A COSTLY TUNNEL.
Tiie greatest engineering feat in the world, with l; he exception of the Panama Canal, was practically completed on 16th January, when a blast broke down the last barrier of nine feet of rock 441 ft under the ground at One Hundred and Fifty-first-street and Nieholas-plaee, New York, and made continuous the Ashoknn aqueduct tunnel extending from Ashokan dam in the Catskills to Brooklyn. Eventually it will extend to Staten Island. The entiro distance is about 110 miles.
The tunnel when completed will cost £32,500,000. The work in budding the tube has taken nearly nine years, with from 17,000 to 25,000 men daily laboring at it. It has cost the lives of 283 men and injuries of 8,833.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3583, 7 March 1914, Page 4
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121A COSTLY TUNNEL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3583, 7 March 1914, Page 4
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