Show giant electric shovel can scoop up freight carload some of the most powerful electric equipment ever designed for mining purposes is being manufactured for use at the new open pit coal mine near ja sonville ind when completed it will be installed in in one of ot the worlds largest in mining machines a 25 cubic yard according to engineers this t h is will be so mammoth that if it were placed atop a 12 story building it could dig at ground level and could pick up in one scoop a load that would fill a freight car weight of the huge mining machine will be pounds in operation it will be able to step off va 2 feet at one stride zigzag zig zag between working locations sidestep at any angle and travel over soft and irregular ground direction may be changed simply by swinging the machines revolving frame without advancing its base it will be able to dump a load a block away totalling hotalling To talling the equivalent of approximately horsepower the electric equipment und under er construction includes the latest type of a in control as well as two large motor generator sets installed it will make possible open cut mining at the unusual depth of 40 to 70 feet open pit operations at the indiana in mine ine employing the machine are expected to begin about september 1 to be known as the linton mine number 28 it will have a monthly capacity of tons tong of bituin bituminous coal |