The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-11-11
|NETRuRBAN WORK IS
MAKING FAST PROGRESS
DALI A S-WAXAHACHlE LINT,
GRADE AND BRIDGING PROM
ISED BY JANUARY.
Materials Stored for Heavy Road
way on Treated Ties.-Deep
Cuts Few.

Lancaster Is now III progress All
along the line, with about 125 teams
and ITS men at work. 1t is expect
ed that the grading and part OF the
bridge building will be completed by
Jan. 1, 1912, and that laying of steel
will then begin. Orders for structu"i
raj and railway steel are now In and
shipments will be made very soon, it /
is said after which the line will be
rushed to completion, making it the
third interurban to operate out Oh
Dallas and the second to be built i
here by Stone & Webster interests.
The officers of the engineers OF
the line are at Lancaster, the half
way point of the road, and from tins
office the work of the various
groupeS of teams and laborers as
they grade the line from Dallas tot
Waxahachie is directed Lancaster
has also been made the central dis
tributing point for materials and a
large storage yard has been estab-
lished there, in which are to be seen
great piles of ties rails and supplies,
also sheds for the housing of new
rails as they come IN
Grading Near Oak Cliff.
AS it is planned that the new line
shall enter Dallas by wey OF oar
Cliff and the line of the Fort Worth
Interurban, the first grading mas
been done just south of the crossing
of the Santa Fe railroad and Beck
lev avenue, beyond Oak Cliff. From
that point through Lancaster to the
outskirts of Waxahachie groups of
men and teams are at work. by
dividing the men into small groups
with five or six teams to the group
the work has been scattered so that
there is no place between Dallas ana
Waxahachie where no grading IS be
ing done There are as yet fe"
places where the work has been COM
pleted and the roadbed prepared fer
the laying of track, but the work Is
so far along that Chief engineer
Hammond says he feels confident
that everything will be in readiness
for the track-laying to begin with
the new year
Using Grading Machinery
just after leaving Oak Ctitf by
Beckley avenue the first work ma,
be seen in progress with larg'
grading machine in use. This grad
err, pulled by six mules. scoops u
the earth and pours it into wagon
moving alongside. Here the grad
passes through slight but yer
wide cut the dirt being used hal
mile beyond to make fiji From
this fill the line goes southeast to
low hill. which 1t passes through b,
means of a cut. and thence to Ian
:. caster and Waxahachie. passing over
rolling prairie with few beds OF
streams and picturesque wooded
spots.
The road as projected Is unusual
TX free from engineering Difficult
ties, except in a few places Just
out of Dallas it will pass over the
Sante Fe railroad by means of a
viaduct, which will also carry the
cars over Cedar Greek, just beyond.
This viaduct will be of the best re-
inforced concrete construction and
+ about 500 feet long There is no
large stream to be bridged, except
Ten Mile creek, beyond Lancaster,
which is large only in the flood
season
Deep Cuts Are Few.
OF deep cuts there are few. One
a half mile south of Ten Mile creek
will have to be twelve or fourteen
feet deep, and there are several of
less depth From a point five miles
north of Lancaster to the place
where the roadbed is being made
straight, giving a straight-ahead run
of five miles without a heavy grade. |
The fact that the line is to be built
principally through black land, |
where there are few outcrOps of
rock, adds to the ease of construc
ton.
For most of the work the six
horse grading machine or the ordi-
nary two-horse slip is being used,
altbMugh it will probably be neees |
sary to make use of steam shoY- |
ell TO make the few deep cuts, At
some points, especially just outside
the Dallas city limits blasting IS !
being resorted to for removal of /
rock. Otherwise the work at pres !
ent under way is mostly grading |
and leveling.
Line to Cost 81 100000.
ACCORDING 10 engineers SSllhiatoHi /
the building of the line from Dallas
to Waxahachie, distance of about |
thirty miles, will cost something !
over a million dollars. Making such !
a large expenditure, it is declared |
the line will be of the very best /
type of interurban construction, with
prime ties. heavy steel, perhaps 10 |
pound rails, concrete culyerts and
reinforced concrete and steel brid-
ges
Plans for Development.
The country which will be opened |
up by this line is at present almost
entirely agricultural, but il is be-
lieved that it will lend itself to SUI
burban development. Already one
townsite company has been formea