Omaha daily bee., 1882-10-05
ON TO the SEA.
The Energy Exhibited on the
Oregon Short Line.
Scenes Of Activity at All Points
fthe Road.

The Oregon Short Line has reached
! a point five miles west of Soda Springs
and the track Ia going down at the
rate of about one mile per day. The
space to be filed to complete the line
from Granger TO the crossing of the
Utah g. Northern is alb out twenty-five
miles, and as tracklayers are at work
at each end of the gap, it will be
closed within the next twenty days or
or less. Track laying is also going on
west of American Falls, and a point
ten miles west of the river has been
reached. Next month the entire
track force will DO placed on tho road
west of Snake river, and rapid pro
Rress will be made towards
Wood river. From the crossing
of Wood river up that stream
to Haley, graders are strung
along the line, and the grade will be
finished in a few weeks, ready for the
track. The company is floating down
the river 100000 ties, cut in the vicin-
ity of Ketchum and other points on
upper Wood river. These ties will be
taken out of the stream at Bellevue
and hauled by teams along tho line.
West of Wood river graders are at
work, contracts having been let which
extend within a few miles of Boise, or
nearly 100 miles west of Wood river.
There is an activity in the operations
of this company which indicates the
completion of the road through to
Oregon at as early a date as it is posi-
bio for menand money to do the work.
The Salt Lake Tribune says: From
American Falls TO which point, and
IA little farther westward, tho road..is
completed to Boise City, and almost
in sight of each other, may be seen
hundreds of construction camps, with
their hordes of teams and men, blast.
ing, blowing, slushing, shaking, pick
ing and shoyellng, and rushing for
ward TO completion another thread in
the great network of American rail.
roads. 1t il needless to point out the
vast benefit to DO derived from a short
line to tho north western Pacifc coast,
opening up, as it will, travel and traffic
to hitherto almost inaccessible points
in Idaho and Oregon, tapping the
rich mineral districts of the Wood
River country, and giving rail
facilities to sections heretofore relying
upon the creeping OK teams and the
additionally uncertain mule, and with
the Northern Pacific railroad making
almost perfect the long-felt want of a
continuity of railway communication
between all habitable parts of this
wondrous country. The company OK
poets to have the track finished to the
junction by January /, 1888, but if it
is finished by next April they will
have good cause for self-congratula-
ton. There is no lack of energy on
the part OF the various and numerous
contractors, many of whom, being
anxious to escape cold weather, are
vigorously pressing on, hiring addi-
tional teams and men, to the consum-
of their work and the happy
of home comforts and
pleasures.
II PLATTsMoUTH MOGUL.
The new mogul engine which the
b. q NJ. has lately secured for the
heavy work on the bridge division is
said to be a daisy. Yesterday Z.
S Witt, the engineer, hitched her up to
loaded cars and hauled the
load up the big grade and over the
without the least difficulty.
Hearing of this the railroad authori-
ties concluded they were doing the
work too fast and issued an order that
they should not carry more than for
+ .fvecars at each rip.-Plattsmouth
Journal.