| Show TAKES TWO YEARS 10 TO BUILD BUllO 8 MILES I I hugo Huge Undertaking in Nevada on Main Maln Line of Central Centra Pacific r IJ nEE BIG TUNNELS JN IN IT jf ITT over T r sao ss o Vee lle t to 10 be b flord rd Through Jibe ln t UI And r The she Central 1 III Ii not exploit tn in to any great preat ire t d degree airee the vast It Im hn movements that uro made mad b t twe tW n t Ogden and ll no con nily the th general public hail haa little Idea of ot the tile magnitude of ot t tho work worl outside of ot th till cutoff said auld n It t local rall rahI toM road this Take Tako for tor or Instance the work now wilder way at t It has hns ben been ln po go O Ing on for tor tho the past pail year and will be b in for tor fo another IK 12 1 months month I bore before it Is There Th re tere c the contractor keep kelp on nn tin average of at men nt vork work which noes KOIS oti tin on night and day lIay Here the firm has hils l 1 an electric light plant tho ho dyn mo being run ruh ui by a t I j pow ow or y which furnishes light In tho th tunnels and on in tho th and lamps t pro ore r strung for tor nearly lIve fIc miles There re three biff lug tunnels now being bored the 11 C most e on CJ of the three l 2750 feet leet In hi length th and anu Is la No Nc 2 Is la I tho the main tunnel t of the and when complot M will hII bo be Ie feit long of oC this Ol dIn about OO feet teet on the Ihl we wet west t end wid 1190 1400 feet ecton on the east have been fl Th Tl third tunnel the lie east ewt one WIll will b 1700 feet lon r feet leet has hall ha Wn driven the tim west vest and nearly neatly l po from lie coat at All AU ilI three tunnels ore ate timbered along the name ine nt as In Aspen n tunnel with MIthi big balks 10 H Inches placed elow cIa so together near the tho portals and at wider Intervals at as they 4 fro go K Into the tunnels These are backed tip lip with three inch Ilch and pre lre present Present sent a very ery neat appearance ap aronce Between tunnels 1 and 2 h ri IL bIg biff steam shovel IH Is 1 At work on a U cut In all nil the tho firm has hns the Ul contract for tor construction on eight miles which Includes two big rUb cuts tut three tunnels and a heavy henvy mi lit In Inthis this t I stretch the tho line lino the tho Hum 1 Wt t river four lour times necessitating an nfl itel BC l of ot 12 feet span liy Uy this thu cutoff the Central Pacific will save pave JIll e mIles mile to say eay of or J log I nIRI 11 and eling cUrVet cunes W Vf It 11 Fontaine Is III the f for the railroad company and nOli he o has HOD his hla headquarters at tho ho office oho of tho telegraph and nud nut alon which Is 19 situated near the tho west western ern em portal poi po taI 1 of ot the main tunnel |
