| Show REVISED SURVEY OF WESTERN rr Its j Chief hief Engineers Engineer's Figures Show j Route Is Mies Miles Long j I t I n. n Frncisco FrancIsco F Feb C. G. 1 dC Chief Engineer Virgil VIrgi G. G a s revised surveys for the West West- fr railroad sho show that the tho total length of ot Ufo tile line Une from the Rio Grande roads road's roal's station staton j Jn In Salt Lake Lako city to the Clyto ferr ferry building in this city is 9 9 miles I Of oc this mies length mio are aie In California In Nevada i oV In Utah The main feature of oe the road I Is its Hs grade the grade Krade i being to 1 cent per or irA ilc hie M thai f feet et t per pel mlle pei mile mie II it I seen seems I the lie SIerra Nevadas Nevada should be l I is cro nevertheless U With wih RO V o declared light nt grade erade but It I to be a fact tact Highest J n lc Tho The highest elevation on tho the line lino Is Jno at nt Mower Lake Lako pass pas In the Pequop range In Ne feet teet The cro crossing of oC r the thc Sierra SIerra Nevadas at H CI pass this state Is at an elevation of oC feet feet There are aio miles nile or of 1 i per cent grade glade between Oroville and fleck Beck eck- eck wih with pass Most of the grades through Nevada Nevada and Utah are much Jess than thai 1 Jess per cent cent There are arc no bridges of oC nn any magnitude on on the line rho I ho Sacramento rivet river Is Js avoided lne by use U o of or the Altamont and Stock Stockton Ion route and the only large Jarge ant river ri er crossIng crossing cross cross- Ing is that of oC the American rIver on the menlo manto noi north edge of the tho City CI of oC Sacra Sacra- Scra- Scra In order to make mak a a road roal with wih light curvature and light grades the tho corn corn- puny has taken a large Jarge amount of tunnel work worl There are arc nine fifty fHy tunnels on the whole line aggregating feet The he longest is the Spring Garden tunnel through the divide beo between be be- o tw tween en the tho north and middle forks Corks of the Feather river It I Is feet feel I lon long long- ong The Western Pacific Is to cro cross the t Central Pacific In Nevada Nevala at Palisade V nn and It will wi follow Colow closely the tho route roulo of the Central Pacific In that slate tate between between be he- tween Wells Tells and Winnemucca |
