Public works . ge and levee district, Il-linois, and elsewhere in the same state. This com-pany owns two all-steel Marion dredges with 45x110-foot hulls, 110-foot boom, A-frame 85 feet,high, and a 5-yard Williams clam shell bucket; a 2-vard ilonighan dragline excavating machine, a 12-inch hydraulic dredge, a 1 1-2-yard Marion dipperdredge and a 3-4-yard crawling traction draglinemachine with which they have worked in theBeardstown district and at present are operating inthe Thompson drainage and levee district, theChautauqua drainage levee district, and the Liver-pool drainage and levee distri
Public works . ge and levee district, Il-linois, and elsewhere in the same state. This com-pany owns two all-steel Marion dredges with 45x110-foot hulls, 110-foot boom, A-frame 85 feet,high, and a 5-yard Williams clam shell bucket; a 2-vard ilonighan dragline excavating machine, a 12-inch hydraulic dredge, a 1 1-2-yard Marion dipperdredge and a 3-4-yard crawling traction draglinemachine with which they have worked in theBeardstown district and at present are operating inthe Thompson drainage and levee district, theChautauqua drainage levee district, and the Liver-pool drainage and levee district, all located on theIllinois river just above Havana, 111., and employ-ing altogether a force of about 60 men. The levees are built up from the spoil excavatedalongside in a ditch where the machine floats andthe material handled varies from sand and gravel toblue clay with some deposits of The leveesare from 14 to 24 feet in height with slopes of IV^to 1. The 5-yard clam shell bucket dredge is operated. by a crew of 5 men on each shift and has , 167,000 and 175,000 yards per month. Inthe South Beardstown district one of them handled1,800,000 yards in 23 months and another ,000 yards on the Thompson drainage andlevee district in 15 months. They are able in somekinds of material to handle 7 yards per bucket every50 seconds, although the bucket level full is rated atonly 5 yards capacity. F. P. Gillen writes: Several of the levees we are building have beenbadly washed on the inside on account of extremelyhigh water, but we were able with the clam shelltype of dredge to pick the top off and fill the back
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