Show OUR L 0 0 AL B DENOE dench no X THE RAILROAD IN THE E ECHO cufo chuo aug 0 2 1 f MOSQUITOS the great grent american humorist A ward remarked on the words im saddest when I 1 sing that the man who uttered them was a foot fool to sing at all but night before last I 1 made the acquaintance of a number of happy creatures that sing when they are about to be busiest and do not seem to comprehend what sadness is lively and well occupied when most people are asleep they come around in the happiest mood and would almost make one think they were harmless good natured musical creatures with no interest axce except t to amuse amuso you 0 I 1 would like to call cali cm the place e w where yh e ue I 1 slept on friday night R lac mosquito 0 s q u 1 t level levei for the musical insects were without number and their stings were inserted with as much celerity and faseas ease as the tho to tongue ngue of a voluble pothouse pot ot house politician can wag this legit locality where mosquito bars should be te at a premium is on sulphur creek some four miles from bear river luver station ON TIM tite BACK on the return there was opportunity for paying more attention to the general appearance of the country and aud audgo to the quantity of work done than when seeking after details there is not much work done yet comparatively speaking on Noun nans contract though a considerable amount of labor hasteen has been expended in getting a good ready yet there will be little difficulty in putting through the work the auntry is rolling and does not strike the eye with that monotony which a level region presents tr towards the western end of it their ein eln contract the ravines bein begin be in to assume that magnitude which is usually associated with eat cat cannons ions lons A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY leaving the line of the railroad near the tunnels in miller pattersons Patter sons contract and striking up unto the rising ground groub d on the north which forms a portion portio n of the northern boundary of echo a beautiful country opens to the view far away to the north and northwest it stretches out undulating and rolling interspersed with innumerable little valleys should this ever become a rainy climate and the frosts of winter become severe this stretch of country would support millions of inhabitants the horizon is bounded chich ever way the gazer turns far as the eyo eye can reach in the clear atmosphere of this region with lofty mountains whose highest summits snow covered glisten in the clear sunlight with the coruscations of diamond peaks EXPECTED clu CIU OF LINE A little east of cache cacho cave I 1 was fortunate enough to find major lawrences laurences Lawren ces surveying party barty who were ivere just completing the running of a new line which if it had been practicable would havo havu passed around the mountain lying southeast south east of cache cave and coming down not far from the old emigrant road would have joined the line now running runn ng down echo at the mouth of the north fork but it had been found impracticable and major lawrence designed running a line down the opposite side of the canon carlon Thi this swill will keep pretty close to the stage road from the mouri mountain tain lies lles west of yellow creek station skirting its western base he had bad no doubt but this line would be practicable with a grade in one place of feet and he expected it would be adap adopted tej and that the one now being constructed from the summit of echo to the mouth of the north fork would be abandoned as this new line would strike in to that down the principal canon eanon about the same place as the one on the opposite side was expected to do which had been found impracticable if adopted the two tunnels in the divide at the head of north fork and the very heavy work on buth both sides aides of them will be dropped and instead a much more easily constructed line will have been found with lighter work and with only one tunnel feet through but it will be two miles longer and presents the disadvantage ofa of a higher grade than has to be employed in any other part of the two canons ca lions I 1 THE GRADE differs Di frers considerably in places but is not anything like as high as was expected M major or lawrence informed me that the highest hi est grade in echo canon is 40 except on the new line which he was about torun to run where from previous prey ioui loui work he was satisfied it would be while is 14 the maximum allowed to be bloused used in nearly all weber canon catlon the grade is also under 40 though towards it bouches debouches de war s the mouth where into salt lake valley it will be higher being as I 1 am ain informed about 90 ili in places the road is level and it is much straighter than might be expected even evem even evea by those bet be bc t acquainted with the two cannons gallons down which it runs the maximum curvature allowed is nine and a half degrees t but they have not been compelled to e employ any sharper carve curve than bix elx degrees luss LESS IN ECHO AND WEBER down neilo hello the grading must bemore be more than two thirds completed and the unfinished part pait is progressing rapidly ties are balag boing got out in the vicinity of bear river ali all and other places and were the other portions of of the tiie line east es as near completed as this eanon canon with liea ties and rails r i ady the carb cara might be running to tho mouth ot of echo in a woh weh wonderfully wend d der erful fully short time there is not much 0 of athe the ine line yet finished down weber webe ir but as many of the men who worked in echo have gone down weber canon carion it will make rapid progress there alo aio also alto Q the mode of SUB LL LETTING CONTRACTS adopted by president young 19 very superior to that usually employed for with the class clam of workmen who are grading the line on his contract in mo most st of instances a party of men would comb combine no together take their sub contracts and work it as partners they did not tie tic themselves to hours nor did they endeavor to kill kib time by doing as little as possible especially when the eye of the boss wab waa off them for every man had as deep an interest in the completion of the job jobah aa the boss had whose particular business was to direct the work in this way the amount of labor performed in places at times would seem almost incredible were it stated every man doing his I 1 level best I 1 to complete the work in the shortest possible time of course too such a thing as a strike was not to be thought of under such circumstances indeed I 1 have not heard of a strike OB ox president youngs contract sineo sinco the tho commencement of the work ABSENCE OF or PROFANITY disorder or quarrels in the camps campa raa highly gratifying in but one camp of or less than a hundred men out of between two and three thousand working in the two callons canons did it is not likely to be tolerated there long today to day I 1 E have atten attended ted red two very interesting meetings one in bishop sheets camp attended by his hia own hands and those of john W young and the other at kimball cos camp opposite hanging rock THE MAGNITUDE OP OF TIIE THE WORK on the pacific railroad cannot be well comprehended by reading about it when a gang of men are seen at work in one place and then a little further on another gang and still further on another with another beyond that each gang engaged in doing that which would ordinarily be looked upon as a work of some magnitude and then consider that for hundreds of miles similar gangs of men are similarly employed constructing while ties are being got out by the hundred thousand at points along the route and that track layers are busily employed stretching their even rails at the rate of miles per day with tens swelling to hundreds and hundreds swelling to thousands of men while from ocean to ocean across a great continent the mighty vibrations are felb telfe from this vast pulsation then som ejust conception might be formed of the work acknowledgments TS all along the ilae liae as far as my travels traveis were extended tb the e utmost courtesy was manifested towards the representative of the NEWS and the popularity of the paper seemed much greater than even I 1 had expected being spoken of everywhere in the highest terms E L 6 s people who go through ther they world with a flourish rarely have anything sniping else it is a cheap and paltry ed existence stence and may bo be compared to a bass bs drum dram which makes a great deal of noise but has not the slightest music the best part of a comet is not its flaunting tail tall but in its magnetic body the best beat people in the world are not those who nourish aud parade and crash and i smash along but the quiet thinking pu pushing shimoe working classes |