The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-04-13
Yuma aud the Railroad.


vileges to the Southern Pacific railroad
Company. That these privileges have
been abused is hard to say; that the lands
have been improved, and made to add to
our taxable property is very eel tain. The
following list shows it, Beginning at the
upper end of town, the first improvement
is fine cattle-yard (fqr shipping beef to
California built entirely of sawed lumber,
ten feet high, comprising two corrals 40 by
so teet each, and connected by an inclined
gangway, up which cattle can be driven
right into the cars. Next is neat cottage
for the use of section men, "a feet by 40,
four rooms, double roof with large over
hanging caves, and provided with every
comfort. Then follows a substantial bunk
house, IA by %. Then cook-house, IL by
IA. Next is coal-bin, whose floor is near
ly level with that of cars, $50 feet by 20,
capacity of 800 tons, over 200 tons in it
now, provided with derrick by which
two men can raise and dump into the ten
der bucketful at a time of coal, weighing
a ton; the buckets are moved along the
floor of the bin on trucks. Tie turntable
is of the regular pattern. The round
house is a fine building with roof Of cor
rugated iron; it is built on a segment of a
circle, is "a feet in\ epth, is lofty, mas stalls
for four engines, AND foundations for two
more stalls. The Aee-houso is a building
IS by 81, of hollow walls filled with saw
dust, and is now filled to height of IL or
Is feet with ice brought from Summit
Valley in the Sierra Nevada. Next the Ice
house Is circular, iIcop-and.stave water
tank, with a capacity of $4,000 gallons,
made CT redwood, elsyaled above the
height of an engine boiler and protected
by substantial frame building twenty
seven feet square. Next is a sand-house,
twelve by twenty, for storing the dry sand
with which every engine is provided, and
which simple device sprinkles in front
of the driving wheels, when starting
load on damp or slippery rails. A double
Toulouse, fourteen by twenty, gives the
boys a chance to keep tools in place.
Passenger platforms have been laid along
the track, and connecting with the ticket
office in the old steamboat company's
building. A tank has been put up on tie
bluff next the river, of the same dimen-
siuns and material as the other; into it
will be pumped water from the Colorado,
which will be drawn into the other tank,
pumping engine has been erected for run
ming the water-works, and it is expected
citizens as want it and will pay for it. A
substantial warehouse h rs been built, 81 by
80, for river freight surrounded with broad
platforms for receiving and delivering
goods, and connected by an inclined plat
form with barges or steamboats, in the
river; the pumping engine is also furnish
ed with hoisting-drums for drawing up or
letting down truck loads of freight on this
incline. Another heavy platform and
freight-shed is now in course of erection.
on the site of the old &. S. n. Co.'S. ware
house, for the move convenient handling
of the quantities of heavy machinery now
coming into the Territory. Along the
town side of the river warehouse run two
tracks, which are constantly crowded with
cars in various stages of loading or un-
loading. On this side of them is another
depot, 26 by 60, for local and interior
freight; it also is surrounded with :oomy
platforms, and is furnished with two
chutes for running freight down into wag-
Gus, which can now be loaded as fast as
transfers can stow the goods
All these are substantial frame buildings,
neatly painted and, except the engine
house, covered with painted shingle roofs. |
Side and switches make them all of
easy access.
As the steamboats, now belong to the |
railroad company, this article readily in
cludes improvements made under the SUI |
pertision of Capt. 1. Polhamus Jr., the
able superintendent of the new Gas he was
of the old) Colorado Steam Navigation |
company. A large tract of land has been |
graded off at the bank of the river. On |
this have been laid ways, on which steam
boats and barges are hauled out for repairs, |
and on which two new steamboats, are to |
be built this summer. A machine and |
blacksmith shop, 26 Ivy Sc feet, has been
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