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Show TU ItElXAIM THE ZUYOBR ZEE. Work "Will Commenco Next Week On a Tusk That WI1. Cost Millions. .Before tho end of tho month work will have been commenced in Holland on ouo of tho greatest enteiprlses of modern times -tho transformation of tho puyderZeo luto a largo area of dry land. This is In compliance with tho express deslro of Queen Wilhultnlna, who docs qot want tho Hist year of her reign to pass by without underiaking .soino part of the stup"iidous lack. The legislature of the Netherlands and Queen Wilbelinlna have approved all iho plans or tbo Zuydor Zep company, an association of prominent Dutch capitalists, cap-italists, working under the auspices of tho Stale, By Iho beglunjng of next week Iho 3,000 workmen, engineer, divers, di-vers, parpunters, masons and sailors engaged by the company will begin to build the great master dyke, which wlU run from Ewyksluis, In the province of North Holland, to tho Utile village of Piaam, In tho south of the province of Friesluud, using tbo Island of Wlrtln-gen Wlrtln-gen as' part of iho Island bulwark which will shut tho German ocean out ot the Ztiyder Zeo. Tho building or this dyko alone will consume nine years and will cost $17,-COO.OOO, $17,-COO.OOO, It Is computed that It will take thirty-three years 10 complete the work and $18,000,000. Tbo draining of the Zuyder Zee will add 727 tquaro miles of land lo Holland, which exports say will liu extremely fruitful, and will adtl $000,000,000 to Iho wealth of tbo llttlo couutiy. '! housitnds or powerful windmills will bp creeled all around tbo shores of iho Zuyder Zeo to pump the water out of the vast baslu. The company announces that tbo land will ho sold as It Is dnileed, uot to trusts and largo companies, but to individuals, indivi-duals, with or wltltoijt much surplus money. Tho purposo is to keep at home piojtt of tho flyo or six thousand enilR&rnts who go to Australia and Ameiloit every year. Only about 8300 au acre will lie charge ou an average for the drained laud. New York Journal. |