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Pilot Rock, a longer feeder from Baker to Prairie City and a still longer one southwestward from Ontario into the vast undeveloped regions of Malheur and Harney Counties. But probably the Southern Pacific's most significant achievement is the recently (1916) completed line from Eugene to Coos Bay, which gives the interior access to a southern seaport and brings into relations with the rest of Oregon an isolated but exceedingly fruitful section of the state. Besides, it prophesies the ultimate completion of a coast line to California.

The eastern portion of Oregon is not yet adequately supplied with railway lines for the primary purposes of agricultural development, though plans are on foot whereby the various existing partial systems may be connected together into a system capable of serving this vast area, so long given over to the grazing of cattle and sheep under open range conditions.