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Show Triumph of American Engineer. In constructing tho power transmission transmis-sion lino from tho Cauvory falls to tho Kolar gold mines, In Mysore, India, tho American engineers omployed to .do tho work had to deal with some un- common problems. Tho lino, ninety-two ninety-two miles long, Is carried on lofty 1 poles through the Jungle. Here the 1 depredations of white ants and wild elephants had to bo provonted. Tho ants attacked tho poles and the ele- phants ptillod at tho wires. Iron sock-lets sock-lets seven feet high were found to bo I effective against tho apts, and after 1 careful measurements of the highest reach of the elephants' trunks the I wire s were strung at a safe elevation. |