Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 431
very one of these six locks (andthere are six more of them on the Pacific side)contains more concrete than there is stone in thebiggest pyramid in Egypt. The American peoplehave been able to do more in half a dozen yearsthan the Pharaohs in a century, for our ma-chinery has given us the power of… … A WORK-TRAIN BRINGING LABORERS TO THE CULEBRA CUT house,—and look down into the swarming, clang-ing lock-pits, it is not easy to see any system, butif you look closely, you can trace its main out-lines. Up the straight four-mile channel fromLimon Bay come many barges, some laden withPortland…
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