Show A great engineering work in india the attention of tho the engineering world is just now fixed upon tho the bombay presidency hero is being constructed ted ilia lie greatest piece of 0 solid masonry tile tho woi id ling has soon seen in modern times limes bor years past the water supply or of bombay hiu has depended upon works which hao been acknowledged to be defective and ill tho possibility ol of a water damitio lit in alo great greal eastern seaport could not bo be Lont i contemplated plated alth indifference by tho the government mr W blaike il I 1 C E was therefore sent bent from calcutta to tako take steps to avei t such a calamity and clr T glover the brassily liras scy of india web wa consulted tile tho result lo ull that a long longsam dam has been designed to the ot of tile tie valley drains into tile the sea botthof bouth ot bombay jo bodely theale the aid of native labor mr clover began this Cl gantic structure abich will bo be completed in march next it il la Is two milos miles luna long la feet in hight still and feet wide at tile ba bao 0 tho the roadway top Is to bo be ill t only enty four foot in ili width all and tile tho slon ewo 1 will cot coil lulf half a million stor etor ling line tile tho like of water which this thi dam mill mill ba aquaro miles lit in area so that Ilo bombay tabay need in cd bo be under do apprehension once tho ile viceroy has officially tile tho sluices open and abo pipes of GO miles long aio 0 iu order mr glover has hindus all of whom lie ho has trained to ill tills k I 1 9 1111 we k amplo ed ou on tho the data dam 11 to 0 ills hla 30 years labor among tho th natives Is duo due tho the fact that theta are lit in india today men all capable alono ansons and na caviles nav vies viles who havo have been employed oti on ills his contracts for great public mr fr glover Is A it a and was asked to lealh byan by en depula tion liou but lie declined tile honor excusing himself coil cm the evoro thel that tile tho crowning work mock of ills life abo bombay reser vior was uns pg as yet boti UnGuis lied pull pau gazette |