| Show i T A ab bia bla BIG ia flum furmes tho the VIrgi virgl virginia nih nii 0 a bonide lately stata stated that hee t pee erf exi of we pacific P oa 7 aber er and flume plump company phy was waa to toi be completed jul jui july 1 ah aty atlie firs batick of timber floated from theT summit of the sierras and inked at tile phe the flume an au outlay ii f a quarter of hof a mill million ion lon of dollars and alid was built f fon for K the thib purpose of supplying 1 g the allig mills of ht the company yahl which eh con about cords of woo i per year here herd Is iff a description of the flike flu me the flume fiume C commences in the tho truckee meadows at aft Hufi akers ka station thence it extends across the vailey valley and foothills in a southwesterly direction for five miles the hv coarse course then changes to the northwest to the base hase of the mountains a distance of eight miles brain frain the foot of the moun mountains bains the flume winds up through the gorges aud and canons on an au average grade of sixteen inches to sixteen feet the sharpest fall is three feet in six which however for feet the tile grade ginde above this fail fall Js Is grada erada ally so force of the descent is much diminished this really neally marvelous even nass lof grade makes a jam that bugbear of most flume works almost impossible the fiume flume Is of the V shape made of 24 inch planks two inches in n thickness and has a capacity of at least cords of firewood fire wood per day or feet of in several respects it differs from tiny any blime yet constructed and has be been eh rather more expensive in consequence ge as it Is intended to last at a least twelve years to gain a grade au an indispensable requisite in so precipitous a country where heavy timber is to be floated it was found necessary to build the flume on trestlework trestle work and stringers fromble from one end to the other the T e trestlework trestlework which in some places is forty eight feet high js is subs substantial enough to s support u or a narrow r auge railroad it lt being thoroughly braced longitudinally L and across so si that no break can extend further than the length of a single box 16 G feet all the main supports slip ports which are five feet apart art ari are firmly set sot in fit mud sills sils T the lie lle boxes rest in brackets placed four tour feet apart TI these ese eso tse again rest uvon upon the tile lial lla lia stringers to complete this ini im menso menser flume of fifteen miles milea has taken justl justi ten tou weeks in that time all the tile trestlework trestle work stringers and boxes have been put kaplam in place pince the tho method of construe I 1 tion has bas been simple as rapid at el alven iven points coni 16 be turned on aud abd wj uie inu nas das were laid others were floated through and the flume would float the material for its own creation the greatest days work was a quarter of a mile four gangs gang cof thirty men each have done the work it has required feet fda of lumber and twenty tons of nain to build the flume fiume the reservoirs are models of solidity lid iid ity the upper one is feet long with an au average depth of ten feet the other is 1100 feet long jong with ith a depth of ten feet A ditch ditch n nearly early two miles long brings the water er to the first reservoir reservoirs whence it Is s conveyed three miles and a quarter to the flume flame by means of a feeder chich vach is a strong square box well wel I 1 b aced aeed ca capable p able abie of gar ear garry sarry ry ing inches of water A stream of pu pure re water large enough to su supply p virginia city rushes through C this feeder rhe tile che main supply of water is drawn from hunters creek which is 19 diverted from its bed near the source by dams and its waters col coi in two reservoirs there is ti nother feeder of the p same ame capacity ity fa four ur miles in length which rains drama thomas crek creek and connects elih ith the flume half way down the mountain the purpose of this second immense feeder through which an amount of water equal to the dirst first flows is to supply whatever waste may have occurred down t to 0 its point of junction the company velmore ha have moro more water a at t command than they can possibly use e in rn t lie the event of a scarcity however hereford H lake a beautiful sheet of water resting in a dimple on fhe the mountain top can be drawn upon the timber thick thickly 1 y covering 0 the 1000 acres owne owned d by the company Sma ily lly fir yellow pine and tam araba mr hereford the superintendent bodde rit calculates that ho ito will be able aule to obtain from the forest odo uror cords of firewood and feet of of an hn average dia dla diameter of 28 inches and neet feet of hewn timber there is now ready for flaming blumin 20 cords of seasoned nire fire wood and feet of square hewn timber mr hereford intends toland to land this vast quantity of wood at the milk in storey and lyon countie counties daring til ill the e pr present besent sea season soll soil with an ad additional di tj onal leet jeet of f square timber |
