Engineering and Contracting . 8 This shovel loaded into wagons and during July, Augustand September made many moves. Most of its cuts were5 ft. to 6 ft. deep and 170 ft. to 250 ft. long. The second shovel was placed in operation in loaded into cars and had an 8-ft. cut 30 ft. wide thattook from 8 to 10 days to make. The yardage moved bythis shovel in August and September was as follows: -Actual time. Load Tu. yds. per days. pftr day. 9-hour day. Augrust 19% 872 610 .September 22% 968 678 The park is being built by day labor by the WestChicago Park Commission. A. C. Shrader, Chief Eng


Engineering and Contracting . 8 This shovel loaded into wagons and during July, Augustand September made many moves. Most of its cuts were5 ft. to 6 ft. deep and 170 ft. to 250 ft. long. The second shovel was placed in operation in loaded into cars and had an 8-ft. cut 30 ft. wide thattook from 8 to 10 days to make. The yardage moved bythis shovel in August and September was as follows: -Actual time. Load Tu. yds. per days. pftr day. 9-hour day. Augrust 19% 872 610 .September 22% 968 678 The park is being built by day labor by the WestChicago Park Commission. A. C. Shrader, Chief Engineerand Superintendent of the Commission, is in charge of thedesign and the construction work. 550 BELT CONVEYOR FOR TRANSPORTING GRAVELTO STORAGE BINS. An unusually interesting method is employed by theStandard Building Supply Co., of Grand Rapids, Mich., intransporting gravel to its storage bins. The arrangementis shown in the accompanying illustrations. The gravel isexcavated from the pit by an Erie shovel and loaded into. Fig. 1—Dumping Hopper. a hopper, from which it is discharged onto a belt hopper, as will be seen from Fig. 1, is mounted onwheels which run on a short section of track, thus makingpossible a wider range of operation for the shovel. Thefirst section of tlie belt conveyor (See Fig. 2), isplaced on skids and can be moved to the right or left


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