The Technical World Magazine, Volume 20Technical World Company, 1913 |
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... railroad man in a hundred ever heard of " Estro Ferro Madeira - Mamoré " , but this road was built by American engineers at a frightful cost of life and treasure CARIPUNA WARRIOR These Indians were the only human life found in the ...
... railroad man in a hundred ever heard of " Estro Ferro Madeira - Mamoré " , but this road was built by American engineers at a frightful cost of life and treasure CARIPUNA WARRIOR These Indians were the only human life found in the ...
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... RAILROAD UNEXPLORED SANTO FRANCISCO SANT PORTO VELHO ΒΕΝΛ MADEIRA FALLS FALLS GIRORIE ARIPON TA But the indomitable pluck of the American engineers finally conquered the jungle that had beaten back expedi- tion after expedition in fifty ...
... RAILROAD UNEXPLORED SANTO FRANCISCO SANT PORTO VELHO ΒΕΝΛ MADEIRA FALLS FALLS GIRORIE ARIPON TA But the indomitable pluck of the American engineers finally conquered the jungle that had beaten back expedi- tion after expedition in fifty ...
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... railroad construc- tion men literally cut the jungle away to build this metropolis of the tropics . The ocean - going steamers , drawing more than twenty feet of water , steam up from the sea , one thousand eight hundred miles distant ...
... railroad construc- tion men literally cut the jungle away to build this metropolis of the tropics . The ocean - going steamers , drawing more than twenty feet of water , steam up from the sea , one thousand eight hundred miles distant ...
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... railroad construction men literally cut away SKIN OF A FORTY - FOOT BOA CONSTRICTOR KILLED BY. ing disappears , though in tardy fashion . There came a time when the blacks and mixed breeds were dying so rapidly that further labor ...
... railroad construction men literally cut away SKIN OF A FORTY - FOOT BOA CONSTRICTOR KILLED BY. ing disappears , though in tardy fashion . There came a time when the blacks and mixed breeds were dying so rapidly that further labor ...
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... railroad ties were brought from Japan - over from Formosa - across the Pacific , around the Horn and up the east coast of South America , and then two thousand miles up the Amazon . Ninety per cent of the ties came from the price ...
... railroad ties were brought from Japan - over from Formosa - across the Pacific , around the Horn and up the east coast of South America , and then two thousand miles up the Amazon . Ninety per cent of the ties came from the price ...
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