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Show A (irrat Railroad Tunnel. Six hundred men are now digging the railroad tunnel under the St. Clair river at Port Huron at the rate of fifteen feet each day. This means that before the year is out one of the most important pieces of civil engineering in the country will bo completed. More than 1,200 feet of the tunnel proper is now ready for trains on the Michigan side, and 903 on tho Canadian. Tho tunnel itself is over O.oOO feet long. Tiie approaches aro equally long, so that the entire length will be more than two miles. Of this distance 2,310 feet are under the river, 2.39 J feet on tho Michigan Michi-gan land side, nnd 2.103 on the Canadian. Cana-dian. New York Times. |