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Scientific American, Vol. 94, No. 23 (1906) (1906)

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the Missouri is so large carrying capacity. The troubles in overhead sary the snag boat is driven ahead at full speed, butt- ing the tree with its heavy steel beam while at the great that snags ranging thirty to fifty feet in length lines were found to be due to wind, lightning, sleet and having a… … construction was, there- free from obstruction that fore, adopted wherever it it is really indispensable was usable. Owing to the to river commerce. The boat is constructed with a hull of iron and steel, 178 topography of the system, the sub-station at Wood- bined lifting power. As soon as the snag…

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