St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-19
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with Mr.. AndeI son : party. The great
part of the distance is graded. lht
masonry is nearly all completed and all
the long cuts completed or III an adj
vanced state. All along the line. where
ever there is ledge. parties may he >eel
at work and the frequent reports of the
explosions rcverhcrating among the
mountains, indicate that the work l.
being pressed. The other special point
of resistance is the extensive cuts at the
Notch. the smaller in the gateway
and the larger this side. The latter IL
the beginning measured 10000 yards
In il feeble way, work was begun there
quite Il long time since but waS only
undertaken with energy last August
Mr.. Harding of the contracting firm la'
general supervision of this work but the
"blaSting" is in cllaI &c of Mr.. Alexander
McGilvery, IL Highland ScotchnIam, win"
with powder, is competent to lcNt
mountains. Last June we saw IL bias
there which unsettled over POO cub,
yards of the ''foumdation of things,
and on Thursday. 10y the Use of Il hun
dred pounds of powder. he set nearly
that quantity of granite or something
as umyielding, flying from its seat oI
sudden impulse that the narrow Motel
roadway or narrower channel of the
newborn SacO was Il more dcSir:i hlt
place in which To continue existence
Not scarcely 1000 yards of the i9.OH
remain and the gateway cut of 6,0W
yards is in Il proportiomatc state of tur-
hardness. just this side of the cav
ernous cut of iitty-Scven feet i'll depth
is IL deep gulch, acr"sS which an inn
posing wall or huttIcSS of rock is being
! built. This part of the work is literally
swarning with men and teams.
The tom miles of the line from the
/ Crawford House to the branch OF the
Boston Concord X Montreal is very
! light work compared with that on this
side. The grade is - feet To he mile.
and the line Is Il succession of sand 81
drift hillock> and holloW>. On this part
of the work. the masonry is all complrt-
ed and the grading well along. The
masonry for the iron bridge ACROSS the
/ Ammonoo>uc when Il temporary juno
tion will he made with the Concord
road. l. completed.
Nv hat part of the grading and maj
sonny "t the ten miles under construc-
ti"u j. done at this time - This is the
question We asked Chief Engineer An
del>"n "Wednesday night. He locked
over his proiilc> Il few minutes and
answered: "NcarlN 80 per cent. Nh.
PcNcIlN then came in and Mr.. Amber
son put the question to him. The As
>i>tant l. Il cautious man of few words.
bat he has every curve and tangent.
every cut and ill of that ten miles
rolled up III his brain. but attcI three
minutes calculation he said Kissing
- per cent. Mr.. Raymond. who has
still Il closer superintendent of the
Notch section. n>Wcred Mr.. Anderson :
question "NraIl ' 90 per cent. The
above. are the estimates of the engineers
who have measured the, work time and
again and have had it in their mind Ton.
two or three Years. la view of these
opinions of professional men based up
on figures which cannot mi>lrad. orII
testimony of what We SIM in walking
over Il large portion of the ten mile
and seeing the greater part of that We
did not walk over. i of no consequences
We can hHt add hat the work which
has been done since the first OF last
July has been :" great a> To Ice really
Surprising. Then the line seemed hope
lc>>ll headed of in Il rock cut at Nancy
stream. this side OF Bcmi> station. ON
~ Il small pant of the iron WAS Laid from
Upper Bartlett To that point. and two
of the largest bridges were not erected
Now the line is completed not only to
Bcmi>. bat three miles hcNond and the
next ten have been changed from Il cut
Gown Ia a nearly continuous road WAY
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little above the lin, of The lailro,d
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