| Show pile driving on the lucin cut oil is progressing sir watson who is in the employ of corey bros at promontory point came across bear river bay and waa in camp harney saturday ile brought the information that their first contract ia about half finished and they expect to have it completed about oct 10 this piece of grade will extend from the ecat shore of the lay to a point where there is to be a forty foot cut mr watson says the work is progressing very favorably and with their thirty teams at work the entire job will bo completed liftin the specified time when asked about their water supply mr watson replied we have plenty of excellent vater but we have to haul it thirteen and a half miles it would appear matters were not progressing aa well as desired out at lucin this will the cause of sir hanneys harneys Har being sent there and mr clark lately of the oregon short line now shouts all out morning and noon and with an able corpa of bosses the work still goes on and the front of the track is still nearing the western hills there are now three pile drivers at work in the lake they still find plenty of mud and the method of driving two piles in one place one on top of the other still continues two atcas shovels are working and two engines and crews of which there are now six on this end of the cutoff cut off are carrying rock and gravel for ballast and to raie the dump the lake i very low this year and the men though nearly half way across the bay are working in not more than three to four feet of water the boat which has teen in course of building for some weeks was launched last week her engines and boilers are in position and she vill soon be ready for aae when through with moving material for the construction of the road across the lake she will likely bo fitted up for excursions and pleasure trips certainly there can be nothing more pleasant and bracing than a steam boat ride on the great salt lake A SEVERE ACCIDENT HAPPENED saturday a car of heavy timbers was being unloaded and aa one large stick was being rolled off one of the workmen failed to catch his hand hpike in time the log struck one end of it the other end flew up striking the man on the side of face inflicting a very severe wound from which he suffered great pain during the night A boom enclosing nearly ten aarm i of the lake has been constructed and i into this are unloaded piles stringers caps ties there they are formed into rafts ready to be towed to where needed mr marsh is not in camp so regularly of late but mr austin in in daily attendance and has the general oversight of all construction matters petty thieves are getting in their work taking to bawo pocketknives pocket knives combs razors and clothing they should apprehended and turned over to the william england and a large party from plain cita whited camp iwarney monday last the camp also had a visit from a large family of about twenty members from west weber sunday brought the usual number of visitors and sightseers sight seers |
