Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 201
d material were transported across twoyawning chasms by means of wire cables, underwhich ran a freight-carrier. The Feather River in California makes a bighorseshoe bend twenty-five miles above Oroville,coming within three miles of itself again. Anenormous mountain intervenes, but the… … CABLE-EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSPORTING MEN AND MATERIAL securing a big headway for a small stream isshown in San Juan County, Colorado. TlieAnimus River in its course between Silverton andDurango, a distance of twenty miles, has agradual fall of about fifteen hundred feet. Al-though called a river, it is…
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