Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-25

lot me mention some OF the larger
Items on the French balance sheet. The
small ones are so many that their names
alone would M a page Of this news
paper We have here on hand 81
bargcs, 3S yowls, and p steam launches.
There are 213 iron cranes. 500 big pumps
OF various kinds, 1879 rock drills and 40
steam winches, There are II bridges,
valued az almost Si0O0O0O; 10 electric
machines, y planning machines, l5l
punching machines and all sorts OF ma
chimes for shearing iron, riyeting and
bolt screwing,
There is a floating drill apparatus
valued By the French az over $4,000,
a boring machine at $4,000, a section
dredge worth $500 and other dredges
running up into the millions. As TO the
cars and locomotives, they are OF every
description There are "a American
locomotives valused at 100000 and 2l2
Belgian locomotives valued mt $5.000,00
together with lot Of Decauyille loco
motives for hauling dump cars over
the little narrow gauge DecauVille
track There are steel rails enough 10
lay 10 miles " standard gauge, ana
more than Go miles OF narrow gauge.
There are 5000 dump ears, the most OF
which can be used and there are 5000
ttolleys for carrying dirt away from the
canal. The most OF the railroad ma
terial Is good and the dump cars are
now being repaired and remodeled.
The locomotives, when cleaned and
oiled. are found 60 move All right; and
the engineers tell me some of them
are even better than any which can
be purchased today.
OUR BIG FRENCH DREDGEs.
My trip over the canal was made in
company with Paymaster 10, g. Tobey
the chief Of the material and supplies
department, Paymaster V, $, Jackson,
his assistant. and Mr. Carl a. Strom,
the mechanical i neer m charge of
an the machinery o. the isthmus,
We began at Colon and Travelled from
station TO station taking plenty OF time
10 20 through the larger warehouses
and to investigate the condition Of the
materials there stored. We examined
the steam dredges lying out IN the
open, both at Colon and La Boca. These
are now being repaired and they will
soon be doing active work on the canal
At Colon we INSPECTED one dredging
vessel made OF steel which was 200 feet
long and 40 feet wide, and which Is
worth TO Uncle Sam as Il stands $4,000
IL has three enormous cranes OH II,
one of which will lit IS tons The
barge Is equipped with engines and the
only repairs needed are at different
places In the hull. This is covered with
barnacles, which must be scraped Oft
and the holes made by the salt water
patched up.
Next this vessel lies a Scotch dredge
with chain of great dredging buckets
upon It. 1t is practically whole and
paymaster Tobey estimates that II rs
| worth about 800, 900. Each bucket VIII
carry u barrel of material. The chain
| TO which the buckets are fastened is
made of links weighing, | judge, 100
| pounds each.
Standing on this Scotch dredge
| counted 40 other vessels belonging to
! the canal from where l stood. Some
were sunk In the water with only their
tops showing, others We're floating, but
all can be raised and used These YES
sells are Worth all the way from ~
each for scrap iron up to 100000 each
for use I'm the excavation of the canal
At La Boca, the Pacific end Of thu
canal we saw three great dredges ~
ing I'm the mud. Any one of them mus
have cost IN the neighborhood Of $3.50,
000 An are In good condition above
the water line and all Iloat at high tide
Some Of these are now being treate,
80 as TO prevent deterioration until i
| IS QeleIllllltN Nitiuel Alltg lhll he uNti
IN the canal work. In addition ther'
are II dredges IN the canal which hav
cost altogether In the neighbOrhood o
s. ,000 goo, and there are also severa
auxiliary vessels. In the ia l3cc'
shops u marine engine which has bee
dragged w from the bottom of IN
canal, is being overhauled for use In
steam launch Of the quarantine service
and the jamaican boilermakers are nov
working there upon a cargo lighter IL
feet long, "a feet beam and feet /
depth, while I'm the same building othe
worltmen are putting together stear
launch which was brought down iron
the Culebra cut ~ miles away.
THE SHOPS AT COLON,
I despair Of describing the ware
houses. Those we visited at Colon GOV
cred at least 10 acres, some of tn
buildings being 700 feet long Thes
buildings are rooted with galvanige