The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1903-08-06
WHITE RIVER RAILROAD


arc q, this time employed. there being
about iifty more men working ut the
south end thnn ut the north.
The rock through which the tunnel IT.
made II mostly blue hint. The tunnel
l. ~ feet high and ls fee, wide and has
u good solid rof, At the north end IL
u fine spring Of cool. clear water. This
spring furnishes enough water for all
the hands To drink, and II pump /, KEEP,
running day and night Ia pump the
water out.
The rate of progress in the tunnel is
about ten feet every ,wcnty.four hours.
This means blosing out Of solid rock u
space ten feet deep eighteen fee, wide
and twcnty-four feet high, and taking
all this rock out of the tunnel and ou,
Of the way.
Mr.. Gleason says the ho, weather is
u drawback. ~ the teams ana men can.
not do N much work ~ II II was cooler:
but when the weather Is cooler there
will bc men al work strung all along
the line to the number Of five thousand.
The amour, of explosives used In one
charge in the outside of the tunnel has
been ~ large as twenty-five kegs of
powdcr The smoke l. blown out of the
tunnel after each blast by compressed
mir. The running expense ai the tun-
mel l. seven hundred dollars per day.
There are men coming and going all
the time.
Recently two hundred laburers qui,
work In onc day. The most Of the com.
mon labor Is now done by Aus,rians.
Paddy from Cork" has retired from
building railroads. The Au-trians are
rather small and are good pick and
shovel men.
Ties IRE bought on the right Of way
for twcnty.four cents each, Large rocks
weighing u ton or more are now lying
irf some places one hundred yards or
more from the railroad. They have
been blown there by powder and dyna-
mite, Several Of the farmers on iiOark
will move gu, Of their house, N soon us
blasting down the bluil- near them
shall have begun,
The railroad survey on ltoark runs
between the house and smoke. house be-
longing Ia II. &. Cox, and over his we'll
Of water. He will have to move his
house and drill new well.
In some of the bluffs u charge of two
hundred pounds Of dynamite mas been
pu, In one blast at one time.
The spring u, the north end Of the
tunnel has come to stay, and IL will h.
drained and run north from the tunnel
by the side Of the track down toward
Reed, spring
II l. thought there vii! be- two dcpots
In Tancy county north Of the river
one at BTnson and the other at Garbcr
The railroad men ARE working like
beavers all along the route from the
Tancy county line To Gclcna. and ARE
getting ready To move over into Taney.
The work has been delayed between
Ruth and White river by -ovic Of the
farmers who own farms over which the
survey runs wanting more than twenty
dollars un acre Tor their land. II l.
thought that the right Of way over
several farms will have to h. condemned
and the damage assessed by the rail.
road commissioners.
The railroad company has awnings
hung over the men in some places for n
shade. This IL where /, is unusually
hot,
The maximum grade Ia the mile Is
hf,y.two and eight tenths feet, (thi- il
Official, and on curves II Is less than
this
| lhcrc mas Occi no survey a- rcpprtcu
lately on Coon creek, with u view nf
crossing the river n, ,ba, point The
bridge will bc built ut Branson and Il
depot will be built either on this sid,
or on the other side of the river
The work on the railroad shows ,ha,
the people who are furnishing th,
money 10 build ,bo track want II ligh,
grade. This they will have, as the
grad, is about thirty feet Ia the mil,
less than the grade on the Frisco. Or
the original preliminary survey til,
tunnels were thirty fee, higher thar