Michael Sol Collection

~fay 21, 1913. ENGINEERING & CONTRACTING 43

of improvement \\'ork will be undertaken. Tennessee. ening of the track in Tumwater canyon fromThe Fostoria & Fremont Ry. Co., J. W. Leavenworth to Chiwaukum.

S. Reigle, Chief Engineer, Findlay, 0., is to The Memphis & Lake View Ry. Co. has Final surveys are under way for the 37-make preliminary surveys for an extension of been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,- mile line to be built between Helsing Junc­its electric railway from Fremont to Port 000. The incorporators being T. H. Tutwiller, tion and Raymond for the Puget Sound &O · T b bl ·11 b Memphis; L. E. Wright and L. P. Niles. This W'll Reb 'd' f h ChiInton. \VO routes pro a y WI e sur- is probably a reorganization of the Lake View 1 apa v. 0., a su SI lary 0 t e lcagO,veyed, one by way of Oak Harbor and the Traction Co. Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. From Raymondother direct to Port Ointon. The West Tennessee Traction Co. B. G. to tidewater the new line will use the tracks

Oklahoma. Sargent, General Manager, Southern Express of the Pacific & Eastern, a logging road. The37 miles of line, however, run through a

The Muskogee & Missouri Pacific R. R. Co. Bldg., Memphis, Tenn., projecting an electric heavily timbered country and will requirehas filed its charter and proposes the con- railway from Memphis, via Brownsville, to some expensive construction. Offices havestruction ,1f a 12-mile line from Muskogee to Jackson, Tenn., is reported to have completed been opened at Raymond, \Vash., with C. H.a point 2 miles north of Fort Gibson to a preliminary work between Memphis and Ar- Byers as Chief Engineer.connection with the Missouri Pacific Ry. C. lington, and will, it is stated, let contracts on The General Electric Co. and the Westing-N. Haskell, Muskogee, Okla., is interested. the first section some time next month. Engi- house Co. are now working on estimates for

Oregon. neering work on the section east of Arling- the electrification work on 450 nliles of lineton is no\v under way. on the Puget Sound Division of the Chicago.

@Advices from Astoria, Ore., state that CP T 'riew Jogging railroad is to be built in Clat- exas. l\1ilwaukee & St. Paul Ry. It will probablysop County, from a point near Gearhart Park The Wichita Falls Traction Co., Wichita be sometime before bids are ask~ on theto a point as far east as the Lewis & Clark Falls, Tex., is to construct a 2-mile extension work. It is probable that the electrificationRiver. Olson Bros., Seaside, Ore., have the at Wichita Falls. work will cost about $8,000 per mile.contract for the \vork. A project is under consideration for an W ~st Virginia.

Pl· interurban line to connect Johnson City and @Charles E. Price is reported to have beenennsy vania. Stonewall. John Kinney, Johnson City, Tex., awarded a contract for constructing a 14-mile

<!>Curtis & Shumway, Inc., Lynchburg, Va., is interested. line for the Virginia Ry. to a connection withhave been awarded contract for the Catasauqua Grading \\·ork has been started at Tule the Norfolk & Western Ry. in the New Riverextension of the Lehigh & New England Ry. Lake for th~ construction of the San Antonio, Valley. I~. Fernstrom, Norfolk, Va., is ChiefThe line will run from near Bath, Pa., to Uvalde & Gel f R. R. from Mathis to Corpus En~ineer of the Virginia Ry.Catasauqua, Pa., about 6 miles. The con- Christi. E. R. Breaker, Pleasanton, Tex., is The Baltimore & Ohio R. R. is reported totractors will sub-let some steam shovel work Chief Engineer of the railway. have taken over the survey rights of theand 2,000 cu. yds. of concrete. The National Railways of Mexico, Jas. M. Long Fork R. R. and it is stated that a new

@Brocklehurst & Potter Co., 517 Howard Reid, Chief Engineer, City of Mexico, is extension running 28 miles from Huntington~Bldg., Providence, R. I., has been awarded contemplating a number of improvements for W. Va., up to the left fork of Beaver Creek,the contract for constructing the Chartiers the division between Laredo and Corpus will be built.Southern R. R., a subsidiary of the Pennsyl- Christi. It is probable that the line will be The Grafton, Fairmont & Clarksburg Trac­vania R. R. This road is to be about 20 miles extended from Corpus Christi to Port Aran- tion Co., George R. Kirk, President, Grafton~long and will extend from Emman to Mari- sas, 30 miles, to secure a deepwater outlet W. Va., is reported to be planning to let con-anna, Pa. . on the Texas Coast. tracts at '.>nce for the construction of the sec-

A project is being _promoted by E.· C. Halt, It has been announced by A. Courchesne, tion of the line from Grafton to Prunty-Orbisonia, Pa., W. M. Comerer, Burnt Cabins, who promoted the construction of a line from town. The company projects a line to con­and George C. Fraker, Fort Littleton, to con- EI Pa50 to Artesia, N. Mex., that the Frisco nect Fairmont, Grafton and Clarksburg.struct a railroad through the lumber country will probably build a short line over the route WI.sconsl.n.of Fulton County. surveyed by his engineers. .

The Board of Directors of the Commercial L. E. Walker, President of the Middle Bus- @Alex l\lcGavock, Black River Falls, Wis.,Exchange, Philadelphia, Pa., has adopted ter R. R., which projects a line from Quanah has been awarded 3 miles of work on theresolutions favoring t~e immediate abolition to Rockport, has announced that it is expected construction of the Fairchild & Northeasternof the grade crossings of South Philadelphia, to have the grading work well advanced with- Ry. from its present terminus at Emmit, Wis.a question which has been a cause of agitation in the next month. The survey of that por- Mr. McGavock intends doing the work with itamong the city authorities and· the railroads tion of the line between Graham and Seymour steam shovel; there is also some nice teamfor several months, by the substitution of an was recently finished and the route between work on the line.extension of the Belt Line R. R. along the Graham and Strawn is now being located. Delays i:l the courts in street valuationentire river fronts of the Delaware and Liberal bonuses have been raised in aid of the proceedings are holding up the commencementSchuylkill Rivers. In connection with the project at many points along the route. of work ~n the south side track elevation andBoard of Trade the Commercial Exchange is Officials of the Southern Pacific are inspect- separation of grades at Milwaukee. It isco-trustee of 51 per cent of the capital stock ing the property of the state railroad between hoped, ho\vever, that the proceedings will beof the Philadelphia Belt Line R. R. Co. The Rusk and Palestine, Texas, a distance of SO cleaned up soon so that work can be started.r~solution states that the Exchange considers miles.•with a view of submitting a proposition The Chica~o, Milwaukee & St Paul R. R.it proper and its duty under the trust it holds to purchase it. The Governor has requested and the Chicago & North Western Ry. willin perpetuity for the city, that the officials of the Railroad Commission to prepare a profile elevate th~ir tracks from Greenfield Ave.the Belt Line and municipal authorities be of the railroad and Engineer Parker of the north to th~ Milwaukee River. The total costnotified that it believes the projected improve- commission is at work on the same. will be nearly $2,000,000.ments in South Philadelphia, which have been Vermont. Canada.the subJ· eet of recent conferences of city, rail- Th Atl· R C . tit I· t

P lans for the ne'." unl·on statt·on at Bur- e .~ In y. o. IS 0 app y 0 par tamenroad and Belt Line officials, should be finished n t th t . f t t . tas an extension of the Belt Line Co. lington, Vt., to be erected by the Central a e nex session or an ac 0 Incorpora eVermont Ry.. G'. C. Jones, Vice President, a company "'ith power to construct a railway,

Utah. St. Albans, Vt., and the Rutland R. R., have commencing at a point on the southern endThe Salt Lake & Utah Interurban Ry. has been agreed upon. The estimated cost is about of Atlin, at or near the town of Atlin, and

grading and track laying under way in Provo. $.180,000, this including the buildinf{ and track following a generally southerly direction to aGrading work has also been started in the improvement work. point on the Taku River, where it intersects

1 d the international boundary, and also from aor an Narrows, and the contract for grad- Virginia. point on the line easterly to the southern end

JDg from that place to Lehi was to be let atonce. W. C. Orem, Salt Lake City, is Presi- The Lyndhurst Lumber Corporation is con- of Teslin Lake in British Columbia.dent. structing a 9-mile lumber road from the Nor- Application is to be made to parliament at

South Carolina. folk & Western R. R. at Lipscomb to the the next ~ession for an act to Incorporate alumber tracks in the Blue Ridge Mountains. company under the name of the Naas Valley

The South Carolina Western Ry., W. R. Harrison Ball, Mahoney City, Pa., is inter- & Northern Ry. Co., with power to constructBonsaI, President, Hamlet, N. C., is reported ested. a railway cummencing at a point at or nearto be ready to extend its line from Florence Bids w,lore opened on M~ 20 by the Vir- the mouth of the Naas river and following in'to Poston as soon as the right of way is ginia-Carolina R. R., P. W. Early, Chief Engi- a general direction along the valley of thedonated. neer, Abingdon, Va., for a 40-mile extension Naas river to the Stickeen river, and onward

Construction work on the Orangeburg Rail- from Green Cove Creek to Jefferson and northerly, following the shore of Teslin Lakeway, a short line between Orangeburg and the Todd, N. C. This is the work mentioned in to the junf:tion of the Yukon territory.city of North, a distance of 18 miles, is prac- our May 7 is~u~ on which bids were to have The Portage Development Co., Wil1iamtically completed and the line will be in oper- been opened May 5. Richardson, President, Portage la Prairie~ation within a short time. William C. Wolfe The New River, Holston & Western Ry. Man., is reported to have received an appli·of Orangeburg, S. C., promoted the project. opened bids on May 26 for a I5-mile exten- cation from a Liverpool, England, concern

South Dakota. sion from Rocky Gap to Sutton. P. W. to purchase the franchise for building theEarly, Abingdon, Va., is Chief Engineer. Portage Radial Ry.

The South Dakota Central Ry., G. W. Mc- • The Taber Transit Co., V. O. Eastland.Arthur, General Manager, Sioux Falls, S. Washington. Chief Engineer, Calgary, Alberta, will let con-Dak., is reported to be contemplating the con- @John Dahlgren, ·S1. Paul, Minn., has been tracts in the near future for the constructionstruction of an extension from Watertown to awarded a contract by the Great Northern of a railroad from Taber, Alberta, north toHankinson, N. Qak., a distance of 125 miles. Ry. for w~dening of the roadbed and straight- coal mines at Retlaw and Bow City.

+ indicates work now open for bids. (!) indicates a contract let recently.