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Show A HUGE BORE, t.-okuel on Schmidt's proposed tuuuel thivugh the Sierra is the gixat-et gixat-et bore of the ea-oti. To eatrv water a distance such as that wukh -cparaics Lake liigler or Tahie i'imiu San l'rau-ciseo. l'rau-ciseo. would be uoihiug uew in the construction of aqueducts; but when it is proposed to bore a tuuuel over live njues io length through the great; mouuuiin range of the west coast of j America, and make that tunnel Mitli- cieatly large for a caual aud the! Ia;5Kige of riilroad trains over the j canal, the work becomes an engineering 1 teat which will hand Vod Schmidt's : name to poterity in tho history or the Faciac Coast. Ihs Carsoa SeffiattrA pcakiEg on the sulyc:, iajs: I The tunnel will doubtless b bored I through tho Sierra at the point desig j natcd m the local columns of this paper oj the 2nd insu starting at a point I near I he head of the ,,.llth ci thu .Middl fork of tin: Am.-ii.-an river, oljout ten iiiiics ta-t of Canada' 11 ill, and coming. mi r.-nr ih- ivarium of Cumer il'u., ai-out tour m:li--aJo. (he nmn of Trucker-. Thispoim i- th.-iii" th.-iii" -i pnieii--al'e and f. u -ii,;.-, r,i :i . iretliiiL' lb.- wiii-r- of lityu-r ibroii-di the iii,iini.iiii- i- .-..u.-.-rii. !. and the tuuiicl would (. ..f.nl.-r iii:in by any oiIht rmite in tin- vicinity ..I lb.; lake; but if the railroad i-i to pa-s throiLghit the pre-em tia. k will Lave to be abandoned fmm 'fiu.-ke.- i,, Aiibuin. or tb-n-aboiil'. Siartini; from the we,t,-ni t.-rmifiiH ..I'llu., tnii-liel, tnii-liel, the railroad traek would have lo Unj the .wuth.-rij si.b- nf tin; Iriirh .ii-vidc .ii-vidc belw-eii the Middle aud " North l urks down to 1j-t 'bailee, if nut to , Michigan IJIufl, and tbeeo.-t olVradin-.' aero-., the ride-i Iroiii th.-re to Auburn would be very reat. e ihen-fure 1 duubf if the Central l';ti ilie Kailroad (,'omiany will ever divert its traek lo the propo-ed new route, alihouL'b ii i will, as the Donn. r Lumber and Huom 'Company, doubtless eonlril,iile to the con-ilruetion of the tunnel takinc, in return lor hUeh contribution, the li.m'a .bare of 'on .Schmidt's water -lock, and availing it.iclf of all thcbenelits to be derived from the shipment of limber and lumber by I he tunnel and aqueduct. |