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About The Deschutes echo. (Bend, Or.) 1902-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1904)
mm LYTLE, the COMING TERM INUS of the Columbia Southern Railway. ~ O n th e R e n o w n e d D e s c h u te s R i v e r % LOTS .A. HE N O W OlsT THE MARKET. S 'A 12 s 'J .5 - «( k < k < Located at the north ernmost fringe of the famous yellow pine timber belt of Oregon the investor needs no further inducements to get in line with the purchasers of this val uable property. Lots are being disposed of rapidly. Particulars may be had by calling upon or writing to the 'X f 0 7 * ‘ i _ « 'W ? fi r-1 I i I L± <7 li ttf - ■< ' M J ill .___________ .0 / 7 i? A £ > r,’A y k »> J * -) , I*. é 7U — - * , < — ¡5 (2) 3 c $ % ■f Z \ / Lytle Tomnsite Company, ft * j r A E * r ; V è 7 O 9 é 3 2 V * 3 — Q y~ 'V do • Lx\ 1 / >c. wW i »m cvv IV A . ievv ÌJ ✓ \ ‘. J x C m rS f e lf Deschutes, Oregon. i 7 'jd bw i some matters to be decided upon by myself, relative to the exact i route of the extension. I think these matters will be settled in a few days and that all plans of the COLUM BIA SO UTHERN EXTENSION company relative to the extension A SSU RED . may be made public.” The name of which was originally “The Bend,” received its Now that the agreement between P re sid e n ts H a rrim a n a n d L y tle Sifrn Mr. Harriman and Mr. Lytle have present name by a change being ordered by the Post- A g re e m e n ts— C o n stru ctio n been made, the bonds will be is o on o grin. office Department about a year ago. sued by the Columbia Southern « immediately and the most, if not all of them will be taken up by (Oregonian Dec. 13,) The Deschutes Townsitc Companyjs now offering Mr. Harriman. In this, manner That the Columbia Southern ! the money necessary to build 100 Railroad will he extended from j C H O IC E L O T S A T $ 1 0 0 and U P W A R D S i miles of road from Shaniko to Shaniko to llend and that work Bend, will be raised. The esti will be commenced early in next; mated cost of this extension is year is assured. The cont-aets be-1 $1,500,000. Tito Oregonian’s article printed herewith shows what an intense tween President liarriman and President K. E. Lytle, of the Co Several routes have been survey- interest is Loin«; taken in this country by the people of a commer lumbia Southern, have been signed ; ed between the two points to be cial center like* Portland. and all agreements have been satis ¡connected by the extension, and factorily entered into. All that the officials of the road are having now remains is to complete plans some diiliculty in deciding upon This will be—not a mere jumping-off place—but a city in a few for the extension, have the materi the exact route to be ehosen. All years’ time. Possesses all the natural advantages to make it such, al for the road shipped to the con- i of them present good possibilities, timber, water power, irrigated land, etc. s struction points, and commence but the question before the railroad building. Mr. Lytle announces | people how to »elect the best that this will be done just as soon 1 route for the road and for the Send in your order for a lot at once to tin* as possible. In talking of the mat country that will iven railway ter yesterday Mr. Lytle said: ** A11 service. doubt is now removed. The road It is expected that dirt will fly will be built. There are no longer j on the grade for the extension next any disagreements between Mr spring. Work will then be pushed liarriman and myself. We have , with all the speed possible until made satisfactory concessions, and the line is completed into Bend. the contracts signed. The route is a comparatively easy “I cannot say more than this at one, and there are but few heavy present, because there yet remain ! grades to be dealt with Deschutes Tow nsite Co OREGON.