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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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n of Peculiar Variety Foundin a Bunch of Bananas was recently received in a Duluth, Minn.,commission house in a consignment ofbananas. The stinger and poison bag can be .r^cVrA 1 -V -■^ ^kM - -1 - 3 fm ^=2^ £sa Delivering Goods by Trolley in Germany s sort of delivery work is done byimpany through the agency of a1 baffsaee ear attachedasa trailer. 916 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE ELEVATING A TOWN BYHYDRAULIC POWER Cities have been known to tear downtheir hills and level them off by means ofhydraulic power after the fashion ofhydraulic gold mining, Seattle, Wash., raised, as well as the plank walks androadways. Vacant lots Were cleared oftrees and undergrowth (a regular jungle)at an average cost of 80 dollars an acreand the cuttings were burned on theground. The Tacoma Dredging Company holdsthe contract.The six largecutter knivesof its 24 inchelectric dredgeare able to ex-cavate 10,000cubic yards ofdirt in twelvehours. Two500 horsepow-er motorspump this dirtwith 80 per
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andOre.bleBut Portland, being nota- instances. the city ofAberdeen, Wash.,is exactly revers-ing this processand is elevatingits level by thehydraulic process.All one side of the town, 250 acres, is being filled by thepumping of sand and water from the bedof the Chehalis River, the intention beingto raise the whole level of the town aboveall possible danger of overflow during thehigh tides. For this fill 1,750,000 cubic yards ofdirt will be required and the preparatorywork has been of no mean proportions.Over 900 buildings and houses have beenraised from one to ten feet, old sawdustfillings removed, all sewers and manholes A Stream, 20 per cent Dirt and 80 per cent Water, Gushes out and Engulfs the Land in aBlack Devastation cent of water through the large pipes anddischarge it in a great river of mud thatseems about to engulf the country in ablack destruction; but the water soonflows away, leaving behind a level andsolid fill, for the sediment left by thewater compacts even more close

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