. Christian herald. and a half, andcubic yard of rock nearly two tons. To gat solidea of the astounding amount of labor in dry excivation, take the Culebra Cut, where forty-th:steam shovels were in operation at one time. I|working from one level tolower level, the shovels fimade the pilot cut, thifour feet at the bottoififty feet at the top, &rHfrom fifteen to twenty f<deep. The pilot shovels aifollowed on each side of thicut by .shovels widening i{l)y taking twenty-six-f(slices. Imagine the numbeiof dump cars, locomotiv(and miles of trackage th»1must be constantly shift(in carir\g for this
. Christian herald. and a half, andcubic yard of rock nearly two tons. To gat solidea of the astounding amount of labor in dry excivation, take the Culebra Cut, where forty-th:steam shovels were in operation at one time. I|working from one level tolower level, the shovels fimade the pilot cut, thifour feet at the bottoififty feet at the top, &rHfrom fifteen to twenty f<deep. The pilot shovels aifollowed on each side of thicut by .shovels widening i{l)y taking twenty-six-f(slices. Imagine the numbeiof dump cars, locomotiv(and miles of trackage th»1must be constantly shift(in carir\g for this materialjwhich in some instances witarried thirty miles. Th((lumped earth and rock wileveled by steam spreadeThe excavation in the cutan average of two hundredlfeet in depth; besides th«great land-slides which have|made much extra work, andwhich more than anythingelse disheartened theFrench company in the finalyears of its on page 985 m iitl(■^tthiff* liie ke ftm BU ki *tiinbiIn hli<. MISSIONARIES HELD FOR RANSOM N LAST weeks issue ofThe Christian Her-ald was printed the an-nouncement of a partyof missionaries—AmericansI Norwegians—having been captured by banditsfsaoyang, in the interior province of Hupeh, andd for ransom. It was feared that in the pres-, unsettled condition of affairs in many parts ofr republic, the missionaries might be made to suf-the fate of others who have fallen victims to the;ive opposition to foreigners. This apprehensions strengthened by the report that one of theIdren belonging to the missionary party had been
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