Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-31
Assistant Chief Engineer Of San
Pedro Road Back From Coast
TRIP OVER NEVADA DESERT
No Difrleuity in Securing Water-Ne"
scheme TO be Used on the syPhon
Principle Five Route.

Assistant Chief Engineer d. NJ NC
CARNEY Of the San Pedro, Los Angeles
q Salt Lake road returned last evening
from his nine-day wagon trip across
Nevada in company with Chief Engl-
neer Hawgood. The engineers spent
some time in the vicinity OF Pioche
looking over the country and then took
a bee line across Nevada following the
stakes that had been driven by the sur
vey party, to eventually board the west
bound Santa Fe train at point near
Ludlow and proceeded on to Los Ange-
les. Mr.. Mccartney only stayed In the
City Of the Angels for four hours and
then came on to Salt Lake In order to
attend to pressing business here
When seen this morning the assistant
chief engineer was In a very good hui
NOR. superinduced by the bright outlook
for commencing operations at this end
Of the line as soon as the report OF
the trip had been passed upon by the
directors at their annual meeting.
Down in California We found the
people enthusiastic regarding the road, ?
he said. the route as far as where
the line crosses the Santa Fe has been
decided upon as far as California is
concerned, and after these cases at CAR
son City have been settled II will not be
long before the entire route will be Sc
lected.
Wthen asked whether there would be
any difficulty In regard TO getting wa
ter on the desert In southern Nevada
Mr. Mccartney said "The Santa re
found no difficulty and do not antici-
pate that we will. There are one or two
stretches OF about fifty miles WHARF,
there Is no surface water but / think
that that water will be struck al 1000
or l,5o0 feet. In sinking for water II Is
possible that new scheme will be
used which is being tried on the Santa
Fe with success. The old scheme was
TO sink ten-inch cassion, reducing the
pipe until 1t was about six inches in d.
ameter when the water was reached.
Then a pump was put In. but the rails
Ing or column Of water 1000 feet high
to the surface used TO wear out the
washers In distressing manner. The
new scheme is 10 put down pipe In
side of the cassion and by using COM
pressed air and q small engine the wa
ter Is brought to the surface on the
hyphon principle. Then II anything
goes wrong with the affair you have all
your work on the surface without hay-
Ing to 60 down, pull up the rods and
TX new washers
Mr.. Mccartney stated that there
would not be many big engineering
problems to work out on the route as
he grades were easy.
Five routes gre now open for final Sc
ecuon out Of Salt Lake City. all OF
Which pass through good traffic terri
cry. They are south along the east
bank OF the Jordan and then southwest;
vest Into Deep Creek district, and then
'outh; west from Salt Lake and
through Skull valley; through Rush
and Tooee valleys, or down the west
bank OF the Jordan. thence into Cedar
valley.
/, Naturally the route selected win be
Kept quiet until the right of. way is
practically purchased, but II " thought
~ some that the first named win be
'hosen as that route will take In the
shelters In the Salt Lake valley. which
WI be benefited by the new road that
VIII tap a number OF good mining dis
riots.