Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-23

Track Laying Resumed To- Day bv $50
Nen-Shosh0ne to be Reached In 40
Days-Hailey In so, Or by the First Of
January, 1883.
S. B. Jones, Assistant General Pas
senger Agent Of the U. p. r. r., at
Omaha, who arrived in Haley yester-
day afternoon with the Strahorn party,
gives the latest accurate information
concerning the prospects for an early
completion Of the railroad to Haley.
The party came to the end Of the Q.
S. l.. track on the cars via Granger
where they took private conveyance
and drove over the grade to Shoshone,
thence to Haley. They examined
the line-every mile of it-with the
judgment of men who know what
work is required to complete road.
Mr.. Jones states that from Omaha
west via Granger, on the u. p. to II
miles west of American Falls, the cars
are running through on the broad
guage. The grade is completed to 40
miles west of American Falls, await
ing the track-laycrs. One hundred
and fifty men start laying rails to-day
II miles west of the falls westward,
and have contracted to average over
a mile per day-or about 40 miles per
month. Mr.. Jones states that the
graders are SO far through with their
work on the entire line to Shoshone
and thence to Wood River that not one
day will be- lost by the tracklayers, as
the grade will be fully completed for
the rails as fast as the tracklayers can
lay rails. There is no question Of
this, and therefore at the rate
the men have been laying
rails and will continue to,
the track will be completed and cars
running to Shoshone City in 90 days.
1t is SO miles from the end of the
track, at present, to Shoshone City
the junction of the Wood River
branch railroad. The tracklayers are
now strung along laying ties and rails
to point 40 miles west Of American
Falls. The graders on this last 40
miles are working rapidly. There
will be no halt made until HALEY is
reached. No station will be estab-
lished on the desert east of Shoshone,
this year, but the construction train
will be kept coming along to Shosho-
ne and Immediately thence on the
Wood River branch. Not mile of
track will be laid west of Shoshone
until the cars reach Haley, and then
the working forces will be withdrawn
from this road and set at work on the
O. S. L. west to connect with the O..
K. 4 n. railroad at Boise City or
Snake River, rs the case may be.
The management state officially that
Haley must be reached without de-
lay. When reached terminus will
be made here.
Corrigan & Carlisle, who employ
the largest gangs of men on the road,
are now grading the only two miles
of lava in the way on the Wood River
branch, and will positively finish the
work in 80 days more, when the grade
will be completed to Shoshone. Sew
enty-fve teams and scrapers are now
working on the grade between HALEY
and Bellevue, and have nearly COM
pleted II miles Of the five and thrown
up grade for that distance five feet
above the level, and have broken
ground half mile further-making two
miles nearly completed-which brings
them to the corner of Quigley's ranch.
Forty additional teams and scrapers,
with men to work them, are now on
the way to Haley, and due this week
which will make total of l15
teams and scrapers on the grade from
Haley to Bellevue, and the work will
be completed, if the weather continues
favorable, in two weeks more. In
this case the grade from HALEY to
Shoshone will be finished in six weeks,
and ready for the track. The work
has been heavy undertaking, as near
~ every mile of the entire road from
American Falls to Haley is either
cut. n fill. or a hiph grade. but the u.