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New Transcontinental Route Plans Across Pacific Line
In New York the plan proposes a new road across the Southern Pacific at Redding connecting with the Oregon Short Line near Boise City. Key organizers include Lord Thurlow J R DeLamar G Hi Proctor Robert Gipson and Wm R A Wilson. Three surveys exist with a preferred route under 24 percent grade between Eureka and Redding and altitude up to 4000 feet, 5000 feet east and north from Redding and 8000 feet on the Southern Pacific. An agreement with a New York firm is said to exist, though full contracts and bonds are not yet signed or underwritten.
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New York
Southern Pacific
Redding
Oregon
Lord Thurlow
J R DeLamar
G. Hi. Proctor
Robert Gipson
Wm. R. A. Wilson
Eureka
Pioneer Press of
St. Paul
Weiser
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Pacific Coast
George H. Proctor
Bureks
Cal
Idaho
Great Northern Northern Pacific
Chicago
Auditorium Hotel
Drake & Stratton
California
Proctor
Hill
Harriman
Hureka & Eastern
Butte
Mont
Montana Central
Bitter Root Mountains
Salmon City
Bonanza City
van Wyck
Beaver Canyon
Enterprise
Baker City
Great Northernland
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Snake River
Spokane
Humboldt Bay
Portland
San Francisco
Eureka & Eastern
Boise City
Humboldt County