Show t A 1110 Pain lOam I IThe The distinction is now said to belong to Bombay of possessing the tho greatest I piece of solid masonry co construction that the world has haa seen in modern modem I times It appears that tot for years pat past water supply of Bombay depended upon up on works known knon n to be bo defective involving jn jn- the tho possibility of ot a water famine tamme tam fam in ine me in that gre great t Eastern seaport and aud andin andin in view of this a consultation of em eminent emi I nent neat engineers S was held under the direction direction di di- of the tha government with tho the re- re I Hull cult that a largo large d darn dam m was wa determined 1 on to enclose tho vat watershed hd of 01 the tho valley which drains into iulo the tine sea ea SOuth of ot Bombay This g I gnu tic structure i i designed and accomplished d by bV the superior su ott I perlor engineering skill Built ot of T 1 0 Os Glover is two miles mUes long feet teet In Ia height and feet wide at the base with a roadway on tho the to top twenty four feet wide the stonework alone alono costing The lake of water which this darn dam imprisons is some ei eight ht square miles in area and sixty milo milci of l pipe ipe perform the service rw Twelve lve thousand were specially tr trained inea by Engineer Glover for employment em nt on thi this dam |