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EVENING HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
Saturday, October ft, 1925
People of Klamath vs. Southern Pacific
Three years ago the Southern Pacific staged
a violent campaign to keep the Union Pacific
out of Klamath.
They promised lower freight rates to every
body, better service passenger and freight,
and the building of the Modoc Northern.
Did they keep any one of their promises?
Not one, but they punished Klamath by taking
away its Pullman service and threatening to
take away the division point.
Thei.- promises were made THEN by the same
men who are making their promises NOW
and are no more worthy of credit. If they lied
then, can any sane person believe them now?
Klamath has worked and waited sixteen long
years for fulfillment of Southern Pacific
promises.
We now DEMAND our right to normal de
velopment, only to be had by entrance of com
peting rail lines, namely: the Oregon Trunk
railway.
The Morning Sheet, assuming to speak
for that harassed Corporation, puts its
foot in it as follows: It assures us
The high officials of the Southern Pacific
are misrepresenting the Klamath country to
the Interstate Commerce Commission and
are brazenly claiming that our country has
little agricultural value and that WE have
tied about our timber resources.
The Southern Pacific informs the Interstate
Commerce Commission that to extend the
Northern Lines to Klamath, at a cost of $7,
000,000, is criminal waste, but, if the Southern
Pacific is granted permission to build a hog
tight fence around Klamath, that it will spend
$21 ,000,000 additional. No comment is neces
sary. And the Southern Pacific has fool friends.
First-
Third
That the Northern Lines extension to Klamath Falls will 'be used only to
haul Klamath logs to Bend.
GOSH What about the official announcement by Sheviin-Hlxon and
Weyerhaeuser that they will immediately build immense miiis at Klam
ath Falls that will bring 10,000 additional population, only if the Nor
thern Lines come to Klamath, but not otherwise?
Second
That the Northern Lines have announced they will go no further than
Klamath Falls.
FOOL STATEMENT NUMBER TWO. The Northern Lines never
made any such announcement. On the contrary, they have demanded
to be heard, when the Southern Paci fic application to build to Cornell
comes before the Interstate Commerce Commission. They will demand
construction of the Modoc Northern on tile Harriman survey to West
wood, California, with right of common user.
The Northern Lines are on the march to California and San Francisco,
and Klamath is on the main line. The Southern Pacific cannot stop
them.
That the Southern Pacific is going to spend an ocean of money to make
a real railroad out of the Strahorn, otherwise known as the "Tin
Horn" Railroad.
Quit your kidding. Nobody cares what they do with it, providing the In
terstate Commerce Commission compels them to disgorge the $300,000
paid by the City of Klamath Falls, in good faith, on the solemn promise
that they were getting an independent line, competing with the South
ern Pacific. Also the return of tha t $60,000 subscribed for the Strahorn
terminal, which Strahorn promise d should be for Common Use of the
lines he proposed to bring to Klamath Falls, including the Oregon
Trunk and Union Pacific.
Fourth
That the Southern Pacific has anno unced that it will build terminals at
Klamath Falls, with annual payroll of $1,200,000.
BUNK. The Southern Pacific has s idestepped the whole terminal issue.
We demand to know when and where those terminals are to be built. '
Fifth
We are told that, if the Southern Pacific cannot have the whole Klam
ath pie, that it will be a real nasty, sulky kid, and won't build terminals
or nothin'.
DON'T BE ALARMED. When the Northern Lines enter Klamath, the
Southern Pacific will get very busy building and thereafter will have
to conduct itself as a human business institution, doing its duty to the
community and not like a 19th century hog monopoly, trying to do
"stone age" railroading in the 20th century.
We suggest to the responsible officials of the Southern Pacific that the
outrages upon the people of Klamath cannot safely be continued with
out seriously compromising the future and the interests of its stock
holders. Remember "Mussel Slough" and don't get too fresh.
Don't Be Misled by Lying Promises
If you are a member of the Chamber of Commerce, vote f'NO" to the vicious and milseading proposition submitted to you by a part only of the Board of Direc
tors. Insist that the Board adopt the report of your Transportation Committee, and so notify the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Remember that you have no guarantee of any railroad development unless the Oregon Trunk comes to Klamath Falls.
R E
M
EMBER
That the Southern Pacific has made no promise during this Controversy EXCEPT upon compulsion of the Northern Lines, and then only with conditions and
joker attached.
We seek no injury to the Southern Pacific, but the Southern Pacific must respect our rights in our personal liberties and our country.
The coming of the Northern Lines to Klamath Falls will injure no one, but will benefit everyone greatly, including the Southern Pacific.
Klamath League for Better Transportation