Railroad Notes 1907
Waupaca Post
Work on the Waupaca Green Bay line has been progressing slowly during the past two weeks, because of a lack of men. Several of the crew employed, when paid off last week, jumped their jobs, and went to work for farmers digging potatoes, at $2 a day and board. As a consequence, but about twenty men have been working during the week.
Contractor McGrath has engaged thirty-five Bulgarians at East. S. Louis, and they are expected this week, when the work will be pushed to completion. All the material for the completion of the road is on hand, and it is up to the contractor to make things hum in the future.
T.W. Davidson, with a crew, has commenced clearing off the rock on the right of way north of the Central tracks. From three inches to two feet of rock will have to be blasted away for a distance of several hundred feet.
The contract with the Wisconsin Central Company, for the bridge work where the Waupaca Green Bay crosses underneath the Central’s tracks, has been signed. A wooden bridge, with piling, is to be put in this year, and a cement and iron structure next year. The span will be fourteen feet wide and the opening eighteen feet high.
The sink hole has stopped inking, and no more trouble is expected from that place.