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Show BRIDGING AN INLAND SEA. Ons ol tho Most Sttipon clous and Difficult Feats of Railroad Engineering Successfully Accomplished. ! Wo Ue in timet. .Ht been to'd much of wonderful tot. in ra.lroad bulldlilt. and mm h hai been written of thonmno. rim- si. in ,,i,, darltir. that direct1 course of the Iron horse acroslthe plalim and mountains thsl lie between the Mi-,,url river ami the picinc ocean, "in the grsndour and snngnltii.tr. of the undertaking, the Often Paeiir Centrul Pacific has never boon equaled. The energy and pers-vernneo with wl.h h the work wna urged forward and the rapidity with whirl It was ex.euted. nro without a parallel In hlMory" were the state ments of the spcrlal government com- i mlssloocrs to tho Secretary of tho j lutorlur. j 'lioru flu- y. ais ago there was no I tlmo to spend on work similar to that which has Jim I n completed Then ' the world was wutchlm: while tin. build. of the t'lilou Piicllle ami Central Cen-tral Psrllic rued lor Bupieiiuicy. It was s nuu-niticeiit .onte.t. but iiowa- ; daya tin owners of the road have been j bronchi tu consider other prohl. . ; One of thoc neeeitnted the solution ! of ths grade quepi on unu the i.i"alght- anlri of tho track I Ontof the most Interesting and dlf- 1 thm of the u'P of thou, engines will mean th" svlm: of nl least II.Mxi a day In riper. ill! u evpemtes anil also a saving of soverat hours In running lime The nilitlnal si lieini. nf Hie cut off was oonm Ived by the Int.. Collls I". Huntington. Hunt-ington. The plans were perfected afler Hie late Col lluniln.-t'in s c'-'iith and approvisl by Mr. I Inn I in nil when he nssumed charge of the line. Active work waa commenced In l'ie2. and thus the almost Impossible insk was completed In about 2i months. The last pile was driven dur ing Ibo last week of October. This great work has cost over U.Si'u.OOO. I lie em on no is Ironi Oku. 'ii west llfleen miles over level country before be-fore renchlug the lake proper, then across tlie cail arm of the liiko nine nllea to Proinoiory. Then flvo miles of Mill, I r.md bed mid then nineteen miles west over the west arm of tho lake toward Litem and theneo across the Great Still I al.e desert to l.upln, Nevada. Across the oast arm of tho lake. It will he almost a continuous llll-m Kuiiported by trestle. Near tho middle of this will bo a unp of r.llo feet of open trestle work left for thn Hear ..." ,. - ',' -!. '. I View of the Track Across the Great Salt Lake. j flcult outs of railroad onglueering ever undertaken has Just been com-; com-; (ilitedtho building of a bridgu acronB 'tike tlreill Salt lll.e between li.' loll, b'luh, and I.llclii, Nevndu. Tho work being piacttcally coui-pleted. coui-pleted. the new truck waa fonnalli opened last Thanksgiving day when Mr. K. II. lliirrlniiia. head of the liar rlniaa linos, and a big party of railroad mnirnatea partook of Tlmnksulvli g day dinner In the middle of Great Salt Lake. The Ogden l.ucln "Cut-Off" la 102 mllea In lenalh. 72 miles on land and jn irti.. i of trestle work nnd "fill Ins" I river, which flows Into tho arm of the ' ltiko. Aero.H Pioiiiolory Point runs flvo miles of solid road bed. nnd hero il lll-cull lll-cull work was encountered, a cut of in, u feel long in land ami rock of l iHien t l.i fT heiue n.cessary. At this point, tho most beautiful on thia Inland In-land ecu, aurveys have been insdo for an imuieuso aumnier resort. Across tho west urm of the lako Is cloven miles of trestle work with a llll hi npp reach of four in lies at each end. In completing the work of spanning span-ning the take one great difficulty was i encountered ucrosa the east arm by "The work Involved In this plan has J been supervised by Messrs. Harrlman P and Kruttschnltt of the Southern Pa- i. rifle, and Messrs. Hurt and Iterry of V the 1'nlon Paclilc, and those two rail f ronds have spent In the last three I f yeura somewhere near IlltO.tino.ooO In '. ropalre nnd Improvements asldo from thn expenses of operation or maintenr ance." ) s ' f t " ' t J l 1 1 11 I f -a saiiia,,,,, i The Lucln "Cut-OH" Across the Greet Salt Lake. ders gives tho following curious statistics: sta-tistics: "If all thn people of Kngland and Wnlea had to past through l.on-don l.on-don In procession, four abreast, and every facility wero afforded for their free niul uninterrupted pnssnge, during dur-ing twelve hours dally, Sundaya eg-leptod, eg-leptod, It would take neatly four mouths and a half for tho population to III. i lhroiir.li at quick march, four deep. The length of this vast column col-umn would be 3.7H miles. To count them singly at the nil" of ono a second sec-ond would take u.Mrly two years and a half, assuming that tho samo number num-ber of hours dally wero occupied, and t that Sundays also wero excepted." Hi$jr t. . . f . ' . 1," : , '.' ' - v " . . I Railroad Officials at Formal Opening of the Ogden-Lucin "Cut-Off." over the wutoin of Great Suit Lake. It progenia a practically level track except ex-cept for a short distance on tho west end near l.ucln. Nevada, whero a Bllehl grade Is encoin ieieil. The ii:.. of this cutoff will throw out the tiiins ci.tillnentiil ti'iilllc over the old line fiom llf.ieli to l.uein. ; Neva in, nioiin.l tl, e h.i.e. Tills slrlp ; of track Is one of the most oxpcnt-tve of Hie llt.ll'lmllil Hjstetii, the m.ivlmn'n , giado over tliu long I'r.mio'ory hill hi j let feet to tile tulle UUil helper eMi,i -.1 are always, necessaiy. The enmltin- i tho seining of Ml ins and trestle work. This was caused by the ault of the flow of the Hour river having collected for centuries over tho bottom of the lako and having formed u salt wall of Ion feet. It took l.'Miu tons of rock In piles which 11 1 1 j, in to lin'.u rein la d the hoiloiu of Hut lal.e proper and which bun re nit".! in u linn and iplemllil roinl bed. In n spool h which he tntulo nt tho .Mlti Club. Hall 1 ill c City, on tho cvo n( (ho opening of C o "Cut (III," Mr. 1 .".rrliuun Mild: of tho world. To lllustrutu her sub- Ject, Mra. Htebblns gave a selection ' from "Idjlo of tho King." |
