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Show Skillful Job of Moving. A gas container 70 feet In diameter and 75 feet high, weighing 200 ton, was moved three miles recently at Portland, Ore. First It wus raised 15 feet and loaded on rollers. Then It was moved four blocks through the city streets and lowered 28 feet to u dock, whence It wus moved upon a pair of barges. The barges were towed three miles to a shipbuilding plant, where the tar.lt was unloaded und raised 26 feet, moved across newly new-ly filled ground for a distance of g 'J, OOO feet, crossing u railroad track. Jk and pluced on Its new foundation. It r took 71 days to complete the work. |