The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-01-29
DRAINAGE WORK
ON IN EARNEST,
DISTRICT SPLIT
Cape Company Establishes
Offices at Delta, Parma
= and Hayti.
BIG MACHINE READY
TO BEGIN ON CANAL
Commissary Department Created
So That Eating Time May
be Reduced.

In every department of the Little
River Drainage project, the work is
being carried on rapidly.
Residences in the engineering de-
partment of the district have been es-
tabished at Delta, Parma and Hayti,
and all necessary supplies and equip
ments for the operation in the differ
ent division will be maintained at the
, various residences.
At Parma they have secured quar-
tiers in the Odd Fellows building, a
two-story brick building near the Fris-
co depot, and at Delta they are quar-
tered in two-story frame building
adjoining the Delta store.
f. S. Blaine is in the resident en-
gineering at Parma. Blair l.. Boyle at
Hayti, and Clark W. Wright at Delta.
Chief Engineer W. J. O'Brien, with
his assistant, n S. Frisscll, is now on
a trip Of inspection over the district,
and while away will visit the different
Residences.
George p Merritt of The Merritt
Gilbert Construction Co., one of the
I large contracting firms on the drain
age project, yesterday informed a
Tribune representative, that one Of the
big new Bucyrus machines was viz
tually assembled and ready for Opcr-
alton, and that by next week they
would be moving dirt, if the Lidger-
wood machine which now stands on
the work has been taken out of the
way. He stated that one of the Lid
gerwoods has been taken apart and
that it will be loaded in q short time.
/ The second machine will be brought
up to where the loading is to be done
and that it will furnish the necessary
power in loading the one that has al
ready been dismantled These two ma
chimes, both of which were purchased
at sheriff's sale several months ago,
by the firm of Grant, Smith and Lock
err, will be taken to Rome, \. y, where
they will be used in excavating work
on the big barge canal.
Mr.. Merritt stated that record time
had been made in assembling the first
of the Bucyrus machine, and that it
was in his opinion the quickest work
ever known in the erection of ma
chine of such dimensions. He at
tributes the speed with which the
work has been carried on to the eff
cient service, the. erector employed to
do the work by the Bucyrus people,
with the capable assistance of Mr..
Hays, the master mechanic, employed
/ by Merritt Gilbert, to superintend the
work He stated also that the second
machine would be erected in shorter
time than was required for the first.
These two machines will be placed l.
operation before work will be taken up
on .he west end. When the work is ir
active operation next to the river, two
more machines will then be erected at
Whitewater, near Allenville, and vii!
work toward the river
Clearing crews and stump pulling
outfits will be carried along with the
work, and about $50 men will be en-
ployed in connection with the four big
machines.
The Davis CommiSsary Company Of
St. Louis, who are connected with the
Koenig Labor Agency are already on
the ground prepared to feed and quar-
ter the workmen, and thus prevent the
delay attendant in conveying the la
borers back and forth from the work
to town.