Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-14
r l. AND RIVER.
Tha Canadian Pacific.

This we'll known corporation is being
crowded forward with wonderful speed.
The work last week showed an average
speed of over six miles of track laid each
day. The manner in which it was accom-
plished is thus told by the Manitoba Free
Press of the 10th:
During the past week twenty-four miles
1000 yards of track have been added to
the main line west. On Tuesday, July
3, four miles 1,160 yards were laid, and
On Saturday, July Z, six miles and forty
yards. On neither days was any extra
preparation made, and the same force was
at work that is daily employed. The lat
ter great record was made in fourteen
working hours, the first three miles being
completed in six and a half hours. To
show that it was
AN EXTRAORDINARY FEAT
a statement of the tracklaying force will
explain. Twenty-four men handled the
iron, twelve unloading off cars and re-
loading on trolleys, and the same number
laid it down on the track. Three iron cars
or trolleys were used, and as fast as one
was unloaded and run back till met by q
loaded trolley, it was tilted off the track
and the loaded truck run by, as is usual
every day. The twelve rear iron car men
unloaded and reloaded 2,120 rails (604
tons) during the day, and the five men on
each side of the front car laid down LOGO
rails 1902 tons each gang, while the two
distributors of anticipates and bolts, and
adjusters of the rails for running out over
the rollers, handled 2,120 rails, 4, 240 plates
and $3.50 bolts; fifteen boilers followed
and On an average put in 565 bolts each
Thea thirty-three spikers, with nipper to
each pair, who drove $500 spikes, which
were distributed by four peddlers; the
lead and gauge spikers each drove 2,12O
spikes, averaging 5000 blows to drive
them, or $40 every hour.
10000 TIES WERE UNLoADED
off trains, and reloaded on wagons by 81
men, and 33 teams hauled them on to the
track, averaging II loads of so ties to each
team; on the track eight men unloaded
and distributed, and four spaced them
two also spaced and iistanced the joint
ties, and two arranged joint and displaced
ties Immediately ahead of the spikers
-Four iron car boys and six horses were
used to haul the iron out to the front. The
first two miles OF material was hauled ter
miles, and the rest from three miles up, as
the usual side track gang put IN siding
of 1000 feet during the day. Thirty-si1
cars of rails and sixty of ties came ur
in six trains. Il should be men
toned that the track was over E
light ascending grade across an IN
dulating prairie, and five curves came in
on the distance, necessitating the cutting
of fifteen rails, thereby causing consider.
able delay. The credit for executing this
wonderful performance and managing al
organization to do it easily and without {
single hitch is due to
MEssRs. LANGDoN, SHEPARD & CO.,
who should be congratulated for their won
derful work on this road,as that of last yea
and this places them ahead Of the fore
most railroad contractors of the world
It should also be added that the telegraph
wire followed closely in the rear all day
and at night was found, as usual, imme-
diately at the east end of the track train
That, under the able foremanship of Mr.
A. Forest, was likewise very creditablt
days work.