Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-08
BRISK TIMES
AT CAL|ENTES.
Contractors Beginning to Get Their
Stride on Construction Through
The Wash.
FIVE CAMPS ARE ESTABLI SHED.
Every Spring Made Headquarters for
Teams, Outfits and Iaborers---
Big TrainlOad Goes In.

With the arrival at Galleries on sun.
day of the second consignment of out
fits for the Utah Construction company
dirt s now flying at great rate at
Valley wash for Al miles south Of Cali
| entes.
Today there are Ave camps estab-
| llshed, with two more sub-contractors
| yet to arrive, To date the work con-
sIsts Of straight grading with teams and
scrapers, no rock work OF any magni-
tude yet being undertaken. It is an
ticIpated that It will yet be sixty days
ere steam shoyels viii be sent to the
| front
In Calientes all the work now under
way is being done by the Empire Con-
structlon company The site for the
material yards has been enclosed with
a stout wire fence, while about flfteeen
teams, scrapers and CO men are grad
ing for the two main tracks which will
be 10 feet apart leaving plenty of room
Tor the stacking OF material. The yards
are three quarters Of mile in length
and extend from the present depot site
to the point of the hill at the com.
mencement Of the Meadow Valley wash.
In addition force of men Ii putting
In a pipe line from the spring at Gull
Verwell's ranch, 30 as to afford protec-
ton from fire among the lumber and
material which Is to be sent to the
front.
This work Is under the supervision
M E,,o
established headquarters at Calientes.
f. M. Robinson, the other San Pedro
Engineer, Is located in camp at Carsons
ranch, some IA miles down the wash.
me construction camps are of neces-
sity located near springs and are strung
out down the wash Mt intervals Sump-
tlon Bros. AZ present camped two miles
out Mt Ryan's ranch, will clean up by
the beginning OF next week when they
VIII move down to point some thirty
miles south. Seven miles down the
wash the Christensen outfit IL operating
AT Plppln's ranch on team and scraper
proposition. The other camps estab-
llshed to date are the Utah Construc-
ton company at swamp ranch, IS
miles; Pat Gibbons. Kiernan's ranch. 26
miles and Corey Bros al the Pockets
~ miles down the wash.
While there are a number of COM
paratively small rock cuts to be negoti.
ated, there are no fills worth the name
and the grade Is very easy.
work along this first 40 miles con-
FISTS In rectifylng the old line. closing
up gaps and generally STRENGTHENING
up the grade. which was built AT stated
intervals byt Oregon Ssh 1T Line and
The Clark forces during the now historic
tloodless battle OF the grade two years
ago. 'N'''
There are places through the wash
where the two old grades parallel each |
other' Wnlle at other points, notably |
Jus. soutn or the yard limits spurs |
shoot right across with the obiect I'm |
view Of blocking the right of way of |
the rival line, Now that the short
san Pedro deal has been flxed IN
however there are OF necessity some
changes In the original survey, as the
san PEDRO has the whole route 10 Itself
IL ~ on this work OF STRENGTHENING mn
the Kinks that the party under I'm
gineer IT, NJ Robinson at carson,s
ranch is now at work putting on the
touches.
+, when II comes to bridges and culyerts
nown the wash, their name is legion
WINE there IL no water visible at
ms ume OF the year to speak of. never
tneIess there has to be provision for
.rushets IN order to successfully cope
win the situation IL will be necessary
70 put IN In some places. as many as
eight to ten TO the mile. II is the In.
Iention to put In temporary cribbIng
ana trestle work at these points 1ntiI
Ihings are In shape to put In perma.
nent concrete culyerts and up-to,date
steel bridges. "'V
AZ present there Is some delay in get.
ing outhts to the front while the labor
problem also IS giving trouble. Men
IRE coming In slowly with The resni,
mar there are not 500 scattered over
ne entire iO-odd miles one Of the
greatest Consisnments Of laborers ar.
Neu az Vallentes on Sunday afternoon
= IN me party representing divers no-
lohailtles IN various stages of joyful
ntoxlcatlon The train also was one
!, ~ the biggest that has gone down to
late' being made up Of q cars loaded
WIN livestock and grading o,tt0ta