. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . e4 jit the Top of the Ridge to be Skidded Down half a Mile. March 26, 19101 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS 271. The Boarding House. Then began the tug-of-vvar with men and heavyhawsers and stout cables cautiously sliding thevaluable machinery down hill on skids mounted on logtoilers, while big tree stumps served as capstans, fromround which slowh to pay out the rope and loweraway the load. The first 400 ft. down was by came the lowering by cables—400 ft. at an angleof 25 degrees, 600 ft. at an angle of 32 degrees, 80 an angle o
. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . e4 jit the Top of the Ridge to be Skidded Down half a Mile. March 26, 19101 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS 271. The Boarding House. Then began the tug-of-vvar with men and heavyhawsers and stout cables cautiously sliding thevaluable machinery down hill on skids mounted on logtoilers, while big tree stumps served as capstans, fromround which slowh to pay out the rope and loweraway the load. The first 400 ft. down was by came the lowering by cables—400 ft. at an angleof 25 degrees, 600 ft. at an angle of 32 degrees, 80 an angle of 35 degrees, and finally 220 ft. at an angleof 39 degrees. In this laborious fashion the machinerywas delivered to the narrow ledge that had beenscooped ofl: at the edge of the river, down in the bot-tom of the V-shaped canyon. No plant could have been crowded into more
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