Show GANGS AT WORK ORR ON DEPOT SiTt t Oregon Short Line Unlimbering U Machinery to Prepare f Foundations S Sj j AMERICANS SET TO WORK WORKMen x Men of Families Will Wilt Be SupS Sup'S Supplied Supplied Sup Sup- S 'S plied Th Through rough Salt Lake Jk Charity Association Work Vork was really started on t the e site for the Oregon arChOn Short Line j r. r and Salt Lake ake route route- depot And Aud it S was wan announced by Assistant Engineer A G. G F F. McGonagle that the work worl will willbe willi willibe be continued now without delay delar until the new building is completed The mone money is appropriated It lt is Js not expected ex ox that there will be difficulty in ii securing either the necessary supplies S or the tho necessary labor Yesterdays Yesterday's work wort consisted of getting get het l S tin ting tho the equipment in shape Two gangs hangs of men were busy getting pile drivers Info Into position whIch position which is not so I easy as ns It sounds ol because It Jt means a 0 good deal of oC pulling with block and tackle and shoving with v J to git a good heavy hea donkey where here you ou want It 4 About bout a dozen doen other men were S boring bering the tam stoan shovel ho had to tobe tobe S1 A be dismantled for It Its trip from rom LakeS Lakeside Lake Lake- S side to Salt SnIt Lake There wn was still another another another an an- other force installing a centrifugal r pump which I H is to lift the thc seepage water iter from the i excavation for Cor or the foundation S tion and pour it into a tilo drain leadS leading lead lead- ing under the track tracks Othe Others rs one wore were re S building structures to hou house home e supplies supplier In all It was stated about GO CO or 70 iO j 1 men were at work wore The foremen of the gangs arc are of oC I r course men who are re old of ot ott t th the c rail railway w and who hl have e been proved pro 1 S to know lenow their business a. a For the rest of tho the labor Mr Ir McGonagle lt announced A yester yesterday n the Salt Lake LOoJee Charity association asso asso- S 5 ell clation will be called on to furnish men p With It It S With the exception of oC tho the foremen S announced Mr 11 McGonagle we C shall S not hire our men anywhere else so S. S long as aR the Charity associations association's bu bureau bu- bu reau z can cnn furnish them Our orders come from Crom the general offices that th none non 55 r but rc residents with families shall be employed on this work PO so o long as men of that class want work S The only foreigners to he be seen around the site yesterday were about 15 Ui Japanese Japa Japa- nose nee who are arc the regular section hands whom the Short Line Lino has hag employed employ d around tho the depot since long before the mines closed down clown and ana tho the supply of labor became so plen plen- lICul J One of the first problems that the 5 Short Line engineers v will encounter Is IsI that of the water which underlies the depot site There is h already a circular S.- S. hole on the side Ildo of at the tho site next tho the tracks which Is designed to serve servo as asa I S a n basin hallin into which all nn the tho water that S accumulates accumulate around the excavations will drain Water stands In this now 1 to within two feet of the lc lovel l af at the tho t tracks It Is expected that as soon as 39 the excavation work sots gets II to below this two foot level water waler will wilt too be found and that alt all the tho rest o of ot tue t work will win willbe S. he be more or less disagreeable as a conr consequence con con- r sequence until the tho cement foundations i arc are all laid S Tunnel Tunnels Under Tracks Track The larger p part rt of the excavation atlon z will he for the baggage mall and ex express ex cx- S pr press s rooms which will vill be under tho the S main part of ot the building and part of or orthe S the wings For these excavations of 5 about five f feet et below tho the re J present ent level levei S which is that of the tracks will bo he necessary But Dut below these again will willbe he be the tue excavations for the tunnels f through which the baggage e express S and mall trucks will run run to and from rom S the cars under the tracks The floors of or these tunnels t will be 14 feet below the level of f the tracks or the ground as It is at present on the depot site S These tunnels will be 12 feet wide 5 sufficiently sufficient so for two loaded trucks S to pass one another The They will be 12 feet hl high h. h and will extend from either oiher end of the depot first parallel with and nd andS S then across the tracks Four tracks k will wll be bo served senell at first t. t but hut the tunnels S like ever every other part of the depot are arc so constructed th that thet t they may be en enlarged enlarged en en- lar ed at almost un any time 4 The main floor of or the depot will be beon beon on a level le o of South Temple street seven feet above tho the level ovel of the tracks From Prom t the pres present rit level evel of or the ground only a apart apart part of or the site to be occupied by bj the theS S depot will have to be excavated The S steam shovel sho will be Ie set to work there probably tomorrow though pO possibly this afternoon At either end where t. t S no excavation atlon is necessary the pile 4 drivers ers will wm be kept bus busy t In the rear of the land on which work t is now no progressing will be the train train- tx sheds 71 feet wide and extending over four tour tracks and the umbrella sheds S covering the tho platform torm between tho the tracks making the total length of protected protected pro pro- 7 track feet A gradual In Incline In in- cline dine behind the tho depot building will wilt enable pas passengers to reach the exit 5 on the level Jevel of South Temple street and ands s seven ven feet above the level of or the S tr tracks c- c |