Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-10-01
WORK PROGRESSING
RAPIDLY.
Hundreds of Hen Are as Busy as Bees
on The Guard Lock, on the Filling on
Single Street and at Rothschild.
Plans for new Bridge at Schofield
Adopted last Saturday.

on Single street and has completed
over half of the work. A stone abut-
ment has been built about six or eight
feet above the water to protect the
east bank Of the river This extends
from the guard lock to the railroad
bridge, distance of several hundred
feet. 1t was rather loosely put to-
gether and much of the mortar has
washed out. We understand it is the
intention of the company to rebuild
it of concrete and make il Sc that il
will be very substantial protection
to the street.
Since the flood of July, tie st.
Paul tracks which were all washed
out at the guard lock, and below for
some distance, were not put in place
until last Saturday, and then they
were evened up by temporary piers,
constructed of timbers and all day
Sunday, trains of fiat cars were run to
a sand bank up the river and many
train loads of sand dumped into the
washoHt on Shingle street. The st.
Paul company had large crews of men
at work ON the street and at the sand
bank, and the result was that by even
ing the road bed was entirely filled up
and ready for business. There is
large fill yet to be made and it will
require active work on the part of the
company for a week to put every
thing in condition. 1t is intended TO
run, a concrete dam from the large
pier which is being built by the city
at the east end of the high bridge, to
the guard lock; there will be an open
ing left through which to allow trains
to pass, but in case of floods in the
future, the company will simply have
TO put in timbefs and future wash
outs on Shingle street will be impos-
sible, no matter how large the foods.
When completed both railroads will
have much better facilities for switch
ing and be protected from high wat
ers much better than ever before.
The new guard lock is nearly half
completed. 1t is designed to be one
of the strongest on the river The
old guard lock only had a few gates
and these would let in more water
into the ponds below than could posi-
bly, be taken care of. The new guard
lock will let large volume of water
through, in fact about the natural
flow Of the river, and in the new dam
just finished by the Wausau Street
Railroad Company, where the old
Plumer mill stood, gates have been
put in that will take care of the
water at any stage. Everything has
been built in substantial manner, of
concrete and stone. The electric
light buildings have been protected
by concrete walls so that in the future
there will be no danger of trouble
from high water. 1t will pay our
citizens to take an hour off and look
over these Improvements which are
being made.
The great strength of the guard
lock will be surprise to those who
have never inspected the formation
of the river at that point.
The electric light plant cannot be
run entirely by water power until
the guard lock is built up high
enough to permit of it being done.
Enough water is being used now to
run one large generator.
The large abutment and pier at the
foot of Scott street which is being
constructed by the city, is nearly
finished. 1t is said that the high
bridge will be FAR enough along so
that it can be used for traffic on about
the 18th of October. This is good
news to the travelling public, gener-
ally.
The Golfer dam at Rothschilds will
be completed Monday next and at
that time it is expected that all gates
will be closed and lake Wausau again
become reality and the Marathon
Paper Mills Co. again be running its
large mills by water power. The
mills are now partly in operation
from electric power furnished by the
Mosinee and Wausau water powers.
The Company has constructed long
pier south of tie buildings along the
bank of the river, about 1000 or 1900
feet long, about eight feet high and
six or eight feet wide; the sides are
of timber and the sand filling has
been pumped in from the river.
The Leahy & Beebe bridge will
not be completed for two weeks, SO
chat it can be used for travel, though
now planks have been laid so that
the bridge can be used by those going
across on foot. The Tannery bridge
is progressing and will be completed
before winter sets in.
BRIDGE AT sCHoLFIELD
Last Saturday, Sept. IS, the village
council of Scholfield met in joint SeS-
sion with the town Goard of the town
of Weston and adopted plans for a
new bridge over the Eau Claire river,
to replace the one washed out on the
24th of July. This bridge will be
constructed of iron and will differ
from the old bridge to the extent
that it will have cement floor An
adjournment was taken until next
Monday, Oct. 7, to meet with the
bridge committee Of the county board
to consider the plans adopted. The
bridge win probably not be entirely
completed until next Spring. The
old bridge which lies on the south
bank of the river has been sold to the
Hennepin Bridge Co. Of Minneapolis.