Editor’s note: This historical editorial originally appeared in what was then called The Bend Bulletin on July 28, 1909.

It looks like war. And we hope it is. If Hill and Harriman have a desire to fight each other in a railroad building race into Central Oregon, we hope the opportunity will afford them “scrapping” to their heart’s desire. With both of them racing for the same goal, it is all the more certain that Central Oregon will have its long-delayed railroad. Someone — believed by all to be Hill — has thrown construction crews into the Deschutes canyon to build a railroad over the Oregon Trunk Line surveys. With Harriman crews already at work in the same canyon, the people are apt to see quite an interesting struggle for the next few months….