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Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06

the game. There can be no doubt of this. for both teams count on it. and both teams have 1t all figured out, and
 certainly no one can count so rapidly
 and accurately or figure so infaliibiy
 as can the bankers. Hence. all oti-
 CTS are guessing. and only the bank
 CTS themselves know how they both
 can win.
 The following is the lineup of the two teams:
 Miners and Merchants-Burgess, D.: Boswell. C.; McGrath. h.; Coover. 2b. {; Watson, s.s.: Shattuck. 3b; Bennett If; Buckwalter. c.f.: Spiers, IT.; Subs. Joe Muheim and Jakob Schmid Bank of Bisbee-Brophy, D.: Cowan C.; Williams. h.; White. 2b.: Hicks s.s.; Cunningham. 3b.; Corey, If;
 Schwartz. of; Apgar. r.f.; Subs. Jir Douglas. J. P. Connolly. A. Casey The game will be called at 3 o'clock sharp
Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06

has remained ever since. playing left field and managing the team.
 Just now the Pittsburg clan is sail. ing along at the head of the National league race and the hustiings manager has his men in good shape. Of course he has the able assistance of that mighty Dutchman, Hans Wagner. and my! what bundle of assistance that big prstxel hunter Is to Clarke The latter says its the pennant for his this time, and he further ayers that worlds championship goes with 1t. For he feels that his team will be able to trounce the Detroits. whom he picks to win the American league flag.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06
sTA|D BANKERS ARE
 ID PLAY BASEBALL

In the absence of a professions! game of ball on the Warm grounds tomorrow, the Bank of Bisbee and Miners and Merchants bank teams will play the part of understudies and proceed to settle their annual differ euces and balance accounts between them without the aid of a clearing house.
 Both teams are ready for the fray and if one believes all one hears about this great game both sides will win
Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06
pvlllam ssek h Harnsss.

Harry f4Iiism is again the directing .hsaA q tMt National 'ieagus. Anss . Lave ssf, sesencs of six months ths lgstssuai slseoss ps9si1snt has ire sonsa his duties- When Pulhan ap- psarG1 q his o15cs h the g. Louas 1u1111ag h New york h vas as brDwn as . tseTy e1A Isoked the ptcturs q hsa1oA. 1AsugA tAsy ha1 ct glvss fAo im1usmatioa out ia s1vancs, ths e1ce asBlstnatD wsrs szUssting hin. @ooA Hey1lH. who haA besa set1ng ss Dsss11iif yd1xxd 0v1f SSaSytkfiG to -1sllhQ ed resuDsd his 1setss aa sserstary.Sfs
Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06
DEAR FRIEND:

We had such a good lemonade fol tea yesterday. That was because WI had good lemons. When l went tt get the lemons 1 saw so many nice fruits and things at the grocery These things:
Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06
SUNDAY MATCH IS SEASON
 FEATURE

All roads will lead to Warren on Sunday and will center about the base ball park. which is the Mecca not only of the faithful among the fans but of the faithful of the B. P. O. k. and F. O. E. as we'll The great event of the season is on. and will be pulled off at Warren with such eclat as the distric, has never seen before. The Eagles say so, the Elks say so. and 1t must be so. Each organization always does well what 1t undertakes, and when the two combine there is bound to be a sensation. Hence the inter est whica centers about the Sunday ball game, and hence the fact that every body in fhe camp is wearing button hanger. and hence. still further. the coming game is acclaimed the sporting event of the season.
 There will be a burlesque game in connection with the real game be- tween the Eagles and the Elks. and this game will go two wild, hilarious innings. Then there will be the res ulation game and this will go until ended by rain. darkness, fate or inn ings. There will be fun in this game, too. but let no one hint that both games will be burlesuue baseball. sN--
 Heaven forefend,
 Concert to Be Feature.
 It is expected that between games, between innings and at sundry and various other times, the famous kiltie Band of the Elks will render one O. its sensational classical concerts. and if everything can be arranged the fol lowing Is the program which that won derful aggregation of musicians will render: Overture, Otto Smidt Wed ding March," composed by Joe Martin eli. Girls. Girls, Beautiful Girls v Waffle Schwartz When the Froth Is On the Beer.1 Shattuck. Every Puff Pleasure" Hillman. steamers May Come and Steamers May Go, But Prunes We Have Forever" Denny Twomey. Special duet by Joe Mo Keehan and George Gage, We Re member You" Monologue by Spiers. Different Kinds of Waters" Papa Walsh, Waiting for Someone to Buy.f
 Notes of the Game.
 As both sides claim Walsh. the crack catcher (not of the Chicago team but the original Daddy walsh), who was star high ball catcher of the old Orient team a number of years ago. the captains of the opposing team have decided to permit him to chase the balls that go over the fence. so as not to hurt his feelings.
 Otto Geisenhoffer and Dr. Baunn . both insist on catching for the Elks, but Baum also insists that they use pink pills for balls if Jimmy Ball pitches. but says he will not bar can non balls with Del Lewis in the box.
 B. M. Pattison used to be a star player, but since he made record catch at Catalina is not satisfied to catch anything except with a hook He will, therefore, be with the root CTS. Get the hooks"
 It is said that Blue manager o the Bisbee Leaders, will challeng' the winner for billion dollars. O. some bet that will make Charie, Gates famous .bet you a million. sound like a piker or two dolla sport
Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06
BASEBALL RESULTS.

American League,
Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06

Growth of Wheat h Canada.
 Wheat natures in Canada in from 70 to 100 dsya.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06
A RaFnota 0nnoer.

q Remote Danger. With an ideal society there would bs no temptations to resise-hence. man would deteriorate.-Life.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
Nominations at Night

The night Nominations, we ire informed, almost turned night
into day" The business sections of Farnam and Douglas streets
were a blaze of flame, gas jets being conspicuous, with tens of thou
sands of candles Pickering in the windows. The Metropolitan, the
Wyoming and the st. James hotels were particularly brilliant. Mil
ton Rogers and Hellmans stores in Central block were splendidly
Illuminated. DR.. Ish's store windows were draped with tissue paper
banners bearing the words, "U. P. r. R.-Through tickets all over
the world for sale here" Jordan & Crafts hardware store bore an
illuminated acrostc made of the initials of the railroad and the
builders names-Durant, Snyder, Frost, Dillon, Train. Portraits
of the builders were prominent in all the decorations. The gas
the court house, Brewer & Bemis brewery, the capitol, Visscher's
block, G. H. Nichol & Co, Barkalow Bros the Herald and Repub-
lican offices were notceably brilliant. Among the private residences
Illuminated were those Of ] A. Morrow, Henry Yates, ]. r. Mere
dith, DR.. Lowe, o. F. Davis, E. Rosewater, George w. Frost, John l.
Redick, Clinton Briggs, A. D. Jones, DR.. Peabody, J. H. Lacey, r. X.
Taft, DR.. George L. Miller, John Mccormick, Will Brown and
Thomas Swift.
The days festivities closed with a grand ball in the large audi
ence chamber of the capitol. All the decorations from the speakers
stand were transferred to the hall, transforming the bare walls into
a bower of beauty. The quadriHe band of the Omaha Choral union
"discoursed sweet music, while a hundred merry feet tripped the
light fantastic" But there is a limit to all festivities and the
Omaha Of forty years ago was not an exception. Even newspaper
space had a limit. I'VE m sorry" the weary scribe of the Repub.
lican concludes, lack of space prevents a more extended notice Of
the affair. Taking it all in all, the citizens of Omaha have much
cause to remember the 10th of May, 1869, as the greatest day in it's
In an editorial discussion of the constructive energy of the
builders of the railroad and the greatness of the achievement, the
old Republican says:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
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that Dale Creek is 900 feet long, 1870 feet high and that 100000
cubic yards of Sherman gravel was used in constructing the en-
bankment; that the crossing of Lone Tree Greek is about 500 feet
long, 1875 feet high, with 2sO,O 900 cubic yards of fill in the embank-
ment.
This Sherman Hill line crosses the Rocky mountains at a summit
247 feet lower than the old crossing, thus making the highest eR-
walton reached by the Union Pacific just 5000 feet above sea level,
instead of S.247 feet, as formerly.
Millions of dollars were expended in this enterprise.
Millions more were expended in the construction of the Aspen
tunnel, or cutoff. 1t was the largest single piece of work ever un-
dertaken by the Union Pacific uF to that time and 1t has been sur
passed in magnitude and prodigious technique only by the Lucin-
Ogden cutoff, completed several years later.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
Energy of the Builders

Five years ago, when the ceremony OF breaking ground was per.
formed in this city, the writer OF this article was a quiet spectator
and listened with lively interest to the remarks of the speakers; and
we remember vtvidly the misgivings and doubts with which we re-
ceived the oft-repeated declaration of the sanguine friends of the
great enterprise that ten years would witness the completion of the
work. Precisely one-haf of that period has elapsed and the great
est and grandest enterprise Of this or any other age is an accom-
plished fact. The wonderful energy which has characterized the
management of the Union Pacific railroad, from the inception of the
great work till its ultimate completion, has been the marvel of the
age. not only In this country, but throughout the civilized world.
Eleven hundred miles of railway, constructed through a country
1900 miles from the great iron manufacturing districts, in the pres
ence OF bands of hostile Indians, who opposed its progress at every
step-and all this within the brief period of five years, is an achieve
ment without parallel in the annals of time. No man who has not
witnessed the progress OF the work from beginning to end-who has
failed to observe the thousands of obstacles to its progress which
have arisen and been surmounted, will ever rightly appreciate the
been entrusted"
As a sleneer for carping critics the writer, further on, declares
with Italicized emphasis: I'VE have not enjoyed the patronage OF
the corporation, or been the recipient of any special favors, and we
have always held ourselves free to approve what we deemed was
right and eensured what We conceived was wrong. And yet candor
compels us to say that In our best judgment the road has been hon.
estly built and wisely. ably and honestly managed throughout"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
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OPENING TIE GREA7SMZAT GNM

Aspen cutoff was begun November IS, 1899, and completed
April 2, 1900, while the Lucin-Ogden cut-on was completed and
dedicated in November, 1908, after more than two years of the most
arduous toll railroad builders ever exerted.
Aspen extends from Leroy to Bear river, wyoming. II avoids
the great Tapioca hill and is a very difficult piece Of track to op-
crate, especially in winter. 1t penetrates Aspen ridge, one of the
eastern foothills of the Wasatch range, and is $500 feet in length.
The construction of the tunnel was of particular interest in the rail
road world because of the peculiar character of earth encountered
and large quantities of water. To hasten work of construction a
central shaft was sunk, the top Of which was 31 feet above grade.
From the bottom of this the work was prosecuted east and west.
The greatest depth below the surface of the earth is 456 feet and
the highest point above sea level is 1926 feet. The tunnel was fin
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
p 6UHDWG TIE LINE CUT OLE &

lshed for a single-track and lined with timber and concrete, making
II one OF the most perfect pieces of work on the continent.
This cutoff, like all the others of the Union Pacific. conserves
the one basic purpose of the reconstruction, elimination of curves
ana reduction of grades as much as possible. On this Aspen cut-on
there is no grade greater than forty-three feet per mile and no curve
Oh more than 3 degrees and SO minutes. The grade through tho
tunnel is twenty-one feet per mile. This tunnel is electric-liRhted
and ventilated upon the most modern basis. The Aspen cut-on and
tunnel together make a line of track twenty-five miles in length and
cut OF ten miles from the distance of the original route.
In many respects the little old Lane cut-on, which Vice Presi.
dent Mohler has brought to completion with such signal triumph, Is
the most remarkable of these remarkable enterprises. It did not
penetrate any granite mountains, nor involve n deem and lenythv
tunnels, but it did involve some tremendous fills and cuts and a-
comphshed a purpose of immense Importance. But the most re-
markable feature of it is that it cuts of in distance nearly a much
as its actual length and, though 1164 miles long, It cost S. 100000
To be exact, it saved S.94 miles on a distance of 2O5s miles between
connecting points on the old main line.
Mr.. Hartman himself is very partial to this CUTOFF He re-
CARDS it one of the engineering triumphs of the age.
The excavation of this cutoff was entirely in earth. 1t in
voved the removal of nearly $780, 900 cubic yards of dirt. Every
particle of this dirt was utilized in the formation of entertainments
and about 100000 cubic yards of these entertainments were built.
They were necessary to form a crossing over the deep, wide valleys.
The roadway proper in excavation has one and one-half to one side
slopes and a maximum width of thirty rect; the entertainments have
a minimum width of thirty-ave feet and one and one-half to one
side slopes. The tracks. like others OF the Union Pacific, are laid
with ninety-pound steel rails on tie Elates, with treated ties of Ore
gon and southern pine. q
To give some idea of the herculean task conf. onting the build
ers of this cutoff it is we'll to note that at one place there is a cut
with a depth of Sb5 feet, a width of 47 feet and a total length OF
b,2OO feet. 1t must be understood that the Big and Little Pappio
rivers have something to say about the lay Of land out in that sec
ton and they must be dealt with If anything like this is to be done.
A deck plate-girder viaduct. spans the Little Pappio with forty
foot towers, with one 100-foot and three S0foot spans. the total
length of the bridge being 400 feet. The uncertain character of the
soil at the crossing of the Big Pappio made it wise to carry the tracks
on a timber Testle until the settlement of the embankment. Both
freight and passenger trains use this cutoff. All the great limited
trains go over it ON their way to the Pacific coast and It is about AZ
big a single factor in this flood Of human and inanimate traf that
flows back and forth from east to west as there is.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
Where Credit for Great Undertaking Belongs

Chief Engineer Hood of the Southern Pacific has been credited
with the original idea of a cutoff across Salt Lake. Mr.. Hood pre-
sented the scheme to julius Krutschnitt, who became Mr.. EIarrt-
mans right hand man when he took control of the property. Mr.
hruttschnit was soon converted and he, in turn, after considerable
time. converted Mr.. Hartman tc the cause of the Lucin-ORden
cutoff.
Those men, however, who felt that the undertaking wal not
feasible because of its excessive hazard, had some grounds, a events
disclosed, for their views. While the construction work was in
progress at least one solid construction train was swallowed IN and
completely lost in the quagmire of the lake. Engine, cars and their
load OF ballast brought from Bear mountain, together with the train
men, were lost. Another illustration Of the peril of this undertake
ing was shown when they began to drive their piles. One pile on
top OF another was driven before any apparent foundation was
struck. Expert engineers did not pretent to say how deep this ouaR-
mire was and for some time there was serious question if the under
taking would not, after all, have to be abandoned. Even after the
'utoh was completed and in operation It sunk TO an appreciable de-
gree and train service was temporarily abandoned while more ballast
was thrown in, and also to give time for the settlement process.
But no accidents have occurred on the cutoff since 1t wa placed
permanently in operation and it is regarded today Just as safe 8 n
other portion of track. It's champions have been indicated and II
mas come 10 be known as one of the great scenes along the shnuous
trail of this master transcontinental line and one of the unIoua
FEATURES OF American railroadtng. 1t saves millions L. It's owners.
Part of the line on this cutoff is single, but most OF it is double
tracked.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
Golden Spike Celebration in Oma

rectly in front Of the building. The stand was lavishly decorated
with the national coors and bunting, several appropriate notices
and the names of the railroad builders-Casement, Hoxie, Durant,
Snyder. Frost and Reed. Omaha and San Francisco" THE Day
We Celebrate Begins a New Era in the Worlds Commerce" What
God Hath Joined Together Let No Man Put Asunder," "The Atlantic
and the Pacifc-Blessed Be the Tie That Binds" were the sentt
ments and hutered before the eyes of the multitude and expressed
their feelings. Governor Alvin Saunders presided. Three formal
addresses were delivered. THE Day We Celebrate" by General
Clinton B. Fisk of Missouri; Westward the Course of Empire Has
Ceased to Take Its Way" by General c. F. Henderson; 1.-THE Pacific
Railroad" by Hon. E. Wakeey.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
The Procession

The procession formed in the vicinity of Ninth and Harvey
streets and moved over a zig-zag route west and north to Capitol
square, the present site of the High school. E. A. Allen was mar
shall and his assistants were Colonel H. Ltchneld, Colonel c. S.
Chase, Captain w. H. Hollis, Lieutenant George o. Williams and F.
j. Mcnamara.
Augur and his stan, Generals Switzer, Rugges, Alvord, Barriger and
Colonel Emery, followed by the troops at the post. The distinguish
ing feature of the procession was its representative character. Local
lodges of Masons, the Odd Fellows, knights of Pythias and deega-
uons OF these bodies from Fremont. BELLEVUE and Council Bluns;
the Turner societies, the United Irsn society and other fraternal or
CARNATIONS turned out their full strength. Another division con-
sisted Of the Omaha fire department, a fire company from Fremont,
the Durant Steam Fire Engine company and Union Pacific employees
Heading the division of vehicles were a number of stage coaches
which had seen active service o n plains, and whose doom was sealed
by completion OF the railroad. Public officials, invited guests
and unaHiated citizens filled carriages, buggies and less imposing
Vehlcles, the tan-end of a procession two miles long and the most
enthusiastic that ever passed owe the streets of the city,"
Eleven thousand people is the estimate of the crowd that hacked
Capltol square in front of and around the old capitol building and
on the roof, The unique pagoda which adorned the building opened
a way for young America to obtain choice seats on the roof. Scores
OF youngsters occupied imposing vantage points, their shoeless *
uemitles hanging over the caves, When the procession reached the
square some wise Waterman, knowing the insecurity of caves. halted
the ceremonies long enough 10 chase the boys off the roof and those
uhlueAy Youngsters had to content themselves with standing room
only IN the fringe of the crowd
The exercises on the square took place on a stand erected d.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
Matchless Feat in Lucin- Ogden Cutoff

And now we come to the matchless Lucin-Ogden cut-on. All
OF these other enterprises are great and are serving great purposes,
but for boldness of conception and skill of execution it has been Seri
ously questioned if these or any other similar achievements In the
line Of railroad building can half compare with this piece of work.
1t is the embodiment of the intrepid Hartman spirit.
The Lucin-Ogden cutoff is a line of track crossing Great Salt
Lake at its deepest portion. 1t is 1926 miles in length and saves in
distance forty-three miles. But this saving in distance is a small
matter al compared to the saving in motive power and cost of OPERA
ton 1t avoids Promontory Point, the highest point On the line of
the Southern Pacific railroad until you reach the summit of the
Sierra Nevada mountains in California.
This evasion of Promontory Point means simply that engines
and trains, with their thousands OF tons of weight, no longer have
to be lifted to the elevation of approximately 1000 feet.
This cutoff leaves the main line at Ogden and darts across
Great Salt Lake, striking Lucin, it's western terminus, 1915 miles
away, making almost a bee line. Between Ogden and the lake IL
traVerses a level strip of country for fourteen and a half miles. In
this distance the line crosses Weber river twice and makes three
short curves. In ALL the line is composed of seventy-two miles O.
land and twenty-nine and a halt of trestle on water. Twelve miles
and 600 feet of this trestle is permanent; the remainder filed with
material from Little mountain, on Promontory Point.
Across Promontory Point, a distance of five miles, the line
skirts along on land. An almost insuperable obstacle encountered
by the builders was a rock 1000 feet in length and averaging twenty
feet in depth. 1t was necessary to cut directly through this rock.
Some of the best engineers in the world pronounced this cutoff
impracticable. Mr., Hartman himself had to be won over 20 the
scheme before he would adopt it, When he came into possession Of
the Southern Pacific railroad. superseding Coils P. Huntington, he
determined, as Mr.. Huntington had determined before him, that
some other line should be built so as to avoid Promontory Point.
But Mr.. Hartman believed the solution of the problem was to run
a line around the southern end OF the lake.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09

~ HE four greatest engineering achievements of the new
Union Pacific are these:
Sherman Hill tunnel, 1900 feet through solid granite.
mately $4,000, 900.
Aspen tunnel, $500 feet long, and Aspen cutoff, twenty-five
miles long, the two, with other western cut-ofs, saving thirty miles
In distance, costing approximately $2. 100000.
The Lucin-Ogden cutoff across Great Sale lake, 1926 miles
long. cutting off forty-three miles distance, costing Sc, OOO, 900.
The Lane cut-on, eleven miles long, saving nine and onehalf
miles. costing SO, 200, 900.
to Ogden over its tracks was 1,O42; when these Hartman improve
ments were completed the distance was 1000. The Sherman Hill
line' as a matter of fact, increased the distance three miles, but the
others, exclusive of the Lucin-Ogden cut-on, reduced it, leaving the
net reduction forty-two miles.
Technically speaking, the Lucin-Ogden cutoff is not a part
of the Union Pacific, for 1t begins where the Union Pacific ends, at
Ogden, but practically 1t is a part of the Union Pacific, or, while it is
the first 100 miles of the Southern Pacific tracks on the eastern end,
the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific are to all practical purposes
of travel one road, stretching from Omaha to California. But in
reducing the distance of the Union Pacific between Omaha and ogden
the Lucin cutoff, of course, has no part.
stupendous in their undertaking, accomplishment and results,
these engineering feats stand out in the history of railroad making
the world over as monuments to the skill and daring of the men
who conceived the thought and directed the construction.
But 1t Is not necessary to select these or any other specific
pieces of work from the building oil the new Union Pacific to show
that great engineering achievements have been wrought along that
railroad. The road itself, taken as a whole, represents the most
intrepid spirit Of enterprise and marvellous engineering achievements.
Its physical reconstruction under the regime of Hartman has chal-
lenged universal admiration.