Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-27

bridge is to be built at the west end o.
Walls, extending over the railroad and
creek This bridge will be $50 feet long
with trestles, and not including approaches
and will be 80 feet over all. Foundation:
are already being laid for this bridge, and
the heavy inflow of water does not inter-
fere at all with the work here, or at the
] seven-foot culvert, as big steam pumps are
constantly at work.
The little town of Walls has simply gone
mad with the events to come, and the
prophecy of the Supervisor of the Pennsyl-
vsnia Railroad has not been calculated to
allay the feeling. The little town contains
now but about 800 people, but he says that
in three years population of over 5000
will be realized. To show just how far this
feeling has extended, it can be said that a
little two by four lot at the approach of the
new bridge was bought for $1,000, where
ordinarily it would scarcely bring $500.
But very little building has been done so
far, but as soon as spring sets in
DWELLINGS WILL SPRING UP
by the score. The hills on the north side of
the creek are dotted with the board houses
of the workers. The Austrians, Swedes and
Hungarians insist upon living together,
separate from the rest, and the two. score
negroes employed also have houses to them
selves, AS the firm makes their own cars,
wheelbarrows, tools and everything else
necessary for such stupendous contract,
the hills about them and the scene of opera
tions present sight of business that would
rival any frontier or oil town in the country.
After trying in vain to elicit some facts
in regard to the contract from either Brown
or Emery, Mr.. j. w. Wonders, their head
bookkeeper, was then tackled with like
result. He had absolutely nothing to say.
Too much was known, however, to go
without a yerifcation, and P. r. R. Off
cial in this city said last night that all the
above was true, and more too. One of the
roundhouses, he said, was to hold 200 en-
gines and the other was to hold IS. Ground
would be broken as soon as possible after
the grading was done, for the car and repair
shops. In regard to the price of the con-
tract, he was ominously silent, but the fact
that no such stupendous railroad contract
has ever before been undertaken in this
county, or pushed to such rapid completion,
will show the price to be up in the millions,
including bridges and buildings. 1t is
known, however, that the contracts for the
buildings have not yet been let.
THE NEW sToCKYARDs.
In addition to this big work, it has been
learned that the lands owned by the P. r.
R. above Mosside will soon be utilized in a
manner that will most certainly please East
Enders. There are probably ZOO acres of
land about there owned by the company,
and it is their announced intention to move
as soon as possible all the East Liberty stock
yards to that place. The wisdom of this
will be apparent when it is known that all
their transfers will be made at Walls, so in
all probability both ventures will go to-
gether, though definite move may not be
made in regard to the stockyards :until the
big buildings are well under way. The
Brown & Emery mentioned here as con-
tractors, are the same who received last Sat
urday the contract for building the big So
inch water main, over six miles long, and
with two 5000 feet tunnels, at Johnstown,
Pa. The firm is from Bethlehem, just out
side of Philadelphia, and seems to have un-
limited resources in regard to plants and
men.