The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-14

found Leavens checking lumber one day
not long ago, and asked Engineer Lowell
who hired him. The engineer replied
that he had, whereupon, according to
Farley's story he (Farley) said he was
superintendent of the road, and proposed
to be, and did not want him Iovell) to
hire men who were not needed. The
result was the discharge of Leavens,
who was afterwards put to work on the
incline, under Bridge Superintendent
Walsh. Superintendent Farley says
Leavens was discharged from that posi-
tion for incompetency.
A TRIP OVER THE ROAD.
While at the Cascades the reporter
made trip over the portage from the
foot of the east incline to the foot of the
west incline. Governor Pennoyer and
State Treasurer Metschan made a SINH
lar inspection and reported that they
thought the work had been well done.
Conversations with responsible men en-
ployed on the government works in diff
ferent capacities also corroborate this
idea. Being government employees they
declined to figure in state business, but
said confidentially that mistakes had
been made, not serious ones, and that
in the long run the state will find that
it has obtained its money's worth
The most serions and costly mistake
appears to be in the location of the east
incline. 1t runs over rocky piece of
shore land where it was extremely diff
cult to drive piles. At one place piles
could not be driven and trestle bent
had to be put in and it will have to be
rip raped to hold it in place when the
river is high and the current swift. Had
the incline been located short distance
further south better ground for pile
driving would have been found and there
would have been just as much water and
boat room at the foot of the incline
The way the incline is located it is pos
sible for floating ice to accumulate be-
tween it and the shore and make the
safety of the incline matter of guess
work. Superintendent Farley admitted
that n serious mistake has been made
here and says it is the fault of Engineer
Lowell, who located the line. He says
the state is out and injured $4,000 by the
engineers mistake.
THE LINE FAIRLY WELL BUILT.
The road appears to be fairly we'll
built and equipped. It is seven-eights
of mile long, Forty pound steel rails
are used and the ties are hewed and
were originally made for a standard
gauge road. They cost the state 221S
cents each. The inclines are made Of
six pile bents, and are double tracked.
There are eleven stringers in the work,
two under each rail, one between the |
two tracks and one on each side.
The bents are sway-braced with 6xS tim
bers. The bent tim bers are 12x12 and
the stringers 7x14. For lumber laid
down at the Cascades the state paid |
50 S719 per 1000, which is very cheap.
The west side wharf boat, 13Ox4O feet, |
will cost when finished $4,000, and the |
one at the east side, .10Ox3O, $4 900. |
When the water goes down 120 feet will /
be added to the east incline at cost of
5000 or $500. The rolling stock consists /
OF 2619 ton Baldwin locomotive, and |
four box and twelve fiat cars.
Among the things Superintendent Far
ley intends to add to the states railway |
are these: Wharf-boat at the end, 81
900; car house, $500; crib at west end /
incline, $500; furniture and fixtures for
office, $3.50; caboose car for passengers.
500; total, $3.50.
Superintendent Farley says he has be- /
tween $4,000 and $4,000 of the appro-
priation left His estimates of the cost
Of the road when he makes the additions |
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