The Technical World Magazine, Volume 15Technical World Company, 1911 |
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... Keokuk , overlooking the dam . BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE ILLINOIS SHORE . The beginning. N OT far from the spot where Jim Bludsoe ran the Prairie Belle aground and " held her nozzle agin the bank till the last galoot was ashore , " a mile ...
... Keokuk , overlooking the dam . BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE ILLINOIS SHORE . The beginning. N OT far from the spot where Jim Bludsoe ran the Prairie Belle aground and " held her nozzle agin the bank till the last galoot was ashore , " a mile ...
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... Keokuk . At an annual cost of $ 50,000 the government has maintained this canal for forty years . Within the next two years it will have disappeared under twenty feet of water , part of the bed of a new inland lake forty miles long and ...
... Keokuk . At an annual cost of $ 50,000 the government has maintained this canal for forty years . Within the next two years it will have disappeared under twenty feet of water , part of the bed of a new inland lake forty miles long and ...
Page 51
... Keokuk joined in such a jubilation as the old Mississippi Valley has not known since the palmy days of steamboat racing . On January 8 , 1910 , definite announce- ment was made that the dam would be built . By the first of February ...
... Keokuk joined in such a jubilation as the old Mississippi Valley has not known since the palmy days of steamboat racing . On January 8 , 1910 , definite announce- ment was made that the dam would be built . By the first of February ...
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... Keokuk side of the river will be thirty ton cranes , sup- ported on the walls , for the handling of the main dynamos which are in use on the job . Beneath the floor of the power house will be a series of forty - seven passages ...
... Keokuk side of the river will be thirty ton cranes , sup- ported on the walls , for the handling of the main dynamos which are in use on the job . Beneath the floor of the power house will be a series of forty - seven passages ...
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... Keokuk . Immediately adjacent to Keokuk the river is lined with high , limestone bluffs so that there will be little change in the contour there- abouts , the main alteration being the submerging of the narrow lowland shelf now occupied ...
... Keokuk . Immediately adjacent to Keokuk the river is lined with high , limestone bluffs so that there will be little change in the contour there- abouts , the main alteration being the submerging of the narrow lowland shelf now occupied ...
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