The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-04-16

which drag along leaves -FOUR times
az DIG as themselves and FIVE times
their weight. Their ma.bin.ry i
more wonderful than his | tell
You GOD has man beat every time"
put let US 20 on. Look up at the
nal~ We are row passing through.
no tops q the canyon are Of the
sreenest Ct green, and they lock re
lieshlhG II contrast with the SCARED
uesel' h""n here in the cut. See the
railroad trains moving on that Level
above US. There Is another caravan
OH the level below. others in the cut
ana hie above us are twenty ears
iNiht away down To Balboa There
i d tfaln at the right at the left
aId Trans everywhere carrying rivers
q rock. They made US think Of the
battle Of Observation-Disclosures to right
OF them, engines to left of them. en-
Sines in front Of them yolI.yed and
thundered--
Unloading the Spoil.
NOW stoI and look al the cars, Did
you ever Set such engines before?
hey are giants in comparison with
those OF Our railroads. They puff out
great volumes Of smoke. but the stiff
vino which is blowing Keeps the air
clear.
These cars are Iidgerwood cars.
" u IiilcdleO Win DlOWS. mere
are more than $500 Of them now in
use. and 1t the same time an equal
number OF steel dump ears large
and small. There are more than A
od0 cars moving back and forth
through the work, and on the average
there is q train every four minutes AL
the day THROUGH.
The I~idgerWood cars are among
the wonders OF modern excavation.
~ 11a 90
train. and each car is, | should Judge.
about thirty feet long. one train Will
measure over 500 feet on the track.
and eight y nine trains make ii mile
iEeSe cars are unlOaded With plous
They are fat. with q wall as higl
as your waist at one SIDE. and are
so connected by steel prons that
when loaded the earth and rock form
Il windroW or great bank from one
end Of the train to the other.
When they shoot out on the dumps
the engines have such machinery thai
they drag q mighty steel pillow over
the train and it novels the mass Al
one motion far out from the side OF
the track. After q time the pile rises
and then 2 gigantic spreader--an-
other machine which run on the
track and does the work Of a thou
sand m~en-sinOOths doWn the dump
More rock is put on, and finally. ever
with the spreader, it IS too high fol
unloading.
n then what do these engineer:
DO: DO they seek a new dump: No
at all. They merely u out the trace
Shlfter, a mighty which pick
up tracks, ties and AL and lifts then
over 50 that another dump can b
made. This machine VIII lhros
more than a mile of track nine tee
in eight hours, and it represents N
work Of 500 men. nevertheless !
is HANDLED by three white men an
six laborers. Single plows have IN
loaded sixteen trains in eight hours
an amoun so great that it Woui'
take 1900 horses to haul it If pile
upon wagons
A Look at the Rock.
But let us go on. We have aireao
Travelled three miles and are prett
we'll along the cut. See how the roe
! runs in ines on each side. The STRAIT
! vary and they are of different colors
AS We pass one of the foremcn hand
; me Il piece of rock in which a sea
: shell has been petritied. That she
must have beer deposited here Uhe
the ocean was over the tops Of thes
mountains.
: The rock of Gold Hill is Of man
: colorS. AS we pass through It is
> O'Clock IN the evening and the sun
lays are bringing them out som
Of the rock is light red, other Strat
, are blue and there are great patthe
Of yellow and of Nariegatei iuef
Much of the wall is Of the Stu
color as the blue clay in the Erea
= diamond pipes of South Africa, an,
: like the latter it weathers upon OK
:. posure to air. one Of the Worknle
. tells me he has picked up stone
which are a beautiful crystal an
: which, when cut shine like d moon
stone. Would il not be strange TO fin
diamonds here in our canal bed?
$ Al GOli Hill.
. Bet ! despair Of giving YOU tn
: scenes Of CulehTa. The cut is inde
; scribable and its eatures change ever
moment. We stop at last under Col
Hill, the top Of which is more tina
400 feet above sea level. We ar
= now on the very level of the can,
bed, lust about forty feet above tn