. The Street railway journal . ly 100 ft., and estimatedroughly, 100,000 cubic yards of rock were thrown into theriver from this one-half mile of line. At the site of the oldVan Horn elevator, about one-fourth of a mile below therailroad bridges, in a deep recess in the cliff, an attemptwas made to construct the roadbed in the swift current ofthe rapids. This experiment I believed would be futile,as a powerful stream of water was constantly discharged September i, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 809 upon the new embankment, diverted from the main currentby a large boulder, about 50 ft. from the
. The Street railway journal . ly 100 ft., and estimatedroughly, 100,000 cubic yards of rock were thrown into theriver from this one-half mile of line. At the site of the oldVan Horn elevator, about one-fourth of a mile below therailroad bridges, in a deep recess in the cliff, an attemptwas made to construct the roadbed in the swift current ofthe rapids. This experiment I believed would be futile,as a powerful stream of water was constantly discharged September i, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 809 upon the new embankment, diverted from the main currentby a large boulder, about 50 ft. from the cliff. It was evi-dent that this bed had been excavated by the same power-ful agency, and it was but waste of time and money to at-tempt to place in its way any structure less substantial thanthe cliff, which it had cut out. I speak in some detail onthis point, as it has since proved to be one of the most diffi-cult parts of the roadbed to maintain. During a period ofhigh water in the spring of 1897, when the river rose 19 GIANT ROCK ON LEFT, DEVILS HOLE RAPIDS ON TAKEN DURING CONSTRUCTION above its ordinary level, some of this embankment wascarried away. A substantial crib of large timber, which re-placed the embankment, was in turn washed out in 1898,after which the company determined to do what it mightprofitably have done at first, and the cliff was blasted awayand a shelf made of sufficient width for a single track. During the early part of the summer of 1899 the oldNiagara Falls & Lewiston Railroad Company became seri-ously embarrassed, and its property passed into the hands
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