Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-08

Bluff a 81, 900 beet sugar factory is now
in course Of erection and between Cheyenne
and this line is the famous Goshen Hole
and Wheatland irrigated area
Omaha jobbers have in the past carefully
and inteligently followed up the trade OF
the growing west and no doubt that same
alertness will govern them, that has given
them the hold on the localities already
settled.
With such land of industrial and agrl-
cultural possibilities as central and north
ern Wyoming, 1t was necessary to bring
that land directly in touch with the Mis-
souri, valley, not by side door entrance
through Toluca, Mont, but by an independ-
ent main line from the southeast
To permit an early development of the
basin and to assist the government in
carrying out it's scheme of damming up the
Shoshone river and creating a storage
reservoir, the Burlington tapped its north
west line at Toluca and built to Cody, just
to the east Of the Yellowstone Park reserve,
near the site of the great Shoshone dam.
In 1905 the new main line was started
south from Frannie, following up the Big
Horn river to secure a water grade, line,
and the extension was followed 10 Kirby
in order to open up the great soft coal field
in that locality.
Under the plans that have been recently
determined on, the present main line extern
sion is now being built into Thermopolis,
thence south through the Wind River can
yon to Bad Water creek, where it turns
east and somewhat parallels the North
western road to the eastern boundary,
The construction OF the new line between
Kirby and Bonneville, Wyo., means the
building of a link, connecting the north and
south line with the east and west line. 1t
Is a line of two-tenths Of l per cent grade
as far as the mouth of the Wind River
canyon, where a maximum grade of six
tenths of l per cent is provided for. The
railroad should be completed 20 Thermopo-
lis before June l. This town is situated in
a basin with hills and mountains all around
IT, Just south OF Thermopols the Big
Horn river is crossed, and four miles south
the new road enters the Wind River can
yon, one of the grandest scenic stretches in
the western country and rivaling the Royal
Gorge of Colorado This canyon is twelve
miles long and up TO the time the engineers
started work In there, 1t was impossible Ia
get through the canyon, owing TO the sheer
walls and the rapid current, except in
winter when the river was frozen; when
engineering party had TO pack in on burros
building the trail as It went The con
tractors were then compelled 10 build a
trail for mule paektralns to get to their
camp. II consumed two months to com
plete the pack tran through the canyon,
and where walls Of the canyon arose per
pendicularly from the rushing waters. the
tops OF the cliffs were blown away IN order
to build q trail 10 the river. In the center
Of the canyon suspension bridge was
built with wire cables. using cedar logs for
the floor OF the bridge. Practically all the
nay through the canyon the Burlington
rOadbed lays right along the edge or the
river and 80 some stretches, where the walls
were too straight preventing the right-of-
way from being blasted out, the cliffs were
blasted off, making a roadbed Of solid rock
along the edge OF the river One blast senl
down 1000 yards OF rock along the edge Of
the rushing water, and the rocks had to b'
large enough so that the river would mo-
wash them away. Some OF them measures