The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-03
Bis hONOM0 OUT
now COMPLETED
glIIo Railroad Has LltlIo Work to
DO to Reach Hakalau--
Trains IN Six Weeks.

NrNH
tMnn Special to Tho Advcrtiscr)
MO, october so.--Afser working
day and night for about year. the
force Of the lIilo Railroad Company
have finally completed The great Homo.
mu cut, which. together with the big
I'll on she other side Of the main cut,
has for long timo been the only thing
which prevented the railroad from max
ing it's triumphant entry into Hakalau.
The cut Is one Of the biggest which
has ever been undertaken here, being
about twelve hundred feet in length,
and having penetrated down into the
ground, like a gigantic axe cash, to a
depth of about seventy-four feet most
Of that distance. The last work in the
cut was done last Saturday morning,
and today the track laying gang started
laying the rails through it. In week
or two the great obstacle which has
been the great source of anxiety for
the railroad builders for almost twelve
months, will have been forgotten, and
new problems further ahead on the line
win occupy their attention. There win,
however on the entire stretch between
Hilo and Hamakua, be no task equal
in size to the one which has just been
completed.
Filled in Deep Gulch.
"A most important, and more spectae-
i uiar, part of the Honomu problem was
formed by the fill across the gulch just
on the Hamakua side of the main cut.
Here the railroad has built a wall of
dirt and rock, about eighty per cent
of the former, across the entire gulch,
using for it the material excavated
from the cuts on both sides thereof.
The task has been one of about the
same size as the famous, or rather in
i famous, Nuuanu dam contract, but it
has been completed, quietly and uhos-
tentatiouslY. and, what is more, the re-
suit has been an absolute success. The
finishing touches on this fill will be
made on Wednesday or Thursday of this
week, in time to be ready when the
track layers reach the spot. ist-4.
The Japanese workmen, many of
whom have been on the job ever since
it started about a year ago, are eager
to celebrate the japanese Emperor g
birthday and the completion Of the job
at one time, and they will without
doubt succeed in doing so.
Beyond the cut, on the Hamakua side
thereof, is another long and deep cut;
which has also been completed. e
At present the regular. trains run
as far as Pepeekeo. Track has been
, laid some distance further, to the be
ginning of the big Honomu cut, but
. the last stretch is not being used al
present, except by the worl1Aen and
for the hauling of the material Moth
ing is now necessary to reach Honomu
with the regular trains but the laying
of the track, task which seems al
most insignificant in comparison with
the gigantic performances which have
just been completed. sus
Trains to Honomu.
On or about November fifteenth the
railroad company expects to be run
ming a couple of trains daily into Ho
nomu. 1t will then have eleven miles
: of it's Hamakua division in actual OPP
Grafton.
From Honomu to Hakalau. the point
which will mark, so to speak, the emo
of the first canto of the great Hamakua
coast railroad epic, is distance Of
only one and seven,tenths miles. Thil
entire stretch is ready for the track
layers, with the exception that tn,
girdeTs on the two bridges between
Honomu and Hakalau have to b
placed. The entire structures have beer
completed, with the exception of tn
placing Of these Orders. All the ma
terial was hauled out from Papaikoi
to its final destination by teams, OK
-cept the girders, which weigh .abou
seven tons. apiece, and it was decide.
to await the time when these could b
hauled out by the railroad, before az
tempting to do anything with them.
=. The first of these bridges spanning
1.-the Pakeekee ,guleh, consists r of tw
towers. It is affeetionatelY called tn
9baby bridge" by the railroad build
ers, but, were it not overshadowed' b.
the. titanic tasks all about it, it woul'
seem quite a respectable sort of
structure; and It is. The second bridge
crossing the Kolikoli gnlch, has ais
been completed, with the exception o
the placing of the girders. 1t has fy
towers. ~ r