyeatt, president Denver end Rio Grande Western; P. E. W.lliamson, president, Burlington Bur-lington Eiih-oad; J. Cannon, vice president, Missouri Pacific; Fred B. HoughUn, vice president, Santa San-ta Fe Syste.i and others. The golden spike used In the ceremony was presented by the citizens of Oroville, California, the precious metal coming from former historic and present-day mines, located along the trails of '-19 in the vicinity of Oroville. |