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VOL. xxvi 



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TITLE REGISTERED U.S. PATENT OFFICE 



II CHIC AGO SEPTEMBER, i9ii|| 



N211 



DIGGING DRAINAGE DITCHES 



Ditch Heinz Dun with Sloping Banks An Austin Drainage Excavator Ditch, 

 showing variations In width made by same machine 



with an AUSTIN DRAINAGE 



EXCAVATOR is a one-process 

 operation. Notice the U shaped 

 frame extending down into the 

 ditch. This is the guide frame for 

 the scraper buckets, which pass 

 back and forth across the chan- 

 nel, scraping off a slice of earth 

 each trip. The guide frame is 

 shaped to the exact side slope 

 and bottom widths of the chan- 

 nel and the scrapers cut the ditch 

 to exact templet. When the 

 last trip is made the ditch is 

 dug complete no slope trim- 

 ming or smoothing remains 

 to be done to eat up time 

 and money. 



Send for Catalog "5" 



- OUR FULL LINE COMPRISES 



The Austin Drainage Excavator The Austin Side Hill Ditcher The Austin Rolling Platform Traction Ditcher 



The Austin Levee Builder The Austin Highway Ditcher The Austin Tile Ditcher 



The Austin Drag Line Excavator The Austin Orange Peel Ditcher The Austin Stump Puller and Grubber 



Any of these machines can be mounted on a float, on wheels, skids, track rail, or rolling platform traction. 



F.C.AUSTIN DRAINAGE EXCAVATOR CO. 



AGENTS WANTED IN UNOCCUPIED TERRITORY 



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 recommend a pumping outfit 

 to mpply the need. 



New York Office 



39-41 Cortlandt Street 



Henion & Hubbcll. Agents. 



223-231 N. Jefferson St.. Chicago. 



Harron. Rickard & McComh, 



Agents 



21 Fremont St.. S. Francisco, Cal. 



H. A. Paine. Agent. 



Houston. Texas. 





D. H. ANDERSON, Publisher 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



