The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-15
PUSHING FOR
WAH|AWA
bodybuilding Is Going
Ahead at Good
Speed.

Five and a half miles from Waipahr
railroad station and only five miles
| teau," a construction gang of the Oahu
Railroad was working yesterday with
might and main to bridge a chasm sc
| that the locomotive on the Waipahu
steel rails and ties with which to carry
the line on to the pineapple district.
| Ten days from tomorrow that same
| gang will be laying the last rails at
| Wahiawa and then freight cars from
| Honolulu laden with cans and con-
tainers, boxes and much other mer-
chandise will be carried over the line
and left at Wahiawa for the planters
who are now ready to harvest their
pines and ship them to all parts of
the world.
The work of the construction gangs
at the farthest end of the railway line
so far completed toward Wahiawa is
an object lesson in fast, sure and gen.
uine work. There are no laggards
there and every moment of the day
is devoted to activity. Forward" is
the watchword, and those in charge of
the work set an example by perform
ing labor with their own hands as well
as directing it.
After many vexatious delays the
work of laying track began a few
weeks ago, after the arrival of the
ship George Curtis from San Francisco.
bark Gerard c. Tobey which put back
to San Francisco dismasted. They were
transferred to the Curtis, which was
damaged in a collision off the -Faral
lones and was forced to return to San
Francisco for repairs.
The connecting point for the Wahi-
ava branch will be at Waipahu sta
ton. The station has pretty setting
of cocoanut trees and a group of quaint
Chinese and japanese stores nearby,
while all about are fields of rice and
sugar cane A spur runs up to the
mill of the Waipahu plantation and
there the Wahiawa line parallels the
plantation railway. In order that
trains will not have to De dispatched in
reversed order a Y is being constructed
between Waipahu station and the plan
tation.
The Wahiawa line then leaves the
plantation mill, going through a portion
of the sugar lands and after rounding a
bald, rocky, towering point. swings into
Waikakalaua gulch. A pumping sta
ton for the plantation is encountered
just after rounding the point. A great
pipe leading from the station crosses
above the track on high stone piers
and climbs the hill to the main sugar
lands where the water is distributed
over thousands of acres of canefields.
For nearly a mile the track passes
through sugar cane and the scene is
one of marked beauty. The line hugs
close to the Waialua side of the gulch
and there is an everchanging vista.
The canyon is picturesque, especially
where the sugar cane is encountered.
Then farther up, where apparently lit
tie water ever drencheS the hillsides.
the scenery is more Of bold, rocky
slopes covered with dried vegetation,
principally lantana. The road follows
the curve of the hillsides. In some
places great headlands have been blown
away with powder and the rails pass
almost beneath beetling crags of igne-
Gus rock, which shows the formation
of the mountain in the various stages
of volcanic eruptions ages ago.
Now and then culverts are crossed.
all of which are nicely walled up with
hewn stones. Then the road passes
over high fills and then through deep
cuts. Some of the cuts have been hewn
through almost solid rock, others
through a ciayish formation which is
more readily pierced. Three long
bridges have been necessary thus far,
and only three bridges have been con-
structed. The construction gangs are
now engaged on the fourth.
A A. Wilson, is the contractor for
the roadbed and his work is being push
ed forward with lunas J. Cullins, Jr.
and James Crane in charge The dirt
is flying fast with pick aand shovel far
ahead of the construction-car, and
sometimes not three hundred feet
ers of split stones into the air. En-
gineer Taylor calmly removes his sur
vey instrument when the rock showers
come and then as calmly goes back to
work. Dooging stones is one of his ac-
complishments.
The construction car on Wednesday,
was pushed forward through a clay cut
to the edge of the chasm where bridge
No 4 is being completed. The car bore
the eleven frames which were to be
raised upon the concrete and stone
piers in the bottom of the bed of the
stream. One by one they were lowered
down, the engine assisting in this work
Then the engine was brought into re-
QUESTION gain to elevate the frames
upon their piers. BY evening the
! frames We're up.
Yesterday morning the car was ready
at the edge of the chasm with the great
! ~