750, 



Popular Science Monthly 



The first tank in posi- 

 tion and the second 

 being hauled ashore 



The tank being towed 

 to Powell River on a 

 scow; tugboat at side 



Transporting Oil Tanks Intact One 

 Hundred Miles 



TO convey over a distance of one 

 hundred miles three big oil-tanks 

 weighing in the aggregate two hundred 

 and ten tons, without taking them to 

 pieces, was the novel engineering feat 

 accomplished on Vancouver Island, by 

 Mr. S. Doe, a Victoria contractor. They 

 were located twenty-two feet above tide- 

 water at low stage. In order that they 

 might be transferred to scows, trestles 

 were built about one hundred and fifty 

 feet from the shore line, and the whole 

 structure to be lowered in sections. 

 Thirteen foot poles were fixed on the 

 scows and then run under the tanks as 

 they rested on the trestle at low water. 

 When the tide was at its highest the upper 

 part of the trestle was removed. When 

 the tide receded the tank rested on a 

 lower elevation. This performance was 

 repeated three times before 

 the tank was on the scow. 

 The tank-laden scows were 

 towed to Powell River, where 

 in the meantime another 

 trestle had been built out 

 from the shore to receive 

 the tank at high water. 



The final operation was 

 not without its difficulties. 

 The foundations for the 

 tanks were more than HOO 

 feet up a ten per cent 

 grade. A track was built 

 and the tanks pulled up the cost of 



hill by an engine. $15,000. 



Have You Got Any Use for an 

 Abandoned Locomotive? 



ABOUT twenty-seven miles from Yu- 

 L. ma, Arizona, a sorry looking loco- 

 motive has been abandoned in the 

 Colorado Desert. The engine was left 

 at a gravel pit, and a flood swept away 

 most of the track between it and the main 

 line. Inasmuch as the locomotive is 

 worth but ten thousand dollars and the 

 cost of rebuilding the track would be 

 something like fifteen thousand dollars, 

 it is obvious that it will not be reclaimed. 

 All parts of value that could be moved 

 readily were stripped off, and the engine 

 left to its fate. Standing out prominently 

 in the sandy expanse, it is an object of 

 considerable interest to the curious. 



ciiiiinc-, $lu,(JUO. Cost of track to rescue it, 

 Result, engine abandoned to its fate 



