Arizona republican., 1897-12-28
TRACK AND TIE.
A Few Paragraphs Touching Railroad
 Matters in Northern Arizona

A Few Paragraphs Touching Railroad
 Matters in Northern Arizona.
 Prescott. Ariz., Dec 26.-(Special correspondence of The Republ: :can.)- In Arizona there are 325 miles of San to Fe Pacific railway, twenty-six miles of United Verde and Pacific (the copper company's lne) and 196 of the: Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix. The first mentioned road has expended d large sums during the current year in the building of reservoirs, laying steel rails, ballasting, building sta tions, bridges, etc. The dam in Wal mt canyon, eighteen miles east of Flagstaff, was recently completed, likewise the pipe line running four miles to Walnut station. The dam will impound 0,0OO, 900 gallons of water. Rock used to build the dam was quarried at the point of conslruc- ton. Lantry Bros. did the work of building, the raiIIo company laying the pipe line.
 The steel dam three miles east of Ash Fork in Johnston canyon will not be finished until Feb. l. Pipe line connection will be made with the Ash Fork tanks. This is the first steel dam put up in Arizona. a de- scription of which was first published in The Republican in my letter of July Il. The railway company is doing all work connected with the JOnhSon canyon dam and pipe line. Four miles east of Seligman is an inn mense proposition, the dam being ninety feet high, 600 feet long and sixty feet at base This dam will take in melting snows in the noun tains south of Chino valley, as we'll as from the springs Rock used was quarried at Rock Butte on the s. F. F. & P. Pipe line connection was made with Seligman. This dam will be finished by the Lantrys in January their men quarrying the rock. The s. F. F. & P. laid the pipe line. The three dams will cost completed all Of t500,000, but will save tta the com pany by the discontinuLa nee of water hauls- The Williams dam was con structed by the A & P. railway and holds 40,000, 900 gallons of water. The Lantry headquarters are at Ash Fo.k, Henry Houser in charge, s. D. Lucas, secretary. R. R. Coleman, ex-super- intendent of the s. F. P. & F., who represented the Lhntrys at Walnut is operating for them on the Mohaya desert. The Lantrys will probably do the work of building the Big Bug branch of the s. F. P. & P. and other railroad building in the territory dur ing 1898
 Improvements in the Albuuueruue machine and boiler shops, the Harvey house there, construction of an SIS OOO Harvey house and station at Winslow establishing picking (preserving of tles) plant at a cost of $50,0OO at Bell mont, the building necessary to ere ating a new division point at Selig- man, a new steel bridge over the Rio Puereo in New Mexico, are among the many features calculated to involve the outlay of large sums, can be re- corded among the items of the year. The opening of a volea nic c:nder pit west of Belmont, hauling there from fifty carloads Of ballast almost daily and employment of forty or more men, was an innovation of tn year.
 Two hundred and seventy miles of new steel rails were laid during the past ten months, besides the ackage at Seligman and sidings at various points.
 Twenty-four engines of the. Santa Fe main line have been transferre1 othe line running through Ar.zou a \ in order to expedite the increased tonnage of the current year. The yer was put on in November ard
 ble service of this class began in
 pber.
 zone official of consequence re-
 at Albuquerque following the
 the road management in
 Mr. Richard English, gen.
 Wechanic General Super
 eur G. Wells movsd to
 so the otter officials
 in the Duke city.