, 1889-06-01
W NEW BUILDINGS.
Excavating for Foundry and Car
Repair Shops.
A Cheyenne Contractor Will Remove
IS, 900 Yards of Earth.
Three Walls of the Blacksmith Shop
Are Above the Surface.


Work has commenced on the large
foundry and mammoth car repair shop to
form a portion of the extensiv We general
shops to be maintained at this point by
the Union Pacific.
Ground was broken yesterday morning
on the slight elevation Immediately east
of the rond house and just south of the
coal chutes. This is the site of tie
foundry. which, by the way, will be 30Ox
90 feet, and when In operation employ
not less than 200 men, half of whom will
be of the highest class of skilled mechan-
les. The car repair shop will be located.
esst of the blacksmith shop, now In
course of construction. 1t is to be 200
feet long and seventy feet wide and will
be manned by a force of between seventy
five and 100 men.
No contract for the erection OF the
foundry and car repair shops has been let,
but there is every indication that bids will
be called for at an early date. as the
company is recovering from the embar-
consequent upon the business
depression during the first quarter of the
current year.
r. w Brawdley, a Cheyenne man, has
bargained to remove $1,000 cubic yards
of earth from the foundry and car repair
shop sites to road beds for tracks into the
new machine shops. 1t will thus be seen
that while this new work is a task incident
to the construction of the buildingsgua
anteed for the season, it is really a COM
mencement on structures that were not
expected until next year. The manner of
doing this work Is quite significant, if
nothing else, for it establishes the good
faith of the company and settles all
doubt as to the construction of the foun-
dry and car repair shop so soon as posi-
Bile.
-Four teams and ten men are employed
in ~excavating near the round house and
the force will be increased. The removal
of $4,000 yards Of earth is no small un-
dertaking and the task will occupy several
months in its performance. A wagon
load of dirt is not quite a yard and it will
probably take nearly 20, 600 trips to make
the transfer from the foundation trenches
to the road beds.
SHOP NOTES.
Three walls of the blacksmith shop foun-
dation are above the surface and masons
are making an inroad into the large sup
ply of rubble stone on hand. The laying
of a track has greatly facilitated the work
of handling the material. The black
smith shop foundation will be completed
by Saturday of next week.
A wheelbarrow brigade is excavating
for the machine shop transfer table.
There are thirteen lively men in the crew
and they dump the ashes from the made
ground between the foundation walls of
the machine shops. Old ashes make a
good filler, as they do not retain moist
ure. The transfer table will be 225x6O
feet and will be the only piece of railroad
machinery of the kind on the line of the
road west of Omaha.
There is an immense quantity of lum-
Der for the shops here, but the sort
needed first has been delayed, and only
eight carpenters are now employed.
Work OF the concrete foundation for
the great chimney is temporarily ahand-
oned for the lack of Iron Mountain
crushed stone. The underground work
will be finished next week.
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