Parowan Times | 1936-03-27 | Page 5 | Much Mud Moved from Thames

much mud moved from thames forty four million tons of mud have been dredged from the bottom of the thames during tile the past twenty years carried away in barges and dumped in the sea figures like these mean absolutely cutely nothing to the ordinary man but when it Is explained that this rond mud turned into bricks would build a wall five feet high and two feet thick round the world at the equator a better idea can be formed of the work done hy v the dredgers man alan Is always moving things lings ti especially earth and stones and the gross amount moved Is simply colossal the largest building in the world Is the great pyramid which Is 4 1 feet high and covers twelve and a halt half acres of ground six sit million tons of stone were used in its construction pearsons weekly