History of the Willamette Valley Being a Description of the Valley And Resourc
History of the Willamette Valley Being a Description of the Valley And Resourc
H O Herbert O 4n Lang
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<& C. R. R. — Completion of the Railway to Roseburg — Want of Economy — Cessation of Railway Building — Resumption of W')rk in 1883 — Railways Needed in Southern Oregon — The Railroad leased to the Oregon and Transconiinental Co. — The West Side Road — lldladafs Shrewdness — Portland's Princely Gift — Progress of the West Side Road — Two Factions — Exit Ilolladay — land Grants — The Conquerer Appears — A Giant's Plans — Vil- lard — The Narrow-Gauge Road — The Oregon Pacific — Railroad Lands — Railway Officials — Concluding Remarks.
THE railroad and telegrapli are now everywhere recognized as necessary accompaniments in tlie grand procession in which the world is marching onward toward a perfected state of social and commercial relations. Without these adjuncts the growth of any country, when growth is possible, is slow, enterprise hindered, and prosp'c^rity comes on with sluggish steps and the most toilsome efforts of the people. As the old process by which the scribes in ancient times wrote a single book in years of constant labor, and a duplicate could only be had by a repetition of the task, compares with the method by which thousands of volumes can now be made in a single day, so the means of communication and travel possessed 492 HISTORY OF WILLAMETTE VALLEY.
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