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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ot generally kno«n tli;it witliiii ten miles norili of Saratogathere is now ncaring completion a clam across the Hudson Riverwhich in importance and magnitude, ranks with the three or fourlargest dams ever constructed in any part of the world. Five miles south of the old town of -A.ssuan on the Nile, theEnglish government has built an innnense dam of red granite, laidin Portland cement, as wonderful in its way as the pyramids, andfar more sensible in its purpose than the Sphinx. This dam fills the water supply of Boston and surrounding cities and towns, llis to be 850 ft. long; its maximum height 205 ft; its width atbottom 185 ft., at the top 20.5 ft. Its approximate cost will be$2,000,000. Work on it began in the autumn of 1900. At Spier Falls, N. Y., a point about to miles from the villageof Glens Falls, N. Y., a citizen of tliat place, Mr. Eugene L. Ashley,with no fortune but his own indomitable energy and resourcefulmind, in spite of obstacles that would have unnerved any hut the
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COFIIORD.XM .\NI) I.MtT )■• i W HI.EVV.W rl,.\Nr- SlIIOIt IWI.I.S. a space of about a mile and a (juartcr between limestone clifTs onthe west side of the river and a granite slope on the cast. It isr47 ft. at maximum height above the rock foundation of the river,82 ft broad at the base and 23 ft. broad at the top. Its purposein to conserve water for the irrigation of the plains of lower Egyptand maintain their fertility in the dry season after the annual over-flow and subsidence of the river. Its cost will be nearly $10,000,000. The City of New York is building a new dam for the enlarge-ment of the Crolon reservoir. This dam will be 2gO ft. high (ex-treme height), 216 ft. broad at the base, 22 ft. broad at the top and2,180 ft. in length. It will cost from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000. Thisis 9Upp<jscd to be the second great dam in ihc world, inferior inmatf only to the Nile dam at Assuan. At Clinton, Mass., a dam is being built to create a reservoir for most resolute of men

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