Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1866-06-21


said road. This report 10 90 full Of in
sesest to The West, a. indeed the whole
csaatry, that va giss Il place in our
paper. Dir. Harbangh sara:
/ PrrrsBuReH, May IT, 1866.
SIR.-Ln eomplianea wigh tha duties
imposed upon the Government Directors
of the Union Pacific Railroad, hare the
honor 20 report.
s At the request Of the Vice President I
accompanied lin to Omaha, Nebraska,
arriving there Saturday, april, 2Sth, and
spent eleven days on .he line OF operations
10 personal examination Iof everything
that would tend 10 give me an intelligent
idea touching the e0ndition, mana cement
and progress Of Tia work. On our reach
Ing the initial point at Omaha, I found
the BurneltiEing buildings, temporary
Car Heuas and Saw Mill, considerable
construction material, and the iow river
base OF the Gompany's operations Sab
merged by the oyeEaoaing waters Of the
Missouri to an average depth Of say
from one - three feet The general
business OF the Company vas interrupted
for about tao weeks, say from taS 23d
OF april until the 7Gh Of Mar. By The
active management aud exertions Of Sam
uel B. Reed, Esq, General Saperiaseud.
eat, his assistants and employees, the
! Company's movable property was, 70 =
I great exteut, removed aud scared. 30 that
is was supposed the ahsolate loss to The
contracting company will not be vcTy
great, yet at considerable cost of time
aud msney. am pleased to be able 20
report the Company's brick machine aud
workshops are situated oa more elevated
grounds further from the river, and not
in the least damaged. | think il would
have taken FROM four 10 five feet more al
rise IN the waters to have materially az
feesed them. ! was Informed that The
greatest foo Is known By any of TIL pres
cot inhabitants were 10 April, 1851, and
in Jule, 1862. The food of this year
was, according to the data and reeoilee-
ton, within about seven inches as high
~ that of 1857, and within twelpe TO
eighteen inches as high as the aood Of
1862,
To provide against loss and interrup
ton to the business of the road by re-
euFrenee of these overaows, should re-
eeive the early attention of the Board Of
Managers Of the Company.
The machine and workshops, engine
house, aud turn tables of the Company
at Omaha, erected, as | was Informed.
in the unprecedented short time of sixty.
Ave days, during lass fall and winter,
which contain one million one bundred
thousand { /, O,000l well burned brick,
good stone foundations, and metallic
roofs, are Of the most permanent char
actsr, and conveniently arranged. TIE
machinery IN the same is sufficient for
the present wants Of The Company, and Of
the latest and most approved conslrus.
ton.
On the 81 inst, | accompanied tie
Vice President and Consulting Engineer
OF she Company over the line of compile
ted road to point near Shell Greek,
distance Of seventy Eve miles.
We found the lins in good condition,
and 1t will compare faYorably with any
newly constructed Western road. Al
this point the track layers under the Su-
perintendeney Of General j. Easement,
were energstically pushing the work 1t
therate of three-quarters of a mile to
one mile per day ; additional boarding
cars sleeping cars, and tents we're being
provided, 50 as to increase the track lay.
ing force, which, since learn BIZ teIe-
graph, has been done, and the wbrk liz
now progressing at the rate Of about s.y-
thousand feet per day.
| confidently believe the first one han
dred milFs will be completed By The first
day of June, whereby the act Of iucor-
poration requiring one hunJred miles Of
road to be built will be fully complied
With. The energetic contractors inform
cd me, that they contemplated pro,iding
artificial lights, to expedite the work, by
Higbt as well as by day, and if possible, |
complete one mile and a bali to two
miles every twenty four hours.
From She'll Greek accompanied Col. |
s. Seymour, Consulting Engineer, 10 the |
"Lonp Fork, ;" and over portion Of the
grading on the second enc hundred miles
am pleased to be able TO report shsE the |
temp eraTy bridge over this river is CON.
plesed, and ready for track layers. The
energy displayed By Msssrs. bort & Bot
terheld, the contractors on this york, as
well as By Dir. Reed, General Supcrinten. !
dents and Aessrs. Case and Hu=d, Divis- |
ions Engineers, deserves honorable men
tion. The 6rst pile was driven March
I'D, and the last one May "a. Tie btidge |
Is fifteen hundred feet long, With seven.
IT, FIVE lbenss, three piles each, and thirty /
seven hents, ar piles each, in all three |!
hundred and nineteen piles. The pprmA-
neut bridge which lie intended 30 take the |
place Of the temporary one is being |
pushed forward with vigor, FIVE pier rifle |
foundations, and two pile abusments are
drivSn. The masonry OF this structure |
will most likely be line stone transport
ed from the qnaFries Ell the Pappillor.
/ am informed no stone has yet been
found between Elkboru and point en- the |
b afs, about one bnndred and ten miles |
beyond Fort kearney, where IL il tup-
posed good quality can be procured. =
The only bridging Of any importance be- |
tween Leup Fork river and Fort KpaFneT, |
Is one Of one hundred feet span, over /
Wood river, about seyeaty Ave miles wcss
Of Loop Fork.
The grading on the second one humid |
red miles, can and think will be com
pletsd by the l5sh of June. A eerps Of |
engineers have been cent out to definite |
ly locate the third one hundred miles.
Returning TO Omaha, spent sesersl |
days with the consulting engineef, exam
ming the river banks, and the effect Of |
the overflow of the river bottoms fer sew
erai miles up aud down the Iowa and Ne. |
braska sides of the Missouri. The prop |
er site for bridge crossing Of this river,
is subject Of momentuous importance,
not only TO this Company, bnt TO the
country, and TO the various railHnysleae-
ing to connections With 1t, aAd il should /
be definitely settled at an early day, for
the benefit Of the various interests Inzol- |
ved, Surveys md sodndings bare been
made the maps and profies are being
prepared, so that it ID hepcti fnteIsiuaat /