. The Santa Fe magazine . EVEN million board feet oflumber in the drift logs ofa jam doubtless makes arecord for treeless such a jam occurred inthe Solomon River above bridge on the Barnard branch of the Mid-dle Division during the early days ofAugust. The jam originally lodged in the bedof the river just above the Santa Fedam, but its increasing weight forcedit down against the center pier of our bridge, as shown in one of the accom-panying photos. Such was the condition on August 5,the danger being augmented by a rapid-ly rising river, but late that afternoon Su-perintenden
. The Santa Fe magazine . EVEN million board feet oflumber in the drift logs ofa jam doubtless makes arecord for treeless such a jam occurred inthe Solomon River above bridge on the Barnard branch of the Mid-dle Division during the early days ofAugust. The jam originally lodged in the bedof the river just above the Santa Fedam, but its increasing weight forcedit down against the center pier of our bridge, as shown in one of the accom-panying photos. Such was the condition on August 5,the danger being augmented by a rapid-ly rising river, but late that afternoon Su-perintendent Sharp arrived with a worktrain extra and immediately got busy. By working all night and all daySunday, with real old Santa Fe spirit,the men cleared the jam for one hun-dred and fifty feet above the bridge, atwhich spot it had lodged in the shapeof a horseshoe. During the night the. LOOKING UP SOLOMON UIVEK KROAI I5KIOGE NO. liiUThe river bed here is one hundred and fifty feet wide, and the bend in the river is about onethousand feet away. Many of the trees on either bank were eut down by the weight of the drift. 53 54 SANTA FE EMPLOYES MAGAZINE river rose considerably and loosened thebottom of the jam, which had groundedon the bed of the river in twenty feet ofwater, so that on Monday morning, byusing a long cable attached to a locomo-tive, the remainder of the drift soon wasbroken up and carried under the bridge,and the bridge and track were out ofdanger. The derrick shown standing on thebridge was used only on Saturday night,as after that it was found that more progress could be made by attaching thelogs direct to a locomotive. By Tuesday night, August 8, the waterhad reached the lower edge of the gir-der and the bridge undoubtedly wouldhave been carried away had any of thelogs still been left in the river. We are indebted to L. C. Lawton, divi-sion engineer
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