A COSTLY TUNNEL.
Thft greatest engineering feat in the world, with the exception of the Panama Canal, was practically completed on 16th> January, when, a blast broke down tho last barrier <of nine- feet of rock U)iU under the ground at One Hundred and 1 Fifty-firet-fitreet and Nicholas-place, New York, and made- continuous the Ashokan. aqueduct tunnel • extending from Aehokan, dam ba tho Catskillß.toBrooklyn. Eventually it will extend to Staten Island. The. entire distance is about 110 miles. The tunnel wheh completed will cost £32,500,000. Tho work in building the tub© baft taken nearly nine yea™, with from 17,000 to 25,000 men daily labouring at it. It has cost ihe lives of 283 men and '• juri<* of 8833.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1914, Page 11
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118A COSTLY TUNNEL. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1914, Page 11
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