Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-12-13
DOWN AT THE SANDWASH.
An Important Industry i'm the
Village of ceGIarVille.

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that there might be some dangers in
the road, took with me as body
guard, Captain Benjamin w. Simms
and William @. johnson, who having
laid up for the season, had nothing
better to do, than to act as escort TO
an innocent reporter, on a mission in
search of information. Subsequent
events proved that the last named is
not always to be relied upon, for at
critical moment in the afternoons pro-
ceedings, he deserted the company.
The narrative will disclose whether
he was justified in his action or not:
The ''sandwashn is situated on the
Cumberland and Maurice River r. R.,
and is about half mile from Middle
Run, on the Newport road, and fur
nishes sand for glass factories in New
York, Delaware, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, and in fact, ships almost
over the entire eastern district. Last
summer, the proprietors put in new
and improved machinery for the wash
ing of sand, much of it being the re-
suit of the ingenuity of one of the mem.
bers of the firm. Also, instead of cart
ing the sand from where it is dug to
the place Of washing. by horse and
cart, track has been laid, and with
cars especially constructed for the
purpose, one horse is enabled to do
the work Of four or five. Ten tons of
sand are now delivered to the washer,
every hour. The track is laid upon
down grade from the wash to the pit;
and while the horse seem to act as if
pulling the loaded car up the track
was the most pleasant work in the
world, the empty car, with the bene-
tit of slight push at the start, will fly
down the track of its own accord, the
animal waiting patiently while it is be-
ing loaded 1t is gravity road, on
which George Henry Robinson is con-
ductor, and Milton Bishop, engineer.
Two men will load car, while one is
on its way to the wash
- At present twenty-five men are en-
ployed at the works, and the entire
process, from the work of removing
the too soil until it is loaded in the
cars, to be shipped away, is one steady
draft upon the muscle. First the top
soil is removed, this varying in thick
ness from eight to twelve feet. This
is accomplished by men with wheel
barrows, who dump it where sand has
previously been taken. The sand,
when disclosed to view, will average
fifteen feet in thickness. AS the pro-
prietors have a tract of forty acres,
you can judge that the supply will not
be exhausted very soon. Water for
washing the sand is obtained by dam
ming up Middle Run, and it is forced
upon the sand by steam power, which
George Shaw carefully manages. Six
to nine cars are sent away each day,
and as a car will contain from fifteen
to twenty tons, you can at once see
that dirt from this portion of the
earth's surface is being rapidly dis
tributed over the globe. AS a showing
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wash was started: in the season of 'S3
and S4, 315 carloads We're shipped; in
'S4 and 'S5. $50; in 'S5 ami 'S6. 4S4; in
'S6 and 81, 567; in 'S7 and '9S, 1.00S
The record prior to 'S3 has been lost,
but about $4,000 tons of sand have
gone away from Cedarville, to help
enrich some other neighborhood 'Tis
true that the works have done a great
deal of good in finding work for the
laboring man, but how much better it
would be if this vast deposit of sand
We're used in the manufacture of glass
here. But as it lies, it is natural re-
source, providentially placed, but 60
ing to develop other towns
After the train took away it's COM
plement of loaded cars for the dav, the
Superintendent, Henry s. Garrison,
gave us an invitation to ride down to
the sand pit. Five grown persons
were in the car, and a small boy added
for ballast. The extra weight on the
car, gave it an impetus that sent it fly
ing down the track. at the bottom
stood loaded car. The switch should
have been turned, thus throwing us
off on side track, but it had been left
unchanged. Down the main track we
flew, and into the loaded car we
dashed. Before the collision, how
ever, Captain johnson jumped, and
that is what | meant when I said. in |
the beginning, he was not always to
be relied upon at critical times. The
sudden brlnging-up broke no bones,
nor damaged any property, but it was
rather an abrupt ending to visit of |
Inspection. POPLAR.
The Camden Excise Commissioners
have passed the ordinance fixing the