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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 199

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It is less than eightfeet wide and not deep enough to wet ourhorses knees as we ford across. But we gazeupon it with the awe and amazement it deserveswhen we remember that, but a few momentsbefore, it has sent its great power over elevenmiles of wire to a small town, is operating sev-eral… … AN UNFINISHED FOUR-TURBINE POWER-HOUSE. from the heavens for three or four months. Alltheir health and vigor and wonderful productivityis due to that little stream, which irrigates overthree thousand acres of the land. THE GIANT AND THE GENIE 685 Within twenty miles of where this is written,at the…

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