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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1926)
Saturday, Jun 12, 102(5 Pagg Sevan Threading Great Cascades With Steel THE KLAMATH NEWS i nrougn ine rcaizs WI ERE ENDS OF RAIL WILL MELT ON NATRON CUT-OFF. While few realist li, tin KiTMiitil riilli-ouil i'vi'liimtiii in Hit world tiae bcsii unliijc mi uf our, very ljrf 4 In .Niiintii 4'ui-tltf. l-'mnk !' V4lil)-, writer, Iimn li'tjct4l ui'Milil4'Mll Hit- kliii y of how mrit moiiimhI I M-Ir way ihrouHti 11m heart of flM fascjMlr, tirlnglug a n'w I'lrouKli riillrouil i llnr Into Ok great khuimlti touiltl'). , ''' II) I'ltlVK FvV KllltV PA Kl 11. Onu h i Kit niinuto xtaniU out union"; the) niemnrieH of throe thrilling iliiyn crowded with new experii'iicuH und impn'Hnions duriiiK which thu ihutoi;rn phti (thut in my wife, you under Htand) anil tho writer journeyed over tho Cut-Off between Eu gene unci Klamath FiiIIm. It in thu feelinx of awe und nurpri.se wbleh owrcumu mo when I Htepped out lute in the evening on tho Hide porch of Seymour'H cut-in, perched hitfh like nn curIu'h neHt on tho upper tilopea of the mountninH, juHt the full mono rose over the peaks Iw hind ninl flooded thu vista of miles uppB miles of moiiiilulnH, here black In shadows, there sheeny with the glamour of the moonlight, cut through with deep durk canyons and doited with roiky peak. Hut tliroiiKh tho awesome mlithly play ground fit for the sport of god threaded a roadway ami hero and there glmmed a mil of steel. The feeling of awe departed somewhat, the sense of puny wcuknesa faded to IK replaced with a consciousness of a dauntless, during, quinllim wmi thing In iimn whli'h ever urge lilui on to new romiueMiH ovi-r his en vironment. Till" rullru.id liulll with Much lulxhty labor I u fiyuihol of the modern mind. It l ImlH with I iim. Hut these roada and trull, built at an expenditure estlmutod at I2UO.UOO. had played an Important part III I lio construction. They needed lo be built before the con struct Inu work rould start. Over them Ihe equipment for grudlng and tuiinelhiiK, tho supplies for tho in ane! of men, were rarrled by burses ami trucks.. Home of these, road followed the uettllll tine of rolmlrur lion, and liuve been replaced with the railway. Homo of them parallel I ho raila and, up and down the sleeper grades, park tralla run which connected eump with camp aSiiuie of these road will be taken over by Ihe Purest Hervleo, and I thua ho maintained, but many of koowled'k'e Inaplred with a daring"""" ' "'"" " J" runrgea on to prom anu ins, ine lou fulling, partlully at least, upon the contractors. Furious Tunnel llullillutf ..WF5i... W- . ' . ! IV!FKL3F'"yaVT "'"'V f A 1 Bfvfirjfc it's Y-i'-!- &4 ':&?V . M vlalan. It ruuld nevar have been bo lit with bruwu alone. Ht'yinour'a (rnelounnia Al ttjtvmiiur'a w Wurn Mfititrtaln. rd with kindly courle.y by an Ideal ,wo uu r"" "'"' boat. After -upper anent the even- Wo" Mountain wero to be .een tho lu HaleRlnit to the radio, which P""I t .mall tunnel,, known brought u. .nalche. of mu.lc and " rt" ""- Th"- w're '"lo bila of lectnrea gathered via thB, tunnel, driven Into a point of Inter- neciion wun ino line oi ine main tunnel. From thia Interaction It 1 waa poanlhie In work la two direc tion. Thua with two adit tunnel thn drilling wnq puhhed eight way pubtlng ether wave from up and down the coait and from rltlr'a of the rant, and chatted with a very modem, mau who, through twenty odd yearn ban been building high way and railroad a typical con struction engineer. Knglneera are numeroua and follow a grent vari ety of iiueclallied line of work. Hut great conatructlon engineer! ara rare. Thla I gleaned from con vernation with two men from the Southern Pacific office In Kan Kraoclaco tho ueju day. Count ruc tion euiineera are Indlvlduallita. Kh ha hi own way of getting reault. They are rhoaen becau f jce iw iiii'f, w Job aa foreman, aa far u 1 in con certed. Once alarttd tha pouring cannot ba atopped until tha whole section U completed and that day work, with 4ha Laat of luck, would not end, I was told, before I or It o'clock at night, and It would be flnlahed In the glare of big acety lene light. It was here I met Resident En gineer Puffers, who had headquar ters a couple of miles up the track. He belongs to the organization of Huperlntendlng Engineer Beadle, who directs the work from Planton. Mr. Heymour and Mr, Berkeley are resident engineer belonging lo the organization of Major M Ksnnolt at Oakrldge. I'nuer the direction of these resident engineers at each headquarters I an organization of their own assistant engfneers. In spectors and foremen, mostly jouna; men recently from universities. Just aa we were put on board a diminutive speeder shortly before noon to be moved on to soma In- . definita place farther on the line, una oi nign-waeeiea snceaer with one end encloeed overtook us and "Steve" Jumped from Ihe run (Contlnawd oa Pace Klglrt) At onrf1, a Thn orlglNAi mirvey pro jected tho 11 do around the predp ltnua Ride of Wolf tunnel, but tli daiiKor of nnow nMdo And tho dif ficult ic of construction Involved mil il It both cheaper and wafer to rtrlv n hole throuKh the mountain pnnk itBlf. The nam '-conHldPra tioim applied to Summit tumit'l, which wo puBHL'd through later in the day. At the other end of the long tun- ra ::l' ' v. . ? II I Kps&w'ftWfrJi m ir-T i . I f,;..-!,?., JJ A J the top of the tunnel at the danger I hfZsxii T i H Pota. It is some Job. thla business .'"'aa t . '(..- : "if i,J ' of pouring cement arcbes fifty feet U iSS! '1 lr ,oag' Mr-rh!'pa 18 w,lcome to hu B ft i r"T i jo . Tiia Take the The gambler's instinct has no place where there'H life, loved ones a home in the balance. r Be Protected Insure! ' Insurance That Protects and Pays. Wilson Abstract Co. 311 Main St. Phone 160. I lcome to his n 3 ifl tjj At the uooer left ia shown the viaduct under construction ever Noisy creek, on the new Natron cut-off line of the Southern Pacific Railway company. At the center left, the work gang is shown cementing the entrance of the south end of Summit tunnel. At the upper right is shown the plsce where steel will meet stsel when the last spike on the new line is driven. The present snd of raila at Shady creek tunnel is shown at the lower right, while the lower, left shews the pouring of concrete into the form" of the viaduct across Noisy creek gulch. they ran get results out on big "' through Wolf mountain we Jobs where dirt Is flying, blasts came upon a scene of Intense actlv are booming and thousands of men must be managed. They must muko Instant derision. There Is no time to consult fur-swny official. They must have that quality of leader ship which lufuaes assistant, fore men, Inaparlors and workmen with fighting energy. In lUirn lniler Seymour, In Intervals between tuning In on the radio and answor Ing our questions, spent half his time that evening talking on the telephone over tho work dono dur ing the day and lining up the work of tho next day with tho various en gineers, foremen and contractors on thet Job between Unkrldga and his own station. The next morning, arrompnnlod by Mr. Heymour, wo started on our tramp over tho gsp between the two ends of tho lino, now so ahort that the sounds of activity mingle at either end. Here we saw some of the difficulties of practical rail road construction. A viaduct aero a series of chasms through which Noisy creek wends" Its turbulent way was under ronslrurllon. In fact, the cement was bolng poured Into tha forms. Hut tho problem Of an Insecure foundation at one end hnd to ba solved by having great flat slabs of concrete, large enough to cover tho bottom of a flat cur, which wern pluced hy cranes In position to make a dur able foundation. The hrldge across Rhudy Creek rould not be laid from the Oakrldga sldn of tho lino he ritiiso of tho neceflsary delay In building this viaduct. So tho spo rlnlly designed machine for laying steel bridges had be?n sent around through Eugeno hncic to Weed and from llinnco was In come via the rnll at the other en I of thn Cut-Off back to do Ihe work at 8hady creek a Journey of 500 miles lo reach a point halt a mllo away from the placo where It bad been located. Spot Where Kalis Moot 'We snw the end of steel whore the rails project through the tunnel thirteen and took n good look nt the spot where Ihe rails would meet between tunnels thirteen and four teen. At this point we hid good bye to Mr. Seymour and wended our way around Wolf Mountain, which Im pierced with ona .of tha longest tunnolH on thu linn, 3,148 feet long. Wo followed a winding road which, like many roads and trails we struck at times, was now fulling Into dls- ity. A gang of carpenters were working with feverish haste to com plete tho form and troughs required to pour un eight-foot section of the arch within tho entrance of thcun nel. Eight feet at a time is ahout tha limit possible to bo done In a day's work of a gang. A great arch had been built, fifty feet long, sep arated from the sides and top of the lunnel by about four or five feet. This was made of harrow strips of tunguo and grooved stuff, resem bling the half of a huge silo laid on Its side. A steep Inclined track ran up at one side of this arch to a kind of a hopper, from which troughs of rough wood ran to tho1 section to be poured. At tho but-' torn of this track was tho hoisting ' engine. Just at ono side, while Im-1 mediately at the end was tha mixer. I A small steel car with rupnclty to j Just carry the amount contained hi tho revolving drum of the mixer was moved up and down the track! by tha hoslt. J I wns told to look up n man I named Phelps, who hnd charge of I thn speeders belonging lo tho con tractors in charge of much of the! i cement work. W. A. Ueclitel & Co.. of Kan Krancisco. lie was pointed' nut to me, a slender young man In, muddy clothing splotched with ce-j ment. Then I hsd to catch him on! the fly and explain to him In one' ear while he listened to half a doz-' en question from workmen witlr the other, that we were seeking j trunnportatloii un over the line. He; was remnrkulily courteous for a mun interrupted at a critical mo ment, and regretted that nothing' was available Jam at that time, but aiked us to stick around uwhllo and ; something would be urrangrd. 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