Show MES MONUMENT ON UNION PACIFIC TO BE MOVED pyramid Erected to Railroad Engineers Retained by Corporation Sentiment I of a monster I pyramid the I Oliver er and Oakes Ames monument 5 is located near the top of Shor Iman eman pass on the Union Pacific Sher-j Sher a hort distance from Evanston Wyo Wo which Is being undertaken by the en- en I en-I J department of the Union pacific will wm be one fo the greatest I engineering feats in history y according accord f ing g to S. S 0 C. Rhodes traveling passenger passenger pas pas- pasI I agent of the Oregon Short i Line Engineers of the Union Pacific Pa are alread already laying plans fo for tho tho of removal which is declared by the c engineering of the tho road lt to be one of the strangest and most difficult tasks undertaken for years Thc great groat granite pyramid which was erected forty years ears ago is BOW lo located 10 c ted at the top of Sherman pass ps in inthe the tho r mountains I Thc Tho pyramid is to be moved five miles and PC in ill a again ain It t is sixty feet high and sixty fe feet t square at the base To reach its new site pyramid must be taken st nc at a time and then at a time I pyramid according to Union I railroad officials is unique Iamon I among amon It stands on one I of tho o most lofty eminences ever chosen osen for Cor such a a. a purpose some f t abo tho 10 level evel of the sea and the names of or the con con- g geniuses Oliver and Ames the men who made it possible to carry the first railroad ross the nock Rocky mountains a feat in their time was considered b thc best of 01 engineers as ble The monument is now located ft if tIle the point where the Union Pa Pa- fic formerly crossed the continental conti conti- r divide A change in the line ly carried out to reduce the theand and milel mileage e left the pyramid lade e miles mile from the right of way To Ton n tribute to the genius g-enius of the jnes brothers railroad officials have havet t to remove the monument to position on the present Ies where there fill nB passengers may ma see the tribute The in its present jn according to S. S C. C Rhodes genal tenI ten gen al I passenger of the Oregon In sort ort Line IAn who ho has occasion to el over the lines often can be beten ten pen at but two t. points and then only len passengers are a ware aware of the 1 ints where the monument may be bei i en Two places where the moun- moun ains do not obstruct the tho view the may be he seen in the dis- dis ance nce for a period of about a min min- ito ite at each point When the rails of the railroad wc were e erst to the tips ties over over Sher- Sher 1 man pass the work was was considered one of the wonders of the world I At the same time that the tho Ames monument is being moved to a new I pedestal engineers of the tho road willi will willbe i be completing a second tunnel under the mountains at the top of Sherman I pass building the first double track i across the the the highest continuous con con- piece of double track in the world These two events the events the driving of the new tunnel and the relocating of I the Ames monument monument are are in the naI nature na na- ture of celebrations of the great work I of the pioneer railroad builders the theAmes theAmes Ames brothers Work on double I tracking the Union Pacific across the is now practically completed I and work on the removal of the monI monument mon mon- monI I it is expected will be com completed I early in the spring om-I om I |