Show BIG BORE massachusetts now 0 owns her hoo eno tunnel that i is she eho hu his paid the contractors and procured proc arod their receipt tor for and another for or extras there remain other ot hori clai ag ats can hii only libe be adjusted through the action of the bo L gi slature and are held open tor for the decision of that body this is the hoaT leanest iest and most moat ormid able piece of engineering on the western continent and one that bat h made a name for the mon men who have carried it out these go as is ia well kno known are ro the brothers of canada of whom walter is ie the leading spirit whether the hole through that obdurate rock will wall would ever have bava been bored through or cr not had not cot the taken hold bola of it may be an unsettled qutine ques it is ia certain tatt fieve several ral other men of good tried the job who failed and gave cave hitup it up bat But failures were not by any means without valno all served as tore ton loading to the method 0 which finally proved successful it a hole can be regards regarded I 1 as a monument then this tunnel will willbe be a monument outto to the tha skill ot of the ha Sita ulys possibly also to the folly of which will last literally literal lj as long as the stand eland no coledia of granite or pillar ol of brosa braso has the of 0 endurance which belong to this hole bole through the flinty mountain tain the former may cru crumble table and fail into decay but the latter it if it undergoes under goo soy any chiango chal ligo at all will only grow it probably with lor her knowledge dearly bought with experience the bay state would not undertake under taVo another uch such a jub it seems to be conceded now by the beet beat anthoni ties that it is ie cheaper on the whole to keep on oa the surface sai faco rather than attempt eo 60 costly a short chert cut there is much satisfaction however hoBey cr in in currying cirr ying an undertaking through even cran if it was not wisely begun va fa tarn generations sad and L lter flier states cannot blind and mike make faces at the adventurous bay state reviling lier her about a holo bolo borod halfway half wi way through throng the beginning a thic thing without belog being I 1 able to finish it the ile estasie from such enoh a humiliation 10 is worth all the money paid to the last parties whether tho the in shall prove profitable or it does not matter now that the job it is paid for the tb state stata can stand it ald ad tit edlya many and treat groat advantages will ultimately malt if I 1 a abate 0 of tho these advantages shall writer accrue to the west by halping to make maka transportation cheaper all taper then wo we too oin can afford to land instead ol of laugh at the 11 tunnel |