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<DIV>To Leonard C. Couch:</DIV>
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<DIV>Would your family be from Ireland to Canada to Michigan? ie. mid
1800's. We have a Couch group</DIV>
<DIV>in our family.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=lmcouch@earthlink.net href="mailto:lmcouch@earthlink.net">Leonard
Couch</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 04, 2004 7:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [or-roots] Railroad in
Summerville OR</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Thank You for the railroad information. They now have a
excursion run from<BR>Joseph to Looking glass in the summer time. I
remember the steam trains<BR>coming through Wallowa back in the
forty's.<BR><BR>Thanks again.<BR>Leonard C. Couch<BR><BR><BR>> [Original
Message]<BR>> From: <<A
href="mailto:JNCRIDGE@aol.com">JNCRIDGE@aol.com</A>><BR>> To: <<A
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>><BR>>
Date: 10/04/2004 11:03:55 AM<BR>> Subject: [or-roots] Railroad in
Summerville OR<BR>><BR>> A google search of Oregon railroad land grants
Summerville leads to much<BR>information about the railroads in the 19th
century in Oregon, including<BR>the information below: <BR>><BR>> <A
href="http://www.oregongenealogy.com/union/railroads.htm">http://www.oregongenealogy.com/union/railroads.htm</A><BR>>
"A more expanded railroad project in Union County was that known<BR>generally
as the "Hunt Railroad". The promoter of this proposed line, G.W.<BR>Hunt, was
an early wagon freighter over the Blue Mountains. Later he<BR>engaged in
building grades for the Villard interests. Mr. Hunt, at the time<BR>his
holdings were absorbed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, had<BR>some
160 miles of line in Umatilla County and southeastern
Washington.<BR>> In 1889 he announced his
plans to construct a railroad from the<BR>vicinity of Walla Walla across the
Blue Mountains by way of Toll Gate to<BR>the Grande Ronde valley. By way of
Summerville and Union, the line was to<BR>go up Catherine Creek to Eagle and
Pine Valleys and from there by the Snake<BR>River valley to the Boise region.
This proposed railroad was of course<BR>designed to offer competition to the
Union Pacific interests.<BR>> Mr. Hunt
offered to build the line through Union if he were given a<BR>right of way at
Summerville and Union and a cash subsidy of $180,000."<BR>><BR>>
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