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Title: Building & engineering news
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Contractors' and Dealers' Association of California
Subjects: Architecture Building Construction industry Engineering
Publisher: San Francisco : L. A. Larson
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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he Barge Canal is 1.050 feet,while the total lift of the Panamalocks is 170 feet. The cost of theBarge Canal will be about $150,000,000,and is borne by one State in the Union.The cost of the Panama Canal is $375,-i00,OOU and is borne by .every State inthe Union. Xew York has good reason to bepround of the great work it is doingand of the engineers who have helpedaccomplish this work. Alone and un-aided, Xew York first undertook andcompleted the construction of the ErieCanal, thereby producing the firstpractical engineers, as distinguishedfrom suiveyors, in the history of theXation.._ This same State has nowspent over, $101,000,000 in the buildingof a modern Barge Canal, and con-templates the expenditure of millionsmore to complete an inland waterway,which not only rivals any canal in theworld, but which will benefit the in-land shipping of the Nation just asthe Panama Canal will benefit the.sbippins of the world. w.-.ln.Mlr.v. .1.,., •.•.-,. I.ih-. lUlLlJlXO .VND ENOINIOBUING NEWS
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Fig. i. Siphon l>ock aCanal Lock of this typebe built in this country. Fig-. -■ Crescent Damcreates an artificial lakewide and provides for tbthe Five Waterford Ixicks :•.power station on extreme i j; Pig-. S. Delta Dam. Thi.=north of :he City of Ronuand contains SO.Utrt cubican artificial lake m squa.-storage of ;.73».00!l,00n cuttained from a watershed nto keep th.> canalized Mobimum depth in the dry se,is required, Fig 4. !-ock No. 2 at WaterlTord near Troy,commodate six Of the barses at present in us?:rie Canal. This lock is the first of the fiv.flight whi- have a combinfd lift of 169 feet. first to (hove Waterford. This damer ten miles long and a mile.storage of water with which:ire operated. Hydro-electricigrht. gigantic dam is locatedN. Y.. and is 1100 feet longrds of masonry. It createsmiles and provides for thefeet of water. This is ob-137 square miles, and is used,k River at its 12-foot niin-on, the water being let out It vill ae-on thein this BUILDING AND ENGINEE

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