Show A Day on Ihe Survey hit did it ever occur to you tha: oiir imagination only pictures ths finishing touches of railraod building and that much of the work it I without the llouri-- h of trumpets or the unfurling of banners Long' before the “dirt began to lly" a body of men might have been Men looking through curious instruments making strange gestures with their arms and driving stages in ihc ground These were' the engineers whose toil was the first step tow ards the- building of the railroadYou ask how these engineers pend their day You ask this question because vou know their labor-ca- ll them far awav from civilization and you wish to know their mode ot d )ue - -- Surely sometime while you were eated on a railroad train speeding1 toward xour destination in comparative comfort you “ have asked ho was it ourself the- question that built thi road?" In answer to the query your mind would at once picture hundreds of men at work with pick and shovel and a score or more horses husily engaged in pulling huge gang plows and wheeled scrapers Dust and dirt seem to fill the air and out of all the confusion and chaos a road hed upon which shining steel rails were being laid would appear to your mind’s eye -- - living- - A party of engineers nearly ways have a camn in the vicinit al- of their work Tents are the form of shelter and the number depends The upon the size of the partv “cook-tent- ” is the center of attraction for all engineers The “office tent" is the headquarters and this is where the foreman of the party lives Kverv office tent has a la ge and full equipdraughting-tabl- e ment for the drawing of maps as this is an essential feature of a surThe remainder of veyor’s work the tents in camp are the “sleep” |