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Michael Sol Collection 54 ENGINEERING & CONTRACTING Vol. XXXVII. No. 23. New York. Nebraska. Citizens of Bethany, Neb., have organized a company ,vith a capita I stock of $25,000, and propose to build a street car line fronl that place to thc State farm. Montana. @The Chicago, & Puget Sound Ry. has awarded the contracts for construct- ing its line from Great Falls. to Le\visto\vn, \Vinston Bros. Co., Globe Bldg., neapolis. .. secured the contract for the \\'est end of the line, the \\'ork including 2,000,- 000 cu. yds. of excavation, of \\"hich about ;»00.000 cu. yds. is rock, and T\\'ohy Bros .. Portland, Ore., secured the east end, their contract involving 2,500,000 cu. yds. of exca- Yation, of which 1,000,000 cu. yds, is rock. 'rhere are a number of tunnels in both sec- tions. cently purchased extensive rice land in Arkan- sas. i\S a result, the information bureau of tile National Stock Yards says, the sale of mules during the week was much larger than usual, Evans and Dean having purchased a large number. General Manager L. C. Haynes of the East St. Louis & Suburban Ry. made a tour of in- spection of the Alton street car lines last week. r. Haynes rode over the lines \vith other officers of the company, and stated that an appropriation of $.50,000 had been made to rebuild the Alton lines this summer, Repre- sentatives of the Piasa Light & Power Co. an- nounced enough signatures had been obtained to guarantee that the company would be able to erect its lines on every street in Alton. The average \\·as 66 per cent of the property front- age on each street. The City Council will hold a special l11eeting to give first reading to the franchise ordinance for the Piasa LiKht & Power Company, said he believed J. J. Cummings of Chicago \vas rinancing the ne\v company. This completes the laying out of routes for build the line 5 miles due east from Cheyenne, the part of the proposed dual tapping the Clinton & Oklahoma Western system, with the exception of a short link in south of Strong City. H. D. Cox and J. W. Lexington Av., providing for the junction' Cooper of Cheyenne are interested. of the existing subway with the Lexington A Citizens' Booster Club is being organ- Avenue Subway. The point of junction has ized at Beaver, Okla., to give a bonus of $15,- not yet been agreed upon, but it will be in 000 to the first railroad crossing the south Lexington Av. some place between 32d and side of Beaver County. G. Y. Oglvie is Pres- 42d Sts. The only other route for the dual ident of the club. system remaining to be laid out is the pro- The promoters of the Ardmore, Duncan & posed tunnel line to Staten Island, which will Lawton Ry. Co. are reported to have signed be connected \vith the Fourth Avenue Subwav contracts with New York parties for tinancing in Brooklyn, and operated as a part of the the road. It is stated that the money will Brooklyn Rapid Transit System. be forthcoming for the immediate completion Public Service Commission has sent to of the line from Lawton to Ardmore. Jake Senator O'Gorman at \Vashington the draft L. Harmon, Lawton, Okla., is President. of a hill which he \vi1l introduce in Congress. Oregon. giving the City of New Yark permission to build the proposed subway for the Jnterhor- @Porter & Conley, Portland, Ore., and the ough's Brooklyn tunnel under the Post Office Oregon Pile Driving Co., Portland, have sub- Building at Broadway and l\Jail Street. l'his contracts from Twohy Bros., Portland, for property is owned by the National Govern- work on the latter's contract for constructing lncnt, and while it is possible for the city no\v a short line from Salem, Ore., to Fir, Ore., to get a revocable permit from the Secretary connecting two parallel lines of the Southern of the Treasury, there is no \vay of obtain- Pacific. The general contract, which was ing a permanent right. The Comtnission's noted some tilne ago in these columns, in- counsel has advised that a permanent right cludes 150,000 cu. vds. earth excavation and should be obtained, and therefore the bill sent 2,500 lin. ft. of pile and timber bridges. to Senator O'Gorman \vas prepared. '[his '[he Portland, Nehalem & Sea Coast Ry. Co. bill, if passed, \\'ill authorize the Secretary has been incorporated with a capital stock of the Treasury to grant the City of e\v of $7.50,000, and proposes to build a railroad 'y ork a permanent right of \vay for the pro- from Portland to Astoria. This is believed to posed subway under the Federal Building. be a Southern Pacific project. The incorpora- tors are J. A. Jackson, C. E. Wightman and North Dakota. w. O. McCarthy. The Great Northern Ry. has plans under Officials of the Oregon-\Vashington Railroad consideration for the construction of a line & Navigation Co., and City Engineer Tom 400 miles long starting from a point on the Hurlburt, Portland, Ore., are preparing plans New Rockford-Williston line in North Da- for the lowering of the tracks in Sullivan kota, a little west of New Rockford, through Gulch from East 28th st. to the city limits, North Dakota into asd thence west eliminating all grade crossings. The work will to Lewiston. The new road will give the include the construction of a viaduct at Sandy Great Northern an alternative transcontinental Road crossing estimated to cost $53,573. road and will alleviate the necessity of double- Pennsylvania. tracking the nlain line through l\rlontana. A. H. Hoagland, St. Paul, l\linn., is Chief Engi- @Swanson Bros., Rockwood, Pa., as noted neer. in our last issue, have been a\\'arded the con- +Bids are being received by Gabriel Bros. Ohio tract for constructing double track between Construction Co., Holley, N. Y., for GO.UOO Rockwood and Garrett, Pa., for the Connells- cu. yrls. of earth excavation and 18,000 cu. The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie R. R., W. A. ville & State Line R. R, The contract includes yds. of concrete, located 20 miles \vest of Atwood, Chief Engineer, Pittsburgh, Pa., has 250,000 cu. yds. earth excavation and 500 cu. Rochcster, N. Y., on the New Yark Central taken bids for constructing two sections of yds. concrete masonry. None of the \vork is Railroad. . b ·d· I' h Lak E· & E t to be sub-let. @\V.H.Gahagan,Brookl,,"n,N.Y.,hasltssuSllarytne,teefle as ern. O'C & '"1 d· h h h been awarded the contract fo; the reconstruc- Contract; for the middle section of this work onnor n a 19an, w 0 ave t e contract have been awarded to Culbertson Bros., Cleve- for grading the \Vest Penn cut-off near the tion of about 6.000 ft. of the Manhattan Beach land, 0.: McKelvy Hine Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., l\fcClure works at Swedetown, Pa., have start- Division of the Long Island R. R. in East and the Duquesne Contracting Co., ed work. New Y' ork. The work ",ill include a 4-tube Pa., as previously noted. Business Men's Association of Chester, Pa., tunnel about 3,r)OO ft. long and an embank- There is a report, \vhich cannot be con- has taken up a project for the construction ment from Granite St. to the Brooklyn Bor- firmed at this time, that an appropriation of of a trolley line north\vard, touching Knowl- oug-h line. $.5.000.000 is to be spent for rejuvenating the ton, Llanwellan, Rockdale, Lenni, Crozerville, The Public Service Commission of the First Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R. G. K. Low- Glen Riddle, \Vawa, Glen Mills and other District, New York City, has ordered draw- ell. Detroit, l\IJich., is Receiver. small .localities. The line would tap a district ings and plans for the proposed 2-mile tunnel Right of way is being secured for the pro- but eight miles from Chester, in \vhich from to he built undcr New York Bay to place posed electric railway from l\fansfield to Canal six to seven thousand people reside. Staten Island on New York City's rapid tran- Dover, through Millersburg and Holmes sit nlap and provide a through line to be County. W. D. Todd and James \V. Wiggins Rhode Island. used by steam railroads for passenger and of \Varren, Pa., are interested. .-\ctual construction work has been started at freight traffic. It is rumored that the Pennsylvania R. R. is \Voonsocket, R. I., on the line of the South- Board of Trustees of Freeport (L. I.). making a numLer of inlportant ern New England Railroad from Palmer, Y.. ha\·c granted a franchise to the Free- changes in the Cincinnati terminal of the Cin- Mass.. to Providence, R. I. As mentioned in port Ry. Co., a local corporation, for a street cinaati, Lebanon & Northern R. R. During the l\lay 15 issue of "Engineering & Con- surface rail\\'ay. \vhich will beKin at Grove the past several years the Pennsylvania R. R. tracting," the O'Brien Construction Co., 576 St. anrl Olive Boulevard, run south to Front Co., ".hich owns and controls the Cincinnati, Park ave., New York City, was St. and thence weshvard to the dock of the Lebanon & Northern, has been quietly acquir- awarded the contract for grading and masonl1' Great South Bay Ferry Co.. which is operated ing property adjacent to the terminal of the work on the Rhode Island section of the line, and controlled by the directors of the traction latter line in Cincinnati, with a vie\v to enlarg- and John 105 S. La Salle st., Chicago, company. ing the yards and otherwise improving the ter- JI1., \vas given the section. The Public Service Commission for the minal facilitie!'. It is understood that a num- T First District of New York City has laid out ber of buildings now on the property, which exas. the rapid tAlnsit route for the extension of @The Houston & Texas Central R. R. has the new Seventh Avenue Sub\\'ay, to be oper- has been acquired by the Pennsylvania R. R., a\varded the contract for the constructioPl of atcc1 h.v the Interborough Rapid '[ransit Com- and which lies adjacent to the C.. L. & N. ter- the .1-mile section from Giddings eastward, to minals. are to be razed shortlv. It is also pany, to BrOClklyn. The ne\\' route will said that the C., L. & N. depot and other P.)'L Johnston & Son, ():!O Binz Bldg., Hous- the proposed Seventh Avenue Subway in buildings on the terminal will be torn down ton. • \Vest Rroad\\'ay at ?\f.rray St., will curve into and modern buildings erected in their stead. It @Karner Bros. & Co., Dallas, Tex.. have Park Place and run through Park Place to is understood the contract for this· work is the contract for for the terminals and under Broadway and then under the about to be let. to be built by the Katy in \Vaco. Post ()ffic(' Ruilding to Bcrklnan St.. and Officials of the St. Louis, 'Brownsville & throllgoh Bceknlan St, to \Villiam St., throuKh Oklahoma. Mexico (Frisco System) recently held a con- \Yilliam S1. to Old Slip and through Old Slip The town of Cheyenne, Okla., is to hold ferencc: with interested citizens of to and undt:r the Fa;;;t River to Clark St., an election shortly to vote on bonds Texas, concerning an extension of the lin. Brooklyn: thro11'!h Clark St. to Fulton St., for the construction of a railroad to conn&Ct from Keyser, a station on the Port O'Connor ctnd F11ltoll St. to a lullction .,'ith the to\\'n with the Clinton & Oklahotna \Vest- branch. 5 miles below BloomingtoR, to Aust- the existlt1g suhway at or ncar Borough llan. ern. A local company will be orRanized to \vell. Refugio County, on San Antonio Bay. a + indicates work now open for bids. (!) indicates a contract let recently.
