The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-26
HAD THE FAITH WHICH
WILL MOVE MOUNTAINS
Completion of the Ogden-Lucin Cutoff Proves the
Wisdom of Its Projectors.
Wonders the Way of Engineering Accomplished and Great
Saving Effected

spliced until it was OF sufficient length.
The trestle runs in a general way
easterly and westerly, being almost
without a curve. At intervals of fifteen
feet across the entire distance that the
piles were driven the center pile was
driven straight and each of the others
were at ar angle, the top iuclining
toward the center pile. The piles We're
sawed down to even length and capped
to insure against splitting. Each sec
ton of these five piles with their Mt
tings is called a bent" and OF course
the "bents" are fifteen feet apart. Each
bent" is fitted with a cross piece laid
over the tops of the piles and stringers
run along IL from one bent to others
These stringers are thirty feet in
I length and, consequently. one extent
Is from one section or bent" across
one section and reaches another The
stringeTs are so laid that they break
joints" that is, each one is so placed
that when two stringers join ends on
one timber the middle of the next
stringer rests on the nearest pile.
Thirteen feet below the tops Of the
piling and just above the present water
line other cross pieces are bolted 10
the piles fastening those OF each set
together, other stringers run diagon-
ally from the top Of one pile TO the
lower cross piece of the opposite pile,
holding all the intervening wood work
in its grasp. and joining the entire
structure in one solid unyelding
+ bridge. A floor is laid along the top
stringers and on this floor ballast is
placed to a depth that imbeds the cross
/ ties as firmly as on any piece of road
/ bed in the country.
Immense Amount Of Ballast.
! Vast quantities of ballast have been
hauled from the deposits of this ma
! terial which were found in quantities
/ almost ineXhaustible near the new con-
struction town of Hogup. A gravel pit
/ has been dug there along the track
about three miles in length. A sG-
/ perior quality of material was found
/ there, as if placed ready TO hand by
/ the Creator for the very use to which
| K is put. Besides the great saving of
/ time, distance and motive power which
/ the new line will make. there are other
! important results to be looked for. A
rich mining district, hitherto consid-
/ cred impraC tca BILE of development by
/ reason of the distance from water and
] transportation facilities. viii be opened
up. Great quantities Of salt. soda and
! kindred chemicals will be gathered
/ from the newly opened fields on the
/ lake shore. Immense dpOsits Of guapO
I are found on the islands and along
the shores, and this viii be transport
ed to enrich the farms Of a dozen COM
monweaIths.
Sanitarium to Be Built.
On the prOmontory which juts down
from the north end of the lake and
I which is lust touched by the line il
crossing viii be erected a large hOte
and sanitaTium. The very finest OF
salt water bathing may be had there
and the traveller across the continent
may rest in the midst Of the salubrioU.
and life giving airs of the most wonder
fu, body Of water in the world. Tes
piles have already been driven and ths
site selected for the hotel Il viii bs
rushed 10 completion, and the SAM
tarium to he built there will be one o.
the most notable attractions on the en-
tire system of the great railroad lines O
the Hartman interests. 1t is interest
ing to note that the new lines leave!
away to the south the monument mark
ing the spot where, nearly thirty dv,
years ago, the goldsq spike was driver
to mark the conE5Sng Of the UnioI
Pacific and the Central Pacific rail
roads and the spanning Of the cOntinen
with rails Of iron