New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-15
IOWA.
THE MORMONs-RAILROAD MATTERS-THE GREAT
BRIDGE-CURIOUS PROCESS OF EXCAVATION.
fPRON AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENCE

THE MORMoNs-RAILRoAD MATTERs-THE GREAT
BRIDGE-CURIOUs PROCESS OF EXCAVATION.
IRON AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT
COUNCIL BLUFFS, May 10.-lt is not generally
known throughout the East that in this vicinity st urk
some Of the remnants and scattering Of the Nauyoo
exodus Many Mormons who here now passed on
and settled at salt Lake, but, with the smthtcs ard
Morrsite became dgusted with the tyranny OF Brigham
Young and the elders came back poor naked, aud dis
suit their ease lives i'm those days the
faith and remained here opening up farms selling bed
bug poison" to freghters, taking their chances OF
the eXcitements Of the frontier, aud their at
tendant speculations and Windlalls. Tloy have
Citations against the chief OF the Babylon OF Desere.
Joseph smith IT, me according TO tue
testimony Of his followers with his brother Alexander
smith, visits tins city occasionally IN the interest OI Their
hoek and breaches TO them Both OF them nave i S
English education' and would De pheasant speaAets u1
they the effect Of their dscourses By that nasal
twang which was in fashion IN the days OF the Round,
heads Iney claim me power 10 VOTE nlIaeles rom te
apostolic laying of hands have never yet seen any
manifestation, though there IS abundant material hero
for the demonstration Of this holy gift One instance l
will name-the case OF q mother Of a large family and
wife OF poor laOoring manwhO became infatuated with
the new doctrine and followed the Head OF the Church
salt Lake PryatOn, degradation ana tyranny there,
superstition, poverty and disease here, have made the
poor woman hopeieSsly insane ana YET the F[OpEet
Successor much as inquired after her health.
Apostasy has thinned their ranks, and IN nearly every
they relapse into downright intdelty denying tue
possibility OF anything religious.
Travel westward principally to White Pne mas set IN
Ike epidemic Many who are merely eXcursonlSts,
and prospecors unaffected with the silver maula stop
afectOuaely called. Hundreds OF visitors every day
at the site OF the new railroad bridge which Is TO
the Union Pacific Road Of has the general super
iutendeucy Of the affair because IL is TO be built accord
upon whom rests difficult aud immense responsibilities IL
Cen William sooy Smith, a member OF Grants staf in
his earlier campaigns officer or distinction ana
pacity command Of division in the subsequent opera
lions Of the Western army and an engineer OF experience
The wonder OF building the great line OF railroad across
the continent is almost complete and when II IS finished.
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lantic Cable and the Union Pacific Railroad make one
epoch; the building OF the Daren snip Canal ana the
erection Of the Missouri River railroad bridge another.
The skeptical those who dream OF the Big Muddy,
flowing In channel OF sand Infinite IN DEPTH may smile
at the prospect But the who said they could
build railroad from this river to san Francisco long
before rch lOGales made INC prehhliay surveys lor
whether quick sands could rest nothing Steel bars
dalton nc less than diScouragng depths ard with such
accuracy enable them To make prohes Of the dips
OF the bed rocks The supersructure will be- OF wrought
iron and viii be feet long. The piers built Of
long and 81 feet In diameter with thickness OF iron OF
inch Those who have visited Council Bluffs and
a milo below the ferry landing on the Iowa side.
The natural approaches 20 the waters edge az TINS
point by three terraces, the last decNty beng
bank OF sand aud finely grained soil The following
may be taken example OF the mode OF reaching the
no bottom anco Tor boiling 10 its counterpart IS lowered
to its position by huge derrick, and an mir tight caps
bolted on the top. The air within Is exhausted U .
hshed some seventy feet from the site OF the pier Tue
weight the external atmOs here, let fall upon the cap,
forces the cylinder downwards depth depending upon
either the COmpactness lo0seuess of the soil Wien
the top OF the first section reaches the level ot tho WAFER
surface the metal cap Is removed, ana another beOh
hulted on the bolts passing through corresponding
fanges on the inside. The process OF cAhaustug
the air, and forcing the cylinders to their place
by the force of gravity IN the weight Oi the
metal and IN the pressure of the atmosphere ON lle cap
is continued until the foundation becomes too irm for
this mode OF operating. This being the case an ar
chamber made OF strong bOlur iron In SIZE 10 mach INC
circumference OF the cylinder Is OOCd on top of mo
section, and wormen are sent inside OF the column 20
forcing strong current or air into the hollow pcT pf
tho pump used for eXhaustiug In the first operation
Whom the soil and sand loOseued they are forced ou'
OF the inside By invention made and used only by be
Smith It Is done by sending In column of compressed
air and bringing IL in contact with the loOscut caIt
The velocity and force OF the current send the d6 UP
high IN tho air making IL n, curious fountain OF sahu
which casts It's rainbOwless spray rods around III
the nelghborh00d. The process OF fSrcng the eaFlh
upward by compressed air, develops aud confirms Qua
grand scale, scientific fact The passes 10 the ca
Der through castirOn thick pipe, five inches m diane
ter Tho AIR Is received In its natural atmospheric tenn
perature, but 10y compression II becomes hot enough
render the pipe through which il Is passing too hot TO
mode OF excavation may be gagged by the fact mat
cubic yards OF sand and earth have been removed III
minutes In heavy clay, workmen dig IL loose ana J.
carried up through the column 10 the cap when Is e
bottom OF the archamber by wndlass and bucket 'ne
windlass being worked by donkey engine attacheu
e outside or the chamber II then DISCHARGED tAIVb
depressed hollow arms 40 the sides closed Win waves
column OF hollow metal FOR the first pier has alTeSy
neen sunk beneath tie surface % ieet ANA WltAh ho
I.et OF the r0ckbed. hard-pan OF clay mas p,'Ii
reached, firm enough In ITSELF with the aid OF the lalt
pressure ~ sand and the base surface composed % o
concrete hllng, To make good foundation; blt cen
smith has determined 10 80 10 rock iages have "lsJG
ASHORE pul On them 10 work "a the wafer.