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Scientific American, Vol. 88, No. 7 (1903) (1903)

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by means of a door also ing dams on the river and constructing railroads to con- ated from this point by an endless wire cable passing composed of steel bars; but as a means of further nect with the main lines at Placerville, but fioods car- around a sheave at the south terminal which is 35… … TRANSPORTING LUMBER ACROSS DEEP GORGES was constructed of rough masonry, the stone which After many years of disaster, the original company held and operated by horizontally placed wheels. In had been blasted out of the excavation being used for case.of accident to the cables these clutches would…

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