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Twenty five miles of track laid new railroad progress noted
Storey of the Valley road reports daily construction trains and orders for eighteen thousand tons of steel rails. Joe Vendig says a Juarez boxing carnival is set for February 11 with a lineup including Walcott Bright Eyes Pixon Marshall Leeds Everhardt Maher Fitzsimmons and O Donnel. A miner at the Virtue mine in Baker City fell 220 feet to death. A Wall Street veteran recalls Oregon’s first railroad built in Portland in 1861, cost about $20 000, paid 25 cents per rider, six stockholders, profits nearly fifty thousand in year one, and a failed sale offer in 1864.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Storey
Valley Road
Joe Vendig
Juarez
Mexico
Walcott
Bright Eyes
Pixon
Marshall
Thomas O'Donnel
Virtue
Baker City
O’donnel
St. Louis
Virginia City
Ney
Oregon
Wall Street
Portland
Ben Holliday
New York Sun