Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — A Big Fill. [ARTICLE]

A Big Fill.

On the Dead wood, 8. D., branch of the Burlington Railroad to a gulch 700 feet wide, known as Sheeps Canyon. This was crossed, until recently, by a wooden bridge, 126 feet high, which took over 240,000 feet of lumbar in the building. Recently this trestle was filled in, and the great undertaking attracted the attention of railroad men all over the country. It took twenty weeks to accomplish the task. It was necessary to haul 2,880,000 cubic feet of earth one and one-half ml lea up a two per cent grade and unload off the high bridge. This required 1,486 trains of fifteen cars each; 22,000 carloads in all. It was a stupendous undertaking, but now the bridge can’t burn, and It doesn’t coot a lot of money every year for repairs and watchers.