THE 



VOL. xxvi 



TITLE REGISTERED U.S. PATENT OFFICE 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 191lH 





To Reduce Seepage in Irrigation Ditches 



Ditch Heine Dus with Sloping Banks An Austin Drainage Excavator Ditch, 



showing variations in width made by same machine 

 OUR FULL LINE COMPRISES 



The Austin Tile Ditcher 

 The Austin Levee Builder 

 The Austin Side Hill Ditcher 



The Austin Highway Ditcher 

 The Austin Drainage Excavator 

 The Austin Orange Peel 



two precautions must be taken: (1) 

 Not to disturb the original soil be- 

 yond the ditch sides and bottom; (2) 

 To line the ditch with impervious 

 material. 



AN AUSTIN 

 DRAINAGE 

 EXCAVATOR 



carves a ditch from the original soil to 

 exact shape and dimensions clean and 

 smooth, so that it can be lined without 

 trimming or shaping and without tem- 

 plets. It digs in one operation a ditch 

 with sloping slides, wide berms, even 

 spoil banks, and true to grade, at a 

 unit cost cheaper than a similar ditch 

 can be dug by any other method. 



Because of these things the 

 Austin Drainage Excavator is the 

 most perfect irrltfatind ditch ma- 

 chine known. 



The Austin Drag Line Excavator 



The Austin Rolling Platform Traction 



The Austin Stump Puller and Grubber 



We Sell Outright or Lease. 



Send for our new complete Catalogue "*' 



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F. C. AUSTIN DRAINAGE EXCAVATOR CO 



Railway Exchange 

 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Morris Machine Works 



Baldwinsville, N. Y. 



Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, 

 designed for any irrigating propo- 

 sition. Send details or specifica- 

 tions of what is -wanted and we 

 will recorrmend a pumping outfit 

 to supply the need. 



New York Office 

 39-41 Cortlandt Street 



Houston Office 

 Cor. Wood & W {How Sta . Texaa 



Henion & Hubfcell, Agents, 



223-231 N. Jefferson St.. Chicago. 



Harron, Rickard 6/McComb, 



Agents 



21 Fremont St. S. Francisco, Cal, 



H. A. Paine, Agent, 



Houston, Texas. 



D. H 



ANDERSON, Publisher 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS *' 



