Why Didn't You Build The Ritzville To Ellensburg Cutoff Instead-1

Excerpts From the Northern Pacific Land Grants Hearings before the Joint Congressional Committee on the investigation of the Northern Pacific Land Grants. There were well over 5000 pages.

1925

The tldr: The government was having a problem with the NP getting such a large amount of land by dipping down to Pasco and back up through Yakima, when they could have built what was the Ritzville Ellensburg cutoff instead.