Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1899 — A Big Fill. [ARTICLE]

A Big Fill.

On toe Deadwood, S. D., branch of the Burlington Railroad is a guWh 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 lumber 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..850,000 cubic feet of earth one and one-half miles up a two per cent grade and unload off toe high bridge. This required 1.486 trains of fifteen cars each; 22,000 carloads in all. It was a stupendous undertaking, but mow the bridge can’t burn, and it doesn’t cost a lot of money every year tor repairs and watchers. An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.—HowelL Mrs. Winslow's Boorvma Syidv tor UhUflrsn teething: soften* the rams, reaaces Inflammation, slier* prim, cures windoollc. % cents s bottle.