The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-12
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the visitors sit up and ask Questions.
Before the shops are completed in all
their details they viii represent an out
lay of So50,000 and employ 500 men.
New houses are I'm evidence every
where, the business streets are lively
as the ordinary Town on circus day, and
this is just the beginning, FOR the new
POcateIlO has only been under way
about ten wears and is only getting a
fair start on the road cityWard. The
railroad is, of course, the town. And
the railroad makes it the biggest town
Of its size In this region. IL fairly
reeks with railroad men and tracks and
equipment. You couldn't drop a brick
from a balloon over Pocatello without
hitting some sort Of railroad property
or a railroad man.
In Great Poeatello Shops.
The Old Man took his guests with him
on his trip through the shops, stopping
to see a turn-table operated by a boy
who swung a monster locomotive
around By a touch on an electric con-
trOller. Then the trip continued past
long rows of locomotives in all stages
Of finish or unhnish, past piles of steel
aXles i'm the raw, acres of lumber, iron
Of all shapes and sizes. car wheels and
locomotive wheels. Then came the
place where the wheels 90 round
where there are lathes and drills and
cranes and steam hammers and air
hammers and machines that turn out
bolts much as "a sausage machine
grinds out reduced pig. 1t was inter
esting 10 note that most of the ma
chimes were operated by individual mo-
tors or else grouped in small sections
cd sd. &c
driven by motor. The biggest crane,
the daddy Of them all, is able 10 pick
up a whole locomotive as easily as a
cat picks up kitten by the nape of its
neck, and the whole shop is adjusted TO
that scale Some of the locomotives 35
this end Of the works were in a shock
ing state Of undress. but We're i'm a fair
way to be more presentable shortly.
The visitors were looking at one OF
these dismantled machines where
crew pOled around I'm its inWards with
long chisel and swinging ram cut
ting out defective tubes. when a small
ish man with keen eyes came along,
stopping 90 say things or make mo-
tons to the men at the various ma
chimes. His name is Malone and he
carries about 1850 pounds Of steam. His
pet machine is a queer contraption in
one corner of the shop that puts ruff
flies or pleats or some sort of extension
on boiler tubes that have to be made
over. and does ID while YOU wait Tt
was most attractive place, that shop:
clean, busy, modern in an its details
and preaching sermons every minute
on the value Of organizations
When the train pulled out of Poca-
tellO for the west the party was joined
by +. G. Manson, superintendent of the
division. Manson is not tan, is as
swarthy as a Spaniard. wears an I'M
assuming suit, a little round hat and
the air Of a man who does a good deal
more than he talks. Several days of
association confirmed the impression
that he knew his business and got if
done with a minimum of cOnversatiO
and a maximum OF efficiency. More
than that. ne is as genial as they make
/ en- and knows the difference between
g bobtatl and tours without the aid of a
map. AS the train spun along he de-
Neloped an encyclopedia amount of in
formation about the territory through
which his division runs, and told it IN
/ a most interesting way.
Scenes Along the Road.
From PocateIIo the track is good
enough for an Overland Limited. and
that's good enough for any train
Across the lava beds the country
doesn't look much ike a summer resort
or aWheat belt. but It has features that
arc worth looking at For Instance. In
one place the right of way cuts
through the rim of an old crater. and
the cut shows a stratum Of cinders that
L ill look hot, though it has been some
thousands Of years probably since they
cooled off. AT American Falls the
bridge crosses the Snake directly over
The falls. giving the traveller a mag
nihcent view of the great cataract-d
view that would be advertised as a
marvel 81 it were on any Of The great
! eastern trunk lines. Three power
plants are in course Of development