Report on Surveys and Preliminary Operations on the Canadian Pacific Railway Up to January 1877 |
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Page 220 - Columbia, showing the actually known and estimated yield of gold ; the Number of Miners employed; and the average earnings per man, per year from 1858 to 1875. [To...
Page 399 - ... shall be held responsible for keeping all crossings during the progress of the works in such condition as will enable the public to use them with perfect safety and such as will give rise to no just ground for complaint. Contractors will be held liable for any damages resulting from negligence on their part or that of their men.
Page 403 - The quoins of abutments, piers, &c., shall bo of the best and largest stones, and have chisel drafts properly tooled on the upright arris, from two to six inches wide, according to the size and character of the structure.
Page 408 - It is intended that every allowance to which the contractor is fairly entitled will be embraced in the Engineer's monthly certificates; but should the contractor at any time have claims of any description which...
Page 407 - As the raising proceeds the end of the lift shall extend over not less than three rail lengths, and before trains are allowed to pass over the inclined portion of track, it must be made sufficiently solid to prevent bending the rails, or twisting the rail-joints. After the lift, the track shall be centered, lined, topped, surfaced and trimmed off to a proper form and width. 86. In the event of full ballasting being required, a second " lift" must bo made, in the same manner and with the same precautions...
Page 397 - These off-take ditches must be of such widths and depths as may be required and directed. The sides shall be sloped one vertical to two horizontal, and the material shall be cast out so as to leave a berm of at least six feet between the deposit and the top of the slopes.
Page 398 - Hftul 18. The contract price for these several classes of excavation shall be taken to include the whole cost of hauling, except only extreme cases which may involve a haul of more than twelve hundred feet. For every hundred feet of haul over twelve hundred feet...
Page 406 - Special care must be taken at points and crossings to have the rails laid to a tight gauge. The rails must be full spiked, and on curves the outer rail shall be elevated...
Page 333 - The change in the appearance of nature was as sudden as it was pleasing, for a few days only were passed away since the ground was covered with snow. On the 25th the river was cleared of the ice.
Page 249 - Californian coast occur. The second is that of the southern part of the interior plateau of the province, and presents as its most striking feature a tendency to resemble in its flora the interior basin of Utah and Nevada to the south and the drier plains east of the Rocky Mountains. It may be said to extend northward to about the 51st parallel, while isolated patches of a somewhat similar flora occur on warm hill-sides and the northern banks of rivers to beyond the Blackwater. In the northern part...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Report on Surveys and Preliminary Operations on the Canadian Pacific Railway Up to January 1877 Canada. Public Works Dep't |
| Authors | Sandford Fleming, Canada. Department of Public Works |
| Publisher | MacLean, Rogers & Company, 1877 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Sep 19, 2007 |
| Length | 431 pages |
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