Show = = GUTTNG NTO DYKE Details of Flick Johnson Work at Stockton > j A BIG CAMP ORGANIZED Visit to Stockton Reveals One of the jlost Interesting Pieces of Railroad Construction in the West Shovels Located on the Summit Dimensions Dimen-sions and Features cf the Mnnx math Gut Grade Nearly Finished to Girucld A New Construction Company Organized Notes Two mammoth steam shovels set well up on the high Stockton bur or dyke Is a strange sight to the traveler joins jo-ins to Ophir or Stockton now they were elevated to theJr lofty position Is what worries the passerby in fact that Is the most peculiar iihn c of the matter Each weighs l sixtylive lons the railroad and they aic hulf a mile from moved with their own road They wore power and on a sixtyfoot movable track up a prradc which had a maximum I maxi-mum of K 1 per cent a illElnncc 01 one and a half miles hy the wagon load and now they arc jjerehed 1 on a summit which makes a man panj heavily to climb C Those arc the two niavhlnps of Kliok Johnson the contractors and an the main features of the work the linn has in hand In making the cut through the L dyke It Is I goliig to he u jjreat piece of work and now thnt the contract Is well under way Ihe Tribune gives herewith a review of the cut a day helntr passed at the dylte for the purpose pur-pose By the Oregon Short Lines l new survey sur-vey the ceniir of the cut is lSo miles from Salt Ixilcc Clly DIMENSIONS OP THIS CUT Flick Johnson have the contract for the cut and the nil beyond 1 for the Stockton aiding and yard The length of the cut proper Is HTOO feel length t of tho whole Inihidingr the 1111 at Stockton Stock-ton yard fOOO feet material wasted 1 7150000 cubic yards material utilized for llll 500000 cubic yards movement of material ILfiOOOO cubic yards estimated esti-mated greatest depth DS feet greatest great-est width across lop 1127 I feet width at bottom LO 1 foci slope 11 to 1 foot maximum grade S per cent number I of curves L 1 slight The equipment consists of two OSton I I BucyruK steam shovels with scoop ca pnelly each of li Y cubic yards 1 light locomotives GO Western dump cars 4 1 There are on on average 15 t men employed 1 em-ployed Dynamos arc being placed on each shovel to light them at night Lamps are used on he I other parts of I the dump Two tanks with capacity of p I 4000 gallons each are located on top of r the mountain and the water pumped from Sliigtown In J7000 feet of twoInch pipe The camp and boilers arc supplied S sup-plied WKLTJTU3GULATED I CAM The camp Is located on the west Iope o the dyke near I the t Stockton p cemetery and not a lent Ls to he seen wooden buildings with paper and battens bat-tens making much more cdmforUihlts habitatIons There arc Olnliur accommodations accom-modations for IflO and slopping room for 200 a collar and kitchen shops commissary and office Fresh water IS In thi bunkhoiiKO andJJllChen Aloo KobliiKonlp Ihq sujicrjrilondenl of consliuctiois on the ground and C I L Madden is the general agent of the company In this city The master mechanic me-chanic Is 1 Thomns MoCabe and Jaincs Flannlgan Is I the night foreman Last week 1000 tars a day were moved hut the t work has not begun in the CIP parts Cl When the shovels net 1 to going at rerord pace It Is ex pceled that 100 cars every twentyfour hours ran be moved Much of the material ma-terial IH waste as there is but the one fill whtro the earth can ho utilized So a track I swerves to the north along ln the crest of the dyke and the material is I dumped along the west edge of the mountain hit removed from the approach ap-proach to he I cut on that t t side Later however I he material from the rut will be 1 used to make the fill for the main line and sidings at Stockton yard A 2000fool restie will be built out from the I end of the cut and the material dumped for the I now grade This tIll I will be twentythree feet high In the deepest part WILL BE FINIS Ton L To keep the shovcK going requires twenty tons of coal a ilny which is > hauled from Terminus 1 by wngoni I will take HCVPII months to llnlsh this one contract t so Flick fc JohnsonH men are ranking ready to work all fall and most uf the winter Thry ale COO fortably hotiHLd stud the work Is now going on night and clay and will until the Piul The cut begins due west of Terminus and goes right through the ilyki I I comes out at t 0 the Stockton rempicry wUh the town of Slooklon half Q utile or less from the track It Lw I Is to be a lIne pc c of work In fact the whole line shows up splendidly IIi when cornpluled the Short Line will wi nnvo a innd to he proud of roll Inch has been said of the t nut In a general way but not until the work is l inspected tan a person gaIn an Idea o UH magnitude ItI Is one of 11 big hI gest t contracts for a cut anywhere In the Si1111 vln he 1 n feature on the fllc i thlollh hue of Un future |