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��The first tank in posi- tion and the second being hauled ashore

��The tank being towed to Powell River on a scow; tugboat at side

���Transporting Oil Tanks Intact One Hundred Miles

TO convey over a distance of one hundred miles three big oil-tanks weighing in the aggregate two hundred and ten tons, without taking them to pieces, was the novel engineering feat accomplished on Vancouver Island, by Mr. S. Doe, a Victoria contractor. They were located twenty-two feet above tide- water at low stage. In order that they might be transferred to scows, trestles were built about one hundred and fifty feet from the shore line, and the whole structure to be lowered in sections. Thirteen foot poles were fixed on the scows and then run under the tanks as they rested on the trestle at low water. When the tide was at its highest the upper part of the trestle was removed. When the tide receded the tank rested on a lower elevation. This performance was repeated three times before the tank was on the scow. The tank-laden scows were towed to Powell River, where in the meantime another trestle had been built out from the shore to receive the tank at high water.

The final operation was not without its difficulties. The foundations for the tanks were more than HOO feet up a ten per cent grade. A track was built and the tanks pulled up the cost of

hill by an engine. $15,000.

��Have You Got Any Use for an Abandoned Locomotive?

ABOUT twenty-seven miles from Yu- L. ma, Arizona, a sorry looking loco- motive has been abandoned in the Colorado Desert. The engine was left at a gravel pit, and a flood swept away most of the track between it and the main line. Inasmuch as the locomotive is worth but ten thousand dollars and the cost of rebuilding the track would be something like fifteen thousand dollars, it is obvious that it will not be reclaimed. All parts of value that could be moved readily were stripped off, and the engine left to its fate. Standing out prominently in the sandy expanse, it is an object of considerable interest to the curious.

���ciiiiinc-, $lu,(JUO. Cost of track to rescue it, Result, engine abandoned to its fate

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