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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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eter each ; heating surface, 1,227feet; grate surface, 224 feet; entire heating surface, 9,816 feet; entiregrate surface, 1,792 feet. The boilers are made in pairs, with onesteam smoke-stack to each pair, 5 feet and 6 inches in diameter.She has 4 iron fresh-water tanks, each 20 feet long and 6 feet indiameter; registers 483,541.31 tons. She is a double ender, and ateach end has four balajice rudders, each 11 feet 6 inches long and 5 feet6 inches in depth. They are constructed with coupling-rods, and eachhas one king-pin in the centre for the purpose of holding it in place.The rudders are worked by an hydraulic steering-gear, operated by anindependent steam pump, and responds almost instantaneously tothe touch. The engines are placed fore and aft, and operate entirelyindependent, each operating one wheel. This arrangement of theengines and paddles makes the boat more easily handled enteringor leaving the slips, or turning quickly when required, as one wheel 328 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST.
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can be made to go ahead and the other to reverse at the same time.One wheel is placed eight feet forward, and the other eight feet abaft MARVELS OF ENTERPRISE. 329 the centre of the boat. It has four tracks running from end to end,with the capacity of 48 freight, or 24 passenger cars. In its construc-tion, 1,500,000 feet of lumber were used. Many of the timbers areover 100 feet long; four, the keelsons, are 117 feet long, eachmeasuring 4,032 feet. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. We turn to other illustrations of the marvellous enterprise of theNew West. Public buildings show the public spirit of the people.Their thrifty business and large prosperity appear through these.They proclaim the purpose, intelligence, and aim of those who buildand pay for them. When the ground was broken for the railway at Omaha, the towncontained about three thousand inhabitants. The first claim cabin was built there in 1854. A young man said to the author, in August,1883, in Omaha, *^ I am twenty-five years of age this m

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