[or-roots] Railroad in Summerville OR

[Leonard Couch]

Thank You for the railroad information.  They now have a excursion run from
Joseph to Looking glass in the summer time.  I remember the steam trains
coming through Wallowa back in the forty's.

Thanks again.
Leonard C. Couch


> [Original Message]
> From: <JNCRIDGE at aol.com>
> To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> Date: 10/04/2004 11:03:55 AM
> Subject: [or-roots] Railroad in Summerville OR
>
> A google search of Oregon railroad land grants Summerville leads to much
information about the railroads in the 19th century in Oregon, including
the information below: 
>
> http://www.oregongenealogy.com/union/railroads.htm
> "A more expanded railroad project in Union County was that known
generally as the "Hunt Railroad". The promoter of this proposed line, G.W.
Hunt, was an early wagon freighter over the Blue Mountains. Later he
engaged in building grades for the Villard interests. Mr. Hunt, at the time
his holdings were absorbed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, had
some 160 miles of line in Umatilla County and southeastern Washington.
>      In 1889 he announced his plans to construct a railroad from the
vicinity of Walla Walla across the Blue Mountains by way of Toll Gate to
the Grande Ronde valley. By way of Summerville and Union, the line was to
go up Catherine Creek to Eagle and Pine Valleys and from there by the Snake
River valley to the Boise region. This proposed railroad was of course
designed to offer competition to the Union Pacific interests.
>      Mr. Hunt offered to build the line through Union if he were given a
right of way at Summerville and Union and a cash subsidy of $180,000."
>
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