, 1904-04-30

executive officers, but are highly train
ed engineers, capable of doing any
thing they may order done. They, in
turn, chose the strongest men they
could find as chief engineers of their
various lines to carry out the Harri.
man plans-Baldwin of the Alton.
Hood Of h Southern Pacific, Berry OF
the Union Pacific; all men that rank,
among men as strong as American en-
gineers are admitted to be. as excep-
tional-and with the money ready each
man set about his work to make prac-
tically new railroads OF the Hartman
lines"
In speaking of the line between
Cheyenne and Laramie alr. Spearman
says:
ITO find theline thatberry determin-
ed he must have, he sent good men
Into the hills only to be told on their
turn that where he wanted a line
1m.s none. B1r>&sen they tried
Enere this. the pers4hal eTrssat!Qg
Po a,ht,e and incalculSble factor in
~ which in the overcoming OF diff
ao,;,,es makes the sligll difference
ns.Maen success and future, inter.
Denas The chief engineer, undaunted,
ee.,s..d y abide by the findings. He
~. t,s engineers again; the second
~. they brought the line he knew
st be there.
EFT involved staggering estimates.
The Dale creek crossing, just beyond
Cheyenne, called for a single fill nine
hundred feet long and one hundred and
thirty feet deep. In these granite
wastes the engineering figures as
sumed, at once, %unheard-Of proper
lions. Cubic yards went into the cal
culations in millions instead of thou
sands. Two creek crossings called for
eight hundred thousand yards of en-
bankment. Two miles of new line re-
Quired the moving of seventeen hun
dred thousand yards of material, and
Of this three hundred thousand were
Of solid rock. Two fills within these
yards. To eliminate three heavy re-
verse curves and two bridges a-summit
cut was required, eighty feet deep and
q thousand feet long. The springing
charge for a single cone of rock was a
thousand pounds of giant powder, and
the mountain was hurled into the can
on with twenty THOUSAND pounds OF
black. For these unprecedented lev
elings of the continental summit new
devices were constantly brought into
play. Time was an essential of the
undertaking, and the American con-
tractor, Loyalty following the American
engineer, as he has always followed
him. stopped like an Atlas and took
upon his shoulders the burden Of the
plans"
There is nothing less snowy in the
rebuilding of the Hartman lines and
nothing that is more of a triumph than
this feat of Berry's in getting into Lar
annie. He has used here every trick
in his bag. and after moving five mil
lions of cubic yards of eartn and rock
to accomplish his purpose he comes
down into Laramie with a forty-three
feet maximum grade. eighteen miles
long. So close is the cloth cut for this
entire distance nat not n rail-
length Of level track could be conceded
for stations; they take their chances
on the grade as best they can. Provi-
dence may, indeed, some time shift the
axis of the granite anticlinal now SO
skillfully crossed at Sherman, Wyo-
ming, and new dispositions may be
called for; but until such an upheaval
takes place Berry's Laramie grade is
likely to stand.
The whole road from this eastern
approach to the Black Hills, far out to
Medicine Bow on the Laramie plains,
shows everywhere the chisel and the
straishtsdgs Of the Hartman en-
stnes9s."
In conclusion the following interest
Ing rscsrsscs 10 made to the wonderful