Deseret Evening News | 1906-08-23 | Page 2 | 45 Tunnels on Western Pacific

45 3 W TUNNELS fIT O Oi ON 4 i I Wt VESTERN Jf r PACIFIC I When hen Completed Will Be Greatest t I Engineering Feat of Mod Modern p ern em Times lONGEST LONGEST OVER FEET c Oin In to Stir Sill G C CI K e Under I li I fur fill inu Solid Hitch t jinn Francisco Aug ur ug The Western U Is perfecting p plane plan to en tor Cal California nl ind when hen the th road it II 1 completed it 8 wIll Hilt be te imp HI fl of oC o the greatest t railroad feat In modern tIm The engineers engineer in charge hair have hive Instruct tJ la te t keep one on object In view vie the th line with the grades to t accomplish h thie U 4 tunnel tunnels will be bored in eastern California e n Or Mlle cud and lId lASS IMS instead o ot of joIng around mountains ln the Western W Pacific II It going goh through them i The longest lon t of the tunnels IK II 1 that at atte I te Ie heed head of ot Oilmen Garden IS I 1 mil t toast et of oC This Thill In III rut cut III under tho the dividing the north and an middle of or the tilt Feather river It will wilt ho M hoyer MIter beyer yer Iter feet feel In length when completed ed Tho The next longest 1 tunnel on the Ihl road will be bf b lIe ILe ono under Pan Pa This will wll be over OE r fe feet teet t in length and It II IK being bored at both Loth end ends Tho The third tunnel will probably be the most moat tn t difficult engineering feat of oc all as 18 It will III b be cut through wild oM rock for or n a distance of or feet feel Thin will be bt north of It If on Spanish S cre creek k