 ... and several large hawsers, they set forth on their voyage, with a crew of seventeen men, the steamer being in charge of a skilled engineer, JW Burse. The severest struggle was at a point called China Riffle, where the power of the engines and steam-winch,...  The Story of the Canadian Pacific Railway - Page 53by Keith Morris - 1916 - 154 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1887 - 842 pages
...Riffle, where the power of the engines and steam-winch, with fifteen men at the capstan, and of 150 Chinamen laying hold of one of the ropes, barely sufficed to pull the vessel over the shoals. Overcoming this. difficulty, and passing safely through Hellgate and Black Canon, where the stream runs at the... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Alfred Bates - 1887 - 834 pages
...Riffle, where the power of the engines and steam-winch, with fifteen men at the capstan, and of 150 Chinamen laying hold of one of the ropes, barely sufficed to pull the vessel over the shoals. Overcoming this difficulty, and passing safely through Hellgate and Black Canon, where the stream runs at the... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Amos Bowman, Alfred Bates - 1887 - 838 pages
...Riffle, where the power of the engines and steam-winch, with fifteen men at the capstan, and of 150 Chinamen laying hold of one of the ropes, barely sufficed to pull the vessel over the shoals. Overcoming this difficulty, and passing safely through Hellgate and Black Canon, where the stream runs at the... | |
 | Alexander Begg - 1894 - 600 pages
...Riffle, where the power of the engines and steam-winch, with fifteen men at the capstan, and of 150 Chinamen laying hold of one of the ropes, barely sufficed...convey her first load of freight from Boston Bar. THE EXCAVATIONS. — -Between the sea-coast and Savona's ferry, apart from tunnels, nearly eleven million... | |
 | Alexander Begg - 1894 - 592 pages
...Riffle, where the power of the engines and steam-winch, with fifteen men at the capstan, and of 150 Chinamen laying hold of one of the ropes, barely sufficed...convey her first load of freight from Boston Bar. THE EXCAVATIONS. — Between the sea-coast and Savona's ferry, apart from tunnels, nearly eleven million... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - 1924 - 418 pages
...places encountered the power of the engines and steam winch, with fifteen men at the capstan, and one hundred and fifty Chinamen laying hold of one of the...barely sufficed to pull the vessel over the shoals. Thus, the connection with Vancouver complete, the western workers pushed in to meet those from the... | |
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