Show I j I I i MACHINES COST MORE THAN HUMAN LIVES Recently an un interesting water impounding im- im pounding scheme has bas been carried to successful completion in southern India at the Mari gorge upon the river in iu Mysore When constructional work was in full swing more than nat natives wore em etri employed and the undertaking 1 a l. l novel no and interesting e example of the cheapness of manual labor as compared ll with it the mechanical In India there exist t a l Juss o of tab r r r- ors Org generally described 33 as UI nies flies or professional stone stono who oin owing to their Jor haul haid work arc are in great neat l for fui such uch enterprises as IS this They y are arc of power powerful ful and possess considerable cus stamina They will work nork for ten bon bou 3 bonsa s a day and transport from 70 O to of stone ODe a 3 mau man They form forro gangs according to the character r of tho the woi work ork k in jn hand band ranging from two four I I oi eight ht twelve to sixteen men a unit t r Although such uch transportation seems 1 somewhat slow in ill comparison t with rh th tb i ii I i po possibilities of handling yet th they 1 prosecute their ti task k very cry energetically call i I s and d the thc s scale of pay ranging from tron 10 iI i to 16 C cents a man Jn a n day is so o low lon as asI asto asto I I to render such labor far cheaper cr than thlu i I mechanical transport Indeed a com cant completo i pleto ete installation of the latter was wa lai laid I i i down a i cable across I the gorge gorgo over o the site sile bringing the the- stone direct from fron the quarries on the I hillsides to the site ite ready for oi s setting I but this hud bud to be abandoned ow owing n to iU iLs being far more expensive c titan than the u labor I Dow |