anaheim-gazette 1908-09-10

PIERCES ROCK FOR WATER NOTABLE ENTERPRISE OF GOVERNMENT IN COLORADO Waters of Gunnison River Conveyed Through Mountain Tunnel for Purposes of Irrigation. [Correspondence of the Gazette] MONTROSE, COLO., Sept. 3, 1908. In the Uncompahgre Valley the Government of the United States has started to carry into execution one of the greatest engineering feats ever attempted by man. It contemplates nothing less than piercing the base of a mountain over a mile high with a tunnel through which a standard passenger coach may run and diverting the Gunnison river from its present course, carrying it under the mountain and distributing it over an area thirty miles long by eight miles wide. It is called the Gunnison tunnel project, although the tunnel proper is but a part of the immense work the government is doing at an expense of $4,000,000. The project proposes to irrigate the great Uncompahgre Valley, which is 350 miles by rail from Denver and 230 from Pueblo. First we rode out of Denver all night and part of the morning to Salida on the standard gauge of the Denver and Rio Grande, and there we were obliged to board a train over the narrow-gauge line of the same road for the climb over the Continental Divide and into what seems to one unaccustomed to the engineering feats of the western engineers, an impassible mountain range. Straight up into the air the train seems to go, sometimes the grade be it dodges into deep gorges and sharply into narrow canyons where is impossible for the train to pass. But the engineers simply shelve rock and on the great shelf lace rails, so that by running forward meet the stream and run against its banks. Sometimes, when stream dodges sharply away we it on steel bridges, but never leave, even when it dashes down to the Black Canyon. The picturesqueness of this project of the route has often been played by famed artists or the wordings of skilled writers, but none exaggerated its wonders, or drawn its awe-inspiring depths impressive heights. The train twists and writhes through the like a hunted thing. Through fourteen miles of its extent the rise on both sides of the track, times so near that you can them almost from the car way to a height of 1000 to 2000 feet; observation car has been added to the train, without a cover, in you may sit and look up at the higher walls as the train its way through the canyon. When it seems that the appearing walls are about to close in train, and prevent further pruning and bring us up squarely again solid wall, the track gives a curve, finds its way through a up to the Cerro summit and in an hour is descending to the ful and grassy slopes of the Umpahgre Valley. Ride a Wild One We leave the railroad at the station of Cedar Creek and a wild and picturesque ride over mountain trail and roads to the nison river end of the irrigated valley. on the standard gauge of the Denver and Rio Grande, and there we were obliged to board a train over the narrow-gauge line of the same road for the climb over the Continental Divide and into what seems to one unaccustomed to the engineering feats of the western engineers, an impassible mountain range. Straight up into the air the train seems to go, sometimes the grade being as high as 6 per cent—that is, a rise of 6 feet in every hundred of forward progress—twisting and curving and turning and writhing through narrow passes. It clings to the sides of the mountains or shelves which have been cut there by engineers who failed to find foothold on the granite mountain sides, but were lowered from the peak above with hammer and chisel and carved out their first resting place, where afterward they built the railroad. A succession of views from the rear of the train had so much of scenic grandeur and awe-inspiring wonder about it as to be impossible of adequate description. Sometimes, as we neared the head of Marshall Pass and its elevation of 11,000 feet, we could look back over the crest of a range of peaks with snow-capped tops to valleys and table lands sixty miles away. The train penetrated the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas in a series of loops and curves, like a great snake trying to wriggle out of the mountains which threaten to close in on it and crush out its life. At Marshall Pass we came over the Continental Divide and left the country draining to the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico and were on the Pacific Slope. There we were immediately below the great snow-topped peak of Mount Ouray. Ten minutes we stopped at this, the highest elevation ever reached by a railroad in this country, to look back over the valleys and the mountains whose heights we had scaled. The ten minutes are spent by a gang of workmen carefully inspecting the air brakes and putting in new air-brake tubes and piping, a grim reminder of the dash we are to make to the Uncompahgre Valley, a sheer mile below. Ride a Wild One We leave the railroad at the station of Cedar Creek and a wild and picturesque ride over mountain trail and roads to the nison river end of the irritant tunnel. If the ride over the continental Divide, on the narrow road has been a wild one, the sonal equation enters more into the one we take over the contains into the Gunnison Canyon. The Canyon of the Gunnison it known, is so precipitous, so and so difficult to scale that three men, out of scores who attended to descend it, have escaped their lives. The whitened bone adventurous engineers and most climbers and prospectors have sent its forbidding sides ever since country was discovered. A. Lows and the other engineers of reclamation service conquered had long baffled the men of pre-generations. In making the sundry determining the place at nature should be met and an made to divert the waters of the nison and turn them through a nel into the Uncompahgre W they lowered one another into gorge of the Gunnison Canyon ropes under their arms, and not but many times descended in utmost depths, and to the very of the stream itself. No word can portray the feat. When ther end of the proposed tunnel been located it was necessary to a mountain road, which is today most wonderful and most precious any in the United States. The one over which we rode into canyon. The road building was very first step in construction nearly a year of time and $20,000 money were required to complete. Down the steep sides of the where the road was shelved into solid rock of the mountain side cost of a single mile of the cent was $8000. In most places road is so narrow that about this, the highest elevation ever reached by a railroad in this country, to look back over the valleys and the mountains whose heights we had scaled. The ten minutes are spent by a gang of workmen carefully inspecting the air brakes and putting in new air-brake tubes and piping, a grim reminder of the dash we are to make to the Uncompahgre Valley, a sheer mile below. Coming up we had two mountain-climbing engines to pull us, but going down we have but one engine, which is using all of its generating power for operating air brakes and restraining the string of narrow-gauge coaches from crashing away down the steep inclines, striking some sharp curve and sending passengers and all over the steep sides of the mountains to the valleys below. Helped by Nature's Work Soon after we leave the summit of Marshall's Pass and begin to descend the mountain side, it is clear that the cunning engineers have taken advantage of the work which nature has done in cutting a pass through the mountain and down its side with a mountain stream. When first our train begins to parallel it, the stream is one across which a passenger might leap from the platform of the coach. Down the mountain side, with rugged peaks and straight walls of granite and shale on both sides, the engineers have carried the road. It seems, as the train dashes down the steep inclines and winds along the shelves of rocks at the very brink of precipice after precipice, that the river is trying to lose us and escape from our surveillance. Sometimes to deep gorges and turns narrow canyons which it for the train to enter. meers simply shelved the the great shelf laid their by running forward we ream and run again along Sometimes, when the sharply away we cross bridges, but never do we when it dashes down inCanyon. mesqueness of this portion has often been pictured artists or the word painted writers, but none have its wonders, or overwe-inspiring depths and weights. The train now withes through the depths ed thing. Through the of its extent the walls insides of the track, somelar that you can reach from the car window, of 1000 to 2000 feet. An car has been added to without a cover, in which and look up at the evalls as the train grinds through the canyon. Finalseems that the approach about to close in on the prevent further progress up squarely against a track gives a sudden its way through a gorge terro summit and in half descending to the peaceway slopes of the Uncomny. a Wild One the railroad at the little Fedar Creek and begin picturesque ride over the rail and roads to the Gunend of the irrigation UNIVERSITY FARM Short Course in Animal Husbandry, Beef and Dairy Cattle, Horses, Sheep and Swine Davis, California, August 31, 1908. The fourth of the Short Courses to begin at the University Farm in October next is in Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science. It begins in October and continues four weeks, or, until November 18th. Since the live-stock interests of the state are so large and so important, this course promises to be a popular one and well attended. The best specimens of live-stock that Sacramento valley affords will be available for study by those in attendance. No matter whether a man is interested in beef cattle or dairy, or in horses, jacks or mules or in sheep or swine, he will get as much information about his favorite animals as can be boiled down into so short a season. A large part of the work will be scoring and judging stock and comparing one with another to bring out the important points. The veterinary work will be just what the farmer wants to know to treat the ailments common to his stock. Some very interesting cases of surgery and other clinical exerciSES may be confidentially expecte- ed. Stockmen, don't fall to go—at least send a postal to University Farm, Davis, for circular telling all about it. AN ARTESIAN WELL WITH TWO WATERS In Riverside Park, Logansport, Ind., there is a flowing well from which both fresh and sulphur wa- AN ARTESIAN WELL WITH TWO WATERS In Riverside Park, Logansport, Ind., there is a flowing well from which both fresh and sulphur water are obtained. The well was drilled by the city two years ago. An 8-inch pipe was sunk to a depth of 86 feet and a 5-inch casing was placed inside of it. Fresh water from a bed of limestone comes up between the two pipes, and water which tastes and smells strongly of hydrogen-sulphite gas comes up through the 5-inch pipe from a lower stratum in the limestone. The flow of the sulphur water is about one gallon per minute from the drinking fountain, while the fresh water flows with a somewhat smaller volume from the pipe about twenty feet away. A member of the United States Geological Survey visited the well recently and collected samples of both waters and shipped them to the laboratory of the Survey at Washington, D.C., for analysis. A similar well is situated about 15 miles north of Cincinnati, O., but is non-flowing. HOW A MINE IS WORKED Salt the Contact, Blast the Vertical Chilblain and Drift for Blossom Rock. "I wish you would tell me all about the way men get gold and silver out of a mine, my dear," she said the other evening to her husband as he peeled off his coat and sat down in three chairs for the evening. "I hear you talk with your friends so much about mining, and I am not able to understand it, or converse with people intelligently about it." "Well, what kind of mining do you want to hear about, gold or silver, quartz or placer, deposit or defined lead?" he asked with a sigh. "Well, all of them briefly. I want to know whether they scrape off the getting a little off the vein probably have the right you are using terms that are correct. After they get the w on the dump and pinch out the shift, they salt the contact a the vertical chilblain. The drift for 'he bottom rock, b and poverty till they strike i cose vein. After that it is job to put on the bias folds s ple the stockholders. Where tuminous duplex bisects th ed porphyry and scallops th with cross-eyed shirring s carbonate of billious colic, in with moire antique wads of g per and free milling erysip miner knows he has a good This is not always the ca ever, for, indirectly or i perhaps more, or sometimes which we rode into the deep in construction and of time and $20,000 in required to complete it. Deep sides of the gorge, had was shelved into the mountain side, the single mile of the descent. In most places the arrow that about 6 inches off wheel of the dragon from the edge of At one point I rose and looked below. Six the rim of the wheel was dark-brown mountain wall, I could look into the gorge 1700 feet below. Place the road could be on the side of the canyon, disappear around ledge so that it could be seen at times in its descent, or more than a quarter of the valley below, where final turn to reach the Gunnison river, there horseshoe as the road and forth in an effort to grade of 22 per cent. The power plant and the cement works look like the child, and it is impossible that there lies a souls all united in the nature. Down, the rear wheels of ore "shoed" with a steel chain, so that all they do not revolve, but check the wagon from back and gives it a move-treat snow sled. in three chairs for the evening. "I hear you talk with your friends so much about mining, and I am not able to understand it, or converse with people intelligently about it." "Well, what kind of mining do you want to hear about, gold or silver, quartz or placer, deposit or defined lead?" he asked with a sigh. "Well, all of them briefly. I want to know whether they scrape off the gold from the underside of the ground and wash the dirt off in the creek, or how is it?" "Well, they don't scrape it off the underside of the ground exactly. There you are in error. In placer mining they have to collect the dust and pan it out with a gold pan." "Oh, they have to use a gold pan, do they? That must be what makes mining so expensive. Does the pan have to be solid gold?" "No. It isn't made of gold. It is simply to pan gold; hence the name. In quartz mining the prospector first finds the float and, tracing it to the lead, he begins to dig for the purpose of ascertaining how extensive it is, and what it will assay." "Oh, that is it! I thought they first bored into ground with a paystreak until they found the shaft, and then drifted for the assessment, and when they found that they just put a blast in the indications and salted the dump. Now it seems that you don't do that way. You follow up the miscacious slate till you strike the bias fold. Then you see if you can find a color that matches with the copper-stained trilobites that you prospect for and you——" "No, I must stop you there. You are job to put on bias folds for the stockholders. Where luminous duplex bisects their ed porphyry and scallops their with cross-eyed shirrings carbonate of billious colic, in with moire antique wads of gold per and free milling erysipine miner knows he has a good This is not always the case ever, for, indirectly or perhaps more, or sometimes the case may be, and still we or might not, according to we did or not, but also be not always, as already does perhaps yet I wouldn't be po anything which might be done Then he laughed a cold, hard and went to bed. If husbands would always these things to their wives, he pleasanter our homes would NATIONAL Irrigation Congress Meets at Albuquerque, New Mexico, ON THE Many trips planned Get copy of new Irrigation folder September 29 to October 3, 1908 The same time will occur an Industrial Exposition in conjunction with the TwenAnnual Territorial Fair. Counties of California will be represented by exhibits. Tickets on sale from points in California, Sept. 23 to 27, incl., Final Limit Oct. 21, 1908 Tickets will be good on California Limited. WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE RATE Call on Santa Fe Agent New Job Faces Just Received New Job Faces Just Received Another consignment to follow in a few days Phone your Orders for Job Work to the GAZETTE Printing Establishment Artistic printers and artistic printing little off the vein. You have the right idea, but using terms that are not correct they get the wall rock up and pinch out the night salt the contact and blast chilblain. Then they the bottom rock, baled hay till they strike the var. After that it is a short on the bias folds and samockholders. When the bidplex bisects the brocadry and scallops the gouge is-eyed shirrings and bi-of billious colic, interlaced antique wads of grey copper milling erysipelas, the news he has a good thing. Not always the case, how indirectly or inversely, more, or sometimes less, as Boston Bakery FRESH BREAD, PIES AND CAKES. Ice Cream and Confectionery S. Kistler, Proprietor NOTICE FOR BIDS. Notice is hereby given that bids will be received for excavating and completing a cesspool for the Anaheim Public Library, near the new library building, according to the specifications therefor now on file with the undersigned. Bids must be submitted on or before Tuesday, September 15th, 1908. For further information apply to E. KATE REA, Secretary of Anaheim Public Library. Sept 3-2t The Best Cuts of MEAT can be had here any time. We don't reserve them for a favored few and compel the others to take what is left. First come is first served in this market. We believe in giving everybody a square deal. Also in selling the very best meat we can get hold of at the prices possible. Try us with an order. CITY MARKET, W.F. Gelderman, Prop. Odd Fellows' Bldg. Center St. Sunset 201 MONEY can be borrowed on more favorable terms from the SAVINGS, LOAN and BUILDING ASSOCIATION OF ANAHEIM than from any similar institution in the State A Home Institution... conducted by home men If you want to borrow money at a low rate to pay off your present mortgage, or to build a home or to improve your present one, address or call on Fred A. Backs, Jr Secretary Anaheim