New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-07
BEGIN WORK ON NEW ULM TO
ST. PETER DIVISION OF
B. & Y. TRAIL.
CITY OF WORKMEN SPRINGS UP
OVER NIGHT ON RIVER
BLUFFS.


and four carloads OF machinery and
housing material were unloaded at the
Northwestern station Monday morning.
During the day the outfit was loaded
onto wagons by crew OF thirty men and
taken out across the CORTLAND Bridge
to the first turn of the road going to
st. Peter and there a small city is in
process OF construction. When visited
early Tuesday morning by a Review
reporter the cooks shanty was already
in place and smoke curled up from its
stove-pipe, promise OF food to come
for the hungry men in the crew. There
will be two more wooden houses and
several tents will provide sleeping quar-
tiers for the workman, who will make
their home there for month or more
while they build the first two miles of
road between here and St. Peter which
is to form part Oh the Black and Yellow
Trail.
The contractor is Allen Tiff of Omaha,
Nebr. He has taken the job of con-
strueting highway, graded and grav-
elled, twenty feet wide at the top, for
the twenty-six miles that connect New
Ulm and St. Peter. He expects to Sc
cure his road material right at hand as
he goes and there is little doubt that he
will be able to do so since the gravel
deposits are rich all along this route
The contract price is something under
100000 a mile, 100000 for the
entire job, Nh. Tiff expects to finish
work some time before Thanksgiving.
,Sixty-fve head OF horses ana mules
came in the three carloads of animals
and it requires a ton Of hay & day to feed
them in addition to fifty bushels Of
oats. Mr.. Tiff who prefers to buy his
supplyies where he works says he fears
he may have to ship in hay as it seems
to be very scarce in these parts. 1t
takes nearly quarter of beef to supply
the men with that part of their daily
ration and a sack Of flour goes the same
way. One cook and helper look after
the food preparation. All supplies will
be purchased in New Ulm for the first
camp. There will be from ten to fifteen
camps made On the entire reoute as the
crew works all together and finishes some
thing like two miles road from each camp.
1t will take about three or four days to
get the camp in running order here.
Just at the present time the high water
in the Minnesota will prevent work on
the first few rods beyond the CORTLAND
bridge. There are no very deep cuts to
make in the route, Mr.. Tiff says, practic-
ally the worst one being right at the be-
ginningof the job where he will have to 20
down about six feet to make the road
level 1t is also right at this point that
he will have the hardest work to do for
there is quite heavy outcropping of
boulders at the surface which they will
have to get rid Of This the second job
that Mr.. Tiff has had this season as he
he was engaged in Omaha at road work
since the first of March.
Mr.. Tiff who has the appearance of a
very quiet but friendly man says that this
is his first job in Minnesota altho he has
done work in nearly every other state of
the Union. He speaks in a very low
tone, with few words and it is a safe guess
that he has but little trouble with his
crews.