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 mette to Portland, Oregon. With its connections the line is known as the "S., P. & S.," or Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad. Among the connections of this system in Oregon are the line to Astoria and Seaside, the Oregon Electric extending now from Portland south to Eugene, and the Oregon Trunk Railroad built along the Des Chutes river to Bend. In Washington, Idaho and Montana the feeders of the Hill system are much more numerous. These states also enjoy the benefits of the Milwaukee system, which was built across the Rockies in 1908 and has its western terminus at Tacoma, Washington.

On the whole, railway building, and in consequence almost every line of economic development, for some years was more rapid north of the Columbia than in Oregon, whose lines, gathered together under the control of the late E. H. Harriman, were commonly spoken of as the Harriman, or the Southern Pacific, interests as opposed to the Northern Pacific or the Hill interests. In recent years, however, the Southern Pacific has shown much activity in the transportation development of Oregon. It constructed the Des Chutes Railway in competition with the Hill interests, it completed the west side division in the Willamette Valley from Corvallis to Eugene, making thus far a second line from Portland south, took over the privately built Corvallis and Eastern, and built extensions south into the Eastern Oregon Plateau from Biggs, Arlington, and Willows to Shaniko, Condon and Heppner respectively. It has also built a short extension from Pendleton to