The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1880-01-17
Tho Far Hcst.
(coSTiNuRn.)
Editor D0Imoera!.


saying n word about its great iror
bridge across the Missouri. 1t ha:
eleven piers. To build each pier
two air tight iron tubes, composed
of rings two feet long, eight and {
half feet in diameter, made Of cast
iron, one and three-fourths inchc:
thick, were sunk side by side to the
solid rock, by the pneumatic pro
cess. The rings we're boltod to the
tubes as they sank, so rs to form
air tight joints. When the solid
rock, in one instance 50 feet below
low water mark, we're reached the
tubes were filled for about 25 feet
with concrete, and from there to
the top with heavy stone masonry,
Each column was Of such Il height
as 10 make the bridge-seat 80 foot
above low water mark. The bridge,
with the necessary approaches, is
$3.50 feet long, and cost - $50, GOO.
American engineers scem to bc:par'
ticularly successful in the uso OF
the pneumatic process in building
foundations under water BY q re-
cent decision of the United States
Supreme Court the bridge is a part
Of the U. ?. r. r. Omaha has n
high school building that cost
$2S0,O00; also a fine college. AT
u :1j P. NJ, the express train leaves
Omaha for Ogden. It is better to
so to the depot at least an hour be-
fore tls train starts,in order to have
plenty of time to make all arrange
ments, and gee what is to he seen.
At the Union Pacific Land Office
specimens Of the Agricultural pro-
duets ef the West are on cxhihi-
ton. Peaches, pears, apples, &c,
from Utah, and grapes and plums
from California, may be bought al
the lunch stands. No railroad in
the world cxcels tho Union Pacific
in the longth, magniticenco and
convenience of its trains. Travel
crs who have $l4 to pay for berth
in n palace car from Omaha to
Frisco can have NJ least months
luxury in i stationary palace
c;owtIcd into Il little more than
four days. Ny seat was at win
dow of the rear palace car l soon
found that tile rear car is the best
for those who want to "seo;" for
the river from the rear platform is
unobstructpd, and passengers are
not prohibited from taking advant-
age oft as they are on some East
crn railroads. And. now | WIS
fairly in the Wcst-not yet in the
"far West" for the boundary Of
that region, vague and ill-deiinod
at best, has been moving westward
rapidly OF late years, and is now
certainly beyond Nebraska. What
4 wonderful country the West is !!
a country full ofproblems in polit-
ical and physical science; regions
that in the memories of men still
young were covered with myriads
Of wild grazers, and upon whose
soil possibly in the lifetime oi these
same men will he ncted the great
drama of luxurious civilized life;
regions that seem utterly incapable
of supporting the menncst worm;
whose surface is composed Of sand
and ashes, and whose waters, how
ever clear and cool they may be,
are loathed by everything that
brcathcs; "climes inir withal rs
ever man imagined in his little
schemes of thought" climcs that
arc verituble vials Of wrath poured
out upon a cursed soil; springs as
pure and cold as any in the world
Others that nre boiling hot, and
others into which plunge or acci-
dental fall woult, be fatMl-not he
cause Of their temperature, but be-
cause they are poisonous. The
longest, noblcst rivers III the world.
Rivers that rise unexpectedly, flow
Il few yards, and then disappear,
without any visible cause. The
traveller can see many Of these con-
trasts in nature from his car, but
others have to be sought for more
carefully.
The road for $50 miles from Om'
aha, follows the Platte river valley
the route of the prairie srhooncrs
MnL rtnrns thnt Il fnM rrnYS nrN