Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-29


uoNu th' jungle ana 'l'ar out inc
took us almost throc weeks 10 do this
anu Eut 'Lr machines ln RAINING Or
force and we now have repair shop
that | would not be ashamed to snow
to the mechanical engineers of am,
American railroad"
"Whaf kinds of work are Won do.
MC"' asked
Almost ovc,ythlg n The lIUo of
repairing was The rCpiN We have
geo men at work wa'IuC general ro-
pairs upon locomotives and cur cguip-
mo1ts ana uiI kIu.f ~ other machine
cry ugrd iu tdr runaI work our 'J-
puchy just now ll eoypu locomotives
ana 10 cars pnr upntA, We have gl-
ready repaired about loco Of tine Old
French dump cars. and they are now
I'm service u' C"lobru Mou of tr"'n
were badly broken and uustel out We
renewed the timbors and replaced the
missing purt1. We repaired % number
of locomotives. and now have between
30 and 40 of them I'm nee. AVID We have
also been doing great deal OF dttiNg
up Of boilers engines, concrete mix
ers and other things for tlo W1lor-
works ANA sewer departments, We
are repairing cranes eKcayators, drills
dredges ana all l)rts of things
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rkENCli MACHINES vs. AMERl-
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u Is eN'eIIeut Oh l'S Nl1u' puI nlu'h
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pIaHleu by pel''I Inventions 1IIu Nv
American improvements W men II
was PUT mere ~ years ago IL was ~
SolulelE modern, ana lh' uh'Nt lld'
'ouId De puTcndsed' As IL Is now
mnCh OF II rs good ana When II II
sprhhleu win auallIohtI iooIH from
the states we snail nave lnhchlhe
shops inferior To none. rake the
frehch locomotives Ihusr Nhl'h we
are now repairing are NJ Belgian make
They are well designed ana OF super
Tor workmanship, but they are compile
Gated and I'm some ways hard lo main
tain We can use them, however and
are repairing them for Culcbrd ANA
other points,
I'VE are also repairing the old
French cXcavators. which, by am end
less chain of buckets. scoop up the
earth and load 1t ON the cars, These
are now I'm use and chief Engineer
Wallace will probably continue TO usc
them untn he has enough steam SHOW
els or other superior American ma
chinery 10 take their places. Just now
when our machinery has not come
from the states much Of this Old
French stuff can be used.
Indeed II Is hard to estimate tho
value Of the material which we got
with the canal. The equipment of the
shops here IL. Judge worth at least
How about yolr labor. NIr. Stromo"
I'VE have American loremen' win
natives under them. we nave some
Jamaica negroes, VINO are skilled me,
ghanlcs ana VINO are especlaIy gooI
blacksmiths. we nave one bIacksmllh
whom VIII put up against any Whlte
blacksmith anywhere. Inc majority. OF
the Jamalcuns, however are worth
less as TAR as skilled labor Is concerned;
We can use them Tor rough work 0hly,
What other races DO you employ
I'VE nave number or Spallards'
some OF Whoin are super,3r TO Ine me
Chanlcs from the states we nave some
Frenchmen ana ana a large number OF
CoIomplans' we nave spanish loco
motive gang, a French gang ana an
american gang we Nork mem Slue
10y slue, ana Sach ules 10 see "hetner
II cannon 90 me most WORK, so tar tHe
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