. Electric railway gazette . e was soonafter caved in and covered upby a falling bank of earth; andwhile putting the finishingtouches on his suspensionbridge the scaffolding gaveway and precipitated himtwenty-five feet on to the rocksbelow. And, at another went over the falls and ra-pids of the American River fora mile and a half, clinging toa long stick of timber. And, later, in going by Concordcoach from Nevada City to Lincoln, he was run away withby four horses which had been left temporarily standing infront of the hotel at Grass Valley; and he crawled throughthe small window of th
. Electric railway gazette . e was soonafter caved in and covered upby a falling bank of earth; andwhile putting the finishingtouches on his suspensionbridge the scaffolding gaveway and precipitated himtwenty-five feet on to the rocksbelow. And, at another went over the falls and ra-pids of the American River fora mile and a half, clinging toa long stick of timber. And, later, in going by Concordcoach from Nevada City to Lincoln, he was run away withby four horses which had been left temporarily standing infront of the hotel at Grass Valley; and he crawled throughthe small window of the front seat on to the drivers box—and kept the brake on while the maddened horses flew downthe hill, the reins flying about their legs—and held on untilthe horses dropped through exhaustion. He had other likeexperiences peculiar to early life in California. For some years Mr. Hallidie was engaged in designingand building bridges, more particularly wire suspensionbridges, of which he has erected about fourteen—in Cali-. THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. June, 1887 fornia, and as far north as Fraser river in British Colum-bia—of spans from 220 to 350 feet. In 1858 he erected works in San Francisco for the manu-facture of wire rope, in which he has been engaged eversince; and from which has developed the present CaliforniaWire Works— a concern with half a million dollars capital,employing 200 men—of which he is president and manager. His familiarity with the needs of the rough miningregions of California suggested the invention of the Hallidiewire tramway or rope-way, for the transportation of ore andother material over mountainous and difficult roads. Hetook out a number of patents for this ; it has been very suc-cessful, and hundreds of these aerial lines are in use in thiscountry and elsewhere. It was immediately after maturing this system that heinvented the cable railway, which he perfected a year ortwo afterwards, and put in practical operation. He wasurged to this mo
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