The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-02-23
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Iiarrisbura. Or. Feb. 81. 1889.

Harrisburg, Or, Feb. 81, 1883.
Eds Democrat
Mr.. Levi LELAND loctur0d hero on
temperance Monday evening, and
organized "l'and OF hope" consist
Ing OF thirty three.
Mr.. Lovl Douglas son William,
spoken OF last week, Is very low with
the typhoid fever, and Is hardly OK
pected 10 recover. Mr.. p. IT. Conch
had an attack OF bilious fever last
week, but Is much better now. Sew.
eral others arc on tho sick list but not
dangerously III, and great many
more have been, and still are afflicted
with very bad colds and coughs.
Tho Il. II. Company's Engineer
was up last Friday making surveys
about the bridge above here. He
states that the company will build q
break.water about half mile long,
also levee something near tho same
length, and put In four wingdams by
driving two rows OF piles for each,
and filling In between with bagS of
gravel or sand. The pier at this end
Of the draw settled some six Inches
or more, during two days and nights
last week, thereby throwing tho track
out Of line about eight or nlno inches.
should have said tho lower end or
down river end settled. The settling
was caused by the water undermin-
Ing tho pier. Piles which were driv.
en- during the past summer on each
side OF Il to strengthen 10 and help
sustain tho weight, arc also under
mined, leaving the pier In rather
prscarious condition. might state
further, that tho pier was filled with
rock, but on Saturday morning, last,
II was observed that the rock In the
middle OF the pier had settled down
below tho water level.
noticed communication In the
last issue OF your paper from "0ne
Who Knows" In which he attempts
10 correct some statements Of mine Ia
the previous issue. lie uuisquotes, as
anyone may sec By oxaml5g both
Communications, and then says thNt
the truth Is otherwise than expressed
In his D,isquotod paragraph. He fur
ther states that there are, or was,
neither drift-bolls or laierals In the
treslle. Bolts arc driven through
the cap OF pile bent down into the
piles, also through tho foot OF frame
bent Into the piles upon which many
Of them stand, and the bridge carpen-
ters or wcrkmen call such bolts drift
bolts, so have been informed by the
K. X. workmen. In many OF the
pile bents there Is brace that runs
from near tho bottom or ground on
the one, TO the top Of the pile on the
other side, 10 prevent the lateral sway
Of the bent, and Is called by tho work
mon a noay-braee. As the name
sway brace slipped my memory al
the time Of writing, used LATERAL
BRACE mot latterals), which name ]
find Is errect by tho definition given
In Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,
"Ope Who Knows 20 the contrary
Notwithstanding Therefore when
said that the other piles, which were
completely undermined, were held IN
place by drift bolts and lateral-bracc
used correct tcOris 10 express truth
"One Who Knows" says that the
train was carried over by the string
or bolts, cobbles and DIsn-plales,
leaving out rails and stringers. He
INTRODUCES a new word, pIsH-plates,
Unto our language. lie says that tho
Iditch Is filed up some, and that 1.
| why l said IL Is gone somo say thai
there Is ridge Of gravel where tho
ditch used 10 be. He says that tho
dam Is there solid rs ever, aud SO II
Is, with a channel cut out between II
and the bank SO large that as much
water runs between IL and the bank
from which II was built, as there doe
on the other side Of IL. The cost o
the dam and ditch Is variously esti.
mated, and runs as high as six thou
sand dollars. So felt safe In saying
fifteen hundred. / presume that the
communication from zone Who
Knows" Is from fellow citizen and
well nent, or We shsuld give IL 8
closer criticism and a more particu
larized reply. Grease your pen ant
come again.
DAs.