Portland Wins the Milwaukee Road—and the Yakima Valley Gets a New Town

North Yakima—That the main Pacific Coast terminal of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul extension will lie at Portland, and that the road's Oriental trade will be handled out of the Columbia River instead of from Puget Sound, became known here Saturday, when plans matured six months ago for building a new town in the Ahtanum Valley, south of North Yakima, were made public. The new line, as planned, will run down the west side of the Columbia from opposite Beverly nearly to Hanford, over territory which has recently been in litigation between the Milwaukee and North Coast. From that country the line will turn west, traversing a low pass in the Rattlesnake Hills, and running down the Moxee Valley to within a mile of this city, where it will cross the Yakima, run up the Ahtanum Valley to the headwaters of the Klickitat, following that valley to the Columbia at a point opposite The Dalles. There the line will cross the river and branch; one line running to Portland, and the other into Central Oregon. The new line, instead of running largely through forest reserve land, as does the Puget Sound branch, will tap the Hanford wheat region, the Moxee, Yakima, Ahtanum and Klickitat fruit valleys.