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Great Exterrprise.—The CalaverasChronicle informs us that the greatest enterprise in California is the Mokelumne Hill Canal and Water Company’s tlmne. “The completion of the contract will exhibit aline of improvement some thirty-five milesin length, that will have no equal in California, in view of its excellent and durable construction; and in point of productiveness no superior, as no section is more fertile in treasure than that which is traversed by this valuable work. Parties are busily employed in chopping and preparing the timber, and twelve men are working day and night in piercing the saddle of the mountain at the head of Poor Man’s Gulch. This tuunel is to be six hundred and forty-one feet long. Much speculation and many estimates have been made on the subject of this tunnel, the characters and amount ofrock, but the presumption with us is. that it is cement or lava of a moderate degree of hardness, and that the operators will dislodge it with more facilty than has been antieioated. The vast ammint nf timber
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Downieville Sierra Citizen
Downieville, California, US
Sat, Feb 18, 1854
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