The Technical World Magazine, Volume 17Technical World Company, 1912 |
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Page 5
... road and it was built under a bat- tery of gloomy predictions as well as under a battery of bergs . The great concrete piers , begun through the winter's ice , were driven forty to fifty feet through the river bot- tom to bedrock and ...
... road and it was built under a bat- tery of gloomy predictions as well as under a battery of bergs . The great concrete piers , begun through the winter's ice , were driven forty to fifty feet through the river bot- tom to bedrock and ...
Page 7
... road is now com- pleted to its terminus 193 miles from tidewater and trains run from end to end of it throughout the year . The fight is forgotten in success . And to this day very little has been heard of the man who won , or will be ...
... road is now com- pleted to its terminus 193 miles from tidewater and trains run from end to end of it throughout the year . The fight is forgotten in success . And to this day very little has been heard of the man who won , or will be ...
Page 8
... roads or navigable waterways , no bridges and no hillsides to follow . Out onto the flats , already ten feet 1 winged ones . And every mouth of the river is sealed with silt bars that nothing but a canoe can navigate , as the con ...
... roads or navigable waterways , no bridges and no hillsides to follow . Out onto the flats , already ten feet 1 winged ones . And every mouth of the river is sealed with silt bars that nothing but a canoe can navigate , as the con ...
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... road . overcome in the building of that first Work closed down that second winter , WHERE BRIDGEWORK WAS BEGUN ACROSS A HIGH NARROW GORGE IN THE WINTER TIME . except for preparations for beginning the big bridge , but.
... road . overcome in the building of that first Work closed down that second winter , WHERE BRIDGEWORK WAS BEGUN ACROSS A HIGH NARROW GORGE IN THE WINTER TIME . except for preparations for beginning the big bridge , but.
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... road open . Nevertheless , somehow supplies were got through and when the ice went out 3,000 men were at work . To keep them in food and material three river boats , put together above the roaring cataract of Abercrombie Canyon and ...
... road open . Nevertheless , somehow supplies were got through and when the ice went out 3,000 men were at work . To keep them in food and material three river boats , put together above the roaring cataract of Abercrombie Canyon and ...
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