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Show J lj i i i 1 1 1 1 1 w 'T ' " ' ' " ' MOTION PICTURES OF GOVERNMENT WORK As part of the movement to give publicity through motion picture to all important works carried on by the government, a scries of pictures have been recently re-cently made of the work on the Engle Dam, at Elephant Butte, New Mexico, which Lis part of tho Rio Grande reclamation project, pro-ject, says tho September Popular Popu-lar Mechanics Magazine. Of all the motion pictures taken, tak-en, probably the most interesting aro the series photographed from a basket suspended from a cable-way cable-way across the Rio Grande. The operator, with his camera in operation, was lowered into the foundation pit at the west bank of the river, and then, with the basket raised 400 ft. above the bottom of tho pit, took pictures while three heavy blasts were fired. |