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First , ere thirty - seven feet of water which in itself is depth enough to furnish all the trouble any reasonable engineer could ask . Worse than the water is the twenty feet of semi - liquid mud and the unspeakable filth that the City ...
First , ere thirty - seven feet of water which in itself is depth enough to furnish all the trouble any reasonable engineer could ask . Worse than the water is the twenty feet of semi - liquid mud and the unspeakable filth that the City ...
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The steel blades of the piling are five feet long , cnabling them to be forced that deep , if necessary , through the sand and gravel , lodging in the clay . Operating rods connected with the piling blades extend five feet above the ...
The steel blades of the piling are five feet long , cnabling them to be forced that deep , if necessary , through the sand and gravel , lodging in the clay . Operating rods connected with the piling blades extend five feet above the ...
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The world's record in any kind of material was made in the month of August , 1909 , when the Red Rock tunnel of the Los Angeles waterworks was driven 1,061 feet through a rock so soft that holes were bored in it with augers .
The world's record in any kind of material was made in the month of August , 1909 , when the Red Rock tunnel of the Los Angeles waterworks was driven 1,061 feet through a rock so soft that holes were bored in it with augers .
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professional money lender is helpless to escape and how tragedy not infrequently follows the borrowing | 159 |
Making Charity | 251 |
made real financial successes alone in the cultivation of land and she points out some new ways | 299 |
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