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Show I . i it 'rlvate HAVE TE81 1 r-iwk Has Been Under Con- su"- struction For Twelve Years Mwk New York, May 9. The new dry- l sai dock in tho Brooklyn navy yard which 3 has been under .construction for 12 -ltno years, will undergo its first crucial 'r test In the next few days, when the "Bat new dreadnought Utah, of 21.S00 tons, L,n- Is placed In the dock. A large num- lwIc bor of unforeseen difficulties were ' " encountered in building the huge era- ,ams die, with tho result that the cost originally estimated at $75O.S0O finally ' becomes nearly $3,000,000. oms Tho greatest troublo was caused by "m.fl a glacial drift of sand and boulders ltd-far ltd-far below the surface pitched at such ' an angle that great quantities of de- lmo brls slid Into the excavation as fast as the digging progressed. l 5t . lo |