Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-20 | Page 8 | Short Line is Pushing Work

Photo by Harry Shipler. Bennion. SHOBT LiNE IS PUSHING WORK Redeeming Many Acres of Parsh Land Northwest of the City. . Making Ready Site for Shops and Roundhouse in North Salt Lake. Workmen Badly Hampered by Mosquitoes Mos-quitoes One Machine .Does Work of Forty Men. SINCE the commencement - of ' the line "weather great - progresfs has been maxlo by the. Oregon. Short Line on' the construction of ' the new shops, . roundhouse, and yards in North Salt Lake. For a distance of about 2500. feet northward from. .Fifth North the marches and stagnant' pools to the east of the existing track have been filled for a width of from'tlft'y to 100 feet- ,Tho urea, filled ; In now amounts to a total of upwards of seven acres. Sovtjn thousand five hundred carload? of earth and gravel are belncr dumped every day, and .F. J. Lpgan, the engineer in charge of the work, reports that both steam- ahoveV, gravel plough and spreader have-been doing-all that was expected of them in saving both labor and time. The last-named machine is the latent appliance at work, and is the means of doing away with the work of forty men. Before it was at work the gang employed em-ployed numbered seventy or eighty men. but how three dozen can do all tht; work necessary. Formerly all the gravel dumped- had to be shoveled after the plough scraped It off the ears. But now the spreader comes along and does the work of forty men In one-tenth of the time. Not the least difficulty that has to be contended with Is presented by the mosquitoes and gnate. The former are (bred, by. the million. In the. stagnant